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®hr (Earn&pn (Chrontrlp 1109 North Brood Street Camden. 8. C. PUBLISHED BV1SRT; yRlDAT ^ Harold €. Booker DaCosta Brown - - . Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year .ISO Six Months 1.50 Entered as Second Class Hatter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C^ under act of Concreea March S, 1871 - All articles submitted for publication most ha ^ ^Ipned by the authpr - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 194$ A Solution To The Problem The States Rights Democratic party should be kept alive in South Carolina be cause it offers a solution to a very vexa tious problem in this state. The views of the people Who voted for the States Rights Democratic ticket “ij#* election last week are so at v&T ’ aI f* " those who voted the.Truman ticket that t would be ridiculous to try to herd them a into the same party again. To begin with the national party facUon does not object to general negro P* rticl P-‘‘ tion in ijs party councils and in the p ™ ary, while the States Rights party faction ^Therefore it seems to us it would be far better to let the national paftyjrin* con tinue its organization and hold primaries two years hence and the Stat Rights wings continue its organization an holds its primaries also. Then the nomi nees of the two factions could be voted on in the general election. Ttols would solve the problem of the negro vote. The negroes would undoubted ly want to participate in the national party wing primary and that faction presumably would welcome them. They would not want to participate in the States Rights party primary and so would not have togobe- -faw^Judge Waring for an order. There are other very vital reasons why the States Rights party should be kept alive but this one is important enough to justify it becoming a permanent body. This suggestion might not appeal to some politicians who would then have to choose to which faction they would belong but we believe it will appeal to the grass rooters who started the State Rights movement Might As Well Have Et Staffan Andrews of the North American Newspaper Alliance says in a dispatch which appeared in the Anderson Independ ent Sunday: “The President also expected to deal harshly, according to associates, with those who tried to cut him down in Phila delphia.” This being the case some of the South ern Senators and Congressmen who fought the President so bitterly at Philadelphia but kept quiet during the campaign be cause they wanted to protect their com mittee assignments might as well have joined the States Rights movement. You’ve heard the old, old story of the preacher who, much to the dismay of his hostess refused to eat ally of the .elaborate meal which she had prepared for him be cause, he said, the never ate anything just before preaching. The housewife didn’t get to hear the sermon but when her husband returned asked him about It. “He might as w£il have et,” was the husband’s reply. ,, And so, we say, those Southern Senators and Congressmen might as 'well have join ed their fellow Southerners in the States Rights movement. Out Irreplaceable W uanf e Once, it to reliably estimated, there were 75,000,000 buffalo in thf Continental United States. Now o\ily a few pitifully small herds are left. Audubon, the great painter of the birds of America, saw literally billions of pas senger pigeons, one of the most beautiful of game birds, during his travels. The list of them died years ago in a zoo, and the species to extinct. ... As all hunters know, the population of ducks, pheasants, quail and the remaining game birds has keen decreasing danger- ously. The result has been constantly short ened seasons snd decreased bag limits.. Once the wildlife resource of a country are destroyed, it may be impossible to ever bring them back. At best the process takes many years and enormous sums of money. Surely we should be taking steps now to give our wildlife more protection than it has been getting. IhinktaqOutltnid With the _i price what it is we sort of of meat being whish the Vegetarian candidate for Presi dent had been elected last week. One cannot but wonder if there has been enough balm in Gilead to go round since the election last week. Who can remember the good old days whan aalesday — the first Monday in each month—was a big day in a court house town? Citation is just a plug compared with President Truman. A fellow down in South Geor gia says that a dollar will buy so little nowadays that lots of peo- . pie down that way are becoming disgusted and are just saving them instead of spending them. ’If you wish 'the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stpuid things,” Adolf Hitler said. once. WcUTit too. Vforked in this country, It doesn't do to take ahything for granted. For instance, we heard the other day of an old farmer who was driving The Old Circuit Rider The article on the Rev.-James Jenkins, which appeared in last week’s issue of The Chronicle, was a most interesting portray al of life in the old days. Every one who read the article must have been impressed with the hardships (Which the old circuit rider was willing to undergo to spread the gospel of Christ For instance tha Rev. Mr. Jenkins' first appointment was as preacher on the Chero kee circuit *Tt wag a six weeks circuit be ing of 300 miles in circumference,” he said. He spoke in his memoirs of the hardships he had to endure, the poverty of the peo ple, difficulties of travel and dangers from the “wild men ol the forests.” When one thinks of 'the hardships that Qhristiane of the early yean had to Un dergo for their religion such as the danger of being thrown into dungeons and being devoured by wild animal®, it ought to make us all aghagied of ever complaining today of what wt are called upon to> de. Did You Know— That President Truman carried Ohio and California, which (have a combined elec toral vote of 50, by only 50,160 votes out of a total vote of nearly 6,600,000 and that if he had not carried these two states the election would have been thrown into the House of Representatives? That the President carried the three states of Ohio, California and Illinois by only 100,900 votes out of a total vote of 10,500,000 and that if he had lost these three states Mr. Dewey would have been elected? That Mr. Truman’s plurality in the na tion is approximately 2,000,000; as com pared with 7,000,000 for Harding in 1920; 7,4Q0,000 for Coolidge in 1924; 6,400,000 for Hoover in 1928; 7,100,000 for Roose velt in 1932; 11,100,000 for Roosevelt in 1936; 4,900,000 for Roosevelt in 1940 and 3,600,000 for Roosevelt in 1944? It cannot be said that the election was a smashing endorsemfnt of Mr. Truman’s whole legislative program. There has been no important campaign ever conducted in Camden than the church loyalty campaign now in progress. The con tribution you are asked to make to it is to attend your church on Sunday. We are afraid that there are some South ern politicians who do not say with Shake- spears that “I do love my country's good with a respect more tender, more holy and profound than mine own life.” Some newspapers of the stats are - com- plaining already of the firecracker nuis- ance. This is one law that ought to bs rig idly enforced this Christmas. Wa bavs ntver , i Even a deaf, dumb and blind man ought be *hle to know now that Cam going to church going to grow. You can just feel It an old and sud denly without giving any warn ing at all he attempted to turn off] naming names, onto a dirt road- A tourist who was trying to pass him struck his truck, damaging the truck and his car, too.He jumped out and ran up to the farmer and said, "Why didn’t you give a signal that you were going to turn out?” The old replied: farmer granted and nal, the mischief, Mr. Truman’s Ray Tucker, one of the best of the Wash ington columnists, outlined in his Monday’s column in daily newspapers, some of the things Mr. Truman will have to def to carry out his campaign pledges. Mr. Tucker listed them in the following order*. , , VT ♦ “(1) H« nmt nMtfa.MtdWw* ” wh0 WM civil rights bill for federal enforcement of tnick along the highway, t ■legislation against poll taxes, lynching,* political discrimination and segregation. “(2) He must persuade or w<hip Con gress into broadening Social Security cov erage to include 20,000,000 now excluded, and to increase monthly payments from a $25 to a $60 monthly average. He must also make the boys and girls on Capitol Hill boost the hourly minimum from the present meaningless forty cents. “(3) He must dragoon his Democratic majority intoreimposition of price controls, rationing and general regimehtation of in dustry, provided he keeps the pledges which he made during the campaign. He must reduce prices. “(4) Simultaneously with cutting liv ing costs, (he must satisfy two other gropps which were largely responsible for his de feat of Governor Thomas E. Dewey—the organized workingman and the organized farmers. He must maintain or increase the present level of wages, or take-home pay r and he must also keep agricultural income at a high rate, i “(5) On the foreign front he promised that (he had a better formula for preserva tion of peace than his opponent did. Per haps he has. But it is up to him to prove it by actions* rather than by campaign speeches.” , • Now that they have delivered the goods (his followers will be looking to the Presi dent to deliver what he has promised. every know* I live up that dirt road.” A writer says he likes the dra matic in poetry. That being the case this little ditty ought to ap peal to him: Joe jilted Ellen, Ellen sued: Joe married Hell ensued. Helen, ~Tt* Life has never same in this cot ite the the big circuses cut out'the smaller court house towns and abandoned their street parades. Governor Maw was defeated for re-election 4n Utah which would indicate that the voters did not re gard him as a grand Maw. We doubt very seriously if Ten nessee would have defeated Gear gia Tech «S William and would have tied North Carolina Mr. Truman hadn’t shown them that nothing is impossible. Mary linaif The Louisville (Ky.) Times sounded this thought the other day: “One out of every six adults gets money from the government, snd the remaining five get what ever consolation there Is in the thought that H is than to receive.” better to give A circus elephant out in Ohio ate $114.79 in cash, which Isn't hay even under inflation. % It won’t be long now before the whole nation key. 53f be talking tur- The Northern and Western Democratic Congressmen will probably woo the Southern Con gressmen until the latter help them organize Congress — after which the honeymoon will be over. A writer says that it is remark able how children inherit the traits of their parents. And that reminds us of little Johnny brought home his report and with it was a note from the teacher. "Dear Mrs. Jones,” said the note, “Johnny is a bright boy but he spends all his time with the girls. I’m trying to think up a way to cure him. Mrs. Jones studied the note, then wrote the teacher as follows: “Dear Miss Smith: If you find a way to cure him let me know, I’m having the same trouble with his old man.” We see where a professor was trying to figure out why profes sors are so absent-minded, but forget what he was doing. President Truman followed Horace Greeley’s advice and went West and it seems to have paid off. We see where mat fellow says that since the recent election he is not going to believe anything he reads or hears in the future. VISITS PURINA FARM, _ J. B. Canter, of Camden, re cently visited the Purina Research Summit, Mo., practical Farm at Gray where he saw many operations to increase the nation's supply of meat, milk and eggs. ADAMS BATS America’s Foremost Hats With The Press ^ more than those which have caused re peated shifts in American policy on Palestine and protracted pro crastination in the United Nations may be spurring the UN to firmer action to put a final end to war fare in the Hohr Land. - The latest shift in American policy, in which the United States u more stronly backing UN de mands that Israel withdraw its troops from positions won from the Arabs in the Negeb, has sur prised many hi Paris. The fact that the American elections are over could account for it, but it comes astonishingly soon after them. Possibly some other influences are at work. Indeed, the amazing report of charges against the Israeli Government by an un named air pilot now under pro tection by American authorities in Paris—as published in this news paper yesterday and toda; throws a melodramatic on the UN’s latest moves. ■■ It suggests they may be con ditioned by suspicion of large- scale trace violations by the ' by Bed Dav For Tuesday, November 1, 1948, is another of the days that prove the wise men wrong. Agur the son of Jakeh confessed his ignorance thus: \ “There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yen, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of .,entu way maid.” Add. today, ye pollsters, p: -storSj (men jie air; me way ui a serpent upon a rock; the way of « ship in the midst of the sen; and the way of a man with a maid.” Add today, ye pollsters, ets and prognosticators, (in us), this fifth subject of Including the United States. These violations, it is charged, involve the transport of arms, air planes, and men of fighting age into Palestine. The charges—it needs to be em phasized—are those of an indi vidual with the reputation of a “soldier of fortune” There is nothing “official” about them. But they are being mo^ seriously in vestigated by the UN mediator for Palestine, Dr. Bunche. Moreover, they are known to be so detailed, himing names, airfields, routes, codes, as to be more than usually impressive. , . _ No useful judgment of these al legations can be made by the pub lic. They have aspects so explo sive, indeed, where they involve Russian officialdom, as to require the most careful handling of them in UN ahd diplomatic circles. But their publication will serve to keep utmost pressure on those circles for firm measures to cope with the Palestine situation. The possibility of such intrigue ran hardly be ruled out of any international conflict except by the application of UN feolice pow er in support of UN orders, ready to enforce economic and military sanctions if need be. The alterna tive can be dangerous not bmy to one or the other side in the con flict but to big-power relations and world peace. — Christian Science Monitor. * ‘ Unchained tooth Carolina! Last Tuesday, November . 2, South Carolina became ax) un chained state. The chains were not thrown off by one man. The freedom was won for the people by the people thsmasivsa. , The lenders in high political posta, .with exceptions such as Governor Thurmond and Repre sentative Rivers (there were oth ers), if they did not sulk in their tents were silent in them. Not again will politicians of the North and West think of South Carolina with disdain and con tempt, as a state of white slaves to their “Democracy.” It is not conceivable that for the sake of places on committees, for “prestige,” for gifts subsidies snd sops, the States Right men in South Carolina will crawl on their stomachs as penitents and plead for “recognition” by Chairman McGrath and his undiscriminating machines. Were leaders of the States Rights party to surrender to the McGrath machine, th&e would be another uprising of the substan tial people of South Carolina. Hail, hail! To South Carolina free!—News and Courier. we know not: the way of the peo ple at the polls.—News and Cour ier. To Bankrupt Tha U. 8. The purpose of pres s , , munist strategy, in relation to the United States, according to some observers, is an effort to lure the United States into excessive bank ruptcy will stop our interest in foreign affairs. 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