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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1948
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Our La»t Cha/ice
The Chamber Of Commerce
Next week will be a rather momentous
week in Camden!
The membership drive for the Chamber
of Commerce will be staged and enough
members, must be secured to enable the
city to (have a commercial organization that
can compare favorably with similar or
ganizations in other cities and towns or we
will fail to keep pace with them.
Probably never in its history has Cam
den needed a live Chamber of Commerce
more than it needs one now. The/city has
its greatest opportunity to grow. Many in
dustries are looking our way and with a
live Chamber of Commerce to treat with
them many of them may locate here.
Almost the first thing an industry look
ing about for a new location does is to seek
information about towns in which it is con
sidering locating. The place it naturally
goes to for such information is the Cham
ber of Commerce. A city the size of Cam
den that does not have sudh an organiza-
tion is naturally looked upon as a “dead”
one. • .
And then, too, a live Chamber of Com
merce will not sit around and wait for in
dustries to come to it but will go out and
hunt them, and endeavor to get them in
terested in the city. It will promote new in
dustries locally and that is one thing Cam
den needs—more new industries with local
ownership.
There is another all-impelling reason
iwlhy Camden needs a Chamber of Com
merce and that is our tourist trade. There
are many cities that would be willing tp
spend thousands of dollars a year to get
the tourist trade that Camden has. We have
got to service the tourist business that: we
t already have or we will lose it.
And then a live Chamber of Commerce
.. hy judicious advertising can probably se
cure much more tourist business for the
city. Camden has many advantages that
no other cities in this section has. We al
most have a monopoly in South Carolina.
It is to be hoped that every one in Cam
den will rally behind the campaign next
week and that an even stronger Chamber
of Commerce will result from it.
The benefits derived from a Chamber
of Commerce are oftentimes very abstract,
just as the benefits derived from advertis
ing. Coca-Cola Company has spent mil
lions and millions of dollars in advertising
and has built up an enormous business. But
it dare not stop advertising because it
knows from the experiences of others that
you have to keep plugging away for busi
ness. Pears Soap was once the most popu
lar soap in this country. The producers of
, ^ decided that they had built up such a
business they no longer deeded to adver
tise. Their sales fell off and they were
never able to regain the place it once had.
^ It finally disappeared from the market.
A Chamber of Commerce is a form of
advertising for a city. The city that does
not have one suffers.
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Governor Fielding L. Wright, vice preai-
d#ntial candidate on the States Righto
Democratic ticket, was speaking soundly
when he told Aome 500 diners at a States
Rights banquet in Charleston last week
that Southerners will have /‘publicly by
tlheir votes invited the next Congress to
enact” the proposed civil rights program
if they do not stand solidly behind the
States Rights ticket in the November elec
tion.
The Mississippi' Governed said that
the FEPC and other obnoxious anti-South
ern measures would have beep law (had it
not been for stalwart Southern congress
men and senators in the last Congress, and
then he asked: ‘‘But what chance will these
men have in the next Congress when they
stand up and fight these vicious proposals
if our enemies can point to the fact that the
people of the South by their votes support
ed parties and candidates who have based
their campaigns on the passage of these
measures? ” T r ~ --
Governor Wright then declared: ‘‘I tell
you that the South will stand solidly for J.
Strom Thurmond on November second or
you will see the end ofihe way of life we
know and love so well south of the Mason
and Dixon line.”
The Governor has made a most telling
point!
Suppose South Carolina should vote for
President Truman in the November elec-
In Time Of Stress
On the day the invasion of Europe be
gan, the people of this country by the mil
lions poured into the churches to meditate
and to play. It had been many years since
this country had seen such a spiritual
awakening.
Let us hope that we shall not agpin have
that cause to go to our churches. But who
knofWB? The clouds of war hang very low
and every one must feel that almost any
day now might see the storm break again.
Let s don t wait for such an occasion to
visit our dhurches. Governor Dewey sug-
- gested Hie other day that the people of the
country should be offering prayers that
war might be averted. The suggestion was
moat fitting.
Camden has a Church attendance drive
in progress now. Let us hope that the peo-
, pie of the city wlil turn out in full force
next Sunday and every Sunday thereafter
and there meditate and pray that the hor
rors of war may not again be visited upon
the world.
tion! When the FEPC comes before Con
gress again in January and Representative
Richards arises to oppose it, the propon
ents of the bill will say to him: ‘‘Why your
people supported President Truman over a
candidate iwQio had opposition to the FEPC
as one of the principal planks in his plat
form—-what right have you to get up and
oppose this measure?”
If the States Rights Democrat ticket
were not in the field, Mr. Richards might
he able to cook up some sort of a reply for
our support of Truman—he might say for,
example: ‘‘Well, we didn’t see much dif
ference between Mr. Truman and Mr.
Dewey and as we (had always voted Demo
cratic we just held our noses and went
ahead and voted,for Mr. Truman.”
But he is forestalled from making any
such reply as that now by reason of the
fact that the States Rights Democratic tick
et is in the field. It offers every one in the
South who is opposed to the FEPC and the
other obnoxious anti-Southern proposal! a
way to register their protest against these
measures.
And as Governor Wright said in Char
leston if the South doesn’t stand behind the
States Rights Democratic ticket in the No
vember election we will see the end of ‘the
way of life we know and love so well south
of the Mason and Dixon line.”
Specialists In “Cold” Wars
Referring to the ‘‘cold” war which the
Soviet is conducting against the Western
powers now, Editor A. B. Jordan of the
Dillon Herald says that the only war Rus
sia has ever had was a ‘‘cold” war in 1812
when Napoleon made the fatal blunder of
invading Moscow in midwinter. The Rus
sians burned their city and fled. In the re
treat to France more than half of Napol^
eon’s army froze or starved to death.
‘‘In 1905,” says Editor Jordan, “the Rus
sians were defeated by the Japanese, and
in the first World War the Russian armies
collapsed and surrendered to the Germans
before they got well under way. In the last
defeated if the United States had not come
to their rescue. Ob\{iously the Russians are
not formidable in a ‘fighting war’ but are
pastmasters in the art of conducting a ‘cold
war’ ”.
Edior Jordan might also have pointed
out that little Finland fought the commun
ists to a standstill for several months until
finally overpowered by overwhelming num
bers.
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If you kaven't broil to the Kershaw Coun
ty VtOr yet go today.
The Sweet Potato
Orangeburg had a sweet potato festival
last week. We are glad that at long last
some city has paid tribute to this noble
American institution.
We know of few things that are better
than a good baked golden yam with some
good butter spread on it.
And then the sweeto potato pie is no
slouch! If made right it ranks high in the
pie world, and is particularly popular in
some sections, notably South Georgiy.
The story is told that a South Georgian
who was in Jacksonville for a day went
into a restaurant in that Florida city to get
a bit to eat The waitress asked him what
he would have.
'Til take a piece of pie,” thq Georgian
responded.
‘‘That sort of pie?” the waitress naked.
“Thter pie*. Whnt the heck do you think
pie is made of?” responded the Georgian.
IhmktaqOutLjiid
A correspondent who has ac-
Perhaps that is why he is in such
a good frame of mind.
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The throwing habit seems to be
contagious. First Henry Wallace
had eggs thrown at him in North
Carolina, then Glen Taylor, his
running mate, had peaches
thrown at him in Idaho and last
week the Braves had a Lemon
thrown at them in Cleveland.
The graduated tax must have
been thought up by some college
professor.
“Is hell a reality?” asks a writ
er. Has the wife of the man who
asked that question ever found a
letter in his coat pocket that she
had given him several days bo-
fore to meal?
We see where one mill has cur
tailed operations because of the
poor demand for sheets so the
KKK must not be going over so
big after all.
With Hie Press
Over the fading gteen of the
meadow, above the leaf-flecktd
lake, the bluiah haze of autumn
rests like a mute, softening the
music of strings.
Fall is not all cymbals and
drums and brasses, not all reds
and yellows on distant hills, and
woodward arpeggios flash in the
flights of lingering birds. ,But
again and again the mists steal
back like a shimmer of sound to
unify the multicolored, many-
—**-med whole.
autumn,
tunes, foo-
Bark of dogs and cries of children
Henry Wallace is a Presbyterian
elder bu\ he evidently doesn't
know much about the doctrine of
election.
The high cost of building has
caused some wag to come forth
with this one: v-
“Little drops of water.
Little grains of grit
When you build a house
Cost you quite a bit”
It is said that President Tru
man may join a California bank
dency. We don’t know just what
position the bank has in mind for
him but he would make a good
vice president in charge of noth
ing.
“Prosperity is dangerous,” says
an economist. Yes but it’s such de
lightful danger.
Are there any liberals in Scot
land?
There was a Feller in Cleve
land, Ohio, Sunday afternoon who
needed a friend.
The night has a thousand eyes,
they say, out even with that many
it can’t keep up with all that is
going on.
An edit
should be
they are
that people
aa to wha
Yes,
and put it in rhyme. Hie rest of
us fed it as s gentle incommuni
cable music made of a thousand
sights and sound! too fleeting to
remark but too piquant to paaa
unnoticed. — Christian Science
Monitor. \ ' '
Would Be v
An American
lollipops down to Berlin children,
and it would be interesting to see
a suspicious Russian testing one
for the flavor of ideology.—Bos
ton Globe. ' 4
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Confusing y 4
The American language is con
fusing to a European. One visitor,
taking a specific point said:
“When an American says he ‘plays
second fiddle at home,’ I don’t
are bright as the colors on the know whether he’s telling me he’s
•s. Kitchen sounds ipake a a musician or that he’s married.”
—Christian Science Monitor.
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slopes. Kitchen sounds ipake «
gentle percussion. And to match
—some people say outmatch-^na-
ture’s misty magic, rise the wav
ering pillars of leaf smoke from
roadside bonfires up and down
well-loved streets.
Poets catch it all now and then
stance you may
story of the old
have heard the
boatsman who
rowed a boat for a Bishop w^en
he went fishing. Performing a
similar mission one day for an
other cleric angler, he mentioned
to the latter that he rowed for the
Bishop. The minister then began
to recount what a notoe soul the
Bishop was. “Right you are,” said
the oarsman, “except his swear
ing." “Why the Bishop doesn’t
swear—that’s impossible,” the
minister exclaimed. “Oh” replied
the oarsman, “but he did once any
wav. He hooked a baautiful bass
and got the wriggling fellow up
to the boat, and just as I went to
get him with hand net, he flopped
clean off the hook, I say That’s
to d—d bad, Bishop’ and he said,
‘Yes, it is.' But that’s the only
time I ever heard him swear.”
If the sale of cosmetics should
be discontinued many a woman
would develop an inferiority com
plexion.
Where was the nurse when
President Truman was toying
\with such a dangerous idea as
sending Chief Justice Vinson di-
! for the Presi- rect to Moscow to deal with
Stalin?
In the old days a 12-year-old
boy was 10 so he could travel for
half fare. Now he is 16 so he can
drive pop’s car, and don’t you
think he’s not driving it?
Some people seem to try to
make weekends meet
People jump to conclusions too
quickly, says a writer: Yes. For
instance there was the case of the
old mountaineer who walked into
a doctor’s office leading a gangl
ing youth. “Doc,” b* said, “ f want
you should fix up my son-in-law,
t shot him in the yesterday and
lamed him up a mite.” “Tut, tut,”
clucked the doctor disapprovingly,
“shame on you for shooting your
own son-in-law.” “Wal, doc, re-
:o what plied the mountaineer, fre waro’t
for in- 1 my son-in-law when I shot him."
A leading automobile concern is
reported to Have developed and
tasted a gasoline engine that saves
20 pe* cent on fuel over the pres
ent standard motor.
The facts concerhing the new
engine are said tdrfhave been
“buried” in a report entitled.
“Fuel Oil for Diesel Engines/*
compiled 1)7 the company’s tech
nicians.
Even a saving of 20 per cent
would be welcome with the pres
ent prices of gasoline, but it
we are still behind
i neconomy of automobile opera
tion, though ahead of them in
mead and power. The average
European cat, we are told, has one
or two cylinders and plus along at
of 20 miles an hour
scene 40 miles on a gallon of
Another interesting and
raising point in the report It
fact that Diesel engines are far
more economical of fuel oil than
are oil-burning steam engines. It
is stated that 38,000 Diesel loco
motives could operate more eco-
fufel oil
nomically of
than 3,000
oil-bumin* ite*>v.
to a longer lif* *
Scientists are
•round with a ray , fe
mora powerful than
^7 <1*7 now we exixS?
»fm atom splittinTT' 1
Ctofom Crisis In ism
. Th^will be no crop conti
UJM* tor as cotton i?
SeCTetanr ^Agriculture
eason’s su
68 lew foan |
Inasmuch as the eov^P 1
has guaranteed price budtwS?!
cotton in 1949, the
S? £i
the eUpte down aiTd ^ u
government to advaie"
•urns through commodityTo
The threat to the cotton i
arise* however, if there it
oop next year. Thu will me
sent carryover and.
in 10SA 8U PP° r t pro
to 1980, there u no tellini
the price of the 1950 crop
■^-Orangeburg Times and
amt.
Oil In the West
Begtaming with the year
the west began producing oil*
the states of Texas, Ca
Oklahoma and
the leaders in prt
this moat valuable commoditT
'these states, Texas and C
the largest producers.
MILLER'S for Lumber
LEARN TO FLY -We wn
$5.00 per Lesson
Instruction
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• WeU Main
tained Planes
•Aircraft
Sales..
Rentals
Fly Over Camden - - - $2.00
Begley Flying Service
WOODWARD AIRPORT —
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TO THE PUBLIC
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. On this our Fifteenth Anniversary we take pleasure in
submitting herewith a ropy of our financial statement as of
October 11th, 1948, and invite your attention to the figures
reflected therein. ~ •
For your confidence, your patronage, and your support
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over the past fifteen years we sincerely thankyou and we shall
endeavor in the years to come to render every bonking service
consistent with sound and conservative principals. r .
Stof m«irf of Th« Commwrcial Notional Bonk. CamtUw. S. C, October 11,1*48
LIABILITIES
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts T $ 706,946.82
Bonds Owned by Bank 1,821,881.26
Documentary Stamps 762.48
Other Assets .... 5,250.00
Furniture and Fixtures — 7-,746.61
Cash and Due Us from
Banks 1,137,728.40
Capital _
Surplus
$ 50,000.00
^ 125,000.00
Undivided Profits and
Reserve Accounts ..
Bills Payable
Deposits L
. 32,415.84
1 None ‘ T
. 3,472,899.73
$3,680,315.57
$3,680,315.57
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