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60. Keeping Our·Free, Private
Enterprise In Business
In a country where people seem numbed by the
type and frequency of violence, what has the Belden
Center done about the decline in the values of young
people? We have gone back to the fundamental values
that made this country great.
The late president emeritus of Harding University,
Dr. George S. Benson, articulated these values as
"The
Three C's."
The first value was
"Constitutional
Government
"
The second was
"Capitalism,
"and the
third was
"Christian-Judea Ethics."
From these
"Three
C's"
one can see a multitude of values flowing, such as
respect for authority, respect for human life, the work
ethic and, self discipline.
Have we done our homework? According to a
recent national poll conducted by the Ad Council, only
one in seven Americans was able to give a minimum
description of the joint roles played by labor,
management, investors, and consumers in our
economy.
It
is true that the American people know
that we have a great economic system, but often they
don't know why.
Therefore, the purpose of private enterprise
education is to inform our people and remove some of
the mysteries such as John Wesley does in part with
this item:
Make all you can
Save all you can
Give all you can
Do all the good you can
In all the ways you can
With all the souls you can
In eve!}' place you can
At all the times you can
With all the zeaf you can
As long as you ever can.
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