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*99* (Eamdrn (EtironirU 1119 North Brood Street ComdiB, S. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY end FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker DaCocU Brown - - - Editor -- Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subeeriptiona Payable In Advance One Year u; .$3.50 Sin Months ^ 2.00 M Second Class OBIee at Ch»4sn, 8. C. - - . March «s Matter at ter at the Post Concreas All articles submitted for publication must be slffnsd by the author TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1949 A Splendid Theme Last week was National Business Wo men’s Week and the theme for the week adopted by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women was “Boost your home town—it boosts you.” This, we submit, was an excellent theme, one to which we should all give deep con sideration, for next to loyalty to one's country, we would place loyalty to one’s home town. One would not think anything of a man or woman who went around knocking his or 'her own family. 'No one does that. If there are things in their family that they don’t like they try to correct them but they never knock their family. • We should all take the same attitude towards our home town. If there are things in it that we do not approve of we should strive earnestly to correct them but wc should not knock our town because of those things. After all it is our town and •we should strive to make it a town of which we can be proud. The besetting sin of most towns is jealousy, which has been termed by some one as the “ugliest fiend of hell.” It has retarded the growth of more towns than probably any other one factor. Joe Doakes refuses to cooperate in any movement even though it be a good movement for the- town that Sam Doakes starts because he is afraid Sam may get some credit for it and vice versa. Colton once said that “of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pay the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemy; its wages to be sure of it” Another besetting sin is the tendency of people to think that they can get better bargains and better merchandise else where. They'll go to a large city and buy the same things which they could bave bought at home and for the same price, ^aud in buying at home fhey would have helped their home town merchant that much. • Town pride and town loyalty is some thing we should all cultivate. It was town pride and town loyalty that made Atlanta the metropolitan city that it is. The business women should keep their theme the year around and should hammer, at it all of the time. It might do good.w Mr. Olds Is Rejected The United States Senate elevated it self in fhe eyes of the general public when it refused to be coerced into confirming L^land Olds as a member of the Federal Power Commission. President Truman and Chairman Wil liam M. Boyle of the national “demo cratic” executive committee had pulled every string they knew how to pull—in cluding a threat of taking away patron age from those Democratic Senators who refused to Vote for the confirmatiefh—in an effort to force Mr. Olds’ nomination across. The defeat administered to the Presi dent was a stinging one and a just one. There was too much evidence as to the unsoundness of Mr. Olds’ views on free enterprise! There are too many men about whose Americanism no one can raise a question who can fill the job acceptably! It is gratifying to note that both South Carolina Senators voted against the con firmation of Olds. They are to be com mended. Paradoxical It is rather paradoxical that at a time when the United States national defense ought to be strong and united, the Ameri can Navy and Air Force should be locked in a bitter controversy. It is unthinkable that our strong arms of defense should be warring with each other at such a time in bur national life. t Congratulations are due the Camden Kiwanis Club on its selection of Dr. A. W. Humphries aa its president for the next club year. He has always been active not Kershaw County F. F. A. Kershaw county has a perfect right # to be proud—extremely proud—of its Future Farmers of America. At the national F. F. A. convention in Kansas City last week the Baron DeKalb and Camden High school chapters were awarded plaques in the national chapter contest. The Baron DeKalb chapter won th;s plaque last year, the first time it had ever been won by a South Carolina chapter. In addition William Jordan, a member of the- Baron DeKalb chapter, won the coveted'American farmer degree. The splendid achievements of these two chapters reflect credit upon their ad visors, J. L. Talley and H. A. Small. • There are ofher excellent F. F, A. chap ters in the county also. All of these organizations are filling a very vital need in the schools and deserve Whole-hearted support. A Threat To Moscow It is becoming increasingly evident that the defection of Marshal Tito is the most urgent problem confronting Moscow to day. It is apparent now that Tito has done more than declare his independence of Moscow. He has proclaimed and develop ed a rival form of Communism, which threatens the whole vast international Communist system which Moscow has painstakingly built up since the end of World War 1 and which provides ore of the principal—if not the prirlcipal—cor nerstones of its foreign policy. Information reaching this country is that Tito’s new “national communism” is gaining a surprising number of converts from Moscow’s “international communism” in numerous countries of Europe other than Yugoslavia. It is said that a Communist Party ap paratus Tyrthout a single link "to Moscow has been set up or is in the process of being set up in western Germany. It is also said that a substantial proportion of French Communists have openly proclaim ed themselves adherents of the Tito rather than the Stalin doctrine. Further it is claimed that the Austrian Communist Party is seriously considering serving or weakening its ties with the Cominform. Other reports say that Communist party leaders in Italy and otfher western Euro* pean countries are having an increasingly difficult time in “selling” Moscow policies to their rank-and-file follows. All of this leads ^to the belief that the Tito revolt has spread far beyond the confines of Yugoslavia—a fact of which the Yugoslavs are well aware and which they are seeking to exploit to the full. - It is pointed out that one thing that has helped the pro-Titoists considerably in western Europe has been the weak show ings ntitfle by the Communist slates in most recent elections. Just last week the Com munists made an extremely poor showing in the Austrian elections. One factor which has led to the spread of the Tito doctrine is that there is a very large percentage of the leftist population of every country which values patriotism and national interest above the interests of the Soviet Union. They realize that for all the lip service it pays to inter nationalism, Russia is basically as national istic in outlook and aim as Hitler’s Ger many was. It is thhs easy to see why Russia is con cerned over the spread of the Tito brand of Communism. As to the differences between Tito's Communism and Stalin’s we are not pre pared to say except that Tito’s appears to be the brand that each country can operate itself while Russia would operate al! of those countries using Stalin’s plan. Both plans stink to high heaven but as between two evils we would say that Tito’s is the lesser one. i! Drunken Drivers Says The Clinton Chronicle: “As one reads the monthly reports of the vehicle, division of the South Carolina highway department it seems that drunk en drivers are about to take the highways. In the past month 508 driving licenses were suspended, practica'lly all because the drivers were driving while under the influence of intoxicants, beer and liquor. They should have been revoked, of course, for a drinking man at a steering wheel is a dangerous menace to innocent people on the highways. 1 After investigations are made, the usual report of officers gives liquor as the cause of the accident” Some of thele days, perhaps, our law makers are going to do something drastic about this drunken driving business and make it a jail sentence without fhe altern- iftte ef a fine. Y, OCTOBER It. ,1 I j?’ 4 s li IhinkinqOutloud The trouble with a coal atrlkb la that it la not Just a miner incon venience. According to a aafety expert, workers in an exploeiree plant are 4.1 per cent safer than they are in their homes. And yet people keep on getting married! If M*ry h*d a uttle lamb today it won)d hare great difficulty in keeplnk up with her, that la if >he la like the average Mary. “Senator Young (North Dakota) Complains Cost of Bread Too High"—headline. That’s an old complaint. . | A motorist finds the average pedestrian very approachable. The bachelor viewpoint is that not every sad-eyed woman has loved and lost, but that perhaps she got him. ■ t 1 Many a man who recalls how his father used to love the Democratic party now wonders what became of the party. • ' " ■■ ■ ■ It’s difficult to get any one to listen to you if you’re talking sense, which may be one reason why so few people talk sense. A Mrs. William Govard of Los Angeles, says in a patent medicine testimonial that because her hus band objected to her being so fat she reduced 50 pounds in six months. In this case it was not a woman’s ego that caused her to reduce but her Will. A machine that thinks has been invented. We’d like to see what sort of a column it turns out. "No two men have exactly the same ideas as to the type girl they want for a wife,” says a writ er. Along that line it is interest- iiW to note the type girl *a Cali fornia man wanted. He advertised as follows in the Wilshire Express: "Wanted: Sensible, intelligent girl between the age of 25-30 to be my wife. She must be attractive (so I will not have eyes for any one else), a neat dresser, a good cook, be an orphan. I have no in-laws to offer so naturally I desire no In-laws, must neither smoke nor drink, be near-sighted (so she will have eyes for no one else) and must be both deaf and dumb.” mmm • *T" A medical writer says that there is a remedy for every ailment If It can only be found. And that reminds us of the wild-eyed man who went (6 see a physician. “Oh, doctor,” he cried, "I’m dreadfully afflicted. The ghosts of my de parted relatives come and perch on the tope ef fence poets all around my garden whan duak la falling. I can look Into the gloaming any evening and see a couple of doeen spooks sitting on top of the posts, waiting, waiting, waiting! What can I do?” The doctor thought a few minutea "Sharpen the tops of the poets,” he finally advised. “Chiangists Turn Red In France” —headline. Just think of a red Chinaman! You can’t say that most county fairs are just fair—there’* always lot of carnival to them. Every day that a Communist writes a letter is a red letter day wi»h him. Mon$y can’t do everything. ‘ For instance it may buy a finer dog but It will not make him wag his tail. The editor of a health column says that people should not dose themselves, certainly unless they have full directions. Yes, for ex ample, it seems that the Danish airiines give their passengers sticks of chewing gum labeled: "To prevent unpleasant pressure In your ears during starting and land ing.” One day a lady pas^nger appealed to the stewardess: "Help me get this stuff out of my ears. It doesn’t help me any” The Army. and Nary seem to be in pretty good shape Judging by their recent football games. On the day the Senate refused to confirm one of his appointees because it thought he was a “red” the president appointed Mrs. Eu genie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn., as ambassador to Denmark. When Oscar Lange went to in spect his newly erected home at Capac, Michigan, the other day he fouhd that thieves had removed it from Its foundation and driven It away on a track, get a lot. With The Press Must Be Ended Sometime Although the war has been over five years, the veterans adminis tration has Just canceled restric tions on the educational rights ot veterans. Unless something is done to limit the educational program, some veterans will srtiU be college boys when their beards have grown down to their knees.—NeSrs ana Courier, Peculiar Argument When Mr. JeWeries of the San- tee-Cooper power plant, told a Charleston civic club recently that private power companies are fas cist in nature, it was a peculiar statement. Mr. Jefferies argued that private corporations form monopolies in that they are given exclusive franchises In given areas. If that is a monopoly and fascist in practice, then Santee-Cooper is in the same category. Santee- Cooper not only wants exclusive franchises in given areas, but it wants exclusive franchisee in all areas. It attempted the purchase of the South Carolina Power com pany, which X It had beea effected would have given Santee-Cooper exclusive power control of a Urge section of the state.—Bamberg Herald. The Belgian King One of tbs troublesome Issues facing the Belgian Government is the question of the return of King Leopold, which seems, to be mov ing to something of a climax. The government of Belgium, In volving a coalition between -the Roman Catholic Christian Social Party and the Liberals, is prepared basis but plans to institute s refer- to seek a solution on a national endum even if the Socialists vote against it Interesting to Americans is the fact that thq Socialists have un officially insisted that, before the King be allowed to return, sixty- six per cent of the voters must favor the restoration. Tbs other parties do not agree on this per centage but hold out for a vote of fifty-five per cent. The issue is up for debate in the Senate this month and Premier Gaston Eyskens hopes to have the question settled by a referendum this year or early in 1950.—Orange burg Tlnies & Democrat. But they didn’t ^ One reason some people don’t try to make a living is that it en tails the use* of both common sense and hard work. A 4 Missouri man when charged with evasion of the Income tax ■aid the reasoa he had never paid any was that he didn’t believe in It . And that reminds ns of the school boy who was taking his first piano lesson. “N yon play in the high school hand, you already know the elementary things, the scales, for instance.” the teacher told him. voh, no,” replied the youth who doubles in brass, "oar band leader last year didn’t be lieve in them.” operated window Iceboxes For Eskimos News that Denmark is going all out this year to help Greenland electrify its four ’largest habitable settlements — introducing radios, flatirons and white porcelain elec tric stoves—brings up the question of what the United States is doing for thousands of Eskimos who come under its rule in northern Alaska. ’ *’ » —. Some 6,000 Danes migrated to Greenland this, post -summer to carry out the improvement pro gram. According to Reuters, the shipment ftem Greenland of sev eral thousand tone of salted fish to Mediterranean countries during 1048 suggested the possibility that with more encouragement Green land could be a very valuable colon ial asse^ instead of merely an ex plorers’ icy vacationland. Hardy sheep do vpry well there though forage Is scarce. And Greenland holds tha key to weather that eventually reaches western Europe. Then there’s lead In Greenland which Denmark can swap for dol- lan. % But Alaskan Eskimos may still keep up with all the Joneaee up north. If navy experiments now going on at Point Barrow, Alaska, prove worth while, aluminum Igloos may spring up all over the North land. For naval researchers are toying with newly designed hous ing structures made of a frame work of aluminum beams covered with a “sandwich” of resin-impreg nated paper between thin sheet aluminum. This gives a strong, light, and highly insulated wall r.l 01 10 out Arctic blizzards. ,\ When the weather' around 61 below, all Only One? The only difference betwwen the smell try of yester-year and today is that today’s child expects the whole handful of change.—Chris tian Science Monitor. Slowly The first person who knows a girl is going tc get married is her mother: next, the girl: third, all the girl’s’ friends, and fourth, it slowly dawns on the groom-to-be that he’s hooked.—Grit Definition Lowell nows commentator, recently quoted his father’s definition of a good public speaker: "Somebody who knows how to make more than one friend at a time.”—Western Re corder. CADGHT » a Our President Our preekteat, Harry Truman, has always given most of the South the impression that he is a cheap Kansas City politician without background or refinement, afcd his actions over the week-end did little to dissipate this notion. A news story from West Virginia where the president is visiting friends reported in great detail that he won fifty cents betting on the weather (he said it would be warm, and It was) then to emphasise his worth as a prognosticator, he took off his sport shirt and strutted around in his underwear. When the President of the Unit ed States so far forgets the dignity and prestige that in the minds of most people go with the office that he strolls around the couptry-slde in his undershirt, then it’s time for a change. In fact it’s past time.—Pee Dee Advocate. jj,, ML i ipmiunmm JK. -xMAci - Looking Backward On Camden The following news items are taken from The Camden Chronicle, issue of Oct 16. 1925: The roll of honor of the Camden City schools for the first month of the session follows: Grade 11b: Charles Lorlck, Mary Cureton, Margaret Billings, Sarah DePass, Jumeile Halle, Ruth Rob inson, Martha Slngletbn, Harriet Whitaker. , Grade 11a: Carolyn Wooten, Maud Dabney, Susie Wstklns, Jemel Rabon, Pearl Jones. Grade 10b: John Richardson. Robert Davis. Grade 10a: Gertrude Zemp, Moultrie Burns, Willie Porter, Louise Jennings, Alleen Funder burk, Louis Lang. Grade 9b: Evelyn Bruce, Virginia Haile, Ellen Stewart, Dotty Zemp. Grade fa: Mary Boykin, Joe Moguleacu, Elmer Watts. Grade 8b: Betty Cureton, Sarah Mills, Caroline Richardson. Grade 8a: Frederick L Graham, Robert M. Kennedy, Duncan M. Lang, J. RocheUe Sheorn. Grsde 7c: Sarah Shiver. Grgde 7b: Isla Mae Rhoden, Dewey Dority. Grade 7a: Elisabeth Zemp, Wil lie Haile, Emily Pitts, Elizabeth McCasklll, Lenora Rhame, Arthur Brown, Geneva Jones, Carolyn Hoostr, Mattie Shaw, Carolyn Mo- Kain. Grade 8b: Wlllene Hall, Mabul Shirley. Grads 6a: Phyllis Garrison. Alice DePass, Emily Qoodale, Margaret Goodale, Joe Jenkins, Margaret McCoy, Solomon Mims, Sarah Richey, Grace Robinson, Grayson Shaw, Lois Turner. Grade 5a: Samuel McCaekill, Katherine Kennedy, Sarah Kirk land, Meta Mogulei Drawdry, Joseph L Pitta, Emily Zemp Elisabeth Gardner. Bora to Mr. and 1 Creed, Thursday, Oct Members of the J poet of the America planning to put on i two nights in Novel Hknsch Bros. 4 Co advertisement of the veraary sale. 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