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A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe rich tints of the corn fields And the wild geese soaring high; And all over upland and lowland, The charm of the goldenrod; Some of us call it AutumnBut others call it-God.

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Innumerable words of charm have been written and uttered concerning the fall of the year, with all its impressive loveliness, but the above is my entry for the season's best. Ever drive along a highway after the first frost of the season and feast your eyes on a Black Gum tree? If not, you have missed something inspiring. The leaves range in color from the darkest ox-blood to the lightest pink and flaming red. Breath-taking, even though you are not an artist.

When Joyce Kilmer *r"r.--n" ageless poem that begins -"f think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree" -he must have had in mind a hillside of hardwoods in the autumn, after the leaves had turned to their riot of fall colors; that season of beauty "when reapers sing among the garnered sheaves." You realize the extreme paucity of the English language when you try to describe such a scene' * * *

And autumn ushers in another season of importance, and consequence, and deep emotion to the American people. It is the season of giving; the Community Chest season. All over this land men and women are now going forth among their fellows, gathering funds to be used in the coming year to help those rvho live among us who cannot help themselves. It is a noble cause, a noble work-and a vitally necessary one. In days of old that portion of the population who sat at the gates of the city and cried aloud for alms and for pity, were treated with scorn. Today they are the wards of the Community Chest, helped in civilized fashion by the joint efforts of men and.women who care.

Throughout the land In."J**unity Chest effort is being explained and professed by countless men and women uttering pleas f.or organized compassion. The work is being admirably done, the cause is being inspiringly presented. I have been hearing and reading these pleas, appearing in all the magazines and newspapers, and coming in over the air waves. Long ago I presided over Community Chest drives for some thirteen consecutive years, and it is a thing that stays in your blood. Today one of my daughters is a Community Chest speaker-and loves it.

The other day r pi"k; ,]o I 0"n.. and my eye was caught by a Community Chest page. Here Herbert lloover was asked the question that every citizen may ask himself just now, which is, "Why should I give to private charities?" And his reply should be a textbook for every Community Chest worker, speaker, and thinker, for it resembles a masterpiece on the subject. He said, in part:

"Many citizens "rr. arr"L"lrrJ"r io, what reasons must we continue to support the voiuntary agencies? Why not let the government do it all? The first short answer is that you cannot retire from the voluntary field if you wish our American civilization to survive. The essence of our self-government lies outside of political government. Ours is a voluntary society. The fabric of American life is woven around our tens of thousands of voluntary associations. That is, around our churches, our professional societies, our women's organizations, our businesses, our labor and farm organizations-and not least, our charitable institutions. That is the very nature of American life. The inspirations of progress spring from these voluntary agencies, not from bureaucracy. If these voluntary activities were to be absorbed by government bureaus, this civilization would be over. Something neither free nor noble would take its place. * >k *

(Hoover continues) "The greatest and, in fact, the only impulse to social progress is the spark of altruism in the individual human being. 'But the greatest of these is charity' has been a religious precept from which no civilized people can depart without losing its soul' Governments practice charity solely because it rises from that spark in the hearts of the people. The day when 4ltruism in the individual dies from lack of opportunitv for expression, it will die in the government. At best, charity by government must be formal, statistical, and mechanistic. We need charity in the real sense-from the heart.

(Hoover continues) "t;. ;"; is in the grip of a death struggle between the philosophy of Christ and that of Hege and Marx. The philosophy of Christ is a philosophy of compassion. The outstanding spiritual distinction of our civilization from all others, is compassion. With us, it is the noblest expression of man. Those who serve receive an untold spiritual benefit. The day we decide that the government is our brother's keeper, that day the spirit of compassion will have been lost. If we abandon private ftletql Sqsh

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" charity, we will have lost something vital to America's material, moral, and. spiritual welfare. But a simpler answer than all this lies in the Parable of the Good Samari. it't , tan. He did not enter into governmental or philosophic ia discussion. It is said that when he saw the helpless man ..''' 'he had compassion on him. . . . he bound his wounds and took care of him."' (End of Hoover's remarks). ***

; even the sands do that-brit let us keep our hearts young-' ; and our eyes open so that nothing worth whitre shall escape ; us. And everything is wot'th.while if we only grasp itr,' significance." ' ..: remembered that once he had given a-'charity worker six

A generation ago I used to go about the country as guest speaker, talking to Community Chest groups: The Com' bits to help relieve a starving family. Try as he would, he co-uld think of no other good work he had done. So St. Pbter said to thp Angel Gabriel who was standing by' "What do you thinl Gabe? He HAS done one good deed, though mighty small! What shall I do with him?" And the Angel Gabriel casually replied, "I'd give him balk his-six bits and let him go to hell."

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Calvin Coolidge once uttered these memorable words, "We do not need more material ilevelopment, we need 'more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do'not need more liw, we need r4ore religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need rnore of the things that are unseen. There is in the people themselves the power to Put fofth great men. There is in the soul of the nation a reseive for iesponding to the call of high ideals, to nobility.of action, which has never-yet been put forth. THERE IS NO PROBLEM SO GREAT BUT THAT SOMEWHERE A MAN IS BEING RAISEI) TOMEETTT.', * * *

Said Theodore Roosevelt, "We, here in America, frold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming : years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust , the golden hopes of men. If on this new continent we lii,, m"r"iy build another country of great but urijustly divided :-t material prosperity, we shall have done nothing; and we shall do as little if we merely set the greed of envy against the greed of arrogance, and thereby destroy the rnaterial well-being of all of us." ***

"Luck," said Max O'Rell, "means the hardships and privations which you have ndt hesitated to endure; the iong nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the "ppoit t*"t ts you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch."

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Bruce Barton, author, philosopher, top-gi*1r* advertising 't executive, always comes up with thoughts deserving of rclr,'.',,:.d; spect and deep consideration.' Writing about our present :.r'd death battle with Communism, his recent words stopPe{"l+Lt me in my tracks, so wise did they seem. He says that r get that fact over to the people back of the Iron Crirtain,- i ,;i as the best means of winning the cold war. Show theo ''! could live that way. Then, thinks Barton, Communism " would go out the window :F{.* massbs the comforts, conveniences, luxuries, schooli4g;., freedom, leisure and security that the average American' iji family enjoys every day in the year, so he suggests we : munity Chest was fairly new in those days. I recall a neither Communism nor Socialism can ever give to the :fj story I used to tell in those speeches that was always a hit $'ith the Chest workers. ft was about a miser who died and went to the gates of Heaven, where he was stopped by St. Peter, who demanded to know what good works he had done on earth that would entitle him to enter here. After much deep ttrought and head scratching' the miser

There are signs of improvement in some ways. Back in 1934 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, American ace of all, aces who shot down 36 German planes in World War One and became a great national hero, was muzzled when hc didn't like the way the Constitution of the Unitcd States'ili was being kicked around, and tried to say so publicly. I{e: was not only forbidden to make speeches, but he was gtven a dressing down by one of the New Deal political pygmies '." for wanting to criticize the governrnent. Today Eddie iP going around the country making mighty fine speeches, ' and-this time no one is trying to muzzle him. **>F

He says that American politics, Communism, and matl's ' passion to get somethihg for nothing is at present a deadly trend in this country. He exhorts his hearers everywhere he goes to "get down on your knees every night as I do and thank God in heaven for our American heritage"' He exhorts his hearers to re-dedicate themselves and their children to the American heritage of "work, realism, sweag tears, and blood." Hc denounces Communism and Communists and fellow travelers in bitter terms, and says they have no place and no right here. He says too many Americans seem most interested in the Fifth Freedom-freedom from work, and that the most over-worked word- in the dictionary today is "security." And he concludes his remarks by saying that "Too many of our people want some-'' thing for nothing. It is a deadly trend. It may be too late now. Maybe we can only retard t'he trend' But we MUST try and do something about it." He makes a great 'i ] hit with his audiences.

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