The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 23, 1948, Image 4
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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
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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-|
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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.
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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!
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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
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY