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the road ahead This is the age of confusion. But that does not mean it need be ai age of cynical resignation to failure— and of the gradual abandonment of righfc and principles that took two thousanc years of almost continuous conflict foi mankind to secure. No one can minimize the problems thai now confront the nations, ranging froir the terrible specter of unleashed atomic energy down to such temporary difficul ties as shortages of materials. The verj extent and number of these problems havt added to "the confusion. They have, as the old French proverb says, made it hard tc see the forest because of the trees. They have obscured the fact that there is really only one basic problem, and that all the rest hinge upon it in one way or. another. inai proDiem is easily put: sooner or later, the peoples of the world, including the United States, will have to make a complete and final choice between the chimera of "security" and the reality of freedomiBlgjC," • ^ There is a danger in using such words as "freedom" and "liberty" these days. Dictators and tyrants have attempted to pervert them out of any semblance to their true meanings. Hitler, after all, established his slave state and fought his disastrous war for world enslavement with "freedom" and "liberty" as his rallying call. Even so, the real free man can be d«8cribed. He is free to express his opinion, whether or not it is in agreement with the majority or with the government in power. He is free to worship as he pleases. He is free to print what he thinks in a newspaper, or elsewhere, subject to the old-established laws of libel and public decency. He is free to work or not to work, and to change jobs of his own volition without dictation from employer, labor leader, or politician. He is free to run for public office on any platform he devises, or to vote for the candidate of his choice. He is free to engage in business under a competitive system which penalizes and favors none. He is free* to determine his own destiny, and he is not the tool of the state or any other interest. These are not separate, unrelated entities. Every last one of them is dependent on the others. When one freedom is lost, all the rest are endangered. No dictatorship ever been established all at once. A right is abrogated here, another there; the state seizes business, then takes over the labor unions; new "interpretations" are placed on the rights of free speech and assembly—so it goes, step after step, until the job of despotism is completed. Dictators trade on fear—fear of want, fear of hunger, fear of cold, all the natural, material fears. They promise a maxi mum of material "security" to the tragicconfused people they entice. And another question: Can a people, for the surrender of their free more goods, a higher standa greater measure of pro adversity? y answers itself. The great advancement in the historj has been in the nation when the greatest amount oi individual—the Unitec that the pay oi worker, measurec power, is ten or i average Russiai comparison ii . to est by the ties of heritance and tra< can be the vanguard of dictatorship ha aggravated every English economic prot lem. It has produced less goods for ei port, not more goods for export; less coa not more coal; less agricultural produc tion, not more agricultural productioi Worst of all, it has sapped the energie and ambitions of the people. There ca: never be progress in a state where indi vidual opportunity, initiative and entei prise are discouraged, and t!le govern ment does all the thinking. The super-state is not only spirituall; barren but materially inefficient. Whe we attempt to trade freedom for security we lose both. This thought was perfectl; expressed by Somerset Maugham, tl^ most distinguished living British novelisl when he said: "If a nation values any thing more than freedom, it will lose it freedom; ifad the irony of it is that if i is comfort or money that it values mort it will lose that too." That says it all i\ a sentence. The hope of this nation is that our ped pie will profit by example. The hopfe o the world is that it will be able to brea] the shackles of oppression. The hope o mankind lies in a reaffirmation of th| rights and dignity of the individual. o A New York juvenile court kept juriri diction of a married 15-year-old boy o^ the reasoning that "marriage does no emancipate." Why didn't the judge let thJ kid find that out for himself?—Greeny J>oro Daily News. „ * ' • "Jenins Sold Liquor Cargo to Sltm Fel low' Pitts Says."—Headline from Hickor: Daily Record. Could "Slim Fellow" be th< same one who used to be identified in pro hibition days as "the dark-skinned mai with two gold teeth"?—Greensboro Dail; News. • LIFE'S BETTER WAY Q WALTER E. ISENHOUR High Point, N. C., Route 4 FACING THE NEW YEAR Dear Fellow Pilgrims: Let me take thi privilege to thank each and every one o: you for your kindness and helpfulness t< me through the past year, and the pas years of my life and ministry. I greatly appreciate your prayers, your letters an< cards, and the liberal offerings you sen toward helping me in the work I am do ing for the Master. It was so encouraginj to receive scores and scores of Christmai cards, quite a number of which containee offerings, thus revealing to me that yoi indeed appreciate my articles, message! and poems, and that you are truly inter ested in the cause of righteousness anc holiness. May God richly bless and re ward yoij for this, and forvall you have done, and are doing, and may do, for the salvation of precious souls and for the advancement of His cause and Kingdom. Amen. I am glad to say that we are serving some fine people here who stand by us very faithfully. This makes a pastor and his family feel happy, and encourages us so much to go forward for God and the salvation of men. In my thirty-five years of ministry, as pastor and evangelist, I have never served a finer and more appreciative people than here. Thank God for every one of them, and thank God for every one of you. It will be wonderful and exceedingly glorious to meel thousands in heaven to whom I have preached and served through my writing across the years of life, or across manj years of life. I want you to know that J sincerely appreciate you, as well a* al that you have done for me. Please con tinue to remember me in prayer and shall pray on for youv Write me as yoi have time, for it is very encouraging t( receive appreciative letters from readers friends, brothers and sisters in the Lord Now we are facing a New Year. LetJi enter it with much prayer, deep devo tion to God, faith in His promises, Anc with a very sincere desire to. do our besfor His cause and kingdom among men Let's pray that God will make us mor< | spiritual and holy ; that He will bless ui and make us a blessing one to another and especially enable us to win manj souls into His fold. If we are permitted t< live through 1948 it ought tp be the bes 1 year we have ever spent thus far in liff 1, Greetings and best wishes to each ant 1 every one of you for the Nev By DWIGHT NICHOLS et ai SCANNING THE Looking over this nowspape here before us we find a flri advertising an overcoat for $3.0$ which they say Is better tha coats selling at $4.00 at mot stores. A grocery ad list* 1 pounds of sugar for one bud with high grade sheeting £t 4 1cents per yard. No, don't get in any rush, b« cause the ads are slightly ou of date. Th* paper we are quotim from is • replica of the McQrc gor News published April H 1878, in McGregor, Iowa. One ad offers to sell Prick Ash Bitters for the cure of ev« rything from pains in the ibac to costiyeness, whatever that ii while still another expounds th virtues of Buckingham's dye fo the whiskers, guaranteed not t wear off or wash off. Goo<i bee animals were Quoted at thre cents per pound in contrast to th 41 cents received in Chicago las week. In another ad a new sensatioi wag revealed. It was a watcl winder that could be operated i] the dark as well as daylight. In the news columns the edi tor was distressed about the ab eence of Dr. T. W. Wood, worn destroyer deluxe, so he wrote hi epitaph as follows: "Within this* wood lies Dr. Wood The children'^ greatest friend He spent hia life destroyini worms, ( But they've got him in the end The editor stated that he hai missed a great opportunity t> boost his circulation. He statei that he should have stood at th entrance of John Robinson's cir cus with a club and took in sub Excavaniic And Dirf Removing We Do Any Kind of Job By the Inir Or By Contract Esftimp.t(?s,Fre« . Alexanders & Johnson Excavating Co. Box 7T1 NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. In another news item it was stated that a collection would be! taken np to repair the first two hundred feet of the liberty pole on market street. "Too many dogs are barking around it." And there is the enlightening item that boarders* at the Brans house are a healthy set. "They live happy on the fat of the •land." And here is another' gem: "A farmer oear MoGregor ran his mowing machine into a steel ribbed parasol that someone had left lying in his timothy meadow and it cost him $ 6 for repairs, I He swears that he will shoot the' next couple he sees meandering' on his fields." 'Sea MoMter" It Reported Seen Off nX Con! New York, Dec. SO.—A "sea monster" 45 feet long with an "eel-like head" was reported by the captain of a ship off the North Carolina coast today, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard said a message from the master of S. S. Santa Clara reported that the ship struck the "monster" and either killed or badly wounded it, leaving the animal "thrashing in a large area of bloody water." The captain said the monster was sighted by Chief Officer William Humphries and Third Officer John Axelson, who describe ed it as having a body about three feet in diameter. 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