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It is the major means of “occupying” until He comes. WAR-WORKING MOTHERS: • A strange muddle has developed in the “man-power” c r i s i s. Under,the new regulations, farmers are “frozen on the farms.” Workers are “frozen in the factories.” But mothers are not frozen in the homes. >A dairy farmer recently applied for work in a defense industry. He was tentatively accepted, for the position, but later was rejected, when it was * found that he had sixteen cows “ de pendent on him.” He was told to go back to the farm and .take care of the cows. A few hours after his. dis missal, a middleiaged mother was given the position. It i seemed not to matter that she had six children at home “ dependent on her.” Is it more /important that cows be cared for,»than that children be cared for? An e s t i m a t e d 1,400,000 girls in America are employed as “bar-maids” or the equivalent in the handling and serving of intoxicating drink., This is twice as many girls as are now en rolled in the colleges and universities, of the nation. - Would it not be helpful to the war effort if the mothers were sent home from the defense factories to care for their own children, while - the girls were transferred from the saloons to the war factories?- Not only are beerTrucks still “burn ing up the highways,” but large masses of man-power and woman- power are still absorbed by the “lux ury trades” : the night clubs, the beauty parlors, the theaters and amusement centers. , The quickest way to solve the man power shortage would be to return to the Christian way of life. Chris tians do not use liquor or tobacco. The closing of the breweries and cig arette factories and saloons and to bacco stores would release hundreds of thousands of Workers for war in dustries. Food for millions of people could be grown on the millions of acres which are now used for the growing of tobacco. The transporta tion problem could be immeasurably relieved if precious spaces on trains' and trucks were not taken up with beer cases .and tobacco. The greatest single .obstacle to ef ficiency and victory on the home front is our pagan, pleasure-mad way of- life. To return to simple, Scriptural standards of life would greatly Im prove the health of our people, and would solve the most serious of the problems on the home front. The “sacrifices” involved Whereby people at home would do without liquor, cig arettes, cosmetics,, and permanent waves would be small in comparison with the sacrifices of the boys battling in the fox holes and jungles of the Islands of the Pacific.
ceptance of the gospel of Christ can do that. *No conference of diplomats can create lasting peace. Only Christ can remove the cause of war: sin. Despite the intensity and “ exten- sivéness” of any crusade for world evangelization, great masses of men will continue to reject Christ and, under a Satanic leadership, they will continue to make war. Germany and Japan are equally guilty as aggressor nations. Japan never had the gospel on a national scale; but Germany was the cradle, of the Reformation. The German war-makers, who deliber ately rejected Christianity, are as in corrigibly militaristic as the Japanese war-makers, who áre under the spell j of a religion that excludes Christ. World evangelization, of itself, will not bring lasting peace. Men will con tinue to spurn Christ and walk in the ways of war, instead of peace. Peace on a lasting basis will come only when Christ comes. And world evan- gelizationi • is the project upon which •we should concentrate until He comes.
of the world might be reached for Christ with an outlay of the $52,000 that it takes to kill one combatant in this war! Many are asking, "How can another World J/Var be prevented, once this one is over?" There is Just one way to work for world peace, ahd that is to spend, as many billions of dollars on Bibles when the war is over, as we are now spending to equip bomb ing planes. Disarming the aggressor nations will never bring lasting peace. John Dillinger was disarmed and put in jail; but he contrived to break out and continue his career of violence. Germany and Japan might be dis armed and put under the control of an “ international police force” ; but they would find a way to get new -weapons and start a new World War. Wars are produced by hatred and lust and greed in-the hearts of men. To totally disarm Japan and Germany, we woqld ne,ed to take hatred and lust and greed out of the hearts of these people. Nothing but the ac
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M s s Mildred Mm Cook Managing Ed ito r The K in g 's Business 558 south Hope S t r e e t , Los Angeles, C a lifo rn ia Bear Miss Cook:
I r e ce iv ed th e August, 1943, is s u e o f The K ing 's Business which you r e c e n tly forwarded to me, I a p p re cia te very much your though tfu lness in .th is regard . I t i s encouraging to be assured o f your i n t e r e s t in th e most s e r io u s problem, o f ju v e n ile d elinqu en cy. C erta in ly , through educational a r t i c l e s such as "Have fl’e Fo'rgotten Something?" you can be very h e lp fu l in bring ing home to your readers the need f o r p rev en tion programs to h elp American you th , * ■If I can make use o f add itiona l is s u e s o f your magasine, I w i ll g e t in touch with you. With b e s t w ishes and kind regards, S in c e r e ly yours, I ^]
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