Evening star., 1943-03-08

takes we made after World War
No. /. When creditor nation raises
its tariffs and asks foreign nations
to pay up and at the same time
refuses to let them pay in goods. the
result is irritation of a sort that
sooner or later leads first to trade
war and then to bloodshed
Neighborhood Is Whole World.
The gospel of Christ was to feed
the hungry, clothe the naked, COM
fort the sick and visit those who
were in hard luck He said that
treating your neighbor decently was
the way to show that you loved God.
The neighborhood in. Christ's day
was few miles in diameter. Today
the airplane has made the whole
world neighborhood. The good
nelghbor policy. whether at home or
abroad. is a Christian policy. Those
who preach isolationism and hate OF
other nations are preaching modi-
ned form of Prussian Naziism and
the only outcome of such preaching
will be war =.
II we want peace, we must treat
other nations in the spirit of demo-
cratic Christianity. We must make
our religious practical. In our rela-
tlons with China. for example, we
must act In such a way as to en-
nance the material as well as the
spiritual well-being of her peoLIe.
So doing will not only be of spiritual
advantage to ourselves. will not only
do much to prevent war. but will
give us more material prosperity
than we can otherwise enjoy. Aid
IN saying this, I do not preach the
missionary spirit as a forerunner OF
new imperialism. r-.
Nearly half the, people of the
world live in Eastern Asia. Seven
eighths of them do not know how to
read and write, but many of them
listen to the radio and they know
that the world is on the move and
they are determined to move with #.
We can at their request help them
to move in knowledge toward a
higher standard of living rather
than In ignorance toward. confus-
ion and anarchy
OpeHS Wl0e F1eL0.
Throughout history, every big ma
ton has been given an opportunity
to help itself by helping the world.
II such an opportunity is seized
with a broad and generous spirit,
an inf1nitude of practical possihili-
ties opens up. Thousands OF busi-
nessmen in the United States have
seen this kind of thing happen on a
smaller scale in their own .busi-
nesses, as their broad and enlight-
ened policies have increased their
prosperity and given jobs to their
nelghbors. Christianity is not star
gazing or foolish idealism. Applied
on world wide scale it is intensely
practical. Bread cast upon the wa
ters does return. National friend-
ships are remembered Help to
starving people is not soon forgot
ten. We of the United States who
now have the greatest opportunity
tnat ever came to any people do not
WISH TO impose on any other race
or 10 thrust our money or technical
experts or ways of thought on those
VINO do not desire them. But we
do believe that if We measure u,1 tn
the responsibility which providence
mas placed on our shoulders, we
shall be called on for help by many
peoples who admire us, When We
respond to this cry for help we shah
be manifesting not only a Christian
spirit. but also obeying fuuda-
mental law of life.t
We of the Western democracies
must demonstrate the practically of
our religion. owe must extend a
helping hand to- China and India:
| we must be firm and just with Prus-
sla; we must deal honestly and fair.
| ly with Russia and be- tolerant and
even helpful as she works out her
economic problems i'm her own way:
we must prove that we ourselves
can give an example, in our Ameri-
can democratic way, of full employ
men and full production for the ben
ef1t OF the common man.
BY cola borating with the rest OF
the world to put productive re-
sources fully to work, we shall raise
our own standard of living and help
to raise the standard of living of
| others. 1t is not that we shall be
taking the bread out of the mouths
OF our own children to feed the chill
dren of others, but that we shall CO.
operate with every one to call 70: tn
the energies of every one. to put
Gods earth more completely at the
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