The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-06
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
SECURITY

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With this issue the Monitor closes series VI
articles on the worlds quest for soclai ana ecu.
nomic security, sought largely through devices u
social insurance such as the pending ECONOMIC DC
curit hill in the United States senate but depehu
inc also upon many other even more oasic queS.
tions of national policy such as CONSERVATION =,
resources control of the business cycle, peace anu
war, and forth.
In some respects the great popular urge 1or Sc
curity in many nations seems phenomenon u
only recent times intensified by the depression VI
the last few years. Security has, of course, Deeh
primary desire from the dawn of human history
But other qualities other characteristics, other
goals have appealed more to the Imagination. III
consequence the literature of the race Is full OF
encomiums on courage and daring while the Few
references to security nearer the view of the
witch Hecate, in Macbeth:
Security is mortals chiefest enemy"
Now security, if sought in stratagems and greed,
in Incidence and ease, in accumulation solely OF
material goods, or in cowardly retreat from respon-
sibilitv. is indeed an enemy. 1t not only tends 20
harm others but also ends in the greatest nsecur-
inv for the seeker. 1t is because OF these ways
which mortals have of seeking security that 1t ap
nears sometimes an enemy. We need truer high
or sense of security, fit for association with the
idea not of mortality but of the immortality Of
man.
,soc,ritv belongs to man as part of his birth
,iobt in the universe of God who is good. 1t IS
the rightfu result of Justice, not merely legal put
moral and social in the actions of and society
Isaiah described it thus:
"He that walketh righteously and speaketh up
rightly: he that despiseth the gain of expressions
and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
"He shall dwell on high, his place of defence
shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be
given him; his waters shall be sure
It is right that nations should try to shadow
forth and give expression to this security 30 lar
as human forms and organization can spread and
soften the impact of social hazards, give more just
distribution of the fruits of toll and shield with
compassion the victims of misfortune, they are
serving purposes that come from higher than hu-
man impulse.
Governments may do their best, and their best
is the least they should do yet it should be under
stood that even governments cannot make perpetual
a status quo nor insure positively any lndlvlduafs
future There is no absolute security in physical
world and material things, for these are in con-
final change Amid them the only security is IN
constant alertness adjustment and forward-looking
activity.
True security is still thing of vision, fire, faith
and fortitude 1t requires gratefulness, courage
and confidence - gratefulness for the riches OF
earth thus far unfolded courage even in adversely
to face the future with hope and energy, and con-
fidence that power stronger than that of men
moves them on toward higher destiny 1t re-
quires that, whatever assurances may be devised
for the material so-caed necessities of existence.
these shall be taken not as bed of ease but as a
footing for nobler climb.
Thus fired and caparisoned, will achieve a
realization of security which, though not scorning
but rather chershng the best that earthly organ
ization can afford, will forbear to place its ultimate
confidence in anything less than the Most High,
Then, in Addisons amplifed translation of one
of the odes of Horace,
Should the whole frame of nature round HIM break
! In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
| And stand secure amidst a falling world.-The
Christian Science Monitor.