Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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>1 FOi FI L t. i j' ' vi I. s. I I'* : i PAQE TWO B«n=E=5=SI THE CAMDEN CHNONICLE, CAMDEN, EOUTH CAEOLINA. ENIDAV, rEERUAWV go, IWt (St|p ffiamdrn (filfronirlp U0» North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCosta Brown - - - Editor - Publhher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year |2v60 Six Months 1-60 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C.. under act of Conerees March 3. 1879 All articlea submitted for publication must bo sltmed by the author FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1948 Your Home Town Newspaper Cotdd Bring About A Deadlock Speaker Walter Sillers of the Mississippi House of Representatives told 5,000 angry i Mississippi Democrats gathered in Jack- son last week to protest the civil rights measures advocated by President Truman that the Southern Democrats could nomi nate their own candidate for President an^ added that such a move would throw the election into the national house of repre sentatives because no candidate for Presi dent would then have a majority. Senator James C. Eastland, of Mississip pi, predicted that in such event “a South ern man would emerge as President.” We do riot have Senator Eastland’s views about a Southern man emerging as Presi dent but we do believe that if the election were thrown into the National House of Representatives that the South could strike a good bargain in the jockeying which would go on for its votes. And it is entirely possible for the elec tion to be thrown into the House by a bolt of the Southern Democrats. With only two major candidates in the race, the presiden tial contest is speedily decided by one nominee^receiving a majority of electoral votes. However, the Southern Democrats threat to run a third candidate could, if made good, result in the failure if any of the three to get an electoral majority. In that case the national House of Represen tatives would elect. The House of Representatives has been called upon twice before in American his tory to name the President. The last time was in 1824 when Andrew Jackson re- « ceived 99 electoral votes, a plurality but less thaij! a majority. In that instance John Quincy Adams, who got 15 fewer electoral votes than Jackson, emerged as President when he received a majority vote in the House. The only other occasion when the House chose the President was in the nation’s fourth national election in 1800. At that time the constitutional provision for elec tions differed from those at present. Each member of the electoral college then voted for two persons, w'ithout designating Presi dent or Vice President. The nominee with the most votes was named President, if he received a majority of the electoral college and the second highest was vice president. In the 1800 contest, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, both running on the Re publican ticket, tied with 73 votes each, although the party’s intention was to run for Jefferson for President and Burr’for Vice President. The tie, plus the fact that neither had a majority, threw the contest into the House where the Federalist party had cpntrol. After 35 ballots Jefferson was cho.seri. From time to time some newspapers carry a statement reading something tike this on their masthead: “The — is the only newspaper in the world that gives a hoot about — The Camden Chronicle has never ear ned any such statement on its masthead because we do not feel that way about Camden. We feel that there are other newspapers that are interested in Camden. We do feel, however, that The Chronicle is the only newspaper that is primarily in terested in Camden. The interest of any other newspapers would be secondary be cause their first interest, quite naturally and quite properly, is in their home cities. If an occasion should arise when there would be a clash between the interest of their home cities and Camden they would, of course look after the interest of their home cities. So it can be said that The Chronicle is Camden’s voice to the outside world inso far as the printed word is concerned. It is Camden’s printed representative all over the world. Every one in Camden should therefore be interested in seeing that its representa tive in the printed world is as steong and as forceful as the community can afford. Much of the credit for the tremendous growth of Atlaqta in its earlier days has quite properly been given to its newspap ers. They were always pulling for Atlanta. They were strong newspapers—exception ally strong for a town of its size in those days—and they attracted people to At lanta. The people of Atlanta realized that they were their greatest assets and gave them unstinted support. The Chronicle is seeking to be '^a credits able representative of Camden. It hopes and believes that it will have the unstinted support of the people of this city in its ef forts. It sdenui Out evenrthing hasn’t been on the np-and-up in the grain nurkets lately. What has' become of the old- fashioned man with the long beard who nerer wore a necktie? ThinldnqOiitloud put on the key ring. We are sure NOTICE TO DERTHl^ a sufficient numbwr of drirers In 1897 John McGuire trareled from Cheryfleld, Maine, to New- buryport. Mass., for a brief visit with his sister and he hasn't gone home yet 'Which Just goes to show the danger of having relatives visit you. would want such a UEgi and would be willing to pay, so that the de partment would be without loss in the transaction. If our memory serves us well, metal was not available when the new license period began, and therefore only the card was pos sible. But now that the metal is available, why not give drivers the opportunity to make such a pur chase?—The State. CREDITORS parties indebted to tbs .m of Eleanor Brown are hereK,,* ned to make payment ^ designed, and all Wties, ?, having cUims agaihst the a>u Ute will present them duly attested, within the timT scribed by law. A. R. COLLlUj M «... Administma Camden, S. C., Feb. li, "Democrats Scared To Death Over Third Party, Wallace Says"— headline. Tes, but the third party they are scared to death of is ncM Mr. Wallace’s. Now th^ call the income tax a penalty you have to pay for reck less thriving. A child was bom in Memphis. Tenn., with a full sised tooth right in the middle where he smiles. Which Just goes to show how for ward children of today are. Winthrop Rockefeller’s father-in- law is a miner. This ought to en able Mr. Rockefeller to keep ttp with what la going on underground. Some Democrats sajrlng they can’t leave the national party be cause they haven’t anywhere else to go reminds ns of the old story of the candidate who told his hearers that they would have to vote for him or go to hell. "Gee, but that’s a difficult choice we have got to make,’’ replied one voter. Another thing that always puz zles us is who "the mueual friend" is who is always giving our name to some company that writes us, “your name was given to us by a mutual friend who believes you will be interested in our 'generous offer.’’ A soothsayer predicts the end of the world in the next four years.- We wouldn’t call that a soothsay' Ing. With The Press "Cold Weather Hampers Church- er’’—headline. Don’t tell is that the weather we have had this win ter has made some people reepn- clded to going td a hotter climate. The football shift ought to teach football players how to shift for themselves. “Bustles are going out,” says a fashion writer, as if there were some other way they might pos sibly go. A writer expresses the beli^ that there is not as much oxygen in the air as formerly. May he that is the reason the world is Just one great big headache now. Are We Disintegrating? (living Us The Facts ' General Dwight D. Eisenhower sounded ti grave, note of warning to the people of the United States in hus final report as chief of staff of the United States Armv. t “Conditions today,” he said, “are suf ficiently turbulent, however, that war might be visited upon the world without the impetus of planning of deliberation. One isolated action might precipitate con flict.” That is the feeling we have had for some time. There hasn’t’ been a day in some time but that we have awakened with a hunating fear that some incident may have occurred in Europe or in Korea or in the Mediterranean th^t might mean war. All of this but serves to emphasize the importaneq^ not only of strengthening our national defenses right now but also of adopting Universal Military Training. Every one is agreed that'‘another war must If it is to be so.me time in the future Universal^ Military Training will in deed serve us in good stead. Meanw’hile let’s increase oqr army, navy and air forces. The next war might truly be our last. • There are two things for you to keep in mind—register for the munioipal elec tion at the city hall ai^ fiy the state and county elections at the court house. Dr. Edward A. Strecker, of Los Angeles, Calif.,..chairman of the psychiatry division of tke National Research Council, warned in an interview last week that America is on the brink of disintegration, and he gave some of the reasons for so thinking. “Somewhere along the line,” said the psychiatrist, “we have lo8|: our spiritual values. Through technological Advances we have achieved a highly materialistic civili zation but underneath we are straw.” The doctor said as parents, most Ameri cans of today are failures. They fail to in still self-reliance in their children. Chil dren grow into emotionally immature adults unable to meet responsibilities. Gloomily, the psychiatrist acknowledged that people are basically the same today as they were years ago when family ties were stronger, “but forces outside are at work on them, and in the most materialistic civi lization the world has ever known, spiritual values have been swept away.” The doctor said he was convinced that lax marital relationships, falling birthrate and soaring delinquency of adults and juveniles are “surface symptoms of decay.” There must be ^many who realize that Dr. Strecker’s pessimism is well ounded. Much of what he says must be recognized by every one as being the truth. 'Tis true, ’tis pity; ’tis pity, ’tis true. Although juvenile delinquency poses a great/problem, it is parheps no greater problem than adult delinquency while the greatest delinquency of all is perhaps par ental delinquency. Dr. Strecker held out one ray of hope. “We’re pretty far aloifg the road to disin tegration.” he said, “but we can still turn back with a tremendous effort.” The disturbing thought is that apparent ly no tremendous effort is in the offing. There are many brave^ souls who are struggling to head-off ,thB impenefing dis aster but the great masses of the people seem to be intent mostly on enjoying the whirl of life. Serious thoughts of the future are shunned.^ A “let’s eat, drink and be merry today for tomorrow we may perish” ^attitude seems to prevail all over the na tion and we fear that warnings like those issued by Dr. Strecker will continue to go unheeded. Dr. J. L. Shelly, the only phy sician In the town of Howe, Texas, says that he has been there since 1909 and has never found a citizen of the town with a kidney stone, a fact which he attributes to the town’s fine soft water supply. So if any of the people there do live in glass houses they at least do not throw kidney stones. Marriage is now defined as par- sonified lore. All indications point to the worst thAjpr this Spring since the days of Harry K. We see where there is a “fresh cold wave” coming so you had bet ter look out, girls. It was the late United States Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of " 10 said that “the South Carolina Vh Elemocratlc party always makes a damn fool out of Itself at a critical moment." Santss-Cooper Again The SanteeGooper crowd is giv ing wide publicity to the fact that it’has paid its first dividend of 1198,323.73 to the state of South Carolina. This is the political-kilo watt generating concern in the low er part of the state headed by Senator Jefferies of Colleton coun ty. AS general manager. Santee-Cooper wants to be a "power trust." It cost close to 365,000,000, paid for by the Ameri can taxpayers. Taxpayers should not be confused or misled by the photostatic copies of the dividend Check that have been appearing in a number of papers in the state, or by the statement that the pro ject did not cost the state any money to build. Its cost is repre sented in the enormous public debt you are helping to pay. This newspaper has no confi dence in the Santee-Cooper project because it is political through and through,"and wants to control the power business in this state. It would put privately-owned, tax-pay-'^ ipg power companies out of busi ness. It is represented by a gen eral council in the state legisla ture. And it is reasonably safe to predict that the development of Clark’s Hill will also develop great political strength. How many buslnes men in South Carolina would invest a dollar in Santee-Cooper? And while the management loud ly proclaims the payment of its first dividend after being in busi ness since the early days of the New Deal, it would be interesting to the public if the management would also announce the amount that has been paid for legal ser vices and in general manager's sal ary'^since the project was approved by President ^loosevelt, aided by Maybi^k, Byrnes and others.— Clinton f^ronicle. NOTICE Ni *The Commerci^ National Bank and The First National Bank wiD be closed Monday, February 23, as this is a legal holiday. Or.Qu/z CONOOCTlDi ^^USSEl PART OP A RADIO TRANiMr A.CONDPNSfA ifP •.AMTfNNA CMAfiTtfSA P. CATRapf COAT mAT THIS MAR WfAfU O CAtAtD A A ETON .e.jSRkiNi OIRnPc , Vmi rom op krimo boat* IS A... A. BATIK C. KETCM B. ICAYAK SlOOP Russia is atm charging things but its credit is nil now. Wear smartly pressed clothes that will mark you as a person who is f oing places in the ri|^ way... call the QUALITY CLEANERS for im mediate service. The right solution to the quis is Antenna, Jerkin and Kayak. A columni.st says that there are very few new Jokes now. Which re minds us that "Whatever troubles Adam had No one In days, of yore Could say when Adam cracked a Joke I’ve heard that one before.’’ Metal Driver's License If the South Carolina highway department wishes to do a good deed for a number of automobile drivers, and we are sure it so mind ed, then we suggest issuance of metal driver licenses as was done prior to the war. Paper cards are hard to keep. The metal tag can be ^ QUALITY CLEANER QUALITY AND SERVICE CAMDEN,S.C. 112 403 DEKALB S' An American soldier who has re cently returned from Germany says that he cannot stand the "air of braggadocio" the Russian soldiers have. And that reminds us of the story of the ^man who was some what discouraged and was seeking advice from his minister. The min ister advised him, ^mong other things, to get rid of "that air of bragg?tdocio.’’ "I can’t,’’ replied the man, "as long as I have to work In the livery stable.’’ It was difficult for love to find a way In the old days when a boy and girl had to do their courting ■in the family parlor with the door wide open. We find ourselves in hearty agreement with The State that Senator McGrath, the national Democratic party , chairman, should have come on to Atlanta and out lined the policies of the party. If they are to be anti-§outh we had just as well know it. We don^t like the idea of keping him away Oi^ause of the fact that what he would saVyWouldn’t sound pleasant to us. Those vrho M^we keeping him away inci dentally are along with the party on anjrthing. Camden needa, must have and will get industrial en^^riaes. Cheer up! Spring will be here now be fore you know it ' ■> Do your shopping in Camden. You Can Have A Streamlined Kitchen, Too! Why b« content with an old fashioned, badly equipped kitch en when, for a comparatively modest aum, wa can atreamllne it for you to save you steps and money, top. Give us s ring. We’ll be glad to plan your kitchen modernization complete with brand new,equipment In stalled. No charge for esti mates. A Will be open for buai- « ness .on Monday, February 23 in our new location on South Mill Street. Camden Woodwork & "^pply Co. Consider /Then— A Savings Account ; On Mar be credited to 1st, semi-annual savings intere^ will ose who have Savings Accounts here with us, many ac^iaunts both large and small of men and women who fronHime to time set aside funds for \i a special purpose. It is a popular department of our bank and its steady growth is reflected in comparative figures pub lished below. , February 19th, 1944 February 19th, 1945 February 19th, 1946 February 19th, 1947 February 19th, 1948 $m,764M 466 604fi22M 708J988M 779mM Commercial National Bank .,L Member of The Federal RetM^ Syttem Member of The federal Dipposit Innnrance Corpora Hijn