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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, April 30, 1970 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina rr "Whatsoever Things By DONALD E WILDMON (Visit the Garden of Gethsemane, Bethlehem and other places in the Holy Land with Mr. Wildmon. Join him on his tour Nov. 24-Dec. 3. 1069. $599. $60 down. $26 monthly. For more information write him at Box 1368, Tupelo, Miss. 38801) Copyright, 1969, Donald L. Wildmon CRITICISM SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $3.00 per year in advance. Six Months $2.00. COMMENT ° n Men & Things B> J. K. BREEPIN The world continues, and the forces of good and evil work unabated; you frequently find what your spirit craves. The celebration of the 300th anni versary of our state lifts the spirits of overybody, down in Charleston, the grand old city is all arrayed and jubilant; and in other parts of the state they are celebrating also. All about us are reasons for rejoicing. My mind runs to the sweet beauty of the hymns of the Church, every day a lovely lady rejoices my spirit and arouses me from my blindness. We have the same confusion in our Stall 1 Legislature and in the Congress of our United Statics It seems that the Con gress can't get on a high plane of statesmanship but prefers to wallow in the gutter. Our Leg islature is not quite so bad but devotes its time to petty things. We have had some days of delightful weather and nights that promote sleep. In South Carolina we have much to rejoice the spirit. I think Virginia is setting an example of quiet peace and ord er. Most of us who have had any connection with Virginia think ot it with pride. Most of South Carolina seems to have settled down to peace and order, having enjoyed free dom from gross troubles for some time. This state has been free from grave riots and dis order most of the time, here and there minor affairs disturb ed our equanimity, but not our equilibrium. Business seems to be fairly good and our farmers will go forward with ♦heir cotton, to bacco and soybeans. Perhaps our cotton mills are not shouting with joy; we seem to be playing fast and loose with our greatest industry; our people in the lower part of the state do not share in the great contribution of cotton textiles. Glancing over county papers of our State it seems to me that every county is celebrat ing county history and there is evidence of pride in the re cords. I am not fully acquainted with all the records but I think I know enough to feel proud of my State, from the Atlantic Ocean to the mountains and from North Carolina to Savan nah, Georgia. I am greatly impressed by the remarkable growth of our colleges, so many of them now known as universities that I am bewildered by the multiplicity of universities from Clemson to Medical University; and now I wonder what keeps the Citadel from being a University. Just a plain college will soon be just a minute above a high school. We don't skim the cream off the insurance business by writing risks in a few popular lines and then telling our customers to go elsewhere if we can't handle their needs. As independent agents we write any type of insurance and can take care of all your needs. That's service with a capital S. “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 Criticism. All of us, at one time or another, are victims of it. And all of us, sometimes too often, are guilty of it. But there is nothing basically wrong with criticism in itself. It is only that we humans have a way of misusing it. Most of our criticism isn’t construc tive, or even given in a spirit of help fulness. Most of our criticism is noth ing more than our attempt to belittle another’s efforts. And that’s where the real problem comes in. We have no higher purpose in our criticism than to make someone else look bad. It is too bad that we don’t use crit icism more like our Maker intended for us to use it, in a spirit of love and concern for those we criticize. I have an idea that it we used it in this method, there would be a lot less of it and more constructive results from it. Criticized The Most Did you ever notice that those who get the most criticism usually give very little of it? And at the same time, these people usually do the most good for society and are appreciated the least for their efforts. Sure, there are exceptions. But generally speaking, that’s the way it appears. I guess the reason that those who get criticized the most give very little criticism is that they know the deep hurt which cruel, cutting, unfair criticism brings. There are very few hurts that can compare with it. No one is immune to criticism. And those who more fully try to follow the Way of the Galilean sometimes suffer the most. Many have been the number of people who have been pure in heart and sincerely trying to help their fel low man who have been criticized ever so harsely. I may be wrong about the matter, but I am of the opinion that if we are to be critical of someone or their way, we should at least offer a better way. Else, what good have we accom plished by our criticism? Any idiot can do the same, be critical without being constructve. Splinter vs. Log The Fisher of Men once said some thing about having a log in our own eye and trying to take a splinter from the eye of another. He said we would do well to first get the log from our own eye before trying to remove the splin er from our neighbor’s eye. You know, the tragedy is that we don’t fol low this very practical advice. No sir, we can spot the smallest splinter in another while looking straight through our own log. Tis a real shame that this is the case, but the case it is. Once a man sets his sights high in this life, he has opened the door for severe criticism. For history records that those who have done the most for mankind have been those who have suffered the most criticism. So if one has ambitions about leaving the world a better place to live, he had better get prepared for the criticism that will follow. And while we know that to be the truth, somehow it just doesn’t take away the hurt that criticism brings. —Five Star Features SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE THE TRICENTENNIAL This is the year of the Tri- centennial of the first permanent settlement in South Carolina. We are happy to share our heri tage with the whole United States. South Carolina has been at the pivot of history ap;ain and ajrain in the development of our Nation. From our tradi tion have come the men who made critical decisions at mo ments of turmoil, men who have affected the destiny of the whole country. We have had men of initiative whose ideas opened new dimensions of culture and development. S.C. FIRSTS Let us look at some of our historical "firsts.” The first Charter or Constitu tion for South Carolina was drafted by the trreat philosopher, John Locke. In IfiSo, South Carolina was the first province in the New World to plant rice for sale, thus opening up a basis for tbe agricultural economy of the South. In IMS, the first free library in America was started by the provincial General Assembly. In 1713 the first state health officer in America was Gilbert Gutterv of South Carolina. In 1735. the first opera adver tised by title on American soil was driven in Charles Town. In 173b. the first building in America devoted wholly to drama was built in South Caro lina. In 17-10, the first free school for N op roes in America was founded in South Carolina. In 1703. the first musical so ciety in America, the St. Cecelia Society was organized in Charles Town. In 1773 tile first public muse um and city Chamber of Com merce were founded in Charles Town. In 1770, South Carolina was the onh State whose siuners of the Declaration of Independence were all natives of the State, and all college men. They w er^ : Edward Rutledge, Thomas Hey ward, Jr.. Thomas Lynch, Jr., and Arthur Middleton. South Carolina was tbe eiphth Stati- to ratify the U.S. Con.-ti tution. leavipo only one more State to ratify to tripper the Constitution into effect. South Carolina was also the first State to secede from the Union, on December 30, IHOO. SHARING OUR TRADITION It is appropriate that we share this tradition of courape and vision with today’s America. For too lonp the South has been excluded from a position of equality m the halls and coun cils of our Nation’s leaders. Many younper repions have not had the opportunity to under stand the depth of our tradi tions. Our social structure has been viewed from the bias of narrow mereantile and liberal prejudices and judped by a pov erty imposed upon a conquered repion. Today this unhappy situation has chanped. We are makinp propress in raisinp the standard of livinp for all of our people. We have broupht in new indus tries to pive job* to those who want to work. We are consci ously developinp the best strains of our culture, as the Tricen tennial celebration demonstrates. THE VICE PRESIDENT Best of all, we are beinp understood in other repions of the country. Today people are listeninp. and their ears are attuned with sympathy and justice. In the midst of this celebra tion, we w ere pleased to welcome the Vice President of the United States, the Honorable Spiro Apnew, to participate in this noteworthy event. It is highly appropriate that the Vice Presi dent, a former governor of his State of Maryland, was able to speak at the ceremonies in Edgefield County, birthplace of ten governors of our State. Mr. Agnew exemplifies the new in terest which the Nation as a wh"le is taking in the South. This year’s Tricentennial, therefore, represents the turning of the full circle. South Carolina once more plays its proper role in the affairs of the Nation. The rich traditions of our past equip us in a significant way to contribute to the future de velopment of America. The Tri centennial is not a turning toward the past, but a turning toward the future. ARMY GREEN By SFC E. L. Wood Entering the military service soon? As you know, the only service that conducts basic in this immediate area is the Army at Fort Jackson. The Army is now sending our young men wno enter the Army to other areas of the country for their basic training. The areas being shipped to currently are: Fort Knox, Ky.; Fort Bragg, N. C.; and Fort Campbell, Ky. How ever, the Army has sent men as far away for their training as Fort Bliss, Tex.; Fort Ord., Calif.; Fort Lewis, Washington; Fort Riley, Kan.- and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. This is caused by an overload of personnel arriving for train ing in this area, and a shortage in the other areas. However, a young man who enlists through the Army Recruiting Service can select Fort Jackson as his basic training site. Don't take a chance, see your Army Re cruiter. . .NOW.