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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 20, 1969 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner "Whatsoever Things' By DONALD E WILDMON (A lady in Wisconsin writes: “Liked your THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING *o well that I’m enclosing check for another book for my friend.’’ She ordered six more copies. Ask for it at your bookstore, or send $2.95 to Five Star Publishers, Box 1368, Tupelo. Miss. 38801) Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance. Six Months SI.25. TT COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BKEEDIN T quote the followinp Com mendation from a recent “Col umbia Record”: “I would like to thank our local power company. At 2:30 a.m., January 17th, an ice- covered limb in our vicinity crashed and carried a power line with it. I called the S. C. Electric & Cas Company’s Re pair department and even though it was snowing at the time, their scouts wore here within 30 minutes and two trucks and crews showed up within 30 minutes. Power was restored by 4:30 A.M. My hat is off to a company that can and will trive such prompt and polite service to their custo mers. ” My readinp: has brought me some nuu'L'ets of yold. I quote a few which I found in that excellent maepa/.ine “Public Service" of February, 1009. "In anticipation and partly as an aftermath of the national election, everyone is talking a- bout tax reform. Some Rills have already been introduced into Congress to accomplish tax loop-hole pluppinp and other reforms to shift the bur den of taxes from the modest income taxpayer to the shel tered taxpayer.” An example of political tax loopholes is found in the tax exemptions of the pdan‘ Tennessee Valley Authority the electric power projects of the Bureau of Reclamation ami the Rural Electric Co-ops. If they were fully taxed these agencies alone would contri bute something 1 in excess of $4 billion to the federal treas- ury.” Do you know our country? If we stopped to think of So uth Carolina do you know at i \ ;}]ing :ih" : ;t th e industries it, rharlc't"' , Col umbia. An d. ■■.-on, (1 ivetiwood, Crcenviile. Sf >artanburg, just to mention a few. Do you know? A great record for the production of corn was made by a planter m Marlboro county; and Clar endon had a record crop some years ago. “In considering material blessings alone we must face the fact that the supply of goods and services in our coun try has reached a point never before known in the history of man. With only 6 percent of the world’s population, we produce one-half of the world’s income; one-sixth of the worlds food, one-third of the world’s electric power. We ow r n three out of every five automobiles and have one out of every three miles of highway. The life ex pectancy in our country is 70 years compared with 30 years in the rest of the world. We have the finest educa tional system in the world, with three of every four young people going to college. Citiz ens of our country are the most prosperous, best fed, and best educated people in the history of mankind.” "Why the great progress? Rut why? Why has America been so richly blessed and rewarded? Is it our natural resources? This could scarcely be the answer. The natural re sources were here during the days of the Mound Builders. Other countries in other conti- ments have also been blessed with extensive natural resour- ces. Therefore, we must look elsewhere for the answer. Do Americans work harder? Certainly our people are in dustrious, but many people in the world work harder just to stay above the level of starva tion. So this is hardly the ans wer. Are Americans of inherent superiority? No—our people are a conglomerate—a melting pot. Obviously there is no inherent superiority since we have come from so many races and backgrounds. Additionally, our ancestors starved the same as other races starved. Of the original settlers of our country, most were not the cream of tho crop of the an cient world. In fact, many were from debtors’ prisons and were the poor and disposessed from European countries. Therefore, we find the ans wer not in natural resources, harder work, nor inherent su periority. 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W. 7 St., Miami, Florida 33125 Name Age Address City State Zip Phone Eligible for VA Benefits 7 I i I I I I I Back during World War II there was a prisoner of war camp along the Riv er Kwai. Men were carried there fol lowing their capture. In this camp there was forced labor, a handful of rice a day to live on, disease, starva tion, hopelessness, and death. Trapped in this situation, the prisoners forgot their humaness and became more ani mal than human. They became selfish, stealing from their comrades food and belongings. After one died the others would jump, like vultures, to get the dead man’s meager valuables. This went on for some time. Then, one day, a man was left to die. A fel low prisoner found him and for some unexplained reason begin to care for him. He dressed the diseased body as best he could, even shared with the man some of his food. When asked why he did it, he said he wasn’t sure except that he thought that some where in the Bible it said this was what one should do. Soon his act of kindness spread around the camp. It was followed by another, and then another. Before long the camp had been changed from a hell on earth to a camp of help—and hope. Men started acting like men. Selfishness was replaced by selfless ness, greed was replaced by gratitude, and stealing was replaced by sharing. The gradual transformation came to a high climax one day. A group of men, at work as a detachment, had finish ed their day’s work and were prepar ing to return to their quarters. When the guard counted the shovels which tne men had been working with, he counted one too few. He faced the men and demanded to know who had hid den it. No one spoke. He again demand ed that the one who had hidden the shovel step forward. No one moved. He then drew his gun and shouted that he would kill the whole detach ment if the guilty one did not step forward. The men sensed that he meant it. Soon one soldier stepped for ward, saying he had taken the shovel. The guard beat and kicked him. The soldier was released from the pain through death long before the guard stopped beating. It was an incident which, if it had happened just a short time before, would have ended with the whole de tachment being killed. But because of the transformation of the camp by the kind deed of one man, all the others lived. We are surprised how far one kind deed will go toward healing the wounds of sickness—both physical and spiri tual. Our Creator made us to respond to love with love. It is something that our society could use at this time— this expression of love. How powerful is the power of love. When they returned to the camp, the guard counted the shovels again. There were none missing. He had mis counted before. The man had not tak en the shovel. He lied for love. —Five Sear Features have dominion over the earth and subdue it. This human en ergy has been the motivating force which has enabled us to overcome our environment and to harvest its fruits. Why the unleashing of this energy in our country to an extent not known elsewhere in the world? Basically, this has resulted from the atmosphere of freedom in our country. This atmosphere of freedom prov ides man of the right to the fruits of his labor. Therefore he has been willing to exer cise his ingenuity and expend his energy in worthwhile causes, where he has the free dom to reap the rewards justly earned.” Now from Beaufort—Donald McDowald — Beaufort a n d Louisville, Ky. "I am visiting in Beaufort county and what I have noticed is that, despite their abject starvation-type poverty, the Negroes are the best and most affluent customers of the chain Groceries and that they turn over the carrying of the mon umental feed bags to some what bewildered white boys hired by the grocery, while boys of their own color sit by and grin.” Your Social Security When you contact the Social Security office or the Social Security representative, always bring your social security card. During the past few weeks many persons have come in to apply for social security pay ments or make a report which would affect the checks they are now receiving. They did not bring their social security number, and this caused a de lay in handling their request, and possibly in receiving their check on time. If you receive payments based on another person’s soc ial security account, always tiring that person’s social sec urity number when you call. 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