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I PAQt TWO ili;r (tambrn (Etfronirlr 110* Nortk Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Boomer - DaCosta Brown - - - Editor Pubihher SUBSCRIPTION' TERMS: All SubsOT^tipns Payable In Advance One Year Six Months - - Entered «a Second Claas Matter at the Poet Otnce at Camden. S. C., aader a«t of Con-reae ' March I, 187* All articlea aabmltted tor pabllcatlon maet be ^-oicned by the author FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1948 Will Be step Forward A resolution endorsing the city manager form of government for Camden was un animously adopted at a meeting of the Camden Junior Chamber of Commerce last Thursday night. Members of the Junior Chamber were told at this meeting that a bill providing for an election on the adoption of this form of government would be introduced in the General Assembly this week and that its passage*was assured. ^Our neigl^oring city of Sumter was the first municipality in the United States to adopt the Council-manager form of gov ernment, having taken this step in 1913. Since that time the idea has spread rapidly and today.Jour hundred and eighty munici palities have it, including Cincinnati and other large cities of the country. Right now some of the larger cities are consider ing adopting it, these including'Chicago, Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, Lit tle Rock. Winnipeg and others. The city manager plan boiled down to a few words means putting business in the conduct of a city's affairs. A city is after all the large.st corporation within a city. Every taxpayer is a stockholder in the cor poration and should be anxious therefore for its business to be conducted in the most business-like manner. Of the city manager form of govern-^ ment, Ptesident Emeritus Lowell.of Har vard had this to say: “The city manager ^plarijs the best that has yet been proposed for Amerii^n cities and the one most in harmony nh'th the spirit of our institution.’’ The plan is patterned largely after a plan of private business.’’ In South Carolina, Sumter. Greenwood and Spartanburg have had the city man ager plan for years. Lancaster adopted it two years ago and has been delighted with the results. . Under the city manager phn there is a re.^ponsible directing head of the" city gov ernment who gives his full time to the job as the general manager of any other large corporation does. He is held strictly ac countable for the job by the city council. The Chronicle will have a good bit to ‘sny about the plan and try to present it clearly in the davs that will elapse before the people vote on it ' THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE. CAMDEW, tOUTM CAWOLtNA. PNIPAY, «ANUAItY 2K ThkddiiQQutliHd Doing A Fine Job W. Myron Tupper of Camden Is chair man of the. American Legion committee, which is pushing the campaign for the adoption by Congress of a law providing for Universal MiliUry Training, and if the program is being pushed with as much energy and ability in eVery state as it is being pushed in this state its chances of being addpted*^bught to he i^K)d. The people of South Carolina have been made well acquainted with the urgent nece.ssity of adopting such a program and petitions signed by thousands of people have been and are being sent to our rep resentatives in Congress. The need for Universal Military Train ing ought to be apparent to every one now. It is pretty generally agreed that the next war will strike with lightning speed and th.at it will probably strike in this country, j at the present time There will be no time to build Fort Jack-| they'll! sons and train huge numbers of men. If we dori’t have Universal Military Training untrained men wHl have to be sent to the front and that will mean slaughter. There may hlave in former times valid objections to Universal Training in this countrj'. We have always had time in which to train our armies after war struck but the complexion of war has changed such that this condition no longer applies. The arenise man does lots of Pretty Good Citizens | "Sit tor Cussing our landlords has long been a teading. ^ favoiite pastime with Americans. Accord- reason long tclJ me one Ihteg abont s tsrm 1 caimot 40.** After taBHreastr* BMencm • meeh voice eshed from the beck of the haU: ‘'Gen ytm ley ae eg*?" I. I’e ^Bhere The'wealth of the United 8tatea| ll eetioateE to he $1*64)40.000,< The laat three leroe represent Want It takes a few tt> make aome men some womee. drinka Ml talk of Uqnor ha*, not! When the Reds detatned the bt-l diana Unirersity president in Ber- Uo the other day. they probably asked •‘Who’s yoe?" and he coeld bare TepUed *Tft>oa|er.*‘ j Speaking of flaming youth the IS YOUR CAR DOINO THIS? It is so often the case that following ad recently pppeartd in politlclane which setA to throw all the classified eohnnns c( a Cclom- sorts of reetrictiona around bnsi-.bQs, Ohio, newspaper: “Wanted: nes have no bnsinesaes of their own to wredL M i One difference between Ameri- (aniara and Commnnlam is that we telieve in the ballot system while the Communists believe in the bal let system. Mr. Gandhi is living a fast life Middle-aged woman to take- care of a Yi-year^d boy.” We all hope that 1*4S has a good Spring In tL In a game of bridge a great deal depends on a good deaL ' What haa become of the old-fash ioned mother who’d take her hair down and get one of her children it intestinal to scratch her bead^ requires a good bit fin becanse it cf intestinal fortitude to stand it Have Your Wheels Balanced the Way By “Wheel Specialists" Another one of our pet peeves is to be served cold bot cakes. A Teaaa man knocked bis wife Tak hair, from which the finest artificial beards are made, has , : risen to $1C a pound from a pre-'uown becanse she refused to go to been ^ n.so. so bearding a man In Atlanta with him to live. ‘Thai was Military' h)* would be a rather a blow for Atlanta, costly undertaking. In an effort to make Emperor Ilirohito appear "human’’ one of his staff announced that he could A pet magazine says tba» ani mals very ^ten act like people. Which juat goes to show th^t we i hold a fan between his toes and ought to be very act around them. careful how we inglv when we picked up a copy of the Chi- dreasea haven’t gone over in a Ug- C.-0 Tribune the other day and turned to ^ “‘.“J* '.r. Zl the “Inquiring Reporter’’ column and saw that the question asked for that day. was “What do* you think of your landlord?’’ we were somewhat surprised to see that the answers were printable language. Well, let’s see what these Chicago peo ple did-have to say. William F. Randolph, an assistant de-^ — . . .1 I. There never seems to be n short- partment store manager, was the first man ^ge of toy balloons. fan himself. We don’t know how each an announcement impresses you but we find it difficult ’.o be lieve that a human can do such a thing. It has always been a nlystery toi us how dogs find so much to bark* at daring a night. A magazihe writer deplores thei tact that so many girls of today i couldn’t leap nearly as far with’are not beiag tanght how to sew.l one of them on. * jcook and keep house. And that re-1 . .1.* (minds us of the story of the 3oang Does any one happen to know‘man who had Just gotten married! what has become of the old-fash- ‘oned clerk in a general merchan dise store who would measure a >ard of material by stretching it ; the length of faia arm to the tip i of his nose? Has Felt Wrath Of Reds . Thirty years ago Michaels Sfekides had a pr'^sperou.s candy store in Chicago He had come to this country fropi Greece penniless, worked hard and accumulated a nice little sura of money. He felt the call to return to his home country so left and became a leader in his village near the Albanian frontier. He owned a grocery store, which did a good busines.s, and in addition he had two large houses, one of whicn had accommodations for eight fami lies ond the other for three. He also had 74 sleep. He was elected president of his village. Today he_i.s pennile.ss. Two weeks ago the Greek guerillas (Communists) came to his village. The leader, according to Sfekides, came to his store brandishing a revolver and told him he W'ould give him five minutes to get out of the store. “They never left me five cents worth of any thing,’’ the Greek said. When the.Communists had packed the contents of the store on mules, they gath ered all of the peasants in the vilage on the square. There they demanded meat, bread, and olive oil. The villagers, menaced by the guns of the ragged, unshaven Reds, hasten ed to produce all they had. When it was piled in the square the ban dit leader wanted to know where the young men were. The answer given by Sfedikes was that they had fled, knowing that they TTOsId 4>A4i»dl^-recr^ted by the Com munists if found. As a reprisal the Com munists took away a woman with five chil dren, another with three and a man, 35 years old. • ( • They departed then but returned a few days later and looted all the houses of shoes and clotliing of all types. They even took the shoes off_the men's'feet. This is why this country is having-to go to the aid of Greece, which fought so gal lantly with n$ in the late irar. It would he A thaaie for us to leave her at the mercy to whom the question wS propounded, and of,his landlord he mW : j, “I think he.is a pretty good scout. Al-iber of former farmers and labor- thouirh I have never seen hin, he has’given US nice service—plenty of heat and hot j plram who vaa addreaatng a crowd water and has even put up Venetian blinds * throughout the building. I believe some ! plow, reap. miik. boa rntina In landlords i^e having difficulty meeting ex- ^ •hoald iflcg for aonaa ooa tc penses and getting a fair return on, their inve3tment.’’ - • Frederick M. Gilbert, a bank clerk/Vas the next man interviewed. He said of his landlord: “We have a wonderful landlord. Every orher year he paints around the apartment '(t no co.«8l to u? and every second year the building is painted on the outside and the hall are done. He gives of plenty of heat." Jennie DeCsro, a business girl, said of her landlord: “W'e’ve been tenants in our building for a little over 10 years and I have found bur landlord to be congenial, courteous and very fair." Raymond Lundbert a bank -clerk, said that “the landlord of the apartment I oc- cupv has been very considerate.” Marylon Seabolt, a secretary, said that “our landlord Js one swell person." And thi.s is probably what most people would say about their landlords if pressed for an answer. American people sometimes like to gripe but they have an Innate sense and'tjjjs usually prevails in the end. - The tribute whicn the Chicago people who were packed at random by an inquir ing reporter paid to their landlords prob- nhly represent'’, the real feeling of a ma jority of the people towards their land- ’nrH.c. Thev are pretty good citizens de-, spite the efforts made by politicians at times^to make them appear as gougers. A short tim« later Im met his; Scotch uncle. ‘‘Can your wife, sew?” the uncle asked the groom ‘No, Sir, I don’t think so.” re-1 riled the youth. “Can she cook?”! the uncle naked. “No. I don’t be-j Here ahe can.” the youth replied.) “Well what eon the do?”' the uncle | caked. “Why, she sings beontiful-t ly," the boy responded. “It would < bare been cheaper to have gotten a canary,” the Scotch uncle ejaca-| DONT DELAY-IT’S COSTLY DRIVE IN TODAY! i Stogner"' Co. Know HhnT It is said a man in Catalonia. I Spain, ban fire anna. We are poai-j rire we sat next to thM chap cnce.j St a boarding boose. — The Detroit | Nown. Phone S70 IME. DeiUIk **Yoar Chrynler-Plymoiith Dealer Siace 1938’* r " ^ •0 Words* The Carolina Cno Race Announcement of the'exact date of the Carolina Cup Race this year is expected momentarily now and present indications that the event this year will be the best in its history. It is expected that here will be more entries than have been in former years and the attendance bids fair ^break all records. The Carolina Cup is rapidly becoming one of the most butetahdthg evehis of the year and it is not difficult for one to fore see the day when this event will mean for Camden what the Kentucky Derby has come to mean for Louisville or the Rose Bowl football game has coihe to mean for Los Angeles. |w - -l-S Of course! Bat words mttd sctkms together spesk even louder. For example, tt is the' recorded policy of the Southern Rail way System “to develop the territory and to footer faidi in the South, its peojde and opportunitka." To back our words with action...to bdp promote the growth and prosperity oi the Southland... we place advertisements Tike these, month after month, in national magazines having a total circulation of 5 million copies. Over and over again we’re telling the nation’s industrialists, financiers, and businessmen that it will pay to “Look Ahead—Look South" for greater opportunity. Is this words-and-action policy getting results? You’ll hear a loud, inspiring answer in the whiNles of thnnjTanda of new and expanding factories throntdMMt the South! 4 PnaMcat Polo V8. Polio ? All Camden-should turn out*to the polo game to be played next Wednesday, Jan uary 28 for the benefit of the polio cam paign. Wednesday afternoon all of the stores will be closed and this will give the ‘ town people an excellent cpiportunity to see the game, which promises to be one of the most excitiBf ones of the season. It is hoped that many out of town people will be here for the fame also so that the Unrest crowd that has seen a polo gEnw in CandEB in ft IftPt iM dhpold .OJ- SOUTHERN RAILWAY