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3» f — — (Sip (Sam&rtt dUprotiirU 1119 North Brood Street Camden, S. C PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY RACK WEEK Harold C. Booker - - Editor DaCoeta Brown ...» Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $3.50 Six Months - 2.00 ■»*— Entered as Second Claee Matter at the Poet Office at Caatden, 8. C, under act of Confreea March t, 1171 Ail Bubmitied far miblicatlon slfned bjr the anther 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 ttfe same bill find 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 educed 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, witlf 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 have in this case an illustration of what to expect in the event of Federal aid to schools. It will be iQInoat 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. t 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 - Coercing The Senate It seems that in order to be a 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 Leland Olds, reappointed to the federal power commis sion. Citing a telegram from William M. Boyle, national “Democratic" chairman, Senator Harry F. Byrd 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 pleases." 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 go ahead and appoint whomever he pleased and make laws by decree. The Senate should very forcibly remind the President that the poorer of confim- 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. Camden is going to grow faster than any town In South Cayolina- during the next five years. ^ ■ v,. Will KOI the Gante 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 fils 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. r 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 ' 4 *. \ in this connection the Camdtin High school football team is due a compliment for the clean game which it is playing and for the fine 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 dfiening 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 school 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. ' ‘ QjmSm Ihmkinq Out Loud “Less ’Hum Half of Tram an Plans Written Into Law”—headline in Charleston Neva and Courier. So, yon aee, we coaid be in twice as bad a fix aa we we hi. There's always lots of radio ac tivity during a world’s baseball series. - _ __—»»— ■—-—■—- We are glad that the surviving Confederate veterans held their re anion before the world’s aeries be cause the victory of the Yankees would certainly bave cast a damper upon it. One trouble about a fisherman is that he has no partition between his imagination and his facts. It doesn’t do any good for a man to have a good aim in li{e unless 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? -------f-*- (i » mmmm 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 hasn't far to (Oil. A writer thinks the youngsters of today are being trained to be too mercenary. That must be so because We beard the other day of a father and son who were hav ing a heart-to-heart talk about school affairs In general and report cards 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 string, aa Secretary of Com merce Sawyer says, but what we ara worrying about is our private economy. There has been lots of upsetting news for the football fans this fall. A Chicago musician says he has lost hundreds of dollars lending money to other people. Evidently he doesn't know,his notes. According to an astronomer the earth In its orbit around the ann travels 1,000 miles a minute. This confirms our suspicion that wa have been traveling at too fast a pace. Did you«ver really see a straw break a camel’s back? - Why should a spinster who has a dog that growls, a parrot that swears, a stove that smokes and a cat that stays out all night-want a husband? "Nearly an of the known ele ments are used In an automobile,” says a newspaper filler. Yes, and a gfttrmdny of the unknown ones. A South Dakota man, siring for divorce, says his wife always seems to have It in for his people. And that reminds us of the little boy who wes eyeing the new visitor With The Press Unknowingly Retreat wonderment at .the apparent Ide ological inconsistency of the Amer ican people. They reaort to mili tary measuros without stint to up hold the free clvilixatlon. They vociferously condemn the philo sophies of socialism and commun ism. And yet they seem to accept with fatalistic calm the deadly growth of government In this coun try. They work on the average of one peek oat 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 states of subjects. Unquestionably the people In this country are against totalitarian government. They have never knowingly retreated before its threat. It la threatening them now and they are retreating—unknow ingly.—Fort Mill Times. Youth At The Wheel Technology and irresponsibility are poor partners. But studies of highway accidents in the United States show an undue and increas ing proportion of thpse accidents to be caused by irresponsible teen agers 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 ths fron tier runs wild when it becomes a competitive, show-off spirit on today’s superhighways. . A deep sense for the rights— including the lives—of other indi viduals should be a goal of all education. At the same 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 tbe game.—Christian Sci ence. Historical Facts About Cn surmounting the tower of the City H ** i * the profile buaineee. There appeared i* * ** « old Camden Gazette of April lAm** which read: 1 J. B. Mathieu’s—60c Warranted Correct Likenesg” It is gratifying to know that thin hv*. Haiglar to warranted. It b dates as early as 1826, In which vt.,* 1 rt * « the sumndt of the completed market steep) opposite the old court house on South Rrl.'jTT it presided until 185» when it was removed^H, S' uptown and stood on the second pereh 1886. Then it was removed to its present hSSJ stely in time to save it from the£Hf I&! which swept away the old tower and iSarteTSl at or near the present location of Belt’s hr i* Department stores on the west side of BroaSrfJ?! Kin* Haiglsr’s first official appear ™,? ter written to him aa “King of the Chickashaw tribe in the year 1753 tincruished careers, that nf ^ ol Should Be Dealt With In a spedch which he made in the Congress over a year ago. Representative Joe Bryaon of ■H.L ■ ■ M« ! h N to the heme. "And you say you’re my grandmother.” he Inquired. "Yes, darling, Tm your grandmoth er on year 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 SufengrwEptertainment At Wegener”—leadline in Colum bia Record. Now that’s tbe sort of entertainment we like. A college president says that it should be the ambition of every college student to get a Ph. D. Don’t know about that! You’ve probably htard the story of the old colored woman who cooked' at a Ph. p.’s house. One day ths tele phone rang and she answered it. The voice at the other end of the phone wanted to know If tbe doc tor was In. “Yea,” replied tbe cook, “bat he’s not the kind of doctor that does anybody any good." *■ • onnwuccs puiuvu • vvuey raw) mm from took >iii scalp and the Catawbas, like all theothi melted away under constant warfare, drink and To the credit of King Haiglar he strove alw.vf rum from his table. y Greenville, saftt: , f "Tbe time has coma * to deal forcefully with foreign agents and home-grown traitors. If America is to remain strong and free, we must 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 stands alone In a world that Is being en gulfed by Godless and tyrannical communism that eaalaves the body and soul of men. It is our solemn reaponslbillty to resist the Soviet Union’s insatiable lust 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 In stitutions seem to be Boney-combed with them. Every few weeks some startling revelation comes out abode them being In our big uni versities training tbe youth of the land. And what are we doing about it? —Greenville Observer. i No Bomb Targets You can quit worrying about that A*bomb shelter If the experts are right. They list 92 cities In the nation that would be eensldered prime targets in case Soviet Russia de cided to send one-way suicide bombing missions to tho U. & Not .one South Carolina city Is llstsd among the targets.' ; The closest ticketed for A-bomb ‘in esse” are Atlanta and Charlotte. The peerere-tnto-thafhnire, of course, can’t read Raaeiaa mind* and the time may oome when the men In the Kremlin will decide to knock out tbe textile industry and then we’d be in for It; but that day is tar away. Ths fact la that the Russians now possess planes which would bring every pert of thq United States under attack—If and whan they get enough A-bombs. Tbe Soviet bembers are copies of tbe American B-29. They have a range of 4,900 miles and possibly 4,500 or 5,000 miles Bombers based in e beria could strike tbs v almost without warnin* an major U. 8. citieTex in Florida. This route would give coverage of the count! would provide time f a Eastern areas while t were crossing the count] The Reds could atrl Bast from bases In Vs northwest Russia, hiti England and traveUng si a* New York sad as U Montana. > Taking off from baset central Russia. Red bom sweep over the North and supplement other «t blows all across North aa far south as North Q Tbe heavily populated East are vulnerable to a any of these points. Th United States is so sit graphically tiiih it won) difficult tQ/reaojh. That mby Wplain hi many large Industries i plants in the South aa dust rial leaders look wit Southern locations wbei tag * dispersing key units. Anyway, It’s nice Is no South Carolina cities tar destruction as yet hope the Russians too* Anderson Independent WHO'LL MY BUIS IF YOU'RE LAIC n» MtfnfoUia U a big part STL k Z. WHIion Phams 11914 Ed V8VMR Phone 19114 # # * ..... i *■ more ..Let the cor prove itl NEW YORKER 4-DOOR lEDAN of any car • * . blowouts can’t throw a' tin uadtr •taaost any normal driving. • engineering and mfortable. JVith autHul interiors Try drlulnp urMwnt shifting in die car with the simplest automatic transmission of all ... dm ear that gives you complete control. Wnrio Ihrpwgh Rond and storm that would stall any other car! 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