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N I H I L O B S T A T 
J o h n K e m p e r , S . V . D . 

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FUN 
It's pretty hard to stay out in a blister-

ing sun all day without getting a sun-
burn. It's pretty hard to stay out in a 
blinding rainstorm without getting wet. 
It's pretty hard to eat onions constantly 
without smelling like an onion. But it's 
even harder to live in this old world of 
ours without some of its filth and evil 
rubbing off on us. 

That sounds almost unfair to this old 
planet of ours. A f t e r all, it's been pretty 
good to us in so many ways. It produces 
food for us. We get our homes f r o m her 
great forests. We get our clothing either 
directly from her plant life or indirectly 
from the animals she nourishes. Even, so 
many of the medicines t h a t restore 
h e a l t h t o us come f r o m h e r g r e a t 
mineral resources. Really, when you 
think about it, the world seems like the 
kindest friend we have. Especially does 
this seem true when we all see the peace-
ful beauty of n a t u r e ; t h e golden sunsets, 
the majestic mountains, the rolling val-
leys, and the mighty oceans. How is it 
that in one breath we can gasp at her 
beauty and in the next solemnly proclaim, 
that she is one of the greatest sources of 
evil? 

Well, when we say t h a t the world is 
evil, we are not blaming the trees and 
flowers and waterfalls and sun and sky. 
These aren't evil. They are God's own 
creation. They are good. We are only 
saying t h a t the spirit of the world is 

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something t h a t leads us to evil. That's 
not the world's fault. It's not God's, 
either. Man is the culprit. Since t h e fall 
of Adam, everywhere man has gone he 
has left a trail of tears and sin and de-
struction behind him. He's kinda like the 
germ-bearing fly, t h a t leaves a path of 
filth every place it walks. Man has criss-
crossed this planet of ours so many times 
there is hardly a place left uncontami-
nated. 

Don't ever t r y to prove t h a t the spirit 
of the world is not evil. Don't t r y to 
prove t h a t the spirit of the world won't 
affect you. If you believe this, you are 
not a dream-boat, you are a sleep-walker. 
The evil of this world is all around you. 
It's kinda like walking in a fog. The fog's 
above you, it's in f r o n t of you, it's be-
hind you, it's beside you, it's even within 
you as you pull it into your lungs with 
every breath. Remember, if you are not 
on your guard, the spirit of t h e world 
will snow you under; you will then be-
come a part of its very wickedness. 

One of the principle ways the spirit 
of the world worms its way into our life 
is through recreation. We act like one 
groundhog following another. We just 
naturally follow other people. We see 
them do things and suddenly we find 
ourselves doing them. We read what they 
read; we go where they go; we end up 
doing the things they do. This usually 
happens in our recreation. W h y ? They 
seem to be having f u n and we want to 
have fun, too. So we begin to take up 



their forms of f u n and fancy. Sometimes 
this f u n and fancy are fatal. 

Let's take this thing recreation and 
pull it apart, unroll it, unravel it, disman-
tle it, pick it to pieces and see what it is 
and the attitudes we need t o have about 
it. 

Take a good look a t t h e word REC-
R E A T E : now chop off the prefix "re." 
What do you have? The word create. 
What does create mean? You know this. 
I t means to build up or make f r o m noth-
ing. Now add "re" to create and see what 
you get. It means to rebuild or remake 
or a better word yet is restore. So now 
we can better understand the very pur-
pose of recreation. It is supposed to re-
store to us all the mental energy and 
physical relaxation we have lost. You 
might say it gives us a new start. It helps 
us to go back to the same old tasks with 
new vim, vigor and vitality, yeah man, 
real zip. 

The first mistake we make in regard 
to recreation is that we so often go to 
extremes. I t becomes a case of either too 
much or too little. It's hard to stay right 
down the middle. It's something like 
tight rope walking. Too much swing or 
sway is the downfall; swing too f a r one 
way or sway too f a r the other way and 
you're all set f o r a one point landing, on 
your nose. In recreation we have to t r y 
to stay on the tight rope of just the right 
amount all of the time. 

I suppose t h a t there are a few people 
t h a t don't do enough recreating, but I 

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don't think we can accuse the modern 
teenager of this extreme. Usually older 
people are guilty of this. Of course, if it 
should happen to anyone, young or old, 
it's still a mistake. You remember the old 
saying, "All work and no play will make 
little Mortimer a very dull boy." 

Most people, however, are on the other 
side of the fence recreating themselves 
to death. This seems to be the case not 
only f o r most teenagers, but f o r Amer-
icans in general. The whole country 
seems to be working f a r harder at play-
ing than at working. They will travel 
many hard miles in cars. They will t r a m p 
up mountains, through swamps and over 
desolate arid wastes. They'll work f a r 
into t h e night at the expense of losing 
sleep, injuring their eyesight or mashing 
their thumb with a hammer to build a 
boat or h o t r o d . T h e y ' l l p o u r u n t o l d 
amounts of money into some contraption 
or useless rig, even to the point of doing 
without something they really need. For 
what? For recreation, man, for recrea-
tion. Don't you know a man needs time 
off? Don't you know a man needs to 
relax ? 

If you have been worshipping the god 
of recreation, then it's high time you 
take account of the situation. Man is not 
supposed to recreate to such a point t h a t 
he becomes an out and out loafer. The 
very purpose of recreation becomes de-
feated. Remember we said t h a t the pur-
pose of recreation was to restore your 
mental energy and physical relaxation so 
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t h a t you could go back to your tasks with 
more effectiveness. If you don't do any-
thing but loaf, this purpose is defeated. 
You are only loafing so t h a t you can 
build up enough strength to loaf more 
and better. The only way t h a t type will 
die is rest themselves to death. Ask a 

| teenager like t h a t to do some work or 
help around the house. "Now really, 
mother, you don't know what you are 
saying. Me work? How ghastly. How 
unfair, and to think my own flesh and 
blood would ask me to cut the lawn. 
Don't you know I am t h e thinking type," 
(thinking of ways to get out of work, 
t h a t is). And so goes the line of ole 
blubber Bill. The only thing he will ever 
be good f o r is to render out and sell to 

J a soap company. 
Not only can a person make a mistake 

about the amount of recreation but they 
can easily make a mistake using the 

j wrong kind of recreation. The wrong 
kind can be either the kind t h a t damages 
your morals or the kind that dulls your 
brain completely. 

The wrong kind of movies and litera-
ture and television shows can do a real 
job on your morals. That's the very rea-
son there is such a thing as the Legion of 
Decency. It wasn't set up to let you know 
j u s t what t h e juiciest movies are so you 
would make sure not to miss them. It 
was set up to guide your recreation, to 
steer you away f r o m the movies that 
would attack your morals. Don't t r y to 
be the big shot t h a t says they never 

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bother me. Whether you notice it or not, 
t h i s ole spirit of the world is bound to 
rub off on you. Pretty soon you will be 
thinking like all those soggy-headed, sex-
riddled stoops that are sometimes called 
stars. Remember this and pack it away in 
the ole brain box. If you attend a movie 
t h a t you know is objectionable for teen-
agers, you are committing a sin by put-
ting yourself deliberately in the occasion 
of sin. 

The same goes f o r television. If you 
know, or really suspect that a program 
will be suggestive, you are obligated not 
to watch it. The Pope has shown con-
cern about television and the fact t h a t 
it is uncensored. He even suggests t h a t 
an organization something like the Le-
gion of Decency be set up f o r television. 
All of this is to say nothing of the fact 
t h a t television is so often a mind-dead-
ener. Some teenagers have watched tele-
vision so much that not only has their 
imagination been destroyed, but their 
eyes have the stars of a zombie. 

One more note on brain deadeners, the 
comic book. I suppose if you are vitally 
interested in how little Ophelia Jones, 
of Smash Comic books escaped from the 
jaws of a lion without swallowing her 
bubble gum, t h a t ' s okay. But it's another 
thing when a so called future-builder-of-
America spends hours upon hours pour-
ing over such trite. If you must keep up 
with Ophelia, then do it moderately. 

You know, my dear teenager, recre-
ation is kinda like a mirror. It pretty 
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well reflects the kind of person you are 
and the kind of adult you will be. If your 
recreation is sensible, you are probably 
sensible. If you have a useful hobby, and 
don't overdo it, you are probably natur-
ally mechanical or inventive, and you 
probably won't be the lonesome type. If 
you follow the world of sports, and don't 
overdo it, you are probably the outdoor 
and active type. But brother, if your rec-
reation tends toward the lustful side, 
you'll drown in immorality. If you don't 
do anything but recreate, you are lazy. 
Let your recreation be your examination 
of conscience. Don't be fooled by those 
that think t h a t all life is just eating, 
drinking and being merry. They have 
been snagged by the spirit of the world. 
Sure it's hard work to walk through the 
mud of this world and not get some on 
you, but make sure you don't sink in it. 

FAME 
Surely t h e good Lord must have a 

sense of humor. A f t e r all He made Gi-
raffes, didn't He? But what must be f a r 
more amusing to Him than giraffes is 
mankind. True man is made to the image 
and likeness of God but sometimes you 
would think t h a t he was God Himself 
the way he acts. Man is f a r less in com-
parison to God than a drop of water is 
to all t h e oceans in t h e world. And to 
think that sometimes these puny little 
pitiful people stand up and brazenly chal-
lenge God Himself. I think God must 
shake His head, so to speak, and smile 

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at those little idiots. He must just shake 
His head when He sees any of us blowing 
our own bagpipes about how wonderful 
we are or about all t h e things we have 
accomplished or how our t r u e greatness 
is still undiscovered. He must be inclined 
sometimes to j u s t brush all of us f r o m 
the face of the earth like we would brush 
away a fly. 

Christ must have felt something like 
this toward the apostles. They played the 
big-shot game like all of us have played 
it. I'm thinking of one time in particular 
when the apostles had a heated debate 
about which one was t h e greatest. Sounds 
like a bunch of teenagers trying to prove 
t h a t they are best ball player or dancer 
or the best looking. Let me quote this 
little episode right straight f r o m St. 
Mark's gospel. It runs like this. "And 
they came to Capharnaum. When He 
was at home, He asked them, "What 
were you arguing about on the way?" 
But they kept silence, for they had dis-
cussed which one of them was the great-
est." 

Now j u s t use your imagination a little 
bit and try to picture this argument t h a t 
Christ referred to. There they were, 
plowing along a dusty road toward Cap-
harnaum. Christ was probably walking 
a little ahead meditating or praying to 
His heavenly Father. The apostles being 
tired and lazy, too, had dropped back. 
One of them had dropped a little remark 
about one of his rare abilities or about 
how really great he was. They were off 
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to t h e races. Everyone was in the thick 
of the discussion. Never in your life have 
you heard such eloquent arguments. 
Never did you suspect such greatness. 
Never did you dream of such genius. But 
now you know; they're telling you. The 
discussion gets louder. The arguments 
get more and more heated. All of them 
are talking at once. Lucky they finally 
got to Capharnaum; they might have 
come to blows. 

Through it all, Christ had just kept 
right on walking serenely along. He 
could hear them in the background. He 
said nothing. They thought that He was 
unaware of the subject of their conver-
sation. They forgot t h a t He knew their 
very thoughts. They hadn't escaped, f o r 
He popped the question at them. "What 
were you arguing about on t h e way?" 
They stood there silently and embar-
rassed like a kid caught in the cookie 
jar. Christ didn't rack them. He was 
gentle but He used the opportunity to 
teach a lesson. Here's the way the scrip-
ture continues. "And sitting down he 
called the Twelve and said to them, 'If 
any man wishes to be first, he shall be 
last of all, and servant of a l l . ' " 

The lesson hit home. No man is sup-
posed to set himself above anyone else. 
No man is supposed to pride himself in 
his God-given gifts. To be great, we must 
be little. To be first we must be willing 
to be last. Least of all should we brag 
about all t h a t we think we are. If God 
wants us to be anything before men, He 

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will get us there but we must never seek 
such rank or pride ourselves in attaining 
it. 

We may have smiled a little at the 
apostles and their ambitious ways, but 
the lesson wasn't just for them, it was 
for all mankind and that means teen-
kind, too. How many teenagers have 
acted the same way when they got in big 
popularity scrambles t h a t go on in school 
or club or neighborhood? How many 
times have you bragged ? How many 
times have you back-slapped to get a 
vote ? No, none of us should laugh at the 
apostles unless we want to laugh at our-
selves. We've all acted the same way 
sometime or other. And it's a terrible 
thing when you see this desire f o r pop-
ularity get clear out of hand in a teen-
ager. It can ruin their life and their 
morals. 

Just look around you sometime, pick 
out a Jezebel or Joe t h a t ' s scrambling 
for popularity and watch what a fool 
they are making out of themselves. Oh, 
they would be the last one to admit that 
they are a f t e r any special notice. But it 
doesn't take a fortune teller to read be-
tween the lines. Their very words and 
actions give them away. They are sooooo 
friendly, in fact, gushy. They are sooooo 
concerned with your problems. They are 
sooooo helpful to your least desire. What 
they never seem to realize is t h a t all of 
this is sooooo noticeable. They are like 
the jokers on a king's court t h a t will 
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dance to any tune, especially t h e tune 
you happen to be playing. 

Yes, I know that we are all supposed 
to be helpful and concerned and friendly 
to everyone, but not for our own sake 
but for their sake. When we are doing 
it for our own advantage, it is a whole 
lot different thing than doing it for 
someone else's advantage. It's the dif-
ference between vice and virtue, even if 
it is all similar on the outside. It's vice 
to do something for someone when you 
are doing it just to become more pop-
ular ; it's virtue to do something for 
someone when you are doing it out of 
love or charity. The acts may look alike 
but the motives are miles apart. One is 
dominated by self-love and t h e other is 
dominated by other-love. It's the differ-
ence between the politician and the saint. 

You have to be a darn good actor to 
fool very many people very much for 
very long. The ole politician in you will 
squeeze out. But just let us suppose t h a t 
you are a great actor, so great that you 
can fool everyone. We would have to 
congratulate you on being such a fine 
actor but that doesn't keep you from 
being a hypocrite. Why are you a nypo-
crite? Simply because you are thinking 
one way and acting another. Yeah, you 
might think old hypo Joe is a living doll 
when actually he is a lousy, low, living 
liar. 

When you get right down to it, no 
matter how you look at it, Joe and Jeza-
bel aren't hurting themselves. As we j u s t 

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said, they may be living liars and t h a t 
hurts them but they may be in for even 
greater hurts. Take this viewpoint. They 
want popularity so bad it becomes a kind 
of god for them. They will do anything 
to get it, just anything. T h a t means any-
thing often turns into everything. What 
does everything mean? It means going 
with the wrong people. I t means going 
to wrong places. It means doing the 
wrong things. Sure nuff, they may get 
popularity but brother they pay through 
the nose to get it. The price they pay is 
so often their morals and that means 
they've paid t h e full price; the price of 
their souls. Yes siree, this popularity is 
a wonderful thing, haw, haw, haw. 

One last item on the agenda is t h i s : 
what do these people do when they grow 
old and how do they die? That's not too 
tough to answer if you consider the situ-
ation. The whole foundation on which 
they have built their castle of popularity 
begins to crumble. They "ain't" pretty 
anymore. Their muscles have turned to 
lard. When they smile, no more pearls, 
just spaces, wide open spaces. Their eyes 
aren't like shimmering stars anymore; 
they are more like burnt out light bulbs 
and they don't glow anymore. You see 
they built the whole world on themselves. 
Since there is nothing about them t h a t 
attracts people, their world comes tum-
bling down. Suddenly, they find them-
selves alone and so often that's the way 
they die. It all amounts to a simple story 
of failure. 
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You can get around all this mess of 
the popularity-pigs by just trying to care 
about others. Love them f o r their sake 
and do things f o r their sake, or don't do 
them at all. To live a full life doesn't 
mean to live it for yourself. It means to 
live it for others, then if God sees fit to 
make you known, well t h a t ' s His busi-
ness. You'll be happy and you will make 
others happy. And, you will never grow 
old, not really, you will just grow mel-
low like a fine old wine. 

FORTUNE 
J u s t how much is twenty five dollars? 

Well, it's not enough to buy an Easter 
outfit. It's not enough to buy a new suit. 
It's not enough on which to take a trip, 
even a short one. A good many people 
make t h a t much in one day. It's enough 
to buy your senior ring and possibly have 
a little to spare. It's enough to pay one 
week's rent on the house or in some 
places maybe two weeks rent. A family 
of f o u r might eat off of it for a week if 
they are careful how they buy. Come to 
think of it, it isn't very much and it's 
f a r from a fortune. It just won't buy 
very much. 

But there was a time when t h a t much 
money did buy the most precious thing 
in the whole world. It bought Christ. 
Yes, as crazy as it seems, Judas sold the 
life of Christ f o r thirty pieces of silver, 
which is worth about twenty five dollars 
or possibly a little more, now. 

Now that's some trade, huh, trading 
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God Himself for a few lousy bucks. That 
makes the God of the world worth less 
than your senior ring. That makes Him 
worth no more than your week's house 
rent. That makes Him worth no more 
than a week's food f o r your belly. Maybe 
twenty five little ole stinkeroos won't 
buy much now, but they bought more 
than heaven can hold. 

Makes you want to shake your head, 
doesn't it? Man, I can understand some 
things a little but I can't dig this one at 
all. Why? Yes, why, why, why would a 
guy like Judas go so f a r off the deep 
end? How could he do it? 

Well, we might try to excuse him by 
saying t h a t he was crazy. But Sacred 
Scripture doesn't even give us one hint 
t h a t he was teetering on his totter. We 
might try to excuse him by saying t h a t 
he never realized what he was doing. 
But there again, Sacred Scripture doesn't 
say that. 

Remember Christ was no rank stranger 
to Judas. Judas had walked and talked 
and associated with Christ for three 
years. He was there when Christ had 
given sight to the blind, hearing to the 
deaf and speech to the mute. He was 
there when Christ had cleansed the leper, 
gave strength to the lame and forgave 
sins. He was there when Christ walked 
on the water, multiplied the loaves and 
the fishes, and brought calm to a raging 
sea. Yep, and he was there when Christ 
took bread, j u s t plain unleavened bread 
in His hands and changed it into His own 
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flesh and blood. And it was t h e man 
Judas that received the first sacrilegious 
Communion. Oh, indeed, h e knew Christ 
all right. So many times He had seen 
Christ's powerful, clear and kind eyes 
flash against the sunlight. So many times 
he had heard t h a t beautiful and eternal 
voice pour out over the crowds. So many 
times he had seen the elegant lines of 
this tall, lean Christ silhouetted against 
the evening sky as He knelt in prayer 
to His Father. With all this in his mind 
Judas still did what he did. 

There's just one conclusion t h a t we 
can come t o : Judas did what he did for 
money, nothing more. It wasn't f o r a 
fortune, just thirty pieces of silver, 
twenty-five bucks. The worm of the world 
had dug so deep into Judas t h a t it had 
chewed up his very insides. He was only 
a shell of a man. He had no ideals or 
sense of love or loyalty left. He had just 
one god and it wasn't Christ, it was 
money. 

It makes you feel a little sick inside, 
doesn't it, kids? I t sounds like a bad, 
impossible dream. You feel like saying, 
"Let's talk about something else." But 
do you know what? That very worm 
called money t h a t chewed Judas up may 
be chewing on you now. Maybe he hasn't 
gotten down to your toes yet, but he may 
have set up housekeeping in your heart. 
Think about it! Have you ever felt t h a t 
worm wiggle in the world of your wishes 
and fond hopes? 

No age and no people in history have 
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ever had so much of the world's goods. 
Poverty is rare and hunger is exceptional 
in this country. You are the richest teen-
agers that ever lived. You wear better 
clothes, eat better food, live in better 
homes and have more money to spend 
than any teenager in history. 

I know you hate to hear these stuffy 
old adults say, "Well, in my day we never 
had it so easy." But listen, gang, f o r one 
time a t least, I must agree with them. 
They just plain didn't have as much as 
you have. You don't have to go very 
many years back to prove it. The old 
clunker clicking off these lines is j u s t 
t h i r t y years old and he remembers them 
only too well. Some of you were already 
born when these conditions existed. Most 
adults remember well the 5c hamburger, 
and it had all the trimmings, too. You 
could buy a good pair of all leather shoes 
f o r j u s t $1.99. You could get into the 
neighborhood movie for 10c and 15c for 
adults. You could get a haircut f o r 15c. 
You could buy a brand new Ford or 
Chevy in 1941 f o r $800 and things were 
beginning to get prosperous, then. And 
here are a few more prices: eggs, 12c a 
dozen; bread, 10c a loaf; milk, 7c a quart. 

Now please don't shed any tears for 
me, but this old guy delivered groceries 
on a bicycle every day for $1.50 a week, 
that's right, a week. Besides, he was only 
twelve years old. Oh, you don't believe 
things were like this, huh ? Go home and 
ask Mom or Dad. They know it's correct. 
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Some of your f a t h e r s worked for just a 
dollar a day in the depression and sup-
ported a family on it, too. 

I suppose that's the very reason so 
many parents of today give their little 
offspring so much. They didn't have any-
thing .when they were kids and they 
want their kids to have the things they 
couldn't afford. 

Of course, all of this can have a re-
verse effect on youth. It can easily cause 
him to have a mixed up notion about 
money. This can produce two effects: 
the kids that think that money means 
happiness and the more you have the 
happier you a r e ; and the kids t h a t think 
money grows on trees and you don't 
need to work for it. 

Well, if money makes you happy, then 
why aren't all t h e rich people in the 
world happy? It didn't make Judas hap-
py, why should it make anyone happy? 
That doesn't mean all rich people aren't 
happy, but they are not happy because 
of their money, but in spite of it. Even 
if a rich man tried to prove t h a t it did 
make him happy, he would still have to 
admit that it is a great risk to his soul. 
J u s t remember that Christ said it was as 
hard for a rich man to get to heaven as 
for a camel to pass through the eye of a 
needle. Now you know that's going to be 
a tough squeeze f o r the camel and it's 
going to be a rough squeeze f o r ole gold-
pants, the rich man. Of course, we can't 
live without money, we need it, but we 
shouldn't live f o r it. 

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No, and as I said before, money doesn't 
grow on trees or any place else for that 
matter. Don't think of your poor old Pop 
and Mom as a cash register, push a 
button and out flies the cash box. Maybe 
it's easy come and easy go f o r you, but 
they may have their blood in those 
bucks. If you don't appreciate money 
now and be careful with it, you may 
never learn. I'm not telling you to be a 
thick-skinned tight-wad, never be that, 
but don't be so generous with other peo-
ple's money, especially your parents. 

A couple of times already, I have beat 
my drums about the teenager's attitude 
toward work. J u s t let me play t h a t tune 
once more and this will be the last time. 
The reason I want to mention it h e r e is 
because of the close association between 
money and work, or at least there should 
be such an association. You should hold 
tight to the fact t h a t work is the or-
dinary way people get money. Some get 
it other ways and some are in the pokie 
for the way they tried to get it. You 
might be left a fortune by someone, but 
those are the things t h a t hit newspapers 
and they wouldn't hit if they weren't ex-
ceptional. Work is the usual way of get-
ting your wages, and ninety-five percent 
of mankind must figure on traveling that 
way. 

The result of having too much money 
in your teen years could explode this 
whole idea. When money comes as easy 
as it does f o r many teenagers, they can 
get the idea t h a t it is always going to 
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be t h a t way. You may have a racket now, 
but you won't always have a racket. If 
you think you will, you will be like so 
many people today t h a t think life is like 
an easy buck. They think they will hit it 
rich some day. They keep looking f o r t h e 
oil well in their backyards, they never 
get over t h e idea that they haven't hit 
it because their luck is bad. Their luck 
is bad because they never did anything 
to improve it. They flit from job to job. 
They never settle down. They dream 
"great dreams" but when they wake up, 
they find dreams aren't bucks. Bucks 
mean work and work they won't do. Most 
people get things in life by just plugging 
away, not j u s t f o r a day or week or 
month, but for life. That's the way you 
will get it, so figure on working f o r it. 

Well, there you have it, money and 
work. One you want and seldom g e t ; the 
other you never want and always get. 
That's life and we can't change it. I t is as 
old as Adam and Eve. It happened the 
day the Lord tossed them out of para-
dise. One of t h e punishments was t h a t 
they would have to work by the sweat 
of their brows. And they did. So will we. 
But you know, I suppose it's a good thing 
a f t e r all, because it helps us to have a 
proper view about money and without 
the proper view, we might cash all our 
chips in a t the window marked "HELL." 

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Ot/te* l^eaeUn'd £o* 
TEENAGER'S FAVORITE MOTHER 
TEENAGER'S FAVORITE F A T H E R 

By Sister Theresita, S.S.J. 
The views expressed by youth in 

these booklets hardly indicated delin-
quency, but r a t h e r t h a t t h e y have high 
ideals. By pointing out the qualities they 
look f o r in their parents, they prove 
t h a t 'good example is the best teacher.' 
These ideals point t h e way to good 
Christian living, and if put into practice 
would bring about good family relation-
ships. 
No. 179 & 182 respectively 10c 

Also by Sister Theresita: 
TEENAGER'S FAVORITE TEACHER 

No one will deny t h a t honest criticism 
leads to progress. These views expressed 
by youth will no doubt be an aid to 
many a teacher and we are sure the 
teachers will be g r a t e f u l f o r it. 
No. 295 15c 

THE H A P P I E S T FELLOW ALIVE 
Pleasure won't make you happy, but 

loving God and keeping His command-
ments will. This booklet shows you why. 
It proves t h a t committing sin makes 
you unhappy; and t h a t t h e boy who 
loves God with all his h e a r t will get 
the most out of living. He'll be t h e 
happiest fellow alive! 
No. 141 10c 
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THE CALL OF THE MISSIONS 
The answers to many questions about 

missionaries and mission work are han-
dled in this little booklet. The story of 
modern means to preach Christ's reli-
gion and to save immortal souls. 
No. 158 10c 

SEX IS SACRED 
With h o r r i f y i n g perversions daily 

capturing the headlines of the paper, 
we f o r g e t t h a t all t h e same, sex was 
created bv God and f o r all t h a t — 
SACRED. 
No. 154 10c 

TEEN-AGE DATING 
A booklet written especially f o r teen-

agers with tips about dating, entertain-
ment. Told in a teen-ager's language 
in a practical, straight-forward manner. 
No. 153 10c 

THIS THING CALLED LOVE 
Practical advice on t h e numerous 

problems of love, courtship, and life to-
gether. 
No. 298 15c 

LOVE IS EVERYTHING 
Some interesting items included in 

this booklet a r e : 
• The philosophy of love 

• Your lifes work is to love 
• Sex—Love—and t h e difference 

• Can I be sure t h a t I ' m in love 
• Instruction before m a r r i a g e 

No. 299 15c 
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THE W I F E DESIRED 
No book on marriage has ever been 

so highly praised by the reviewers. Over 
200,000 copies have already been sold. 
No. 500 Paperbound 65c 
No. 500B Cloth Deluxe $2.75 
No. 500C Hardbound $1.00 

MAN FOR HER 
The Man f o r Her completes the per-

fect pair. I t already has achieved the 
wide popularity accorded its companion, 
The Wife Desired. 
No. 511 Paperbound 85c 
No. 512 Clothbound $3.00 

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Other Readin's 

For Teens . . 

• 179 - Teenager's Favorite Mother 10c 

• 182 - Teenager's Favorite Father 10c 

• 295 - Teenager's Favorite Teacher 15c 

• 115 - Purity and Power 10c 

• 113 - M o d e s t y 10c 

• 141 - Happiest Fellow Alive 10c 

• 158 - Call of the Missions 10c 

• 154 - Sex Is Sacred 10c 

• 112 - Speaking of Purity 10c 

• 153 - Teenage Dating 10c 

• 299 - Love Is Everything 15c 

• 298 - This Thing Called Love 15c 

• 500 - The W i f e Desired 65c 

• 511 - The M a n for H e r 85c 

O r d e r From 

Divine Word Publications 
TecAny, Illinois