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. 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
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s. c.,
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[3>osk 1
I been
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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