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\ I J1 \ t A* THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete # Newsy and Reliable ‘ / / . Qlittttan If You Don't Read f THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 13, 1950 Number 28 »> A MEDITATION FOR AMERICANS The Most Deadly and Least Recognized Threat to Democracy Is the False Pride Which Binds Us To Our Shortcomings By THE REV. WARE W. WIMBERLY, Past President Kiwanls Club, Wabash Indiana, in Kiwanis Magazine 4' (4 These are days when Americans don’t always know what to think. But in one particular, let’s set our thinking straight. Our first enemy today is not Russia. Our first ene my is pride. "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” When Solomon said that, he was not just saying something pretty. He was describing a condition. And facts have always supported him. Proud nations fill history’s graveyard; a graveyard that entombs ‘‘the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome,” and that will have ample space for the power that was America. Pride plays no favorites. Indeed, big nations are its special dish. The bigger they are, the harder they fall —and the easier. Our very bigness means our defenses are down; our very strength means we are wide open to attack. And we are big and strong in three ways. First, we are the world’s richest nation—and riches breed pride. Lis ten: "Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” We shrug off that warning. We damn it as im practical. It’s still the truth. Riches breed pride, and pride, death. Certainly, it’s bitter truth. The Galilean’s own followers couldn’t swallow U. They said. "Who then can be saved?” He said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” If rich men and rich nations will keep humble, God wiil see them through. But if they .won’t, their chance of escaping destruction is like that of a camel trying to get through a needle’s eye. Second, we Americans have the world’s highest standard of living. Most people live on the other side of the tracks from us. And so pride subtly suggests, "You live on the right side because you are a sup^ior people.” We take the cue and say, "Yes, it’s too bad about the rest of the world. But our hard work, our drive, our genius, our system of free enterprise—yes, above all, our system of free enterprise—have given us this high standard of living.” Thus are we led to offer praise to a new god—Our System of Free En terprise. We reject the motto on our money, "In God We Trust.” We kneel in homage to a system, and forget Tenneyson’s lines: “Our little systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but bro ken* lights to Thee; and Thou, O Lord, are more than they.” Third, we are the world’s soundest nation politically. We experience oc casional tremors. But comparatively speaking, we are sound. Our three branches of government are in fair balance, and the Constitution stands. Pride whispers to us, and we say, "What’s the matter with everyone? What’s the matter with England, risking her neck on a wild, socialistic whirligig? With France, changing governments with every change of the moon? With Russia, fighting the church and making faces at all her sister nations? With China, where war is normal and peace abnormal? With India, such a general mess that you get the fantods thinking about her?” And so on. And so on, until we arrive spirit ually where a certain man stood and prayed, "God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men . . ., or even as this publican.” The national ver sion of that prayer goes, "God, we thank Thee that we are not as the rest of the nations, or even as Eng land, France, Russia, China, India. - ' When we talk like that, pride has us. It has us so busy gloating over our virtues that we forget our sins: sins that in the meantime are push ing their roots in deep, winding their tentacles out far, and moving pain lessly but fatally through the body of America. Yes, we are rich. We have the world’s highest standard of living. We are the world’s moet politically stable nation. But let’s keep another fact looming large in our minds: We are not yet perfect: we are still sin ners. And we need to pray a pray er that sinners pray. Forestry Services Available For All Farmers In County Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, July 11.—A number of services are available to Laurens county farmers in cultivating and marketing their timber, through the facilities of the State Forestry com mission and the Clemson extension services. State Forester C. H. Flory said this week. District Foresters of the S. C. State commission will aid farmers in choosing the best species of seedling for their land, and in planting the seedlings. Tree seedlings of six spe cies are available from the state for est tree nursery for three dollars per thousand, and may be ordered through the county forest ranger, county vocational agriculture teach er, the county agricultural agent, the soil conservation service, the district forester, or directly with -the State Forestry commission, the forester stated. The woodland management assist ance of the forestry commission and the Clemson extension service is available to all South Carolina land- owners. The county agent, ranger, or district forester will examine wood- | land and make a written report on timber ready for market, planting practices, forest insects, forest dis eases, and other aspects of good woodland management. State forest er personnel are also available for advice on thinning for pulpwood and will mark and measure trees which should be cut for sale. There is a small charge for marking, which in cludes a written report showing the number of trees marked of each size, the total number of board feet in all marked trees, the number of standard cords in the case of pulp- J wood, a list of nearby timber buyers, and a sample timber sale contract. With the exception of tree seedlings i and marking and measuring, all ser vices of the forestry department are free. Further information on forestry services may be obtained from the State Commission of Forestry in Co lumbia. NERVOUS STOMACH ALL!!l!N roller** di*tr**sl»c symptom* of M n*rrotts stomach” — h**vin«s* after meals, belching, bloating and colic do# to gas. ALLIMIN has been scieagfieally t by doctors and found highly .More than a 14 biliioa sold to date. Ask for McGEE’S DRUG STORE Veteran Obtains Relief From Spinal Arthritis “I advise anyone suffering backache or arthritis to consult Dr. Hart,” says Mr. Lester Seymour, 209 Mill Street, Laurens, S. C. “While in the Veterans Hospital, doctors took a lot of X-Ray pictures of my back and said I had Spinal Arth ritis. I was having lots of pain in my back and hips, especially upon arising from a sitting position. My back was so stifl& at times that I could hardly go. “My condition gradual ly grew worse and I had to be off work so much I wondered how I managed to hold my job. I was rest less at night and nervous. Elimination was poor and it waa necessary to take laxatives often. “I consulted Dr. C. J. Hart, of Laurens, S. C., who advised me that he could improve my condi tion. He said he located the cause of my trouble with an instrument he called a Neurocalograph and with X-Ray pictures. “I began to notice improvement shortly after being under Dr. Hart’s care. The pains in my lower back be came less and less, finally going away. The stiffness left me and I have no difficulty getting up and down. I have been able to sleep better and my nervousness improved. I find it no longer necessary to take laxatives. 1 i 1 ■ U. S. Hos 9,700,000 Registered for Draft Washington, July 7.—Selective ser vice officials today gave this picture of the nation's draft eligibles: A total of 9,790.000 men in the 19-to-26 age bracket have been reg istered. Of these. 1,440,000 have been ten tatively classified as 1-A and will be available for immediate induction if they pass physical examniations. In all, 7,838,000 have been classi- lied. The difference between this j figure and the total registered is i made up by unclassified but regis- I tered draft age men. MR. LESTER SEYMOUR Mill St., Laurens “During the past two years I have worked nearly every day with very little trouble. At the least sign of any trouble I return to Dr. Hart for a checkup. As a re sult, I have enjoyed the very best of health during these years. I advise anyone suffering backache or arthritis to consult Dr. Hart.” CUaAUi 254 WEST MAIN ST. — LAURENS, S. C. Next to First Methodist Church — Telephone 22501 Parking Space — Ground Floor — Honrs 9-12 and 3-6 | woiuk wnat N Don't wonder.... DO SOMETHING! Don’t go through life pes tered by worries as to what might happen if certain disas ters came your way. DO SOMETHING about them in advance. There are many kinds of insurance to protect you against losses by fire, wind, theft, accidents, lawsuits and other calamities. Let us take a lot of worries out of your life ... with sen sible insurance coverages. 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