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Show Senate Hopeful Speaks to So. Utah Group The American Businessman, already recognized as the world's pre-eminent leader In production produc-tion and distribution of material things, must widen and deepen the scope of his service to include in-clude spiritual responsibility if this country Is to progress. This formula for the "New Strength for America" was outlined out-lined by Wallace F. Bennett, alt Lake businessman and candidate can-didate for the Republican U. S. Senate nomination in an address ad-dress Friday night before the Southern Utah Automobile Dealers Deal-ers Association here. "Constantly increasing productive produc-tive capacity the sum of fine machines . . . and skilled men-. is a promise of new strength," he said. "But it is not enough . . The formula for greatness requires re-quires another reagent, the ma-Ric ma-Ric catalyst Freedom . . . And the price of Freedom is the exercise ex-ercise of the great basic human virtues we call 'character' courage, self-denial, responsibility, responsibi-lity, in short 'spiritual maturity." Mr. Bennett asserted that businessmen, bus-inessmen, more than any other like group, have the opportunity for spiritual leadership. "By your decisions as managers you create cre-ate the experiences and situations situa-tions that fill up the dally lives of your frople. We need remem-lcr remem-lcr that the men and women who work in the plants which ait- under our charge are work-ins work-ins there not only to make a living, but to make a life." Mr. Rrnnett warned that freedom free-dom can be lost by default. "We America ns, who have breathed the beaily air of freedom all our lives." he said, "find it hard to realize that it Is so precious, so f:.ir.i)e and so rare. We lake il ko much for granted for ourselves our-selves that we car lianilv under. st.imi that it is not the common pattern in the lives of all men." I Then the speaker continued: "Men in the fact of events we cannot seem to comprehend the current threat to the freedom of mi children in the America of the future . . . We have begun to weaken freedom In our own lives. We have accepted an ever-increasing ever-increasing number of controls arid limltse . . . We have begun tc see the concept of men as inasses replacing the traditional American respect for individual Integrity. There Is a growing ten-oency ten-oency to deny freedom to successful suc-cessful men on the theory that success itself must be somehow immoral, and unsuccessful men are rushing to surrender their Irrdnm for something they un- tanking label security'." Why should; this be?" Mr. Ri-nnett asked, answering: "Because "Be-cause freedom. Ironically enough, is not free. Freedom must be bought for a price, and that price, which can be paid only in the cun of human characier Is a high one. We are free because our fathers sacrificed and paid for this great inheritance. We in turn are deciding now whether wt shall selfishly squander this painfully purchased heritage or. by payments of our own, preserve pre-serve it for our children." The former head of the National Na-tional Association of Manufacturers Manufac-turers told the Utah Automobile Automo-bile Dealers that there Is no national na-tional entity apart from and above the individual citizens, and that the only way to preserve pre-serve freedom is to preserve It iln the hearts of single men and women, and then add them to-pet to-pet her Into a national force. "So none of us should feel that out own efforts are unimportant." unimport-ant." he concluded. |