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Stye (Samlknt di^nrairtf 1119 S. C. FRIDAY' .Hm»M C Booker - - - Editor ■ DaCoaU Brown • - J . PabliAher SUBSCRIPTION TKBlfS: , All SabieriptioDt Payable Iq Advance One Year — $3.50 Six Months 2.00 ■ ■ ;■ (I liin ■stand m Second Gtaas Ratfer nt the Post OOlea nt Camden, 8. C- under net of Coder eee March S, Hit * AU article* submitted fdr pnMkatkm mast ha sinned hr the author 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 i May Prove To fte The ’Potmun Practically every one, in this section, has heard the old, old story of the man who climbed the tree to catch a 'possum. After trwhile he was heard groaning and making considerable commotion. One of his friends hollered up to ask if he had him. “Yes," he replied, “but you come up here quick and help me to turn him loose." . It may be wishful thinking on our part hut wc have a sneaking suspicion that China may prove to be an international 'possum and that the Communists, having captured it, may want help in turning it loose. There are some trends on which to base this wishful thinking. The past two weeks have produced* fairly conclusive evidence that China's Mao Tze-tung and Russia's Piime Minister Stalin do not see eye to | eye qn the division of spoils in Asia. The Kremlin’s bosses, pursuing with startling accurateness the former czars’ territorial ambitions in the Orient, appar ently are unwilling to give up the privileges and control tlyey have won in Manchuria and Northwest China. On the other hand, Mao, who has fought for a quarter of a century to prove his right to rule China, appears to be unwill ing to turn over to Russia what would, amount roughly to one>third of his domain. Mao was recently invited to visit Mos cow and the length of his stay there has led to the feeling that an agreement has not been reached. Every Communist party in Asia attaches profound significance to the conferences in Moscow and may shift its own tactics and strategy according to their outcome, 'wo major questions have been brought ie Tol First, are nationalism and communism— partners ip the Far East ever since Ja pan’s surrender—moving into a period of differing interests? a Second, would a split between the two ideologies result in the development of a Far Eastern brand of Titoism? The situation is particularly a critical one for Mao. If he officially legelizes Soviet stewardship over Manchuria, Inner and Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang Prov ince, he may obtain material aid from Russia which he sorely needs^ at this time. Qut he would also alienate many Chin ese who have not yet decided fully to supporc the new regime and thereby pos sibly set in motion pew internal resistance movements. Va If Mao rejects the Russian claim to Manchuria and Northwest China, he will establish himself as an Oriental Tito. This would result in angering <his closest and most powerful neighbor and probably hasten Russian infiltration into China. The United States spent many millions of dollars on China and was never able f ~— to establish anything like a real govern ment there. Russia may have the same experience. We hope so. Can Eat Cake and Have It, Too A Columbia citizen has announced his candidacy for the Columbia city council. In his announcement he says he favors better pay for city employes, pledges himselt to do everything possible to see that all of the streets of Columbia are paved, favors the construction of a sta dium for the use of the high schools of Columbia, favors construction of swimming pools, softball fields and other recreation centers for both raefes. 4 T will oppose strongly any increase in taxes," he says. » What does the gentleman propose to use for money? Evidently he has found some way by which one can eat one’s cake and have it, too. i i ■ i ■■ - * * The trees on Broad and DeKalb streets have Been greatly improved by the trim ming given them. It's a ^>ity the city can- net afford to tyve this work done til over town. Should Be Boycotted An Associated Press dispatch from Washington in Monday morning newspap-, ers said Southern Democrats were talking of boycotting the Sonthern party confer ence planned at Raleigh Saturday, Said the Washington dispatch: “Angered by a presidential crack, some Dixie Democrats were reported planning today to. boycott a Southern party conference at Raleigh, next Saturday. “An interested senator told a re porter President Truman's assertion ' last week that James F. Byrnes can do as he damn pleases about running for governor of South Carolina had stirred deep resentment among South erners generally. “A Democratic national committee official, who asked to remain anonym ous, said he had been informed that some Dixie senators and some house members had agreed among them selves to stay away from the confer ence. - ~ ~ T1 “This official said the president*s v reference to Byrnes, his former secre tary of state, appeared to have tipped the scales among a group which had been undecided about attending be cause they feared they might have to listen to party officials’ endorse ment of the civil rights program. “Byrnes is looked to by some of | these Southerners as likely to become the chief advocate within the Demo- a cratic party of their opposition to anti- job discrimination, anti-lynching and anti-poll tax measures the president is urging. i , “Bfrnes, former - supreme court justice and former senator, also has criticized some other parts of Mr. Tru man’s “Fair Deal" program, asserting that they would concentrate too much power in Washington. “Although he will have primary opposition, Byrnes is expected by many politicians to be an easy win ner of the South Carolina governor ship." % Southern Democrats should boycott the conference at Raleigh not just because of the President’s crack at Byrnes but for numerous other reasons as well It should boycott the conference be cause of the party’s attitude towards the South, because of the attitude of some of tho speakers who are coming, to Raleigh, including Democratic National Chairman -talks.. nWJIlam How c*n th. vSt WafeSf*®* ing Southerners to support it wkm it is doing everything in its power to destroy the South? • Surely {he people of the South haven’t gotten this far down the ladder. m or it’s January He's Already Serving & Speaking of the anti-Truman and anti- Rayburn rebellion in the lower house of Congress, Ray Tucker, Washington col umnist. says: “Former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes gets partial credit for the anti- Rayburn, anti-Truman rebellion. The South Carolinian’s speeches against, and his known views on White House phil osophy have stiffened the spines of many Southern members hitherto willing to go along out of party loyalty. “The Byrnes denunciation of ’statism’ at the Governors’ conference at Biloxi, Miss., ’ast November encouraged the Dem ocrats in opposition. There he declared that American citizens would eventually become ‘slaves in an economic galley’ un der further federalization. “But what really lighted the flames of rebellion among Dixie members was his recent announcement that he would run for governor as a foe of most White House legislative proposals." Mr. Byrnes has rendered great service to his country in many ways in the past, but he is in position now to render by far the greatest service that he has ever ren dered. He is the man who may SAVE the United States from socialism and the South from ruin. Biggest Liars In World , Russia claims that a Russian named Yakobi devised the telegraph and not Morse. It claims that a Russian named Popov invented the radio and not Marconi. It claims that a Russian named Mozhaisky invented the airplane and not the Wright brothers. All of which reminds us of the 'old Story of the.fellow who was boasting to his Brothers about his native state. He told hi? brother thaf his state bad the big gest factory, the biggest dam, the biggest building, the biggest power plant, the big gest flour miU and . . . Just about this time Ws bfother lutbrruptsd him, and ex claimed, “and also the biggest Bar.” With Th* Press Uiinkinq Ouf Loud The dare are gettlag a little leaser. For a while they were so short they were hardly worth get ting ap tor. ■▼err, bow and then you will hear eemehady say that a pan has more money than brains! That may be possible for a short time bat not for long. A psychologist eays that our troubles are Imaginary. May be so bat those documents we re ceive around the first of each month certainly look like hill* to as. ; ; r On the same day in a small town one man was run down by an automobile, another by goesip. The on* that was rtm down by an automobile recovered. Another car hitting a parked ear la about the same thing as a man hitting another man who is sitting down. itiat says that the moon’s force of gravity is equal to only about one-sixth of the force of gravity on earth. This ought to give yon some idea of the gravity of the situaUon on earth now. 'One of time’s oldest questions is whether it is better to have a wife who can cook but won’t, or one who can’t cook bat wUL A famous astronomer says that some astronomer mast find oat which way the spiral nebulae are aplEallng. We don’t know what he is talking about but If it will help thia poor old world spy, we are for It. We are sort of like the good old colored deacon who, when the pastor announced one day that It would be necessary to have some cuspidors for the new church build ing, hopped up and said: “Preach er, I agree with you and I nomi nate Deacon Jones to be one of them,” Once we couldn't understand it but now we think It perfectly prop- man should be classified *r-that . as an atti^al Next to a king without a king dom ono of life’s most pathetic figures la a capitalist without cap ital. 'S 7 «h'.*’f... • • •• A man’s reputation for veracity la getting pretty low when he has to get one of hie neighbors to call his hoge m that he can feed them. some of the rab- speak of it the United States chain- Cnemy ef CM ltl#its Of the civil rights of the atatea of the United States, the flnt and moat important la that they are entitled to have a repablican form of government that Uvea within Its income, pays Its debts sad takes from them the smallest part of their powers and Incomes com patible with the protection af the republic from enemies and the suppression of disorder when It is more than a state can cope with. Whatsoever subtree ts from the righto of states to govern theem selves Is attack upon the civil tigkto of Americans Another civil right of the Ameri cans la that the states shall be protected In free commerce with one another. There to ho such thing as a civil right of the United State* to compel the South Carolina Pow er company to hire a colored has driver If it prefer to hire a white driver. To do that to. in naked English words, what Harry 8. Tru man, president, holds to be "civil right." He would deprive Santee- Cooper, a state “project," of a civil right to employ whom It choeea to do Its work. (If Santee- Cooper shall uphold Mr. Truman In his program it will thereby con sent to the enforced employment of colored men In its Important of fices and bumbler offices too.) Harry 8. Truman, Esq., and his comrades in “Democratic’’ man agement are enemies of the civil righto of Americans. They are enemies of economical, of simple government They are defenders and advo cates of elaborate, extravagant, aumptuoua government, to be paid for by increased borrowings, and they are regardless of the mani fest fact that their courses in evitably lead to bankruptcy of gov ernment and confiscation of priv ate property. Private property Is the civil right of Americans. The "Democratic" administration in power In Washington is exert ing itself to divert the attention of the Americans from the civil rights upon which the existence of tbelr free republic depends by appeals to the prejudice and ignorance of groups that are without knowledge of the meaning of civil rights. The “Democratic” administration is the enemy of civil rights. The Truman administration holda civil freedom in contempt. It “plans,” therefore, In order to hold on to government, in order to elect and reelect, to spend and spend, to prate about civil rights of minority classes (they are in full enjoyment of lawful rights) and turn attention from the civil rights in peril from them.-r-News and Courier. Daily Death At first we decided not to make F. H.A. Loons ■ » *. • nmfr &er > * •A Wonder how many old tlrnsr* there are in the audience today who can remember when men wore patent leather shoes which button ed on the side and had toothpick toes? That California man who says he wants n divorce but that his wife doesn’t want him to have It should sue for one on the grounds of Incompatabillty. A New York firm advertises men’s linen handkerchiefs at six for five dollars but it strikes us that is a lot of money to blow In. The only sort of additional tax we would favor would be one on speeches made in Congress or the Legislature. One trouble with this country Is we don’t weigh our votes—we Just count ’em. A working bee lives only about five weeks, says an apiarist. So you should never be “as busy as a bee . ” A writer thinks that the schools of today are making a terrible mis take in not emphasising spelling and writing. He says that they are turning out graduates who can not spell and who can hardly write legible hands. And speaking of the latter we are reminded of the story of the judge who wrote a wretched hand, so one day when he passed a note down to a-young lawyer sitting at the coqpsel table in court, the young man was un able to decipher It. He pondered the problem briefly, then wrote a few lines equally undecipherable ou a half sheet of paper ami sent it up to the Justice. The judge’s face assumed an expression of futility and despair when be at tempted to read It After court had adjourned, the Judge beckoned to the young lawyer and demanded, "What da you mean by thla? I invited you to come and dine with me tonight.” ‘"Thank you sir,” the adroit yonng lawyer rejoined, “and I replied that I should be delighted to do sa” When Clifford Kluck lost his overcoat containing hit divorce decree in the court house nt Min neapolis the other day well bet it made him as mad as an old set ting hen. If T US HND VOU A HOME OF YOUR OWN Sff US TODAY Real Estate Sales Insurance, Inc. •IS DeKalb St Phone 32 hat after - report* on the traffic T , ^ this conn try for IHi, wc Italy wrote the following: "We firmly raaolve to do a* UtUejlrlv- tng as possible on onr highways during this year** holidays." It'a too Into tc offer this UtUa son to th# five or six hundred persona who lost their lives on th« highways during toe past Christ mas and Nsw Year’s holidays. Bat for the fortunate who managed to survive the yearly alaughter. take heed, lest your name swell this year’s highway toU. We’ve often heard people com ment that airplanes are too danger- ons. and the remark is usually fol lowed by this time worn cliche, *Tm going to keep my feet on the ground.” . i AwH this statement might prove a life saver unless you swap the role of a pedestrian for that of a motorist When you start driving along our highways here are some statistics that bring home the grim tale of blood and carnage on onr roads today. ' ? In the first eleven months of 194» there were 28.3SO persons killed In tutomobhe truffle acci dents In the United State*. This averaged 15 deaths every 24 hou». The totals here do not Include the five or six hundred persons who died on our highways last month. Think about these figures ftw now on when you are driving. Be a safe driver. In fact, be an ex tra safe driver.—Laurens Advertis er. OAB Checks The “take out" for old agfc bene fits and survivors insurance was hiked half of 1 per cent, both ways, as of January 1. but the payments ars still on the original $3,000 maximum. There are bills in congress to I why YOUR BESTBUY IS I NATURAL CHILEAN NITRATE 1. NataraL Chilean Nitrate is •.] the only natural uitroto ia the / werld. j | S* Nitrate Nltregenu The aitregea is 1M par cent 7.1 nitrate. 3. Sedlnas. Oil lean Nitrate contains sodinm equivalent a , to •boot 15% todiimt oxido v (NaA». This acts tike petash • (K«Oi) and helps to make the fl phosphate in the eatt ssete Nitrate stsIIsMs ’ needs ef plants, > Chilean Nhntc con tain* null quantities of nthor efemenra that contrlbmc to Wrong, healthy plaat growth, snch aa manganese, petas- iren, telpher. 19. efl M an ^ ynwrs onir gtram Lot ef farmers aays It’s ha tame ths nitrate, and that’s how plants likes it bstk Lat< ’em figure the soda sad el (he stht help make gsed, atraag steals, tbe." wm mm H J Get the out-ahead style and sensation •j) One reason men probably like polkedot ties is that they already have spots m them. r . -; *m+ - * Uriguay Is reported to be seek ing about T.MM00 immigrants. There are about 7.000,000 people In thla country we’d like to use go there. 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