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f ' j.. PASS. FOUII wm X iAmUAKt tt. Srbf (^a]ll&ra (Elinmirif lift Kortk BrMd Street PUBLISHED EVBBT PBIDAT DnOOSTA BSOWK Oae Tear SUBSCBIFTION TEBMS All SvbeaiptioM Pajable la Ad J$ZM Eatered aa Secoad CUae Matter at the Peat OflSee at Caatdfia, S. C. Afl artkles eabvitted far {mblieattoa the aatbor. Friday, Jamary 12, CAMDEN ODMMIITEE EXTENDS FORMAL INYTTATION TO THE UNIVERSlTy TRUSTEES »y. )tiM cf that tte that la thia r* ii a aalyaclr arilaMe latatlaaj Calmiliy tha aut* iaatiiartaa aai that thal ~e*-» The Juoary 8th, 1945 To the Presideat of the Board and Tmatees of the University of South Calrolina, A PRAYER Aanm die vorid the aonad of ohella baa ceaaed . , And quiet ahroads the battle-rubbled Weal . . . The enemy has laid avay hit anaa, and Death and Pain are done ia France. Bat 1 fo oa . . . for I mast fi^ht aird kill , . . And vock and rveat .. . and hide and nm . . . For kdrc the enemy Is- xtrj nrach aliTe . . . His ballets stfll are made of lead . . . Tbeij anfxy Vrhispers still foreteD' of sadden death For me and others crooched in slhae and mad . , . _ The end iat as is yet to come . , . — And so ve pray to God to five as strength To ftyht and via . . . vithont the waste of Time .. And with His Will ... to see onr homes again. Jap sea casualties in the htyher l»nckets explain a long- roxBored defect in the Nips' naval architectare. Fifteen ad mirals oa one bridge make for a certain top-heavincas. OPPORTUNITY. Opporxuxaty, as defined by 'Webster, is **tbe convenjent nw. ” -Tb» one word however, covers a vmiety- - — ' — p w - — of sabjecta. Ail aboot os today we find glorioos opportunities being offered men and women in all walks of life. Par- ticnlaxik is |his tme in the ease of onr nation’s youth. Op- portonities for the present and future. ’The Nary, for inJtancc, today offers great opportunities for oar wen, nt lean IT-jean of a^e and who have a hi^h school education or hs equivelant. Such opportunities being foond in the magic of Radar. We know that the Radar school in Chicago most be fill- ed again and again to assure our complete success in the present world struggle, and at the same time to insure our men of a more promising position in later civilian life. It is not^ that men placed in the Na^y Radar school are men of the highest type; the cream of the crop, so to speak, who have an educations 1 background adaptable for Ra^r. These men undergo interesting training, for R^ar has al ready been acclaimed by imminent authorities as the Magical Science of the Future. Radar opens a broad new \'i8ta for high school graduates hithert/j unheard of; offers them the finest education in electronics; gives them prestige for later years. Radar trains men for fine paying civilian jobs after the war. It assures them an insight into one of the most intricate sciences known to mankind. Radar will eventually tie in with television, frequency modulation, operation of railroads and factories, and will be the very nucleus of weird peace-time labor saving devices offered to men. Toung South Cyol inis ns cao now eager-the ^Navy’s Radar program, provided they qualify, as Seaman first class, to begin with, receiving a base pay of $66 per month. Full detaila may be had from the Navy Recruiter at the City Hall, Colombia, or from the traveling Navy recruiter who visits Camden each Saturday.** “Germany haa lost the war. Germany has lost the war," Hess keeps muttering on his solitary strolls. The fuehrer may be nuts, as per rumor, but Rudy’s head was never clearer. ON BIGOTRY American worthy of the name can indulge in bigotry. Bigotry is diametrically opposed to those principles upon which America was founded and through which it has grown to highest stature among the nations. Bigotry is a mu.shroom PJAnt^M one faith and then that of ahdthef. No religion is safe if bigotry in any form is allowed to flourish. Race or religious prejudice is not inborn, but is learned. It is based on a pre-ju)dgment or a conclusion made in the absence of facts to support it. It is the result of ignorance and beneath any right-thinking man or woman. If we indulge in spreading false rumors', or generalize about any group; if we permit personal dislike for any in dividual to goad us into careless condemnation of the ^up from which he comes; particularly if we use thoughtlem, danger-provoking characterizations before children'; if we stir up or indulge in race or religious or class hatred, we are false to our countr>’'and to our own faith. The views of ProtesUnt, Jew and Catholic are alike in this. As witness; ^— The Protestant. Richard Hillary, speaks: “Christianity means to me, on the social plane, man’s humanity to man. Everything else I see as man’s inhumanity to man." The Jew, Sigmund Livingston, speaks: “Tolerance of intolerance is the greatest w’eakness of American democracy. Intolerance is in itself a negation of tolerance. Carried- to its logical conclusion, every form of intolerance against any group or sect would destroy the very democracy which per mits such intolerance.". The Catholic. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, speaks: ’The first step which each one of uS must take to eliminate bigotry, selfishness, harshness, injustice and contempt from the minds and hearts of others is to make sure they have no place in our own. Malice toward none, justice to all is the general American, formula and practise. No true American will nurture, promote, or incite'any anti-semitic, anti-Negro, siitl-Catholic. anti any group of fellow law-abiding American dtizena." Bigotry must not flourish here!—By Ruth Taylor. A wonderful thing, the sky train now hauling freight in to the new Dutch front FOr post-wrar use, of course, it would have a retractable tramp who folds into the foselage. A Pacific island report tells of a high wind with large objects sailing through the air; possibly steel guitars. ’This is terrible," complained the sardine in the ean- nery* "‘being jaxnhied in here like bus passengers." We have been aathcwixed and requested by the City of Camden, Kershaw Coun ty •■A Ifee several civic orgaaizations of this community to communicate to yon iavilBtioB contaiaed ia this letter and to make a brief statemeirt to yon of the points wkaeh we feel we have to offer^as reasons for your accepting Hiis invitation. We feel that we have ia our community a uniqoely suitable locale for our state oaiveisity and are wBRng to make extensive o^ers to encourage the selection of Cam den for its new location. Believing thia we are authorized to offer you without cost your selection of at least tiiree appropriate jitea near Camd£3i. TTie first of these sites contains between one thousand and fifteen hundred acres and is located ia a lovely, partly wooded area contiguous to beautiful Pine Tree Lake, near which the area is rolfog forest, and extending back northwardly for about a mile to Woodward Aviation Field (municipally owned and available for use by the UnSversity) and adjacent to the City water shed, another extensive wooded and park- like area. United States Highway No. 1 would bound this area and two mlroi^ atte within service distance so that a central heating plant could be supplied with maximum economy. - • The second'sHe is a beautiful estate immediately nordrof Camden, contiBBihg some five hundred seres, contiguous to the Kirkwood ^If course and bounded by United States Highway No. 521. This site is likewise served by a railroad. The third site lies between Camden and the Wateree River on United States Highway No. 1 and the S^iboard Air line Railwaj. Jhis site can be afanoet as la^ as may be desired. It has a splendid drainage, a beautifnl topography varying from flat rich fields in its sout^m part to steep, lovely wooded hills in its northern portion. A fifteen hundred acre tract carved from this area would hiclnde all these. All three sites are located in sand or sandy loam soils, easily worked, easily iandscap^ and of a character that will make building foundations comparatively inexpensive.' The probleins presented by rock and^ctay would be non-eiristeBt — All three rites mre w^hm two miks of the buriness centor of Camden. We believe that coniparable rites, if comparable sites could be found, any of our larger cities, would cost literally millions of dollars. We are aathorbtod to offer the Umveirity its choice of these sites without cost to the University or the SUte. • Moreover, we are prepared to offer, in addition to the site, ample utility, sewer age and other facilities a^ such boulevard approaches between Camden and the University as may be called for by the plans. If the Trustees desire it we shall be pleased to present a more detailed brief on behalf of any of these rites. Also, we shall welcome an opportunity toodiow your srt« committee, or all of you. what we have to offer in these locations. Mean while, we shall be glad to attend any future meeting of your body to give you more details as to our invitstion. What else has Camden to offer the Univ-ersity in addition to perfect sites? We respectfully submit that it has much more to offer thAn these ideal sit^ In fact we believe its intangible offerings far exceed its tangiUe <^fering8. In toe first place Camden is especially well located for a State institution. It is almost exMtly in the mathematical and population center of the State. It has adequate rail facilities and is*one of the mo^l iiqportant bus line hubs in the State. Then there is the fact that Camden is a small town, but not too smalL It is large enough to have the municipal, recreational and bu^ess facRities w^ch the Uniyerrity will need. On the other hand it is small ^ough to be sure that the Uni versity would dominate the community, (jamden would be a university town rathofr than the university being a town university. Td us this appears to be of great import ance. The univerrity would be so momentous in every phase of Camden’s affairs that the University could mold and control the town and the reverse could easily be avoided. A student of the University would here really be the product of the Uni- versity and not that of the dominant environs. Another advantage of having the Univerrity located in Camdra is the increased opportunity for student employment which would be offered. In September, when the students normally arrive in Columbia, the resulting increase in population is less than four per cent. On the other hand if it were in Camden the increase would be Mme forty per cent. Few businesses require extra help to handle a four per cent increase'in population. Almost all would require additional help to serve a forty per cent increase. Much has been said in the press of the traditions inherent in its present loca tion. To our mind traditions of value are living things, those tl^gs w^b expose a way of life, and should not be fettered to old-atones and mortar. To take the contniiy riew is to hamstring progress. Our American democracy is a glorioua tradition, a living thing, and not bound up with or in anywise dependent upon toe Capitol building in Columbia or that ii\ Washington. Were they to fall down tomor row the tradition would not suffer. We feel that the traditions of value to the students will go with them to any location chosen for the University. Moreover, we feel that 4n Camden we can offer them an environment of tra- dition-*r<.^>aa old town, the State’s oldest inland town, >with a gracious, cultured back ground and present way of life. - We also believe that tiie moral environment in Camden would be good and could also be kept in be^r control by the dominant Universify than would be pos sible in larger communities. In this connection it is common luowledge that for many years past and at present many students have been going to other institutions rather than to our university for the primary reason that they are located in amaller towns where the moral environment is more easily control!^ and the distractions are fewer. It has been argued by Some that the University must stay in Columbia for the sake of ge^g crowds to attend its athletic events. In the first place we think this emphasis is misplaced. Do« the University exist to produce a football team?'" In the SMond place we think this argument is without basis in fact It ia our un derstanding that the attendance at the football games in Columbia, with the excep tion of the Fair Week games, is the smallest of any Stote University in the Southesri in spite of the fact that alt these other state univerrities are in much smaller towTis. For our part we can point to the enormous crowds which come to Camden to attend its races and state that we think people especially like to attend events in Camden. ^ Finally in urging you to accept our invitation there is the matter of ultimate cost to the Uxpayen to the SUte. Yo^ published figures indicate that there ia not much difference m the cost to the SUte between relocating the University and expanding the present siU. Th^ figure only cover the present expansion plans. If the Iom view IS Uken it is obvious that the great savings will be inherent in a new aite wt must comider, not five years hewe, not tiyenty-five years hence, but generations hence. Columbia will continue to grow. Future expansions (and they will be need ed) will become progressively more expensive whether they are lateral or vertical in shape ^ugh sheer nece^. H tee present rite is to be kept eventually the expan sion will have to be vertical and tee very same Hallowed stones which are beimr «te will have to go under tee wrecker's bar instead of being utihxe^r some other uaeYhl purpow, as" bronoSa^ m your stated reasons for relocating. . ^ • « commend the Trustees for tiaving vision to decide to relocate the Univerritv ItegydleM of whether Camden > chosen as. the new rite we think your action k to the best of the Stste and the University in tee long run. We hope we may honor^ by havmg the opportunity to commend anoteer action .of your bodv_ .the decision to locate the U^verrity in*(Camden. ^ ^ Sincerely yours, HENRY SAVAGE, JR. For tee Camden and Kenhaw County Univerrity Committee. ( at ISU UL at 4 arctat: Id fei V- L ffaaitU ^ ^ art Waris—For Sale a. 4 BiSet T. ua. 4MSe FOfI SALE-*Sav md oactar. WUliBaB T. for Maer. tStfie WAffTEO->To bar tiacti of T. WDer. mse COMniG ATTRACTiOIIS ■■■AT— Camden Theatre wmot T«H>AY-SAT^ JAIL-ia.13 Jack iDodazre - - ** A L A S E A** Krai Tarlor SAT. Night, 10:30 Shew *^ABiES ON SWING lt’« A Fmm JabOM! SUNDAY, JAN. H ’TIECKLESS AGE^ * Starrlas GLOBIA JKAlf Also Sheeted Sbort Sridects MON..TUESs JAN. 1S.16 Prom the Plar That Rocked . Broadvar 77 Weeks! '-JANIE" Joree Reriwida sad Robert Hatton Lateet World Neva WED..THURS., JAN. 17-18 Brvsra tbe **BeateB GenBaae!** -THE MASTER RACE" PlsmiDa Drama of Naal Alse Neva omaMG AmtAcnoiB Auriar Ikeatre FRIDAY^T., JAN. 12-13 Wfld BIU ElUott aa Red Ryder -CHEYENNE WILDCAT" Cbapter t Aleo Cartoon Comedr M0N.-TUE:S., JAN. 1S.16 -THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET" Nflg Aalber add Hdfen^WittW^ Latest Neva WED..THURS., JAN. 17-18 Ann Sheridan and Denali Morgan -SHINE ON HARVEST MOON" Chapter 1 -BlMk Anmr" State Iheatie KESSHAW, a C FRIDAY, JAN. 12 *TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT" Pbll Baker. Mai^loiie Maanov and Uvard Ryrii SATURDAY, JAN. 13 -HIDDEN VALLEY OUT LAWS" Wild BUI EUlou aad Oeorge * ‘*Oabbr'*> Harna SAT., JAN. 13, 10:30 p. m* -SHADOWS IN THE > ^ . NIGHT" Warner Baztar and Nlaa Fbek MON.-’TUES., JAN. 18 "THE SEVENTH OtOt Spencer Tmer and SiSM Ha WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17 "SING, NEKiU^pR SING* Brad.Tajlor aad Rath Tmrr TWRA-HM; JAN. 18-18 "WING AND A FRAYER" Don t , J. . J