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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.
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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.
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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-
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(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. *
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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
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