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THE CAMDEN CHNONICLE, CAMDEN. EOUTH CANOLINA. I^IPAV, AUGUST 13 1»4> 'li ^ ■ ? - 31l|p (RamiJrn (Hhronitle 110S North Broad Street Camdeo, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY f Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: ' All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year - $2.50 Six Months 1-50 Entered as Second cfiass Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Congress •• March l. 1879 All articles submitted for publication must be signed - by the author FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948 Spies, Traitors In Our Midst Although President Truman referred to the spy mveetigation now in progress in Washington as a “red herring," the Army- Navy Register, the United States Military Gazette, evidently does not so regard it. Said the Register in an editorial in its August 7 issue: “Amazing revelations of gross negli gence in the handling of documents of a secret or confidential nature bearing on the parts played by certain agencies charged with planning for the war effort, beginning about 1940, were given a congressional in vestigating committee recently. “A witness who was employed in respon sible places, including the War Production Board, testified that he furnished outside agents With information taken from the Government records on matters concerning airplane production, production policies, synthetic rubber formulas, and war pro grams in general. “The same individual told the committee that he had knowledge of some of the high ly secret operationa of the Manhattan pro ject (atom bomb), although, according to Committee Chairman Ferguson, of Michi gan, information on this subject was denied the Truman investigating committee at about the same time. ^ ' - “It seems clear from the information given the two committees that Communist agents obtained what was thought to be important information, which was sent to a foreign government. This is a most serious situation. “Vigorous steps should be taken without further delay .to ferret out those guilty of violating their iayalty oaths, taken upon appointment to Federal positions, par ticularly in time of war, and punishing them as spies and traitors." And so the Army-Navy Register evi dently does not agree that the committees conducting these hearings were engaged in dragging a red herring over the trail. The Preeident has laid himself liable to further'driticikm by his refusal to give the committees access to the government em ployment files, in order that the committee might further try to locate any possible communists or communist sympathizers in government positions. It’s a rather unusual situation when Congress, the governing body of the land, can be denied .access to government rec ords. It seems that we have something of a dictatorship in this country after all. Why Bring It Up? According to the chief, engineering divi sion, of the United States Engineering of fice, the question of the projected dam at Buckingham Landing, at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree rivers, will not necessarily be brought up at the Rearing oA the Santee River system to be held in Columbia, on September 2. The chief of thfc engineering division told .the Columbia Record that a resolu tion was adopted by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the lower house of Congress on December 28, 1946, requesting -tha engineers to review the reports hereto fore submitted on the Santee River system with a view to determining whether any modification of the recommendations con tained therein is advisable at this time. “It cannot be stated that this time," he said, “if the question of a dam at Buck ingham Landing will be discussed as one of the projects, It has been considered that it would not be necessary to further discuss the Buckingham Landing project at this hearing, since it waa thoroughly covered at the Sumter hearing and the data presented at the Sumter hearing ar^ available and will be ueed in preparation of the report." If the matter is not to come up again we do not quite •understand why notices of the in were sent to interested people be wiped off of the and kept off. of former p redden- that this year • ■ ’i- rrjttrr— A Plea For The Indian Writing in the New York Times’ Sun day magazine, Oliver La Farge gives some very interesting information about the sad plight of the Indians in this country and makes a plea for something to be done for these red men. According to Mr. La Farge the latest of ficial figures show that there are more than 420,000 Indians hi the United States and Alaska now under Federal supervision. Our greatest tribe, the 60,000 Navajos, is locked, he says, by illiteracy and endemic disease into a desert mijitary reservation which can hardly support half that num ber. Mr. La Farge says that the Indians are a loyal and useful people. “Some 25,000 of them,” he says, “served in the armed forces in the last war—women as well as men. Mahy" thousands served in war indus tries. The Marines had a special corps of Navajos who were used to communicate by radio from ship to shore in landings— as simply by talking in their own language they used an unbreakable code. One of the men in the famous picture of raising the flag on Mount Surabachi, the one with his arm up, reaching, was a Popago, and shortly after the flag was set up, a Flat- head was killed defending it." The plight of the Navajos is then dis cussed by the writer, who describes th$m as “very primitive, half-starved herds men." “We took the whole country from the Indians, leaving them tracts of land, often the poorest there was, sometimes purely worthless, on which to'^try to get by," says Mr. La Farge. “We shattered the simple and satisfactory life which they had been living, and in return we inflicted upon them a vast variety of diseases, above all tuberculosis, against which they had no immunities. Conquest, despoliation, dis ease and mistreatment they have repaid with loyalty and patriotism. We owe these people a debt. There is no excuse for us today to follow' a course which will pro long and renew’ the evils of the white man’s advent. The Indians deserve a square deal." It is good to see some one at last speak ing up for the poor Indian. Perhaps it is because there are not enough of them to possibly affect an election that no effort has been made by politicians to do any thing gfor them. Nor have we heard of any of the ministers who are so muchly exer cised ver the plight °f other minorities say ing anything about the plight of the poor Indians. It is sort of difficult to understand that! But be that as it may, Mr. La Farge has sounded a note that ought to make every American do some serious thinking and furthermore he should do all that he can #» to see that something more is done for. the Indian. As It Should Be State Chairman W. P. Baskin has an nounced that an overwhelming number of the members of the state executive com mittee have endorsed and recommended Governor Strom Thurmond for President and Governor Fielding Wright f°r Vice President and that the electors from this state will be instructed to* cast their ballots for these two men. This is as it should be. The sentiment in South Carolina is overwhelmingly in favor of the States Rights Democrats and the committee in recognition of this fact has voted to so instruct the electors from this state. We believe if| an election were held to day Mr. Truman\would not get many more votes in this state, if any more, than Mr. Dewey. \> With The Press For President Truman The question is asked if some one way should not be provided for people of South Carolina who wish to vote for Mr. Truman to do so. We have an idea that such an electoral ticket will be put out. The Progressive Democratic Party or the Citizens Demo cratic party will probably see to that. Doesn't Make Sense It doesn’t make much sense to sentence Robert H. Best to life mprieonment for treason because of his Nazi propoganda broadcasts during the war and yet allow Communists in this country to try to deliver our country lock, stock and barrel to Rus- IhinkbiQ Out Loud Now we know who the elect are The Southern Democrats and the Northern Democrats are about as far apart on the poll tax question aa the polee. — News breaks so fast now that it Is oftentimes old before people hear It. Accord inn to .Oliver La Farge, there are 420.000 Indians In this country, many ot whom cannot take care of themselves. Our greatest tribe, the 60,000 Navajos. is locked by Illiteracy and endemic disease into a desert reservation which can hardly support half that number. President Truman doesn’t seem to ■be worried over their plight. Per haps he is like the South Georgia politician who was running for of fice. At one point he made a par ticularly vitriolic speech. After the meeting his local campaign man ager told him: “I’m afraid your speech today offended many of our best pebple ” To which the candi date replied: “To heck with the best people—there aren't enough of them" There aren’t enough In dians to affect the vote in this country. That Western woman who di vorced her husband the other day and was awarded alimony of $1,500 a month for her three children must plan to feed them meat. The United States seems to be almost as much as misnomer now as the Unite! Nations? The guy who conducts one is the man who gets the lot out of the lottery A lot of political aspirants In Tuesday’s election now need some aspirin. I>a8t week In response to a sug gestion by an economist that a lot of spending could be avoided If people would swap Articles they have 1n their homes for articles they could use, we announced that we had an old radio that wouldn’t play which we would like to swap for one that would play “J L. K.” of Columbia wrote: “In response to your offer to swap a radio that won’t play for one that will; I beg to say that I have a radio that play too d much (the kids keep It on full blast all day and half of the night) so I would h? pleased to swap It for one thp.t will not play '' A hen’s only remuneration Is her feed and she only eats about 40 cents worth a month, so we would sav offhand that she is entitled to a raise, considering the price her product Is bringing now. Why don’t school teachers lake a cue from radio announcers and offer handsome prizes to pupils who give the right answers? About the only person who can bust a filibuster is a flllbusterer. When we were listening to the broadcast of jthe Wallace conven tion In Phllalelphia recently we de ckled to Join the Better Hearing Society People are getting more 1m- pathnt. says a sociologist. Yes. we have even seen stories lately indicating that burglars were peeved because the money wasn t left where they could get It easily. Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing says that he planned to fire D* John W. Studebaker as Oomniissioaer of Hdacation hut "he heat me to the gun by resigning.” \fr Ewing evidently didn't realize how fast a Studebaker is ^Believes Moscow Might Change Policy"—headline. One disconcert ing thought is that whenever Mos cow c hanges a policy It is usually fur the worst Kerr Scott, governor-elect of North Carolina, is to speak at the annual meeting of the North Caro Una Taxicab Association. Well that is appropriate as he passed every body else In running for Governor Any South Carolina politician who can’t tell by now which way the cat is Jumping is either blind or just plain dumb. Supreme Court Justice I^ee B Wyatt, of Georgia, told the Ala bama Bar Association the other day “If I had my way about Wal lace I would say get the hell out^ and go back to Russia" Well, 'so far as we are concerned the Jus tice can have his way. Elmer H. Wene is the new as sistant secretary of agriculture. So now we know where Elmer is. A writer complains that school children are being taught Inac curacies. And that reminds us of the mother who wrote her little son’s teacher a letter as follows: “Dear Miss. Please don’t give Tommy any jnore home work. That sum abcuqhow long would It take a man to walk around Trafalgar Square eight times caused hie fath er to lose a day’s work and after he had worked It you marked the •on wren*.* Juvenile Crime Wave Spreading There is no denying the fact that every effect has its cause. Nothing happens "Just so.’’ There is an underlying cause for the wave of juvefiile delinquency sweeping the nation It may be due to a demoralizing home environ ment, lack of discipline, the read ing of degrading literature, the love of pleasure or dozens of oth er things. A few days agp the papers car ried the shocking story of a youth who shot his mother in the back of the head with a .22 rifle and at tempted to kill his father who was approaching the home. Youths, or even adults, who com mit such atrocious crimes are men tally deranged—victims of a dis ease more pernicious than cancer or tuberculosis. < Isn’t it about time to begin drives to suppress or minimize these juvenile delinquencies? If they continue to Increase, the mo- als standards of the coming gen eration will fall to a distressingly low level.—Dillon Herald. Supporting Thurmond A number of newspapers through out South Carolina, along with a| number of men in high position, as well as others not connected in any; way with politics, have come out) flatfootedly to endorse the candi- 1 dacy of Governor Thurmond, rtf | South Carolina for President of the United States. Some others,; and they were quite outspoken a 1 number of months ago about Presi-j dent Truman’s civil rights program,, have not endorsed Mr. Thurmond and what he stands for One of the most noteworthy example of this is U. S Senator Olin D. Johnston? who, so to speak, “shot off his mouth” considerably, has not en dorsed Mr Thurmond’s candidacy and seems to be determined to stick to the regular old Democratic party lines even if Jt does mean that (il 8 state and other Southern states are to he crucified. All of us know, or should know? that Thurmond and Wright have not the remotest chance of being; elected President and Vice-Presi-j dent, respectively Dewey and War | ren, carrying the Republican ban ner, seem to be a cinch for that job. However, the South does have an excellent chance, by backing the Dixiecrat candidates, to prove to the rest of the nation that for too long the South has been con sidered a nonentity Insofar as elect ing a president Is concerned. W« would like to urge that our Demo cratlc leaders in South Carolina get behind Governor Thurmond, ex press themselves as hr ing in favor of him and work for the success of his campaign The time for withholding com ment on whether or not a Demo cratic leader in South Carolina la In favor of a man who Is fighting for the constitutionally guaranteed rights of every state and of every citizen has passed. We have no need for pussyfoot ing politicians in South Carolina.— I^ee County Messenger Truman and Prices President Truman called con gress back Into special session and threw In their lap an eight- point program which it Ignored Tho President wants a revival of the wartime excess profits tax; controls on consumer credit, strengthened controls on bank credit by the Federal Reserve Board; regulations of speculation on commodity exchanges; alloca tion and Inventory control of “scarce commodities ”; authority to ration key commodities if neces sary; authority to clamp price ceil ings on scarce and essential goods, and to curb wage Increases that would "force a break in a price celling.” The President ignores the fact that his and his predecessor’s ad ministration brought about high prices to a large extent by per mitting excessive exports, en couraging wage Increases ^id reck less spending. All of this added up has produced mounting inflation. His program to counteract high prices is only a political gesture aimed to help In his re-election. In some of Its phases it is a pro gram to maintain high prices. There are four factors which prin cipally govern prices—wages, the productivity of labor, costs of ma terials, and profits—plus the fifth factor of supply and demand. And while the President is fussing and blustering about prices—which we all know are too high and should come down—he proclaims that fur ther wage Increases should be al lowed and encouraged, that large additional funds be appropriated for federal education (dangerous and sure to lead us into hmore trouble and complications), public power, more social security and federal pay raises It doesn’t make rut omment Prices. Where i* £ ^i creasing taxes i n /L* 01 * I prices? It | 8 the gJljT 10 ssR _ notice lOf- J. 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