Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDOf GMUMflCLg. CAMDeil f iOPTH CA10LDML TPE1PAT ©Iff QUimdnt (Ei 1119 North Brood Street Camden, S. C PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker - DaCoeta Brown - - - Editor Pnbltaher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subacriptions Payable In Advance One Year .$3.50 Six Months —• 2.0Q ■ ■ . 111 '»j>» Eatered m Second CUm Matter at the B*et Office at Camden, 8. C, under act of March S, IfTf All article* aubmitted for vnbiicatloa moat he signed hr the anchor TUESDAY, OCTOBBK 25, W49 Has Done Grand Job In his statement In which he admitted that he was seriously entertaining the idea of running for Governor, Hon. James F. Byrnes spoke of the remarkable oppor tunity a Governor, has of getting new in dustries for the state. * Undoubtedly Mr. Byrnes would be in position as Governor to continue the re markable work which Governor Thurmond has done along this line. South Carolina has never had a Governof who has gone after new industries for the state as strongly as has Mr. Thurmond and who has been more successful along that line. Much of the credit for the coming of so many new industries to South Carolina must go to Governor Thurmond who has cooperated splendidly with the Depart ment of Planning, Tlesearch and Develop ment, of which our own Stan Llewellyn is the chairman and of which Lou Bishop is $he very capable director. South Carolina has neve* had finer teamwork than has been displayed by the Governor and this department and it has produced notable results as Camden can testify. Mr., Byrnes would be in excellent posi tion to continue this fine teamwork so that great results could likewise be obtained in his administration. Senator R. M. Kennedy, Jr. The announcement by Senator R. M. Kennedy, Jr., that he will not be a can didate for re-election will bring regret not only in Kerthaw county but over the state. ’ > His decisfon will be regretted particu larly by those people who feel that a halt must be called to the promiscuous spend ing of the taxpayers' money. The Senator has been sort of a Watchdog of the treas ury and has fought with all of the energy Which he could command against exces- si\e expenditures by the government. Likewise his decision will be regretted by those people who believe in states’ rights and who have admired the Senator for the gallant fight which he made last year and which he is continuing to make against further encroachment of the fed eral government on the rights of* the states. Regulating Speed The Newberry City Council last week acted to stop speeding within the incorpor ate limits of that city, when it adopted an ordinance making the maximum per missible speed in the business district 15 miles per hour and fixing the maximum speed in residential districts at 25 miles per hour. Not only did the Council thus drasti cally regulate the speed limit but it also put “teeth” in the ordinance. The fine for bhe first violation of the speed limits was fixed at $17 or 15 days on the public works and for each subsequent violation $25 or 30 days. ' . There is too much fast driving in nearly all cities, including Camden. One after noon last week a motorist dashed down Broad street going at what must have been 10 miles an hour right through the busi ness section. Certainly he was going en tirely too fast in the business section, if not in the residential section. Some motorists seem to have the ider because the state very foolishly lifted the ipeed limit on the state highways that hey can travel at any rate they please n cities also. The Winnsboro News and Herald thinks at perhaps the people of this country ight become interested in the annoUnce- ent that Russia now has the atom bomb soon as the football season is over, ght now theyWe too busy trying to win use games to be thinking about the wnic bomb. Next Tuesday is Halloween’s. We’re hot early so afraid of the goblins as of the Cause of Wallpte’s Decline The decline of Henfy Wallace is one of the amazing -developments in the his tory of American politics.. Less than two year? ago he had the leaders of the old- line parties virtually standing on their heads &rth his new party. It was figured that* he might even be*a formidable can- dMate for President. Now there are none so poor as to do him honor. The last heard from Mr. Wallace was T 7* r: # when he announced that he would not make the race for the United States Sen ate in New York. This announcement was made through Vito Marcontonio, the head of the American Labor Party. Not so long ago Senator Glen Taylor who ran for vice president on the Wallace ticket announced that he had returned to the Democratic party. The New York Post which supported Wallace is under new editorial management now and doesn't talk that way any more. The New Re public which Wallace edited for a brief time has taken its departure from his camp. While the Wallace movement still has headquarters in New York City, the flow ef verbal and printed matter from it has dried to a negligible trickle. It doesn’t make the headlines any more. Joseph C. Harsch, well-known Washing ton correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, thinks that Marsha) Tito’s break with Russia may have had something to do with the decline of the Wallace move ment. Says Mr. Harsch: “For one thing; Russia’s blustering attitude toward Tito is distressingly reminiscent of Hitler’s attitude toward Czechoslovakia. Surely many an In dividual who lingered under the illu sion that Russia represented the great hope of liberalism must have been shaken by the spectacle of mighty Moscow accusing minute Yugoslavia of “aggression.” Perhaps that is one reason a political party built heavily on the theory of Russian innocence m a wicked world is languishing. “Then, too, Titoism has provided a bridge whereby many a sincere left winger has managed to get away from Moscow while still keeping personally left. There is no information yet of the numbers who have crossed or who may be crossing that bridge^ But the traffic on it must be fairly heavy. And It must be one factor in the phe nomenon of the decline of the Wallace movement” Mr. Harsch may be correct in his sur mises but we doubt it It is The Chron icle’s opinion that the Wallace movement failed because the left-wingers decide*! that their best hope was in the Democratic, party. It is generally conceeded that (thousands upon thousands of them desert ed Wallace in the middle of the Cam paign and came back to the Democratic party. *Many of those who stood firm in the election may have done like Mr. Taylor since the election and come back to the Democratic party. They probably have decided that the Democratic party will eventually bring the country to Communism, perhaps far sooner than the Wallace party could hope to do it because the Wallace party could not hope to grow too rapidly as long as the Democratic party continued to be a left wing party, too. They mjt that a Jet travel* *o alpw you now obsolete. toe which It U — !. of life** pathetic figures is a person whose feelings are easily hurt. 1/ A New Yorker la said to hare produced a folding brass fiddle* He must hare crossed it with an ac cordion. So long as your troubles are re spectable. no one is particularly interested In them. This is an age also of pensions. of tension and in Their Turn It was ineritaMe, of course, that the fashion people turned out that Hat of “beat-tailored" women. What we're awaiting are their nominees for the ten •‘beef-trimmed’' hue- bands—8t. Louis Yoet-Diapatch. Might Try This Plan According to the Rotary News of Eas ley, Pickens county, a certain Easley executive informed his wife that he would have to go to New York on business for a few days but that he would hurry back to her.at the earliest possible moment. _ After a period of thought, the little woman declared, “I think I’ll go with you, dear.” “But honey, I’m going to be terribly busy every moment I’m there,” her hus band protested. “You wouldn’t enjoy the ftrip. 4 'Oh, I’m not going for enjoyment,” the •wife explained. “I’m going to buy some clothes.” “You’re going all the way to New York for clothes,” hubby exclaimed. “Why, sugar, you can get all the clothes you want right here in Easley.” “Oh thank you, dear,” the little woman cried. “That’s just what I wanted you to say. I won’t have to go to New York after all.” Camden wives might try this some time and then go ahead and buy their clothes in Camden. According to a correspondent the Pass of Uanberis la the prettiest In England. It seems to u* that things In England. gener UlY speak ing, bare come to a pretty pass. A magaslne article says that “a doctor baa many temptations." Yes. we wore Just reading a story the other day about a fellow who had Just gotten a bill from his physi cian. “Great Scott, Doc, what an awful bill for just one week's treat ment,” the patient exclaimed to him. "My good fellow" replied the doctor, "If you knew what an intonating .case yours was, and how I was tempted to let It go to a postmorten, you wouldn’t grum ble at a bill three times as large." "John L. Lewis In Driver's Seat’’ —headline. Well, we’re headed for a wreck. Movie Actor James Stewart said he couldn’t afford both a wife and a plane so to the surprise of eYery orfe he sold his plane. A couple married in a diving bell off Atlantic City. N. J. So they started off their married life sunk. The recent story In The Chron icle about it raining frogs In Ker- Shaw county made us thlik of the fellow who came in one day out of the min, "It’s raining cats and dogs outside isn’t it?" asked a friend. "Yes," he replied. “1 Just stepped into a poodle." We understand that one man who saw the exhibit at the State Fair where a, woman was making good hot biscuits didn’t know what they were while another sold that they were the first he’d teen In SO years. - Marlon Jane Renner, 20-year-old housewife, said her husband made her eat five eggs one morning be cause the broke the yoik on each one of them whfie trying to cook one for his breakfast.' And then be probably went out and cack!od about it. Speaking of soil erosion, have you ever, seen a 0-year-old boy washing bis hands after playing!.? all afternoon long? . . . The opportunities that the aver age man has thS most of are to make a fool of himself "A couple may be unhappily mar ried and not know It," aays a writer. Don’t fool youreolf! Some gossipy old soul would tell ’em. Wonder how maay old timers in the audience ever smoked rabbit tobacco when they were young sters t {y i , One sad feature of life Is that more people go down In nlstory than go up. Democracies suffer some hard blows but they suffer more from blow-hard*. A well known man says that "there’s nothing wrong with this country that brains, energy and determination will not cun." Yes, but where’s the medicine coming from? Oiiw Those Lights With statistics proving tha‘ more highway accident* occur at > night than In the daytime, it aeems Chat motorists would extend the court esv of dimming their lights to other motorists, if for no other reason than their own safetv. In n special raleaae this week the genenl manager of the Motor Transportation Association of South Carolina said that the greatest contributor to high accidents fre quency is the glaring headlights. Some motorists dim their light* to oncoming cars and when the oncoming oar fails to respond like wise. the glaring lights are again flashed on. This Is quite foolieh. Even though the other motorist doesn’t dim hia lights, keep yours dimmed. Try to keep HIM from having nn accident, even if be doesn’t care himself, as you would be'the one most llkelv Involved In it . , Dimming lights la a simple courtesy that means safety'to all on the highway-—Newberry Ob server Latest Red Cruelty The latest reports of Soviet cruelty are to the effect that thousands of citlsens of the Caucasus, including 17,000 Greek*, were shoveled into cattle cars and deported to make room for the Red experiments in atomic bomb production. The report seems to be fairly well established by the fact that Greece has protested the deporta tion of Ks nationals. Just why the Russians everlords selected a more or leas Inhabited ai%a for the experiments when ivaat expanses of Siberia are unin habited is a question that will have to be answered by someone who understands the working of the Moscow mind. If such there be. Bui K Is another link in the chain of crimes chargeable to this group, one wonders how long the people of the Soviet Socialist Re publics will continue to permit themselves to be treed upon in this manner, or whether they will find it Impossible to get ud the energy to try to throw off the yoke.—The State Would you call of the Nile river nilea! the tributaries In Africa juve- There were lots of scale wars in South Carolina in the Reconstruction Days— people who turned against their own sec tion in the hope of getting rewards from the powers that be. Unfortunately we have many in this *tate now wfoo art willing Vlshlnsky says that the convict tlon of the eleven communists In New York the other day was a violation of human rights. What rights does a human have in Rus- ala.? Looks like the country la going hog-wild o/or the pigskin game. Instead of flphtlng Russia it aeems as if yir army and navy might fight oath other. , A correspondent of a newspaper says that one naturally hesitates to part with anything that has been in the family a long time, even an old chair or piece of fur niture. And that reminds us of the carpet sweeper salesman who call ed on what he thought was a pros pect. “Don’t waste your breath." the prospect interrupted the en thusiastic demonstrator, *T got a carpet sweeper already." "Good.” said the seleaman, undismayed, “then I can make you a generous allowance on your sweeper la fart payment on this flue new mode:.'’ For * moment the proepect seem ed tempted. Then slowly, he shook his heed. “No," he said reeolatety “no, I can’t make that kind of deal. After all. I took her for hotter or worse.” „ ~*A loot book of tore, found in a Holy - details of foe only the first time, has been termed as “foe most im portant Bible discovery of mod ern times.” Dr. John C. Trevera, head of the English Bible department of the intarenationai council on re said the an- . was expected to shed new light on the story ot foe man who, fop Bible says, built the ark. Trever identified foe work as the "lost Book of Lamed*," which he said scholars leamed of in later Biblical writings bug BWter hoped to find. The scroll, a roll of firsgfe; brit tle parchment expected her ure five to seven tear long was found in foe spring of 19# with seven other scrolls and fragments of writings, all of them “t leess treasures," Trever said. He said not all of the writings have been identified and that scholars in four countries are working on them. Photostatic copies are used to preserve foe parchment* and some of the scrolls are kept in secret places because of their value, Trever said. The scroll of Lamech, who war Noah’s father, has not yet been unrolled and it mag taka three months to to the* dfefiasfe fob, Trever safift- However,. a> fragment of the scroll me—wring eight by four ihehea; containing enough to iden tify foe book, has been translated, he said. In it, Lamech disnmwr* with hie own tether, Ifeihuaaleh, the birth of an "unusual child,’ 1 writer’aimihir * •SgsaSw He said the manuacric apparently Noah. Trever sa said foe authenticity of the lost book has been established “absolutely.” He said it probably was com posed about the first or second of J« tound on the “purest £•**3* bSr wh; fofV^Ptbe side of a Se**, south c Scholars onl *A t rtS r tiiFkl:—«« aSrrjrt . s merchant Later they fell Jja»fcof aSyrian Trever, then acting foe American School of researci® in Jerusalem, fJJIjjFCT'fc' ■■ ^^ He said be thought at were forgeries, because “it fantastic that they cou •unrived more than 2,000 ... of the m <**5 „ archaeoL™ tteubls finding it aeain mid, and aaccavatlomr a ery of aH the writing* completed untST last * “Id all foe document* markaMy well-preserved Trever said that while covery of the Book of was the most important era times, scholars alto ed important another scr Book of Isaiah. He said L predated by more than 1,0 foe "Leningrad Codex.” ' dex, a copy of the “n written in 916 A D. and the Leningrad museum, ly was the oldest He ment known to exist. What You Can Do About It One of the ablest citlsens of South Carolina, Mr. Christie Benet of Columbia, delivered on Tues day the kind of speech that would be expected of him before a gath ering of 260 business men ff Charleston. He covered a far broader field, in making an appeal lor support of the Community Cheat, than a test gifted-speaker could have encompassed. In fact, he seised the opportunity for a stirring defense of American liber ties against Communists and their pinkish errand boys. * • The things Mr. Beust so well said have been preached before by others. They are being repeated in daily Warnings to the American people. ’ The hour of their de cision may come at any tftoa. Some think It already has passed- Thoughtful men everywhere are agreed the republic I* la Serious anger. What can you do about it? A helpless feeling is crippling those who want to save the re public hut don’t know how to start. Some of them think the Republi- have sold out to the aame pepular line of pap that converted Democrats into Fair Defers. No place la left for a aSlf-reilant American to go. Thq odds against forming a new party are tremendous. The prin ciples of those who voted the State Rights ticket last November are Shared by hundreds of thous ands in other parts of the country, but" there is no organisation to weld these people together. How can unorganised individuals start to fight political power ar rayed against them, both in and out of office? They are even weaker than the band of patriots who once defied the British em pire. for they are boxed In at home. For the moment, bleak as the situation may look, patriots need not, must not despair. A break la coming. It may be developing even now with the Industrial strikes. When the time does come, level kMd* and stout hearts can go to work. Meanwhile, you business men should refrain from begging. You should not cry to. Washington every time something aeems to damage your personal trade. You fall into the bureaucrat's trap when yon seek his .flavor. Meanwhile, you wage earners should look after your Jobs. You should nwue them and protect them as the frontiersman looked after his rifle. Your employer can’t pay your wages if he goes bankrupt. Taxes and controls are about to stranflo him. . — Meanwhile, you voter*—you peo ple who make up the mass of the public: you capitalists, you owners of corporation shares and real estate you bank depositor* and payers of insurance premiums, you housewives, you clerks and labor ers and truck drivers, tax-payer* all: Do not be charmed to sleep by the politician’s aoag. Don’t let him take your wallet while he croons, “Se what I got for you.” Keep your ears aad your eye* open, your wits sharp and your powder dry. Resist the guttering TeU your represeutatives in legis lature and congress, ’ and yoar councilmen, font want to call a halt Don’t ask ter ssrricao you’ll pay for Kershaw County Calves Win At District Show Kershaw countv 4-H dairy calves won the following awards in the district dairy show held at Chester, Oct 19, according to foe Danish system of judging. Jr. Calves: Johnnie Clark, third place: Curtis Jackson, fourth place; Frank Jackson, fourth place. Sr. Calves: Glenn Thompson, second place. Jr. Yearlings: Wiley Clark. Jr, second place; Bosevelt Duren, third place; Johnnie Drakeford, Winners of judging teaems were Newberry county first place; Ker shaw county, second place; Ches ter county,, third place: Lancaster county, fourth place; Union coun ty, fifth place. Wiley Clark of Kershaw county, won foe est individual scoring award. Tha Rtal Nasd. ^gy*. .Vft • • * Announcement to made of an electrically operated window tor standard installation ta bouses. 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