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rW* CEambm (SlprnnUU 1109 North Btoa4 Street 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY ■ 1 HatoH^ C. Booker - - - • Bditor DrCobU Brown - - - - Pobttriitr SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.60 Six Months a*6v Entered m Second Clue Matter at the Poet OMee at Camden. 8. C. under act of Concreea March 1, !»?• All artlclu submitted for publication mast be ^ j slimed by the author FRIDAY; AUGUST 27, IMS The Sheerest Nonsense . A Hero Passes Babe Both, regarded by many aa the greatest baseball player of all time,* died in New York City last week. . There may he some,.who will hesitate to agree that ho was the greatest of all play ers, bat nearly every one will agree tl*at he was the meet widely acclaimed. And all will agree that in the hitting of home runs he waa Supreme in the baseball world. ^ The life’s story of the Babe is a pathetic one in puny respects. Deprived of the love of a mother and fether, he had spent his early days in the slum section of Balti more. Finally he was taken in by an or phan kJMBe where under the tutelage of a kindly pifest he had learned to Flay base- toalL - —" j " It was not long before his natural born talent m a baseball player began to ex hibit itself apd Msx^hr Jack Dunn of the Bahimbre Oriole* was Attracted to the or phan asylum to set him play. He signed him up* almost immediately and thus be gan a oasehall career that will live In his tory. The'Babe started out as a pitcher but because of hie hitting ability he was switch ed to the' outfield where hie services would be available every day; He climbed to the top of his league and his home run prowess soon began to attract thousands of fans to baseball parlarigt over the league. He be came the x league’s greatest drawing card, and remained auch aa tong as he was in it In his earlier days In baseball Ruth was somewhat of a problem to club owners and official*. He disregarded training rules and engaged In»some rather wild escapades. Had he not been the great player that he was he would soon have found himself on the unwanted list, but because of his great ' playing ability, club officials and managers bore with him. * v This is not to say that the great player was an outlaw or a desperadof He was nothing of the sort. But he did step beyond the pale on occasions and his conduct, as he admitted himself in later years, was not always beyond reproach. Any one who reads the Babe’s story of his own life as printed in a magazine re cently must have detected throughout a note of sadness on his part for some of these mis-spent hours of his life. Not boast fully, but sadly, he recalled some wild es capades in his early baseball career. He always referred to "them apologetically, and the story, left the impression that he would have liked to hKve recalled those days and lived them over. Thy Babe blamed f these escapades for his failure to realize the burning ambition of his life—to become manager of the New York Yankees. As he reflected on this, he must have felt with G. Eliot that “this is the bitterest of all to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.” • Ruth spent the last years of his life do ing boy*’ work. This was probably prompt ed by a desire on his part to make it pos sible for other boys to avoid the pitfalls which be had encountered. i Qn* of th* great lessons which the youth of this country can learn from their hero la that oven a faw mis-spent ^ hours in the. battle of life can prove eoetly to peace of mind end to ato- fc an effect to scare the SMih b*ck hi line (they aeons to think everybody, hf the Sooth Is easily frightened) ace trying to make it appear that if the “Democrats” the control of the neat United ienata, Senator* from the Sooth would lose their c«Mrft£e HgNfcf $ tlwir states vote for the States Rights ticket ^ This is ebqpt the sheerest nopacnee that has been advanced in this campaign. To begin with the “Democrats” cannot possibly gain enough votes in tkm Senate to control the Senate if the Senators from the States Righto states are eaduded. If* the/ get control at all -which we seriously doubt—it eaa be only by a margin of two se votes. If the Senators from the States Rights states ere excluded they would not be in control but would be a very hapless minority. As a matter of fact it is our thought that the States Righto Democratic pary wiH be he ranking minority party after the No vember election, and as such its members in Congress will be entitled to the ranking minority part committee assignments. The threat Is on the other side. The Tmmenites will have to look for a bigger scarecrow than this latest one they have put out It will not even frighten a Outlaid Who can remember the good eld days when a hypnotist could always come to big audlmcs? Pr^* : Mamas And so th* Babe’s greatest years were n °t those whan ho was home runs and being wildly acclaimed by the rabid ba*absH fans of the nation. They were the yew* after he hid retired when he was fcxtag to teach the youth gf the county “to thobjt straight/’ , . , His last yean wars characterized by “Humility, that low sweet root 1" Front which ail heavenly virtues shoot’’ week P. 0. Brewer, administrative assistant to Senator W. B. Umetead of North Carolina took to the White House 60 boys who comprise the Knee Pants league at Dunn* N. C., and took with them his 6-year-old daughter, Olivia, and his 16- year-old daughter, Betty. Betty and all of the boys very happily shook hands with President Truman but Olivia wouldn’t Twice the President ex tended (his hand but each time the little girl kept hen behind her back. Mr. Brewer was very much embarassed by his daughter’s conduct and confronted her sternly when they were alone. “Why didn’t you shake hands with the fregldentT Are you a Dixie Rebel?” he asked. “No,” said Olivia. “Are you for Dewey?” he gaked. “No,” she replied. “Are you for Wallace?” Mr. Brewer asked, shuddering at the thought of his own little daughter following the Com munist line. “No,” she said. “Then who do you want for President?’ asked the father. Olivia looked up and made (her nomina tion: “My mama,” she said. And this reminds us of the story of the class of little boys and girls that had been studying about the sun, moon and stars at school. The teacher, as a Mother’s Day pro ject, had each child write his or her moth er a letter. Small Clyde told his mother: “You are the best mother in the solar system.” Trouble In Yugoslavia That all is not well in Yugoslavia, where Marshal Tito hag crossed • up the Com munists, is-indicated by the fact that the former chief of staff “of the Yugoslav army was killed last week in an attempt to flee across the border into Romania where he would be in the hands of the Stalin Com munists. The incident led to speculation that the former chief was trying to make his way to Russia perhaps to head up an external movement with Soviet support against Marshal Tito’s government. This specula tion stemmed in part from the fact that the general had gone to Russia for a spec ial military course after leaving the post of Yugoslav army chief of staff. It could be that Yugoslav may prove to be the tint weak link In the Communist and that ft* breaking may be the first step on the road to disaster for Communism. It takes a thief to catch a thief and Tito may prove Stalin’s undoing. v ik- . Itfa bardly correct to refer to Wallace’s party as the third party. It will be the fourth party- to »U probability the Repub lican party will b* tint* the States Rights Democratic second, Truman third and Wal- 'lae# party fourth when the ballots are Awnted. WiU They? -n United States Senators Olin D. Johnston, of South Carolina, and W. B. Sparkman, of Alabama, have announced that they will campaign for ^Democratic senatorial nom inees if invited, which, we take it, is a hint for an invitation. What we want to know whether they will campaign for cratic candidates for the U. S. Senate who voted for the FEPC legislation or who are pledged to vote for it in the event they are SnOClduZA* ction and A ' speaker said the other day that t&fcii the age of KV That’s true, hen that JSs a food now. Press “aSouT Our Own •A&VJrefc** «*« the beet <teteo« Amertc. H Communism to Un democratic form and show to the that it h the best of government We i --am ■ best it,. WS , of life, inct „ ihS?s£r h ii£ »- - . A —' ASlT- wiin ms environment «na me higher principles which should has govern all human life.—Timee ^ad Democrat \ It's Like Creepinfl Paralysis A review of economic condi tions for the past two years indi- far away from cates that»the trend of the nation fimti toward Socialism Socialism and Coi communism are produc days are gone. wFwaisjrtr-an old d lay onbr SO to 70 wotudn t earn her too much authority is sy. The whet the j l It A South Carolinian Just beck om Texes says he rode for half a day In that state end didn’t see a tree. Where in the world do the chickens roost? ♦: iv M Most of the people who about the old gray mare z ing what she used to be what they uaed to be either. twin brothers, but e more refined and . ame A few months ago toe go . States. It was ment was forced to take over the contemplated that the railroads and operate then until Washington government would a threatened strike which would supplant government by states, have crippled toe economy of the butit is being fast accomplished, natiop was called off, by the States havefew rights left and union hewls. v the courts are taking those few Coal lathe life blood of the na- away at a rate whim is alarm- tion sad if the dispute between in# a the miners and operators is not VThen toe United States courts settled toe government may have tell political parties that they to take over the coal mines, must admit any who apply to In the event of war a nation is become Qiembeit we are not so helpless if h cannot get an ample • " v- —i. v . - hen does a youth first be gin to look upon the serious as pect* of life?" asks a writer;. Well —when does a pup become a dog or e kitten become a cat? s ^-„ r fr,• —am , L It is admitted now that Presi dent Truman is at town and draw a The trouble with the average man ia that his average isn’t high fsumgh After seeing her picture *re are more surprised than ever that “Axis Sally” should have broad cast for the Germans during the war. She looks like a Communist. A ’HalT* story comes out of Tokyo, which reports that Jap anese scientists have started to make abort people grow taller by gratifying pituitary gland tissue from cows to the thighs of pat ients. Probably the reason the treatment is so successful now is that the Mend tissue is from such "high’* meat. You will find one man is _ mother his footokll, another about his tetball a S * i crazy about very far away from communis tic states, they have no politi cal parties in Russia, because the government decreet that every body must vote with toe Com munists—not in so many words, but woe to anybody who does not. . Is it not. substantially the same thing when the government says that any set 'of people can not have a party of their own composed of persons who think and believe as they do, without having to admit those of Con trary views? It makes no dif ference if iUla the majority party or a minority party. It is not democracy when people can not assemble in a political meet ing- and prescribe whoTtairxfid shall not be members of it Let’s clean up our own gov ernment and revert back to reel democracy, and then we can bet ter deel with the enemies of de mocracy within our bounds.— Bamberg Herald. Worry A Cause Of Death? Thousands of Americans die every year from heart diseases or cerebral hemorrhages, both of which are included in the so- called diseases of civilization. The belief exists that nervous tension and the fast tempo of modem life are responsible for toe high blood pressure that of- uts the the Jmve to be . 7or two - been sta tic form downrijirt* a threat of „ from srjgESai trend toward * ■ country. mSwm not less deadly to Herald. government In TheddSus Fairbanks, can lareatot' began th, tore of plftvs and United States In th# -** MM la 7 ycanl! Tbw’sti They’re fas ssaoft at their bask ighball and another about his A-linguist says that Russians have great difficulty in learning the meaning of American words. They nCVer have learned, toe meaning of the word “truth.” Facta are usually lost sight of in factional rows. It’s do as mi that a dollar will not as it.used to do but a A r be beet! aarm mmuanu 102. pieMk i ft tea forecasts . dual existence. Some years ago* H. end of indivi- Dr. William Brazil, Improved reception. Fan tabes phis xectaer. AC-DC AjQ QT - ’ZTtarf set k zy.uo Model U5W. to the fact not in and, not worry. . There is also lieve that c the body to t the developm it is also true |hat many people will not do as much for a dollar as they used to do. A "Some of^ur most notable dis coveries have come about by mere chance," says a writer. Yes Suppose, for example, Sir Isaac Newton had been listening to a radio, or looking at a moving pic ture, or readmg a magazine in stead of looking at that apple tree when the apple fell — he might not have invented the law of natural grSvtiy Further proof of the fact that anything can happen in leap year is found in Saudi Arabia’s refusal to accept a $15,000,000 American loan. # was That spy investigation com mittee probably hopes to learn something from the Russian teachers. Even if it were possible to live on love, Europe would be in Just as much danger of starving. J As further proof /of the fact that everything is in reverse gear, an umpire struck a ball player in the Western North VSPt blood pressure complete mental is difficult for many The brain, which has been busy for hours, finds many things “to think about" and this xneni rfV-: r ■*» •"-v which viduals. Clarkson Supply Company (Hast to Chronkk Offico) ac- estem league recently. Carolina “President Says Into Red"- r headline. How woul Moscow interpret that? Nation Going uld A chemical company has pro duced a wrinkle-resistant pro cess for cotton fabrics. If some body would only invent one for man! Very turns in has f lot way he turns out often the way to do with the man There’s always somebody who will try to overdo anything. For instance we saw the other day where a sailer had two girls to one poft The competition for business js getting keen agfto. A tourist re ports having seen in one town a •as: s hair Tfte most car you ewsr -v-.-v- A quarter-million KAISER and FfrAXXV owners pretty muck story to toll about their «.«• the Raiser end the FiAZHi ■to the only new cars built since titowtilrtlrttolgtouroad-pwed-