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■I—■ —— (Hambm "■ ' — 7 1119 Nona tsroad Street . Camden, 8. C. PUBUSRXD ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DeCoste Brown • *tftor . SUBSCRIPTION TIRUS: All Sabacriptiona Payable In Advanee One ^^oaf' «w**« # ««««««***«*«**«***»>**«*****««^3*&0 >jp ^i Six Months 2.00 Ksterid m Second Close Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C., oader act of ConcreM March I. 1I7» ■■ 111 1 » " <••*>*. i >■■ -i, i,— All articles aubbitted for pnbUcatloo aunt he _ signed hr the author TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1949 Grandfather Not To Blame In last Tuesday's Chronicle we raised the question of whether our climate was changing «and referred to the fact many old timers could recall when there were lots of snows in this section and when we had long spells of hard cold weather whereas now a real cold spell seldom lasts over two or three days. The Anderson Independent apparently thinks there has been no change in our weather. It says: "Grandfather will always insist that the Southern winters of the 1940's are much milder than the winters they had back ‘in the '70’s when he was a boy. Whereas you wouldn’t want to argue with grand father, the chances are very likely that there has not been much of a prevailing temperature difference be tween the winter seasons of seventy years ago and those of today. It’s more apt to be true that the winters of grandfather’s boyhood just seemed to be colder than those of today be cause of the vast difference between the heating systems of then and now. “Grandfather’s boyhood home was probably heated either by open fire places or by a pot-bellied parlor stove. Etched deep in his memory is the recollection of having to jump out of bed on a bitter cold morning and dash shiveringly downstairs to dresd in front of the stove. It was a common indoor winter experience in those days to feel well roasted on that side of you which faced the stove while your other side shivered. , ' “Contrast this experience with the modem method of arising on a win ter morning. By merely flipping the thermostatic control to 70 degrees or more, the ehtire house is soon per meated with a pleasant feeling of comfortable warmth. Dressing can be done leisurely with no shivers. Credit for this modern morning ex perience can be given to the discov ery of central heating methods where by heat from a central heating source is distributed to every room in the house. “The modern heating system with its automatic fuel burning and temp erature controlling equipment is as far removed from the fireplace and space heating units of our ancestors as the modern automobile is from the ox cart.” Grandfather didn’t cause the snows to fall and stay on the ground for as long as a week at the time in the old days, however. And one didn’t have to live in the 70’s to be able to remember when we had frequent snows in this section. Now snow is getting to be a curiosity. After a while we may be like the pro prietor of a filling station in the New Mexico dessert. One day a tourist drove up to the station and looking up in the sky and seeing a small cloud, sought to make conversation by remarking: “Looks like we might have a little rain.” The filling station proprietor replied: “Wal, I wouldn’t keer if it did. I’ve seen it rain myself but I’d like for my little boy here to see some.,” We may soon feel that way about snow. And speaking of the change in our climate we are reminded of the old verse: “I remember! I remember! Ere my childhood floated by, It was cold then in December And was warm in July. In November frosts descended And in April there were thaws But the modem weather! Nonsense; 'Tain’t like it used to was.” Sound Thinktno Dudley K. Woodward, chairman of the board. of regents of the University of Texas, told a conference of academic deans of the Southern states on Monday that our educational system has long neg lected to disseminate the basic facts of our governmental philosophy and economic system. 'Our emphasis,” he said, “has been on how to achieve and acquire and not on 'how to live or safeguard All that makes life worth living.” “Survival,” he added, “depends upon onr ability to reverse this trend in' 'the home, in the church and in the school.” The Texan told the educators that the only justification for spending public funds and effort on education is that universities and other schools produce better citizens. Mr. Woodward has been doing some sound thinking. • There are- many people who have become thoroughly discouraged because of the fact that while more and more people in America are becoming educated with each generation our stan dards of citizenship have not improved, in fact, there appears to be more and more radicalism with each generation. Can the fault be, as Mr. Woodward has indicated, that the schools have been failing to teach the basic facts of our gov ernmental philosophy and economic sys tem—that they have failed to teach how to live and safeguard all that makes life worth living? We have long felt that our schools have been negligent in teaching our govern-, mental philosophy and trying to instil love of country into the students. This used to come naturally and there was no need to teach it but in this day and time it has almost become a necessity. Of course there would probably be some liberals,” socialists and communists who would object if we stressed the American way of life in our schools and they’d prob ably go to the federal courts and try to gjt out an injunction. And who knows but that they might succeed in stopping it on the grounds that it infringed on “academic freedom?” X Rather Coincidental It was purely a coincidence that on tfhe front page of Tuesday morning's Charlotte Observer was a story about Su preme Court criticism, of “ghost writers” and in another column on the same page a story to the effect that the President’. 1 ghost Writer had resigned. . Do your Christmas shopping early. The Unsung Heroes One sees much in the newspapers these days about Charley Justice, Doak Walker and the other great backs on football teams all over the country. There is no one who would take an iota of credit from them because they are deserving of all of the praise they get. But we often wonder if many people stop to think that if it were not for the line in front of each of these backs they would be as helpless as babies. Our at tention was called forcibly to this just a few Saturdays ago when we saw a college team which has a fine back on it play another team which had a fierce, charg ing line. This line was able to get through the line of the team on which this star back was playing on almost every play with the result that the back was unable to gain so much as a yard all afternoon. And this is true of all of the other fine backs. If the linemen didn’t give them protection they couldn’t get away for long runs and brilliant passing. Of course it takes eleven men to make a team and every man is expected to do his part, but we sometimes wonder if those men in the forward wall get the credit to which they are entitled. 1 They don’t make long runs and don’t carry the ball over for touchdowns but they make these possible. Another New Enterprise In announcing that construction will begin at once on a.rayon weaving plant at Williamston, Anderson county, to cost arDund $4,000,000, Royal Little, president of the Textron Company, said: “We want to stress the very fine cooperation that Textron has received from Governor Thurmond, from the state development board and from the state tax commission. These factors were all of tremendous influence in reaching a final favorable conclusion to build the plant?’ South Carolina is going places with this fine team working for it. Governor Thur mond’s administration will go down in Ihistory as one which did more for South Carolina industrially than any other in history. •' Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, who is regarded by many, as the ablest South- emer in the Senate and one of the very ablest men in the Senate, only voted with the Democratic party 34 per cent in the recent session of Congrees. Senator Pep per of Florida, voted with the party 99 per cent Pepper swallows whatever is handed (him by the party. Which sort of senator do you prefer? Let’s all cooperate to make this a Christ mas without fireworks in Camden. HiinJdnQOulIimd it ti miwiuwi teat M.ooo poo- pte fathered la Anderson teat to aee Saata Claas arrive. It eeans that mors and more peo ple are begtantag to depend on Santa Claas. — A barnacle gooaa from England landed an a pond hi North Carolina the other day. So even a gooee can aaa that thtapa are getting rotten In England bat If It hadn't bean a goose It wouldn't have stop ped in North Carolina. It la beslnnfng to appear as though science sssy find a core Tor everything except poverty. 1 P* ^ A Tennessee couple met at t p. m_ were married at 8:30 p. m. and separated at 9 p. m. No! The groom wasn’t one of the Roosevelt boys. Somehow or other It teemed never to have dawned upon oar forefathers that the government owed every man a living. When a general gete sick every thing’s wrong In general. ' ** mmmm Very often when we go into a public eating place to get a piece of pie we are reminded of the old doggerel: ‘‘If serrtega were I’d be a whole 1 Another one oL is a little boy,' Who can reme days whan the h setting? little Wider, lefldssj’ ’s mysteries r 1 . -■<« i -i own If we gave the devil hla dues, we’d give him Russia. The aversion of some people to work now brings to mind the story of the young fellow who got a Job as a traveling salesman. Asked how he liked Ur he replied: “Oh, it’s dandy. I meet some fine fel lows at the hotels- and have lots of fun in the evenings, but what I don’t like Is calling on all those store managers.’’ k — We’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the reason many a bachelor is a bachelor la that he didn’t have an automobile when he was young. When you see a dog chasing his tail, he’s just trying to make both ends meet A Michigan couple divorced in 1985 remarried the Other day. There’s nothing like sitting down thinking'fmags over. “Probably the oldest realtor In the United States, Mrs. Ralph B. BardweU, 101, of Pittsfield, Maas., recently sold a plot of land.” says e news dispatch. Seems that it’s about time she was buying one. hr to lave as s game is tkat It so often ends In a tie. “A gentle men’s agreement isn’t worth mnSh these days,” writer. That's not true. A smb’s ngrstmsst is worth Just as much as it aver was. ■- <• — A lawyer says the first year «f married life is daagerena. So Is tbs second, tbs third, the fourth, the fifth, and so on. A doctor says that the beet way to enjoy perfect health is to arise at 6 a. an. every day sad take a cold hath. What’s the next best way? Every nightfall mesas aaotber daybreak. ’ OTM * f There is this consolation about the government eventually owning i everything—it would have to pay all of the taxes. But then you should remember that the husbands and wives whs make love to each other in the movies are paid to do that. “When you take into considera tion the thousands ol different types of people—people of all sorts of mentalities—who drive can, it la a miracle that there are not more wrecks than there are,” says a writer. Tee! And along that line we are reminded of the story of the old fellow who was driving a truck along the highway and who stopped suddently, causing a car behind to crash into the truck. The car owner sued the truck driver. “Why didn’t you hold out your hand?” the Judge asked the truck driver. “Well.” he seld in dignantly, “If he could not see the truck how in heaven’s name could he have seen my hand?” Some people keep open minds, others open mouths The price of eggs, country hams, etc., reminds us of tbs story of the farmer’s wife who asked her husband what they could con tribute to the .poundtng which the congregation was going to give the pastor. “Wal, I dunno, Hannar,” replied the husband, “eggs Is away up, ’taters is up, pork is up, fowl Is up—we’ll save money by just giving him money.” Some people have take-home pay and no home to take It to. These are trying times—every body seems to be trying. One traffic hasard is the absent- minded pedestrian who forgets to get out of the way of an automo bile. **• Do your Christmas hinting early. With The Frees If a money man like Snyder desoft ?*—» budget is of may vital importance, who are we to way that 1 lag shuuMa’t be abolished, as a lag EtaPs^w tut' Toe Many Helpers Coauuaaiste la this mittedty eons'itate a percentage of the they hare too 'many do not belong to the party. Moi not wait until they have a ma jority la any country before they take over the government—Char lotte Observer. . Write H Christmas In reading an advertisement yes terday ws saw the word “Xmas” four times. That reminded us that it is time once again to auggest to our large family of readers and ad vertisers to write it “Christmas and not Xmas.” The latter Is ugly, lazy habit that has grown spread during the yearn Chronicle fights against the abbre viated form in Its columns. Christmas is s beautiful word, full of meaning. The origin of the abort form is that the Initial letter of the Greek for Christmas is X. But still ws say it is Inappropriate and undignified. Who would aey, "I Am Dreaming Of A White Xmas,”—Clinton Chroniele. Liquor, Tobacco, Schools J. M. Eleaser, Clemson Exten sion Specialist, who writes one of •The liquor and .tobacco live hE caatids ' Mote Amerk *■* N>usfc ■nude for life, usually have to aisuted room and wulking where they ha?, ThM wail Is at no cue. i Jot down the cock-eyed situ We agree with Mr. EUease the situation does seemt^ "••tk Carolina goes to ti port the schools. And wmia -of course, that wk speaks of ’’liquor folks” be the meuey, he’s speaking of who sell it, not those who * In any ease, it does no term to think seriously on this on which air concede to . prJJ some magnitude—even if w no specific solution to offer Meantime, a pictogram current issue of The Nei Herald points out that hi of teachers are leaving ti metto State because aal&r! higher elsewhere. Whatei are spending on education either s*»t sufficient or it wl *«iy -wii News-Herald. 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