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It b rather curious that the Ame
pßeaa people IMWI seen to know whom
||| elect to public office. That is, judg
frV from the advice which columnists
«nd "letters to the edited, ate offering
to the President tt seems that it is the
people who do not have the responsibi
lity to conduct affairs, are the ones who
have all the answers. They could, if they
were President, stop the war in Vietnam
overnight, and set the national economy
on such a basis that peace and pros
parity would flow as rivers, and happiness
would prevail. The only trouble about
that is, if they had the responsibility,
they would find the same human nature
Countty folks used to have a say
ing when a new song was sung until
it was no longer liked: "They have run
it into the ground," IWe share the
feelings of all these folks as we view
the raise in prices, and the strikes which
are crippling our economy. When prices
are raised, workers demand more money.
When they get it, things which they
buy cost more. It is a vicious circle.
Be great This doesn't necessarily
mean that you must be famous. The
very opposite may be your portion-
Many of the greatest people of the cen
turies have been unpopular because of
the stand they took for God and right
eousness and against sin and wicked
ness. However, some of them became
famous afterwards-perhaps after they
died. I think this was true of St. Paul
and other followers of Jesus Christ.
Their critics, enemies, persecutors and
murderers are gone and forgotten, gen
erally speaking, but such mighty men of
God live on in influence, whose names
and noble deeds are known to the whole
world
Be great. You may not be highly
educated. Some of the best men and
women of the world were, and are,
minus a great education; but they forg
ed their way fofwafrd to noble man
hood and womanhod. and by the grace
and power of God left their "footprints
on the sands of time." Today the world
rises up and calls them blessed- But,
if you have a high standard of educa
tion, use it to bless mankind. Let your
education help you be great. Don't let
it come between you and true greatness,
as it surely will if you are educated
to doubt God and the religion of Christ,
rejecting the Holy Bible, and salvation
and holiness. This will make you small
and dwarfed rather than great and
tall-
Be great. Think good and noble
thoughts; be a student of the Bible and
| the best literature. Don't waste your
time with trashy, degrading books and
literature that is flooding our country
today. Such will make you small in
mind, heart, soul, and life. No doubt
many criminals are the outgrowth of
sex literature, of trash that many writ
ers and publishers are putting out- Tom
myrot in literature will make one sick-
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Founts Of Wisdom
whlofe every elected official finds. The
psopie am the other aide would not any
more accept their suggestions than they
do the present Executive. In all prob
ability, they would make a bigger mess
of things than they are now in. We do
have a government managed by men,
not angels and archangels. All men make
mishitae. What a President needs is
not a pack of wolves snapping at his
heels, but citizens who want, not to
mnlrp pnlitipgl f«»pitni, but to work with
our leaders in sympathy and honest
suggestions, in a sincere devotion to
America. And that goes no matter what
party is in power.
Things Can Be Overdone
Be Great
Both capital and labor are showing a
disregard for human beings, and thumb
ing their noses at moral and ethical
principles, with the result that all of us
are being incarcerated in prisons of our
own making. Millions are suffering today
because as a nation we have lost rever
ence for life, and our sense of responsi
bility.
mentally, morally, and spiritually.
Be great Let your greatness mani
fest itself in your home. There is no
better and more important place in the
world to be great than in the home.
Just here is where many people win out
or lose out To be kind in the home,
loving, patient, gentle, prayerful, con
siderate, helpful, industrious, godly and
Christlike is really the essence of true
greatness. But to be mean in the home,
selfish, quarrelsome, fussy, disagreeable,
profane, drunken, gluttonous, careless of
the welfare of one's family, with one's
influence a curse rather than a blessing,
proves how little and contemptible one
is- No doubt this characterizes thous
ands of homes today. This causes sep
aration of husbands and wives, divorces,
and thousands of children thrown out
on the cold mercies of a heartless and
unfriendly world.
Be great Live for God and a worth
while purpose. You don't have to waste
your time in idleness and foolishness,
eldng out an existance and with no goal
to strive for- So many people are aim
less. It has been said that "low aim is
crime." This accounts for the wreck and
ruin for many people. They lack high
ideals; just drifting along. Why live
like that? There is something so much
better to live for- Why don't people see
it? Look up; LOOK UP! Good things
come from above, from the Father of
all blessings.
Be great. Love everybody. Harbor
no hatred in your heart. Stand for all
that is wrong and contemptible- Aim
high. Live for God and others. Don't
dry up in your own little life. Branch
out, bear fruit, help your neighbors, be
good to the sick, spend some money
for the welfare of those about you- Be
liberal, tithe your income, and give of
the remaining nine-tenths to needy peo
ple and to advance God's kingdom. BE
GREAT!
Walter F. Isenhour, Minister,
Taylorsville, North Carolina
Any community can progress if it
possesses some unselfish leaders and
some unselfish people.
Everyone should have an Inexpen
sive rain guage. Then they can talk
learnedly about the latest rainfall and
argue with the official U. S. weather ob
server
A way to better public schools is
through more money for the public
school system.
Work may he • great Messing to
man but thsfe are times when we have
some
Students of this age readily admit
that a coeducational school offers cer
tain advantages.
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WASHINGTON H
Congressman
Junes T. Broyhili I
CIVIL RIGHTS
For twelve days, the House
of Representatives has been
debating the 1966 Civil Rights
bill recommended by the Ad
ministration. Although the de
bate was long and often dif
ficult to follow, Congress has
considered few bills that are
as complex as this one.
In this latest proposal, as
in previous civil rights meas
ures, there often is a choice
between long - established
rights and newer concepts
which are now considered ov
er-riding and necessary. Cer
tainly, there is justification
for the charge that the bill
was "neither all good nor all
bad" and "neither all Con
stitutional nor all un - Con
stitutional."
Any legislation as sweep
ing in its scope as this one
is hard to characterize in the
short space of this Report
Nevertheless, I want to des
cribe some of the problems
that led to grave misgivings
as I viewed the bill as illus
trated by the least contro
versial sections of the meas
ure.
The first section of the leg
islation attempts to assure
that there will be no dis
crimination in the selection
of juries in Federal and State
courts because of race. Our
jury system is one of the
bulwarks of individual free
dom. Strengthening that bul
wark is unlikely to provoke
argument. This portion of the
bill received little comment
or, as it seems to me .little
consideration. Still, in the de
bate, an ominous warning was
sounded. Legal questions from
the Federal judiciary and
from Constitutional ex p erts
have arisen about the propri
ety of Federal encroachment
upon State authority in the
operation of their court sys
tems. Even the Chief Justice
of the United States has com
mented recently upon the dan
gers of intervention. Bigotry,
intolerance, and racism should
not be allowed to intrude into
the dispensing of justice. How
ever, unless careful and
thoughtful consideration is
given to a complex measure of
this kind, even the most bland
seeming provision may well
be something that the country
will come to regret.
Surely the most contro
versial of all the provisions
of this new bill concerns
another proposal which in all
candor appears to have been
hastily put together and it
was charged, politically moti
vated and unrealistic. Under
this proposal, a homeowner
realtor, or lending institution
would be sharply limited in
selling or leasing real estate
if racial discrimination is al
leged. The homeowner could
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find himself involved in a
lawsuit under State, local, or
Federal laws. In fact, the
homeowner could be challeng
ed not only by a private
citizen; the Attorney General
of the United States would
also have a right to inter
vene and throw the entire
weight of the Federal govern
ment against the accused In
dividual.
We would be well advised
to look at a typical law suit
under this part of the Ad
ministration's plan. The com
plaining party could be pro
vided with an attorney and
court costs, while the accus
ed party would have to pay
his own expense to defend him
self. A restraining order could
be issued and the property
taken off the market until a
dicision was reached. It could
easily take the Federal courts
many months or even years
to complete the case. While
this was going on, the home
owner's asset would be froz
en. If the complaining indi
vidual won his case he
would be entitled to damages.
The accused homeowner,
would on the other hand, re
ceive nothing if the court de
cided in his favor and would
have to pay the full cost
of his defense. This unfair
treatment by itself is enough
to cause serious misgivings
about this provision. However,
even more deeply involved is
the fundamental concept of
property rights through which
we have recognized the right
of the property owner to use
his property as he sees fit so
long as he does not interfere
with the lawful rights of his
neighbors or endanger the
health, safety, or welfare of
the community.
Fortunately, in the House
of Representatives this parti
cular section was rewritten
to more reasonable proportions.
Under the bill as passed, sin
gle family dwellings and own
er-occupied buildings would
not be covered by the law.
Multiple family dwellings oc
cupied buildings would not
be covered by the law. Mul
tiple family dwellings occu
pied by the owner and opt
more than four families wonld
be exempted. The law also
would not apply to the ren
tal of rooms in an owner-oc
cupied single family dwell
ing. Religious and Fraternal
organizations would be ex
empted. i
It seems to me that the
Administration recognized
that is was necessary to com
promise in order to get its
bill passed at all. Neverthe
less, I feel strongly that the
Administration's acceptance of
this compromise was easy
since the White House knows
well that once the principle
Piedmont Club
Horse Show
This Satinliy
On Saturday, of this week,
September 3rd, the 7th An
nual Piedmont Saddle Club
Horae Show will be held. The
Show will be staged at the
Saddle Club Show grounds on
highway 68, 3 Vfc miles North
of Green*boro. There will be
two performance*. The first
Show will be the afternoon
event starting at 1 P. M with
the Night Show starting at
7:30 P. M. The rain-date for
the show is September 10th
There are 24 classes slated
tor the Afternoon Show and
L 9 classes for the Night Show.
Zeb Whitlow, of High Point
will be the Master of Cere
monies and Ernie Bowden, of
Virginia Beach, Va., will be
the Horse Show Judge.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend the Horse
Show and will be assured of a
good show.
of Federal jurisdiction is es
tablished, it is relatively easy
to expand Federal power to
the full extent
I opposed this bill since I
feel that in many instances
it will not advance the cause
of the rights of any group
of Americans by suppressing
the rights of others. It is like
ly to create confusion and
bitterness. Discord and ani
mosity are certainly not the
products we should be seek
ing at this time. The legisla
tion will now go to the Sen
ate where it is sure to re
ceive a more searching ana
lysis than it received in the
House.
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60 SECOND SERMON
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Fred Dodge
TEXT: "Pat off until tomorrow wtutf yoa shouldn't do
at *ll."—Unknown.
After a three year absence the members of a polar
expedition arrived home and were feted at a banquet. Dur
ing the questioning, an attractive feminine reporter asked,
"What did you really miss most out there during three
years in the snow and loneliness "
The leader of the expedition slowly looked her up
and down and said deliberately, "Temptation, young lady,
temptation."
Temptation cones unbidden to all of us. That, we can
not prevent However, someone has said, we do not have
to Invite temptation in and serve it tea. The reason we
an "pash - oven" for temptation is that we, mentally,
■often Ml— hia for its invitation. Somehow we have not anti
cipated evil; have not made op oar minds not to lie, not
to steal, not to chest, not to "pail a test one", not to be
vulgar, not to avoid even t£e appearance of evil.
Determination not to invito temptation in, is vitally
important in failing to hear when it knocks on the doors of
oar nlads. Most of the evil in the world could be avoided
if are first refused to open oar minds to it.
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