The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-19
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by TEX HANCOCK
STATE OF THE NATION

STATE OF THE NATION
In an editorial of the Chicago
Daily News is the statement:
Now we know that the state OF
the nation is related not alone to
the state of its bank-roll but is as
vitally related to its state OF
mind"
The state of the nation Is first
and last always related to the
state of mind. The state of the
bank-roll is dependent on the
state of mind. The bank-roll is a
result. The state of mind is the
cause. Panic or depression is al.
ways in the head before it Is IN
the pocket.
When people are afraid and a
shut down business or banks
there is still just as much money
and material in the world as be
fore. The whole trouble is in the
heads of the people They lose
faith, get scared, close up-and
there you are.
If people thought less about the
bank-roll and looked at things
from different angles the panic
conditions that possess us every
so often would lose their power
over us.
The soundness of any nations
life Is dependent not on the bank
roll but of the faith and confidence
of the people in one another.
Our real world is a spiritual
world Underlying all our mater
ial efforts. plans and holdings are
the spiritual principles that make
the material side of any value.
We have too often mistaken n
thing we could see or hold as the
real thing when IL is in reality
simply an evidence of the spirit
ual force playing thru our lives.
OFFENSIVE DEFENSIVE
We listened to the Presidents
speech last week when he declar-
ed that hereafter The United
States defensive policy would be
an offensive defensive policy
henceforth. II is about what we
had expected when we learned
that he had an important an
nouncement to make. II also fol-
lows up our expectation of the
gradual but ultimate Involvement
in the European war.
There Is an old saying: Moth
ing is ever hard-it is only new.
That seems to be true in so many
ways. Here is a new subject TO
master. Hard at first because 1t
Is new. strange. A man starts in
tc operate machine that he
knows nothing about. Nervous
and worried at first at the many
confusing gadgets that have to be
used. But after a little-so sim
ply because the newness Is be-
hind us.
So il has been with our attitude
toward participation in the Euro
pean war. Two years ago our
people were as strong against
such participation as they are
for II. Twenty years OF thinking
against such action had made the
very idea OF going over there un-
thinkable. But we stood on the
side line and looked for a long
time. All the time thinking. Then
the thought OF helping. Then ac-
tual helping. Then realizing that
we were not neutral, and never
had been. Then patroling our
own waters. Later wider areas In
ocean travel. Then Iceland. Now
we will keep the freedom OF the
seas and shoot first to do 1t.
All of this gradual process NOV
ing in one direction makes the
ultimate and inevitable step -
declaration of war against Gel
many-an easy one to take.
Once a man makes up his mind
that a thing has to be done and
he has to do 1.-THE rest is easy.
Two thirds of your battle comes
in making the decision. Our
people do not want war. Our
president knew, even last fall
when he was assuring the voters
that we would not go to war, that