New Castle High School - Ne Ca Hi Yearbook (New Castle, PA)

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64 c .Q lilfsiffglclall .. .3 THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS ORATION BY JOSEPH McFATE Nineteen hundred years ago there walked the dusty highways of Galilee One from whose lips fell such words of wisdom as had never been heard before nor since that time. Such words of wisdom that caused even the doubters and the scoffers to pause in their work and listen with awe and amazement. I see Him as the shades of night are falling, leaving the city and wending His way down the hill, across the brook and up into the cool retreat of the mountains. The multitude has followed Him and as He sees them we hear Him utter the words that have come down to us through the centuries, Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them. Universal application of this simple but stupendous fact would immedi- ately start the trend of industrial and commercial relationship towards financial equilibrium and economic balance. But the law must be recog- nized as natural and universal in its application. The United States cannot apply it successfully if the other nations of the world do not apply it. The employees cannot apply it if the employers will not apply it. Each must apply it in their relationships to one another. It must be universal. The challenge of despotism to democracy caused many liberty-loving men to go to their deaths on the battle-fields of France. By this sacrifice the tyranny of kings, emperors and military despots was ended. We hope that by this gigantic sacrifice war will be no more and peace shall reign. War is a direct breach of the Golden Rule. If nations would put into practice the precepts of the Golden Rule, commercial, political and social relationships would be far stronger and more beneficial to the nations of the world. Our tourists, Y. M. C. A. workers and missionaries all tell us that China, today, has a feeling of goodwill towards the United States. Why? Because at the end of the Boxer Rebellion the United States refused to accept or demand indemnity from the Chinese government. This was an application of the Golden Rule and its result is a better commercial and social relationship between the United States and China. Other examples of this are found on the pages of history. Colonies rebel because of unjust treatment, their mother country does not apply the Golden Rule and as a result she loses her Colonies. How quick the Colonies of Spain revolted the minute they had a chance. Why? Because of the failure of Spain to apply the Golden Rule, and treat her Colonies as she herself would want to be treated.

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l as ua lblliriflmlsll Q, 3,2 65 We are now in the midst of a most destructive industrial warfare, it is world-wide. If prompt and concerted action is not taken at once the fruits of our recent military victory will be turned to ashes. This wonderful law also applies in the present commercial strife between Capital and Labor. In the modern commercial country the em- ployees and employers are organized into separate and hostile groups. Employees are organized into unions and trades assemblies. Employers are organized under the laws of corporations. They all vote and speak with one voice. Suppose the head of a corporation refuses to meet with his employees and discuss the matter in dispute. The leader of the organization to which his employees belong in retaliation calls a strike. The employees quit work, and by force or intimidation cause others to quit and even prevent new men from going into the plant to work. The corporation then calls upon the State for aid. The constabulary responds and civil war results. Busi- ness is depressed, many lose their lives, much damage is caused to property and economic waste results. Everyone in the community must suffer. After all is ended, no good has been accomplished, only added hatred that may last for years. What a different situation would have resulted had both employer and employee applied the Golden Rule. Selfish men in this world are seeking to enflame the ignorant against the intelligent, the poor against the rich, race against race, and class against class. Civilization is threatened with a disaster that always follows international or internal struggle. If we wish to avert a disaster we must have universal application of the Golden Rule between Capital and Labor, employee and employer. All that applies to nations and capital and labor applies to the indi- vidual. If we do not apply it in our daily lives we cannot expect the nations to apply it. But if we do apply it in our daily lives, in our homes and busi- ness, it must follow as the night the day, that we will apply it as a nation. Good will, peace and happiness must be the result of the application of this eternal law. The shores of history are strewn with wrecks of nations, business firms and individuals which have destroyed themselves through the trans- gression of the most fundamental of all laws, the law of all human relation- ship, the Golden Rule. We are simply at the parting of the ways and it is a bit difficult to find our way and choose our path, but we shall choose the path that leads to reconciliation of capital and labor and of nations. Sooner or later man burned by the iires of hatred must learn the Golden Rule and its applica- tion to life. Even as the butterfly emerges from the slovenly caterpillar, so shall men freed from the ugly crawling worm of selfishness and material- ism emerge into the bright light of understanding and application of the Golden Rule. Let us unite to prove it. Let us make it a reality. There is a testing that makes of men Brothers, None walks his way aloneg All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own. Have we, the citizens of the United States, vision enough to look ahead and see a world where nations, employees, employers and individuals practice the Golden Rule? Are we, as individuals, willing to do what we can to bring about this condition? Will you help to make this country and this World a place Where the ruling sentiment shall be, Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them?