The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-11-15
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But the Chamber of Com
merce has started planning on
the decorating now and we un-
derStand details will be worked
out at a meeting of the Cham
Der and business men to be
held Monday.
Stolen from an-excange is the
fOllowfn~ poetry:
There was an old person of
Tring
Who, when somebody asked her
to sing,
Replied, "Ain't it odd2 .
I can never tell God
Save the Weasel from Pop Goes
the King.
The following item, entitled
1.-THE Profit Motive was writ
ten by George Peck, chairman
of the Board of the National
Labor Management Foundation,
and is reprinted from the Link
Belt News:
Too many Americans believe
that the attack on our Amer
lean Capitalistic system, which
for no good reason we apollo
getically have come to call the
Free Enterprise system, is a
threat only to the businessman.
It is a threat to the business
man - the abolition of the
American CapitaliStic. system
would destroy him - but such
humiliation would also take
away the cherished liberties of
every man, woman and child
in the nation, irrespective of
creed, race or station in life.
The Bill of Rights would go
out the window and our herald
ed Constitution would be but
a scrap of paper.
The anto-busineSS, anti-cap-
italistic proponents decry the
profit motive. Some of them go
so far as to quote Scripture on.
the relation of property own
erShip and. the common good,
and suggest that if the profit
motive were removed, great
masses of people would benefit.
The Very Rev. Charles E. MI
Allister, dean of the Cathedral
of st. John the Evangelist, Spo-
kane, Wash, takes sharp issue
with this. He states that So
cialism, the system that pro-
poses to do away with private
profit, has shown itself in many
respects inconsistent with
Christian teachings. During Lent
of this year, he delivefad a
sermon en- the subject, Chris
tianity AID the Profit Motive"
I pass on to you the closing
words OF that stirring sermon.
From hsce on, it is Dean Nc.
AlliSter speaking:
There we're two bands Of IL
grimS who came to America,
both, as lar as we can ascer-
tain, Of equal character and
ability One landed OF a West
Indies island where everything
was easy and comfortable, and
it was never heard Of after
wards. as fan as eXerciSu::s any
influence on humanity was con-
cerned.
The other landed on an in
hospitable shore, was met by
savage Indians, and was forced
to obtain suStenance from a,
none too fertile land. These.
latter furnished the spiritual
and economic foundations of
our nation and democracy. They
were Christians. They were cap
able of sacrifice. They were
workers.
They believed in reward for
honest toll and they had no
use for the parasite who re-
fused to work or wanted to live
on the profits of other Mems
labor.
We can never inspire youth
to great endeavor if we encour-
age them in the thought that
life consists of getting some
thing for nothing, by whatever
means, fair or foul.
It is certainly not social JUS
tice to take away the earnings
of the industrious and the eff
tficient, and give them to the
lazy and incompetent. 1t is GER
tainly not Christian, for under
such a system Thou shall love
thy neighbor as thyself" is for
gotten. But instead, we have
Love myself, it makes no diff
ference what happens to thy
neighbor."
Everyone of us is called to do
needful work. That work is re-
warded so that every honest
man who is not physically
handicapped can pay his own
way. OF course, there are in
equalities in our economic SyS-
tenn. There are evils that need
to be corrected. Management,
labor, and government are all
guilty in varying degrees of
these evils.
The profit motive exists in
the spiritual realm. We live up
to a certain moral code that
there may be a little heaven
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