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PkQt TWO (Eamirn € 11M North Broad Street / CamAm, S. C. PtJBUSHED BVBRf BRIPAT Harold C. Booker - - - - Editor DaCosta Brown - t - - Poklifther SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All SubecriptioM Payable In Advance One Year Six Months -■*— l«ov data Matter at the Poet umder act of Consreaa S. l»7t (or publication moat be the author HE 17, 1*49 Front One Who Knows "If yojr American communist* had to Hve unit communism for 24 houra, thcy —M lieoine the biggest anti-conununistr Id,” said 20-year-old Henry Spitz y, one day last week as he sat in chamber in Cdlumbia. He is now at the state adult opportunity where he enrolled after coining to i Carolina under the displaced persons congress.. . young Hungarian expressed his amazement at being permitted to shake hands with Governor Thurmond and to en ter the h^lls of the General Assembly. “These things do not happen in Europe, he is quoted as saying. “There the people are not permitted to see their government. Young Spitz says that in Europe the peo ple know only of the “right” and the left and there is no middle ground. “In Hungary,” he said, “we had lots of people who liked communism on paper, but when the Reds took us over they changed their minds and fled the country.” There is a lesson in what this young Hun garian had to say that should be learned by lots of young Americans who think it smart to be radical and many of whom are espousing communism. At heart they are probably not communists but in order to be “different” from their “old man” they talk in terms of communism. It is a lerton, too, which some of these who think themselves “intellectuals” and who hold down positions in our colleges and universities might learn. These “intel lectuals”, too, think it smart to be opposed to the existing order of things so they either teach communism or denounce the existing order of things so severely that a young mind instinctively turns to commun ism as a way out from the present order. It is a lesson, too, which some of the sons of the rich who having tired of every other form of sport and entertainment are amus ing themselves by playing with the* hap piness of a great nation by espousing com munism. All of these people would probably be like the people in Hungary, who liked com munism on paper but fled when the Rus sians took over, and would flee this country if there were any other anti-communist country left. But once communism comes, it will be too late! This country has made other grave mistakes and survived. But that is one mis take ft would make only once. Our free dom would then be dead forever. Barkley*t Impending Visit And so another effort is to be made to get the Democrats of South Carolina to bow down at the feet of the Northern if Democrats” and to ask them to “lay it on” to us. In fact thia time we are being asked to contribute to the purchase of the bat which is to be used to beat our brains out. It Is announced with great gusto that Vice President Alben W. Barkley is to make a speech in Colupbia and that all of the Democrats in ^jme state are being urged to buy tickets to the dinner at $15 per plate. Mr. Barkley is the man who just a few weeks ago did all that it was humanly pos sible for any one man to do to try to force the enactment of President Truman’i notorious civil rights legislation in the Sen ate. He even reversed a ruling made by Senator Vandenberg, when the latter was occupying the chair during Republican control of the Senate, in his effort to dis arm the gallant band of Southern Senators who were fighting for their section. - And yet we are supposed now to forget all of this, bow and scrape to him like a bunch of Japanese and pay $15 for the privilege of hearing him talk. It will be interesting to see how many real South Carolina DEMOCRATS fall for this trap. It is to be expected, of course, that the camp followers will kick in with their $15. Many of the federal officeholders wTTl have to kick in for fear of losing their jobs if they don’t. But it is not believed that many inde pendent South Carolinians, those not hold ing federal jobs and lot looking for any, will attend-the-dinner... As for the receipts from the dinner - well no definite statement has been made gs to what will be done with them. They may be used to pay up past debts incurred in trying to elect men to office who would vote for the notorious civil rights legisla- !tion or it may be used to try to elect them ^ 1 ^ i ^ i e w a a ^ where a next year. How To Ruin America - One-of the ». Leland M. Jones Announcement of the appointment of Leland M. Jones as plant manager of the “Orion” acrylic fiber plant which is now under construction in this city by E. L du Pont de Nemours & Company will be re ceived most pleasarjjtly in Camden. Mr. Jones has visited the city quite a number of times in recent months and has made a most favorable impression upon all who have had the opportunity of meeting him. Camden will extend Mr. Jone£ and his family a most cordial welcome and will be anxiods to be of any assistance to him that is possible. It is being told that a, newspaper out West just printed the ten commandments the other day without comment of any kind. A number of subscribers got mad saying that the paper was getting too personal in its remarks. Kershaw county farmers had better prepare now to wage an intense fight on the boll weevil this season if they expect to make any cotton. Little Johnny McHveen lost his lob drawing juries at the court louse in Kingstree because he learned to read, according to a ory in the papers. And that re- tinded us or the old, old story ot the aged mountaineer, a strong Democrat, who had ten sons. Ask ed what political party his ten sons belonged to, replied that nine of them were Democrats and the other a Republican. Asked how one of them happened to be a Re publican, he ed little rasca read” With The- Press Barkley To Bat Welfii Bark The California hope to develop plants that will thrive in extreme environments and open up whole areas for the ‘growing of food. So likewise in- ■ miMMHcan be developed to *<>«?* fro* .t; ley is coming to South to try to make peace among lh< state's Democrats, and Preacher SSEhTcSS •>« 2K?‘ row cal weather. Even in a ton climate hardy forms of free- w.—Christian Sc state officers of the States Rights and the National Democrats to resign that neutral officials may take-over and all be muted again. Every town needs a Community Chest so that it can put all of its begs in one askit. about , ..... „ A tion, and every person named to office in this state in 1948 was elected by the States Rights JH us of the time when Protestant leaders made overtures to the Catholic Pope in regard to uni versal unification of all faiths into learned how to The fact that they didn’t have anything to say didn’t keep some members of the lower house of the South Carolina General As sembly from talking. “President Truman today hung the description ‘headline hunters’ sociated Press dispatch. The Presi dent fin us put John L. Lewis in the best company he has ever been in. With the average man his boss says when he will take his vaca tion and his wife where. Samuel Gibbs, of Huntington, Mass., on bis 49th birthday, credit ed his longevity to the fact that he never developed any habits, bad or good, cut out coffee, dancing, smoking. eM...drinking and never got married, whicn makes got married. Which makes one wonder whether beTs-really 94 years old or whether it just seems to him that he has 1 lived that long. “Air is a mixture of „ filler. The chemist who made the test which result ed in the above finding must have chances are that it will not be long before you get where he is. ... i A Chicago millionaire is said to favorite *"”pRstime5= 3, frf • the* Have - Started bu5hiesg~un a shoe President. Truman’s praise of Lilienthal might come un der the heading “Gilding the Lilienthal.” Mother was the. baby sitter when we were growing up. . We suppose a fellow who has one of those life-time pens would feel that his end was at hand if the pen should go wrong. Have you much revolting ton? of Washington? Does anybody know who won the war? When we are speaking in moral terms we say “right or wrong” but when we are speaking in political terms we say “right < left." Men brag about the fish 'they ever ' let get away but you nev a girl mention jthem. Sooner or later the Federal of fice holders will have to realize that the taxpayers can no longer support them in the style to which they have been accustomed. political demagogue is denouncing .Big string. Now he makes . ■— rouiions~oi .them Business and m sneering tones alway& rer. ferring to the enormous profits of ths big corporations. The Standard Steel Spring Company of Corapolis, Pa., in an advertisement in the American f^ess takes these “arm chair economists” severely to task. “Let’s do a little analyzing, just as aver age Americans, using just average common sense,” it suggests. “Let’s suppose that <we take all the prof it—all the net profit American. Business for 1948, after the million upon millions of taxes were paid. “The figure is about $20,000,000,000 or 9 per cent of the total national income of $220,000,000,000, a lower percentage than in the high production year of 1941. “But let’s take all the net profit — the whole $20,000,000,000 and distribute it in equal dhares among the 140,000,000 people in our country. Let’s give every man, wom an and child $140. That’s what it amounts to. “Then let’s cancel all the programs for expansion and rehabilitation of United States railroads—programs due to cost 'hun dreds of millions. And let’s struggle along with what we have. “Let’s .quit investing a hundred million dollars to bring out one brilliant, better, faster, more luxurious line of autombiles— and go on, year after year, driving the same old cars. “Let’s scrap the expansion program of the oil industry, a program scheduled to cost billions and quit worrying about gas for automobiles and oil to heat our homes. “And let’s quit paying dividends to the 2,000,000 shareholders in American busi ness, people who have invested their sav ings and expect a fair return for their money. “In 1948, United States Business- put $29,000,000,000 into plant, industrial, farm apd mining improvement. If you want this country thrown on the wreckage pile of other countries —» the quickest way to do it is to throttle profits —the legitimate driving force back of our progress—the progress of every one of millions Trumsnites tried to brow- the States ^Righters by threatening to take over all pat ronage privileges, and that did not work, so now they are sending the suave Kentucky half South- emer down to try his luck. It U an admission that we are a rath er sticky thorn in the flesh, which is aa it ought to be Was Friun Chicago James lliller Robinson, 38-year- old negro from Chicago, now in Czechoslovakia, has renounced his ; as R ought to be. The States Rights party voted bout ten to one in the last elec- he btales jugnis admitted th procedure reminds "Evidently, one great religion. The Pope said i fine he thdught the idea was fine and he was all for it Unification could be accomplished, he said, simply by .everybody joining the Catholic church.—Bamberg Her ald. United States citizenship, deduc ing he would “rather die tflkn go home and ahine shoes” and that “I’d probably be lynched if I went back.” Terming his American citizen ship “second-class, at beat” the negro referred to the f icy of this country as war and apgreasion.” relatives knew nothing about plans U) give up citizenship and Name The Senators According to our Columbia cor respondent, Caldwell Withers, it cost the state of South Carolina $21,096 for the senate to hold t filibuster to prevent confirmation believe that scribed as agree with American citizenship or with his belief that he would probably be lynched if he came back home. The negro’s renunciation of his citizenship will not be big news in the big newspapers of the Northern section of the country and there will be no headlines on his feu of being lynched in Chi cago. If Robinson had happened mo *TE CD Sonja HenlSb Monday fcrJJZr' 'TLAMBG0 Joanr— of Miss Faith Clayton, the gover- ite Mi nor’s appointee to the stat dustrial commission. The senate was overwhelmingly in favor of Miss Clayton’s appointment, and would have quickly confirmed it, but a handful of senators held the floor and would not allow the matter to come to a vote. The only apparent reason was they were determined to retain the present commissioner, I. L. Hyatt, whose term will soon expire, regardless of the of the wishes of the majority of the senate or the welfua_.QL_t.he medium-duty state.—Bamberg Herald. Whither Weather? California now has a weather factory. Technically, it’s called a phytotron and produces all sorts of clomates m laboratory areas for the Study of plant life. The plant physiologists of the Cali fornia Institute of Technology StmiBbakw 1 # «ibw 400 h. truck oi A now combination of h< only heed lb puih buttons in or- IH-ton ttyoo drrreiik* the ttevtUh* g- r , am ° t oxo it anil or storm, Arctic cola or tropic storm, heat. This is all in the field of con trolled experiment, of course. But, looking ahead, we foresee the day Sgf- when weather will be rnfflTtP factured for gene&l consumption and export. What battles may be fought between the exponents of weather by private enterprise and those who favor a state mon opoly! What pressures (h Igh and low) for international control of the world’s climates may .be ex pected! > But there’s a solacing thought ever noticed how news comes out abteia4i 'faJaftTlJ fo.lE| or »*fta IS ft and IT trill MYERS MOTOR East DeKalb Street hear HOUSE US. rr If there wasn’t anything in this old world (to kick about, people would probably kick because there wasn’t anything to kick about A very pleaaant way to spend an even ing now is to go down to the baseball park and see the Camden Chiefs perform. f.CY. ,a. Carolina is at least m the Bright • A more effective answer to the political demagogue who is jilways harping on American Business could hardly be made. ' If you throttle profite this country will soon come to a standstill and the deadliest depression that ever hit would follow. It would not be long, as the advertisement suggests, before this country could be thrown upon the wreckage pile of Euro pean countries. And yet, you will continue to hear the demagogues denounce Big Business as ■ A writer pointing to the rapid ip growth of co-education in the last quarter of a century predicts that within a few years nearly all col leges will be co-educational. And speaking of co-education we can’t ink of help but think of John Howard Van Amringe, who “was a sworn enemy of it?’ “It’s impossible,” he asserted “to teach a boy mathe matics if there’s a girl in the class." “Oh, come, professor,” ob jected some one, “surely there might be an exception to that.” “There might be,” snapped Amringe, “but he wouldn’t be worth teaching.” Bennett e SMALL HOUSC HANNING lUtfAU 'MVWVWUWA., 5if«, “A collapsed'building is one of the most tragic sights in the world,” asserts a writer. Wonder if he has ever seen a collapsed baseball team? President Truman .has ignore the recommendation of Senator acoaoom Gillette of Iowa on appointments. 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