Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THt CAMOtN CHUOIIICH, CAUflli SOUTH CAHOLIWA. FHtPAV» DKCmtKH <> IHT (Sattthni flUfrimirlr 1109 North Broad Street Camden; S. C. PUBUSHED’EVB^Y FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCosta Brown - - Editor Pablinher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Snbscriptions Payable In Advance One Year |2.60 Six Months 1.60 Entered aa Second Claai Itatter at the Poat Office at Camden, 8. C^ under act of Cocareaa March 8, 1879 , All articlea aubmitted for publication muat be aU;ned by the author FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 Glorious In Defeat. « Camden ia jnstly proud of its high school football team. Doped to lose to the North Charleston High School team by at least two touchdowns, the Bulldogs fought their opponenfis to a standstill and lost by the narrowest margin by which it is possible to lose a football game—the point after' touchdown. The game at Orangeburg Friday night was a beautiful exhibition. Both teams played hard, clean football, and the crowd which saw the contest was probably the largest ever tjo see a football game in Orangebufg, collegiate or high school. The Bulldogs acquitted themselves hand somely, and the local fans who journeyed- to the gmne were proud of them. And the local fans also swelled up in pride when the high school band paraded on the field between the halves and drew hearty applause from the ten thousand people present for the precision they dis played.' . • The Family Doctor Two medical men warned the Southern Medical Association in Baltimore, Md., last week that the family doctor is *fast disappearing" from the American scene and urged their colleagues to unite in sav ing the general practicioner from the status qf the "vanishing physicion". This is a tendency that has been noted by the general public with the deepest re gret and concern for some time and it is good to note that members of the profes sion themselves are waking up to the dan ger that lies therein. One of the bugbears of the medical pro fession is socialized medicine, and it should be a bugbear to every one, because it would be a terrible mistake so long as the public can get the treatment at the hands of the medical profession that it has al ways gotten in the past. But—if the tendency to specialize con tinues to grow and the family doctor pass es frqm the scene, then socialized med'cine is going to step into the picture.- Nothing will hasten it quicker than the passing of the family doctor. ’ The specialists are filling a vital niche in the life of the people and it is well that we have them but they do not take the place of the family physician. Indeed the family physician is "needed before the specialist. There must be some one who can be called when a person becomes ill who can tell him to what specialist he must go, if indeed a specialist is needed. The family doctor has been just as much a part of America as the preacher and the teacher. He has not only been the minister ing physician to the home but he has been a counsellor on other matters, he has al most been a member of the family. It will be a sad day for America when the family doctor passes from the scene and it will be a sad day for the medical .profeg^on as well. A Threat to the Game A prominent football official in the Southewestem Conference, speaking to Dallas Quarterback Club last week, said that unless some reforms were put into practice in football the day was fast ap proaching when it would be impossible to get good men to officiate at the games. The reforms which he listed as being necessary were :(1) Giving more protec- ' tion to the officials; (2) eliminating drink ing and gambling at games, and (3) stop ping the sale of tickets when all seats have been sold, discontinuing the sale of stand ing room only. Twice during the 1947 season fans have tried to, mob officials of games in the Southwestern Conference and in each in stance it was claimed those who were try ing to get to the officials were drunks and tumblers. The need for the reforms which the Texas official has cited is apparent not only in the Southwestern conference but all over the country. Drinking at games must be curtailed, and can be curtailed- It will be more difficult to curtail gambling but the effort should be made. It is a pity that such a g(^ sport as traOBIS DO Our Lowering Standards Mayor James M. Curley, of Bostdn, was released last week from a Federal prison where he had served five months for using the mails to defraud. On Friday when he went to the city hall to resume his duties as. mayor, he was greeted by upward? of 400 people cheering wildly. It seems that under Massachusetts law, Curley did not lose his office by reason of his conviction ''and a sentence to prison of 18 months which was communted to six months by President Truman. In North Carolina, some three years ago, the teachers of the state put on a very de termined campaign for higher pay. A high er pay program was agreed upon by the leaders of. the North Carolina Education Association to be presented to the General Assembly of the state. This program, however, did not suit some of the more avid of the teachers and they set out to overthrow their leaders. The leader of the opposition to the association program was a school superintendent named Fritz. He proclaimed loudly for higher pay than the leaders of the associa tion were asking for*. When the annual meeting of the as sociation was held Fritz was run as a sur prise candidate for the presidency againrt the man who was due, according to a cufh tom of years, to be promoted from the vice presidency to the presidency. I^ritz re ceived sufficient votes to elect him. • All of this was all right. The teachers had a moral right to ask for more pay than their leaders had thought wise to seek and they had a moral right to elect Mr. Fritz aa their president if they so desired. But the sad part of the story begins here. Mr. Fritz seems to have felt so strongly that the teachers in his own school were entitled to mpre-pay than the state of North Carolina was allowing them that he set out to get it for them by fair means or foul. The means turned out to be foul. Mr. Fritz turned in more vouchers than he had teachers and he took the money from the extra vouchers and distributed it among his teachers. He was caught in this irregularity .and the North Carolina State Board of Educa tion very promptly and very properly re scinded his teaching permit. This, of course, forced him to quit his job as super intendent of the Hudson schools. The'directors of the North Carolina Edu cation Association then met and asked for Fritz’s resignation as president of the as sociation. Last week Mr. Fritz was indicted by a grand jury for obtaining money under false pretense and a special term of court has-been ordered by Governor Cherry for his trial. The most shocking part of the story is that three teacher organizations in Meck- lenberg county have officially gone on rec ord as opposing the Ouster of Fritz as president of the education association and many other teachers, and indeed many peo ple who are not teachers, are said to be in deep sympathy with Fritz. There are very disturbing signs in the ca?es of Fritz and Curley. It become? evi dent that the people of this country are lowering their moral standards. In bygone years the conviction of Curley on a charge of mail frauds would have led to such a public clamor that he would have been ousted as mayor of Boston instead of being given an ovation on his return from prisoit, and certainly the revelations regarding Mr. Fritz would have led to an almost unani mous demand on the part of the teachers of North Carolina and the general public that he be ousted as president of the state teachers association. But instead there is much sympathy for him and there is even doubt that a jury can be found in his coun ty that will conrict him. There is much in the cases of Fritz and Curjey to make the people of this country think. Camden stores are well supplied with Christmas merchandise and the people of Camden and Kershaw county should do their Christmas shopping at home. "Wlhat’s around the comer?" asks an exchange. That’s easy—it’s old Santa Clans. y \Wth The Press IhinlkinqOiitlDud Orandfatber has probably de clined in stature Iron former years but it la difficult to beliere that be baa declined as much as tbe new grandCatber clocks which they are adTertislng now would lndl< cata When the child of a Hollwood (•xtress speaks of its forefathers, one doesn’t know whether it is 0 peaking of its ancestors are of former husbands oC its mother. You certainly can’t take it with you and if prices go any higher it appears now as though you will not be able to keep it with yon here. ' Another one of life’s sad feat ures is that you can’t erer stumble on anything good while you are citting down. A safety group official says that burnt toast may cause many an automobile accident. It seems to ns that It would make a man doubly cautions because he would see red eren when the green light was on. Yon don’t hear so much of John L. Lewis since he was left out in the coal by the American Federa tion (rf Labor. Writing in a church paper, a minister stresses the importance of church members being courteous to strangers within their gates. And that brings to mind the old story of the minister, who preached a sermon by request on “Recogni tion of Friends in Hearen”. A few days later he received a note say ing: “I should be much obliged if you would make it convenient to preach to your congregation on *The Recognition of Friends on Earth’ as I have beeu coming to your church-for nearly six months and nobody has taken any rotice of me yet.” We suppose that one of the rea sons they refer to the new styles that women are weamig as the new look is that visibility is j/oore?. Mayor Curley of Boston was greeted by a cheering throng of reveral ’hundred and a national guard band on bis return from serving a six-month sentence for using mails to defraud. Would it b( proper to refer to him as Boston’s little Curley-head^ man? Representative Adolph J. Sabath, of Iltinois, surely must be in his dotage. He is attacking Heibert Hoover. It’s getting about time the radio crooners were again beginnit.g to dream of a white Christmas. Some economist has figured that the approximate cost of a child 18 years old is $8,000, not' taking off depreciation on the parents. 'A writer says that no major operation should be performed un less at least two reputable doctors hdve pronounced same necessary, And that reminds us of th3 old story of the physldan who told his patient; “I’m sorry but it would be wrong for me to hide the truth I'rom you any longer. You are a very sick man. Is there anyone you wpidd like to see?” 'The patient, nodding feebly,' repller, “Y-e-s' “Who?”, asked the physician. "An other doctor”, the patient replied in a scarcely audible whisper. 1A DA Mi I HATS ' li Sold from Coost to Coast... Now Como To (NAME OF CITY) The military academy at West Point is 322 cadets short of the authorized enrol ment. With only 2,714 cadets in attend ance, the institution which has in the past provided most of the leadership for the regrular army today suffers from the great est deficiency In its history of 146 years. And this is a time when the country is so sorely in need of military leaders for the future. Winston Churcfhill celebrated his 73rd. birthday Sunday with two parties, A better celebration for England would have been for him to have celebrated the day by again taking over the office of premier. • And when wpdlf "Retdy To Serve You,J^A>* ®can just that — widi a complete line of the greatest hut values in America! Compare an ADAM for style, jtor quality i . . with hats costing twice- the-price. Come, in and see the new ADAM HATS! D. C Dixon’s Bargain House SPORTING GOODS Hmm SOS-W Ml Brawl Strmt Itovw to Now FioM Harold Booker, long-time stcre- tary of tbe South Carolina Preaa Aaaoclatlon, la leaving Lancaster for Camden. - ’ There’i proper regret being ex- preosed over bis departure by the civic aiyi r^iglous leaders of Lan caster. Mr. Bookefi^ U what is known as a “spark-plug” jiewt- paperman, and he works at bis job. The Independent wishea him well In his new field.—Anderson Inde pendent *<00011 It Wide, Senator” Chalk up a smart one for^ The News and Courier in the following ulthy Daragraph: “Senator Jefferies complains of keyhole reporting in the affairs of Santee-Cooper. Why don’t you open the door, Wchard?”—’The State. Give Venetian Bttnde for ChrietmoH The Meyera Meat Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers makes a somewhat sorry picture as he reveals the details of his wartime activity before the Senate subcommittee investigating war profits. The officer, seems to have taken care of himself while other Ameri cana were fighting. He also had an eye out for his friends, male and fenuda Tbe lurid details should not mis lead anyone Into believing that he was, or U, a typical example of offlcerK:ondnct dnrlng a great war, despite the several decorations that he was awarded. The suspicion that' there are other, and undiscovered, ‘‘heroes” of the same type, however, should be removed from the public mind, even if It take a general inquiry into the conduct and profits of desk-warriors and their friends.— Orangeburg Times and Democrat. UEYObOR NAIDWARI POt VINETtAN lUNDS uustumuinmttHtum NOW! •It Coats No More To Buy Tbe Betiar Venetian Blind •Enduring Beauty In Custom Built Blinda •Choice of 12 Slat Colora, 18 Tape Gdora. 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