SOCIAL ILLS
AND THEIR CURES
Business Deceit
Corrected through Law of Returns
Among the more serious problems of business today is the rising trend to produce by deliberate intent inferior merchandise for the repeat trade. Engineering know-how has been used to defraud the consumer not only of the superior products that it is capable of producing, but also of the benefits of increased leisure hours which would result from the manufacture and distribution of commodities made to pass the test of excellence. Instead of assuming the increased responsibility attendant with increased knowledge, mankind have flaunted the higher law and the precious gifts of wisdom to outsmart the public and fill private purses.
Scientific invention and skills ought to be used in their most effective manner for the general welfare of mankind instead of being suppressed by competitive economic interest. The abuses of child labor in the cotton mills of England may be long ended, but much of the world still dwells in the twilight zone of nugacious effort. Let the world be freed from needless drudgery through the harnessing of its scientific resources to serve humanity's needs. Clothing, machinery, and other so-called durable commodities should be made to wear not to a minimum, but rather to a maximum degree of service.
The merchants of Babylon have in dishonor sacked the people of the world by aborting divine purpose in ignorance of the universal law of sympathetic attraction. They have closed their eyes to the truth that all good rendered unto life returns to the one sending it forth. If men are not motivated by essential humanitarianism, they should at least pay their respects to this irrevocable law on the basis of enlightened self-interest!
Natural Law Corrects Abuses
Imposed upon Life
Cataclysm on a planetary scale has been forestalled more than once by the power of Divine Love expressing through the world's spiritual leaders and the mighty prayer force they muster. Mankind owe a continual debt of gratitude to the true spiritual guardians of the race, whose unceasing prayers have interceded in their behalf. People of earth, this cannot go on forever! Individual responsibility for distortions imposed upon the earth shall be exacted by natural law.
When people do not respond to God's laws through the orderly processes of Love's gentle ministrations, they set in motion the only alternate method whereby Nature can correct those abuses; then natural law operates through disaster, fire, flood, and mass epidemics as the earth convulsively shrugs off men's,perverted creations in order that the nobler image may once more be brought forth. We make plain: The law ever prefers the gentler way!
Divine Inheritance Preserved
by World Good Will
Men and women of this blessed planet, you must rise in a united effort to throw off all chains of violence, warfare, greed, deceitful advertising, harmful habits, and the insatiable desire for trash in entertainment! Replace these plunderers of your divine inheritance by those spiritual and cultural pursuits which will expand for the individual soul a more permanent state of happiness resulting from new horizons of truth and wondrous revelations concerning the total being of each individual and his place in the universal order.
Crime will diminish in direct proportion to the unbiased application of proper cultural and religious training through the world's vast networks of communication systems. There is no excuse for ignorance or immorality in America, where drama and instruction bearing the high concepts of integrity and justice may be brought to the most humble shack through radio and television.
Because the individual and the family are linked with the state and because personal security is of great importance to the individual, it is essential that personal integrity be the example maintained at the grass-roots level as the standard for public servants at all echelons of government. Ministers holding public office should keep faith with the people and thus help the people to keep faith with them.
Most problems are centered in the marketplace of life's basic necessities. Therefore, give knowledge, bread, and opportunity to all, and strengthen thereby the most natural deterrents to war and Communism. Reduced to its simplest expression, the formula for world good will and happiness is this: Feed the hungry, teach the ignorant, and love the people of the whole world as yourself. Sponsor this unity of good will, and the earth will prosper.