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Show DiiiLr Guns and Such o p. By GEORGE S.BENSON jfK Prtsidant of Harding College (11 J Searcy. Arkansas jiflGCKl' ta H REVOLUTIONS come from abuses of power, not from the normal use of it. I am not thinking, think-ing, of wars alone. All kinds of revolutionary developments follow fol-low much the same pattern. Just consider, for an example, America's Ameri-ca's bewildering canon of statutes governing firearms, their possession posses-sion and use. Guns add formidable formida-ble force to people who own them and know, how to use them. In some states, citizens walk the streets unmolested wearing sidearms. In other states, any resident must buy a permit to display his great-grandfather's "Revolutionary flint-lock" at home in a glass case. The difference is no political whimsy. Wherever the right to own arms has been abused, public sentiment has demanded de-manded laws against them, not only enacted but enforced. Needless SEVERAL days ago I Calamity wrote a prediction that the American people some day would rise up and enact laws requiring compulsory arbitration arbi-tration of labor disputes. Since I penned those lines I have been in several states and talked with men who are close to the public pulse. Almost all of them share my fears as well as my slender hope that compulsory arbitration never comes. Outlawing strikes is a threat, plain to see, but an unnecessary calamity. No detail of human freedom should be sacrificed to anything but public welfare. Strikes,1 like- guns, have their uses. If strikes were outlawed, all working people would lose the gains of many toilsome years. If I might advise Labor, I would say, "Clean your gun and put it away. -Don't make such action necessary." Penalize CIVILIZATION has Progress made progress at times by force of arms. Just so? a large segment of people have made wholesome advances by force of the power to strike. Being disarmed would weaken them, and they are liable to be disarmed because the public is weary of violence. The war is over and peace has problems that can't be solved by rattling sabers or carrying banners in torch parades. Writing about pressure groups in his recent book, 60 Million Jobs, Henry Wallace said: "Any one group can, for a time, get a larger share of the national income in-come but it doesn't work when all try it at the same time. Sooner or later this pressure game will blow up in our faces. This is. . . practical arithmetic. Unless we learn it, our future is black indeed." in-deed." Again he wrote: "In labor-management labor-management cooperation lies the very hope of . . . jobs. With mutual understanding between labor and management ... we stand our best chance of getting good wages for labor, good prices for the farmer, stable profits for business men and a higher standard stan-dard of living for those who need it most." Wallace is a friend of Labor, but he foresees danger. |