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HBOnj MB ^ ^ 9%; Y( PECEMBEH 17, 1M> ®lff (Camiipn (Sifnmlrlp V Camden. 8. FR^W 110* North Broad Stmt PUBLISHED EVERT Harold C. Booker .... Editor DsCosU Brown .... Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: < All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Oae Year Sis Months 1.50 Entered u Second Claaa Matter at tha Poat Office at Oaraden, 8. C., under act of Concreaa March », 1I7> AO article* aubmltted for publication moat be eigned by the author FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17,1948 Go To Church Sunday t.-' re p—- |f;/■ mk : [i Dr 1/ ge .[A 9>‘ A Remarkable Race When one considers the fact that the States Rights ticket did not enter the presi dential campaign until mid-summer, the vote which it polled in the presidential race was little short of remarkable. The final figures show that Governor Thurmond got a total of 1,159,312 votes, that he led Henry Wallace who had been a candidate for two years and whose strength had been greatly over-rated, just as the strength of Governor Thurmond was under-rated. The final' figures also show that voters in states in which the States Rights party had no electoral ticket in the field took the trouble to write-in the name of the States Rights candidate. For example in Idaho three voters wrote it in, in Kentucky 10,411 wrote it in, in Maryland 2,476, in Missouri 42, in the Granite state of New Hampshire 7, in Pennsylvania 45. The ticket got 374 votes in North Dakota. And so it can be seen that the seed for the party can be found in almost every state. If the party is made permanent, an or ganization formed in every state, there is no telling to what heights it may go before the next election rolls around. People are beginning to see in it the only hope for the preservation of Ameri canism. Intuiting To Charity _____ It internal organisation wanted to stage Vbull fight in Jacksonville, Fla., last Sat urday to raise money for “charity.” Of course the officials would not allow it Bull fighting is tolerated only in Spain and Mexico. Every now and then somebody hops up and proposes a national lottery, the pro ceeds therefrom to go to “charity,” or some worthy purpose. Just recently a mighty effort was made to have Sunday movies in a Georgia town, the proceeds of which were to go to “charity.” * ] Every now and then some organization wants to conduct a big raffle, using as its excuse that the money is going to some worthy cause. Of course the men who first think up these bright ideas are not primarily in terested in “charity.” They may enlist the support of some who are but those who think them up are more interested in breaking down the ideals, and laws of this country. They want to use “charity” as an opening wedge. Violation of the law should not be tol erated any more quickly for “charity” than for anything else. The better the cause the better the deed for it should be. “A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.” _ t Which Is Right? Hon. Ransome J. Williams, ertswhile Governor of South Carolina who lined up with the Truman forces against the ma jority of the people of his own state in the recent, campaign and who has now been appointed state finance director for the na tion “Democratic” party, has issued an ap peal to the people of the state for funds for the party. In his appeal he says: “An every one knows the party is in debt” Several days before Mr. Williams is sued his appeal there appeared in some newspaper a Washington dispatch by Rob ert & Allen, a columnist and a New Deal er, in which be was bragging that the Ptrigr* because of a rush of contributions since the election, now was many thousands of dollars ahead of the game. He went on to say that the party was now building up a campaign fund for the next congressional election when we presume it will probably try to elect a lot more Soutifc-hatmg mem- yfcers qf-^Oongre^^^C^-^- Sooth Carolinians who contribute to the national “Democratic” party campaign fund now art sabotaging the South. Every church in Camden should have ap overflow congregation Sunday morning, the last Sunday before Christmas. It is at Christmas that we celebrate the birth of Christ and surely every one ought to con sider it a high privilege to go to Church on this occasion and join in the celebration. For three months now we have had on a church attendance campaign in Camden. It ought to reach a grand climax on this Sunday with every one in Camden turning .out for church services. If8 Different Then Speaking to the faculty the students of Wilmington College in Ohio last Friday, Former President Herbert Hoover said that it was “only when we get into politics are we content with common man.” “It is a curious fact,” said the former President, “that when we get sick we want uncommon doctor, if we have a con- an en- struction job we want an uncommon gineer, when we get into war we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an un common general.” Mr. Hoover then declared that “we must have this uncommon sort of men and wom en if we are to have leadership in govern ment, in science, in education, in the pro fessions and in the home.” , All of which is very true. < What Mr. Hoover says about wanting uncommon men in certain jobs at critical moments reminds us that when crises come we put aside lots of feelings. Politicians and others go around abusing corporations and holding them up as great monsters but when war strikes and our lives are threat ened we look to these great corporations to make the supplies to save iis from de struction. 4 You never heard the President of the United States going arCuW the country de nouncing Big Business during the war. Big Business was furnishing the arms, the equipment and much of the money needed to successfully fight that war. If we hadn't had Big Business to produce those easen- tials old Tojo instead of facing death today might be dictating to this country. Thinklnq Out Loud Who can ramatnber when a town depended largely on the •tork to increase its population? Along about this time of the yeer K is well for us to reflect the Communists should capture this country, old Santa Claus would be the first victim of the “purge." "Civilization is imperilled,” *«y* a writer. We were wondering what had happened to it!. The wolf that was howling at our doors, in the early SOs was just a harmless pup compared to the big Russian bear that is browsing around in our tmit m enjoying yourself?” asked the «HK*rad lady. “Yes, but ttet’s all hn enjoying,** quickly replied the gentleman. tL.. *’?*> • ' a; ^ "It doesn’t pay to have a one- track mind,” says a professor. That’s true. We know a man who was said to have been an excel lent buggy whip salesman but who han't been able to make a living since they passed out A professional Santa Claus says that he has noted, in recent yean, that adults are as eager to greet him as children. The New Deal hu brought that about yard now. Some of these days are going to get tired o On Making A Town Says The Dillon Herald: “A feature article on Hartsville by W. D. W. in the Newe and Courier says that thriving Pee Dee city’s industries employ 3,700 people and have an an nual payroll of $8,250,000.00. Co operative community effort did it. It has long been the rule of Hartsville business men, so we were told by a re liable citizen, to buy everything they can in Hartsville. If it cannot be found in Hartsville try to find it in the coun- „ty. If it can’t be found in the county try to find it in the next nearest coun ty. No wonder Hartsville has an im pressive payroll and is a fast growing city. A community that sends its dol lars away for things that can be pur chased at home will never get any where.” The Chronicle has long been urging Camden people to do their trading at homd. There is no exiuse for going out of the county to buy things that you can get here in the county. You don’t build pros perous communities that way, as the Dillon paper so well says. being run The military is so precise about rank it was rather surprising to see that General Marshall had undergone a major operation. wsi While Daniel J. Holland, of Boston, was listening to a radio giveaway program, a burglar en tered his home and stole $200 worth of jewelry. He was not the first man fo lose trying to get something for nothing. Eliminating fireworks should take a lot of fire out of Christ mas. Mule prices are said to be down considerably. But who wants to eat mule meat? It is China care. very must evident now be handled that with 1S Seeking a divorce ficom his wife, a Rochester man said forced him to spend about evenings each year at parties at which he was “bored stiff.” And that reminds us of the story of the man who was the guest of h«Mr one evening at a very fash ionable tea. The tea was a bril- asrtie'made' tfcCr Snds'rtw^khS on the wants of her guests. Then ahe spotted the guest of honor seated in a chair far removed from the other guests. "Are you Jacksonville, Fla., authorities forbid a bull fight which had been scheduled for that city last Saturday. The people who were so anxious to see a display of bull prowess ought to have in vited Senator Claud Pepper speak. Some political dopeeters work ■■ the future of the Demo cratic Party in the South profess signs that heads will fall in the fo- to in _ ]P0L_ cent national election. Among those prominently mentioned as a candidate for the political axe, is J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Ha, the cinpietcrs be lieve, and we have an idea they are the same boys who were so woefully wrong in their election predictions, .committed political suicide when he offered against - With all of the progress that science has been able to make no way has yet been found for a man to eat his cake and have it, too. A says ent pro- newspaper correspond that “for his civil rights p l. President Truman is going iown the line.*’ The period should have been after the word down. A housewife doesn’t have to go out to her work. She awakens every morning to find herself sur rounded by it We see by the papers where a Western judge, in imposing a heavy fine oh a professional Santa Claos for drunkeness, said that a man who palys the role of Santa Claus should be vary careful as to his conduct because of the ef fect on youth. And that reminds us of the story of the litte boy whose mother took him to task one dey for using a naughty word. “Who ever taught you to use that dreadful word?*’ she asked. “San ta Claus, mama,” replied the boy. “Santa Cl—t” asked the moth er. "Yes, mama,” replied the lit tle boy, “when he fell over a chair in my bedroom on Christmas Eve.”— “A York news man is run over in New every half hour.” says a item. Poor fellow! For every woman who makes a fool out of a man, there is a woman who mikes a man out of a fool. ggSj , .f *}■« ;! ^ r -,t £ :j> We heard a young man aay the i aay the problem other day that one now is to find a ent a.girl that doesn't smoke. One can now buy an instru ment which shows which way the wind is Mewing for $200. What a boon for politicians! the handwriting on the wall true, then the rest of us, at the people of South Carolina who toliipported the Thurnumd bid, nave no choice but to join him Tin his political limbo, for running as he did, he merely expressed our feelings, registered our pro tests and voiced our desires for political freedom and relief from the continuing encroachment of federal authority in matters we believe to be within the jurisdic tion of the sovereign state. If there is to be a sacrifice now, the people for whom the fight was made should join to prevent the burden from falling on one man, particularly on a man who so fittingly carried that fight to its conclusion ^ with courage and distkwtion. The political future of J. Strom Thurmond in South Carolina should be a brilliant one. The people whose fight he led should to that They should let it cMvabtycoSe 1 ^ 0 •Pi*****! lightly 1 fashii There are signs that •t Leo Wolman, director of the ? tumal Bureau of Economk 1 who warns - - be misled by^Sif “tense business actmt i*° , Sf What P e * sim iatic ▼tow of the record-breaki **5»»tion of dividends and t toe “we but they probably explain t Pollyanna statements that ere nated from the President’s hS quarters in Florida several wee that the reelection . ruman means a cn the present pouS including the liberal expffiu - evitable* business. Whether the tune for r trenchment will arrive next yea or some year thereafter, is q uncertainty but sooner or late the reaction will set in. Our a, will have the gumption to get the. vice to readers of The Times ar best of it, secure in the knowl- Democrat is that they get the financial houses in order for tt stormy period that approache The havoc will be most severe i industrial and financial water but agricultural communities car not entirly escape the eon* quences of the present unbalance be known in high places that the Thurmond neck is a collective one that if heads are to fall the axemen have the whole state of South Carolina to deal with. This is no time for crawfishing. We made our bed and as men we edge that we put up a good fight, A democracy is vastly weak ened as the power of the people tends to become more and more' the power of federal bureaus and agencies. The bid for power on the part of gederal government must be curbed if our democratic institutions are to fight was not against any , _ ___ or justly due legislation designed to relieve the burden of a min ority group Our tight was for the continuation of democracy, the freedom, inherently ours, to work out our own problems, to maintain the power of the state, to lop off file many-headed monster the planners of govern ment would set upon up. That fight is not ended, that fight is doomed if we retreat now from the solid position attained in of the country ms recall that they did not, as n5 enjoy a boom during the “Cool idge prosperity” that culminate in the "Iloovw depressSn^Tb reverse of the situation may com true later, especially if price sup ports continue to give solid foot mg to agriculture. Maybe; sgrirg. lure will miss the full force of th just as it misBK of much of ou MILLER'S fo* Lumber Needed In America The sentiment fot making the States Rights party permanent is growing, not only in the Southern states in wftich the i(tea originated but in other states which had*-no chance this year to participate in the movement. There is a growing feeling in this coun try that its only hope for salvation lies in this party which believes in a decentraliza tion of governmental power. For many yeaw now our government at Washington has been inching closer and closer to socialism. There la a genuine fear on the part of the people that we may some day in the not too far distant future wake up to find ourselves in the pitiable condi tion in which once proud England now finds herself. The greatest barrier to this can be found in perpetuating the States Rights party and making it the great party of the nation. You did it” r.. TTfr T— « last January that this year almost before 3 before you know ty. Camden has every right to be proud of the Community Choral Club, which made its second public appearance on'Tuesday night in the Camden Grammar School Au ditorium. We’d like to see a music festival here some day built around the choral chib, the high school band and one or two imported artists. Who soak** the Southland grow and prosper? Is it ths banker? Tbs former? Ttw induotrisUst? faetory-workw? The scfaookaachsr? The jera-iv V. .'-.J..*. I,'" •/* IjU'i esii - X ' «jr t aun ■ Ysal And Mot TV,, Is h tbs Southern Railway System... with its many hands body I Pot it tebse many minds, many haarts and steady Joba for 45,000 man and Ha gsthar...kasping everlastingly at lUAo adMeve tha The next session of/the Sooth General Assembly should, .and doubtless will, enact the muni ballot law for this •S'