Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1917 — World-Neighborhood Problem of Today Similar to That of Individuals [ARTICLE]

World-Neighborhood Problem of Today Similar to That of Individuals

By DR. J. A. MACDONALD.

, Editor of the Toronto Globe

The problem oftiving is the problem of a man’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It claims the right of a man to enjoy t e fruit of his labors. It affirms that no able-bodied man shall be allowed, as Lincoln said, to eat bread by the sweat of another man’s bp>w. _ It declares that difference in capacity, which yields difference in. achievements® in rewards, must not interfere with democracy’s equality of opportunity for all and specialprivileges for none. It requires t a as slavery is a dishonor anff, a degradation to ““t 1 be allowed to be master of BSW life and be helped to make that selfmastership intelligent, just and free. . O And the individual problem of living is involved in the social problem The social problem may be simple enough when the neighborhood w small, the individuals few, their interests plain, and their righto unassailed But that problem becomes infinitely complex as life widens its horizons, deepens its needs, heightens its aspirations and becomes more keenly sensitive to ito own destiny. „ .. - And this is the world-neighborhood problem today, the problem ot the individual nation maintaining the strength and fullness and freedom of its own life in just relations with the rights of other nations in the same world community; the problem of one race preserving its identity and its ideals in the same world order with other races and their distinctions and their ideals; the problem of one people, strong and masterful, securing and enlarging their place in the sun without shutting the needed sunshine out of the life and history of other peoples, who also have rations and obligations in the same world neighborhood. This is today the problem of the world. - j