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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. (\, Thursday, July 4, 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: Six months $1.25. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN Years afo, in the days of th“ simple life, when we walked or rude in a street ear, long hefon the great I'd - cylinder luxun ears -and all the trimmings ,d life of that ela.'-s; perhaps I am thinking <>f the days of the Saturday Kvening I’ost, m all ts popularity; 1 am thinking of the days before ( hristy Mathewmn was the key pitch er and even before Walter Johnson blazed the ball over the plate. Mark, you, I am thinking of the days of the glory of P>abe Kuth when Hugs Raymond, af ter eating several geese pitched a double header for Charleston. In those by-gone days there was a culture not so common today. Today we read the daily paper to learn about football and baseball or auto racing, perchance. Kven so! And wo have periodicals full of scandal in high places, al though scandal has always flourished in low places. I am thinking of the t ime when people read the poems of Longfellow and Tennyson in stead of matrimonial difficul- t.es with scandal among men ami women. A' to Longfellow, I am piloting his favorite “Psalm of Life”, wasn't it ^ I n the nurit v of our innocence $2.00 per year in advance - think of this : “ Life is real, Lfe is earnest And the grave is not its goal Bust thou art, to dust returneth Was not spoken of the soul.” Ponder that. “Dust thou art, To dust returneth—-Was not -poken of the soul.” That is my idea of theology and the development of t h e soul. I think when the heart tops; when breath leaves the body, (lie Spirit, the eternal - P r.t, goeinto infinity. At this late day I find a pro- f'Cinil L it uf tin ■ology i n the t; i m i u i s 1 i nc< of 1 ongfe How. “ St mng Son of God I mmol rial I ,<>Vr 1 hat wt ■ who havu not seen Thy face, faith and faith alone embrace Relieving when- we cannot p ro ve ’’ Now that's refreshing, eh? Doesn't that strike a respon- . ve note that no social scandal can stimulate? We have not seen thy face, by faith and faith alone, em brace, etc. Sometimes we find a stimu lating note in a hymn, espec ially some familiar hymns. “Like a mighty army moves the church of (iod, Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod.” Ponder that: We are treading where the saints have trod! Longfellow, in looking around gave us another sparkling idea: “ Lives of great men all remind us We cum make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. ” $12,500 Accident In Peoria, III. a homeowner paid $12,b00 to a handyman who fell from a defective ladder while removing storm windows Liability insurance protects you against claims due to accidents which occur to friends, guests or workmen on your property Can you afford to be without it ? “YOl R TKIYATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Rhone 27(5-1 122 “WHATSOEVER 99 THINGS By DCNALD E. WILDMON A story in the newspaper the ether day caught my eye. It was the story of a young man in this thirties, who committed suicide. It stood out on the page over all the other stories because it was the third suicide story that I had seen in the last few days. I guess it should be common-place by now and not too shocking. But it isn’t common-place and it is shock ing. A person finds nothing to make his life worth living and comes to the point where he would rather be dead than alive. It is a sad story, but it is a true one. Our w-orld that we live in to Now, as to the place of the dead which we speculate about without result. When the thief on the cross said “Master, re member me when you come in to your Kingdom.” Jesus replied: “This day shall thou he with me in Par adise.” Paradise, What do you know about that? Nicodemus, a learned and wealthy man among the Heb- U'ws, felt a natural curiosity about the teachings of Jesus. The Bible does not state what questions Nicodemus asked but we may safely assume that he wanted to know about heaven and the new life. Jesus asked if he understood where the wind came from; where it was going. When Nic- odemus could not tell- Jesus said: “If you don’t understand such things of ordinary life how would you understand if I told you about heaven. I have always been impress ed by the simplicity of the Master in telling Nicodemus that. When Jesus was getting ready to end his ministry here and resume his position at the right hand of God He offered this prayer: “Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” He was describing His place in the spirit world, observe that, His body would he cast off. The shooting of Robert Ken nedy in Califrnia is just ano ther tradedy to men in public life. Someone shot President Gar field long years ago. Then someone shot President Abra ham Lincoln iu the theatre you I era 11. President William McKinley had gone to the exposition ; n Ru! lain, New Yoik and as the I I res.d* * nt bent forward to greet th<- apparently wounded man tin- man shot frum his wrap ped hand. I hat brwight Theodore Rcms- * \ i R into the Presidency. S-uneciie shot at President Franklin Roosevelt and killed •he man lading with him. Shooting at public men is i.ot an Anienean custom, but we >eem to he learning fast t> adopt methods more common ii Fuiope and Asia than here. Tile shooting of Robert Ken nedy ends the career of a sec ond Kennedy, the first Kennedy was President John F. Ken nedy “Count that day lost whose low descending sun Yews from the hand no worthy action done." As 1 am speaking Saturday and Sunday so it is appropri ate to speak some time on the question of eternity. If we live to be a hundred here we face a longer period in eternity. So let us not become so ab sorbed here that we fail to prepare for a longer life there. day fosters suicide. Suicide is the third major killer, below cancer and heart trouble, for people in their fruitful years between 30 and 50. And if the trend doesn’t change it will ev entually become the number one killer. You see, our world fos ters suicide because our world lies to people. We make the impression that fame and for tune are the things that should be sought at all cost. We pic ture money as having the ans wer to all our problems. We keep saying the thing that is wrong with most people is that they don’t make enough money, have good enough jobs, or live in decent enough houses. This may or may not shock you, hut the majority of peo ple who commit suicide have plenty of those things. What our world has forgot ten, and what our world needs to remember, is that we have got to give people something to live for. And that something that we have to give has got to he higher, and bigger, and bet tor than man himself can ever be. The Creator alone fits that description. Paul knew that this was the secret key to a mean ingful life when he wrote to the followers at Rome: “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, hut to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” We make a great show with our material wealth, we Am ericans. We are proud of our industry. We are proud of our success. We show ourselves and our world what living the “food” life is like. But we very seldom show ourselves and never show the rest of the world the result of our “good” life. Divorce is on the increase Every area of irime is on the increase. Mental institutions are bulging at their seams. The moral fiber of politics is break- inv down. Sexual morality is a. thing of the past with many. The name of the Creator is used on the nublic screens in vain and is seldom used in our schools in reverence. This is what we have made for ourselves- Americans. This is what the new materialism has gotten us. But those of us who follow the Galilean have not given up. He will not let us. We are trying to say— desperately to a world that does not seemingly want to hear, that we must give our selves to Someone greater than ourselves in order to find our selves. t ntil we do that we will read of more and more senseless sui cides. SCN explains new credit card system COLUMBIA. — The South Carolina National Bank kicked off its Bank Americard credit ianl program for South Caro lina with a presentation be fore more than .‘500 SCN of ficers. department heads and news media representatives. The program included a full- scale review of the all-purpose credit card—its history, how it works, its uses and plans for marketing and advertising. SCN President, John H. Lump kin, headed the group appear ing on the program. Lumpkin called the BankAmericard kick off "the new look of success at SCN.” More than 2,500 merchant lo cations have already been signed up in a pre-kick-off campaign including 300 at Myrtle Beach where out-of- state BankAmericards will be usable in South Carolina next week to serve the state’s grow ing tourism, according to SCN officials. It was also announced that more than 150,000 BankAmer icards will be distributed to consumers by SCN by late June to make the program fully operative statewide on July 1. BankAmericard is in use in 25 states and has interchange af filiations in England, Canada, and Japan. SCN calls its version of the white, blue and gold card “the card for everything from the bank for everybody.” The mul tiple purposes are: As a retail credit card av ailable to everyone accepted by all types of businesses and pro fessions for products and ser vices ranging from shoes and home appliances to dental and medical care—from dime store merchandise to fur coats. For travel and entertaining, such as filling stations, airline tickets, restaurants, motels, and hotels. For cash loans from the state wide offices of SCN and at any of the other 254 leading banks in 20 states over the country participating in BankAemri- card. Lumpkin stated that SCN BankAmericard will be issued to approved applicants without membership fees or dues. Re payment terms will be flexible. Cardholders may either pay their hills in full every month with no extra charge or pay a part of the total billing, plus a small service charge. One monthly statement is rendered to users to cover all credit ob tained with the SCN Bank Americard. The card itself will serve as a good credit refer ence. SCN expects the card to help give “ boost to South Caroli na’s ‘ • urist business by mak ing- .. possible for cardholders from other states to use Bank Americard when visiting or traveling in this state. “There are more than six mil lion BankAmericard users in this country,” , Lumpkin c.v.d “and affiliated banks already make it usable in Georgia, N T . Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Philadelphia, Boston, Texas, Ohio, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Washington State, Or egon, California and Hav/aii. Also, an interchange agreement ha^, been worked out with Bar- claycard in Great Britain. We expect it soon to be used thru- out the nation.” He said BankAmericard was selected over other available credit cards and services “after a continuing study of over two years because we believe it will serve the needs of the public and participating businesses.” WITH MEN IN THE SERVICES TAY NINH, VIETNAM — Army Private First Class Thos. I. Long, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira B. Long, Rt. 1, Pom- aria, was assigned as a in fantryman with the 25th In fantry Division near Tay Minh, Vietnam, April 10. Pvt. Long’s wife, Anita, lives on Route 2, Kinards. AMARILLO, TEX—Airman Fred L. Cumalander, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Cumalan der of Little Mountain, has completed basic training at Amarillo AFB, Tex. He is re maining at the Air Force Technical Training Center for specialized schooling as an ad ministrative specialist. Airman Cumalander is a 1907 graduate of Mid-Carolina High school, Prosperity.