The Rotary Balita no. 720 (May 7, 1953)

In these days of confusion and uncertainty, there are many who think that if our economic problem could be solved, then indeed would life be free from anxiety and apprehension. Alas, those who so think forget that there are countless problems that would continue unsolved. Human nature would remain with its medley of conflicting motives. There would remain the inner hurt produced by the open grave with its baffling mystery of life and death; there would remain the necessity for adjustment and understanding between husband and wife, between parents and children, between employer and employee, between friend and neighbor. And above all also would remain the eternal choice between values. The whole problem of what makes for healthy and creative living is eternally with us. In a perfectly functioning economic order people could wound each other; they could be unkind, unjust, dishonest, and vulgar in taste, just as they are now. In our haste to build Utopia, therefore, we need to remind ourselves that the discipline of the individual is even more essential than the regimentation of economic forces. Man's supreme concern has ever been with the abiding springs of action in the human heart. - W. Waldemar W. Argow.