Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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§pi££* VkP' > ': i' 1 ‘ 9lff (Earaipn (E^rnnirU 11W North Broad Stmt Curias. 8. C. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Harold C. Booker - QaCotte Brown - - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Snbecriptions Payable In Advance 1/110 jl C&F Six Month. 1.W Bnfeored u Second CUm Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C, under act of OoaprMe March I, lt7f Ail article* submitted for publication mut he • signed by the author FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1949 The Only Solution The pay-as-you-go plan for public im provements is good wher6 there is a special tax earmarked for them and where there is no emergency calling for such a tremen dous outlay immediately as to make it im- possiblefto pay as you go. That is the situation confronting Cam den today. There is an emergency calling for such a tremendous outlay that it would not be possible to meet same on any pay- as-you-go plan. To even attempt to pay for a small part of the NECESSARY public improvements by taxes now would necessitate taxes that would be confiscatory. In such a case the only solution is to issue bonds. An Unusual Visitor Camden had the pleasure tiffs week of entertaining the 100,000th person to be come a stockholder in the Du Pont com pany. •- This stockholder, Miss Alice E. Byrnes of Herkimer, NyY., is a 32-year-old grade- ' school teacher, whose father is a machine setter at the Herkim^ plant of Remington- Rand, Inc. Finding that she hacK^small amount of extra money available; money which she had earned by teaching, Miss Byrnes look ed around for what she thought'might be ^a saf^ investment and one which would earn a reasonable return. She bought four shares of Du Pont stock. It will be recalled that Attorney Gen eral Tom C. Clark recently filed a suit against the Du Pont company and among other allegations contained therein was one that the wealth of the company was controlled by a “few” persons. He also attacked the company on its size, intimat ing that “bigness” in business was bad. It would be interesting to know how many of the 100,000 stockholders of the Du Pont company are people like Miss Byrnes—working people who try to sup- pleipent their wages by investing whatever cash they may be able to accumulate in some dividend-paying corporation. It would also be interesting to know how many of them are widows who have in vested much of their inheritance in the company and who are dependent upon its returns for their living. The number would probably" be a revelation to th$ public. One of the things that has made America the great country that it is today is the fact that it has developed big corporations like the Du Pont company that are able to pioneer and bring about new inventions, creating more and more jobs and giving a livelihood to more and more people. Camden was delighted to have had M;ss Byrnes as a visitor this week and it con gratulates her on her good^ judgment in investing some of her hard-earned money in a corporation that is playing such an important part in the development of America and at the same time is being run in such a good business manner as to earn a fair share of money for its stockholders. It’s what we call a fine American institu tion. Shouldn't Be Surprised A Florida mother is telling *it that on he occasion of a recent visit to her married daughter, she wore a new, off-the-face hat. Naturally anxious to know what her daughter thought of it, she asked: “Do you like my new hat?” “Well, Mother, I can’t say that I do,” the daughter replied. “It gives you that surprised loyk and at^ your age, you shotildn’t be surprised at anything.” And there’s something to that, too. The older one gets now the less surprised he or she is at anything that may happen in this very modem age. It seems to be pretty generally agreed that the Palmetto League should go into organized ball next year so that the affairs of the league will be ?ub in a more syste matic manner. Marshal Tito calls the Soviet Union a ir. * It takes a thief to catch The Grass Roots Will Rule It was never the idea of the-politicians of the state, generally speaking? for the States Rights movement to go as far as it did last year. They had expected to do a lot of breast-beating and orating but had expected to fall meekly’ in line and swallow Mr. Truman and, if necessary, his ciyil rights program and all. But the States Rights movement in this state was a grass roots movement. The people back home keep pretty well posted on what's going on now. They read in their papers of the dreadful proceedings at the Philadelphia convention where delegates from the South were openly in sulted. They heard over the radio some of the insults as they were actually hurled. Their blood boiled! Many Were indignant at our delegates to the Philadelphia con vention because they didn’t walk out of the convention then. ' This anger increased as the days wore on and the politician soon began to find that the overwhelming majority of the people of this state were in no mood to be trifled with. They found that they were determined not to vote for Harry Truman last November. They found that they were going to support a States Righter for President and thaV nothing could dis suade them from this course. And nothing did! South Carolina went overwhelmingly for the States Rights ticket, only two coun ties falling into the Truman column, An derson and Spartanburg. There were reasons for these two counties deserting the rest of the state and they will come out later. Most of. the politicians reluct antly went along with the States Righters. Since the election last November the politicians, still uneasy over sleeping out of their old political bed, have been trying to effect a “reconciliation”—to bring about “harmony” in South Carolina. Of course the Trumanite politicians, who are in an infinitesimal minority, also want “har mony.” Last week the State Democratic execu tive committee met in Columbia and adopt ed a “plan” advanced by politicians to bring about “harmony.” United States Senator Burnet R. Maybank, who has never declared where he stood, was elected na tional committeeman after Ashton Wil liams, who was called national Democratic executive committeenian by the Truman- ites had offered to “resign’” if the State Democrats would elect him. To begin with Mr. Williams* never had anything to “resign.” There have been only two organized “Democratic” parties in the state, the state Democratic party and the progressive fnegro) Democratic party. So Mr. Williams had nothing to “resign.” Of course the Williams, Williams and Collins faction want “Jiarmony” if “har^ mony” means that the Democrats of South Carolina will swallow the national Demo cratic party, civil rights, and all. But the grass rooters are not going to be delivered into the Truman camp by the state Democratic executive committee, Senator Maybank, Senator Johnston or anybody else. They have their minds made made up and when they vote nixt year •they .are going to show their resentment against any attempt to betray them into the camp of their enemies. “ . IhinldnqOutlDud The Clemson Extension Service is conducting green pastures fon- tests in some counties this year. Presumably this is an effort to overcome the common tendency to look upon the other fellow s pasture as the greenest. Federal aM-to- Lot The Bill Die in Labor committee recently follow ing a bitter religious dispute around the proposed use of fed eral funds for parochial and oth- We’d like to see those Reds in Helsinki Finnished oft If you want to know how good a man can drive, just watch him drive some time when there w a police car right back of him. Many a man Is thorou illusioned after he gets w quainted with himself. dis- ac- Life Insurance The importance of life insurance to the welfare of the people of the state is made evident by the announcement that South Carolina families received $6,506,000 in life insurance death benefit payments in the first half of this year._ . Many of the recipients of this rponey might not have received anything but for this insurance. Many widows might have been left penniless but for it. Many chil dren might have been deprived of an edu cation but for it. Q - There are many men who have been unable to accumulate an estate but who have managed to meet their payments on their insurance in order that their families might be provided for. •There is a legend to the effect that one night in ancient times, three horsemen were riding across a desert. As they cross ed the dry bed of a river, out of the dark ness a voice called, “Halt.” They obeyed. The voice then told them to dismount, pick up a handful of pebbles, put the pebbles in their pocket and re mount. The voice then said, “You have done as I commanded. Tomorrow at sun up you 'will be both glad and sorry.” Mystified the horsemen rode on. When the sun rose, they reached into jtheir pockets and found, that a miracle had happened. The pebbles had been transformed into diamonds, rubies and other precious stopes. They remembered the warning. They were glad and sorry— glad they had taken some and sorry they had not taken more. ■ : And this ig the story of Hfe It seems that we really have three “Democratic” factions in this state—one made up of States Righters, one of pro-Truman folks and one made up of politicians. Most industrial concerns are now trying to get their employees to own their own homes. Evident ly they feel that a man would be much more content with his lot if ; he had a house on it. Sometimes a man has a girl’s number but doesn’t even know her name. We see where some sociologist has dug up the fact that there is no record of any man ever hav ing been shot by his wife while he was washing dishes. Everything is sort of evened up in this old world. Women have their beauty secrets and men have their secret beauties. advocates, can get it up for con sideratiqn at another session of Congress. It is being said by many that the Catholics are responsible for the death of the bill. If that is true, the American people are in debted to that denomination. This federal education bill is loaded with dynamite. It is a plank in the platform of .those who advocate the welfare state. At the outset we see the proposal charged with religious contro versy, and once enacted, it would bring racial (and economic lems which we have ever with before. Its advocates to see the dangers involved—all they see is the “big” money at the other end of the line to be poured into the states. Education is still a state and local respon- prob- South Carolinians who consent to “affiliate” witti the national KSGd for not would mobs West) and in the Northjmd to many of the of states to define and voting qualifications. That the last liniann newal of , E South, in South No - is shame tional on of the right regulate • and harmony’’ is that toe South Caro- to vote South with the oa- the endorsing thfct party’s “affiliat- A Mrs E. J. Berlin, in Ken tucky,-has a collection of 30,000 buttons, no two alike. So now we know who’s got the button, Now a days it seems that most members of the “weaker sex” do what their wives tell them to do. There seems to be a plenty of everything now except brains. A mother needn’t worry about her daughter going out with per- bee; feet strangers because there aren’t many that are perfect. “There are some people who always want to make it appear that they are ‘in on the know”’, says a writer. Yes, and that ra- minds us of the story of the fanrA ous medical lecturer who was speaking before a woman’s club one evening. “Of course,” he said, illustrating a point, “you all know what the inside of corpuscle is like.” “Most of us do,” said the society’s chairman, “but perhaps you’d better explain it for the benefit of those who have never been inside one.” While many of them may be “affected”, girls don’t put on as much as they did in the old days. A Spokane, Washington, man, a deaf mute, was charged in a di vorce action by his deaf wife with constantly calling her vile names in sign languages. We would say that was a sign of poor breeding. Television hasn’t made much of a hit in this section yet. Lots of men are like the husband of the woman who was considering buy ing a television set. “Have you consulted your husband about this set, madam?” asked toe sales man. “Yes, indeed,” beamed the cheerful shopper. “He says it doesn’t matter a particle whether he sleeps in front of a ten-inch screen or twelve.” Would you say that gaged girl is reserved? an en- Monday, Sept. 5, is Labor Doy. That used to be the on^ day in \ the year when workmen cele brated by not working One wonders $ why people are so much more interested in anything that is whispered to them. A Kentucky woman was bitten by a rattlesnake which she was using in a religious service and When it made her so ill she had to call a doctor she explained that “there was an unbeliever in the house.” And that reminds us of the story that is told on an old Quaker. During the days of the Indians he Was found going to church one Sunday with a gun. “Why the gun when you believe that you will not go until your time' comes?” asked a friend. “Well,” replied the Quaker, "I thought perhaps I might meet an Indian whose tiim ime had come.” “A prolonged kiss on a busy Seattle highway caused the ar rest of Robery Bagby. His partner, Marilyn Meyers, 18, was also ar rested on charges of abetting a negligent driver’—Grit magazine. This was evidently a case of kiss- ing the miss but missing the curve. After Sept. 1, the sub scription rate of The Chron icle will be $3.50 a year. Until that time subscribers will have the privilege of renewing their present sub scriptions for as much as two years at the present rate of $2.50 a y€kr, and new subscriptions will be taken on the same basia. MILUK'S fc« sibility, and when we turn it over to the federal government, local community interest is gone. But the danger that should arouse the American people is the fart that when government pours out mon ey, it controls its spending. It is inevitable that some sort of fed eral control will show its head. It always happens in paternalis tic enterprises financed by the federal government. Look at the record of the past 16 years. And we should not overlook this fact, federal government is not Santa Claus though millions think so. It has no money which doesn’t come from the individual states. By the aid bill we would gain nothing except a new bureaucracy by shifting local responsibility to Washington. And if millions are to flow into this state for public school education, then taxpayers should demand a lowering of local school district levies or they will be doubly taxed. The federal gov ernment is already up to its neck in debt. It uses more red ink now than black. Where, then, are we to get the money to embark on this expensive and dangerous new social welfare scheme. It is well for the country that the proposal is dead. An aroused public should demand that it lie dormant in spite of agitators, mostly school people and politi cians. Let’s keep our schools. We have enough headaches and problems ahead of us already without in viting more troubles. — Clinton Chronicle. Two Partias The Trumanite Democrats rec ognize Ashton Williams as the head of the party in South Caro lina. The regular Democratic state organisation was not asked to send a representative to the na tional committee meeting in Washington. That means that the somewhere around 80 per cent of the voters in the last election are not any longer considered Demo crats by the national party. Well,'that’s all right A lot of people have been howling for years for two parties in the state. Lets have two parties. The peo ple can tkke their choice between toe Williams “twins” and Col lins and the Democrats who had enough courage to vote their con victions. We think such a situa tion is chock full of possibilities. platform A ^rith the it, probably w< patronage, the pie, the federal judgeships, the terships. President Truman his comrades may be ready willing to pay them prices. The “affiliation” would be with national bosses who demand that there shall be no discrimination as to race in the South, and the South Carolina bosses would have the enthusiastic backing of the w on in ■we hel ■wiUberer IjKo in South fikate with th iMrs colored "Democrats” who by fed eral courts’ decisions can and will crash “Democratic” primaries in 1950. The “affiliation” would prove excellent and profitable to the seekers, the beggars, for offices, for the pitifully sweet handouts from Washington. They are a part ilation of the white population separate from the great majority of it. 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