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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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-
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