Thoughts for Today Youth and Judgment From Ecclesiastes to Conrad
A reflective note on youth with Ecclesiastes urging joy yet accountability. It cites Joseph Conrad recalling youth’s fleeting, overpowering feeling and endurance, contrasting eternal horizons with time’s limits.
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Side Effects Of The Drug Raid On High Point
Commentary on a statewide drug crackdown argues arrests may raise heroin prices and drive addicts to greater illegal effort. While acknowledging possible public harm, the piece insists the net gain of law enforcement must be accepted and hopes for saving youths from drug traffic and aiding addicts to seek recovery.
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High Point
Free Market Perils Show Varied Impacts Across Nations
Two recent items highlight market tensions. In North Carolina the State Supreme Court struck down part of the Fair Trade Act, undermining fixed-price retailing that protected small merchants. In Venezuela the US backed tentative rules to govern high seas commerce, a shift that pleases East Coast fishermen but alarms West Coast tuna operators, illustrating how one side’s meat is another’s poison. The debate centers on who gains and who loses in a freer market.
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Meaning of Amen Explored In 19th Century Sermon
A historical sermon reflects on the word Amen from the Bible origin to its use in prayers hymns and scripture Jesus uttered Amen and Revelation references call it a universal concluding word meaning So be it or Truly. The piece notes the word’s uncertain origins yet its enduring role in church worship and personal devotion.
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Jesus
St. John the Divine
Christ
Amen and Amen in Worship Hearts Full of Sincere Faith
The article reflects on the word Amen used in sermons and prayers as a sincere, wholehearted expression across eras and congregations. It contrasts past practice with modern quietude, notes emotional worship in sports and religion, and urges using Amen with genuine fervor and devotion to God.
Supreme Court ruling hailed as defense of democracy
The Florida Supreme Court ruled a 1913 statute gave Pat Tornillo Jr. the right to reply to editorials in the Miami Herald a decision later overturned by the U S Supreme Court. The piece contrasts press freedom with dangers to democracy and notes other related reflections on media responsibility.
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Turkish opium reversal sparks youth heroin fears in US
Mondale warns renewed Turkish opium farming endangers American children as youths ten and older may return to heroin if supply resumes. The subcommittee studies economic and social effects while noting past overdose deaths and shifts to other drugs. The piece also covers Getty plant safety concerns and Beverly Harrell’s Nevada political bid.
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Quota system flawed in higher education says Carnegie report
The Carnegie Commission criticizes federal pressure to hire more blacks and women, arguing it lowers quality by admitting unqualified candidates and overpaying preferred minorities. It calls for recruiting and training minorities to meet standard merit, warning against privileged preference and arguing for equal protection principles.
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Carnegie Commission On Higher Education
John Nance Garner
American Republic
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