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■ s - ¥ sr rr ' ^IT '- i rj ■ ^ • ■! !i,I.V |'#l* ■Si • 1 P •»■ , Qli)r (fUundnt (fHinm IIM Nortli Broad Street Cam < PUBU8HED EVERY PRIDd^, a Harold C. Book«r - - r Bditer DaCkMda Brown - - Wll)MBher ■ —la—>■■■■> "■■ SUBSCRIFTION TgBll9: , All &d>SQri];>tions Payabli In Advance One Year ...; - BIk Months Inteved ae* Second Clasa Mattar at the Poat ««oo at Camdon, 8. C.. «^ aet of Coocreae March t, All artleleB aubmltted lor. paUtoatlon moat be ilnned by tlw aathor FRIDAY. JimE 18, 1948 On Running A Newspaper^ Editor R. S. Latimer, Jr., ot the Lee Ck)unty Messenger ol Bishopville, wying that he had been taken to task for havi^ left out a local news item, comments on the difficulties of getting out a weekly news paper, particularly in these days when there is such a shortage of paper. His experience flasnot different from that of every other editopbecause of them have to wrestle with tKT'saihe problems. What to leave out and what to print is a headache for all papers these days when 'you are held down to certain limits oecause of the newsprint shortage. Naturally each person thinks that the class of news he or she is interested in is the most important and should be given the right of way over everything else . -In order to serve a community a news paper has to try to print some items of In terest to all. The people of the county want news from their communities. Farmers want farm news. The ladies want social news and club news and news of interest to their sex. People who like sports want sports news. People who are interested in politics want all of the political news. And so on. What a newspapfr tries to do is to print some of each of these types of nenprs. Naturally it cannot print as much perhaps as any of the above classes of people would like for it to print Some people would have a paper devote most of its space to the par ticular things they are most interested in. But that would not be a good newspaper. Of course when newsinrint^is more plenti ful a newspaper can print more news be cause it is able to get out more pages, pro viding the advertising justifies it. Of course, the size of a newspaper is de termined by the amount of advertising it gets. . For Free Governments The Christian Science Board of Directors at their annual meeting in Boston last Mon- _ day urged Christian Scientists everywhere to work strongly and actively for the de fense of free government throughout the world. Rightly conceived, the directors said a democratic government is'something more than an aggregation of legislative 'acts and legalized rules of conduct. 'Tt is the orderly unfoldment of the . moral character and spiritual integrity of its citizens,”-the spokesmen for the move ment affirmed. As such, they said, free gov ernment rightly meritis active defense of its sacred purpose, in addition to the pious ^ declaratipns . of 'allegiance to its outer form.” While the directors'did not refer to communism by name it was plain that they were referring to it when they spoke of free . ff^ernments now being endangered by the “Goliaths of 'today as they go to and fro in the earth” and saying that denying God they are denying their own life, for God is the only life of man With the warnings of serious dangers to democratic goyemmeht the directors also gave assurance'that the antagonists of free government, like the Goliaths of old, were “merely inviting their own doom.” One feature of the report that is es pecially noteworthy is statement that defense of he democratic form of govern ment requires a practical preparedness, one inspired by prayer and guided by divine wisdom. And they added that a union of nations, to endure, must have a spiritual foundation. The latter reference is to the United Na tions, we presume, which has never open ed its session with prayer and of. which Ru^a, an enemy of God, is a member. it is well to note that Christians of all creeds everywhere are beginning to wwaken to the dangers of communism. In cidentally credit for the defeat of com munism in Italy must he ffiven to the Rom- u Catholic church which went all-out in Its efforts to defeat this anti-Christ move- niest Bub Bell Been AholiMhed? H. E. C. Bryant in his reminisccBces in the Charlotte Observer last Sunday quoted a Sunday School teacher in a Mecklenberg county church as 8a3ring: “I have listened to hear a preacher re fer to brimstone and damnation but have not heard them mentimied in recent years. Then Mr. Bryant, who is a former Wash ington correspondent of New York papers who retired about three years’ and return ed to Mecklenberg county to spend the rest of his life, went on to say; ^ ' “Returning to North Carolina in 1944, after an absence of 36 years, I tried to find some old-time preachers who frightened me as a child with predictions of a rain of ‘brimstone and fell-fire’ but they were gone. I have not heard a reference to those dreadful elements in many years.” Mr. Bryant commented on the passing of the old time revfval including the mourner s bench. “Changes in religious practices, as in almost everything else, have made a dif ference,” he says. Mr. Bryant then quoted the Rev. William Henry Foots, a leading Presbyterian min ister and church historian of Virginia, as having said in his book on North Carolina written in 1846: “The great revival of 1802 had a happy influence on^this (the Providence) congre gation. A camp meeting was held within their bounds, commencing Friday, March 23, at which it was supposed from five to six thousand persons were presiSint. For the first three days little impression was made and the opinion th%t‘all was the work of man, and the effectsbf the power of ora tory,’ which had been cireulated by those inclined to believe in infidel notiohs, was gaining ground. But on Sabbath niidtt a great impression was ^sible, and before ttie close of the meeting a large number w^re hopeful converts; and among those were some that had been prominent in their un belief.” According to Mr. Bryant^ an infidel’ so ciety with a library, flout^hed at that time in Providence township. The reference to some being converted who had been strong in their unbelief brings to our mind the case of a prominent lawyer in South Carolina who had openly scoffed at religion. When a noted evange list came to his town to conduct a meet ing in which all of the churches partici pated, the* town was surprised one night to see this lawyer at the wooden tabernacle In which the meeting was being held. A wave of indignation swept over the town the next day when he was quoted as having said that he had just gone to “see the show” and that he had paid $2.60 many a time and not seen as good a show. “I ex pect to go again,” he was quoted as having said. He (|id gor^gain, and again, and again and before the meeting .was over he hit tl^e sawdust trail, became a devoted church member and Sunday school teacher and went around making lay ^ilks until he died. ' 'There probably wouldn’t be much chance for a man like him being saved today be cause it took just such a revival as was being held in that town at that time to save that man. .We^don’t have'those kind of re vivals any more. One wonders though with Mr. Bryant if hell has been abolished. If so were the sainted old preacTiera who Used to preach it just ignorant or were they deliberately trying to deceive the people? If there isn’t any hell of fire and brimstone who dis covered that in these later years? And if there isn’t any hell where does the devil stay ? If it has been decided that there isn’t any hell and no devil aren’t some people who are weak in the faith likely to think 'SociA. ■ qOutLoud What^ Haspaned T« TM Paoplet ne nnweinljr conduct ni tens st tiaafirsll sumeu In rocont wMks moTM thu Cundra Chroniclo to Jeuptlon an article with "Who Wants to Be An Umpire?" The Chronicle cites apecific eases: In Wsshington tens threw POP bottles at an umpire after Ilia At RaUMSCasd. K. €.. Judsins by the way he holds up our traasportation In Berlin every now aia then. Joe StaUn most think he Is a John U Lewis. That confused looking man you see walking down' the street Is a "DemocraL" If there wasn’t a h where could you tell people to go to wheu you get mad at them? Russia? Occasionally a man takps the “road to ruin” while trailing around on his vacation. It has hSi^ened that a man would marry a girl thinking that she was a shrinking violet only to find Mut later that .she was a snapdragon. If a pedestrian is to cross streets safely, now he needs a rear view mirror, too. “How do you go about selecting a lawn mower?" asks an advertise ment Well, a considerate man tries to select one which he thinks bis wife can operate most easily. Science harnessed the atom but it doesn’t look like there are hold ing back strops on the harness. A newspaper refers to Wallace as a dreamer. To some he is a nightmare. ■ One of those writers , who can tell people how to be successful says that the trouble with many men is that they lack determina tion to gain their objective. And that remlhds us of the old story of the Englishman who kept hom ing pigeons and boasted to his friends that one of them could find his way home from anywhere. A friend bet him 20 pounds that ho could not get back home from lx)n- don, some 50 miles distant. The bet was taken and tbe bird was taken to a station to be let loose, but the man making the bet artfully ar ranged for the bird’s wings to be clipped before it was liberated. At the end of the week it had not re turned. "You wait.” said the own er, ‘“heTl be back, all right." At the end of two weeks the friend claimed tkat he had won the bet. He’ll ootee back from anywhere," insisted the owner. After three weeks the friend went around to claim tihe bet. “You have lost," the owner toM him, "he came In last night buk his feet are awfully sore." A monumental liar is a man who writes eijj^phs for tombstones. It’s not the wolf at the door that worries some men s<v much as the stork. From where we* are sitting it looks as if Senator Vandsnberg will be the Republican nominee for President if he can keep his friends from making him a candidate. Ibreaident Truman has not only seen but has addressed a lot of great open spaces on his Western trip. — — There are now historic spots to be seen in almdst every community these being plaoes where you once could get a good fried chicken din ner for a dollar. The elephant Is the Republican party’s emblem, and, the ^kass is the Democratic party’s. We suppose the (Russian) b^r will be the em blem of Wallace’s party? atteekad two umpirea and the ^ ^ to was mmd 4M for telUng to ba^ adyiu#**> polioe protection. Atfr**** that perhaps there is no heaven either? The Hermitage Mill Announcement that the Hermitage Mill is building an addition that when Com pleted will greatly enlarge its output and give employment to 226 more people is very gratifying. Camden would have had to have secured a great many small new enterprises be fore employment would have been found for 226 people. The addition to tflie Her mitage Mill therefore is the same thing as securing another large new enterprise for the city. i And this should also serve to remind us all that the Hermitage Mill has through the years been providing Camden with one of its largest payrolls. All Camden rejoices that-the mill under the splendid management H has enjoyed for hiany'^an haa made such fine prog ress. . Now can trmi HBt by grapevine but tMephone It m mwck better. Somebody on|(lit to aet that Sumter man whokflQpportlafBewigrfQrMidwtbo- caum **hi turikMtpaBkb tieik dintef the Spfmiah-Aaerietii IfaHon. M. C.. wm a iMur riot uad the umptrM hud to be escorted off the Itold hr poUcumen. "Rltfit here in peuoeful CunwIuB. ■ayu The Chronicle, "the umpir* hud to eaU on fhe police for pro- tecUon, but this we* from pteyeri on u visiting teem.” Whet huibcome over the twnper of the peo^? One eeneee s deep spirit of eocisl unreet, not only In the field of sporu. but In other spheres of activity. Think of the number of strikes und threatened strikes that have disturbed the economy of the nation In the test 12 months? Mental and social upsets never fan to follow a major-erar, btlt the war has been over long enough for the people to regain their bal ance. . Is it possible that the nation is suffering from an epidemic of "nerves” which is responsible for these flare-ups even over trivial matters? Or is It possible that the excessive cost of living, which is pinching many pocketbookSK is re sponsible for the high tension un der which people are living? Every effect has Its cause, and undoubted ly there Is a cause for present ab normal social conditions. "Umpires make mistakes,, as do all other human beings,” continues The Chronicle, "but even If they didn’t there would be some fans who would want to'lynch them for calling them right.” The man who lov^ sports should be a good sport. When be attends s sporting event he should be man enough to control bis impulses and kJr oountry. pouttlona te tka cabteat and baeuva a Soaiat ally. In ratom. Ctadioalovmklu tras tu ramala fraa. Wban tha Stalinlats Anally utraek. It was too lata. Banaa bad laamod what otkan hud in tku past — including Rooserrtt and Chnrchlll—that Stalin cannot ba trustad. Andaraonians and othar Amarl* cans, in thair graatar aaanrity and diataaea from tha Oomnrantet men- aca. 4ava no right to<- Judge Banaa Bat tka batnuml of '9mm kla ooviMit is a lauMU dor mWck tenor—Andamm »t.^ Na Caate Blaaalia^ Max BaU....dlracter of the intarior dapartment’a oil and gas dtekrion. has aald that tha natlon’t swar and fall gaaqllne supply "loaks pretty good." But Mr. Ball, who also announaad he was Quitting hla Job. threw ont soma Qualifications. Fbot, ha aald the supply would hold out if tha public did not drive raoklassly Cast and recklessly ter. N«it he aald there ml^t ha grief shortagaa doe personal feelings or either away.—Dillon Herald. Should Ssrvs As Warning Bduard Beoes haa finally resign ed as president of Ccechoelovakia. For three months he has been a figure-head while Russian Com munists and Csech fifth columnists went about killing the liberties of his people. Ha did rafnsa to sign the Com munist Constitution, by which tha traitors hoped to put tha stamp of legality on thair future arimas. But Benes’ greatest service to tha world of hraa men has bean In the tragic figwra he has now become. He dreamed of making Csecbo- slovakia a bridge between the ideologies of West and Bast. He convincad hlmaaM ha could trust Stalin So* he struck a bargain, gave tbe Russians the eastern proving of Senator Arthur H. 'Vandenberg summed it up right when he said: "The Communist fraternity sooner or later produces but one kind of fratemftr—the kind Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale." • ‘ Prissldent Turman evidently doesn’t think any more of Congress than Congrees thinks of him. It must be dangerous to know too much. We see'in the papers every now and then where some criminal baa been killed because he knew too much. . _— hi tha Mnmm his forscait itha oouditkm that^ laataad of hard fSplL** tjs s^ of petr35* ontput A tasker iSS ** to conserve oil artWl^ dotag fa recem moX ^ So. tWe yroapecTtf- on products meant \ handled, it bfauohe with a Mamr*!**! and use ell ^ cao he procuretjy* The Turen^.flret'erjm, Jane tUt, we beUma k bo t^ longest daytaSiV and It win be necesir>l many people to stgutes on that day or run tha hAi fraochlsement In the arlee. The club boohuS?! told, on June A Herald. ^ • Sntecribe To Thg stay Not « toy. Will lagi * Coeh • vhki fUor. Pmim m/t «r ipidb Im MOO oth ft. pt] mimite. Can move from room 4o room. Not a ' mor, Irat very ooiot TkhBUu BfNeiottt WM«w Fob 28 hgdioo From Up to Tip M. E. F09lTE».CoolairFaB PIKMIE B8S4 ALONG THE WAY PAUSE FOR COKE 7? 'm* After a while it seems that every voter In South Cat;oIina will have a little T>einocratic party all his own. Something a thousand times sweetef than sugar has been dis covered. Don’t you wish you knew telephone number? A dispatch from Coudersport. Pa., nys: "A hi| black bear apparently Is bent on giving civilisation a whirl. The big bruin, believed to weigh at least tSO pounds, ambled ont of the nearby Allegheny moun tains into this town of 3,000 Tues day. He was’first seen on a side street and later settled down In a backyard for tbe night. He was seen again Wednesday near the outskirts of Aho town." If he’ll take our advice he'll stay away from civilixatlon. The weather has been raising lots of hall In this section lately. A trip to the beach makes one think of the ditty: Mary had a 'bathing suit ■ The latest style no doubt And when she got Inside of It She was more than half way out” Mrs. PhllowMnne Lesaard. who wtU be 100 y^ old her next birthday, sa^: *Te<^e4uw short- enfag thefar Bvee b^uie every thing Is hnrry? hurry! huny!" And that remlnda w that we have got fa berry home rfakt now for dte- •ner.. ^ i A ,*kevt »' f PlueM itateTai ■Vi' VjiV r Annual a AiireoMft o# tm cwmw CAROLINA CpCA.COLA/llpTrUNG COMFANY