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Show Editorials (CONTINUED) Materialism and Education Have Failed In the Present Crisis Before the awful crisis of the present day, before the greatest problems that e er confronted the world, material means have failed utterly. Money used to be able to settle anything, but not this time. Materialism and the kind of education we have been pursuing have brought the world to the present crisis because they have omitted the one essential without which there can be no lasting peace. That one essential es-sential is spiritual faith Without that we will have to surrender sur-render to despair and darkness, possibly chaos. It is too bad to have to say that education is at fault, but such is the truth. It has carried on but part of the program that it should. By being all too academic it has developed only the intellect and not the heart or spirit, thus missing the .. . l, 1 1 1 1 T Una fundamental teachings that lead to true Drotnernooa. is u notattended to the development of the magnet of spiritual understanding which alone will unite people" for peace. Our schools must begin and that right now, to acknowledge and emphasise the Fatherhood of God and ,the Brotherhood of man and the moral law in order to save itself and mankind from destruction. Those Who Make Life Worthwhile All the beauty and utility, the glory and the freedom the world had before the war was the result of the practical and ideal vision of the dreamers. Very often these dreamers or visionaries have been misunderstood and even despised of men, but they have always offered the world salvation, clothed cloth-ed it with beauty, opened new fields of opportunity, drawn asiae the curtains of darkness and ignorance and let in the sunshine of truth and knowledge. How badly the world has treated many of them. All the time they have starved for the physical comforts of life Sometimes they were driven from society Some have become martyrs. In spite of this they have always been right and have given mankind all it knows. They have laid the cornerstones of society. They have made all the sacred books, all the eharters of liberty; ana" they have raised all the flaps of freedom. They have taught mankind the meaning of truth, love liberty and the splendor of the spiritual spiritu-al life. Don't wait uutil they're dead to honor them Th-wnv son," : V, km: - a vtta mn to t.lie Japs to invade. In-. eh - , 'k 1- . he, . d v a ,M a Ik of , r ,i " -v ,1 ,. UI-, i! and M ' r'hur in the story of t he m:,nn s a ke t -I,, ) a Bataan. I here' s..m h to .H a'.out |