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* ■ ' ... >!• • « . ! ‘ ^ f u. .. i Jt i*. ■ > 'V-' :.: i % ' ’ 3Il|p ffiambm Qllironirlp IK^jjs'orth Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - . - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.50 9^ Months 1.50 Entered ae Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden. S. C.. under act of Confereaa March-3, 1879 All articles submitted for publication, must be signed by the author FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948 -4 - Make It National T If the Southern Democrats should carry out their threat to withdraw from the na tional so-called “Democratic” party and form a new party of their own it would be a mistake to call it the Southern Democratic parj'. While it is true that up to this hour there have been only two strong 'national parties in this country, this does not neces sarily mean that this condition will obtain forever. There are many signs that the ‘day has about arrived when there may be a complete realignment of forces in this country, and that instead of having only two big parties there may be three or even four. Certainly if we are to continue with only two big parties there will be a gen eral realignment of forces within the two. It is the belief of many people that if the Southern Democrats withdraw from the national party and form a party of their own dedicated to state’s rights, segrega tion of races and the preservation of prin ciples which have made this the great country that it is today, it would attract strong nation-wide support. There are many people in Northern, and Western states in both the* Democratic and Republican parr ties who are just as fed up with the con duct of those two parties in catering to the votes of minorities as are the people, of the South and they would unite, it is believed, with the people of the South in a party that stands for the preservation of the ideals and principles which have prevailed in this country in the past. There is no room in one party for the people of the South and the so-called “Democrats” of the North. It is like trying to make oil and water mix to keep*them satisfied in the same party. There i.s a much more in common between the Repub licans of the North and the Democrats of the South than.there is in between the so- called “Democrats” of the North and the Democrats of the South. They are just as wide apart in their thinking as the two Pole.s. How they have managed to stay in the same party thus long is one of the mysteries of life. It has been possible only because the South has worshiped the name “Democrat”. It is entirely possible that a new party started by Southern Democrats if given some other name than Southern Democra tic party might soon become a strong na tional party. Indeed it might become in this country what the Conservative party is in England with the conservative people of ihis country lined up in it and Henry Wal lace, Walter Reuther, Harry Bridges,. Claude Peppeh, Glenn Taylor and people like that lined up in a radical party. How Mr, Roosevelt Felt The “civil rights” agitation which has the South .stirred to fever heat now was really started by the late Franklin D. Roo.sevelt. He started the wooing of the negroes into the Democratic column and he was the first to advance the FEPC legisla tion. In fact, Mr. Truman is just carrying out his policies. In view of Mr. Roosevelt’s stand it is in teresting to note in the Anderson Independ ent that “in the office of the clerk of court of Meriwether county, Georgia, there is a certified copy of a deed executed by Mr. RooseVelt as president of Meriwether Re serve, Inc., forerunner* of wirm Springs Foundation and that the fourth paragraph of the deed reads as follows: “Neither the land herein conveyed, nor any part thereof shall be sold, : rented or otherwise disposed of to any negro or any other person of African descent or to a corporation or associa tion owned or controUed^y„negroes.” ' As The Independent saVs, nhis throws a new light, on Roosevelt’s feelings about negroes.” « Do This At Once If you haven’t already done so, ;nake a memorandum to do thhs at once: ' (I) Pay your poll tax for 1947 if you haven’t already done so. (2) Register at the court house. ; Assisting The Enemy Editor A. B. Jordan says when he saw in'* a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post a statement by one of its contributors that England was^shipping jet-plane mot ors to Russia, he had to reread the line sev eral times to be certain that his eyes were not deceiving him. Mr. Jofdan then went on to say that ac cording to the latest estimates Russia is credited with 14,000 planes whil^ the United States has only 3,000. The number that England has is not known. “No one blames England for expending her exports to the limit,” says our Dillon contemporary, “but it is both unwise and foolish to sell weapons of war to a nation that is likely to use them against you. “A sane man would not be so reckless and credulous as to put a high-powered rifle into the hands of another man with whom he is quarreling. “In recent months it has been said time and again that Russia is greatly increasing its armaments and working feverishly to perfect the atomic bomb. Why should Rus sia engage in such war-like activities while shouting from the house tqps that it wants world peace ” Editor Jordan did not Rave to clte*the case of England shipping war equipment to Russia. We are doing it in this country. Steel locomotives which are just as vital in war as air planes are being shipped from this country to Russia and we presume we are lending it the money to pay us for them. It must be an old custom of the English- speaking people to help their enemies. THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE, CAMDEN^ gOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH B. IMS . I- ''■=a«3aBeMB8aBa8m«= ■ 'j, .ajii .1 ai latg," — Some Good Advice The Winnsboro News and Herald re prints a kindly warning which George Washington wrote to one of his men at Mount Vernon when he was leaving his home to be inaugurated President of the United States, as follows: “Were you to look back, and had the means, either from recollection or accounts, to ascertain the cost of the liquor you have expended it would as tonish you. In the manner this expeiise is generally incurred—^that is, by get ting a little now, a little then—^the im propriety is not seen, inasmuch as it passes away without much thought. But view it in the aggregate, and you will be convinced at once whether any man who depends upon the labor of his hands not only for his support but that of an increasing family, can af ford such a proportion of his w^es to that article. “But the expense is ni the worst con sequence that attends it, for it natural- " lyv leads a man into the company of > those who encourage dissipation and ’ idleness, by which he is led by de grees to the perpetration of acts which may terminate in his ruin; but sup posing this not to happen, a disordered frame and a body debilitated rendef him unfit (even if his mind was dis posed to discharge the duties of his station with honor to himself or fideli ty to his employer) for the execution of it. An aching head and trembling limbs which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work; hence begins sloth and that list lessness which end in idleness . . .” This warning could well be sounded to many men and, sadly, tb many women to day. Another Stark\Tragedy The Communist hordes are sweeping over Korea and it now seems that it will not be long before* they will have it in their control. And this marks another tragedy in this era of tragedies. *The people of Korea, we are told in a pamphlet issued by The Methodist Church, are a simple, conservative, family-loving people. Eighty per cent of them are farm ers. They make “good Christian^”, all mis sionaries assert. If given a chance, Ko reans could be a demonstration ground for both Christianity and democracy in the Far East. But it seems now that Christianity will have little chance in that country because the Russians will not give it an opportuntiy. Indeed they will be much harder masters than were the Japanese. It is stark tragedy to see these people come under the domination of the Com munists. These brave Christians will un- doubtely be “purged”, which means, in other words, that they will be slain simply •because they are followers of the lowly Nazarene. —. ^ And—do you l^now—that we have thou sands of Gommdnists in this country who would have the same thing happen in this country if they could? And yet we protect them by law imd give them the right to ad- #lMh conditions iA "SUcL ' ThinkbiaOutloud If Uie Soulk lB going to secede, lots of income' taxpayers hope it’ll be before March 16. The greatest shortage in this old world is of the milk of human kindness. What has become of the old-fash ioned man who would say that he was feeling as fine as split frog hair! If you can't find it in the diction ary, the atlas or the Encyclopedia Britannica, you might get it at the dime store. The Democrats of the nation seem to be somewhat in the fix that the members of the party were In a Kentucky* county once. One of the party’s chieftains was sent down to try to get them to gether. ‘‘Why can’t the Democrats of this county get together?” he asked a man on the street of the court house town. “Get together! Why it takes eighty deputy sheriffs to keep ’em apart,” the man replied. A Chicago man has adrertlsed that he will not be responsible for any debts incurred by Uncle Sam. A woman in Warebam. Mass., has had four sets of twins in fire year. Do you the suppose the deuces will be wild when they grow up? a "The Royal House of Siam is looking for a white elephant,” says a newspaper filler. 'The Democratic party has one on hand it might be willing to get rid of. This has been a rather depres sing wliiter. The thermometer has hovered around 33 so much of the time and somehow or other any re minder of the early 30a is rather depressing. The General Assembly is con sidering making the wren (he of ficial state bird. From the way it has been appropriating money it must think the eagle is it. One sometimes wondori^hich is the worst—to be old and bent or young and broke. • * . .1^ In St. Louis, Mo., a will that has been missing for fifty years has been locate in a family Bible. Which is the only sign we have seen lately that the world may be getting better. Much aA ha« been m^e in his tory about George Washihgton having thrown a dollar artoss the Potomac river. Just look at the millions of ’em that President Tru man has thrown across the ocean! A story from Charleston sa3r8 that Charleston county Irish po tato growers are planting their croy day and night and a dispatch from Florida predicts a heavy acreage of Engiish* peas. Cietting ready for a big banquet season next fall, eh? It’s a pity thXt'this country has gotten away from the habit of read ing the minutes of the previous meeting. 'The plight of the Southern Demo-1 crats reminds us of the old story of the man who asked a friend one day: “What’s the election about today?” The other replied. "It is to determine whether we shall have a convention to nominate delegates who will be voted on as to whether | they will attend a convention which will decide whether we shall have] a primary to determine whether the people want to vote on the | same question again next year ” It does seem that every tax payer ought to be allowed to claim! a few Europeans as dependents ] this year. Somebody sold Loul9'anasI>ong. Another one of life’s mysteries! to us is why every old rooster in our neighborhood feels it his j .^lllllllllllllHIIIIIinirailllllllllB COMING ATTRACTIONS Haiglar Theatre Domsr Broa4 and Rutlsde# Bts Friday^ and Saturday Mar^ 5 and 6 It is Thrillinf Bxcitament and Aiveataral “MARSHALL OF CRIPPLE CREEK” Allan Lane as Red Ryder with Bobby/Blake, Martha Wentworth . Also Serial and Comedy Monday and Tuesday March 8 and 9 ' Bette Davls-^Humphrey Bogart la “MARKED WOMAN” ,Af80 Wame^ Psthe News V • Wednesday and Thursday *Marcii 10 and 11'* “THE MAIN STREET -KID” A1 Psarce — Janet Martin Also ^rial and Nswa A IS-months-old alien has been ordered deported from this coun try but Harry Bridges stays on. ’There seems to be an epidemic of bad Csechs now. ’The oldest *war on which our gov ernment is still paying pensions is the war of 1812. Well, thank good ness, the revolution Is at least paid for! If it be true, that hell is running pver, as one writer has recently charged, and if there is doubt about there being any more room in Heaven, those who are here should be duly than^ul. In some Instances clothes make the man and in others they fake him. President Truman said in bis Jef- jerson-Jackson dinner speech at Washington that “Washington'* bad differences of opinion in his cab inet but Washington was not the first president to have differences of opinion In his cabinet." And v- had been thinking all along that' Washington was our first president, j Only 98,000,000 bushels of pop corn were consumed last year as against 253,000,000 in 1946. Do the pop corn market popped. When *we read of the pussyfoot ing of some policians* on this 'Southern revolt we can’t help but think of the young fellow who grad uated from college and was bunting a Job as school teacher. He heard of a vacancy over in Georgia so he hied himself there to appear before the school patrons who in those days elected the teacher. On arriving in town he had heard that the people of ,lbe two were divided into two factions, one faction in sisting the world was round while the <^er insisted that it was flat. Appearing before the board, the teacher was promptly asked by one patron if he thought the world was round or flat. ‘‘I teach either sys tem,” he promptly responded. Sickening Announeamstit- The radio speech made by Sen ator Glenn Taylor of Idaho Monday evening in which he announced that he would be the running mate of this nation’s “modern-day Bendlct Arnold’’ was one of the most nauseating farces this writer has ever listened to. The “Benedict Arnold” reference is to Henry Wal lace, naturally, who has not only aligned himself with Joe Stalin and every scheming, bomb-tossing Gommunist in the world in an ef fort to make this great nation Rus sian satellite, but has also become closely allied with other anti- American minorities who seek to overthrow our government and way of life. It is almost inconceivable that% former vice-president, a former cabinet member could stoop to such a low level. ’The above does not take Into account that Wi one of the worst enemies South has ever had He be satisfied nntll the i and ideals the neo^. ^ section of Che natlon*TrS and made a misdemeanor » ticed. , “ But back to the speech a., lor—-He and Wallace ^ studio together at the * speech was made and it . like a (^munlstlc love by Taylor for Wal^^ were actually surprisedT., talk did not wind up in . tag embrace between the audible klasea being sent'S’* the air waves. Our nation U indeed ii ' danger when such crartLa nincompoops as these tv.c^ sort of a following — Tlmea - •When yon think of Thmkorua. . MU1«k her Company. ^ State Theatre KERSHAW, a C FRIDAY, MARCH 8 “ROAD TO RIO" Bing Crosby—Bob Hope SATURDAY. MARCH 6 /THE LAST ROUNDUP" Gene Autry 0? wu*""* BEAMED ELECTRONIC POW« HEARING INSTRUMENT (SaMaiy-CMSdbMt All*i».Owi UNUKE ANY OTHER IIr^n, In the Nbtery of Nooriof AMs, for $l». fovor, lowly ool fsi —tt 6ivo$ Hoorinf losolls Tint Chdioifo All hoMow AdiitVMNU WILLIAM W GRAY, JR 1307 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. Phone 77SJ SATURDAY, MARCH t _ 10:10 F. M. ' ‘THE WHITE GORILLA" Ray Corrigan—Lorraine Miller MON. • TUES., MARCH., 8 - 9 "WELCOME STRANGER*^ Bing Croeby—Joan Caulfield WEDNESDAY, MARCH' 10 “ISLE OF DESTINY" William Gargan—June Lang THURSDAY, MARCH 11 "OUT OF THE PAST” Robert Mitchum—Jane Greer ANNOUNCING Important Schedule Changes EFFECTIVE MARCH 25, IM Columbia — Florem Columbia — Raleigh Ask your local Greyhound Af«f Did You Know... THAT THESE TOWNS IN SOUTH CAROLINA HAVE.... CITY MANAGERS / ‘ 5. Greenwood 6. Chester 7. Spartanburg . 8. Gaffney 1. Sumter 2. Florence 3. Rock Hill 4. Lancaster .'A 9. Beaufort THESE TOWNS ARE CONSIDERING dTY MANAGERS 1, Columbia This town is 2. Anderson to vote going City Manager Camden Yes. . . , I JUNIOR CHAMBER OF