Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IPAQE POtIfl wnsssBsn THE CAMDEN CHNONICLE. CAMPftw »OUTH CAWOLINA^/FNIDAY, >E»«WAWY 27, r*' AdT| wUl mtnli Over . Caekr vrb*r< F0| Ft • < J • I *• 'i n Olambrn (SlprantrU 1109 North Broad Street Camden, S. C. J>UBU8HED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCosta Brown - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.50 Six Months Entered a« Second Class Matter at , the Post, Offlce at Camden, S. C., under act of Congress March 3. 1879 All articles submitted for publication must be siftned by the author FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1948 The Red Cross Drive The people of this country are ^ well acquainted with the work of the American Red Cross that it is hardly necesary to urge them to give liberally to it. If a major disaster .‘should strike Cam den tomorrow the Red Cross would be here a comparatively few* hours after it struck, giving aid to the injured and assisting fi nancially. We trust that no such disaster ever strikes but we never know. We do know that where such disasters^ have struck the Red Cross wa always there. It was at Texas City after explosions and fire in mid-April claimed 500 lives and injured 3,500 people. It was in Texas and Oklahoma after the worst tornadoes in ten years struck those states last April. It was in the New England states after those dcr vastating forest fires caused great damage. It was in Florida after that severe hurri cane hit there in September. And so it would be in Camden should disaster ever hit our fair city. Money given to the Red Cros is given to a worthy cause. Don*t Try It Again “You were one second from eternity . . . please, for God’s sake, don’t try it-again.’’ These words, according to a Southern Railway publication, “Ties,’’ were in a let ter from a railroad engineer printed in the Omaha World-Herald and were addressed to a young Sunday-driving couple whose automobile aped acroa the tracks a heart beat ahead of a racing passenger train. The letter from the engineer addressed to this young couple whom he did not know, said in part; “When you drove your car across directly in front of a speeding pas senger train, it was so close that I, in the cab, could see the young girl (your sweetheart I pressume) throw her hands up in front of her face and cringe up against you in stark horror. ‘ If I were that young girl I’d pull away from you, fast. You probably say you love her; I wonder. Those we love we try to protect. “Wouldn’t that have been a nice Christmas present to hand to your mother—a broken and battered body? And how do you think that we in the cab of that engine would feel? We don’t want to hit you but we are help less. “You and your girl .were one second from eternity Sunday, son. If I were you, son. I’d thank God for that split second. I said a prayer, when I real ized you w'ere goi^ across. Perhaps that’s what saved us all. And please for God’s sake don’t try it again.’’ Why take a chance, not only at a rail road crovssing or any where else? The news papers are filled each day wdth stories of wrecks in which people have lost their lives. Some of them are at. railroad cross ings, some of them are on curves in the highway, some on straight stretches in the highway. Most of them could be averted. The Weaker Sex (?) Dr. Elizabeth.H. Vail^han, sociology pro fessor at Winthrop Collie, told the Rock Hill Kiwanis Club last week that men should be called the “w'eaker.sex” and she gave some pretty good evidence in support of her argument. Citing statistics she had compiled in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippine Is lands over a period of three years. Dr. Vaughan found -that all the suicides and mental breakdowns were among the mem Of the 5,000 internees, 88 per cent of the deaths were among the male inhabitants. Dr. Vaughan spent three years in^the Santo Tonas Prisone with her tw’o small children. Her husband lost his life in the war. There has long been a theory that wom en could stand physical suffering better than men. We have heard physicians com ment that the bravest men were sometimes the greatest cowards when it came to un dergoing operations, or physical pain. The big Southern politicians in Wash* ington are watching very closely now te see whkh way the cat is going to jumy. Qualify To Vote THEY SAY IT WONT GO DP? By MACEBNgtR Every citizen of'^amden should do Y^hat- ever may be necessary for him to do to qualify to vot4 In any or all elections that may be held this year. There are many Very excellent reasons why he should be prepared to exercise the right of suffrage this year. Some of these reasons may not be apparent to every one now but they will probably be plain enough for all to see/ later. The first election to be held in the city of Camden will be a municipal election at which voters will have an opportunity to choose between the present aldermanic form of government and the commission- manager form of government. In order to qualify to vote in^this elec tion, a citizen must: (1) Get a county certificate df reg istration at the court house. He can do * this between March 1 and 31; (2) Pay his poll tax if he is under 60 years of age. He must pay this tex by March 13. (3) Get a city registration certifi cate at the'city hall. ' This will entitle him to vote in the city election and it will also entitle him to vote in any other elections, municipal, county or state that will be held this year, f The city election is very important and every citizen of Camden should be pre- ifared to vote in it. .There may be other elections that will be even more vital to our way of life that will be held during the year and certainly every citizen will want to be prepared to vote in them. There are those who have not been regis tering in the past at the county registra tion board because they didn’t want to get their names in the jury box. The time has come when every patriotic citizen should register even though it en tails jury service, which after all is a duty that good citizens should be willing to per form if they wish to live in a law abiding community. The Chronicle makes this appeal to every citizen of Camden to go to the court house in March tp register and to pay his poll tax and then go on to the city hall and register there, too. The Chronicle also urges the citizens of Kershaw county, outside of the City of Camden, to go to tl^e court house and regis ter and pay their poll taxes. They, of course, are not interested in the Camden municipal election to be held in April but they will be just as vitally concerned in the other elections that are to be held this year as are the people of Camden. Don’t delay—get those registration cer tificates and pay your poll taxes. There are impelling reasons for this action on your part. ThinkinqOutM Decline Of Sportsmanship Following the North Carolina State. Davidson basketball game in.Raleigh la«c Tuesday, Referee Dick Culler, an ex-ca'go star himself, announced that he was through officiating. “When you’ve got to take that stuff night after night, it isn’t worth it,’’ said Culler, referring o the booing and razzing that had been given him every time he called a penalty on State. Culler, who is a big league baseball play ed*, said that his decision to retire had been arrived at regretfully. He’s an old bas ketball player himself and loves the game. He enjoys refereeing and he regrets that the lack of sportsmanship on the part of spectators now makes it impossible for him to continue. One can remember w’hen basketball was considered a gentlemanly game. Spe*c- tators were not suppose to cheer or make any noise whatever when a player was at tempting a free'throw and such a thing as booing officials or players at a game was unheard of. The same thing applied pretty generally to football. Now both games are threatened with the loss of competent officials because of lack of sportsmanship on the part of the spec tators. It will be recalled that a football referee in Texas, one of the very best in the country, announced that he was through after this season because of the conduct of the spectators. It’s a pity that we are becoming so boor ish in this country that decent people can’t enjoy athletic contests between clean young men. We wonder if that phychiatiist who ujra that the world is threat ened with disintegraUon isn’t mis taking the Democratic party for the world. Keep Him On The Job •A movement has been launched in the General Assembly to keep A. S. Salley, stale hi.storian, who will soop reach* the age of retirement, on the job. We /^rust the move will succeed. Mr. Salley knows more South Carolina history than an^ man liv ing and it will be a shame-to remove him. His job is one that, is peculiarly fitted to a man rich in years. Retiring Mr. Salley would make the state retirement law seem sillyHe is giving the state of SouthnCaro- lina invaluable service now. “Hell has run over and Is flood ing Uiia country with its filth,” says a communication in a South Carolina weekly newspaper. We knew the Ohio river had over flowed but wd hadn’t heard about belt If at first you don’t succeed try, try again and then stop because there’9 no use wearing yourself out and besides it would be rilly. ft’s difficult for a girl with long legs to have that now look. Representative Marcontonio, rad ical member of Congress, probably welcomes the election of the radi cal Isaacson from New York be- cause misery lores company. What has become of the old-fash ioned man who did all of his drink ing out in.the barn or in the wood shed? We’va just about decided* that the cold weather we have had this winter has been an attempt to freeze the South out of the Demo cratic party. With The Press An 80-year-old man out West killed hia 70-year-old brother in a row about the price of a chicken. A 90-year-old man wga arrested and fined in Davenport, Iowa, for stealing a 10-oent bar of soap. An 80-.year-old woman was found asleep in a Chicago theater and told police she couldn’t remember where she lived. Juvenile delin quency is certainly a problem these days. How does a man who does noth ing all day know when he’s through? A writer says in a magazine ar ticle that he has interviewed count less men of wealth and that over the desk of nearly every one he has interviewed there has hung some sort of motto. And that re minds of the story now going the rounds of the beggar who» clutched at the sleeve of a benevolent-look ing passerby. "Five cents, sir, for a cup of coffee?’’ he whined. 'The other turned to survey him. “Why should I give you five cents for a cup of coffee—what brought you to this terriblf^ plight?’’ he asked. "A terrible catastrophe, sir,” the beg gar replied “Two years ago, 1 en joyed business prosperity. I work ed Industrtonsly. On the wall above my desk was the motto: "Think Constructivoly, Act Decisively.” Wealth poured my way. And then —and then—(at this the beggar began to sob convulsively) the scrub lady burned my motto.’’ The Voice Of Mississippi Of 12 Southern states one has leaders. They stand firm for, the right of the state to freedom from interference and coercion by a Washington government deriving power from the votes of the cities in the North and West that con trol states. In South Carolina are signs of leadership appearing. The representative of the pH^st congres sional district, the . district in which Charleston is the largest community, L. Mendel Rivers, in an Interview published last Thurs day, advised that Sonthem people hold a convention in which they would consider adoption of a pol icy of self-defense. The convention should be held. The plan of the “Red Shirt’’ campaigns of white people which delivered Southern states from ‘‘radical’’ rule in 1875 and 1876 was the plan of a Mis- sissippian, L. Q. C. Lamar. Again the ^uthem states may respony;) to the voice of Mississippi—News and Courlefl a bill which would prohibit the general assembly electing any member of it to any office within its gift. Any legislative., member who aspires to be elected to ap office would first have to. resign i six months previously th be eligible as a candidate. When the bill goes to the senate, it will be killed pronto, is our predictioa " But it is a most favorable omen that the House actually voted 67 to 27 for adoption of the bill, and even if it should reverse itself later, it shows a decided sentiment in favor of stopping an iniquitous practice which has grown up in recent years preventing, any man or woman, however capable, of hoping for election to any office in the gift of the legislature who is not a legislator.—Bamberg Her aid. ^ Wta.^ and ezerciaa onr twt^ power on-4ettuce shnl' dri^ toast and lem<^ feasor HoeUeL oT versify of Chicago partment, .ays thaV^ American waistline can ^ by tricking the stomach • eating habit, a cotton! the lint flavored wlft wUl satisfy his hunger fS? -at least that is what h?. oven at the present pnc. «ood middUng cotton.^ to be cheaper than T-bo^ The professor has \ssJ seashore sand flavored , and pepper, and a few J geatlble oddities. But works out best. He belten work out varmus nonS non-nutriUve fillers thati the ordinary run of ui t, hamburgers, porkchops an frleds, while we rumlnati ton " Since we have alway, boosts for more use of on since South Carolina ni™ making asphalt roads wji are Just passing the thoat what it is worth. Hare staple cotton sandwich ( Anderson Independent It Shall Not Paas All praise to Che Houth of Rep resentatives for pasing a bill. to outlaw the practice of the legisla ture electing its own members to choice plums in the state govern ment. By an overwhelming ma jority the house last week approved William Z. Foster It is a dull day in a newspaper office when someone doesn’t come along with a tricky new diet or eat ing fad designed to heip whatever is wrong with you. If It isn’t an M-day Hollywood diet. It’s a diet that promises to put on fat or put on lean all in one operation. But here is one that makes us sit up and take notice. For it prom ises to cut down a bulging waist line and reduce our eating expenses all at the same time. Most diets, you know, would have us give up WITH THE PRESS Should Have Begun Fight Some of the men in So lina who are now making est noise against PregU man’s anti-Southern poll the self-same men who* and again In 1944, betrt people and the Southern These men were lOo New Dealers, and enthni supported Roosevelt for and fourth term. It was Roosevelt an^* his long-h visers who Inaugurated th which Truman is now i carry out. Had the South Carol! Executive Committee i composed of office holden against the ruinous polld New Deal would have 1936. It will be fatal to tm ture of South Carolina to helped to bring about th threat of disaster to the Men who have any gel now know that they csi for' Truman. Neither can to either the Republican to Wallace. By insisting instructed delegates to tional Convention and et dependent electors they ^ the election of a preside National House of Reprei If left to the professl ticlans, the state will h for ‘Truman In 1948, Juat for the Fourth Term against the wishes of tl —Dorchester Elagle-Recor Arfhrilis ( rot pains ot Nnrttis. Laaibafo, SelatiM, «p Works tbreath UwHhi asuallr sCarU allovUUnf paia work, onjoy Ufo and ileop awnt Oct RaaiM at draoitt to^. I olote ntlgfaetion or moner bock wp Sometimes we think it is not the look that counts so much as the gleam in the eye. "I am a Democrat. I am also a reformer but when I start out to reform the Democratic party, I’m going to do it from the Inside.” Speaker Sam^Rayburn told a Jeffer- son-Jackson dinner crowd th® oth er night. And this,reminds us of the woman who married a drunk ard to reform him. She didn’t re- form^hlm hut she became a drunk ard. herself. A newspaper filler says that heart trouble Is 30 per cent dead lier ft winter than In summer. One always thought it more fatal in the spring. Charleston county Irish potato growers are planting their crop day and nieht now. according to a dis patch from Charleston, whHe a .dls- nufeh from Florida says that the acreage in Ehglish peas Is being Ineroa.sed this spring. Must be ex pecting lots of banquets next fall. It takes a man of strong contra- dunctlons to keep going down the road now. •Pre.aident Benes Is right in his stand in turning down Czechs that ara no good. There’ll be a lot of muck In Mukden when ^the Red troops get there., And so Henry Wallace will have a Taylor, made-to-order, running mate. One of the beat winter stories we have heard is of the Mississippi safety pptrnl official who tele phoned a Memphis radio station to ask people not to drive down that way on a slick and slippery day. It was deadly dangerous, he said, and anyhow their ditches were already full of thqir own automobiles. WORK REFRESHED PAUSE FOR COKE “Some people will throw away money pn anything else but be very i penurious when it comes to giving I to the church,’’ says a writer. Yes and that recalls the story of the col ored minister who asked if there was any one in the congregation who wished prayer for their fail Ings. ‘‘Yassuh,” responded Brother Jones, “Ah’s a spentthrlff. and Ah throws mah money ’round- reckless like.” “Ve'y well,’’ replied the preacher, “wo will Join in prayer fo’ Brother Jones Just after de ctrt- lection plate have been passed." Subscribe To The Chronicle •When yoa Hunk of Lumber ThiE& of iu ... inkr Lnm. pint le Suu Tax tottlio UNOII MUTHONTT Of TNI COCA-COtA COAfAMV if CAROUNA COMPANY CAMDEN BRANCH