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Show 'Looking mm Ahead WjL Dr. George S. Benson NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM . SearcyArkansasj GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY Twentieth Century America has reached its most historic crossroads. Turmoil dominates the national scene. Logic and reason seem to have been abandoned in the uncertain grapplings of our leaders with our gravest national and international in-ternational problems. Basic morality is becoming "out moded" supplanted by a rank "code of obscenity" publicly pub-licly approved by our courts and by articulate segments of our press and population. The decay of national character is unmistakenly visible. America is deteriorating militarily mili-tarily as the Communist juggernaut jug-gernaut grows mightily. We no longer are the champion of world-wide freedom, the "bright hope" of 900,000,000 enslaved en-slaved people. Some of our most "distinguished" and lis-tened-to "statesmen," viewing the rise of the Soviet Union to dominant world power, proclaim pro-claim a "Welcome Communists!" Commu-nists!" international policy. The whole structure of American Ameri-can society is being shattered. The lives of the American people are threatened, as never before in this century. Facing The Blame Who is to blame? We, the people of the United States, are to blame. Oh, the vast majority of us have been (in mind and heart) on the side of logic and reason, courage and honor, decency and morality, law and order; and for the lofty principles inherent in the goal of world-wide brotherhood. brother-hood. And militarily most Americans want our nation to be superior in power over any possible potential enemy. The majority of Americans almost instinctively choose to travel this high road. But a belief in mind and heart, if unspoken un-spoken and inactive, is of limited influence; and, in today's to-day's world, tragic. Today most Americans are sitting by the lower roadside, inactive and fairly well satisfied with life. It is a sunny day, the breeze is nice, the children (well, where are they, what could they be doing in the forest over yonder? Ho, hum). Those wildflowers stimulate the soul; and there is a good meal left in the picnic basket; an atmosphere of security and well-being prevails. Surely, somehow, we'll reach the good destination. Sitting in the sun, thinking good thoughts, will (many Americans seem to believe) be-lieve) bring about a solution to our problems. But will it? The hard fact is it won't! It hasn't. Survival Number One Our most urgent problem is survival. There is no question (finally the truth is out) about the growing superiority of the Soviet Union's nuclear power; and there shouldn't be any doubt about its objective; the takeover of the U.S.A. Every Communist boss since Marx has proclaimed this objective, repeatedly. The White and Black Communists in the U. S. today are repeating it openly, and showing they mean it. What has the American people, peo-ple, who unquestionably want to safeguard their lives and liberty, done about this urgent survival problem? Most of them continue to "think" survival sur-vival and "favor" adequate national defense, but they continue con-tinue to sit, inactive, relatively relative-ly undisturbed in the good sun out where everything is pretty and one need not . r worked up." s Vocal Minority p0W(if Tne President , fragment (a Vi , ballistic missile partisans mobili nized a nati ABM movement Z nent leadership a'r2 ng of the J ?l Party. Vast were poured into JiJ signed, effective d against the Ij establishment , 0 oblique assault on abu TV network time wu military" was 2 llke a gigantic evil leaders ogres, JLm arrogant and g'rossly3 spending billions on J able weapons system. 31 fense projects. Although nation.wl showed that the Amen pie by a margin of tr '1edth deplovment-ABM deplovment-ABM missile system o,, to Senators and Co f (on wh.ch voting usually are based) r J ap.ainst ABM. Probat I nine out of every hundred. 01 sons favoring ABM write their Senators, in t, gressman and the iw (to strengthen his daer-5 tion). As a result, a mi.' E of the Senate in Late M decided the country g Lv want ABM. If in 1970, or 1911. :: s the Soviets wish to ir? , nuclear blackmail - Hi airtight ABM system oh sin own in place and r; hv strike" power capable in stroving our retaliatory n ability where would s blame lie if America i in obliged to surrender? J ten question is directed it . (( Guilty or not guilty? ' For each 100 pom; r fiber, the cotton plant y.-. , 180 pounds of seed |