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V"#.~ ®llf (ttamimi (ttlpronifU 1119 North Brood Street Camden, 8. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY Harold €. Booker • DmCoeta Brown • • - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscription* Payable In Advance One Year .....$3.50 Six Aioafthfl 1 2.00 Otaae Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C„ ander act of Concroea March I, lt7» All arttciee eabmitted for. pabUcatkm moat he algned hr the author TUeSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1949 ShtuU Be Ratified Representative G. Werber Bryan, of Sumter county, has given notice that he will renew his fight next year to have South Carolina ratify the proposed federal amendment limiting presidential terms of ofiice. , The proposed amendment states that “no person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice, and no per son who has held the office of president, or acted as president for more than two years of a term to which some other per son was elected president shall be elected to the office of president more than once.” The amendment has already been rati fied by the following states: Maine, Michi gan, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire, Dela ware, Illinois, Oregon, Colorado, Cali fornia, New Jersey, Vermont, Ohio, Wis consin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Mis souri, Nebraska, Virginia, Mississippi, New York, South Dakota and North Dakota. There is much to be said in favor of this amendment. One of the weaknesses of a democracy is that a man who loves power can build up such a machine that it will be almost impossible to root him out of the office. That has been one of the troubles in the South American coun tries. Most presidents hi South America have to be shot out of office in revolutions. We had never been troubled with such as this in the United States until Franklin D. Roosevelt came along and broke the time-honored tradition that a President should not serve more than two terms. Once a tradition is broken it is hard to restore it. The amendment now before the states for ratification would protect this country from Presidents who want to hold the office as their own in the future. . We can see no possible objection to the proposal now before the people and we hope that the Sbuth Carolina General As sembly will ratify it at its next session. A Disturbing Trend The suit filed by United States Attorney General Howard McGrath against the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company should be disturbing to very many Ameri can citizens because it reveals a disposition on the part of our government that is not healthy for a Democratic country. It cannot be truthfully charged that the A. & P. stores have anything like a mon opoly in the food business. Probably in no other merchandise field is the competi tion as keen as it is in the food field. The suit can be taken, we feel, as furth er proof of the fact that the administra tion in Washington thinks that “bigness” in business is “evil.” Such a position is untenable. If the government is going to try to put out of every business, every concern that grows to be a “big” concern then’ we might as well admit that we are no longer a country of free* enterprise. We might just as well consent to a dictatorship and tfhrow off all disguise of being a de mocracy. Picketing Business Eventually this country is going to have to do away with this business of “picket- • ff ing. A story from New York says that the “American-Irish Minutemen of 1949” have been picketing the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during the stay there of Ernest Bevin, the British foreign minister. W'hile we disagree with the policies of the British Labor government as strongly as anybody in this country, we have no sympathy with those people who are pick eting the hotel in which Mr. Bevin is stay ing while in this country on governmef»t business. Thejy should be arrested and made to go about their work—that is if they have any work to do, which we doubt, because if they did they wouldn’t have the time to be engaged in the nonsense they are engaged in. 'i ,« tor m too* Of C»mden, Th« Chronicle is for It ^ THE CAMPgW OttOWCLE, CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. SEPTEMBn Life's Greatest Asset A correspondent of $ magazine expres ses a “feeling of klann mingled with im patience” that so many^ youths of today are apparently so d6sai inclined to get ahead in the world, He thinks they are apparently toe inclined to look to the government for support P. D. Sanders, editor; of the Southern Planter, says that wheir he was a young man he worked for a former Governor of Virginia^ One day whjfen be was notice- I fS] sbly discouraged with his work, the Gov ernor said to him: “You think you are having a hard time, don’t you; that you are finding difficulty i in getting ahead financially?” “I quickly admitted,” said Mr. Sanders, “that he was correct M was draggling to establish myself in farm journalism, a very oo£ nigged field at that time and the outloo •was not too encouraging. “The Governor then made this proposi tion to me which pat a new value in my mind on youth. T’ll tell you what I’M dq,’ he said, ‘if you will exchange ages with me; you take my advanced years add give me your youth, I’ll give you, in addition, a million dollars.' “I knew that he had the million dollars and I felt that he was sincere. T’d like to think that over, Governor,’ I replied. ‘It sounds good to me because I know that’s the only way that I will ever become a millionaire.’ “Then in a low forceful tone, the Gov ernor said: ‘No, you aren’t interested, you are just trying to be polite. You wouldn’t exchange your youth for my age for a million dollars. Therefore you are a mil lionaire in your own right and you don’t realize it’.” Mr. Sanders says that he then realized for the first time in his life “how ungrate ful I had been for a good name, robust health and my schooling opportunities ” There is a lesson in this story for every youth. He possesses what cannot be bought with multi-millions of dollars. “Youth with swift feet walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.” Youth is the opportunity, to do some thing and to become somebody. The youth who wastes his time in idleness will regret it bitterly when it is too late to do any thing about it. So instead of being dis satisfied and discouraged he should be up and doing. Hajr fever Mats the country Hoes at golfers s year, tQ a w«U known physician. t think It la ~ The Roosevelt boys would make poor cobbler«. They never stick to thetr last. It Is Must Watch Tito Senator Estes Kefauver thinks that this country should “take caution” in its deal ings with Marshal Tito. He says that he favors development of “regular commer cial relations” between the two countries, but he warned that Yugoslavia still is a totalitarian country. The junior Senator from Tennesse6 is correct. We should keep all of our fingers crossed in any dealings which we may have with Tito, remembering that he is a Com munist and that you cannot trust anybody who is a communist any further than you can throw a cat by the tail. If Tito were strong enough, however, (to put up a real fight, we’d enjoy nothing better thah seeing his army and Russia’s shoot it out. It would be the most enjoy able show since Germany and Russia start ed fighting each other. , to be couBiderably » “DetnocrnT tti«n define <»«. — l A Color* do man boasts that he owna •'the abortest-lecsed chicken In the world.” This, we submit. Is so way to speak of one’s wife. — • We can’t live without freedom. It’s hard enough to live with it Thoae bogus. Communists Czechs are "In a few weeks the limbs wiH be bare again,” says an exchange. How shocking! A Massachusetts woman, 66. mar ried a boy aged 25 the other day. Another boycott. We wonder If the Florida Ex periment Station ever completed its comparative study of “the path ogenicity and toxony of species of Altemaria Microsporlum and Stem- opbylum” which it announced sev eral years ago it was making. A seamstress' business is always the same—just sew sew. “In Its advertising no concern should ever make any claims that it cannot fully live up to,” says an advertising executive ‘‘because the business k loses by false claims more than offsets the temporary business which it may gain by them.” And speaking along that line we are reminded of the story of the restaurant which claimed to have any dish you might order. The waiters would take an order for a slice of the moon and go away as if they meant to bring it to you and then come back and say that they were "Just out” of it. One day a customer just to see what would happen called the waiter and said: “A double order of behemoth.” "Yes, sir,’’ said the waiter, “will you have it rare or well done?” "Well done,” replied the customer and the waiter rushed off to the kitchen. Returning presently, he said: “I am very < sorry, sir, but we are just out of behemoth.’* "What! No more be hemoth,” exclaimed the customer. The waiter leaned over and whis pered Into his ear: "We have some, to tell the truth, but I wouldn't bring it to you because it didn't look to me like it was very fresh.” Due Wept, the ' headquarters of the A. R. P. church, has experienc ed several shocks during the past year and there has been much speculation in the papers as to the cause. Knowing Due West as we do we would not be surprised to hear of its being shocked every day now. Words To Ponder Over Speaking recently in the United States Senate, Harry F. Byrd, the Virginia states man, said: .*• “If increasing taxes or deficits to meet continuously higher expenditures is to be our course, it is obvious that neither our system nor our form of government can endure. With them will go our freedom and. the hopes of all freedom loving peo ple in this world. “What will we contrive as a substitute for the doctrines which have made us great? I know of no one who regards the British mess as something more desirable. It is probable that the mechanism our piessure groups would concoct would be worse. “Those who are responsible—willfully or otherwise—for our profligacy must leave a place in their consciences for the consequences of th^ir deeds.” ... ^ ,, These are words for every good Ajneri- can to ponder over long and earnestly. Human nature is wonderful. You do not realize that you don't amount to much until you have arrived at the age when it doesn’t make much differejnee. There's a purpose for everything. For example a aynonym is a word you can use when you can’t spell the other. “You may have a fortune right at your linger tips and not know it,” says a writer. Yes, and that reminds 11$ of a story that went the round Just! before the world’s fair in New York. The story goes that Grovqr Whalen. manag?r of the fair and a friend were travel ing in a remote mountain section of New York state. The friend became very thirsty but they rode for miles and miles without com ing to a house or a filling station. Finally the friend spied what he took to % be a apring in a pasture as they drove along. Stopping the car he went down to the spring. An old horse was standing by it As the man knek down to drink the old horse said: “Don’t drink it all.” The man got up, looked all around and could see nothing but the hefrae m> he went out to the car and toM Whalen whaf had happened. Wfealen was skeptical but said he’d go down and investi gate. He walked up to the horse and said to hijn: “Can you talk?" The horse replied: “I won the Kentucky Derby once.” Whalen became very much excited. He saw an opportunity to insure the success of the tajr with this talk ing horse. They drove on up the road to try to locate the owner. Finally they came to a cabin Whalen went 18 Ahd found ah old farmer sitting -on the front porch. 'Does that horse in the pasture Hard To A Labor Day rally was held at a park In Newberry on Labor Day and B. R. Britton, preagiy of the bor, was oae of iha mala apeak era. Mr. Britton seems to have been in a complaining mood that day. Paople are not doing everything jnot aa he and organised labor would have them do them. He started off his talk, according to a report in the Newberry Observer, With a denunclatioe of the State Department of Education on the grounds that it compelled the school children ef the state to at tend Bchod an Labor Day. He then blasted the stand that the state politicians have made in favor of the "DixlecraU” and stated that no good has ever come of it. in feet, the only thing that It has dome is to divide the South He then proceeded to denounce Governor Thurmond end criticized Congressman Hare tor his stand on the Taft-Hartley few. and also on the 75c minimum wage bilL However, he upheld Senator Johnston's voting on all major is- sues by saying that ”he is voting labor and is voting right.” Well, it’s good that Mr. Britton found one person in public- life that he could commend. What Mr. Britton war.ta, we sus pect, is a Labor Government In the country like the one England has. He might then get to be the Prime Minister or something and he could order all Dixtecrata, as he calls them, put behind prison bars.— Greenville Observer. religious fee tore in the Dsdles- Lehman contest who but! will find a clear policy la it? And what prophet or poli tician wlU feel safe until General Btoenhower takes aa oath not to rente ItStf f • It nay be a lot of flan, but it is also a lot of wishful wondering and wonderful wishing.—Christian Sci ence Monitor. The In ef Eden were of « a We later learn** W« last remnaetrf 1 ** h y-. coconuts 0 * which his B ®«fl«d . They 011 another n^^L ** 0 * °c«asioa .. out while the road a little wa^^S house and roliZ ** A birfeE ^ the down the rpad belong to you?” he -I*. V, Taking From The Dead There have been several reports lately of flowers being taken off of graves in Quaker Cemetery. Surely the people who do this do not realize the meanness of their act because could there be anything meaner than taking from the dead? Let’s hope , there will be no recurrence of this in Camden. V ' The way to make your home town grow is to support its merchants. asked. The old fanner rather sheepishly replied that he did. T want to buy him—just name your price,” Whalen told him. “No,” replied the old farmer, *T won’t sell him. To tell you the truth I put that old horse In the pasture where I thought nobody would ever see him. He ern haras see me to death, he'svsuch a big liar. He tells everybody^ he won the Kentucky Derby wh of fact he has nev place as a matter been off tnte John L. are now 01 80 they hai goal, have. hu miners liast Political Guessing Since the American peoplfe get so mach fun out of political guess ing games, it is not surprising that the professional prophets are al ready busy with 1960 and even 1952. A few developments nave given them something to play with— shifts in both national committee heads. President Truman’s militant Labor Day speeches, the labor drive against Senator Taft, and the Dulles-Lehman contest in New York. Some prognosticators profess to see a clear division shaping up between the major parties over “statism.” Others see the Demo crats trying to patent the Truman fornmla for success in 1947—a farmer-labor alliance. Others ex pect New York’s Senate race to fix a pattern of issues for 1952.. This la an inexpensive kind of speculation. Many folks enjoy it and the prophets make a living. But k may be well to recognize that most of it is plain or fancy guesttmating. For so very many upsetting things can happen before 1952 or even before November, 1950. How big a part would do mestic . issues play should the Stalin-Tlto tangle break but in hoe- tllitiee? What would be the po lit leal effect if a succession of bit •trikes started the recession re ceeding again? Considering the ... > this area where all are aware of the benefits of dUTslopment it’s exciting news to learn that Gordon Clapp, director of TVA. is About to make an economic survey of the Middle East fltrr the United Nations. A port of that assignment will be to consider the poseibiHty of restoring the area where the Gar den of Itteu was bettoved The immediate problem be te harness the waters ef the Tigris, Euphrates and Jordan riv ers J» irrigate the vast- Syrian desert. There Is disagreement among the authorities as to the exact spot of the Garden of Eden. - Biblical literature doesn’t help too mach. Bat it is somewhat in that desert area. So dramatic is the project that it would spoilt the imagination of anyone. Engineers say that the idea Is feasible. Money is what is needed. in Syria they claim that another single dam project at a cost of fll,- 250,000 would reclaim 300,000 acres. That’s |4 an acre. Once upon a time ancient Baby lon supported 30,000,000 people. Today just about 4,000,000 live In the fetter day Iraq. Invasions, broken dams and bias ing sun brought death and desola tion to the area. But here Is a project that might bedazzle ancient Bagdad and cause Babylon to shout with Joy. And it ie American ingenuity and dollars that possibly might make the Garden of Eden lush with bloom once more, providing our own potential garden ureas are taken cure of first One of these is our own Savannah Valley, With Clark Hill and Hartwell Date; both deeigned to benefit thousands of the present generation and others that will follow.—Anderson Inde pendent •bar* «»d he aiZZT? takers a piece. * I lived fe horror is indelibly there.— ■teeter's Column. toy a yw* * tMUrUI and anlnuds SUMMONS &S5. C SS£ < &*. V6. Julian Harry Vkrd Sr 1* To the Defendant sto* You are hereby 8um> l required to answer theT in this action, the which has been fikd orii pert .of Own for Kerrtj w «m. nm /T 194fl, and to serve a cow sxuiwer to the mid coSi the subecriber at his Camd®n, 8. C„ within twee after the service hereof « of the day of such servtee l*?*** 1 ^ the « within the time tiottu plaintiff in this action v| to the Court for fee relief < ed in the complaint J. 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