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TE1 (Zttp (Sambrn (Eljrontflf 1119 North Brood Street Cemden, S. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY Harold C. Booker .... Editor DaCofta Brown • - - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION ISRMS: All Subacriptions Payable In Advance One Year .$3.50 Six Months .................................. Entered ae Second Class Matter at the Poet OCflee at Camden, S. under aet <k March t, 1979 All artlclee submitted (or pabUcatkm - signed hr the author it be FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949 To Protect Our Wildlife It is good to note that there is a move ment underway to organize a branch of the South Carolina Wildlife Federation in Kershaw county. There is probably no county in the state that should be more interested in the preservation of our wildlife than this one because we doubt if any county has a greater proportionate number of sports men than it has. ' It Becomes more and more evident each year that unless some drastic steps are taken to protect our wildlife it will soon be gone. We have been neglecting one of the vital ffifts of nature. AU over the United States South Caro lina is known as the most backward of all the states in the matter of game and wild life conservation. Our game is reported to be disappearing faster than ever be fore. Certainly it is high time that something was being done to protect it. Mr. Burma.. Hon. James F. Byrnes has indicated that he may make the race for Governor of South Carolina next year and in a statement he indicated that if elected he would resist any further encroachment on the rights of the states. Of this he said: “And there is another very important question worthy of serious consideration, whether one as Governor could secure the cooperation of other Governors in arousing the people of the nation to hold the line against further encroachments upon the rights of the states.” If Mr. Bymet will run for Governor on a States Rights' platform he will be elected. The Baseball Situation If. Camden is to have league baseball next season the time to be doing some thing about it is right now. Waiting until . the last minute to get organized cost the Camden club hundreds of dollars last year and the year before because they had to scour the country in order to get players and try out so many players before a team that would be in the race was found. If a professional league is organized much of the expense that is involved in fielding a semi-pro team would be elimi nated. There would be a strict salary limit, Better control could be exercised over the players and there would be a limit to wiKlch any team could go in all mstters. it might be possible if an organization was perfected locally to get a tie-up with some Big league team but before such a tie-up could be secured there would have to be some manifestation of local senti ment for baseball. One will just have to admit that it would be a long, hot, lonesome summer in Camden without baseball. If a pro fessional league is organized we hope Camden will be in it We doubt the wis dom of fooling any more with the Pal metto League as it has been operated in the past. An audit of the books and records of the several departments of Aiken county for the fiscal year ending June 30 discloses that a total of $284,954.56 was receipted for all departments while during the same period a total of $519,142.84 was expend* ed. It wouldn't take even a county long jto go bankrupt at that rate. The answer to the question, ‘Tor what /shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" la the same now as it was a ^century ago or ten centurieq ago. ,It will ever be the ■ A Fine Choice The selection of General George C. Marshall as president of the American Red Cross was a most happy one. General Marshall is one of the beloved figures of this nation, one who commands the respect of all, and under his guidance that great organization is expected to continue the great work that has made it outstanding the world over. With Federal Aid / A $3,000,000 expansion program for Greenville's General Hospital Mas 'been projected and work on It was to be com menced at an early date. Most of the ^program was to be financed by taxes paid by residents of Greenville county. Part of the money was to come from a bond issue to be repaid from local taxes. A small part of the money was to come from federal funds under the Hill-Burton act. A federal law, the Bacon-Davis Act, gives to the United States Department of Labor the authority to fix wage scales for projects to be paid for wholly or in part with federal funds. The scale is supposed !to be the prevailing wage for the* area in which the project lies. Under the terms of this act the Green ville Hospital submitted to the Depart ment of Labor' in Washington a scale it considered the prevailing wage, as de termined from wages paid on comparable projects. The Department of Labor in Washing- ton turned this down and submitted a re vised scale, considerably higher than sug gested by the Hospital ^oard as compar able to prevailing wages in that area. The Hospital Board objected to the De partment of Labor figures and asked a hearing Before / a Department of Labor referee. The Hospital Board and Green ville contractors appeared to protest the Department's figures and to ask adoption of the Hospital Board's figures. Repre sentatives of the organized building crafte appeared to urge the Department to en force the higher wage. The hearing is now in recess while both sides seek fur ther data to strengthen their cases. In an editorial headed “Federal Aid Brings Federal Dictation,” the Greenville Piedmont in commenting on the situation, said: “A federal agency has ‘been given the authority to set wages in Green ville county projects on which federal money Is used. This is an extension of the authority the Federal Govern ment has been exercising by law and by precedent in many fields. It demon strates the extent to which federal authority has been expanded through the years as labor has asked and got ten governmental favors, as industry has asked and gotten federal loans ■ and preferential laws, as localities and institutions have gotten grants-in-aid from federal funds. 4 —r-fr- “This authority is dangerous. It has nothing to do with an agreement between employer and employee, nothing to do with collective bargain ing. It is power of the central gov ernment over the lives of individuals and over private industry. We know where and how it started but we don’t know where it will end. “It would be just as logical for the government to determine the price the Hospital Board must pay for lum ber, paints, nails and steel. “This authority has led to some difficulties and may lead to more. For instance, the wage scale for one major Greenville project being built on a federal loan has been, revised upward since the building contract was let. * If that scale is enforced now, that project may be in danger of never being completed. “In this situation there is a very real danger that major building may be discouraged with the result that contractors would be without projects . on which to bid and labor would be short of jobs. “But aside from this the matter boils down to a cohcrete example of federal aid bringing federal dicta tion,” The Piedmont’s editorial is sound and it should set every one to thinking. Per haps sooner or later we will quit running to the Federal Government for everything we want. It is so silly to do this, any way, because after all the money is com ing out of the taxpayer’s pocket and he is probably paying more in the long run for these so-called ‘Tederal Aid” projects [than he would have paid if the state or county had gone ahead and built them. The Chronicle has ' lately been com menting on federal aid to education. The Greenville case is further convincing proof that wilh federal aid will come federal control of education. The federal govern ment will dictate the salaries paid teach ers, their hours, who shall attend the schools, what they shall study and every thing connected with them in a very short time after the aid began. It would be too good an opportunity for the adminis tration to try to instruct the ;youths along the road we are now traveling for them to pass it up. Ouflfflld Give it win •sough Europe sad itself. We are flad that our creditor* hare afparastiy overlooked the (act that this la national “Letter Writing Week." An old timer la a man who can remember when hia town had a Republican postmaster. Shoring la what we would call “sound" sleeping. We agree with that Western editor who aald that while thia may he a small world after all, it is not eo small that Uncle Sam can support all of it. At nearly every fair there are exhibitions of tight rope walking, but we haven’t seen auy of these professional artists yet that can beat the skill displayed by some Carolina politicians last South year? An exhibit in which a woman la maknig good, hot biscuits has at tracted large crowds at the State Fair. It is so unusual! deed. For AU Regard lees of what can be done about It temporarily, the law it supply and deamnd usually holds sway. And when the time la reached when aonnly aatehaa up with demand, then the competitive spirit enters the picture. That time has already arrived. Nor la it an unhealthy condition. The day of selling on a “take it or leave ft" basis at whatever the “trade will stand" is e. Even the automotive indus try baa reached -this point, with very few exceptioas. The industry however large, or the business however small, must of necessity in the future, conduct its business on the basis of quality goods, fair price and good service. But what more should business expect to give In exchange for hard-earned dollars. The condi tion is a good one for all oon- cerned.—Newberry Observer.' A business executive, not noted among his colleagues for hesitancy in expressing his views, stood up at a recent gathering of industrial lenders and began to speak with unaccustomed resolution. The meeting had been discussing many hard facts at huslnras — World la dot demands — but the led off la an unexpected e haven’t one very an activii read history, to w ork its . A human being Is said to have 7,000,000 pores. So we are only pore, weak mortals after all. One way to enjoy popularity, aays a writer, is to always have' a pleasant greeting for every one. Yee! Sort of like the two women who had Hot seen each other In a long time. “Gracious, Dorothy,” said one of them, “I haven’t seen you for seven years. You certainly look old." “You, too, Eleanor, dear,” replied the other. “1 would not have recognized you except for the dress and hat.” I Tfct tremendous decline in the Com munist vote in Austria shows which way the wind Is blowing In Europe. 1. ST< •w»EXl Mbft Similar To Polio It la reported by the Sctepce News Letter that recent discov eries by experto of the Yale School of Medicine hare isolated a new vims which produces symptoms similar to the non-paralyzing form of infantile paralysis and which appears to break out at the same time as polio. The scientists be lieve that a good many patleifta believe to be afflicted with polio are really attacked by the new vims. The chief cause of interest in the new vims was its discovery in the sewage of last year's polio epidemic areas in several eastern cities, the item relates. And what la still more intereeting it goes on to re port that '‘flies have been found to be carriers of the disease which seems to bo spread from sewage much like polio." This statement seems to be a more or less tacit admission or ac cusation that polio, as a sports men’s organization suggested a few years age, is closely related to sewage and flies.—The State. problems without reeogniziitg it we/ have discussed many pro posals this afternoon for iniotl A Wyoming woman has had four husbands, each named BUI. She must bo some sort of a Bill col lector. A North Carolina politician shouts that “higher education is a necessity." How much higher? Inasmuch as we have to elect a United flutes Senator and Gov ernor next year we are in for Iota of orating, agitating, cogitating, negotUtlng, palpitating and expec torating. There is an old saying 'hat a woman suffers in silence. How does she happen to be so different then? f* It’s all rif#fh^a ires surgeon do some grafting when neces sary# Between the devil, the Commun ists and John L. Lewis this country seeme to be la for a hard time. A writer says that a full dent ist’s kit has 5,000 instruments in ft What does he mean by “full' dentist? Degrees of Intelligence In some respects, muses The Charlotte News, chickens are more latelligent than human beings who look after them. ‘Tears ago," says The News, “chickens alongside the road would become completely flus tered. Instead of staying in a safe place, they insisted on flying into your radiator or windshield. Nowadays you seldom hit s chick en." Have these roadside creatures become more intelligent or more used to the automobile? Even dogs trot along the proper side of the highway. And every motorist re calls the roadside hog ’which used to stare at you with stolid indif ference until you would get with in a four foot of him whoa bo would oaort with disdain and at tempt to dash across the highway) right in- front of your automobile. Nowadays the hog usually re mates • safe distance from the speeding motor car. These dumb creatures might not have developed a higher degree of intoiligonce, but at time* they show more wislom than some human beings who do ndt seem to realize that the auto mobile is s death-dealing machine. —Dillon Herald; r < . , this or that, but does Really know the part that hm pUyed, can play, or < _ In^ the general scheme of reaction on the part of the listeners was immediate and pro- 1 ’ according to, an article in vember issue of Magazine Digest. Several persons clamored to be heard They, men who could be explicit and definite on such subjects as mergers, market^ and promotions, tongue-tied in A were i expressing Imost _ their views^on religion in relation to the realities of commerce. They appeared as so many men groping the un in the darl known—for k, groping for r God. ery Ligu But .the very fact that the ■■MEIPEIL the qi tion of religion was raised by such men at such a gathering is significant. It was a small surface indication that many businessmen in recent years have been won dering, with themselves, whether the fact of religion has not a part to play in the ordinary business of life. This groping has nothing to do with the individual business lead er’s own belief in Gdd or his “re- hag long been a familiar figure on their R is rather •n .« re “using" rehSo? Po m p onen j'*ya , 1 of ill human “ recent Pto-wes whichW^kS’ much more frequent??** S3* colleges STofe 9 n8!lnat * there. existence, thebSSJ partly, on the5 "mfch prepare a youngT the church and for busiWi over, in recent years, it lu Jazhionahie foT der! m siding with the m2 become critical of bi*b5 This attitude, of wWch^ businessmen have compUin discussion of religion, has ni ly not helped to bring Sure commerce closer together A suggested solution is'th vinity students should be t a broader course, one which i impart an understand^* u Certainly 1 ah ,, , y they would find tile field for “missionary” among tens of thousands < nation’s businessmen, who themselves groping toward socialism than wo Here’s some light news for you: According to a newspaper filler the star Sirius is 8.6 light years away. Far Along the Road As head of a concern whose very life la threatened by the gov- ernment> socialistic power pro gram, Erneat L. Godshalk speaks with first-hand experience when he warne that “we are farther on the road toward know.” Mr. Godshalk la president of tne South Carolina Power company of Charleston. Thia is the company that Santee-Cooper, a public power project built with 895,099,990 hi federal funds, has announced that it intends either to take over or to give "oompetitioo to the Nth degree.’’ Since the power com pany pays heavy taxes, while flaa- tee-Oooper pays virtually none, the competition is a very real threat. “No tedtvMaal. no political party is to blame for the waning spirit of Individualism,’’ Mr. Godshalk told members of thpvCharlestoBri Exchange eteb. ”W»oureelvre are as responsible as our alected'-and appointed officials . . Wfc have forgotten that freedom and re sponsibility are lneepara(>ie/’ That conclusion cannot bo. de nied. What the government today is attempting to do to private pow er companies can be extended to morrow to the raUroads. the mines, the steel industry, al) big business. After that, only a small aten la re quired for the government to take over small business, farmsv stores. What fanner, what small busi nessman la as free today as he was 20 years ago? The responsibility, aa Mr. God shalk pointed out. Is oa tl dividual. If he wants men handouts, government hoeslai ernment price controls gw w fwumateed jobs sad wsgw wants say of those tMap than he wants freedea, he v be disturbed at the course of Deal" government la mi Coarrter. MILLER'S For Uri WH(m FAY HI •ILLS IF YOU'RE LAID t • Mg port of liB Fat m W IRe Abo IMN Phone IMl-J ‘it’s human nature to place the blame for shortcomings on conditions,” says a writer. You have probably heard the story of the novice golfer who approached the first tee, nervously glancing around to see if he were being ob served. Sure enough, there were about 30 people sitting on the club house porch. Undaunted he teed up, selected his driver, swung the club to a mighty arc—and missed. Again and again he swung at the ball, and each time he missed. Finally he wiped his forehead, turned to the audience and said: “Tough course, ain’t It?” Hen eggs are getting to be about as scarce as hen’s teeth. An employer says that one ad vantage of having married men as employes is that they do not get upset whe nhe hollers at them. “Eighty Year* Old; Still Opti mistic” — headline. He’a rather hard to discourage. fb/ttis OnlyA io mere days te urit *m,ooo m- A congressman says that it is time the people of this country were finding out where they are going. May bp they are like the absent-minded ‘professor who was taking a train trip. When the conductor 'cam* through for his ticket, the professor couldn’t locate It. He fumbled through his pockets nervously several times and did not find It. Finally the conductor, who knew him well, aald: "Well, professor, I know you had a ticket so that will bt all right” The professor continued to hunt for it frantically saying, “yeo. but I’ve got to find it so 1 can know where I am going.” 700 Prizes z* »• Ak*leAu.MuM *» taw Defy Model P-5, A man has succeeded in growing a wingless chicken. Now if we could only succeed In growing a left wingless generation of people It would be a better world. PO*D Tracks, Radio ond "Magic Air" Hoator. > as Orisac la «» too 5 of Hia 25 car far a keck QUICK RELIEF FROM ^•tooous. aMRMTJ ffCMClf no #oo us ULCERS IS ACID XOnOttSSmmaomt SSOZsutSmmBom iutn atm-k . REDRARN Wm» •RIVI IN r