Homily

The President, spokesman for the U.S. people, this week made a speech that touched about the sorest U.S. problem--strikes in industry. He offered no new method of solution, but what he said made plain sense to most U.S. citizens. At the American Legion County Fair in rural Caruthersville, Mo., the President said:

"We must all get in and push. That doesn't require anything in the world but plain understanding among ourselves . . . cooperation of management and labor and the farmers and every storekeeper, and every man who has an interest in the Government of the United States."

The homily hit home; such thoughts were already in the minds of most of the U.S. people. By this week the average, long-suffering U.S. citizen had begun to grow impatient with labor-management strife and the threat of more. He had good cause: he was caught in the middle and he was getting hurt.

He felt that both labor and ownership, in industries and services which touched the daily lives of almost every citizen, should put the interest of all the U.S. at feast as high as their own interests. He hoped, without much confidence, that labor disputants could be made to realize their responsibility to the public.

To world problems Harry Truman applied the good-neighborly gospel: "Do by your neighbor as you would be done by." The nations must come to realize, he said, that the welfare of the world was more important than any individual nation's gain. Said the President: "We are going to accept that golden rule, and we are going forward to meet our destiny, which I think Almighty God intended us to have--and we are going to be the leaders."

The average U.S. citizen said Amen.

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