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— SUft CEamirn QUirotiirU %-t A*- «»» M XXvv oroaa PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY s. a Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - .r • Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptione Payable In Advance One Year —---^2.50 Six Montha Entered u Second CUu Matter at the Poat Office at Camden, 8. C„ under act of Concreaa March 3, 187» ■ All articlea enbmltted tor pnblleatkm most bo tlgned by the author FRIDAY, JULY 8. 1949 Reaping The Whirlwind When politicians—more interested in getting votes than they were in the welfare of any class of people—began agitating the so-called “civil rights” program the pre diction was made that the agitation would bring about racial disturbances and a re surgence of the Ku Klux Klan, two de velopments that would be regrettable. The prediction has already come true. The Klan is riding again in the South and racial disturbances have been reported lately in cities out of the South. Last week The Chronicle commented on the rioting which followed the abolition of segregation rules in public swimming pools in St. Louis. The disorder was so x serious that segregation had to be rein stated. St. Louis is in President Truman’s home state. We have seen no comment from President Truman on the rioting in St. Louis. In Washington, the nation’s capital, Sec retary of the Interior Krug ordered segre gation abolished at the public swimming pools in Washington. Dispatches from the capital said that negroes and whites had clashed sporadically for several days. Washington dispatches quoted by-stand- ers as skying that about 1,000 persons— mostly young men—-gathered at Anacosta Park in Washington where one swimming pool is located. Police took baseball bats and clubs from a number of youths before the sullen, milling crowd was dispersed. Four persons—£hree whites and two negroes—were arrested and at least four injured before the fighting was halted. One of those hurt was a 17-year-old white girl. The District of Columbia recreation board, which operates ti^e pools, said last week that it would remove its employees from the area unless segregation is re stored. In what has happened in St. Louis and Washington, neither of which is a South ern city, one is given a foretaste of what is going to happen all over the .country and particularly all over the South if the Presi dent succeeds in putting his civil rights pro gram across in Congress. It is a pity that the harmonious feelings which have existed between the races are being threatened by selfish politicians who are not interes&d in the ne&ro but who seek to secure votes by stirring him up. These politicians “give the name of zeal to their propensity of mischief and violence though it is not the cause, but their interest that inflames them.” It was a sad day for this country when .the politicians began to try to array race against race in an effort to get votes. It must be said to the credit of the Souths ern negro that by and large he has taken no part in this effort on the part of scheming northern politicians. He has been able to see through it all. Putting Fir tt Thing* Fir ft Fimfck Jordan. Jr., a younf attorney of Newberry who waa a combat marine vet eran of World War H, was a recent apeak- •r before the Winnsboro Rotary Club and according to the Winnsboro News and Herald, he cited history to show that na- tion after nation which ^ had unwisely striven first for economic equality, rather than for liberty, had fallen into decay or succumbed to dictatorship of one kind or another. Mr. Jordan told the Wimwboro , Rotarian* that England, at least until the Labor party took charge in that country, and America empWaed “liberty” whereas some continental countries, particularly those behind the iron curtain, preferred to strive for economic equality, and that the na tions which chose the latter are now either decaying, impoverished or un der dictatorship. The United States, Mr. Jordan said, could not sacrifice freedom for broad and security, we would bo of all na- tidus Hie most foolish to sell our birth right for a mess of pottage. He point ed out, however, that the stream is running dangerously strong in this di rection oven in America today. In speaking of “economic equality,” Mr. Jordan emphasized the fact that he was not alluding to equality of opportunity, which America should preserve at all costa. He was referring to the present- day tendency of seemingly putting a prem ium on ignorance, ineffeciency, and shift lessness rather than industry and thrift; philosophy of trying to equalize and stand ardize income through government fiat. If we persist in doing this, he declared, we will be experimenting with a method that has failed miserably time after time. We couldn’t help but think of Mr. Jor dan’s remarks about putting economic equality ahead of liberty when we read the reasons assigned by State Senator O. T. Wallace, of Charleston, for attending the Barkley dinner in Columbia last Friday night. The “economic and payroll needs” of Charleston county were jtye persuasive factors in his decision to attend the dinner, according to the News and Courier, of Charleston. “The Democratic administration is in office for the next three and a half • year^ and it is possible during that 4 time far Mr. Barkley to becomfe t Presi- "* dent of the United States,” said the Charleston Senator. * 4 We stand serious ly in need of friendly aid in Washing ton. For three years our state ports au thority has been planning to obtain $12,000,000 from the RFC to build modern docks on the waterfront. As an office holder who goes to Washing ton occasionally to ^elicit aid for this community with our senator and con gressmen, 1 do not propose to sink the Vice President of the United States.” So very evidently Senator Wallace puts economic equality ahead of Liberty. And as Mr. Jordan pointed out his admirable speech at Winnsboro he is experimenting with a method that has failed miserably time after time. Where The Money Goes You hear so much from agitators about the golden stream of money that has. been rolling into industry’s coffers during the past few years. What is often forgotten is that the money rolls out just about as fast. Here is what happened last year to the income of a middle-sized corporation en gaged in the business of processing fabrics. It’s total revenues came to $17,460,000. Nearly half—$8,350,000—went for mater ials, supplies and services. Labor came in for the next biggest slice—$6,330,000. The UuLcollector took almost $1,300,000. Abou $784,000 was retained in the business for plant expansion and working capital. A trifle under $750,000 was left. This amounted to 4.3 cents out of each dollar of sales. An it waa all that went to the stock holders, in the form of di^dends, for the aob and employment possible. use of the money that made this business Some one has said that motorists should treat all people as though they were blind, deaf or defective and that pedestrians should treat all motorists as though they were homicidal maniacs. Then between the two there would be fewer accidents, i The stage is bow «et for the vote on the bond issue. Camden MUST go forward. Where Will It End? Senator Harry F. Byrd, of Virginia, one of the soundest thinkers in Washington, has come out with another blast at deficit spending by the United States government. His warning will probably fall on deaf ears, however, as the administration in power seenis firmly wedded to the belief that it is possible for one to spend himself rich. In connection with Senator Byrd’s warn ing, we were impressed with some figures contained in a recent issue of the United States News and World Report. In four fiscal years of peacetime, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949, the United States government spent $177,000,000,000, ac cording to this publication. In 152 years, from the time of George Washington’s first inauguration in 1789 to the beginning of preparations for World War II in 1940, the government spent $167,000,000,000. These figures are startling! They show that the government has spent more in the last four years than it spent in the 152 pre ceding years. ' ' During a century and a half of United States history—a period that included four major wars, several depressions And seven years of the New Deal, the government spent $10,000,000 less than in the first four years following World War H. Have we gone stark mad ? One of the most impressive poems we have seeniately is one by Emily I. Alleman appearing in the recent issue of the Ameri can Legion Magazine. It follows: “A boy grows straight as a sapling tree. I# occasionally bent over father's knee ” ThinldnqOiitLoud About the only thin* M un settled as the weather u the debt those European countries owe us. Lots of people wish now that they had as much cold cash as they had when wages were frozen. We heard a poor old man say the other day that he had gotten to eat in his dining room only one time in the last ten years and that was one day when his wife was having the kitchen repainted. That Illinois man who is ope rating a skunk farm is proba bly not worried by his neighbors con tinually sticking their noses in his business. Some people flee from tempta tion; others flee into it. A Chicago woman got a divorce from her husband because he thought more of his saxophone than he did of her. We can’t help but wonder how she sounded! Would you say that we owe it to ourselves to pay the national debt? "The days of lush spending by the newly rich are about over, says an economist And that re minds us of the story of the new ly rich woman who was looking over the plans for a new house which she was building. “What’s this were going to be?” she asked the architect. “That is an Italian staircase,” the architect replied. “Just a waste of money,” she re plied, “because we probably won’t ever have any Italians coming to see us.” | _ * ' We agree heartily with the fel low who said, that the tongue be ing in a wet place is liable to slip when going too fast. It seems that almost everybody in South Carolina who voted for Truman and Barkley in the elec tion last November must have been at the Barkley dinner in Co lumbia on Friday night “People are so forgetful,” lam ents one writer. And that reminds us of the patient, who was told by his doctor: “You had a mighty close call and only your wonder ful constitution pulled you through.” The patient sighed: “I hope you’ll remember that when you’re making out your bill, doc.” A newspaper filler says that some people refuse to eat meat tecause - of their belief in the transmigration of souls. W you’ve heard of the fellow who said he believed his wife had been on this earth once before in the form of a wild cat. ' We have one pair of sho$s that must have oak soles because every time we wear them we get a com. Hoboes resent holidays like the Fourth of July. It makes them feel so common with nobody working. It seems that all is fair in love, war and peace. There must have been lots of foul weather in olden days be cause the origins of so many things were “lost in the mists of antiquity.” With The Press css- » W.900.000 totar high school at the H ® nfo . r< }* il Jl a il project, is having a hard tune de- fSg itself at the hearing, m rooms and one gymnasium, made out of ordinary brick, stone, lumber and steel and mitgold, as one might be inclined to think. It was designed for 650 pupils and has 101,000 squsre feet ^ThfoSS Electric Company, which operates the Hanford pro ject and has charge of the vast building program, admitted that $68,000 in architects’ fees were paid on the Hanford school stnic- ture. Some $115,000 in overtime wages were paid, although the bunding was six months late in would have a rash of strikes this summer, but somethin* has hap pened that had a soberi 5 u on potential strikers and the boil ing cauldron of discontent has cooled down to a simmer. This may be attributed to several causes, but probably the main cause is due to the rapidly in creasing army of unemployed. Manufacturers could not meet demands f*r wage increases on a failing market and the only sensible thing to do waa to cur at*' jects valuable suggest. i nests for Another motive, probably, was to an oversatufrted corn- check the 0I General Electric, General Mot ors, du Pont or no other corpora tion would throw their own mon ey around like that. But they and almost everyone else who throws the taxpayers’ money around don’t mind a bit when it comes to taking money sent in from An derson, Belton, Greenville, Prt>ria and Walla Walla and pushing it down all kinds of ratholes as if it were free.—Anderson Inde pendent. Still Favors Gas Tax Raisa Dufing the meeting of the re cent South Carolina General As sembly Chief Highway Commis sioner Claud McMillan advocated the tacking on of an additional cent of each gallon of gasoline sold in order to construct farm to market roads. Just a day or two ago he stated that he still favors the additional one cent tax and said that the motorists of the state would not miss it. We are in favor of good roads but we believe that the automo bile owner is already taxed as much as he should be taxed. Pos sibly an additonal cent tax on each gallon of gasoline purchased by a South Carolina motorist would not break him but if one cent is added now there is no guarantee that another cent tax might not be added at a later date. If the motorist would not miss the extra cent tax paid we are sure that Mr. McMillan would not miss the ex tra $2,500 that has been made available to him each year as ad ditional salary. He is now the highest paid state employee.—Lee County Messenger. dry out modity market and downward trend of Even John L. Lewig coal min ers reluctantly submitted to a week’s holiday and apparently were glad to go back to work. Whether these things were ac complished by careful pjannittg to avert a threatened disaster or were due to the operation of natural economic laws is a ques tion, but in either event the same wholesome results were obtained —Dillon Herald. ' The Good Old Remedy The Lancaster News recently complained xthat some children at tending a public function made the occasion “befitting a ball game or a three-ring circus” by their-rude behavior. The News of fers this advice: “Parents of children who stomped their feet, whistled^and yelled should see that they do some yelling at home.” The good old home remedy is hard to improve on. — Bamberg Herald. .... V t. * . V "■ ■ • •' ' ’ How To' Keep Crow From Watermelons A suggestion on melons against crow damage is discussed in the Extension In sect and Plant Disease Notes is sued this week. “Let’s talk crow,” say the ex« tension entomology and plant disease specialists. “Melons are frequently damaged by crows near Dangerous Waters _ With the summer only one month old, reports are coming in from this and other states of what appears to be a record number of drownings. It is time for every citizen to understand that men— and .women—are out of their natural habits in the water, whether.this water be at the beaches, at mountain resorts, in municioal pools, in the rivers or in the backwaters. Every precau tion should be taken everywhere to prevent an hour’s relaxation or a month’s vacation from adding up to an irreparable tragedy. Most accidents don’t just happen, they are caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness, regardless of whether they occur at home, on the highways, at work or at play. An ounce of prevention and prep aration may be worth pounds of cure and self-recriminations. — Winnsboro News and Herald. Strike Fever Cooling Down Men move in mysterious ways their wonders to perform. In early spring it was predicted that we vised.” FINAL Notice is month from thi/lJ iM9, m£ nt, Cou^ty P 52*^^tl th« same date H** •“d Court fL** 1 charge as said Adbi.* kcT 1447c F.H.A. Concrete Pavement] your best invesimi in Roads - TfTTMNai W ©foofi e*s principal roads ml of portland cement coacre foods are cooaarved because coocretc ] are long-lived tad economical to Ask your public offickAI CONCRETE RO, J - PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIAl A mShm! i-,n *— r —i mmd mtmd *• Midi ■Sa Is the red herring season still on at the White House? We’ll bet it was a fisherman who invented that gadget which magnifies an object 600,OOP times. Vice President Barkley’s visit to this state reminds us of the politi cal exhorter in Kentucky, who was visiting a town where the Democrats were split wide open. “Can’t the Democrats of this town get together?” he asked. “Get to gether,” answered the man with a courtplaster on his ear, “why it takes 11 deputy sheriffs to keep ’em apart.” * Kidneys Must Work Well- Far You To Feel Well S4 hows •r»ry toy, WMk. i ***** 1 — -- It more peopl* wer* aver* of how th« ktdnera Bust constantly remove iur- plua fluid, oxeaw acids and other waste ■attar that eaaaot atav in tha Mood without injury to health, then would bo bettor endoratandini of tMy the whole wyfimm is upeet whan kidneys fall to functioo properly. Burning, scanty or too frequent urina tion sometimes warns that something is wrong. Yon may suffer nagging back- aefca. headaches, disalneaa, rheumatic fr^ P Ah»vf h ^flIT*Y^ t 'will bo using a modi cine recommended the country oyer. 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