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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949
Will Fulfill A Need
Announcement that pedestrian walk-
ways will be painted in the middle of the
blocks in the business section of the City
for crossing the streets and that safety
islands will be painted for pedestrians
caught in the middle of the street will be
welcomed very generally.
Camden has now grown to the point
wihere stricter regulation of pedestrian as
well as vehicular traffic is necessary. We
have all been so accustomed to jaywalk
ing that it may be a little difficult at first
to break ourselves of the habit but we
should be forced to do so for our own
protection. Camden’s blocks are rather
long and it has seemed rather foolish to
walk to the end of one for the%)rotection
of traffic lights while crossing but the
painting in the middle of the blocks of
pedestrian walkways will solve this prob
lem.
Likewise the safety islands in the mid
dle of the street for pedestrians caught
by a change of the lights will serve a good
purpose. It will not be difficult to teach
the pedestrian to wait in these islands
until another light change gives him or
her the right of way.
One other item that the JayCees should
include in the very commendable safety
program which they are launching is an
effort to educate motorists to the fact that
when they are making a turn at the corner
of Broad and DeKalb streets the pedes
trian has the right of way. There are
many drivers who do not seem to realize
this fact. The only opportunity that the
pedestrian has to cross is when the light
is with him and if a long lane of automo
biles should turn each time the light
changes the pedestrian would never 'have
an opportunity to get across. The motor
ist? must wait when turning the comer
■until the pedestrians cross.
In The Hour of Death
“The gods conceal from men the hap
piness of death, that they may endure
life,” Lucan, the Roman poet, was quoted
as saying in the olden days.
We could not but think of this quota
tion as we read in October McCall’s maga
zine an article entitled “How It Feels To
Die” by Kate Holliday in which the author
quoted from a number of great American
doctors to whom death is no stranger.
In the article Miss Holliday quoted fijrst
from Sir William Osier, who said:
“Most human beings not only die like
heroes but, in my wide clinical experience,
die really •without pain or fear. There is
as much oblivion about the last hours as
about the first and therefore men fill
their" minds with specters that have no
reality.”
Miss Holliday cited this quotation from
Osier to the doctors whose opinions she
sought and almost all of them stated defi
nitely their agreement with him.
Dr. Frank Adair of New York, noted
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surgeon, said:
“In general I agree with Oslej*. Most
people fortunately arc stuporous and not
alert when death comes. Many die after
a coma of varying hours and days. In
short, nature is good to the human race.
The haunting fear which the average per
son carries all through life is dissipated
by the approach of death. In the minds
of most people, including doctors, the
disease most dreaded is cancer. Yet in
my long clinical observation of cancer
cases I have found that their final hours
not different from those of persons
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iq Out loud
There’s always something to kick
about In a football' game.
That North Dakota man who
named his pet skunk after Stalin
should be forced to apologise to
the skunk.
A culinary expert says that rice
ought to be cooked tach grain
separately. That would take too
logS. ' , _ j ^
’ It might not be wrong for a
fisherman to exaggerate a little
bit about* the size of the fish he
catches but the trouble is he will
not exaggerate a little bit.
A used car is often not what it
is painted up to be.
“What does the future hold in
store for the youth of America?”
asked a speaker tbe other day.
Well, for one thing, a huge national
debt.
The planet Mars is said to be
clober to the earth now than it
has ever been before. We trust
it is not planning to make a touch.
Who can remember the good old
days when there was a coffee
grinder in every kitchen?
A Minneapolis woman ate corn
flakes thinking they were a remedy
for corns. She’d probably think
fried chicken good for chicken pox.
are
We see where some writer won
ders what it would take to make
the people of Russia rise up. Yeast
might!
, "It pays to be a good listener,"
exclaims a writer. And that re
minds us of the old, old ditty:
When they gave out brains, I
thought they said trains
and I missed mine.
When they gave out looks, I
thought they said books
and didn’t want any.
When they gave out noses, I
thought they said roses
and I ordered a big red one.
When they gave out legs, I
thought they said kegs
and I ordered two fat ones.
When they gave out ears, I
thought they said beers
and I ordered two long ones.
Coot of Carelessness
New and terrible proof that a cigarette,
harmleaa as it may appear, can be a lethal
weapon was had on a recent week-end.
The fire which destroyed a pleasure
cruise ship at a Toronto dock, with a
ghastly tell pf death and injury, is be
lieved to have started from a carelessly
dropped cigarette in the bar of the ship.
The following day a commercial plant
burned in California and the property loss
was very heavy. Again, according to the
authorities, a cigarette was the probable
cause.
Thus we see that so small a thing as
the fire at the end of a cigarette can be
responsible for major disasters. In the
case of the passenger vessel, one entire
section of the craft, containing staterooms,
was flaming within three minutes after the
fire was noticed. Within fifteen minutes
the ent're ship was ablaze. Under certain
condit'ons fire travels with unbelievable
rapid.ty. Its victims are trapped with
out J ope of escape. The horrible hotel
fires of last year and the year before pro
vide other illustrations o/ this. And in
the worst of those fires a cigarette also
se- off the holocaust. It was finally de
cided that a carelessly tossed cigarette
caused the terrible Winecoff hotel fire
in Atlanta. " C
The careless, thoughtless smoker can be
as dangerous as a maniac with a bomb.
He is a threat to lives, property and irre
placeable natural resources such as for
ests and wildlife. Every person who
smokes must be made to realize the obli
gation he owes to society to take care.
The Kershaw County Fair will be held
»xt week and it is hoped that the people
! the City and County will turn out in
rge numbers. If the fair is tp grow as
e all hope it will, it must have popular
pport
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Everybody who disagrees with the Presi-
•nt seems to be “seliWh” according to his
ay of thinking. According to our way
thinking they are “selfish” not for
emsetves hot for the nation.
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dying from other causes. The public
thinks of a cancer death as agonizing,
with the pain increasing in severity until
it reaches a crescendo Which culminates
in death. This is not true. The patient
becomes drowsy and benumbed by the
poisons of the disease in his blood.”
Dr. H. D. Van Fleet, president Los
Angels Academy of Music and chairman
of the board of directors of Moore-White
Clinic, Los Angels, said: \
“I’ll agree with Osier entirely. I Wave
found that the sweetness of death is in
tensified in all men by a -childlike faith
in their religion.
“Thus, the occasional temporary appre
hension about death stems, I believe, from
the fact that an individual may not have
prepared to meet it. His goals in life
may have been too high; he isn’t satisfied, wheu dtoy gave out chins, i
with what he has done; he may never
have felt close to God. These anxieties
can make the idea of dying untenable to
him for the moment, until—consciously or
unconsciously—he goes back to the religi
ous beliefs that he learned as a child.
“I used the word ‘sweetness’ in connec;
tion with death. As a doctor who has
seen many people expire after a protract
ed illness, I know that it is often sweet
to die. Frequently I have seen a change
of expression as the moment of death ap
proached, almost a smile before the last
breath was taken.”
Dr. "Frank Lahey of the Lahey Clinic,
Boston, said:
“I can hardly think of anyone in my
practice who has met death other than
calmly, without excitement and almost
without anxiety. In addition men almost
never die of pain.”
Dr; Stafford Warren said that he
thought death “must have an anesthetic
quality.” He said that dying people just
“go to sleep.”
Numerous other great doctors were
quoted in the article all to about the same
general effect as those whom we have
quoted briefly from above.
Several years ago we read an article
by a veteran nurse in which she said that
in all her experience she had seen only
one person afraid to die and that was. a
woman who had clone a sister an irrepar
able wrong.
“Something strange and beautiful,”
wrote this nurse, “happens to men ' and
women when they come to the end of the
road. All fear, all horror disappears. I
have often watched a look of happy won
der dawn in their eyes when they realized
this was^true. It is a part of the good
ness of nature and, I believe, the illimit
able goodness of God.”
Cullen in his last moments is quoted
as having said: “I wish I had the power
of writing or speaking, for then I would
describe to you how pleasant a thing it
is to die.”
The attitude of people towards death
•is changing. The recent funeral of Dr.
Henry Nelson Snyder of Wofford College
is said to have beeh an illustration of this.
Those at the funeral seem to have held
to the view that instead of dying Dr. Snyder
had triumpthantly gone to his great reward.
Before you buy it see if you can get it
thoought they said gins
and I ordered a doable one.
Now ain’t I a mess?
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The country might be better off
if there were more brains and less
brayings in Washington.
• For all of the time-saving de
vices we have, people of this
country seem to have less time
than those of any other country.
Seeing where a man out in Ne
braska has forgotten his name, re
minds us oi the story of the little
boy who was being shown bis pew
sister. "What’s her name?" he
asked the nurse. “She hasn't any
name yet," the nurse responded.
“My goodness,” exclaimed the little
boy. “however does she know who
she is?”
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When you go to an optometrist
he always wants to find out your
eye-q.
Just to prove to you that people
don’t always know what they are
talking about, the Ohio State
Journal said in 1899 of the auto
mobile: ‘’The recent interest shown
In the ‘horseless carriage’ is as
surance that this new means ol
locomotion has reached the stage
of commercial practicability. It
seems improbable, however, that
it will ever become as popular as
the bicycle because of Us not being
readily within the reach of the
‘great middle class’.”
A writer says that nearly every
one has a favorite day of the week.
Ours is pay day.
There may not be anything in
a name but the man Who is in
charge .of Jtfeft enforcement of the
liquor laws itt Georgia is named
Redwlne.
It aeems te W that a grandfather
clock would always Be away be
hind time.
Next Week is safety week and
in this connection it is well for us
to recall that last year 4,076 per
sons died as a result of gas. Twen
ty-nine inhaled it, 47 put a lighted
match to it and 40,000 stepped
on it.
It’ll be interesting to see what
Texas does with that hurricane
that hit it
We trust we will have fair weath
er in Camden next week.
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What did wives talk about dur
ing meals when groceries weren’t
so high?
Speaking of the government’s
suit against the A. A P. Tea Com
pany. the
that ‘If bigness is to be penalised
then the United States government
•honld be broken up because it
the biggest business in the
with mors saiptoynee and a
“LenTe M to
Most folks date the Atomic Age
as beginning in 1941 when the first
bomb was exploded over Hiro
shima.
Perhaps the Horror Era of the
Atomic Age began then, but the
real beginning dates beck to Dec.
1, 1942, a year after the Japanese
attacked at Pearl Harbor.
The beginning was under a
grandstand on tbe University of
Chicago campus.
There the handful of men who
saw the first atomic pile operate
knew that mankind had reached
the turning of another corner.
in the war’s bast kept secret,
the gronp headed by Italian-born
Enrico Fermi worked many months
building a pile, adding layers of
graphite brick to layers of uranium.
Control rods of cadmium were
interspersed at intervals to pre
vent a reaction from starting pre
maturely.
At 9:45 a. m. Dec. 1, 1942, Fermi,
having decided enough uranium
had been assembled to sustain a
reaction, solemnly ordered the'con
trol rods withdrawn one by one
until the final rod was left.
As it was pulled slowly out, s
Counter began clicking, signifying
{hat atomic bullets known as neu
trons were being emitted.
At 3:35 p. m. Fermi ordered the
rod pulled out one more foot. The
counters clicked. So far only a
whirring sound could be heard.
Fermi watched 28 minutes. He
ordered the rod back in.
“The experiment is a success,”
he said quietly. “The reaction is
self-sustaining."
And that was it.—Anderson In
dependent.
Historical Facts About
Laurens and Mill streets. This^ th^inV ^ (
modern King Haiglar apartments are ° n
Young, a native of Scotland, noted L a vm ep
strutted thevdlver trowel for the Masons* Sf 51
m laying the cornerstone of the Baron iw.!?
in front of Bethesda Presbyterian church fS&S*
(In the next issue: King Haig™ ° n *****<
No Room For Doubt
In connection with the report
from Amsterdam that all Russia’s
atomic scientists and knowledge
were wiped out In the explosion
of an “atomic city" last spring,
the rumor is too good to be true.
The truth is that there is ‘no
room for doubt that there was an
atomic explosion in Russia about
September 1. The scientists do
not know exactly in what part of
Russia it occurred, but the genera'
location and approximate time have
been traced by the atomic trail
Itself.
American atomic scientists have
developed delicate apparatus whlcl
pick up the waves from atomic
blasts anywhere In tbe world
When such a blast was detected
the scientists went Into a huddle
to decide what to do. Meanwhile
planes equipped with atomic
“noses" went aloft to trace out the
source of the explosion. Picking
up the atomic cloud it was followed
to Its source In the depths of
Russia. •
The information was passed oo
to the President, and after con
sultation it was decided to make
the Information public. There was
some risk in this decision in that
it might tip Russia off somewhat
to our ability to detect atomic
blasts, but it was decided best U
make the information public at
once, rather than wait and let
Russia make a triumphant an
nouncement at some time of her
own choosing which she should
consider strategic.—-The State.
We Are All Employers
Virtually every working man or
wofiaan today Is an employer. Aa
a taxpayer you are helping sup
port the largest payroll in history,
one taking a constantly increasing
number of your dollars to do so
There are at present 6,100,006
civilians on the payrolls of federal,
state and local governments. They
are your employes, for you provide
the money to pay them. Last year
it cost you and the other taxpayers
of the nation 115,000,000,000 to do
this. This year it is expected to go
a billion dollars higher.
You are one of the employers of
this government labor. ‘As such
you should be interested in what
it costs you, and also what these
employes of yours are doing for
their money.
You are not interested? You
cannot be bothered about some
thing that doesn’t concern you?
Well, if you are an average wage-
earner these government employes
of yours cost you 1400 s year, and
that isn’t hay. And just because
you, Mr. Taxpayer, and many
otors like you
teation to this i
wh/S^ pocket »^T
tions, Sg Stej?
Madam President
Vincent Sheean has
for a woman as ft* ,
« tie Onlw StSi'S 1
«or Margvtt 1
Maine urges a ”quaUfl«n
••Republican no*^
President or - w
1962. •
Mr. Sheean thinks .
president would give thA
assurance it needs tw
Intentions are peaceful
appeal to the seething',
Asia, where the mother i
always been highly eatec
sumably Queen Boadke*,
and the Etaprees Jingo ,
are sufficiently hiddenby i
of antiquity as not to e
the horrifying vision <* .
Amazonian ComnumdreM
But one questions the
the mother symbol, as
by Queen Victoria, for |
quench Asian doubts
imperialism.
On the domestic front.
Smith predict* a victory
party that nominates a'
Vice-President or
though she dii
holds her own _
from possible candidacy'
ject la still surrounded 1
arity in most people’s
the suffragette isane oace
we can think of some i
we would vote for far l
than for some avowed
ants, and we suspect that i
lions of Americans may
same way.—Christian j
Itor.
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Sufficiently spacious lots
Weather Stripped and Insulated
Termite Sealed
. Crane or Standard Plumbing Fixtures
Bricked Foundations All Around
Hardwood Floors Throughout (even under
linoleum)
Seasoned Lumber
Table Top Hot Water Heaton
Oil Floor Furnace All Tile Baths
210-lb. Johns Mansville Roof
Solid Brass Hardware
3 Coots Pittsburg Plate Gloss Co. Paint
Inlaid Linoleum Door Bells
Extra Thick Doors Adequate Closets
Chrome Fixtures In Bathrooms and Kitchen
Washable Architectural Enamel Paint On
All Interior Woodwork
Flue Lining In Chimneys
All Mill Work Of White Pine
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need o home this it your opportunity to buy o well constructed
o beautiful lot.
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