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
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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."
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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.
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