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fflamdm (Elfronlrlf 1,road Street Camden. S C PUBLISHED °N TUESDAY ui nilDAY n.: .■ • WEEK D^l & » B00ker ' ' ‘ ' Editor _D»Co«U Brown .... p ub i i<lh>r .„ 0 SUBSCRIPTION TBRM8- One S Y e “ riPtl °“ P,r * ble In Advance sy Month,!:::::::;::;;;;;;;;;;; ;■ ^1° *• “• Po., ' “• C- wul«r ftct of Contra** March », 1>7I 1 * CAMDEW dmainr. r CAUPB* Seeking The Light on J he A re 1 ce, ; t election, in New Zealand and Australia in wMch Socialiam waa ousted after it had been given a trial eads to the hope tliat the voters of Eng land will have seen the light by the time Of the general elections next year-just as it is hoped that the voters of this coun- try will also have seen it. There is a feeling in London, according to foreign correspondents, that a chain , reaction has begun whidh will sweep the .lS Atlee government in Britain out of power ' er , ‘ it'* Marion Star, f-nlgbtin* t«t so »*y* “ye time to in TninldnaQirf [Of What's Wrong With This (Address delivered by Gearf* [ st j<* c^ert N. Craig, national commander of I A ^J ipan peoples we beard last week next february. March or June-whenever the Labontes choose to hold a renerAl I them «he rei election. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1950 What 9 s Wrong With It? Elsewhere on this page wifi be found an address delivered by George N. Craig, Legion* to CO Te an A er ° f the America " I T™ r d reatricti « n » comVtiTiW'tobe' t u on*. . the American Federation of I des,r ed rather than shimn^ *. Labor at its national convention in St. Paul, »p{W ut ? controls regula- Ke 4 *® don ® ln Manheim, snmptbivw, <»Wednesday by you Minn, in November. We ask that read this address in full and see what you can find wrong with it. t . T t h . e . rea ?" n we ™>‘e this request is that the address met with the disapproval Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Inter- intfm"? Un '° n ’ and led him to intimate that the American Legion is be coming anti-labor and that most of its na tional commanders are lawyers who are friends of capital. Surely it cannot be that Mr. Tobin dis believes in prayer. Mr. Craig's address "as a plea for a praying America “wearilv in T'" " 0t ° bjeCt to Ameri ™ a, Mr r ^ ' n> ' arm ° r of Christianity" as Mr. Craig pictured it. Surely he would not object to America returning "to an all-out faith in God making that faith "the new bond national unity.” he mu,t aftree with Mr. Chair that the call of the hour is to build American military strength, Amenl economic strength and American sr strength.” . , Surely he must agree with Min^our a ementthafourpnog^^ ^ free economy stronger decent to vet ability of labor and mana “ a dose togrether,” and hte , TTn belief that "they can ' if they first get close m r ■ “The a general , - «- In the Australian election, Robert G U bath.. T 1 * 1 . **- Menzfes, who will become the next Prem: M > ier of that country, attacked the folly of ci."o2*° “ ll,elr pre ' i ' nationalization as ideal. He attacked the 11""'* ' - outlook whidh regards ---■ ^Wedneoday by that loose infinitesimal to the dam- oat has been ■ done to the issue.” says Mr. Menzies “w ,e country by l0O8e bul1 ln a free people or the all-powerful’st™ 1 ”' Australia has chosen to be a free pe Although members of congres* The Socialists in Australia hatby to nationalize the banks and to fol- a monopoly on interstate airlicided hod shown the road they in* low. The Australian eleftst funda- . 1 . ^'he that road, a n conserv- It is said that perha- wa3 vo t e r im- monta! reason for th Agh pr ices, and ative victory over good9 at the the e ^ Ce -? 11 I* producing well terv m„ V f ‘he factory. on tHp f ,men ^alians a«e asking for a on the farm , . .7 In shoi 4 W1 wor k ou ^ corn_ governm economic problems without and of our monwr tlons a managed economy, ^at is what we want in this coun- ihe people of this country would f ell—exceedingly well—to take a leaf m Australia’s scrap book. that in our daily basis on which to work Federal Payroll Padding a return to lives is the firr out our indir‘ ua1 ’ our group ' and our na ' tional proh" 1118 ' We ca- c see w,hat ^ was * n Mr - Craig’s speech that was 80 disappointing to Mr. Tobin * n d caused him to spout forth HggfitSt the American Legion. Can it be f/iat Mr. Tobin doesn’t agree with Mr. CrMg s statement that “our only hope of (ational survival today lies in unification” ind “that this is no time for feuds and juarrels.” Is that contrary to Mr. Tobin’s policy? Can it be that he disagrees with Mr. Craig’s statement that “now is the time for patriotic collaboration—for sincere sac rifices that will make possible agreements —by all Americans in the interests of na tional unify?” We just wonder what it was about Mr. Craig’s speech that so displeased Mr. Tobin. The City Hall Tower Following publication of a story in The Chronicle to the effect that the city hall tower would either have to be remodelled at considerable expense or torn down, there was much reaction against tearing it down. Accordingly City Council decided not to remove the tower but to look into plans for saving same. Architect Ralph Little drew three suggested plans. One called for replacing the necessary timbers to make the tower sound and refinishing tho exterior, the total cost to be $15,000. An other called for decreasing the tower in size and restyling it to a missiontype styl ing, at a cost of $11,000. The third called for decreasing size of the tower consider ably and a simplified styling and spired roof, at a cost of $7,500. The Chronicle last Friday printed the architect’s drawings showing ho^ the tow er would look under the three different plans. The people of the city have been asked by Council to decide which of the three plans they prefer. Those who did not use the ballot in last week’s paper to express their preference will find another ballot in this week’s paper and it is hoped that they w’ill use same. Council would like just as full an expression from the people as possible. In the event the vote should be pretty close between the three plans, it might be possible to hold a second election between the two highest plans. express their preference. The conviction of E-Representative J. Parnell Thomas, of New Jersey, on a charge of taking kickbacks from his em ployees on the Federal payroll has led to talk of a general congressional inqhiry into complaints of payroll padding, nepotism and bribery on a wide scale. Former Representative. Bryan Dorn of third South Carolina congressional district was quoted as saying in Columbia last week that the practice of getting kickbacks was rather common among congressmen and he intimated that some of the influential men in the present Congress were guilty of it. If what Mr. Dorn says is true the same medecine should be handed out to all con gressmen that was handed to Mr. Thomas. To convict one man who happened to be anathema to the administration for doing something and then let others who happen to be friends of the administration get by with is repugnant to the American sense of justice. Representative Usher L. Burdcik, of North Dakota, has served notice that he will introduce a resolution calling for a sweeping investigation of Congressional payrolls this month. Burdick claims some congressmen have made it general practice for years to keep individuals on payroll who never worked fo rthe government. A Washington disptach says that opin ion around the capital is that the Burdick resolutioTT vnll be shelved. Why? are expert* at balanrlng them selves as 1* shown by the fact that they can walk a feme with ea»e, they seem utterly unable to bal ance the budget. “You never hear a good word for the Truman administration In this section," reports a Northern correspondent on a tour of the South. No, the only words you hear when it is mentioned are naughty onen An absent minded pedestrian Is soon among the absent. The Indonesians will not "Dutch it” any longer. Life on the battlefronts of the recent war was comparatively safe compared to what it Is In this country now. Boyle and Cook is the name of a firm in Mahoney, Pa. Wonder if they burn their customers? South Carolina’s pig crop drop- pod two per cent la*t year ac cording to the Department of Ag riculture but It seems to us there are more road hogs now than ever before. We've never seen anything like the way tempus keeps on fugit- Ing. Well, we’re out of the dangerous forties. announced In e government r 'hat there we* report* of flying that the people who seeing them had just that they were seeing jg. Two day* later there reports from numbers of ble people that they had one of the strange objects, of this remind* us of the story the man In a hotel room who called a doctor one night ami asked him if he could come at once to tee a friend of his who was In hi* room with him. The doctor sus pecting something^ asked him if his friend was seeing snakes. “No,” replied the man, M that’B the trouble —the room Is full of them and he can’t see a darned one.” The average husband is not a house. The average wife is afraid of a mouse. There was almost as much fuss made over the birth of the new yefu- as there was over Rita Hey- worth's baby. ‘Having gone through the ex perience, I am convinced .that everybody ought to get drunk one time and live through It, because it helps them to a better under standing of death and the resurrec tion,” says the editor of the Ab beville (Ga.) Chronicle. It seems that the North Dakota boy who burned down a school building the other day didn’t have anything against education—It was Just the principal involved. A noted doctor says that brain work is very fatiguing. That's one reason we’d rather write this sort of stuff. Sometimes we are inclined to believe that the middle class is going to wind up on the bottom. Quite naturally a Scotchman ob jects to a story told at his ex pense. Who can remember the good old days when a woman wouldn’t dare go down town unless she had on a corset? A writer complains that the raf fie craze la sweeping over the country again. And that reminds us of the story of the charity so ciety woman who approached a man about buying a chance. “We're having a raffle for a poor widow, won't you buy a ticket?” she asked the man. "No,” he replied, ‘my wife wouldn’t let me keep her if I won." Pn,. Craig, nauonai 7; t Ame rican peo^* 110 The American Legion, to the Am ^ dan gerou* American Federation of Labor mg m ake our Convention at Saint Paul, Mmn. Who See editorial on this page headed j -Together! “What’s Wrong With It?” . 1 St cK sub rnit that x From here on out all Amen-1 in G(X j in our _ cans must close ranks! Our only j, „ / irrn est basis on hope of national survival today m . oUt 0 ur lies in national unification! We ! ,. D and our naf are confronted with a monument- g al challenge to our boldness, to A n oU t teamwork b< our initiative and to our team ^ and management ai effort. The call of the hour is, b bso i u t e ly vital to nal to build up American military a and na tiona] strength, American econo , , "i < i orogress m- makir strength, and American spiritual P “ om y stronger d< rtrmphl ; ability ° f labor Twa is no time for feuds and * closer together a uarrels. If we break up our na-1 & that they can : onal unity on the rocks of po- > lf the y fim ^ litical, economic, racial or social differences, we are playing right* way t 0 start ^ into the hands of our one great; [. d j Vine guidance, est enemy — expending world J shouJd like to »ee e\ communism! NoW is the t 1 ™ l tive bargaining coufe for patriotic collaboration—for labor an<J ma sincere sacrifices that wiil make with a prayer liossible •*re«nente-by all fa praye r. Bv so doing, you will 1 measured only by the Americana in the interest of na tional unity. We must have military streng- ‘T~" ur good th. We cannot build it without . together, economic strength. We aann" 1 ' ..'ICethef. ^ develop the necessary economic - stick together strength without spiritual streng- together. ’ tb! if you work togel Every thinking American ^ U. together! conscious today of his individual P wl jJ S p ark a inadequacy to cope with the new that wiU gweep perils of the atomic age .B ^ us p roU{ j W( that very feeling of mdividua armor P f Christi helplessness brings along an equa| ^ conviction that God alone can, , supply the strength which t c individual needs in time of crisis Amenfan Legion It is in that spirit L'P Now is the time when all of us must return to an all-out faith in the America secure and to 1 our country’s glorious stren in building that brave new tld in r-'TU kkrUynU/ fUifh mi„t be the American Legion, 3,000,C God and that faith must be m readv and wini to j new bond of our national unity. - , , v ^ m»na Our Pilgrim Fathers started build- amzed labor and mana ing this nation with J u h / L^to work unselfishly take framers of our Constitution paus-1 ^ ed to pray for help from above whenever their task seemed ready to overwhelm them. The whole, - -.. b : now fen „ concent of our democratic ideals: uhich ail Darners n :>w rwg in o? human freedoms has its roots dlX in the teaching of Christianity. I see W £iiLwhMf U ^ In Philadelphia at the national do it convention of the American Leg-' ca " 0 ^. ion I saw an historic old church B( " c a f £ " Ar l n rnns !rkin£ with a marker that carried a a K ai nst Awncans gtmg spiritual punch line It read: together and flfr ng tGods ‘‘Families That Prav Together, side. as existing when "a firm s d -mand lakes and wa curve inherits the stability which dared illegal, particular equilibrium methodology State Chief bequeathes to the industry's de- Richardson mand curve.” We don't believe legal to fish here is a man in Washington who lakes and t knows what that means. Night Finhiny At Santee-Coopef Is Declared Illegal has «me Wa ! “it the Sa r s at any kind of«hts this regulfion, he ing added, m°f Frid eral regulates that t mg in watmof the 000,000 hycfdectnc - Editor Lem Winesett of the An economist defines monopoly Night fighting Santee - Cooper with lights in) power project it.- If it’s jMEBOD someb i,i be- .X: ke’IOO.. Ihcty. ps for -Indianvie Newj #c : COMING OR GOING... m *r ’ 4- -V ■ mmw, Man of The Half Century There will be very general agreement, ieve, with Time magazine’s selection vV-VL f r t urge al V'-mI iAfi n^; V (■ 111 of Winston Churchill as the “Man of the Half-Century.” In announcing his selection. Time said him : His chief contribution was to warn of rocks ahead and to lead the rescue parties. He was not the man who designed the tfhip; what he did was to launch the lifeboats. That a free world survived in 1950, with a hope of more progress and less calamity, was due in a large measure to his exer tions.” We are convinced that Winston Church ill saved England from a German invasion and if England 'had fallen the final result of the war might have been quite different. Only Mr. Churchill’s lion heart kept the British together and led them to eventual victory. And the sad blot'upon it all is that the English showed their appreciaaion of his efforts by kicking him out of office. Surely in this case ‘‘ingratitude was treason to mankind.” - — 1 ’ IfAUJE Senator Arthur Vanderburg, of Michi gan, says that “the Republican party’s purpose should be to restore the American system to safe foundations before it is too late.” That should be bhe purpose of all parties. / f >■- ■ THlIvEAR THE BIG VALUE I! 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