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Show ' ' : I ,,. A Liberal American Weekly Dial Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers . . Entered g3 Second Class Matter at the Post Ollice at Salt Lake City. Utah, Under the Act ol Congress ol March 3, 1879. Devoted to the idea that Economic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. Vol. VIII, No. 35. City Address, 217 David Keith Bldg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday September 15, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year ContributionsVVelcome. I SOME PERSONAL 1 S Read! 1 Some Timely Editorial Thoughts f Think! Our sympathy goes out to Friends Mr. and Mi s. Ezra J Poulsen because of the fact th their fine son is missing over seas. May the news soon come to them that he is alive and safe If anyone thinks he or she has troubles we invite them to with our friend have a word George J- - Fox. He will tell you a story about a real case of trouble. And when you have temd it you will think that jour troubles are small. Postmaster BiTt Smoot was caught reading this paper in full view of a bus full of people and was so absorbed that he didn't see any of the pretty girls aboard. Sensible man. Friend J. Everett Seely pas-e- d another milestone on life's hiway last Sunday which mak-es him 77 He is in good health and should live at least anoth-er ten years. He has seen some great social changes in his time but not enough There are few writers so pro- - Benjamin B Strinham, a Fiiend of long-standi- in more ways than one, sends us word that the war did not end on September 7 as some juggler with numbers said it would. He has solved the problem of those numbers we published, and it was no long after publ-ication that we solved the number juggling affair. To Frien'd George C Christen sen: W,e would gladly publish your articles providing they were much shorter and more easily understood. You are a good intelligent fellow. George, but taKe 'to heart Horace Greel-ey's demand to a reporter, "Condense, D.imn it." line as our right good I'liend Geo E Manwaring We have said before that he should have been a newspaper editor, for as such the typesetters would never have to ask for copy as he can supply it in ream lots all good, mind you, and we promise to squeeze in when we can. It is alright, George, to put your head in the lion's Mouth, but don't reach down and twist h s tail. United in marriage by a temple ceremony on Monday, Sept. 11, wete Miss Loie Gunn White and Leland Gerald Lars en, son of Mr:and"Mrs."Harord C Larsen. An elaborate wed-ding reception was tendered t,he same evening at the Bryan Ward Chapel, where more than a hundred relatives and friends gathered and made a merry evening of it. Leland had a five day furlough and has returned to the service. Bp. and Mrs. C. A.Petersen and daughters Ester and Mar-garet of Ont.erfiehl were in the city Tuesday attendim: the wedding reception of their rrandson Leland Larson. Ihcir daughter Hazd is with a depart ment of the service in Texas. From the Maine election re-turns it appears tftJhe Republ-icans that the Democrats will be out in the storm without an umbrella ' e Friend W. T Bennett, of the Old Age Pens-ion & Asst. Association, and an al! around able and conscient ious man. was in Tuesday and engaged us in very interesting conversation for an hour' or so Helms done a great deal of good work for the organization of old people and they appreciate it. He talked ubout some efforts to drive the aged off relief but believed it very wrong. He id: "You don't hear of any praying for the country's presi-dent in high places, hut I l(-'- you that I hear of honest, sin cere prayers among the good old men and women for the Lord to bless and protect their ' great friend." I would testify ; any t i :ie , anywhere that their prayers have the spiiit of God in them. ; FrirndW H Tawnry deals in ;. cermin good food products and i ofcours"! humans are so consti-- J '"ttd hat they need food oecas-ionnll- y. If it weren't for that l""ile might suvt: more money Additional f In all too many cases people leave off saying too mucli good about t.lirir until they are gone. And we sometimes do it ourselves. There's a friend very worthy of the nnme.James E Hart, who comes inlo the office about as often as any one, and who is as welcome as anyone. He always lias some-thing good to say and some-thing inspirational to read. He has a heart that beats for all humanity but especially for the poor and needy aged. He stands on the brink of eternity which is sure to welcome him with open arms. He has no fortune to leave behind and papers and courts will not list his possessions. But many a friend will say: "Too bad Jim's gone. Wish he had stayed here. He was good company. I miss his kindly spirit.his Tine humor, his inspirational reading, his manly bearing." Lack of mon-ey will count for less than noth-ing over there, , brother Hart. You are sure to be one of those over whom there will he great rejoicing SOMETHING THAT IS EITIRELY OVERLOOKED And It Happens To Be The Most Important In all oratory of the politicians, in all the planning, in all the attempts to solve national and world problems, there is one thing-- , and it is the most important; that is being overlooked. The following words should be hammered deep into the heads of them all : "UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT SOCIETY'S SICKNESS IS MORAL AND THAT THE REMEDY IS SPIRITUAL, DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING; YOU WILL BUT ADD TO THE CONFUSION." Destiny. The weakness of the nations, this once' included, "has a root cause. Its root is definitely spiritual. Something is withering in the soul of our people. The signs of spiritual debility are apparent everywhere. The truth of the matter is that in this country our religion has almost gone. When that goes, everything we prize as American goes with it, for everything that we prize as American is a spiritual product. I do not speak of Christianity; I speak of a much lower level religion. Christianity disappears long before its outer husk does. We never have been a Christian nation, but at times we have been largely a religious nation; a nation of people who reverenced a supreme being, who were conscious of moral law, who had faith in the lightness of right and feared the wrongness of wrong a people who believed that justice and morality were essential to social stability. . . . Name a movement of controlling proportions among us today that even pretends to a basis in righteous principle. . . . What has occurred is a moral, estrangement. We are now too ignorant to read the past, too busy to live in the present and too blind to see the future.l-Howar- d Rant ONE OF THE WONDERS OF OUR TIME Christian System Works Well Some time in the days of Pres. Wm. Howard Taft, members of the Teamster's Union, the Chicago Truckers, Were working 10 to 12 hours for $11.00 a week with no extra allowance for overtime, no vacation with pay and no social security whatever. They asked for a small raise. After due consideration the company granted them a raise, of 25c a week, which they accepted. Such is the truth from their current magazine. Contrast this with the following: A union man died recently. Under the social security law, put through by the present administration, the wife, as the millionth beneficiary, was allowed $25.07 a month for herself, and $16.71 for each of her two children until the youngest is 18, making a total of $58.07 coming into her home every month. By the time the youngest child is 18 there will have been paid to her $11,271.00. We are "foolish" enough to call that Christ-lik- e Christ-ianity in action. What a long, hard road labor has traveled to attain to this end. LIQUOR IS EATING OUT THE SOUL OF AMERICA Traffic Is America's No. 1 Sewer of Shame C. V. Hansen of Provo, says: "While the public's attitude toward liquor has changed there is something that remains the same that is liquor itself. It still bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. It still lowers the physical vitality, blunts the intellect and kills ambition. Liquor remains the same deadly thing that it ever has been." ' We heartily agree with Friend Hansen and we claim that intoxicating liquor, and the evils that thrive with its use, is eating away the soul of America. Something should be done about it. But what? We believe that there should be state and national prohibition and that the returning service men in sufficient numbers should be given federal police power to enforce the law. Think of a people spending such enormous sums on education and religion and then open the sewers of shame to the young people as they come forth from the schools and churches. WHEN LIFE HAS LOST ITS SAVOR Within a short period of time we have met three people who felt, in varying degrees that it might be best to shuffle off this mortal coil. Looking into their souls we discerned, or thought we did,, that the sunlight had gone ' out of their lives, that what should be "the poetry of existence" was wanting, that the "loveliness of romance" had faded away. We say to them, let such thoughts perish. Never allow them to enter the mind. Stand up and look up and develop an ideal that will sustain you under all circumstances. Stir up your inner self. Develop a belief in God and in immortality and in humanity, and let this light your path down to an honored grave. Lean to the things that make life sweet aifd wholesome. Life is for you as much as it is for anyone. Arise and claim your birthright. COMFORT AND CHEER THE ONE OF ALL THE WORLD There are countless mothers good, kindly disposed, high-minde- d mothers whose hair is graying, whose faces are becoming furrowed, and whose hearts are breaking because of the headlong plunge some sons and daughters are taking in wild oats sowing contests. The youngsters do not cannot realize how the mothers feel. That will come only when they are being paid back in their own coin. Have a care, young people as to how you treat your mothers. Remember, each of you, that you were cradled in the arms of her love and that you owe her far more than you can give. Don't think that the wild and reckless associates have any concern for you compared to what she has. Better cheer her, warm her heart with thoughts and gifts of love. Do your duty to and by her lest the day come when you will stand before her grave with a soul full of regrets. "I am a Republidan, but I am an American first. I am supporting Franklin D Roose-Roosev-because the issues in this elect ion are above and beyond all personal differences and party ties. Franklin D, Roosevelt is the most rxpeiien-ct- d mm in America in foreign affairs. His foreigJi policy is admirable Gifford Pinchot, former Republican Goverm r of Pennsyl va nia MUST 20,000,000 SOULS HAVE DIED IN VAIN? Have Your Sons Perished In Ghastly Pain -- For Nothing At All? Weston Keen,' has gone to A Salt Lake soldier, Sgt. before his passing he heroic death over there. Shortly wrote home saying that in the event of his death to let friends know that he died fighting for his baby nephew. "If anything happens to me," he wrote, "make people I fought for. I want a different realize it was the baby world for him. I want him to grow up in peace. like ninety-fiv- e per cent ol tne This man wanted peace neople want peace. But it must be a peace that will guar-antee that nations must not make war any more. How we wish and pray that such a peace might be made. For the chief big business seems to have over 4 000 years been war. In all those centuries there have been only of universal peace. From the something like 250 years mportant meeting at Dumbarton Oaks there will shorty a good peace plan. But (forgive us for saying that the enemies will have it defeated t appears to us Pfore it is given to the public. The Chicago Tribune and doing their worst to defeat it. And its allied papers, are the isolationists. We fear that it wi not be like y Sat any peace plan, even if Christ should lead it into could get by the 33 senator votes needed to fXit to stand so unitedly for it It is up to the people peace that the senate will be forced to do their bidding. Senator Writes Book V - 7 i " Utah's and America's distinguished Senator Elbert D Thomas is out with another book.THE FOUR FEARS a very scholarly and statesmanlike disenssion of The Fear of Entangling Alliances, The Fear of England. The Fear of Russia, Fear of Revolution Army Training Dogs to Act as Mine Detectors WASHINGTON, D. C. - The ""iy use for its dogs-t- hev has found a new are mine detectors. nonmetallic land mines, which The de-vices be located by mechanical of these high-ry- 1 are a specialty trained "M dogs," the army dis-closed recently, but they And metallic mines, trip wires and booby traps the SS.vST.rJ cleared path is r,ytveTund and indicated t Their masters the presence o ".VJT "When We6kSrf the dog Tannot be induced e or over any type to advance traP'" breeds are used. t Hifferent work, quiet nature' difference to distract.ons. That ,ast is important. THANKS, FRIEND WILKINSON We sincerely thank our gopd friend, Mr. C. S. Wilkin-son, publisher of the Beaver County Press, for the following words of praise which serve to cheer a heart so often sad-dened by the fact that we have not succeeded from a financial or money standpoint. But thank goodness there are better things than money. After all, poverty and riches are matters of the spirit, and sometimes a man's spirit may be rich, even though in material things he is poor. "One of God's honorable and sympathetic noblemen is C. N. Lund, editor and publisher of the Progressive Opinion, a weekly newspaper published in the Keith Building at Salt Lake City, which is the solace and bible of many aged, poor and unfortunate persons who have suffered, by the remorseless competitive system that holds sway in this as well as many other countries of the world. Beaver News. WASHINGTON OPPOSED TWO-TER- LIMIT Let the campaign orators remember what we say here when they orate against a third or a fourth term of presidency: "I can see no propriety," said Washington, "in pre-cluding ourselves from the services of any man who, on some great emergency, shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public." MUST NOT HAVE RACE TROUBLES Pace troubles must be avoided. They must not further the already troubled days. But here is a truth: nv thousand generations of strug-o-I- p .The white an with a work behind him, in his onward march through S not going to take kindly to the elevation to t P7of his midst and over him of people of any olher mce. power The sooner this is recognized the better it will be for all concerned." "Alcoholic liquor is responsible for 20 to 30 per cent of all the cases that come into the Boys' Court." "The mounting number of cases of acute alcoholism among minors is startling evidence that not only do too many retailers sell doubtful wares, but .they sell to any buyer." I TOWNSEMD1SM i? Tin; Townsend Bill, known a' HR 1049, is coming nearer und nearer to the front in con-- 0 Cr,!'S It now lacks but nine siSners to get ir, on the floor of i '''c house whn it will be de-- x and sent along for pas-- 1 It. means a reliable and pernanents-ecu- y for the ag''d 'l frr tho nation as well Ma"y bel eve that it. is the only jU1 'ure that will save the coun-- " Vrom revolution. i Pawnbrokers Find War Brings Business Boom rinrase-d-X-salari-es ment haven t cut re. in pawnshops, m over portedaSOpercntuicr fontaar r-- then clothing- - standard by which to A PFOPLE MUST HAVE some individualS; then it must shape its measure itselt ana r as wiU perm;t o its attaining institutions in sue of individual worth be, How this standard, ir resent competitive system is the much have I deh tog ain that end . . . But if the measure, best medium by fae attained by be, What have i the greatness cf a community . th epresent systemi bod;es but its lies not m er g0od, and its possibility of reahzmg Sttu the highest the best." "The records of the court show an increase of drunken-ness among women to the extent of 200 per cent since repeal." "Drunkenness, misery, broken homes are increasing to an alarming extent. . . . We are fighting for the children." |