Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ■ ^ ■ PAGE TWO Slfr (Eambrn (ttljrmtirlr 1101 North Brood Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED SVBRT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - - - - Editor DaCosta Brown - - - ■ PubUfther SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year .......—$2.60 Six Months 1.60 »p—— 1 i n - ■ i n....- Entered M Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, S. C., under act of Ooncrees March S. 187» ^ All articles anbmitted tor publication most be elgned by the author FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949 —— - •' THE CAMPEH CHHOWCLB, CAMDCT, BOOTH CABOLCTA. rWPAT. JAWUAHT 11, M# /;• - To Visit The State The day after announcement was made that Alben W. Barkley had accepted an invitation to address the South Carolina Municipal Association at its annual meet ing in Columbia, news dispatches from Washington told of how Mr. Barkley was planning to cram the President’s Civil Rights program through the Senate by adopting a gag rule whfch would prevent Southern Senators from filibustering against the program. There are some people in the South, it seems, who like to be insulted. HU “Rights Denied Him When John Oates, editor of the Daily Worker, a communist newspaper, was de nied permission to speak in Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill, he complained that his “rights” were denied him. It’s amusing how Communists will al ways’talk about their “rights” under our form of government which they are trying to destroy and substitute therefor a form of government under which nobody would have any rights except the men at the h$ad of it. But it was interesting to note thq£ the University of North Carolina officials, at long last, had denied a"communist permis sion to speak in one of the university build ings. The fire must be getting a little warm. The Governor's Message The annual message of Governor Strom Thurmond to the General Assembly was, as was to have been expected, a very able and, and it is good to note that the members of "the General Assembly seem to be in sympathy with most of the recommenda tions which ho made. The Governor gave his pledge to con tinue to battle for States’ Rights saying that “it is essential to the liberty of the Ameri can people that the devision of federal and state sovereignty be preserved.” “Concentration of governmental power on the banks of the Potomac,” he said, “is just as dangerous to human liberty as it was on the banks of the Tiber in Italy, or on the banks of the Rhine in Germany and as it is on the banks of the Volga in Russia. “We must not abdicate the proper func tions of the state in its constitutional sphere of jurisdiction nor suffer them to be lost by supine reliance upon the federal govern ment’ where the duty is ours.” With tiiis the people of the state have already indicated that they are in hearty agreement. likewise there will be general agree ment in his request for statues on primary elections to “protect the invasion of politi cal parties by those who are not in sym pathy with their principles and objectives.” As was to have been expected the Gov ernor urged the legislators to ratify the constitutional amendment that would curb gubernatorial clemency powers. This amendment would transfer pardoning pow ers to the State probation, pardon and parole board, leaving the Governor power only to grand reprieve and commute life sentences. * ■ As the Governor said in his mes sage, “nothing has done more in the past to undermine respect for the law than the abuse of the pardoning pow er, Our people well remember how hardened criminals, murderers and - even rapists were turned back on com munities in the state as a result of par dons being arbitrarily granted under questionable influences.” Some of the pardons granted by Gov ernors in the past have smelled to high heaves. - , It is good to be able to. say in this con nection that probably no Governor in the State has been as conscientious in handling the pardoning power as has Governor Thurmond. He has granted clemency only upon the recommendation of the proba tion, pardon and parole board. But Thur mond 'will not always be Governor and we need to protect ourselves against men of the type of some Governors we have had in the past. An important recommendation of the Governor, we think, is that of home rule for the counties to take local legislation out of the General Assembly. Why should the time of the General As sembly be taken up on a bill to chance thq lines of a school district in Kershaw coun ty when the entire Kershaw delegation is agreed on it? It is the rule in the General AaMinbly for local legislation, however or however bad it may be, to be uncon where the delegation of a county is ajftped upon it. This local legislation takes ouidh time of the General Assembly and Mjtfrthe very heavily because it baa to be priaJedjthe eame aa state-wide legia- Ifttton and the time of the two bodies taken up in perfunctwrily approving it Another agreement of the Governor wMch will meet with general approval is £• request tor handling government fi- on a aound basis with a balanced We do not beHfeve that South Carolina haa ever had a man in the governor’s of- harder to make the Is J. Strom l. His ahnoal message is further Pnxrf ofifcjs. Turn To The Might v T ‘ ■' r f' - , ; f 2 f • - j *' good farmers of this country ought “gee” to the Truman administra^ • • oughttojaNw H turn from v-m€ cannot dux wonder wnat women do with all of the time they save with the time-saving devices which have been invented for the home in the last quarter of a century. With The Press before a con- Hi the "'Association of American Colleges, Dr. Kenneth Ibmidnq Out Loud A Moscow workers ’The big bully usually meets I his match sooner or later,” says a I* Brown, head of the organiza- writer. And that reminds us at tion, asserted that American col- the story of the^manwhowalk ed *nd univtftities lack Integ- into a restaurant and inadver- rttjr. He says thy are more in tently left the door open A Mg forested in getting additional fat man called out: ^Shut thl buildings than good teutommi- door? Were you brought up in a bers and are gufltv of neglecting barn?” The man dosed the door, the intellectual and spiritual sxdes its that a down and began to cry. At, of campus life. . botanical this tl* big fat man looked ua-l iSHfeown charged that col- a gran which comfortable and went over to the leges complete for students injm- oils that win sorrowing man. Tm sorry,” he your feelings,”. ie fact is « He would no one would know whrTn* he asks them searching an* lions: ’ * qu *- Into how many homes He be invited or wouMHe welcome guest? * If He were to run for offi^ |C£ 2£5r wouU ^ “at th ? ar tide [answer these questions for hinj! 'ways, faculty members solemn contracts' at will because and college presidents seek the vas the company of ridi widows to get self or hetseu. would you mrfo “Is Europe decaying?” asks -the 1 reply, “but the fact is I was funds to construct buildings and Hun to be a guest in your home* Dillon Herald. It may be but brought up in a ham and every dormotories. He suggests that the Would you invite Him to sod*] some of the odor which Editor, time! hear an ass bray, it makes ethics of the counting-house and affairs tluit you give? Would** Jordan smells probably is coming (me homesick. , (the code of competition have re- veto for Him ifjie ran far office* from this country. — (placed higher standards once What would be your attitude tol | “pgQpie d on 't want to' be common in education. ward Him?—Greenville Observer What has become of the old- shielded from tgmptation,” say a * - writer. Well they say that shortly fashioned American who wanted to make his own living and all that he asked -was a chance? that California who ey say that shortly after Admiral Byrd’s polar ex pedition returned from the land of Ice, some one asked one of the men what 'he missed the most woman I ... shot her husband the other day while away. “Temptation” was because she loved him dearly the brief answer. Puzzling And Provoking Under the heading “Is Europe Decay ing,” the Dillon comrnente editorially as- follows: , k . “The inconsistency of socialist coun tries and countries strongly tainted with communism is puzzling and at times provoking. They preach the doc trine of socialism and communism and condemn capitalism, yet beg and ac- • cept assistance from the United States wlhich is. the world’s wealthiest and • most prosperous nation. If capitalism has succeeded so well in the "United States it will succeed in other countries if the people really want to help themselves and to im prove their living conditions. “This attitude may be due to ignor ance, laziness, indifference or down right stupidity or it may be that many of these countries which have flourish ed over a long period of years are slow ly decaying socially and economically. “The pages of history are full of in stances in which empires have sprung up and flourished over a long period of years and then fallen into decay. His tory has a way of repeating in spite of, the efforts of feeble man.” All of wfoich is very true. But what is more puzzling and more provoking is that there are so many people in this country who want to tamper with and change the system of government that has made this the greatest nation on earth. should have waited about three Iths. Spring is the time for European countries are looking to the United States to save them from communism. The sad feat ure is there seems to be no one we can look to to save us. An elevator robbery on Wall Street in New York netted a gun man $5,667. Quite a lift! Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Caro lina, has again denied that he is a communist The doctor doth protest too much. If the meek inherit the earth who will drive the taxicabs ir the big cities? “Every Man Now Wants To Re semble A Banker”—headline in Columbia Record. How times change in 17 years. A national “Honey For Break fast Week” is scheduled. We have one at breakfast every morning. You can never tell what will influence the decisions of people. For example, historians have about decided now that the rea son the Pilgrims remained in this country was that they were crazy about rocks and trees and were tired of ocean travel. v A writer thinks that large families are desirable. One beau ty about them is that at least one may not turn out like the others. Every now and then you come in contact with the 'kind of a wife who wastes lots df time wait ing for her husband to say some thing so she can contradict him. And that is one reason she prob ably haa to wait so long for him to say something. Old Mother Nature sort .of w exam ~ iple, the evens up things prettiest womag we ever saw had the ugliest disposition we ever saw. An agricultural paper says that the elephant is kin to the whale but we think that is a whale of a lie. may be true that “nobody man r It may loves a fat man” but the average fat man seems to be very happy about it According to a doctor the ter rific toll being taken by heart disease can be accounted for in part by the fact that people worry too much. Well,‘■'may be we need hi ore people with the philosophy of the old colored woman who was asked to what she attributed her good health. ts dis way. aits loose and when I starts to worry, I go to sleep.” “Well”, she replied. When I sits down I Perhaps it’s better to be mar ried to a dreamer' than to a snorer. The average business man thinks there are only two sea- It is a rather serious charge which Dr. Brown brfhgs against the institution of higher learning. He says that lacks of academic Integrity has brought college cat alogs into disrepute. He says that the catalogs stress the develop ment of the individual student and picture a cirriculum deeply concerned with the development of the student By contrast, he SaVMi ~»V> - V**!*^. Tut when one listens in on trustee meetings, - .when one watches the.eagerbeaver president as he scurries around the coun try seeking the company of rich widows, when one sees the photo graphs which the college pub lishes, one gathers the irrefut able impi ■ession that the item of major concern for the adminis tration is not the maturing of the individual, but buildings, large, spacious, attractive buildings.— Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ■ —I - ■ ■» • ... « What Are The Answers? One of the most engaging articles we have read lately is one entitled “If Christ Should Come to Your City—” In it the author presupposes sons, the busy season and the dull one ^ May be we oughtn’t to kick on paying eighty cents a dozen for eggs because after all an egg is a whole day's work for a hen. And then you probably reafl the other day where a new rich man had bought a Louis XJV ^edtiut it waa too small so he sent it back and asked for a Louis XVL Is Drinking An YOU of your tbe love the respect of ymjr friends because you can’t curb your craving for drink? Is each attempt to quit drinking a failure no matter how often or eara- jestly you r&olve never lO touch another drop? Hie amazing tried and ‘ followed trained phy- «nd nurses at Alco-Haven purifies the Wood stream and re- moves . the alcoholic poi- Sons. Treatment is di- reccea mg ^ r ^ ft J). £• ' • Bf r. of newspaper errors, [N, C.) paper car ried a story saying: “The bride is to be resurfaced with brick, laid herringbone style with concrete mixture in the joints.” ALC8-HAVER SANITARIUM 6051. NORTH ST —- QREENVUE.S£. Disconcerting News A press dispatch says that a wave of in fluenza is sweeping over Europe and that it appears to be the worst form since the epidemic of 1918. In this day when people are flying back and forth from Europe every few days it is highly possible that this disease may be brought to this country. No one who lived through them will ever forget the dreadful days of 1918 when the ’flu was taking such a heavy toll of lives in this country. We have all hoped that the country would be spared from anything re sembling such an epidemic again. Certainly it would be *well to begin tak ing precautions in this country—if there are any precautions that can be taken- against it right now. Not Understandable Isn’t it strange that a great state would have as the president of its university a man who has to issue a statement saying that he is opposed to Communism aiid. all totalitarian dictatorships and who, accord ing to a noted radio commentator, was cleared by the Atomic Energy Commission for participation in its program over the protests of the commission’s security board ? Isn’t.it possible to get an educator to bead that university about whose loyaHy to tbe principles of Americanism there has never been and is not now any doubt what ever? * ‘ • . ^ T—r nmi&T m*<xm la a >Hf supporting, pci- elite ewm pocket. 'I'-tpvw W«[!re Mad to get atone without a ] 1 7m * i ■Ifir'p :■ ?•?' \ m Mi The News and Courier proposes “to the r——- ——■ — the pso- 'bl well m 4 *rr*mr w. is en»W'l pie an amendment to the state constitution that no person not a member of t&e Gen eral Assembly be eligible to election to 9 *■***.:'- .