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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. The answer is found
in the unleashing of
energy and its application U>
our environment, The Bible
admonishes that we should
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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.”
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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.
Social security records are
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and it is very important that
you bring the number with you
each time you visit. To be sure
you always have your social se
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why not put it in your billfold
and then you’ll know just
where to find it.
PLEIKU, Vietnam. — James
B. Cannon, 23, whose parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Cannon,
Sr., and wife, Norma, live on
Route 1, Little Mountain, was
promoted to Army Specialist
Four on Feb. 10 near Pleiku,
Vietnam, where he is a heavy-
equipment engineer in the
510th Engineer Company.
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