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;w Etft (ttamiifn QUpronirit 110f North Broad Stmt Camdam, S. a PUBLISHED KVEBT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCoeta Brown - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION All Subscriptions Pajrabli In Advance One Year Sex Months 1«S0 Entered «a Second Claaa Matter at the Pont Office at Camden, & 0, under act of Congraea Mardh », HWt • , - All artlclee ■ubmltted ter pubUcatlon moat be elgned by the aaUjdf - FRIDAY, SEPTE^fER 3, 194$ Stringent Lows Necessary Lexington county’s experience In the Democratic primaries this summer can be accepted as proof of the fact that verf stringent election laws will have to be passed before our next primaries. In one Lexington county precinct 1,280 persons-had enrolled to vote. The Records showed that only 816 had turned out to vote to the second primary which was a fairly heavy turnout of the potential vote. However when the ballot box was opened there were 1,404 ballots in it . At another box in that county there wgre such irregularities in the first primary tyat a second 1 special election was held in that precmcx. •• ’*♦» : . - •* In Anderspn county a recount was or dered list week of all ballots cast In the first primary on August 10. This action came after County Chairman E. H. Agnew assarted that a recount of the first primary vote in four precincts showed “actual re sults were much different” from reported results - ' a' " “Persistent reports of questionable prac tices' at polling places,” said Chairman Agnew “caused me to have grave doubts that our declared results of that (August 10) election were anything near accurate/’ The recount of Polzer No. 1 box, for ex ample,. revealed tbat X Homer Ford," a candidate for superintendent Of education, polled 201 votes but was credited with only 99, while his opponent, John J. Smith, re- 28!r * “O that estates, degrees and officers ivere not derived corruptly and that clear honor were purchased by the merit of the , Sh* Trend Away From Big CWet Louis Bro infield, the well kapwn writer, says hi an article in the Christian Science Monitor that “for some time past and not ably since the beginning of the great de pression there has been a spontaneous and growing movement toward decentraliza tion of industry and a declining enthusiasm towaqd great else in cities.” The reasons behind the movement, he says, are many and varied, arising from economical, social, industrial, labor con ditions" and to acme extent from philoso phical ones. The movement, ' he thinks, manifests itself among all groups and claasea of society from industrial managers and tycoons through the industrial work ers and white-collar groups to the average well-off middle-class citizen. Mr. Bromfield says that owing to the high costs of taxes, rent, overhead, distri bution and other factors, an industrial worker in the smaller communities is fre quently better off on $40 a week than he was in the big city areas at $75. Moreover he has also come to realize that that his family, living in a smaller community, reap0--great benefits in education, recrea tion,V^nd moral and physical background. “One of $he most astonishing develop ments through the middle Western indus- arial areas,” says Mr. Bromfield, “bib been the retreat into suburban and country liv ing of industrial and white-collar workers employed during the day within the limits of metropolitan areas. In certain areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and- Illinois, where there are countless small and pjrid- dle-sized industrial towns, as much as 50 per Cent and more of the workers employ ed by industry no longer live within the city limits but in the country or suburbs within driving distance of thflr work/’ He points out many of these work ers have their own gardens and "thus raise their own vegetables and in some instances do-small farming on the side. They raise their own chickens and hogs, have their own cows and produce their own eggs and milk and butter. A development for which the automo bile liTrei^ of the small towns everywhere. In most Industrial anas the housing problem is mors acute in tue m OU g h t cities- with community^ which less Uhaft a generation ago resembled Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village” is toda/ bursting at the seams with not a house wearer,” said William Shapkespeare. Un fortunately there are too many people who^ i available for rental o^purchas^at a rea* do not agree with Mr. Shakespeare. It on » We price. agree with Mr. Shakespeare seems that corruption has to go band in hand with politke and that whenever an election is to be held crooks swarm in to take part in it, and to try to defeat the will of the people. It matters hot how grave the situation may be and ft ^natters not that the circumstances may be) such that every man is being put on his honor, the crooks will swarm in and get in their dirty work. “So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no respecter of persons; it will cheat friends as well as foes; and were it possible would cheat even God himself ” South Carolina is not toe only state that has ballot box staffers and other crooks’ surrounding its sleetions. There have been election frauds committed in every state in toe Union. Most states have tried by the enactment of very strict laws to hold these frauds down to a minimum. Because of Federal court dedeione, etc., our primaries this year were held almost without the protection of the law. The peo ple were placed on their honor. It didn’t work and unless laws are enacted the next primaries would be a farce because by that time the crooks knowing that the law would not punish them would really take them over. A Stringent laws must be enacted in this state and enforced because “the certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.” Rockiest Driving There is too much reckless driving on the highways and in toe streets these days and there is an ever steadily mounting number of serious accidents resulting therefrom. If reckless drivers did not endanger the lives of .anyone but themselves one might be tempted to say that it was all right for them to take such a risk, but they endanger oher livee as well. ! There is lots of reckless driving right itre in h&e in the city of Camden. Cam dash up Broad and DeKalb streets at excessive rates of speed, pass other can < oh the wrong side and commit other infractions. The Carillon belte, presented to lyttleton Street Methodist Church by the children of. be Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Zemp as a toe- will be enjoyed net by all of toe One can recall the prediction was being made a great many years ago that the au tomobile was going to dry the small towns up—that people would go to the cities to do their Shopping and thus force the small town, merchants out of business and that sooner or later most small towns would fold up. Now the reverse appean likely. People from the citiee are moving to the smaller towns and those who can’t move are driv ing to them to do their shopping. We hap pen to know a ladies’ store in Lancaster that it attracting a very large patronage from Charlotte and when these people come down they buy not only what they are looking for at that store but they do their grocery shopping and other shopping as well. „ There is so much more to life in the smaller cities than in the larger ones. The milk of human kindness flows more freely in the small fcity and town and in rural section than—gnyyhere else on earth. People live happier lives. As Dr. Joseph Fort Newton once said: “Life is richer, more intimate and more re warding in its friendships in the desolation of a small town than in the crowded lone liness of a great city.” America does not look for its security to the great industrial centers where smoke curls lazily to the skies from giant smokestacks, but rather to ths peaceful little cities and towns ahd to the rural sec tion of the country. Mr. Fariay's Prediction James A. Farley, former Democratic na tional chairman, is quoted as saying: “I don’t think the Dixiecrat rebellion will last very long. Ip the end they will have to swing in line behind President Tru man. »» What does Mr. Farley mean jbj saying that, “they will have to swing in line behind President Truman?” Who or what is go ing to make tof m “have to swing in Mae be hind President Truman?” Dies be mean that the government will force ns to vote tor Mr. Truman? Are we living la Russia? If Mr. Farley really beBevoi what be said, be la In for the surprise of bis life. Tbs Seoto is net going to ton Sato Bne tUi time. The minds of the people are made up. Instead Qf slowing up the rebellion toe autocracy of toe national iqOutloud • * now Tie situation in Berlin makes us think of the testimony of a negro man who was in court with fighting his wife. He told the court that he was eat ing breakfast one morning when his wife aaased him, whereupon he slapped her. She Jumped up and threw a pan at him and he grabbed hk ahair and struck her with it She then grabbed a ket- tle of boiling water and threw at him whereupon they both got mad mid went to fighting- went We cant resist the urge to ob serve that James B. Hare, who waa elected to Congress from the “ lari third South Carolina district week, ran like a scared rabbit Maybe the House committee on Un-American activities cant tell Hiss or Mr: Cham- , __ but well bet the wife of the one that is Ifing could detect it in a minute. • If the outlook we think ills w is dark ( we couldat see it 'The trouble with those people existing who kick the meet about conditions is that they never try to do anything to better them/’ says a writer. And test’s true! For example we heard lots of folks complaining bitterly about the hot weather this summ but summer.and yet they keep on living in such a manner as to insure teat they will have to suffer heat far more intense than we have here. dge Player Passes 1 Must have had a bust “It sounds complicated, really isn’t Under the however, a candidate could the highest popular vote and lose in the electoral The reason so much is being M heard about the electoral college this year is the split in Democratic ^ h ® uted ; . v. ’ V William J. Varner, 70 years old, who aakad Spartanburg' new bfith a statement he has received of- ge from 70 women in 11 states. And teat reminds us of the Illinois man who adver tised for a wife several yean ago. He rscalygi 200 letters, all from man, ani tosh saying: “You can have mtes.** two major A fashion writer says teat man * ‘ to wmr suits to correspond twite on. man? wear a «*K' The President was very re served when he simply told that Russian cotte* jo Now York to go MM* .rfl to Moscow. If this country does go dogs we hope it will not be Daschunds because that would be too long drawn out A New York man* who died the other day left an estate of one big dock. There ought not to be any trouble in up. •«r 'W A Beaufort county man claims to have ante.a bear last week. The International situation has everybody sort of Jumpy now. We wish the rerrain about would heat wave, up already. allace anything ■ during this about to burn “Draft Wedding an M " any good. Speeding Many — headline. Irs teat Mows nobody Now, that 3W w e has tee craze we are won! next. bubble gum its peak, The chemical constituents of a man used to be worth 98 cents but in this inflationary period we suppose he is much nfore vahi People For ite prompt ser iple we saw the _e a lady who had rushed into a p vice. For other day lost her lice stati story to sergeant was very calmed her* fears a_ could. Laying his hand in her arm, he said: “We will leave no stone untithaed to find your Leaving tee kind notice d a group of pusy tearing J up the repair and ah street for , remarked with satisfaction: “W , I must say they don’t lost any time” Did you ever rie anybody who was really a* crazy as a bedbud? In connection with tee lying which is being done either by Mr iMiss or Mr.te help but think the late ‘ ler pre_ Georgia. ing.people f tee days mmm der where exclaimed, [ation - d be „ lag to era we can’t a sermon which arren A. Chand- time over in Strik- he did 1 Z 0 ?: to “111 tell you i today talk- A writer adts why It te that • horsy womip nearly al marries a meriTnan. May be don’t Their husbands Just gat tllat way. , r kick in the pants other what they While we are letting folks with more energy fill this column for us (see above), we will let the editor of The State fill up s little more with a dis sertation on the electors The editor is writing in to a query by a “woma not meaning to reflect on women, 4-^ we ^ ^tgrssod.'rssd tato ’ * The United States is in a peri- need tons position. We need price con trols to have us from drastic in nation, but if we adopt price-con- likely to plunge the . what They would States wtl swer by some of tee male ballot Russians want i point to tee United The State describes the clec;Jff ng]f1 J of toral college “process^., ^ to the rest of kY&v JvTvv. i WO rid, “See what “When one votes in tee gen- free enterprise have done end election one does not ,fote ^ e ^ directly fora candidate or for a party. The vote it cast for would- be electors—running to be mem bers of the electoral college. Each boastful* Americans!” Not only would tee billions we have poured into the outeide be lost world lost, but our support to Ders or tee electoral college, seen foreign nations would have to be group of doctors, of course, ^ withdrawn and Communism gown to b*vt certain views — W ould spread like a prairie fire. la 0 . ™ would be swept into a serious de- e 48 states (those pression or drastic Inflation. VOte) meet to TVi* TTnit«vl Stataa is playjnj ticket he or she thinks will vote for tee candidate who represents his or her views. _wmM electors from getting the h name a president and vice presi dent But they don’t They gath- er in each state and send their votes to the president of the United States senate by mail. He opens the ballots trite certain formalities. II any candidate has lent, ma il ves, whore each state has one vote. ami a floor on prices—but even this is risky. The tide could turn one way or the other and we The United States is playing a ■ in which the stakes are , and if we lose the world go down with us. * Many people may not realize it, but this old planet is passing the most critical period ® out w , Voportto# 1 hysteria." Amplifying his Spaatz indict* K h ( s ,i c s^fia *0 * SSTiSXSTOc is even now one of the ^ following tee hasty tion, was int The members choose from among > high ‘ ^ ' tifb three high men in tee elec toral college balloting. Twice in ■ history, both times more than undred 3 our a hi 1 years ago, the election has been forced into tee house,. ^! W through the most critical period inits history and the fate of civili zation is hanging in the balance. We are very much in tee posi tion of ths Irishman when he and a friend were crossing a and were chased by a Irishman jumped in a hole his Mend scaled a tree. The rushed ugto tee hole, snorted aqgl ..J the bull turned and went away the Irishman jumped out of the hole. The bull saw him and Irish and Democrat ‘LS* w not with what htpoQ ““ Orangeburg ranks.” iUch is being Aj—I. atm touted: "Faith, ^ day in that hole!’’ this hole,” replied the ‘There’s a bear in this the Stite. Rightuts SU b *Sl 1 !L d S'uSfH,r^ er,h “ We elaborate on the last graph ourselves to point ou?*tee “Stay in Irishman. you stey. strategy of this year. They argue that if they can kecp_ either the Republicans or the Truman Democrats from get ting a majority te election and thereby house election in the tatives, where jji^le vote, they cm. Maybe The U. 8. Will Learn ine overiy-rapia aemoDuiza- tion” of the country’s air strength the immediately after the war, ac- Miserable with backach blfctw, bunting semty n* uriithrinn — _ v/Tf!?iTj* 8 3*1 I mry y«ir. Itey, Doans has a DURwithU oil tarts-- er number te the and either would be "out seven votes would go to tee high est bidder te terms of reedknition of Southern “tradition.’ It’s a pretty stawfne if it will work. The trouble is that at the present written it appears that Mr. Dewey win not need to trade. aai filniHo 1 tuRIHY 1 Karthow Floor Covering Ct a Without a wSmm ^'.1 >1 1 •.« both liSk'' .V' - •onus UNDH AUtHOIIIY Of ^ » - — J : -o . ...v-* Ah' ? ... • i 3'n >> 1 j. ^m r r: