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PAGE TWO diir (datnbrn (Stfronirle 110* North Broad Stroat Caaxlen, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCosta Brown - • - * Editor - - - Publi‘dier SUBSCRIPTION TERUS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year ....42.50 Six Months Entered as Second Class Matter at Po*t Office at Camden, S. C., under act of OeccreM March I, 1S7S f 1 All articles submitted for publication meet ha algned by the author FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948 On Sound Ground Representative L. Mendel Rivers, who was renominated for Congress from the first congressional district this summer in the Democratic primary, recently received a letter from the head of the Trumancrat party in South Carolina asking if his name could be listed on the ticket favoring Tru man in this state. Mr. Rivers at first wrote giving his per mission although stating that he himself was supporting the States Rights Demo cratic ticket which is the official ticket of the South Carolina Democratic party. However, after thinking the matter over, Mr. Rivers wrote asking that his name not be put on the Trumancrat ticket. _ i!j wouldn’t be true to my convictions if I ran also on the Truman ticket,” said Mr. Rivers. ‘T have requested that (Mr. Wil liams) remove my name from the ballot. I cannot give my permission for them to place my name on the Truman ticket?” Mr. Rivers said that when he entered the primary this summer for Congress he along with all other candidates had to sign this pledge: ~ **1 declare that I am a Democrat and that I am not, nor will I become the candidate of any faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other than the regular Demo cratic party of South Carolina.” The ballots of the regular Democratic party of South Carolina will carry the names of electors who are pledged to sup port the States Rights candidates, Thur mond and Wright. We think Representative Rivers is on sound ground m declining to allow his name to appear on the Truman ballot be- cause of the oath which he took when he entered the primary this summer. Representative Rivers in taking his stand made some interesting comment. “The time has come,” he said, “for every one to stand up and be counted. You’re on one side or the other, not both.” The Chronicle is in hearty accord with Mr. Rivers in this statement. There are ap parently some politicians in South Carolina ■who think they can ride the fence in this Important hour. They should not be per mitted to do so. The Trumancrats are naturally anxious to carry the names of all nominees on their ballot because they hope in this way to pick up some extra votes. All of the other can didates whose names are to be included on the Truman ticket should follow the lead of Mr. Rivers. Better Than Father A New York distillery executive in his will left a daughter the income from a third share of his $2,500,000 estate on con dition she divorce her husband. The income from one-third of the estate is estimated at $a0,Q00 annually. The daughter has announced that she would rather keep her husband than have the $30,000 a year income from her fath er’s estate. The daughter thus shows that she is a far finer woman than her father was a man. Have You Joined? If you have not yet taken out your mem bership in the Camden Chamber of Com merce do so immediately. Don’t wait for some one to come to you soliciting a mem bership. It is just as important to you that Camden have a strong, independent Cham ber of Commerce as it isu-to anybody else so go right now to the Chamber of Com merce and join if you haven’t already joined. x Camden simply must have a Chamber of Commerce and every one who is interested in seeing the city go forward should join. __^i aeems that all of the breaks are against Mr. Truman. The latest is that Gov ernor Jim Folsom of Alabama has come out for him. Using The Schools James Barfoot, who was a member of the faculty of the University of Georgia until this year when he was askql to resign because of his activity in behalf of Henry Wallace, is now the Wallace party candi date for Governor of Georgia. Speaking in Savannah the other night, he said - “I would like to see Paul Robeson sec retary of State.” 1 Robeson is a negro singer who is ad mittedly a Communist. Evidently Mr. Bar- foot must be one also. And yet one year ago he was instructing the youth of Geor gia at the state's university. * , " ' There is very rightly an increasing amount of discussion of the use of text books in schools and colleges which give the young reader the inescapable idea that the capitalist system and ^all its works should be discarded for some other system, totalitarian in nature. A list of text books which follow, in whole or in part, the totalitarian line would be long. As an example, the high schools of Oregon'and other states have an official text on economics and government which endorses socialized medicine, advocates government ownership of utilities and at tacks private insurance and banking. In one chapter it makes this revealing state ment: “Would the free enterprise system necessarily be destroyed if the government were accepted as a full partner in the eco nomic process of the country? Government activity as such is no inherent denial of the principles of the free enterprise system. The government might extend its activities as employer, as investor, even as owner, and thus become ’a necessary balance wheel without interfering with the free dom and initiative of the system of free en terprise —”.. ~~ i That is as logical as saying that a cat and mouse should be able to live together in peace and harmony. A government may donceivably set out to become a partner in industry. But it always ends by swallowing the rest of the partners and establishing a political monopoly. Socialism and indi vidual freedoih cannot exist together. One must destroy the other, and when all tha resources of government are marshaled to that end, the result is inevitable. Furthermore, what textbooks of this na ture never point out is that personal free dom can survive only in a free enterprise, capitalist economy. England provides a tragic example of this. About two years ago Sir Stafford Cripps said that no gcry- ernment has ever succeeded iq carrying through a planned economy without com pulsion of labor, and that the Labor Gov ernment would try to be the exception to the rule. Now England has introduced lab or compulsion in coal mining and other fields, and is expected to swiftly extend it There is no question but that many stu dents of this country are being fed thinly disguised socialist propaganda. A thorough check should be made of the books used in our schools and colleges, and those which seek to belittle and destroy American ideals of business and government should be exposed for what they are, the preach ings of socialism and totalitarian ideas of government, which unless kicked out of this country will destroy it as a free nation. A vigorous Check should also be made of all colleges and universities in this coun try to see how many communists and soc ialists are teaching in them. , .n. Arc you helptnf moke the Church Loy- •itr drive a auccees by going to church each Sunday? How Do Then Stand? .. Senator Olin D. Johnston, who very curtly declined an invitation to attend the States Rights dinner in Camden, has an nounced that he will campaign for the Democratic nominees .for the Senate in Iowa, Montana, New Mexico and Ten nessee. Before he campaigns for them, will the Senator find out if they will vote for the Mr. Truman’s Civil Rights program if elect ed, or will he just go ahead and campaign for them regardless? If he does campaign for them and they are elected and vote for the Civil Rights program, haw will Mr. Johnston explain it to his white constituents when the point is raised against him in his campaign two years from now? ThinwQirtLoud The President's critic* could dte the fact that he sincerely believes he i» going to be re-elefcted as proof of the fact that he doesn’t know whafg going on. “Blest be the tie that binds” must be the theme song of the Wofford College football team which, has played four tie fames thus far this season. What has become of the old- fashioned fanner who used to bank his sweet potatoes along about this time of the year? The banjo is said to be coming back. We trust this doesn’t mean that there is another period af unemployment just around the corner. Out in Minnesota a long, lanky girl who inherited $100^000 the other day immediately became tall and’ stately. All candidates must wear mag nifying glasses. ( You can’t blame a man for his ancestors but you >can certainly blame his ancestors for him. “What is the greatest' need of the United States?” asks a writer. Well, right now, we’d say that it is a cure forHbay fever. ’President Truman never knows here he’s going,” shouted a Re- where _ __ publican speaker the Perhaps he’s like the bug of which some one once said' ‘The lightning bug is a queer bug, His light is on the wrong end; He can never see where he’s go ing But only where he has been.” The editor for a column for women says that a mother should know whefe her daughters are at all times. And that reminds us of the old story of the mother who was talking to her daughter, who was employed in a city but who was at home for a visit “Daugh ter,” said the mother, “didn’t I tell you not, to let strange men come to your apartment. You know things like that “Don’t be ridiculous, laughed the daughter, “I went to his apartment this time so let his Mother do the worrying.” With The Press If Moscow Radio and Viahinsky ige, which pol St; me. worry i, Mother,” Do you suppose the present scarcity of eggs could have re sulted from that egg barrage thrown at Henry Wallace in North CaSblina? A stranded politician who would like to come back is willing to get aboard almost any passing vehicle. Any one of the political parties can tell you that talk is not cheap if it is over the radio. That eminent hussy, Ann Pau- ker, communist leader in Ro mania, should change her name to Ann Archy. There’s a lot of con in political economy. Was it a cannibal who dis covered that the bravest are the tenderest? ♦ A woman usually reduces to cut expenses. “A politician is all right in his place, says a writer, but he didn’t say where his place is. A prominent business man says that lots of money is lost through little misunderstandings. And that’s correct. For example there was the mountaineer who was talking to an artist, who had of fered him fiye dollars to let him paint him. The old mountaineer shifted hife legs from one position to another and back again. “It’s easy money,” said the artist. “Thar hain’t po question about that,” the mountaineer replied. T was jes a-wohderin’ how I’d git the paint off afterward.” Go To Church Sunday FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on October 80, 1948, Lindsey Bradley will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County his final return as administrator of the estate of Sarah Bradley, deceased, and on the same date he will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said administrator. If -ygr N. C ARNETT, speak the same language, undoubtedly they do, youthful Congressman Dorn has lost to Winston Churchill his Russian title of No. 1 warmonger. Last South of his applies the term to the former British prime minister because of his fiery speech last Saturday to a Conservative party rally in which he bitterly assailed Russian licies and urged the United tales to hold on to its atom bombs. Porn got his rating because of a speech he made on the floor of the house not so long after he took his seat \ If Dorn is being replaced as No. 1 warmonger in the eyes of the Soviet he certainly is relinquish ing his title to a worthy substi tute.—The State. * " t Bound By Party Rule* Pursuant to published notices by the county chairmen of the 46 counties, the members of the Democratic dubs at the various precincts met on the fourth Sat urday in April, organized and elected officers. At the same time delegates to the county conven tions were elected. The county conventions met on the first Monday in May, elected officers, and also delegates to the States Convention, which met on May 19. All this was done in ac cordance with the rules of the Democratic party. - „ At the State Convention a reso lution was passed which gave the State Executive Committee, com posed of one member from each county, authority to appoint the state’s eight presidential electors. There was nothing irregular in all thqse proceedings. a minority group of the State Democratic Execu tive committee met at Columbia and named another group of presidential electors, and two tickets containing toe names of separate presidential electors will be placed before the voters at the general election to be held No- vembr 2. Naturally, toe question of which is the real Democratic ticket arises. Obviously, the voters who par ticipated in the recent primaries are bound by the action of the State Convention. When they cast their votes in the Democratic primaries they acquiesced in the action of the State Democratic Convention, regardless of any subsequent action token by the National Democratic party. This may be a tuner pill for some members of toe party who do not approve the action of the State Convention, but there was nothing irregular in the whole proceeding from toe time of the meeting of the precinct clubs, the county conventions and the State Democratic Convention. — Dillon Herald. Ifb UnitecT States Senator Johnston of this state, says he is to hit the trail for the tic party, making speech- ^ a number of rtatq^j^ohably tana and Tennessee. When asked when he would speak for Presi dent Truman also in doubtful states, go era only." The senator is terribly ed over the Democrats control of thrf Senate, “seniority” of the bers, including himself. There'* a lot of ballyhoo about this ‘Sen iority” chatter, the senators and congressmen in office being the principal ones who talk about it Such talk is calculated to help them a* election year rolls around in their races for re-election. Sen iority means more patronage, we suppose, and this Is what most senators and congressmen crave. To keep the record straight. Senator Johnston has bedh spoken for months in his _ demnation of President Truman. Before the national convention he openly championed General enhower for to*|M Senator J^Sm*,*?**; tn work for. Sr y *!? «> sasaKSss fcEssafc'a Hauling.. Local and Long Distance CITY VICK Ur AND DELIVERY Building Supplias .. Sand . • Crushed Stone. Bricks. . Conerata Blocks .. Cement Bricks!! Cement.. Lima .. Flue Lining and Thimblit etc., for Sale. Ernest R. Freitag Phone 746>R Camden, S. Judge of Probate. G, Sept 30, 1946. In America Only Herbert Hoover, ex-president of the* United States, recently said in New York: “My country owes mo nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy end girl, e chance. It gave me schooling, inde pendence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land coaid a hoy from a country village, without inheritance q* iafluesitial friends, look forward with unbounded hope.” And yet Blare are wild-eyed theorists in thie country who would destroy it Watch Your Kidneys/ Help Them Clean* the Stood of Harmful Body Waste i *