THE GREATEST GIFT
By Bing Crosby
The biggest job in American life today, I guess,
is tiie joD of raising children. There are many
moments when the size and seriousness of that job
scares us a little, and, well, we pray for great wis
dom and greater strength of character in order
that we may be living examples of the standards
wnich we set for our youngsters.
Yet many of us fail to tap the great spiritual
resources of the church, and, in our failure to do
so, we weaken our position in the eyes of our
children. Ihey are much too foxy you know to be
talked into doing something we won’t do our
selves.
If Sunday School is the place where they get
left while we—a—a—while we duck out for a
morning at the beach—that’s all, brother.
If we want them to want to share in the spir
itual and emotional values offered by our church,
why, we will have to want to share, too, and we
will have to want it enough to share our time
with them on Sunday—in church.
Going to church with our children is the great
est gift we can give them. Maybe we can give
them four years in college, and maybe we can’t,
but we can give them during their formative years
the religious training and the experience that will
make the cornerstone of their character as solid as
that Rock that we call "GIBRALTAR.”
Our hope for this month dedicated to RE
LIGION IN AMERICAN LIFE is that it will see
every family in the nation worshipping together
in their own churches, and, when we reach that
goal we will find peace of mind, tolerance
among individuals, happiness and emotional
security. In fact, well, name anything good.
You will find it in church.
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A Revolt Against vs. A Revolt For
Back in 1776, as we all learned in school,
Americans revolted against tyranny and set up a
free government of the people, by the people, and
for the people.
This free government of ours is now threatened
be a revolution in favor of tyranny—"the dictator-
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ship of the proletariat”—as Marx and Lenin and
Stalin called it.
Not only was Communism planned as a dic
tatorship—in Russia it has grown into a dictator
ship worse than even Karl Marx intended. In the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as they call
it, some 5,000,000 Communists—less than one-
fortieth of the population—go through the mo
tions, every now and then of electing or re-exect-
ing sub-dictators who will have power of life and
death over more than 200,000,000 people.
That is tyranny worse than George III of Eng
land ever dreamed of. The Declaration of Inde
pendence, which listed all the wrongs which
caused the 13 American colonies to rebel, did not
accuse George III of any atrocity comparable with
the imprisonment of millions in Russia’s concen
tration camps, the banishment of thousands of
Russians to salt mines, or the torture of other
thousands by the Communist secret police.
Compared with Stalin, George III was a gentle
man full of mercy and self-restraint.
America Is Land Of Their Dreams
Just from reading our magazines and news
papers, a citizen of any European country today
looks upon America as "almost a paradise on
earth,” a woman from across the Atlantic recently
wrote to a magazine editor here. A Danish woman,
married an Armenian and now living in Greece,
she reflects the opinions of three different na
tionalities.
"When I read articles in your papers glorifying
grocers or restaurant owners who have earned for
tunes and now live in luxury,” she writes, "I
always rub my eyes and read them once more to
be quite sure I am not dreaming. How amazingly
good-natured you are toward the new rich! It seems
a wonder to Europeans that you do not grudge
such people of their money.
"Don’t you realize what it means to us in
Europe to hear about your beautiful heated houses,
your electric kitchens, refrigerators, the warm
water flowing freely from faucets, your full lard
ers, your pockets full of money? What would we
do if we did not have this land of milk and honey
to read about and dream about.”
ON THE COVER
Horace Jones, Watchman, is one of our most
ardent sportsmen. When he is not on the job, he
is always hunting or fishing. He is shown here
with a Golden Retriever owned by Peter, Page
and Ricky Best, and a Model 21, 12 gauge, double
barrel field gun. The Model 21 is manufactured
by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a
Division of Olin Industries, located at New Haven,
Connecticut. This gun is the world’s leading sport
ing firearm for all feathered game. It has a se
lective single trigger, selective automatic ejectors,
and an automatic safety.