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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949 / 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Arm field Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1,513 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. CG: IMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR We are hearing more and more about the schemes of the Communists to control our Government. It does seem fan tastic, gven ridiculous, that any American, or anyone else who lives here, would prefer the Communist plan to ours. It makes you wonder. What can be at the bottom of this? We have several kinds of Com munists in our country. Some have come here from other countries as Communist agita tors. Now whom do they re present? What organization in the world is able to send Com munist missionaries abroad on a large scale? Need I answer? And why should they send these people abroad? Do we send people to all lands mere ly to teach the benefits of our kind of govrnment? We do not. The Communists have the advantage of a fiery mission ary zeal; we sit back, well fed, and content to let the world go by. That might be all right if the world would go by and let me alone; let me dream and luxuriate in the blessings of liberty and plenty. The world however, does not let one alone; the great tide of human affairs sweep us on like the undertow of the billows at the beach. We can’t sit still. There are communists who have never been anything at all but idlers, living at their fathers’ expense, or some one else’s. They have the super ficial idea that everything is bad; everybody is corrupt; and the world is going .to the dogs. They read and discuss the bad acts of some highly placed peo ple and they sit in judgment over the whole nation, or the whole world, in smug superior ity. They dream of a new heaven and a new earth, that will support them in prosperity, position and plenty, but they do not know the stuff dreams are made of.. All this is wrong, they think. Much is wrong, of course: some men have a lot of money, with out rendering much service to humanity; some men. offend our sense of right and wrong in a thousand ways. Even in small towns there are men whose fragrant cigars and expensive liquors whose costly house-furnishings, smack of luxury, but whose real value to society is small. Some men let themselves become envious of the glitter of prosperity. But if that sort of thing be the great desire of one’s life, let him not destroy the idler who reeks with gaudy indulgence; let him, rather, resolve to achieve that for himself. That is not a very wholesome ideal; but better to strive for all' the good things for yourself than to stop the flow of good for tune and easy living at the source, doing infinite harm to all in order to curb a' few. Communism is essentially a campaign against those who have something, the idea being to level off the people; to make us all of the same standard. Wnat standard is that? That must be a lower level. Frank ly I do not want to bring any body down to my level; though he may have millions of dol lars and all the fat of the land, I should prefer to leave the road open. After all, no one lives always; th e Grim Reaper will remove the man of soft living; and then some one else must carry * the world. Who knows but that you or your boy, or yo*r boy’s boy, may some day bestride th e world like a Caesar? Or he may be that great achievement, an honest man, the noblest work of God? But even from the lowest motive, let us keep the roads open. There is another type of Communist: the parlor Com munist; ' the person who merely dabble in this; who lends him self or herself, with the at traction of position, character, and all that, to idle talk, never once thinking deeply about the awful upheaval that Cammun- ism would generate, like the mighty avalanche from the mountains, sweeping down to the plains. The Communists have used words and phrases in their most captivative appeal. They talk about the rights of man, the universal rule of the Com mon man—and the words sing a melody in the heart which is more or less adrift, unguided by a sound mind, an informed mind. Words have power when used by a clever phrase-maker, as great a power for evil as for good. Without being a cynic I think words have more power for evil than good, for there is something within us which makes evil more allur ing than good. Our brethren of the ministry may say that our tendency is but an out cropping of Man’s Original Sin. Paul, the Apostle, you remem ber, said that when he would do good, evil was present. And most of us ’are not Pauls by quite a margin. It has seemed to me that we, on our side, should cultivate the art of using persuasive language, words that will glow and build images in your mind; words that will set you aflame with zeal and lift your spirit into ecstasies. We should stop talking about “Capitalism:” the word “Capitalism” seems to convey the idea of a bloated bondholder, fat and gluttonous, grasping and mean. There are such men, we know, but the owner of a small shop is not a bloated bondholder; nor is the small farmer grasping and mean; both are building for the future under our old plan; and both hope to rest in peaceful retirement some day, enjoying the fruits of their labors. 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In the Scriptures we find not only authority and respect for autocrity, but we find pro gressive positions, from the An gels to the Cherubim and Sera phim, and up to the Supreme Being. Heaven has not been revealed as a Communist re gime. By TeJ Kesting Jason Lucas, noted angling authority, was once one of that rare breed, a professional cou gar hunter. He thinks it is the hardest, most lonesome profes sion in the world. It must be practiced in the wildest, least populated parts of the country. It must be a one man job; there is not enough money in it to be divided between two. What he learned abq,ut the great cat in lonely years on his trail makes interesting reading. They vary mostly in size; the largest are found in the region centering about the high mesa and canyon country of northern Arizona. The female is always much smaller than the male. That men are not equal; are not created equal, is proved conclusively by the Parable of the Talents—the words of Jesus Himself. The great dictum of Thomas Jefferson in the De claration of Independence—that all men are created equal— means that all men are entitled to the protection of the law, with scrupulous regard for the dignity of the individual. Everybody knows that men are as different as the stars—and as Paul says, “One star differ- eth from another star in glory.” In the Parable of the Talents one man was given five talents another two, and the third was given one talent, every man ac cording to his several ability. These are the words of Jesus, the Supreme Authority. God does not give to a man more than he can use, but He ex pects him to use all that he has, and that fruitfully. So we read that the 5-talent man and the 2-talent man were approved for their diligence and thrift, but the do-nothing man, the complainer, was rebuked. The Scriptures don’t teach a common level among men. Haven’t you thought about the great Apostles, Peter and Paul? The Great Jehovah does not make mistakes; nor does He call weaklings to do a giants work. He will train His man to the strength for the gigantic task, but He has to have a man capable of development to colossal stature. If those who talk about a common level would reflect on this; the infinite patience with Peter, and the long-suffering toleration with Saul of Tarsus —why? Because they had Su preme qualities, though in need of training. Communism prates about ‘democracy,” but a democracy through Communism does not mean anarchy millions of men require orderly government. Who is to govern? Communism takes the theory or word and proceeds to make a hard and fast despotism, the rule of the bureaucracy, under the dom inance of a group, or one man. We should be singularly in nocent if we assumed that men who have grasped power, and enjoy it, will not fight to main tain it. Even in America the average man in office wishes to remain in office, unless he finds something more attrac tive. What can be more at tractive than supreme control? Even the best of men try to persuade themselves that they are indispensable, that the wel fare of the nation depends on them. How much more would a man strive to maintain him self entrenched and buttressed in power, beguiling himself with the glamor of position? Few men who have exercised great power have liked to sur render it. So, under Commun ism, the selfish ambition for power, and all the trappings of authority, impel a man to build a position independent of the masses, making his ten ure sure and secure! Do you thinly we want that in the United States? We have begun a New Year. One glides smoothly, imper ceptibly into another. Some enter the new year with high er hopes, greater ambitions, larger expectations: some will mark the passage of time as a milestone on the way to the new life, the more abundant life, the life triumphant, etern al. While we are here we have work to do: life is not a period of musing and dreaming, only; much less is it a time for mop ing. “Life is real; , Life is earnest.” And as the same poet says: “Let us then be up and doing." We might tak e a leaf from the merchant’s book; and take stock. We have some old hab its and prejudices which are looking soiled and shopworn: we may have to close them out: we may open a new book, emphasizing the good qualities of our acquaintances and put ting our best selves forward, displaying in the windows the more gracious and understand ing attitude we mean to fea ture on our personal program. And we might try to under stand ourselves. As a poet tells us “Know, then, thyself . . . The proper study of mankind is man.” Perhaps we can smile often- er and growl less; we can speak more softly and scowl less. We can look at ourselves, our problems, our difficulties, and use our minds more, and our, bad emotions less. But don’t neglect your good emotions; they are the impelling force to do the thousand and one little things that make life peaceful or wretched. Don’t neglect the little things; life is made of little things; they are the leaven of life. FILLS THE NEED OF Spartan is correct dog food for all breeds. Feed this perfectly balanced ration and watch yoitf dogs develop glossy coats, clear skin, bright eyes, eager appetites. Chock full of the proteins, ce reals, vitamins and minerals your dogs need, Spartan is palatable, economi cal, and dependable. Made by one of the South’s largest and best-known manufacturers of food and feeds. There is practically no variation in color. Lucas disagrees with several of the well known theories con cerning the cougar. It has been held that the lion kills his larg er prey—a deer or horse—by leaping upon his back and breaking the neck with his his teeth. Lucas never found evi dence to support this. “I hold that the lion kills an animal of larger size with his long, power ful claws, tearing open the large veins and arteries at the base of the neck. He uses his teeth high on the neck only to help anchor himself in place on a running animal.” A mountain lion’s kill is fre quently mistaken for a wolfs. There is no need for this since a lion invariably leaves the neck torn. A wolf attacks from the rear, trying to cut the ham strings and so bring down his prey. We hear many tales of the lion’s destructiveness, but we should not regard his as at all dangerous to man. A mon grel dog would be more likely to attack you. Even in his last moments, a mountain lion shows nothing but cowardice. A grizzly will charge, brave unto death; a trapped wolf will fight the trap for days. But a lion shot almost anywhere falls and dies; he has no spirit to sustain him.. Caught by one toe in a little fox trap, he will lie there for days wait ing death, when one jerk—the pain of which he cannot face— would liberate him. There was but one animal for which Lucas felt no respect, which he killed without a trace of compunction—and that was the sleek, graceful , mountain lion. He has no redeeming points to offset his bad ones. “As I see him, he has but one use: to give good sport for men and dogs.” Legislature Columbia — South Carolina’s 88th General Assembly con venes here Tuesday with a prodigious program of proposed legislation in tow. Everything from finances to divorce, public schools to wild life, elections to grits enrich ment, is on one of the heaviest prospective, lobby-packed agen das ever to face a Palmetto legislature. Initial organization of the new assembly for its two-year span takes precedence over all other legislative action. It will delay floor action in any legis lation at least a week. Reps. Delmar N. (Tiny) Rivers of Jasper and W. N Clinkscales of Anderson are vying for the pro tempore speakership. Littlejohn will name all House committees. Both House and Senate may be asked to consider a reduction in the number of committees. The proposal is from a legislative reorganization committee. The two principal Senate committee chairmanships re mained unchanged after the Senate caucus. Senators Edgar A. Brown of Barnwell and W. B’.-antley Har vey of Beaufort again were named, as expected in advance to head the powerful Finance and Judiciary Committees, re spectively. Brown also retains his post as Senate president pro tem pore on seniority. In the House, the key Ways and Means Committee chair manship will, in all likelihood, go again to Rep, Charles N. Plowden of Clarendon. Chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, almost as important as that of the Ways and Means, is open. Meets 18th Rep. Lionel K. Legge, of Charleston, a wheelhorse of the Judiciary Committee, apparent ly had the inside track on elec tion to its chairmanship. Aside from hearing the Gov ernor’s recommendations, the first big item of business now in sight for the 170 legislators is receiving the budget com mission’s annual report. This is expected later in the week, and to offer a budget paralleling this year’s $110,000,- 000 spending from state funds. The new assembly has .65 members without any previous legislative experience, and generally is a youthful group. Of the new men, 61—nearly half its 124—are House mem bers. Four senators are green horns. Shaking down th e freshmen legislators will take some time, and temporarily will slow bus iness. Clerk Jim Hunter of the House probably will con duct his usual legislative class es for the greenies. 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