The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 24, 1950, Image 4
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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
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