Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1963 — Page 4

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Pride and Self-Love One xjf. the greatest sias, our Judeo-Christian ethics tell us ,is egotism, or self love. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and mind and soiil, and thy neighbor as thyself” the Bible tells us. Os the Christian, virtues, faith, hope, and love, brotherly love is considered the greatest. Man is really an insignificant creature, physically. Even our world, which we are just learning to utilize, is less conspicious in the universe that a grain of sand in a football stadium. Yet just a few short years ago, we considered the earth to be the center of- the universe, and that the entire solar system spun around it. Now we have discovered that we are not only not the center of our own solar system, we are not even near the center of our galaxie, which is just one of millions of such phenomena in the ever-expanding universe. Yes, we have learned in the last few hundred years that man is not the center of the universe, physically. We have learned to be extremely suspicious of the individual who is too self-centered — in fact, practicing solipsists are treated as mad me n and committed to asylums. * But there are fields in which we still allow the egocentric illusion to overpower us. When we consider these fields rationally, we have not reason, but emotion, to be the main moving influence. Let’s take egotism on the political plane, in international affairs. We still assume that 01 R country is a more precious institution that our neighbor’s. We still associate ourselves, body arid soul, with our national aspirations. We still feel, with the great patroit of old. “Our country, may she ever be right, but our country, right or wrong!” Although this might be termed by pyschologists intent upon bringing us to our better selves as “the last infirmity of noble minds” or “the last reguge of a scoundrel”, we have not yet reached the plane of rational thought where we can consider “our own way” as anything but “the consumation of all human history” or a synonym for civilization itself. Did you ever sonsider how perfectly ridiculous this is, and how it looks through the eyes of others? It reminds out of the reply of the Manchu emperor Ch’ien Lung in 1793 to a British envoy asking for a trade right. After an exchange of presents, the Chinese emperor replied at length, turning down the request, and closing it as follows: “ — Our dynasty’s majestic virtue has penetrated into every country under Heaven, and kings of all nations have offered their costly tribute by land and sea. As your Ambassador can see for himself, we posses all things. I set no value on objects strange 21 or ingenious, and have not use for your country’s manufactures.” And where is the Manchu dynasty today ? Like Ozimandius, all that remains are carved stones as a reminder of former “greatness.” For what does it value a man to possess all things, and yet lack charity? And understanding? And brotherly love? The hardest commandment to keep is the most simple, isn’t it?

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.jdr THE ARCHITECT— Meriam McAhren displays one of her multi-color-ed candy houses now on display in the Indiana & Michigan Electric company office. The houses are constructed entirely of candy and cookies.—(Photo by Mac Lean) j r y -< : ..et FROM THE BACK the “bricklaying” technique used in making the houses can be seen. The individual pieces of candy are ’‘cemented” in place a paste made of powdered sugar and water. The houses will last indefinitely as long as they are protected from high temperatures.—(Photo by Mac Lean) •

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Candy Houses Made By Meriam McAhren

By Michael Thoele Four chocolate bars, four packages of gumdrops, a package of marshmallows, mint patties, licorice, peppermint sticks, candy wafers, peanuts, a lollipop and other assorted candies and cookies. Put it all together and you have a house. At least that is what Miss Meriam McAhren of route 5, Decatur, can construct from such a conglomeration of goodies. Meriam who will be a senior at Adams Central high school this fall, has been building colorful candy houses for three years and her creations rival the gingerbread house of Hansel-and-Grete) fame. Besides building the houses, Meriam has done art work and decorating for various activities at Pleasant Mills high school, which she has attended for the last three years. She is also takipg a correspondence commerical art course. House On Display Meriam has built one house during the Christmas season each year for the last three years. The one-which she made last year has been purchased by the Indiana and Michigan Electric company and is now on display in their office. Company officals said that they may use it as part of an advertising display. Another one of the houses was displayed last year at Sheets Furniture Store. Each house, said Meriam, takes about fifteen hours to build. Ten to twelve dollars worth of candy is used. They are contracted on a large sheet of plywood. The house is first constructed of cardboard, then the candy is attached, in a manner much like laying brick, with a paste made of powdered sugar and water. Meriam’s father, Raymond McAhren, from whom‘she says she gets much of her artistic incluation, usally helps cut the plywood and cardboard. The color scheme and decoration pattern have been different for each house. Meriam said that she simply detemines the pattern and color scheme as she goes along. The only tools she uses are a knife, a spoon and spatula. She says that she does not lick her fingers while she works. Construction Details The IpWer walls of the house which is now on display at the IM office are built up of colored caramel candies, with peppermint stick window sashes and wafer cookie shutters. The upper section is made of numerous small Chicago Produce CHICAGO UPI) —Produce: Live poultry special fed White Ro<s fryers 19-20; roasters 25-26. Cheese processed loaf 39-43%; brick 39-43%; Swiss Grade A SO--55; B 49-53. Butter steady; 93 score 57%; 92 score 57%; 90 score 55%; 89 score 54. / Eggs steady; white large extras 29; mixed large extras 29; mediums 24; standards 27%.

candies and peppermint sticks. The roof is edged in peppermint and covered with marshallow cream. The door of the house is a large chocolate bar and the front lawn is made of multi-colored small candies with a walkway and candy railing cutting through the center. A fence around the “lawn” is constructed of cookies topped with marshmallows. The houses keep very well and will last indefinitely as loiig as they are protected from high temperatures, which causes some of the materials to melt. Meriam still has one which she built more than a year ago. May Build More Meriam said she would like to build several of the houses to sell this Christmas. “I like to build them,” she said, “but it's just too expensive to make more than one, so I’m hoping that I might be able to sell some this Christmas. I’d like to build just as many as I can.” She originally got the idea for the houses from a magazine article, but after she built the first one she began introducing her own color schemes and making other deviations from the original “recipe.” Meriam will graduate from Ad-

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