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These DaysBy£ckeUkifTHIS COMPETITIVE WORLDI was talking to a father at one of those occasions where the parents foregather to sing carols. We .had a few moments to talk about Jour children and we got on to the subject of the competitive spirit among them. The other father was for less of it because of something called a ‘‘neurosis.Now, I rarely, if ever, have an opinion about anything. Mine are convictions. I believe strongly, and on this subject, it is a conviction born of experience that this shocking softness of our people, their tolerance of homosexuals in public office, their willingness to accept tenth-raters as their leaders is a product of namby-pamby education.There will be little room for soft people in the next decade or two. The fruits of life will go to the nard and caable. Even those who possess inherited wealth will discover that the cost of war will eat away the accumulated pork.And our women will have to become tougher, because taxes will so .aise the cost of living that it will oecome increasingly difficult to .iiaintain the luxury civilization wffich we call our high standard of u.vmg.There is no use bilking this. When our national budget goes up to *90,000,000,000,as it will for 1952, it will cost us more than our total oavings to maintain the government. Herbert Hoover said in his recent speech: — Inflation is already moving but we might with stern measures avoid the economic disintegration of such a load for a very few years ...”Although the politicians and the generals insist that our survival uepends upon war, the truth is that our survival, as a people, actually ucpenas on rebuilding a strong raceAixexi ana women, it is going to . ^ a wbciii way ol lix'e, ana taose -.10 cciiuiol it vvlu bO v*naer, much as many ox * uic uri^tociatoy and bourgeois oi Europe wen' under after World War I. They lacked the stamina to face troubled times.I want to make reference to one of the most horrible reports ever issued by a congressional committee. It is entitled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government.”Can you imagine what we have come to as a people that a committee of congress needs to be appointed to deal yith such a debarment! It used to be that if one met one of those creatures, he beat him up and drove him outside the pale. But now we say that they suffer from a “neurosis. The report says:“.. The authorities agree that most sex deviates respond to psychiatric treatment and can be cured if they have a genuine desire to be cured. However, many overt homosexuals have no real desire to abandon their way of life and in such cases cures are difficult, if not impossible ”If that is so, these follows can be cured but like to go their way. So why should they be permitted to corrupt society? This report stays:“An individual check of the federal agencies revealed that since January 1, 1947, the armed services and civilian agencnes of government have handled 4,954 cases involving charges of homosexuality or other types of sex perversion ”Assuming that perverts, like thieves, are not always caught, or even often, we may assume that there must be more of them. The largest number were in the mlitary establishments. From .Tannery ii 1947 to October 31, 1950, 574 cases were handled by civilian agencies. One hundred and thirty-three cases handled prior to April 7, 1950, Involved employees of the State Department and ECA, leaving only 59 for other departments. That does not mean that these two agencies were outstanding in degeneracy; it means rather that they tried to clean out the dirt and that other agencies were negligent. Three hundred and eighty two cases have been handled since then.When we say that homosexuals, male or female, are born that way, we repeat what is true only to a minor degree. Most of them are made that way by corrupting influences, by bad companionship and by lack of moral training. They are products of a soft and corrupted era. We are reaping the whirlwind of the Jazz age, as it used to be called.Most of our weaknesses arise from lack of convictions, from indecisions from that uncertainty of mora: position called an “opinion,” o i which men may leisurely debate
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Mon, Jan 01, 1951
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