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TNI CAMDEN CHWOWiCI-t, CAMOm, lOUTH CANOUttA, niOAV, JAWUAIY 11^ IMt ■OB • •« i >'■» :K’ i'i . ®lfp (Saraifn (ttlpronirlp IlOf Xorih Broad Street Omden. S.’C. pT-ni.lSHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Bookei: - DaCo&U Brown - - - . - Editor - Publwher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AH Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year —— Six Months ttM 1.50 Enterwi a* Seoond C^s» rortr^l Office at Camden. S C, under act of Conireaa ■ March 3, 1ST9 All artlclea aubmitted for publication muei be wigr.ed by the author FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948 A Worthy Cause There is no more worthy appeal made each year to the people of this country than that for rupport of the fight against infantile paralysis. Every American is or should be interested in- stamping out this disea-se which strikes down so many chil dren each year, leaving them invalids, sometimes for life. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., which is leading in the fight on this disease for which the fund-raising campaign is conducted each year, reporta that research which is going now in eighty-three of the nation’s leading universities brings it closer each year to the ultimate answer to the catise of the di8»*a8e. This foundation not only is searching for the cause and for methods of preven tion of infantile paralysis but it also pro vides the necessary treatment for those who have fallen victims to the dread dis ease. This treatment very often results in the almost complete rehabilitation‘of the patient. Kershaw county people have been very liberal in their support of this campaign in former years and they should be even more liberal in their’support this year because of the fact that within the last three months .there have been five cases cases of poiio in this county, one of them a wom an 60 years old, and the national founda tion has been taking care of these patients. One never knows when an edidemic of this drekded disease may strike and it is good to, know that there is a national or- ganization-ready to the aid of any community in w’hich it might strike. The Flying Saucers ^ The Plying Saucers which held the cen ter of attention some time back have re appeared thi.>^ time in Kentucky and Ohio. In the latter state army air force officers issued a formal .‘Statement admitting the presence of a mytserious object in the sky over Wilmington, Ohio. In Kentucky a traveling man says he and his wife and the latter’s sister were driv ing .«50uth of Danville in that state when ho noticed a flame in the sky—so bright that he thought it w-as a plane burring. Calling it to the attention of the others in he car he the vehicle and they got oiit-and watch^. More than 20 other mot orists stopped and did the same within the next ten minuteil At Wilmington, Ohio, the army said that two non-commissioned officers had watch ed a flaming red-cone trailing green mist hnng suspended in the air, occasionally shooting up Q.nd dow'n with tremendeus bursts of speed. It w’as w’atched by army men and numerous other Ohio residents of the neighborhood until it disappeared to the .TOuthwest. Some time back when these flying sau cers were being seen on every hand some people expressed the blief that they might be Rus-rian weapons. Leftists hooted at the idea but just the other day a congressman expressed the same belief. If the government knows the myster>’ of these saucers it should take the public nto its confidence. If they are American inventions the public should be told so. If the government doesn’t know what they are, it should be frank and say so.- ^ The Same Old Story Four young scions of prominent Atlanta families were arrested last week after they had gone on a rampage destroying many thousands of dollars worth of-property just for the thrill of it. * ^ The proud parents of the boys were humiliated and announced that they would recompense the people whose property had been destroyed. The boys were all arrested and face serious charge ip court. A prominent psychologist in Atlanta was quoted by the newspapers as attributing the,boys' deeds to lack of parental di?cip- Jine in the past and to the fact that their paurents had probably been too indulgent. All of "wbich bears out Air remarks of last week that the parents of today nuy haTe to reap a terrible htanrest because iTe been ntfleetful of thrir ehildm Feeding The Bear , It is good to note that some of South Carolina’s representatives in Congress are making a war on our continued exports of \ital materials to Russia. Representative Joseph R. Bryson of the Fourth South Carolina congressional district recently listed some of the items which have been •hipped to that country. The list included millions of dollars in IdcdmotiVes, npnjng- eQuipment, etc.y all of whicn_ are vital necessities in war preparations. Whereas official publicity on lend-lease shipments to Russia was formerly wide spread—"as aid to a great and friendly na tion’’—today’s shipments are never men- tioneef, except when some one objects to them. v- Another thing which is irritating South Carolina congressmen is the dismantling of indu.strial plants in western Germany and their shipment to Russia. The reason Congress has hesitated to stop these practices, according to’a Wash ington correspondent, is that jt would be to break an official agreement with Russia. What most Americans are wondering now is why this country should live scrup ulously to all of its agreements with Rus sia when every one knows that Russia has broken numerous agreements with this country. It seems something like playing the sucker role—and Americans are get ting somewhat tired of playing that role. They found from our playing that role with the JLaps that it doesn’t pay dividends. Commenting on the feeling in Congress, Edward H. Sims, a Washington corres pondent, says: "All Senator Vandenberg had to of fer in the last minute Senate debate on this dismantling of plants was that while he himself favored a stoppage, such a move would be a repudiation of a United States ^agreement at the Paris conference promising friendly European nations German reparations. And so with Russia blandly doing all in her power to belittle this country, - humiliate its policies and blocking all hopes of a peace, while at the same time dictating to all her satellites ^nd vif'lating every principle of the big- power agreements, we continue out true-blue policies as if all were rosy.— "While this policy may please the Idpallsts, there is n growing sentiment among congressmen to be more prac tical, to stop being played for.a suck er. For instance it would be quite easy for the state department to suspend these actions - until'Russia had sati*i- fied this country’s rights in agree ments on other matters. The shipments would not necessarily be ended—^just ^ suspended indefinitely if a fine point is what the state department wants. . "Most outspoken foe of these prac tices is Senator Styles Bridges, of New , Hampshire. Bridges recently stated in his unsuccessful fight to halt them that ‘I am not so damn stupid that I want to send this equipment to Russia. I’d blow them up instead.’ ’’ Russia has violateil nearly every princi ple of the agreements made during the war, all looking to the bringing of world-wide peace so she would have no right to kick if this country halted the shipments of sup plies to' her, particularly when our own country is suffering froni the lack of these same supplies. Will we ever quit playing the role of a sucker? Vaudeville Passes Many old timers will shed a tear'at the passing of vaudeville on Broadway. The four-a-day lost its last stronghold when Loew’s State theater at Broadway and 45th. street took the daily variety ?how off the boards' for the first time in its 36 years of existence. From now on there will be nothing but movies in the house. In expftinaUon of the discontinuance of vaudeville, an official of Loew’s said that business wasn’t good enough to warrant its continuance. He said that large salaries of fered by radio and the films made it diffi cult for vaudeville to compete with them ,for acts. «. And so a favorite pastime of other years is gone. There are many of lu who will miss ThinldnqOutloiid According to a newspaper filler (here are alKMt 20,(K)0 Insect pests found in other parts of the world that are not foand in the United Sutes. May be so but we hare Henry Wallace. __ After reading the articles of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. former premier of Poland, about condi tions prevailing now in his coun try, we are inclined to think that its name should be changed . to Poorland. One reason a third party hasi never gotten anywhere in thlsj country is that Americans don’t! stay mad long enough. la these days when such dire predictions are being made .m to the future, a Scotchman probably thinks it is foolish to print a cal endar-for a whole year at a time. A noted dentist is qnoten as raying that the average human mouth is five per cent larger than It w-as ten years ago. And it didn’t get that way from eating! Very often the man who is the life of the party the night before is dead on his feet the next day.,' The higlLcoftL of living is wip ing out the harems in Morocco, ac cording to an Associated Press dispatch. In other words living ex penses in a harem scare ’em. A Connecticut man. 85 years old. boasts that he has now outlived all of his dictors save one. The earliest American dictionary was one published by Noah Wel> ster In 1806. It must have been a very small one because there wasn't much to write or talk about in those days. ^ “Life has no more pathetic fig ure than a hen-pecked man”, says a writer. And that reminds ua of the story of the father who was -alking to his ttttle soa. Ain’t you afraid when it thundm and M^tntngs?” the, son asked him. “No*', reidled the father. “When you see a cow, ain't you afraid?" •iked the son. “Of coarse not", the father replied. “When you see a great Mg worm, are you afrsid?** the SOD asked Cither. “No. you silty thing!" the father replied. “Well, aren’t you afraid of nothing in the world expect mama?” asked the little son. . A medical writer-aaya that a^ lergies are becoming more and more common. The one which Is most common In our section is in come tax from 1040. Ernest C. Crocker, of Cambridge. Hass., told a meeting of the Roch ester, N. Y., section of the Ameri can Chemical Society that chemists hare found out what makes a goat smell. But every one is more con cerned about the communists now. * / What has become of the old- fashioned momaa who insisted that where there’s so much smoke there must be some fire. Everybody talks about how the South is treated by the two major political parties but as in the case of the weather, nobody does any thing about it. 6rime doesn’t pay but in the CikSO of income taxes the govern ment tries to make it pay. « girl. The older boy returaed home from school very enrly the next day a'nd the father asked him. how he happened to get out so early. “I told the teacher about my Ititle brother and she let me come home eerly". he replied. “Well, ‘didn’t you tell her about your little sister?’’ the father ask ed. “No. I gm saving her for to morrow so may. be I can get to come hone early again’’, the lad leplied. Argentina and Brazil are impon. ant coBsomera of V. 8. Mtominota coal COLDS UQUBMEMOiy 666 COID iftKAutlOM Odmod IMi 4B Onsii4 Dr.Qu/z CONDUCT fO:C ®BUSSELL A geologist estimates tha* T t 20,000.000 the more years, so evidently he doesn’t take much stock in all of this atomic bomb talk. Who can remember the good old days when neighbors dropped ’n for a call instead of calling in for a drop? The Mayor of a town used to be called the Intendant. We presume ho was called that because he was always intending to do something but never did. The average life of a hair on a man's bead only ranges from six to ten years so no wonder he the average man’s supply is exhausted by the time he is 45 or 50. A school teacher argues that children of today are much keener than those of yesteryear. And some things we hear about them make us believe this must be true. Por instance the other day wu beard of a little hoy whoae mother had Just had twlna—ona a hoy nd one lAlk CAIlUgft or 1416 CAIiY WIST Tgg A-'do ant 8” I Pony SXPIMg C. ngPWYR •.«Y Poor of THf A. 8. HCNftY W. 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