Show What Our Readers Think Editors Editor not Contributors Contributor to fo What Readers Think must sign their Ire tru true names and nd d addresses although these will not ot b. b published If t the writer re r.- r. quests Short letters Itter will b. b given ginn preference Christ Advocated Care For the th Aged and Needy Editor Telegram It was to be expected th that t President R Roosevelt's Rose Roose Rosevelt's ose- ose velt's address to the nation re regarding regarding re- re garding postwar conditions with emphasis on the returning soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' sol sol- sol sol- diers' diers welfare would be criticised criticised by enemies of ot social se se- se Fortunately the American American Ameri Amen can people know what the president president president dent and congress have done for them by enacting social security laws they know that the old folks dont don't have to worry now if their meager savings for declining declining de de- de- de clining dining years disappeared during the depression or through other bad luck they know the workIng working work- work Ing log man will be protected against unemployment and many gunny other hazards of life The returning soldiers will be assured that they dont don't have to sell apples on street corners that or regulars will be ie turn turned d on them if they present a just claim in Washington Wash Wash- ington ington like like under Hoover It seems to me that all these political beens has isolationists isolation isolation- gaul etc ought to have learned by now that their barking is about as effective as that of the little dog at the moon They are represented in both parties Notice how some sortie Republicans are trying hard to read out of the party because he is a a. real American and is In sympathy with Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's efforts to do something for the forgotten man instead of or a few privileged The other day I read an article In a paper which always pretends pretends pre pre- tends to hold a a. patent right on Christianity but misses no chance to knock all social se security cc- cc efforts making a specialty specialty specialty of or telling Its readers that the family should take care of old folks etc instead of the government without mentioning that many families are willing but unable to do this Apparently Apparent Apparent- ly the writer Is unaware that Chr Christ t made it plain that In such cases dazes His church should care for the aged needy etc ete Has anybody anybody any any- body ever seen or heard of any an ar Christian church which has done this They may have done something in Isolated cases but never er on a large scale On the contrary some so tailed Christian Chris Chris- tian Usa churches have ha approved all social security ol old age a assistance assistance assist assist- ut- ut ance etc eta when the government did what Christ wanted His Hu church to do but but- what it never did AJ At the paper 1 I mentioned fu d t doesn't publish a forum like The TheT T Telegram in Telegram In fact refuses to publish anything which differs from its opinion opinion its its readers are re like those in axis countries they countries they never hear the other side This reminds me of Robert Ingersoll who said once christians Chris Christians chris tell me n-ic that they love their their enemies and yet all I ask is not that they love their enemies not that they love their friends but that they treat those who differ with them with simple fairness We do not wish to be forgiven but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them And Thomas Jefferson must I have been inspired when he lie wrote the following Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached as pure as they came from His ills lips the whole civilized world would now have been Christian If It future history is written such men men men-as as s Washington Lin Lin- coln coIn Roosevelt Wilson etc willbe will willbe willbe be classified as real benefactors of mankind as as' real Christians who came closer to Christs Christ's teaching In fact than many self- self styled Christian leaders Christ gave us tips how to recognize His Ills real followers By their fruits ye shall know them G. G F. F Bushman |