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(Satttlirn (EiironUlr not Nortb Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaOosta Brown - - - £^ditor Publhher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year : ^2.50 Six Months 1.50 Entered aa Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Conferees March 3, 1879 All articles submitted for publication must be ginned by the author • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947 Will Taxpayer Ever Get A Break? Governor Thurmond has announced his approval of the $10,260,000 state institu tional and buildinif bill passed at the last session of the South Carolina General As sembly. This bill was passed by the Legislature in a frantic attempt to get rid of a surplus in the state treasury because evidently it is a high crime in the eyes of legislators for there to be such a thing as a surplus in the treasury. It evidently must be against their theory of government! It had been our fond, but foolish hope, that the General Assembly, instead of hunting some way to spend this surplus, would find in it an opportunity to give the overburdened taxpayer a break, by possibly reducing the state income taxes. But no serious consideration was given by the legislators to anything like this. The money was in the treasury and some way had to be found to spend it before the Gen eral Assembly adjourned. And a way was found I The Governor states that there will be another surplus of about $7,000,000 in the state treasury when the General As sembly meets next month so the legislators had better begin right now looking around for ‘something to blow it in on. Seriously speaking, it seems to us that it is high time somebody was giving ser ious thought to the plight of the poor tax payer—particularly the salaried man and woman and some effort being made to give him or her relief on his income tax. There appears to be no possibility whatever that the Federal government can give any re lief because of the threatening interna tional situation so the relief will have to come from the state government. Instead of feeling that it is compelled to find some place or places to spend the surplus which accumulates in the treasury why can’t the legislature reduce the state income taxes?- Will the poor taxpayer, already groan ing under the load which he has to carry,. never get any relief? Has the Right Idea If the United States is caught napping again, it will certainly not be the fault of young Congressman W. J. B. Dorn of the third South Carolina district. On every oc casion he is sounding a note of alarm of the dangers which lie ahead for this coun try and urging that our national defenses be strengthened. Last Friday before a cheering, applaud ing house, the young Congressman declared that the United States could “stop Com munism” not by sending relief to Europe but by spending billions to build the “world’s greatest air force”, w’hich would be “capable and willing to drop an atomic bomb anywhere in the world”. Mr. Dorn, it will be recalled, wrote the J. Leroy Belk Post of the American Legion here in Camden recently, that if;;he could prevent this country being caught unpre pared again, he proposed-lo-^o “If ,I were in the Russian Kremlin”,, said the young congressman, “I would favor the United States putting its money into relief bill rat holes rather than air power.” Then the congressman went on to say that we should be spending, as the Rus sian are spending, billions annually on an air force. As we have said on other occasions, we think Mr. Dom one of the most refreshing figures that has entered public life in this section in many years. He has the cburage of his convicitions and he doesn’t hesitate to speak out when the occasion demands it, let the chips fall where they may. There is genuine regret all over South Carolina becai^e oLthe death of Dr. James C. McLeod, of Florence. He was one of the state's able men and bid fair to be a lead ing ^gure in the political life of the com monwealth in the future. His view was that of the statesman. The caretaker's home at a Georgia golf club was destroyed by fire. Which would indicate that tiie caretaker must have been a mOe emlem. Had Wholesome Effect Reports from Hollywood are to the ef fect that the recent investigation of Holly wood communism scared the big chiefs of moviedom and that as a result the movie output in the future will be watched very closely for any traces of commun’’stic propaganda And thus the House commitee on Un- Ameri(can Activities has performed an other very useful service to the country, because it was revealed in the investiga tion that the Reds were becoming increas ingly bold in the movie world. And wdiat an opportunity they had there to do effec tive work! This committee on un-American activi ties is the same thing to a communist that a red flag is to a bull. It arouses their great est ire and they and their fellow travelers have tried desperately for years to abolish it. Poor old Martin Dies who started the committee was literally hounded to death by the Reds and their fellow travelers. Then, when he retired they started hound ing John Rankin who succeeded him as chairman. When the Republicans took over and Parnell Thomas became chair man the same wolves started after him. But the committee, emulating old man river, just keeps rolling along—and doing a fine job, which patriotic, true-blue Americans appreciate more and more as the days go by. Maks^It A Safe Christmas The joy of the holiday season is usually marred in many homes by tragedies which strike each year just before or during Christmas. Some of these tragedies are, of course, unavoidable but the great majority of them are due to carelessness and negli gence. One of the great hazards of the holiday season last year was fireworks and all over the country tragedies resulted from them, one of the worst being in this coun ty at Kershaw. This year the state law for bids the shooting of fireworks so we hope that this hazard will be removed this year. Another great hazard is the automo bile. Each year during the holiday se.<ison a tenific toll is taken because of drunken driving or reckless driving. It is to be hoped that all dfiyers will be more cau tious this Christmas and we may be spared the epidemic of wrecks that usually occur during the holiday period. A third hazard is fire. Christmas decora tions are sometimes hazardous in them selves and extra precautions should be taken in every home against fires. The Christmas season is supposed tj be the gladdest of the year. Uon’t mar it for yourself and your loved ones through care lessness or negligence, which may bring on tragedy. Overdoing the Bowl Business The' Southern Conference last week considered restricting the bowls in which football teams belonging to the conference could participate. Other conferences are also c^sidering the matlier. The*^.football bowl business has been greatly overdone. The Rose Bov/1, which was the original bowl, proved to be ‘^uch a success that it was inevitable that other bowls should be established. The Sugar Bowl at New Orleans was the second one to enter the field and it. too, proved suc cessful. Then came the Orange Bowl at Miami and it prospered. Then a regular epidemic broke out and this year attempts were made to stage games for some tw.enty-five or thirty bowls. There just wasn’t enough football teams to go around. It is inevitable that the colleges them selves will have to do something to break the thing up. The BqmJBow'I idea, waa a fine one and sufficient for the whole country so long as it brought the two outstanding teams in the country together but it Was weakened when it began to limit the teams wb.ich could be invited. The Sugar Bowl, too, is all right and perhaps the Orange Bowl is justified. These three should be sufficient to serve the major teams of the country. Orlando has a bowl game which can be justified in that it seeks to bring the two leading teams among the smaller colleges of the nation together. The bowl business should stop there. Keep Him Illuminated It would be fine if it could be worked out so that King Haiglar could be kept lit up the year around. In time this would become one of Camden's noted night scenes. , - - And then, too, there is something in spirational about the vane on the tower of the city hajl. It shows the old King always facing the storm ready to defend, it mat ters not from which direction the storm may be approaching. May be our nation could take a lesson from this valiaat old Indian chief now. ThInkinqOiitloud We are right in the midst of the Christmas shopping dase. What has become of the old* lashloned man who used to lay in a good supply of wood for Christmas? A writer says that Joe SlJlln is two-faiced. Well, If he Is, we do wish he would use the other one a while. When a man agrees with him self be thinks that makes it un animous. / V _ It’s always rather difficult to think of Santa Claus in the plural. They say that you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear but we know a man whose pocket- book must be made of pigskin be cause /every time he opens it it squeali.. — It la claimed that the riant telescope which has Just been erected at Mount Palomar will clarify the secrets of the heavens, but what we wish it would do is let us know what the devil is up to. An American golfer likes bis j Did yon see whwre that kiepto- maniac was arrested for trjrinf to ■teal a march on John Fhjllip Sonsa? It would be too bad if old Santa Clans should take one good look at this crasjr old world and return to the North Pole for good We don’t know what sort of vegetation grows in Pales tin'.; but jit surely seems to be full of am- I bushes. . A man does not have to eat so much now to eat himself out of house and home. A woman writer thinks that women’s dress may become more feminine in the future. And that leminds us of the ditty which went the rounds some time back: Men’s trousers And heavy paint Make a woman look Like what she ain’t. We trust old Santa Claus will bring this section some beautiful weather. A feminine writer says that the love triangle continues to be the greatest home destroyer. And speaking of human triangles we are reminded of the old, old story of the woman who told her hus band that the eternal triangle was going to break up their bliss. “Nonsense, my dear!’’ replied the husband, "how can you say such a thing because during the two year we've been married, I’ve never looked at another woman? How can you say there is a triangle?’’ “But there is a triangle’’, sobbed the wife, “and a moat vic ious triangle, it is, too. Both you and I are in love with you’’. Would you say that a pawn- 89 w«r« upsdhig. Tsd petetrtemi were killed and 41 injured in the months. A total of 841 aecldeiite In Oc tober occurred at road InUmeec- tions, 127 occurred on earres or turns and 290 on wet roadwaya An American goiter likes hist j-uu say a tee like an Englishman likes hisj ^at of the tea. land? Russia claims to have a demo cratic form of government bu* we would call It a demockracy, Henry Wallace is going to form a third party. It seems that Henry makes a crowd in ei/her one of the other two parties. Notions are rather costly these days. The wife of a Baltimore clergy man testified In court that her husband kept their home at a temperature of less than 60 de grees and ,told her to “put on a sweater,'' rcbe and long under wear." She said he sat aroun*! the house “in his ovOTCoat, with muffler around his neck and his overshoes on". It is twitural ♦or a preacher to have a very decided aversion to a place that is too hot but this seems to have been carry ing it too fat. “Steve Sieradzki plunged over for eight touchdowns bt^fore the game was under way”—Muskegon (Michigan) Chronicle' So evident ly the opposing team in this in stance was really defeated beforA the game started. With The Press Grim Figures A total of 775 road .‘iccldents in South Carolina brought death to S8 persons and injury to 422 dur ing the month, the department re ported. A totai of 497 accidents in the state caused damage to prop erty, of which 1 was in Marlon county. ’The October trafic .accident toll brought to 6,910 the number of ac cidents reported in South Carolina so far this year, compared with 4,022 accidents in the same period of 1946. A total of 4S1 persons have been killed in South Caro lina traffic accidents this year, compared with 500 killed in the same period of last year. A breakdown of October traffic wrecks showed 1,309 drivers in volved in accidents, with 711 com mitting one or more violations. A total of 339 drivers failed to grant rights-of-way, 205 were on the wrong side of the road, 66 disre garded traffic conlfol devices, 54 made improper turns, 100 attempt ed to pass Improperly, 67 follow ed other vehicles too closely and WItk lit ,th« SMst lu«ardo«.^u?*“** ' Dut each reader ** —Millins Ent«nu1se. 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