The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 30, 1948, Image 4
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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!
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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
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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.
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^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.”
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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. /
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It seems that there will not be any Bour-
bon for Ex-King Mihal lor prompt.
UMDuenoin
With The Press
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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.
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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." New Industries will
vide work for some of the dlspl
farm labor, but Industrial derrt,
ment will have to be mighty rapi
to absorb all of it.—Dillon HenK
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spoils.’’
Is concerned:
belcnged the
One ran live as cheaply now as
iwo formerly lived
Doctors removed a splinte’ the
ether day from the head of a New'
llampshire man and it apparently
had been in It for years. So you
.’(•0 yon can never tell what a man
has In his head.
Roru Gresuck, a meat cutter of
.vansas City, ,has r“duced his
weight from 5(58 pounds to 802
pounds which is about the best Job
of meat cutting we’ve heard of.
After all we haven’t anything to
kick about coneemlrg the weather.
It Is believed that the planet .Tupl-
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about 16,000 mllas thick.
The days of easy sales are over
and many larger corporations real-
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