The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 30, 1950, Image 4
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
(Written For Last Week)
America may be saved by de
feat in Korea. It may sound
like a contradiction and it
wounds our pride. Now shall we
lose tens of thousands of fresh
young lives in an undertaking
that today our pride dictates,
rather than our Judgement? I
know how you feel; all that is
American within me calls for
such a campaign as will vindi
cate our National attitude and
suitably honor the brave men
who have died, or been injured,
in our Nation’s service. Our
emotions are at flood tide: our
national dignity has been sorely
affronted by a nation which had
no quarrel with America; by a
nation America has always de
fended; until the nefarious trades
which not only virtually set at
naught China’s rights, but re
pudiated all the course of Ameri
can diplomacy for a hundred
years. Everything that is with
in us calls loudly and persistent
ly for vengeance. Tha is very
human.
You may wonder why we went
into Korea. You and I have
no information except that which
is given' to us—frequently half-
baked and half-concealed. But
if America went into Korea to
check Communism, did America
know what the Communists of
other countries would do? Did
she . even know what her so-
called Anti-Communist friends
would do? Apparently not; I am
being wise after the event, it
is true, but the leaders with
f ' , ''ili ties for knowing what is
what seem to have known as
little a» the rest of us.
Since our leaders don’t know
what they are doing this is a
good time for us amateur stra
tegists to point the way.
We have refused to enlist Jap
anese and we would not accept
Cbiang’s army of 350,000 Chinese.
And we reasoned that we should
not use the great bombs we have
for fear of provoking reprisals.
But what reprisals? The Chinese
poured over Into Korea and kill
ed our men without a declaration
of war and without cause for
war.
Then our Government tells the
press that we have no more
men to send to Korea. In cold
words, our men must fight and
die, while we do nothing more
for them!
Now if you were Commander
of the Chinese forces what would
you do? Would you cease firing?
Of course not; they know, every
body knows that our men 4 n
Korea have been overwhelmed by
masses of Chinese. Americans
could kill as may Chinese to
day as there are Americans in
Korea. And tomorrow there
would be Just as many more.
Frankly, Americans can wear
themselves out killing Chinese
without making any permanent
gain.
Of course we could send
Chlang in and support him, but
the lilly-fingered spoon and fork
specialists ’ of our diplomacy
can’t see straight. Unfortunate
ly we are still politicians first
and • patriots afterwards. . Those
boys who have dedicated, their
lives are not Democrats or Re
publicans; they lived and fought
and died as Americans; they
gave their last full measure of
devotion to our Country, to each
of us.
Now we may ask: Why must
America get under the load in
Asia and Europe? Aren’t we a
lot of starry-eyed visionaries
travelling in the desert and un
able to distinguish between an
oasis and a mirage?
Did you ever see a mirage?
Some of us have been led on
step-by-step by mirages in busi
ness, mirages in friendship, mir
ages in farming—and all that:
but have you seen a. real mirage?
I saw one in the desert of Cali-
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fornia. I think it was. We had
ridden for hours and hour^ and
ab9Ut a mile or so ahead we
saw the rippling waters of a
stream. All about, the desert
was flanked by mountains. Great
expanses of sandy, level plain
were just everywhere, too. So
we drove on toward the river.
Mile after mile we drove toward
the river. But there was not
any river. We drove for miles
and crossed what had looked
like sparkling currents of water.
We were told that many early
explorers committed suicide
there. They had travelled for
days in search of water and
when they saw the swift current
in the distance fresh hope surged
up in exhausted men. Then
when they saw that all their hope
was based on a mirage of the
desert they died in desperation.
That w r ord “desperation” means
vithout hope.
American diplomacy seems to
be following mirages; we are
chasing will-o-the-wisps all over
the world; and our Congressmen
are supporting this folly for rea
sons of political policy and loyal
ty!!
Christmas is Just ahead of
us. What is Christmas? Going
about the retail section of any
American town one might think
that Christmas is a wild orgy
of useless spending. Certainly it
has become badly commercializ
ed. But even in the strife and
push of the streets; in the crush
in the stores, one may find an
attitude growing out of a quiet
planning at home to get some
token of love or esteem for the
members of the family or our
closest friends. Even the mass
of cards means a thought of
some one. I know a man who
sends me a card every year. He
was a cadet at The Citadel,
though not a member of any of
my classes. But The Citadel is
the bond, I think. And the card
is a kindly thought.
I need not offer suggestions to
the ladies. Being a mere man,
I recognize the chief claim of
the Women and children to the
ecstasy of the season. Joseph
was quite a secondary figure, at
the manger in Bethlehem, and
the world hardly remembers or
regards him any more than it
honors the bridegroom at a
wedding. Someone may recaU
that he was there; perhaps the
City editor added a line to the
news story after finding that the
reporter overlooked the mere
man in the glory of the bride’s
outfit. But the world holds in
deep respect the Mother, Mary,
one whom God had chosen above
all other women; and all ages
have proclaimed that Baby of
Bethlehem as the Son of God,
Immanuel, the Prince of Peace,
the Lamb of God that takes the
sin , of the world. So, in the
hightest sense, Christmas cele
brates both a sweet and gentle
mother and the glory of a great
love, for God so loved the world
that he sent His only son that
whosoever believeth. might have
eternal-life. ' , r
Men meet day by day;', or may
be associated in mills, shops, of
fices, banks or on the farms or,
perhaps, on distant fields of
work. We know very little about
those we meet everyday. Does
that man go home to Joy the
gladness? Or does illness or
sorrow becloud his home life?
Of course those things may soft
en him and make him gentle
and understanding. But men
think of Christmas and let their
thoughts bring up John and Bill
and Sam and Jerry and Jack and
Paul and Bob and Archie—and
we think of some special qualit
ies of those friends. A man
doesn’t expect Christmas gifts,
whether trinkets or articles of
value; a letter, even a card, may
raise his spirits and cause him
to rejoice in the comradeship
with some chum.
In many homes baskets and
gifts are being prepared for
needy friends or neighbors; or
something will be sent to the
sick.
This tide of good fellowship
that flows so broadly at this
season, how uplifting it is! We
seem to float along on the air,
in a geniality and joyfulness sur
passing the ordinary days. And
there is .something beyond all
routine; it commemorates the
coming of the Son of God and the
new hope for all mankind.
In the spacious days of the
Prince of Wales he went all
over the world to be the symbol
of the British Crown. With great
fanfare and trumpets, in mighty
ships of war, he travelled, and
he was acclaimed by millions in
all lands. The Son of God
came to His own and His own
received him not. But today, in
all Christian lands, among Christ
ians even in heathen lands, there
is an air of expectancy: therei
came One, the Lamb of God, who
taketh away the sin of the world.
Kings and Emperors have come
and gone; mighty civilizations
have rocked and cracked, totter
ed and fallen, but the words of
Napoleon are true. I used to
visit the tomb of Napoleon and
look on the great black sarcop
hagus which holds his remqjns.
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Coming to Hie Wells
IT’S HOME
in that little chapel with the
light coming through the blue
glass, amid the flags and bat
tle standards testifying to his
brilliancy in battle. I frequently
thought of his remark, as I recall
It: “Alexander, Charlemagne and
myself founded great empires.
They rested on might and they
fell. Jesus \)f Nazareth founded
an empire on love and each
rising of the sun finds that em
pire expanding and increasing.
I tell you he was not a man: he
was God.’’ And so in effect said
the mighty little Corsican who
built an empire and placed
crowns on the heads of his fam
ily.
This is a good time to examine
our religion, as well as our Na
tional policy. The glory of this
great occasion is not only the
joyous spirit, the upsurge with
in us of abounding good fellow
ship, but it might be enormously
Increased if we could say in the
language of Andrew to his bro
ther, Simon Peter, We have
found the Messiah!
Strangely enough,' the Scriptur
es teach us so plainly that out
puny might is as nothing if we
rely upon It; If we exalt our
selves and our meana; If we
boast of our strength. How clear
ly come the words which have
sounded through the ages but
have not been heard: ‘"Not by
might nor by power, but by my
spirit, salth the Lord of hosts’*
Zechuriah 4:6
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