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^''■v . i_':. L^j*' * .A .T- " _[. .■'■* ■• pup tHI eAMDIN CMWOWiCLl, fftMi '^nd I wu til* fint DR. JOHN W. CORIETT DR CORBETT IS INTERVIEWED. BY REPORTER FOR THE STATE f ■ v" ' 4^4.‘f 1 ■ > •t - :u;v.': (By R. E. Qrltr.ln The State) For 55 years Dr. John W. -Cor bett practiced medicine in Camden and ricinity and today, at 85, "knocked down by the doctors on account of my heart" he says, he I ires In his bis roomy house on Lyttleton street. But he is not idly watchlns the world so by for. alert and keenly alive to happen- lags tb« world over, he has his own pungent observations to make on things in soQMwI. Four daiiy newspapers, t^ree published in South Carolina and one "in New York, are delivered at his hooM and these, with current magasines and frequent talks with visitors from, far and near — for Camden is a cosmopolitan city — keep him abreast ^ith develoi^ ments over, the face of the earth. When a. man practices medicine over half a century in# town the "an<] here with an' automobUm "But before I got the bicycle, I walked a lot, for I was as poor ai the devil. When I got a call to go out in the countnt. I’d go^ to * livery stable and /get a horse and make the trip, ^am Lathan and George Little, who ran the livery stables, were very considerate to a young physician beginning bis "Medicines chiefly used when I started out were calomel, quinine and opium," bo said, remarking in* cldenUlly that about one-half of his work was on a charity basis. "Doctors today charge too much,” he declared emphatically. "Along in the 1880’s, I recall that our fees were $2 for day calls and $5 "for nlghL-There came a very tough year, with poor crops, and we doctors got together and re duced our fees to fl.SO for day calls and $3 for night. "1 always figured it bras better not to charge too much and collect it rather than carry unpaid ac counts for years. People today are not more civilized than when I was a young man," he said and he add ed. emphatically, "the manufactur ers of the atom bomb ought to be blown up." The doctor assisted in the or ganization of the Camden hospital, ran it for several years, is now president emeritus. Naturally he takes a pride ip the .work that in stitution has done and is doing. "Politics? Weil,.I’m going to vote the Republican ticket un less Governor Dewey Is nomi nated in PhLIadelptiia. I can’t vote for him. I’m hoping Van- . denberg of Michigan will be the nominee. "I believe In states’' rights SQd the individual determina tion of mind. Under Mr. Tru man S'man can’t’ call his hdsrt his own. "Any government that will let John L. Lewis (Mine Work ers’ boas) run over-it like he has ought to quit "I kick About things yet I don’t know bow to get relief from things that ought to be bettered. "I have never been a’ Democrat in spirit since Tillman was elected and I never was a Jeffersonian Democrat. I don’t believe every body should bo allowed to vote — I think there shonld be some- sort of qualifications. Here I am. With Mt** EisteCioai then it temlA vote "I have never believed in prohi bition, but in free liquor and high licenses.’’ The doctor takes pardonable pride in his wiwk for better health in his community. "I was the'Drst man in Kershaw county to take up work against tuberculosis, follow ing along the line of Doctor Daw son of Charleston. I went out and talked to the Negroes and got them to screen their windows and leave them open at night, and thus the incidence of the disease was les sened. But there is a lot of racket in health work today. "I practiced much amtmg the Negroes and some of my best friends are among the Negroes, and I am not interested in the civil rights bill.- "Now about medicine. I believe in nature but I'm not a naturo^th. The math object gradsated. "Now when I wi well. - I ’’bugs" were not known and there i was not a microscope in college.' But education, culture and trav^ have brought in ‘bugs’ of all kinds. "Why for ten yfsrs, I never stml- lized an instrument and I never had any trouble^” "Fve always enjoyed life," he said. ’‘Now at 86 I spend most of my time reading, talking, sleeping and eating.” Doctor Corbett served as a mem ber of the Camden council, as its intendent and as its first mayor when the form of government was changed, and he is interested in the growth of his tofwn. "The duPont development is a great thing for Camden and this section and it wUl have a wh<de- some ^ect generally." he says, as he thinks of the future growth of the community he has served so long and so well and which counts Qiroiiide Clashed Ads CM is to repair and man of that combination and 'may be that is why citizens speak of him as Camden’s patron saint and hold him in warm esteem and af fection. The 85 years that have passed over his head have not reduc^ him to a common denominator: rather they have served to accentuate his'noiQQ property and interested in individually and he expresses his the community, yet my yote can be views on things generally with a offset by some one who maybe blunt frankness altogether refresh- doesn’t care about the community. Ing, and he hedges his sUtements voted against Mr. Tillman, one not at all. “ of about 800 in Kershaw county With his typewriter near his side, that did so. he was on a chaise lounge in his ^ "What about Russia? Russia does living room the other day, with a not want to fight. It wants to nag. shawl over his legs, "rv# got to The Russians sre mean cusses, Just keep my legs warm on account of half civilised and I don’t think they this damned rheumatism,” he said, are ready to fight A little bit about the background | "i hate innovations unless I can of a, man whom Camden, is proud some improvements brought to claim as a citizen. He was bom thereby, and I hate to vote against at Cheraw, son of the Bgy, W. Bell President ■ lA f Truman, but it is the size of Camden—population was Corbett, a Presbyterun minister of best way. We have enough votes 1,700 when the doctor began his Charleston, and Sara Elizabeth to dam things up anyhow, work there—he becomes much more Witherspoon Corbett of York. He “When I was 14 I wore a red y ilW ' : •‘mi ’ . Jw, than a mere medical practitioner He is counselor and friend and comforter, adviser of youth concern ing life careers; he steers bewild ered adolescents into safe paths; and, if a man of kind and under standing heart, wields a mighty in fluence for the wholesome and right living. Doctor Corbett is a If' was graduated from' the .Medical ghlrt with 'Haskell Guards’ written (College in Charleston, under .21 across the front of it.” And he years of age. studied in clinics in gpoke of the Darlington, riots and New York and at Johns Hopkins in the troublous days in the ’Tillman Baltimore and then went to Cam- regime. den to begin a life of service to the >, “as to education, and I think people of that community. *v?e have made tremendous strides It was in November, 1885, that jn jt, i don’t believe everybody he was carried to Miss Reta Me- should go to college. After some Willie Burnett of Camden, a grand- early training, I think there should daughter of W. M, Shannon, whoso g selective df«ft for persons-of death in a duel was Instrumeptal talent. There are more loafers, who in bringing Ijito being the antt-|a|.© college graduates hanging duelling oath all holders of public around than you can shake a stick office now take. "We ought to have duela now,” Doctor Corbett said, aa he spoke of Mr. Shannonr. "Peo ple would be more discreet In their utterances IL they knew they might be Invited to meet some opponent on the field-of'* honor. You would not hear of candidates for office call each other Hare. We did not have It years ago. The duel would, make gentlentan out of hoos- lera:” ^ "How., .many babies have I de livered? Well, I’d have to go through my files to answer that correctly: ever so often, some one comes here to look up his birth certificate.” And then he talked a little about at ’‘One other thing, I don’t like Columbia’s influence with the leg islature. The legislature should be .moved out in the country where it cJhild not be so subject to Colum- GAU BLADDER sumaiRs nND cuts po« misirt DUR TO LACK OR HRALTHY DILI SsMly RmIwK H«r« — Sidfww* R«Mm H«w for nllklsddtr ■ufl«r«r« Ude- •f ■ r«li«f for gallklsddtr ■ufl«r«r« Ins bralthy bilt U icen today In announc*- , nrnt of n wonderful prtparation which ncta with remnrknhU affact. Suffarart with asonlxlns colic, ttomneh and Enllbladder miB«ry dut to lick of hooltky klle now toll of ramarkabla raaulta aftar uatnK thla medi- clna which hua amaiinf power to atlmulate flow of healthy blla. OAUUSIM U a very cxpenilva modlelne, but conalderlnE reaulta, the IS.OO It OoaU la only pennies per dote OALLUSIN (caution, '■uaa only as dlractedl la aoM with full money hnck nmranUa h- his early career as a physician In Camden. 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C Surveys Maps Noi, M. < 1 O’CAIN 1 . ^ REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL 1 CIVIL ENGINEER < Pbone 2213 Caiiidao,s.c Estimates • m m nanmurau MIHWIBig DBIVE-IN THEATEI / C B. BLYTHER, Owner Lctcated on State Highway 26—Town of Lafoff MONDAY-TUESDAY, MAY lO-li “Gun Fighter’” Randolph Scott, B. Britt News WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 “Captain Tugboat Annie” Jane Darnell, Edgar Kennedy Cartoon, **Andy Played Hooky** THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 13-14 “Gallant Bess” Marshall Thompson, G. Tobin Cartoon ... SATURDAY, MAY 16 “Under Nevada Skies” Roy Rogera-^alao—Honeymoon Blues Sousie Come H< • List your suggestion for a name fw the new Drive-In Theater on a slipoj paper with your name and address give to ticket man at Theater. CJontol egds May 15. Person giving name selected drowsy award. SHOWS AT 7sa0 and ttl8 P. M. STRIKE In contrast, dilo omall grmq) union leaders are attcnu^hif to intent and spirit of the lUilway LatorM and dictate their own terms. Union leaders representing less than one-tenth of railroad employas rejedt recomiriendations of 1*residant’s Emergency .hsard—refuse to *' negotiate except on their own terms—threaten to paralyze nation by strike! THI LEADERS of three railroad vnhMis, rep resenting lest 4han one-tenth e( aU rdfaread employees, have called a railroad strike diat would paiidyxe the natioii. ’These leadwt refuse to accept a 15H cents an hoiir wage increase retroactive to Novem ber 1, 1947. ’Hiis increase was recommended by an impairttel Emergency Board iqxpointod by President Truman. This irt£reaae of ISV^ cents already haa been accepted by the 19 other rsdlroad uniona. But the Brotheibood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive FIremm and after hearing cvidehc^for SS days, made batea on all the facte in recommendations the case. Hm railroads have accepted these recommendations. Who’s to blame? Althou^ they ^lorcd so large an axtra coat spied the report of burden, the railr^ds accept the Board because they felt It was in tlve pui^ lie Interest to uphold the qpirR and intent of Labor Act , the Railway They have dictated a paralyzinf strike. You will be the victim! How kmg win (or the use of the right'1 of the obUgatlea to prvM How long can the Aias ‘ a few dicteterial aaiao processes providad hr of dispates? Force addeta eithar (afar ar bntfaw. Marsavw, • dtea reacfaad absa pqnaaal fadwB^-a be held ndterdfaMlB to lha gnolfF* wdfare. That la why toa laihoRdR eepted (faa Wmmmmey Bsotd loetOM^ tions. That to aha why (ha teadmsfW tlwaa aaiona shadUl rocaadd to caD a pardyaiaE slilca. ' V h'i i» ■ im——■ Enginemen, and the Switchmen’s Union ofi -- - - - - J North America won’t accept what more tiian^ 90% of all railroad employes have accepted. They have called a strike to get more! Hare Is a comparison of averiM|e annual Unions refuse rules discussion Certain mlet dmages .demanded by tiiese union leaders—which would increase wages still fiirtfaw —were recommended by the Board. But ^ union leaders want aiore-r they demand timt the railroads ^ into offset ALL ths changw fbey asked far, Incindiiig those the Beord fdt ahonld be denied. On top e( this, they insist that certain rules dianges proposed by the railroads be with drawn—ia sptoe a( the (act that the Board recommended tiiem! These union leaders have refused to negotiate except upon tiiese arbitrary terms. earnings ot engineers and fireman (or 1989 (pre-war) and 1947. Alaotixown la what 1947 eaminfi would have been U the ISMi cents Compare them wages with what |0ji aalMl ^tmkmtrn wnRomsi Immi laiaiiai Imml Iwiiai IMT atot t»pi of Uelaii I INOINIfRS R^-FreigM ..... .. |g,aat ^ (Local and Way)’ Road PaaMngcr sffn Ro^ Freight (Tluo^) »,i«y Yard 1,749 FiREMIN R<^ ia.Taa . (Local and Way) Road ^sew t,71S 4M€ Road Freight SASO Yard 14^8 S4Sa Railroad wages computed from Interstate Commaroe per hour increase, of fered by the railroads 4#ra and reiected by tho i leaders, * union leaders, had been in affect throu^- out the entire year 19(7. I Greater wage increase not justified Engineers and flreroen afl% among (he htgh- est paid of aQ amplwcs in Amerka, as fifurm r. IThls in the box show. strike threat doein’t southeastern railroads Jui^ glvinji a incraaie than otiier d wonera reoaived. railroad Emer nancy Boards ara a moona by tha Bailway Labor Aok fax tea mifatteilntatw sat to avsid'alrlkaa. Tha Prasnwa )ipa>4 We arc thto to talk. ■%