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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1958)
By JOHN FOSTER DULLES WORDS TO LIVE BY linn I "Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually." -woodrow Wilson A Race The Russians Can Never Win Here, from the U.S. Secretary of State, is a stirring challenge ... to the Soviet world . . . and to us fcouti During this cold-war period, there has been much talk about "the battle for men's minds." We often wonder just which side of American life is most likely to appeal to people in other lands. To my mind, the answer was suggested some 2,000 years ago, when Jesus pointed out that the nations of the world had failed because they were giving priority to material things. He called upon men to seek first the Kingdom of Cod. Material things might then be added, but if so, they would come as a by-product, not a primary goal. It is important to keep this distinction in mind today, when America faces serious challenge from an atheistic Communist society which has gam bled everything on material values. The American people are naturally competitive, and that is a good thing. But we must not let competition sweep us away from our true spiritual moorings. In the competition among nations, we will never win if we rely only on sales talks about the number of our auto mobiles, radios and telephones. The world has learned to expect more from us. From the beginning "the great American experi ment" in freedom caught the imagination of men every where. And if we have failed to hold the respect of the world today it may be because we have attempted to make our society appealing without regard to the jreat spiritual concepts which make it work. The answer, 1 believe, is to go back to the beginning to rediscover the spiritual basis of our society, to reanimate it. And this is a job for each of us as indi viduals. For only individuals by their conduct and example can make freedom a dynamic persuasive and wanted thing. How do we do that? By remembering always the importance of moral, religious and spiritual values in our daily lives. Woodrow Wilson summed it up when he said : "Our civilization cannot survive mate rially unless it be redeemed spiritually." And then, in his next sentence, he brought this point home when he said: "Here is the final challenge ... to everyone who fears God and loves his country." mk FOR A BETTER AMERICA I ThisAVeek I mao acini The National Sunday Magazine Euclid M. Covington, President John C. Sterling, Chairman of Ike Board ' William I. Nichols, Editor and Publisher Stewart Beach, Executive Editor OI956, United Newipopon Magazine Corpora tion. JS Uxlngloa Ave, Nw York 17, N. V. Nonet and descriptions of aH characters In DcHoa stories and Mmi.fiction articles in (his Magazine are whoey leiogmory. Any none wnidi hoppens lo be the lame at that of any person, living or dead, H entirely coincidental. The title This Week" H registered In the US. fatent Office. July 13, 1958 In this Issue: - Cm Pheta: Educated Duck by Maxwell Coplan 4 Corf board: Worldwide Wit The Fan Who Kept Ted William From Quitting 11 Tranquilizers Are Going To The Dogil 12 Fiction: A Black Eye For Mrn Millington IS On Is Em 10 Fooel: Ice Cream In A Cloud 72 The Duck That Went To College 24 Feehlen Find: New Trick With Neckties 27 Lett Laugh: Style On An Isle Next Week: Brains Are) Money t TV's top prize-winner, Elfrida von NardrotT reveals her secret in "How I Knew All Those Answers." Kids And Cops. California teen agers join police in prowl cars for night duty. Read the report of this unique crime crusade. Low At First Flight. This is the story of Mrs. Brandford, a sweet old fraud but a successful matchmaker. THIS WEEK MotosieeJelr 13. "
