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Page Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 22, 1952 COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator Old churches weave a spell about us, don t they? Consider a church building a hundred years old: grandfather and grandmother went there Sunday ofter Sunday; even great-grandfather. In that building songs of praise and faith and hope have been heard; and words of life and thanksgiving from the pulpit, and fervent peti tions to the Most High from the ministers and from the Godly spir its in the pews. In and near Charleston are many old churches, sanctified by faith. But when you come to an old church in the coun try. a building standing alone, like a sentinel on his lonely outpost, cne's mind pictures the procession of those who heard the Word of Life as the ministers rightly divid ed the word of truth. And those once stalwart figures rest in the shade of the trees awaiting the final ressurection and' translation to the mansions in the Father’s house, each with an house not made with hands, enternal in the heavens. I’m thinking of three old country churches: one is Crooked Run Bap tist church, over inFairfield coun ty, eighteen miles north of Colum bia. The building dates •from 1826 on the present site and is hand somely remodeled in stone. It stands alone, in deep hush and sol emnity, while bodies once young and vigorous, fervent spirits, rest and abide in the Lord. In Sumter county, off the road between Statesburg and pinewood, stands St. Marks, a stately ' build ing and a lasting monument to the generous men and women who made this fine contribution to “the way, the truth and the life.’’ In dignified and imposing splendor stands St. Marks in the sand hills, with the pines and blackjacks bow ing to it in the breeze. Walking through the 'graveyards of these old churches one catches the spirit which prompted Thomas Gray to write his beloved "Elegy Written in a Country Chufchyard” of England. I went to that old churchward I which so deeply moved the poet. | It is the yard of the old church at Stoke Poges, England. Some of us rode from London and wandered among the “rugged elpis, that yew- trees shade, where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap’’ . . . . | there where “the rude forefathers ; of the hamlet sleep each in his nar-1 row’ cell for ever JaicL” • We tried, each of us, to recall the; sweet verses of “The Elegy.’’ We walked from old grave to grave, 1 sometimes repeating as w T e read in | script ions: “or them no more the blazing hearth shall burn; Or busy housewife ply her eve-! ning care; No children run to lisp their sire’s return, Or climp his kees the envied kiss j to share.’’ We need the reminder of the verse: “The boast of heraldry’, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, Await alike th’ inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.’’ That seems the way of the world, | doesn't it? And it is the end of the; conceit and presumption of mere [ personal. striving. However, all re member this verse: “Perhaps in this. neglected spoi ls^ laid Some heart once pregnant with ce-’ lestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway’d", Or walked to ecstasy the . living lyre.” Who knows how great one might become if moving on the stage where great- deeds must be done. After all, we are all just men, whether with fanfare and trum- pets, or w’lth just the sigh of an un- glamorous round of routine cares. —The quiet Tisure ib-lonely work, unhearlded, unsung, remembers this verse: “Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the Jo.-ert air.” All of South's Senators But One Backing Russell Washington, May 20. — Senator Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina pointed out to newsmen today that every Southern senator except one is backing Senator Richard Russell of Georgia for President. The one exception is Senator Es tes Kefauver of Tennessee who is running for the presidency himself, Hoey said. The latest recruits for the Rus sell army are Alabama's Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman who have previously been counted in the opposite camp by some sup- not tell this to the world; and it also has told that we have few trained units to draw from. We virtually tell the Russians and Chinese that we are at their mercy. Either this inconceivable blunder ing is true, as they have told Cort- gress; or it is another scare and hullabaloo to force Congress to ap propriate more money. This is not a matter of politics, but a matter life and death for our men. Billions and billions and hundreds of billions and General Collins says we are rationing am munition to our troops in Korea! porters of Kefauver. Hoey said he thinks me announcement by Hill and Sparkman struck a heavy blow at the Kefauver forces who had claimed that in Alabama they were driving a crack into Russell’s claim for an almost-solid South. Kefauver still is fighting to take several delegates in Alabama and Florida preferential primary as several more in Florida’s May 27 primary although he lost in the Russell piled up a 71,000-vote lead. Senator Hoey observed today that Kefauver claimed a “moral victory” out of his Florida defeat. “A few more victories like that,’’ said Hoey, “and Kefauver will be eliminated.” DR. L. B. MARION NATUROPATH Res. Phone 939 500 South Broad St. For Athlete's Foot Use T-4-L for 3 to 5 days. If not pleased, your 40c back. Watch the old, tainted skin slouch off to be re placed by healthy skin. Get instant- drying T-4-L from any drunrlst. Now at McGee’s Drug Store. 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GREENVILLE, S. C. whose daily trials and sacrifice even *he most devoted child can not understand—she finds comfort in .these lines, for they faithfully portray her ceaseless rounds: “Far from the madding’crowd’s ig noble strife Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; I Along the cool, sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.” I’m sorry to leave the poets, but we must come back eo earth. We > read in the papers every day that; this company and that company I and a thousand other companies are borrowing money, or holding back their profits, so that they may rebuild, renew their machinery and buy better and more powerful ma- ichineiy. I sometimes marvel at the faith of the companies which constantly spend more money in order to provide good service. If an advertisement were pub- ; lished here tomorrow like this: | “Help build the community. In vest your money with us. No in terest, no profits and, perhaps no repayment, but a glorious opport- tunity.” How many widows and estates, how many men and worn- j en woulld draw their money from; the banks to make such an invest- ment? Unless a business earns a .profit no one wants to invest in it. How would you like to operate a farm with no profit? My idea is this: years ago I attended a meet ing in Columbia and heard one or two men speak in deep disgust against what they called the profit motive. I offered to join in their song if they themselves would agree to work without pay. They were both men on salary. If ev erybody would work without pay we might talk against making a profit. A farmer works and sweats and worries and pours into the op eration all that he has, and can boijow, just for the hope of a prof it. He doesn’t mean to use land, fertilizer seed and labor merely to swap dollars, does he? He hopes to make a profit. And if I need a thousand dollars I gladly pay a fair rate of interest, don’t you? Labor needs wages ... that is a profit on work; money draws in terest or dividends, and that’s a profit on the work of money. But nobody can get work done, or use money, unless he, or someone else, has saved enough money ito buy the land, or the machinery or the equipment. All came out of some one’s savings, someone’s unspent profit. So the banks wouldn’t have steady balances to lend us if someone had not put his money in the bank. Much of the money in the tank is today, or was, some body’s profit that he didn’t spend. If we had no profit we should have to be under obligations to the Government. Where would it get the money? From profits growing out of operations, or tax payments by us. Would you like to have Govern ment ownership? Well, did you read in the papers^that our Gov ernment is short of ammunition in Korea? I am astonished at tjhe stupidity of our Government. 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