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Show 4 Friday, April The Cache American, Logan, Cache County, Utah 7, 1911 Pace Three 9 Whence Comes Our Freedom? By NORMAN VINCENT FEA1.E (Editor's Not: Tle Reverend Norman Vincent I Vale. I. D., author of thi article, ii pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue, New York city.) The best way to understand current conditions is to be a student of history. In preserving the American Way, It is helpful to Understand how men became free. Two streams of thought united to produce the American Repubhc. One stream took its rise in the teachings of Socrates and Aristotle, These men taught that the human is and should be free; that a man has the inalienable right to think for himself, and ihould not be coerced tntellec tually. AristiUe warned that democracy can degenerate into tyranny. The demagogue, with hi ability to excite (he pa&sions of the crowd with vague promises of materia! things, may lure them away from freedom. Tills Is exactly whit happened In ancient Rome. The greatest ex. ponent of Crock thought in the Roman Emp.re was Marcus Cicero, who as Ccnsul of the Rec public of Rome crushed the g Rebellion when the forces of the Empire sought to establish a collective economy. The speeches of O.ccros opponents read exactly like the demagogue harangues of the resent day. He held them oil for a while, but they finally defeated him the adroit manipulation of one of the shrewdest puli, t'icians who ever lived, one Julius Caesar. Caesar tcld the people he would give them anything they wanted without their working for it, and they bcKcvcd him. He instituted a planned economy in fact, one planned economy after the other, because each of them in turn failed until there came a time when twenty per cent of the of Rome was on the public payroll. (No wonder Caesar stayed in office!) Taxes became so high that the farmers, unable to pay them, had no alternative than to allow their farms to revert to the state. This exorbitant taxation ruined business. Thousands of formerly prosperous merchants became mendicants upon the streets of Rome. The economic confusion deepened, currency inflation developed, and there was vast unemployment. Collective farming was but it was impossible to induce the people to work because the government had taken care of them, so long and so completely that they had lost the habits of labor. A deterioration in character followed. Men wflio once roared like lions for liberty now bleated like sheep for security. As a result, a darkness settled down upon the world, known historically as the dark ages. It was not broken for fifteen hundred years, when a flickering light dawned on the hillsides of Fies-sol- e overlooking in Florence, Italy. Men had discovered how to decipher the ancient classics, and once again free thought was flowing with refreshing power into mens minds. Ancient truths came to life. Such freedom-lovinmen as Roger Williams and Thomas Hooker brought this stream of thought to Rhode Island and Connecticut. Came finally a day when a man named Jefferson, with a golden pen, wrote into an immortal Declarations of Independence, the principle that all men are created free and equal. The classical stream of freedom, with its emphasis upon the dignity of the human mind, had at length wash- free; that they were (jiimual be ed upon these shore. lng in a spiritual umverse. This ferment finally exploded, The other tream began generating ago when a man named and little ships pushed out from Mo Mi led a nation of slaves into every harbor In Europe across the the wildernes. Speaking to them great deep, coming to anchor Here from some great rock, he told finally upon these shore. them that Cod had revealed unto they Set up four houses first, him that they were not meant to the dwelling house in which they be tlavee, but free men, because might find slielter from the elethey had been created In the ments; second, the Church house, image of Gxl Himself. Mose told wherein they nnght worship God them to look at their wrUts, upon according to the dictates of their which the hacklt-had left their own conscience; third, the school-house- , thi-l- r where they could educate to fee of mark; back, where were raised welt caused by the their children to grapple with the overseer' whip. He admonished problems of a free society; and them that never again were they ! fourth, the legislative house, where to bow the back or bend the the representatives of free men knee or lift up the hand auppll-- ' would make the laws and elect anily for the shackles, but were one of their number to adnnnls. to tand on their foot as free ter tha state. This administrator, men, toucted by the splendor of as James Monroe put it, not to hold ofTice as a right," but as God. He admonished the Jewish a "representative by appointment, father to tell the story of human temporarily, from the people." All of these houses were vitally dignity and freedom every even lng to his son as he sat by the Important, but the basic house of tent door. Till they did across all was the Church house, where until finally continually was it emphasized many generations, came walking into human history that because of his spiritual hera great Man named itage a man has certain inalienJesus Christ, a Man with a mar- able rights of life, liberty and the velous intellect who told men that pursuit of happiness. The.-- e streams carried upon their they were the children of God, that they should know the truth bosoms the mast precious posses, and the truth would make them sions of the human race, and a sun-crown- chology at Yale university and a ical committee of tlie council of Defense requested the member of the faculty and board of permanent ofTicer of Uie Yale NIIC. to set up a commit ue on aviation medvclne. Dr. Miles was school of Medicine and also of appointed to both these committhe Graduate, school He was call- - tees and continue to serve on ed to Yal in 1931 shortly after them. the founding of the Institute of He Is vice chairman of the Human Relation, and hi labora- committee on Aviation Medicine tories of physiological psychology and also consultant to the comare located in the Institute. He mittee on Mcxhcal Research and is a member ot the National the National Defense Research Academy of Science and of the committee, both of which are council of that body and has long under the OSRD. The Xledica! Rebeen among those closely associ- search committee sent Dr. Mile ated with the work of the Na- on a mission to England to work tional Research council. wnh the medical division of the In 1939 Immediately after the RAF for several monllis 4n 1942. beginning of the World War. Dr. His own researches carried out at Mile was asked by the council Yale during these war year have of the American Psychological as-- ! led directly to development of sociatlon to organize a chairman military consequence. Sigma Xi to Hear Yale Man NiV-ma- Dr. Walter It, Miles, professor of pvyrhokgy at Yale university, will deliver the annual national lecture cf Sigma XI at Utah Slate Agricultural college Tuesday. April 18. Dr. J. Stewart William secretary of the local chapter of Sigma XI, honorary scientific organization, reported to-- 1 day. The title of the lecture will be Psychology n! Military Aviation. Dr. Mile wsll deliver a Sigma Xi heture at several colleges and universities throughout the United Stales during his tour. He will appear at Purdue University University of Illinois. University of Nebraska. Kansas state college. Oklahoma A and M college. University of California at Los Angrles, Iowa state university and Duke university, and many other institution. Dr. Is professor of Psy. ch j and Emergency In1 committee Psychology. Through this prelim-- ! WALK AND SIT a national lnary organization I IN COMFOKTI was1 committee representative TH,$ evolved which has taken the lead1 SUFFERER in integrating the war effort of; h CONCENTRATED l professional psychologist in the a thousands have. ointment United State. Also in 1939 the The elljr base )toL.I3 Innlam' medication on smarting tissue Civil Aeronautics Authority reto cool and soothe that agonizing their confluence created the most quested the N RC. to a Itch and burn. Sold from coast to -unique social and political exper- research committee on appoint oast for years. Ask your the psyiment that the world has ever chological doctor. Only Wc. all drug stores. aspects of pilot selecknown. These values must and tion and training, and a few shall be preserved. months later the health and med PII FQ ILLw g EHHESZCn Ca-til.n- left-win- 4 Safeway iadw (juu A ? 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