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mm m mm: tr K I Sip (EamJipu (HljrmtirU 1101 North Brood Btrwt Cwnden. a 0. PUBLISHED EVERT PRIDAt. m Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - - Editor Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance 3 Year ^ ~ One -Year Months 42.60 1.60 Ikterod as Socoad Class Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. Cinder act of Confreee , March S, 187» All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949 A Man Facing Death James Marlow, an Associated Press cor respondent, said that for years he had wondered how a man feels who has had a heart attack and recovered. He had won dered what it did to him and to his think ing about himself. Recently he found a man who had had such an attack, a man of 44, who had been extremely active physically. The man was one of Marlow’s closest friends. This man in talking to Marlow of his ex perience said: “I looked out the window, day after day, and my whole life went before me. I thought: Suppose I die today or tomorrow. What difference does it .make? 1..: “ I can’t see where it makes much difference, except to my family. It wouldn’t make much difference to me. I’ve lived my life. I know what being alive in the world is. . "I’ve tried to live it without hate or prejudice for any other human being. People to me have always been people. I’ve had no illusions about them. Some have been horrible. Some have been wonderful. *Tve been married. I know what it means to subordinate some of your awn ideas to someone else’s so there can be peace within a home, at least. “I've had children. I hope f ve done a good job with them. I'll never know for sure, becaiuse they’ll live longer than I. “I know if I die today, I leave a job unfinished. I hand it to my children, just as my parents and my grandpar- ents*fhanded it on to me. I think it will ' be like that for a long, long time.” Several years ago we read an article by a veteran nurse in which she lamented the fact that people would go all through life haunted by the fear of death only to find that it was not so horrible when it came— that is for those who had lived the right sort of lives. Very few people are afraid to die, she said, when they get to the very end and in all of her experiences she said she had seen only one who seemed to feel any ter ror—a woman who had done her sister a wrong wihich it was too late to right. “Something strange and beautiful hap pens to men and women when they come to the $nd,” said the nurse. “All fear, all hor ror disappears. I have often watched a look of happy wonder dawn in their eyes when they realized this was true.'It is a part of the goodness of nature and I believe of the illimitable goodness of God.” The Mirror Of A City The Chronicle last Saturday received the following from a Northern city: “Will you please write us your sub scription rates. We are contemplating a new business somewhere in the South and would like news of your locality for consideration." This is not the first request of this kind The Chronicle has received and it will not be the last. The business concern that wrote this let ter wrote a similar note perhaps to news papers in two or three more towns in the South which it may be looking at. The average reader may wonder why a business concern would want to read the newspaper of a town it may be considering as a location. The answer is that there are varied reasons. It wants to get a mirror of the life in the town or city before deciding to locate there and it knows that it can best get it through reading the newspaper published there. * It would like to know, for example, if the town is one beset by labor troubles. It wants to know if it is a town in which there is much lawlessness. Naturally it wouldn’t want to locate in a city that is beset by either. It wants to know if it is a town with sharp factional differences. No corporation wants to locate in a town where the people are sharply divided into factions and where one is forced to tine up with one or the other factions and thereby incur the enmity of the one with which it does not line up. It wants to know if it is a progressive town and it can pretty well judge that by the type of -newspaper that represents the town. ... It wants to know what sort of paper it will have to deal with also. If it is a strife breeding paper, one that is always trying to stir up trouble ?n the community, it is liable to scare a concern away. We happen to know personally of one city which, a good many years ago, lost a big factory because of two papers in the city were al ways at each other's throat Sometimes they watch a paper to see if people who may be engaged in the same line of business which they may be con templating establishing are heavy adver tisers and on the ball, so to speak. There are many things which a corpora* tion looks into very closely in selecting a location. Through experience these busi* ness organizations have learned that a newspaper is the mirror of a town and they can, by reading the newspaper, get a pretty good idea of just what sort of town it is. When Communism Comes A story is going the rounds to the effect that an agitator was addressing a crowd of working men in Great Britain. “Comes the era of the common man,” he promised, “you will enjoy the pleasures of the rich. You will walk down Park Lane wearing a top hat —.” “Excuse me,” interrupted a member of his audience, “but I’d rather ’ave a cloth cap.” “— or if ypu prefer it, a cloth cap,” we on the speaker. “You’ll wear a cutaway coat and pinstripe trousers.” “Excuse me,” interposed the interrupter again, “but I’m more comfortable in cor duroys.” “Very well corduroys if you insist," con tinued the annoyed agitator. “And you'll ride to work in a Rolls Royca." “Excuse me," said the interrupter, “but I'd rather use me bike." The agitator left the platform, grabbed the man by the sleeve and shook him rough ly. “listen you,” he said between his teeth, “comes the era of the common man, end you’ll do whet you are bloody well ordered to do." Deserving Of Support t The people was a lag them everything. I Out loud Its in Congress an the will of the ient bequeath- * According to the magazine “Our Dumb Animals,” it is pos sible to pretty well tell the time of day by a cat’s eyes since the pupil grows narrower as noon ap proaches and wider toward even ing. Maybe so but it is much more convenient to carry a watch. They say now that a man who runs after women is having diffi culty finding women who will run. Who can remember the good old days when people didn’t buy things they couldnt afford? One trouble with the this country, an is that very of selected by trustees who are in capable of —them. And this reminds us of the story of the young woman who was en caged to teachr in a certain New England town. The only stipu lated qualification for mis posi tion had been the ability to teach t jt<w i but the teacher found upon arrival at the school that Latin was not in the schedule at subjects given her. She there upon asked the school board why they required that an applicant for the position must be qualified to teach the subject “We thought that any one who could teach Latin could teach anything,** was the reply. - . * . ' > It’s difficult for a youngster to realize that some day he will up to be as dumb as his " • • '*■ * Judging from a patent medicine ad we have just read it depends on the liver whether life is worth living. If those earth tremors continue to be felt in Reno, lots of people will be divorcing themselves from that city. A 15 year old Detroit a quarrel with her SX 1 . school two notes, one one to to her mother and one to the boy and shot herself to death At the moment the^roung girl It that she had tort her boy friend to another, which may or may not have been true, and that she could not live without him, which very probably was a con viction which in a few years would have seemed silly—merely a childish fancy. But the girl did not feel that she had the strength to face life without the lad by her side, and make a new start with a new friend. No doubt many childish impression are pro found, even affairs of the heart, and there have been youngsters ho older than this girl who have successfully made life choices and decisions. But they are the exception rather than the rule. As a recent article on the subject pointed out, young people should mature before making such manent decisions as ' _ rule applies even more deeply to decisions of life and death. It has been said that courage ing such per marriage. Th< fte women folks don’t change fbmiture around In the room month or two.-Greensbor^ NOTICE AND T^EBTORS the « tate of John J. 2d Ukewi*. dul^tte*«t2 t thii h S ‘ ,me W ~ rib * d Camden, S. * Is Drinking Datraiilig Your Hii!? Are YOU losing the love of your family . . .■ From Mr. Truman’s-speech to .Congress we infer that he feels The thief who stole 30 watches that this country is doing so well,, „ in Chested last week must have something wm have to be done ** plenty of tine on his hands now. shout it One trouble with flatterers is I A speaker should never throw that ** zir * * * * 1 * ■ — * - - * - they wi things to your face his mouth into high gear until he inis turning over. say to your back. | is sure his brain With people who work, life is so daily. - ————- — L.. 1 A writer says that it is remark- Most “liberals” are so much alike that if one should stand in front of a mirrorless frame as an other " *o . ■■■■ sr prepared to shave, the lat- able how some people can escape ter would go ahead and shave unhurt from an automobile acci- him. dent in which the car is literally) - torn all to pieces and others are, We have heard of at least one killed in wrecks in which the car' man who is dissatisfied with his is practically undamaged. That’s ChHstmas present “My son John true. But speaking of accidents sent me a bathrobe for Chriat- we read the other day where a mas,” he says, “and I triad bath- Tennessee man fell into a deep ing in it just once. If it wasn’t well and yet didn’t “kick the.for the style of it, I could get bucket” along a lot better without it It’s — | so hard to get myself clean with It seems that the late President it — ” Roosevelt fttfed to do the hocus on. to bring the lie trance after he it ana got it to abrogation of the two-third* nominating role in the national Democratic c crowd in munism under would be just as any ol is bad. to tell that that com other name convention. As paradexkel as it may seem, Chile is said to be hot now. One trouble with this is that there ajre too in it who are not deviL country to face emergencies and disasters and its team mate, presence of ? mind, come from thoughtfulness ' others, not from thought of a^ falakiwg her own uf* at such a tender age this yoUng girl did not consider the grief she would thus cause her mother, father, the rest of her family and friends. She saw only her own hurt, which is more or less nat ural and usual at the age, rather than extraordinary. In these days When retort to violence is so prevalent, such hasty and irrevocable acts are al ways imminent and show the need for all of our people to think of others and call their courage to carry through these emergencies wl later would be forgotten, and not tear the hearts of their loved ones in fits of despondency. — The State. An Ida* “Have you keep those new watch straps made of ermine wad mink?” aaked the lady of the house as she looked up from the newspaper ads. “Yes, lady,” blandly replied friend husband, “but I don't think they’re rugged enough to clasp the wrist of Jf your the of your friends you cant curb craving for drink? to quit a failure no matter bow often or earn estly you resolve never to touch another drop? V The amazing tried and oved method followed specially trained phy- iant and nurses at Ako-Haven purifies the blood stream and re moves die alcoholic poi sons. Treatment it di rected toward restora tion to full health, rather ~ ■ XQan ing fa* Applying The Lash The administration, with the help of some Southern members of Congress, is getting ready to begin applying the lash to the Southern states. The first step in this direction was stripping the rules committee of the House of some of its power. This committee has been a bulwark of defense for the South for a good many sessions of Congress and might have been at this one by holding up obnoxious legislation. Seeing this, the Truman crowd moved to strip it of its authority and succeeded in doing so because enough Southern mem bers would not line up with the Republi cans to defeat it. We are happy to state that five of South Carolina’s six congressmen voted against the proposal, Representatives Richards, Rivers, McMillan, Bryson and Hare all voted against. ‘,„ :i ‘ One of the greatest political shocks this state has had in some time was the action of Representative Hugo Sims, Jr., in voting for the resolution to strip the committee of its authority. Young Sims had been an ar dent States Righter and had been expected to be a leader in this direction in Wash ington but his vote was a complete disap pointment to his friends. The reaction has been very great. The people of South Carolina are watch ing their representatives in Congress more closely than ever before and any one of them that shows any inclination to sabotage the States Rights movement will be marked for slaughter two years hence. Ntm, m UlMtrafd. mmlhkh of u*a cart. .it-.1* * Camden High School has two good bas ketball teams this season. Neither one has been defeated in six games. Thafla toams are deserving of support E ver since this '49 Buick made its bow, we’ve been telling you it’s a buy. We’ve invited you to match it— feature by feature and dollar for dollar—with anything else offered to you. You can start with the delivered prices shown here. But don’t stop with that Check the policy under which Buicks are sold—and see for yourself that Buick means a better deal as well as a better tfuy! Ik our Four-Square sales policy is this: - • * ■ ■ 1. NO PMC! PAMMNO! We guar antee our price* to nothing but charges that were standard practice in figuring prewar delivered prices. You receive an itemoed bill of tale showing all charges. And i we display our prices in our showroom. 2. NO “LOADING” OF UN WANTED ACCESSORIES. All cars are delivered with acces sories as ordered. We pledge ourselves to add no “extras’* you do not want. 3. NO COMPULSORY TRADE-INS. Selling used cars is part of our business. Naturally we like to take cars in trade. But you do not have to sell your car to - us t We will take your order, and deliver your car, without requiring a car in trad*! «. no Collusion with “gray MARKETEERS.” We will not knowingly be party to e sale of Buick cars to any in dividual who operates in the “gray market" Our interest is entirely in delivering cars to bona fide customers. In other words—you know ex actly where you stand when you buy e Buick. What you get—what you pay—all the details of the deal op£n and aboveboard. , •> a -t \ t So we repeat: Check die price. Check the policy, Buick’s the buy any way you want to look at it. ••reosna. mmm .wl - m •-ir «.«»•; waat to enjoy lifey dot. to Xtan- m Normal Russian Lies The Russian newspaper Pravda claimed in its Sunday issue that a Russian flew the first airplane 21 years before the Wright Brothers. It ie also claimed that it was a Russian scientist who invented the incandescent electric light, not Thomes A. Edison. Further it if claimed that Russian scient ists discovered penicillin nearly 80 yean These era just normal Russian lies. You ought to hear some of their extraordinary BUfeg DlUVIRID PRICES «■ MNK uon ,T mm) ! . SPtCIAL SfUtS a-#w Mmh .. 2077.80*1. *-iw Mo. 2151.80^ M ln‘n SsSSr-Jfflr £SS-::: ROADMASTCR SERIES 2-Do*r Setfrect.. 2947.30 76C Convertible ..... 3489.30 4-Door Sector, ... 3048.30 79 UhtH Wagon ... 4083.30 > <• Maori Camden Motor UM BROAD gT CAMDEN, S. C ki, .'7 J|2 mki —