“Where is our true sense of values?”

Nowhere in the academic curriculum of our grammar schools, high schools, colleges or universities have we been taught the simple, fundamental principles of success in life. Nowhere have we been taught how to use that "other ninety percent of our mental potential" that the scientists and psychologists tell us the average person fails to use. These are the missing links of our educational system.

Be honest and tell me—If you had a ten cylinder automobile and woke up one morning to find that nine of its cylinders weren't working, would you or would you not rush it to the nearest garage to get the other nine cylinders in working order? Of course you would. You would rush it to the nearest garage if only one of the ten cylinders was out of order.

I am sure that you get the points Where is our true sense of values? Why have we placed so much emphasis upon the material things such as automobiles, which can be replaced at any time, and virtually ignored the most priceless possession we shall ever own—our glorious mind?

Many of our larger corporations, banks, schools and Government agencies are installing large electronic computers. Some of these cost millions of dollars to build, yet the most complex and magnificent computers are but a toy in comparison to the human brain. The majority marvel at the performance of these electronic devices, but they couldn't care less about the operation and powerhouse potential of the within of them. The priceless brain, seat of our glorious mind, has a potential value to us that runs in the millions, yet we choose to ignore it almost completely.

We were endowed at birth, by an All-wise Creator, with this priceless possession. Since it didn't cost us anything, we tend to place little value upon it.

Slightly over a generation ago the dictionaries described uranium as a "white metallic substance having little or no practical value." Today this seemingly "worthless substance" of yesterday is valued far in excess of silver or gold. It has played an important role in ushering in the great Atomic Age in which we live. The greatest discovery of this century is not the harnessing of the atom, nor will it be in space exploration. It will be man's discovery of himself.

Recall now, if you will, the story of the tramp that died of malnutrition, while in the linings of his coat he carried upon his person thousands of dollars. Millions of persons drift aimlessly through life while resident within is a multi-million dollar mind awaiting only to be tapped. Ninety-five percent of our peoples fail to achieve success in life (nineteen out of every twenty) yet they were endowed at birth with this priceless possession.

Billion dollar hydro-electric or atomic generating plants with their high tension lines reaching out for hundreds of miles are worthless until this tremendous source of energy and power is tapped. In like manner, members of the human family live but a half-life, a sort of animal existence, unless and until they learn to appropriate and take possession of the tremendous power resident within and direct it to ends of their own choosing.

When mankind is as successful in the discovery of self as it has been in the discovery of "worthless uranium" as a useful source of raw material for ultimate conversion into atomic energy, many of the ills of the world will tend to disappear. No longer will we have poverty in the richest land the world has ever known. Civil strife will become a thing of the past. Harmony in the home will become real and meaningful. Crime and such attempts to shortcut success will diminish. Religion will be better understood and will become to us more beautiful. Our family of nations will learn to live together in peace. The world will be a better place in which to live.