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1879. Christmas is the Saviours birthday-honor Him It's Our Opinion EDITORIALLY YOURS THE TERM "planned economy" is nothing but camouflage a smoke-screen for socialism. The approach toward "planned economy" may be slightly different but inevitably it gets onto the same track and finally arrives at the goal of socialism. There it tarries for a brief breathing spell, only to resume tne journey on to dictatorship. However, there is a world of difference between a planned-economist and a socialist.

No matter how mistaken the latter may be in his economic philosophy, we must attribute to most socialists honesty of purpose and a sincere desire to establish a society in which all will be happy, prosperous and contented. For the avowed "economic planner," on the other hand, the same can not be said, for he knows that economic planning involves collectivism, the stepping-stone to dictatorship. The socialist is not subtle, rather he is naive. He is a bit hazy about just how the wealth is to be distributed and as to wno is to do the distributing, but no one can misunderstand his aims and objectives. THE ECONOMIC planner or collectivist cunningly hides his aims and objectives.

He uses different methods. First, he sneers at business and business men in an attempt to arouse the public against the so-called vested interests. When the general public has come to believe that all business is dishonest and that every businessman is a crook, he engineers legislation to put shackles on business. The next step is to tax business and business men so highly that finally, in hopeless resignation, the business man surrenders, throws up his hands, paying "Here are the keys. Come take the business." The present world trend toward economic planning, or to call it by its right name socialism is not new.

The Hitlers, the Mussolinis, the Stalins, were not new species of the human family. Throughout history there have been times, many of them, when men became afraid of freedom, and at such times the counterparts of Franco, Tito and Peron came along to save them from themselves. The planned economist plans for a state in which all shall be subservient to the state. He paints a rosy picture of the happy prosperous conditions under which all the people will live when government plans their every action when the general -populace will respond like so many robots to the every caprice of the despotic bureaucrats. BISHOP SHEEN Communism and slavery.

FORGOTTEN melodrama of 1916: Thirty Catholic bishops, the heads of three universities, executives of 40 railroads, the judges of all Chicago courts and the executives of most of the city's largest corporations attended a dinner at the University Club to honor the new Archbishop of Chicago, George William Mundelein. An anarchist cook who had been studying chemistry by mail, laced the soup with arsenic and mercury. The chief steward, passing through the kitchen during the afternoon, did not like the color of the already prepared soup and ordered four of the five kettles thrown out and new made. This reduced the poison content by 80 per cent, and no one died though many were ill. The cook had fled.

Chicago police said that he was a man who hung himself later in an Indiana woods, but few believed this. OVER the portal of the cathedral at Santa Fe, N. the letters J-H-V are carved, put there by Abraham Staab, pioneer Jewish merchant. Staab had lent Archbishop Lamy thero of Willa Cather's "Death Comes to the Archbishop" a good deal of money from time to time toward building the cathedral. When Lamy came to borrow more, Staab offered to tear up the existing notes on one condition: That he be allowed to chisel one word above the door.

"And what is the word?" asked the Archbishop. "You must trust me." said the merchant. Lamy did. J-H-V is an abbreviation of Jehovah, God of both Jew and Christian. THE JETS are sweeping the air and most of them are powered with Pratt Whitney engines.

Frederick W. Rentschler, a winter resident of Boca Raton since 1933, picked up bankrupt Pratt Whitney for $235 in the 1920s and ran this up to $35,000,000 by May, 1929. This was his own testimony before a Senate Air Mail investigating committee in 1933. He exchanged Pratt Whitney for stock in the new United Aircraft and Transport Co. Though Rentschler held on too long, he still sold part of his United holdings after the crash for $9,414,000, and kept 60,000 shares.

Rentschler comes of a Hamilton. machinery-making family. An air force captain in War the Army put him in charge of aircraft procurement in the New York district. Soon after the war, he founded Wright Aeronautical. He still is chairman of United Aircraft.

A 55TH ST. men's shop advertises in the New York Times that its "expert technicians will either custom-blend the color of your hair to look completely natural leaving the right amount of grey at the temples, or they will renew your hair's natural color. Treatments are given by men only in handsome new private quarters." This isn't as novel as you may think. When we lived in Detroit, hairdressers did a regular after-hours business in touching up the graying locks of motor executives. ARTHUR MORRIS, who founded the Morris Plan banks at Norfolk in 1910, claims to have made the first automobile installment loan that year.

We could cite earlier instances, but Morris may have been first to make an organized business of it. LOOKING AHEAD Education's responsibility. By George Benson By Fulton J. Sheen AMERICAN education, as an institution, is confronted with a great immediate challenge. It can be the means of carrying forward Christian civilization and human welfare, or through its failure it can be charged with turning the world backward to another dismal era such as The Dark Ages.

Will it rise to the challenge, or will it fail as have the institutions of education in Are Minority Groups Going to Take Over America? JS control of the government of the United States slowly but surely being taken over by minority groups which because they are tightly organized and extremely vocal in their demands are better able to get what they want than a disorganized and less voluble majority? This question is well worth thinking about today as another political campaign approaches and politicians of both parties are starting to look around and see how they can best play up to these organized minorities. Recently, the Democrats have shown how they intend to go out and get votes from these minority groups next year. Every time a leading Democrat takes the stump these days he starts pouring out crocodile tears for the poor farmers. Though federal government warehouses are bulging over with surplus farm products purchased by the government just so the rest of the people will have to pay higher prices for farm products, the Democrats, and even some Republicans, are shouting we have to pay the farmers even more so they can still keep on producing more crops the government will have to buy. Farming in this nation today is vastly different than it used to be.

In the old days farms were small and a farmer who had over several hundred acres to work was something of a rarity. But today farming has grown into big business and a lot less farmers are producing a lot more crops than used to be produced. In the old days, too, farm income was a vital factor in the overall economy of the nation. But today farm Income is a relatively insignificant factor in our overall economic picture and it is getting to be a smaller factor all the time. Yet, just because the politicians don't want to lose the support of this minority group, they go on promising the farmers more and more federal aid knowing all the while it is a vote-catching scheme which can be financed only at the expense of the majority of the American taxpayers.

'TAKE a look at the labor situation. In this country today organized labor only represents about 20 per cent of the nation's total working force yet organized labor has such a powerful voice in government that it can demand and sometimes get just about anything it might want in the way of new legislation favorable to WHY DO free people such as some intelligentsia who live in the United States, become in the press, on radio, in television and in the theatre such willing dupes of Communism? Studies have been made- on this subject, but none of them are very profound. They leave out the all-important moral factor. The fact is that no one has an affinity to a slave-state such as Communism unless he is already in a state of personal slavery. A man becomes a slave to himself when he is the victim of habits which he cannot overcome.

Here we speak not of petty forms of slavery, such as to cigarettes or alcohol, though even in these cases some lose the power to stop excesses. Rather, we speak of that slavery which comes from the infraction of the moral law. producing such sins as vice or hatred of neighbor. In a Communist, the slavery is increased because of the threats to personal safety if one leaves the party. Eventually he who is already a slave to himself reaches a point where he wants to be a slave to others.

Unhappy in his own will, he subjugates it to the will of another. REMORSE of conscience, inner anxiety, and the thousand and one spectres of fear that haunt the anti-moral man. drive him to the abyss of slavery into which he readily plunges. Unable to bear the burden of responsibility, or the misery resulting from his own free choices, he craves a society where there is no responsibility and where there is no free choice. Communists in democratic states are- made up for the most part of these spoiled lives.

They began by seeking their own will in all things, and. finding that unbearable, eventually became conformists, accepting every current theory the Party ordered them to obey. Fundamentally, Communists are not radicals; they are conformists. An absence of personal originality that comes from moral vision makes them susceptible to every form of mental contagion until they become like little pigs in a collective pig-sty, sometimes called Marxist Socialism. OUR NATION is in no danger of being THE UNFORTUNATE part Of such a scheme of things is that it robotizes those members of society who should not be robotized.

It renders inactive all the creative brains of a nation. Tne strong are brought down to the level of the weak. All history shows that the "masses" who had been led by the economic planners to believe that their standard of living would be better, sooner or later, learned the bitter lesson tnat when initiative and incentive are stifled when the creators are either destroyed or rendered impotent they, the "masses," are the principal sufferers. When the economic planners have succeeded in cutting all classes of society down to one level, and that level begins to sink lower and lower, along comes the "man-on-horseback" to the rescue With his coming, what slight vestige of freedom that may have remained to the individual, vanishes into thin air. and real misery becomes the unhappy lot of the people.

We feel sorry for the Russian people and the Russian satellites. We watched Johnny Bull mess around with planned economy which came to the English people via the labor party. England is trying her best to turn back to a free economy, to undo the ravages caused by her experiment with socialism. We hope she will succeed. BUT, while we are snedding tears for those nations that have been nipped by the economic planners, let's watch our own citadel.

Today our national capital is loaded to the gunwales with economic planners, many of them disguised as Senators or Representatives. First, it was the depression, then World War II. then Mr. Truman's Korean "police action" that gave them the pretexts for attempting to socialize industry. Now it's the cold war.

With the horrible examples of what the economic planners have done to Russia and several other nations of the world, staring us in the face, are we going to permit the species of the same breed to do the same thing to America? Are the past two centuries during which we climbed higher than any ether nation in all world history, to be written into the history books of the future as just another sad story of a people grown weary of responsibility and freedom and tossing tnem away? That is exactly what "planned economy" will do for us if we allow its champions to prevail. Everyday Counselor Life lights. By Herbert Spaufch 20 preceding civilizations now dead? This question commands the attention of not only every educator and public official but every citizen. The primary problem in American education today is that of public support or, rather, the lack of it. It cannot meet the challenge; it cannot resolve its first obligation to the nation unless it has widespread public support.

The press of the nation, going back for at least a generation, indicates the chonic nature of the problem: The most persistent news stories over this period have been those concerned with the plight of education. NO AGREEMENT Why hasn't the citizenry of America provided adequate financial resources and widespread, active support for education? The basic reason is that there has been no universal understanding and agreement, among educators and the public generally, as to the purpose, the basic objective of the institution of American education. There are many ideas regarding the objective and some are in sharp conflict. This conflict should be settled. Undoubtedly it is being agitated by forces working secretly to undermine our nation.

The No. 1 purpose or objective of American education today in the midst of a world crisis must be: To prepare people for citizenship in our own American Republic. There are. of course, a number of secondary purposes and objectives; but until this basic one is achieved, with the awareness and support of the entire citizenry, the great challenge to American education has not been met and the structure of human freedom will continue to be in jeopardy. LONG RANGE STAKE The broader and loftier quest of educationfor knowledge; for truth is at stake too, in the fulfillment of tne immediate great challenge.

If American freedom were to be destroyed, because of a generation's failure to understand freedom and the elements which safeguard it, mankind's quest for knowledge would be smothered for perhaps centuries. President Eisenhower has expressed apprehension because of las the New York Times reported "the meager education given our people as to what their obligation is to a free form of government, what it means to support it and pass it on." Without question the United States today is the foremost nation in the world. But are we likely to continue to hold this leadership? On the basis of history No. Throughout recorded nistory no nation has remained on top long. Moral, political and economic decay has always set in to undermine the strength and bring about the fall of every nation or civilization that has reached the pinnacle.

Moral, economic and political decay are conditions governed by intellect and character the products of citizenship education. AWAKENING NOW The institution of American education has begun to awaken to the realities of trie immediate challenge. Many Americans have been slow in recognizing the true nature of communism and its false-face twin, socialism; and this was a factor in the unpre-paredness of education when the Red Menace created a world crisis nearly 10 years ago. It probably will require another 20 years for adequate citizenship textbooks, materials and techniques to reach all the schools and colleges. Meantime the fundamentals of citizenship education can be emphasized.

These are: an awareness of God as revealed through Christ: development of such virtues as honesty, humility, courage, economical self-reliance, patriotism, and sense of civic responsibility. Equipped with ihese elements of character and aware of tne great political and economic advantages of the American way of life, the new generation can accept its great heritage of freedom and deal with any crisis threatening it. And this is education's responsibility. The American public will, think, agree. 3 MINUTE! A DAY He loved his enemies.

Bv James Keller destroyed from without; but it could be destroyed by a kind of haemophilia, in which the liberty-content of each blood-citizen diminishes to a point of disaster. One helpful way of preventing such a calamity would be for our citizens to develop more an inward life, to be less dependent on mass-stimuli provided by mass-opinion, mass-entertainment whereby they become strangers playing at comradeship, with no other bond of unity than a' mass-saturated emotion. We are digging for treasures in the wrong place, and have forgotten that inwardness is creativeness. Our busy world has denied the value of contemplation, quiet, peace, retirement, wherein our soul stands naked before our eyes as we await "Love's uplifted stroke." As a man must take food into his stomach before he can work, so he must take the Spirit and Truth of God into his life before he can have peace. Every now and then he must leave the lights and glamors of the world for the shade and shadows of the Cross where saints are made.

He who does not pause for reflection on the real meaning of life is not a human being. THIS IS the opposite of Commupism, which does not want a man to think about God and the moral life, because such, spiritual realities are not subject either to social control or to secret police. As men become slaves to themselves, they become slaves to others. This is the moral explanation of why many Americans become fellow-travelers of Communism. But as these same men liberate themselves from the forces which enslaved them, they begin to get below the scum on the surface of their minds and discover that other world of Spirit, where freedom flows from Truth.

The greatest area of freedom is to be found in that act of choice whereby we commit ourselves not to a theory or ideology, but to a Person Who calls His sheep by name. Who alone can keep us from being ants in the collective Krubyschev anthill, and Who alone assures us that each of us is worth more than all the universe: "What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his immortal soul?" Cpyrtcht, 1SS, fef The Qwrri Matthew Mama Serrlee organized labor. Today in Washington there are legislators who are owned virtually body and soul by the organized labor minority and anything that organized labor leaders recommend these legislators immediately pick up whether it's good for the rest of the people or not. Unless the other people in this country awake to what is going on the time may soon come when 16,000,000 to 13,000.000 people in this country who belong to labor unions will have much more to say about our government than 140 or more million people who dont belong to any labor unions. Take a look at the pressure being generated on Washington today in the field of race relations.

Here again it is a highly organized but extremely vocal minority group that has already succeeded in imposing its desires upon a mirch larger but as yet unorganized and far less vocal majority. Like the old saying that "it's the squeaking wheel that gets the grease" our politicians are paying attention to those that can raise the biggest holler and who, because of their organized nature, can hold out the promise of some bloc votes. The farmers, the labor unions and the race relation groups, if they all joined together, wouldn't come close to equaling the number of people who don't belong to any of these minorities. But they are the groups which are throwing their weight around today and because they do throw their weight around while the average citizen just minds his own business and keeps his mouth shut, politicians play up to the minorities while just about ignoring the average citizen who eventually has to pay the bill for handing out special considerations to these groups. rTHIS is supposed to be a nation which is governed under the principle that the majority shall rule.

But things aren't working out just that way anymore. The majority of our citizens no longer seem to want to exercise their right of controlling their government. They seem to prefer to let the organized minorities elect our public officials, influence legislation and take over the reins of government to an amazing degree. Politicians aren't exactly dumb. When they scream out for more federal aid to the farmers most of them know they are advocating something that doesn't make sense to anybody except the farmers who will be the receivers of more federal aid.

But farmers do a pretty good job of turning out at the polls. So do other minority groups and if the politicians can promise "pie in the sky" to all these minority groups they know they stand a pretty fair chance of being elected. The next time you hear a political speech notice how often the speechmaker plays up to some minority group. And then ask yourself if you want a government controlled by a minority of the people1 or by a majority as it should be. A government controlled by a minority of the people can't be called a democratic form of government but the way things are going in this nation today the time isn't far off when the minorities will be running things whether the rest of us like it or not.

MOST OF us are like the farmer being interviewed by a salesman who was endeavoring to sell him a set of books on improved farming. He listened for a while, thoughtfully, then said. "Young man. I'm not going to buy your books. I already know how to farm better than I'm doing." None of us are living up to our full God-given capacity.

The sad part about it is that we throw so many road blocks in the way. "Turn on the Green Lights In Your Life" is the title of a recent book by Moore and Schultze Prentice-Hall, Inc. $3,951 which gives many practical, psychological and spiritual aids to living a fuller life and acquiring a more attractive personality. Like many of the Prentice-Hall books, this one too is written for daily use and practice. No one ever acquired skill in any art or profession without regular daily practice over a period of years under competent direction.

The book is divided into nine parts of twenty-seven chapters. Here are some of the suggestive chapter headings: "The Miracle of You and Your Secret Inner Power," "Your Inner Battle and How to Win it!" "How to be Happier and More Successful in Your Work, Your Career." "How to Make Your Future Produce Everything You Want." EACH PART gives a fifteen-minute daily exercise in positive thinking to 111 "Help you Get More Success, Prosperity, Power, Real Satisfaction: 2 Help You to Establish a Goal for Yourself and Make Your Dreams Come True: 31 Help You to Have a Happier Family Life, Many More Real Friends; (41 Help You to Enjoy Your Fullest Physical Vigor and Vitality; 151 Help You to Get the Most Out of Your Own World; 6 Help You to Have More Fun and Real Happiness in Your life; 171 Help You to Keep Your Pipeline Open to God, So That All His Power and Wisdom and Glory Can Flow Without Interruption Directly Into Your Mind and Heart." Here is a very useful and practical manual which all of us can use with profit. If you find yourself tired, worried, frustrated, irritable, critical, feeling sorry for yourself, resentful, jealous and who doesnt feel this way some time? then here's a book which if used faithfully will bring wonderful results to your life. The important thing is to get it and use it not simply put it on the shelf. So many people complain about their hard luck in life and how badly they feel, etc.

They want some magic balm which will accomplish instantaneous results. There is no such. All of it takes long hours of daily practice. The important thing to do is to make up your mind that you want to start and start with God. If tyou drive an automobile you are accustomed to following the red and green traffic lights.

Here's a book of red and green life-lights. GENERAL Robert E. Lee. commander ol Confederate forces in the Civil War, did not wantonly vent his bitterness upon the Union Army despite the many personal sorrows he war had brought on him. That Lee managed to purge his heart of animosity can be seen from the general orders he issued on one of the few occasions he fought on Union territory.

When he Invaded Pennsylvania for tne Gettysburg campaign, he said to his mm: "The duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less binding upon us in the country of the enemy than in our own." He added: "It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves and offending against Him without whose favor and support our efforts all prove in vain." It takes a great heart to suffer at the hands of your enemies and yet bear no animosity toward them. Vengeance and ill will do not solve, but rather create problems. A patient and kind love that Is not provoked to anger Vill not only supply us with the courage to bear many burdens, but also the bigness to forgive all enemies. "Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate yon." Matt. 5:44 J.

Fill my heart with love, Lord, so that there will be no room for bitterness. Eeleee4 Tka BU Syndicate Ins.) COL. BROWARD'S Notebook Have you noticed how even the tiny little girls love to be all dolled up? Some folks who get paid for what they know may have been reading the boss' mail. 4 1.