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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
By J. K. BREED1N
Well here vve are in 19118. Did
the New Year come in quietly
and smoothly; or did it enter
with a rou^h, jarring approach?
Where do wr po from here, as
someone asked.
As aeiti/en of this preat,
ramhlinp, confused nation. 1
hope we stay here, firmly and
deeply anchored. I hope we do
not undertake any more foreipn
aids, or foreipn missions, or
meddle with any other nation or
people. Futhermore, I hope we
withdraw our money and our
extra do nothinp hangers - on
m foreign land'..
I at us concentrate on this
nation, right here, conserving
our energy and our money; we
have meddled and piddled en
ough to last for a hundred
years.
I have I teen abroad and know
something of Furope, South
America, Mexico and Cuha.
What is the result? Kven the
British and the Cubans dislike
us; and the French, after eat
ing out of our hands for the
recent quarter of a century,
are now frankly not our friends.
So let us develope our interest
here at home t reating all other
nations courteously and fairly
hut not as orphan.' dependent
on our charity.
Most other nations have exis
ted for many generations and
can survive all the vicissitudes
of today by a little restraint, a
little work and fai less weeping
and wailing.
As to our State, we also seem
keen to spend. It almost seem'
that everyone has pet scheme
to try on the States. Can't we
h-t all the plans of rec nt \ eat
have time to soak in.
A mong the id an.' that uk me
most is the plan to reorganize
the State Senate. Theie ute
lawyer' m both the House and
Senate and 1 marvet that the\
acquie'ce so tamely in plan- to
t li, ft 'senator- a bout. I bd n’t
. iur State ( on-111 ut nui a \ om
(thine: about a Se na t o i tor
each County
Since tie Stati r a sell
governing unit which is a Save;
ee.ll power, moi e ot le s,
M hen n dote, the Federal auth
oiat y find ata t on ft»r i econ
- t; t ut irsg the St at - Senate ?
1 refer you aga i n to the l nit
i d States ( on t it at ion. A mend
meat' 9 and 10
1 f the Fed, ral \ut hurt \ dis
regards tlm-e aim'ndments why
does mil! the Ceneral A-semhly
of our State prepost' to Con
grt'ss that the Congress define
the s
oopo of
the Fed
oral judie-
iary.
as prov
ided cle;
irly in
the
(’onst itut ion.
Sect ion
\\ (2
) of
A rt in
lo III -
which
says text
ually
and explicitly:
Th;
it the (
’engross
may
’■eg-
ulatr
the Supreme
(’oiirt
eX
(•Opt
for SeVt
■ral in si
anres
set
fort h
m the
(’oust itut ion.
So
much
is mia
1 of
t hi*
might of Rim
sin that
some
now
live in dail\ dread of Russia.
If we stop meddling all ov
er the world we shall be a long
way from Russia That would
mean a war of the sea and air
a long way to go.
We, militarily are blundering
egregiously in having our
st rength frittered away in
driblets. If we concentrate our
force here no nation will ven
ture to attack us. But we have
wasted hundreds of planes,
thousands of men and scores
of other items in a useless fo
ray in Asia.
“In the Eastern and Central
states, it was influenza time
again last week. Following
known earlier patterns, the
disease struck first in the
schools. Presumably, it will
now spread to those even more
susceptible—the very young
who haven’t yet acquired sturdy
bodily resistence and those of
the very old who are chronic
ally ill.
The U. S. Public Health Ser
vice last week established by
laboratory test that the dis
ease, one of the most des
tructive of tin' respiratory ill
nesses, is prevalent through
Michigan, in and around North
Miami, Florida, in five Alaba
ma counties, in several New
.lei ' ■>' counties and in a few
localities in New York, Okla
homa. and Alabama.
‘While perhaps a month ear-
hrr than in recent years’, said
PUS Surgeon Ceneral William
Steward, "the occurence of in
fluenza this season is not more
extensive nor more serious than
our experience in past recent
years. ’’
The Surgeon Ceneral’s state
ment may he aimed more at
allaying undue public fears'
about influenza than at being
incisively accurate. A PUS
advisory committee on immuni
zation practices, in fact, earliei
this year found that:
‘The relatively little disease
caused by (Asian) influenza
viruses in the P.Mib-bT season
permitted the general level of
• usceptibilit.y to increase, par
ticularly in the Eastern states
where' ihe last major outbreaks
of cases of Asian influenza can
he expected to occur.’
Wei 1. this i alarming, eh ?
With all our medical and chcm
• cal resources we Maud appall
ed
\\ i , • do \ ou know about the
\a t wealth hidden below the
11T'faee of t he ocean
" I Imi'ton, a unique under
\\ at er w ork chamber now is
i 'll foil to (o the coast <d \\ est
\ f i ca where it will e. tabli -h
ail o 1 field '.'(Ml to (i()() feet be
low the surface 1 of the South
At laid ic.
Prospects arc' glittering and
hopes run high. Yet, this em
erging land of opportunity
fact's not only a host of natural
hazards to its development but
at least two man made threats
as well. The immediate one
comes from the Ended Nat
ions, which, with the' support
of like minded F. S. lawmak
ers, has laici claim to the
oceans ‘in the interest of man
kind.’ More plausible hence
more dangerous-—are proposals
that the F. S. government,
fresh from organized triumphs
in space, seek to duplicate the
feat in the ocean depth.”
"Living policyholders in S. (’
received a record $41,800,00(1
last year in lift* insurance, and
annuity benefits from life com
panies. according to the Insti
tute of Life 1 Insurance.
This was $9,100,000 or 8.0 per
cent more than in 1905.
The 1900 payments in South
('arolina included $4,100,000 in
annunity benefits, $7,000,000 in
matured endowments, $1,900,-
“WHATSOEVER
THINGS”
By DONALD E. WILDMON
000 m disability payments,
$10,200,000 in cash value pay
ments and $12,000,000 in policy
dividends.
Life companies also paid
$50,500,000 last year to famil
ies of South Carolina policy
holders who died. This brought
total 1960 benefit payments in
the state to $92,300,000, which
w r as $2,400,000 or 2.7 per cent
higher than in 1905.
Citadel camp
be expanded
CHARLESTON.—The Citadel
Summer Camp for Boys, which
has been oversubscribed at
practically every session since
its founding in 1957, is this
year expanding to accommodate
more youngsters.
Commencing January 15th,
the camp will accept applica
tions from 11 to 15 year old
boys who desire to attend in
1968. The two four-week ses
sions are scheduled for June 11
to July 7 and July 9 to Aug. 4
This year’s revitalized Sum
mer camp program will be un
der the supervision of a new
camp director, Col. James R
Woods.
Although the Citadel Summei
Camp for Boys stresses Amer
icanism, training based on res
pect for God and country, it is
primarily oriented toward phy
sical activity through sports.
There are regular chapel pro
grams, and campers salute the
flag each afternoon at a col
orful retreat formation.
Campers live in cadet bar
racks which are outfitted with
new furniture this year. Theii
meals are served family scyh
in the cadet dining room and
their counselors are carefully
selected Citadel cadets.
Applications for the camp
will be supplied on request to
The Citadel Summer Camp for
Boys, Charleston, S. C. 29409.
Have you heard the one^about
the good brother who told
about the biggest funeral he
ever attended ? Went something
like this; “Biggest fun’al ever
was round heah,” said Wash.
“It was Mose Crindle’s. All dem
lodges and societies what Mose
belong to was out in full re
gallium. Dey had four choruses
to sing de hymns, and de had
three preachers to preach de
summons. Den dey had a band
and a long parade all de way
to de gravey ard and more flow
ers dan you ever see, piled up
around de grave. Dey put dat
coffin in dem sticks across de
grave—and den dat Mose Crin-
dle did the blamdest thing you
eveh seen at a fun’al.”
“What did he do,” someone
asked. “He des kicked de lid
off dat coffin and set right uf
straight and looked at dt
crowd. ”
“My goodness, did they bury
him?” they asked again. “De
Lawd knows—I don’t!”
And then there is the one
about the old negro preacher
who was standing by the gravt
of a departed brother who had
gayiy traveled forbidden paths.
Sorrowfully gaz'ng into the
yawning abyss, he said, “Fare
well, brudder, we hopes you’ve
gone where we ’spects you
aint.”
Now all this brings us around
to an incident that happened up
in Weston. Vermont. It seems
the Rev. Harold High preach
ed his own funeral. That’s
right, you didn't read it wrong.
He preached his own funeral.
The Rev. Mr. High recorded
the sermon three years before
his death and left in-tnictions
that it he played at his funeral.
It seems a little odd to most
of us that a man would preach
his own funeral, doesn’t it?
At first thought it does. But
the only odd thing about Rev.
High’s funeral was the way it
was done.
You see, when you think a-
bout it for a while you see
nothing odd about a man who
preached his own funeral. We
all do it. Every one of us. Never
has a man died who has not
preached his own funeral.
We preach our funeral every
day that we live. Now the par
son may say a few words as
we lie flat on our hack waiting
to be lowered into the earth,
but he’s not preaching our
funeral. He can’t. Nobody can
do that but us. Every man
preaches his own funeral as
he lives and regardless of what
the preacher says as we wait
to be lowered he cannot change
anything about us.
We thought it rather strange
that Rev. High should preach
his funeral in the manner in
which he did. We would have
liked to heard what he had to
say. But regardless of what he
did say it, was not his funeral
sermon. He had already preach
ed that as he lived.
Have you over wondered ab
out how your funeral will be?
I have. Guess we all have
thought about how many people
will be there (they won’t have
room to seat them all at our
funeral, will they?) Guess we
have thought about how sad the
people will be and we have
probably thought about what
the preacher will say, also.
Doesn’t really matter what he
says because we have already
said it much more eloquently
than he can.
We have said it every day
that we have lived.
Jli
anion
‘T<
ovum
By Marilyn Manien
AN OLD PROBLEM-AND A TIME-TESTED SOLUTION
An ancient spectre still haunts the world.
Despite man’s mastery of science, hunger
today threatens millions of human lives. Some
observers predict an unavoidable and devastat
ing lamine within the next several years, not
only in perennially plagued India, but in other
underdeveloped countries as well. '‘Overpopu
lation plus underproduction" is the unlucky
combination that is said to produce hunger.
What with all of the attention given to reduc
ing the population explosion, one is led to
conclude that the experts have given up on the
problem of production- that their only hope
is to reduce the number of people who must
eat.
But the earth is full of yet untouched natural
resources. C harlcs B. Shuman. President ot the
American I arm Bureau Federation, otlered
this constructive explanation ot the food short
age:
“It vou look around the world to find the
places where people are hungrv, you almost
invariably find that these same countries have
adequate natural resources to produce all the
tood that the people need.
“India, for instance, could produce enough
food to feed all ot its millions of people and
have an exportable surplus it they used the
resources that they have, the land and the water
and the manpower and everything else, in a
wav' which would get the maximum production.
‘This causes vou. then, to try and find out
why they don't get production m a country
that’s rich with soil and mineral and other
resources like India. The only conclusion that
you can come up with is that India has devoted
itself to a system of government management
of agriculture and of an economy that's copied
very much after the Soviet system. This
management reduces incentives that come when
you have free production on the part of
farmers looking for profit on the market.
“I have said that socialism and hunger are
twin brothers Everywhere you go, you find
this to he true in the world today. It's only
where the markets are allowed to function and
where the incentive of profit, and the danger
of loss are free to operate, that you get ade
quate production tor human needs. They can’t
do it by planning. Ihe only way they can do
it is by letting the free forces of the market
operate, as well as the incentives that free men
have to gain by their production.
"Here is something that many observers have
noted about the agriculture of many of the
countries that are not producing enough food
for their own population; When they have
price controls, a price-ceiling imposed by the
government, the farmer tends to hang on to
his little tract ot land and to produce for his
family and his relatives who gather around
him. But he uses his extra time, not to produce
tood, hut to work in other occupations which
will reward him better for his time. The result
in that they reduce and strangle food produc
tion by trying to produce only for their own
needs.”
The profit motive, in other words, is a vital
taetor in agriculture, as it is in any other enter
prise. If a farmer has produced enough to feed
his own family, and if he sees that further
production would not he profitable to him, he
simply dt>es not engage in further production.
Edee enterprise is a proven system under
which food can be produced in sufficient
abundance to feed a nation. Yet, the United
States (iovernment seems determined to inter
fere with free enterprise—the laws of supply
and demand—in the area of agriculture. “Only
about one-third of total agricultural production
in the United States is involved in government
programs”, declared Shuman. "Most of the
sickness, most of the trouble, all of the surplus
that we have been plagued wath are located in
that one-third that’s been under government
control programs.
“It’s quite obvious that if the United States
is going to need increased production to feed
hungry people, it’s almost insanity to continue
regulating and controlling production in this
countrv ” American Way Features