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FIUDAY, JANUARY 9, 1948
Should Clean House
The exit of Henry Wallace and his
crowQ of radicals from the Democratic
party affords the party an excellent chance
to clean house and to rid itself of the Glen
Taylors, the Claude Peppers, the Clark
Foremans, the Phillip Murrays, the Walter
Wkitea and others who have been leading
it into strange and dark places.
The people of the South have never had
any business being in a party with Henry
Wallace and the others named above.
Their political views are just as widely
apart as the two poles. They have had
nothing in common. Trying to keep them
all in one party is like trj’ing to make oil
and water ihix.
Now that Mr. Wallace has taken the
lead and left the party, let us hope that
the other leftwingers, fellow travelers and
radicals will follow suit- If they don’t-the
party ought to drive them out.
The South has endured much at the
hands of the Wallace crowd. It is not to
its credit that it’has stood for what it has.
We should have kicked out of traces our
selves long ago. But now that the leftwing
ers have started kicking out of traces them-
.sclves let’s do a thorough job of it, get rid
of them all and restore thr^ party to where
it was years ago when it produced states
men like Woodrow Wilson and others.
The. party may suffer temporary defeat
because of the deflection of the radicals
but it will come back on a safe and sound
basis.
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Reaping The Whirlwind
Winirton-Salem. N. C.. celebrated
Year's Eve by stealing some money froin
hia father’s wallet, killing his father and
mother, taking the family car, eloping
with his sweetheart to \ork, S. C., m an
effort to marry.
The boy quarreled- with - hia fathgrjghen
the latter accused him of having taken tte
money from the wallet and the kejta to the
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family auto and so just decided to kUl hto
Having killed him he decided to kill hIs
mother, too, in an effort to make it appear
that the two had committed suicide.
It was a horrible crime but many other
crimes just as terrible have been committed
of late by teen-agers in various sections of
the country. In fact they are becoming
rather commonplace.
When we read of such crimes we throw
up our bands in horror and wonder how a
child could do such a thing. But is there
any cause for w'onderment on our part?
Some three years ago a 19-year-old boy And this rcmiads vs of th«
death in the electric chair in
Ha^'OTed bis girl 11
wa.s put_to
a Western .state. He
sweetheart while in a drunken stupor.
It was brought out in connection with
Matters of Moment
The South Carolina General Assembly,
which convenes on next Tuesday, will have
matters of moment to consider during the
session. Let us expre.se the hope that the
members of that body wnll consider them
as patriotic men endeavoring to do what
they honestly consider is the best thing for
the state and casting aside all personal
political considerations.
One of the important thingrs to come be
fore the body^ will be in regard to the
Democratic primaries. The action of the
circuit court of appeals at Richmond in up
holding the decision of Federal Judg*» J
Waties Waring that the Democratic prim-
a.»7 cannot be limited to white people wdll
necessitate some action being taken to
.safeguard the primary elections.
There are other matters, too, that must
claim important consideration. Earnest
thought should be given to bills designed
to make government in this state mor® ef
ficient, to eliminate overlapping of bu
reaus and to abolish usele.ss jobs.
The poor taxpayer should be given some
relief and should it develop that there is
another .surplus in the government, income
taxes or other taxe.s should be reduced.
As it is now the average taxpayer is strain
ing under the load that he is having to
carrj’. •
Care should be taken to prevent the in-
filtration of communism into our state, and
more particularly into our colleges. 'The
Michigan lege.slature has established a
precedent by bfinnlng communists from
the University of Michigan and the state-
F.iipported Wayne University. We might
take time by the forelock and‘ban .them
from our colleges.
There are many matters of importance
that will come before the solons this year
and may we again express the hope that
they will be given the consideration of
serious, sober men w’ho are trying to do
their best for their state and country k
these rather perplexing tipies.
Tho warn fmx whidi «•
Just wdvrtakMi my ptovv
quite an vndertakins.
With The Press
Wa ■otSe* that tha maatheaE of
The (Taai4ae Chronicle baani tha
name of Harold C. Bookar as adl-
tor. Mr. Boahar has vlor aevaral
yaara adltad tha Lancaater Nava,
nhleh la ona af tha h^t veakly
pa>ert In tha ctmatxr. Tha Naws
was raemthr aoM. and Jir. Bookar
oCTar fragn DnCoata
Brown, owaar-ot-Tha Chronicla,.Aa Jbad.Jakl -_IOQr.QllM.
np affitorlal dvtiaa on that
to
Yovnc Iflhai of Romania B ai
Klac who loved and loaL
Senator (Min D. Johnaton sac-
geaU that the gorentmant ought
to parchaae anire blaek-aye peas
(or shipment to (oreigh oonniriea
Make it English peas ahd laaTv the
black<aye peas bore. Senator!
Hr. Bookar has been secretary
of tha State Praaa aaMctstlon (Or
a loa« tarta of yana. Ho B a real
Mend of tho conatry waakllaa. aw
pacially, mad la aa able editorial
writer and general aewspapar
laeldaatally,
Ing Oat liOi^
In'
• writes “Think’
whieh appoarr
It la one of,*'two-day da
tba moot readable eolunina being
printed today.—Bamhorg Herald.
Jaat Bteia Fta
la Las Ancelee tt was anaoimeed
that a new and nnknoam disesM
fonni to be'
plain old “lypa A' “
a( tha toott
forms of “(la.“ aecom^aaief
many cases of eiMemie naaara, '(
“ aad oqpuaoa coiiJ
Howerer, though piam m
a common aad “mildei" forw
affUetiOB It can gtra lU rict
the seniatton of being
with a mneh mora|terrfble dl
The Los Angelas tnformatioa
a few days arltb
low in j also tetereetiag becaasa of the
tyWHagUar f that tho apfalaanlr nSBara. .or.
aambera afected In other parts of | airaflar afflletloo. heen
r.*HrnrnfiL Th« disease for lack <rf! valent not only in (MilfomlA
thronghovt the country,
eluding Columbia.—Tha Rtate.
(TaUfomia. The disease for lack
a better name was designated as | also
“Vlma XT
A veterau lawyer says In a mags*
zlne-\artlele that a Inw^ earns
every' cent of bis fesa n divorce
cases and breach of promise raitf
and he goes oil to die some of
the perplexities snrronndlng such
lawyer who.said that hja three
most troublesome clients had been
a woman Who WM marriaii irniT
wanted to get unmarried, a girl
this case that the boy was the son of an
indulgent father and mother. They had let
him have almost everything he had want
ed, The family cars were always at his dis
posal. He always was given plenty of
.<inending money. He was permitted to “go
all of the gaits’’ without interference on the
part of his parents. 'They had drank with
him at'parties and in the home.
A few' days before he was to die in the
chair, the lad turned bitterly against his
parents and blamed them for his plight.
“They never taught me how to live”, he
sobbed. He said that he could not remem
ber one time in his life of his parents hav
ing talked with him about life. 'They had
never warned him of the perils of strong
drink, they had made no effort to bring
him up in the church, they had never dis
ciplined him in any way. They had only
shown their love for him by indulging him
with his every wish.
Recently a psychologist was quoted as
saying that the love of children fox their
parents today was not comparable to that
of generations past. He thought it was be
cause parents had ceased to discipline their
offspring. He went on to say that parents
command respect by enforcing discipline
and that there cannot be any love where
there is no respect.
"The average child of today, growing
up without discipline, looks upon His par
ents as twTO w'eak old souls w’ho mean well
but who don’t know what ills all about”,
he said. “If they feel this way they must
not have very much’respect for them and
certainly there i.sn’t much love w’here there
i
isn’t much respect.”
We know' a man who when he w’as a
youth was undisciplined by his parents. In
those days teachers whipped unruly stu
dents but in each instance when they tried
to whip this boy he proved too strong for
them and he would best them in the fight
w'hich resulted. Each year he had to drop
out of the local school as a result.
Finally his parents heard of a prep
school where the headmaster, a big 6 foot,
two-inch tall man had been having remark
able success with hot-headed youths. This
boy was sent there. He tells the story him
self. “One day”, he ^ays, “he sent for me
who wanted to Set matried and an
o!d maid who didn’t know what she
wanted.
We do hops that if we ever
have another depreaskm it wni not
be like the laat one, which came
at such an onfortanate time —
when nearly everybody was cut of
work.
Senator Glen Taylor, of Idaho,
who la considering running for
vice president on H«iry Wallace’s
ticket was formerly a cowboy but
many people think that he has de
veloped into a Jackass.
“We mast trust the people**, says
a politician. A friend who operates
a grocery store says that evidently
the politician has never operated
one.
Would you say that there will be
lots of Major problems to confront
tne General Assembly?
Julius Caesar PetriUo, the mo
bicians union czar, might be tern*
cd the leader of the ban.
“A Kansas City man received a
severe scolding from a pair of
bandits who found only 50 cents
un him when they held him up'
says the Kansas City Star. That
has always been one of onr chief
fears of being held op.
the
According to a physician
trouble with many men Is that
they can’t leave their work at the
office when they go home bat take
It with them wherever they • go.
Yes. you’ve probably heard the
story of fhO J^slar wbo was get-
tins married He was presenting
the bride with the ring in the
ceremony when he hesitated. “With
this rinz—prompted the minis
ter. ’’With this ling”, said the
bridegroom, ‘‘we give a written
guarantee, reminding the customer
that the price will be refunded if
it is not as represented."
In tho collegiate world. Willfnm
and Marv- seem to get along nice
ly.
A Wonderful Spirit
The milk of human kindness flows a
little more freely in a small town than any-
xvlmre else on earth. This was again
demonatrated by the wonderful manner in
/irbich the people of Bethune re.sponded
-EBcently when tragedy struck a family in
tts midst. The people of that town and
. «Bntmiiiuty oaw to it that the pre<(sing
MMds created by the tragic happening
wwe met They made no plea to the dut-
Bide world. It'waa a. community matter,
Ulij and they took CRre of it in a way
admiration of all.''
From the care which she exer
cises in selecting her perfume, a
girl must think that the way to
a man’s heart is through his nose.
"A drink will make the average
rerson an entirely different per
son". says a medical writer. Well
--evidently- there are thousands of
Americans who are constantly
craving to be what they ain’t.”
jMg 1948 may prort to be a Tery
' Ip the* history of bl^torieel
to come to hi.*? office. I went. He told me
that I had violated his warning about a cer
tain infraction of the rules and that he
would have to whip me. I told him he
w’ould have to do it on his man. He replied.
‘Well, I believe I would rather do it that
way’. He proceeded to give me the first
beating I had ever had in my life.”
To this day that man adores that teach
er. now a member of a college faculty. He
says himself that that the whipping which
the headmaster gave him changed the
course of his life and made a man out of
him. And it probably did. Other^^ise the
boy would have been sent'home and. con
tinued to grow up as a bully of the little
town in which he lived and probably would
have run into real grief sooner or later.
Today he is a good substantial law’-abiding
citizen and he adores the professor who
gave him the beating. •
'The youth of today are not to be blamed
for whatever delinquencies they may haves
The blame rests on the older generation.
We don’^ know but we rather suspect that
the case history of that boy in W’inston-
Salem who killed 'his parents will reveal
,that he had never been disciplined by them,
and that as a result he had very little
respect for them and no love.
Snakcp must swallow their food
whole, being unable to chew, ac
cording to a newpaper filler.
^^’hlch. we presume, is one of the
forms of punishment for being a
f.nakc
This n.av be the home of the
,ree but we’ve never been able to
get anytliinc for nothing yet.
Fherytbiti" is put here for a pur-
rose. it said. Take the flea for
example- ir Is here to keep a dog
reminded that he is just a dog.
A workinc man writes to a news
paper complafn that the new
alarm docks are not as effective
as th/’ old ones used to be because
10“ ■ ;'larm doesn’t sound loud
ennueh .\tid that hrings un the
•tor.' of |>,^ emplo.vee who was
complimented one morning bv his
for having overcome hia habit
.... ^ iRte lo work on occasions.
* rot me a parrot", the em-
P‘0>ee replied “Why a parrot-
ny not an alarm clock?” the
asked “1 had an alarm clock”,
few- “but after a
t f.nri” to i- *nd
u failed to awaken
a parrot and now
me so 1 got
when I retire I
?*"A!.*** over his cage
bird t»»«t
^ would awaken anybody."
The almost complete absence of fiw-
works from Camden helped to contribute
to the imjoyment of the Christmas season
and we do not believe it detracted one
iota froni the enjoyment of the Yuletide
ge^n by the ehildren. The statewide law
m^nst; fireworka foea into effect this
noBtli ib «a hepe we have aeen the last
women aitcf giri$
get wilted relief
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