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PAGE TWO' agnw —; —- ——i (Bhr ffiamfipn (WfrmtirU 1119 Nona tsromd Street Camden, A C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY ' EACH WEEK Harold C, Booker * - - • Editor DaCoata Brown -. - - - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: Alt Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year .$3.50 Six Months 2.00 Ein**r *d m Secind CUm Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C., under act of Concreee March j, 1179 AH art tele* submitted for publication must he signed by the nether TUESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1950 /ofin Stevens John T. Stevens loved South Carolina. Any one who was ever associated with him can testify to that fact. He was proud of his state and its institutions. He was ambitious for it, and for them. Equally intense was this love for the town of Kershaw and his native county of Lancaster. He was always willing to do more than his part for their advance ment. Likewise he loved his friends. Mr. Stevens earned his way to success. His first job in life was as a clerk in a store. On this job he wasn’t a clock watcher. He not only put in the long hours which prevailed in those days for employees of stores, but he voluntarily stayed after hours to assist the bookkeeper and in this way he learned bookkeeping. His excellent business judgment and his close application to his business en abled him to build up his fortune. Mr. Stevens did much for South Caro lina. He was a pioneer in the good roads movement in the state and served for many years as a member of the state high way commission where he gave the state the benefit of his sound advice. Later he was for a number of years a member of the board of regents of the State Hospital where he also rendered valuable service. South Carolina can ill afford to lose citizenc like Mr. Stevens. His death leaves an aching void in the life of the State. < Might Mull Over This No Place For Them Jonathan Daniels, North Carolina's “Democratic" national committeeman, who is promoting a Southern regional confer ence of “Democrats" at Raleigh on Jan. 28, is quoted as saying again that party officiah “see no place" for Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, and Fielding L. Wright of Mississippi, at the conference. g - There are, as we understand it, two main purposes behind the conference at Raleigh. One is to raise money for the national “Democratic" party to enable it to make an effort to elect supporters of the party’s socialistic and civil rights pro gram in congressional elections this year. The other is to endeavor to get the South-q ern states to get in line behind the party and its program. Naturally there would be no place for Governors Thurmond and Wright at such a conference as this. Governors Thur-. mond and Wright cannot Countenance the socialistic program of the administration and they naturally resent the civil rights program of the administration as every Southerner should. As we understand it most of the South ern Governors have ducked the invitation to the conference, at which National Chair man W. M. Boyle will be one of the chief figures. The dispatch from Raleigh lists the states which will send their nationaLcom mitteemen to the conference and South Carolina is included in the list. If all of the other information given out about the conference is as incorrect as this, we do not even know that there will be a con ference. South Carolina has no national committeeman. Governor Thurmond re signed as such and Senator Msybank, who was elected to succeed him, refused to qualify. We have no idea that Senator Maybank would attend the conference even if he had qualified. * If South'Carolina is to be represented at the conference it should be represented by James M. Hinton, state chairman of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, or J. R. McCray. They are the two most loyal Truman sup porters in South Carolina and would prob ably feel more at home at such a gather- If ycu ever "take “ any your time to- inK aa they propose to hold m -R^eigh. ik about your government, what it is md how it is getting along, here tome facts about it you might think 4 about ‘ ^ , , In twenty years the cost of operating the federal government has soared from $4,000,000,000 annually to $42,000,000,- 000. In the same periodL of time the number of executive departments has increased from 350 to 1,812. • The federal debt has leaped in that period from $16,900,000,000 to $250,000,- 000,000. The number of workers employed by executive agencies has increased from 600,000 to a total of more than 2,000,000. Where ia the money coming from to pay for all of this? The answer is easy— from the fkxpayers* pockets. And more and more of. it will have to come from those same pockets—that is unless the taxpayers themselves do something about It Communishi Loses Again Finland is one of the most courageous little nations in the world. Its gallant fight against Russia when it was invaded - prior to the last world war will ever live in history. While it was finally overpow ered aiid forced to’make a peace with its giant neighbor it has maintained a rather independent attitude. The Finns are peo ple whe/ would rather die than surrender their freedom, it seehns. This week the people of that gallant little nation re-elected their president de spite the opposition of the Communists in Finland and with the knowledge that his re-election would be displeasing to Stalin. During the closing days of the campaign the Russian government charged Presi dent Paasikivi with supporting a former president’s government in harboring 200 alleged Soviet war criminals and violating the Soviet-Finnish peace pact. But not- withstanding the Russian attacks tfte Finns showed their independence by re-electing Mr.^Paasikivi. Therd are few countries in the world that deserve more respect than does little Finland WtL He WVl Do Just That “President Truman took a punch at James F. Byrnes today with a crack that his former Secretary of State now is free to do as he damn pleases," says an Asso rted Press dispatch from Washington. And Mr. Byrnes will do just that. If it's for When we think of the mess this country is in today we can’t help but think of the old fanner who took his clock to town one day to have it fined. “What’s the mat* ter with itf’ the clockemtth asked. • Well.” responded the farmer, “the blamed thing’s in bad fix. When the hands point to 6 o'clock it strikes 4 and It really ain’t but a quarter to 1’’ It la beginning to appear as though federal courts are now be coming places where they dispense with justice- - Qosslp bl always referred to as ‘‘Dame’’ but it seems to us the “e” ought to be left off “SOCIETY . For Social Now* . . . Tdtohoo* 70W Did you erer mean eyes? see a cow with People now don't want to climb up the ladder of success. They want an eleyator to take them up. . Jf — When a legislator speaks, It isn’t free speech plenty. legisl .it costs the taxpayers Another one of life’s mysteries Is why all of your college class- matea get older so much faster than you do. What Missouri man who has a tongue three Inches wide ought to be in politics what the atom bomb is in war? We do wish this old world could enjoy a little peace before the next war breaks out. A writer says that there were very few headache remedies in the old dhya. Well, there wern’t so many things to cause headaches in the old days. One reason there is probably never a shortage of molasses is that people raise |»o much cane. What has Become of the old- fashioned girl who’d marry a man to reform him? ■ dM--' * If It’s the father of waters we don’t see why they don’t call it the Mistersippi instead of the Mis sissippi. A Greenville dentist fell in a 36-foot ‘Veil recently and didn’t than would an^ other South Carolinians. ■ 1 rv »« i An American Privilege Have you ever written your Congress man or your United States Seenators how ycu feel about the trend of this country towards socialism? Have you ever written them about how you feci about the ability of one man, John L. Lewis, to tie up the industry and threaten the health of the people of this republic? Have you ever written them about how you feel about Mr. Truman’s civil rights legislation? That is one privilege that every citizen has—of letting his representatives in Con gress know how he feels. And it costs only three cents to mail a letter. Would Kill The Goose The government is one of the biggest gainers from industrial profits. United States News and World Report has surveyed 30 large corporations whose 1949 profits before taxes totaled about $4,- 730,400. The Federal government will tax these businesses $1,743,100.00. Then it <will tax -the owners of the corporations $309,100^000 on the dividends they re ceive. Thus the government’s take will be ^ell over $2,000,000,000 or 43 per cent of all the dollar earnings. • This does not take into account pay-roll taxes, excise, taxes, or state and local taxes which will also cut into the corporations’ profits. In other words, government is a major partner when it comes to dividing up the revenues earned by business. Should we destroy profits, we would destroy our gov ernment’s financial lifeblood with them. The Appropriation Bill The lower house of the General As sembly ihas sent to the Senate a $112, 400,000 general appropriation bill. If the Senate passes the bill it will mean that the taxpayers of the State will h%ve to pay higher taxes. President Truman is going to recom mend to the Congress the imposition of additional Federal taxes on the people. There doesn’t seem to be much chance for Hie poor taxpayer. Southern members of Congress had bet ter put on their armor and stand together during the crucial days ahead. v The peo ple are watching them now* The only time people ever see your temper is when yon lose it Tog can’t tell wrhnt month It I* when you look out and see some men in their shirt sleeves and others with overcoats on T“ y It seems that sooner or later well have to decide which union is the strongeat—John L. Lewis’ or the one of the states. A Minneapolis man suing for di vorce says that his wife bought 15 or 20 pairs of shoes a year and as many hats. That’s going from one extreme to another. You might as well recognise the fact that this old world la In a whirl and get In the whirl. A newspaper fUler says that "spinach Is believed to have been transplanted from Asia to North Africa by the Moors.’’ But the scoundrels we want to get bold of are those who brought It to this country. "Partisan politics may yet be the downfall of this nation," says a political writer. He says that some people will vote for a man they know u not the best man just because he la the nominee of their party. He urges more in dependence In yotlng. All of which reminds us of the stor yof sour old Thaddeua Stevens, Republican leader in carpetbagger days who arrived late one day for a political meeting. The two speakers, en gaged in violent debate, were un known to him, so he asked a friend who tke two men were and what the point was. “There’s not much point in it—they’re both scoundrels,”, the friend replied. “Well,” Stevhns asked, “which is the Republican scoundrel? I want to vote for him.” We see where one writer thinks that discipline In the homes broke down during the war when the mothers were unable to employ nurses, so had to do the tending to the children themselves. Eve had one handicap—she couldn’t be continually throwing np to Adam the men she had turned down. “Americans how spend $8,000,- 000,000 a year to drink 1,928,000,- 000 gallons of liquor, wine and beer,” says Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president ot the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. And that re minds us of the story of the two sailors, retired after 80 years’ service in the fleet, who had re turned to their old home town, bought a saloon and cloaed the placd\ while they redecorated in side Vnd oat The regular cus tomer^ kept welting for their fav orite watering spot to reopen— but nothing happened. Finally, a crowd of \hirsty customers gather ed around \the closed front of the bar and end bolder than the others rapped on Ithe door. One of the ex-blue jacket owners stock his head out of'the window. “Whad- daya want?” he asked. -We wants know when this fftM* Is going to open?” onenhurF* thh' safMs 1 nlftni IT* Elliott Sheorn played for Mrv Jim Darby, an absent member. A eFeei course with coffee was *®7V8d be fore the bridge game and Coat- Colas were passed to the during the game. Wms ht the two tables were won by Mrs. psvw Harter and Mrs. Julian Sanders, Jr. • • • Mii A. C. Bradham Invited Mrs. T. Lee Little to play with the mem bers of her bridge club on last Thursday when she them at her home on N. Broad St. Delightful refreshments were serv ed by the hostess, assisted by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Will Brad- ham, to the guests before they be gan playing: Prties for high score was given at each table and were won by Mrs. Little and Mrs. George Nicholson. • • • Mrs. R. E. McCarty gave a pretty party* on last Friday at her home on Carrison street her guests be ing members of the Friday after noon bridge club of which she is Wittlain Smoot (NancyI a membar ; Mrs. Lott Rogf^ play- and young son, have re- ed for Mrs. BurchiU M ?° re 7 ^ high score was made by Mrs. Ernest Nutting. Others playing in cluded Mrs. Joseph W. Brunson, Mrs. Robt. A. Bruce. Mrs. De Loach Sheorn, Mrs. Chaa. P Vincent, Mrs. George S. Rhame and Mrs. Nutting. • • • » • Jas. W. Stuart. Kirkwood Circle, left from Charlotte, >L.C.. by plane «n Saturday night for a business trip to Portland, Maine. Mr. and Mra. T Lee Little and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Little ..expect to leave Tuesday for a motor trip to Miami, Key West and other points of interest in Florida. Mr. and Mra. Roy Sheorn « Asheville, N. C„ were guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Sheorn, Fair St., on Sun day, stopping en route from s va cation spent in Miami, Fla., to their home.- They were accompanied, home by their son. Dee Dee, who baa been staying with his grand parents here during his parents absence. Mrs. L. H. Hardin. Laurens St., spent last week In Charlotte, N. Cr. with relatlvea. Mrs. Marion du Pont Scott of Montpelier. Va., spent several days at her place here. Holly Hedge, last'week. She will return later for the remainder of the season. Mrs. Watty) turned to their obme in Alexan dria. Va., after spending several weeks here with Mrs. Smoot’s par ents. Mr, and Mrs. C, E. Watts, Highland Ave. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. H. Clarkson visited their daughter, Mrs. Rich ard Galliard, and family in Eutau- vllle on Sunday, going especially to see their new granddaughter, Ann Rebecca Gaillard Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kelly have moved Into the King Halglar apart ments, having sold their home on East Hampton St., to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Templfn. Mrs. Margaret Smith, manager of the Marjo Laundry and Dry Cleaning estabUkhment * on Rut ledge street, and her daughter. Miss Clara Nell, have moved into a suite In the King Halglar apart ment building. ^ • • • • • Bridge Clubs Meet The Bi-Monthly Thursday Bridge club met last week on Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Jack Chapin at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Zemp, Fair St. Playing for Mrs. Jim Clarkson was Mrs. Ripon La Roche. High score prise was won by Mrs. Van Wrape and delicious refreshments (tore served by the hostess to the fol lowing players: Mrs. Bill Hough, Mrs. Van Wrape, Mrs. Robt. Kunz- ler, Mrs. Kirby Tupper, Jr., Mrs. Paul Semple, Mrs. Wm. B. Pitts and Mrs. Ned Beard. \ * * * Mrs. F. D. Goodale was hostess to the members of her bridge slab on Wednesday at her home on N. Broad street. Mrs. Hubert Wilson played for an absent member and table, prises were awarded Mrs. JffiTTr Nicholson. A dessert course was served by the hostess. asMsted by Mrs. wTd Mrs. B- W. Pomeroy Florence Devine. • see., NEW POLICE CAg The for the the purchase of by the police i was announced. T ing received now. to .* new i Frozen crayfish ♦»!)« phane, are a new product c guese East Africa seeking , et In the United States. VS Monthly Meeting Of Camden Garden Club The Camden Garden club held its January meeting at the home of Mra. F. W. Spencer on Chesnut St Mrs. AUlson P. Du Bose pre sided. < Many Items of interest on the agenda were discussed, among these were several suggestions of civic importance. It was recom mented that a letter be sent to the city commission asking that an ex pert be secured, to supervise the cutting of limbs of trees by the lines men of the Telephone com pany and the Utilities company. There was also the suggestion that owners of corner lots be asked to ksep the growth of trees and shrubs at s height that did not cause a traffic hazard. At present Camden has many such dangerous corners. The club heartily endorsed the use of plans for tower number one in the remodeling of the City Hall. Mrs. J. L. Land of Chester, was welcomed as a guest of the meet ing. An invitation: was extended to the King Halglar Garden club to be the guests of the Club at Us meeting in February, which will be held at the home of Mlaa Helen Hannon on Greene St. Mrs. Reuben Pitts, Jr., then in troduced the speaker of the after- Ji—Bohiuaaa, of Chester, who spoke <m the subject of “Backyard Birds." Mrs. Robinson talked about the The Tb unsd&y Afternoon Co»[eominon-wietiee of birds which tract club met with Mrs. James W. served before the bridge Stewart, Kirkwood ,Circle, last week. Substituting for absent members were Mrs. Chaa. P. Vin cent, Mrs. Ernest Nnttlng and Mrs. J. B. Gaskins, Jr. High score priz was awarded Mrs. H. C. Hallman, low score prise to Mrs. J H HofP man and slam prise to Mrs. Nettles Myers. Mr. Stuart served her guests s salad course at the con clusion of the card game. * • • Mrs. M. E. Moody entertained In the Colonial Room at Thomas Tavern on last Thursdai for the members of her card club. Mra. are constantly present among us, hat many of which go unnoticed. She mid that more varieties are found in South CaroBUa than any ether state; with the exception of California, which did not exceed oar state in the number found there. Mrs. Robinson spoke with delightful Informality from a wealth of intimate knowledge of the dif ferent families of birds, such as the thrushes, grosbeaks, sparrows and many others. She also dis cussed the feeding of birds, and the planting of beh-ied shrubs to en courage their Companionship. Delicious refreshments were New lefeve yea U lit •bared joy» ... in eafaraMat ef year ... in entertaining friend* ... in the aeUctfei things that count most. ene ed Ito joy* el an i ■lent ie ebeoaing year laved Ceebam* Strrliag ] tern. Iter wide il Gorham deaignt awaht ] ehefcv ... see them dm.] M. Taa) trsmOm 'turn tut Mb*. HOFFER Company JEWELEBI . a.m u ALL PROPERTY OWNERS Legislation most important to taxpay* ers of the last 50 years is pending. ’|i Your property your life may be taxes for influenced the rest of | 0$ yonr children's public • school education. Attend this meeting ormI get the fee**j ill of them. » . Night, Jan. M, 1$ P. H. 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