The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

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between the incomes of major pro-
ducing groups within this and
other countries. If this can be
done, in time, we shall all be
ready to move toward any OBJ
jective we really want to attain.
1t is true that the blueprintS
of the new order can not now
exist We are all Of us still ed
ucating one another to face the
fact that we must sacrifice, each
of us, some inherited concept, or
some childish fable learned at our
mothers knee, for the sake Of the
day to come.
TTERE at home, as elsewhere,
l. l. the problem fundamentally
is one of deciding what this peo-
pie wants to do SOON, nov much
they want to accept from abroad
and how much they wish to send
abroad.
Our resources and scientific
inventivenesS are so great that
the problem would be very simple
if it we're not for the fact that
we are continually being lost in
superflcialities because of the
warning selfshnesS of men who
are more interested in keeping
themselves above their fellows
than they are in cooperating
with their fellows so that We may
all move forward in world
companionship.
We are all sick and sore at
heart as we look at the misery Of
so many millions of people, in
Guiding among them many of our
close friends and relatives; and
we ask again and again why this
should be so in a nation SO blest
with great resources, with nearly
half the worlds gold, witt. great
factories, with fertile soil and no
embarrassing external debt. We
look at all this and ask what
handspring inside of us is bro
ken, and where can we get a
new handspring to drive us for
ward.
Business men operating as in
dividuals on the animal plane can
destroy us no matter how great
our scientific discoveries. AS a
matter of fact, the greater the
discoveries, the more certain the
destruction, with things DIS they
are.
NTE are approaching in the
w world today one of the most
dramatic moments in history. Will
we allow catastrophe to Overtake
us and, as a result, force us to
retire to a more simple, peasant
like form of existence, or will me
meet the challenge and expand
our hearts, so that we are fitted
to WELD with safety the power
which is ours almost for the max
ing?
From the point Of view of trans
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world is more nearly one world
than ever before. From the point
of view of tariff walls, nationalist
strivlngs and the like, the nations
of the world are more separated
today than ever before. Week by
week tension is increasing to an
unbelievable degree. Here resides
beth danger and opportunity.
The religious keynote, the econ
omic keynote, the scientific keynote
of the new age must be the over
whelming realization that mankind
now has such mental and spiritual
powers and such control over ma
ture that the doctrine of the
struggle for existence is definitely
outmoded and replaced by the
higher law of cooperation.
When cooperation becomes a
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
OWL lives, not merely in our own
class, not merely in our own ma
ton, but in the world as a whole
then the vision Of Isaiah and
the insight of Christ will be on
their way toward realization.
This cooperation to which I
refer depends for its strength on
a revival of a deep recognition on
on the part of the individual that
the world is in very truth one
world, that human nature is such
that all men can lOok on each
other as brothers, that the poten-
tialities CT nature and science are
so fa~-reaching as to remove
many Ct the ancient limitations.
This concept which now sesms
cloudy and vague to practical peo-
pie must be more than the re-
igiouS experience Of the mystic.
1t must grow side by side with a
new social discipline which leaves
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