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THE CAMDEM CHRO (Sambnt (EtfrontrU Camdan, S> C. The RELISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY Greyhc SSyHarold C. Booker - - - ^ Editor ^DaCo«U Brown .... Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Sobacriptiont Payable In Advance One Year $3.50 Six Months i 2.00 OfHaaat & c. Mares A 1S7» at tha Poat act of Qtmtrmm All artldaa for HMicatioa author TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1950 Cv Deserving of Thanks The committee appointed last summer under autboritjr of a joint resolution pass- ad b? the 1949 General Assembly to sub mit plans for a reorganization of the school set-up in Kershaw county has performed a very difficult task. Members of the committee have given most generously of their time and their thought in an endeavor to arrive at a solution of the problems which confronted them. We doubt if any member of the com mittee is fully satisfied with the report which it is making. There are things in it which they would perhaps have pre ferred to have left out and it fails to in clude things which they would like to have included but they were faced with facts and not theories. When the people of the county go to consider the recommendations of the com mittee we hope they will take into con sideration the fact that the men and wo men who have made up this report have come from every section of the county and that they have given long hours to con sideration of the facts before arriving at their recommendatfons. The recommenda tions, while perhaps imperfect in some re spects, represent what in the opinion of the majority of tbe committee were the best that could be made in the circum stances The people of Kershaw county owe a vote of thanks to the members of the com mittee who are: J. G. Richards, Jr., Cam den, chaifsnan; Mrs. M. U DuVal, Boykin, . Bari Truesdale, Logoff; J. C. offman, ville; W. P. Estridge, Bethune; Jesse Ross, Bfaney, and Ford B. Stanton, Cassatt, and to the ex-officio members, Henry Savage, Jr., Mayor of Camdenl Steve Lane, Mayor* of Bethune; Arthur Jones, Mayor of Ker shaw; K. T. Bowen, Mayor of Blaney, and County Superintendent of Education Ar thur Stokes. A. The State Comes First The Winnsboro News and Herald is on sound ground when it says that “the af fairs of the State of South Carolina trans cend in importance the political ambitions of the Governor, the Junior United States Senator or any other individual or group and we hope that the people will keep this fact firmly in mind, difficult though it be to do when the heat is turned on.” It will be nauseating if the two factions in the General Assembly devote this en tire session to jockeying for political ad vantage. Legislation should be weighed on its merits and dbpported or fought on the same basis, regardless of who may run for the United States Senate next year. These are critical times. The statement is often being made now that a trembling civilization is hanging in the balance. Let us hope that the members of the General Assembly will not fritter away their time making speeches just to get into print. What a relief it would be to the people of the state if they could think that every man in the Legislature was there giving his best thought to measures that would be for the best interests of the state, cast ing aside all political feeling. ^ But then may be we are just dreaming! — — —" “TM» ctd wo ThinktaqOutLoud A writor mjs that the man .who gets ahead hi the future umst be a specialist. The business world will expect more and more of Its employee*, he warns, sad the un trained man is going to hare s difficult time. And that reminds us of the boy who was making lore to s girt. “Margie." he said is in says a mad a lot, of tL With The Prase before Mr. how long it will be gets around to the! the meat buy eeery man, who can’t afford to buy one himself, an an- Maybe ha is aartag that for election year. Should Bring Quick State icniitft * coofinnatiDB ot Mias Faith Clayton as a member of the state Industrial commission should lead to reforms la the ad ministration of tha Workmen's The cost of living is no high that barbers hare quit feeding lather to their enstomers who get It Is estimated that there are 46.060 violins, cellos, and other stringed instruments In this coun try. No wonder we are suffering from a lack of kannoay. If "labor la the divine law of our existence’’ as some fellow said , .. f.,-. mtr » our exuience as some imiuw wu *o «her day. there are many who I’ve over loved." The girl sighed. Just my luck." she snapped, "again I hare’ drawn an amateur." are violating the punity. . law with im- Nero fiddled—Mr. Truman play* th* piano. / Many'* man who recalls how his daar old father used to lore the Democratic party now wood what has become of the party. A Kansas man committed suicide because be was not pleased with the way thiags are going now. He certainly chose a very emphatic way of expressing his displeasure. We don’t know Just what the future holds but we hare an idea It will hare its hands full Every now and then we find ourselves wondering if the old ouija board will ever come beck. When it comes time to get up in the morning we all agree that "time is the greatest of al ty rants." Who can remember the good old days when a new pair of shoes would squeak for a boot three weeks? ministration compensation law. . Governor Thurmond's- appointees now held a M majority on tha five-man commission. The gorer' nor ha* promised to clean up. the compensation scandal in South Carolina and the opportunity now is his. Some changes may be necessary in tha compooMtlon law to effect thorough reform. The moat im portant and moat needed proviaion is an amendment to make lawyer* tees. In contingent damage cases* a matter of public record. Certain damage suit lawyers iu South Carolina have made ar. legal racket out of workmen * compen sation. Aa a result, insurance rate* paid by employer* are far too high, and this discourages new in dustries from locating in- South Carolina. ... , Even without changes in the law, however, the industrai commission can make and enforce rules bene ficial to both employers and emr ployes. Persons interested in good government in South Carolina eag erly await concrete action by the commission.—New* and. Courier. th* second greet conflict elves to be wmul fa in military and naval po*. While the prsasut natio* linlstratkm la spending money than ell other tions combined, with the en of the years of the Second War, It is continually cutthu on appropriations tor the service*. And in Formosa, we «, fronted with a situation « show of force might pren spread of .war sad we are i pared to meet It. It ia. appalling that w« thus be making tfo same i for the thlad time ie the < We should not recouuaei America become an intense tarlsed country, hut we most emphatically recomme it be made sufOelently sti protect itself sad* the fa which it has. promised to -The State. Time To Crack Down Sheriff W. E. Bryant of Darlington county, reports that there hag been s 75 per cent increase in crime in Darlington county in the past 30 days. A perusal of the news columns of most newspapers would indicate ^hat crime is now rampant all over the country. Regarding the situation in Darlington, county, the Darlington News and Press says: “Except for the fact that still oper ators made up a very great per cent- age of the total offenses last year, it is difficult to make a general state ment about this report Other offen ses ranged the whole gamut of hu man viciousness: robbery, assault burglary, larceny, (homicide, rape, manslaughter. What causes underlie this upsurge of lawlessness? Or do the causes remain too deeply hidden for amateur probing to reveal? An ex-king is about the most helpless thing in the world unless It be a small stockholder. They are going to hare an old time singing in America*, Os. This means, we presume, that every now and then some one will hit the right key. . Urging the necessity of parent education, a writer says that young parents in particular, should be trained how to discipline their children, and train their minds along proper ways of thinking. And speaking of parents we are A Danville. Va.. man celebrated his 65th birthday hr blowing out 92 candles on his birthday cake with one mighty puff. My—what a politician he would have made! One of 'the greatest troubles with this country is that you never know what the fellow who la driv ing the other car is going to do. There’s too much agitating, fol- mlnattng, imitating and expector ating in this coentry and not enough "cogitating, meditating and generating. reminded of the story we saw the other day of a father who said that he had always dreaded the hour when his little son would be asking him questions which he would not know how to answer. One day he and the boy were sitting In the living room of the home. "Daddy," exclaimed the little boy, "I have a question l want to ask you—I have been wanting to ask it for a long time." The father wondered to himself what It would be "All right, son, what is it?" he finally repUed. “Can you tell me how they make brick?" asked the little boy. Time is moving along and It will not be long before clttee will be demanding recounts of their popu lation. Every taxpayer who wants to pay more federal and state taxes is urged to write his representa tives in the General Assembly end Congress to vote for increased a£ propria tions. Sometimes we shudder when we think whet will happen when the old grab beg la finally emptied. It wouldn’t be any trouble get ting actors if all of the parts were leading parts. Would you say that a cannibal loves his fqllow man? The Same Mistake? Says Ray Tucker. Washington columnist: “The plain but generally un-. recognized fact 1* that, only three years after the United States pos sessed the most powerful navy and air force in world.history, and.the second strongest laud military ma chine, we are now too weak to do more than make a token aland, against a Red attack on one of the most vital Islands of our defense system In the Far Pacific. "We have only ten- fully man-, ned and equipped. Army divisions, and only two Marine divisions. And they are scattered overseas and. in this country. If we used them, the terrain they would have tOj vacate would be defenaeleaa.” Mr. Tucker was discussing, the possibilities of this country * at: tempting to go to the aid of Chin ese Nationalists on Formos*. As to sending naval units Into Chinese waters he declares, “Our few flattops, cruiser* and deatroy- ers would become easy targets for bombers from bases, on the Chin ese mainland. In such a contest we would have tw call on- the air force to provide an umbrella and. that might mean large Scale war." Of course the primary Issue Is that of. a third world war. But these statements point up another fact in which all Americans should have a vital intenest Here we are, three years after Treadlne Ofe-Thi* Ice Business statisticians cU when the liabilities of a enterprise are no more l per. cent of, its assets it reasonably safe ground, hi the liabiUMee begin to ex per. cent of the assets tk prise is; treading'.; on. thin A government operates fame principle. It is a huge corporation, and.; ths era and property owners stockholders. The estimatedu wealth at tion is said to be five binion dellarv althengh w] old lekes was Secretary Interior he made the aa statement that, the real tential wealth of the as Into several: trillion del] Counting potential .mesh counting chWkena before hatched; and to be on* side we moot consider wealth of Are hundred bl lars ae shewn br the tax Thar five hundred bill lars Is the notion’s asssi when we think’of its lit 260 billion' dollaran-our h dined to stand ton. end. 1 add to this the approxln billion doUara of .bonded neas of the state* and < liticsl subdivisions we has indebtedness of 166’Mtlkl or. 66 per cent of.onr aasc If a private enteryria dividual business owedit it would—hare to curt* pease* or gw intdfhaaknq is the alteraatire that j nation. This appalling i has dawned upon the m the mambers of the Con there is developing in W a strong economy-mind ment.—Dillon Herald. MUJJQrS&mbi , “It jnay he that, in, order to have ^ — _ r the whole story, we should be fom«l gewayTirUrClybtirn; Wesr ~ lo IS^^ToRiBS^Sgii^^ 1 The Right of Free Speech The mayor of Benson, N. C., and a prominent business man of that town, were called before a National Labor Rela tions Board examiner the other day be cause they had advised the employees of a manufacturing plant in the town not to organize an union. The excuse for calling them was the charge that they were acting as represent atives of the manufacturing company in advising the employees not to organize. Both men stutly denied that they were representing the company. They said that they had urged the employees not to org anize because they were afraid that if they did organize the town would lose the only industry it had. “I thought we still had the right of free speech,” said the Mayor. — - • This is not the first instance of this kind that has been reported in this coun try. There have been other occasions when men, who were in no way whatso ever connected with the employer, have been called before National Labor Rela tions Board examiners because they had dared to suggest to employees that they not organize. It seems that we are building up a regu lar gestapo in this country which would take from citizens the right of free speech. It's about time the people were rising in arms and demanding that something be done about this, lest we get in the fix that the people of Germany were in under Hitler and the people of Russia are in un- der Stalin. Incidentally the National Labor Rela tions Board's standing In the eyes of the general public was not elevated by the it filed against the white woman who is counsel for the board by a negro woman arging this white woman with alienating case histories for each of the offend ers. And even then, we might find no basic influence which agitated more than two or three at a time. Causes, then, we must leave in mys tery at this time. But whatever caukes there were, it is clear that this county has gone through a crime wave. “We are accustomed to think of crime waves as occurring in New York or Chicago, or other large far-away cities. It Is difficult to visualize a crime wave in our own front yards. But there it is; the figures prove it And it is a most uncomfortable thought.” It is good to note that signs of an awakening on the p“art of the general public to the increase of crime in the state. It may be productive of good. It is our feeling that the courts them selves must share much of the responsi bility for this increase of crime. They have become too lenient with criminals. The sentences which are being imposed are in most cases ridiculous. Hardened criminals, finally caught and convicted, are given light sentences with the greater portion of them suspended, after which they are turned loose to go out and com mit new crimes. We are told that most of the heinous crimes are committed by former convicts who have been released after serving short sentences for some former crime. Criminals have about lost all fear of the courts. The judges are mucK to blame. And the increase in crime is one of the very natural results. It’s time for the courts to crack down on criminals and if the courts don't do it the people ought to crack down on the courts. You could pay a thousand dollars mors and not pot all the now beauty • • • extra room . . . fcmovs rugqedneu of this groat now Dodge . affections of the negro woman’s negro Y n<Ud job is being done on the DeKolb and Broad streets under of the parks and streets It is a pHy that there is not ve the work done Congratulations Ip Order We heartily congratulate Judge J. Rob ert Martih, Chairman J. J. Reid of the Industrial Commission and Governor Thur mond for being the first to be denoonced by Representative John Bolt Culbertson of Greenville, in the present session of the General Assembly. It is quite a compli ment to them. I if SIDS, jam get the head room. While ia the rser, a huge new pic- leg room, hip room ae yon can t tore window allows safer rision— ait naturally, ride in complete give* a wonderful feeling of inte-\, comfort all day long. rior spaciousness. « * On the sfide. Dodge compact Drive the new Dodge. Fed the design gives yon the edge in perk- surging power of the hig high- ing, in busy traffic. ^ compression "Get-away” Engine- Out /rent, a sleek new grille the amasing smoothness of Dodge Dodge well-bred beauty. . Fluid Drive. Come in today! votru THRILL t* DWf* .. Se*«s are “WeJerel* far Plenty of head and hat ran and leg room tool VOim THRILL t* the «d nsas of gfrel Fluid DH Gyro-Matic optional f i “MAGIC Mill” Domonstrafton Rido 1 Ask any Dodge deafer for a “Magi* Mile" demonstration ride. Prom < It is to be hoped that the General As sembly will not give serious consideration to the recommendation of the State High way CommiaMoner for a one cent increase on the gasoline tax. Gasoline is bearing about all of the taxes it cab possibly stand now and there is no nee<l for putting an- ghms for engineering and dependability. NOW ON DISPLAY TODi SERVICE MOTOR CO, - S. Broad S PHONE 109