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FRIDAY. APRIL 2, 1948
He Ought To Know
Jesse L. Sherard, who has served four
terms as Mayor of Anderson, has an
nounced that he will not seek, re-election.
In announcing his intention to retire, May
or Sherard made several recommendations
to the citizens of Anderson.
One of these recommendations was that
the city adopt the city manager form of
government.
In his long experience as Mayor, Mr.
Shehard has seen the necessity of a city
having a business manager.
Their Patience Exhausted
Representative Vito Marcontonio, who
poses as a member of the American Labor
Party but who in reality speaks the voice
of communism, was roundly denounced on.
the floor of the lower house of Congress
last week by Southern members jvho have
grown tired of his mouthings.
After Marcontonio had criticized the
European aid legislation as “a program in
defense of Wall Street,” Representative
Eugene Cox, a veteran Southern Democrat,
arose and in deliberate manner said:
“How long, I wonder, must members of
this body sit here and hear assaulted, from
day to- day, the Government we love, and
by people who would rip from the wall that
symbol of liberty that hangs above the
Speaker’s rostrum, and yrho would run
dofwn the flag of the Stars and Stripes that
proudly floats above the Capitpl and run
up in its stead the flag of the Hammer and
Sickle.”
Other Southern members joined in the
denunciation of Marcontonio,'a denuncia
tion which was long past due.
Marcontoni is one of those i>eople who
rJampr for freedom of speech but who^
would establish in this country a govehi-
ment that would deny the right bt free
speech. .
Let Her Go Home
Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie, the French
scientist and daughter of the discoverers
of radium, was detained at Ellis Island im-
migration station for several days on her
arrival in this country but was released on
order of Attorney General Clark.
Waiting at LaGuardia airport to greet
her when she waS released were officers
of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com
mittee which has been listed by Attorney
General Clark as a subversive organiza
tion.
Dr. Edward Barsky, committee chair
man said Mme. Curie had come to this
county “to acquaint the American people
with the immediate needs of the Spanish
republicans in exile.”
Dr. Barsky, a New York surgeon, was
indicted last July for refusing to yield rec
ords of the refugee organization for inspec
tion by the House Wi-Am^ican activities
committee."Convicted of contempt of Con
gress, along with six other members, he
appealed a six-month jail term and $500
fine. The organization was accused during
the trial of being “honeycombed” with
Communists.
We can’t see why Mme. Curie should be
turned lpos,e in this country to spread her
doctrine of hate when we already have
too many people here now spreading the
same doctrine.
This country is not interested now in the
“Spanish republicans in exile.” Russia is
the country mainly interested in them.
IPs Time For An Outcry!
_A dispatch from Jersey City, N. J., on
March 22 said:
“A war veterans picket line today
held up loading of the Russian freight
er Chukokta with United Stfites-made
machinery for six hours.
“The picket line was in protest
against the shipments which the vet
erans said ‘might be used' in war
against us.’
“Twenty-five pickets—23 veterans
and two members of the women’s
auxiliary—marched yesterday along
side the 10,000-ton vessel, which is
being loaded with tractors, farm and
industrial machinery, automotive parts
ard other material destined for the
Soviet union.”
The Camden Chronicle has on several
occasions during the past few months cried
out against the practice of shipping vital •
war supplies to the Soviet union,.It is de
lighted that the cry is now being taken up
by others, including members of Congress.
In the House of Representatives last
week Representative Colmer demanded a
complete halt of shipments from this coun
try to Russia.
“I want to see any shipments to Russia
and to Rusian satellites stopped—ship
ments of any goods,” he said. “We are fol
lowing the same pattern we followed be
fore the last war when we shipped scrap
iron and oil to Japan up to the time of
Pearl Harbor.”
Senator Bridges, of New Hampshire,,
said shipment of goods to Russia that
would be useful at a time like this is “dis
graceful and treasonable.”
Meanwhile Richard F. Fincke, a former
government official who sold war planes
to Russia and Poland, told a House Surplus
Property subcommittee that the State De
partment “encouraged all relationships I
had with Russia and every other person be
hind the iron curtain.’^
Fincke testified that he sold 40 trans
port plane engines to an official Soviet
agency and that he also sold engines and
parts to Poland and Czechoslovakia, both
Soviet satellite nations.
Senator Maybahk of South Carolina
wrote Attorney General Clark suggesting
prosecution of United States firms and in
dividuals who have sold airplanes and ma
terials to the Reds.'
“To my utter amazement,” wrote Sen
ator Maybank, “I have read of the ship
ment? of aeroplane motors and other ma
terials to Russia, which may eventually be
used against us. I believe it is your duty
as attorney general to start p-'oceeding.^
against the firms mentipned and all re
sponsible.”
We can’t e’xactly See why Senator May-
bank was amazed to, learn of these ship
ments. The charge has been made on sev
eral occasions that vital war supplies were
being shipped to the "^Russians.
Wel^—what is the administration’s an
swer tVall of this.
According to an Associated Press
dispatch from Washingon on May 25,
“Presidmit Truman told a news con
ference that most of the shipments
now causing angry voices in Congress
were ordered as far back as two years
ago. Mr. Truimui commented mean
while that Russia is a friendly coun
try.”
Japan was officially a “friendly coun
try,” too, until it attacked us at Pearl Har
bor.
It is high time that somebody was taking
up ^ outcry against the continued ship
ments of vital war supplies to the Russians.
It is time that these shipments are being
stopped. Congress, we presume, has thi
authority to stop them. Why doesn’t it
exert this authority? It is Very evident that
Mr. Truman does not propose to stop them.
It may indeed be later than we think.
ThinktriaOulloud
If thelle is not going to be any
grumbling in heaven there wiU
either have to be a mighty transfor
mation of the present generation of
people on earth or there will be
precious few of them up there.
Wouldn’t Uncle Sam or old John
Bull look ridiculous wearing a Red
tie?
Southern Democrats are trying
to find out Just what the national
Democratic party stgnds for and
the national Democratic party Is
evidently trying to find out just
how much the Southern Democrats
will stand for.
—A young Italian -yelled “Viva II
Duce" at a leftist rally in Milan,
Italy, the other night, whereupon
the crowd 'seized him, stripped him
of everything except his shirt, then
hoisted him up to the top of a
monument and jeered him. That
was a case of a man playing the
deuce when the crowd was wild.
. Very often a man will call a
woman his “Sugar” and later on
have to pay her a lump sum.
A writer refers to New York
City as a “melting pot.” If we re
call correctly ihe Indians sold it for
|24, which is not such a bad price,
after all, for a melting pot.
You’ll very often find
look on an old chassis.
the new
Will Fill A Need
There has been a very definite need in
Camden for just such an organization as
the Camden-Community Concert Associa
tion, which plans to br^g to Camden a
number of artists an^ musical attractions
next fall and wintetf^
Good music is a necessary factor in the
artistic growth and development of the
community,. Concerts by world famous
artists and musical attractions add prestige
and distinction -to any city.
Camden has baen woefully lacking in
such attractions and they will help to fill
out pur winter profram.
Self-Supporting
More than 275 handicapped Chicagoans,
confined to their homes by their afflictions,
have become almost wholly self-supporting
through working at home dn a factory
basis, according to a story in, a Chicago
^newspaper.
These handicapped people do little
things such as attaching buckles to lingerie
straps, finishing men’s shirts, engraving
metal plates, stemming rose leaves for
sachets, weaving wire for the front of radio
cabinets, pasting pictures on calendars, at
taching beads to dre^es, packaging hair
nets, making artificial flowers, and ad
dressing envelopes.
This is a splendid thing for them. It re
moves ^their feeling of dependence, boosts
‘their morale and helps theni to pass away
the time pleasantly and profitably. There
is work in every town for the handicapped
and more efforts should be made to find
it for them.
Baseball will now cpme to the bat
Heart trouble causes 600,000
deaths a year and no telling how
many marriages.
’The newspapers carried a pic
ture the other day of Senator Tay
lor of Idaho, Henry Wallace's run
ning mate, talking to the Russian
ambasador. At first we wefe some
what alarmed over the, thought that
the Senator might be telling the
ambassador something but then we
decided if he told him everything
he knew It wouldn’t he anything.
A domestic relations judge says
that the same tactics Vhich might
keep one couple together might
cause another to separate. In some
cases, for example, a jwoman can
hold her husband by continm^ly
being kind to hkn it matteYs sow
how ill-natured he naay be whUe
in other eases she may subdue him
by being rough with him. And this
reminds ns of the story of the
negro woman who complained to
her pastor that she was having do
mestic trouble. "Did yo’ ever try
heaping coals of/flre on* his head?'
asked the pastor. “No, sah, but
that won’t do no good at all be
cause I tried scalding water once
and that didn’t do him no good,
replied the wife.
Every King ought to put some
thing aside for reignless days.
A South Carolina newspaper
says of a nian In' Its town that “he
just laughs at trouble." Well, he
ought to almost laugh himself to
death now. ‘
We don’t believe we want any
body to give os a home on the
range—they have too many torna
does out that way.
Ijots of programs you get over
the radio are off the record.
_
It all resolves itself down now
to a question of who’s afraid^ of
the big Red bear.
In the' Spring a middle-aged
man’s thoughts turn to baseball.
When a man sows wild oats he
hardly ever has a crop failure.
"Some wives go out of their way
to say unkind things to their hue
bands’’ says a woman writer. Yes,
for example there was the man and
his. wlf© who were talking on the
occasion of their 2Bth wedding an
nlversary. “Well, my dear,” said
the husband, “I have carried you
safely over all of, the rough places
of life, haven’t I?” "Yes,” replied
the wife, “and I don’t think you
missed any of them."
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Mr. Truman probably has some
idea now of how Mr. Hoover felt.
Gondoliers in Venice. Italy, want
a ban put on motor boats there.
Well, it suits us.
Beetles are capable of lifting 700
times their own weight but we
can't see that they have llfled their
staMIng any.
The average Easter Sunday
would he a gO(^ day for women to
wear their new fall clothes.
' How is it that a politician can
throw his hat in the ring and still
be able to talk through it?
’fhe bill passed by Congress last
week to reduce income taxes was
another case of too little too late.
A man’s face is his fortune and
a woman’s face is a cosmetic manu
facturer’s fortune.
Wai Attend JHA .
Meet In Rock Hill
Kershaw county will be well rep
resented at the annual sUUe con
vention of the Junior Homemakers'
Association in Rock Hill April 9-11.
Representatives expected to attend,
from the county are: Mrs. Minnie
Lee Mock, Antioch; Mrs. Edith Hel-
lams. Baron DeKalb; Miss Catolyn
Bethea, Bethane; Miss tr Mildred
Frances Wood, Blaney; Mrs. Maul
dins Jackson. Caaden.^and Mias
Murtha Fails. ML Plu^
For Preparedness
If it is not important that our
country’s defenses be put. intf or
der, then a great many thinking
people who should be in position
to know the facts have been great
ly fooled.
No sensible American wants our
country to commit any act of ag
gression. And our leaders should
be very careful to see that there
is none.
But it is foolish to feel that just
because we do not covet more ter
ritory and only want the privilege
of settling downrito peace, that
there are not others with differ
ent ideas.
There has been sufficient evi
dence already to show us that we
would bo silly not to be prepared
to meet any eventuality.
We do not think the present
“crisis” is politically manufactured.
We have demobilized too quickly;
we have let our military dlsinter-
grate alarmingly. We have wrecked
the fin^t armed force the world
has ever known. And in doing so
have been .top unmindful of the
strength of others. Now we must
rebnild to a reasonable degree.
And we shouldn’t be too long about
It.—^The Stete.
that Mrs. Roosevelt, or anybody
else, can give to the. Soviet repre
sentatives when they talk abont
discrimination. There is no coum
try in the would that M gnltly of
greater discrimination than the
Soviet Union, even if Its discrim
ination is based on political and
economic bases, rather than on any
other ground.—Orangeburg Times
end Democrat
An Answer For Eleanor
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says that
the other nations of the world are
watching the United States and
that the Soviet Union never fails
to question the practice of dis
crimination in this' country.
The lady gays that the only an*
swer that she can give is, “We are
working on it We are trying.”
There is another obvious answer
The Secret Ballot :
Tf you don’t vote for Truman
this fall, in South Carolina, your
state, you will have to walk up
to the ballot box and show your
colors."
Further, declares the Easley
Progress, “your Legislature does
not mean to see Truman lose the
bag on the secret balloL
“The bin which has passed the
House is worded to take effect in
1950. The Senate shows no indica
tion of granttog even that dlspen-
satioa ®
“South Carolina cries loudly
about Truman persecution, but it
deserves it because it brought it all
on Itself.
“Is it going to become necessary
for the Federal Congress to write
a secret ballot law for South Caro
lina? We are asking for it as we
have asked for the federal poll
tax law and the federal anti-lynch
ing law by our own Inaction.”
The Independent agree with the
Progress and we hope that thou
sands of people in the state
aroused by the Truman program
will make it a point to demand of
their legislators why the rights of
the voters are not protected.—^An
derson Independent.
Firm Stand Required
My. Byrnes in our opinion stated
the Russian situation with ac-
envaoy when he —u
ness is demanded.
that RussU is pUyiwH
of bluff, but if ^ *1
call a bluff he mmtW
to take the consequeB-^l
lleve that if Amerwi]
pared to fight a
have to fight. We
that Russian is fa
she will probably
to get all it wants i
but peaceably, so far ^.
nations are concerned, h t
time she is running
the little countri^^^
make armed realstanca^
The Bamberg HeraU
does not advocate war
not much patience wlfa HTl
who shout war and bm!!!
to be jn it. But one lUl
certkln, so long as we^'
take the Insults of
long it will be a thor^
of the whole world. We i
a decided idea that If
our military forces and fa L
for any eventually,
a little more careful a^,
on everybody’s toea i
Herald.
Skottowe
Is On Dean*s
According to an anno
from the Dean’s office at I
verslty, Skottowe W. m
Camden made the necessarrl
age in his class work M
past semester and hu be^
on the Dean’s list. Dean’t I'
Ing entitles DePass to th i
in each course during tfa j
ter as compared with tfa]
tion number of three. H«h|
of W. L. DePass of Jordni
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