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C., under act of Cocureaa yi, March 3, 1879 •**?‘krUclea submitted for publication must be sljmed br the author ed * ■' '*' ■'■' '' ' ’ '■■'"** toT> 1FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1948 ‘ »u a^jc^ Tuesday's Election >Ih an editorial in which it stated that Winnsboro and Fairfield’county would be mmeasurably improved'were each to adopt fthe commisson or manager form of govern ment, the Winnsboro News and Herald last week commented further as follows: “And incidentally if Winnsboro be in terested, it might learn something of the city manager form from Camden soon.” Recently a group of prominent men in another city were discussing the election to be held here next Tuesday on the adoption of the city manager form. One in the group said * “I’m surprised that Camden would even consider such a step because I thought (it was opposed to any sort o’f changes, even though they be for the better.” We mention these things to show that the outcome of the election on next Tues day will be watcjhed with very great in terest over a wide area. The outcome may have a very great bearing on the future of th city. ^ . Many people outside of Camden have the same idea as the man quoted above and that is that Camden wants to stay just ex actly as it is—that it doesn’t want to grow or to become known as a progressive city, that—as the man quoted above said—it is opposed “to any sort of changes, even .though they be for the better.” We people of Camden know that this is not the case. Camden wants to grow just «s does any other city and it intends to grow. Camden can go a loog ways towards dis- . proving the idea that it is sleeping peace fully in its shell by adopting the city man ager form of government beause this will be a progressive step It will show to the world that we have a progressive city. Hundreds of progressive cities and towns in this country have already adopted this form of government and there is agitation for the adoption of it in almost every city of any size which has not taken this step. In South Carolina the adoption of this form of government is being agitated now in Columbia, Anderson and other cities that do not have it. Meanwhile Sumter, Rock Hill, Greenwood, Lancaster and Chester are already operating under it The best proof of the efficancy of the plan is that of the hundreds of cities in the United States that have adopted it only an infinitestimal number have ever abandoned it. It is'just a question of time until all cities, and many counties, adopt it. It stan^ to reason that any big corpora tion should -have a general manager who devotes his full time to the management of the corporation. No one would want to take stock in a large corporation - that didn’t have a full-time executive head, but was run by. a board'of directors which met once a month, and whose members were not any too familiar with the details of the opera tions. The city of Camden is just a big corpora tion and every taxpayer is a stockholder in it. He should be just as interested is seeing that it is operated efficiently as he is in any other business in which he is financially interested. One objection that has been offered to the city manager form is that it will cost ' too much money to hire a manager. A man ager who doesn’t effect more than enough sa'vings to the city to pay his salary would not be the man for the place. In most cities theyjB^ their salary many times over througirthe efficient operation of thie city’s business. Another objection is "that the manager might become a dictator. The manager is elected to s^we at the will of the members .of City Council, who are elected by the people. Hofw such a manager could become a dictator is beyond us. . There is one other thought and that is this: If the city managbir form of govern ment should prove a faflure in Camden it could be very easily repealed. There is no reason under the sun, however, for it to fall if it is given a lair trial. It bught ta mceed here just as it has succeeded ift huBdreds of <^er eitlao and towns of all .010. aagie mang times laifcr than HiinklnaOutloud The tneome tax redaction wiU help butlneat. For example — we are {dannlng to take the money we Witt save by it and boy a neck tie. It la probably tme that worry kills more people than work be cause more people worry than work. I Those coal miners seem courting trouble. A magazine carries a long list of safety rules^for pedestrians. Our obserratton has been that the saf est place for a pedestrian'is in an automobile. Uncle Sam is what you might call a loan ranger. «> A writer says that he believes some people are going to be fat It matters not what they eat and that some are going to be thin. In other words he thinks there is a destiny which shapes our ends. | The average young girl likes sports—in fact she is sometimes engaged to two or three of them. Paying For A Blunder Most of US will recairhow impatient the people of this country got during the war when General Patton’s forces, who had reached the outskirts of Berlin were or dered to retreat and wait until the Rus sians could arrive so that they might have the high privilege of being the first to em ter the city. We are told that the'troops of General Patton were just as impatient over the delay as were the people of this coun try. T. D. Kemp, Jr., who 'writes a Sunday column in The Charlotte Observer, said last Sunday: Patton’s orders canie indirectly from from the White House, just another one of those Roosevelt blunders for which this na tion will suffer for a hundred years.” Speculation at the time was that Wash ington had decided to let Stalin’s farces be the first to enter because Russia had suf fered so greatly at the hands of the Ger mans that it was felt that this would be sweet revenge for them. The truth of the matter, however, is that we pampered the Russians all through the war as if they had come ter our aid when we were sorely pressed with our backs to the wall when as a matter of fact if it hadn’t been for the aid given by the United States to Russia the Germans would have knocked the Russians out. M But be all that as it may we are having to pay right now for the terrible blunder we committed when we let the Russians first enter the German capital. Those re sponsible for it might say that they didn’t know they were dealing with bandits, but this is no excuse for there had never at any time been anything to inspire confi dence in Stalin or the Communist govern ment. " * .. Our second great blunder was in not in sisting that a route be kept open to get supplies for our sector of Berlin. Why were the Soviets allowed to occupy a complete ring around Berlin? Their insistence on do ing this should have aroused suspicions at the time. The Russians 'were permitted to occupy not only a great sector of Berlin but a zone to the west and south more than 100 miles in width and in order, for us to get supplies to our forces and our people in Berlin our trains have to cross this Russian- held territory. The only free lane of com munication granted us is a 20-mile air cor ridor. The Russians now contend that the Americans, and French have no further business in Berlin and that we should get out and leave the city to them exclusively. General Clay, our commander, has refused to bulge. The Russians, as yoi^e °har»*pe^n who h?s know, then began’to humiliate us and raany years us by stopping our trains and <Jemandi^Jw—in®fIJ^he^co^J^?S the right to inspect them. . t ®ntert«in him. And By standing firm General Clay haslmj»ii”rurar vuiajl who^was parently woh a victory of some sort ^”^J![****,*^* inhabitant. “You the Russians because they have rslw in ujiSou^t-orthe^ly^piicJ f^i and are now letting our freight traiiiliJ!, the visuo? *^®P»e<i tha Vlllaaer.-R... to ba With The Press Wa Canl Afford To Give Up .The Herald falls to see why nlli- tary training will interfere with a bo3^8 edneation or career or why it should cost billions of doUarz an-/ tef avmt o'therwtoA wm iSJJoaS make the British thtok JitCord’B ferry Hut BrttMl MKhPa passed in the Bevolatioa m ttetr way to Cai^en. In a riUa effort to deceite the enemy. Oenerml Nethsa- iel Greene, at considerable effort, bed the milestones dng up, hauled to the opposite ends of .the road sad reversed. This nMmeaver. the dme for which might have been bet- noaliy. Sports have their proper piece in schools and colleges and shoeld be enconraged and ednttnued. but ly an hour each day conM from baseball, football or #*het- ball and devoted to milit ing. Fifteen million yonUia^ ei* ndinv ■r-hnnle' and COW®®’ aud ttp •oldlers these In* were heading away from Camden instead of toward it But It had no effect. Net tmereetedt We hate to cai; attenUoa al bat we are admost conviaeJI tlmre are fa BishopviUe peosu 1 do not care too mneh ab^i^' ing the beet interest of tkaiH town. Lest Friday night m The Bisboprhii ■ coants' Association was ban t® Lee county court house. It solutety iapoeslbte for buslnesa mmi to be preseattef era either forget about tha ^ act tending echooU and all that Is necessary formidable army of is a capable instruc etitutlone. ^ * trained In the event chances of soldier hss ®*®yjlined soldier, survival than ^ jFeacbes dlsel- Military i*"*'*^ promptitude, pllue, obedience essential to and these qealUgtiap Hf, success youth, though An .undlsclfff the fine quall- posseselng mll^ to success, may ties that confhn engine without be compar^ Ittce to run away. "Dom governors, ften the pressure of I wtth htmae: ^ or just didn't^aVe^^S However. It is an interesting side- present At anv Jat light on the locality that comes to it pe^e' wsiuu ®®b mind with the advent the new meotttig bridge which might, in a sense, ~ serve as a permanent xaurker to the episode—should no other provided.—The State. be Too Much Of It, with himaiicomee too strong, life’s dut|litateB Is no longer an The Udbf the western hemis- isolateA’ of circumstances has phere. wp to its neck In world “Congressman W. J. Bryan Dom of this district,’’ says the Newberry Observer, “minced no words on the floor of the House when he said there are ’too many millionaire cocktail-sipping diplomats ' and brass hats in the State Department to achieve world peace.’ ^ Dom thinks they should return and let some real ’common people make the peace of the world,’ *'*' could have extended his remarks tq mean that Preset there .. —V me next will be better attended a each hand every member operate In every way to *. association a success. We might call attentioa ts the Mwchanta’ Associi^ v neighboring town is doing agf 1 It and other similar groaia' been doing in the past. This < the HsrtsvUle lierchants* | is carrying, a quarter page tlsement calling attention to lar Days’’ In Hartsvllie. Hw merchants are making an effoni get more and more busineii m this section. That Is their Is the right of BiBhopville chanta to try to keep what b«s they havA •"-» " — ^ w lac , -- are they have and to «ven enti to many cocktall-aippers running a competition with HarteTiiu lot of things in this country. May- ter, Florence and Coluni^ be Dom has something’there!” business that these The .Independent, too. thinks, i*!**®- .. ..K «/ im necK in world j that Congressman Dora "has some- plungafit must either Increase! thing there,”—a large mouthful of truth!—Anderson Independent. town .—^Avai affaliii strength or, resume Its its ^as an isolationist nation, old it having gqpe so far, we it win be an admission ratr form of democracy and th'of free enterprise have fail- g? communism will spread like re.—Dillon Herald . mose 1 cities are now getting. ' If you don’t make an effort i [might pass you by!—Lee " i Messenger. S Ferry Bridge What has become of thb old- fashioned boy who could amuar himself by rolling a barrel hoo* » interesting to note that the up and down the streets? »u-wwUier state high bridge - . er the Congaree below Bates Some of the suggestions theT^* Wateree on the left sians make are so foolish thar*®”” St. Matthews on the right, mind us of the story of tli#« »PProachlng completion, men who were going to fight ® '**®^"* with pistols. One of the at !^T*“?® traffic from Columbia to very stout and the other vr* JJ®*'*®®^** intermediate points. The stout man objected ft ^® approaching the structure skinny opponent offere* J® 7®^® elevation target and would be mu^‘P any foreseeable flood. * ^ngs having several teet to spare over out- the highest waters on record. The Ow" seconds wUUP*®®« J*1‘***k!‘®®*^ ^ ®®PJe ■iL of my body on yrD“®‘- f®** ’’eklculgr traffic for a long time ' Mt oSLe the” llL BWewalk. for pedes- aoinetlmes the ri ‘*‘®‘ ®“® ^*‘® P*‘JPcJpal values of the thSS hS wIteV"''- '““i? Si' .he ..tche. be ilSe "'MM I. . few Marahall Pl^ . wooden Marshall P‘ai\jgj^j ©mpigy. gp^ known as the Bate* perry THE CAKE OF A THOUSAND USES it ees ised that th street the Bates rerry ^st have real-1 bridge. The site has considM'able Those ^ YVall historical significance. ig In New ' Long before the ferry came under the operation of the Bates family It was McCord’s ferry, and the road leading from it to Camden was, and still is we believe, Icnown as the McCord’s Perry road. It was along this road apd over v i i w to It that our 1 didn’t miss the Generr soldlefi— V traina come tax reduction iCcuMPwvf was Just J' too little too late. »°Py has.had heat waves, zumad^, cycloneaand but it bar never beeni 1 economy'wave. POUND CAKE through again. Perhaps if our country would back and lay dowh a general ul the Russians, we might get sciH how. If we wait until the Russia atomic bomb “and get a few mo from his country,, it might be t® Are we going to make ano blunder? If8 Just i4.8 Well sely The State Department s'^Pi’e- in refusing to grant-a at- sentative Leo Isacson, of tend an international cr*®ently Isacson is the Communi'^ Labor elected to Congress on ^^®trict. Party ticket from a ^ at- Mr. Isacson said f but in tend a conference to reality the confere®*^®® or bring together me'^® countrea ganized in most e to rillager. “Butl lally I cannot sea what you find > keep you busy,’** said the visitor. ^Neither can I—that’s .why I like it,” replied the villager. w Heard an elderly man who mar ried one say that the reason wom en used to wear hobble skirts was so that they would be easier eetclL ' ■ WHERE THERE'S COKE THERE’S HOSPiTAUl to When we* hear our leaders talk we always hpve a fealiug that this country will* always have a super iority over all other -countries In I the air. Isn’t It about time Governor Jip Folsom of Alabama waq going on another kissing spree? Bernard McFadden, the noted physical culturist, is running for Governor .of Florida. Sort of testing bis strength, we presume. A 14-year-old boy, Nathan Bloom, waa made chief executive of Bing hamton. N. Y,, for a day in ovserv- ance of “children’s day.” He came forWkrd promptly with a solution for the city’s housing problem. He suMM^Afi tv-* school build- into apartments. •uggested that logs be turned ganizea in mosi i “There'ar« •parunents. to supply mst«r' brl-»r »" :.<T «>'■ the Greek guerir™**' meni- 1 V e . .4 « the Communisb ment. in.not per- The depBit^® ''^ould prob- mitting Mr. '^^® ®tb«rB in «t- abily have r* think that the tendance o‘ becoming* com- United St*^^ * Ques- nfunistic r»®^®^ni®nt wag in tion of f their hf'** ^^® ht home It’s ’ and ■;— ia now eonductinf -ipaigm at the Ffnt Bap- aiMl naxt week ia tm one of the - the luremt dty Mad ft Sb Wt tlio poop!# of this 01 "X':) ! No weather?? Whatlj LAXATIVE? •tacMnacM le, * a* l-Uanaiiy 84luii«||y P'Alwwiru orompt to 40 dOMS *oiiO ^■MNlHfcr2S? a nAthr «0.. .M tom» smH AunouT* o, rai cocA.to(A SAROUMA OOCAXqLa rAM——- company CAMOSNJUANCH