The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-14

.. All OF us should be happy be-
cause of the hope of immortality.
There is no positive proof of immor-
tality, but there are circumstances
which lead inevitably to the hope of
immortality. For instance, the an
cient Greeks buried valuable coins
with the dead, in order that the dead
might have the means with which to
pay the ferryman to take them across
the river which divided this life from
the eternal world The American In
dians had the habit of burying the
hunting utensils with the dead, i'm or
der that the dead might have some
thing with which to hunt in the other
realm. Again, everything in the
world is made for purpose, all plant
life being made for the food and the
shelter of man, all animal life being
MADE for the service of man, and un-
less man is immortal, he was made
for no purpose at all, which is un-
reasonablc and contrary to all the
principles OF matter and the universe.
q. All of us should be glad to have
inc opportunity to work and to serve
our fellows in some useful way All
work, whether that of the plowman
or the preacher or the lawyer or the
cditor' IS sacred, and gives the ind-
vidual the opportunity Of finding hap
pmcss. Idle hands and idle heads arc
the workshops of the devil. The
writer doubts very much whether any
individual has the moral right to
strike. since if all of us on strike
the wheels of society would stop NOV,
ing, but in every State there should
be established an Industrial Court of
some kind, to which labor can appeal
Tor correction of its grievance, With
out having to go on strike.
D.. All of us should rejoice at the
privilege OF paying taxes, since taxa
tion IS the only method devised by
man or maintaining law and Court
houses, good roads, good schools and
Colleges, and charitable institutions
a friend of the writer maintains that
II is the first duty of a man to pay his
priest or preacher, in order that the
priest or preacher might pray him
out OF purgatory, but the writer be-
ileVes that the first duty of a man is
TO pay his taxes, and that there is y
divinity that shapes the end of ali
men, irrespective Of the PRAYERS of
the priest or preacher. However
taxation should be reduced bv the
simple process of combining various
public institutions, there are hund.
reds or political commissions which
Shoulc DC combined into one uScful
COMMISSION, and we could have better
schools in this country, at a trcmcn-
d,ous saving in the matter of taxes.
Dy simply abolishing the weak and
one or two pupil schools and combin-
ing them into one good school.
.; All of us should thank God that
mat we live in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and twcnty-onc, and
m the one hundred and forty-sixth
year OF the sovereignty and indcpcn-
dencc of the United States of Amcri-
ca. NO greater privilege could have
Deeh Touchsafcd tc any man than to
nave been born a citizen Of the Unit
ca States, and to live in this agc and
generation, with all the blessings Of
our modern civilization, railroads,
automobiles, airplancs, watcr-works'
sanitation and hygiene, daily news,
papers, magazincs, good books, and
me ,nnnmcrablc blessings of science
ana human progress, is a privilege
ana an opportunity beyond the graSp
OF the human mind. '
Yours truly,
j. j. Cantov