Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1959-02-25
We The People

members Of Congress are no
good. that they are a lazy bunch
of vultures.
We hear that Eisenhower, for
the time being, is hardly ever in
the White House, and 10 and
behold, what do you see? A ma
ton that has more or less sim
gle-handedly won the last two
world wars, a nation whose gen.
crosby is far, far greater than
anything that could have poSsi-
bly, been written up in the Old
or New TestamentS; nation
that is big enough to have for
given all its enemies; nation
that cannot even be provoked
into annihilating the worst enc
my a nation could ever have had
namely, Russia, which a few
years ago we could have literal
~ blown off the face of the
earth. even though this is not
true anymore today.
All over the world you find
CARE gift packages. even
though not nearly enough people
have a halfway full stomach.
yet the only people the world
over that are supported from
any outside country are support
ed from our country. Billions of
dollars donated every year for
churches. for cancer research.
for nothing but to the good
things in life.
Do we really understand how
it all came about? Do we really
realize what democracy means?
Do we have the fainteSt inkling
of what II will all lead to? Will
II lead to cleaner, richer. more
understanding and more gencr-
Gus America yet? Or will it lead
us on the path of ancient Greece
and Rome? Does the rest of the
world understand? Absolutely
and definitely, no.
II you ask 100 people on the
street TO explain what America
is. they cannot do it. One takes
America for granted. and that
IN a way, is good and sound.
There is only one little trouble,
though. This world has become
such a closely knit thing that
really all people have become
.neighborS and, as neighbors, 10
live together without under
standing each other, is almos,
impossible.
Every nation NEEDLES in eve
~ other nations affairs. Obvi-
ouSly, Ito love thy neighbor as
you love myself" is better thar
Just pure meddling, but | think
before love enters into the pic
ture, there has to be a certain
amount of respect and after re-
.Spect, a certain amount of und-
outstanding.
Maybe you feel things are go
ing swell, and we have had Hof-
fas in labor unions and Gid
fines all along in our history
and things worked out very
very well indeed. Personally, ]
am almost tempted to feel that
way myself.
But I'm not quite sure
whether in the long run this
attitude will be the healthiest
and most wholesome attitude
for US. | think we, the people
have to investigate very care
fully If in this changed world
we don't have to re-appraise
some things and then only de-
eide whether we leave well
enough alone or whether we
rather want to explain certain
things to ourselves, OF have
them explained to us by our
government.
To say that our picture here
is fantastic and wonderful would
be the understatement of the
century. Nothing like this has
ever happened before, but let's
be quite sure that it will con-
tinue to happen, if possible not
only here, but the world over.
One of the important ingredi-
ents for peace on earth, maybe
one Of the most important, is a
full stomach and a roof over
ones head. Naturally. there are
other ingredients which might
be equally important, but may
be these other ingredients would
be taken care of by themselves
or full stomachs and roofs that
don't leak.