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<br />Almost one half the world's population is now aligned against us on this question. <br /> <br /> <br />The Communists promise that the political state will wither away and that the lion will <br />lie down with the lamb, Marx asserts that all problems stem from economics, and if you go <br />their socialistic, totalitarian way, the millenium will have been achieved. But let me <br />propose a fallacy in Marx' thesis. He holds that the economic problem is what complicates <br />human relations in the world today. Russell Kirk points;out that actually the economic <br />problem blends into the political problem, and the political problem into the ethical <br />problem, and the ethical problem into the religious problem. <br /> <br />The enemy in our land can sometimes be found to be ourselves because, if we don't <br />know what we stand for, we can fall for anything". <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.,; <br /> <br />There will always be deviates from any norm, There will always be sinners. That is <br />the paradox at theroo\ of man's own human nature. Sometimes I think that the great <br />error or fault or problem is to sin and not know one is sinning. <br /> <br />I'm going to try to show that each of us can help the Communist unwittingly. That <br />in each of us there are inclinations to accept their preachments, That the people they have <br />fooled are not stupid people, necessarily. I n fact, many of them are people very much like <br />us, and we can be next and never really know it. <br /> <br />I n fact, a friend of mine has said... "the point of no return in this country can well <br />have been reached already, " . <br /> <br />One of the significant things today is that in ou r p~radoxical world we find the <br />Communist preaching materialism and even a disregard for the eternal verities I've been <br />taught to admire more honestly than the world's great Christian Nation preaches idealism, <br />wh ile we practice materialism to a much greater extentthan ever before. <br /> <br />The primary question of today seems to me to pe wHether we really believe that men <br />should be honest and decent. I n other words, do we honestly believe the precepts that we <br />hear from our pUlpits each Sunday. And on this simple! fulcrum hangs in balance the <br />future of not only oUr world today, but the world that ou!r children will inherit tomorrow. <br /> <br /> <br />I was shocked recently by an article in a magazine called "Modern Office Procedures". <br />The cover feature is titled "How To Get The Boss's Job," . <br /> <br />J <br /> <br /> <br />The article say~: <br /> <br />"The blackjack :gets more people to the top of the m$nagement heap than you care <br />to think. A knife in the back gets you ahead just as fast... and often faster.... <br />as hard work, honest 'land fair dealing. Employees, seething with ambition, <br />put a cutting edge on the honest tools of promotion and ruthlessly club their <br /> <br />.! <br /> <br />- 22 - <br />