Evening star., 1939-06-04
Return to Home Truths
Basis of Recovery
Honesty, Purity, Love and
Unselfshness Upheld
AS Guides to People

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trates in the Netherlands indorsed
the movement, and 1t. Gen. j. j.
G. Baron Van Worst tot Worst,
commander in chief of the Dutch
Army, notified his officers: Putting
aside self-interest, we must take UP
with earnest endeavor the task in
front of U.S." A congress of Catholic
workers, meeting TT Amsterdam,
wired approval to Queen Wilhelmina
while the Social Democrats broad
cast their adherence to the pur-
poses of her majesty.
King Leopold Acts.
King Leopold of the Belgians
likewise adopted moral rearmament
as philosophy for application in
both foreign and domestic affairs.
Peace, if 1t is to be lasting, can
only be built on the foundations Of
moral and spiritual rearmament.
Meanwhile, former President Her.
bert Hoover, speaking at Toronto on
November %. declared his belief
that: I'VE need something far more
than prohibitions and laws We cam
! not control hate and fear by treaties.
We can only govern through the
force of moral principle Some
think that we must find from ply
Sical science a new and natural
ethic which can replace or REIN
vigorate the moral standards and
spirituality of men But Christ gave
better answer. The most potent
force in society is its ideals. They
are the sum of the spiritual aspira-
tions of individual men. Without
that handspring they are without
vitality What this world needs
today is to return to sanity and to
moral and spiritual rearmament. In
this crisis that is the high mission
OF the church throughout the world.
1t is also the mission of all think
ing laymen. Today, as never in his
tory, 1t is the common mission of
all democratic peoples
To estimate the present scope Of
the campaign it will suffice to list
a few of the messages received at
the citizens meeting held in Madi-
son Square Garden, New York, on
May IA. They came from: Sven
Hedin, famous Swedish explorer and
author; members of the parliament
of Finland. representing five differ
ent political parties; % university
professors in Sweden, Norway and
Finland the Danish Association of
Housewives; Fritz Gygax, secretary
of the parliament of Switzerland;
$500 British mothers; j. A. N.
Patijn. foreign minister of the Meth
erlands; Children of Pioneer South
Africans, Pretoria; mayors and dep
uty mayors of Northwest Lanca-
shire, England; the Lord Mayor Of
Cardiff, Wales; faculty and pupils
of Teachers Training College, Fin
land; the Primate of Denmark:
seven Norwegian sportsmen; 419
Swedish mothers; walters team.
Eastbourne, England; fellows of coll
leges and undergraduates, Oxford:
1913 Lord Provosts and Provosts Of
Scotland; Right Rev. George West,
Bishop of Rangoon; the president
OF the student body, Helsinki High
School, Finland; rs Norwegian en-
gineers; local government leaders Of
Ireland, Scotland and England, as
sembled at Blackpool; Danish wives
and mothers, Horsens; team at Lur-
gan. Ireland; Bertil Malmberg and
Sally Salminen. Swedish poet and
Finnish novelist; Cape Cod fishing
fleet and wives and mothers, Well
fleet, Mass; cowboys in Montana;
unemployed miners at Silver Greek,
Pa; friends in Bermuda, Egypt and
Japan.
Others Interested.
Also group of French mothers,
Olympic sportsmen of Great Britain,
Sir Frank H. Bowater, Lord Mayor
of London; the Right Hon. Alfred
Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin; Sir
Crawford McCullagh, Lord Mayor
of Belfast; the British Trades Union
Congress, Arthur Baker, London
Times; As mayors of London bor-
oughs, director of Finnish Broad
casting Co., civil service officials,
India; businessmen of the Neither
lands, the Premier of New South
Wales, Australia presidents Of wom-
ems clubs in Sweden, Denmark,
Norway and Finland; Daphne Du
Maurier, English novelist; oxford
groups in China, Greece and Bull
garia; Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, Secretary of War Harry H.
Woodring, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Charles A. Edison, Associate
Justice William o. Douglas, Attorney
General Frank Murphy, Speaker
William B. Bankhead, Senators AL
ben w. Barkley and Robert F. Wag-
ner, Representative Joseph w. Mar
tin, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman Of
New York, Gov. William H. Wander
bilt of Rhode Island. DR.. Alexis
Carrel. Rockefeller Institute: DR..
Endicott Peabody, Groton School;
Dan Beard and Mrs. James Roose-
welt, mother of President Roosevelt.
DR.. Buchanan, born in Pennsyl-
vania 81 years ago today, claims no
personal credit for his ach.evemant.
Asked to summarize his doctrine h
phrase. he says: Mora. rsasnA-
J ment Is q race with time for the re-
making Of men, of nations and the
world"