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_FRIDAY. JANUARY 23. 1953

Charting a Course

IJWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER became the 34th President of the United States on Tuesday in exercises characterized by simplicity and an air of implicit sincerity. The frailty of human effort was recognized and the strength of an omnipotent God was sought. In fearless clarity and powerful earnestness President Eisenhower affirmed the principles of freedom in a world fraught with international tensions. For the first time in history millions of Americans saw, by means of television, the inauguration of a President. They saw a man assume an obligation fully aware that it entailed the greatest responsibility any President has faced. Not only did he rec ognize domestic problems of importance, but more, the grave international situation. His hearers were further impressed by his humility and dignity. A serious determin ation was plainly shown in his demeanor; the magnetic smile was replaced with an impressive expression of earnestness. His audience responded with only two volleys of spontaneous applause, the remainder of the- time they were thoughtful in rapt at tention. The occasion was impressive and made one realize that the United States, possibly the world, was embarking upon a new course. A new leader had assumed mo mentous responsibilities which he was to share with his countrymen and bear with the aid of Divine Providence. In no other nation could a leadership be changed so simply, yet with ultimate dignity, recogniz ing the frailty of human ability and rely ing earnestly upon divine guidance. It made one realize that something more powerful . than armed might and materialistic pro gress has promoted the United States to a place of leadership among nations. President Eisenhower said in part: “We are called as a people, to give tes timony, in the sight of the world, to our faith that the future shall belong to the free. “This faith is the abiding creed of our fathers. It is our faith in the deathless dig nity of man, governed by eternal moral and natural laws . . . “This faith rules our whole way of life. It decrees that we, the people elect leaders not to rule but to serve. “It asserts that we have the right of choice of our own work and to the reward of our own toil. It inspires the initiative

that makes our productivity the wonder of the world . . . “The faith we hold belongs not to us alone, but to the free of the world . . . we are linked to all free peoples, not merely by a noble idea, but by a simple need. No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude . . . This basic law of interdependence, so mani fest in the commerce of peace, applies with thousand-fold intensity in the event of war. “The strength of all free peoples lies in unity, their danger in discord . . . we face the threat—not with dread and con fusion—but with confidence and conviction. “We shall be guided by certain fixed principles: “We hold it to be the first task of states manship to develop the strength that will deter the forces of aggressmn and promote the conditions of peace . . . “It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens ... to place the cause of his country before the comfort and convenience of him self . . . “We shall never try to placate an ag gressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading honor for security. For in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains. “We shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institu tions . . . “We shall strive to help them achieve their own security and well being . . . shall count upon them to assume their full and just burdens of the common defense of free dom. “We shall strive to foster everywhere, and to practice ourseives, policies that en courage productivity and profitable trade. “Within the framework of the United Nations to help strengthen such special bonds (of regional grouping) the world over. “We hold all continents and peoples in equal regard and honor. “We shall strive to make it (United Nations) not merely an eioquent symbol but an effective force. "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America . . . “This is the work that awaits us all, to be done with bravery, with clarity — and prayer to almighty God."

Construction Industry

RANKING just behind the nation’s de fense. as an industry, the construction industry established a new peak volume in 1052 of $42,000,000,000. And, despite pre dictions to the contrary, many industry officials - includin': Harold Berlin, vice president of the Johns-Manville < orpora tion—believe 1053 volume will exceed that of 1052. Berlin broke the 1052 total down into the following segments: 1. $11,000,000,000 spent in private new residential expendi tures. About 1,100,00 new homes were started in the year. The dollar volume is expected to be equal ed in 1053.

2. Private non-residential expenditures were about $10,700,000,000. Berlin believes this outlay may also be equaled in 1953. 3. Government construction of all kinds totaled about $10,600,000,000. Berlin ex pects this fiyurc to rise in 1953. Modernization and repair construc tion volume totaled about $10,000,000,000 last year and the prediction is that it will increase in 1953. If Mr. Berlin’s prediction is an accurate one, the industry's peak volume of 1952 will be surpassed in 1953 by a new record. This would indicate another unusually jzood business year in 1953.

Congressmen’s Salaries

/CONSIDERABLE discussion has been in progress in Washington over the salaries of congressmen. The dramatic appearance, of vice-presidential candidate, Richard M. Nixon, on television during the recent campaign pin-pointed the difficulty experienced bv public servants in main taining a standard of living demanded in the Nation's Capital without being unfair to their families. It has narrowed itself down to a point where a congressman must be independent financially, or be obligated to his friends, or sacrifice his ability in private industry, in„order to serve the pub lic. The condition is not healthy. The present annual salary is $Ib.Oitn for both senators and representatives plus al

low able office expenses. In certain in stances congressmen have chiseled on ex penses in order to make both ends meet. It will take all of the salary and more to maintain a home in Washington and one hack in the home state, which means that the man of ordinary means can not aspire to the duty of public service. We recognize the dangers of too high a salary and its attraction for those less j qualified, but we do believe public servants! an* worthy of their hire and anything less than c«>st is unfair to them and unwise for the good ol the nation. We would not be! averse to a modest inerease in the pay of our representative! in the National Govern-; meiit. I

The trouble with the world, as we have heard it said, is the people in it. What happens is not as important as \shat the people* believe has happened.

Who’s the head of the house is often a matter of argument. Never lose your temper because some bod v else cannot think clearly '

! _THE HILLS AFTER KOREA

Scripture: Matthew 8 14. 18 Devotional Heading: I Peter 2:19*25. Two Hardest Lesson for January 25. 1953 JHEN YOU see a polc-vaulter sailing like a bird over the high bar. it looks like the easiest thing in the world. When von see a watchmaker putting a hairspring into place, or a good cook whipping a eake together, it looks simple. But the simple things are seldom as easy as they look. So it is in the Christian life. It can be made to sound absolutely simple: but it never is. And it never is easy, either. Perhaps the two hardest things sound the easiest Jesus made it plain that without them one cannot call oneself a true Christian. One is humility and the other is forgiveness. How easy they sound! But try them. They will test your spiritual musck

Can This Be Ki«ht? There is another paradox about these two indispensable qualities

of Christian living. They are not only much harder to practice than they sound, but they sound worse than they are. What is the quality which all Americans ad vise, imitate and practice with all their might’ Isn't it aggressiveness.

I)r. Foreman

me go-getting spirit Humility Founds like the opposite of that, and so we seldom hear it praised, at Rotary luncheons, in political speeches or in school textbooks Even in church wo don't hear much about it. Advising people to be humble sounds like advising them to aim for the bottom of the lad der. not the top. As for forgiveness, this too goes against the natural grain. We can forgive people for mistakes, we ran forgive them with good grace when they haven't hurt us par ticularly But when other people have actually done wrong, sera us wrong, and done it to me or to some one I love, how then can I forgive them? Won't 1 be loweri "

myself to their level if I forgive? Won't it be the same as saying that what they did was quite right after all? Shan't I be calling wrong, right? Isn't forgiveness turning light and wrong upside down? * • • Humble Like a Child Lot us look into these matters a moment. Take humility first. Jesus' illustration of humility is not some down-and-out lazy person without dreams, desires or ambi tions His model is the child. What is the humility of a child? It is the quality of teachableness. The child is /iot set in his ways. He is trust ful Even the liveliest child, even the most stubborn, will believe what he is told, and has a never satisfied curiosity about every thing You can t tell the college sophomore much; he thinks he knows enough as it is. But no child thinks he knows everything. He is not suspicious, cynical, sophisti cated, superior. He can grow. Call the roll of the world's truly great men. they all have this qual ity of childlikeness, whether a greatly daring [>erson like Scott, the explorer of the Antarctic, or a greatly wise person like Abraham Lincoln, or a greatly imaginative person like John Bunyan. All forms of greatness have in them the qual ity of the childlike. And the special humbleness that is essential for Christians is not only this, but humility before God. For the one sin that keeps one farthest away from God is the very opposite of childlikeness, namely pride. • . *

Seventy Times Seven Consider that other quality, the forgiving spirit. Does this realty mean calling wrong, right’ We should remember that forgiving i* not the same thing as condoning. You condone a wrong when you act as if it were not a wrong at all, really When God forgives us he does i ot pretend that we have done no wrong, and when we forgive < thers we should not confuse wrong with right. Condoning means ap proving; forgiving does not. You can condone without love; it takes lov e to forgive. But nowhere in the Bible is it said that God forgives, or that we arc expected to forgive, apart from repentance The hard and unre pentmg 'pint makes forgiveness impossible. Forgiveness is not a one-sided affair. It calls for hu mility on both sides, for forgive i css is a restoring of fellowship, and that cannot be done in pride. But is forgiveness a sign of wcak • ss ' Wait till you have been in sulted. injured or wronged, and • on .' ill learn the truth about it. 11.1-rd rm outlines copsrlfhlfd br tb« til-,-Inn ot Christian I du, atton. S» i.tn t I < riutiHl of the < hurrhfp of < hrl«t li e I S. \ Released by WM I IBIIM I

; V) Crossing Over When von ero. o'er the border into space and the night. Let your spirit be . trong, hope's lamp burning bright. If your heart is a-wcan and your footsteps are slow Because of life's journey you’ve traveled below. You’ve seen as you journeyed, the fast flight of years. The ones that brought, laughter and those that brought tears. You have passed thru the valleys of darkness and pain. And then you've awakened to the sunshine again. When you cross o'er the border, you should go without lea r, Hope’s lamp ever brighter as the shadows draw near. With faith in your heart and with (Jod by your side. You should cross without fear at the end of life’s tide. Hopefully yours, L. D. Whitaker

Farmers Showing Increased Interest In Crop Drying Virginia farmers continue i" show increased interest in crop drying installations E T. S«mk. associate agricul tural engineer at VPI, said 82 dry ing systems were installed in 1952. for a total of about 850 systems In 83 Virginia counties. Ten of the installations report ed wege for drying two or more crops. Swink says this trend will probably increase as more farmers learn more about the advantages of drying corn and small grain. Seventeen natural ,:r p-tAeun

and one portable drier were m mailed for long hay. 13 natural air systems and 11 portable driers were installed for baled hay. Oth ers included chopped hay. corn, gram, and or combination in da 11alions. Of Die total 40 were natural ajr systems. 22 were por table crop driers. I. S. POPULATION Almost half of the population of the United States lives in 157 urbanized areas, which contain less than five per cent of the land area of the country. The popula tion per square mile of these ur banized areas is 5.438. while the average density outside the ur banized areas is 27.5 persons per I - UJh ; ’ Uii]P

fiWBB ar » By Ted Resting A miracle has taken place in Pennsylvania. A miracle with the ponderous name of the Pennsy vania Cooperative Farm-Game Program. The miracle-worker is the Pennsylvania Game Commis sion which has succeeded in open ing to public hunting almost one million acres of land-that either was posted or about to be posted. Bill Wolf reports that the man ner in which these million acres were added to public hunting grounds is pf natural interest in this day of growing friction be tween landowner and hunter. It started in 1936, when the Com mission went to the farmers and said in effect: If enough of you who own ad joining acres throw it open to public hunting, we will give you something in return. We will set up safety areas around all your buildings; we will see that game protectors are on hand during hunting season; we will set apart some of land as game refuges so vour land will not be hunted out. Tf there are gullies or other ero sion on your farms, the Game Commission wity supply seed or slants that will bind the soil to gether. and help plant them if necessary. If you have contour olowing problems, we will pro vide specially-trained men to help -ou and we ask cnly that the trip planting be done to help •he game as well as the land. The Commission also said: If you or ycur kids want to raise -'heasants for us. we’ll supply the ’hicks and pay you for each bird -aised and released at 12 week of age. If your land needs restock ng, you will get top consideration ■hen we stock Quail, pheasant ">r rabbits. We’ll do everything i our power to make your acres better farm land because then it -ill be better game land. What do you say? The farmers said ‘'Yes’’ rathe slowly at first. But the last fev vears the program has been gotn -ith a bang. The 1951-52 repor* will show 3.000 farms with 10.000 farmers cooperating and mor than a million acres open it public hunting. The Commission scon learne that the thing farmers wante most was protection of rights. lif and property. Once he was as sured of that, he was open t other things like wildlife habita improvement on his land. Fror the beginning, the Commissior has religiously seen to it that co operating farmers get that pro tection. at the same time subth pointing out-that if it weren’t for the hunters' license fees to pro vide money to hire protectors the farmer would have no safeguard at all against vandals and poach ers. Very few farmers ever with draw from a project, best proof that the plan is working

DESERTIONS While the Army has had about 46,000 desertions from its ranks by enlisted men since the start of the Korean war, all except 11.000 have returned to duty or have been picked up. The Air force re ported 851 deserters unreturned as of October 31; the Navy, 1.242, as of the end of December, and the Marine Corps, 697, for the same date.

Letters to the Editor Country Editors Taken to Task

i Editor. I The Farmville Herald I wonder, reading Virginia weekly newspapers, including your own splendid one. whether our country editors who are among the most influential of them all. are devoting enough attention to the battleground in Korea. Withaut the services of the great press associations and minus foreign correspondents, the week ly paper carries little beyond an occasional feature about some local boy who has come back and may have seen a mile or so of the front cr rear areas and little else With all its full coverage of the community’s social life, with columns of print about gangling young high school basketball players, and accounts of the jihlny elegance of the 1953 auto

mobiles, your paper. m‘ my opin i n suffers from a terrible om mission: Complete, or almost so. silence on ' 1> a war that is draining U. S. manpower strength, (2 > a clash of mighty war-making machines, each costing millions of dollars, which is stifling the financial and economic life of our country, and .3> a surging conflict that is wip ing cut millions of Par Eastern civilians. % How long are the American people going to permit this world catastrophe to c ntinue unnotic ed. while they keep up their merry pace with muffs over their ears and blinders over their eyes? Ill tell you—lust so long as our country editors continue to neglect the subject Interested Reader

Double Check This Republican weather and Democratic prosperity is ab ut to get me down—to the day the change takes place it was hay wire. Very few predictors came out m this years forecast. 'Slick" magazines cul their subscription rates and lengthened their terms to get you folks to keep reading . . . some even sent 'tamps for return postage . they didn't even get the stamps back. Just saw where some aged wine was dug up addressed to Waist n Churchill. They are fixing it to him. for the one bigger toast . . Make America Pree-er?" Well maybe so. Patronage is still the big news ror the South never had t so good ... so few "key" men The "Chowder and Marching Club." the GOP planning board, garner up the attitude.^ of the •ommittees to tackle new legis ’atim . . . they haxe no vested interest. The call for men tor draft duty is a heavy drain on man poxver. Draft Boards are left with no choice whatever.

Thanks for the visits. Influenza is the same Democrat or Republi can. Thanks for reading. Yours, J. Marvin Brown New Day Dawning In Nematode Control New chemicals and new equip ment have ushered in a new era m root-knot control in gardens. S. B. Fenne. plant pathologist at YPI. says root-knot, caused by nematodes, is one ol the most serious garden pests in eastern Virginia and affects many vege tables. Use of simple equipment with a jar-top applicator for applying control chemicals by the row method will reduce the cost of treatment. For example, where DD or 40 per cent ethylene di oromide are available at about $2.75 per gallon a 1 10-acre gar den can be treated for about $2 75. Gardeners should make sure that their seed dealers have materials available »n time to fumigate their soils next spring, Fenne says. The book of Revelations in the Bible is called the Apocalypse.

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