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Show THE AMERICAN WAY i . . 1 1 1 1 , - f h fV J . CLERGY r ' Vh SPEAKS George Peck Dr Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a few years ago made the following ridiculous statement, ". . . it is true that the more one has, the less there is for others, so that each men's success represents corresponding failure in his neighbors." For this learned (?) Primate of the Church of England, I would recommend a course of reading in American history. It would astound him. He would learn that when the white man first came to what is now the United States, there were just a few hundred thousand Indians ocupying the teritory, struggling for a bare subsistence. Today, four centuries later, 150 million people, including 325,000 Indians, In-dians, live in this self-same territory, ter-ritory, and have achieved the highest standard of living the world has ever known. Yes, the same country, but the white man pioneered it he tilled the fertile acres and developed de-veloped its natural' resources, He invented machines and gadgets, gad-gets, and he worked, Today tho poorest citizen of the United States is richer than was the richest Indian four centuries ago. That would seem to knock into A "cocked hat" Dr. Temple's Tem-ple's absurd statement that, "each man's success represents corresqnding failure in his neighbors," But Dr. Temple Is not the only clergyman or religious educator ed-ucator who in recent years has sounded off with such socialist drivel. In their zeal for the welfare wel-fare of the "common man," all too many church dignitaries misguidedly have been advocating advocat-ing some form of socialism or collectivism for the United States It is refreshing, therefore there-fore to know that there are churchmen who bitterly op-nose op-nose the unsound economic fallacies fal-lacies of others of their fellow laborers in the "vineyard." One such Ts the Reverend Theodore Graebner, Concordia Theological Theologi-cal Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Mis-souri. In his book "The Businessman Busi-nessman and the Church, he has this to say: "A feeling exists among certain cer-tain religious people that there is something inherently wrong with the profit motive ... If no one is alowed to make a profit, I no individual will start an enterprise en-terprise which hires others to produce things for sale. "Everyone who hopes to make a living must seek personal person-al service, or a wage or salary position in productive industry. Without profit, there will be no productive industries under private pri-vate ownership or control, for the reason that no one would have a reason for starting such an industry. If there are no private industries to furnish jobs, and everyone must look for a job for himself instead of making jobs for others, there would be only one way out. That would be for the Government Govern-ment to take over all industries and find jobs for everybody, which would be Communism." The late Pope Leo XIII, in his Encylical Letter "The Condition Con-dition of Labor," wrote in part regarding the interference of the State into the affairs of the individual and family: "Such interference is not only unjust, but is quite certain to harass and disturb all classes of citizens, and to subject them to odious and intolerable slavery. It would open the door to envy, to evil speaking, and to quarreling; quar-reling; the sources of wealth would themselves run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality equal-ity of which so much is said would, in reality, be the leveling level-ing down of all to the same condition of misery and dishonor. dis-honor. "Thus it is clear that the main tenet of Socialism, the community of goods, must be injure those wjL H JS ed to benefit ftm trary to the fld"I F mankind, and rtf duce confusion , U to the commonwSNS 1 and most fundamen S' C u therefore, when sio to alleviate the cell u: w masses, must be N' of private proPelnvt f Dr. Temp e ha V tn ness ; his native tot.-. to the morass nf c g . ni is its devastating feW. once proud fndeff,ect i. un With England's J1 ta' ment confronting are not going to l -States fall into the ti: Surely, we 33 economic Philosophy man's success repr ponding failure in tt' bors." We knnJhls ' that. All that AnTerft' ; is, and will be X1 es that l: |