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THE CAMDPf amomCLK. CMMUBL WOUTH CMMOUHA, FMPAT. MAHCH M. Shp (Camirn Cdhrmtirlr 11M North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - . . Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year - ^?'cn Six Months Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Conerees March 3, 1879 All articles submitted for publication must be • signed by the author ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1949 Mr. Barkley Loses According to Jay Hayden, a Washington correspondent, Vice President Barkley has lost considerable prestige as a result of his ruling during the recent filibuster in the -Senate over the change of Senate rules. “Southerners not only resent Barkley’s ruling against them in defiance of all past precedents, says Mr. Hayden, “but they accuse him of supporting at least passively the most extreme element of the party, typified by Senators Myers of Pennsylvania and Neely of West Virginia." It is pointed out by Mr. Hayden that not only did 18 Southern Senators vote to over rule Barkley’s attempt to apply cloture, but six Democratic Senators outside the South took that position. Members of that group voting to overrule were Hayden and Mc Farland of Arizona, McCarran of Nevada, Kerr of Oklahoma, and Chapman, of Ken tucky. The latter, incidentally, is from the Vice President's own state. The fact that Senator Chapman of Berk ley's own state and Senator Kerr of Okla homa, w<ho has hitherto been a faithful party hack, joined up with the Southern ers is taken to indicate that popular dis content over the Truman racial-equality program has spread to these Southern bor der states. As a matter of fact* popular discontent over the program has-spread all over this nation. There are millions of people in the North and West who are just as bitterly opposed to it as the people of the South and there would be millions more who would be opposed to it if they could visit the South for a while. But—to get back to Mr. Barkley. He simply didn’t have the moral courage, it seems to us, to rule as he doubtless knew he ought to have ruled on the motion before the Senate. He figured that the South would forget, as it has a reputation for let ting a party leader who goes under the nan&e Of being a “Democrat" do anything he wants to do to the South and then for giving him. He knew that Truman and the radical Democrats would not forget. So he just ruled against the South. Well—isn’t it about time for him to be invited to South Carolina again to be an honored guest? The Green-Eyed Monster Says the Winnsboro News and Herald: “At the risk of being tiresome, The News and Herald deems it worthwhile to repeat a truism that is applicable to Winnsboro and Fairfield as to any other section of this very small world. In fine, the idea is that there is al most no limit to the accomplishments of ti group, an organization or a com munity as long as no individual is too conerned about who gets the credit. The green-eyed monster, petty and personal antagonisms have wrecked more projects than this world dreams of.” ' . • .- : - What the News and Herald says really can apply to every town to a greater or lesser degree. It’s a pity that human nature is what it is. , “O, jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell” was the way H. Moore spoke of it, and Col ton said of it: “Of all the passions jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemy; its wages to be sure of it” Clemson’s Good Fortune Christie Benet, of Columbia, who was last week elected chairman of the Clemson College board of trustees, is one of South Carolina's ablest and at the same time most public spirited men. Throughout the years any movement that has been de signed for the good of this state has found a warm supporter in him. Clemson College is exceedingly fortun ate in having such a man as the chairman of. it» governing organisation. We're hearing the sotttd of the right sort Camden now. More Room Necessary It is very sincerely to be hoped that Rep resentative Richards wiH,bc successful in his efforts to have more room provided for the local postoffice. - As Postmaster DuBose pointed out in his letter to the Congressman the present building was erected in 1914 and the postal receipts at that time were between $12,000 and $14,000 a year. For the past few years they have been running between $41,000 and $48,000 and should grow much more rapidly in the future. There is a very long waiting list now for postoffice boxes and this will likewise grow as the population of the city increases. Maryland Is Alert The Maryland General Assembly has passed and sent to Governor William Lqge one of the strongest curbs on communism ever undertaken by a state government. . - Briefly the bill provides for: (1) Outlawing all subversive organize tions now existing and making it unlawful for new ones to spring up. Membership in subversive organization constitutes a felony. . ' (2) Loyalty cfoecks for all public em* ployees, including school teachers; (3) Creating a special post of assistant attorney general to investigate subversive activities. . (4) Instructing grand juries to keep a close eye on such workings and report to the people. Only one r vote was cast against the meas ure in the Maryland General Assembly and this would indicate that the people of that state are on the alert. And it is well that they should be. ,, There is, however, .a more immediate danger than communism and that is social ism. We would not become a communistic nation first if those who are seeking to un dermine our government carry out their program. We. would first embrace social ism. It is so much easier to get us to em brace socialism than communism. But after we embrace socialism it might not be so hard to get us to jump from it to commun- ThinktnqOutLnml "No Heed Hunting In Bornec In IMr—headline in The State How different Borneo is fronr this country! We • jumped one day e where three box can the track near Chester last week. It seems that everything and everybody is getting the habit now. Many a man meets his end try ing to make ends meet Who can remember the good old days whe na pound of country butter nearly always had a flower or some other figure moulded on Hr < Perhaps it is good for one’s feel ings that human beings do not have ears in their backs. Following President Truman’s recent outburst against Drew Pearson at a banquet in Washing ton, a Minnesota man says he’s afraid to let his child hear him speak. The complete fall down of the ill takers last year will cause of people to lose faith in the United States census next year. Some men seem to think that nothing is good enough for their wives. It seems to us that the store basement would be the proper place to sell women’s foundation garments. ' A man who says he does noth ing tells us that he has the an swer to our question as to what a man who does nothing does when he gets tired. The answer, he says, is that he does nothing. me motorist, an gun dub, who through a small saw evidences of ism. The first great effort therefore is to he £ StlStothehap^inessof cians who are hying to make get us embrace socialism. And we have al- pursuit capital out of labor. get ready traveled a long way down xhat lone some road. The Great Question . A correspondent writing to a newspaper says that he was brought up not to do this and not to do that because “they were wrong", but, he added, “I realize that times have changed and that in this ad vanced age people just will do those things and I suppose there is no harm in doing them now." The question—the great question—how ever, is whether God has changed or not. He is the same God that ruled over the uni verse 60 years ago, 100 yean ago, 1,000 years ago. Did He look with disfavor upon people who did those things 60 yean ago and does He not look with disfavor upon those who do them now? Will one man be punished for doing something yean ago and the man of today not be held account able for doing the same thing? If the world continues along the lines it has traveled for the past century, what is considered wrong today by many may not be considered wrong 50 years from now by their children. Is God constantly dhanging his views as to what is right and what is wrong, too? The Concert Association The three concerts .presented by the Camden Community Concert Association were of a very high order and brought great listening pleasure to the members of the association. The artists were all first class and the programs which they gave here were of high order. The association is shortly launching its membership drive for the second year and should; have no difficulty whatever in get ting the required number of members to in sure a series of concerts next year. meot in life than to find that a man whom you had thought to be oerfect was a cheat and a fraud,” says a woman correspond ent of a daily newspaper. And that reminds us of the story of the motorist, an ace shot in his who was passing town when he the most amaz ing shooting. On trees, walls and fences were numberless bulls-eyes with the bullet hole in the abso lute center. He asked to meet the for this mark- man turned out to be the 'villi^e idiot ‘This is the most remarkable shooting I have ever seen—how in the world do you do it?” asked the motorist “Easy as pie—I shoot first and draw the circles afterwards,” answered the village lame brain. Fish come in schools and yet they don’t seem to have much sense. * ■ ' _ A physician says that a greater percentage of the people suffer from allergies now than ever be fore. Perhaps there are more things to be allergic to now than ever before. We see where one fellow says that life’s darkest hour comes just before the pawn. “Railroad Being Sued By Man Who Held Up Train”—headline. Now we’ve seen everything! There are no free scholarships in the school of experience. r— » Baseball fans are often mis taken in that they think that a runner is safe when he is out Wives are the same way regard ing their husbands. . With The Press Working Foe Und# Sam March 15 was the final day for the payment of income taxes, tstate and federal This meant that millions of people were busy with their pencils try ing to figure out their p and raising tha money to loot the bill It means that multiplied mil lions will pour into the Ntreasury to keep the mending going we have witnessed the past 20 years. This wild orgy of spending is your withholding tax is so federal government has no money for its unlimited spend- ingit must get its money, and a sizeable chunk—out of every per son’s income It sticks its hand in the pay envelope and takes a part of the employee’s it ever reaches him. all employers tax collectors with- “Me terms of days worked by married men what the federal government takes work* this way: A man earning $2,900 a year cent te> about six c« of trade, depetaw^* 1 is no room in this&E any dent in the priejj efiZi traffic will bear-T* ^ImtpennTihel his customers get the i ^ “fchu, ■ I??* 16 fo vw _ > Prices ate 2? S 1 uid other iS, keeps tw -• oe the wont — ' to attack the terprise. ! •• f I This country of rant control. needs some sort a red letter Every day must be day in Russia. A homely person doesn't have to worry about what age will do for his or her looks. We presume a dog thinks that “There is no greater disappoint- “Don’t ever take it for granted that a child doesn’t know what’s going on,” says a writer on youth problems. Arid that reminds us of one we saw in the Chicago Trib une the other day. A correspond ent wrote that he was telling his little son the story of Daniel in the lion’s den. The youngster, he saysr was all ears, too, and enjoy ing the plot since having seen some lions at a zoo. “Well,” he says “we had Daniel la the den over night and I was just faring- in gfhe story to ites dose. ‘So’, says I ‘when King Darius went out and unsealed the den in the think was , T know Connelly or Eleanor Roosevelt* ”. mmmm Would you say that a facial cream manufacturer is engaged in a skin game? One trouble with this country is that there are too many politf- „ - FIERCE , i. Many persons hav. works 18 days, to pay his taxes. because the A person earning $5,000 puts in hi | FINAL Dll,. Notice is hereby rpm month from this to the Probate Court County their final retei cutors of the estate of a i deceased, and on the i appiy to thsl, fora final discharge ii, cutors. „ N. C. ARE 51-2c Jud Camden, S. C., 28 days to ray. An individual making $10,000 works 33 days to pay his share. An da man receiving $15,000 a year works 42 days. As the income increases, file days worked also climb until when a man makes- $100,000 in ust work the year he must 104 days to pay taxes on his income. And in face of such facts,, the “promising” President Truman wants taxes further raised by the appropriation of additional bil- To a large extent, we are all working for Uncle Sam.—Clinton Chronicle. -v Drive Carefully—Save a Life Facts Of Life A good many people seem to believe that this year something resembling the old OPA will be brought back from the dead, and prices will immediately drop. This is one of those illusions that should be scotched as soon as possible. For, regardless of what the law may or may not attempt to do. thaw are certain economic t principles involved which are so inevitable as the movement of the planets. First of all, no one wffl anything at a loss. We cot a law, for instance, saying that i dozen eggs shall be sold for twenty-five cents, and a good suit of clothes sold for twenty dol lars. But no farmer i duce those eggs and no manu facturer would make the suit— for the simple reason that bank ruptcy would follow. Secondly, we cannot make „ merchant handle goocb at a lot Today, for instance, typical re-| tail stores earn a smaller profit Othari sat hart In l 1 * Cbmpatvcars... compare cosh... convince yourself is tfe ?nostBeautiful of all In an editorial headed “Treachery” touching on testimony given by the presi dent of the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co., before a Senate committee regarding the CIO Communist-dominated union his company had to deal with, we quoted him as saying that “the company •heavily fined one member for volunteering to help out in an emergency caused by a flash flood.” This was very obviously an wror, the fining have been done by the union. The starting of construction work on the a4w Greyhound bus terminal brings joy to Camden. 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