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V I; 3hp (Eambrn (Ehronirlp 1119 North Broad Street Carnden, S. C PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker DaCoata Brown - ... Editor - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscription! Payable In Advance One Year ;..$3.50 Six Months 2.00 —i* 1 ’ ' Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden. 8. C., under set of Concrete . March S. 1879 All articles submitted for publication most be elgned by the author FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 Russia Has Atom Bomb The announcement that Russia has the atom bomb, while not exactly a surprise, comes as a shock nevertheless. It is frightening to think that a country, with out morals ahd without scruples, has such a death-dealing weapon, a weapon which it will not hesitate to use whenever it thinks the time is most propitious. The announcement should cause this country to redouble its defense prepara tions and should also cause it to offer whatever it can in the way of defense to those countries in Europe which are standing as bulwarks against Communism. The chief concern Which the announce ment of last week has given us is the effect it will have in those countries in Europe which have been standing their ground so solidly. We trust they will not be too frightened - by the discovery that riussia, too, has this powerful weapon which they had counted upon to aid them in the event of war. , There can be no question but that Com munism had slipped rather rapidly in Europe and things were beginning to shape up in a very wholesome maimer. Roscoe Drummond, chief of the Wash ington News Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, is now in Europe and in a letter which he sent to his newspaper last w^ek he said that “there are increas ing sigAs that both politically and propa- gandistically the Communists are appreci ably losing power and appeal—are weaker in Europe now than at any time since the ..end of the war.” Mr. Drummond said: “Communism has not only been stopped; it has been put off the de> tensive in Western Europe. Com munist propaganda is being forced to shift its tactics. The Communists are no longer able to argue that the Marshall plan is not doing any good —which was one of their principal lines—but rather thbt the Marshall plan is working so well that it is dragging the participating countries .nto the arms of the American im perialists (Moscow now is also apply ing the imperial epithet to Tito.) The Communists, in saying this, make little headway with the thesis that the - Marshall plan is not helping Europe, so they are shifting to the argument that its benefits cannot last because of a depression they are constantly predicting for the United States.” Mr. Drummond pointed out that the trend in France has been definitely away from Communism and said that in Ger many more than 6,000^000' more Germans in the western zones voted in a recent election than in the state elections of 1947, yet the total Communist vote went down from 1,636,000 to 1,360,000, a drop of from 9.5 to 5.7 per cent. In Italy, he said, the de Gasperi government is stronger than ever and the Greek government is winning its harsh struggle against the Communists both from within and from without while retaining the basic demo cratic freedom of its people. Certainly, we are all familiar with the situation in Yugoslavia where Marshal Tito has openly defied the Kremlin. Of course, Mr. Drummond’s article w r as written before the announcement came that Russia now has the atom bomb. Just what effect that announcement will have on the people of Europe cannot be told as yet We are inclined to the belief, however, (that the masses of Europe, accustomed to •the horrors of w r ar, may not be too bad|y. shocked by this announcement. It may be that they will even prefer death to Communism because, after all, there may be worse things than death. t - •' ** • % ' Physically Handicapped Next week baa been set aside as Na tional Employ the Physically Handicapped Week and business concerns air over the nation have been asked to make a survey of their organizations during the week to seo if they cannot find places in organizations for some of those who been trained for jobs. This is a very commendable effort/ and ore in which it is hoped that all business concerns will cooperate. One cannot but have the greatest admiration tot a physi cally handicapped person who endeavors, to make himself or herself self-support ing. They deserve the greatest commend ation and cooperation. "4 1 Physically handicapped workers make splendid employes. An official govern ment survey of 895 handicapped workers and 1,404 unimpaired workers shows that the relative output per worker is slightly higher for the handicapped, the gate of output for the handicapped workers being 101 as against 100 for unimpaired workers. The physically fhandicapped workers covered in the survey ranged from labor ers to highly skilled workers. Some of the greatest stories of courage have been written by people who have met with misfortunes. We happened to pick up a magazine as we were writing this editorial and found three stories in it . ^Jine years ago Harland Griffin of Indianapolis, Ind., lost both legs in a rail way accident. Today, Griffin runs a suc cessful watchmaking business in his home. Ht and his wife have a happy family of six children. ‘Although Mrs Naomi Boggs of New York City, has only one hand, she has worked as a secretary for the last six years'^ She has typed as fast as 73 words a minute. : When Henry Remus of Gary, Indiana, a steel worker, found that he could never sec again, he determined to keep useful. Witfi his wife’s encouragement he has painted their entire house three times since 1936. These are just three of countless num bers of cases of happiness having been found through courage. With The Press qOulloud Brick-Laying Machine The first brick-laying machine in 5,000 years of the masonry is scheduled to get its first public demonstration in Mont- igomery, Ala., this week. The machine was perfected by a Missourian and it was given its first test last February. Since then the job has been perfected to save the building industry an estimated $100,000,- 000 a year in construction costs. If the machine does what its inventor claims it will partially revolutionize con struction methods, reducing the costs and also speeding up the work. The first thought that comes across one’s mind when such an invention is per fected is that it will throw large numbers of people out of work. This has been true of all inventions. The teletype threw many thousands of old Morse code telegraph operators out of business. Linotype ma chines threw countless number of hand setting printers out of business. The auto mobile threw large numbers of people who worked in buggy and wagon factories out of business. And so on. But we have a happy way of absorbing people who are thrown out of work into new fields. Just as new inventions throw some people out of work so do they give work to numerous others. Efficiency has to come and although it may prove painful to some at first we cannot stand in its way. The old lamp lighters lost their jobs when electric lights were first put on the streets of cities. Cities didn.’t refuse to put in the electric fights because it would cost some people their jobs. Bethune is to be congratulated on its new recreation center, which will afford the 1 good people of that town a fine op portunity to get together for social and recreational purposes. And that’s what we need more of in America, a getting together more often of the right classes of people. ^ z' ." . ^ ' Signs of the Times The large increase in the number of robberies is interpreted by one writer as being just another sign that the honey moon is over. No longer, he says can just any one, even a loafer-on-the-job, step out and get a job paying exorbitant wages. Many of these people, he said, got ac customed to working a few days on one job, getting big pay for it, then loafing until they spent the money which they had made, after which they got another job and repeated the same process. Now these people are finding themselves out of jobs permanently. 1, All of which is very true. The man or woman who ‘has a good job now had bet ter love it to death and do everything in his or her power to hold it because if it is lost, considerable difficulty may be ex perienced in finding another. We hope our.butchet devalue his pound. doesn’t A city cannot grow unless it can meet the problems of a growing city. A fashion note says that feathers are coming back on women’s hats, which is encouraging in that it shews that hata are coming back. a “ 1 ■ Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey loved to listen to his own records but wouldn't let the records of anybody else stay in the house, his wife testified '’in obtaining an uncon tested divorce. And speaking ol musical opinion you’ve probably heard of the teenage girl who shut oft the record player and turned excitedly to her father. “Daddy," she exclaimed, “that is the latest swing record. Did you ever hear anything so wonderful?’ “No," replied her father wearily, 1 can’t say I have although .1 once heard a collision between a wagon load of empty milk cans and a farmcart filled with ducks!" One reason a city is always re* ferred to as “she," we presume, is because it has outskirts. At that the British pound is no worse off than a good many other sovereigns. e The best way to make both ends meet is to go straight ahead. All European countries can un ! derstand the language that Ameri can money talks. About 10 par cent of the steel workers of the United 9tatee are classed as unskilled. If s strike is ordered we’ll think that the per centage is tgr greater than that The goldenrod la the state flower of Nebraska. Kerchew’ Kershew! Kerchew! This is the time of tie year when you hear lota about Blue Devils, Red Foxes. Gamecocks, Bulldogs, Red Devils, Mustangs, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Terriers. Tigers. Pan thers, Gophers, Alligators, Indians, The meeting of South Carolina fox hunters in Camden this week brought to mind the old, old story of the fallow who went on hie first fox hunt. When he returned some of his neighbors asked him how he liked it. “Thoee darned old honnds made so much fuss I couldn't hear anything,’’ he replied !n a tons of disgust. “We are nearing tne end of a cycle." says a writer. We trust it’s the motorcycle. George A Teck has enrolled as a student at Georgia Tech. How teeb-ing! • A girl In St. Paul, Minn., pre dicts that the end of the world is near. Would you call her a pessi- mlssf v-' ' (Most doctors want pretty recep tionists because they go a long ways towards making a fellow for get his aliments. Two startling announcements were made last week. President Truman announced that Russia had the atom bomb and United States Senator John L. McClellan said in a speech that “Congress Is made up of human beings.” It is customary in the remote parts of the Amazon Valley in South America for an Indian father to spend three full days “in his hammock" (equivalent to being in bed) alter the birth of a child. The mother resumes work almost immediately. That ' is )ust an Amazon Indian custom, we pre sume. One great difference between the movies and real life is that in the movies they are married at the end of all their difficulties. The United States Navy claims to have perfected a 90 per cent effective "cold killer” pill. This is the most notable victory of the “cold war." “When a man thinks he is in dispensable it is a good time to let him go,” says a business execu tive. And that reminds us of the story of the railroad shopman who had been drawn on a Federal grand jury and didn’t want to serve. When bln name was called he asked the judge to excuse him. "We are very busy at the shops,” he said, ougbit to be there.” The Judge frowned. "So you are one of thoee mMi who think the railroad couldn’t get along without you!” he remarked. ‘‘No, your honor," said the shopman, ”1 know it could get along withotr\me, but I don’t wapt It to And It out.’’ “Excused.” said the We have a notice yfo the effect that the Carolina Bird Club will hold Its fall meeting at Fontana Village Sept. 2t-Oot. & We know several “birds” but don’t know whether they plan to attend or not. What medical science ought to be concentrating on now Is some way to get out of a man’s head thee idea that the government owes him a living. Something novel in the way of advertising is the ad of a tree nursery which guarantees (hat its saplings will not grow into trees that will jump into the highways and obstruot motorists. Chan«« For Worse— Our government was founded upon the concept that It was entitl ed to operate within the limits of the powers given it by the in dividuals of this naMbu/ But that day has possedr Now" the In dividuals of this nation are' per- mRed to operate their business and enjoy personal freedoms under lim- itations and restrictions enforced by the government.—Fort Mill Times. \ Bask The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond feds the “back of the recession his been broken." These are strong words from a conservative source. Textiles, soys the banks report on business conditions in this sec tion, “are again moving upward and may prove to be the bell wether in the recovery. A bright spot was South Caro lina construction, which for July was 35 per cent over the same month for 1948. The August total had not been reported when the bank’s resume was issued last Saturday, but evidently business Is still looking up, or such an opti mistic note would not have been sounded.—The State. ’s compensation In South Caro lina. Workmen’s component' ^ become a lawyer’s racket in the stats. An impartial Investigator, who made a study of the situation, salt the compensation amounted to legalised extortion. •Miss Clayton’s appointment might swing the balance from bad administration to good administra tion. There are five members o‘ the commission, and two of them are fairly recent appointees. They are not responsible for the work men’s compensation mess. If the senate confirms Miss Clayton, three of the five mem bers—a majority—will be new blood. The «roe mi clean up the mem. To the argument that the three would do no better than the old coimniosien, the only answer Is “try them and see.” In any event, it is difficult to see how the three could do say worse than the old has n ®v would w. * SU k ”“ P< * U1 fovernment chSf ,: NOTICE of~taT .. Tax Books .. ^ 1M», withiut per - board. the The Maxey Case The recent trial of Russell B. Maxey moves The Charlotte Ob server to question whether “uni versities and colleges are suffi ciently careful about the pest rec ords and the ideologists and moral codes of those they employ to teach.” . ; ‘ \ We do not hesitate to suggest that there has been a laxity andHhe ■tate treasurer the sum ot Governor gnee with by the lt4t 1 by s senate filibuster, from the poblie was mercifully Leaders of that filibuster, less of high-eoaadtng which they have released to press, must be assumed to f the present compensation This system, wo repeat, has been described as legalized extortion.— News and Courier. Trend In Taxes The trend in taxation in Sout)i Carolina is well illugtrated by the amount of money collected from this county by the state treasurer, as reported elsewheri in this pa per. * - This report shows that the county treasurer turned over to a carelessness on the part of edu cational institutions in the em ployment of teachers. The cry of “academic freedom” has been rais ed whenever the responsible au thorities of an institution see fit to eliminate the services of a person of doubtful standards. In fact, the various associations that talk loudly of "academic freedom” amount to little more than, labor unions, designed to protect teach ers in their employment. The rfgbt of a sincere, inteHect- ual teacher to follow the dictates of his intelligence should be gen erally recognized. Nevertheless, it is not an absolute right and no institution violates a fundamental freedom of an individual if it pre fers to employ those with what might be freely termed “orthodox views.” After all, the payment of. a salary carries some prerogatives and it is about time for them to be recognized.-»Orangeburg Times and Democrat. First Order of Business The first action of the state senate, when the 1950 general as sembly convenes, should be the confirmation of the appointment of Miss Faith Clayton to the state Industrial commission. The commission handles work- 1137.45 for the fiscal year 1948- 49, most of-it bor back taxes not now in effect Citizens not so old can remem ber back some 10 or 15 years, roughly, and recall that the state collected for various purposes, In cluding a three-mill constitutional school tax levy, around 10 or mills on real and personal Aflop- erty. With assessed valuations at around $10,000,000 for thef county in those years, the toad “take” for the state could easily havs been in the neighborhood of $100,- 000. This trend in tax collections, from direct taxes on real estates and personal property, to Indirect taxes—largely income on corpora tions and license and stamp taxes on the profligate (liquor, etc.)— may explain the high appropria tions of recent legislatures. With few people understanding or caring where the money came from, legis lators apparently hare followed the line of least resistance and piled up appropriations because those being hk the hard eat were either comparatively few in num ber or lacking in popular approval. “Take the taxes off of property" was a good slogan and may havs had Its merits. But, apparently M had Its faults. Aa appropriate alo of four (4) uct ”™>^ n y whk ^ g&ktr* for ^ gJKalb Towntfcip 822} No. 2 : c u , ^“tact No. 4 IS 00 ! S? 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