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1100 North Brood Stroot Comdm. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Htrold C. Booker - DtCosU Brown - - . - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Psysble In Advanc® One Year o^.BO 'Six Months 1 * 60 ■ ■BUrad os Second Close Hotter ot the Poet Office ot Comden, 8. under net of Consreeo Morch I, lt7t All orticlee eubmltted for pobUcotlon aoet bo HUnftd by the oothor FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1949 « Have To Hove Fast The Williams, Williams and QoUibb Democrats have now invited President Truman to speak in this state. It seems that Dillon, the home town of “Chairman” R. S. Rogers of the Williams, Williams and Collins Democrats, propose to stage a big celebration and the President has been asked to speak at it.- 4 The Truman Democrats realise that they are in a desperate situation in this state and that they are going to have to move- mighty fast if they have even a chance to wiggle out of it. The real test for them will come early next year when reorganization time comes for the Demo cratic clubs in the state. Since McGrath, the national chairman, has recognized the Williams Williams and Collins faction in this state it will, of course, be up to “State Chairman” Rogers next spring to issue a call for precinct clubs to organize, and for county conven tions to be held following the precinct club meetings and then for a state con vention. Of course, State Chairman W. P. Bas kin of the State Democratic party will likewise issue the usual call for the re organization meetings. The voters will then decide which call they will heed. The States Righters will, of course, heed (the call of Chairman Baskin and the Tru man supporters will heed the call of Chair man Rogers. That is unless the Truman followers can perform a miracle in the meantime. That is what they are hoping for. They had hoped that South Caro linians would become excited over • the coming of a Vice President to the state and would rush to greet him. They didn’t do this so now they will try to get the President himself to come down in the hope that he might accomplish the miracle. They will be doomed to just as great failure in the coming of Mr. Truman as they were in the coming of Mr. Barkley. He will not convert a single States Righter. Somebody is going to have to eat crow in South Carolina next year and it will not be the States Righters. Milk Of Human Kindness A seven-year-old child of transient berry pickers was drowned in Oregon last Thurs day. When his little body was returned to the dazed parents the latter who had stopped in their trailer on the river banks to let their children cool off, had just $25 The mother said she didn’t know what they’d do. She said she’d like to bury him in the family plot near Sedalia, Mo. “I hate to leave him alone out here,” ifte sighed. That night a sport-shirted man in his mid-thirties strode into the police station and asked a reporter to find out what it would cost to^send the child back home. The reporter called the mortuary, and was told the cost for the body and escort would be $225.53. O The man grabbed out a checkbook sign ed his name and threw it down. “You fill out the amount but leave me out of any story,” he told the reporter. The mother boarded a train Monday to return the body of her little son to Sedalia for burial. 1 Truly “kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” He Doesnft Like it Brother R. M. Hitt of the Bamberg Her* eld if tired of the way things are going in Washington in regard to our relations with the Russians and last week he said his piece about ft, in his paper. • Brother Hitt is usually a very calm, mild- mannered man but you can tell from the way he wrote last week that his feathers are ruffled now and with good cause. Here is what he had to say: “We should think that Americana would be tired of this thing of giving the Russians everything in sight, in cluding some of our precious atomic secrets, and we believe they are. What we need is a good house cleaning in Washington, to get rid of Communists and Communist sympathizers in public offices of trust and honor. “We are also tired of letting the Russian Communists run at large throughout the country without let or hindrance, while at the same time no American is allowed even the slightest liberty in Russia. We believe in being broadminded and liberal and all that, but the security of this good country of ours is at stake, and it’s high time to put a stop to some things. • “If we believe in the American way of life and liberty, then we should pro tect it. If America is the hope of the world, it is up to Americans to main tain it as such. | “Being liberal is one thing and being boobs is quite another. We don’t lack much of being in the letter class when it comes to^relations with Russia.* All of which is well put. It is high time that more people are get ting their feathers ruffled over the situa tion. We are playing with the destiny of the greatest nation on the face of the globe. The Age Of Crime - 1 Says Editor Bill Bradford of the Fort Mill Times: • 7T “People seem to be hellbent on killing. They aren’t particular who it is they shoot, stab, poison, hang, burn, beat to death, just so long as It’s a human being. Mothers beat their chil dren to death, brothers shoot each oth er, ’teen-age boys hang little play mates, or bum them at the stake, -wives hammer, axe or shoot their husbands to death and vice verse.” One wonders if all of this isn’t a be ginning of the harvest which we are going to reap in this country as a result of a complete breakdown many years ago of discipline, in the home and in the school, and in the courts. - One also wonders if conditions are not going to grow even worse as time passes because of the further collapse of any semblance of discipline. Will Fill A Need There is cause for real gratification at the beginning of work on the King Haiglar apartments because Camden is sorely in need of just such a project as this. The sands in the hour glass are running rather rapidly toward the hour when the Du Pont plant will be completed and it will not be many months now before the people who are to run this plant will be coming into Camden in sizeable numbers, all look ing for a place to live. A few projects like the King Haiglar apartments will help tremendously to solve this problem. ■ «- ■ I i I i -» Tm , rf Perhaps one trouble with England is that there are not enough tall-sun crowned men who live above those English fogs. I I Good Advice Mrs. Bolton, a congressman from Ohio, had inserted in the Congressional Record, some lines which she said were taken from a speech once made by Abraham Lincoln. Here they are: 1. You cannot bring about prosperi ty by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3. You cannot help little men,by tearing down big men. 4. You cannot help the wage earn er by pulling down the wage payer. . You cannot further the brother hood of man by encouraging class hatred. 6. You cannot help the poor by de stroying the rich. 7. You cannot establish sound: curity on borrowed money. 8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you can earp. 9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initia tive arid independence. ■ 4 10. You cannot help men perman ently by doing for them what they . could do for themselves. This was good advice — advice which should be heeded in this day and time. In Good Hands The Rotary Club, the Lions Club, the JayCees and the American Legion post have all recently installed new officers. ’ In each case good men have succeeded men. All of these organizations will be un der the same fine guidance this year that they were under last year. Camden’s two National Guard units ac quitted themselves handsomely at the sum mer encampments and both -won high praise from their superior officers. The town and county has a right to be proud of both of these outfits. ThinktaqOutLood A writer say* that this country is gradually going to helL Weve thought several times this sum mer that this was it Wonder if that Illinois man who swallowed his false teeth the oth- er day has felt any gnawing at his stomach? One of the crying needs of this country is for more anti-skeptics. Perhaps one reason England is having such difficulties now is that there are not enough men in it tall enough to live above the London fogs. We don’t see how golfers can play the game in real hot weather —that is unless the courses have ice tees. If we had two or three million dollars we’d like to spend a week at some ritzy summer resort Almost any motorist can tell you that It is hard to drive a bar gain these days. Who can remember the good old days when a drummer was always the best dressed man who ever e to a Roller gUrtSe? From here and there, abroad, we hear cries of dollar shortage. England’s plight is fully cover ed on the front page*. Ifwim has resorted to barter to defeat the ddUar shortage. And so on. »The pound was once the center of all money. Not so now. Its the dollar—the American dollar. It’s bad enough to have A dollar shortage elsewhere. We could feel rather much the dollar shortages ‘^dollar scarcity elsewhere isn’t a circumstance Jo what would happen tf we Jeridoped a dollar shortage here at bon** \ And that’s what could happen, and will happen, ize, once and for all, that dollars do not grow on treesj that there is a limit to the spending Uncle Ram can stand.—The State. came small town? There are so many things that can affect business. For example the government has just laid off 400 press afents and this will probabljf cut down the sale of waste psper baskets to newspaper offices. J The New Orleans Daily Item has been sold for $2,000,000. Quite an Item! The Department of Agriculture says that one-third of the Ameri can men look to their wives to select or help select their clothes for them. That was an inexcusable error because surely more than one-third of the American men are married. Some the dogs. >me people are just cogs machine \ ‘ ' while others in are Harold Booker of Chronicle hit the nail squarely on Hie head the other day when he columned in connec- Governor Kerr Scott to Washing- Secretary of Agriculture The proposal W* “thdtbecL Swnuel let take the Supply Kiuinng ic all frond A Wise Provision The Berkeley County BiU carries a provision req county officials to purchase supplies for the county f firms and citizens of the county. That is a wise provision, but it is unlikely that county officials would spend the taxpayers money for services or goods j outside the ? pinio « in such a case North Caro- iS^d" Graham to the United States ate. You may use tion from that point onT — BiU Bradford in Fort MiU Times, A New Salat Within six time-table air line*—ttiose “ months in which (hey have not ‘ a fatal accident record, considering the billion* of passenger miles flown by the regular planes, should do much to remove remaining fear among people who still shun planes for flying. That California crash the other day was the fifth among the non- scheduled planes. These planes are operated by lines that do not maintain regular schedules or who tbe committed charter ships to special groups. There is danger in all forms of transportation. As Cap! Eddie , Rickenbacker pointed out here the county when they could secure, other day, there are still fatalities the same quality and price from in ship wrecks although ships know that have been sailing the seas for hundreds of years. ; Whenever or however man moves, he’s in some degree of danger—but it’s good to note that the scheduled air lines are just any “No one has ever taken a phy sician’s prescription to a druggist without wondering just what the hieroglyphics on it means,” says a writer. And that reminds us of one that Dr. Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association tells on one of his colleagues, who wrote out ^ prescription in the usual illegAle hand. The patient for some reason did not get it filled but for two years used it as a railroad pass, got into Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn twice to see baseball games and twice into Radio City Music Hall on it. He used it as a letter from his boss to the cashier telling him to in crease his pay and to cap the climax his daughter played it on the piano and won a scholarship to a conservatory of music. There is hardly anything sadder than an angal cake which fell A card shark tells us that there is nothing more disconcerting than to meet up with a guy who is the kind of poker player he thought he was. They ought to try all of those Communists down South. There wouldn’t be any hung juries— there might be some hung Com munists. “What is the prettiest type of nose?” asks a correspondent of the editor of a beauty column of a daily newspaper. We can answer that one. It is the nose that stays out of other people’s business. One way for a girl to become unpopular is to win a popularity contest. Another one of our pet peeves is a woman who majors in minor afflictions. “Drive-In Services Held By California Church In Summer”— headline. We wonder if people are attending in droves. A man in a New York court spoke a language none of the 15 intexpreters could understand. We’ll bet he was from Charleston. Speaking of reckless driving, we are reminded of the story of the four Indiana who hopped into their old auto and sped into town for a big time. After considerable merrymaking with fire water trimmings, they piled back into the car and started home. After bumping along for a few miles one Indian obeerved, “Well, we’re getting nearer the reservation.” How do you know.” asked one. •S easy,” answered the first we’re hitting more Indian^.” One trouble with this old world seems to be that there’s a short age of elbow grease. “If you are over 65 and are tired of working, you can quit work and draw checks from the government” according to one paper. Why doesn’t some fellow run for Congress proposing to strike out the words “over 65?" About the only people catching flies now are players. One reason, we presume, that more people go to the ~ than to Hie mountains is that the mountains is an local citizens. £hey know that money spent outside the County is against the best interest of the taxpayers because thejy will not have an opportunity to, get part of it back. It is always a good policy to trade at home whenever it is pos sible to do so.—Dorchester Eagle Record. M . , Who Would be Responsible? The steel companies have told President Truman they will stand on the laws of the Untied States relating to labor and management. In rejecting Mr. Truman’s scheme for negotiation in the present lab or crisis, the companies have pointed out that he is by-passing the provisions of the Taft-Hartley l&w. It is well known that Mr. Tru man does not like the Taft-Hart- ley law. He vetoed it when the 80th congress passed it and con gress passed it over his veto. A new congress was elected, and Mr. Truman did everything with in his power to get the 81st con gress to repeal the law. The 81st congress refused, and the law stayed on the books. Now comes a crisis in the steel industry, the key to other indus tries. If it closes down, all busi ness will be affected, including the national defense. The law has certain provisions applying to these circumstances. The president is the chief administrative officer, whose duty it is to carry out the laws. Instead, he has offered an al ternative plan of his own devis ing. The alternative plan involves an investigation by a special “fact-finding board. The steel companies have told Mr. Truman they will rely instead on the law asjjassed by congress. They have told the president where to get off. A president who fails or refuses to carry out any law is subject to impeachment If there is a stoppage in the steel industry due to the failure of the president to carry out provisions of the law, the public will know where to lay the responsibility. A showdown is inevitable at some time, and maybe this is it—News and Courier . about to put a big period after the notion that flying is super-dan gerous.—Anderson Independent Moratorium On Rads? The house committee on un- American activities has voted, fol lowing party lines strictly, to held no further hearings on Commun ist infiltration of the government until the Hiss case has been re- r is. of, »'54sSSi Truman forces tosSuS* ties, and he seen* CITATION STATE OF SOUTH C - Arnett PmbJ* . Whereas, Mattie RoL to me to grant her Letter ministration of the iS!!*' These Are, TherefonL, admonish all and l- 1 Kindred and Creditor* vl. , be and appear iSorTa, w! Court of Probate, to Camden, 8. C., on after publication wJ* k| o’clock in the forenoo? ’ ^ cause, if any they hai 2L1 said Administration thLJzi granted. Given under m* day Of July, Anno D^ U 18-19c N Cj Judge of Probate fir County. 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