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Teacher Shelley Campbell helps out at last Saturday’s 12th Annual Community Thanksgiving Meal. Shelley is the sister of Tammy Campbell, who was one of the event’s organizers.
MEAL From Page 1 came by to pick up plates where to go once they entered, and where to exit after they got their meals. Campbell noted again how her volunteers in the Legion building’s kitchen cooked the meals – with everyone masked and gloved, of course, as per COVID-19 pandemic rules and procedures. As she said in last week’s Eagle article, “We had the take-out area set up like normal; we just had to limit how many people we had in there. “We had a few outside (of the Legion building) to get the number of how many plates a pick-up person needed. “They gave that number to a person at the front of the building, who then relayed that to the to-go staff. They then got that number of plates and took them out to the front staff and who gave them to them, either by placing their food in their trunk or back seat, kind of like a pizza place. They then drove away and we went on to the next car.”
AMERICA From Page 4 hoping for a job, an unemployment check and a roof over their heads. They are hoping Congress will get their act together and approve one more stimulus package. Many Americans this year dread Christmas because they don’t have any money and life is filled with worry and uncertainty. For them, life is dragging by and better times can’t come
BABY BOOM From Page 4 hoping for a job, an unemployment check and a roof over their heads. They are hoping Congress will get their act together and approve one more stimulus package. Many Americans this year dread Christmas because they don’t have any money and life is filled with worry and uncertainty. For them, life is dragging by and better times can’t come quick enough.
Fellow organizer and former Food Lion Manager, Max Jonas, said last week that Food Lion cooked 38 whole turkeys, then deboned them upon arrival before serving them. Additionally, they also provided green beans, corn, turkey gravy, sweet potatoes and yams, dressing, and slaw for the meals. Jonas thanked Food Lion store manager Tammy Evans and department manager Karen Newton, and the Food Lion staff for helping out with the Thanksgiving Meal. Another of the event’s organizers, Cherryville Area Ministries Director Sherry Curry, also helped at the event. Mrs. Curry noted last week that the event being a drivethrough was “…good as far as this pandemic was concerned,” which meant less contact from the people serving the food to those receiving the meals. Curry noted, “It was also great to see many of the Cherryville-area churches and others volunteer and get involved with this feeding ministry.” quick enough. We will get through this in America and our vaccines will not only turn America around but will help millions of others in other nations as well. While this Christmas is still going to be tough there are some lights burning. The lights are going to get brighter for 2021. Some real cheer, brightness and hope are coming. Let’s get through this safely and plan one big Christmas celebration for next year. We will get through this in America and our vaccines will not only turn America around but will help millions of others in other nations as well. While this Christmas is still going to be tough there are some lights burning. The lights are going to get brighter for 2021. Some real cheer, brightness and hope are coming. Let’s get through this safely and plan one big Christmas celebration for next year.
STREETS From Page 4 liberation worse than the tyranny it overthrows. To draw a contrast with America’s enduring revolution, Guinness drafts John Adams. Writing to a friend decades after the War for Independence, Adams describes a “revolution before the Revolution.” This was a transformation “in the hearts and minds of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.” As Guinness sees it, this prerequisite to liberation is what kept the struggle on the streets from “overwhelming” the people as it did in France. The change Adams identifies isn’t fluffy sentimentalism but moral substance inherited from the
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to the widening gap in incomes. The rich didn’t make them choose this lifestyle. (For more on social and economic pathologies, see Charles Murray’s 2012 book “Coming Apart.” Murray documents widespread cultural shifts – none being imposed on the poor by the rich – that are highly correlated to lagging prosperity.) We can help those in need through both private efforts and by eliminating public policies that retard or distort economic production (and sadly, there are many of those), but let’s not persecute the innocent. As Thanksgiving approaches, we should be thankful to society’s economic benefactors rather than condemn them because of the wrong-headed ideology of egalitarianism, which is nothing but irrational disdain for the individual economic differences that are the mainspring of economic progress for all.
Protestant Reformation. It’s the American notion of covenant, shaped by reading the book of Exodus as a divine example for human government. It’s not a prescription for hierarchy or a contract for loosely affiliated individuals, but a “pattern for liberation” applying to a whole people. That pattern is discerned in the Sinai wilderness, after God leads Israel out of Egypt. In the course of taking up their covenant with God, the Jewish people utter three separate times and unanimously, “All that the LORD has spoken, we will do.” Guinness sees this sequence as marking covenants with three features: they are freely chosen, they constitute a “morally binding pledge,” and they entail a “reciprocal responsibility of ‘all for all’.” With these qualities in
mind, we see that covenant is thicker than contract. Whereas contracts have escape clauses, the parties of covenant are stuck with each other. One party can’t just banish or subjugate another if stubborn differences arise. Rather, each is bound to exercise with the other the patience and self-restraint appropriate to equal partners. If Guinness correctly distinguishes between the visions of 1776 and 1789, then keeping our liberty depends on retrieving, developing, and exercising the covenant virtues of 1776. This isn’t to say that taking to the streets has no place in our politics. After all, the civil rights marches of the 1960s effected an end to the evil of racial segregation. But they were a carefully crafted challenge whose very form
was apt to overturning a specific regime of unequal dignity. And they were linked to a movement appealing to, as Martin Luther King, Jr. called it, the “promissory note” of the American Declaration of Independence. Understandably, we who feel righteous indignation today want to see ourselves in continuity with a morally glorious legacy of taking to the streets. But glorious moments tend to be exceptions, not the rule. Contra the utopian expectations of the Enlightenment, pitched moral battles are few and far between. Rather, it’s little acts upholding the distinctly biblical and American bonds of love that will preserve and extend liberty and justice for all.
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12th Annual Community Thanksgiving Meal organizer and director of volunteers, Tammy Campbell, on her way out the door with a bagged meal for a family in the drive-through line at the Cherryville American Legion Building.
To elaborate: To assume that the distribution of Americans’ income in the 19461975 period is “right” or “normal” or “better” or “fairer” than has occurred or will occur in other periods is completely arbitrary. In a market economy, there will be fluctuations – sometimes rather large fluctuations – of income distribution, each of them reflecting current economic and political conditions. To pick a certain timeframe and designate it as “the way things are supposed to be” is pure whimsy, not science. The causes of differences of income can be nefarious or benign, unjust or just. They are unjust when political powers rig the system so that the political insiders benefit at the expense of everyone else. Think of
exchange for having provided things of economic value to their fellow humans. They have no power to force anyone to buy their product. People willingly give their money to “rich corporations” because they value what they are purchasing more than they value the money they are paying; were it not so, the transaction would not take place. A free society with voluntary economic exchange is a positive-sum world. In a market economy, both parties to transactions profit from exchange. On the downside, many Americans’ incomes have fallen due to lifestyle decisions. One startling example: demographer Nicholas Eberstadt’s “ten-million man army” of working-age American males who have voluntarily dropped out of the regular job market, choosing to sponge off family or friends. Their incomes have fallen to negligible levels, thereby adding
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