Evening star., 1950-12-24
By the Associoted Press

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23.-
FOLLOWING is a Stenographic
Transcripts OF President Tru-
mans address today at a lunch
con for Washington correspond
ents:
1t has been a pleasure, Of
course, to be able to be with you
at this luncheon. I have never
before been able to attend because
of the business I always have
when I am here. Everybody in
Jackson County and Missouri and
Kansas and adjoining States
Oklahoma. Arkansas and Iowa
feels that because it is a good
railroad center and an easy place
to get to. and also an air center,
that it is good time to see the
President when he is available. So
usually I see anywhere from 200
to 400 customers" when I am
here, and it is impossible for me
to have any pleasure along the
lines that we are having today.
am very much interested in
your business, and what you have
to do. I know that all of your are
as conscientlously interested in the
welfare of the country as I am.
We are in the midst of situation
that is unprecedented. Not in. the
history of the world has there
been a time when two great pow
ers have faced each other under
circumstances with which we face
the Communists.
The only way that situation
can be worked out for the welfare
of the world is for those people
who believe in ethics, morals and
right to associate themselves to-
gether to meet the menace of
those who do not believe in ethics,
morals and rights, who have no
idea OF honor or truth.
Warns Against Wrong Attitude.
We should be very careful that
the attitude of that lack of honor
and truth does not become part
of our own political system. It is
very dangerous thing.
Our growth and our laws are
founded on those originating with
Hammurabi to the Mesopotamian
Valley. propounded by Moses and
elaborated on by Jesus Christ,
whose Sermon on the Mount is
the best ethical program by which
tc live.
Now the people we are in con-
troversy with do not believe in
any of those things. They are in
heritors of the program of Gen.
ghis Khan and Tamerlane, who
were the greatest murderers in
the history of the world.
hope that you gentlemen who
represent some of the greatest
means of information will ponder
these things and begin to under
stand that the political situation
IN our country is a secondary
matter.
Significance Is World Wide.
1t is world situation. I have
been trying to mobilize the moral
forces of the world-Catholics,
Protestants, Jews, the Eastern
Church, the Grand Lama of Tibet,
the Indian Sanskrit moral code
I have been trying to organize all
OF these people to the understand
ing that their welfare and the ex-
istence Of decency and honor in
the world depends on our working
together, and not trying to cut
each others throats.
We are making some progress.
That is the reason I was able to
say last night that this country
is not in a confused and danger
GUS situation that a lot of people
think 1t is. The American people
understand what we are doing.
Just today I got promise that
everybody in a little town in
Michigan would stand by what
we are trying to dot was signed
by $500 people in that town of
Jackson, Mich. The Governor of
Kansas last night spoke for the
American people when he said
what he did. And you will find in