◆ SpookStack

figures show, on the con! , that we “t tas too Lieele. ‘Alchough we aumber idortom the nation, we furnish noching near thit propor- tion in the key Geld: aifecting the dering of «ll the people, inching ourvelees, In the influestial Saids a edecations | poverame t, labor relstions, writing newaps; magazines, books, radio, the wage and che ‘avin we ea few and far berween. “We ane conepicoons by our abe sence in the field af Meas. We tend shee ‘oes ae te limit ourselves laegely fields where we tan “make some money.” Tien afier we've made some, to make some more, We incline to meamre ruccow in terme of worldly pov penions, power or social advantage. But the more we become immered in the purruit of “things,” the move blind we become to the power af ideas, eepecially the ons great Idee which ie ger distin- 8 ishing mark. And ia m doing, we send 20 drifs riber and farther away from spreading oxy ideas erie pone daring sale ax do the sporti of evil And, paradoxically eaough, these self-same apoe- tier of evil invariably are but slightly interested ins “things.” ‘Mort of them teck no honart, often cadore being poorly clothed and poorly Lowed, in onder ro be ih some sirarogic apat where chey can moet ively reach the mass of the people with Can it be vhat we are losing oor “savour?” Cosrist eid: “You are the salt of the earth, But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? Ut is good for wothing any more but to be cast ond ond to be trodden on by wen” (Matt. #. 13). Can it be chat we over the earth who believe in God are by ous neglect wowitdngly bringing wpoe garselves sud all mankind » nightmare ef cou fusion and denruction because we mill fail to work ax hard for good ar they do for evil? While we who are “for God” lag behind, the 3% of our population who deny the very existence ‘of God are imposing their leadership in far greaver numbers in many fields. Surely we are not doing our part in helping to build a herter America when we do 20 little to prepare large oumbers to dedicsce themaelves to @ career in gorerument for the good of all, not their owe penonal advantage, At prevat we do not provide anything near the one-fifth of the public oiGeials that should be our propartion, “This in far aiore the result ef oor own fault than of say di- criminstion shown toward us. “And what is trae of the Geld of government & erin more troe of the more vital Geld of educa~ tide, In ane action of the country, for example, gree 1,200, only 34 Catholice oo the faculey; in~ seead of tout of 3, we're furnishing 1 aut of 32! * 2