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Thursday, February 22, 1951
COMMENT
ON MEN
AND THINGS
' By The Spectator
We Americans of today are making
a failure of our so-called democracy.
Instead of toeing American citizens,
we are memlbers of groups that are
striving for. advantage, and receiving
advantages, oreferences, over their
fellowmen. So far has this gone that
the President and everyone else
talks of Labor as though Labor were
some special group entitled to fav
ors and all manner of partiality.
What or who is labor? Just some
of our feljow citizens. Can we divide
our country into capital, manage
ment and labor? If so, whe»e do the
rest of us fit in? Millions of us are
not capitalists, not management and
not labor. Many of us are working
men, working as “hard” as anyone
known as a “laborer.” We do not
call our “workingmen” “laborers,”
however. So, if the word labor in
dicates a man who earns his bread
and meat by work of any kind then
most of us are working men and a
part of “labor.” But people mean
Union members when they speak of
labor. So the many millions of us
bookkeepers and clerks and sales
men and garagemen and plow-boys
bn the farm—we are not included in
the benefits demanded for labor.
Our “labor” is not “labor”, so try to
figure that out for yourselves. We
labor but we don’t work; or we work
but we don’t labor, eh?
I wonder why our government
must always be a party to every dis
pute. Instead of this constant clash
of interest, and the strikes, walk
outs—and all that—why shouldn’t
we try to make of ourselves one peo
ple, a united people, a people with
the same general interest? Of all the
campaigns that we need in America
this is the one that cries aloud, it
seems to me. And, as Tennyson says,
“And with no language but a cry”!
We have idlers here, too, young
fellows whose fathers worked and
saved; but we have almost nobody
idle because his great-grandfather
owned land or money. In America
the wealth of most men becomes so
widely distributed in two or three
generations that no one can live in
idleness on it. Among the richest men
of America were John D. Rockefeller
and Henry Ford. Each had a son, a
worthy citizen; and each son had
sons who now work. And either work
creates jobs and helps others who
want to work.
By the way, did John D. Rockefel
ler the first inherit his millions? Did
Henry Ford inherit his millions Hen
ry Ford, a mechanic, trying and fail
ing, but trying again and again be
came the American example of what
an American could do. And that was
all done within fifty years!
I read this week that a young man
of the British aristocracy resented
the visit to his club of a member of
the Labor Cabinet which governs
Britain. This member of the cabinet
was the guest of a member of the
club. Our high and mighty young
aristocrat followed the cabinet mem
ber out of the club and kicked him.
Could you imagine that in this coun
try? Still, many people here whose
fathers or grandfathers came from
Europe have brought with them the
same class-hatreds that grew out of
injustices and oppressions of many
centuries. They have lived here; have
enjoyed the freedom and opportunity
of America, but have fastened on us
the prejudices of Europe.
What are the opportunities in Am
erica? Well, look about you. I know
the heads of some of our largest cor
porations in South Carolina. They
grew up on the farm and started
down the line and worked their way
up. One of those men started as a
water-boy and used his intelligence
with his energy and thrifit and is now
head of twenty big business enter
prises. He is still young and full of
pep, and his lots of energy and ideas.
Another South Carolina man was
reared on the red hills of Fairfield
county. As the years passed he pro
gressed, always mixing his brains
with his energy. He is the head of a
great corporation, and a young man
still. And there is a son of old Edge-
field. He didn't wear a uniform wKh
sash and sword and golden epaulets
as many of Edgefield’s sons wore
with gallantry on many battlefields;
this son of the sand hills of Edge-
field worked his way up until he
reached commanding heights of in
fluence and service and wealth.
I did not cite the many poor boys
of other states who have risen to
distinction from humble beginnings;
we have them, too. I know one from
Iowa who is a fine example of ac
hievement and * heroic character.
There are thousands of men who lit
erally dug a small fortune by “stump
ing” their farms. They are success i
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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stories, just as surely a thoe com
manding figures who move on a
higher plane of worldly accomplish
ment.
I need not confine myself to men
of power, influence, position or
wealth. We have men and women
who come and go at will; who live
well; who enjoy-the smile of fortune
in a small measure ,perhaps, but who
make up that vast, happy majority
who give tone and vitality to Amer
ica, the smiling, happy man who
leaves a joyous family in the morn
ing and goes back with a song in his
heart in the late afternoon, making
melody in his spirit. The family that
enjoys the movies, the baseball
games, football games, that goes out
oh a little picnic in the family car;
that goes to church and Sunday
school; that protoatoly has to count
the nickels and dimes at times, but
looks at the world with happy faces.
That’s America.
You have to live out of America
in order to appreciate it fully. If you
go merely on a trip to another coun
try you will not know it; if you go
as a diplomat you will meet, socially,
the top crust. I have lived among
South Americans as one of them,
living with them, rich and poor; and
in Europe I knew the average man,
and the so-callfcd peasants. And I
know my own great country. With
all her faults, by long odds the
grandest country and the finest peo
ple in the world. I say it with full
appreciation of those splendid peo
ple of othet countries whom I re
member so pleasantly and cherish so
fondly.
I Shall always remember the re
mark of a Scotch lady to me. As I
recall, I was standing by the boat
that was to take a group of us down
Loch Lomond, in the picturesque and
fabled region of Sir Walter Scott and
Wordsworth. A little girl was stand
ing by and I gave her a chocolate bar
and some lemon drops—army stuff,
you know. The little girl’s mother
said “you are an American; you Am
ericans have so much.” So we have.
So it seems strange that this fabu
lous land which is like a lighthouse,
pointing the way to humanity, show
ing the dangerous rocks and shoals.
and indicating the way for a safe
passage, that this great America
should be divided and living in hos
tile groups, instead of happy, compe
titive spirits.
Six-Inch Sermon
By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
GLORY AND SERVICE
Lesson for February 25; Mark 9;
2-4; 14-17; 25-29.
! Memory Selection: Mark 9:7.
The events of the transfiguration
are in the lesson text— the great
concern is to arrive at the meaning
of it. On the mountain, Jesus was
changed into a being of surpassing
glory, ahd Moses and Elijah talked
with him. What did the manifestation
of divine glory mean? Evidently that
God out his approval upon the truth
brought out in the great confession,
and that the Father desired to
strengthen and encourage Jesus for
the path before’ him.
We may also learn that saints of
the long past had risen to glory, for
we read that Moses and Elijah ap
peared with Jesus, talking with him.
As the captain of his lesson indi
cates, ♦here was service joined with
glory. Coming down from the mount,
Jesus wrought a great miracle in the
healing of the boy who had a dumb
spirit. And it is recorded that the
disciples, other than Peter, James
and John, were amazed to behold
him. Perhaps some of the wondrous
glory of the transfiguration still
remained with him.
Jesus told them that such works
as he had done could only be done
by prayer and fasting. Great things
can be done today by those whos
faith is sufficient. Let us strive to
exercise such faith that we can do
mighty things at the present time.
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