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IT, *>■■■■ (Samdnt Wt, ■■■> 11M North Broad Street Camden, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY 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 Class Matter at the Poet Office at Camden. 8. C., nnder act of Congress March 8, U7> All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author ^ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1948 In Such An Hour It is to be hoped that all of Camden will unite heartily in the increased dhurch at tendance campaign to be conducted dur ing the months of October, November and December. This campaign, launched by the Camden Kiwanis Club, endorsed by the other civic club of the city and having the coopera tion of the churdhes themselves, should be productive of great and lasting good in Camden. We are living in a confused world. Everywhere there is doubt and fear; ma* terialism and skepticism. Regimentation, totalitarianism, cominunism, bureaucracy, bear down with such weight that freedom is gone. The venomous serpents of corrup tion, immorality, gamblingdrunkeness, iworldliness, have poisoned men with their sting until he is crying out in the darkness for <h«lp. '* 1 _ M The church has much to offer a world rapidly dying, lost from its God and grop ing in this confusion and bewilderment. Its message is a direct refutation and contra diction to the forces that play about us a/id its hope the only solution for the despair that has gripped the hearts and minds of men. ~ * # In sudh an hour as this when the clouds of war hang so low, whdn the forces of evil are so rampant aad the problems facing us are so complex as seemingly to defy human solution, the church offers us our only refuge. Chaingang Practices The Richland county Ghand Jury re cently handed down a presentment dn which it stated that it was “appalled at the methods used in handling white pris oners on th* chaingang.” Among other things the Richland jury charged that oftentimes dangerous white prisoners are taken from the jail and made “trusties” at once; that white trusties are not under guard and, as a result, on sev eral occasions white prisoners have left the ‘chaingang to visit their families or to visit Columbia and other points in the state; that in one instance a white prisoner at one of the chaingang camps had his own au tomobile with him, and Was free to come and go at will.” The grand jury probe was pompted by the recent escape and subsequent recapture of a convict who was described as “being very dangerous” after he had escaped but who was given all sorts of privileges be fore. Probably prompted by the Richland county exposures, the Orangeburg county grand jury decided to investigate condi tions at the Orangeburg county chaingang and reported: “Trusties are made of prisoners after a very short time of serving their sentences and the liberties allowed ^hese trusties is approaching a public scandal. “One prisoner with a very bad record of previous convictions and whose .present sentence started this year has been seen around the farm of the man with wham he had trouble, causing considerable anxiety to the family of this farmer. “Another trustie was picked up in Branchville for drunkeness and a $21 fine had to be paid before he could return to the chaingang. Trusties have been seen to drive coun ty vehicles in a location where it is evident that they had no right to be.” Recently a dangerous criminal escaped from the Anderson chaingang. Every now and then one reads of the es cape of some dangerous convict from some gang and it is not to be wondered that this happens following the exposures of con- • drtions at the Richland and Orangeburg county chaingangs. Two things stand out as a result of the probe made by these two grand juries. A better system of enforcing penalties, de manded by the law should be worked out on chaingangs or the gangs should be Abol ished and all prisoners sent to the state penitentiary. * A Communist is a whs The Situation In Ruula There has always been much specula tion in the rest of the world as to how the masses of people in Russia feel about their government. We know of course that Stalin- boasts that in 1917 the Soviet regime in Russia was established by 150,000 Com munists. Russia has more than 150,000,000 inhabitants so that at that time there was only one communist to every 1,000 inhabi tants. + As to how the masses feel today there has been very little way of determming. The difficulties that lie in the way of an swering this question are obvious few Americans have had extensive touch with rank-and-file Russians, and the Kremlin has made it steadily more difficult for the Americins who live in Russia to know the people. In a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post there was an interesting article by Alexander Barmine, who was once a soviet general and diplomat, but came to this country in disillusionment before the war. Dforing the war he entered our army as a private and later served with the OSS. If Mr. Barmine is correct, the Russian masses have been ruthlessly and efficient ly enslaved by their masters. Stalin, .ac cording to him, has 14,000,000 of his coun trymen in concentration camps. He has a secret police force of 2,000,000 members with almost unlimited power to imprison and execute, who keep the nation in line* Mr. Barmine thinks we make a terrible mistake when we consider the Russian masses and the Russian leaders to be tarred with the^aame brush. This attitude, he says, “rejects the Russian people as po tential allies of the democratic world in its crucial struggle with the Soviet totalitarian empire.” These people, he added, “are not the authors but the principal victims of the Kremlin's crimes.” One of Mr. Barmine’s most startling statements is that the Allies, during the last war, actually helped to keep the Rus sian people in chains. His story is that, as the war approached its end, desertions from the Russian army were reaching dis astrous proportions from the Kremlin’s viewpoint, and that millions of Soviet citi zens, prisoners of war and others, were re fusing to go home. At Yalta, he says, Stalin successfully persuaded Roosevelt and Churchill tp guarantee the return of every Soviet citizen in Europe who had left the U.S.S.R. after 1927 for any reason. Mr. Barmine thinks that most of those returned were executed and thedr families sent to concentration camps. He says that many killed themselves rather than face rapatria- tion. He terms the agreement “a most gi gantic violation of the sacred principles of political asylum.” It has long been our belief that the Kremlin regime is a giant with feet of clay. The stories told by former communists in dicate that the people of Russia are under a goverment now that is far more despotic than that of the former Czars. And condi tions are far worse in many respects. ^ Some idea of the conditions in the Rus sian-occupied section of Germany may be had by the “cry of help” addressed to West ern Allies from German Social Democrats in that section. A message which said it came from the “zone of silence, hunger and .terror” reached the German Socialist party convention in Duesseldorf. The party mes sage asked the Western powers to “help us —but help us quickly.” Pleading a “continued struggle for free dom,” the message said “increasing dicta torship is being felt throughout the eastern zone of Germany where there are numerous filled concentration camps, more feared than those of Nazi times.” A “Whining” Campaign The national so-called “Democratic party is.conducting a “whining” campaign. Every day it has some new complaint to make about the treatment being accorded it. , It “whined” because the States Rights Democratic supporters in this state didn’t offer to pay for having ballots printed for pro-Truman forces to use in the November election. . i It “whined” because the Democrats of Louisiana decided to vote for Thurmond and Wright instead of Truman and Bark- ley. ' Now it is “whining” because the Repub licans have rented the Hollywood Bowl on a night Truman wanted to use it Every day it is “whining” about some thing. . . It is conducting a “whining” campaign instead of a winning one. . . " .. « Editor Bfll Bradford of the Fort Mill Time* wants to know why somebody “rtpt» imwim t to wad th« two fad lUn^d^ Hokt Wallace tad GUa laywr Raafla." . .-v • | ; , . A political writer likens Presi dent Truman to “a drowning man grasping at a straw.” Yes, but he’s not grasping at any straw ballots because he kno cate disaster. )ws they all indi- Football coaches are about the only men in this country who can make ends meet now. They say tha# everything* is here for a purpose but we can’t see why a hen should have a comb when die doesn’t have any hair. The Democrats of Utah must have had an eye on the feminine vote when they nominated Maw as their candidate for Governor. “Some people carry everything to extremes,^ says a writer. And that’s true. For instance we read the other day where, because he was ordered to take a complete rest from his work, a milkman who fished a milk bottle from the sea threw it back without reading a note that was in it 4 ~ tmm A genius can do almost any thing but make a living. A correspondent wrote a Jong letter to the New York Times ex tolling huckleberry pie. Huckle berry pie is all right bui if we were going to take the time to write a long communication to a big paper like the New York Times on pie, we’d certainly se lect apple pie as our subject How in the world does a foot ball coach ever get a spoiled boy to play halfback? It seems he would want to be a fullback or nothing. We can’t gat “out” of Berl “in.” ‘Tm going to give ’em hell,’ President Truman told reporters last week. And that confirms a prediction made by a commenta tor some time back that Mr. Tru man would “give ’em all he had in'him” in an effort to be re elected. We are now in the season ol the year when Lions, Tigers, Rad and Blue Devils, Green Dragons, Wildcats, Panthers, Gophers, Bears, etc., go on a rampage in this country. Perhaps the reason there are so many lawyers in politics is that they want to help write “the will of the people.” The All* 1 Fo«4e re week that a weather eported * balloon last had upant floor reached a height of nearly 112,- 800 feet or nearly 21 miles when it burst But don’t tell us please that this means prices can go much higher before they break. It would not be so bad if the world had to be saved only once in every twenty-five years but when it becomes a continual pro cess it is pretty tough. A Georgian offered to sell his eye for $12,500. Well if it has a good eye for tutting a baseball it would be well worth it. N^obably won’t be sb long now before old Jack Frost will be get ting ready to pay us a visit A public receptionist says some faces are so much easier to recog nize than others. And that re minds us of the story of the negro elevator man named “Joe” in a big city who took careful pains to identify each regular occu of the building with the upon which he works, but oc casionally was guilty of an over sight. One day as he was passing the sixth floor, a passenger called out rather sharply, “I thought you knew this was my floor!” Joe stopped his elevator and ran it back to the sixth floor. Regarding the rather rough-hewn counten-. ance of the complaining pas senger with an apologetic smile, he placatingly remarked, “’Scuse me, sah, Ah should of knowed yoh face, but de trouble fs Ah has to remember so many of dem and yoh’s is so complicated.” % v , A West Virginia woman got a divorce from her husband last week giving as one of the grounds that he “couldn’t bear children.” Seems to us that was expecting most too much of him. T* 1 It’s difficult for a boy in his teens now to believe that he will ever grow up to be as dumb as his daddy is. One thing that always makes a sick man sort of nervous is the realization that the person he is depending upon to get him well is just a ‘practicing^ physician. A business writer says that one profession that is not overcrowd- ex- out .—... can learn the art And this reminds us of the story of the enthusiastic reader of a big newspaper who . it a specimen of her sweet heart’s writing to the calli graphy expert on the staff of the paper. “Enclosed please find specimen of my beau’s writing- can you tell ms if he is likely to make me a good husband?” she **ked. Back cams this reply: “No, Fm afraid not, my dear. He’s been a^rotten one to ma for three years. . hanks for the svi- ^ Of asotar tracks la Saala Hie Press ■■ | a i ,UTa,r T X X~ Agriculturist says the earth worm is the farmers greatest friend. Some candidates wvuld dispute that—Clinton Jerald. Not Likely “If you are struck by lightning, you never forget it,” asserts a columnist Most persons who afe struck by lightning never remem ber it—Cindhhati Inquirer. Politics T Politics explains a lot of what you read in the papers these days. In Louisiana, when President Truman’s name was taken off the ballots the National Democratic Committee in Washington was “shocked” and began studying legal aspects of the Louisiana sit uation. When the States’ Rights Demo crats attempted to get on the In diana general election ballot, i court order reversed the decision of the election board to permit the States’ Rights Party to put the names ot its candidates on the ballot. So -far as Washington dispatch es \iisclose, the National cratic Party has recorded no shock and is not engaged in any study of the legal aspects of the situation in Indiana.—Orangeburg Times and Democrat Change of Primary Dates V The State remarks that the primary election dates ware es tablished years ago when cotton was the principal crop in this state. It was fixed after la; time and before cotton set in. All that.has been chan* by the boll weevil and diversifica tion. Now August is one of the busiest months of the year for farmers. Cotton picking has been advanced about a month in recent years because farmers plant early maturing cotton to beat the wee vil. The question comes up, if it is not advisable to change the dates for the primaries to an early time so that farmers would net have to eneglect their harvesting to go out and vote. The State makes out a good case for a change of dates. It is worth considering. — Bamberg Herald. and this will prob- effect of tightening It's Dangerous Business The Federal Reserve Board has ordered its member banks to put nearly two billion dollars in re serve vaults to prevent inflation ary lending, and th ably have the credits. The common term for this is “credit deflation,” and at this time any form of. deflation is hazardous. Early in 1920 the game plan was adopted to lower prices and it had disastrous results. The rice of everything plummeted, otton dropped from 42 cents a pound to seven cents. The price of tobacco plunged from 75 cents to 11 cents a pound. The government assured the people that the price declines would be so gradual that the busi- world would not feel a trem- the government misealeu- &F Tampering with the currency or credits of a nation is risky business. When you try to burn off an acre of prarie land and the fUunes get beyond _control you are It's Some of our politicians—think ing first of their Own personal political welfare rather than the welfare of the South—keep ing that the revolt in the South will die down after the election those who revolted will in the future in the world. They do not stop to take into consideration that there is a new element in thq political world in the South now and that as « re sult of this new element the re volt will not only not die down after this election but will grow in intensity and instead of those who revolt being punished by the voters in the future, those who do not join in the revolt may be the ones who will suffer. Some of the politicians who are not inclined to support the States Rights tickets are already being accused of seeking the vote of toe new element in Southern politics and this charge may anse to haunt them in future elections. Indeed it may haunt their chil dren and their children’s chil dren. Things are different Greenville Observer. now.— May Give South Independence Southern Democrats who have felt for a long time that they been hamstringing themselves with inflexible ties to the national party S n look to the ao-called bolt of e “Dixlecrats” as a possible means of giving to the South eventually a full measure of politi cal independence. In tile choice of Governor Thur mond as their standard bearer the dissenting Southerners have chosen a fighter with a sound record on the main issues involved in the intra-party controversy. And if he isi supported to the fullest in this venture, a great deal more will be achieved than toe mere changing of White House occupants.—Green ville Piedmont, * am ■ ——— millrrST^ Tha^t.ST ATlON Th* State of South ~ County of JEmlww h «lrtt •dmouito alltSd’S, w, t. Young, deceased. Camden, S. C- on Sept notbe granted. Given under my hand t of September Anno N. C. 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