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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
By J. K. BREEDIN
It pains me to observe a
Ki'at man shrink; he ought to
grow, (h'Velop, magnify ami
what
n> 4.
11c
ic vve find 1’r
e.-idcUt J
o!.n
1
at ter leading
u< along
th
Lal'l.
men's ef f
J r.araia.
ag
i ara
: /ement, dn>
p ' du \v!’
.
nicit
t' . e ’. e -. K ’
ad and
pen
' A . -1;, '!'• \ a - Warning
'tin'll l- nil t no to lose, - IVe--
a nt .I"i;n-e’: Tlnir'day asked
< <'f-.gta t approve a muit
n111 a>i. in-liar program of publie
: 1 n. - .ug ami pi ivaU itu-entive-
to rehu.iii the nation's eities.
It (.■ ou.i; eo>t, ever the decade
it. wn.eh Johnson wants to
■ aid _’n million new Iioiming
, i ! . . !
- and tak
e step
s
ag
a 111 s t
)(> Y t
Tty and di
espair.
lip
to
She
., 1; a
Ilf.,)
> n in pud
he and
!"
ivate
M 1 M 1
J i
hnson .-et
the
To
m
iiion
e\\
housing'
units
a-
a
nat -
< >na
i goal and
was
rely
mg on
pmat- enterprise to build 110
million of them.
The government, with the
help of industry, would do the
1 'st.
The price tag on the program
was hard to pm down. The
co-: of new legislation accom
panying the presidential me--
age was estimated at M
billion for new authorizations.
Hut the total cost of the plan,
a- it is spelled out in the mes
sage, is actually $10.4 billion,
with overall estimates of just
the lu-year housing goal run
ning as high as billion.
The billion figure rep-
i eseiits the $>’,.0 billion in new
tiiithorization reipiests plus
money from existing allied
programs already approved by
('ongress.
The cost of the building plan
m fiscal I'Jb'.i will be :vlT>S
billion.
Tin White II otise originally
i ad prieed the total at $o.d
billion bat later revi-ed U ■ fig
ure-, under < puest 1 o.n i rig of
new-men.
Hat before anything could be
aceompi 1 sbed n the e.tie-, t he
I’res.deht said, ('ongress must
fir-t approve hi.- tax increase
replies; and t he adminis', ra-
tain'- open liousing' lull.
The omnibus program lafig-
. j fnaui a SJ.a billion model
t : t ie- plan to a reeim-1 ruetUr-
ng of federal m»o ;gage loan -.
Johnson also asked ST.Is bd-
1 am for the War on I’<'Verty.
And all tin- comes from I ex-
a-. Such a massive plan could
not he announced from W ash-
ingtoti, only Texas was of such
hereulea n size as to prepan
tlie nation. My word!
Ju.-t a- we had begun to
digest the luidget of $1 Hh.OOO.-
dOli,(KH)—one hundred eighty
s; x billion dollars! Hollars,
maik you: one hundred eighty
six billion!
Hold that in mind; billions
one hundred and eighty six
billion-.
What
coins
sal fi
gure
must h<
■ the
man
who
even
contemp
kites
that
figure!
Sixtee
m billions fo
r new
ven-
til fee, new
programs.
W ell
now! What -ay you? Aren’t
you proud to be a citizen of a
nation which can discuss, plan.
assume sixteen billions at a
whirl!
Well, if th is grandiose pro
gram brings joy to your heart,
then rejoice and he glad at the
nammoth figure which disre
gards mere dollars and floats
in the ethereal unrealities of
marvellous dreaming!
I, as a lawyer, am pondering
a thing or two. Frankly I
think the Administration in
Washington, including its hun
dreds of lawyers, must he
gang-agley, or something of
our Scotch language.
Hut here is a point of law:
We are not at war, hut we are
spending billions of dollars,
thousands of lives, thousands of
planes and other items of col
ossal magnitude. We are not at
war, so how do we justify our
foray in Asia?
A much more serious legal
question is this: How do we
justify legally calling men un
der coercion of the draft when
we are not at war?
As a mere small-time lawyer
I wonder about these things.
Thirty years from now will
-ome Judge or lawyer challenge
the claim of an ex-scldier or
sailor or marine because he
labored, suffered or died in a
conflict—not a war?
That is not only the idle
imagination of a small-time
student of law; I am asking
seriously.
Frankly we seem to he at a
low h vel of jurisprudence. If
we have lawyers their solemn
oath seems to he to excuse, de
fend and proclaim the will of
one man.
Mirahile ductu! or whatever
our Latin brethren would ex
claim.
Of course, as a one time in
structor in War Plans and
Military history 1 wonder a-
bout the military aspects of
our Vietnam foray.
Whom are we fighting? Why
are we fighting? If there is
a North Vietnam and a South
Vietnam and both operating
today whom are we fighting
and why?
I)e gustibus non disputan-
dum,, as the Latins, on occa
sion would say, hut what is
there to dispute—we don’t
know what our able and learn
ed men are doing what they
are thinking and why we are
embroiled. Well, tell me.
To the diplomats, ofifee
holders, politicians, this may
not matter; hut to a mother
sending her hoy, it does mat
ter.
Has our Congress become so
ut terly subservient ?
Is there even one Patrick
Henry? No; of course I don t
txpeet a (ieorge Washington,
hut perchance there may he
one, just one, Patrick Henry.
(hir beautiful snows carried
me back through the years. At
one t ime I made many trips
t rom Monette l Aiken County)
to
tin
' <' 11 y
of
A iken-about
t V 1
e 111 y
four m
iles.
\ 10 n
g t Im
.: 11
up there is
e 0 i
mt r\
tor w;
is) a
is rugged as
t la
1 im
in nt a ins.
l'i
1 and down,
up
and
1 down,
ale n
g the miles.
I 1
im
1 ; mmded of
my time in
V: 1
w in
a. The
Cm
versity was
in
the
famous
Mali
ley of Shen-
am
imih
beginning
at Harper’-
Le
rry
and
comes through
W
ne hi
•-ter. St
anion. Han ison-
Lp
rg.
Lex:ng t
on
anil on to
IT.
a n 1 1 k 1 ■ - s 1 ■ e n 1 e
country, ahoun-
ml:
mg
in the
-cen i
e delight of
tlu
■ mo
untains,
hills
and valleys.
Not
onlv have
I seen-hut
wandered miles and miles, a-
long the river by Fast Lexing
ton hundreds of times, many
times ob-erving the skaters on
the ice-bound river. They could
-kate down to Buena Vista—
about S miles. I wonder how
that town (Buena Vista) de-
r.ved that name: Beuna Vista
is Spanish for beautiful view or
scenery. The Valley is more
Knglish than Spanish.
That a group of people may
petition “for redress of griev-
euee" is guaranteed by the
federal Constitution, hut a
howling mob trying to domi
nate m any manner i- not only
unlawful but mischievous and
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“WHATSOEVER
THINGS”
By DONALD E. WILDMON
Greatness. Everyone, in his
own way, seeks it. Few find it.
Those that do hardly ever
recognize it. And they never
misuse it.
We all want to be great,
And there’s nothing wrong
with it. Never has been. Never
will he. The mistake comes in
the manner in which we seek
it. We get it mixed up with
fame and fortune and power.
Somehow we have come to
tie the two together almost
unknowingly. We have a ling
ering thought in the back of
our minds that unless we ach
ieve the fame, fortune and pow
er we haven’t made it. We are
not great. We are just a no
body. And that’s where the
Nazarene comes in.
Lots of folks have never
realized that one of the basic
things that the Galilian does
for t hose whose lives He
changes is to put greatness
real greatness—within their
reach. They seem to think that
all He does is to ruin any
chances anyone has of ever
achieving greatness. And it all
goes to show you how misund
erstood the Carpenter is. Far
from ruining our chances of
achieving greatness, H^ in
creases them many-fold.
You see, real greatness does
not lie in those things we have
always thought it does. Money,
fame, power alone cannot make
us great. Indeed, we can even
achieve greatness without a
single one of those ingredients.
The real truth about the mat
ter is that those who rank on
the horizon of history as great
men for the most part lacked
those things.
Take Abe Lincoln. Lincoln
was a great man. True, Lincoln
had some of all three of those
wavs have them. Early in life,
even far into man hood, he
lacked all of them. And it was
not any of those things that
made Lincolin great. Not at
all. What made Lincoln great
was his service. You read it
right. His service. Go back
and draw a circle around that
word and think on it for a
minute.
The Carpenter put it this
way: “The greatest among you
shall be your servant.” That’s
odd, isn’t it? Contrary to
everything we have ever been
taught about greatness. “The
greatest among you shall be
your servant.” It might help if
all our elected officials could
catch a glimpse of the wisdom
of that statement ,and all of
ficials, elected or not, for that
matter). What a nation we
would have!
You see, it isn’t in the meth
od like we have been taught
that real greatness comes
forth. It is in greatness as the
Nazarene taught that true
goodness shows forth. And as
we both know, the real always
stands heads and shoulders a-
bove the imitation.
Borne of the greatest people
who ever lived never made the
headlines, never held an office,
never owned an acre of land.
Some of the greatest people
who ever lived were just plain
common ordinary people whose
lives came under the influence
of the Father of Men. He
got His hold on them and He
made them great. They became
servants—your servants.
The Galilian was a great
Man. Great enough to bow low
and wash the feet of His fel
low men. You know, I guess
we grow tall by bending low.
should be met by adequate
force and forced into submis
sion. Our people—all people—
should understand, or be taught
that an orderly petition in or
derly manner for presentation
is quite different from that of
reckless mobs. The Constitu
tional authorities should not
negotiate with mobs: the first
duty of any government is to
preserve law and order and
that at any cost. We have not
sufficient police force to com
bat a mob so the whole citiz
enry should enforce law and
order.
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