The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1950-03-16

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ensure mans happiness in the
material for greater human COM
fort and convenience. But the
ultimate goal of happiness re-
manned an elusive factor. The
philosophers, poets and preach
ers, noting the increasing unrest
and Illustration on the part of
man, offered the antidote of
peace of mind, peace of heart
and peace of soul
The politician. not to be out
done, offered his potion of ma
terial security through various
social and economic welfare
guarantees. Perhaps to his own
aStonishment, he found himself
in the role of chief medicine man
in the galaxy of quacks, gener-
ously dispensing an opiate that
called for ever increasing dos
ages of ever higher potencies,
until the addict is about to be-
come slave to the most danger
Gus social and economic hoax
ever perpetrated on a grand
scale
In our evaluation Of man we
must recognize that although he
is spiritual being, he is also a
mundane creature. He is con-
stantly torn between inner con-
flicts vested in the spiritual and
in the material. Too often we
have failed to recognize that
mans inner conflicts, seeking
solution in the individual, are
prerequisites to human progress.
The problem is not to create a
world in which man is a docile,
inactive creature of bovine COM
placency, but a world in which
he is free to direct his drives,
urges, appetites and conflicts
along creative and constructive
lines. Only in that direction lies
human happiness.
Toward this end we must find
some premise upon which to ac-
complish an effective merging of
the spiritual and material ma
lures in man. His creative urges
is the answer.
Man is mostly at peace with
himself and in harmony with his
universe when his creative pow
ers are called upon to function.
Real human happiness is there
fore found in the expression of
the individuals creative in
StinctS.
This, then, becomes one of the
major challenges of our modern
civilization: How can we best
create an atmosphere in which
the individual may most effect
lively release and express his
creative forces?
Unfortunately, we are living
in an age where work is froWned
upon. Too many people want to
share in the fruits of enterprise
without having to earn them
through work. Labor is a chore
in disrepute. We key our en-
deavorS toward retirement-the
time we don't have to work any
more-and the earlier, the bet
ter.
This apathy toward work must
change if America is to escape
economic ruin, social depravity,
political disintegration and
abasement of the Individual. The
individual must cease to regard
his efforts solely as a means to-
ward Earning a livelihood, with
the pay check as dts onlY~com-
pensation. Management must
cease to regard labor as merely
an instrument to be employed
for material gains.
Labor and management must
became increasingly aware of
the fact that they are co-workers
not only in a productive mater
ial enterprise, but also in a Gre
ative experiment that calls for
concerted expression of the high
est human resources and latent
powers.
1t is an experiment wherein
we must determine whether
man shall remain free to rise
above himself to the extent that
he shall reap not only the great
est possible material rewards.
but also to achieve happiness to
its highest degree through full
employment of his creative
forces.