Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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7 =ss ®ljp (Eamirn (ElpnmirU 119* North Bro«4 BtrMt Ctmim, 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - • - - Editor . Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year Stx Months 1.50 Enterod as Sscond Oasa Matter at the Poet Office at Cajaden, 8. C, emder act of Ooncrsss March S, 1S7S All article# submitted for. publicstkm most he limed by the author FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1949 It Life Safe? Here are some headline* of one day in South Carolina newspapers: “Former Dillon Fanner Slain; Stepson TTol/t 99 "Deputy Shot; Man Wounded Near Florence. xifita “Anderson Man Held For Killing Wife. “70-Year Old Man Held In Knifing At Darlington.” “Three Shot In Melee.” \ ^ “Nurse, Attacked By Man, Recovering.’ This is just the partial record for one day in South,Carolina. There may be other days when the record is not so black but there are also other days when the record is even blacker. — — It must be apparent to everyy one that human life is no longer safe in this state. What, then, are we going to do about it? Will we be content to just sit around and talk about how much crime there is now? Or will we seek to remove some .of the causes? There are many, and we belong to that school, who believe that much of the fault lies with our courts. Criminals no longer fear them as once they did. The “big court” in particular used to be a place of terror for them. But not so any more! It doesn’t command the respect now that a magistrate’s court used to command. A man can commit murder now and have a chance of getting off with as light * sentence as he would for stealing a ham. It has become the fad now to give a man a sentence of a certain number of years but provide that after serving a small portion of them he will be paroled. The sentence to^begin with is usually too light and the parole provisions usually make it so that he serves a ridiculously short time considering the crime com mitted. Just last week a determined effort was made to se*cure a parole for Ray Bailey of Greenville, who was convicted of the murder of a Greenville policeman in 1932 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now after only 17 years an effort is being made to get him his freedom. His crime was a cold-blooded one and he should have 'been electrocuted for it, but the solicitor consented to a life imprisonment verdict if he would plead guilty. It’s a joke to sentence a man to life imprisonment any m^re, it seems, because not one in one thousand w<ho get such a sentence serve it. 'Why refer to it as such? Plato once said that “it is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician.” The trouble is they are not being punished and therefore life is becoming more and more unsafe every day. What Sort of Professors? The University of South Carolina is com- injr in for some criticism because of tho dio- covery that one of its professors who is alleged to have cruelly beaten up a nurse in Columbia recently was found to have been an ex-convict. I This serv es to stress the fact that col leges a^i^l universities should be more care ful of the type men they employ to teach the youth of tne land. A thorough in vestigation of his life and character should be made before he is turned loose to in struct the boys and girls of today. One Man’s Idea r. Noting that* the Williams, Williams and Coljins Democratic party in South Caro lina is making an effort to get President Truman to visit the state, D. F. Jamison of Summerville, has come forward with the suggestion that the President and Governor Thurmond be asked to stage a joint debate on the “Super State vs. States Rights.” Mr. Jamison has forwarded his letter to Ransome J. Williams, senior member of the firm of Williams, Williams and Collins. Sometimes when you invest money in what you think is a good buy it turns out to be a good-by. 'V South Carolina To Benefit, After several hours wrangling the other day the advertising committee of the North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development bowed to the wishes of Gov ernor Kerr Scott and canceled the adver tising contract it had with a Charlotte advertising agency to handle the state’s advertising and accepted as director of the advertising department the man desig nated by the Governor. The North Carolina Board of Conserva tion and Development is attempting to do the same work in North Carolina that the South Carolina Research, Planning and Development Board is doing so ably in South Carolina. Its main purpose, of course, is to try to attract new industries to its state. The North Carolina board has done an excellent job in the past. It has been kept free from politics and the state has been blest in the past with good government so that the board has really had something to sell. But the state now seems to have fallen on evil days. The present Governor seems to be trying to out Huey Long the original Huey Long and as a result industries looking for location in the South are now said to be giving it a wide berth. No new industry wants to go into a state which has gone as haywire in its politics as North Carolina has. We have heard that many industries which had been considering locations in North Carolina have backed out in the Jast few months and that some of them are coming to South Carolina instead. This state stands to gain much by North Carolina’s folly. While we do not rejoice over our sister state’s misfortune we are not averse to getting new industries Avhich may be looking for other sites because of it. ■■■■ Should Be Punished Says The Dillon Herald: “The other night a new automobile pulled out of a filling station on No. 301 highway a block south of Main street, and the driver recklessly steer ed the car into Hampton street and sped away as fast as he could possibly keep the car in the road. Reaching the dead end Several blocks down, he was forced to turn off at right angles to Calhoun street and drove out Cal houn to the Mullins highway. Mean while the city traffic police were close behind with sirens screaming but were prevented from overhauling him be cause of the muddy condition pf Cal houn street following a heavy rain. The driver was later apprehended. “Witnesses who saw this car as it rushed around corners and down the street marvel that no one was killed or injured by the recklessness of this driver. No person his a right, or a reason, to drive a car in that manner at any time, and the penalty should be so severe that it would stop once and for all any such practice.” There are reckless drivers like this in every town, including Camden. If they endangered the lives of no one but them selves, one would be tempted to say let them drive that way, but unfortunate!: they endanger the lives of others also and for this reason they should be caught and punished severely. It is not unusual to see cars right here in Camden traveling at a dangerous rate of speed on the City’s streets. Whenever a motorist is caught the fine should be ; stiff one—so stiff as to cause other drivers i© tbmk twice before making a speedway of the City’s streets, endangering othe people’s lives as well as property. Bucking The Kremlin With all his faults, and they are legion, it must be admitted that Marshal Tito of Yugoslava, has shown considerable nerve in defying the Russian Kremlin. He is the first ruler in his neck of the woods that has dared to defy the Kremlin in any way. And the fact that the Kremlin has taken no steps to punish him or his country will tend to make some of the other countrier now under the Iron Curtain a little bolder perhaps. The Bond Issue Since Camden is rather baseball-minded these days, it might be well to think of the proposed bond issue for public im provements in baseball terms. Camden now <haa three men on bases. A heavy hitter is at the bat A home run (passage of the bond issue) would mean victory. A strike-out would mean defeat Thinklnq Out Loud The King of England has to visit Scotland occasionally and whenever he does he has to wear kilts. That’s one reason why we don’t ever want to be the King of England. “What is a reactionary?” asks a newspaper editor. Well, we’d say that a *reactionary” is a man who opposes turning this country over to the socialists, communists and other crackpots for them to ruin. The world may not treat some people right but just think of the people who don’t treat the world right A medical writer thinks that onions will build you up phy sically. Yes, but they’U let down socially. With The Press The University of South Caro- hna If amount of unsavory publicity be cause of the outrangeous and cow- y attack made by one of its essors last week on a Colum- nurse, who, incidentally, is a Fort Mill girl During the week end Norman Smith, president of the University, made a statement that it was not the practice of the university to hire ex-convicts as professors, that the university did not know that Russell Maxey, the engineering professor, who is now in the Columbia jail, had a crim inal record and had served time in a federal penitentiary prior to the time that he was hired by the university. President Smith’s statement does not alter the fact that the University should thoroughly in vestigate its professors before hir ing them. In the case of Maxey it seems that a particularly unde sirable character was retained to teach and train youthful students. It is reported that Maxey was a brilliant engineer, but was very corrupt morally. What parents want a of our only rlaiwi and as the Nation' ! recognition jSvitedti- As he receives the cordial greet ings of multi tndss U his country men on his birthday anniversary really _ atatasman has been made secure and mat he has me high and full confidence of the —Charlotte Observer. people. A tempting to tween ms tv Massachusetts father, at- stop a fist-fight be- two sons, was killed by a shot fired by one boy in a suc- ‘ to wound his broth- cessful effort The boys, we presume, average Americans who lost their tempers over something which benner at ?J5 0Unc «nenl PtSg^ upheld the- “ but he only are not asy&r.Sri ma. Laurens * was'relatively unimportant With her seriously wounded one brother senously and his father dead, me other boy wept hysterically when told mat his father was dead. Unfortun ately, his tears could not pump wS £££ Si ta<o the dead body or undS MILLER'S for you Very often a family, while fighting like everything to keep me wolf away from me door, will let me stork slip down the chim ney. cereal manufacturers on the lookout for new products from which to make breakfast foods and The Bamberg Herald agrees saying that all you can now buy taste substantially alike. Why not try sawdust? ‘Town In Ecuador-Sinks 1,500 Feet”—headline. We don’t believe any American town has ever sunk that, low, not even Chicago. mind fixing these shoes for me." A pretty tfrl wears “shorts” to make ’em look longer. Right is wrong to a leftist a hunting age layman has no conception of Vice President busy kissing queens now probably hasn t got his i his business. About me greatest evil the cot ton grower has to contend with is me boll weevil. Lots of people go broke living beyond theur means and others go broke loving beyond their means Rock Hill voted a bond issue of $1,600,- 000 for school improvements the other dgy. Do your shopping in Camden - The way some people complain fbout government spending you’d think it was their money that was being spent sexual tendencies teaching their sons and daughters? Around Columbia alumni of me University are a bit aroused over me bad publicity their alma mater is getting. They say mat an ia vestigation of several other mem tragedy. The probat bers of the faculty might prove m the beneficial to me University future.—Fort Mill Times. The Dillon Herald suggests mat s ought t<f be " An etiquette specialist says it is improper when entertaining a musician in your home to ask him or her to perform. And that reminds us of the story about Pianist Ignace Paderewski, who attended a dinner one night at me home of a wealthy shoe manu facturer. The host, who started out in his life as humble cobbler, insisted mat the pianist play for the guests. Paderewski was fur ious at this request but complied rather man create a scene. Sev eral weeks later Paderewski gave a dinner and invited me Indus-, trialist As the guests were about to leave me table after a sump tuous repast, Paderewski placed a worn pair of shoes in front of me startled manufacturer. “When I was at your home,” said me pian ist, “you insisted that I play for your guests. I hope you won’t ‘ fixing ‘ Herbert C. Hoover Herbert C. Hoover’s place in Amercian history would have been quite different from what it will be if he had died in the latter part of his term as presi dent instead of living to receive and enjoy the acclaim of his fel low citizens on his 75th birthday anniversary. It would have been a tragic misfortune for him and for his' country had he not lived me last 16 years to serve me Nation and to recover the prestige and me confidence of me people which me worst economic depression in American history cost him. No president has retired from office in 75 years with prestige so low or under circumstances bility is that the sons were a~t loggerheads about some relatively minor matters of life. Each probably nursed the grin ance, building up a bellicose att tude toward me other and, naturally, when an altercation oc curred, mere was no limit to me effort to hurt me other. The unfortunate tragedy in Massachusetts may serve as warn kinsmen of all types, including brothers, against me nursing of grudges, real or fancied. This can best be avoided by following the age-old injunction to judge not and to forgive. After ad, the principle expressed will do much to solve me unpleasant experi ences of life.—Orangeburg Times and Democrat. When Vo Back H And Yoot ! It ma? cimM , umy function jw ^ 1 —a- to ^ tion with (martiu —. quite so humiliating. in American pub- And no man lie life has made a greater come back in me esteem and admira tion and confidence of his coun- ien. for has any ex-president per formed service of such monumen tal potential worth and import ance to me Nation as Mr. Hoover has rendered as head of me non- tryme Nor A Dilemma In the announcement by State Rep. Mather Poliakoff of Spar tanburg we see mat he is “pre senting himself’ as a candidate for me “position” of representa tive of the Fourth Congressional district. This is the “position” now held by Con. Jos. R. Bryson. It is presumed mat Mr. Bryson will also offer his candidacy. Possibly, also, State Senator Charles C. Moore, who ran once b< There may be others. We note that State. Rep. John Boh Cul bertson made a half-hour over me radio me other We are presuming that boys are going to ask ate mem. An to nominate partisan commission authorised by Cong There are 18,000 washing ma chines in me United States, ac cording to a newspaper filler. That doesn’t include the married ones. The expression “hasn’t got a i w% wv\ wx ' r% —— — Chinaman’s chance” will be'more mwmli ngful man ever after me Communists get control of mat country. As we understand it mis “Five Per Cent Club’* was only for 100 per cent Trumanites. >y Congress to study the govern ment and make recommendations for its reorganization. Should the executive and leg islative branches of me govern*- ment have me wisdom to adopt and put into execution me recom mendations of the Hoover com mission, it wouldYntan far greater efficiency and me saving* of tril lions of dollars annually to me lyers. y ‘ ‘ ie work Mr. Hoover has done in recent years in directing that commission in its investigation and study and me formulation of its report and recommendations represents one of me greatest ser vices ever performed for me na tion by any private citizen. Perhaps no other living Ameri can whose services might have been available was so eminently qualified as me renowned en-l An interesting question is “Which?” Will it b* the regular Democratic party, of TOWLE—Wl frank it STERLING nun 1132 F. D. tsi Ml E. DsKalb 8LI taxpaj The CHEAP MONEY i. .if/- 1 •***. >■ i * of $30Q4M or mors on Life “V . I *; Policies issued by any rdUahls company. No irikpH Wo maks no foa—intorost rate balow that charged by Su < iv p.a -j* King George of England is on tnp in Scotland. Win- nting trip ston Churchill did his most suc cessful hunting in me United States. A physician says that the aver- layman ha W story oi tne per sonnel manager of a big concern who called on his physician. “Doc tor,” he said, “you remember last summer you recommended I go out with girls to get my mind off my business.” “That’s right, how did it work?” the doctor said. “Fine, but now can you recom mend something to get my mind back on my business.” And along that same line there was the old lady who went to her physician and complained that she was dreaming every night that a hand some young man was chasing her trying to make love to her. The doctor gave her some medicine which he said he thought would make her sleep sounder. About ten days later the old lady show ed up at her physician’s office again. “Don’t tell me you still are having dreams,” the doctor said to her. “Np, I am not, doctor, but you have no idea how I miss that young man.” Ua r l X »* ftln 1 " j* r President Truman was likened to Thomas Jefferson by Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews ill , a , s P eec b l as t Saturday night. Well, both were bom males. _ nert stage in Americas new aj« lb® new 0 { finer motoring! V Barjcley is so that he mind on We sort of find ourselves agree ing with the Memphis (Tenn) Press-Scimitar that “education might save us if we just knew what to teach and had the teach ers.” 4 jf rim WATCH FOR IT i r . Ox* writer says that the admin- -twbon at Washington is not sMind. To the contrary we are in clined to think that it is all sound. MYERS MOTOR East DeKolb Street y- 11