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rum fiAilDCM eHRONICLl. CAMDIN. tOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. MAY 7. 1MI ■ I _ iiiig^g8BgaaiggSBSeggS8»MBaMBgBaaM^MeBBBMBWMaWMM8HaMiW>"JU!jlUiL- " J 1"' ' ■ ' Ih F* v!’, • ! If'q rli'i' ■ \ i i! ■( ^ ■' Ji ■ fife i ‘ J "• ; h •■■' » f 1. SItiP (Eantdrn (Stiranirir ligfl Norih Broad Street * Camden, 8. C. published every FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCos^ Brown - - - Editor Publhher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year Six Months Entered aa Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Cor,*:re8s • , March 3, 1879 All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author FRIDAY, MAY 7, IMS Not Well Informed According to the Gamecock, Univers'ity of South Carolina newspaper, an unofficial public affairs test, given to a single depart- mont at the University recently, showed * <hat 95 students taking the test, including those from all levels from freshmen to graduating seniors, were not too well in formed on current events. The pvoll revealed that only 71 per cent of the group could name two United States Senators. Twenty per cent named only one U. S. Senator and 9 per cent could not name even a United States Senator from South Carolina. Only 64 per cent knew the name of the Congressman from their district, Only 63 pe/ cent (^ould give the name of one mem ber of the state legislature from their coun ty. Probably the most amazing result, how- eAer, was that only 24 per cent could name as many as two members of the President's Cabinet, 21 per cent could think of only ore and 65 percent could not name a single member, not even the Secretary of State. ' The Gamemock sums up as follows: '‘Twenty-nine per cent do not khow who their senators are, 46 per cent do not know their congressmen, 87 per cent can name not more than one member of the United 'States Supreme Court; 76 per cent can name not more than one member of the President's Cabinet; 84 per cent do not know who the secretary-general of the United Nations happens to be; 68 per’cent cannot name more than one governor of a state, 64 can name no, or only one. United States Senator other than those from South Carolina.” ( » It is quite evident that the young men who were interviewed do not Vead the newspapers closely or they would be better -informed.-We wonder why this lack of-in- terest on their part in world affairs. Can it be that they g^t snatches of news over the radio and are content'with this rather than reading the newspapers? “ . These young men .will soon go out into ^ life to take their place as citizens. Let us hope they will take more interest in world affairs then than they are apparently tak ing now. A Silly Performance c • Glen Taylor, former hillbilly ' musician now a member of the United States Senate betause Idaho voters went to sleep on elec tion day, is a candidate for vice president on Henry Wallace’s ticket. Mr. Taylor, like Mr. Wallace and lots of other communists, feels called upon to force the South tg give up its customs and 'tradn ions of a life time and so he selected Birmingham, Ala., as a cityjn which to make a spectacle of himself. r He was scheduled to make an address there last Saturday night at a theater. He mu.st have thought that there would be no body much* to hear him so he decided that ho would go tc the theater and make an announcement that he would not speak in arty hall where segregation of the races was enforced. For some reason Mr. Taylor decided to go into the theater through the entrance reserved for the colored race. We don’t know whether he did this because he thought it was a good publicity stunt or whether he was just so dumb that he didn’t understand the marking of the entrance. At any rate just as he started in the entrance he was nabbed by Birmingham police officers, as he should have been, and whisked off to the city jail for, as the of ficers thought, deliberately defying a law of the city. Mr. Taylor, of course, has tried to make publicity out of the incident. It's pretty sor ry public%. The good negroes of the South should be praying that they may he spared from some of toeir **friends.'' Personally,we are very muth in favor of General Eisenhower becoming present of Colambia University. ^ CAP^en is goiDg to grow AnsSeaHy, too. The Housing Problem • • In connection with the coming of the duPont plant, Camden will face a housing problem. That is one thing of which we can be certain. Many homes will have to be built to take care of people who will be brought to the city by reason of the com ing of the plant. - \ ' Many of these people are going to want U live near the plant. Therefore a hous ing project to be located on this side of the Hver would be a very sensible project and it would mean much for the city, too. Murderers And Assassins Greek Minister of Justice Christos Ladas assassinated last Saturday.in what the Greek government said was part of a Com munist May Day plot to kill three mem bers of the Greek government. 'Fhe government received a letter from a Communist saying that the party had planned to kill three members of the Cab- met. ' *v - It is rather nauseating that we should deal so kindly with communists in this country when we know that communists are just murderers and assassins and that when the time comes for them to kill they don't hesitate one moment. If they thought that by killing a ma jority of the members of Congress tomor row it would enable them to get control of this country, communists would not hesi tate one minute to assassinate them. Hum an life doesn't mean anything to them. They know no God. There is no such thing as a m.oral wrong with them. Yet we offer these murderers and as sassins every protection of the law. A Sensible Position The State calls attention to an editorial in Collier’s Weekly, ^ne of the most sen sible pronouncements on the President’s civil rights program that has come out of the North. In its editorial, Colliek’s went on to say “that the negro’s status in the South is getting better every day” and continued: ^‘He is some 90 per cent better off eco nomically than in the early years follow ing the civil war. Lynching is sliding to wards the vanishing point. As for social equality, most negroes apparently don’t want it any way, since they have their own social organizations to. satisfy heir fra ternal, religious, snobbish, etc., instincts.' “Federal laws didn’t work these im provements. They have come about solely because they have been stimulated by the most Substantial and respected people ariong he Southern whites. They would have come a great deal more slowly, we think,, if federal laws had forced Mr. Whiskers to keep his nose eternally stuck into Southern affairs. “If all this is as true as we’re convinced it is then, it follows that the best way to solve what remains of the negro problem is tu go on just about .as we’ve been go ing since around 1870. That would mean: Let the Northern inteUigensia rave its col lective head off about the South , . , let Southern and Northern politicians make what political capital they can out of the question . . . bqt don't saddle the federal government with a bunch of laws which it cannot enforce. In other words, let the Souh work out its negro problems mostly on its own—which it is doing anyway, and w’e think will continue to do.” Anybody Can Run This is election year and candidates will scon be swarming around like baes. And this reminds us of the bootlegger who ran excitedly through the woods when he saw some revenue men approaching. After be ing overhauled and asked why he was running, the bootlegger replied: “It’s a free country and a man can run if he wants to, can*t he?” Do yair^liqiipiBg In Caanden. ThinkinqOutM The Press The Next President Harold Stassen’s series of victories in his quest for the Republican nomination for presidency has led to the belief that there may be a “stop Sassen” movement start ed in the party. The belief is being ex pressed that^ Governor Dewey and Senator Taft might combine in an effort to head off the young Minnesota republican. .Some "Washington commentators are of the opinion that Senator Arthur H. Van- donberg may be the eventual nominee and the next President of the United States. Although not a candidate for President,^ Mr. Vandenberg is probably the one man in the country on whom an overwhelming majority of the people could agree. Many Democrats as well as Republicans'would welcome his election. They say that w© haT© free speech in this country but did yon ever try to talk for nothing from a telephone booth? A Minnesota man, 102 years old. was asked to what he attributed his long life. In his reply he omitted what we think was prob ably a very vital factor and that was that bis, daddy didn’t have an automobile for him to drive around in Yhen he was young. On Jordan’s stormy banks the Jewish and Arab troops stand. When a country’s government is red the people are blue. A farm paper carries a long ar ticle on “How to Ckmtrol Boll WeO’ vile and Other Insects.” It recom mends for general use 5 per cent DDT-3 per cent gamma benzene and bexachlorlde. If th’s prepara tion will control “other Insects,” too, why not spray it on the Com munists? Every day is a “may” .day now. Scientists say that the partial eclipse of the sun on May 8-9 will give a better idea of the earth’s shape. We can tell them right now it is very bad. ^ “Agricultural use of the helicop ter is gaining from year to year," says a news item. We thought there was already enough h connect ed with farming without adding this new fangled variety. A radical I is always gnawing on his grievahees like a dog on a bonst A child raising expert says that the average child of today behaves better when it is away from its parenta than when it is with them. And that reminds us of the story of the two little girls who 'were playing. One of them pretended to own a big home and the other lit tle girl wanted to rent an apart ment in it. “Do yon have patents?” the first Uttle girl asked, “Yea,” replied the second little girl. “Well, I’m sorry but I don’t take children with parenta,” replied the first lib Ue girl. Horses have taken many a good man for a ride. % Mre. Roosevelt aqd Elliott are going to open an inn. They must not like being out. ’This is the season of the year when the young man is always on the look out for more lasses. The old-fashioned mother who used to send her child to the gen eral store for a spool of thread has a daughter who now cends her child there after a package of cigarettes. Many ancient civilizations have disapprajed. don’t know wheth er taxes were in any way to blame or not. “Chairman McGrath Says Tru man Will Be Renominated Without Opposition” — headline. The man has gone to talking to himself. A Chicago man, suing his wife for divorce, testified that she was always .threatening to do something drastic, saying “I may” do this, that or the other. May, be she was the Queen of May. A good boss trader is born, not made. Dr. I..onie D. Newton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, speaking Before the General Con ference of the Methodist church in Boston, said that there is an aver age of one drunkard to every fam ily in the country. So that it seems that this country Is suffering from the bourbonlc plague. A woman can claim that she’s much younger than she really is and fool the men but she can’t fool other women. The old-fashioned boy who wore short pants and long black stock ings when he attended grammar school now has a grandson who wears long trousers and short half sox. * Russia's standing army Is Just waiting an opportunity lo sit on an other i^ropeson eonntiry. Some jnea seem to think they can preserve themselves by getting pickled. Seeing a story from Epsom, Eng land, makes us wonder if that is where the old salts are from. “I married a good woman thank the Lord,” says » man in a com munication to a newspaper. And that reminds us of the story of the old bachelor who was asked by his pastor why he didn’t take unto him self a wife. "Oh r,ev«end. T ■might get a bad wife,” he replied. "Trust to Providence and yell get a good one,” the minister replied. "I’m not so sure,” replied the bachelor, “don’t you know that Providence has to dispose of the bad onee ae well as the (oodf Backach BHHHW nHHIL Ml RmSR «kn. MMMm sMMeia let VI Greater fiancee Of War While we recognize the tendency of military men to emphasise the dangers that confront the nation, we do not believe that they, as s class, are “war-mongers" or thst they would push the United States into wsr. With thl* Introduction, we call attention to the recent statement of General ’ Omar N. Bradley, the Army’s Chief-of-Staff,' who told senators that the changes of war, in his opinion, are greater now than they were three months ago. Up to two or three months ggo. declared General Bradley, mlllts^ leaders were thinking in terms jw "no war right sway" but now he admits that they are “thinking s little differently.”'He says, many things have happened ana you cannot put your finger on any one of them.” Explaining his testimony befwe the Armed Forces Committee of po Senate, General Bradley said that, he would be neglecting his duty if he did not tell the Senators that “we are a little bit more afraid something will happen than rro were some months ago.”—Orange burg Times and Democrat. , Coal Strike Coetly ’The coal strike is temporarily, over, with another showdown fear ed slated around contract time June 80.,. . _ . Meanwhile, Andersonians aip other Americana might be count ing the cost of John L. Lewis lat est arrogant action. . First, the dollars and cents loss es to the miners is considerable The general public loses In the increased prices it must pay for It Is estimated the steel lost 1,500,000 tons of sorely needed by other Translated Into manufactured st/el products this * loss of 800,000 automobiles, 20,OW farm tractors, 200,000 deetj*® frlgerators, 200,000 stoves, 200,000 washing machines, 1.000 miles of 20-inch pipeline, 10,000 freipt cars and 14 ocean-going oil tankers. This all means that the country will be In for a longer period of Inflated prices which will cost con sumers billions of dollars and wipe out the savings of many. Lewis has done the country more harm than all the native p»nir munlsts combined.*~Anderson Ind^ pendent. Let'a Hava A •hoW Down Actions speak louder than words, and If the rapmOs that Rusaia la building war machinea at a favar- Uh pace are not exaggerated the rent of the world should take warn ing. —— If Rnaala varaiata In her war-llke attltvde the United Statea, Great Britain and Franca ahonld petition tfeli United Nationa to invite the nations of the w<vld to jolB in a league tor peace. The invitation should be extend ed the Russia and if that nation're- JecU it ^e league should .be form ed without Russia. A rejection would be pretty conclusive evidence that Russia does not want peace and the rest of the world may aa wen prepare for the worat At this time Russia has no'chance of whipping the world, hut evident ly she is laying the foundation for future World conquest. In the mean time she will go just tor enough to keep the peace-loving world In a turmoil There is nothing like a' ahow down. 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