MORALE: Credo

"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Such were the opening words of the personal creed that Godfearing, philanthropic John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered the nation last week (along with a donation of $100,000) in opening United Service Organizations' drive for $3,500,000 in New York City.

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

"I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that...

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