PAGE FOUR The Chowan Herald Published every Thursday by The Chowan Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin Buff lap and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South Broad Street, Edenton, North Carolina. J. EDWIN BUFFLAP Editor r " aStrrOß LUPTON AlvertHing Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year (outside North Carolina) $3.00 One Year (in North Cardinal $2 50 Six Months $1.50 Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the Post Office at Edenton. North Carolina, under the act of March 3. 1879. Cards of thanks, obituaries, resolutions of re spect, etc., will be chaiged for at regular ad vertising rates. • *"* THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1959. A LIFT FCR TODAY Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. —Heb. 12:2. Looking unto the Crucified One, we find life and joy in abundance. Merciful Father, our sins cry against us. Have mercy upon us and cleanse us from all evil. “ AgeOf The Shoddy” “This was the era, domestically, when every thing was half done: the era. in foreign affairs, when nothing was done right because nobody seemed to care enough to exercise the foresight and take the pains to see that it was done right. This was the time when the job on the car was always half finished, the suit came back from the cleaners half dirty, the yard work was over priced and underdone, the bright new gadget broke down a week after you got it home, the prices climbed higher and higher as the quality got less and less, and the old-fashioned rule of a fair bargain for a fair price was indeed old fashioned, for it never applied to anything. The great Age of the Shoddy came upon America after the war. and Everybody Wants His be came the guiding principle for far too many.” Thus Allen Drury describes the postwar era, in his remarkable novel “Advise and Consent” — a work in which he uses the vehicle of fiction to present an extraordinarily revealing picture of Washington’s political, diplomatic and social worlds. The accuracy of his indictment is undeniable. Yet, in the immediate postwar years, it was possible to find seemingly valid excuses. The relaxation of war tensions resulted, naturally enough, in emotional and financial excesses. An attitude of “live for today and never mind to morrow'’ became general. On the purely ma terial side, the lifting of wartime restrictions on industrial production created an eager and ap parently insatiable market for almost anything, no matter how poor the quality or exorbitant price. Had this sorry situation spent itself in a rea sonable time there would have been small cause for worry. But who can honestly deny that the dark picture Mr. Drury paints is stiil—in the fundamentals, if not all the details—the picture that obtains in this country The problem, of course, is a moral problem. The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, the Rt. Reverend Richard Emrich, speaks for churchmen of all the denominations when he says: “Everywhere I travel I hear arguments, but I never hear a moral argument, with some one saying, ‘this is wrong, or un’ust. or dishon est. and I will have nothing to do with it.’ I think we are floundering as a people." And there lies the tragedy. For the basic strength of anv nation is its moral strength! All the weapons, all the productive capacity, all the money on earth, cannot save a people from ul t mate destruction if their moral fiber decays, their national character rots, and they sink into an abyss of material cynicism, indiiference. sel fishness, avarice, greed. A short time ago the television scandals, cen tering around rigged quiz shows, captured the national headlines and were publicized the world around. The Saturday Evening Post has devoted a full page editorial to the matter in which it makes a big and often overlooked point. It offers no excuses for the deceit—“those v ho have been damned bv the revelations de served to be damned.” But. the Post also says. ) “ . . . we believe that the importance of their guilt has been wildly exaggerated, the signific ance of their guilt almost wholly overlooked — What is important is that we recognize the tele vision scandals for what they are—a symptom o f the declining standards of moral behavior in the United States, that twinge in the national belly that warns of deep-seated malignancy in the body politic.” And those declining stand ards, it goes on. can be found in some form and in some degree virtually everywhere—in schools, professions, the labor unions, business and the government. 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