Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE nUB&T. UgUgTttMH Sip (Batafrn dUprimick lilt Norm xsroad Street CimAmt, & C PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker - DftCoeU Brown > - - - Editor - PnblMher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All SubecriptioM Payable In Advance Six Monthe 2.00 et 4 Clue Metier at the Put 8. €, —dor aet of Coocreu March *. 1ST* All articloo •abmltted for —hUcatkie ole—4 hr the aether FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 19S0 The New Bus Station The new Atlantic Greyhound Bua Sta tion which is to be formally opened on Saturday is one of which the city can well be proud. Its architecture is in keeping with the traditions'*of the city and helps the city to retain its charm—one of its greatest assets. The architect who planned the station deserves a vote of thanks from the people of the city for his plans and the company deserves a vote of thanks for putting them into execution. Camden welcomes the new bus station and takes real pride in it. * The Coal Situation President Truman stubbornly refuses to invoke' fhe Taft^Hartley law in the coal strike situation and the country continues to suffer from a physical and financial standpoint as a result. Railroads are be ing forced to take off more and more trains thus inconveniencing the public and causing heavy losses to the railroads. Many people are suffering for coal with which to keep warm. It is just as hard to fathom President Truman’s action as it is to fathom those of John L. Lewis. The two together are causing much misery in the United States. There are reports to the effect that many of the miners are becoming embit tered towards Lewis and that he may be faced by mutiny in his own ranks if he continues to use them as pawns to move as he wishes. Surely these mines have a right to be getting bitter! r In 1949 the leadership for which the coal miners pay high salaries was respon- siblt tor ft llTflYThflOf) ftrre^fOT^lirwfricak* ing. The miners paid. Unwanted George Baldanzf, director of the CIO organizing committee, recently wrote L. S. Moody, secreUry of the Augusta (Ga.) Chamber of Commerce, telling him of the organization campaign being conducted in that city and asking for Mr. Moody’s “sug gestion, help or ciitieism.” He probably got tiiore than he was looking for because Mr. Moody frankly told Aim that Augnfta, nor the South, wanted any part of him or his organiza tion. In his letter to Mr. Moody, Mr. Baldanzi said: “It is our firm and considered con viction that our endeavors will prove a blessing to your community.” Mr. Moody in his reply frankly told him to take his “blessing” elsewhere. He told the CIO official that in Augusta peaceful industrial relations have been en joyed by employees and employers alike over a period of many years. In contrast to the harmony and mutual understanding which he says exists in Augusta in the realms of business and industry, he told the CIO official that it has been his ob- iscrvation that instead of the so-called “blessing” that Mr. Baldanzi had written about, the very opposite has been the re sult in communities where the CIO has been established. “I have in the past ten or fifteen years,” said Mr. Moody in his letter to Baldanzi, “seen virtually the whole textile industry move out of New England, leaving behind vacant buildings, empty factories and de serted towns, largely as a result of the ‘blessings’ of your organization. “You have asked my advice and sug gestions. I give them to you freely. I do not think the people of Augusta will take kindly to that type of ‘blessing.’ My best suggestion to you would be that under all the circumstances, 6 in the interest of Augusta, ita employers, its employees and its future, you take your ‘blessings’ else where.” Augusta knows from years of suffering in the long ago just what sort of ‘bless ing’ Mr. Baldanzi’s organization would bring to Augusta. It remembers when the people of the Horse Creek Valley nearly starved to death and trade in Au gusta was practically ruined because of such a “blessing.” The people of the Horse Creek Valley remember it all too well, also. They would give Mr. Baldanzi a very cold—or maybe we should say hot— reception. Hiinkbiq Out Loud Tk* feet feet they cannot *«t enough coal to keep then warn M making lota of people In this coon- try hot One trouble with this country is that there is too much active ignor- ice in It “The average communist carries a chip on hU shoulders/’ says a writer. Yes, it’s his head. * WHli The Piass Objects identified as ave be— se— by a In that the Tax Too folks wko operate any sort of best—ss can gat i—pared to dish oat M per cent more social the can arrange to have a similar in crease in yonr social security tax taken oat every .week or month. Where yon have be— pnying n dollar a weak, you will after Janu ary 1 pay a dollar and n half. That ie going to mean many thousands of additional doUars right kera in Bsmbwg cauaty which will go —t for social se curity. It do— not mean that the in- divldnal will receive any greater soclnl security benefits. Although the national social security funds have billions ef dollars surplus, the rat— are being increased — that the program mav be extend ed and expanded. Ton will pay the freight MIL—Bamberg Herald. Government is becoming more and more a give-and-take affair. Among life’s most pathetic fig ures are p—ts whose children are wholly undisciplined. The outlook cannot possibly be s dark as we think it Is. If It was we couldn’t see it Seeing where a foreign prince was traveling incognito reminded us of the old story ofane who spent the night in theliome of. a friend on one occasion. The next day the friend said to his bnUer: “Ton knew the prince was incog nito. didn’t yonr “Well." replied the butler, “I suspected that he had several drinks.” Wonder if the average depot agent Is satisfied with his station in life? “Can you tell me the capital of Alaska/’ aaks an old lady. Nome! The average woman doesn’t mind being a big figure in social cir cles. A quiet wedding Is sometimes the lull before the storm. No Tax Incraa—7 Every South Carolina congress man should use ovary ounce of hia strength to fight President Tru man’s proposal hike in income taxes. The tariff is all now that the taxpayers can stand and instead of hiking the levy, every effort ahonld be exerted to reduce it, especially for persons in medium and higher brackets. Some pretty good relief was given the lowest income groups in the reduction forced through s year ago. Also the nation-wide application of the man and wife community return gave help to numbers of families. But on the whole Income taxes are still too high, and It would be good long-run economics at least to hold to the present sched ule, and If possible to level off inequalities in the present struc ture. Mr. Truman Is a bull-headed per son. He Is as stubborn as a Missouri mule. He is bent on in creasing taxes. He Is not going to give in. He will make his recommendations and apply pres sure for passage. It is up to mem bers’of congress to withstand the push.—The State. n reports undoubtedly are Bat some of them could ba the real thing. Where do Se/come from? Who fll— them? How long have they be— la existence? A reporter who coaid break that story, with ph©£ graphic proof of his facts, would have the scoop of the genera tloa. Always, providing, that the —ocers do, in fact, exist Wa don’t thiak that they have ba— s—t from another pi—et, bat wa carefully reserve oar bone laugh until the matter has been cleared np. . w If the saucers do contain observ ers from another world. It should be noted that none of the observ ers stays around long. They seem to t*he —e quick look, from afar, and head for home again. Perhaps they tune In their radios on our newscasts and decide the pi—at Earth, la no place for them. Sometimes, when the talk of war Mils the air wav— and the front pages, you could acarcflT blame them. Sometimes, we’d like to call a space-ship and tell the driver, “Take us to Jupiter.”— News and Courier. •— heard h, w invasion time at Be Wood' Products company, and f lowing the CIO’s ree—t reject! st the Plymouth M—ufactur! pi—t In McCoO, the —Ml How many old timers in our au dience ever played: Andy Over? Cat? Pop the Whip? Mumble Peg? Five Hundred? Hide and Seek? Thimble? Stealing Bases? Tag? See Saw Margery Daw? Bomb, Bomb. Bomb? Fox and Hounds? A woman writer advises girls against heavy petting. What limit would she set? ' Two hundred pounds? The same leadership in March cost the miners two weeks’ pay for a strike ordered to protest the appointment of James Boyd as director of the United States Bureau of Mines. It has failed to negotiate a new contract to replace the old one which expired June 30. It put the miners on a three-day week in mid-summer with heavy loss in pay. It called 8 second strike for 62 days which ended November 10. It has dissipated the welfare fund—no coal mined, no 20-centa-d-ton royalty. A recent report of one of the leading coal companies for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 1949, shows that on a five-day week basis from Jan. 1 to Nov. 9, the mines lost 82 days due to strikes. The loss in wages to miners'In this particular company for the period in suestion was $1,260 per union employee. Labor leadership in the coal mines has kept them closed for long intervals for many years, and the miners’ loss has been enormous. Wages in other lines of busi ness and industry have increased without disastrous strikes each year. - The--United- Mine. Workers’ long con tinued policy of insolence shows the lengths to which an uncontrollable mon opoly will go to gain its ends. It has forced hours, working conditions, and wages in the coal industry regardless of the laws of ) economics, that make it impossible for that industry under normal conditions to pay those wages and operate at a profit. That is part of the reason the coal indus try is only employing 400,000 men and that is why it is losing a large-percentage of the American fuel business that it used to have. Labor rates, like other commodities, are supposed to be competitive. But coal mine labor rates under the United Mine Work ers’ monopoly are not. The product of the mines, however, must be sold in a highly competitive field. The U. M. W. leader ship is rapidly turning the coal business over to competitive fuels and destroying !bhe jobs of the miners. Life In A Small City “I wouldn’t live in a big city for any thing and miss all of the fun we have in a city this size,” said a local business man the other, day as he sat in a local cafe where two other local business men, com petitors, were joshing each other. Such things don’t happen in large cities where everybody lives under a tremendous strain and in a great ihurry. We once heard a man, who lived in a city about the same size as Camden, re- Reading a story about the tto- mendoua increase within the gpit half century of women’s orgardtR- tions brings to mind tne old farther who was asked it he believed “in tSttbr^cr wemen/*- 11. resort," he replied. - Flying Saucers Again When Columbus insisted the world was round, the skeptics gave him the 15th century equiv alent of the horse laugh. Ever since that time, the history books have been giving the horse laugh to the skeptics. With that in mind, we reserve judgment on the latest explana tion about flying saucers. Donald E. Keyhoe, former official of the aeronautics branch of the U. S. department of commerce, says the saucers contain observers from other planets. U. S. air force in vestigators, he adds, are receiving abont 12 saucer-sighting reports a month. Of course the explanation is fan tastic. Frankly, we don’t believe a word of it. But men in the 20th cehtury\haro learned to fly, to send pictures through the air, to destroy a city with a single bomb. Who can gay that earth-dwellers License Plat- New Engl—d at the turn of the year offere some of the beat —d gome of the worst in automobile registration plates. Connecticut a few years ago in troduced the aluminum license plates which, with a small metal tab to Indicate the year, were de signed to be permanent. These keep their appearance better than painted steel. Now Maine plans to add to the aluminum plate a plastic reflective material which will make the num bers much more legible at night, picking up light from other cars or street lamps. Meanwhile, Massachusetts is is suing no new plates for 1950 to motorists of 1949-^-001 even metal tabs to clip over a corner of the chipped and battered (rid ones. "Steel shortage,” —ys the state officials. Only a paper sticker on the windshield, in addition to the safety inspection sticker, will in dicate a registration fee has been paid for 1950. It would take a bit of thinking to devise a less creditable or satis factory system than this make shift. Let's talk about Maine and Connecticut. — Christian Science Monitor. ralatio— —w mam ordered t election set axida there, uj troubles, to escape which mi m—afactnrero have Moved to i south, would appear to have rived. Turaing the workers’ affairs « to autos coops from tie north no solution to the n lam, and would aerve merely substitute absentee control for amiable relatiofis now enjoyed b between labor and management Reject these union loaders! ] local management and local ]g iron out their differences am themselves without “help” from outside Poe Dee Advocate. Only A Small Part At this time of year when < begins thinking of income tax ] meats, the average ettixen is * interested th— ever is the question. Every year the quest of cutting tax— com— up in J nary, and Congressman make 1 suggestions. If not promises. But actually the income ts we pay are a mere “drop in bucket” to other taxes. The mi hidden taxes which we pay w out knowledge of it, add up t tremendous figure. It has fa estimated that 25 per cent or m of every dollar a man spends food, clothing —d other nec< ties, go— to the government taxes. It tak— a huge amount of mo to run our government Then no disputing the fact and U la little prospect for actually ting our tax—, with the huge < that stands over ns. But su there la little reason to thin] lucre—ing tax—, — our presk is planning to suggest to < gress. Let our government ra pi— to Inject a little wisdom economy in the spending of present tax money, —d all ol will benefit.—Newberry Obsei NOTICE Annual meeting of sharehol of The Wateree Building Loan Association of Camder C., will be held January 16, ] at 4 p. m., in The First Nati Bank building. 58 LEWIS L. CLYBURN Secreta For Stuffiness, Coughs of Colds When politicians go to figuring on wsys to cut the national budget, If tbeir suggestions only mount up to four or five billion dollars, they don’t consider that enough to war rant considering. You know —like millions of others—how wonderfully effective Vicks VapoRub Is when you rub it on. Now...here’s amazing, special relief when there’s much coughing or stuffiness, that “choked-up” feeling. It’s VapoRub in Steam -. Tr , , «. • and it brings relief almost instantly! wiTrnonrdVSi»|riin*mirhtpw " Pul 1 — 1 spoonfuls -of VapoRub in a the second half of the century? vaporizer or bowl of boiling water. Then— breathe in the soothing, medicated vapors. Every breath eases coughing breathing easier. And to prolong relief—rub VapoRub on throat, chest and back. And if earth-dwellers are capable of such an achievement, might It not be possible for dwellers of other pi—ets or stars—if there are such dwellers—to build space ships? Use if in tteam...Rub h on, tool It John L. Lewis has his way we may all become God’s frozen people. lating an experience he had in St. Paul, Monn., where he was attending a bank ers’ meeting. He had received a message telling of the death of a near relative and was hurrying home. While seated in his hotel waiting for time to go to the depot to catch a train he was telling another banker, who lived in San Francisco, why he was going home from the meeting. “You say your relative lived in a city of about 7,000,” said the San Francisco banker. “What a glorious place in which to die. surrounded by loved ones and friends. I can alnjpst see now the neigh bors rushing in to do what they can, bring ing food for the family and doing what ever else that can be done in this hour of sadness. As for me, I live in.San Franciaco, and if the end comes to me there the people who live next door will not know that I am dead unless they happen to see my remains being taken from the home.” Yes, the milk of human kindness flows a little more freely in the small town and city than anywhere else on earth. Dr. L. D. Newton once said: “Life is A pew book, •’Childbirth/’ by Carl Henry Davis, M. D., and Donita Ferguson, debunks lots of theories shout childbirth including the old superstition that a child may be marked before being born if the expectant mother Is fright ened, or has an accident of any sort. And that reminds us of the old story of the two old grand mothers who were telling how chil dren could be marked by such instances. A little grandchUd overhearing them, remarked: “That isn’t true. My mother fell down the steps and broke some phonograph records before I was born and it didn’t mark me—mark me—mark me—mark me." £oo& a// around it andyou 'd Anow it* t/our BESTuldf-AROUND BBT/ Just between us girls the only reason we like Tito is that Stalin dislikes him. A hungry boy is very often big ger on the inside than he Is on the outside. ©LET J%RST. .andfinest.. .atZowest Cost/ “If you would like to be able to move houses at the age of 70, Abb Wilson, an $18-a-day house mover advtseBT «on J t smoke,-drink, -Ca rouse or stay out late nights. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and drink a glass of milk or orange juice before going to bed. Wilson likes plug tobacco and baseball.— Press dispatch from Compton, Cal. We don’t like to chew tobacco. Only Chavrolat brings you all thosa major advantages at lowest east— NEW STYLE-STAR BODIES BY FISHER V NEW TWO-TONE FISHER INTERIORS • CENTER-POINT STEERING • CURVED WINDSHIELD with PANORAMIC VISIBILITY • BIGGEST OF ALL LOW-PRICED CAR D S DoJcn E ^L RA ' EC0N0M,CAL T0 0 WN--OPERATE—MAINTAIN • PROVED CERTI-SAFE HYDRAULIC BRAKES richer, more intimate and more rewarding hd- "Pollce Get Woman Away From Phone"— headline. Unfortunately the story didn't tell how they did It INTRODUCING CHEVROLET'S EXCLUSIVE NEW Cheaper meats are forecast by Wash ington but the price forecaster misses it as badly sometimes as does the weather fore in its friendships in the'desolation of a small town than in the crowded loneliness of a great city.” A New Yorker, who once had been editor of a small town daily newspaper, wrote in the New York Press: “I am not being trashly sentimental when 1 say that I gave an unashamed love for my late-lamented little town—its stores, its baseball team, its high school football team and its 7,000 people.” Yes, there is something in life in the Smaller city and town than one misses in the larger cities. It’s a real something. "Fifty years brings lots of changes/’ says a writer. Yea if you don’t believe it, ask any man who is 50 years old. A three-months-old child in Pen nsylvania has started talking. Yes, the child is a girl. , * AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION no"rir\ai ai . There’s saver a dull moment in Cam den. /.. The State Highway Commission has ve toed the city’s “no left” turn regulations at the corner of Broad and DeKalb streets. There doesn’t aeem to be any such thing as local self-government any more. We see where one man says that probably the most notable achieve ment of the past fifty years has been in the building of our high ways. ,He recalls that fifty years ego there were few paved roads and almost no markers. Now it Is possible to go almost everywhere on paved roads which are well marked. And speaking of road markers we are reminded of the story of the tourist who stopped his car near a mountain shack In North Carolina and called to the old woman sitting on the porch. ’How far la it to the town?" “Pa figgers hit's abont 10 mile thar and about 12 back,” Is on ac- .'U she answered, “which is epant of him walkin’ atraichfer goto’ than cornin'.” LANGSTON MOTOR COMPANY WALNUT AND BROAD rflUP*** > PHONE M3