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^ FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1948
Masaryk^s Final Reply
The passing of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslo
vakian foreign minister who reportedly
committed suicide by jumping from the
v/in of his official residence at Prague, has
~done much to focus the attention of the
world to the plight of Czechs, who, it might
be'said, have been taken captives .by the
Communists of Russia.
Masaryk was one of the heroes of the
people of Czechoslovakia. The people of
that country loved and trusted him. They
looked upon him almost as a protector. His
death has come as a great shock to them.
There are those who believe that he did
not commit suicide but that he was
“purged” by the Communists. Every one
realizes that this has been the practice fol
lowed by the Reds in the past. They have
slain leaders whom they felt would be
stumbling blocks. They did it in Poland,
they have done it in Russia and they will
undoubtedly do it in Czechoslovakia.
But, we are inclined to agree with the
Christian Science Monitor that they hardly
killed Jan Masaryk. They might have done
so later but not yet.
Says The Monitor:
‘The window through which Jan
Masaryk plunged to physical extinc
tion may have appeared to him as an
escape from moral death. His situa
tion symbolic of that of his country
since the Communist coup, may have
offered no more heroic or more effec
tive alternative.
“Whether this was suicide or not is
still a question. Officials gave out con
flicting explanations of his motive,
after having held up the report of his
fleath for hours. In any event it would
seem unlikely that Dr. Masaryk’s
enemies planned it that way. They had
much to gain by keeping him as a '
front to .deceive the Czech people.
“Jan Masaryk had, up to the time of
the tragedy, unwillingly served that
purpose, though he may have had the
most patriotic reasons for remaining
as Foreign Minister in the Communist
Government. Whether he suddenly
changed his mind about his course, or
'whether the Communists pressed him
too far or were actually threatening
him—these questions remain unan
swered. But the fact is there: his pass
ing is the movst unmistakable castiga
tion of Czechoslovakia’s Communist
captors that this usually adaptable,
outwardly optimistic individual could
now command.
“Its meaning is read where his writ
ten protest probably would not have
been permitted to appear. Its message
is heard where party-controlled micro
phones would never have carried so
important an opposing voice. Now, at
least, neither the name, beloved in
Czechoslovakia, nor the word of a
Masaryk will mislead the people,
“Despite all the Communists may
try to do to twist the interpretation of
this tragedy, it will remain a rebuke
to them and a warning to the people
of Czechoslovakia.”
We have an idea that Jan Masaryk felt
that he was helpless to save his people
from the fate which apparently lies iii store
for them. He felt, pw^onally, that death
would be preferable to living under Com
munism. He may have had the fond hope
that his death might serve to awaken the
people of his beloved country and the
people of the world to the horrors of Com
munism and tha it might be the spark plug
which would set up a world fight against
Communism.
We doubt that the Communists killed
Jan Masaryk. We doubt it not because we
think that they would have hesitated to
have killed him if it had suited their pur
poses. We just don't think it suited their
purposes. "
We hihk Jan Masaryk was giving- his
final reply to the Communists.
It is true of cities as it is of men that
“there is a tide in the affairs of men, which,
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
omitted, all the voyage of their life is
bound in shallows and in miseries; and we
must 'take the current when it serwea, or
loee our Ventures.”
THE CAMPBN CHAOWiCLE, CAMDEII, eOUTM CAEOtlWA, PHIPAY, III ARCH tt, IHS
No Where To Go?
Representative Joseph R. Bryson, of the
fourth South Carolina congressional dis
trict is quoted as saying that Southerners
can’t leave the Democratic party because
there is no where for them to go.
We would like for Mr. Bryson to tell
us where the Southern Democratic mem
bers of Congress went when they needed
vote on several occasions during the past
six years to kill New Deal legislation that
was very obnoxious to the South, such as
the FEPC, the anti-lynching bill and the
anti-poll tax bill. They knew where to go
then in search of aid and they, got it be
cause the Republicans joined forces with
them each time* and helped them to kill
the legislation. /
Just last week the Republicans again
joined forces with the Southerners to kill
an amendment to a bill offered by the radi
cal Congressman Marcontonio of New
York, which would have cutoff Southern
states from any Federal appropriations.
Oh yes, the Southern members of Con
gress have had somewhere to go when they
were fighting the Democratic high com
mand in Congress.
' But—it will not be necessary for South
erners to vote the Republican ticket if
they leave the present so-called national
“Democratic” party. They can organize an
other party—a party devoted to the prin
ciples ‘of state’s fights, a party which will
not cater to the whims of minorities, at the
expense of the South
The Curse Of Politics
The United States “is much closer to war
than most people realize,” United States
Senator Burnet R. Maybank told friends in
Columbia week before last.
“1 am afraid people outside of Washing
ton just don’t realize how dark the situa
tion really is,” the Senator said, adding that
“unpublished information gives me cause
for great alarm.”
James F. B]nmes recently said in a state
ment that the^Uiuted States may face a
world crisis within four or five weeks.
It was hardly necessary for Senator May-
bank and Mr. Byrnes to make these state
ments to convince an intelligent man who
reads the newspapers that a crisis was im
minent. Every one ought to be able to see
that there is grave danger of war ahead.
But—Senator Robert Taft, of Ohio, is a
candidate for President and he is opposed
to the Marshall plan. In fact he would like
to cripple it as much as possible in oder
to gain a political victory. »
Whal does Mr. Taft have to say about
the world situation? He says that he has
“no information to justify war hysteria.”
Evidenly the Senator is not reading the
newspapers, or else he must think that this
country proposes to let Russia absorb the
rest of the world and not fight until she
tries to come over and take this country.
Frankly we are disappointed in the Ohio
Senator. We have admired his great cour
age in other matters and we regret that his
ambition to score a political point in his
campaign for Presdent would lead him to
attempt to lull this country in a feeling of
false security.
Every one must know that the situation
with Russia is very grave, about as grave
a? it could be. In fact it seems to many that
we are much closer apparently to war now
than we were when Japan struck so unex
pectedly.
ThinklnqOutLoud
Why la H that “the other aide”
always aeems to be* the beet or-
sanlsed?
Presideat Tnfmaa’s antiriK)!! tax
legialation will probably result in
lots of antis going to the polls this
year.
Lots of us were reminded last
Monday that a man very often
taxes his strength and then« the
government comes along and taxes
it again.
May be the reason we can’t com
municate with any of the planets
is that they, too, are under Russia’s
iron curtain.'
When a physician gets sick he
always calls in another doctor..He
just-simtdy- can’t stand tO' take bis
own medicine.
A small town is one in which a
rumor can be all over Mt by night.
You can buy a poeket dictionary
containing 1,000 words for one cent.
Mere words are cheap.
'The war clouds are even more
disconcerting now than the rain
clouda
It’s Just a question of time until
this country will have to go bear
bunting.
As a general rule the less a man
knows about a matter the stronger
his convictions^are on it
Senator ’Thye, of Minnesota,
seems to be “hipped” on some sub
jects.
Those people who say that if the
South leaves the Democratic party
it will have no place to go must
think there is a terrific dearth of
building material in the South.
“Far north in Canada a herd of
wild buffalos still roam,” says a
newspaper filler. Well, we certain
ly don’t want a home there.
Henry Wallace would evidently
rather be left than President. -
* Secretary of State Marshall ad
vises us all to keep cool. Well, Gen
eral, we have been positively cold
for the past several months. I
A writer says that married men
have better quarters than bache
lors. Yes, but they have fewer dol
lars.
In the war between the sexes
there is a lot of fraternizing with
the enemy on both sides.
The most prevalent ailment in
the average small town is rumor-
I tism,
A Bassberg man claims to havej "You should pay your income
a strawberry tree and says it bears | taxes with a smile,” says a writer,
goodsized strawberries. So it may'Yes, but they want cash,
be that after a while money will
With Hie Press
A Little Story
It is simple but beautiful. Every
body has beard IL It tells of a man
who lived in a valley with his
three sons, knowing nothing of
what was beyond the mountain. To
celebrate their eather’s Mrthday,
the three sons climbed the moun
tain to find presMita One found a
beautiful stone worn smooth by the
weathe# and the grinding flow of
glaciers. Another found a beautiful,
rare flower at the snowline. The
third found nothing though he
climbed to tho mo-mtaln top. When
the presents were brought th®
third was embarrassed because ho
had nothing. But straightening a
try. “Do insects ever get into your
com out here?’’ asked the visiting
farmer. “Yeah,” replied the local
farmer, “but we Just fish ’enj out
and go ahead and drink it any
way." , ,
With the politicians this is
ys«.
lip
bit he said, -I went
the mountain, and saw
wae beautiful. Somed*,^*
Then, the story j
rejoinced beyond the
gifts had given him hJ!!
a boy who had cauS^l
nlflcent vtalon of what uA
the UmlU of the n^J^'
which the three lirMi
Christian Advocate.
Polo
In a recent editorial vs
polo was the most lihsir
to football a« the
sport We did not meaa
ball was going out this .
next but unless the trend kl
it is ee for the same W*
lege baseball, which coslfc-il
the pro competition. Ws^
the wish that South (v
Btitutiona, partlcularly^T
ones, would take up polo, i
ber of college teams h
gradually. Both VMI aid «
have played at Camden thh.
—The StAte.
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be growing on trees.
We are in favor of foreign aid
provided we only give Rusia “lem
on’’ aid.
Seeing where, a little Maasa-
chnaetts boy had run off from home
becaose his parents had made him
give away all but one of a Utter
of puppiee, reminds ua of a story
we saw the other day about a Ut-
tle girl and her kJttens. SHie had
been eouspelled by her perente to
give-away all of the Utter except
eaa She debated long on whicli
one to haepk finally arriving at a
dedaion. A few days y&mt a new
bnbg arrived at heme of a neat
door netibbor. Tha tttUo girl waa
allowed alter a Inm days to look at
the new baby. She cam# over, drew
a lemi breath and said: “1 sore
weulte’t have kept that oaa"
’This country whipped the reds
once—that’s how come it happens
to be this country.
As paradoxical as it may sound,
the Little Theater Is about the larg
est in South Carolina.
’The President’s penKvnal phy
sician may have made some money
on the stock market but most* doc
tors make it on the stork market.
This being election year we may
expect a lot of agitating, cogitating
and expectoratlag.
An agronomist says that tbs se
vere cold WMther may have killed
lots ot. insects and will thus prove
benefieisl to the crops. And that
iHings up the old story of the form
er who was visiting another farm
er in a different section of the coun-
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The Growing Southeast
Speaking before the New York Society
of Security Analysts at a luncheon in that
city last Friday, Legh R. Powell, Jr., presi
dent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company, expressed confident optimism
over the prospect for continued economic
growth in this section of the country.
Citing the tremendous increase in value
of m^uactues produced by southern indus
tries Mr. Powell stated that the year 1946
saw this figure more than double that of
1939. _
Mr. Powell stated that the establish
ment of some 10,000 new and widely diver-
productive facilities in the South in
1946 typifies the surge of industrial ac
tivity which this section is experiencing.
This section has many advantages to of
fer to industrial enterprises and such en
terprises are welcomed by the people gen
erally because it is recognized that we
have got to have more industry if we are
to progress.
Register
Only about one week remains in which
to register for the approaching election
on the city manager form of government.
If you have not registered yet you should
do so, regardless of how you may feel on
the adoption of the new form.
Remember—^in order Jj vote you miist
first go to the county co^ house' and se
cure a county registration certificate, and
then you have to go to me city hall and
secure a city registration i^rtif icate.
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