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toT> 1FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1948 ‘
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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.
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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-
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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
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and ■;—
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-ipaigm at the Ffnt Bap-
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