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®lfe (Samira CUfnmUU 1119 North Brood Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker DaCosta Brown - * - - Editor - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $8.50 Six Montha 2.00 Enured aa Second Claes Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, S. C, under act of Concreee March t, 1»7I All artides sobmltted for pnbUcatkm mast he signed bjr the author FRIDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1949 What You May Expect Some inkling of what may be expected in the event of Federal aid to education is to Be found in the contents of a bill sublimely passed by the Senate of the United States providing Federal aid for the education*of more doctors, dentists, dental hygienists and nurses. Had it not been for the president of the Georgia Nurses Association, the House might have passed tKe same bill and as a result the status of some 160,000 regist ered nurses in the United States, includ ing most of those in Kershaw county, would have been>reduced to that of practical nurses and the nursing school at the Cam den Hospital would have been abolished. The bill provided a program of “super nurses,” that is, professional nurses with college degrees, with only bedside train ing as laboratory work for their degree. The present registered nurses, graduates of three years training in existing nurses training schools, would have had to get college degrees or become just practical nurses. The bill further would have closed every nurses training school in the United States not affiliated with a college or university by withdrawing their accredited status. The head of the Georgia Nurses Associ ation discovered the “joker'* in the bill and although she was given the run around when she first went to Washington and New York to protest, she finally suc ceeded in alerting the other nurses associ ations in the country and as a result the legislation now seems doomed, or certainly it will be until the “joker” is removed. We hays in this case an illustration of what to expect in the event of Federal aid to schools. It will be almost impos sible to keep out of it provisions obnoxious to the South and as for that matter to all states. It would be just a question of time until the educational policies of the country would all be directed from W ash ington. The people of South Carolina had bet ter continue to feed, clothe and educate their own children just as their forefathers did. -Jl „ * Natural Reaction According to a North American Alliance dispatch from Washington, odds are mounting to 3 to 1 in the national capitol that Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, will be re-elected next year. The reason as signed by the dispatch is that labor lead ers still haven’t found a sure-fire Demo cratic candidate with a big enough name to oppose him. We doubt seriously if the opposition will find a candidate with a big enough name to oppose the Ohio Senator. To begin with we doubt that any man who would be big enough to give the Senator a real fight would be willing to do so under the conditions imposed on him. Further more the labor group has widely adver tised that it is raising an enormous sum of money to be used in the elections next year and has specified members of the Senate it wishes to re-elect and those it wishes to defeat. • * Senator Taft, of course, heads the list of those which the labor crowd desires to defeat and therefore any man who op poses the Senator would be labeled as a Labor candidate and the charge would be hurled against him that the slush fund raised by labor was being used in his be half. No man with a big name would want to run under such circumstances. Another reason why a man with a big name wouldn’t want to run against Sen ator Taft is that he could hardly put his whole soul into a fight against him be cause deep down in his heart he must realize that Senator Taft is. one of the ablest, most patriotic, most fearless and most statesman-like men in the United States Senate today. It is net surprising therefore that great difficulty is being experienced in securing a candidate against Mr. Taft. Camden is going to grow faster than any town in South Cafoluuu during the next five yea|*. ; ’jL- , Coercing The Senate It seems that s in order to be s good “Democrat” you have to do just whatever Mr. Truman wants you to do. The latest threat by the national “Dem-. ocratic” party officials is to take patron age away from Democratic senators who vote against confirmation of Inland Olds, reappointed to the federal power commis sion. Citing a telegram from William M. Boyle, national “Democratic" chairman, Senator Harry F. Bjrrd of Virginia, one of the few real statesmen in the United States Senate, said that President Truman “appears to believe that the United States Senate should be an adjunct to his own office, whereby he can issue orders as he The Virginia Senator said that in his 16 years in the Senate, he did not believe that he had ever “seen a more deliberate effort to threaten and coerce the members of the Senate than that contained in this telegram from Chairman Boyle.” President Truman admitted to a news conference in Washington that he had instructed Boyle to put the heat on the Senators. He said it was perfectly proper. Senator Byrd said that “it is such action as this that will lead to a dictatorial gov ernment and destroy the checks and bal ances that were established by those men who founded our great democracy.” The United States Senate should not take orders from any one except the peo ple of this country. If they are to do just everything that the President wants them to do there would be no need of having a Senate. The President could just ga ahead and appoint whomever he pleased and make laws by decree. The Senate should very forcibly remind the President that the poyrer of confirm ation rests with it and if he elects to take * state patronage away from members of that body the Senate will just refuse to confirm any appointments that he makes. There's an old saying that you have to fight the devil with fire. Will KUl the Game There is a rising tide of complaints this year about unnecessary roughness in foot ball—both in high schools and colleges. The coach of one of the biggest college teams in the country was quoted as com plaining openly that the team of another big college had played “dirty” football against His team. Since the complaining coach’s team had won the game, it could hardly have been a case of “sour grapes.” The complaining coach thought that the officials should have caught some of the dirty work. If football should develop into-a game where men go out to try to maim each other it will soon become a game in which only roughnecks will participate and eventually will be abolished. This tendency towards unnecessary roughness should be checked right now. More stringent punishment should be im posed and officials should be warned to be on the alert for it In this connection the Camden High school football team is due a compliment for the clean game which it is playing and fo’. the line sportsmanship which it is dis playing. It is a credit to the eoach, to the players themselves, to the school and to the parents of the players Ounce of Prevention It is very gratifying, to note that less than two minutes were required to clear any of the three Camden white public schools Monday as surprise fire drills were held in connection with the opening of the city’s observance of National Fire Prevention Week. That was a rather remarkable record made by the Pine Tree Grammar school where 246 pupils were removed, and all windows in the building closed, in just 45 seconds. There could be no holocaust in that school. The records made by the Grammar school and the High school were just about as good in comparison to the number of students. A very fine record was made also at the Mather Academy where the building was cleared in 15 seconds. It is to be hoped that the colored Gram mar sc hop 1 will immediately begin work on fire drills since it was aparent at the tests made Monday that they had not yet been organized along that line since the beginning of the present school year. Some provision should also be made for an alarm system at the Jackson High school. These fire drills are very important in schools because one never knows when disaster might strike. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Thinfona Out Loud “Leu Than Half of Truman Plana Written Into Law’’—headline in Charleston News and Cornier. So, yon eee, we could be in twice u bad a fix aa we are in. There'a -always lota of radio ae> tJYity during a World’a bueball series. We are glad that the surrlYing Confederate veteran* held their re union before the world’* aerie* be cause the victory of the Yankees would certainly bare cast a damper upon it One trouble about a fisherman is that he has no partition between bis imaginstlon and bis facts. It doesn’t do any good for a man to bare a good aim in life unleu he has some ammunition What has become of the old- fashioned mother who’d tell her children that the “booger man" would get them if they weren’t good? There are two big strikes on this country now. A third -one would mean that we’re out. One thing about a man with both feet on the ground—he hun’t far to Call. A writer thinks the youngsters of today are being trained to be too mercenary. That must be so becauu we heard the other day of a father and son who were hav ing a heart-to-heart talk about school affairs in general and report cardo in particular. “There is al ways a reward for extra effort,” concluded papa. “How much?’’ in quired the lad. Our general economy may be very strting, as Secretary of Com merce Barwyer says, but what we are worrying about is our private economy. There has been lots of upsetting news for the football fans this fall. A Chicago musician uya he has lost hundreds of dollars lending money to other people. Evidently ho doesn't know his notes. According to an astronomer the earth la its orbit around the sun travels 1,000 miles a minute. This confirms our suspicion that we have been traveling at too fast a pace. Did youyever really see a straw break a camel’s back? - Why should‘a spinster who has a dog that growls, a parrot that sweara, a stove that smokes and a cat that stays out all night-want a husband? “Nearly all of the known ele ments are used in' an automobile," says a newspaper filler. Yee, and a great many of the unknown ones. A South Dakota man, suing for divorce, says his Wife always seems to have H in for his people. And that reminds us of the little boy who was eyeing the new visitor With The Pirns Unknowingly Retreat Thoughtful *P|B| _ wonderment at .the apparent ide ological Inconsistency of the Amer ican people. They resort to mili tary measures without stint to up hold the free civilisation. They vociferously condemn the philo sophies of socialism and commun ism. And yet they teem to accept with fatalistic calm the deadly growth of government in this coun try. They work on the average of one week out of four to pay taxes. And definite proposals are under consideration to spend addi tional incalculable billions in taxes to socialise or to place under gov ernment control industries and professions, and reduce American dtiseas to the statas of subjects. Unquestionably the people in this country arc against totalitarian government. They hsus never knowingly retreated before it* threat. It is threatening them now and they nr* retreating—unknow ingly.—Port Mill Times. Youth At The Wheel >. Technology and irresponsibility are poor partners. But studies of highway accidents in the United Statpe show an undue and increas ing proportion of thfse accidents to be caused by irresponsible teen sgers playing fast and loose with the power put into their hands by the machine age. The need, it is claimed, is for more driver-training courses at high schools throughout the coun try. Certainly this would help. But the fundamental problem, which the school must share with the home, is the development of a basic sense of social responsi bility. The individualism which is America’s heritage from the fron tier runs wild when It become* a competitive, show-off spirit on today’s superhighways. A deep sense for the rights— including the lives—of other indi vidual* should be a goal of all education. At the samo 1 time, teachers, parents, law-enforcement officers, and others need to show the same spirit of fair play in their dealings with teen agers if they expect to enlist youthful energies behind the drive for a better and safer world. Youth at the wheel needs not a carping back-seat driver but an understand ing that the rules of the road, like the rules of football, are the es sence of the game.—Cbrtetlan Sci ence. Mould Be Deaft With In a speech which he made in the Congress over a year ago. Representative Joe Bryson of to the heme. “And you say you*ro my grandmother," he inquired. ‘‘Yes, darling, Tm your grand moth er on your father’s side.” the old lady replied. "Well, you’re on the wrong side in this house as you will soon find out,” said the lad. “Chicken Scteagr - Entertainment At Wegener”—-Headline in Colum bia Record. Now that’s the sort of entertainment we like. A college president says that it should be th« ambition of every college atudent to get a Ph. D. Don't know about that! You’ve probably h«*rd the atory of the old colored woman who cooked at a Ph. D.’a house. One day the tele phone rang and she answered it The voice nt the other end of the phone wanted to know if the doc tor waa in. “Yes,” replied the cook, “but he’s not the kind of doctor that does anybody any good.’’ * Historical Fads Aboui tank surmounting the tower of the City Hall Ik the profile busmeas. There appeared in I! ^ SMS G,rette of April * 18l «*« ^ “Profile* at J. B. Matmeu's-j#, Warranted Correct Likenesg” Haiglar 'is^arranted? It^a^ f^ t dates as early aa 1826, in which year h *** ***» mar * et opposite the old court house on South L ~ ^ B it presided until 1869wh«nUw«^ ^ uptown and stood on the second pereh^FlJN 1886. Then it was removed to its present ately in time to save it from the f^f D^L fw which swept away the old tower and market^hf *!! at or near the present location of Belk’a Department stern on tfce vest side it Brold 6 wu i. ter written to him as “King of the CatUEL? 1 Chickashaw tribe in the year 1758. Like manv tu 40 tinguished career^ that of King Haiglar^S !?* by an assassin. On Aug. 30, 1763, a hutW *!J Shawnees poured a volley into him from took £is scalp and the Catawbas, like all the STi melted away under constant warfare, drink and To the credit of.King Haiglar he strove alwaufEi! 1 from his table. ays 10 > rum Greenville, said: , , “The time ha* come * to deal forcefully with foreign agents and home-grown traitors. If America is to remain strong and free, we most protect ourselves from the enemy within our gates. America stands today as the sole sentinel of freedom of the individual, the sole champion of freedom of speech and press, the sole land of indi vidual opportunity. America stand* alone In a world that is being en gulfed by Godless and tyrannical' communism that enslaves the body and soul of men. It is our solemn responsibility to resist the Soviet Union’s insatiable luat for world domination. We are a tolerant people, but we can no longer toler ate treachery in the land of the free.” These words are even truer to day than they were when Mr. Bryson spoke them. Communists in this country are getting bolder and bolder. Our educational Mr stitutions seem to be noney-combed with them. Every few weeks some startling revelation cornea out about them being in our big uni versities training the youth of the l(tnd. And what are we doing about it? —Greenville Observer. i No Bomb Target* You can quit worrying abont that A-bomb shelter if the experts are right. They list 12 cities in the nation that would bu considered prime targets in case Soviet Russia de cided to send one-way suicide bombing missions to the U. S. Not .me South Carolina city is listed among the targets. The cloeest ticketed for A-bouIb ‘In case” are Atlanta and Charlotte. The peerera-into-the-future, of course, can’t read Russian mind* and the time may come when the men in the Kremlin will decide to knock out the textile Industiy and than w#’d be in for It; but that day is far away. The tact is that the Russians now possess planes which would bring every part of thq United State* unde? attack—if and when they get enough A-bombs. The Soviet bombers are copies of the American B-2?. They have a range of 4,000 miles and possibly 4.M0 or 5,009 miles. Bombers based in beria could strike the almoet withom warnta«, tk«* all major U. 8. citleTe^^ in Florida r* This route wouW give the « coverage of the country ! would provide timTfw,! Battern areas while the , were croeslng the coaatrr The Reds could strike u Bast from bases In Hanna* northwest Russia, hitSr England **d traveling as i as New York aadas far w Montana. > ** Taking off from htses In central Russia, Red bombsrs sweep over the North Pok and supplement other blows all across Northern as far south as North Cantor The heavily populated Non] East are vulnerable to any at these points. Tbs floe United States Is so ■<t a ts| graphically that it wonM be difficult to reach. That may explain la tart Southern locations wbea tag’ dispersing key pm* units. Anyway. It’s nice to ban no South Carolina eWss vs for destruction aa rat Wt hope the Russians know t, Anderson Independent WHO'LL MY BILLS IP YOU'fti LAW I Tho For B. Z. WHBomr ' Phene 18994 U Vbimb 7 , Phone MM4 Bay It te Camden. 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