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PAGE TWO —I Qttp (Eamint (HlpnmirU 1119 Nona arood PUBLISHED ON T EACH •i >s:u CamcUm, S. C. AY and FRIDAY Harold C. Booker • DaCoata Brown - - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In AdTance One Year .48.60 Sis Months 2.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at Camden. 8. O. under act of Congreas March S,1I7» ■■jejpJIBteeMMw ^fe—e .i ■ .■■ ■ All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author TUESDAY, DECEMSER 13, 1949 Living In Slavery Writing in the Christian Science Moni tor, Ralph G. Lindstrom says that the hopeless, helpless, frustrated peoples who have been induced or subdued into sur render to communistic governments as satellites' of the Kremlin Politburo, have either learned or illustrated three tragic facts: 1. That communism deliberately uses the slavery of involuntary, labor and con centration camps to keep itself in power; 2. That surrender of liberty for securi ty is complete loss of security as well as liberty; 8. That (witness Tito and Yugoslavia) even ardent Communists lost all internal sovereignty in their own nation to a pat tern of tyrannical unitary world govern ment under the Kremlin Politburo. Mr. Lindstrom feels, as does The CChron- icle, that in the United States (and other countries which have political freedom) the Communist party should be outlawed by statute. He says that those who op pose statutory outlawing of the Com munist party on the ground that freedom of political view would be endangered thereby, fail to take into account an ob vious disHnction between communism as a political party and any other political movement we have known. First of all, Mr. Lindstrom points put, the Communist party takes order from a foreign power as to the attitude and positions of this Communist party, as a supposed party within the United States, with reference to the domestic or internal affairs or internal sovereignty of the Unit ed States. It even takes such foreign- power direction as.to the means of destroy ing our Constitution by unconstitutional methods. “No nation has the political or moral right,” say)s Mr. lindstrom, and we fully agree with him, “to interfere in the internal affairs or internal sover eignty of any other nation. Since the Com munist party in the United States is the instrument of Soviet interference in riie internal sovereignty of the United States it is not entitled to legal existence or Recognition as a lawful political party within the United States.” The Communist party, if run under ground, can scarcely be more of a con spiracy underground than it has heretofore been. • Mr. Lindstrom says that we should force Communism into a specific contrast with genuine democracy. Communism, he says, can never successfully compete with a free way of life. The life *of an individual, given freedom to think and express his own views, worship freely, develop indi vidual initiative, will ever stand a bright contrast with the haunted, harried life of mere creature existence without such liberties, or even the security fraudulently offered as the price of surrendering liberty. “No one,” says Mr. Lindstrom, “knows better than the men in the Kremlin that communism can never stand this contrast. Tnat is why citizens of Russia and its satel lites may not travel or intermingle in coun tries where free people live, or even as sociate with free people who are permitt ed in Russia only on diplomatic mission sufferance. That is why, too, Communists in lands other than Russia are ordered to and do seek to disrupt the political and economic life of every country which knows and retains any substantial meas ure of x political and economic freedom.” Here, in our opinion, Mr. Lindstrom ex poses a weakness of Communism that ought to be apparent even to the dumbest man or woman. Why, if communism is so successful, are not the peoples of the world permitted to visit Russia and see <what it is accomplishing? Why is it neces sary to keep that country behind an Iron Curtain and to forbid its population from .even talking to free people? There can be but one answer to this question and that is that people who are living under communism are virtual slaves and they are living in want and misery. From Ayeock To Scott H. E. C. Bryant, a veteran newspaper man who served at one time as city editor of the Charlotte Observer and later was Washington correspondent for many years of the New York World, has for the past year or more, since ‘his retirement from active work to his farm in North Carolina, been writing some interesting articles for the Charlotte paper on which he once worked. 0 Mr. Bryant probably knows the politi cal history of North Carolina an well as any man in the state and in his column recently he wrote at length on the late Governor Charles B. Aycock,*who has been held in about the same esteem in North Carolina as Wade Hampton has in South Carolina. Says Mr. Bryant: “In 1898 the Democrats, under the leadership of F. M. Simmons, as their state chairman, and Charles B. Aycock, Robert B. Glenn, and other noted campaigners, turned the tide against the fusionists, the slogan be ing “Down With Negro Domination. 1 Two years later Mr. Aycock was elect ed Governor, and the illiterate Negfo voter was barred from the ballot box by a Constitutional amendment, in cluding the grandfather clause and the poll tax requirement. “In the 1900 contest Mr. Aycock promised, if elected, to assure the colored people of the State a square deal. He kept faith with them and peace between the races resulted. But, now, since the Negro voters in the North, East and West have for saken the Lincoln party and joined the Democrats, the Federal adminis tration, headed by President Truman, would undo what Messrs. Simmons and Aycock did in 1898 and 1900. “The four civil rights bills, sup ported by the President, would, if .enacted, bring back to North Caro- ^ lina and other southern states race friction. But to hold the Negro sup port in the other sections of the coun try Democratic leaders of the North would chastise and injure the South.” Governor Aycock was a brilliant man. Mr. Bryant says that “he had real sense —knew more about people of the South than President Truman and all of his nimeompoops. He will live long after they have been forgotten.” And then Mr. Bryant Adds this wistful paragraph: “North Carolinian* hunting jobs have forgotten Mr. Ayeock for a time but they will drift back.” The n\etamorphosis of North Carolina from Aycock to Scott must be sickening indeed to real Southern gentlemen like Mr. Bryant It’s hard for them to swallow. They surely must blush for their state. ‘Wort White Meat On TurtteyR Now*’—headline. President Tru man ought to do something about Scientists say there wUl be no atom-powered automobiles. Atom ic power will .not be used to knock you Into smttkereena but to blow yon ■—^‘"‘OfinLvn - Every mother wants her daught er to be careful about whom, she marries first Tbs world certainly moves in cycles. Ws are now bach In tbe cycle where there la talk of com pletlng tbe Stone, Mountain me morial. The current high price of eggs leads us to suspect that even the hens are not disposed to work like they need to. One of our pet peeves la a speak er who doesn’t watch his watch. We don’t know whether things are like they seem or not but it certainly seems that they are. That former Kentucky Congress man who has Just gone to prison, evidently must feel that people donT love May In December. A man who wakes up to find himself famous very evidently hasn’t been asleep. Science has been able to solve nearly .everything except what makes-a rooster crow at midnight. We can all understand now why during the wer thty called them the poet-war blueprints. > - Most people are grouchy before breakfast but we don’t believe that they would be in favor of abolish ing breakfast. You can’t blame a man for his ancestora bat you can blame bis anceatora for him. A Pennsylvania woman la suing for $16,000 for tbe loss of ber thumb. She evidently hasn’t any thing to keep her husband under now. palled at oar heart-strings with her gifted per formances. Yes, it seems like only yester day. but whan we look back the pawn carefully, are suddenly aurprisod to find over ten years have come and gqne since then. fa were rudely shocked out of our lethargy thla week when the country's newspapers carried a story about this Uttle’e starlet’s divorce. Except that aha la no longer a child prodigy, but a moth er of a baby girl asking for a divorce. How hard It la for ua to erase the picture that our actors por tray on the stage. It seems al most impossible to associate them with the humdrum affairs of our world after seeing them set up, on pedestals. Especially sometimes when we have such pretty pic tures painted In our minds.—Lau rens Advertiser. Sometimes good brakes on an automobile may not belp. They’ll cause a motorist to stop on top of the pedestrian instead of run ning completely over him. Limits Its Power According to Westbrook Pegler, sixteen state legislatures have now gone on rec ord as favoring a constitutional amend ment to the Federal constitution to limit tbe Federal income tax to 26 per cent Tbe estate tax and the gift tax would likewise be limited to 26 per cent. The states which have gone on record as favoring sueh an amendment to the constitution are Wyoming, Rhode Island, Missfssippi, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi gan, Indiana, Arkansas, Delaware, Penn- sytvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Alabama, Ken tucky, New Jersey and New Hampshire. The purpose behind the move is to revoke the absolute power of Congress to seize all the income of all the citizens and all business, at any time. We trust that the South Caroina General Assembly will join the above states at the next session in asking for such an amend ment. Cwtainly it is time that somethin# we being done along this line. After a while it may be too late. We Hope So Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, retired, form er head of the A-bomb project, said last Tnursday that he thought the Russians had obtained some of our wartime secrets. ‘How much they obtained nobody knews/' he said. The wartime chief of the atom bomb project said he hoped the House un-Ameri can activities committee would continue its current investigation, especially in an effort to find out “whether there were enormous, unnecessary shipments to Rus sia.” We join with General Groves in his hope that the un-American activities com mittee will continue its investigation along these lines. The trouble is that if it begins to appear that it is going to strike oil, Somebody will make an effort to have the investigation adjourned. And if they don't adjourn it, members of the commit tee will be persecuted. * The wolves apparently got Coach Ray Wolf of the University of Florida football team. Another one of life’s mysteries is why peopta will believe some thing that is whispered to them more readily than anything else. The old saying that “money talks’’ mast be true because when there is no money around every thing la awfully qniet And speak ing along that line we are remind ed of tbe wife whoee husband was about to leave on a business trip. She was exclaiming how she didn’t want him to make the trip. “Bat money talks,” he replied. "Well.’* retorted the-wife, "1 wish you’d leave a little here to talk to me while you are away because 1 get so lonely.” t. It may be difficult to prove that some men in pnbllc life are com munists but when yon see a bird with feathers' like a duck aad wings like a dock, that flies like duck, squawka like a duck, has webbed feet like a dock, has a beak like a duck and waddles and swims like a duck and associates with ducks then you feel Justified In assuming that such a bird is a duck. A stubborn person Is one who doesn't agree with you. The world laughed with Mrs. Barkley while she was being woo ed but now she will veep alone. The government give* out stories every now and then about tbe de cline In the cost of living but the only thing we have seen coming down lately baa been rain. Sometimes we can’t help but think that more than one donkey slipped into Nokh’s Ark. When a woman henpecks her husband, it serves ber right to have to live with a sorehead. A Minnesota woman got a di vorce from her husband because of tome secrets he revealed while talking In his sleep. Jost a few words said over your head and you are married and Just a few words mumbled in your a)eep and you are divorced. mmm * * "In order for a man to overcame the whiskey habit he mast sin cerely and honestly desire to over come it,” says a writer. And that reminds ns of the story of the old deacon who was lecturing one of his flock, a middle-aged man who was a model of sobriety during the week, but blacked out completely on Saturday nights. "Brother,” he gently admonished him, "you should struggle and fight against that craving. When you feel it coming on, try to wrestle with your conscience.” “ Tain’t no nee. Deacon,” the repentant sinner re plied. ‘Hat old conscience am too strong. He done throw me every time,’’ On Prohibition / A distinguished and liberal Vir ginia editor, Virginias Dabney, writing in a weekly of mass circu lation, Collier’s, warns the Amer ican . public that "Prohibition’s Ghosts Walks Again.” It Is an article that calls for an answer. We do not question the sincerity of Mr. Dabney's position. The dlsiUTerestedness of Collier’s would need less defending bad it not car ried in the same Issue seven and one-half pages of alcoholic bever age advertising. For tbe moment we shall not argue either the ethics or the wis dom of the numerous stratagems of the organised “Drys” cited in the article. Nor shall we even dispute Mr. Dabney’s evident ma jor thesis—that prohibition offers hardly the ideal solution to the liquor problem. To be sure, the~~$vtls of tbe prohibition era have been grossly exaggerated—and those of legal liquor grossly played down—by far too many writers. To be sure, Mr. Dabney’s picture of the farce of a "dry" Oklahoma is simply that of an island surrounded by an ocean of legalised liquor traffic. Nevertbeleaa, prohibition In pres ent prospect does represent re course to mass coercion thus far lacking that support from the overwhelming majority of law- abiding citlsens which is Indis pensable to such a remedy.. What we do contest in Mr. Dabney's article is the impression It leaves (in spite of concessions to the sincerity of seme Drys) that opposition to the liquor traffic and its inseparable evils comes chiefly from bootleggers, bigoted fanatics, and professional reformers. It does not To some extant in back of, and to n larger extent apart from, the organised prohibttkAlsta in a mounting tide of troubled Amerl- ae—a great many of them still nonabetalners. Mr. Dabney, him self, between the lines is telling the parveyors and consumers of aloohoMc drinks that uoleee the liquor industry reforms itself and its patrons show more self-re straint. that tide could turn into a torrent and sweep prohibition in again. Wo believe tbe lasting solution lies in another direction. Local option has proved workable, on the whole. It will probably bo neces sary to curb by .law tbe promo tional activities of a highly profit able Industry so that It cannot con tinue to stimulate artificially the demand for its product and thus remain self-perpetuating. But the real victory must come, gradually if need be, through the positive forces of education and religion operating to refine the social cus toms and to -elevate the moral values of a whole people.—Chris tian Science Monitor. ridiculous, not, of course, for the first time, when it upheld the freedom of loudspeaker speech- freedom of speech never Should have been Interpreted so as to negative the freedom to listen or not—begins the Job of narrowing itsdefinltion a bit. Overruling the objections of the C. I. O. which had attacked the Arkansan law Resigned to curb labor violence, the court upheld the right of any state to forbid the use of force and violence by pickets to prevent workmen, de siring to work, from working. The case grew out of a labor disturbance resulting when non- strikers attempted to croee pickte lines at tbe North Little Ro<X plant of tbe Southern Cotton Oil company during a 1946 strike. One striker was killed in the resulting melee between four strikers and five non-strikers. Two Negroes, Roy Cole and Louis Jones, were tried, convicted and sentenced to s year's Imprison ment for their responsibility hi precipitating the distnrbahce. The C. I. O. carried the case to the supreme court of Arkansas end then to the United States su preme court on the conteatipn that the Arkansas law violated the federal constitution's guarantees of ■ .ii ■ freedom of speech and of ssm ly. Justice Jackson, writing opinion of the court, in which participating Justices concur rejected this argument. The Arkansas act, he held, < not penalise any peaceful assen nor does it "infringe the righi rcr of views in any It “Quite another question Is volved when one Is convicted promoting and encouraging aiding in assemblage the purj of which is to wreak violence, said. "Such an assemblage has b denominated unlawful by Arkansas legislature and it Is abridgement of free speech or ■eaafetr for the criminal ssneti of the state to fasten themsel upon one who has actively i consciously assisted therein." So this much Is clear. The rl peacefully to assemble and rlg^t of free speech do not cm upon any group, pampered or oti wise, nay right to commit may) or da other violence.—Colua Record. North America has 80 mi soot—in the United States, Can and Mexico. Promotion For Workers The supreme court of the United States, which made itself slightly McLEOD & BOYKIN COMPAN) 1* Cool .:. Ice .:. 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