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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
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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
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“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.
So this is the case
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listed as winners in
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men and boys 1 RE
the “chicken of tomorrow” con
test.
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Some new coal mi*in
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