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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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. Yes,
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the same banks.
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the States Rtehters, and Fieri- iggg"* from what he £
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say Southemeres, we nSa,
roes and whites—The State.
“Surely the church b a
where one day’s truce ought
allowed to the dissensions ,
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