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f ®lfr CCambm (ElprmtirU 11M North Brood Btroot CamdM. 8. C. PUBLISHED EVTOT FBIDAT ^ Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - - - - Editor ^ Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year i — $2.60 Six Months —— — 1.60 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, 8. C* under act of Consreas ■ March I; 1879 All articles submitted for publication must bo signed by the author FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 Threat To the Nation As if this country v waa already not trav eling the road to socialism and economic ruin fast enough, the administration has given it a little faster shove in that direc tion by filing suit against E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., a case which United States Attorney General Tom C. Clark said “was directed to the breaking up of the largest single concentration of industrial power in the United States.” The suit evi dently arises out of a determination by the powers-that-be in Washington to attack bigness in business as such. Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of the Du Pont company has sent out a state ment to the stockholders of the company in which he answers most effectively the charges of the government and in a most convincing manner points out the role which big business organizations play in the development of this country. We wish his statement could be read by ever/ man, woman and child who is interested in see ing the American way of life continued tfnd who does not wish to see this country fol low in the road that has led to the down fall of England. ^. After saying that it is apparent that the suit against the Du Pont company arises out of a determination to attack bigness in business as such, Mr. Greenewalt contin ued: “It is apparent that the Department of Justice is proceeding along this path with no real understanding of the nature of American economy and with no realization of the consequences to that economy of a successful attack upon bigness in business. “It must be clear to anyone that there are many jobs which can be best accomp lished by small business, but that there are others that can be accomplished only by large companies with many resources at their disposal. It is the COOPERATION between large and small enterprises that has contributed strength and vigor to our economy. 9 “For example, the duPont Company was one of the leaders of the drive Among American chemical manufacturers to make this country independent of Germany in dyestuffs. The effort required for the company an investment of $43,000,000 ever a period of 18 years before profits offset accumulated losses. Only a large company could have afforded to take spch a risk, or could have brought together the techni cal skills required for ultimate success. “The same risks were taken in the de velopment of many new du Pont products such as nylon, neoprene, synthetic rubber, (where would we have been without syn thetic rubber during the war?—Editor Chronicle), plastics, moistureproof cello phane, synthetic camphor, agricultural chemicals, ‘Cordure’ high tenacity rayon, quick-drying lacquers that broke the bottleneck in the automobile industry, syn thetic ammonia and the many products coming from high-pressure synthesis. In each of these were investments running in to many millions of dollars, and the lapse of a considerable number of years before there was any assurance that any of them would be successful or would ever return a profit. Today 60 per cent of the sales of the company are in products that did not exist or were not being manufactured on a commercial scale in 1928.” Just to think of the thousands of people who are employed today as the result of these new products, who either might not be employed but for them or whose pay is much greater than it would have been had not these products been created by the Du Pont company and thus created more em ployment But one of Ike moot telling points made by Mr. Greoqowalt U bis statement that “during the recent war the company, al though already burdened with the huge task of supplying unprecedented quanti ties of manufactured product* for the arm ed services, was asked by th% government to design, construct and operate a plant to produce plutonium for the atomic warfare This request was accepted upon of the government that Pa CAMDEN m r. JULY 11 m and built. It produced plutonium m tune te fUeilNtlvo use/* When war strikes this country we art awfully happy that we have these big in dustrial concerns like Du Pont to turn out supplies so qukkly that we are enabled to defeat our enemies. But let peace come and some professional politicians want to heckle them and try to destroy them. Wo should not forget that without Du Pont and other large companies there could have been no successful synthetic riibber industry, no synthetic textile fibers, no 30,000,000 automobiles in use, no suc cessful atomic energy program, no victory in World War II. There wasn’t any talk about the govern ment suing the Du Pont company while the war was in progress. Oh nd! , We needed the products they were turning out to save us then, just as we needed them durifig World War I, and just as we may need them again any day, certainly some day. But if Attorney General Clark could have his way there would be no giant concerns to speed us on to victory in the event of an other war. We agree with Mr. Greenewalt that “the ability by the United States to advance in peace and to survive in war is threatened by this contention that bigness is bad in anything but the government.” Thinklna Out Loud A * re,‘e ^ JE-M& With The Press have ^lion dollars to be a millionaire. Unfavorable Publicity * Camden has been the recipient of lots of favorable publicity during the last year and the eyes of almost the whole nation have been focused on this community be cause of the favorable developments in it. Recently, however, we have been receiv ing some unfavorable publicity because of the threatened loss of our baseball club in mid-season. People elsewhere are asking “what is the matter with Camden?” If we had not entered the league It ipight not have attracted attention but to drop out in the middle of the season indicates that there is something wrong with a town. We cannot believe that the people^, of Camden will permit their ball team to drop out of the league. There is too much civic pride in Camden for that. Measured in dollars and cents, weighed as a recreational adjunct, builder of civic spirit and ally in the fight against juvenile delinquency and figured as an advertising medium, the returns from money spent on baseball are incalculable to a community. Most progressive cities have long since rec ognized the benefits the game gives them. In no other endeavor can a communTty receive so much free advertising. No oth er furnishes such wholesome recreation, giving a lift to both old and ^oung, men and women, rich and poor. Nothing else can provide such an attractive medium for civic pride, or as satisfying a mutual point around which all citizens can rally on com mon ground. We hope every one in Camden will take part in this fight to save baseball here. One way every one can help is by attending the games. It s worth 76 cents to go down to the hall park an evening just to coo! off and see the people even if you don’t care anything about baseball. After you have gone <jown there one or two evenings for that purpose you’ll become a fan. Let’s save baseball for Camden If more money is needed it should be forthcoming from some source and if every one in Cam den -will turn out to the games the neces sity of any further losses may be obviated. Camden s Good Fortune “Charlotte’s loss is Camden’s gain,” says the Charlotte Observer in commenting on the impending move to Camden of Guy Hutchins, who is to become director o' music of the Camdep City Schools.' Mr. Hutchins has for several years been very closely identified with the cultural life of Charlotte and has served as director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. The Camden City Schools are fortunate in being able to secure such a fine musician to head the musical program of the city. The City of Camden is fortunate in having him come into its midst as he will mean much to the cultural life of this city as he has meant to Charlotte. And under his tutelage we shall expect /the Camden High School band to main tain the fine reputation it has made under Hal Middleton. The pedestrian gets a little bit better break under the new state highway code. It recognizes him as a person with some prerogatives as well as obligations. He is accorded a legal status not previously given him and now he has an entire article dealing with his “rights and duties.” If we are going to have socialism we wfch the government wooM air-condition When a small shot gets half shot he thinks he is a big shot The trouble with some politi cians is. that instead of following Dale Carnegie’s system for mak ing friends and influencing peo ple they make them by appealing to their prejudices. A dispatch from Lisbon, Portu gal, says that a temperature of 146 in the sun was recorded at Con- bria, Portugal, the other day. It must have hailed around there that day and cooled, things off a bit Newspapers says that Mrs. Pearl Mesta, who has been ap pointed American minister to Luxembourg is famed for her party giving in Washington. Yes —giving to the Democratic party is what got her the job. North Carolinians are excited over a report that Governor Scott may resign to become Secretary of Agriculture in President Tru man’s Cabinet. In such an event North Carolina’s gain would be the nation’s loss. Who can remember when “Open the Door, Richard” and "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?” were popular song hits? Watermelons and baseball are about the only recreation poor people have. A writer says that there ought to be a school for brides. Yes— lots of girls get married without having the least idea of how to go about getting their first divorce. We just can’t see why business should hot be good. According to the Census Bureau there are now 148,527,000 persons in this coun try and just think how many things each one needs. Some fellow has written an ar ticle advocating the coinage of six, seven, eight and nine-cent pieces. And that reminds us of the little boy who walked into a drug store, laid a nickle on the counter and asked for an ice cream cone. "Cones are eight cents,” the clerk told him. ‘Then give a package of gum,” the youth said. ‘A pack of gum is six cents,” the clerk re plied. The youth walked away, leaving the nickle on the counter. ‘You forgot your nickel,” the clerk yelled at him. "Keep it—it wopU buy anything,” the lad ellea back at him. One\ever consoling thought is that popular songs don’t stay pop ular loJ^g We just wonder if even a cu cumber has been very cool during some of the weather we have been having of late. ' * A Florida boy played a record on his phonograph and then kill ed himself. The particularly sad feature about it is that he didn’t have to play the record. Those women who were swindled by Engel probably do not agreed with the statement that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Lots of people are beginning to realize that a great many gravy trains have ceased to run. It’s true that even old Homer nodded but it’s tough when a baseball player hits a homer and nods ai Baruch And Truman It would be a bold private citi zen who would try to umpire the dispute between President Tru man and Bernard M. Baruch as to whether we do or do not have a plan for quick mobilization of na tional resources and industry in case of war. _ . _ . Mr. Baruch told the President to look up the record and see if he did not disapprove a plan that i was submitted to him by the Na tional Security Resource Board about a year ago. The President denied that any such plan was ever submitted to him, because it had not been approved by the full board. All of that involves secret cor respondence that is usually kept away from public eyes. But we did try, as Mr. Baruch suggested that the President do, to look up the record. The news index for June, 1948, disclosed nothing. But last December 6 Arthur M. Hill resigned as chairman of the board. It was reported at that time that President Truman and other board members had disapproved Mr. Hill’s plan for giving the board extensive power to control defense measures of other government agencies. That may have been the inci dent to which Mr. \Baruch re ferred. Moreover, when Mr. Tru- mhn appointed his political friend, Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the board, he gave the impression that he did not take the board very seriously, because it was generally agreed that Wallgren did not have the qualifications necessary for such a job, and the nomination was rejected on those grounds by the Senate. Mr. Tru man has not troubled himself to appoint another man, better quali fied. Noboby can know the straight of this controversy until the of ficial correspondence is published, and that is not likely to happen. But we do know that Mr. Banich was adviser and economic mobi lization director and that he is the author of the United States plan for control of atomic energy. He is, therefore, one of the best informed citizens in the country, if not the best informed, on the subject of economic and industrial mobilization for war. His opinions on that subject cannot be dis missed as lightly as the President nominated Wallgren to head the National Security Resources Board. Granting that we do not know the facts, the President’s answer to Mr. Baruch strikes us as being a little inadequate.—Charlotte Ob server. then base and fails to touch a When the average girl comes back from the beach she’s more a- peeling than you’ve ever seen her before. This is the season of the year when the days are long and the shorts short Seeing a story in Sunday’s newspapers about Mrs. Dionne, mother of the quintuplets, visiting the Pope in Rome reminded us of one we heard recently about Father Dionne. It seems that two fellows were sitting in a New York restaurant each with a single newspaper spread out on the table so that both might read at the same time. The first point ed to a picture of the Dionne quintuplets. “Look at the quints ” he said, “aren’t they growing up to be pretty youngsters?” The second glanced at the photo. Yeah, ne grunted. He sipped his coffee and then spoke suddenly By the way have the Dionnes had any more quintuplets?” The first man put down his cup. “More quintuplets? Of course not,” he replied. The other lighted a cig arette. "Just as I thought,” he murmured, "I dways imagined that old man Dionne was just a flash in the pan.” A writer says the country is slowly going to hell. We’ve been tempted to think during the last two or three weeks that it was going rather rapidly. , » trouhie with some men is wjatjthevhave too many mid-irons •At Dak* Summer School T. ^Marshall, T. D. Ancrum are for the House filet and recalled a plan wa» submitted to the Fra£ dent in May or June, of IMS. It it generally known that Messrs. Byrnes and Baruch have been closely associated and the political experts wonder if there is any connection between the timing of the two addresses. Do they indicate the beginning of a more audible opposition to. President Truman’s '‘Fair Deal” on domestic affairs and his handl ing of the nation’s security in con nection with international af fairs? — Orangeburg Times and Democrat poUt feed: Circus-riding Politics In the United States'it has long been taken for granted that presi dents, for the benefit of their tical parties and the stall- of their party congress men should allow congressmen to name appointees to federal “jobs.” It is wrong. Tfce office-holders, the congressmen, think it is right Grover Cleveland was * president who held to the contrary, but Mr. Cleveland had notions of admin istration that “modern” congress men cannot understand—ind many of his own lieutenants coul< not understand them , and turned their backs upon him. Would it be "outrageous” for Harry S. Truman, Esq., president, to deny patronage to a horrible Republican congressman from Oregon? It would not be, and it would be no more than the exer cise of common sense on his part to deny it to congressmen of South Carolina who supported the States Rights party candi dates, Thurmond and Wright In South Carolina representa tive supporters of the national “Democratic” party are Ashton Williams, Senator Johnston, Ran- some Williams, the Rev. Maxie Collins and also a number of col ored citizens, McCray, Hinton, other authorities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. States Rights party /nen are not ‘Democrats and Trumanitea are not Democrats. , The South Carolinians who op- use the FEPC and other Har- mite policies will have to subsist on something rise than pie and plus if they are not willing to sell . ■KWI Los driphia. A Stai States Righto. the South begJSJSj while himSf with his back Circus riders te**- * Senora YV* 2 - creditedsrij *4 final di Notice is hereb month from this nu. . 1949, Allies P. iffi - to the Probate Court tfa to* 1 mil ministratrix of Henry D. Norris, the same date akij the said Court for . charge as said Adnii H-iTc Jofeg Camden, S. C, JmTlH Banich And Byrnes In recent public addresses, for mer Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and retired industrialist, Bernard M. Baruch, both natives of South Carolina, have delivered vigorous, if indirect, criticism of the present Administration. Mr. Byrnes warned against the welfare state and Mr. Baruch re ported a lack of a plan of “total mobilization,” which, he asserted, represents a "needless invitation to disaster.” President Truman has made no direct reply to either statement but White House circles, accord ing to The New York Times, "ex hibited considerable indignation” over the Baruch charge and in timated that Mr. Baruch was bad ly informed. This statement was subsequently attributed directly to the President, who categorically denied that any mobilization plan had been presented to him or re jected by him. 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