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1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. 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., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR There are many people in the world, hundreds of them round about us. Some have courage and a brave fighting spirit; others have fortitude, they bear pain and grief and affliction with quiet resignation, yet with a faith that sees the sun behind the clouds; some of us are just weak creatures, of no special virtues nor any special vices, just ordinary folk, sometimes very ordinary. If you don’t expect much of people they measure up fairly well; but if you put pressure on them they frequently dis appoint us. After all “ye’ll find mankind on uncommon squad,” I think Robert Burns said. Just why I said all that I really don’t know: it doesn’t grow out of anything, nor does it lead to anything. Reading th e first pages of most papers one might think that the whole world is engag ed in unbridled wickedness. Well, what about the great re ligious awakening in Columbia? The scoffer says that people go from distant communities be cause of the attraction of a great crowd; other say that cur iosity, mere, common, cheap, curiosity draws many thou sands. That may be true: Idle curiosity drew thousands to see and hear Jesus: many believed; some followed Him; a few transformed the world, with the power of that ministry. Reviv als are not successful if they appeal only to earnest, right eous people. The sick are those who need the physician. No one can estimate correct ly the influence of the powerful and sustained emphasis which has been given to individual salvation during these meetings. Surely that concerns each of us, for each one must face the judgment, standing alone, ex cept as he pleads for the inter cession of the Son of God. We feel very strong in ourselves, but the cemeteries are full of men who once were strong, confident, self-reliant, rejoicing in the strength of their own right arms. Some lived long enough to grow weak and ail ing and dependent on friends and family; many died in the vigor and promise of youth. But, whether old or young, they passed from the world about them and entered the State of being in which their strength is all weakness. I find many items of interest in the papers. I’ve just read something about business fail ures, or bankruptcies. Appar ently there were seventy thou sand business failures in 1949. That does not mean seventy thousand cases in bankruptcy, but seventy thousand who clos ed their doors because they were losing money. That is something new, but is used to be common: and is becoming all too frequent now. It would be tedious to read or listen to all the details, but compared with 1946 consider these percentages of failure today: Furniture and Furish- ing Stores 2,000%; Gasoline fill ing stations 850%; Wholesale Dry Goods 800%; Restaurants and Bars 1,031%; transpprtation Companies 460%; machinery makers 108%. That is the per centage of failures, as compar ed with 1946. All this is very sad, but the Congress of the United States and our Legisla ture should give heed to the trend The plush era is over; we must face the truth. These figures are impressive, but sadder to me are several vacant fetore buildings which I pass several times a week. They tell me of a soldier home from the war who dreamed of a little business of his own. There it stands, in all its desolation— a blasted hope, a dead dream It is as dreary as the stark loneliness of a chimney amid a scene of destruction by fire— a home destroyed. Here where the husband came home to his family and the cheerful fire; in front where the little girl played with her dollies and the little boy dodged behind trees and corners, “shootin-em-up,” as all the little fellows are do ing, everywhere. I think I told you last year about meeting a little boy in the cafeteria of the Grand Can yon. He was a wee lassie, but he had his two guns and drew both on me, and banged away. When I called him Roy Rogers he let me pass. Recently ten cub scouts went out with me to a wiener roast. The little fellows shot up everything and everybody and acted in the tradition of the fighting West they see in the Movies: but as dark came on they wanted their mamas and daddies; and I’m told they slept like nice little boys without a bloodthirsty dream. .The business papers tell us that wool is so expensive that rayon is being used more ex tensively for men’s clothing; and that even rugs are being made of rayon. It will be interesting to know that one man, an immigrant farmer, changed his $10,000 cap ital to $542,000 in eight years. That isn’t a fairy tale: I read it in one of the most sedate fi nancial journals of the world. This farmer owns 4160 acres of wheat land. At one time this (Continued on back page) IT’S EASY TO GIVE HER A CEDAR HOPE CHEST CHOOSE HER LANE NOW! LANE Pay OrtLy m Down Join Any of 3 LANE tldcufaektuedcnJfyf • Prvssur* Tested—Aroma Tight! \ • # Guaranteed Moth Protootionl «' / -r^r• *• . 4 '•’* < *5 ^ Act Now! Lay - A - Way a' LANE Today G. B. Summer & Sons 'i Dollar Ibr Dollar- you carft beat a POWTMAC 9 !• America's Lowest-Priced Straight Eight 2* Lowest-Priced Car Offering GM Hydra-Matic Drive Optional on all modal* at oxtra cofI. 3. The Most Beautiful Thing on Wheels 4. 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