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diinmirU l^treet Camden, S. C. >UBLyHED KVEBY FRIDAY C. B<^ker - - - - Igditor Josta £&own - - - - Publhher SUjfecRIPTION TERMS: ill Subicriptions Payable In Advance ^One Yfar $2.50 Six Months - 1.50 Entered aa Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Cor.fcresa March 3, 1879■ Ail. articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author . FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 THI CAMOIM CHftONt^A piness to the masses. Only the bosses, th comparatively few men who run the govj emment, are happy under it. The citize as a whole suffer an aarony as great death itself. '‘Saragi I pines’ ' hare thought [come back. hMJli Me. Another Well, old talnf Santa,. Claus did it The Fuel Oil Situation ^ There has been much concern l-.itely over the fuel oil siluation. In some sec tions of the country supplies' are very short and in .some cities people who are dependent on it for heating and cooking have been rather sow ly inconvenienced. We note where one writer, who seonii. to be pretty conversant with the yituation, expresses the belief that the .shortages will not be long-lived. He blames them on a combination of factors including transpor tation difficulties and extremely high de mand. The extent of the demand for oil was one of the surprises of the postwar era. It was almost universally believed that the cessation of war demands w'oiild resu'f in j Defiffi/ FluidH a substantial drop in total consumption. Exactly the opposite has occurred, (hvihan demand for oil products of .^dmost all koid has made it neces.'^ary to protiuce h-v 'ndi the peak war figure. Anil even greder con- ' sump'ion is forecast for the future. , Many people have vondcred v hy di; [ great refining capacity built for war pnr- .,ppi>!eF'is i»ot doing mon' to meri juv ( ■-! time needs. The fen.<on, as giVt.fik hv a! spoke,‘-mnn fof the industry, i.s th.-it m:.iny of the plnnl.s were of a special purpose na ture, designed to produce aviation and oth er fuels for wliich t. C (hmiand luns dropped. As a consequence, the industry has been forced t(» buiUi new plant and other facilities in the fiice of the material -«lu)rtages^which have plagued the country. Many people switched froirTcoal to fuel oil because they had grown weary of the ever threatening coal famine as a result of strikes called by John L. Lewis. It has been somewhat disillusioning to then to find now thfit tltey-4ua‘.i.aced with a short- age of fuel oil. Some of-them have already discarded their oil stoves and gone back to coal. The situation reminds us of the story of the two men who were walking in a pas ture one day when suddenly they saw a ferocious bull running towards them. One of them climbed up a tree but the other, unable to make the tree, jumped into a big hole in the ground that happened to be nearby ju.st a^ the bull charged, over it. As soon as the bull charged over the place the man in the hole emerged. The bull turned around and charged again, the man again jumping into the hole, only to emerge again after the bull charged by. This performance kept up for several min utes until the man in the tree hollered to the man as he emerged out of the ground one time, ‘Vhy don’t you stay in the hole you a fool until the bull goes away?”j To which the other fellow replied, “You’re a d f ool yourself, there’s a rattlesnake A New Year's jofc for this toun- ^ will be to Uio j ■he red, white and bl«e. \ * You’ll notice that in nearly ha. heea' .o*!, * T"" WhaFs Wrong With This Picture? We have now heard of three different;r|][l|||[^nr|#l|*|.I^- J instances during the Christmas holidaytf shopping period of Camden women goingj to another city in search of three differen'^ item.s that they wanted. In each in.stance the wanted item coul not be found in the city to which the wo en went and in each instance the wanted item w'as later found by them in loc .'tore.s. Now w'hat’s wrong with this picture?] Simply thi.s—the women should have lo,ok-j d for the wanted items in the local .stores i'irst. Then, -if they could not have found' them hero, they should have go'ne else where looking for them.' There can be no complaint about any one going elsewhere to buy items that can not bethought locaJIyrBut where the item.s cim he found locally they should be bought btcaliy beeau.se if our community i.s to pros per and do well, we certainly wiM hav - to pafroiii'/.c each other, thereby keeping our money in local circulation an(i benefitting ('ach <d)ipr. , trouble with this old [ world is that there are too many wise guys is it. aod not enough I wise men. ‘Enraged by Rebuke Prom Path-i |er. Causes Death of Ten”, reads a I headline over a dispatch from a [Nevada town. Perhaps the average father Is pursuing t^e right} I course after all. Ufftiiay W'hmi naantmlty Vy ese happened that the dictator and eleetii ed, and Russ; their ballots proval of the According If t from Moscow in ths Btprm ThU NotJ hodef) hna s s. c., 13943. fbassbf [3>osk 1 I been 41-4SP We have an idea that the late Deftito Mussolini always looked upon the late King Vittore Eman- neie au a man who didn’t any n^es. have W uHi’t it be nice to live in VuTi'ry vhere only a baseball um-1 caiPd strikes? jDr. >^18 Fishbein, editor of Jdunl of the American Medi- As8«<tlon, says that on? per- out every six suffers from clinic 111. It was our im- ssion >m the way people are rays tiing that a much sreatri t percetye than that was siif- „ir fr'' • writer says that counterfeit- that ing ha.-< been reduced to a mini- law of mum in this country. Evidently sia had there's no money in making money in with pi Ices of everything go high] If ■with . New now. What a pity New York contdn’t have been as pure as the driven snow vhich fell on It last Friday! The latest definition cessful man is one more money to pay wouldn t be paying .. m made so much money already. order they dreaded sgiywt' doubt, soon' fb subjects who ' shot or enslsTc State. nt ttve ptej ng fn aches Btglon. known that kero.'^one nic deadly expros)V<‘> Dillon Horald .‘^ofinds thi.<? note of warning: “It is well gasoline Mill (ht-y shouUl be handled carefully. A the .supply of kindling dccrea.ses i - ■ L'tn'dit '- from these <‘xplo.sive.s ai'(‘ increasing, l.a.st week a little girl near Ni 'beds was burned tc death by a kero.'ene explo.sion and Siwiday .six meinbtn's of a family near ('amden - were fatally burned by the explosion of a kero.seno can that was placed too near the fireplace. The only safe way to use kerosene for kindling is to pour a .small amount in an open tin an and dash it in a .stove,or fireplace. To pour it out of a clo.sed can is inviting death.'"’_ In the old days children and every one else were cautioned about the danger of kero.sene but in recent ytears the danger has not been stressed as it once was with the result that one hears more and more of terrible accidents re.sulting therefrom. One thli'hat the average «on regfctoout his or her past Is the niua of years in it. Jeru>.ilem Is about half a mile in the middle !»bove level so It can be said that ttu- fighting which is going on In I he Holy Land 1 level. per is on a. low When "Just or^ is feelinf^^bout “tc says he is feeling 1 it means tha; A Happy New sloppy one. Year but not a . he i half way be- and “poorly.” A 78-yea Fla., tinec tl.ay for dispatch fa delivered ])a8sing set Italy Is the coldest! evidently isl aft^r all. Very ofte* the biggest jobs do the job after thel There is a] to pour on thi jflge In Inverness, ^!f $60 the other driving but the fate whether he of himself on With The Press 1 A Dea Moli__ for divorce. leave home fo^k"! "onld at a time ® about her whe|*|^ ^ leminds us of tfo''a.?^ who went horn* on LtJnding his wif# glPf Agrees With Mr. daruch • ./ 1 We ari' convinced that the V. S. is expotiing too much of th? ma-1 terlals v > need right here at home. It tends to make a shortage here, experiencing and a shortage of a commodity ' In years so means higher prices and higher so Red hot prices mean higher wages. Most commentators agree that there enu be no substantial cut who are In in Incdme taxes, about which muchi 1 ?et to their noise is being raised today. Presi- •Pflng on theident Truman’s Idea and the T.aft, * program are as different as they could p^|^?albIe be, and the con-i gress serms to be in turmoil andi even do not know what they -want I and if they do the majority vote Is not forthcoming. We sttll ^pdeji. III V iden Kiwanis club/ ✓ mas Taveim or ^ 1 at tbe same time led that plana wet *wn tor a propos to the hospital. OvdMi, who WM m the rtgalMrj f - ot the club, *- Iqr the Americ ^ aaA m ' meet I with J Mot io«» with Net ot 1 iof fue: oil with Baruch ductlon w ill The **Yes” King Passes in that hole.’* France Sees The Light A year ago France seemed on the verge of Communism. The people-of that coun try, discontented and unhappy, were thought by many to be looking towards the Russian form of government for happiness. But what they saw, or rather what they didn’t see, evidently convinced them be cause in the more recent Battle for France, the tide turned heavily against the Reds. When the people of France began to look towards Russia they found they could not see anything because Russia is hidden behind an iron curtain. The conclusions naturally are that Russians have nothing good td sho^ and a great deal of evil to hide. Else why should there be an iron curtain between an attentive world and a good deed ? Russia’s Communist experience covers thirty years. If the greater gobd had been accomplished why hide it? A land which had hit off a new system of human welfax^ would not be one of censorship, secret police, concentration camps, judicial assassination and gang politics in interna tional relations. ' And so France probably reckoned that Rnsfiia had a great deal of evil to hide. Es caping Victims from that land of horror have doenmented It and all evidence'points ^to Hi inHh. If any. one would Mt down and out k^^eould ati an clearly as d fn Russia ju ^ T iason Vittorio Emanuele, III,” who as kinj.' of Italy w’as subservient to Benito Mu.s.solini's every wish for twenty years, died in exile Sunday at the age ot^78. Emanuele, who w.ts highly esteemed by his people after World War I, l^rae under the domination of Mussolini in 1922 when the latter marched on Rome and Emanuele summoned him to form a cabjnet. At the time Marshal Pietro BodogJio was reported to have asked the king to give him a few regiments to smash the Black Shirt upris ing but W’as turned down because the king wanted to avoid bloodshed. Had Emanuele yielded to Bodgolio’s re quest the history of the world for the past twenty-five years might have been a dif ferent one. There is no doubt in our mind but that Hitler took many of his cues from Mussolini and had there been no Mussplini there might not have been the Hitler that the world has known. After Mussolini came into power, Emanuele became a' puppet under him. Whether he agreed with the dictator’s policies or not he signed every decree that Mussolini placed before him—^just for the sake of retaining his title of King. When history is written it will stamp Emanuele as one of the waekest Kings that ever reigned in Europe. axTt'?* that increased pro- largely in Itself solve the problem. This with a cut iUj federal spending Is a step tov/ardsj a desired end. Free enterprise gys- j tem with favorable economics inj ^ uacK the xovernment will do the Joh to the kltcl^n awi * ^ook: and none other—and we say here "UO you knOWf^f who's s-sir”, ficiently informed op* the forel^cn the cook replie , jy passed by con do wash. press'to know how it will fit Into , ihis picture from a financial point There’s ^ for of view. the foot hall P ^^y attempt to fix prices mater they o ration commodities would ship-but they e throw a monkey wrench into the present machinery at this time. We will see what Calhoun Advance. * — tot happy a v.s bow of no beftor wov Jo b,^ tJa® way fo bed k' 'Tiae exlenclinc! our thanks to our friends f^•** ^ f i ac9. V/q hepe that we can be of you in l?48, and muy fhe best of ©veryjj;^:,, U lAfe Isv just onH yei other. in- we'll see.- DRAKEFORD’S GARAGl “This Time It’s Hudson’’ Grand News • ‘The news that Seaboard Park is to be further beautified by the planting of azaleas and cherry laurel hedge is most gratifying. This park can be made a show spot and would attract wide attention from people passing through the city both on the train and on highway No 1. It is to be hoped that steady progress will be* made on the project and that the Seaboard and others wfho are interested in it will not'lag in their efforts. In connection with the resolutions many, people make every New Year’s Day We al ways think of the old song: “For we’re only poor weak mortals after ell. Sons of Appl^ating Ad<|n prone to fall; Resohitions! Yes, we ma]£ them— tiallNot to iieep them hut TO E PUBLIC:- It "pleasure that we submit herewith our Htir, annual state- . J <2^Diber 31st., 1947, and with it we would extend to our friends a.. We ai rons every good wish for the copiing New Year. ■a bank fron^^^ we.believe, that we have a sound and well nunag-ed safe bankT^ continue to render every iwssible da s that surrounding community ^ i R£ • t Loans and Discc Bonds Ownd by ^ ®10,148.90 US Gov’t $1,679 Federal Land Bai State and Muni Bonds 274, Documentary Stan7^*®^ Other Assets 630.46 Furniture and Fixt 4»200.00 Cash and Due Fron 4,111.90 Banks 7,692.66 Statement Capital The Cjjrcial National MtHWm iMhm FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM RAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE COi W. RoWw Zma ^OFFICERS Henry Savage. J*» V» Henry” G. Carvieon, Exeeulifv ®uid Attorney; J<4ui Wliitakar. ulikrt Henry Lam ClyLam. W. Robin Zemp, K. fQp