The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 22, 1949, Image 4
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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.
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Perhaps one trouble with England is
that there are not enough tall-sun crowned
men who live above those English fogs.
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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
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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
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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,
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Truman forces tosSuS*
ties, and he seen*
CITATION
STATE OF SOUTH
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to me to grant her Letter
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Court of Probate, to
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after publication wJ* k|
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cause, if any they hai 2L1
said Administration thLJzi
granted.
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day Of July, Anno D^ U
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