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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Jan. 11, 1968 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr.. Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance Six months $1.25. “WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN What is Christmas? Although the day known as Christmas has passed we are •still in the Christmas season; and it may be said that every day is Christmas because the day celebrates the earthly birth of the Lord who lives forever. Why d.d Cod send His son to ,i\ ,■ among tbe people ? lv e tried to imagine the IbVifie purpose and plan, it wa> profoundly significant and meaningful. Cot me tell you of an inci dent. While I was in London, just after the close of the first World W ar ( I happened to be at the railing that mark ed the boundary of Bucking ham Palace, the residence of the King (and now the residence of the Queen). I’ve read that it has bOO rooms. A military guard is always on duty and the change of the guard every morning is quite an interesting sight. Several of us Americans stood by the great fence bord ering on the Palace area and a British officer invited us to attend the ceremony. (Inside). Cuess what it was: King (ieorge bestowed the Crund Order of Merit on the Field Marshall, Lord Haig, (irand Admiral, two leading figures of Britain in active battle service. Along with them the King Knighted an officer, slapping him on the shoulder with the flat of a sword and pronounc ing him a Knight, Sir Knight, you know. But the ceremony was special for his Majesty pinned on a private soldier ( a Tommy you know) the Victoria Cross, Britian’s high est recognition for valor in battle. The Tommy was called to stand before the King. He advanced and his salute seem ed to start from his knee as he stood trombling and scared stiff. Imagine that now, a private soldier standing before the King. 1 wondered how we would stand before Jehovah, we sin ners, before the Creat God, Ruler, Creator of all mankind. I have a theory that may be peculiarly at variance from all accounts I have heard or read It is that Jehovah knew that humble sinner feared Him, the August Creator of all men. The ancients feared God and were mildly like the pagans who feared their gods. And we read Fear God.” Jehovah wished to impress on His people—and mankind— that He wished to be thought of as a father, a loving, soli citous father. Just as the British soldier trembled before his King so the Great God was so infinitely beyond any or all Kings com bined, the common man could not quite grasp the fatherhood and all His care for us. So God sent His Son and He, walking among the people, healing and seeing their prob lems, their infirmities and diseases, He might mingle with tender and understandable care, day by day. In Him the common man could see the at tributes of the Omnipotent God in the humble walks of life and come closer to Him. As I think of it that was the mission of Jesus, and to bring the Father closer, that we might in our weakness com prehend the loving care and tender solicitude of the Father for all of us. That certainly characterized the daily walk of Jesus, the nights by the camp fire with His disciples. When you find trials, tribu lations, accidents, calamities beyond your strength whom do you turn to? Jesus who healed the sick, helped the lame, fed the multitude, wept at the tomb of Lazarus, He brought to each one the power of God in His tender regard for each of us. So, it seems to me, the glory of Christmas was the coming of the Son of God, with the compassion and healing power of His Father. On that, my humble opinion, I think Christmas the greatest occasion in all history, the mingling of the Son of God with us in our daily walk and with our daily problems. What is it worth to have a great industry in your county? Well it gives employment to hundreds of people; it means quickened and increased busi ness for all, from the banks to the automobile workers; it means money, money, money; and that lifts the level of liv ing of hundreds of people. I’ve just noticed that in Lexington county the great S. C. Electric & Gas Company paid $b77,J77.1ft in county taxes. And think what Colleton receives from the great plant at Canadays. I think I am right in say ing that that great company pays about 20 million dollars a year in taxes. That is a tre mendous contribution to our State 1 , though this includes also their Federal taxes. We are fortunate in our great enterprises. I might tell of an interesting occurence —a comparatively small indus try in my county gave a turkey to each employee for Christmas and my cook has three turkeys, all given to her family who work in that olant. A great enterprise like the S. C. Electric & Gas Co., our own South Carolina enterprise, employs about 2000 men and women of our State. This ought to cheer us: “The Boom picks Ip”. That’s a headline in the Wall Street Journal—mark you. “The Boom Picks Fp". Well, let us hope it will pick up more and more. Now let’s take it in: “ The long business expan sion now nearing it.- Xdrd month is picking up speed again. That’s the view of a broad range of economists interview ed by The Wall Street Journal. Many analysts, of course, tem per their forecasts with caution about international uncertain ties. What will happen in Viet Nam. ? Will the British pound he devalued ag-ain? Will other major currencies he devalued . International troubles, most economists agree, ultimately could slow or even halt Am erica's domestic business growth. Nevertheless, recent econo mic rmws is rapidly erasing some doubts that had developed about the lOCX economic out look John Heaver. a vice president and economist for Chase Manhattan Bank, N. Y. provides a typical assessment: ‘It’s become increasingly clear in recent days that some un certain segments of the do mestic economy have shown remarkable improvement. As a result, there seems little doubt that the business trend for 1908 points strongly upward.” You may think the railroads are dead; not so, by any means. What of this now: I don’t remember the year but I believe it was in the early 1920’s. And I don’t re member the place but I believe it was in New Orleans. The man who was speaking was destined to become one of the great generals in the annals of American history. His name was Douglas MacArthur. His words, while not exactly these, expressed the same thought. He spoke, “Either we send one thousand missionaries to Japan today or we will send one mil lion soldiers ten years from now. ” America ignored him. He missed the number of years a litHe and the number of men a little, but what he spoke was destined to become the truth. A lot of people fuss a lot because the Church keeps ask ing for funds to do its work. They gripe and complain. And these people are usually the ones who give the least to any worthwhile thing. To hear them tel! it they are giving a lot to worthwhile causes, but then it turns out that they are the only worthwhile cause they can find. A funny thing about these A train powered by jet en gines, accelerated up to 170.8 miles per hour near Trenton, N. J. yesterday in a brief pas senger service, which may be gin next summer. Officials of United Aircraft Corp., the East Hartford, Conn, aerospace concern that design ed the three-car train, said it was the highest speed ever attained by a train built foi U. S. commercial service. The French ran a train at 206 miles per hour about two years ago. United Aircraft will lease two of the streamlined, air- conditioned trains to the De partment of Transportation foi about $2 million for 2 years. They wdll be operated by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad under a con tract which hasn’t been fully negotiated. Robert A. Nelson, director of the high-speed rail passenger project for the Department of Transportation, says the gov ernment has budgeted about $2.7 million, including the op eration contract, for the 2-year service test. The project’s pur- post' is to try to determine if riders will be lu/ed back to the rails if an hour of travel time is cut from the four hours and 15 minutes it now takes to go from Boston to New York. Yesterday’s run was smooth and quiet. There appeared to be less vibration than in the four-car electric train that the government ran last May 24 at a top speed of 156 m.p.h. in a test over the same improv ed 21.2 mile track section be tween here and Brunswick, New Jersey. Actually, the short trip yes terday took longer- - about 14 minutes, compared with 11 minutes last May. The jet train appeared to take longer to reach higher speeds. Unof- fically, it took about 5 minutes to r aich over 120 miles per hour. ” How’s that for speed? That’s as fast as some tourists on Highway 301 coming South. We are like the the man who spoke of speed saying “Here it comes,” but before he said it he added “I mean there it goes.” We start the New Year full of hope and promise. Let’s go forward with zest and confi dence and resolve that we shall use our powers, our resources to the fullest degree of advan tage alert to all possibilities and using our faculties all the time. people is that they pay their taxes without all the fuss and gripe. Guess they know they have to. But they are always willing to take a cut in taxes just like the rest of us even though we don’t get one very often. Just around election time, if ever. There is a way we can get a tax cut, however. We can get a tax cut by giv ing! “Give and it shall be giv en . . .” He said. He knew what He spoke of. Stinginess means that in the long run we will have to part with much, much more. It is ex pensive to be stingy. Very ex pensive. Much more expensive than to give. Prove it, you say? Is it igures you want? You have heard all this before you say ind you have never seen figures to back it up? You wish one of these fellows would put up or shut up? I guess we will have to put up then because we do not intend to shut up until the world hears us. Here is your proof: The Christian Service Corps, which sends lay Christian work ers abroad for a two-year per iod, says it takes $3000 a year to keep one person in the for eign field. Now on top of that put this figure. It takes just about $6000 a year to keep a trained missionary on the foreign field. And once you leave these agencies and turn it over to the government it gets more expensive. It takes $9000 a year to provide for the Peace Corps member overseas. Three times as much as a Christian Service Corps work and 50 per cent more than a trained missionary. Now if you are wmndering what it costs to keep a soldier in Vietnam for a year you can quit wondering. It takes ap proximately $60,000 to provide .'or him for a period of one year. If you want to figure a little, it figures out to be 20 times more than it takes to provide for a Christian Service Corps worker and ten times more than it takes to keep a trained missionary. It’s cheaper to give, and a whole lot better. Think about it and then act on it. TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Lewis Memorial Methodist church to Hunt Memorial Bap tist church, three lots, $3000. Raymond H. Ruff to P. D. Johnson & Co., Inc. a S. C. corporation, three lots and one building fronting on Caldwell street $5. David (’. We Id rop and Ralph I). Waldrop to I). P. Folk II and Betty M. Folk, three lots and three buildings (Van Cor tez Sanders property) on Fair street $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside Rufus E. 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