Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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s CALIFORNIA BANK SECURITY BANK Commerce Industry Our tour of the world of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY reveals an astonishing production that would cause people of only a century ago - could they come back to life — to look on it with incredible amazement! The modern telephone, radio and television— the motion picture— the motor car— the streamlined railroad trains and steamships— the giant jet planes— the space flights— the gadgets and modern electrical de- vices—just to name a few. Commerce and Industry are, each, a fast-moving, pulsating world of high- geared activity. Are all of these produc- tions bad? No, but most of them are being made to serve bad purposes as well as good. And we find this vibrant, high- pressure field of activity based on com- petition and greed, appealing too often, in marketing its products, to vanity and wrong desires, utilizing dishonesty, misrepresentation, deception, unfair dealing. The motivating incentive is to give less, while charging more. Is honesty the best policy ? A re- cent magazine survey put this question to 103 business executives. An over- whelming majority doubted whether a strictly honest policy would enable a man to rise to the top in the business world. Only two answered Yes, and one of these said he knew he was being naive. Here are pertinent comments: People who don ' t get dirty don ' t make it. In thirty years I ' ve known of only three men who ' ve reached executive positions cleanly, and I admit I ' m not one of them. The higher the execu- tive is in the management ladder, the more likely he is to do some dirty work. Our tour here discovers selfish moti- vation, disregard for public good, sharp practices, dishonesty, dog-eat-dog competition — NOT the TRUE T7 VALUES that would give hap- Al piness to the world. V. - I ISfOP IIKi 7 IOam 3 7pm piour ' FORKING IOam 3pm 4

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Governments Now we view the governments over the peoples of today ' s modern world. M nd again, we meet with disillusion- M ment. Today, as of old, too many m who run tlie governments still promise great benefits, still pose as public benefactors, while fulfilling their own ambitions in their lust for aggran- dizement and power. The modern world has produced three more or less new forms of govern- ment. Each promises peace, happiness, and prosperity for its people. In our lightning-quick tour, we view in brief the essential factors of each thus: United States and British-type De- mocracy ; Swedish and French-type Modern Socialism ; and atheistic Communism. All three are predicated on the theory that every individual has the right to share in the results of Science, Indus- try, and the modern life. All three are based on a system of Industry, and dif- fusion of Education. But what do we actually find? We find some heads of state sincerely seeking peace, and the betterment of their peoples. But none is bringing peace because none knows the WAY to peace. But all too often we find also the opposite. We find selfish, greedy men of excessive vanity, am- bitious in their lust for RULE, scheming to get their hands on the throttle of POWER for personal aggrandizement and monetary gain. We find graft, im- morality, deception, dishonesty, run- ning rampant in high places. Governments promise PEACE— but bring WARS! They promise benefits, while extracting from the people the PRICE of the benefits plus excessive costs of government. Government promises are EMPTY, while govern- ment treasuries are FULL. We fail to find, here, any knowledge of life ' s PUR- POSE, or dissemination of the TRUE VALUES. r-- mi