Show THIS CRAZY WORLD AND ITS absurdities god made the good earth and all the natural resources of every kind with which it is endowed he thought of and provided for every human need when mixed with brain and brawn and fashioned into the things we require for human happiness and progress the creator did his part well and if any of his children are deprived of the necessities comforts and conveniences for happy living it is through no fault of his to stock the earth with raw materials the sources of energy and the elements to make the earth fruitful and responsive to mans intelligent efforts he sends his rain upon the just and the unjust and there are variations of altitude and climate to suit the likes and whims of all man comes into this life without worldly goods sans clothes sans food or shelter except as it is provided by those here before him the earth and the falness thereof are a part of the plant and equipment provided by a thoughtful and indulgent father for the use and happiness of all his children it is their school dormitory and workshop and there is ample room and provision for all who are willing to do their part if fairly and reasonably distributed tri buted any rationalistic appraisal of deity would credit him with more justice and reason than to will or approve of the existing distribution mal of these common heritages of the race the good things of the earth were intended to benefit all his children and not merely a favored few who by parentage chance or a disregard of divine laws have deprived the majority of their birth right in order that they the holders may revel in a surplus of the things that are denied to needy brothers and sisters and who like the proverbial dog in the manger hold at bay those who could use and enjoy the things that they the favored few are unable to assimilate but get an unnatural gratification from the feeling that they have a monopoly on the things that other human beings desire but cannot possess and yet they may be pillars of the church and would fain believe that they are in the service of the savior of the world no person in a mortal lifetime by honest methods and conduct without exploiting others or depriving them of their opportunities can amass a great fortune such as are common in this country today but the only concern of these avaricious persons is to keep within the law or beyond the knowledge of the law they must be calloused and hardhearted hard hearted and impervious to the finer feelings and ideals which the savior sought to inculcate into their minds and that is why he said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven and christ was not referring to some obscure gate in a wall called the needles eye as some of our compassionate exponents of holy writ would lead you to believe my prosperous brother christ himself set the example and he had not where to lay his head no true follower of christ can lay up for himself great treasures on earth because in the first place he has been admonished by the master not to do so and in the next place the methods necessary to accomplish this are contrary to his moral code and finally the selfishness which prompts such a course is strictly unchristian christian un but instead of construing literally the teachings of christ a lot of professed christians use the mantle mantled and habiliments of the lamb to deceive their trusting victims being in reality wolves in cheeps clothing it is hardly necessary to say that such persons are destroying their chances for spiritual and eternal progress and they will pay for their duplicity before they arrive at their destination gods laws are not only immutable and inescapable but they are self administering in the caption we made reference to this crazy world of ours it is a crazy defenseless situation when people are made paupers haupers in an environment of plenty when five or ten per cent of the inhabitants are permitted to claim sa 85 or 90 er cent of the wealth of the country when plants and factories lie idle while more than half of the people have far less of the goods and services they are capable of reducing cing than they need for comfort and happiness when individuals and small groups are permitted to pile up millions and even billions of wealth and withhold it from the masses of the people who are in desperate need of it what kind of a distorted viewpoint has the human family accustomed itself to when such conditions as these are permitted to maintain what must be the disgust of an expectant parent who looks down on such a world disgust on the one hand for the greed and avarice of the few who disavow all his injunctions and smother all the finer attributes of conscience and character in a crazy ambition to outdo each other in the amassing of great fortunes they are unable to put to beneficial use impatience on the other hand with the stupidity of the many who quietly acquiesce in such a silly defenseless economic alignment and distribution mal of the wealth and opportunity provided by ours our common parentage for the use and benefit of all this financial system of ours this profit motivated setup that we have allowed ourselves to become so strongly sold on is even more cruel and defenseless than the present day bone crushing eye gouging drop kicking and flying tackle methods of wrestling for in the wrestling game at least the choke hold is barred while in the financial game no holds are barred the sky is the legitimate limit according to the recognized rules of the game and the choke hold is the favorite and usual objective and in the game of life there is no sham acting stark death and wholesale tragedy trails in its wake with ruin disgrace and frequently suicide as the forfeitures of those who are unsuccessful in minor human affairs such for instance as the regu lation of our fish and game preserves which are not imper actively necessary to life a lot more sense and reason are manifested A limit is prescribed by law as to how many pounds of fish how many ducks pheasants deer dee r etc may be bagged by each hunter qualifying by license to participate but when it comes to the financial game where everything pertaining to the physical well being of humanity and even life itself is jeopardized there are no limits no holds barred and no quarter given it is a matter of winner take all and if one individual has enough cunning and sagacity to corral all the wealth of a nation or the entire world he has the right under our laws and constitutions to do so and the rest of humanity is supposed to patiently await slow death by starvation or depend upon the charities of this lord of creation fortunately for us no one has quite reached this ultimate triumph in high finance but I 1 some have approached perilously close to it we see the big fish on every hand swallowing up the smaller ones and narrowing the circle for the ownership of wealth more and more of the middle class business men are being liquidated and eliminated multiple unit chain stores are fast supplanting locally owned business establishments in the various towns and cities chain newspaper corporations are forcing independent publishers in in worth while locations to the wall and taking over their plants and equipment for a song at sheriffs sale large banking chains are crowding smaller banks from the field and the same process is true of public utility companies factories and even farms and livestock banks insurance companies and real estate brokerages bro kerages are foreclosing on loans and acquiring title to the homes and farms of the people by the operation of that device of the devil known as interest or usury which sooner or later destroys civilization when permitted to get a foothold and so because of the activities of these pernicious devices of greed which christ banned the world has drifted into a lamentable state and the fight which threatens the extermination of civilization is on between christianity true christianity we mean and mammon or selfishness which typify lucifer the discouraging and alardi alarming ng denouement in the struggle is the treachery in the ranks of christianity which is completely honeycombed with the worm holes moth and rust corruption and excesses of our arch enemy selfishness or mammon if christianity is strong enough to cleanse its own ranks of these destructive elements then there is no question about its ultimate triumph for christianity is truth and Truth must and will prevail in the end now if the worldly minded can be made to see conditions L in their true light if they can be brought to the realization of the fact that it is themselves and their posterity that they are thwarting and destroying and not merely the mass of grovelling gro velling human beings at the bottom of lifes pyramid who are being made to suffer that by the operation of gods laws and by the law of averages they will vill be among these forgotten men on their next experience in n the flesh then the gravity of the situation will be brought nome to them and they will see the necessity of vitalizing the teachings of the savior and that is the he only way the zavior savior is is goin to save the human f familio Is is by the 0 observance v of the fundamental truths which he delivered the continued on page 13 editorial department continued application of which accomplishes not only salvation but eternal progression quit kidding yourselves that christ was only bluffing stop looking for some miraculous intervention of a supernatural origin this job on earth is ours and no one is going to take it off our hands the whole scheme is here being enacted before our eyes open your eyes and minds to the realities which confront you reason these things out for yourselves and see if you can afford to continue in the present frivolous trends which get you nowhere and consume precious time every person has a certain amount of influence in the world see that your influence is registered on the side of true christianity in an effort to put into daily use the saviors ethical code and all the economic and social ills that beset us will quickly disappear in about a month fire prevention week will be ob served and will run from october 9 to 15 during this time every person in this country should have the dread word fire brought to his notice on every possible occasion over the radio in his newspaper and through advertisements ti an alert public consciousness and nothing else can prevent fire c the unavoidable duty of america is to see that its abundant wealth goods and services are placed at the disposal of the people by some means this must take place because this is the thing for which democracy exists the simple question om is whether the goods and the services of america shall be utilized in the interest primarily of a privileged few or whether we shall adjust our economy sufficiently to bring this wealth and these goods and services to a greater extent to all of the people willing to work dr E G peterson of the U A C |