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'j »XOE TWO 2Ji|e (ttamiipn (StprontrU 1110 North Broad Street Camden, & C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker - DaCosta Brown - • . - Editor - Publisher JRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year *3.50 Sin Month, 3.00 Entered as Second Claes Matter at the Post Off lee at Camden, 8. C M under act of Congress March S. I»7t All articles lubmltted for publication must be sifued by the author FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1*49 In South Carolina The stores in Elloree, Orangeburg coun ty, South Carolina, closed on Oct. 25 lor the funeral of a negro man who had died alter over 50 years of service to his com munity and county. Robert Lee Williams, 87, was - reared in the Elloree section, lhad lived in it all of his life and had accumulated consider able land and other property/ He was one of the first farmers In his section to turn to mechanized farming and was one of the early owners of a steam-powered gm and saw mill. He bought his first au tomobile in 1915. His privately owned electric power system was among the first in his section. He was prominent in the affairs of his dhurch and sent all of his children to college. He held the respect of the white and Negro races alike and his death was mourn ed by them alike because he had been a friend to all. Many of his white friends attended his funeral and (his physician asked the privilege of paying tribute to him at it. This happened in South Carolina. It couldn’t have happened up North. The Northern people only care for the Negro politically. The people of the South care for him personally. T, MOTEMBEB 11, Princess Elizabeth’s Plea Princess Elizabeth, Iheir presumptive to the British threne, caught the attention of the people of England and held it firmly by her outspoken public address last week in which she stressed the need for an up ward valuation of moral standards in the world todav. Addressing a meeting of the “young wives” rally of the British Mothers Union in London, the princess said that “even if we make allowances for the rosy hue in which the passage of years sometimes colors the past, we can hardly help ad mitting that we live in an age of growing self-indulgence, of hardening materialis # m and of falling moral standards.” Of the need for a conscious and con stant practice of Christianity, she declared: “As we all know, a child learns by ex ample. We cannot£xpect our children to do what we are too lazy or indifferent to do ourselves. I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of l)eing labeled priggish: As a consequence peo ple are sometimes afraid to show disap proval of what they knew to be wrong, and thus they end by seeming to condone what in their hearts they dislike. But 1 am sure it is just as wrong to err on that sidfe as it is to be intolerant and over- critical.” The princess has put fter finger on one of the troubles with this old world today. People seem to be afraid they might be accused of being religious or “good.” Enmeshed In Socudimn W« don't know just wh»t was upper most in its mind when The Anderson In dependent said: “Why don't the ‘spending for so cialism’ orators face the facts? . "It's a simple matter to deplore ‘all this government spending' but it fc > neither simple nor easy to specify where to start trimming. “If every social welfare, health and security program of the federal gov ernment were cut out the total $86 billion budget would be reduced by $3 billions or lest. “If Congress voted to close down all deparements and agencies outside the military —if it suspended all civil ian activities and stopped all services to citizens—the savings wouid total $9 billions or less. "There is room for savings in the bureaus and agencies as they stand. But there isn’t room enough for sav- / mg a total that would make an ap preciable dent in the total budget. “Next time you hear a ‘spending for socialism’ orator, listen carefully to hear any specific, concrete sugges tions He can make for saving billions. He won’t" The Independent we fear, has missed the point. ’ We don’t know from whom it got its figures regarding the costs of the govern ment, but we do submit that it is not the immediate “cost” of the spending for so cialism that the peopje are objecting to so much as the fact mat the nation is gradually being led to a state of socialism.. One of the insidious features about so cialism is that it creeps up on you. You yield this and that to the government until after a while you’ll find yourself enmesh ed in socialism with no escape. Right now there is a tremendous cam paign on for federal aid for schools. This all starts'off harmlessly enough with no apparent effort on the part of the govem- > ment to dictate policies, etc. But the gov ernment will gradually increase its ap propriations to the schools until after a while every one would feel that the schools were totally dependent on the federal gov ernment and that if federal aid wfere dis continued the schools would be ruined even though tihe government in the mean time had begun to exercise arbitrary con trol over them. We cannot see why a state cannot do anything that the federal government can do. After all the money is coming out of the taxpayers’ pockets and they can pay it to the state government as easily (or as painfully if you prefer) as to the fed- eial government. But, you say, some of the smaller states cannot afford things that the larger states can afford. Well—let’s have what we can afford and do without what we can’t. That’s what individual families have to do. Better to have a child only half-edu- Cc.ted than to have it educated wrongly. W e have managed to hold our own pretty well with the other states for the past 150 years. And what applies to education applies to everytFmg else. Let each state hoe its own row just as our forefathers who founded this republic planned for them to do. qOutLoud A Challenge “No nation,” says J. Edgar Hoover, di rector of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion, “grows in greatness save through the wisdom, the determination and the vision of individuals. Each victory of man over the tyranny of absolute authority in gov ernment is the triumph of leaders who know justice, are merciful and are humble before God. “Today the conflict between freedom for the individual and rigid authority for the state is in eruption throughout the world. Peoples who had struggled for generations to gain precious liberties are thrust back into darkness of materialism and oppression. At every hand the way of the democracies is challenged by fresh aggressions upon the human spirit.” Mr. Hoover continues that “it is for us, who rejoice in the blessings of freedom, so to live our Jives that, as a nation, we are an example to the world. We can then restore peace and dignity to man kind.” This is a challenge to the people of thia country. . , John lu Lewis doesn’t seem to be able to get along with anybody except John L. Lewie. Would Rule With Guns United States Senator Clyde R. Hoey told a North Carolina group the other day that the miners were afraid of John L. Lewis’ gunmen. Many of them, he said, would like to be at work but they knew that Lewis’ gunmen would get them if they dared to work. In Tuesday's issue of The State there appeared a dispatch from Williamston, West Virginia, saying: “A coal loader’s wife who wrote that she was sick of strikes said today that re taliation had come in an attack on her home. “Mrs. Beeda Brown had written a letter to the editor of the Huntington Herald- Advertiser criticizing UMW President John L. Lewis and union policies. “She followed it up today with this tele gram to the paper: “ ‘Effect of letter first page Sunday 'home wrecked. Infant escapes injury. More will come.’ “The Brown’s home was stoned and win dows broken last night by someone not identified, and Chester Brown, 46, the hus band, was advised by his friends not to work today.” In all of this talk about freedom and the rights of human beings in this coun try the people who are doing Hhe talking never say anything about the rights of man to work. Oh, no, they steer clear of 'that. Some of the people who are doing the agitating are ones who would deny man the right to work unless he works under conditions they name. President Truman will not pay any At tention to the wrong done Chester Brora. They My now that the atom bomb It not at bad aa U if claim ed. One of them will not kill •▼•rybody. . One trouble with thia old world Is that you can’t make a majority of people aee what la the trovble with It. out In Nebraska who won’t talk baa been put in jail. Quite an unusual case, to be sore, but wouldn’t it hare been better to have put her in a carnival? “Laurens Defeats Welcome Elev en BOA"—headline in Ijanrens Ad vertiser. r No wonder it was wel come. That writer who said that noth ing that la false ever does any food must have gotten hold of a bad set of false teeth. "Noted Educator At Age of 90 Still Working Hard’’ — headline. That just goes to shew that It doesn’t pay to be an educator. Some people don’t spend all that they make while others don’t make all that they speq.d. ''Placing letters In wrong enve lopes has caused lots of woe.” mxb a writer. Yes, for example, there was the young fellow who was par ticular about his washing and who wrote a note to his washerwoman and one to his girl and by a strange fataUty put the wrong address on each envelope. The washerwoman was well pleased at an invitation to take a ride the next- day but when his girl read. *‘!f you mess my shirt bosom and rub the but ton! off my collar any more as you did the last time I will go somewhere else,” she cried all evening and vowed that she would never speak to him again. ^ Noting that the more congested the population, the lower are the standards of ethics and morals, Grit magaiine says it is forced to the conclusion that people have a bad Influence on people. In politics the fruits of victory are pluma. ■ *' — \ A foreign commentator says that Russia tried the Berlin blockade to see if we would stand for it. We did. Quite naturally, a yeggman wants to be on (he safe side ■■ ■ ■ Insofar as the steel industry is concerned peace now reigns in Bethlehem but we don’t know how about the goo<? will part o| it . A collection of the histories of the nations of the world now would just be a collection ol scrapbooks. You can’t ever tell how a family quarrel is going to terminate. We just read the other day where a husband and wife had a big spat. The husband Anally admitted that he was wrong and the wife drop ped dead. A sports writer says that nine out of ten football coaches are superstitious. And speaking of superstitions, we are reminded of the story of the wealthy society lady who had just engaged a new maid and was instructing her in the duties of waftjng on the table. “At dinner, Mary,’’ sho explained, “you must remember always to serve from the left and take the .plates from the right. Is that clear?” “Yes ma’am,” answered the girl condescendingly, “what's the matter, superstitious or some thing?” t - ■- Life would be mighty dull if we had no imagination. —— \ An American correspondent who has just gotten out of Russia says there’s lots of “hush, hush” in that country. Also lots of mush, mush, we suspect. Saying sht was tired of hearing people talk about the many wor ries man has, a woman writer says that “a woman has everything to worry about that a man has ” She ij’t liave a With The Press \ Health and beauty counselors agree tbgt everyone should eat a big, hearty breakfast apd thus catch the latei’, less-crowded bus.- Hartford Ccmrant. Alwaye “Many doctors.” says Hsroltf Booker, '‘want pretty receptionists because they go a long ways to ward making a fellow forget his ailments.” And have you ever no ticed that H la alwaye a pretty girf who presides at the cash roadster In a cafeteria?—Dillon Herald. Please Somebody The Agricultural Department an nounces it will buy 3.800 tons of dried prunes for its national school lunch and institutional feeding pro- grama- That should please prune growers. Whether the lunch line ups will like it Is so mo thing else again. But anyway, moat of ’em can’t vote.—New Orleana Timet Picayune. Tact A demonstration of tact dlscov ered in an Arkansas newspaper by the editor of Balance Sheet: “Miss Hannah Smith, a BatesvHle belle of 20 summers, is visiting her twin brother, James, who recently cele brated his thirty-second birthday.” —Boston Globe. God and Mammon It is good to have money and the things that money will buy but It it good, top, in the getting of it, not to lose sight of those things that money can’t purchase. ’Twas the late George Horace Lorimer, editor of The Saturday Evening Post, who penned the lines from which the foregoing Is paraphras ed. Hls thought Is worth preserv ing.—Winnsboro News and Herald. doesq' wife! A Colorado man says the end of time is near. Hls clock must be wearing out. We always want what we haven’t got because there la nothing else for us to be wishing for. It is said that^jhe first playing card was Invented by a craxy man People have been going crasy about :hem every since. It seems that there wUl hardly be any bowl material among* the football teams this year, since al >f them have already been bowled over one or more times. — * “The political situation in thlf country is so muddled that there are mllllona of people who don't know which side ttfey are on,” say; » political writer. Tee—they are soil of like thd intoxicated gentle man. who stopped another pedea- rian to ask, ‘1 shay, which Ish the other abide of the *htreat?" 'Why r’er there," wee the ahswer. “Sh trance, I was jus’ over there m’ a genTman ahaid it waa ovei hare." The result of the election In Ifev York State on Tuesday just‘goes to «bew that there to no tag for taste* as the old .exclaimed when ahe kissed Tired and Bored Tired? Or Just bored? Experiments at the Tufts College Research Laboratory of Sensory Psychology and Physiology have, shown what horse sense has long suggested—that fatigue does not come from s continuous decrease in muscle strength, but that in attention, lack of interest, and boredom play a large part in it. What are termed' miracles of achievement in the world of men are performed by people with the capacity for continuous, absorbed interest in what they are doing. To be thoroughly convinced of the value of one’s work, to be single- minded and wholehearted in one’s devotkm to a task, here is a reme dy for much listless fatigue. Boredom, of course, is an occu pational disease at many levels Of our assembly-line civilization, and it is not to be dissipated by mere lectures. Yet the joy that comes from doing one’s best, whether little or great, is s David which has oftentimes slain not only the wolf of want but the Goliath of routine.—Christian Science Moni tor. ^ . and the J _ and aH aSm of war and fought tar throe days, but both Tokyo mad Moscow professed Ignorance that any bat tle had token place. , Those battles or skirmishes, or actual invasions m in the case of Greece, are simply acts of intimida tion through which the Commun ist countries try to get what they want without actually going to war. The Russians are said to be using that technique of Intimida tion along the border of Aserbaijon. So this bombonhpent from across the Hungarian border Indicates that the tension between Yugo slavia and the Cominform coun tries Is getting a little more taunt day by day, but there will be no war just because Hungarians snd Yugoslavs* exchange a few shots across the border. That’s just an old Communist eastern.-—Charlotte Obeerver t ~ Communication WANTS TOWER SAVED Editor The Chronicle: Although no longer s resident, I will always loro and be interested In Camden and am venturing to express my feelings on doing away with the old town hall tower and King Halglar. It was with amaxement that I read in The Chronicle of Nov. 1, that the city hall tower may have to go, with King Halglar.’ It struck me “all of g heap’’ and I wonder when they say it hot no utility value! It Is not only of use as a very fine weatbervane and aside from sentiment and historic interest, ft is of financial valne— financial value in that It is one of the charms of Camden, in great pert giving to the town the quaint old time atmosphere and culture that draws new citlsens who ore looking for homes In such a place. Fifteen thousand dollars would be well spent A repairs. Camden will never be the mme without the tower and King Haig- lar. Don’t let It go! Harrie H. Sanders Claridge Manor, Birmingham, Ala. > \ —Jk t —■ ^ Tuberculosis need not be a fatal disease. It can be cured, but it is easiest to cure when dis covered barly and treatment is be gun at once. fight notice of tax r,ss When making inou J****- Pte*«e state the BbEmBi Township District No. 1 District No. 2 I District No. 4 District No. 6 ~ District No. 25 District No. 43 SchoolDhrtricLNo. 3 School District No. 5 ~ School District No. 7 ~ School District No. 15~__ School District No. 20 School District No. 22 School District No. 23 School District No. 27 School District No. 28 School District No. 31 School District No. 40 School District No. 42 Flat Rock Township School District No. 8 School District No. 9 School District No. 10 School District No. 13 School District No. 19 School District No. 30 _ IdZl k°- \i ocnooi District No. 37 School District No. 41 School District No. 40 School District No. 47 Waisros Township School District No. 11 School District No. 12 School District No. 16 School District No. 29 _ School District No. 38 _ School District No. 39 _ C. J. 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