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h •W 1 ?' ^ 5' LT. mm K If'i If. ^ -i— OU|r (Eambnt QUironirlr 1119 Nona Brood Street Camden, & C. POBUSaiD ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY - BACH WEEK Harold C. Booker - DaCotta Brown - . • Editor Publwher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All SubKrtpUCM Payable U Advance i Year $8.50 One Sit Months — 2.00 y—^ Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C- under act of Consreee March S. 1S79 ' 1 m (ft la All artieleo submitted for publication must be signed by the author FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1949 JVitmi-JM V .TT--. • , The Camden Chronicle wishes for you a very, very happy New Year. res# Camden and The New Year The new year upon which we embark Saturday night at midnight should be an epochal one for Camden. The industrial development of the city which began this year should continue at an accelerated pace in the coming year. One great event of the year will be the starting of operations by the May plant ' of E. 1. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc. This is expected to be in the early fall and will mark the beginning of the production of a new 1 fiber, Orion. There are many other great things in store for Camden, some of them almost certain to materialize during the year. Present indications are that there will be as mudh or more construction work going on ihere throughout the year as in the year which is drawing to a close. We dare iay that there is not another city of the same proportionate size in the 'United States that (has greater potenti- . alities for the new year than has Camden. If we realize even a portion of them we will make great progress. Heartening To Britons The increasing return to public life *by King George VI is bringing some cheer to an otherwise rather gloomy England. It is an inspiring finale to a rather sad year. , v In the early part of the year the King's physical condition was regarded as rather serious and there were fears as to the final outcome. He seems to have recov ered and (has regained enthusiasm and buoyancy which has meant so much to the Britiah Commonwealth in other years. King George's cheery resilence has been remarked by many palace visitors of late and his determination to carry on when ever possible with public duties is seen by many as further evidence of that ten acity and courage which became apparent in his earlier overcoming of a speech de fect. There are many who look to the King as the ultimate savior of England. The year 1950 is the year of general elections in England and if it happens there is no clear-cut majority, this will mean more heavy work and responsibility for the King as the head of the state. And so with royalty generally fading around the globe, Britain's King George and Queen Elizabeth—beginning the 14th. year of their reign—stand out more re splendency as upholders of traditions of public duty, conscientiously and graciously fulfilled—as bnngers of color, romance, and pageantry to humdrum lives, and as living examples of security and happiness in the sanctity of the (home and family life. Long may they reign! Australia and New Zealand have voted out their Socialist governments and return ed to a system of free enterprise. May be the world is starting on the long road back to sanity. Camden people should turn out in full force for the Horse Bowl game on next Monday afternoon and do their full part towards making it a success. One half of the century is just about gone. It has been magnificent in some respects and tragic in some. Let us hope that the worst part of it ‘has passed. One good New Year’s resolution for everybody who doesn’t already live here to make, would be to move to Camden. Everybody in our section ^eema pretty well pleased with old Santa Claus’ visit Christmas. Some one has called attention to the fact that the word J4 American" ends in "lean." , What's everybody's badness is likely to be nobody's business. k VIS Why Communism is Waning Communism is now definitely on the wane in Western Europe. In Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Norway the move ment has steadily lost ground during the past few months, all foreign correspond ents seem to agree. Several explsnstions have been made as to the reason for this decline, among them: 1. Soviet communism is not helping Western Europe solve its problems, Rus sia is expert at exploiting bad economic conditions, but is not showing any evidence of building better economic conditions. Communism is not delivering the goods, and the hard-working people of Western Europe are seeing through the propa ganda. 2. The ruthless, brutal repression of the Communist police state is more and more having to expose itself hi order to maintain the power behind the Iron Cur tain. 3. Due in part to the Marshall plan, the grass is growing greener in Western Europe than it is in Eastern {Surope—and Communism is being judged accordingly. 4., Marshal Tito is causing the most excellent trouble in the Communist world. He is annoying and pre-occupying Moscow no end, so much so tftiat the Communists decided to call off the attack on Greece. Roscoe Drummond, one of the most re liable cf the foreign correspondents thinks, however, that there is a further factor which is causing the decline in Commun ism. Says Mr. Drummond: " "In my judgment, the Communist " Party's greatest short-term advantage is proving to be its largest long-term liability. 4 T refer to the fact that Soviet communism has hundreds of thous ands of Moscow-loyal nationals— French, Italian, German, etc.— throughout the countries of Western Europe. "This means that whenever Russia wishes to influence the French or Italian or German Governments, it has a Moscow-loyal Frendh, Italian or German political party and propa ganda machine which go to work to da its bidding. "But the French Communist Party, for example, cannot yield its first loyalty to Russia without ultimately exposing to other Frenchmen the fact ^that it no longer owes its first loyalty *tor France. And the French Commun ist Party cannot be loyal to its own country and remain in favor with Rus sia. That’s what happened to TRo. , "The recent elections in * Norway, in which the Communist representa tion in the Storting was obliterated, is the latest example of how the Com munist Party has lost standing and r respect because of its foreign control. "Communist prestige was rather high in Norway at one time. The Nor wegian people had admired the ex ploits of the Red army which had helped drive out some of the Nazis and had behaved well during the Rus sian occupation. ‘‘Moreover, the Norwegians didn’t vote against the Communists because postwar prosperity had come to Nor way. It hadn’t. Norway is carrying through an austerity program in the interests of long-term recovery as severe as Britain’s. ''‘ ■ "But the 11 Communist members of the 150-member Norwegian Parlia ment went down to defeat—and I am utilizing the most reliable firsthand sources of apprasial—because the Norwegian people had become con vinced {hat the Norwegian Commun ist Party was not a national political party but, instead, a -tool of the-Rus sian Government. * ^Europe’s Communist Parties have been powerful instruments of Soviet policy, but they are losing their power because they are instruments of Soviet policy and are being so recognized— a good example of error helping to destroy itself." It is well that the people of Western Europe have found their bearings before they made the fatal mistake of going Com munistic because once they voted in Com munism there would have been no help for them. They would have been ruled at the point of the gun. The people of a country can’t vote in the Communism form of government and then, if they don’t like it, vote it out After they once get it the only way they can get it out is to shoot it out and since they are disarmed and at the mercy of an army maintained by the government there is no chance of that Voting communistic is a mistake a coun try can make only one time. • . ■ > :-J\. Have you made your New Year's reso lutions yet? n a Out Loud Life to jest on* jmr after an other. The average cost a New York night Tear’s Eve to $126. of money to bring into the world. When yon ride in on a holiday yon grave chance. per person at ctab for New It costs a lot a new Infant an nntemoMle are taking a Sometimes in our idle moments we find ourselves wondering if n mail carrier ever forgets to mail a letter which hie wife has given him to poet ' According to legend, 8L Anthony lived to the age of 106 years on 12 ounces of bread and water a dgy. But who would want to live 106 years that way? Who can remember the good old days when a woman would wear four petticoats, all fully starched, and ahgdowproof? A writer says that many farm homes now have all of the con veniences of a city. And that re minds us of the story of the farm er who moved to the city with his family. They were enjoying the various conveniences in their new homer-conveniences which they hadn’t known in tile country. Their first morning there, the wife woke her husbend up and said, “Dear, hadn’t you better get up and start the fire?” "Well,” repUed the husband, “as long as we are living in the city we might as well take advantage of all of the conveniences it offers and just call the fire department.” America is the laud of the mid night son. Jamaica harvested 14,000 bags of ginger from the last crop. There’s lots of ginger in Jamaica. In some Islands In the Pacific it is said that the only penalty for bigamy is having two mothera-ln- tow. Speaking of United States Sen ators, no one can ever accuse Byrd of trying to feather his nest at the expense of the government. A Kansas City man has reduced his weight from 668 pounds to 262 pounds. And appropriately enough he ia a meat cutter. The doctors have never been able to find out much about thq salivary glands. That’s probably because they are secretive. > If It were not for cosmetics, lots of girls would suffer from An in feriority complexion. When yon meet a man with a dual personality, don’t you feel like teUing him to go chase himself? All new traffic regulations take into consideration the safety of the driver. It is probably figured that It ia too lain now to save the pedestrian any way. A guy I like Is Homer Dees’ , f He covers his face When he hea to sneese. WShder what people will be do ing 60 years from now in an effort to be modern? ( h Australia produces 27 per cent of the world’s wool and 67 per cent of the merino wool, hot even at that there wasn’t enough tor the socialists to pull the wool over the Australians’ eyes. “The country with the densest poputotlon is Java,” says a news paper filler. Surely they cant be any denser than the Russians. ‘‘Too much haste sometimes proves very costly," says a Writer. And that bringa to mind the old story, which we may have related before of the traveling salesman in the old horae and buggy days who drove up in his fine rubber- tired buggy one day to a black smith shop to get new shoes put on hit horse. He was a very im portant guy emT sought to Impress his Importance on the blacksmith. 1 want to get shoes put on my horse and want it done very quick ly as I am in a hurry,” he told the old ’smith. The blacksmith suited to work shoeing the horse al once. Every minute or so the salesman would try to hurry him up. Finally the Job was done. The bill was to be three dollars. It so happened that the old block- smith stuttered and would always hang up on any word starting with the letter “t”. The salesman asked him how much he owed him. “T-M—t—t—t—the blacksmith suited to say. “Oh. heck, I’m in a hurry, time is money with me, how much do I owe you?" asked the salesman. “Five dollars, by golly,” the blacksmith replied. People expect a lot these days. Here’s an ad In the Plant City (Fla.) Courier: “Wanted: Small horse. Must be gentle and able to work. Also do nuto repairing.” The weather we have been hav ing lately has been auch that you can’t tell whether it is summer weather or winter weather or whether It Is either. With The Press ‘ini ■ A Routine Matter It is reported from PragtJh that the Csech Communist government has ordered U missionaries of the American Mormon church, which has made soma 260 converts In that country, expelled. > A spokesman far the mission- arias said the reason given by the government was that missionaries represented a “threat to the peace and security of the sUte.” But. since appeals and denials of the charges have been made and gone unheeded the churchmen be lieve that the order is a part of a general movement to ouat for eigners from Csecboslovakto. In other words the ouster is a routine matter ia the course of events in which history is repeat ing Itself. Just aa Hitler liquidat ed the Jews and others who, he thought, might give him trouble, so the CommunisU are knocking down opposition by elitoinatlng it-1 —The Bute. ’ < ’ r how to ell Its people n lew to With to Guilty Or Net Guilty? \ James J. Reid, cnairman of the sUte Industrial commission, criti cising lawyers’ fees In labor com pensation cases, says: “The tub-thumping which is done to urge claimsnU to hire lawyers is done by lawyers who are them- eelves seeking this business.” Chairman Reid’s stuck to upon the whole legal profession in South Carolina, though probably not so intended. RespecUble lawyers are numerous. The lawyers as a body in South Carolina set themselves up as an “ethical” profession that will purge and clean itself of rascals and shysters. That is iU pledge to the public. It poses as a pattern of ethical propriety. Unless the lawyers of decent standards discipline the profession the profession pleads guilty to falae pretense. In Charleston Is a bar associa tion. It can dispute Chairman Reld’a assertions, or, If It can’t. It should confess to depravity of the state profession as a whole.—News and Courier. Bill of RighU Day, 1949 On December 16, 168 years ago, the Bill of Rights became part of the American Constitution. During the years following, despite its less-than-perfect application, the average cltisen came to Uke the freedoms thus accorded him usual ly aa a matter of course, always as the norm. That time has passed. For what was laid down In these first ten amendments to the organic law of one nation now sUnds a great written symbol of all that really seU off the free peoples of the earth from the fearridden slaves of political police. Nothing else quite so completely embodies the core of that distinc tion. The form of government does not. Some of the free states are atill monarchies—at least in name. The social or economic order does not Some free socie ties still malnUln a peerage some are socialistic. Only the Bill of RighU and 1U counterparts spell it out: The righto of the people as against their government; the restraints upon the government as against 1U people. Today, perhaps the central Usk of every free nation is to learn ■mothering Its people’s freedom which that government exists to protect Blit of RighU Bor, 1999. Indeed beea fraught with IHHowe One of the beet Christmas pres ents the American public could re ceive this ysnr would be a reduc tion In taxes. The burden ef Fed eral, SUto, County and municipal taxes to staggering, both to the pocketbook and the Imagination. Yet while the people who are the very backbone of the nation are taxed to the polat of bankruptcy, repeated stories couse out of Wash ington telling of President Tru man’s demands tar higher taxes. Deaf ears are turned to all pleas mads In behalf of the taxpayers. The huge and corrupt political machines in Washington and else where must be oiled generously with the hard earned money that millions of small business men end others have to pay. It matters not to the Washington crowd that in these times of high prices a big percenUge of the taxpayers have «?«*** etc., they ®f , — »1toi !• this mon*T nt for? Why a good It ’•••d to wasted to clothe the EuroneeB* 10 .!*®* **• more than toU^SJe^ ^ are still too mei ,or to i* 0 ?*** root of the money •wcuooiiK i." Democratic admintotrmtiom^SK by Tram,, It " n7 ■ he ^®d paychecks, it VTvZ* ror their 5 ‘V ho t^ d by the mSSSS?! this help keep the Ns- “““l D '“ OCT *“ to oBfci. N *- Neither you nor we can concei™ child in the U S- d -And still there is no move by iw to Leghorn hats take thair name from that of the Italian non through which they are ahippef % vAA ■■ * earnestfy Lope your sLip comes safely to poet in mu Very Lit O wish* He*. s -: rs J V. ' % * rn-irf.r .t DeKalb Pharmacy 11 • _ • . . v /«, • a . *v»v • , - . "-j- H.r . »• u. ■ * j- - ^ • - . ■ HEpyJ i > A couple of merry-go-round at tendants got married the other day. That was a natural sequence since they had bean going around together for somo time. ■ r-,vs*^ ■ ' ! J* ? - ,*•- • ’K^CTSfcr.. s’ ' . • • lii ’g • ■ | KraSn*?-- app!p 1950 T» • ,aujV;w,'; , I i A wealth of New Year cheer. May J the good things of 1950 t be yours to enjoy. r i i ‘ I'i , *.*3H il V * . v • ' • . mrztvrp . V.•... • - • / '• 6 iu-v y? *1 * . - i FIRST NATIONAL RANK member of federal hbmbvk system OF FEDERAL DEPOSlt INSURANCE CORPORATION . - .: ■ i,: a