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'ytF ■: vr r . I i - ®Ijf (ttamiipn (Sljrnnirlp 1109 North Brood Street Camden, B. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCosta Brown - - - - - Editor - - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year Six Months —... 1.50 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Congress March », 187t , . All articles submitted for publication must ha glfued by the author FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1948 Must Be On The Alert Now that a pro-Truman electoral ticket has been brought out in this state, the Statee Rights Democrats .will have to be on the alert and see that a heavy vote is gotten out in the November election. The Truman ticket r wdfl unquestionably get the vote of the Progressive (colored) Democratic party which will vote in block for him. It is difficult to say just how many white voters will support it but certainly there will be some. It is estimated that there are 30,000 negroes who are registered and undoubted ly most of them will vote. If the total vote Bhould not be any larger^than in past gen eral elections this would be sufficient to carry the election this year for Truman. The main job of the State Rights Demo crats will be to get the people out to the polls. They have not been accustomed to ’voting in general elections in the past and they must be shown the importance of turning out this year. If the white voters turn out there will be no doubt about the result in this state. Go To Church Sunday The objective of the Church Loyalty campaign which is to be conducted in Cam den for three months beginning on next Sunday, October 3 and continuing through Christmas Sunday is “Every person in Cam den in churdh every Sunday." It would be fine if every one in Camden would do his or her part toward^ making the campaign a success by attending church this coming Sunday. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if it could be reported in next week’s Chronicle that every churchin Cam den was crowded to its capacity Sunday? What a fine start that would be for one of the greatest campaigns that has ever been conducted in this city! Willard L. Speery once said: “Man is not yet so transfigured that he has ceased to keep the window of his mind and heart open towards Jerusalem, Galilee, Mecca, Canterbury, or Plymouth. The abstract pro posal that we worship at any place where God lets down the ladder is not yet an ade quate substitute for the deep desire to go up to some central sanctuary where the re ligious artist vindicates a concrete uni versal in the realm of the spirit.’’ And so on next Sunday let’s all go to the church of our choice and worship. Surely we can spare one or two or three hours out of 168 to give to the church. We hope all Camden will unite to make this campaign a glorious success. All that is asked of you is that you attend church. r Fine Sportsmanship The splendid victory of the Camden High School Bulldogs over the Sumter High School team Friday night was very gratify ing but even more gratifying was the very fine sportsmanship displayed by the teams and spectators alike. There was no grumbl ing at decisions of the officials on the part of players or spectators, no drunks were seen in the stands and as a consequence there were no fights. This was in sharp contrast to reports from other high school games in the state during the last two weeks where fighting among the spectators was reported. Let’s don’t have any of that in Camden. We want good clean athletic contests here. Those fans who want to fight should join the army. Mrs. Roosevelt 9 s Choice -j Mayor Hubert Humpifoeya, of Minneapo lis, Minn., was the author of the insulting plank in the national Democratic platform on “civil rights" and one of the most in sulting speeches in the Philadelphia con vention towards the South was made by him. He is the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Minnesota against the Re- publi&ih incumbent, Senator Joseph H. Ball. The plank in the party platform offered by Mr. Humphreys specifically and in de tail pledged the party to put through Con gress the four points of Mr. Truman’s “civil rights” program including the ex ceedingly offensive Federal Fair Employ ment Practices act. It may be interesting to Southerners to know that just before Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt left recently for Paris she" let the peo ple of the country know through her col umn the candidates in the November elec tion in Whom “I have a special interest." In# particular Mrs. Roosevelt expressed her “special interest" in the election of Mayor Humphreys to the Senate. In the lavish praise which she bestowed upon this South hater she said he “might infuse new life into a Congress that certainly needs it.'; ~ • ft is not surprising that Mrs. Reesevelt should go all out for Mr. Humphreys be cause they seem to have the same views towards the South. The surprising part of the whole campaign is that both are not lined up in the Wallace camp because the views of the three of them are so similar in regard to at least one problem that we hardly see how they could refrain from supporting Mr. Wallace. Mr. Humphreys probably isn’t openly supporting him because he wants to be elected to the Senate where he can get in some of his deadly work towards tfie South. Come to think of it, we don’t believe Mrs. Roosevelt has lifted a finger for Tru man so perhaps she at heart is supporting Wallace. But to get back to the Humphreys cam paign, the national Democratic party is said to be solociting funds in North Caro lina for the party’s Congressional cam paign, particularly the senate campaign, promising that the money would not be used to help Truman but would be used to help the Democrats capture the Senate. So North Carolinians or any other South erners Who cohtributa to the congressional campaign fund will be helping to elect Mr. Humphreys to the Senate. With The Press 'IhokA. Outloud The Russians want to change it to An astrologer predicts that a woman will be elected President in 1956. This is encouraging in that it leads hope to there being a 1956. You can lead a Russian to a four-power conference but you can’t maw** him think. A person who votes the Stated Rights ticket is not a “bolter" in the sense in which is term is used. A “bolter” is a person who takes an oath to support the nominees of his party and then votes for the nominees of some other party. In the recent primaries in this state no such oath was required. In North Carolina many people vote the Democratic ticket in state and county primaries and the na tional Republican ticket in the general election. Una, have expressed In other sections of the nation I that the South will safely stay voters shift from one party to the in the bag. Big Jim Farley is other. A person may vote the .one of the most recent to vember, along with the the candidates August primar There may be other tickets at the polling places, but the ticket provided by the State Executive Committee is the real Democratic ticket—Dillon Herald. Cat Out Of The Bag The cat's getting out of the bag, so to speak. In spite of the valiant efforts of tha selfish stand- pat politicians, the South is doing something _about this “in the bag” of the so-called ^? ran£ ' b «« Democrat Had A few years How time flies! A whole gene- ition has grown up which nev heard of the custom of having second helpings of everything. A humorous phase of the Presi dential campaign in South Caro lina is the entrance of the JoUey ticket A medical writer says that hay fever coats this country millions of dollare each year. Well—it just isn’t worth it A Minnesota man has eight dif ferent sets of false teeth. Collect ing plates must be his hobby. If a voter changed his mind bow'd he go about notifying Mr. Gallup or the other poll takers? Every time we hear the expres sion “when Gabriel blows his horn” we think of the question asked by the old negro: “Is he coming m an automoeel?” Instead of “baby sitters” they ought to call themselves “baby chasers” that is if the baby has just learned to walk. Ray Tucker, the Washington commentator, said in his column the other day that “President Tru man’s seemingly sincere beUef in a Democratic victory in Novem ber astounds both friendly and hostile observers at Washington especially in the face of accumu lating and convincing evidence that he heads into a defeat of a shocking nature.” But doesn’t this prove the assertion that many columnists have made all along that the President doesn’t know what’s going on? * It seems that the hurricane isn’t what it used to be either see is the A Straw Vote -f,r A straw vote was recently taken in the Dothan (Ala.) Rotary Club which has 61 member i6 see how they stood in the presi dential race. The vote was Dewey 26; Thurmond 26 ; Tmman 0. There is some explanation for Dewey running ahead of Thurmond in this par- tictriar instance, that being that the Doth an Eagle, tiie town’s newspaper, which has always in the past supported the Demo cratic nominee, came out for Dewey tide jaar os the day after the national Demo cratic convention adjourned and before the Death On The Highways Several weeks ago The Chronicle com mented on the fact tljat there appeared to be more reckless driving on the highways of this state now than ever before and we suggested that there should be a stricter enforcement of the law in this regard. Last week the following dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah, appeared in news papers all over the nation: “Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works administrator, urged seven Southern and Southwestern states today to hurry - up and do something about their high rate of automobile acci dents. “Speaking to the Association of State Highway officials here he said that Alabama and South Carolina have the nation's worst highway safety records, with Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Tennessee and Georgia close behind. Those with the best records — Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey.” The dispatch went on to quote Mr. Flem ing as saying that the conditions in Alaba ma and South Carolina were particularly appalling. It is not surprising that this state should be receiving this unfavorable publicity be cause there appears to be practically no restraint on drivers in this section now. They dash along the highway at rates of speed apparently as high as 100 miles per hour. Caution seems to have been thrown to the wind by them. Big trucks run at a higher rate of speed in this state than passenger cam run in some states. Something ought to be done about it by somebody. Many people will agree that the Lou isiana General Assembly did right when it agreed to let President Truman’s name go on the ballot but refused to allow him to be classified as a Democrat If old Noah Webster were alive now we wonder crat"? how he would , define a “Demo- G) other. A person Democratic ticket this year and the Republican ticket two or four years hence. They are not bolters. Since 1876 the Democrats of the South have banded together for their mutual protection. Un til recent years they obligated themselves to support the nomi nees of the party. Even though this obligation is no longer required, the assump tion is that a person who partici pates in a Democratic primary will support the nominees of the party to which he publicly de clares allegiance. The regular May convention of the South Carolina Democratic Party adopted a resolution which authorized the State Democratic Executive Committee to select the state’s eight Democratic electors. These names will appear on the Democratic ticket which will be voted on the first Tuesday in No bigwigs of the Democratic party, a few of them here in South Caro lina, have What we want to Kremlin trembling. It is said that there is an over supply of men’s pajamas in this country and one business writer thinks that this has been caused in part by the fact that high prices have caused many men to stop using them. What are they sleeping—the old fashioned night shirt? And by the way, that re minds us of the old fellow who went into a store and bought a complete outfit from head to foot —new suit, shirts, underwear, socks, ties and shoes. The clerk then asked him about a night shirt. “No, I don’t need one of them things—I never go out at night,” he replied. If Representative Vail of Il linois should be defeated for re- election he would probably be a Vail of tears. The Boston Braves have won the National League pennant and the Cleveland Indians have a good chance to win the American League flag so may be the In- diana. will yet get the country back. The revival of the draft recalls to mind what we think was one of the funniest stories of the last war. One selectee had been called before a doctor for his medical examination. He decided to try to keep out of the army on account of poor eyesight. The doctor had the familiar chart on the wall and he asked the youth to read the first row of figures on the chart The youth stared at the wall and ask ed “what chart?” The doctor said, “well take a seat in this chair.” The youth glared around the room and asked “what chair?” The doc tor then let him go. A short time later the doctor went to a movie. When the lights were flashed on at the end of a picture the selectee turn around and to his horror there sat the doctor by him. After some quick thinking the youth turned to the doctor and ex claimed: ‘Tardon me, sir, but is this the bus to Atlanta?” Girls are wearing their legs much shorter than they did two years ago. What has become of the old- fashioned parents who told their children that a whipping at school meant a nother when they got home? his part “I don’t think the oSde^ crat rebellion will lest very long. In the end they will have to swing in line behind President Truman,” Big Jim is quoted ■•ring. The politicians t at first did not give the States Rights party any states. They finally admitted that South Carolina and Mississippi might go against theold line party. Now they have had to add Louisiana have had and Alabama as ■I cer tainties. North Carolina and Tex as wilKbe on the official ticket for da is _ other states fast swingin into line Certain politicians would like to laugh the States Rights party out of existence They are meet ing with dismal failure. — Bam berg Herald. No Soviet Bomb—Yeti -Amid the rumors as to Russian production of atomic bimbs, it is interesting to call attention to the statement of General A. G. L. Mc- Naufrhton. of Canada, wbo . de- clares that “despeteverish Hus sion attempts to produce a bomb,” the United States, Britain and Canada have leadership in atomic energy developments. General McNaughton says there is no excuse now for hysteria and adds that the d iemocratic na- South. 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