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them of this course.
tolls the death knell of morale in
both the capable and the incapable,
the talented and the untalented.
The final status of a people so
governed is one of despicable medi-
ocrity. They become the ripened
target for whoever would possess
them. They have nothing of which
20 be proud and nothing to defend.
Reducing mankind to an average
by peaceful means is socialism.
Doing it by force is communism.
The result is the same in either
case. The socialist would reduce us
to an average people under the
false assumption that all our diff
ficulties would thereby be overcome
and our problems resolved.
Tht communist would reduce US
to the same inert state but further
weakened in the process by bloody
revolution to hasten the day of our
disaster. The communist is not will
ling to wait on the slower process
of legislation and the erosive meth
cd of so-called social reform.
What the Mistaken would do to
a people within nation, they
would also do to a country among
the family of nations. They would
white down the nations that have
achieved degree of greatness and
bestow unappreciated, even I'M
wanted gratuities on those that
have achieved less, all in the name
Of curing the worlds ills.
This is a vastly different thing
from helping a nation to help it.
self. Mere direct taking from one
to another has nothing in common
with providing leadership and
showing the people of a nation how
to enjoy the supreme satisfaction
that comes only with self-accom-
plishment.
Pure socialism, living from the
common storehouse, has been tried
many times. 1t has never worked
except in groups that were both
very small and in dire emergency.
Even then its working was very
temporary. 1t continued only until
the crisis passed or the diligent
members of the group discovered
who were the drones, the parasites,
the free-loaders and the gold
bricks and, prompted by their own
sense of decency and self-respect
denied them the fruits of another's
toll. This was eloquently demon
strated within the roots of Ameri-
canism were first being planted in
the soil of this continent, and Cap
tain John Smith had to issue his
edict in the jamestown Colony,
"No work, no eat"
This doctrine became deeply in
grained in the philosophy that for
a century and a half was synony-
nous with the United States of
America. 1t was known as the ma
ton that was completely free. That
simply meant that it would leave
an individual completely alone
while he undertook to help him
self. There was a time when that
was all a man asked. History is
replete with evidence that such a
philosophy, such a system, and the
individual effort that is inspired
built the greatest nation that time
has seen. There is no evidence that
a different system would have
built a better country. On the con-
trary, in direct proportion as we
have forgotten our foundation
stones, our position among nations
has become precarious. Our fibre
has become weak, our future in
doubt.
| We must instill in the mind of
every young American belief in
himself, an understanding that he
is his own responsibility, an ambi-
ton to do we'll for himself, an APP
preciation of the self-respect that
accompanies honest toll. American
youth must be taught to ask only
for chance, not a charity. In the
process he will learn that he is as
good as he makes himself and that
the greatest Joy in life is the know
Hedge of a job we'll done. He will
have contributed TO the building
of his character and his country. He
will believe in and respect the ma
tion that gave him a chance and
which he, in turn, has helped to
build. And his country will have
! grown strong, because he will be
'lwilling TO defend it. :.