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The visiting evangelist, about to open a big revival meeting, asked the Mayor of the city for a list of citizens especially in need of prayer. The Mayor sent him the city directory.

The famous formula of Arthur Frederick Sheldon continues to be as sound as when it was first uttered-that to be successful a man must increase his AREA, his Ability, his Reliability, his Endurance, and his Action.

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Competition makes for quality. It always has, it does now, and it always will. Talk about the things for which there are no substitutes, competition leads the list. Millions go frorn cradle to grave without knowing what it is to live. Such men simply spend their days postponing death as long as possible. Without the glory of trying to outthink and out-work the rest of creation, they never know the glory and satisfaction of really TRYING. To be valuable and useful, a man must compete. A man so placed in life that he cannot or will not compete, misses most of the joy of living.

Speaker Joe Martin says that the Bureaucrats continue unchanged; their whole philosophy being-"You lend itwe'll spend it." To cut any expense, no matter how practical or logical, is a cardinal sin, because cutting expenses means cutting out votes, and cutting out votes means cutting out Bureaucrats.

Many guesses have been rnade (most of them not printable) about where Bureaucrats come from. A good friend of mine is convinced he has discovered the answer. He found it in the Bible. How he happened to be looking there, he doesn't say. He read the Parable of the Talents; about the master who went away and left his three stewards to look after his business. To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to the third he gave one talent.

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When he got back the steward with the five talents had doubled them by wise investment. So had the one with two talents. So he praised and promoted them. The one with whom he left one talent had been too timid and stupid to do anything with it, so he buried it in the ground and left it there. Ffe won the wrath of the master.

Then my friend read the Parable of the F'oolish Virgins. Ten, you remember (or do you?) were invited to come to a wedding and bring the lamps for the occasion. Five of them failed to put oil in their lamps, so they were of no use at the ceremony, and they won the title of the Foolish Virgins, because they had failed to use any judgment in their wedding preparaatoy.* *

The conclusion that my friend reached after reading those two stories from the Scripture, is that the steward with one talent,rnust have married one of the Foolish Virgins, and their descendants have followed in their footsteps and are therefore known as Bureaucrats. In fact, my friend is willing to bet on it.

The tragic death of Gandhi reminds us that India has produced other wise men who were famous instruments for peace among men. The greatest of these was named Asoka. Unlike Gandhi, this man possessed unlimited temporal and worldly power, which made his example of kindliness, helpfulness, and brotherly love all the more remarkable. For he was the Emperor of all India about three hundred years before Christ, in an age when power and brutality usually went hand in hand. He was one of the gentlest, kindliest, most loving men in all the world's history. So grand was he that nobody even suspected him of guile or hypocrisy. He governed that great land with justice and kindness, which gives him high place in history.

Too bad we haven't an Asoka in the world today. He's the only character I ever read about who might have been able to act as arbitrator and talk "IJncle Joe" Stalin into the ways of peace, and happiness, and brotherly love. If there ever was a man who could have handled the cold killer from Georgia (NOT Georgia, USA, thank God), it was Asoka. Unfortunately there lives no man in these times even faintly resembling that Great Emperor of 300 B'c'

George S. Benson, President of Harding College, and an economist of outstanding sort, has issued some facts, based on our Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, that are illuminating, showing what Russian laborers today, and American laborers, have to pay for necessities in terms of work time. A Russian factory worker, under the new Russian money and prices, pays his income from one hour and eighteen minutes for a quart of rnilk; the average American factory worker pays for a quart of milk with ten minutes work'

A pound of butter costs this same Russian worker ten hours and 42 minutes labor; the American 48/2 minutes work. This same Russian pays four weeks work for a part

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