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C« iMor act of Coogreoa March I. 1170 AU arUaiaa aubmlUai far pobUcatrou muit ba signed hr. tha author FRIDAY, JUNE 25, IMS .J Why Not Two Primaries There seems to. be absolutely no hope of reconciling the conflicting views of members of the Democratic party in South Caroline end the only practical thing now appears to be the holding of two separate and distinct primaries in the state- this summer, one to be participated in by coun> ties that ere living up to the rules as adopted by the party and one to be par* tieil^eted in by coiinties that do not obey them. Certainly,it will not make sense to hold one primary with some counties voting un der certain rules and other counties under enthiely different rules. It would not be fair to allow 18-year-olds vote.in Green ville and deny ^^® other counties. It would not bd rii^t to permit the enrolment books to remain open in Pickens ^ounty util July 6 and force Ker shaw county to close them on June 22. It would not be right to make the people of other counties take one oath and permit the voters of a half dozen counties to take a different oafli. Six counties haVe so far rebelled against the rules, these being Greenville, Kichland, Spartanburg, Dai^lington and Jasper. It may be that these six could get together on rules for the holding Qf a primary of their own although we doubt that Jesper would go along because it has rebelled for a different reason fh>m the other five. In the General election the nominee for the United States Senate of the Greenville, Richladi Spartanburg, Pickens and Dar lington primary, if he should be different from the nominee in the regular State Democratic party primary, could fight it out with the latter. The rules for the conduct of the primary this year were set up just as they have been set up in the past. The machinery for holding the primaries was set in motion in April with the meeting of the precinct clubs. At the precinct meetings delegates were elected to the county conventions. At the county * conventions delegates were elected to the state convention and mem bers of the state executive committee were elected. The st^e invention m®t and. adopted the rules for the holding of the primaries as has always been done in the past. Because of the protests in some counties the state chairman called the state Demo cratic Executive Committee into session last week and the committee refused to, take any action on same. It seems to us that the committee acted properly since it would have been unwise for it to have overruled the state convention which, after all, was supposed to represent the views of the people. , If the committee should have changed the rules as adopted by tjie state conven tion and a terrific howl had set up from other counties which favored these rules then where would it have been? It could only have done one thing and that would have been to have met and changed them back. The committee is not in position to say whether the majority of people like or dis like the rules as adopted. The only way in which a decision could be reached would be to set the entire party machinery in motion again. Start afefcv^th the‘club meetings and, with the iflshe-being clearly stated, let each club again elect delegates to the county conventions and, with fiie issue again being clearly stated, let each county convention ^gain elect d^i^tes to the state conven tion. Would those who are protesting the party rules be willing to abide by the rtiles if they should again be adopted in a new state convention or do they insist that they have their way or else? The whole truth of the matter is that the Democrmtie party in South Carolina, as in the nation, ia now, made up of people, whoee vfews claah so violently that an other party ia almost a neceseity. A Job For Camden To Do^ It is not the policy of the Du Pont Conh- pany, the Chronicle Has learned, to UuUd “village” for its employees to live in. There will be no such thing as a villai^ for its en^ioyea here^ when their plant is constructed. V This means that somebody ought to be gin to make preparations to puf up homes between Camden and the river for theee employees to live in. There need be no great rush in the mat ter because apparently the bufiding of the plant will be a alow process and it msy be two yean or posaibly three or more before the bouaee will be needed but event ually they will be needed and it ia well for Camden to begin to make preparations for such an eventuslly. It is important that these homes be built between Camdra and the river in ord<r that these people shall be^ as close to the city as possible. A long range bouee-boiliding 4)rogram should be given serious consideration now. eeirm eaiiouiU.Hrmaajmutig n nm 8UBPB18BI Should Be No Muzzling The Buffalo Evening News recently ran a long news story and a feature editorial on a matter which is vital to a sound na tional defense-—yet which, apparently,, is little understood- by either Congre^ or the American people. Under the descriptive title, “The Story Navy Couldn’t Tell,’’ the editorial dealt with the controversy over the relative com bat merits of land-based iversus carrier-‘ based aircraft. During the hearings on our military expansion program; the Air Forces and the Army have insisted that carrier- based planes have largely outlived their usefulness and that huge, land-based bomb ers are capable of performing any con ceivable mission. The Navy’s side of this controversy was never clearly presented. According to the Buffalo paper, “the 4m- plication is clear; the Navy(.. has been muzzled by the Air Force, app^ntly with the backing of the Arniy and thfe Admin istration high command.”* The News then went on to sum up the Navy’s flying achievements in the Pacific war—and it’s a story that should be known to every American. Naval aviation, including the Marine destroyed 16,401 Japanese planes, as against 10,848 for the Army Air Forces. Eighty per cent of the Navy’s total were destroyed by carrier-based planes—and of these, 93 per cent were Japanese laHd-' based craft. That means that our carrier planes alone got rid of 19 per cent more enemy planes than did the Army Air Forces. , For every one of our carrier planes lost in combat, 14 ‘enemy planes were shot down. This 14-to-l combat superiority com pares with a ratio of about T-to^JL for land- based Navy and Marine planes and 6-to-l for the Air Forces. ^ Finally, y. S. cMTier planes 5,649 enemy aircraft On the ground, as against 2,981 so accounted for by the Army Air Forces. To quote The News again, “Naval avia tion, and especially carried-based aircraft, placed the major role in the winning of American air supremacy in the winning of America air supremacy in the Pacific war —and thereby demonstrated the vital im portance of Naval air power on any future war strategy. If Congress doesn’t know what naval aviation has done and can do, it’s time It found out And it also had better be inquiring who tied a gag on the Navy—in flagrant violation of the spirit of the unification'program.” This country’s security depends upon the balanced development of all the arms. Both carrier-based and land-based air-* craft have vital roles to play. HdnkbiqOitfliHii SoaMdiiM whea we get to tliiBk inf abeat Ryisla and ita Iron Cw- tabi wa think ttat perhapi the Unitai Matee ought to do what the old coloeai nlgbt watehaua who heard atrang e noiaaB ia oaa ot the darkaaai front dlleae did. Dadd tng ta faTestigate ha approdched tharooB and called: "Who'e there? CoaM eat* with your handa raised BO I caa aee who yon ia—or if yon don't. ni some la .and aaa who foa waa." ^ What la home withont an old- taehioaad rocking chair? A woBMUi writes to the editor of a health column in a dally paper to eay that every time the gets in the bath tnb she enffara from a rlneiBg la tbo ears. Moat be the tdeplmaa. Onr idea of an optlmiat ia a man who M Inat atartfng on.a fishing trip The big Elephant ahow baa been on in Philadelphia tbla week. Who can remember when a “garden” meant a place where to- matoear-string beans, aquagh, com, onions, etc., were grown? You can no longer tell hoif many people in a house by ita size. • A writer says he doesn’t know what the world’s coming to but lots of people have a pretty good idea as to whmre it’s going. • Who pat the mud In this Demo cratic« mtMldle? Henry Wallace addressed a Den ver, Colorado, audience in Span- iah. He should have addressed them In the Russian language. The hobble skirt is said to be coming back this fall thn smaking It even more difficolt for a con- ilderable portion of tho world’s population to get along. ‘ Earthquake drills kre being held in Japea. But they are aboat three years-too late. Every man is grateful that men do not have to go to as much trouble to look pretty as do women. One trouble with this immediate’ section right now is that there it too much hot air.* No, Imogene, Rrussell Sprouts are not youn^ <^bbage. Hen^,^^ Wallace may find It dlffl- curt* to plow a* ^ elephant. under. , • — ) The popularity of golf is spread ing all over the world, says a news paper filler. And it must be. We saw the other day where an ex plorer telling of a strang island he and a party had visited said: “We were surrounded by natives and they lust uttered savage cries, danced madly and beat the earth with their clubs.’’ That sounds like golf. Thqre seems to have been some Luce talk at the Republican con vention thig week. With The Press _g^.v MACSSIIsir ” ky tua Thyyubaa thm t tiottcaa build way of itf«. Ia **®’^*t the opportM,^ ltdelf woHd to peneeteatse a. iat arsaiwlth Ha * Of oowsae. proposal, which Is iSSLl*’ P«nda. npoa the Western world to pie that the capltalfaHr Is better for aU ayBem. if capitaUsta see that dnee OommaatMs * standard of living tha Qamt of ComaaiJJ' Wa^ust also ricognb, tamatlye, that if oaKtntm an abmty^a more abundaaUy sai better standards of UvW i9 oalled private peoples of the wortd wtt* turn te CtMamanlaM. b worte* the riyal eoeaswk a dmild be allowed ta liM^ for snpremacy, bit tijiiXl mesa that the use of aolS er la advisable in tbs ^ Tlmea * DMU>crat Drive Carefully— • Wliea you tkiak of I TUnk of oa ... her Company. 1 1 Ons Certificate Comes this suggestion from a man long associated with election enrolment and its problems: , Do away with enrolment as at presmit constHuted. Let registra tion Bufice, a person to vote in the primary by showing his registra tion certificate. This, he argnes, would cut down expense. At present it’ is a heavy financial burden to keep the enrol ment books open for the prescribed time. And It would answer the com plaint of those who object to hav ing to get eo many papers to vote in the primaries and the general elaction. The matter could be made even simpler by naing the same registration certificate for munici pal electiona as for 4:ounty and state elections. The suggeathm is presented for consideraikm.—The State. have pestered mankind long before history was written. It is commonly llmown that flies are efficient spreaders of disease germs and thrtr victims . have filled millions of premature grares. When and if the entire fly family is exterminated the death rata of the human family will be greatly reduced. It is heartening to know that the DDT campaign will be eoattenad in Dillon county until every breed ing place of files is treated.—©lb Ion Herald. Exterminating tha Fly Something has happened to the fly family in Dillon county. So far this year flies hava been as scarce as democrats at a Repablican con vention. , Last year the ooaiity was pretty well plastered with DDT whldi is said to be' the deadly enemy of the fly. Maybe that accounts for the absence ot these insects which Compistition Without War There Ik danger in the present world situation, exidains AnsoM J. Toynbaa, British biatorian, becauae of the possibility that soma nation will seek political unification by da> liverlng a knockout blow to aU o] ponenta. The United States and Russia, if tbey went to war, mlidit oreata a situation in which tbo vletor wanid unify the world through force, bat the hlatoriaa doee net believe that the people of the earth waat uaifl- UtM< g r.i i ■ . OWES STTKIU ■WiOnvflQR MnNwi M. E. ¥01 PhoM 8884 fw.. v^^aek. HAVE A COCA-COLA PLAY REFRESHEII T/ywi art not diptef pov trading in Cam- dan, you ought to ho. Doesn't Always Work Out A meeting of the Oconee County Demo cratic executive committee was called for last Friday for the purpqse of “bolting” the party rules and regulations as adopted at the recent state convention. There had been a great deal of “grumbling” in the county and it was thought that the com mittee would follow the action of the committees in ^Greenville, Richland and two or three other counties. When the matter was put to a vote of the committee however, the vote stood 19 to abide the stgte party rules and only 3 to “bolt” them. > All of which just goes to show that the state Democratic executive committee would not feel that it was jnitified in changing the rales because some are dia* satined wHh them. Otheia are aatiafied and if the rales ‘wof changed they would put up a hue aid eqr and would ba justified because the rales were sdepted ' by the ststs convodien. “What makes you feel better than anything else?" asks a writer. Peelinx belter. A butcher nearly always has an ox to grind. t It doesn't always pay to follow the lines of least resistance. That Is the reason a river is so. crooked. The Republican ctmvention sounded Tu#sd'»y night like a ‘Green supreipacy” convention. “You can never tell what a drunk is thinking or will do,” says a temperante writer. And that re minds us of one we heard the oth er day. This drunk staggered home and made his way subconsciously through the house, winding up in the stall shower of his bathroom. As he groped about, he turned on the water deluging himself plenty and making a racket which brought his wife to the scene. Taking in the details, she called him all kinds of names winding up with a none too flattering estimate of his past, present and future. “That’a right, honey.” admitted the shuddering sot. "I’m everything yon said and worse. But let me In won’t yon— it’s raining something ovrfai out here." ^T* fw J xlt Heath Now Sole ^NnetN* (N Team T. Heath, Sr., of Sumter, Is fba a(^ ipeaaor of the Sum ter baseball taun of the Palmetto baa^all league^ aeeordlng to the Samter Item. Mr. Heath la the owner of the CoospCoU Conipuiy of Sumter and tha Ibet that be ia sponsor of the tsam now means that it win not laok for funds or oquipment. UTHEtOA. FSCMYTIRIAN ONUIICH ^ tuaUMv JaasUr A. beufbtewuAni, Sualar Church schagl at 10 o^doek with a BlMa class fir ovary age. For tbo tho aurooiy (ho ttom- werabip vrMh liioaihiiTTil. At TVIondShfp Obmtel: SuaUoy o*i ok 10 a. m.* Morning wcnihlp at 11:11 and ovoRiau aorvlea ut • wUh ytr. Fnak L, rany. Jr.. In ctargs BvwTOBo la Invlt ‘ ta attaad aU li'r i > V C!ARAIYma ^?^- ***^ ^WOOWTY or mi coca.c<ha COCA-COLA MmUlfG COMPANY 1.-T5