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PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY
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THE CAHBCT OWOWCLE.
SUBSCRIPTION ICRMS:'
All Subscriptions Payable In Advance
One Year — $3.50
Sik Months 4—2.00
Entered u Second Claes Matter at the Poet
Office at Camden. 8. C., under act of Congress
March A l»7f : '
AU articles euhmUted for ^uhlicatlon most he
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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950
Attend Your Club Meeting -
The Democratic clubs of the city of
Camden will meet Friday morning at 10
o'clock, in €he county court house for the
purpose ol reorganizing.
The Charlotte Thompson club will meet
Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the former
Charlotte Thompson sohooh building.
The remainder of the clubs in the county
^,are scheduled to meet Saturday afternoon.
Probably never before in the history of
the county has it been so important that
every citizen who can possibly do so attend
these meetings.
There can be no question but that an
effort is going to he made all over South
Carolina by the Truman forces to capture
control of the party machinery and throw
out those people who have fought so cour
ageously for States Rights, and aglinst
socialism, the FEPC and other iniquitious
measures advanced by the Truman crowd.
Kershaw county voted overwhelmingly
for the States Rights tickets two years ago
and we know that an overwhelming ma
jority of the people of this county still
feel as they did then. They should be,on
the job this week-end and see that only
men who are unwavering in their opposi-
tion to Truman and all of his socialistic
and civil rights programs are elected as
club officers and, more important yet, as
delegates to the county convention.
Kershaw county should stand by the
States Rights platfoym adopted by the state
convention two years ago.
Make it a point to attend your club
meeting this week-end and see to it that
States Righters are elected to the county
convention.
The Camden Academy
The Camden Academy will be a vpry
distinct asset to Camden from a business
and cultural standpoint.
* From the business standpoint, and that
is what we are having to consider right
new, it wQ^ld mean that large numbers
of young men would come to this city for
nine months out of each year. These
youths would have to be fed. They would
naturally spend mjuch money during the
nine months they are here in various ways.
Their parents and other kinfolks would
come to Camden frequently to visit them.
The school would result in the expendi
ture of much money in Camden each year
and from a business standpoint would ,be
worth much to the city. ^
And then there^is the cultural standpoint
that is also so important. A school con
tribute. 5 : much to the culture of & city. In
. addition to the faculty the school would
naturally cause many educators to visit the
city from time to time. There would be
cultural attractions brought to the school
for the benefit of the students.
Camden is ideally located for such a
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The Tax On Automobiles
It will be recalled that in his •xcellcnfc
article in Collier’s Weekly on Government ,
Crisis Spending, James F. Byrne^ advanced^
the idea that every business organization
ought to give each employee a statement
with each pay check lowing how much
hed been taken out of his or her pay for
taxes. He thought this anight be a good
way of making people tax conscious.,
Carrying this thought a little further; it
might be a good idea for a statement to
be given each consumer showing the tax
which he is having to pay on said article.
Fpr example, we wonder how many
people realize when they go to buy an
automobile tfcat approximately 25 per cent
of the amount they are having to pay is
for taxes on the car. In other words if you
buy a $2,000 car, $500 is for taxes. Federal,
state and local. *——^
Testifying before the House Ways and
Means Committee in Washington, George
Romney, appearing for the Automobile
Manufacturers Association, said that con-
,tinuation of the Federal excise taxes on
automoitve products is a serious threat to
employment in the automotive industry
and in other large segments which depend
largely on motor vehicles for their pros*
perity.
Mr. Romney pointed out that Congress
originally imposed excise taxes on auto*
motive products in 1932 as a ’’temporary
emergency” measure. (This brings again
to mind Mr. Byrnes’ warning against con
tinued crisis spending.) Before the war
they were doubled to curtail the manu
facture and use of motor vehicles in the
interest of armament production. Follow
ing the war the abnormal demand for cars
and trucks offset their curtailing effect
on sales and employment. However, with
the industry returning rapidly to pre-war
conditions where costs and prices are
basic sales and employmenCfactors, the
industry fears that these taxes will again
curtail sales, production and employment.
As Mr. Rpmney pointed out in his testi
mony before the House committee, these
taxes on cars fall heaviest on the low-in
come groups, on the workers, on the farm
ers, on the people who live in small towns,
who fincTmotor vehicles wan absolute ne
cessity 4n their daily lives.
And so the evidence grows that federal
and state governments are going to have
to find ways of reducing their spending.
The people cannot continue to pay the
excessive taxes they have been payinf.
Ihinkhiq Out Loud
It to entirely coincidental, we
preeume, bat It to noted that Juet
as the political campaign to aboat
to open In Booth Carolina, a com
mittee on Insect control In the
state to appointed.
perhaps Urn reason some people
are not Interested In tornado In-
surance policies is that they don t klH)1r
know bow tie start a tornado.
Mr* Waring has presented a
picture of herself to Howard
University, a negro school, in
Washington. The president of the
institution to quoted as saying that
he had not decided where to “hang
It.” . -
The Title lent ♦ ,
The time when American, cities
would escape damage
Doeslble total destruction now that]
the^Hell Bomb'’ has been hiYent-
ed, has passed. We. are no longer
immune to air attacks because we
are surrounded by two ^ larg®
oceans. We must realtoe this.
The bombed cities and tbe thoo»-
ands of displaced persons of other
countries that we aaw in the news
films wiU be our own hometowns
If we are attacked by Russia. Tha
people of Detroit are only six hours
flying" time from destruction and
Russian airfields. .
We do not know what wsr ja
in this country. Only the soDUen
who went overseas and were 1*
the middle of the fighting .can
schobl as it is planned to establish here.
lave attractions to offer that the aver
age city does not have. It should not be
difficult to build up a strong patronage
for the school of the very finest type of
boys.
We trust the campaign which' is now
being conducted for the Academy will re
sult in a splendid success.
What It Means
Ransome J. Williams, in urging the peo
ple of the, state to support Truman ‘‘Demo
crats'’ at the club meetings Saturday says
that while he personally doesn’t care for
the President, he isn’t going to allow any
president to run him'out of "the party.
"Commenting on this statement, the
News and Courier says:
“That sounds fine, but what does it
mean? It means that the Trumanites can
pass ‘civil rights’ compulsion laws, plunge
the nation deeper into debt, undermine
business, socialize* industry and scorn the
South—but they needn’t think they can
shake Mr. Williams. No, sir. He’ll vote
for them election day. They might make
him mad, but they're not going to drive
him out of the party. No matter what they
do, they can't stop Ransome Williams from
voting for them.”
Did yon ever hear of such blind loyalty
to anything? ^ J —
Camden Choral Society
Every one w«ho heard the magnificent
presentation of ‘‘The Seven Last Words of
Christ” By the Camden Choral Society on
Sunday afternoon must have been impress
ed with the tremendbus possibilities this
society offers to the people of Camden.
We don’t believe there has ever been
a finer musical presentation in Camden
than that last Sunday when the local choral
society, tugmented by an orchestra com
posed partly of local musicians and partly
of visitors, presented a program that held
every one in the audience enthralled. *
Camden needs to get wholeheartedly
behind this organisation. We are fortun
ate, extremely fortunate, in having in our
city a musical director of the capabilities
of Guy Hutchins and we must take full
advantage of the services which he can
offer tc our city.
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Busy As Bees
The two Williams—Ransom and Ashtorl
—and Maxie Collins, who tried so hard to
steer South Carolina into the Truman i&mp
two years ago, are busy as bees now in
connection with the meetings this week of
the Democratic clubs in this state to re
organize. '
It’s true that Ashton and Ransom Wil
liams are pursuing a different tack this
time from Maxie but they are all seeking
to achieve the same end and that is the
deliverance of South Carolina, lock, stock
and barrel, into the Truman socialistic,
FEPC camp.
Of course all three of these Truman
leaders say they are against the FEPC and
they may protest that they are not for
Truman. But what they want us to do is
to swallow the party that keeps Truman
in powewso for all intents and purposes
they are for Truman and all he proposes.
This thing of saying that “I am not for
Truman or for FEPC but I am a Demo
crat” because there is no other party to go
to doesn’t make sense. We have a state
Democratic party we can stay in and not
be a part of the national party. And that
is what we are going to do!
A girl who like* bojr» when they
•re stewed most be • cannibal.
The trouble with those people
who set the woods on fire in this
state recently was that they did
so literally inatead of figuratively.
“Every man' should feel his Im
portance, It matters not how hum
ble this Job, and he should act as
though his Job, whatever It may
he, to the moat Important,” says
a writer. And that reminds ns of
the passenger who was talking
with an old hack driver in St.
Augustine, Via. “What’s your name,
under’ the passenger asked. “Ab
raham Lincoln, aah,“ the hack
driver replied. “That’s a name
familiar fee, everybody in this coun
try,” the passenger exclaimed. “I
reckon, ash, It should be ’cause I
been driving heah evah since short
ly after the war with Spain,” the
old negro replied.
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Another pathetic feature about a
boy being raised in a city to that
he never experiences the pride of
being the owner of a bantam
rooster. _ i
It to reported that Russia to
building “a devil of a navy.” Well
Satan to the great destroyer, you
know.
NeW York City Is going In for
artificial rain-making. We presume
that tt will not be unusual in a few
years to read ads In the New York
papers from the city government
warning the people that rain will
fall on certain days between speci
fied hoars. v
Senatorial courtesy seems to be
confined to the Senate.
Wonld you rather be old and
bent or ftHmg and broRa? % 4
Every man starts out In life ^ as
a barefoot boy.
One trouble with the world to
that some birds that ought to be
shot never are.
What has become of the old-
fashioned woman who was a good
pie maker nntil she took to Bridge
and cigarettes?
A philosopher says that “not
every man knows himself.” And
that reminds us of the story of one
who did. The-story goes that a
negro was murdered in Birming
ham, Ala., and the papers were
filled with details of the crime.
Finally the dead man was definite
ly identified as “Mose Smith.” The
newspapers carried big headlines
to that effect. That same day a
Mose Smith was walking down the
•treat when he met up with an
acquaintance. “What you doing
here on the street?” the acquaint
ance asked him. “Why I ain’t
doln nothin’,” Mose answered.-
"Well, you are supposed to be dead
and your body la around at the
funeral^ home—you had better go
around there and see about it.”
Ho then showed him the headlines
in the paper. Moee hurried off to
the funeral home and while his
acquaintance waited outside he
went in to view the corpse. Pres
ently he came out grinning from
ea^ to ear. ”Dat wasn't me,” he
exclaimed, “I knowed as soon as
I seed him it wasn’t me.”
A veteran railroad conductor
says that women do not fuss as
much when a train is lata as do
men. But they are always anxious
for their bridsi trains to arrive.
Nearly all wars are fought on the
defarred payments plan.’ »'
There’s one thing about the hous
ing situation in Camden now and
that is there are no empty houaSe
that the chlldran can bo told are
haunted.
Writing to the editor of a health
column, a man ( complains that he
wakes up every morning with a
pain in his neck. We can’t help
but wonder If he reads Drew Pear
son’s column every night before
retiring.
It strikes ua that the Georgia
preacher who told hto congregation
that ‘‘hell is full of cocktails, high
balls. short snrte and one-piece
bathing suits,” used poor diplomacy
because there are lots of people
who would ft to bell for those
things.
What is
Juneau?
the capital of Alaska?
Brush up and paint up for .Camden’s
gayest season of all the year.
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Let’s keep unity in our community.
This is the year when every man
who runs for office hopes that hell
win in a walk.
The average man loves hto hunch
of keys, even If they don’t unlock
anything much. *
Camden needs and must have a strong
Chamber of Commerce.
ttIk
Let’s see!,
Washington
theoretically
And H bomba?,
times have
York been
by atomic
And
even these men do not know how
It feels to have their families and
towns Wiped out by enemy bomb*
era. ** '
If another war cornea, and many
think'it to inevitable, it will be a
thing of horror, suffering and
death. In the face of all this,
there was strength in the words
of scientist HardM C. Urey, who
discovered heavy hydrogen and
helped develop the atomic bomb,
when he said, this week that ”1 am
very unhappy to conclude that the
hydrogen bomb should be^develop-
ed and built, but I value my liber-
ties more than my life.”
They strike a fimilar note. We
are immediately reminded of Pat
rick Henry’s JaAous words, “give
me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry’s words helped to
crysfAllie oar country’s thinking
when we .were struggling for our
independence almost ITS years ago.
Our country baa readied another
critical period. We must know
where we are going, What we be
lieve In and how much we are
willing to pay for these beliefs.
We have been thrown In the
ring with a government who has
declared that communism and de
mocracy cannot exist together. One
must bow to the other. When, antf
if the bout takes place. Jt will be
a battle of the heavywelghte for
the world championship—winner
take all.—Laurens Advertiser
The National Guard
In the summer of ISM, some
3S0-000 men and officers of the
National Guard will go to camps
and military installations for their
annual field encampment
The gnnouncement calls to mind
the great service that the members
of the National Guard perform for
their states and the natU-n. In the
event of international trouble, the
Guard will function as a first re
serve and, ineide the various states,
the units are available to maintain
law and order.
Tbe National Guard to Identified
with the states. Subject to some
reservations, they are subject to
tbe orders of state offifclals. The
effort to change thie status and to
"nationalise" l the Guard brought
about a storm of protest some
months ago. It to just as well
that these military units are state-
controlled as not There to noth
ing to be gained by putting every
thing under the control of a few
head-men in Washington.—Orange
burg Times A Democrat
Complete Coverage
Tbe Christian people of South
Carolina should be deeply grate
ful to The State for the most com
plete coverage of evangelistic
services perh&ps ever afforded by
any newspaper of tho state. The
State went aU out to give the
people information in full concern
ing the great Billy Graham services
—not merely a description, but the
sermon and all details In full That
The State performed a real service
to the religious cause of South
Carolina may well be taken for
granted, for next to hearing the
great evangelist In person, read
ing the daily sermons was helpful
and inspiring, certainly to every
profeesing Christian, and to all
Herald has fwpawffy „
tho salvatioa of mmading Utaa
That the people tin-hungering Jg
the Gospel was undoubtedly ahown
Sunday afternoon when 40 '®°® Pf r r
sons crowded into the stadium for
the final service of tho campaign,
?hich was sponsor*! by ooarty aU
of tho denominations of Columbia.
—Bamberg Herald. •
Withdrawal From Ruling
The United 8^e« has brokfw
diplomatic relation* with Bulgaria,
one of the Soviet Communtotlc
satellites, after a seige of difficul
ties. y'
The official announcement says
that tho action wng **"* ”*****'
a long sertoa of intolerable JO-;
strlctions and Indignities.”
This gives -somewhat tha impres
sion that we were more or loss
forced out by offensive arts and
that withdraw!! jte effect, a
retreat
However, diplomacy to not oper
ated under the same rules fif th*
gumy as warfare or any other
manly contest But stace we have
interests in the country, which we
have now turned over to the Swiss
to handle, tt would seem that our
repreaentatlves hare buaiw
Bulgaria, and that the proper pro
cedure for a red-blooded country
would be to demand a cessation
of the “Intdlerahle restriction* and
indignities” under penalty ef'a
stiff punch in the nose.
We see no reason why nations
should submit to Indignities un
tend
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necessarily.
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than to maka a
doing might be
a resort to arms
well precipitate
flict.
J«*t the same,
u> United States
which pretty much
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