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Friday, Nosramber 1^, 1®47
The Boy Scout Drive
A group of busy Camden men went out
this week to raise $1,800 to finance the
Boy Scout work in this county for a year.
Considering the great importance of the
work the sum that is bedng asked of the
public is infinitesimal.
Next to the work that the church is do
ing there is no work more important among
the youths of this land than that being
done by the Boy Scout organizatiion.
We are sure that the people of Camden
and of Kershaw county vdll respond whole
heartedly and generously to this appeal.
Reminiscent of Other Days
President Tnimaiv. wa8 quoted in Wash
ington dispatches last week as saying that
he saw no reason^ to halt shipment^ of
United States machinery to Russia in "the
face of congressional demands that the
traffic be stopped lest it strengthen Soviet
military might
The President made his vieyrs known in
reply to news conference questions stem
ming from the disclosure, in department of
commerce records, that Russia is importing
locomoties, freight cars and other equip
ment from the United States at the rate of
$160,000,000 a year.
Latest commerce department figures
showed that the Russians bought 216
freight cars between April and October of
this year.
Selling the Russians locomotives and
other material that they need so desperate
ly causes us to 'harken back to the days
when we were selling scrap iron to the Jap
anese. Much of this iron later was dropped
back on us in the shape of. bombs.
Many people in this country cried out
in those days against the sale of this iron
to the Japs because it was realized that
they were a potential foe of the future but
the lure of the almighty dollar was too
great and we continued to ship it to them
almost up to the time they started to drop
ping it back on us.
While we are all hopeful that there may
not be another war there is hardly any one
so foolish as not to recognize the fact that
one with Russia is a very great possibility,
so great a possibility that it seems to us to
be the acme of folly to be selling them
materials which they need so badly in or
der to prepare for that war.
One great trouble with our countrj' is
that dt has a tendency not to profit by its
mistakes.
War Graft
That was a rather sordid story which
Major General Bennett E. Meyers told the
Senate war investigating subcommittee last
week.
Meyers, a retired major general, Avhd
during the war had important contracting
duties in the air force, set up a manufac
turing company and caused a plane build
er which had government contracts to let
•subcontracts to this company. He installed
stooge executives in the company, who sec
retly diverted to him the greater part of
the inflated salaries that they were paid.
Meyers testified before the senate com
mittee that he had set up this company in
order to take, care of Mrs. Bleriot H. Le-
maree, who had been his “girl friend’’ from
1936 to 1940, with the full knowledge of
her husband.
Lemaree became the stooge preakleut of
the corporation which received rich war
contracts, and he says that Meyers took
$160,000 in profits during the war years.
All of which shows that there were
many people in high places who were wlll-
ing to take advantage of their country even
when Its life was at stake to gratify their
own gited for money and pleasure.
France was not the only country that
suffered in this paftteular.
Cahuden has a right to be proud of its
school band as veil as its 'high school foot
ball team. The band has attracted most
favorable att^tlOB not only in thi^ city but
elsewhere as Veil apl it is a distinct credit
to the eitj and to ia director.
Something td Ponder Over
A dispatch from Bucharest, Romania,
says that Roinaniia may bFeak diplomatic
relations with the United States, and pos
sibly Great Britain as a result^ of the d^
slosures in the Peasant party treason trial.
The dispatch says that this would, in
theory, be the Soviet Unipn’s retaliation
for the recent rupture of^ diplomatic rela
tions between Chile and Russia., The Rus
sians, of course regard Chile as a satellite
of the United States.
Mme. Ana Parker and three of her red
comrades hold the 16000000 inhabitants of
Romania in their bloody hands. Young
King Mihai does not have any more influ
ence on the policy of the government>than
a scrubwoman in this country. _
There are many who think that the
young King who is now in London where
he went to attend ^he wedding of Princess
Elizabeth last week will not return to his
country, where he is merely a figurehead,
a captive of the Communists so to speak.
We were surprised that they let him go to
England for the wedding.
Romania is not the only country' in
Europe that is completely under the domi
nation of Soviet puppets. R. H. Markham,'
foreign correspondent and Balkan expert
of the Christian Science Monitor, says that
the leaders of the Third International,
along with their Soviet masters, exercise
more power over more men and women
than any other world society in history—
more than the Jesuits in their heyday,
more than the Moslems at any time,* more
than Rome undev Augustus, more than the
British Empire.
Let’s see who are some of the puppet
lords than the Soviets have put over hap
less countries in the world.
George Dimitoff is the master of the
lives, property and liberties of the 7,000,-
000 Bulgarians.
Joseph Broz (Tito) has placed Stalin’s
yoke upon the 16,000,000 Yugoslavs
Matyas Rakosi this past summer seized
power over 8,000,000 Hungarians.
Klement Gottwald is lord and mastei of
all Czechs and Slovaks.
Boleslaw Bierut is the despot in Poland.
Ernest Fischer is working night and day
to help Russia enslave Austria.
Palmiro Togliatti is a major factor in
keeping Italy in constant chaos.
Maurize Thorez stifles every construc
tive action in France and instigates the
rioting going on in that country from time
to time.
Nick Zachariades is directing the civil
war in Greece and is trying to bring Rus
sia to Salonika and Athens. -
Mao Tstung keeps all China in turmoil,
ravaging, burning, destroying and killing.
These arch destroyers have succeeded in
bringing chaos and misery to a great por
tion of the world. Korea is cut in two, vast
China is tom into shreds, Indionesia has
been suffering from a civil war. The first
free government modem Burma ever had
was massacred. India 'has entered its house
of freedom badly divided.
On the continent of Europe from War
saw-to Paris, from Berlin to Athens, the
Communists have swept away every trace
of stability except in small fringe areas or
in the tiny Swiss oasis. And they are part
ly wrecking the United Nations.
As Mr. Markham has said “America is
left as the major frontier of freedom”. And
yet in this country the Communists are
becoming bolder and bolder. We hear more
and more of theSr activities. Stalin has
ne'Wspapers in a dozen American cities, in
cluding Los Angeles and San Francisco
How long would an American newspaper
last in Russia? Tito conducts two news
papers, oue Jn Pittsburgh and one in Can
ada. How long would an American News
paper last in Yugoslavia?
Communist bookstores throughout
America distribute one large book and
other small ones by Stalin’s George Dimi-
troff on how to enlarge American soviets,
and other communist literature.
It is SUlin’s boast that 160,000 Com
munists estoblished the Soviet regime in
vast Russia, with more than 150,000,000
160,000,000 inhabitants. He already has
more than 160,000 in this country.
These are some facts which'you might
ponder over as you sit in the quiet and
serenity of your home feeling that all of
this talk about Communism is nonsense,
The trenlendous acclaim given Princess
Elizabeth on the occasion of her wedding
to Phillip Mountbatten' seems to indicate
that England*i8 the same old England and
that notwltiistanding its excursion into so
cialism it is still fundamentaUy sound. The
wedding may have served to reunite the
people of that country.
ThinkinaOiitlfiud
RuMbi i> always sticking its no’s
in. tbs United Nations business
Tbat General Meyers seeirj>
bare been a man of affairs.
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With The Press
Presldmt Truman’s plans for in
terim aid for the Europeans calls
for a lot of interior aid to them.
Tbis is the time of the year
when lots of football coaches wish
they weren’t.
The weight of the earth is esti
mated at e.692,000,000,000,060,000,-
000 tons, so it could probably
btand a little dieting.
Henry Wallace says that he has
bn open mind, but it seems to us
that it ought to be closed for re-
PklTA «
When a man says that ^ he is
feeling "just tolerable" he means
that he feels like eating but he
doesn’t feel like working.
.What has become of the old-
fashioned gentleman who would
ereh lift his hat to the Ineritable?
Fathers-in-law must be the same
the world over, l^ng George has
announced that he will contribute
to the support of Princess Elisa
beth out of his own pocket, which
probably comes as a great relief
to his new son-in-law.
Hope still springs eternal In the
human breast but it seems that
the spring is getting a little weak
er.
A newspaper filler says sponges
are a low form of animal life with
power to eat and digest Yes. and
some of them smoke, too, because
they have sponged cigars off of
ua
A Los Angeles dispatch says that
"Columnist Jimmy Fidler’s former
wife contends he is worth $500,-
000’. And that reminds us of the
old, old story of the wife who
screamed In her sleep, then sat
up in bed and wept. Her husband
awoke and asked what the trouble
was. She replied that she had
dreamed that she was attending an
auction sale of husbands. Some,
she said, brought billions of dol
lars, some millions, some many
thousands, etc. "But what did hus
bands like me bring?’’ asked her
husband, ‘“rhat why I screamed”
she replied, "they had husbands
like you bunched together^ like
onions and they sold two bunches
for a nickel’’.
A recent nation-wide surrey re
veals that most people don’t take
any stock In nation-wide surveys.
There seems to have been a lot
of fowl play in connection with
the Thursday food conservation
program.
The wedding gifts to Princess
Elisabeth were insured for a mil
lion dollars. It’s a pity -she had
to get married when times were
so hard in England. - -
The Crimson Tide is the average
Alabaman’s ideology on football.
A writer says that a successful
executive is one who can hire
subordinates to whom he can dele
gate responsibilitiea. And that re
minds us of the story of the rail
road agent in India who had been
raked over the coals by his jinper-
lors for acting without orders from
headquarters. One fine day his
boss was handod this startling tele
gram; "Tiger on platform eating
conductor. Wire instructions’’
The way, to a man’s heatt is
through his stomach, but it is
awfully hard to get there these
days without passing through his
pocketbook.
Speaking Ont Loud
(Editorial in Lancaster News)
For five years one of the most
familiar flgtuase in the life of Lan
caster and Lancaster county has
bepn the man who keeps an on-
lighted cigar In one side of hla
month, and talks ont lond with the
other side. If you don’t know who
#e are talking about by the above
description, we will tell you that
It is Hkrold Booker, ^itor of The
Lancaster News for the last five
years.
Aa editor of this paper he has
influenced the thought life of the
people of this city and county
probably as much or more than
any other man.' There Is hardly any
limit to the good or the evil that
the editor or a paper like The Lan
caster News can do. The people
who have read this paper can be
thankful that the editor of this
fine publication has not only
spoken out loud on the moral and
spiritual Issues of our community,
but he had the moral courage to
take his stand on the side of the
right. Tor this the people of Lan
caster should be thankful.
He has also spoken out loud by
his interest in everything that has
help^ to make our community a
butter and a awru prolrasutws
place In which to live. Thybugh hit
editorials and other wrttlitib wu
have known that he was tatureeted
in the schools, chartAes, better
streeu and roads, better bnslneeeeu,
betfinr farms, aad to sum It all
op, a better Lancaster and Lancas
ter county, with better eiUseaa In
every home of our city and coun
ty. For this the people of Lancas
ter are thankfuL
/ An old lady once said that there
were two things she could not un
derstand: Flrat, Why boys pulled
green apples off the trees, if th^
would only leave them alone they
would get ripe and fall off. Second,
Why boys courted the girls, if thdy
would only leave the girls alone
they would court the bojrs. There
is another thing we cannot under
stand, and that Is why Harold
would leave Lancaster and go to
Camden. W^l, we Just don’t under
stand so we will just bid yon (Jod-
speed in your new work, and thank
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