Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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They are irert «f sound judgment, courage and of hich diaracter—^men <who put the welfare of the people ahead of personal considera- ticns in thei consideration of legislation. In Fairfield county a determined effort is being put forth to have Mr. Lyles recon- sfaier his decision. We trust it will be suc- cevcfttl and we should like to see a similar effort made in Greenwood county as re- gfirds Senator Mays. If there has ever beeft a time when the State needed the presence in its legislative halls of such men as Lyles and Ma]rs, this is it. Character Comes First -* < Jtist what sort of a man ought the com mander of an anny to be? When the late General Joseph W. Still well, **Vinegar Joe,** who commanded our skeleton arm in Chip a, died his wife found among his private papers,an undated paper giving his ideas of just what a com mander ought to be. ^ ‘*A good commander,** he said, ^'is a man >1 high character (this is the most import ant attribute) with power of decision—^next mcst important attribute. He must have moral backbonejtnd—this stems from high character—he must be physically cour- ag:*ou8, or successfully conceal the fact that tools he is not. He must know the tools of his trade—tactics and logistics; He must be im partial. He must be calm under stress. He must reward promptly and punish justly. He must be accessible, human, humble, patient, forebearing. He should listen to ad vice, make his own decision and carry it out with energy. “Unless a commander is human, he can not understand the reactions of his men. If he is human, the pressure on him intensifies tremendously. The callous man has no men tal struggle over jeapordizing the lives of 10000 men; the human commander cannot avoid this struggle. . . . Generals get sharp ly criticized. They .are the birds who shel ter themselves in dugouts and send the sol diers out to get killed. They cover them- >elv6s with medals won at the expense of .the lives of their men who are thrown in regardless to compensate for faulty or poor- b' thought-out plans. ' •‘There are really not many (generals) like that. The average general envies the. buck private; when things go wrong, the private can blame the general, but the gen eral can blame no one but himself. The private carries the woe.s of one man; the general carries the woes of alL” ' The general concluded his paper as fol lows: “If a man has enough character to be a good commander, does he ever doubt him self? He should not , The general in concluding his paper gave, the following formula for a good general: “Character 80 per cent; Power of decision jyLP«T technical knowledge 6 ^ler cent; everything else 6 per cent** It is not alone in the making of a good general does character come first. Good character is the solid rock on which any successful life must be built The peopld 'olL.Xlam^n should turn out in full force nixt "^^da^ night to the first annual ^eert of we Community Choral Club. They will be rewarded by hearing a to|^ noteh profram and they will be lending encburagement to an orfaiiisati<m that Camden hae eorely needed. One of Can^en's great needs is for a weU-fwmded riiM^Mew program tiiat will embrace all jhreserve Americanism “Only because we are free and only be- i^ause we let man'*8 incentive have full reign has the United States become the most pow^ erful nation on earth,” Crawford H. Green- wait presidentof E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. said in a speech at the annual meet ing of the United States Chamber of Com merce recently. Free individual incentive, the Du Pont cr.mpany executive declared, is America*8 greatest national resource. “How, then, can we afford today,*' he asked, “to permit any infringement of that incentive? To permit such infringement is not liberalism, but its exact opposite. To prevent such infringe ment is ,the true liberalism to which we must adhere.” all of which'The Ghimiicle "tr' ■im her^rty agreement. Oh “liberalism,” what brimes are being committed in thy name in this country! Many people who are posing 'liberals” are not liberals at all. They would even deny those who disagree with them the right to their opinions: They are would-be despots. They mistake “radical ism” for “liberalism.” Many of them are of course communists, many are socialists. And as Mr. Greenwalt said in his speech “socialism, fascism, nazism, communism differ only in degree as to application, and the end results of them differ not at all. They are semantic rungs in a ladder that reaches from freedom to slavery.** The principal thing that Americans have to offer the world, as Mr. Greenwalt so forcibly pointed out in his address “is our faith—our fundamental belief in man's freedom of opportunity—our belief in his inherent dignity—that the world is people by individuals and not by governments.” He called upon his audience to reaffirm “with pride and profound conviction” the “strength, validity and eternal vigor” of the principlee of the American system.” These prinetpka, he seid, an thie ee—tiy's potential export to a disillusioned world. In asMsaiag the results of the “experi ment in government and economics** begim with the fouadiof of the Republic 100 years ago^ Mr. Greenwalt, n chemical en gineer, said science bad taught him **by hard experience one guiding principle com mon to all scientific researches—never to discard the results of a well demonstrated experiment in favor an hypothesis that de ntes those results.** And that is what the Communists would have us to do today, as The Chronicle has pointed out on more than one occasion. They wsuld have us discard a form of gov- einment that has made this the greatest country on the face of the globe today for. a form of government that hasn’t proved anything yet. They want us to exchange a fr>i’m of government that has made the greatest record in 170 years than any gov ernment in history has ever made for one that has e^ted only 30 years and in that time hasn't accomplished anything, and is known only for its “purges.” Many of the people in the countries njw IhinkinqOiiflinid Anotlier thins this coantr/ heetls is the re^Ublishment of the ‘‘smell corner” In Its churches. A circus trapese artist in New York bst children. He most be s macIcloD.«too, U he snpgovti them. Wiii The Press Tw2l PiittlBS the Dtsmoerstic toUbs age beck to 21 was a food idea. Either the teasrai elecUoa a^ ■hodd be lowcrad ^ U, to five imgormity, or the i«mary age pet back at, 21, whidi waa done. Aa a mattat of fact tha IS-IESO gfoop did Bot teem .generally to cere medi ahoet voting, Indgles Vt the oomperetlvely few wko took ae* o( an le the IsgUattve, emcetlve aui jodlckl knacher of the govw emaeet shows that Edeth OaroUu Is not getthi* sad 4M net got vu- der the PeeiBeratie adeileUrratlne its jest proportion of them >otMi The state.’of oonne, has its proper proportion in the senate and ix Jlw honse bet these are not Jobe that are at the gift of the pentloal |^- era that he to Wsahingtoii. Booth Carolina probahly weald ha repreaeatad aow by- cat ami from New York and one toan the Dtotiict Colambia with three from Callfttntla. Tantagt of the opportunity. _ Bhoald the mtataram age ever MrepreaentatiTaa changed agata the rerhioa shoald two from lUiheia and one freai New be made after careful -stndy, and made applicable to both the prim ary and the general election—^The fitatsu Rail Btrlkae We have been dMIhMiened agah The Arabs are not folding their innia and. allsmly itoallng ■—g. A problem that has tsceE house- wirea ever since time began is "what to have for supper tonight Every time Henry WaBace leoks under the bed. before retiring at night, be must see a capitalist. If Judge T. Alan Ooldaboroudh is a Democrat what is the party waiting for in its search for a presi dential candidate? behind the iron curtain, who formerly were communists are escaping when opportuniy affords and are telling the world that they now realize their folly. “Want and sorrow are the wages that folly cams for i^elf and they are generally paid.” As Mr. Gre^iwalt said in his most<> ex cellent addresathe results of the American experiment with free economy may not be perfect but they have “never been matched In the long sweep bf history in giving such great benefits to such a multitude of peo ple.” lie cited that record against “theories w hich maintain . that tht only chance for the world—for the^United States itself—is to turn to increasing control and domination by the government. Wherever the controlled economy has been tried, he said, “the inevitable result has been decline and despair, chaos and collapse, sometimes preceded by war, some times not” “In the face of this record of constant failure on the one hand and of success be yond the most optimistic dreams on the other,” the DuPont executive a^id, “it seems to me the sheerest madness ^or any American to allow himself to surrender any part of the faith that has made our experi ment successful.” It is high time that thosg of us who love the America that we have known in the past are speaking out vigorously, as Mr. Greenwalt has done. This seems,to he the age of CTEckpots” and this country has them as well as every other country. We must be congUntiy on guard agahiBt them lent they destroy our Americanism. You are prohably gettlnf tired df ngls. tering but you should not fail to register for the general municipal eledton to he held op Ti«id«r» Jioo 8. In this day and time you otanot afford telakn a Elnaea. How are they going to keep Princesc ESixabeth aad her haehead back in Ihigland after they’ve aeen Gay Faroe? From the standing o/ the Chicago team in the American league per centage column, the fans of that city must refer to them as "the darned White Sox.” ' Spain has banned the making of toy firearms. FYanco must consider that this is no time for child play. Russia wants us to , enter into negotiations with her bn the basis of Henry Wallace’s proposals. For Russia it would be a case of ’’beads I win, tails you lose.” It does seem as though some smart person would, through the centuries, have devised a solution to the problem of what s man can do with his hat at church. Another railroad strike haa been averted by drastic action on, the A dispatch from Washington says that the 80th Congress mar estab* lish President Truman as the Chief Bzeentive who asked for more and Ttetived less from Congress than any other President. And this re minds us,of the ancient story of the tnen who complained that hla wife waa always asking him for money. "What does she do with it?" one of hia friendi inquired. "I don’t know: I’ve never given her any yet,” he replied. — Henry Wallace’s initials are HAW and that means turn to the left ' One cannot but wonder why the government la withholding punish ment from Miss Vivian Kellams, the Westport, Conn., manufacturer. who is waging a one-woman battle against the withholding tax." A doctor says that if you want to live a long thne you ought to feel sorry for your enemies instead of hating them. Pity, he says, is the only emotion that doesn’t af fect the heart. Well, to save our life, we can’t pity old Joe Stalin. The Louisville (Ky.) Times ^ays that a straight line is the shortest distance between two pinta bat wants to know who, between two pints, can negotiate it? It used to be that a man could live for many, many years in bllss- fu ignorance of there being any thing wrong with him bub in these days of continual check-ups he finds out early in life that there is something ailing him and spends the rest of his life trying to get well. In the event of war our first ob jective would be to capture New York City, A political writer says that if some of the “liberals" in this coun try were to go to heaven they would think that they could im prove things there. And that re minds us of the story of thb teach er at a V'acation Bible School, who was explaining that God alone was able to create the trees and the flower. Before she had finished, one of the pupils raised bis hand. “What is it Tommy?" the teacher asked. "My mother can make Gow ers," Tommy answered defiantly. The teacher knowing that Tommie’s mother actually did make flowers -artificial onea to sell — was stumped for a moment and t|ten she said; "Yonr mother makes love ly flowers. Tommy, but. don’t 3^ think she gets her inspiration from God’s flowers. "May be so,” said Tommy reluctantly after some thoughtful consideration, "but my mother can make flowers without stickers." FINAL PI9CHARGE Notice is herabf given that one month from thianate, on June 7, 1948, R. L. Btoennon will make to the Probate Coart of Kershaw County his final return as Adminis trator of the esute of C. P. Black mon, deceased, add on the same date he will apply to tha said Coewt tor a final discharge aa said Admlalatrator. 8-llc N. C. ARNETT, Judga of Probate., Camden, S. C„ May 7. It4t. t Andersonians ani Americans are thankful. But it shoald have never been naeeaaary for President Truman to order the Army to take over the railroads and the Justice Depart ment to get out an injunction against the unions of engineers, Bremen and switchmen, The officers of these unions shoald have Judgment enough to recognise from the first these truths: First, a strike to enforce demands for concessions exceeding those recommended hy s railway labor act board would not have been tol^ Second, the government woald have bad to act to end the strike —bloodily or otherlse. Third, that if such a atrika has been allowed to paralyze the nation it ould have been the last of its kind and new shackles would have! been placed on all railroad labor. | There are times when ’The Inde-‘ pendent thinks it would be a good, idea for the government to say to these Irresponsible leaders: ’*Oo ahead. Strike. The public will take care of you." The anioneer would probably throw up their hands in horror aad cry: "Aren’t you going to do aay- thing to stop-us?” The time has cmne for congress to give the country immunity from strikes I or lockouts that iajnre or threaten the public welfare. No combination of union leaders or qperatora Aould be permitted to Gght their battles at tha expense of the pubUc”s safety and h^th. —Anderson Independent Jerasy. Yet theae ettO service poettfoas are eoppoeed to be diatrlbatel an the boals of elate poputotiDn. What is the explanation of (his itHuDga neglect of South Caralina Demo crats duilnc IS years of Demo cratic administration? Has the fact that South Carolina ia a one-party Biate; aHrajfa"lif”Hre 'lMH"toi' Democratic candidate, anything to do with it?—Colombia Record. laaectlcHe Seap Three London scientists have de veloped a remaricshle Inseetieite soap eontaininf DDT. They tttda tested this soap on all kinds of dofs add find that it not only l^illa toe vermin immedlatelj. but also pre vents toe dog from becoming re- Infested even after beli^ cxpoaad to other Uce-rldden dogs. HM* AalWtrgwS ITTIf H wOl Itoep your ll^HQllUuHy 0( day emd Mg Ask iig for FW iiistollotioR otHi M. E. FOU Flume S8LJ South Carallaa Nefleeted South Carolinians have only an academic and taxpayers’ Intsreat to' the geaasally ih-famd attempts of the Republican congressional ma jority to Instill a bit of tconomls* ing into the fedend degartmaatoi agencies and bureaus. For there are few South Caro- lintoaa eai^yed by the federal government. A stndy of, the “Of- llcfai Register of the United States,” in which is listed tha namee and NOTICE Home and Businsss Bii •We have on hand for immediate a future delivesry No. 1 and 2 rough a dressed lumber in'all sizes and i signs. We have doors, windows, wind units, 210 lb. roofing. Asbestos sidii tni sheetrock, fiberglass insulatii paints, hardware, nails, brick, lii cement, mortar mix, and ever^hi needed for building. •We give free immediate delivei7 theeite by our tarodcs. %We Guarantee our Prmiuets. •Can US or ooDM to soo Wa will gja^y fcr you am ostiioala of your huildiag T. ROYER mmsi a PboDMTe. 8604.283 BbLopyima REFRESH YOURSELF WITH ICE-COLD CON fi X MOmCE TO DEBTORS Aia> CREDITORS AU parttas todehtad to the sa- tata of Jake Browa. Jr., are here by xotined to amke paymeat to Om underatgaad. aad aU parties. M any; havtag olalma agataat tho aaM estate aflU preasnil them like- iwiaa. iaiy attsstal. wtt&kr too time frsserlbed by law. I41e J. BROWN 1 C £ C C L D CAttAIJMA swi Utllir **"'*®"*" ^ COCA.OOU CORBAdMiB ^ '"AROUIU COCA-COLA. COMPAIfT ^ ’'.Vy-iirt’ B.tL ’% ms.