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PAGE FOUR ®amipn (Birronitlr 1119 North Brood Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker - - - - Editor DaCoiU Brown - - - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year .$3-(>0 Six Months — 2.00 Entered as Second CUsa Metier at the Poet Office at Oaatfea, A C„ ander act of Concreee March t. 117* A^' 1 ■■ 1 " 1 ————i^——— ^ All articles submitted for pablicatlea most he slgaed hr the anther TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1949 Federal Aid Without Strings The Kershaw County Teachers Associa tion at its last meeting went on record as urging “that Congress take favorable ac tion on federaf aid to education, such aid, however, to be given with the assurance of state and local control, with minimum federal control.” We may rest assured of one thing and that is that if the schools get federal aid fhey are going to get federal control. This control might come gradually—although we doubt that—but it will surely and positively come. , One of the first problems to come up would be the abolition of segregation. The federal )govemment would certainly insist upon that as that seems to be one of the chief obsessions of the party in power now. We had better look down, look down, that lonesome road before we travel on. The Case of Mr. Olds It seems that the first thing nearly every man President Truman appoints to office has to do is to deny that he is a Com munist and to explain away some things that he has said, written or done in the past. The latest is Leland Olds, who has been nominated by the President for another term of the Federal Power Commission and for whose confirmation the President now has on a vigorous campaign. . Representative John E. Lyle, Democrat of Texas, dug up a series of articles that Mr. Olds wrote in the 1920*8 for the Fed- / era ted Press, a labor news service, in Which, according to Representative tyle, he denounced the private enterprise sys tem and “reserved his applause for Lenin, then head of the Communists, and Lenin’s system.** Mr. Olds denies that he is a Communist but admits that he wrote radically in the period on which Mr. Lyle focused atten tion. HR weak explanation was: “1 did so because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'Golden Twen ties’ to shock the American people, and particularly labor, out of the social and political lethargy resulting from the get- rich-quick fever of speculation which cov ered a sick capitalism with a flow of health. I felt that unless the American people were aroused to do something about it, /the American way of life would be in jeapordy.” A rather puerile explanation, it seems to us. Mr. Olds wanted to wake the American people up by applauding Rus sia, he would have us believe. And ap parently many accept his explanation. But not Senator Homer E. Capeheart of Indi ana, who is an old-fashioned American w r ho believes in the kind of America we have always had in the past. He told Mr. Olds to his face: "I can’t help feeling as I listen to you that you are opposed to the capitalistic system; that you have your doubts about it.’’ As we have said once before, it does seem to us that there are too many Ameri cans about whose Americanism there can not be the slightest doubt, who are able and qualified to fill all of the offices that may become vacant in this country, for the President to be continually naming men surrounding wbom there is a great big question mark. THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE, CAMPEM, SOUTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11. INI Is This What We Want? A $40-a-week worker in England works twelve weeks out of the year to pay his taxes. . > England has a Labor-socialistic form of government. Do yp« want that kind of government in the United States? If you don’t' you Hud better be doing what you can to pre vent it for we are traveling down that road at an alarming rate. The fall of the year couldn’t possibly be any more glorious anywhere in the world than It is in Camden. , f - ' • Jrz* >■ a t.. t t. ■ Costs of State Government - Out in the state of Washington a group of newspaper men, alarmed at the rapid increase in the costs of state government, decided to make an investigation of same. This newspapermen’s committee spent three months probing state finances and now they have reported that the state’s outlays have skyrocketed out of propor tion to individual incomes. The committee has called for “an arous ed and informed public’’ to check the mushrooming state costs. It also wants economy measures and better accounting. It declares that the state is heading into financial trouble, and suggests that state administratorB voluntarily cut spending programs and adopt more efficient and economical administrative practices. The newsmen found that the state appropriations have jumped from $261,000,000 in 1041-43 to $867,000,- 000 in 1049-81, a 232 per cent boost During the same 10-year period, they said, the total income earned by in dividuals rose only 86 per cent. '“We find an alarming iabk of public understanding of the gravity of the finan cial course the state is now pursuing,” the report said. The committee called upon newspapers to bring about a public aware ness of the state’s financial situation. The committee made a study of the state’s welfare program and said that “chiselers, idlers and grafters in alarming numbers have been receiving benefits of state grants.” What is true of Washington State is perhaps true to a greater or lesser extent of other states and it would not be a bad Idea for an impartial committee to make the same study in other states that this committee has made in the state of Wash ington. ; ) In South Carolina the cost of our gov ernment has mounted steadily higher, al though it has not skyrocketed, we believe, in anything like the same proportions as in the state of Washington. Nevertheless it would be a good idea to have an impartial committee make a study in this state and in every other state. The taxpayers need some consideration! Honesty and Gratitude Recently the daily newspapers carried a story from some big city about a very large sum of money—several thousands of dollars—having been lost and of fhow the finder, who was honest enough to turn it in, had not even been given a dime. The Anderson Independent Thoraday carried a story of an incident there in which a hotel maid found a money belt containing $1,000 and turned it ihto the hotel office. The man wibo had left it in his room did not discover his loss until the following night when he phoned the hotel frantically. The hotel told him the belt was in the office safe. He instructed the manager of the hotel to give the maid $100. So we still have some honesty and some gratitude left in the world. Not A Pleasing Outlook A report comes out of Russia to the effect that the Soviet has developed a rocket with a range of 5,000 miles. No other country has a rocket that will ap proach anything like that distance. Another report tells of a terrible dis ease germ which has been perfected which is calculated to wipe out an entire nation. The only lucky people in the next war will be the dead, in the opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, who told a reporter for the North American Alliance that with atomic energy we possess the means to destroy all of us at once, to ruin civiliza tion and return man to caves to start all over again. , All in all, we’d say that it is not a very bright outlook for the world, and those therein. Land of Opportunity Thirty years ago there was a skinny- legged kid selling peanuts at five cents a bag in the league baseball park at At lanta, Ga. He was not much to look at, but he was a persistent little cuss. Last summer it was announced that this former skinny-legged kid, Earl Mann, had become owner and general manager of the Atlanta baseball team, rated a $600,000 proposition. He is an independently wealthy man today. This couldn’t have happened in Russia or in any totalitarian country. It could really have happened only in America. If the Socialists have their way it may soon become impossible for any such thing to happen in this country. Under Socialism there w6uld be no reward for thrift or intelligence. Everybody would Ihinktaa Out loud Of ootune Moscow will deny that It waa a world’s championship series. As for being of any Talus to the country, the arersse “ism isn’t It is exceedingly difficult for a child to see how anything can be three or four thousand years old when this is only 1949. We see where a floral firm guarantees the century plants which it sells. We presume that If it doesn’t bloom every 106 years they’ll giro you another one. Everybody dislikes people who talk behind their backs, particu larly at the movies. s An Oregon woman suing for _ divorce testified that her husband embarassed her by continually yawning while she was talking to visitors in the home. And that re minds us of the old story of the talkative lady who was telling her husband about the bad manners of an acquaintance who had recently paid her a visit *‘If that woman yawned once while I was talking she yawned a dozen times,” she said. “Perhaps she wasn’t yawn ing, may-be she wanted to say something,” the husband replied One of the most expensive habits we form, as children, is that of eating. What has become of the old- fashioned father who used to tell his children that if they didn’t behave, their mother would whip them? A Minnesota man has been asleep for a week. Some speaker must have done a very effective job. “One way to get rich is to de vise something new for which there is a big market,” says a success writer. Something like a wedding ring with demountable initials! You very seldom hear of a wo man taking accounting because there ds no accounting for the average woman. “Leaves $3,000,060 Snuff For tune”—headline. Now, we pre sume, all of the relatives are try* l^lnto jt. Federal AM We raise our taxes to seud money to Washington, then wo raise some more taxes to match the amount we have already sent to Washington, in order to gef back the amount wo originally sent. That isArhat is known as Federal Aid.—Collierville (Tens.) Herald. mmmrnmmnmsamsmm m Lo, Tlie Peer Indian The so-called humanitarians of the country think of race relations only in regard to Negroes and Jews in the main. Now, there’s the Indians, the only native Amer ican citizens, and nobody has a good word for them. The.humani tarians never say a word about the segreation of the Indians, denying them the ballot, and forcing them to live as government wards. They talk about equal opportunities for all, bnt the Indiana are always excepted. The millions of Indian population are cooped up in reser vations, have no voice in elections or in the government—through no ihult of theirs. They are the origi nal Inhabitants of the country. Their lands and homes were taken from thorn and they are not al lowed to live among the white people who Invaded their country. There are thousands, doubtless mil lions. of good Indians; many of them would be high-class lawmak ers and office-holders, if they were treated as citlxena and allowed the opportunity to participate in gov ernmental affairs. Why not Include them In the program of “civil rights?”—Bamberg Herald. Historical Fads limit ■rh. iJ&ss figure Which surmounts the tower rttht rH ^ 150 years he hag stood sentinel on the^nwL®* 11 den, and as a work of art, is nothing K cI * * piece. It was designed a* an ide^fiT^ 1 ® Catawba (Indian) chief—King » days, between 1750 and 1763, was a frJm? ^ feathers in his Hair and a hoS^i? * statue it is five feet, one inch, cutfromfroi!SL fe€t which from time to time is overtomi renewal. J When and by whom wag’it shaped’’ The author is known to have been one J n is $ Frenchman, who flourished in Camden yean 1815 and 1884. Some remember^sr^T 1 Villepigue, who, in his youth, knew Mathie?*j!ln said that he repeatedly heard Mathieu sav 5 designed and executed the King Haiglar sented it to the town. Of this there appears bT doubt (In Friday’s issue: More of King Haifiar.) Road To Peace (W. J. Byrd. la And arson Tiuispsiuluii) ;/ “The United Nations General Assembly is on its war , silent minutes for prayer or mediUtion at each session” 7 Thus runs the opening sentence of a press associaK™ from New York, whichprobably U one of the SSk velopments since the birth of the United Nations, for tw**. have a tremendous effect upon the work of this great worini * When the matter was put to a vote of the U. N leral Ing to <U^>lnto it. On# Car Trains Many Americans bars wondered why the railroads do not develop something like a single car unit (for use in providing mobility to train schedules. Apparently, to answer the prob lem, the Budd Company, which built many “name” trains for the railroads, has developed a new sir- conditioned coach, seating ninety persons and powered by a Diese engine. The unit will make around eighty miles an hour. • We do not know whether it la feasible to develop schedules for such unite on most of the railroads, but if the carriers can give to pos sible customers more, but smaller trains, the passenger business might pick up. Some years ago, we know that several railroads experimented with a car somemh&t similar to the one described. It was a single coach, powered by a motor, but apparently did not operate success fully.—Orangeburg Times A Demo crat. A Washington department store advertises handkerchiefs at $15. That’s a lot to blow in. The suit brought by the govern ment agalqgt the doctors is enough to make ths whole country sick. “Sometimes you find happiness »here you least expect it,” says a writer. Yea, for example, there waa the fellow who had rented a book from the library. “I trust you found that novel interesting,” the librarian remarked hopefully when he returned it. “No, ,not very,” the patron replied, “but the letter some one left In it for a bookmark was.” Socrates who lived 469-399 B. C. once wrote: “The children now love luxury, they have bad man ners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before com pany. gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs and tyran nize over their teachers.” Who saM the world waa going back ward? ' Baruch On Bombs Mr. Baruch has this to say: “All future atomic energy pro posals should be submitted to one test-—do they mean safe and sure control? .Anything legs than that would be worse than nothing.” Mr. Baruch, sound as usual, prob ably recalls how we scrapped our navy after the first World war and otherwise acted in good -faith in hopes of bringing real paacs to the world, only to find we had bean made the goat As Mr. Baruch wall says, merely to outlaw the atomic bomb is no insurance against atomic destruc tion. ’’Unless the prohibition is ac companied by a truly effective, en forceable international inspection and control of atomic energy, we would be penalising those nations which observe agreements to ths advantage of those who do not. Since Russia’s record is not one of cooperation and dependability, it is not going to be sasy to affect the kind of agreements Mr. Baruch has In mind. And, aa he says, anything less would be out of the question. In this atomic bomb business w* must know what we are doing. It’s a cold, critical de cision that must be bottomed on common sense and self protection —The State. One formerly lived on what costs to exist today. It Eve had one handicap In that she couldn’t be continually throw ing up to Adam the men she had turned down. A Michigan couple, divorced in 1920. remarried the other day. There’s nothing like sitting down thinking things over. Life is worth living a whole lot better than moat of us live it The average man works at it harder if he is a politician. Queen Victoria waa in her day an excellent pianist, and possessor of a remarkably correct ear for music. And she had the whole British Empire dancing to her music during her life time. > Vvtatf mm * Now it is claimed that fish havs a method of communication. Well it’s mighty hard to get them to respond to some Hues you send them. It is STUSCtsd that the next ewa* aus will sfeow that there are 500, 000,000 Americans and just about that many different varieties of them. It seems that even that recant hurricane was not able to gat out of Texan And that brings to the story of ths business man with far flung Interests who happened to be in a Texas dtr at the lunch eon board of a Vrsdlnc banker of the ptaco. The day waa the hot test one of the summer. During the repeat the business man re- maiked confldentally to the lady asat to him that ha couldn’t The Two Dangers War Is not Imminent. Russia will not make war on the rest of the world, certainly not now and probably not at any time. In the collective mind of the race human may be good sense predominant that will cause It to forbear to use upon itself the suicidal weapons that it has invented. The danger to the United States is in the United States, is from Its own people. They may ruin their republic by reckleee spending, going into debt. Senator Byrd pre dicts a possible if not probable failure of the government to col lect as much as it spends in the current year by seven thousand million dollars. The deficit the last three months has been $1.- 400,000,000. The national debt is already more than a quarter of a trillion of dollars. Yes, authority in Wash ington must think of debt in tril lions. Ws cannot, wa Americans, go on and on plnuging headlong, madly, in spending without raising taxes, to the backbreaking of workers and producers. The only other ^escape from debt-piling Is larger inflation and in that is implied repudiation, which Is bankruptcy. Perhaps it ware better that one aUeuee mlegirings, leaving the peo- pie to swim in ignorance of danger, in the pleasantness of a transient Prosperity. Nevertheless, we say that financial and property disrup tion and revolution cannot take place in the United State# without violence, without ‘’civil war.’^at* tending it The News and Courier deliber ately declares opinion that danger of civil war within the United State# is .nearer, more immediate, than is danger of war with Russia eountry. “Well, I can do nothing about It That la the reflection of the ige man, not excepting the of more than lutein. he i represent Thu write on the committee voted unanimously for - _ indeed gritiJying'thst IHB The men who make up the delegations to the U N wtoTt floor in debate of the various issues, are dealing with humanity. . In short, the major objective of the United Nations peace. The shooting war has been over more than four the cold war of nerves and bitter words is still ragmi world. The struggle of Democracy and Communism for« the chief issue that plagues the United Nations. The world h J into two great camps. 1 That 44 nations are willing to give prayer a trial seven Communist nations refrained from expresnnf brings the hope that peace may yet be found inthe Jesus Christ, the one Greet Humanitarian, who knew all thei to every problem of mankind. ( His teachings, simple and direct, have been man’i for neariy 2,000 years. They still apply and in them find the answers to all his problems if he takes time to w truth. In the teachings of the lowly Callilean carnenter United Nations can find the answer to its problem* - The Spirit of Christ hovers over Flushing Meadows Success ready to give comfort and guide the General Assembly, if the members of that group will invite! An opening for such an invitation has been made and ve ll delegates will use the silent minutes for sincere prayer and I tion and not let their minds wander. 1 A great step in the right direction has been taken by powerful body in the world. Christian people i 57 hail this action as a victory for their cause and own prayers and supplication. The mighty probability the final route to world peace will lead thi ‘ ‘ ' h * Communication K Liked Editorial i ' “1 Editor The Chronicler M ' In a group of# clippings we re ceive monthly from a news clipping bureau, I have just seen your edi torial of August 19, entitled, “South Carolina To Benefit” May I commend yon on this for ward looking editorial. We meed more like it Some one has aptly said, “Wo have to be oa fire onr- selves before wo can on# else ” Ton are _ great service for your you make tta people realise their wonderful potentialities. L W. Bishop, Director, Reoearch. Planning and Development Board, Colombia, 8. C. « on ure our- m Ignite any performing a ir state when through the church] FACING THI The late Snpervla, , •McSheehy waz one ot I cisco’s most beloved UL public figures. Durfeghk] as a member of tbs L ervisors, from 191$ to llrorod many which ho invariably with ptoturesquo . eluding many a mixed I well remember tha in the mldat of haetad a city transit li visor McSheehy “Ws should grab theta e and look U»e base face!”—Vlr*fl L Francisco, Calif. Drive 7 Isn’t This the “ ** W.'« ’vify . W ■ /’ ’* T ’ To Finance The answer it "YES”... e benk loen cm you important money on your car financing One thdng sure: You have nothing to kmc aod | to frin by fetiing tlw feett-end faff* looedr 1.4s Thao make your own —. T conclusions,.. and act on yoor own good