Monday, September 12 Cool day. a great change in temperature Dry. No rain for long time. Read most of the day. Max cut lawn Nothing special Mr Behling called on me in interest of Sunday school Tuesday, September 13 Nice day. I go down to City Hall as part of a Committee to inspect city prison. Bat condition Read and write some Retire early. Dr Jr called this evening President Clark Assails Trend Toward State Slavery in America Deseret News Sept 15th 49 A warning against national trends toward state slavery with the assertion that it may well be that our government and its free institutions will not be preserved except at the price of life and blood was sounded Wednesday in Salt Lake City by Pres. J. Reuben Clark Jr., first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. In addressing an afternoon session of the annual convention of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, in the Hotel Utah, President Clark spoke forcefully against the inroads of Americas real enemies, communism and its running mate, socialism. The Church leader asked his audience if they ever had heard of either isms faltering or yielding their aims and purposes, or showing pity or mercy for their opponents, or slackening their tyrannical bonds once fastened, or passing by any opportunity to push ahead, or failing to burn and plunder, to maim and injure, to rape, to murder, whenever such practices would aid them in fastening their state slavery upon the people. Never forget for one moment that communism and socialism are state slavery, he declared, continuing. Nor forget that See PRES. CLARK on Page A3 State Slavery Perils U. S. Leader Says (Continued From Page A 1) while enslavement to an individual may on occasion be eased by the human instincts of mercy and love, yet these feelings are itnfcown to a soulless state. The history of modern Russia and its satellites tells us all this; we may not like the tragic picture that history paints as our own destiny, if we move forward along our present course, but we would better face the facts. Sees Serious Trouble Then President Clark declared that unfortunately, one thing seems sure. We shall not get out of our present difficulties without trouble, serious trouble. Indeed, it may well be that our government and its free institutions will not be preserved except at the price of life and blood. That is the record of freedoms contest with communism and socialism in other lands. During the remainder of his address President Clark discussed the paths we are following that, if we move forward theron, will inevitably lead us to socialism or communism, and these two are as like as two peas in pod in their ultimate effect wpon our liberties. Sialism Negates Religion President Clark explained that statism cannot live with Christianity, nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such ac the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the state," he said. Under statism, God must go, and with him goes freedom of conscience and of religion, the first two of our liberties named in our Bill of Rights. Surely Christian America will not endure this slavery devised by Satan himself. The Church leader declared further that this one fact should unalterably condemn statism for us. I say surely and unalterably because this country faces head, enough trouble to bring us to our knees in humble, honest prayer to God for the help which he alone can give, to save us. Powers Are Delegated President Clark discussed further the provisions of the Constitution which make clear that the powers of the government are not inherent therein, but are delegated, which means in other words, that the government has such powers and such powers only as the people have given them in and by the Constitution, and this means all the residium of power is in the people. The Judicial power was not vested in administrative tribunals nor in alphabetical bureaus. Nor was Congress authorized to create such bodies exercising judicial powers, the speaker said. Moreover these powers being delegated by the people, it follows they may not be transferred to any other agency or from one to either of the others without the constitutional mandate of the people. Yet beginning with the NRA under General Hugh Johnson and since, Congress, under the domination of those who in turn were under the influence and direction of European political emigres and their political satellites of this country, has passed law after law that provided for the exercise, by the very same tribunal, of legislative, executive, and judicial powers a tribunal that made the law, judged the law and prescribed the penalty, and then executed it, in many cases, it would appear, without provision for an appeal to the courts. Business Only Talked Now, President Clark asked the Insurance officials, what have business and industry done about all this revolutionary activity? They talked and complained; some of the leaders made speeches against it; magazines they could reach wrote articles about it; they pamphleteered the country. Their lawyers fumed, but advised acquiescence. Business and industry neither planned nor did anything effective. There was only one Sewell Avery, only one Vivian Kellems, and only one Hutzler Brothers. A thousand of each, and thousands were equally suffering, working in unison, would have changed history. President Clark further warned that all these usurpations, intimidations, and impositions, are not being perpetrated through inadvertance or mistake. Deliberately Planned The whole course is deliberately planned and carried out, he said, adding. Its purpose is to destroy the Constitution and our constitutional government; then to bring chaos, out of which the new statism, with its slavery, is to arise, with a cruel, relentless, selfish, ambitious crew in the saddle, riding hard with whip and spur, a red shrouded band of night riders for despotism. Other trends of the day which President Clark warned were leading toward plain statism are summarized as follows. The governments going into business, the private banking business, the private financing business, the electric light and power business, not only in competition with private enterprise, but to its destruction, none of which is authorized by the Constitution and all of which is contrary to its spirit and to the due interpretation of its letter. The control of agriculture, through the allotting of acreage quotas, through the granting of subsidies for raising some crops, and for not raising others, the maintenance of parities, and the guaranteeing of minimum price levels. The control of industry through the fixing of wages for business and industry, the fixing of hours erf work per day and per week. The protection of some classes and the war made upon others. The gross corruption that always goes with the expenditures of great sums of money, no matter who spends it. The letting down of the moral standards of the youth, the loss of the old time virtues of thrift, honesty, industry, self reliance, individual independence and all the rest. And, President Clark concluded, there is above and beyond everything else, the all embracing influence of those who represent the alien ideology and who are to be found in highly responsible places throughout the government, where in case of trouble, they can work havoc with the regular constitutional order.