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ABE'S EPIGRAMS
"Reduced to Its Simplest Form, Bolshevism Is Merely a Lazy Man's Envy
of the Prosperity of a Hustler."—Kansas City Post.
Our republic is going through an era which is bound to prove a crisis in na-
tional and world history. We have faith that the strong, sane, sound element
which brought forth the principles of democracy still exists and in the end will
triumph over those restless spirits who advocate disorder and the disintegration
of the moral forces of the country.
It would indeed be a sad day if Bolshevism got the upper hand. All we have
to do is to look at Russia, its starving millions, its disorganized business, and the
wreck and ruin of its industries.
Americans are typically a good-natured mind-our-own-business sort of people.
We are not easily aroused, and we go on and on permitting a small situation to
grow, until we suddenly awaken to the fact that we must take hold with a strong
hand. It is not until then that we really bestir ourselves but when we do, there is
sure to be something doing, and that too, in a far-reaching and thorough manner,
which leaves no doubt as to where we stand.
Bolshevism must be stamped out, and the business men of the country must
stand shoulder to shoulder, regardless of what line they may represent, not only
to put it down in the communities in which they live, but to create public senti-
ment against it, and to back the government to the end of stamping out this Red
menace. We read of conditions in other communities and shudder at them, with-
out perhaps realizing that we have similar situations in our own midst.
A speaker recently made the remark that the war had taken the "prod" out of
production. But has it? Is not the world's need greater than ever before? And
is not a great world-need a prod which no individual or community with a con-
science can ignore?
The man who said, "Give me, I pray thee, a great thought that I may quicken
myself with it," was a keen psychologist. He knew that Great Ideas are the moti-
vating power necessary to stir large bodies of people, and unless we unify our ef-
forts and crystallize the essence of them into a Great Idea, which we, the far-see-
ing, shall trumpet to the people, they will not catch the vision, and "Without vision,
the people perish."
In business life today, we are often meeting the customer with the Bolshevik
mind. Some of them are native born Americans to our surprise. Here is a good
maxim to lay down: "It is always worth while to make a friend of the difficult
customer."
This is one of the finest kinds of Americanization work which you and I can
do. We can win but we cannot force, and sometimes Americanization work is
needed among our own people. Let us not forget that every time we do our work
well, that we have sent out a missionary of the strongest kind, to preach true
Americanization to others who may. be infected with the germ of Bolshevism.
Measure up to your opportunity. Do your bit. The war at home is yet to be
won. "Carry on!"
LESTER G. HERBERT.
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