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As such, I am charged with the constitutional duty, which I am resolved to carry out, of serving the interests of the members of solely groups of our people and doing justice to every man. It is in this spirit that I now come onward you. For in administering the affairs of this nation, you and I share the common responsibility of providing the leadership, the direction and the service that a democratic government owes to the people.You and I must fork over for their enjoyment of those basic requisites for decent living and of those adequate opportunities for the attainment of natural prosperity and spiritual fulfillment. Only thus exit they be up to(p) to stand in dignity and granting immunity in the community of nations. We move our joint responsibilities at a time when the Nation is faced with umpteen serious problems. The eyes of the world are focused on us, zealous to see how this new Government will face the difficulties confronting it.Our performance will be judged n ot still by our own people further also by the other nations of the world, not only by the designate but also by posterity. Because of the impelling and serious problems facing the bucolic today, I should like to depart from the traditional practice of my illustrious predecessors of delivering an blanket(prenominal) State of the Nation message. I shall not burden you now with all the details usually embodied in such a message, special(a)ly those related to the customary and routinary activities of the government.While it is recognized that such functions deserve equal and priggish attention, I believe it would be more in keeping with the exigencies of the flash to submit, at the proper time and in the hour of need, such special messages to relation on these matters as may be warranted by circumstances. In the interest of priority of purpose, therefore, I beg leave to submit for the reflection of this Congress only the most paramount problems of the Nation which, in my cons idered opinion, occupy immediate and preferential attention. STATEMENT OF OUR MISSIONIn my inaugural address, I set fore the goals of our Administration in the coming years, as follows 1. The solution of the problem of decomposition 2. The attainment of self-sufficiency in the staple food of our people, namely, rice and gamboge 3. The creation of conditions that will provide more income to our peopleincome for those who have no(prenominal) and more income for those whose earnings are inadequate for their elemental needs 4. The giving medication of practices that will arm the moral fiber of our nation and reintroduce those value that would invigorate our democracy and 5.The launching of a bold but well-formulated socio- sparing class that shall place the country on the road to prosperity for all our people. This five-fold missionary station may be carried out by resolving two major problems, namelythe need for moral regeneration and the problem of economic bring onth. nat ion on Trial In the accomplishment of our mission, we have chosen the freedom of democracy as the context for the solution of our problems. Democracy is truly on trial along with us in our social and economic travails.By our success or failure in leading the Nation from the abyss of pauperism to the plateau of abundance, not only ourselves but also our way of vitality will be judged. If we falter, we shall fail democracy as well as our people and thus bolster communisms boast that it is a superior political system. But if we succeed in laying a dynamic and permanent base for justice and prosperity in this country, we shall apologise not only ourselves but democracy itself. Therefore, I first entice your attention to the decadent state of our public morality.Our efforts to achieve the goal of economic and social fulfillment will be more effective and the results we grasp more permanent only if we can suffuse them with a permeant moral regeneration. At my inauguration, I stated that I would seek to strengthen the nations moral fiber through formal modes of reform, enforcement of the honors and the run of the tremendous persuasive power of the Presidency in setting the person-to-person example of honesty, uprightness and simple living.The enforcement of the law is solely the responsibility of the executive Department, but I invite all to join the Executive in wielding the potent power of moral example, and I particularly urge the Congress to assist in conceiving those reforms that will contribute to a moral conversion of our people. Let me, however, add that it is wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they grow up that their elders are neither moral nor virtuous.We -must, therefore, see to it that the practices allowed by law in government and business, in the professions and labor unions, in field and millin every area of national endeavorconform as much as possible with the moral and the ethical. Such pr actices can be sustained and upheld only if we can at the same time shape a sthrong public opinion that will actively approve them and watchfully condemn the contrary. In our actions, we should not be guided only by what is legal. We must go beyond legality into the demands of morality. Our acts must not only be legal but must be moral as well.