Editorial and Opinion
Government Unlimited
Our generation is witnessing a struggle which in its far
* reaching consequences possibly outstrips any other struggle
this nation, our forefathers and ourselves have yet encoun
tered. None of us knows all there is to know about anything.
Those who talk loudest and most vociferously on one side or
the other of truly controversial issue are least likely the ones
with the real formula or best solution.
One of the best arguments against the “menace” of big
government has come from the pen of the distinguished Dr.
Malcolm McDermott of Duke Law School and a Democratic
Presidential Elector in 1928. From here out the words are
Dr. McDermott’s:
“Our libraries, our laboratories, our factories are veri
table monuments to man’s achievements in the mastery of
the forces of nature. Yet there is something vital, some
thing basic that man has failed to learn. The one force man.
has never learned effectively to control is government, and
therein lies the great secret of human ills.
“You understand, of course, that government is a force.
Such is the very nature of government. It is the most potent
for<Telcnown to uS huinan beings. It controls^and determines
the lives, the happiness, the destinies of every one of us. It
can command even the forces of nature and direct them
against its enemies or against its subjects who may dare op
pose it. Within its control are life and death, happiness and
misery, freedom and servitude, for every man, woman and
child.
“We in America have long forgotten this basic concept of
government, for, happily for us, we have hitherto lived under
a government that ,was placed under restraint. But even in
this so-called enlightened day well-nigh half the world i3
controlled by just such governmental power. That is gov
ernment unlimited. It is at once the most diabolical, the
most treacherous, and the most uncontrollable, force known
to man.
“Herein lie strange paradoxes. This force called govern
ment is a man-made force. Man creates it. It is a necessary
force, for it forms the very basis of organized society. It is
the foundation of human civilization. And yet, once it is
set in motion, it can enslave man, it can destroy man. While
man has learned to cope with the forces of nature, he has
never yet learned effectively to cope with this force he him
self creates.
“This war is being fought because a group of nations
turned loose, first upon themselves and then upon the rest of
the world, this terrible force of government unlimited. It is
the same force that has spelled misery for mankind from the
very dawn of history. It is the force that has launched wars
of aggression, and used men as senseless pawns. "
“While a student at Princeton I heard Woodrow Wilson
make one of those profound observations fop which he was
noted, one that was later embodied in a great public utter
ance. He said, “The history of liberty is the history of limi
tations upon the powers of government.” That is true. It
is eternally true. Man’s long, hard, slow climb up to liberty
and freedom is found written in the limitations he has been
able from time to time to place upon this dangerous power
called government. Tlie tragedy is that by one device and
another, ambitious men, self-seeking men, ruthless men have
succeeded in writing off those restrictions. If you want to
know what then happens you have but to look to the Germany
and Japan of today and to the Italy of yesterday. The double
tragedy is that not only does the force of government un
limited enslave its own people, but in time it jumps boun
daries and seeks to enslave other, peoples as well, and then
chaos sets in. I am not? talking theory, t am dealing with
facts demonstrated J?ef ore our very eyes.
“Today we are engaged in a great conflict wherein free
dom-loving men are grappling, with that force in mortal
combat, determined to crush it and bring it under control.
In doing this we shall be simple-minded, indeed, if we at the
same time shall unloose the same force within our own
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“There is a school of thought even here in America that is
impatient of limitations upon the powers off government.
Such limitations, these men insist, spell inefficiency and delay
in accomplishing through the processes of government the
great reforms for which they stand. They resent any im
putation that the chosen leaders would abuse the power of
government unlimited committed to them.
“Let all of this be freely conceded, and still the questions
remain, do we dare remove the limitations on government
won for us by our forefathers at great price; what manner of
men will come hereafter t<y be our leaders; and what will
they do with this dangerous power?
“You may reeall an illustration used by Lincoln Steffins
when discussing Corruption in American cities. Someone
asked what was the basic cause of such corruption. Steffins
replied that in the sad story of the Garden of Eden the real
cause of man’s downfall was not the curiosity of the woman,
nor the weakness of the man, nor yet the guile of the serpent.
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THE CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT
Prepared by Department of Bible,
Presbyterian Junior College,
Maxton, North Carolina
“In the East only about twenty
per cent of the students go to pub
licly supported colleges. In the
South it is about fifty per cent.
In the West most students attend
tax-supported colleges. In the
West there is little interest in re
ligion in colleges. In the East and
S<?uth it is an important element
in college life.” These were the
words of an official in the General
Education Board in New York last
week. He went on: “In recent
months there has been a great
wave of interest in religion all
over the country. I’ve been read
ing all the best books on how to
emphasize religion in colleges be
cause I’m making a study of the
subject.”
Let us hope his diagnosis is cor
rect and that there is a realization
abroad in the land that science
alone i9 not enough to live by, that
the deep need of the American
people as well as of the Russian
people is deliverance from the
power of evil within themselves,
and that men are turning to Him
who alone can answer the soul’s
deep need and lift us above the
levelffi of the animal into the full
flowering of our highest human
possibilities. A long while ago
Jesus said, “Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word
th|rt proceedeth out of the mouth
of God.”—Matthew 4:4..
a? Mates h. po</ sa/ls?
BREAKDOWN? . . . Reports we
have received since State employ
ees were placed off a five-day week
is that the systm has worked well,
with some minor exceptions.
Now, some of the school person
nel out over the State are com
plaining that it is extremely dif
ficult to get their problems settled
by letter or telephone. « They say
conferences and ' conversation are
needed — Saturday conferences —
with officials of the State Depart
ment of Education. School people
want the offices kept open on Sat
urday from September through
May.
Of course, school teachers are
the original Saturday-off people.
Our understanding, however, is
that they have a good case.
The 40-hour week is nice, but ^
doesn’t always work out in prac
tical application. Nevertheless, it
is to be hoped that the school
brethren and sisters can work out
their troubles without resorting to
the beginning of a breakdown of
the'five-day work week begun only
two years ago.
TO RUSSELL . . . Decision of
President Truman not to permit
himself to he a candidate fox. re
election will throw North Caro
lina's Democrats solidly in the
lap of Senator Richard Russell.
Even before Truman made his an
nouncement last Saturday night, a
majority of the Democrats was in
Russell’s camp. Since 1945 it has
been HST ... or preferably HT
. . . and before that, FDR. Now
if Robert A. Taft were to become
the next President, wonder if the
newspapermen would continue to
deal in initials.
It was the apple! That shining, glittering epitome of power
attracted all the forces of evil. Today we call it a plum.
Plums incite corruption.
“The most attractive, potent plum that can hang on any
tree of life is that plum I have called government unlimited.
To get it, selfish, corrupt and ambitious ipen will stake every
thing. It is a continuing incitement to evil. It is a prize to
be gambled for at any cost. Once it is won, an entire people
may be held in bondage.
“There is one way to eliminate this evil and this danger,
and that is by having no such plum. Our forefathers knew
this simple truth, and that is why in their wisdom they re
solved that the plum of government unlimited should not
hang on the tree of the American body politic. The risk was
too great.
“Some months ago in a talk entitled ‘While Free Men
Slept’ I submitted to a group of lawyers what I had observed
in Germany as to how in that unhappy land this dreadful
power of government unlimited was there unleashed. By
every subtle means known to seductive demagogues it was
laid hold upon, and when finally in their grasp it was used
not only to lash the German people into complete submission
but also to throw the entire world into conflict.
“As patriotic Americans we do well to ponder our present
plight in the light of the lessons of the past. Those lessbns
are writtefi large in the blood of men andw’omen who yearned
to be free, men and women who in their folly entrusted them
selves to government unlimited. > . j
“We are going to win this war, but we are naive, indeed,
if .we think that wild mark.an end of our perils. It can be
that in the winning we shall lose the most precious heritage
a people ever knew. To paraphrase a scriptural passage,
jyhat shall it profit a nation, if it shall gain the whole world
antf lose its pw.fi soul ? America can-lose her soul. She will
lose her very soul when government unlimited is set up in the
lapd.” ' '• ' . “
THE AMERICAN WAY
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Pigs Will Be Pigs
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Although the season is some
what more advanced in the ex
treme eastern portion of the
State, there is still time to prune
your fruit trees and roses and
other summer flowering shrubs,
if you haven’t already done so.
Do not prune spring flowering
shrubs until after they bloom. I
recently noticed some spiraeas in
a yard here in Raleigh that had
been severely pruned back during
the winter. There will be very
few blooms on those 'spireas
this spring because most of the
flowering wood has been remov
ed- Don’t make that mistake • on
your shrubs.
Boysenberries and dewberries
should now be tied up to stakes
or wires. Leave - only about Six
strong canes; ^>rune out the rest.
Grapes may be Tuned until the
buds begin to awell. They will
probably “ble'ed” a little but that
is not considered harmful. When
the buds swell, there is danger of
rubbing them off when removing
the runnings. ,
' .Mulch strawberries with pine
straw' or other short material.
Work the straw in between the
plants with a stick and cover the
area between the rows. The straw
put down at this time of year is
not used; as a protection t against
frost and cold weather but rather
as a means of .keeping sand from
splashing on the berries and also
as a means of keeping the berries
up off the ground so that there is
not so much danger of disease in
fection. Do not fertilize straw
Dixie &2(, a new, improved
yelow corn hybrid, is adapted to
all communities in the Costal
Plain and Piedmont sections of
North Carolina.
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