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®lje (Eambm (Sifraniclf 1119 North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DaCocta Brown - . . Editor . Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TBKMS: All Stthseriptiona Payable In Adrance ie Year ........ Months 2.00 aa flaeeai Qau Matter at the Peat Office at CajBden. & 0, aader aet of Concreaa March t. 1S79 submiUed far pabMeatloa signed by the anther FRIDAY, NOVIMSER 18, 1949 99 Welcome News * What Is Success? The editor of a quiz column in a daily newspaper recently asked a group of per sons this question: “What in your opinion makes a success ful life?” A number of excellent answers were given, only one of which placed the mak ing of money first. As we read the column, we thought of the answer given by Bessie A. Stanley to such a question. It was :*~ “He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gitiiied the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty, qr failed to express it; who has always look ed for the best in others and given the heat he had; whose life was an inspira tion and whose memory a benediction/’ “Get Away From the Crow#* The tragedy on the campus of Ohio State University last Friday night when the managing editor of the college daily newspaper, a senior, was shot and killed by a drunken freshman, who told arrest- InjF officers that when he got drunk he got “trigger happy,” was a most shocking affair. As is always the case after the horse has been stolen, steps are being taken by the officials of the Ohio university to try and prevent such tragedies in the future. It is announced that no students will be allowed to keep firearms on the campus and the rule against liquor on the campus will be rigidly enforced. The sad part of the tragedy at Colum bia is that it probably could have hap pened on many other college campuses. What steps are the other college* taking to prevent something similar from oc curring? In this day when there Is so much talk of the youth of the land, it is well to re call a talk made by Robert Burdette to young men in which he said: “Get away from the crowd for a while and think. Stand on one side and let the world run by, while you get acquainted with yourself and see what kind of fellow you are? Ask yourself hard questions about yourself. Ascertain, from original sources, if you are really the manner of man you say you are; and if you are al ways honest; if you always tell the square, perfect truth in business details; if your life is as good and upright at 11 o'clock at night as it is at noon; if you are as good a temperance man on a fishing trip as you are on a Sunday School picnic; If you are as good when you go to the city as you are at home; if, in short, you are really the sort of man your father hopes you are and your sweetheart believes you are. Get or intimate terms with yourself and be lieve me, every time you come out of one ot those private interviews you' will be a stronger, better, phrer man/ Announcement that beginning Saturday traffic regulations will be strictly enforced by uniformed police officers is welcome news. The purpose of the enforcement, it is stated, is to break up the habit of some motorists in skipping red lights, cut ting comers and failure to yield right-of- way to pedestrians. Camden is rapidly becoming a city and stricter enforcement of traffic regulations is becoming a necessity. We have con tinued to drive here as we did when the town was smaller and the traffic much lighter. We turn in the middle of a block, *wj take a chance on red lights, we let the pedestrian, even though he is crossing the street on a red light as he should, look out for himself if we are making a corner turn. „ This sort of driving does not go in a city and it should not go here any longer. We believe the people of the city will co operate with the officers to the fullest extent Another one of life’s pathetic scenes is to hear lots of people who are really not Communists always holler that the House Committee on Un-American Activities is trying to “smear” somebody when it ex poses the activities of the Communists in this country. A committee from the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina is hunt ing a president for the University. We hope they will get some one who is not a Communist. Just out of curiosity, we’d like to know how many people in Columbia understand what the big row in the Community Chest in that city is all about We wish we had sense enough to un derstand just what that Community Chest row in Columbia is about Do all of your Christmas buying in Camden. 7 ' -r/i • 5 . - A ... . *> jgsuvmmr & mwt i ■ n i vi jj The Cost* of Wear \ Speaking aft Greenville, N. C., last Thurs day, Army Secretary Gordon Gray said the ultimate cost of American participation in World War H Is expected to reach $1,404,000,000,000 and he predicted that any future war might well cost three and one-quarter trillion dollars. As Secretary Gray said war is “the costliest enterprise that ever plagued the human race.” > f “All other considerations aside,” the secretary continued, “we know that neith er America nor any other nation can really afford another war.” When he said that the ultimate cost of American participation in World War II was expected to reach $1,404,000,000,000, we presume the Secretary was referring only to the costs to the government. He was not referring to the costs to indlvidu- Outlflud Moeaa called Canaan the land of promt—, bat since Mr. Traman has President the United States has it Another ons of life's pathetic figures Is a man who thinks that he can win an argument with a woman. VTiHi The Press New York Cftjr If this oonntry should ever go to war with Russia the first ob jective of oar armed forces would have lo bo to capture New York, or certainly some sectionj of H. Last week the eleven top Ameri can communists, who were con victed recently in Federal court, were freed on bail. Less than three bourn later a brick-hurling Harlem mob felled six policemen in n wild welcome-home for Ben What would wo do. in this world « Were it not for the dreams ahead’ 0Vn ' For thorn* aro mixed wfth the bloomia, fw. No matter which path we tread. ^ I,ow *r, Davis, n city councilman, Now n days s man who lives by the sword will die by an atom bomb: < And, however, staggering the costs of this war have been to America, they were infinitesimal as compared to the costs to Germany and Russia and France and other countries which were ravaged during the hostilities. There is only one possible consolation that can be found in the Staggering costs of war and that is that it may act as a deterrent to wars in the future. While no country can afford war, there are really only two that could possibly finance one now and they are Russia and the United States. The thought has occurred to us that perhaps the costs of war have served as a deterrent to Russia and'that perhaps she has decided that instead of trying to whip this country by force of arms she will try to capture it from within. * And she hasn’t been making bad prog ress towards that end, if you ask us. It sonnds funny now, bnt In the olden days s boy was glad ho uan’t a girl because girls wore so many clothes. A.soldier of fortune is one who didn’t get killed in the war. Most stenographers have their bad spells. A Danish actress had to recite th« Book pf Job—all 15,000 words of It—from memory. Quite s Job, we’d say. ^ “If you find a snake In your gar den, leave him there,’’ adviaes an agricultural bulletin. What about those you find In your country? From the number of self-made men you bear about In this country, there must have been a scarcity of architect# in the old days. A man who Is honest as the day is long may get in his dirty work at night. Future Use of Fort Jackson In this modern age the*old say ing that “there is no fool like an old fool,” no longer holds good. Every time we see a high school band march by we think of the What Teachers Are Up Against Some idea of what the teachers are up against today was given by President Paul Wagner of Rollins college in an address last Saturday to 500 Florida State Universi ty alumni, professors and guests, as he told them why American children aren’t getting good educations today. “Turn on the radio, turn on a phono graph, flash a wild and wooly Western movie on a screen and get a leather-lunged boy to shout ‘Comic books for sale’,” he said, “and it all adds up to a wild assault on the eyes and the ears. That is Prhat the teachers must compete against with nothing more than textbooks.” The young college president declared that some movies, some radio programs and even some comic books teach the right attitude. “But,” says a press diapatch telling of his apeech, “he asked, how about this? He displayed a comic book in which one gun-wielding character said to another: Try dis in ya belly, ya louse.' “He held up a poster which advertised a motion picture by depicting a woman with next to nothing on. He flipped on the radio. A murder mystery was In progress.” The Rollins president declared that “we must come to a communications revolu tion” and added that “the great failure of Amencan education is the failure to educate for citizenship.” There is food for thought in President Wagner’a speech. The schools don’t have much chance with their dry textbooks to day when, as Mr. Wagner says, they have to compete with the lurid comic books, radioes, and movies and with the jazz records which they can play on their pho nographs. Things were different in the old days. There were not the distractions for the youths then that there are now. There were no competing demands on the at tention of the ^youths. They could study their lessons and concentrate on them. What is it all going to add up to? mother whose son played In one. ‘‘Now that your son plays in the band, 1 suppose he is quite busy,” said the lady next door to her. “Not as busy as 1 am,” replied the mother, “I have to help him find A flat, mend and press his uniform, attend the Band Mothers meetings, go to every function at which the band plays and beat time while he plays the ‘Stars and Stripes’ forever on his alto saxo phone." The "booze fighter” always wins an empty victory. You can ask almost any girl and ahe will tell you that absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder but that his presents have that effect. If you ‘were a good musician would you prefer to live in Fife, Ga„ Drums, Pa., Harpe, N. C., Violin. La., Organ, N. H., Bells, Tenn., or Horn. Kjr.T President Truman’s Cabinet gets an Oscar (Chapman). It’s getting so now that if the team that is supposed to get beat doesn’t,win the football game. It’s an upset. A woman writer complains that It Is getting increasingly harder to find good maids. And that re minds us of the husband who ex claimed to his wife: “I knew an artist once who painted a cobweb on the celling so artistically that the maid spent hoars trying to get it down.” The wife laughed! “Sor ry, dear, I Just don’t believe It; she exclaimed. "Why not?” asked the husband, “Artists have been known to do each things." “Yes,” replied the wife, “but not the maids.” A “rounder’ 1 square. is seldom on the Every football player has a defi nite goal which he la trying to reach. You get about the same pleasure out of your college winning a • moral victory” in a football game that you do out of winning the booby prize at a party. A woman columnist says that slacks show a woman’s independ ence. Yea, and some of them have lots of lodependepce. If you are looking for fructose. 6-phosphate or a bit of D-L-ecry- throae. the National Registry of Rare Chemicals in Chicago can tell you- where you cun find them Most colleges close their foot ball season Thanksgiving Day which makes lots of coaches ex ceedingly thankfuL It seems that medical science Is about to Had a remedy for every thing except indisposition to work. Joe Hart of Helena, Montana, was beat ap four times in two weeks. That’s a case of too rapid beating of the Hart. A magazine writer proposes that the United States government be disbanded every ten years and fresh start made from scratch. People haven’t got the energy to scratch now. There’ll be lots of turkey gob blers on Thanksgiving Day Communications Here w« are right la the midst ot another cold meshed potatoes and English peas banquet season. The man behind the dan in the man lots pf people are afraid of. Every time; we think of re attend a banquet tiftp Statement pf that "the hums LIKES ARTICLE Editor The Chronicle: I have Jest rend Mr. Robert Kennedy’s reply to a request of Life Msgaslne for his views on the South and I believe It to ban ieelly And each of us has his folden coal Stretching far into the yean; Sn And ever he climb* with a hopeful Kal With alternate smiles and team. who was one of the Red leaden Davit, who is the same type as Paul Robeson, met u roaring wel come when he made a street-corner spsssk In Harlem! With him two other convicted communists, Henry Winston, also a negro and Robert Thompson. Paul Robeson was also one of the speakers at the rally. A crowd ot about MM cheered the speakers and tkeu began a torchlight parade up Lenox Ave nue through the teneo, crowded heart ot New York’s big negro district A handful of police stood by. Officers later sold the marchers endangered by-«tenders by waving their flickering torchee. Three police cars swung across Lenox Avenue. The paraders broke the thin police line and milled around the cart, chanting la tune with a sound truck. "We will not be moved,” a communist song. From rooftops came a barrage of bottles, bricks, saucers and broomsticks. It seems to ns that the revolu tion Is about ready to start in Harlem. How long, ob Lord, bow long, are we going to put up with such aa this In America? Have we gone to sleep?—Greenville Observ er. Th*t dream ahead is what holds hhn uo Through the storms of a ceaseless fight- When his lips are pressed to the vormwo^od’. _ And clouds shut out the light 1 To some it's a dream of high To some it's a dream of weal__. To some it’s a dream of a truce with Fate In a constant search for health. mt To some it’s a dream of home and wife To some it’s a crown above; The dreams ahead aw what make each life d rove! The dreams—and faith—and —Edward Carlile Utsey. > •* No. 9 Rresrvs District Re. 14 L REPORT OF CONDITION OF Ths Commercial National Bank of Camden STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT THE CLOSE BUSINESS ON NOVEMBER 1, 1949. •I the balance with other banks, including reserve balance and cash items in process of collection _ Secretary of Defense Louis John son says that Nans are in prepara tion for the poesible removal of the seat of tavernment from Wash ington If the city ever becomes the target fqr an attack. These plans Include movement pf the command of the army, navy and air force to some other city. Johnson’s comment is contained in a letter to Senator Wylie ot Wisconsin and was in response to the Senator’s question as to what ateps were being taken to decen tralize in the event of an emerg ency. The defense secretary said that certain projects in connection with the emergency command post would cost money. Congress, there fore, will have to appropriate those funds. The Record would like to call his attention To Fort Jackson wh’ch he’s now planning to abandon for the purposes for which It hss here tofore been used. There is plenty of space at the post for a duplicate of the Pentagon and or the capltol and the White House. If more acreage should be needed there Is mom available. Columbia, of course, Is accustomed to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and to politicians. Ail of them should feel at bom# HSTF. And It is, incidentally, out of range of Russia's bombers.—Co lumbia Record. Bank premises owned None, furniture and fixtures Other assets * ^— : 30#; total assets $3,489,1 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations Time deposits of individuals, partnership#, $2^23,' and Deposits o: corpora ,f U.S. G lions ovemment (including kl subdivisi [visions postal savings) 709,: ier deposits (certified and cashier's checks, etc.) Total deposits -As,256; 213 256,043.66 TOTAL LIABILITIES CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital Stock: t (c) Common stock, total par jlus ivided profits Reserves (and retirement account for preferred stock) — TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $3,489,1 MEMORANDA ■ pledged or assigned to secure luMUtiei ties and for other purposes re after deduction (a) Loans as shown above are of reserves of Virginians Govern Ifi- Virginia Thousands of women and chil dren in the United Stales may suf fer from cold for the want ot coai fires, some of them are suffering now, sad the cause of it Is the refusal of John L Lewis and some of hie coal miners to allow other coal miners to dig coal, at peril of having their heads bloodied'. la American states having mines of coal within their borders the right of man to work la not now established, though, as matter of course, this statement does not apply to Virginia. In his correspondence from Washington to The New York Times Arthur Krock writes: “Acting under authority conferr ed on him by the General Assembly in 1942, Governor Tuck on Septem ber 28 issued an executive order which operates to provide Virgin ians with a coal supply adequate to their needs, regardless of the. strike. The governor that day set up a state emergency fuel com mission. which, after one mouth of operation, reported to him that approximately 375,000 tons of coal have been produced through non union sources iq Virginia, a 500 per cent increase over normal non union production. It reported fur ther that 58 mine operators are working the strip mines for the state. In this period the commis sion sent to 40 different communi ties 25S carloads of emergency fuel, and state and federal institutions are filling their needs, not through the dispensation of the striking un ion, but through the use of the public power of Virginia to meet its daily necessities. The state of Virginia will be gov erned by the Virginians, unless and until federal courts, (packed courts they would be), shall decree that it Is without right to make and en force laws that protect a common man In earning his dally broad by lawful and honest labor. The de cree would require armed federal forces to invade Virginia or It would not be effective. Meanwhile Governor Tuck, friend of United States Senator Harry Byrd, and others in authority in Virginia will see to it that the Virginians shall not suffer for want of fuel and that they ahull be free men—News A Cuorter. above-named State of South Carolina, County ot Kershaw, m: l Henry G. Garrison, vice-president ef the abo do solemnly swear thatthe above Statement is true ts the nay kaowlodsn tod belief. HENRY G. GARRISON, Sworn to and subscribed befog* me this 12th day of) — M. KENNEDY# HZrd, Notary of Nov., Authority On Deafness Mr. J. H. Lomax of Bw ApousHeoti Lomax Co. S. C~ who Is well known to tea hard of hearing the South, will held * BETTER HEARING CLINIC to_ ACOUST1CON ’ onu aitierem fidency to gtva you BALANCED ,TXON HEARING designed lor your D HEARING. IB Mr. will achievements to the a revolutions a nts OUT Hood.BMd or HBEMURE. and tee is worn like n ‘A* lA ip SMS P. ML