The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-11
WHAT is MORAL
RE-ARMAMENT?


immediate application of the highest
moral standards of democracy to every
section of the nations life. This is
why people either feel strongly for
Moral Re-Armament or against II, be-
cause it clearly draws the moral
battleline in the country and accepts
no halfway measures.
Frank Buchanan, the Pennsylvania
who began the work of Moral Re
Armament, is regarded as one of the
greatest statesmen of this age. And
again, on the other hand, he is bitter
~ attacked by those who see in Moral
Re Armament the end of their own
selfish schemes for power. For twenty
years Frank Buckman has pointed to
the treemndous need for moral and
spiritual standards in men and nations
as the only hope for democratic
world, and with his co-workers in
MIRA has worked and fought to build
it.
Change In Human Nature
He has realistically faced the fact
unless Gods will replaces self-interest,
and he has made it practical by: l..
Creating sound home-life across the
country where all members of families
work as one together; ,. Building
teamwork I'm industry on lasting
foundation, where management ana
labor work to give the highest to the
whole country; and 3. Creating ma
tional unity, not on eXpediency, but
by breaking down barriers of bitter
ness and rivalry between people and
getting them working together, not for
their own welfare, but for their coun-
try and the world.
Frank Buckman's insistence on the
need for Il change in people has always
drawn the fire of those forces I'm this
and other countries, who In their
hearts have no use for Christianity.
He has always been attacked by the
dictionary forces and by the forces
whose underlying aim is class war
fare Frank Buckman has always
stated that n successful future peace
must be based upon drastic change
change Of heart In men and nations.
Without this basic change In the think
ing and living of nations, the peace
will be lost as before.
MORAL Re-Armament," says Frank
Buckman, as a program Of life which
issues in personal, social, racial, ma
tiOnal and supernational change. It's
aim Is n new social order under God,
making for better human relationships,
for unselfish cooperation, for cleaner
business, for cleaner politics, for the
elimination of political, industrial and
racial antagonisms.'
SpOtlights Nations Appeasers
He makes clear that II Is the men
ciples who are the appeasers OF ma
tons They are the men who will sell
out any union or country for their own
gain. They are the people who all
along have opposed the work of Moral
Re-Armament and they know why
only to well, for Moral Rearmament
makes democracy reality In ma
tion. leaving no room for any form
Of dictatorship. This Is why MIRA Is
smeared and false propaganda written
always by the same people. A little
investigation always traces this propa-
ganda to the same old, source-to those
who plan To destroy the democratic
life of countries.
Senator Harry s. Truman of the
Senate Committee Investigating the
War Program leaves no doubt ms to
what he has found in Moral Re-Arma-
ment There Is not n single Industrial
bottle-neck | can think of which could
not be broken In IA matter of weeks if
this Moral Re-Armament crowd were
given the green light to 90 full-steam
ahead"
World LabOr's support
William Green, Philip Murray and
leaders of British. Swedish, Canadian,
Australian and New Zealand labor
have consistently supported the work
of Moral Re-Armament through the
years, because they know that all
material, social and economic gains
will be lost unless there Is also the
equivalent moral and spiritual ad-
vance In the nation. Labor united on
the highest standards can remake the
world. That Is what MIRA believes,
Schemes, programs and ideas FOR the
new world are heard ON every side and
have been heard for many years but
the one thing lacking Is the right
spirit to make them work. Moral Re
Armament aims To supply that need
In the world today-to create In people
the spirit that will make the peoples
plans work.
'For II America doesn't catch this
spirit says Senator Truman, 1--WE will
be- lucky 10 win the war and certain to
lose the peace. With II, there is no
limit To what we can do for America
and America for the world