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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAWOLINA, PWIDAY, JAWUANY 9^ 1M1 r .i. i ■'-i ' i (Satttbrn (fit^ranirip 1109 North Broad Street - Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - - Editor Publi'^her SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All SuBscfipirdns Payable^ In Advance- One Year :• Six Months - Entered as Second Class Matter, at the Post Office at Camden. S. C.. under act of Cor.tresa March 3, 1879 All articles submitted for publlcaUon must “be alcned by the author FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948 The Camden Hospital It is good to note that the annual ap proved list of hospitals for this year issued by the American College of Surgeons, as usual, carries the name bf the Canriden Hospital. Incidentally the local hospital is one of only twenty-three in the state which meets all of the requirements of the Col lege of Surgeons. This approval is not easy to obtain. To merit it, a hospital has to demonstrate that it is maintaining high'standards in all de partments. The fundamental requirements for obtaining apprqyal briefly summarized are: Modern physical plant, assuring the patient safety, comfort and efficient '•are. Clearly defined organization, duties, responsibilities arid relations. Carefully selected governing board with Complete and supreme authority. Competent chief executive officer or ad ministrator, well trained in all phases of hospital administration with authority and responsibility to interpret and carry out the policies of the hospital as authorized by the governing board.- Adequate and efficient personnel, prop erly organized and competently super vised. Organized medical staff of ethical, com petent physicians and surgeons. Adequate diagnostic and therapeutic facilities under competent medical super vision. — ^ Accurate, complete medical records, readily accessible for research and'follow- ). Regular group conferences of the ad ministrative staff and of the medical staff for reviewing activities and results so es to maintain a high plane, of scientific effic iency. A humanitarian spirit—^the primary con sideration being the best care of the patient. tt should be comforting to the people of this community to know that they have an approved hospital which is meeting such high standards and where its sick are so wen cared for. . Our hospital is one of our great assets, and deserves the warm backing of every citizen of the community. Justly Indignant ^ According tc a story in The State Sun- d.ay morning there is some indignation in one South Carolina county over the fact that iwo members of that county’s delega tion in the General Assembly have intro duced legislation seeking to aid a group of people in that county who are endeavor- ■ing to4iave certain change^ made in ah in-, stitution in the county. The indignation results from the fact that this group had employed the two leg islators as their counsel and will, presum ably, pay them a fee. The two legislators are attempting to secure what the group wants by legislation which would force the changes desired. On the face of the news report as carried by The State we would say that the indig nation of the people is fully justified. If the two members felt that the changes sought in the operation of the institution were to the best interests of the people 1 hey would have been well V/Ithin their rights to have introduced the legislation which they are said to. be sponsoring. But they .should not have not have permitted them selves to have been employed as attorneys in the matter. That is setting an exceed ingly dangerous precedent and one which might lead to severe repercussions. Legislators should never accept pay for introducing legislation. If it isn't a viola tion of the law it should be. STILL MORE NEEDED! ■y COLLIBK U"' Good Democratic Doctrine r Thomas Jefferson is honored as one of the founders of the Democratic party. Here is a quotation from his writings: “I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and pub lic debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independ ence, we must not le^ our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We musjt make our choice between economy ar.d liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, w'e must taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence - which in private life would forbid our P'^ying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring - to reduce the government to the prac tice of rigid economy to avoid burden ing the people and arming the Magis trate with a patronage of mone^y which might be used to corrupt the principles of our government.” The Democrats each year stage Jeffer son Day dinners at which they pay great homage to Mr. Jefferson. They revere his name and his memory. And this reminds us of a statement we 4ieard a 4i;oo(i preacher make. His congre gation had only a short time before given him a nice raise in salary. Then they gave him a fine automobile. In various other / ways they had given evidences of their af fection for him. “My people seem to love me devotedly and will do anything on earth for me, it • Menu, »cept live like I want them tb live,” preacher one day. ■ — -t ^08 It A Failure? Dr. GTeorge W. Crane is the author of several columns which appear .in news papers all over the nation. One of these columns is entitled “Test Your Horse Sense” and in it each day six questions are asked and the reader is asked to give his answers to same and grade himself on the number of answers correctly. The answers are given in the same issue of the paper. In liis column of Friday, January 23 in the Chicago Tribune one of the questions asked was: “At present 63 per cent of the American public are listed as drinking. During pro hibition, the percentage of drinkers was” and here were listed four, answers “Far more—About the . same—Slightly less— Much less” and the reader was asked to check the correct answer. The correct answer as given by Dr. Crane*w'as “Much less.” If this be true, and* one cannot believe that so eminent a man as Dr. Crane would take a chance on giving the wrong answer, one is naturally made to wonder if prohi bition was a failure’ after all. One of the great arguments made for the repeal of prohibition was that by mak ing liquor easy to obtain people would not care for it and the sales would decline. In cidentally it was also argued that youths would no longer think it “smart” to drink. Incidentally it is noted that the ABC stores in Charlotte which began operationi last fall have already sold over $3,000,00( worth of liquor. We Can^t Complain While we have had some pretty snappy weather of late, Camden can feel little rea son to complain about it. When we read of the snow and sleet storms and gales of every description that visit other sections of the country with alarming frequency we realize how blessed we are here. Even Florida has been suffering from intense cold lately. A visitor who spent a night in Camden last week said that he had nearly frozen to death in Orlando. Memphis, Tenn., which is pretty far South had a. 12-inch snow storm last week. It has been cold here but we haven’t had any big snow storms or gales so we egn count ourselves fortunate. The Speeders Harold Booker says in his column: “Very often people who are in the biggest huri'y to get to their jobs do the most loaf ing oh the job when they get there.” Same way ‘with the fellows who drive the fastest. They have nowhere to go. —Bamberg Herald. We once had an old friend who used to exclaim when a speeder would pass him on the highway: “Nobody going nowhere and nothing to do after he gets there.” \ The National Collegiate Athletic As sociation has acted most wisely in placing college football lirnder^ “sanity code.” It is the hope of the association that college athletics hereafter rpay be “amateur” in every sense of the word. Fof some years now football has becoming more and more professional and it is sure sooner or later to run into disaster unless profession- alism. is discouraged. / ‘ ■ It seems that there will not be any Bour- bon for Ex-King Mihal lor prompt. UMDuenoin With The Press MORE AHO rtORf. Should B« Indopendont For years now’ It Tippeari that the South has gotten a raw deaL j'nd It makes no different wheth er the Republicans or the Dem6- crats are'in power. Here It la evi dent that our electors should bar ter with the Republicans before the vote is cast. We should send them off uninstructed and let them be tfeo’' lahefil. It is obvious that the South votes for the democratic nominee regarJless of consequences and we are still of the-opinion that two parties in our state would It sure hotter conditions for our people and it makes no difference now which side of the fence we roost on. We have seen that we would not have fared any worse than we have under Truman. Shall we continue to take these abuser ly ing .down? Until ws let the world know that we Intend to protect cur rights we will continue Jto be the redheaded hepcblld of Uncle Sam.—Calhoun Advance. tut Russia. That country she be excluded if it does not operate with the other nations No one nation In the aasear is strong enough or big enourfc Impose its wUl on the rest of world.—Dnion Herald. The $64 Question A householder and famliyhesj whose annual eamlnrs are |4 year asks this quution; class buys enough hotter to It at |1 a pound?" * "At my home recently," he m. "elght-couples-werr oar dl^ guests. Discussion revealed thit family represented was buylnr h ter. All of those p^sent Wr-n the class .which lives upon tss a year more or less; the clL which has average; or above bM age, buying po#er. There ft theory that prices are \owpni people wfll not pay them. Whtt I comes of that theory in the iim of widespread use of butter m •^tltutes by people who form# liought butter?" A 164 question? — Loulsi Times. if IhinkinqOutLoud Most of our cold waves lesult from cold air coining out of Can ada and moat of our beat waves from hot air coming out of Wash ington. Those radio people who are al ways trying to contact the. planets are not fooling with the .sun. The programs from it would be too hot. Russia would have the rest of the world believe that we are tor*, ing to put it under flm'shall law. The only world possession left by a Boston, Mass., mairwho died the other day was an alarm clock. So there will be no trouble In wind ing up his estate. A correspondent writes to a country weekly, telling of a trip which she made to Washington where she said she saw all of the r.ights. Including some of the para- Fites, we presume. We hear of new horrors every day hut in our opinion there i-s still nothing more terrifying than step ping on the tall of the family cat while groping around trying to find the light in the hall From the way the General As sembly Is boosting the supply bill It must think that there Is no lim it to the supply of money. Another one of life’s unpleasant recollections is having to build a fire In the parlor on a night when aisler’s beau was going to call 'Fhat Ix)8 Angeles architect who has gone on the stage evidently must have thought that he could draw better houses there. There never seems to be any kold-up in the hold-ups In this country. If a girl could Just buy perfume that smells like fried chicken her b^*au would always feel like her eating her. • v Of the recent war it couVd very tnithfully he said Insofar as izlng this are giving their sales men* special courses in salesman ship. And speaking of salesman ship we are reminded of the story Gi the carpet sweper salesman who, finding business slow in loan, decided to try a rural neighbor hood. He lugged his machine to the first door he saw and was launching into a well-rehearsal sales talk when his prospective cus tomer interrupted; "Don’t go wast ing your breath, partner, I got a carpet sweeper.” The .salesman was ready for this. "Good,” he said, ’ then I can make you a generotu allowance for your old sweeper in part payment on a splendid new model." The prospect wrestled manfully with temptation. "Nope,” he finally replied, "1 can’t make a deal like that for, after all, I took her for better or wusa" A' dispatch from Ocala, Florida, says that cattle raising is now one of Florida’s chief industries. Hell raising is another. We hare had lots of cold water dabbed In our faces during the last Mx weeks. You see much In the newspapers now about a "mystery" flu that is so prevalent in some'sections. The "mystery” about it, we pres- sume, is how it can possibly make one feel so badly. Mrs. Mary O'Neill, of Wapwallo- pen. Pa., who was 100 years old on Monday, says she never reads any thing and never listen to the radio. So It seems that the way to live aj long time Is not to know what’s going on. General Elsenhower may have da- flded that whipping the Democrats would be a tougher Job than whip ping Germany. There must not be anything In a name because some of those cold waves whlcji sweep down us from Canada have to come through Cate, Montana. In connection with the meat shortage we cannot resist, tho ob servation that calves have already gone out of sight Does Louisiana plan another Long period of excitement? Hotel bell hops, waiters, train porters and others report that tips are not as large now as they were for a while. In other words the JieQple are not quite so tipsy. A trombonist gets ahead by Just letting his work slide.. Revoke the Veto Power The United Nations, created primarily for tho purpose of pre ferring world peace. Is flounder ing in a maze of compiles fions while small wars are being fought In several countries The tgreatest obstacle is what is known as the "veto power” vvhich can be invoked by the delegates of any one country. Twenty three of the 24 proposals have been vetoed by the Russians. This was a mistake of the T/drld Conference held at San Francisco when the United Nations was created. Until this mistake Is corrected the United Nations cannot possibly function as a body for world peace. Some analyslsts contend that this provision cannot be repealed. Fut why not? When the World Con ference adjourned Its duties ceased and power was delegated to the pot have the authority to repeal United Nations. If that body does or amend the veto power the United Nations may as well ad journ. Russia is not going to agree with the other nations and will con tinue to exercise its veto power to nullify any proposal for world peace that cqmes up in the United Nations. In fact, the other coun tries can get along very well with- The South Goes Ahead A writer for the Fairchild llcatlons of Washington, who ing an industrial survey of South, is very optimistic concei ing the South's future. “po« first time In the history of country,” he says,, "the fact, literally Is going ‘to the work, rather than the workers be! :orced to migrate to the factory other regions." Since the dlscop of the atomic bomb we have hd a great deal about the "decentn atlon of Indqstry." This g;f, measure has the approval of' militarists as w«ll as of the pc time national resource plann. The writer, however, is over- timlstlc when he says that "new southern factories wltl tl sorb the labor leaving the fai as mechanization of agriculture creases." 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