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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1*49
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4 Remarkable Pronouncement
Senator Frank P. Graham, erstwhile
“liberal” president of
the University of
North Carolina, made the rather remark
able pronouncement at the University last
-week that the Atomic Energy Commission
and the universities “are seeking to find an
answer to the question as to whether a
member of the Commuilist Party is under
such discipline and party line of a foreign
power that he is not free to teach in ac
cordance with the principles of a free uni
versity.
Continuing, the very “liberal” Dr.
Graham said:
“Upon the establishment of the fact and
nature of this discipline will depend the
consensus of principles and policies of our
universities throughout the democratic
world.”
Why should the Atomic Enery Commis
sion decide whether it is proper for com
munists to be teaching in our universities or
not? The head of this commission, David
Lilienthal, is right now under attack him
self.-
The communists must laugh up thefr
sleeves at what easy pickings we are prov
ing to be? They probably figure now they
won’t have to fight us to absorb us. We
ai*e just rushing into their arms.
Support The Ball Team
The directors of the Camden baseball
elub have-g»ven unstmtingly of their time
and of their means in order that Camden
might have a baseball club in the Palmetto
League. Not a one of these directors stands
to make a cent out of the ball club. Not
one of them is drawing a penny in salary
although some .of them are even acting
as ticket sellers and ticket takers and do
ing other jobs that nearly always call for
pay. ’ / ,
Had it not been for this loyal group of
fans Camden would have been without
baseball this summer. It would have been
a rather long, lonesome summer with no
ball games to go to in the evenings.
Now that Camden has a team in the
league the fans should show their apprecia
tion by giving it their loyal support. This
does not mean by attending one game
every two or three weeks. It means that
the fans should attend regularly.
It’s true the Camden team is not leading
the league now, it is not even in second
place or third place or fourth place. But it
is improving steadily and
it is playing
good baseball. After all, it is impossible for
all of the teams to be in first place or even
in the first division, but we look for Cam
den to be in the thick of the fight if given
proper support
The measure of a town's sportsmanship
is the way it stands by a losing team. When
the Tri-State League was organized and
Anderson -was placed in it, there were
many who said that Anderson was too
wnall—that it could not support a team in
that class ball.
The Anderson team opened its first sea
son hopeless outclassed. It did not win t
game for ab<mt two weeks and it flounder
ed hopelessly in the cellar. But the Ander
son fans turned out in large numbers and
Anderaon * betaine established as a good
baseball town. Bath year since it has been
a pennant contender. &
Camden has much to gain by supporting
its team this year* U the club gets through
this season successfully^ baseball ought to
be assured iiere tor many seasons to coma.
We hope everybody in town will -turn
out to the games from now on. Let's fill the
ball park. Thst is the way to have a win
ning team. And if the fans give the proper
support we expect to see a winning team
soon. '*'*■*'■. *
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M a - »<-> .k
* It was tragic that more people did not
tarn out to bear* the excellent concerts
given by the Camden High School band last
week. Theat .aencarts would have done
credit h> mGrb*nd in the country and those
who missedi them missed a real treat The
city has every right to be proud of this
bead, wtoith la rated as one of the beet not
to Camden wherever
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Are Jobe For Sale? f , | „ ,
At the recent States Rights festimoi
b < 1 »«•
Former Chief Justice Bagtde S.
Newberry, referring to President
offer of patronage to members of Congress
who voted, with the administration in Con
gress, said that the offer constituted at
tempted bribery and coming from the high
source it did made it a more heinous crime/
Now comee Drew Pearson who says that
Lew Douglass, ambassador to England,
would be Secretary of State today if be had
not refused to make a substantial donation
to the President's campaign fund last year.
Here is the story as told by Pearson in
one of his'columns: .
little
Ml
History sometimes hinges on
things. If it had not been for a telephone
call just a little more than six months ago,
another man would be in Paris today rep
resenting the United States at the most im
portant diplomatic conference since Pots-
dam. 4 , y* v w ,
That man is Lewis Douglas, ambassador
to Great Britain, former head of Mutual
Life Insurance and inheritor of one of the
great American copper fortunes. Few peo
ple know that only a phone call prevented
his becoming secretary of state.
“That phone call was placed by Louis
Johnson, then chairman of the Truman fi
nance committee and in desperate need of
funds. Johnson called Douglas early in the
morning in Paris where he was attending
a United Nations meeting, got him Cut of
bed and told him that the Democrats were
scraping the bottom of the campaign bar
rel. They needed money and needed it bad
ly. Truman had given Douglas the richest
plum In the entire field of diplomacy and
now Truman needed help in return.
“Ambassador Douglas listened sleepily,
replied that he had no money to spare
Later when he was fUlly awwke and back
in London, he thought it over again and
wrote Johnson a letter. But he still had no
money to spare. >
“After Truman astounded the world by
winning in November, he loked around for
a new secretary of state, and knowing
nothing about the aeoney-Hdstng phaeee of
the campaign, hit upon Dolglas. In fact, he
was about to appoint Douglas—-when sud
denly Louie Johnson walked into the Whit!
House with a copy of Douglas’ letter in his
pocket. „ ,
* “Truman read Douglas’ plea of poverty.
He knew that Douglas’ family had de
veloped some of the wealthiest copper
mines in Arizona. He knew Douglas had
been chairman of the wealthy Mutual lifr
Insurance Company. He dropped the idea
of making Douglas Secretary of State.
Contrast the President’s stand with the
stand taken by Dougias. In his letter to
Johnson, Douglas after denying that he
was a wealthy man and for that reason
was unable to make a big contribution such
as had been demanded, said;
“In the second place I came to London
not because I wanted to come, for the
title of ambassador holds no allurements
whatsoever—it never has. It was under
stood that I would be completely non
political. For this reason even if I had the
funds, it would be a mistake for me to make
a contribution to the national committee.”
Mr. Douglas, who is a man of high honor
and who would have made a wonderful
Secretary of State, was unwilling to buy the
job of ambassador nor do we believe that
he would have been willing to buy the job
of Secretary of State if he had known that
sudh would be offered him in return for a
valuable contribution.
We wonder what constitutes bribery in
this good old Democracy of ours? And in
cidentally this reveals the type of man we
have as Secretary of Defense now in Louis
Johnson.
further
do.!
to be made
T
It's the
Old Refrain
to ruae
that *<re«ui
it
and make a payment on the na-
t would have a more
> * A ■<
tional debt
sincere ring if the president
not
extra
mitted in the United
will be magazines which will
gue that in a fn
have no right to ’
to distillecsand brewers
ing their
George Daci.
Newbefryi^
•Araon* tteiTr
who
SsftSj
Personally we are Very **afy
conciliatory
of the; Hi
of like the
low who was finally
upon to apply for a job. He teemed
to fill all the requisites the appli
cation .called for but the salary
offered was very modest “If you
manager. “You say HI g
in six months?” asked t
cant “Yes, if you work diligently
at the job,” the manager repUed.
“Oh,” said the applicant turning
away in disgust “I might have
known there was a catch to it.
like to see the
and the debt
But Mr.
ig debt
hand, is advocating an expanded
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govern-
A Chicago woman shot herself
the other day shortly after she
had turned on her radio. We be
lieve we heard that same pro
gram.
Would you call
weather report?
thunder a
sory
subsidy
ers
tion
thar
ment wi
< nie
ed, would cost the
lions and billions of
one can say for sure exactly how
much;.but certainly two or three
times the $4,000,000,000 by which
the president wishes to raise
taxes.
In the face of the new spend
ing proposals, it is ridiculous to
think of the Truman tax-boost
proposal as a measure to reduce
the national debt.
It is the old Old Deal story.
Tax and tax to spend and spend
to elect and elect. — News and
Courier.
If you don’t think David Lilien
thal is all right, ask Dr. Frank
Graham and if you don’t think
Dr. Frank Graham is all right
ask David Lilienthal.
That was a rather unusual case
out West where a man Shot an
other, then dismembered his vic
tim's body and packed it piece by
piece in a trunk. The average man
hates to
pack a trunk.
Congress has evidently decided
lat Presic
that President Truman’s health
program is an unhealthy one.
'Hie trouble with many a man
is that instead of seeking to be a
man among men he prefers to be
A man among women.
— s
Where does the wind go when
it isn’t blowing?
The oil companies are now able
to fuel all of tne pec
time.
people all of the
: As a general rule if you go to
a place, which has been very
highly recommended to *
•teak you usually find
a bum steer.
you for a
that
it is
to increase the Con-
cotton would be to
custom started of pulling
cotton over people’s eyes instead
of wooL
—Dae way
ption of
get the custc
Instead
their hus-
most wives
of cans.
of having
ng out of
i have them eating out
bands eating out of their hands
Who can remember the good
old days when small children
»’t kill
didn’
people?
A lawyer likes to have lots of
suits.
It is said that the treasury de
with
will
pockets.
is saia mai me treasury
partment is experimenting
fireproof money. May be it
not burn a hole in one’s pocke
The attack being made on Ail
derson county by buzzards does
not come is a surprise. Many had
Newspaper Space *
Regardless of how many pages
The Herald prints, we rarely
have enough space to print every-
’ ‘ * to 'oe
thing that ought
We have not “caught
standing type to many
f uT
weeks.
ted.
on
We
have several good local articles,
mi nil ■
lustrations,
standing in type
aths. Some day
nt them. 9
which
for
we
some with
have been
several mom
hope to priid -
This prefaces whait we want to
say about space. Few persons
realize the value of
realize the value of newspaper
space, and they often wonder why
the editor found it necessary to
necessary
trim down articles they handed
in.
The fact is that The Herald,
along with most weekly news-
papfcrse of the State, closely qjits
copy with th4 Idea of eliminating
every unnecessary word, Every
time we cut odt six words from
add oi
an article, wd
for something
one mofe line
ir does not
take many lines to makers para
graph, and by the time an copy
down every week we
find tve have made room for one
or more short art isles.
The Herald ahnhrs seek to' fill
its pages with" Bamberi 'county
news. We h|Ve HttflT spite we
can devote to general news v or
happenings. We rdteive probably
25 to 50 tell ~
week which
propaganda-
be good reai
the time to'
to print it. but
neariJ^Bl of _
ter is thrown into the waste bas
ket 77 ;
The newspaper is obligated to
f ive publicity to Worthy drives,
Ut we must hold it down, to
Strictly the local angle. We are
not onl]
the pun
cash as
The
ions, dot
either to the Mquc
publication '
little credit
industry or
question.. It
offeiui 11 * -
good t
bring the very restraints the .in-
self-restraint from, the providers
and paid promoters of American
ism with a whisky breath? —
Christian Science Monitor,
tf .....w . i.j gw ^
W. Spencer
it Friday
Frank W. Spencer, a winter
resident of Camden for 40 years,
died at his home on Chesnut street
Friday night after an illness of
two weeks. He was a retired hard-
wye merchant of Halmouth,
Funeral services were
•d from the hcrife at 2:45
afternoon with the Rev. A. D. _
Am officiating. Afper the services
the body was token to HalmdSth,
for interment Tuesday
Ivors inclu
mo|
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Mrs. Margaret Johnson Spencer,
and one sister, Miss Mary Spen
der. ' ’ T- *
6U»h
Inexpensive to n
quires no ceOw t
or smokestackj
heat is deafer i
Oum you though
could be.rvs;
ly zone coQtrtfl
even, healthful i
m every room in
Also perfectly Hj
es and stares.
The units mn
flush into walls I
in yoor rooms
cleaning and in
No soot, no gj?
Takes only two
ST
Phone
raentative to _
display^*
or writej
CENTRAL!
GLASS HIM
3 * & 4 l
»J w i o ru. n as
HAIL IRMilAN
Each yaar many fanpan racaivt
HAIL INSURANCE CHECKS
i t s
been expecting it every since the
election last Nov
bvember. We are
just surprised that Spartanburg
county has escaped thus far.
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That Mag Be The Object
“Truman Says Lilienthal Critics En
danger Atomic Energy Program Work” —
healdine. 1 * / v a™ ^s-ta
And that brings to mind a story we heard
recently. It seems that a man who fcetonfs
to a church that does not have a ritual ser
vice went to a church which has a highly
ritualistic service. He found considerable
difficulty in keeping up with it Ha’d arise
just about the jtime everybody else would
sit down and sit down about the time
everybody else would rise. j, ,v> , »!
Finally he turned to the man next to
him and said: “Thia beats the devil.’Jv ,
^“That's the intention of it/* the fellow
next to him replied. » susdut *rr
And so it may be the intentions of those
who ‘are dritidamg Lilienthal to endanger
the “work” of the commission as it is at
present composed. They perhaps don't
want it to do ,1rhat it plans to do because
they fear it will not be for the welMSeingef
this ooontry. And it seems to us they have
pretty good grounds for their fears.
Children f will be delighted to
know that Israel has developed
from castor beans a substance
that may yield plastics because
this may cut down oh the produc
tion o£ castor oil.
Florida now has a law which
enables women to serve on juries.
This will be tough on men who
will be tried by them because it’s
almost impossible for a man to
fool a woman.
In this wonderful age in which
we are living we can see new
things every day,” says a writer.
Yes, and that reminds us of the
story of the old codger from the
mountains who had never seen a
revolving door such as they have
in big office buildings in cities.
Visiting the city one day he stood
in front of this office building and
saw .a man go in the door and a
pretty girl come»out. ‘That’s a
pretty good trick,” he exclaimed,
juft don’t seb now he changed
his clothes so fast”
A fellow Who has just returned
from a trip to the bench says that
the girls
in their-
entfy
good
w walking around
_ suits (here appar-
through the winter in
shape.
- a
Just to glow you how tubie
have changed well dare say that
there are boys and gfrls 14 and 15
who have never
years of age who
tasted a strawberry soda water.
‘ssiSot;
mw,- eoul" t
k drivers.
Tbe> klofoHst should
so bad but
worse. For ft'
have women
Things
that
stance
truck drivers.
— e * Xjf
id'’Always
give the pedestrian a brake.
y expected to print all of
ilkity, but to contribute in
i well.
The priftary purpose of a news
paper w to give Its rtaders ; a
square deal, and IHby do
and propa-
sofiie ncinr s
ere rec.ive noHiinfl .fo» tMr
! t,* . '
cauta H»ty 9*ka»*. (franca . *.
farmers can't afford to keel
square
it if they
nothing '
ganda. But
to even
attached to even a mo;
campaign, and We al
that news.—Bamberg
■wan 1
Herald. ■
Ai Hama With Tba Bottle
We have tetently to&nd
•ion to copiMead several,“ms<q-
■T which make
zines of distinction”
it a policy not to * accept any
liquor advertising. But there is a
*1 HU KV*
3f IKSMaa tawsfcs
with its narrow side to the street This plan Uex-
pedient for a narrow lot •'it v*i ivvV,
rooms in the house open into the bedroom hall al
lowing privacy m circulation.
even the lot if yo«