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. Qft?r (Eamdnt (SljrmttrlF 1101 North Brood Street Curies, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - * * - Editor DaCosta Brown - - - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year *2.60 Six Months ..—— — Entered u Second Clae* Metier at JJe Poet Otfice at Camden, 8. C., nnder act of Congreea March I. UTS All article* submitted for publication mast he signed by the author Friday, August 5, 1949 Political Appointments President Truman being essentially a politician his . appointment of Attorney General Tom C. Clark to the United States Supreme Court should not have come as a surprise to any one. ; However, according to the Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, official Washington acted a little stunned over the appointment. “Some Senators, including Senator Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina,” says the Ob server correspondent, “had expressed the hope that the President would look to the courts of the land and select the finest trained jurist he'could find to sit on the Supreme Court.” The Chronicle never had any such illus ions. It expected the President to do just what he did do—make a political appoint ment, without taking into any considera tion the fitness of the appointee for the place to which he was being named. No one would have been mbre surprised than we woulc have been had the Presi dent selected a man like Judge J. Parker, of North Carolina, a jurist eminently quali fied in every respect to sit on the highest court of the land, to fill the vacancy. Mr. Truman just doesn’t make appointments like that. Judge Parker is not a politician. On the other hand Clark’s background shows that his experience weighs heavily in the field of politics rather than in the judicial field. The same is true of the prospective next attorney general, Sena tor J. Howard McGrath, the South's nemesis. There seems little hope that the United States Supreme - Court will regain for many years the popular respect it enjoyed before Franklin D. Roosevelt robbed it of its prestige, t As for McGrath, he will have ample opportunity as Attorney General to further persecute the South. To make the team complete ha ou^ht to name Senator Hum phreys of Minnesota as a his special as sistant. War On Rheumatism It is good to note that a new study group has been appointed to hunt ways of fight ing rheumatic diseases. The public health service at Washington said the group will be known as the arthritis and rheumatism study section of the National Institute of Health. Some idea of the suffering being caused by rheumatism and arthritis can be ob tained from the fact that almost 7,000,000 individuals in the United States are rheum atism or arthritis victims, 200,000 of which are completely disabled and 800,000 more partially disabled. One of the functions of the study group, it is announced, will be to explore the re cently discovered possibilities of a new Itreatment which has displayed remark able, though temporary, power to alleviate the symptoms of rheumatic arthritis. One used to think of only the aged as being afflict^tf with rheumatism but that is not the case. Many young people suffer from it as well as the aged and many lives have been wrecked by it. And speaking of rheumatism we are re minded of the story of the soap box orato) w'ho was shouting to the audience which had gathered around him that “we must get rid of fascism, socialism, nazism and communism.’’ Some one in, the crowd shouted back, “while we are at it let’s get rid of rheumatism, too.” Might Be A Racket The letters being received by various people hereabouts from Hungary begging for help havfe something of the earmarks of a “racket.” The letters are all written in the same handwriting, apparently, and the storie^ told in each are somewhat similar. ^ There is no doubt but that the need iq that country is acute but whether it is wise to answer these appeals from a country that is behind the Iron Curtain is another , matter. Some investigating perhaps should be done first through the Red Cross or through church agencies. M His Greatest Asset If ahy man ever had reason to love his enemies Governor J. Strom Thurmond ha* because we know of no man in public life who has benefitted more from -their ac tions than has he. It seems that every mov^they make in an effort to hurt him boomerangs and instead of hurting him strengthens him. The latest clumsy 'attempt to hurt the Governor was an effort to place the blame for the strike at the, Du Pont plant here on him. His enemies seized upon this as a sweet morsel. / The Governor has been vindicated of the charge by the responsible authorities of organized labor as well as by the com pany. If his enemies keep on their good work in his behalf the Governor will hardly find it necessary to go out on the stump to campaign for any job he may seek in the future. He can just let his enemies do all of the talking. They’ll elect him. • Would you say that ttieae are days that fry men’s souls? One trouble with this country is that there are too many in it who are trying to run the hounds and also the hares. When worse appointments liman will make them made Truman He Can*t Understand Drew Pearson says in his column: “Congressman Albert Gore of Tennessee celebrated hi* victory over the Brannan farm plan at a party in his office. One of the most jubilant guests was Tom Hitch, president of the Tennessee Farm Bureau, who promised to support Gore for the Senate if he would help defeat the Brannan plan. What wasn’t mention ed at the celebration party was that Gore’s action will cost Tennessee $71,331,824 in lost farm subsidies.” Mr. Pearson didn’t go on to say, how ever, that the Brannan .farm plan was an other long step towards Socialism, a step Southern farmers were not willing to take. It is probably hard for Mr. Pearson to understand people turning down money even though taking it would mean sacri ficing a principle. Using Klan Tactics John Temple Graves, the well known columnist, says that “if these gentlemen in Washington who are determined to pass a federal law against poll taxes in spite of hell, high water and the constitution will look at themselves in the proper mirror they may see themselves wearing not wings and haloes but sheets and hoods. They are blood brothers to those members of the Ku Klux Klan who try to force what they think is moral and right by violating the law.” Very well put, we’d say. If the Con gress would submit a constitutional amend ment to the states making the poll tax illegal as a requisite for voting we believe that it would be adopted and that even ,the Southern states would vote for it. But—to try to cram it down our throat in an unconstitutional manner is another thing. —, ~ --r About the only chance some people have of sharpening their wits is through the daily grind. We seem to go about everything differently now from the way they used to go about them. For example the motion picture came first and then the sound. In the case of the radio, a later develop ment, the sound came first and then the picture. It seems that nothing can pre vent us from raising a bumper crop of peanut politicians each year. A Chicago doctor thinks that women ought to give up their bus seats to tired males. May be so I other Governor « e of a. van thepeJpie fort to clean Commission. lawyers and to benefit by his drive for*? but some men probably think it to race tn a lot more fun for them. le women We’d like to see less humidity and more humility in this country. Lots of people spend their en tire lives lookmg for the short cut to success and never do find it How does a man who doesn’t do anything at his office know when he’s through each day? It is encouraging to note that the Brookings Institute chief at Washington thinks that things will be much better in this coun try in 2049. J The words of an old, old song have been changed so that it now goes: “Mother, dear/mother, come home with me now/’’ If a woman is judged by her dress we’d say that there’s not much to some of vthem we saw at the beach recently We don’t know which would be the worst—to be hit by a loco motive or Westbrook Peglar. All things come to him who waits—even cooler weather. Who can remember the good old days when bright sayings by children were printable? A writer says that more and more people are trying to get gov ernment jobs. In other Words it seems that the country is going plum crazy. . When you hear people speak of a girl having had a sad courtship it means that the man got away. How we wish we could get in a shipment of cool air from Can ada, where, it seems, all cool air originates! Very often people who think they are fboling others are only m — * - The South is not going to be used as a whipping post—not without a fight any way. Think Over These “In less than 20 years the United States government’s civil employment has increas ed from 570,000 to over 2,000,000. It now costs more each year to pay the interest on the national debt than it did to pay t total cost of the Federal government years ago”—Hoover Commission. “If we do not choose to reduce these Federal expenditures, the ■ alternative is more taxes or deficits, more government competition and more regimentation. We know- that private enterprise is the foun dation stone upon which this Nation has built its freedoms and its progress. It is a good system and in most respects it is tough and durable. But, we know that it cannot survive excessive regimentation; it cannot survive excessive taxation; and it cannot survive excessive Government competition.”—U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd. ' 7 Sometimes when you haven’t anything else to do you might try mulling over these two statements. ^ fooling themselves, says a writer. And that reminds us of the col ored boy who was passing through a graveyard reading the inscrip tions on the tombstones. He came to one which read: “Not dead, but sleeping.” Scratching his head, the ked, “He sure ain’t [y but hisself.” negro remarked, fooling nobod: In the old days women ran for Congressman but they have stopped that and now they run for Congr Every man used to put his wife on a pedesjal but it was soon found that she could give orders better from that position. When a speaker sees two or three of his audience yawning it’s time for him to stop. Ml Help gtegflsfe by inquiring qUe * t * n « er he thought 6 * itself more if helped less. in that.’’ * " te.'™ »«!* the —*— With The Press Salary Was Fixed Senator E. W. Cantwell, of Kingstree, says that the state owes him $1,200 instead of him owing the state the $700 he il legally drew as compensation, and he has filed a bill for that amount This is persiflage, of course, to draw attention away from the debt he owes the state. When Mr. Cantwell was elected senator, he kneW exactly what the law prescribed his salary would be—$1,000 a year, which is excel lent pay for the time that ought to be devoted to legislative mat ters. The senator puts himself into the position of the person who accepts a job at $1,000 a year and then claims his employer ought to favored lawyers. The great ma jority of the legal profession in the state does not approve of the methods employed by a few attor neys in its dealings with the Corr mission. The Grievance Com*- 1 mittee of the South Carolina Bar Association has “condemned and deplored this whole situation.” The report of the Grievance Com mittee also stated that a number of complaints had been received that claimants’ cases are being channeled to certain lawyers and that excessive legal fees are being f >ay him more. The senator over- o looks the fact that he is always at liberty to resign. There is no law to compel him to continue to serve if the salary is not satis factory.—Bamberg Herald. Concrete Pavement your besl invest in Roads American Planning The visitor from Mars or from Upper Lower Slobovia would surely be convinced that South! Carolina is a vast booby hatch should be read, without explana tion, many of the ads appearing in newspaper columns these days. r These particular ads are adver tising home heating facilities — such things as stoves, furnaces, hot air systems, etc. The man from Mars would take a look at the stove ads, double- take the thermometer as its needle of red rests cosily in the 90’s and conclude, without doubt, man is literally bent upon creat ing h on earth. But the man from Mars wouldn’t know the American penchant for planning for being ready, far preparation in one sea son for what is coming in the next. An American will buy coal in summer for use in winter, lay in a stock of anti-freeze, and his wife will take advantage of the hot weather fur coat sales. XT7THEN a state’s principal roads areWk W of Portland cement concrete, higinny foods are conserved because concrete roedi are long-lived and economical to Atk your publk officials CONCRETE ROM PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIA1 Americans are experts in pre- ly lines when it paredness in many comes to home, hearth and health. But they’re notoriously slack when it comes to being preparec for the overwhelming eventuali ties, such as war.—Anderson In dependent. DON’T SAY HOOt HIM- 1 Real stout people probably read with pleasure the other day that some lean years may be coming Needs Cleaning Up Governor Thurmond, in a radio address Monday night, brought out into the open the pretty gen erally known maladministration of the State Industrial Commis sion. The Governor will find the majority of the people of the state in thorough agreement with his statement that the administra tion of this Commission “has been a stench in the nostrils of the 1 DOES MOM. COSTS I ow. We see where one man thinks that the old phraseology about a man taking unto himself a wife ought to be changed around. And that reminds us of the old ditty “Ther’s nothing like a wedding To make a feller learn At first he thinks she’s his’n But later learn he’s her’n.” decent people of South Carolina” The Commi: ' ommission apparently has been operated for some years primarily for the benefit of a few cP “Will life eventually # be unsafe here?” asks the Greenville Observer. Well, we don’t know that you could call it exactly safe now. Speaking of newspaper “boners’* we see where a Vermont paper reported last week ithat “England is suffering from a plague of aunts.” A writer says that some wives are too impatient and often fuss with their husbands about com ing home late from the office when really a business man can not be expected to leave right on the minute. All of which reminds us of the wife who snapped angri ly at her husband when he Was a little late returning one after noon: “And I suppose you expect me to believe that you cJme straight home from the office’” The husband replied: “Sure did- just like the crow flies”. To which the wife replied: “Yes, so I see stopping frequently for a little com”. Yes, noftCeet does all *e wock with jost one cost-sad la oae operation! It leevee a ludeflj beautiful 8oor that's protected from din and wear, oil ot frees* ... a loot that’s aasy so keep dean! All for a cost of only EASY TS UR- rior-Col to*" >*7,1 patet—with • bmh. *. cm tar. Oaa coat ta*«» | cm pah* H fl«e»Coal la crack. (Up ar about 1 cast par faOt! BOW i C Designers and Builders You’re missing lots of pleasure if you are not joining the crowds at the ball games here now. Members of Congress ought to take ex ercises in reducing. •• of fine monuments. Large selection on premises ready for immediate delivery. Modest prices. 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