The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-25
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
WE STILL SHALL GROW

We have done marvellous things. We have ere
ated the greatest civilization in history Daliy our
sneech, newspapers, magazines and radio are Iuh
of the wonders we have discovered and given en-
istence And we shall go to higher things.
But there is deep feeling around many tnae
in all the boasted wealth of our amazing science
and civilization, we have overlooked the greatness
that is within us. We have covered over this most
valuable part of u.s. We have been worshipping
Mars and numbering millions in international wars
until we have become deluded with the idea that
phvsical courage is the sine qua non of greatness
The world displays it in relationships, increased
ornaments and wars and rumors of wars.
Now physical courage is quality not to be
disparaged: but when it runs riot and STILES our
essential virtues it is caamitous. One writer goes
so far as to say that if we had any sense of what
really mattered we should regard the soldier as
a self-confessed failure and a martial nation as
nation of failures; for both Sinking the real
business of life which is to live and make life
possible.
Modern Hitlerzed Germany it is claimed, idol
ICES the fighter not because she is nation OF he
roes but because she is nation of potential sui
cides who have broken under moral and emotional
pressure and who know no way out save through
destruction"
Other things are listed as having robbed US OF
our birthright We have sold it for an excited
hurry which knows no meditation. We have SOLO
it for faithfulness to things which have no spe-
cal efficacy in nourishing zeal fo. simpler liY-
ing and higher thinking We may have pride IN
our fidelity, but it is impossible to be proud of
many of the things to which faithful. The
principle of our being loyal is good; hut the things
to which we are loyal are too often bad 1t is not
that we have done great things. Not that great
ness is not within u.s. 1t is that this greatness has
not been given air.
As we came to the end of our road of material
prosperity, so We have come to the end of our
road morally and emotionally; we have turned
the corner of the one, so we must turn the corner
of the other. The famous c. G.. Jung, author Of
"Man in Search of Soul" says that out of his
experience with thousands of patients he has be-
come convinced that ''the psychological problem
of today is spiritual problem, religious prob
lenl' He says that man today hungers and thrsts
for safe relationships relationship to safe spir-
itual conditions. In the Middle Ages the rich bios
som of mans emotional life "found expression in
the painting of great religious pictures, the
ing of great religious statues the building of the
great cathedrals." But now, that has "gone fiat
Yet it is uncomfortable that the craving, the ex.
allied yearning which furnished all this beauty and
elevation of life is lost 1t is still within mans
subconsciousness. Submerged there by an excite
ment over fast riding and high riding Long-dis-
lance speaking and hearing. EIectric-button ana
idle-mind And neither physical nor psychical
health will ever return to until this is aroused
Given air and activity. In world so full of mys-
terry as ours, man must have something to cling to-
Must have great and glowing faith. Else he
drops as suicides drop. Helpless. As people drop
INTO dependency. Into crime. Into Warehouses; |
There is nothing to save them. No high hope. Nc
prophetic vision of growth or glory.
Too much are we like the spider that hung his !
web to gossamer thread. Caught flies, grew plump
and proud. Spying the thread one day. he growled,
What's that for?" and swapping it, he went down
with his dwelling. When connection with the |
invisible is broken, there is no light And without
light there is life. As that great Catholic, John
La Fargo, remarked about the miracles reported |
from Lourdes: "For those who believe in God no |
explanation is necessary. For those who do not
believe in God explanation is possible" They
have cut the thread-GTolumbia Is. c.. State.