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I i?'' >*■ .• i i‘■ i f-' r ''* •51:'. ; r ‘ . ¥,[ ■ .^A ^ j^sf cMm^tiuk mmny, «. Qlt|t (Sanbra (01|mtfr1» UM North Brood Stroot Ooadoo. M. C. POBUSHID KtnBRT ntIDAT HarbUi C. Booker - DaOosto Brown - - • - Editor - Pablisher SUBSCBIPnON TERMS: All Sttbeeriptioiis Payable In Advance One Year ^^*ka abc Month! ■•■■»«»*»«**'«—»»*»*»********^***— loOv Itetorod 00 Sooond Clm lUttor ot tho Foot OCflco ftt Comdon. 8. tmdor Mt of Concroso lioreh t, ItTt All ortielot oahaittod tor pobUootkm most bo olgaod br tho ootbor PoiiUes Above Country Walter Uppman is generally ^arded as one of the able«t columnist! ' in this country, one whose views cany greater weight perhaps than those of any of the other columnists. He is an independent Democrat. He supported the late Franklin D. Roosevelt although disagreeing with him in many instances. Mr. Lippman^ like thousands of other citizens all over the country seems to think that Mr# Truman reached a new lo^W at the Philadelphia convention^ “In the annals of tKe American govern ment,** he says, “the scene enacted by Mr. TVuwan in the middle of the night at the close of the Democratic convention is unique in its disregard for the dignity of his office and the proprieties of the Con- ftitution. It was not pretty tp think of the President of the United States hanging aiound .backstage for hours, waiting to ac cept a nomination which had not yet been tendered him. Even though he knew that the convention had no alternative but to nominate him, a decent regard for the forms of democracy would have told Ibim that until the delegates had voted, they were in principle free to make another choice, and that, like Governor Dewey, who waited in his hotel, he must not enter the hall. “But his action when he appeared be fore the delegates was An evem more flag rant departure from thp standards of con duct which ^e PrMidenl of the United States is in honor bound to preserve. In the early hours of the morning, in the, pres ence of a disorderly partisan meeting, Mr. Truman announced that he' was convening ^e Congress for the purpose of promoting his own election. **The Congress belongs to the whole peo ple, not to a party, and it is an abuse of the Constitutional power of the President to convene it in extraordinary session un der these circumstances for these purposes. Mr. Truman cannot even pretend that the public interest comp^fied him to call the special session. For if his main concern were inflation and housing, he would have told Congress when it adjourned that he would udl it back as soon as the oonvmi- tions were over. He would never have waited to announce that decision until he could tae it to give a kick and a punch to his own personal campaign for election. **Were fhis interest in the measures he mentioned sincere U the sense that he wants them enacted, he Asbuld have told the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress weeks ago that they must stay in . Washington all summer to deal with them. He did hot do that** Mr. Uppman then went on to say of the ' President, that “the most' serious aspect of the matter is the disclosure of how thin and fragile are the safeguards and re- ^ straints of Tits own conception of the pub lic interest how secondary and subordinate they are likely to be in the strategy and tactics of his campaign.** Then Mr. Uppman poses this vital queil- • tion: **The question U wbatt else Mr. Truman urill do if somci smart advisor tells ^lim ha can gat soma votes. Thara is no kimwing. A man who in one a special session of Congrtsi in order to pracipitaite a fight on domestic issues and will knock the moral foundations from under the bi- partUan foreign policy, has cast away realraints which would make his ac tions predictable. **Tlio international crisis is vary gravair What assurance is there that' Mr. Truman, who is a weak Presidmit fusd is at heart a jingc^ will resist the tamptelion to aspalt H? Because he is / weak, tho control pi tho great daci- siana^ pardenlairlir abtetf crucial prahifOM pi Csraiany, U an has bean ' the bafinming^piifea beyond him.** Arthur Kroek, comfpdndtnt of 4he New York Thnee and «io19ier wery nstute pollH- enl hitter* layi that tkp FraMdeatfs apatch iptloit Pi gee—Blatad lUa. faet Ittt Mm fit »a bgt tih# mnabtdar wBl infiuaiiea the fiihiirs of the nattgg. Mr. Krock, who also is an iadepandent Damoctut, tttan made the bold statemant that **tb win the immediate bMp pi the the President dedd^ o^ politi- whieh could kae the long war.** ;k continued that the speedh of ident “eminently suited the motley assortment of Democrat politicians out side of ij^e South, who ware desperate over the outlook for their -organisationa which are nourished on local, state aiid federal payrolls. This motley array are- now en couraged because>^^^ bid put in by Mr. Truman for thp^tM of labor, the negroes and the ZiiMilst8.*i/ “That filr. Truman offered no high or spiritual note in his address to the conven tion did not disturb them,” he says. “Such words and sentimenta were out of place in the gamble that is being ventured.** When one considers that Mr. Truman is a product of one of the most corrupt politi cal marines that every disgraced the coun try, the head of the machine (Boss Pren- dengrast) finally having been sent to jail, one does not wonder that he is willing to risk the welfare of the nation in an attempt to gain a political advantage. He cannot longer be trusted to the lead ership of this great country in such an hour as tl^ when its life is at stake. Thonnond For Pren^fit (g—rtel To CharioolMi Nowi «id Cevrlor) la cmtlns Uwlr •loetomi Totss for J. Ptrom TlmrBioi^8ottth Oaraiteteiis nooC not tool tter am ttorowtec aw ttelr TTimfir noCbpt loot CMsa On tho eontrorr. thoy not only tJwlr srtedplM bat caa ootabUili ta tbo oyo* of tbo nation a turn moaa- nla of isaUMni todotealoafo. . Thoash not ao goaorally bnovn throagbomt tbo country m Thuma. Thomaa K Dovoy or Hoary A. Wallaoo. Gorornor Tbnnao^ la a auta of no loaa atatoro tho otbor candUlatea for praoWont or Bts City FIfM Tba toulii tbo Unites aiateo. Soath CarollBlana art to aympathy with tbo gbturmaaA la effort Ha to dofoodlas tha South It would be u abaiao and a dtograea ware South l^toUatopa te wHbIpli our aupport to tbolr follow clUgon who baa boon honored wiiB tbo anadnatka. . _ If the Sontbon atatea aUcl^ by Mr/Tmmond. tbo prediction^ —that Harry Truman nmy not^aity a ainslo atate *» ®®t tbo roalm' of potelbOlty. In that orAt. It could not bo aald that me Boatkara Domoerate had Inaorad tao election of a. Ropubll^,* » Dowoy would bare boon oloctod anyway, re^dloaa of bow tba South the other band. If too vote abonld bo di>o between Truman md Dewey, the Southern eleetorul rote# for Thurmond might throw tbO OlectlMi into the booee of repreeentatiree. There orory state baa ooo v<lte apiece—^Now York, Oallfomla, Ohio and the other atatee with ..CTo The Democratic Ticket When the motley array of radicals and leftwingers that med up a majority of that convention held in Philadelphia last ^eek “bolted** the Democratic psii^ by adopting an un-Democratic platform, they made it impossible for Democrats of the South to support the nominee of that convention. This left three possible couines of action open to the white Southern Democrats They could name nominees of their own, they cpuld support the Republican nomi nees or they could refrain from voting at all. l^e last choice is too passive and ap peals to very, very few men. ^ At Birmingham, Ala., last Saturday a convention was held of Southern white Democrats and a ticket was put in the field that every white Southern Democrat can support. Governor J. Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina, was named for President and Governor Fielding Wright, of Mtosis- aippi, was named for Vice President. Both are able men, true Southerners and both have put up a coui^geoua figh^ for the South. Aii^ Southerner can vote for them with his head erect. As for Soutiiem support of Mr. Truman, William D. Workman, Jr., of the News and Courier, Charleston, who attended the Philadelphia convention, wrote: “If the white Democrats of the South subscribe to the party and platform of 1948, they will have abandoned all self-re spect, all claim to the heritage aa 'lighting Southemen*, all fegard for the tradition of state sovereignty, and all hope of con tinuing what we call the ‘Southern way of life.’ *’ All of which is well put! Suppose a group of radicals and left wingers should get control of Kiwanis or Rotary or the Ldona or some, other great civic organiMtion and at a natioiiaFcoh- vention of the organization jeer and hoot at Southerners And adopt resolutions re pugnant to them! Would Southern men stay in such an organization? They would NOT. • Years ago the Baptist, Meihodiste and Presbyterians of the South found it neces sary to secede from their Northern breth- eren because of vital differences of opin ion. Certainly the Southera Democrats have to do something. They cannot longer re main in the party now masquerading as the national “Democratic” party. lort* poputotlon* th® Mtm® oi Soath Carolina, Mtotisaippl, Norte Dakota. Tbon tba combined rotea of the Sooth and the Weet misht odntrol the prealdonttol election, and a man like Thurmond would have a real chance Whirtever the outcome, the caatins of anbetantlal number of el^ toral votes for Oovemor Thurmond will bo a lesson la politics that tho master of tho national parties will not soon forget. It wfll serve notice OB the country and on tho world that the sum of mlnoriUea doei not neeeeaarily snrpasa the majority. Boih Democrats and Republicans are making a ptoy for negro votes, the former in thq belief they have the white Sontbemers in tile bag and the latter in the knowledge that they have no chance to carry the South anyway. The Solid South now can demonstrate that it to not in tha has, that it has a mind and a will of its own, and that it offers a temptlnf bloc of electoral votes tor a candidate who will make an hon- eat Mi for them. la the electoral ooltofe lies the only chance to save the Sooth for Thare it this week that It was ‘liot as h— Never having been there we were not in poeltion to affirm or deny his stateutent One advantage of baying a round trip ticket to that yon at least get a return for your money. Ihi RepuMioana ‘are probably wondering is Senator Barkley's bite will be as bad aa his'bark. If only something a^mld happen to take the beet off of the South. It to Intoreatiiis to note that when tha Deoocratlc coavuntioa took I its vote OB tha civil righte ptonk, oppositioa to the propoasto CBBM. net only mm the Boath. bat from maay ftatas thpoaghoat the omitting the Bottfhem atetea ware the folknrlac atatea, which cast all their votea with the Boath: Arlamia. Delawaare, Idaho, Mis* •oart Nevada, New Mezloo, North Dakota. Rhode Island. Utah aad the Canal Bone deUpttoa. la additlee, tee majority of the votes la the followlBg ^atetea waa lined ap with the Boatesra dale- gatea: Maine, Moatapa, NebrsMEs, New Bampohlre, Oragoa, Want Yh- ginto and Alaaka. The vote of 651 1-S to 58S 1-S, by which the convention favored ihol- Itlon of poll tax in fedwal' elec- tkmA a natfcmal tow agMnat lynch ing, creation of a permanent fair employmeat practices mtem and non-aegregation of the raoaa in the armer oervlcee, found eight of the largar states providing moat of the votes for tea prufoaals. Iheae to- itow Tute. oiiteMi ,JMua elghtSi!?* pH aheaM be hkwy on# of them^' by teatropotttea —Orangeburg Natural actor la givM SWrayiag a h£i*Lg' •notW famous tee faaalest prised winner^ H Mitaionary T» Speak M8i Ur. B. D. < preach at Smytns Ute. Semday at 4ru » ^ 3 Lucas is Jordan cherg* but vsTlJ Smro Just prior “ mtoskmanr to ChW\' yaura ago. * He will also spesk i tog day services at ^ i chusc^ the ‘ •amo day. PPP THIS NOTICE WORTH 28o TO YOU! ThinkhiaOulloud Tha Bouthem delegates to that convention in Philad^pbto last week probably feel as did an in tense iouthernor who attended a social gathering In Washington once. Asked by bis wife on hi ere- tnm home who was at the party he replied: "An eluant gentleman from Mtesluippi, a gentleman from Vhiteto, a man foom Olio, a boondor^trom Chicago, a fellow from New York aad a galoot fcem [ahte.* Turtlaa live to be SOO to 260 yeara old. according to a aewspap- r fUiar. Yes, but who wanU to be a turttoT 'Woald you call a Communist from Rhade Island a Rhole Islaad Red? Transfer Land To Dn Pmit Co. he caaMffO ® picture ^ent troMPfi^ollhto of a graap The out of detogatea tadentiftea one of the group as "Senator Harry Byrd of VirglDla briskly walking off to the left" As if such a thing as Senator Byrd walking brtokly to the left could be possible. One thing that seems to worry everybody la where time goes. We see where one man says that the Democrats ought, to keep their fight for chrll rights within the party. For a Southerner to stay in the Democratic party now In the hope that he may chpage Its vlewu on civjl HU® ai»t or Wte a woman marrying a drunken aot hoping to teform Mm. 8Sc semper tyrannns. Onr watchniord shall hf. Our lortpheru wtra ffaemea And we teall be free. This coimtoy i***!’* ^ drink itself yjeh yet, but then you must remember It to still a com- partively yetmg country. V'One ahould ho a good listener,’' ^^s a writer. Yes, ano that re minds us M tho old ditty: ••When tftey gave out bntitia. I Thought they^^B^ tratoa I mte8od^arine. A real estdte conveyance record filed at tha court house last wete transferred 26US acres of property fa Logoff to E. I .dn Pont (le Ne- monrs P Company, Inc. The prop-' erty waa part of what waa known aa the Ingleeide pluitattoa, owned by Mrs. Martha Kirk, wldav of the late Richard Kirk. The conaidera- tioa was Hated as $16,814.75. The property Is bounded on thb north by the Seaboard Air Lina railway, oa the east by the Wateree river, south by the Victor Ward property, atoo thait of L. O. Pnn- derburk and* the Kirk estate aad on the west by L. O. Ifonderbvrk aad the Kirk eeteta ’ ■ " - ' I a DO YOU SUFFER RNEUiATie ACHES-Plllj ThmGetPPP The RemarhMm Meilieine Whiffy Brought Bloeood Retiei To T\ owe it to yoarself to try PPP noqrl Thtor vm btossad raltoC ta tiMOMBdi ad rlmoMtlc DIPBfMASUl Ofn •$ fliJM m^works fast, to edOdai^tori dopcndabto-HiBosni fliaiJai>KAL PteWULA Tbto depepdable wadletee euMalaa tlao teedtoal ■Buy OoeteTB hove Bwcceeifully pwacrlbed la reltovt ito bmi bara rheomatto ooaditieaa. Don’t p«C it off. tiy ppp fo < todqrt You’ve nothtaif to toau everytMng to MONBY BACK QCABANTIB! TMte OB dlreeted and tt you’M aot aattottod adte udi be ‘ ‘ ' Ab a Bpartal offor you eau pareban a tagtov till btetotiL aaly fLPP, U ym bring Mttoo to Onp mm toha BMd tor a Ibattud Bate auto- M paur igttto ligbi wmp PPP ' a DeKalb Phannacy The Polio Situation Wlule obIj^ 'one case ot polio has been reported in Kprshaw county in recent weeks, the dreadful disease is spreading rulher ittpidly in North Carolina and five cases have been reported in ^ur neighbor ing county of LtneaiUr within the past two weeks. This means that every' precaution should' be taken in this county because the disease is no respecter of state or county lines. Tbe medical fraternity is still unable to Account for the cause of the diseAse. It*is ^known thAt it is a virus disease but ihow it* is spread is not known.’ At any rate it la waH to take every pre caution and. it ia good to know that the city is to be fogged ao aa to kill fUea'and inseeto which might well be canien of theideAdly genn. .^nd When they g«ve out lookB, I . Thought they said bpokB And I didn’t went any. When they gave out lega, f Thought they aald kega And I ordered two fat onea. When tbay gave out ears, Thought they aaid beers And I oTdarod two long ones. • When they o®! ®'‘toB. i Thought they aaid gins And I orj^ a double ope. Now ain’t 1 a meear It is said that the one hundred millionth automobile will come off tho assembly line some time in August. So if yon ate tockly enough to have a ear how remember that it is one of J00,p0#.000. It Is dlfflcnit for people to live within teely neaiui with their meanness We preaume tho reaetm-dootofs advise yon to take loto oAagU dur ing heat wmraa to to keep you from ■polling It’s a wonder that tome of those persona who are so exercised over "human rights" de not want to give the country back to the In- dtons. _ . People Like Coke Where They Wo _ 1^. e/, ^ J' 1 y. ' of the “liberala** in this country would hmve us tight eoatnumlaai by patting in th* lAiM toi^ of gQVffmnitft Nutt Boa- A heuHh .writer aivisM agataat people atterngtiof to dlaaauae their own ailaMtea aaytog that some- times their mlatekea might fCBVO costly. Aal ttMvwatii Ida ui of the nuto fennw who biun tohtoeowgh Bunatog to.hto awtew ho oadate- ud: **MallHA tea hiM Wa haaid a mmi tap ant Q(a Askjw keiiktr.wpf • * ■ tnule-mprks mm CABCMIirA ^ ^ CBCABBtA COCAeOOLA BOTrUM CfiirAlfr i;o