Show EDITORIAL I ISN'T IT POSSIBLE POSSIBLE Our daily dally states that thirty mIl mIlA million million A lIOn people of China j have been rendered destitute and are arc facing starvatIon because of recent recent Plods ThIrty million people IS 13 one fourth as many as there is lQ- lQ the United States more thin th h of oC the Mississippi 1 n er Elsewhere m in ChIna and India is to be e found the utmost po poverty ert and i On the other hand 1 there is m in inthis inthis mI I thIS countr country a glutt glut of everything e that human l life e needs to sustain It and to contribute to its comfort and happiness It appears that the problem bc before ore engineers and economIsts and statesmen is not notto notto notto to brIng about prosperity in m tIns this country through some unnatural or artificial means but rather to ork and study and concentrate I r 4 the genius gemus of the age to dIscover If possible a system that will en- en enable enable en enable able the surplus of this country tobe to tobe tobe be distributed to other parts of the world orld where there is a need For it is true that for every sur sur- surplus sur- sur surplus surplus plus in m this country that gluts the market there lit lita is a human need somewhere here else J The problem and the wise solution of the problem IS to brin bring the need and the sur- sur surplus surplus sur surplus plus together Is it possible that we as a peo pIe hive hi hl e neglected to do somethIng that would make of oC the teemIng mIllIons of China and India and the far flung frontiers potentIal consumers of the things RC ve have to sell Is it possible that Christain civilization CIVIlIzatIOn civilization has been intent upon Its own pleasure and enrichment and comfort and his s failed to develop the uttermost parts of the earth Is it possible that the injunction of Christ to Go ye to the utter utter- uttermost uttermost uttermost most parts of the earth had back backof backof backof of it a thought that In lies li es deeper than we have dreamed Isn't it entirely possible that If Christianity is brought to these people everywhere that they WIll consumers of our surplus to a point where instead of put puttIng putting putting tIng the brakes on production and decrying the machine age we ne shall be speeding up production and bUIldIng bigger and better and fast faster er cr machines to meet the growing need Isn't it that man his s been handling a b ig g problem in m a lIttle way The depression is going to teach one thing and that is that the man who ho has steady employ employ- employment employment employment ment at an average av rase fair salary who finds himself let out of work wIth no savings sa ahead to carry carryover carryover carryover over the dull period has not prop prop- properly properly properly erly managed hid hI his affairs Circum CIrcum- CIrcumstances Circumstances Circumstances stances of or course alter cases In hIS as in m everything else but It Itan itan itan an not be denied that good man Bement is as essential in m wn personal affairs as it is m in Every Everyone's ones one's household isi IS v business a partnership with the read tead of the house as the manager rhe he same kind hind of leaks that wIll Ink Inka a business will sink ones one's own I household Good management IS good management whether it is m in ma ina ina a home of a few members or in m a large business corporation employ employ- employIng employing employing ing many many workers |