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®l|f Gktmbrn (tthrantrU 11M North Broad Street Camdem, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCoeta Brown - - - ( ,.rV • r-0{ ' . - Editor Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year Six Months Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, 8. C„ under act of Congress March S, ISTf All articles submitted for publication must ho -Slfued by the author FRIDAY/ AUGUST 12, 1949 Student-Owned Cars The University of Idaho has announced that hereafter it will look with disfavor on student-owned automobiles. President J. E. Buchanan says that this academic council of the University has made the following ruling: ‘Except where necessity can definitely be shown the university does not look with favor upon student automobiles. Those who operate cars at the university do so subject to strict observance of traffic rules. “Failure to comply with these regula tions will make a student subject to the loss of the privilege of operating a car at the university and to auoh other disciplin ary action as may be ordered.” In announcing the decision of the coun cil, Dr. Buchanan, who is an alumnus of the university, added: “It is not that the administration is opposed to fun for youth. I myself look upon my undergraduate days as the most pleasant in my life, and I not only went through those four years without a car, but without a topcoat. At some institutions of higher learn ing, a car may be the most feasible mode-of transportation. At the Uni versity of Idaho, two legs do nicely.” The automobile has created a great problem for all colleges. It is a problem that they have not yet been able to solve. It will be interesting to watch the approach which the University of Idaho is making towards it. In the old days a boy (or girl) went to college in September and didn’t get back home until Christmas. They returned to college from the Christmas holidays and most of them did not get back home un^il June. Wp know of one college in South Carolina where it took a meeting of the faculty for a boy to ^et permission to go home between times. But timqs have changed, due to the auto mobile, and now the average college boy or girl expects to go home at least once a month, many of them oftener. The hitch hiking problem has been born of this situation, many boys striking out for home on week-ends depending on picking up rides. It is not necessary to dwell upon the dangers attendant upon this practice— the danger of being held up or beaten or of accidents, etc. Some colleges are now trying to prohibit students from hitch hiking but if a student is given permission to go home, it is sort of difficult for the college to follow up and see how he gets there. After all, a parent should assume some responsibility for a child. This modern age has its problems for everybody—including the people who ruh colleges. Would Lock Barn Too Late Chairnmn J. D. Montgomery of the'Ker shaw Cpunty Polio Society was disappoint ed ar the very small attendance on the annual meeting of the society last Thurs day afternoon. Although over 200 post cards had been sent out and a notice had been printed in The Chronicle about the meeting a mere handful turned out for it. If polio had been raging in this immedi ate vicinity the court'house would probably have been filled for the meeting. Some how or other people don’t seem to get wrought up over danger until it strikes right in their midst, r-That is the reason so many barns are nfe locked until after the horses have been stolen. Polio is just as liable to hit here as it is anywhere. When it does we want the assistance of the national polio organiza tion just as we wanted it last year when there were a good, many cases in this vicinity. If everybody remains indifferent except the communities which are hit each year there would soon be no national organization to give aid when the epidemic strikes. It’s a pity that all of the people in this country who are always wanting to fight or kill somebody can't be segregated into one area where they could fight and kill each other without decent people having to cbntend with them. Would Change Calendar Since man is tinkering with almost everything else it is not surprising that the World Calendar Association, Inc., has been organized to try. to change the calendar. The Chronicle has just received a big batch of literature proposing the adoption of a new calendar and setting forth the advantages of same over the present Gregorian calendar which we use. The association pronounces the calendar we now use as “unsatisfactory for economical, social, educational, scientific and other activities of man.” We presume it is equally unsatisfactory for tl?e activities of wognen although the association does not so state. It does announce, however, that “modeni progress demands the change.”. It is asserted that our present calendar is virtually the one introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 B. C., which “due to its irregularity and the time difference caused iby erroneous astronomical calculations, was corrected and readjusted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.” That’s how the cal endar, we have been operating under so inefficiently all of these years, happens .to be known as the Gregorian calendar, and since that time we are told that “man kind has labored under its shiftiness, irreg ularity and instability.” The World Calendar Association, Inc., further tells us that “this illogical and con fused calendar has its ill effects on home and family. The budget and planning for vacations, holidays and anniversaries are complicated because nothing is permanent with it. A silly little nursery rhyme is indispensable.” The new calendar, we are told, “offers a "way for better planning and budgets for home, social welfare, civil and church activities. Children particu larly like the rythmic arrangement of 31, 30, 30 days within every quarter-year.” And then one of the numerous other defects in the present calendar which is pointed out is that “cumbersome legal phases such as ‘the first Tuesday after the fust Monday in November’ election day brings it on any date from Nov. 2 to 8.” Industry is affected, too, by the present calendar, we are told, in that “no co-ordi nation, comparability or agreement is pos sible, among the day, week, month, quarter ly division or seasonal period. They con stantly vary from year to year. Months have from 24 to 27 weekdays plus Sundays. This renders difficult planning for indus trial programs and compiling statistics.” There must be some merit to the proposi tion to change the calendar because we note that the proposed change has been endorsed by many organizations, including the Coffeyville, Kansas, Chamber of Com merce, the Ottawa Board of Trade, the American Philosophical Society, the Sci ence Society of China—we can’t see what difference it makes to China now what time it is—; the California Dry Cleaners Association, the Duodecimal Society of America and the National Institute of Planning and Social Reform of the Re public of Cuba. We’ll frankly confess the whole thing is a little over our heads but we’d be will ing to go along with it if they will make the change retroactive for 50 years and give all of us another chance under the m-w calendar. Senator Byrd Wins Virginia voters proved last week that they are still good old Southern Democrat? by electing Senator John S. Battle as their Governor, and repudiating the ex-army - c ?i on - e L who ran on a “liberal” platform. For several days prior to the election “liberal” writers were whooping it up that what they called the “Byrd machine” was in great danger of losing the election. Drew Pearson saw' such a possibility just as he sees every election year a possibility of Representative Eugene Cox in Georgia and Representative. John Rankin in Missis sippi going to be beaten. Of course, they always win and Mr. Pearson has no com ment after the election, just as he has had no comment after the Virginia election He gets in his propaganda when he thinks it might 'help and newspapers pay him fei the privilege of Rising it and then in their editorial columns editorialize against the use of propaganda. Perhaps they prefer the sort of propaganda they have to pay for like Pearson’s. But at any rate as we started out to say the people of Virginia still have their feet firmly on the ground. You will recall that sometime back when we were searchin; for a definition of a “liberal,” Editor Carra- way of The Pageland Jounjal told us that he had been told by one /of his college professor, that a “liberal” fas a man with both feet firmly implanted in the skies. \ irgimans still have the/r feet on the ground. qOutloud The Republicans probably hope that wbn Gabrielson (their new chairman) blows his trumpet the people of this country will anse and put in a new administration in Washin gton. It seems as though th; old world is about to get it will not be any place for people to be caught in. Bqy it in Camden. as though that this ‘ where _ decent people A 61-year-old Illinois widow shot her 65-year-old boy friend the other day because he started going with another woman, aged 63. What’s wrong with the Kids these days, any way? Whether life is worth living de pends on the liver. • mmmm A dispatch from St. Joseph, Ma., says: "Charles Donaldson wanted a wife in a hurry so he advertised. The response overwhelmed him, and also the telephone company. A flood of telephone calls caused an overload on the dial system." We wonder if he had the same experience as that Illinois man. who advertised for a wife several years ago, and got several hun dred letters, all from married men- and each saying, “You can have mine.- Speaking of the hot weather we have had this summer you know we were told in Genesis that "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” And that’s just what we have been doing this summer. A man really becomes a bache lor when he finds that only his imagination will run away with him. Put two and two together at a summer resort and you usually get a game of Bridge. Isn’t it a pity that when man was made, his joints were so ar ranged that he cannot possibly pat himself on the back? The anti-Byrd folks in Virginia evidently had to fight a good Bat tle since the latter was elected Governor by a substantial plur ality. If the span of life is increased much more a person will outlive a life-time fountain-pen. There are more people over 65 years of age in Vermont in rela tion to its total population than in any state of the Union and Maine comes second in this re spect. Now watch the Republi cans claim that if you want to live a Jong and happy life, you should live in a rock-ribbed Re publican state. Judging from some pictures we saw the other day of some Holly wood starlets in beach attire, some good talent is being uncovered. Many a man sits arcgind won dering why he never gets a raise when that is the reason why. A woman writer says in a magazine article that it is pos sible for wives tp make home life so attractive for their husbands that they will not want tp/ around at night And that re minds us of the story of the two drunks who were sitting on a curb early one morning. “Watsch your y™ out late like thish?* asked one. "Haven’t got a wife,” replied the Other “Then watsch the idea of staying out so late?” asked the first Now that the Communists have captured China they are wamnig the Chinese of the long, hard road ahead. They didn’t tell ’em any thing about that long, hard road while wooing them. ‘‘Kissing shortens life,” warns a doctor. Single life! An estimate is really a guess timate. It seems that times are not go ing to be any better soon because we see by a fashion note w^ere there will be no change in men’s pockets this winter. Would you say that a man who sells accessories is a man of parts? Some people’s favorite exercise seems to be running up bills. Cheer up! In just a few weeks it will be fall and people will be fully clothed.again. When a surgeon opens up a male and finds nothing wrong in side we wonder if he writes opened by mistake” on him. Perhaps we had better not try to explore any of the planets now because if we found any people on them we might have to sud- poft them, too. In this day and time if you haven’t been killed, shot at, kid naped, held up and robbed, stabbed or been the object of some sort of violence, you are ex ceedingly lucky. Nobody has reported seeing any spots on the sun this summer which is rather unusual when you consider, how the sun has been making people see spots. Some people never know when they are well off because they never are. ^ \ GERM KILLER PLUS*' Funny the Kremlin calls peni cillin a Russian discovery, seeing that vodka can disable any germ on contact and makes you shur Post-Gazette! With The Press SOMETHING IS WRONG fees in connection with s compensation can and doubUess do agree w^h toe gov ernor who charges diet toe ad ministration of the law •tinks. Charges have beat publicly made for several yeass regarding the big fees which the commission has allowed; of course, these fees are deducted from the com pensation allows^, but this doaa not diminish toe load that is shouldered onto employers, and it means that in many instances the injured workman gets very little, although the employer pays in full.—Bamberg Herald. FOR RATIONAL COMMITTEE - MAN “National Democratic” party officials in Washington, a News and Courier correspondent re ports, have refused to tell who Will represent South Carolina at eeting of the national Demo- a me cratic committee to Meet a new chairman to succeed Mr. J. How ard McGrath. The national committeeman from South Carolina elected by the state Democratic convention is J. Strom Thurmond. But when Mr. Thurmond campaigned for president on the States Rights ticket, Chairman McGrath ap pointed Ashton H. Williams na tional committeeman. South Carolinians voted three to one for Mr. Thurmond for president in the election last No vember. There has been no Dem ocratic convention to choose his successor as national comrriittee- man, and there is no reason to believe that Mr. Williams would be chosen natiohal committeeman to succeed Mr. Thurmond if a convention were to be held. Should the national committee formally read the States Righters out of the "Democratic” party which Mr. McGrath heads, it will be recognizing what The News and Courier has been saying for many months—namely, that a two-party system exists in fact in South Carolina. One party is the Democratic party of South Carolina, over whelmingly in favor of States Rights and backed by the ma jority of voters. The other is the Williams and Williams Sc Collfcis party, and with it the Progressive (colored) Democrats who also supported Mr. Truman. national “Democratic’ party chooses to select a white man instead of a colored man to represent South Carolina, The News and Courier would defend its right to Jim Crow the colored Democrats,” as was done at the Barkley dinner, though it ques tions the fairness of ignoring the most loyal Trumanites in the state.—News 8c Courier. in toe high nineties.^ la Met, within a three-day period, 3.78 inches fell, which may con something of a record for these parts. Then on Sunday afternoon a mammoth rainbow spanned the horizon but the rains came again in toe gvemng. - But it was the terriffic sad con tinuous lightning display, which lasted in varying degrees of in tensity, from about 9 JO Saturday evening until 2 a. m. Sunday, which awed, fascinated-and fright ened us. The bolts took several shapes, toe sharp, zig-zag flashes, said to be the most dangerous, toe familiar sheets, and a third type, which appeared to encom- aurora, z ocai poini oi me sunn, locally, to those who were there, seemed to be the Triangle Restau rant, three miles south of Winns- boro. On several occasions the patrons wore positive a direct hit had been scored on the place, and when toe climax dap same at least three persons received a dis tinct shock. (Immediately there after, most occupants repaired to their automobiles, which are said to be a comparatively safe refuge in time of lightning storms). Thinking on the matter after wards, many people came to the conclusion that man is most fear ful of tost he does not understand. The unknown terrifies, but seldom kills; the commonplace, because we take it for granted, is more often deadly. For example, in 1946 at least 33,411 sudden death through motor ve hicle accidents. In 1937 (toe latest statistics we have available), 460 e were killed by li ly then, one is iq iy 68 times as touch of death riding in an a as one would: be in s _ storm. But the feeling is often present that the next bolt may have one’s name on it, while the next car can do no harm.. Truly, toe heaVens do declare the glory of God and the firma ment showeth His handiwork . . . while only man is vile.—Winns- boro News 8c Herald. WHEN metal p art , . »«»»»«, .ST* {"•. •"•t* how much* ^ I you by saving thJTiJ Remember . , , ky ' "•Ul pert, ao tb^K, 1 - new. out” parts «re •"9. they frequently "•w ones. Call on c# * * rt you will tavtk. and money. ** WE ALIO Mil OEMING water CAMDEN WOMB — Andenon SmiMi GENERAL KACHUt Electric eng WeUhT Welding can SAVE MONEY! AN ELECTRICAL STORM * Not since 1752, when Beniamin Franklin demonstrated, by flying a kite during a thunderstorm, that lightning is a discharge of. elec tricity, has there been such a dis play of fireworks in the sky as that which occurred on Saturday ast, or at least so it seemed to us. And we believe that this manifestation of the powers of the elements was even greater, else surely wise old Ben would have been electrocuted. The lightning flashed, toe thun der crashed and the rains descend ed, temporarily covering a scorch ed earth, which had previously been subjected to temperatures « Concrete Pavement your best investment in Roads - if I - ■ •, * w v > ikWm ■ *• -f • * l . rPM • TTTTHEN a stote's principal roads tie b«ft W of portland cement concrete, Ugbeny funds are conserved because concrete teab are loof-Ured and economical to mdanfa Ask your pubtk otRetak hr CONCRETE ROADS - •' ' - *. ■ *. ^ Portland cement association liU Denton HOUSE t . . . t!.. < I I* .4*1 I * . 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