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vf >AQE TWO TMl CAMOBN CHWONlCH,"CAMDBIii« tOUTH CAWOLIWA, FWIPAV, A^WIL FAC If-. Ft li/ s' [t< •J <• ■''V'Vi fC ’•■■ • ■> , •• i '* i j " ■t! S[l;p Olambrn (Stjronirir 1109 North Broad Street Camden, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCosta' Brown - - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year ^^’52 SiLx Months Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Cocferess March 3, 1879 " . All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author Friday, April 16, 1948 Welcome To Camden Official announcement that E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company had exercised its options on a tract of approximately 800 acres of land in the outskirts of Camden is generally' taken to mean that the com pany expects in the near future to erect thereon a plant which will give Camden a .large industrial payroll. The news that this fine corporation is . coming into Camden and Kershaw county has naturally been received with great joy here. An announcement that this company was coming into it would be received with joy by any city or town in the United States, There is no greater industrial or ganization in the country thawi the duPont organization and any city, county or state in which it constructs a pilant is fortunate. The Chronicle hastens to assure E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company that it is coming into one of the finest communities in the .United States. Nowhere would it re ceive a more sincere welcome than it will receive here. 'Nowhere would it find the people more friendly disposed and more cooperative with it than it will find them here; We feel that their coming will be a blessing to Camden and we feel at the same time that tfite.'cdmpany is fortunate in hav ing chosen-this city for one of its develop ments. • _ No Wild BoQm, Please! It would be unfortunate if, as a result of recent developments, there should be a wild period of speculation in real estate in real estate in Camden, based on the possi bility of a tremendous growth of the city overnight. Camden is going to grow—it will have to grow in order to meet the coming de velopments—^but the growth will be more or less gradual. It is not going to become a New York or Pittsburgh or Boston or eveh a Columbia or Charlotte overnight. The growth will be—-or should be—as the demand arises. A wild real estate boom would only re sult in the loss of money to those who en gage in it and would be hurtful to the town. The People Speak By a very decisive majority the people of Camden have voted for the commission- city manager form of government. Under the provisions of the law the new form of government will become effective on Aug ust 1 when a Mayor and two commissioners, who are to be elected in Jurie, will be .sworn in. The Chronicle believes that the city man ager form of government will prove its worth to Camden just as it has proved its worth to other cities but we ha.sten to re mind the ’People that it must be given a fair opportunity. A city manager wijll not be worth a doodle unless he has a council that will give him the authority he need.s and must have. If the right type of city manager is em ployed he will not stay on the job unless he iz given a pretty free rein by Council. In at least one city that we know of the manager resigned because council would, not give him the authority he needed. The people of that city, who are thoroughly sold on the city manager form of govern ment, raised such a racket that council re lented and gave him the authority he need ed and he been there ever since and today every One is happy. So that if the city manager form of gov ernment is to succeed in Camden it must be administered by people who are its friends and who want it to succeed. We have confidence that whoever is elected to council in Camden will abide by the will of the people as so overwhelmingly ex pressed Tuesday and that they will co operate wholeheartedly in seeing that Camden has the best city manager it is possible to obtain and that he is given a. free rein. Death On The Highways Ti'affic accidents took the lives of 32,500 . Americans in 1947, according to figures re leased this week. More than l,3i55?000 peo ple were injured by automobiles during the year. Exceeding the speed limit headed the list of accident causes. Speeding killed ■9,400 people and injured 260,000. And yet you see people violating the speed laws every day. What will it take to stop them? Crossing between intersections killed 3,200 pedestrians and injured 51,000. Four thousands children under 15 years old were killed by automobiles. They never had a chance. . More than 80 per cent of the 1947 crashes occurred in clear weather. One-third of the 32,500 deaths occurred on the open highway. Defective brakes killed 990 and injured 22,000. Forty per cent of the traffic deaths oc curred on weekends. Most of us wibo have embraced the Ten Commandments as our standard of life re gard the Fifth as the easiest to keep. Our prayerful inventory is taken with only passing interest in the divine law, “Thou shalt not kill” because we are sure we could never be guilty of this unthinkable crime. We are wrong. In their 1948 book of street and highway accident data, The Travelers Insurance Companies make it sickeningly clear that the Fifth Command ment is a precept for every driver. In the books foreword, Jesse W. Randall, the companies’ president, suggests a definition that moves our annual traffic tragedy squarely within the orbit of the decalogue: “ ‘Thou shalt not kill’ means, that nothing on earth can be so important that a man’s life should be risked for it, unless in the very risking of life the man becomes bet ter equipped for etemitys” In 1947, 32,500 Americans were.killed in traffic accidents. In each case the ve hicle involved was a weapon. In each case, it killed with the same finality of a gun or knife. Yes, safety is a sermon. If the appeals of self-protection or common consideration are not enough to stay the dangerous driver, perhaps the Fifth Commandment is. APRIL SHOWERS Bp Collie# 4 * . <0 I tiO RAIN t4B ./ HiinldnqOiitloud Who can remember the good old days when the earth was enljr sit ting on a powder keg Instead of an atomic bomb? The national Democratic pu'ty official* are going to have to learn how to play Dixie. 'Henry A. Wallace’* Initials HAW. Haw, haw! Mth The Press Laths The Master Hand i Chairman J. Howard McGrath of the na tional Democratic party told a group of Western Democrats the other day that he thought the Southdm revolt would die down and that President Truman would be reelected. Mr., McGrath said that Mr. Truman had followed the policies of the late President Ro<^velt but that he lacked the master hajid of Roosevelt In other woids he is not the magician that Hr. Roosevelt Tras. The latter could make the South think that black was white, and he did. A Washington diepateh says that the Army let General Clay use his Jodg- msot in toe Berlin cz4ris. That seems to have been s Is This True? A Washington magazine, Plain Talk, charged last week that a huge under ground plant for the manufacture of 'V-2 bombs was turned over intact to the soviet union by the American army, under com mand of General Eisenhower. In a special dispatch from Germany, the magazine said that remnants of Hitler’s toemendous warmaking and industrial plant and his surviving military machine are being geared for use in another war by he soviets. The plant transfer occurred in the sum mer of 1946 when General Eisenhower or dered the evacuation of Thuringia and Saxony in accordance with an inexplicable agreement to let the Red army occupy those straegically invaluable areas. ^ And so it seems while we were celebrat ing the end of the war and l^iag MAG NIFICENT to our Russian “allies” the Rus sians were making ready for another war, this time against their allies. Attend The Meetings Chairman L. O’. Funderburk has issued a call to all precinct Democratic chibs to hold their organization bieetings on Satur day April 24. It is highly important this year that every citizen attend Ibis or :her club meetings. Our political life is so complicated now that all good.citiseas must ^ constantly on guard. We caxmot afford to be indif ferent now. Do your toopping in Camden ^and keep your money at home. Tbe dificult ase of a man'* Hte is when he’s too Ured to work and too poor to quit. Commenting on the decision of the Supreme Court barring the teaching of tbe Bible in public school*, a noted preacher says that I'religlon must be caught, not taught.” Yes, but you’re got to be exposed to it before you can catch it. Another one of, life’s sad feat ure* Isthat by the 4ime you can afford to Meep late you are so old you wake up early every morning. Some me.n would rather be Presi dent than right. Who can remember the good old days when men worked and wom en stayed at home! We also feel sorry for the aver age boy of today because he. has never known the pleasure of rid ing a stick horse. The fishermen are getting ready for the season. We saw one buying a camera the other day. It is going to take he-manity to restore humanity to this old world. A woman reduces to cut her ex panses. Did you ever see'a man who was really as bald as a coot? We’ve simply got to get back to the simple life sooner or later. It’s all right to be the man that a lot of hens are laying for these days. “There Isn’t much home life in America any more,” says a social worker. That makes ud think of the boy and girl who were planning to get married. “Honey, we can be married—I’ve Just found a house for us,’’ he excitedly exclaimed to his financee one day. “What do I want with a house?’’ asked the girl. “I was born in a hospital and lived in dormltorie* at school. Tou’te courted me in an automobile Well be married in a church and can eat out of a delfcatMeen. m spend my momtngs at the golf course and the afternoon* at our club. Bhren- inga we will attend the thdater. I expect to be burled from a funeral parlor. What w« need is a garage.” Gipsy Smith, Jr., the noted evan gelist, says that if he were asked to put his finger on the key of suc^ cess on the piano he would pet it on B natorsi hecao— if yon hap* pei^ not to be natural you vrHl B flat In other words If yon would B sharp you had better P natural. The Oevemcr of New York doesn’t run very strong in those western states * Republican pri maries, Dswsyt Egyptian pharoahs of 4000 B. €. wore strtegs of iron beads, tnads from meteorites to ward off evil Spirits. Wish there was some way we eonld find .ent whether the beads were effsethre. > When the weather prediction in the paper Is, “nnaettled” does that mean that the weather ium haen't iedfad'yeCT tween the States, which began on A|^ 1>. 1S€1. in Chariesten Har bor and ended fonr years later, on April 9. At Appomattox. |t also gives us, on the tth. the universary of the declaration of war upon Ger many in 1917, when the destiny of. the United SUtes oerried it armed^ forces across the Atlantic. In connection wMh other wars it should not be ov^erlooked that President McKinley, on April 11, 1898, called upon Congress to tn- twrvene In Cuba add that war was inangnrated two week* later by a formal declaration. The War of the Revolution began at Lexington, in Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. Ehght years later cessatlsn.of hoa- tillties was proclaimed to tbe American Army and the wat came to an end. ’The other anniversary to which ^ *4fer Include IK>ny express, which the frontier settle^^ Jtowp^Mlssourl. The first formally emment In the NorS?S PJ»~ M lUrtetu, 17*8. when 47 veteraalro?!' lution, under General^ nam, founded the cltv bank. ' ^ Other evenu of contw portance In the hUtorv i?. tlon, occuring durin» Am ; the blttli of the lith, the death qt Lincoln on April 15th tW i of the first permweT, settlers at Jamestow* 86, 1607, and the George Washington ^ President of the Repahh, .1 SO, 1789.-Ora0gebB]^^ ••• Democrat. Counterfeiting has almost been stamped out in this country, says a writer. And that reminds us of the story of tbe sympathetic old lady who was visiting a state pris on. “I feel sure, my poor man,” she said to one prisoner, ‘‘tpat it was poverty that brought you to this.” “No ma’am, quite the contrary,” replied the prisoner. “I happened to be coining money.” Jphn L. Again How long, oh how long is this nation going to continue to submit to the whims and fancies of old John L. Lewis? We believe that tbe facta will bear us out when we say that this overbearing, pom pous old goat has done more dur ing the past decade to retard the normal life and progrega of this na tion than any other American. In time of war. aa in tim* of peace. Lewis consistsstly put hla personal gain, and what he claimed to be the gain the miners he al legedly represents, before tbs safe ty and security of oar nation. His attitude prestige be maintatoed and built up. the United Mine Workers get more money and shorter hours, than it was- for our' boys on the battlefields to receiiie arms and munitions. He mads this clear on nameroua occasions when be called his miners out on strike. Even a majority of his miners disagree with his tactics. They real-, ize that they are receiving good wages,^ and working houra and con ditions are better than ever before. They want to get this good money while the getting is good. But what does Lewis do? At regular intervals he orders them to cease work. Naturally their wages stop and those who have bad sufficient fore sight to accumulate a reserve rap idly exhaust it. ’Those who have been unable or too thriftless to save anything must go into debt to feed themselves and their families during the period that John L. keeps them from the mines. It is a known fact that the wages that miners have lost because of strikes called by this greedy tryant amount to several times the total gain that they have received in their pay envelopes as a result of the strikes. Does this bear out the fact that Lewis represents the beat interests of the members of this union? Nuiperous articles written from mining towns tell of the sharp disagreement expressed by tniners with Lewis high-handed methods and continual strikes. It is their opinion that all these strikes are unnecessary and cause them fright ful hardships.—Port Mill Times. A Uar !• te iMl 1 he >sg>M to baHey Mg > “Leave Ua Alone Week” The merchants of tbe little city of Douglas. Oa., recently observed “Leave Ua Alone' Week" and we can well imagine that this was one week the harassed merchants and business men observed with pleas ure. Merchants of Greer are not un like those of Douglas or any other city for that matter. ’They get pretty wll fed up on drives, tanss for Just about osorything you can think of. sollcitatlona, and tnnd raising sebsmea and ws don’t doubt trat what they, too, would welconto a “Leave U* Alan* Week.” Our merohants oC Grsor as a whole are a generous lot and don’t complain too mnoh. But so many calls ar^ made upon them, a good many of which are rather tar fetched and otfen unworthy, that they are dsaorrlnE of n iw*L Merchant* mm got sobs* r*li*f from calls made upon them if they wiU first mske sore that the cause or drive to which they are asked to contribute Iftts been approved by the Chamher of Commerue special Bscret eommICtoe wMch has been set up for this purposo. Exsn at that though, merchants would liko to see on* week of the year pass by without having some call for a donation made upon them, a week that they eonld devote to their own busing and their cus tomers without having to solicit or bo solicited—^in other words a com- plsts’one hundred p*r cent “Leave Ut Akme Week.”~-Oreer Cirieane, Mlaterlo ApHl The month of April has tong bees •swMtatod with the upnru th* United fiUdeu. Imtdt aluo brtiws ih» ftruruayy ef •erne ether ratter whmitimiwrtaat svsnia. It M the aaalTerBaty of tho te” \ WELCOME We welcome the coming of E. L duPont de Nemours & Co. .. . » - ... .to Camden. We believe it \ mean much for Camden, for Ken] county and for South Carolina. We\ sure everyone in this community cooperate with this great new U try in every way possible. The Fashion Shop 5r . FOR YOU AND EACH PAUnLY MEMHI UP TO tpOUU GUARANTEiBI fOR DOCTOR MLI8 AT HOME! AT BOSPnm AT DOCTOR’S OFFICE! 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