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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1948
City'Wide Recreation
Winnsboro is considering the. advisability
of setting up a' city-wide recreation pro
gram and we note from the esteemed News
and Herald of that city that Arthur JI.
Jones, director of parks and recreation,
spoke last week to a small group of people
who are promoting the. idea. The meetihf
was sponsored by the advisory board of the
T.:en Canteen and at its conclusion the
group decided to call another more repre
sentative gathering in the near future to
lay plans for definite action.
Mr. Jones made the following recommen
dation to the people of Winnsboro::
“(1) The duly constituted authority of
the town (the council) should appoint a
5 to 7 man commission or committee, this
group to have considerable discretion and
authority, itself. [
“(2) Get the money and set up an ope
rating budget of from $5,000 to $10,000.
“(3) Secure a competent supervisor to
run the program, let him work first with
what he has on hand, then look to’the fu
ture.’'
Most cities and owns of any size are
putting on recreation program now and
they are highly advisable. But it is import
ant that they should be entered into care
fully because if they are not a lot of money
can be thrown away with nothing being
accomplished.
Winnsboro is pursuing the right course
in bringing in experienced men to advise
with it before setting up a program. That
is 'What any city should do.
The recreation field has become so im
portant now that there are many trained
men who are engaged in it. Last week at
the meeting of the district council on so
cial welare, Galen Elliott, who is the di
rector of the recreation program at Dar
lington,<was one of the chief speakers. Mr.
Elliott is giving his life to the field of
recreation and is a highly trained man.
Tnere are many others like him. They are
aitVhiH to giv<^ edvico^ to citicA planning
recreation programs.
When Hope Flees
Commenting on the situation in Czecho
slovakia, a writer says that “one of the
most damning things about Communism is
that it kills all hope.”
^ Many are wondering if the Czechs, who
never lost hope during the years they were
under the heels of other desports, 'will lose
hope under Communism. They are the
first freedom-loving people to be caught
behind the iron curtain and if their will is
broken, as has been the case with other
countries that have been caught behind it,
it will be a tragedy. 1
When hope flees there is nothing else
wortiiwhile left. Grace Noll Crowell ex
presses it thusly in one of her beautiful
pcerns:
“Tills would I hold niorp prorlous than fine Rold,
Tills would 1 keep although all else be lost;;
Hope In the heart, that preolous, priceless thing,
Hope at any cost.
“And God, If its fine luster should be dimmed, '
If seemingly through grief It may be spent,
Help me to wait without too much despair.
Too great astonishment.
“Let me be patient when my spirit lacks
Its hlkh exuberance, Us shining wealth;
H-ype Is a matter, often, God, I know
OS strength, ol health.
"Help me to wait until my strength returns,
Help me to climb each difficult high slope.
Always within my heart some golden gleam.
Some quenchless spark of hope."
It may be that in the case of Czecho
slovakia “the heart bowed down by weight
of woe to weakest hope will cling” and that
the brave Czechs will not give up. We hope
not, at any rate.
Thanks To All
The suggestion has been made that The.
Chronicle should give thanks to all who
have worked to bring the duPont plant to
Camden.
We would like to do this but we are
not in position to single out the parties who
hare helped. So many have done their part
i|iat we hesitateto name aeme lest we omit
who may (have 4one all that they
eonld.
A Stronger Air Force
Representative J. P. Richards, of the
Fifth Congressional district,* was on. sound
ground when he told the lower house of
Congress the other day’that “a program to
build and to keep up-to-date an Air Force
of at least 20,000 ’ planes in the face of
world conditions today seems essential.”
Mr. Richards told the House that we do
not have adequate air power now and that
t)je first essential is to build- it.^
“We have the atom bomb; Russia may
s^-on have it,” said Mr. Richards. “In any
event, we must have an Air Force large
enough and strong enough to protect this
country, and, if necessary, to carry the
fight tb the enemy.”
With this, every right-thinking American
should agree.
Mr.-Richards made one observation in
his speech that should, be very* disturbing
to the general public. He stated his belief
that rivalries and jealousies between the
different branches of the service had ob-
Tcured the issues involved and had pre
vented a proper allocation of funds to the
Air Force.
It is, unpardonable that our defense
forces should be bickering among them
selves when the life of the nation is at
stake. The people ought not to stand for if.
We should remember the case of General
Mitchell, *who was crucified for insisting
on a strong air force when later develop
ments proved that he was 100 per cent
right.
Without calling names, Representative
Richards referred to Russia’s preparedness
for war.
“There’ii only one powerful na
tion hi the world today which could be
considered a potential enemy on the
battlefield in the inunediate years to
come,” be said. “That nation has un
limited manpourer and an active army
five the siae of ours. That nation
is building twelve times as^many' war
planes today as is our own country.
That nation has no Navy to speak of,
except submarines, in wbi^ field the
United States is far outnumbered. It
would seem therefore that we should
cut our pattern of defense to meet the
danger confronting us.”
Evidently some of the other defense
forces are objecting that a 70-group air
force would unbalance our defense system.
Regarding this Mr. Richards said:
“It seems stupid to me to talk about a
70-group Air Force unbalancing our de
fense system. The thing for this Congress
to do, in my opinion, is to provide money
for this 70-group force and then balance
our Army and Naval power on this basis.
There wafr a day when manpower and fire
power on land were dominant factors in
any war. Later on sea power came into its
own. For centuries Great Britain dominated
the sea lanes of the world with sea power.
During World War II, our Navy was our
first line of defense. In another war our
first line of defense will be our Air Force.”
And then Mr. Richards made this ex
ceedingly wise comment:
“This is no time to allow petty
jealmities to obscure the needs of the
day. Neither time nor the national in-
* *
terest will permit neglect of the wel
fare of the nation in order to pre
serve outmoded tradition and the
status of Commanders who have eyes
only for their'own show.”
Mr. Richards is 100 per cent right. Are
WT going to allow petty jealousies between
defense officials to endanger the life of a
nation? We deserve to fall if we do.
It seems to be difficult to make some
army and navy men realize that the air
plane has become the great factor in war
that it is today. We recall very vividly hear
ing a high army official say. a few days
after the last world war in Europe broke
out, that the airplane was only effective
fo’* reconoitering and terrorizing purposes.
And that apparently was the thinking'of
our people in those days.
They should have learned better durinff
the last war.
Mr. Woodward
Camden lost a mighty fine friend in the
death of Ernest L. Woodward, who died
of a heart attack near Fanta Fe, New
Mexico, Saturday night. He had shown his
friendship for the city in practical wasns,
having presented to the Sea1t)oard Air Line
and the city the present Seaboard park and
site for station and also presented^ the
present Woodward airport to the city, hav
ing not only purchased and donated the
land but also built a fine hangar.
Along with Harry D. Kirkover he was
responsible for the present nationalMktb^
008 Springdale race course. ^
Camden pe<^e wem deeply grieved
loam of hia deaUi.
ThhudnqOutLoud
Russia seems to nave tne
dest soil In the world.
red-
We werv-aomewhat surprised to
see the old ‘ Dollar Days’* revived
in som«r cities. We expected them
to be “Two Dollar Days.”
“There ia no limit to space”
doesn’t mean parking space.
Some people suffer from Spring
fever the year round—it Just gets
worse In Spring.
There are so many things to
worry about now that one hardly
knows which one to start wonting
about when he gets up each morn
ing. •
Water seems to cause more
trouble In the Ohio river valley
than liquor, ‘ .k,
You may or may not be in
terested to know that there’s still
enough unmined coal to keep the
coal miners striking for two hun
dred yeara
A safety group warns that more
accidents happen in the home than
anywhere else. May be so, but a
person Just has to go home some
times.
Colombia isn't
nations.
the gem of the
One way to keep your garden
tools Is to tell any one who wishes
to borrow them that they will have
to use them in your garden.
We see where a couple got mar
ried in a picket line the other day.
Formed another union, eh?
George W. Harvey, champion of
a drive safely campaign in Rich
mond, Va., was fined $6 for driving
too slowly. So it costs to lire in
RlehmoBd.
Every man thinks he will be an
exception to the rule when be tries
to get by with something that has
brought dtofster to every other
man who bias attempted it. Take
Joe Stalin for example! He thinks
he can get by with what Hitler and
Muasolini failed at.
Walterboro muat be a very queer
town. The city council there was
re-elected without opi^ition.
A writer comments on the un
fairness of some lawp and, points
out the one that makea the owner
of an automobile responsible for
any damage the car may do even
though It is being driven by a thkd
who bad stolen it. And that brought
up the ancient case In the Orient
in which a burglar sued a houee
owner because a window frame
gave away in a house the burglar
was trying to enter, breaking th,®
burglar’s arm. The court ruled for
the burglar but found that the real
culprit was the dyer of a red tunic
worn by a pretty girl, whose
charms had distracted the atten-
j tlon of th© workman who put In
jthe window frame. This dyer was
I sentenced to b© hanged frcfm his
'own doorpost. The dyer was found
to be too tall for banging In that
way 80 a short dyer was- substi
tuted.
Unfortunately there are lots more
followers ’of women In thie old
world than there are leaders of
mea
This being election year, lots of
South Carolinians are showing
symptoBs or having “running fits.”
Mother always knows best. We,
saw the other day where a boyj
bought a suit of soft material al-i
though his mother warned him that
it would pick up everything. And
It did. Within two weeks It had
picked up a blonde, a brunette and
a redhead. “
-FMdle Gllmose, Associate Press
correspondent, hack from a trip to
Russia, says he didn’t hear the Rus
sians talking war. They are nfit al
lowed to talk about anything but
the weather, are they?
“Every person wants individuali
ty,” says writer. Yes. for example,
the superintendent of a city school
system was visiting a grammar
school one ay. He met with a class
of little boys, and shook hands with
each one, making some comment.
Coming to one litle boy, he asked,
"And who is this’” ‘Tm the little
boy with th© spectacles on,” the
little fellow replied.
Prize Boob
A woman who goes six no
trumps, with 13 diamonds in her
hand, should be, handed the cut
glass grapefruit bowl as a booby
prize. Striking her on the head with
It la hard on the bowl. — Detroit
News.
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