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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1949
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The Camden Chronicle wishes for you
a very, very happy New Year.
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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.
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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.
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^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.
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Have you made your New Year's reso
lutions yet?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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day. That was a natural sequence
since they had bean going around
together for somo time.
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