Evening star., 1960-06-05

ton in the schools, saw The Growing Experience.
She said, Magnificent 1t must go everywhere. 1t is
essential in the South but MIRA needed through
out the world 1t will soon catch the imagination of the
whole world Nothing else on the scene can do it,
Mrs. Bates and her husband, as publisher of
newspaper came to our training center in Mackinac
Island Michigan. There Mr. Bates Said For the first
time In my life have lost my hatred of the white man"
On her return to Little Rock Mrs Bates invited some of
the leading citizens of her State, white people who had
also been to Mackinac, to dinner in her home They
came-the first time in the history of Arkansas that
such dinner party had been possible After dinner,
Mrs. Bates suggested time of quiet in which together
they should seek Gods way of ending the deadlock.
The thought came that Mrs. Bates should visit Gov
ernor FaubuS the who for years had been pictured
to the world as her bittereSt enemy She rembled but
she went. She said later, The Governor could not
have received me more gracouSly if l had been the
President They shook hands, and the picture of that
handShake went round the world. Governor FaubuS
had previously said, Moral Re-Armament is sowing
the seeds that will prove to be the salvation of ALL
Mrs. Bates told an audience in Washington, with
out Moral Re-Armament it would have been impoSSi-
bic Tor me to meet Governor FaubuS without hate But
have learned to fight for what is right without hatred
l want Moral Re-Armament for the children of the
South and of America. We can see on the horizon a
new day." A maj or American network in its review Of
1889 described this handshake possibly the most sig
end OF hundred years of civil war in the United States
MIRA in South America
In the Republics of South America the hurricane is
blowing too. Millions read the news of an answer
Millions more hear it over the radio. In one week
alone all the main newspapers of Montevdeo carried
reports OF the world work of MIRA and II leading papers
of Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru carried 80 articles A
leading editorial in La PTenSd the largest newspaper of
Peru, said, Moral Re-Armament has unique strength
for the theological battle in the world today 1t is an in
slsent call to all who believe in supreme Creator to
confront those who preach atheism 1t world effort to
defeat materaSm The morally rearmed are not an easy
prey to materialiSt indoctrination"
Eudocio RaVineS one of the great revolutionarieS
OF our time who, trained by Mao TSe-tung introduced
Communism to Peru and Chile, met in Moral Re-
Armament superior ideology that changed him. He
says, The basic problems of Latin America are not
under-deVelopment, but corruption and Communism
While our countries welcome economic aid, alone it
cannot touch the root problem. Without moral ideo-
ogy, 1t may even aggraVate the problem. The best
export the United States of America or any nation can
send to Latin America is Moral Re-Armament'
In a long lifetime of experience that has taken mo
to all parts of the world and brought me in touch with
every sort OF people, have never seen greater hunger
and greater hope than we find today Man must
choose the road OF common he will inevitably
take the path of common suicide.
DR.. P. ]. Little, the well-known statesman and
tnnker OF Heland put ne cnaenge clearly In the Dublin
Sunday Press His article about Moral Re-Amament
occupied two central pages. 1t was headed, "World
War HI-the war of ideaS-the battle we cannot lose"
He Said 'The Cold War has only to heat up to
boiling point for ten seconds and civilization will be
blasted into eternity. Ideas not bombs will determine
who wins the battle of ideologeS and on this battle
depends the length of time have left to live and
whether our children will ever grow up"
Worldwide Transformation
But the farseers of this century recognize in Moral
Re-Armament the certainty of My friend Robert
Schuman of France, who has twice written the FORE
word to the French edition of my published speeches,
puts it this way, moral Re-Armament is philosophy
of life applied in action that have seen reaching the
millions. 1t is a worldwide Transformation of human
society that has already begun"
1t needs hurricane of common sense to bring men
to their senses, restoring the Communist and the nom
Communist world to sanity and unity before it is too
late. That hurricane is sweeping through every nation
today, and in the midst of the hurricane the still small
Voice of the living God an unseen but ever-preSent
Guide, willing and able to speak to the men of the
Kremlin the men of Washington to the millions every
where leaders and led, who have lost their way and
seek to find it.
1t is so normal 1t is so practical 1t is hurricane
And it is common sense.