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“For the People, Of the People, and By the People”
Justice for Everybody Harms Nobody
Volume 1, Number 17
CHILDREN 
YOU ARE THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
BY ALFRED LAWSON
A Speech Delivered by Alfred Lawson to the Juniors at the Direct Credits Auditorium, Detroit, Mich., and Stenographed by Beatrice Freese, M.G.D.C.S.
UNLESS YOU KNOW THESE THINGS YOU ARE NOT EDUCATED

 Children — looking around among you I see some bald-headed ones.
 But, I will say that while they may be bald on the outside of their heads the proof that they are not bald on the inside of their heads is the fact that they are here at this As­sembly today.
 People who are bald on the inside of their heads never attend Direct Credits Meetings nor read Direct Credits Literature.
 Most of you Children are not old enough to be bald on the inside of your heads. It requires many years of association with the old timers to get that way.
 You don’t begin to get bald on the inside of The Original Benefactor your heads until you start to go to High School and you don’t get entirely bald until you pass through college.
 Children, there are two kinds of machines in this world—one is a mechanical machine and the other is a thinking machine.
 The mechanical machine, like an automobile, man has made, but the thinking machine, like a human being, God has made.
 The automobile that man made is inanimate and won’t run by itself, nor has it the life to build itself up.
 But the thinking machine that God made is animate and has the power to run itself and build itself up.
 Now, these thinking machines start from microscopic seeds and when they are first born they are tiny little things—soft and pliable like so much putty that can be moulded and expanded and solidified by a mind located in the center of a mental system that

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