The Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 52, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 12, 1952 Page: 2 of 16
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“The Dally Sun Nsws, Levsllanrf, Texas, Sunday, October 12, 1982
‘ “‘““ OF HEAVIES!
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The Gravest Calamites Are Unbalanced
Budgets on the Inside of Human Souls
A FAITH FOR TOUGH TIMES
A Faith Fitted for Tough Times Needs Deep Wells From '
Which to Draw Courage—The Christian Religion Not
Merely a Theory About a God But Personal Experience
Man Has With a Powerful Presence
BY HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
The last of a series from the
book, A FAITH FOR TOUGH
TIMES, just published by Harper
A Bros. — THE EDITORS.
WMirn
COLUMBUS AND OIL
Today, Oct. 12, is a day of dual significance for the
American people. For one thin#, it is Columbus Day; for
another, it is the beginning of Oil Progress Week—the
time when oil men everywhere make personal reports to
their hometown communities on their progress and
achievements.
This world of ours has changed tremendously since Co-
lumbus proved that it was as round as a billiard ball; and
one of the things that speeded that change in the last cen-
tury aloffc was the discovery of oil in 1859. The personal
reports that oil men will make during Oil Progress Week
will focus attention on some of these changes — and the
role played by oil products in re-shaping the course of
modern civilization.
Colunrbus, they say, discovered the Western Hemis-
phere because he risked everything and took a chance. In
the same sense, our way of life has been bettered consist-
ently because oil producers have been willing to risk ev-
erything and take chances too.
Finding oil requires considerable work and great finan-
cial risk—ahd the odds against success are long. Even with
the best tools and knowledge that science can muter, the
chances of hitting a profitable well in a virgin area are
roughly 1 in 44 ; the chances of it being a big field discov-
ery are close to 1 in 1,000. Since modern wildcat wells
cost around $90,000 each, on the average it ia obvious that
oil producers have to stick,out their chins (financially
speaking) every time they start a drill churning into the
1* earth.
Despite the hazards, oil men have been successful in
their quest for new oil. Ou** proved reserves, for example,
are at an all-time peak even though our production rate is
at its highest point in history. That assures our immediate
needs.
The oil men’s record through the last 93 years is strong
assurance in itself our future oil supplies are in competent
hnd trustworthy hands.
PORT HAS FREE ZONE
I.ATAKIA, Syria — A free
zone in the Latakia port has been
set up Dy a recent Syria legis-
lative decree.
Goods may be moved in and out
of the free zone exempt from re-
gulations of the Ministry of Na-
tional Economy regarding imports
and exports.
The free zone decree is regarded
as another move to make Latakia
a significant Mediterranean port,
thereby helping Syria become less
dependent on the Lebanese ports
\of Beirut and Tripoli. The Beirut
port also has a free zone.
BIG JACK RABBIT KILLED
COW ISLAND, Mont. M Joe
ATLANTA
Fifth - ranking
Georgia Tech kept its slate clean
with a hard-won 14 to 0 decision
over a stubborn Tulane eleven.
Tech scored its first touchdown
in the last minute of the first half
and its second in the closing sec-
onds of the last half.
The first tally came on a pass
of 39 yards from Bill Brigman to
Buck Martin. The second resulted
from a two-yard dive through cen-
ter by sub fullback Jimmie John-
son.
Sage Hen, a Gros Ventre Indian,
scared up a giptit 15' pound jack
rabbit and promptly blasted the
critter with a buffalo gun.
® title USoriis
to IGtue by
•v^JOHN 7:16 — "My teaching is not mine, but
his who sent me, if any man’s will is to do his
jwill, he shall know whether the teaching is from
(God or whether * I-am speaking # on my own
authority.”
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ryAChrisc'’went about shattering man’s ego. He
has always battled our personal pride. We insist
that God make Himself known to us on our terms.
:We demand that God submit to the methodical
'examination of our scientific age. Man feels so
powerful because he has conquered the elements
|of life. He seeks a similar feeling of power in
[trying to make God submit to such a critical
[analysis.
Jesus told the scribes that personal surrender
[was the means by which man came to know God.
|To know Him in mind and will, one must will to
do His will even before he knows what it is.
iTkis is a favorite verse because it hits the
[center of my sin and that of society. Such un-
equivocal i surrender guarantees a degree of
personal humility. In such humility one finds
the,frill of God for his life.
Dr. Warren Carr
{Watts Street Baptist Church
Durham, N.C*
CHAPTER SIX
Unbalanced budgets anywhere
are deplorable, but in troubled
times like these unbalanced bud-
gets inside human souls are an
especially grave calamity. Many
persons today are spiritually in-
solvent.
Life demands from them more
than their resources can supply.
Like exhausted^ reservoirs in a
drought, they run dry.
This disaster Is sometimes
seen in earnest Christians who
eagerly accept that aspect of
Christianity which calls for ac-
tive service and who live busy,
energetic lives, endlessly de-
voted to good works. They are
like the women Jonathan
Swift described, who, said he,
“out of zeal for religion have
hardly time to say their pray-
ers.’’
Others who suffer this calamity
of inward exhaustion are anything
but Christian, like the prodigal
son, wasting his substance in riot-
ous living until, not financially a-
lone but spiritually too, as Jesus
said, “when he had spent all, he
began to be in want.”
Still others suffer this disaster
of a depleted soul mainly because
they live in this grim, frustrat-
ing generation.
One of the best-loved men in
America in recent years was Er-
nie Pyle, a brave man, a great
reporter, a warmhearted friend.
But all the more because we
liked him so, one notes a repeated
refrain in what he said.
“There is no sense to the strug-
gle,” he wrote, “but there is no
choice but to struggle.”
And again, "It seemed to me
that living is futile, and death the
final indignity.”
And again. “My wholly hopeless
feeling about, everything.”
And again, “I wish you would
shine any of your light in my
direction. God knows I’ve run out
of light.”
A disillusioning era like ours can
do that to a fine man.
Budge In ran sometimes be
balanced by reduction of expen-
diture, and there are doubtless
overzealous souls who need
that. They undertake too much,
assume too weighty responsi-
bilities, over extend them-
selves. Our generation, how-
ever, demands heavy output
from decent folk. In such an
era one cannot conscientiously
live unburdened by mankind’s
agony and doing nothing a-
hout it.
Let those reduce expenditure
who need to! Most of us, if ever
we are to balance our budgets,
must increase our income.
Any faith fitted for tough times
involves a gospel of available
power for daily living.
Jesus, seeing his disciples
overstrained and fatigued, rail-
ed them away to replenish In
solitude their spent resources.
Without that nothing notable
could have come from the
hard-driven group of his first
followers.
They found through him wide
margins of reserve around their
daily need, and deep wells to draw
their strength and courage from.
They learned the secret, without
which Christian living at its best
is forever impossible; -
Lord, what a change within
us one short hour
Spend in Thy presence, will
prevail'to make!
At the vital center of the Chris-
tian life is this divine-human en-
counter, this direct access of the
soul to God, from which inward
reinforcement comes, and with it
confidence that whether in per-
sonal living or in social tasks ade-
quate power is available.
So Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon,
cried, "The Spirit entered into me
. . and set me upon my feet.”
So the Psalmist, facing evil-
doers who came upon him to
eat up his flesh, wrote, “The
Lord is my light and my salva-
tion; whom shall I fear? The
Lord is the strength of my
life; of whom shall I be a-
fraid?”
So Isaiah, confronting national
disaster, said, "They that wait up-
on the Lord shall renew their
strength.”
So Paul, facing situations which
would have defeated most of qs,
found his dependable reliance —
"strengthened with might through
His Spirit in the inner man.”
For such men religion was not
simply a creed about God, but an
intimate relationship with God;
not simply theistlc theory but per-
sonal experience of a Presence,
whence the soul driws courage
and strength.
Such faith takes for granted the
tragedy of human life, the sin
and stupidity of man and the ca-
tastrophic turmoil of nations It
of the world, but on inward a-
wareness of adequate power to con-
front the world, despite deviliah
men and hellish circumstance.
(Copyright, 1952, by Harper &
Bros. Distributed by United Fea-
END OF SERIES
U. 8. CHECKS ON AID
HANOI, Indo-China OB — The
chief of the U. S. military aid
mission in Indo-China keeps a
close watch on what use the
French Union forces make of the
war equipment supplied to help
them fight the Communist-led Viet-
minh troops.
Brig. Gen. Thomas J. H. Trap-
nell went to Central Vietnam re-
cently with Gen. Gonzales de Lin-
ares, acting commander-in-chief of
the French forces, to watch Amer-
ican-supplied planes, naval craft,
guns and ammunition used against
the Vietminh. Earlier he had tour*
ed all strategic points receiving
American war aid.
Alabama used about 10 million
tons of coal in 1951.
Huge Report
Gives Glimpse
Of Oil's Role
A glimpse of the part that Texas
may play in the United States’
civilization during the next quarter
century is contained in a five-vol-
ume, seven pound government re-
port which in itself could serve
as a bible for Oil Progress Week
celebrations.
In an analysis of the President’s
Materials Policy Commission re-
port, “Resources for Freedom,”
the Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas
Association calls attention to sev-
eral phases of the report pertain-
ing to Texas' oil-based economy.
The report is an inventory of
the world's resources available to
the U. S. with forecasts for de-
mand by 1975.
Significant to Texas — with 56
per cent of the tnown U. S. crude
oil reserves and 55 per cent of
the natural gas reserves — are
estimates that the nation's need
for crude oil will be increased 109
per cent; natural gas, 142 per cent.
The need for more oil and gas
is based on estimates which in-
clude :
A doubling of the country’s en-
ergy needs.
A 75 per cent (increase in motor
fuel for passenger cars; two and
one-half times current require
ments for trucks and buses.
A five-fold increase for conven-
tional aircraft fuel and a ten-fold
increase for jet fuel.
A 150 percent increase for heat-
ing oils for home burners and a
tripling of the requirements for
natural-gas heated homes.
Prepared at the President's re-
quest for recommendations to as-
sure long range supply of vital ma-
terials, the report is generally op-
timistic with some ‘‘ifs’ ’— on
petroleum supplies.
The petroleum industry's past
performance record is cited:
"For years some people have
been predicting that the nation’s
crude oil supply was going to be
exhausted within 10 to 20 years.
Yet discoveries and out-put have
continued to rise. In 1951, two bar-
rels of oil were found for every
one extracted and two cubic feet
of gas found for every one extract-
ed.”
The report warns that imports of
oil would pi;obably grow in supple-
menting domestic supplies.
Two economic aspects — taxes
and price — .both significant to
Texas, are discussed. The Commis-
sion flatly urges that the current
depletion allowance should b e
maintained to stimulate wildcat
drilling in order to find new sup-
plies.
"If the present price of crude
oil should be increased two to four
times, the economic limit of the
'productive life of ’stripper wells'
in older fields would be prolonged
by as much as a quarter century,"
the report states. Texas has thou-
sands of wells in this category.
As Texas oil men themselves
have pointed out to federal price
officials, the report calls attention
to the fact that "traditionally, a
variation in the price of oil 25
cents per barrel or even less has
been sufficient to produce a notices
able change in rate of exploration
and discovery."
The report also takes cognizance
of the economic considerations for
increasing the natural gas supply.
Again, contrary to some current
government thinking, the report
urges that a long-range policy be
adopted to “encourage economic
discovery and recovery of the na-
tion's natural gas resources.” It
is predicted generally that "strong
market forces” in a free economy
would upgrade the use of gas from
current low cost — and sometimes
inefficient uses —* to take advan-
tage of .special qualities of natural
gas which other fuels don t have.
The Commission predicts increas
ed reliance on petroleum for raw
material to feed the growing petro-
chemical industry. It cautions,
however, that only about two per
cent by weight of the probable
domestic petroleum and natural
gas requirements will be needed
for chemical raw materials Jn
1975.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Gene
Kitchens, of Bula, Texas, announce
the airival of a son, Andy Don,
born Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Amherst,
at 12:01 a. m.
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invested savings of Americans
everywhere, have created an indus-
try able to do a big jobl In the
Southwest and throughout the
world, people of the oil industry
have rendered distinguished service
in finding and in improving the
manufacture of petroleum prod-
ucts. We are proud of our part in
oil’s growth and in its development
of the great Southwest
ou may measure it in miles...
in the size of its resources or in
the planning of the men who help
to make it grow. An idea or a busi-
ness can be big regardless of size!
It’s the job to be done that counts.
This vast Southwest, with its cattle,
cotton, oil and growing industries
has yet to T>lace a ceiling on success.
We call it free enterprise...the
freedom of opportunity to forge
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ahead for a man or a business... big
or little! Here in the Southwest, its
people would never agree to substi-
tuting controls for freedom or regu-
lations for competition. Southwest-
emers know that growth is both
normal and healthy.
The oil industry, its little and big*
companies, is a vital part of the
growing economy of the Southwest.
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Americans should know that, with the government’s knowledge
and encouragement, the American oil industry has helped to
keep open to the free nations moat of the world’s oil reserve*.
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