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-r Sip (Eam&wt QUpmtirlr 1101 North Brood Streot Camden. 8. C. PPB1JBHBD BVBRY FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - - - - Editor DaCoota Brown * - - - Pnblkthor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Snbscriptioitt Payable In Advance One Year Sue Months «»«««********** Entered as Sooosd Clou Matter ot the Post Office ot Camden, fl. C., under act of Consrus Mkrch I, 187» ■. i ■ ,.i . ■ All articles sol sign* jtted for publication must bo th»Nsuthor FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1949 Mr. Truman’a Failure Most of the newepspen of the cosnftr that never has any President toa so Greatest Of A ll Dangers A few months ago, Mr, Bernard M. Baruch, distinguished native of Camden, was quoted in an article in a national maga zine as having said that “a danger to this country far more frightening than war is a change in our form of government? We agree with Mr. Baruch but we see another danger, far more frightening than either war or a chance in our form of gov ernment. It is a loss of our spiritual well being. When we consider the fact that it was religion which braced the spirits of our fathers against the perils of the ocean and wilderness and sent them to found here the freest and moStsequal state on earth; and when we further consider the fact that our civilization, our arts, our freedom, our laws are largely due to Christianity; that Christianity is mixed up with our very be ing and our daily life; that there is not a familiar object around us wfoich does not wear a different aspect because the liffht of Christian love is on it — not a good law which does not owe its truth and gentleness to Christianity—not a custom which cannot be traced in all its holy and healthful parts to the gospel, it seems more than pasting strange this country should be veering away from the God who has blessed it so bounti fully. And yet one must admit—regretfully— that it is. Scarcely half of the people of this country now are members of a church. You can judge for yourself as. to how many of them who are members are devout mem bers. There are millions of people in this country w<ho never darken the doors af jL church. To them Sunday is just another holiday. Some time back we read an article by an aged preacher who spoke of the great change which he had seen come over the country during the 40 years he had been a minister. He said that he could ibmember as a young minister that he felt that he had many assistant pastors in every church to which he was sent. There were faithful church officials who could conduct services in hie absence, who led prayer meetings, I and who were as diligent in looking after the spiritual welfare of the members of the church as he was. Now," he said, “there are some churdh- es in which there is not a layman who will offer a prayer in public, not a one who will left his finger to promote greater spiritual ism in tht church.” He expressed the fear that Churches were just becoming social organizations, or clubs. ’ The great questions is: Where will this loss of our spiritual well-being eventually lead this nation? Will it travel the sad and lonely road which France has recently traveled to destruction? Augustus W. Hare, the noted English divine, said: “Christianity has carried civilization along with it wtoethersoever it has gone. And, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries, the moat civilized in the days of Augustus, are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.” Does that fate await this country? “Show me,” said William Drummond, the Scottish poet, “ten square milea in the whole earth without Christianity where the life of men and the purity of woman is re spected and I will give up Christianity.” Is the life of man or the purity of woman respected in Russia, which is a Godless nation ? * We are putting up a fight in this country against the encroachment pt communism, mnism Is a Godless movement. And drifting away from the eh arch we drifting towards communism, because ithout the church, communism is bound to come. It may be well for us to reflect on these things this Easter. - - - - - -. The housing shortage is being attacked vigorously in Camden and before the end of the year, considerable progress should have been made towards relieving it mOrnm Some off those days some of the gravy trains in this nonntzy Vrfll have to start operating ^gn greater agree •*— » , short a political honeymon as has Mr - man. Re-elected against coloosal odds was thought by many that he would have his own way with Congress, but instead 1h» legislative time-iaWe is so stalled that his Senate leader, Scott Lucas, is already talk ing about a special session. As a matter of fact President Truman lost control of Congress before he even had a chance to begin to exercise it. More than four months have passed and only one piece of important legislation has been enacted— the rent-controll bill which Mr. Truman has bravely hailed as a great victory although Congress declined to pass the bill he want ed it to pass. * , There is one fact that many people lost sight of and that was that Mr. Truman was not the choice of the majority of the voters of this country for President. While the papers spoke of his “great” victory, as a matter of fact he is the first President to be elected in this country by a minority vote in many, many years. The combined vote of Dewey, Thurmond and Wallace was greater than that cast for Truman. Another factor is that Mr. Truman man aged to win only because two groups whose legislative views are diametrically op posite voted for him. The fanners voted for him because they wanted , farm subsidy measures contended and the labor vote went for him on general principle. These two forces do not agree at all when it' comes to legislation. The farm forces are opposed to almost all legislation that the labor forces want and the labor forces, in turn, are opposed to much of the legislation that the farm forces want. And then again while the members of Congress from the South are listed as “Democrats” they certainly are not Tru man “Democrats” and this was known ttt all of the world before Congress ever met They voted with the Truman “Democrats” to organize Congress—if they hadn’t don« so, the Trumsn Democrats could not even have organized Congress. So we do not see that there should be anj surprise oh tffe part of the public that the President has not been able to carry through his program, for .which we are very grateful and for which the whole country should be grateful. Roscoe Drummond, Washington corres pondent of the Christian Science Monitor, in discussing Mr. Truman’s complete fail ure on his legislative program says that “what most discloses the lack of party re sponsibility in our political system is that, in the first session of Congress after a de cisive national election. Washington doesn’t know and the voters don’t know who really won nor what the nation really voted for!” Mr. Drummond suggests several reasons for this: (1) . The members of Congress and th« candidates who are going to stand for Con gress in the coming election do not have large enough voice in writing the party platforms. (2) . There is no mechanism to enable either party to secqye congressional can didates pledged to the party platform. (3) . There is no adequate working ar rangement between the majority party in Congress and the President—«ven when the President is of the same party—so that a ‘party program’ instead of a ‘President’s program’ can be presented to Congress. Mr. Drummond will probably never live to see a party able to absolutely control its members of a Congress. Americans are too independent for that. And it is perhaps well that they are. Would Ruin Them ' Says the highly esteemed News and Courier, of Charleston: “Were the masses of the Russian people and of Russia’s satellite states to get into their heads that the United States of America has not the slightest intention of making war upon them, it would bring dis aster and mta to Josef Stalin, Vishiniki and the other Soviet bosses.” All of which is very true. A dictator has to live on war and conquest The minute he lets things become quiet and serene he loses his job. * * * 1 IhinldnQOiitloDd I Sir Welter Raleigh want at gtflant after all! Many a max now twill just let a woman walk all over him. Moat hufineas men seem agreed that the hutineas honeymoon is over. A great many people have now lived through the last days of pomp. A New York girl married a man who had shot at her. Some people will go to any lengths to get revenge. That New York banker, Crowe, who ran off with $800,000 of his bank’s money must be a bird. Famous last words: “The deci sion of the judges will be abso lutely final.” There seems unquestionably to be some connection between the disappearance of the old-time woodshed and the increase of juvenile delinquency. What has become of the old- fashioned man who would always say to somebody who had just made a chirp remark: “You must have had razor soup for dinner?” We see where that Early bird has got a worm in Washington. Jr., is baing ay him iftfe. F. D. Roosevelt, sued for divorce by him. Wife That makes it practically unani mous for the Roosevelt children, doesn’t it? are walking helming of their Georgia teachers out following the rejection by the statoe of a proposed $23,088,000 school improvement fund. Wall— it doenst seem that the teachers have been doing much good in that ftati dol- It’s difficult to make the lars go round theee days, though they we round. “This is' the age of specialism,” says a writer. Yes, and that re minds us of the small town boy who was in a big city to see his girl. Walking down one of the main business streets one day they came across a “Eet Shop.” ‘‘Why look, here’s a pet shop," he exclaimed. “Well, what of it?" asked his girl who had seen the shop many times. “Let’s go in and pet,” proposed her lover. They say that business has slowed down on dining cars to the point, where your can gel lunch before time for dinner now: cago mi wealthy Chi- who attributed his to newspapers advertising, e other day at the age of rs. It pays to advertise. died the 102 years. You are always liable to miss something interesting when you fail to read the ads jp • newpaper. For example, this one in e Yukon, Oklahoma, paper: "For Sale: 12- guage shotgun—ideals for squir rels, rabbits, weddings, etc." States Finishing Corn- Head Ousted"—headline. ied? We find ourselves wondering at times just how e politician goes about makin up his mind. • m ,* .'pUp ■ u Resident Truman la said to he courting the Southern members of Congress now < by throwing parties, etc., for them. The South erners will probably beware Greeks bearing gifts. We hope this year lots of Spring in it! will A Delivery Service There is used in Camdtn for a delivery service. In former years the Western Union Telegraph Company had hoys who tould be secured for delivery purposes hot since they abandoned this field there is no such service available. In many cities eft- terprtoing persons have gone Into the busi ness and fnfhisb bays for delivery esrvkf on call. Camden may be large enough now for soch a service to eoceeed> That Ohio highwayman who held up two teachers probably was trying to find out if educa tion was worth anything. “We can’t live without free dom,” exclaims one writer. Cer tainly not! It’s difficult enough to live with it v / An engaged -glH recently wrote Dorothy Dix to inquire what an engaged girl should expect of her sweetheart Well, for one thing, she should expect him to marry her. •' . . ■ «>;•*„ ,' £ ■ -5v ■ “One day it is hat, the next day it is cold, so you never know whet to pawn/’ e fellow com plained the other day. T , - ♦ , • v' 3 A bachelor is a man who has cheated some woman out of e di vorce. > "Things are never so bed but that they might be worse," opines one editor. Yes, for instance teiM waa the woman —* *"—* ^ " ““ rot fro ma she took it it uaei may be treat so oe tni drink or With The Press Out To Capture Colleges By The Free Proas, newspaper at national distinction, of Detroit, one in informed that the CIO, a labor union, is offering two can didates for trusteeships of the n famous institution. The CIO is working to gain control of the institution *Vo membership of^ artisans, of trust see of state ’ or ■gas and universities can be no objection. Many a man ual worker is e broader and bet ter mind than is the avenge at torney or other somewhat in tellectual” No organised body of men should have control of the Uni- versity oMdichigan orjottoM^ tores have controlled tax-support ed colleges in South Carolina. The effort of the CIO to cap ture the Universityof Michigan is another example of efforts now in progress in many parts of|the United States. South Carolina is one of them, to degrade state-sup ported colleges into dogtails for politicians to wag. There may be money in it Of the too many disconcerting facts observable in the public life of the American republic in 1849 is the lowering of standards in public education. In South Carolina no of a faculty in a could at la am apiaian an a | interest to thSrtPPEiPi ran counter to the interest of the little masters of the holders Industry without tax- . nous I of one dinner’s... with the dirt er. Oven of Wi Ohio, - ran Press, mistook 30 gallons of sap for rain water and bather ‘vrc'sS tU&sHSF Swaet as the subject may be, it must have suffer** somehow imparts to us no swaet ready. We trust tw sorrow (which Shakespeare in- “^ ,1 - 1 —’ sists parting is), but just sorrow of the garden variety. It taka 30 ga" make one gallon sirup (ref., John Maine. Ohio sap may That would make, roughly, three quarts from 30 gallons. 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