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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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-
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Hie Press
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,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
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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, *
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