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ttitaroA aa Uacond Claao Matter at tho Foot
Oftloo at Camdian. 8. C« iMor act of Coogreoa
March I. 1170
AU arUaiaa aubmlUai far pobUcatrou muit ba
signed hr. tha author
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, IMS
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 ^
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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-
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T/ywi art not diptef pov trading in Cam-
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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.
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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."
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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.
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