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(ftp (Samilnt (ftfnrairlf 110t North BroU StrMt PUBLISHED Om*m, B. 0. FRIDAT - - - Editor «f f Publishcr| SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: AH Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year .... —$2.60 Six Months — —~ 1A0 Entored aa Socond Glut Matter at tho Poat Office at Camdea, 8. C, under act of Comraaa Tl - ^ >Urch *’ lgg> AH ar tic lea auhmitted for pabflcatkm moat he ilgned br the author FRIDAY, AWL », 1*49 “This fond attachment to the well known place whence first we started into life’s long race, maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, we feel it e'en in age, and at our lat- est day.”—William Cowper. - . - 1 - ■ ■ ■ - r — Bernard M. Baruch Had not his father, hating Prussianism, decided to come to the United States, Ber nard M. Baruch could never have become the great international figure that he is. Such an opportunity would (have been de nied him in Prussia. Mr. Baruch himself recognizes that fact In his address Wednesday to the people of his old home town, who had gathered to pay him the homage which he deserves be cause of his life of usefulness to his native Town, his Country and to the World, he addressed this portion of his remarks par ticularly to the school children of the coun ty, who were present: “This flag under which we have been privileged to live is an emblem <4 « form of government which has brought us peace and happiness greater than any other coun try. Aftrays I shall be grateful to it and feel that it has given jpe pn qMortupity, as It will and does you, to get the greatest hap* j amr form of government to p so- called welfare state, copied largely after other* wallowing in misery and who, ip their triiale, look only to us,” Yes, American gave Mr. Baruch his op portunities just as it gives to all youths. “Many do with opportunities as shildren do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through one by one, till all are gone,” but not Mr. Baruch t He displayed “vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and per sistence in crowding opportunity to its ut most of possible achievement, the martial virtues which must command success.” And so this week a man who left Cam den nearly 70 years ago, a youth without the benefit of riches or pull, came back home a man who has risen high in the coun cils of the world, a man Whom five Presi dents have held as their close adviser—a ' * . » ». 4 jT ... •• y M . record no man in America can surpass. During two wars he was of immense im portance in the councils of the country and of the world. In the financial world his name is a synonym of success. He is a dis tinguished financier, philanthropist and statesman. Camden is proud to have been his birth place. The people of his old home town have followed his career through the years with pride. They have rejoiced at the hon ors which have come to him and the pow er which he has yielded because they have known that with (him “power, to the last particle, is duty.” -~~ George Eliot once said: ‘To most men their early hpme is no more than a memory of their early years. The image is never marred. There’s no disappointment in memory and one’s exaggerations are al ways on the good side.” We trust there has been no disappointment in Mr. Baruch’s memory of Camden. Certainly Camden has never been disappointed in him. Some twolnonths ago, Ralph Sigwald, a Charleston boy* who. was at the time caretaker of one of the Charleston city schools, sang in Charleston before a crowd of about 200 people and for ringing he got the magnificent sum of |5 He rendered six songs: “The lord’s Prayer”, “With a Song In My Heart”, “Home on the Range”, “On the Road to Mandalay”, “All the Things You Are” and “01’ Man River. He appeared on Abe Horace Heidi pro gram and was pronounced the winner. Heidi was so impressed with his voice that he took him On to other stops with him and he won six different.shows and many be gan to call him the “Caruso of the South.” Last week, Sigwald sung in Charleston agnin, this time before 4,400 cheering Sig wald fans. He sang exactly the same songs he sung at the first performance when he was paid $5, but otherwise there were two big differences. This time he. received a check for $1,000 for singing and^ttfe. audi ence was over one hundredjimes as large. For 28 years Sigwald imd lived in Char leston. What was he dbing until Horace Heidt (happened to comie along and dis covered him? He was sweeping floors for a school. If Heidt hadn’t come to Charles ton, Sigwald would still be sweeping floors in the school building in all probability. • One wonders how much undiscovered (talent there is in this country. The case of Ralph Sigwald is not the only one, to be sure! .• Can Communism Live? Says the News and Courier: “Were Russians and other Com munists to ovewrun the whole world their conquest would not be leaking. Never from the hearts of men and the Russians art wm will the notion that man’s only hope is in himself drive out the convictfcp that there fe a gu- pr$me Ruler aitf another NCt MnaJ the human eyfraact. The vast ma jority of the Rumtap are not atheists. It is beyond tha power of masses of people is their-haH# to deny God, however may ht deferences in ideas ' about God’s nature,” Communism may ire but as our Charles ton exchange sayp Communism can nev< drive from the hearts of SOME people that there is a Supreme Ruler and another Hft beyond the human existence. Christians have, been thrown to wild ani mals to be devQured, they have died in dungeons and have otherwise suffered but nothing yet has ever been able to com pletely suppress Christianity. And nothing ever will! ThinkinQ Out Loud There’s an old rooster in our iteHtihnrbnnl Utet is away Off on hUtime. He crows for midnight 1 about 10:30 o’doek every night anything can be done n. He may have got- _ 3:30 ought to take him to a erandseeii to adjust hii ten off the beam when we . on daylight saying time and just hasn’t been adjusted back to regu lar time. Prerident Tmhian is now try ing to be sociable to Southern Democrats in an effort to wii | over but, just the same, we believe he will ever be able make Socialists of them. Who can remember the good old days when a fat woman just accepted it as a part of the game of life and didn’t try to do any thing about it? * According to a German refugee the optimists in that country are ( the English language I the pessimists the Russian SS'CTy !i Mol^lis^ would diMUM MOTHS’ to be more hS cabinet post a bearrtedtWtli could be of men What we’d like to sae is politics divorce the Roosevelt boys. A noth at one of our pet peeves i to go into a barbw ahop and awe a barber who head to sell as of stuff to kew> our aetr from ’Are you preparing a names of people to notify if your condition should become serious?" the doctor asked. “No,” replied the mam Tm firing Up a list of people I’m going to bite if Ibors, eta, in the world only thing we know that the greatest of is liars. jMfctoHchaapttttjsonalong aiMuuicr leiepnon* SPECIAL 2 WEEKS ONLY Sectionalism The bip Chicago Railroad Fair is to be held again this summer and the Southern Railway Is planning to ship its “Best Friend of Charleston”, a replica of the historic £rg}fi that initiated regular stdhm railroad aemce in America, to Chicago to take pvt in the event The Chicago fair officials wrote the Hroad officials saying, “Please ^ Fri ^ nd loaded so its engine when it arrive# in Chicago ” on this request on the d< the’ Believed In Preparedness In his “Remineeces of A Confederate Surgeon,” Dr. Simon RaruCh, father of Ber nard M* Baruch, geid: \ “Sadly we see throughout all history, deprecate it as we may, despise it as we should, accurse it as we would, might still usurps the place of right which it still found on the side of the largest cannon, struggle as we may against the distressing idea. “We may think that we won the Revolu tion because we were right, but history tells us we won it because we had 231,000 regulars and 164,000 militia to oppose 150,- 000 British hirelings. We won'the second war with England because we had 56,000 regulars and 471,000 militia to fight 55,000 English and Canadian troops, we won the Mexican war because we (had 31,000 regu lars and 73,000 militia to conquer 55,000 Mexicans.” He added that the Federal forces beat the Confederates because they mustered 2,667,000 soldiers against • 1,- 000,000 Confederates. “Do you believe,” he asked, “being right would have wow these victories if the num ber of soldiers had been reversed?’ Dr. Baruch suggested that we should “continue to pin oir faith, to Peace, but boar in mind that Washington haa said: Tt we desire, to secure peace, it moat be known His remineecea ware written just before we got into the fieri world war. Hit re-4 marks are just as timely today aa they were ^ Should Use The Knife The upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly should use the knife on the appropriation Mil, sent tq it by the low. er house, which seems to have gone abso lutely haywire. 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