The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-03-22

more and more to the religious, The
artistic and the deeper scientific needs
of man. The business man prompted all
too often by short-time profit motives
has had altogether too much influence;
or possibly should say that his ideals
have caused the nation TO put entirely
too high percentage of its energy into
efforts which were bound to be self
defeating and eventually productive of
unemployment and misery.
1T is proper that we should respect
the business man in his true sphere
He should be encouraged to develop a
social machinery which will make it
possible to bring about an equilibrium
from year to year between productive
power and consunptive power. He
should be encouraged to work out
social machinery to bring about as
nearly as possible just distribution Of
our physical output to the different in
dividuals of the nation. For rendering
his technical services, the business man
should, like all the other elements Of
the population, be assured of a fair
salary and a modest return on capital
combined with such assurances of Sc
curity as may be possible in view Of
the resources and productive power of
the nation.
1--WE are approaching in the world
today one Of the most dramatic mo-
ments in history. Will we allow catas-
trophe to overtake us, and as a result
force us to retire to a more simple,
peasant-like form of existence, or will
we meet the challenge and expand our
hearts, SO that we are fitted to WELD
with safety the power which is ours
almost for the asking? From the stand
point Of transportation and communi-
cation, the world is more nearly one
world than ever before From the
standpoint of tariff walls. nationalistic
strivings, and the like, the nations Of
the world are more separated today
than ever before. Week by week the
tension is increasing to an unbelievable
degree Here reside both danger and
opportunity.
1.-THE religious keynote, the economic
keynote; the scientific keynote of the
new age must be the overwhelming
realization that mankind now has such
mental and spiritual powers and such
control over nature that the doctrine of
the struggle for existence is definitely
outmoded and replaced by the higher
law Of cooperation. When cooperation
becomes living reality in the spiritual
sense Of the term, when we have de-
fined certain broad detectives which
we all want to attain when we can
feel the significance of the forces at
work not merely in our own lives, not
merely in our own class, not merely in
our own nation, but in the world as a
the vision of Isaiah and
the insight of Christ will be on their
way toward realization,
This spiritual cooperation to which
I refer depends for its strength on
revival of deep religious feeling on the
part Of the individual in terms of the
concept that the world is in
very truth one world, that human ma
ture is such that all men can look on
each other as brothers, that the poten-
far-reaching as to remove many of the
ancient limitations. This concept which
now seems cloudy and vague to practi-
cal people must be more than the relig-
ious experience of the literary mystic.
1t must grow side by side with new
social discipline. Never has there been
such a glorious chance to develop this
feeling, this discipline, as in this coun-
try today" e