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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
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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
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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”
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We welcome the coming of
E. L duPont de Nemours & Co.
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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.
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