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—■ Qhnnltftt (Elprottirlf 1119 Nortn arxmd Strwt Cmn4m, «. C PPBUSHtD ON TOESDAY and FRIDAY — Harold C. Booker - DdCoste Brown - - - - Editor - Publwher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS:; All Subscriptions Payable la Adrancs One Year — $8AO Six Months 2.00 OfOea at at th« Pm* an bjr tkm asthor FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950 Similarity of Proverbs The similarity of some old Chinese proverbs to some of our own is pointed out by Jewell Causey in an article in Our Dumb Animals, in which he says that “after all, it makes little difference on which side of the earth people may live— they learn much from the so-called “dumb animals'* and very definite forcefulneas is yiven to the ideas in the proverbs because of the references to certain animals. Mr. Causey then recalls some of the Chinese adages which (he learned from a Chinese cook, 4 employed by his parents, duiing his childhood and points out the similarity between them and some of our popular adages. “Powder and wash a raven until he is white but he will not look wfoite long” is the Chinese way of conveying the idea that one cannot cover up his true char acter and appear to be what he is not for very long. Our similar adage is “A leop ard cannot change his spots.” American people say of a person who talks too much that “his tongue is loose at both ends and tied in the middle.” The Chinese put it this way: “He is a long worm with two brain bags.” And when a person talks on a subject of which he knows little, if anything, about, it is said of him: “A striped green frog in a well should not discuss the sky” or “A sum mer insect should never converse about snow and ice.” — According to a Chinese adage, “After a word has been spoken it is impossible for four horses to catch up with it,” mean ing that there is ho power which can re call spoken words. The Chinese proverb puts it this way, “People gather together with those of their own kind; birds fly with their own flocks,” which is almost the same as our familiar maxim, “birds of a feather flock together.” Due to their great part in cultivating the fields, cattle are greatly valued in China; however, they are considered Quite stupid. Therefore a person who may have been on a somewhat foolish errand is said “to have beCn playing a lute to an ox.” In this country we occasionally refer to some one as being “stupid as an ox.*' Our adage of “It is never too late to mend one’s ways” has an almost exact duplicate in that of the Chinese which is: “Having lost one’s sheep, if you but take the trouble to mend the fence it is not yet too late.” According to the Chinese, “Thinking to sit on a high peg, the woodoecker flies to the top of the flagpole,” has reference to the person who has undue desire for some lofty position. And it is said of a person who may fall Short of his ambition that he “tried to paint a picture of a tiger, but it turned out to be a poor drawing —of a dog.” Our old adage of “nothing ventured, nothing gained,” does not seem so animat ed as the Chinese version: “If you do not go into Die tiger’s den, how can you catch the tiger’s son?” Due to the almost reverential respect the Chinese have for the myth’cal Phoenix bird, comes this saying: “From a chick en’s grass nest, a Phoenix will not come,” meaning according to our interpretation, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” o$ “You cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ears.” This adage about “bad companions” comes from the Chinese: “Expect to feel the sharp claws of the tiger, if you take up quarters in his den.” One which we have in this country Is “You cannot sleep with the dogs without getting fleas on you.'* And then there is the old loyalty proverb that “a good horse cannot carry two mast ers." An expressive way of saying that every thing is suited to its purpose is found in the Chinese adage of “A crane's leg may be long but you cannot make it shorter without ^nisery to the crane.” South Carolina has Vthe greatest oppor tunity In its history now for industrial ex : . pension. Let's hope she doesn't muff the Opportunity by making foolish J532££L ' k ■ ‘ »' w Hfx. ■ Will We Be At Wite? -I- In a most interesting series of articles on Australia and New Zealand, Morley Cassidy, a staff member of the Philadel phia Bulletin and a foreign correspondent of high reputation, tolls why the voters of those two countries recently turned out long-established socialist governments, re placing them with relatively conservative governments. Since this country will be facing a some what similar issue in the congressional elections This year it is well to compare conditions here and in Australia, which, too, was enjoying a period of relative pros perity at the time of the election there. “Australians," said Mr. Cassidy, “in these days of full employment and mass prosperity, had every reason, it would seem, to vote in droves to 'play it safe;* to vote for 'more of the same.' They didn't. They voted, instead, for a return to the old path of free enterprise and competi tion, a firmer hand with strikes, an end to government monopolies.” - One wonders if the people of this coun try will vote as intelligently as did the Australians who looked far ahead and saw where the fine paved road they were traveling would eventually carry them. An interesting commentary by J. F. Wil liams, editor-in-chief of The Melbourne Herald, was quoted by Mr. Cassidy in one of his dispatches. The voters, he said, were frightened by the growing aggres siveness of the socialists in their attempts to nationalize all the means of produc tion, distribution and exchange. They learned, he wrote, “that socialization was no quiet, domestic pet, but a tiger, with big teeth.” In other words the “tiger with the big teeth” was at last getting close to the peo ple as a whole. Socialism always starts out taking over a few big industries— electric power, transportation, communi cation, finance. These enterprises may seem remote to the majority of men and women. But, once basic industry is in the hands of the government, socialism marches triumphantly on, crushing free enterprise on a step by step basis. Britain’s Labor party proves an excellent current example of that fact. The platform on which it will run in this year’s general election includes public ownership of such industries ae ^amant, sugar refining,. jneat slaughtering and wholesaling, and cold storage plants. «In time, if it continues to be successful at the polls, it will undoubt edly take over the corner grocery stores, the pubs and everything else that plays a part in economy. In one of his articles from Australia, Mr. Cassidy quoted a young dairy farmer as telling him, “I had five yegrs in the war, and I was under the impression we were fighting dictatorship. And then came back here to find that’s what we were getting at home. The state was frying to run everything—telling you what to plant and who could get machinery and that. Maybe I am misinformed, but I don't see any difference between dictatorships. Now we’re rid of it here and you’ll see Australia bounding ahead like a kangaroo.” As this Australian veteran said, “there isn’t much difference between dictator ships.” Hitler and Stalin were not so dif ferent. A~dictator in this country wouldn’t be so different from Hitler or Stalin. What we must do is to keep America free and to smash socialism in the head before it encroaches any further upon our country. We hope American voters wil^ prove* this year that they are just as wise as the Australians and vote for a return of sanity in our government by defeating every Senator and Congressman who has been supporting the socialistic trend in Washington. IhinldiHi Outlimd oM, ate a plate pi fcarbacate pis Ms ISStk Mrthtfaj MoaSajr. It la ao caaaa lor woofer that tho r was so hart to whip. Now that tho posomisat la it te soU tho sorptes Irish p iteoa hack te tensors ter os mt por haatrst pooafe. It wo«M ha poaatete ter a tenter te e nms to go aloag 1th thoas aai si ago a baagaot at * ‘ ‘ ’ ' Claofag team tho Walthaai watte of la a Wa dent of Uaftte trtet 17, la of tho jnnctloa I The Boy Scouts Throughout all of America, this week is being observed as Boy Scout Week in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the coming of that organization to this coun try. Since ID 10 more than 16,500.000 Ameri can boys and^men have had the benefits of the training, fellowship, handicraft skills and high adventure of Scouting. America is all the richer for it. Men in high places in American affairs today proudly credit Scouting’s influence in their lives. The need is for more boys to have “the advantage of Scout training. Although more than 2,300,000 boys and leaders are now in Scouting, there are thousands of boys still outside the organization. Scout ing brings to boys at an important time in their lives a program of worthwhile ac tivities, under high grade volunteer lead ership. We need more Scout troops in Kershaw county. We need more Scout leaden. It ab investment that pays off richly in Sot wrar Um actteB m getting mi to* the miner*. There are about 4,480,000 people In the country without Jobs and more than that many who have Jobs but apparently don’t appreci ate them. I— wr Europe Is full of displaced per sons and the United States la full of displeased ones Wonder how old Norman Thomas feels about die “Democrats” has Ing stolen his Socialist party? It doesn’t cost very much to live in Tegulgalpa, Honduras, according to a magasine writer. And it prob ably isn’t worth very much. Just to show you how vice vena, or something, everything is now, we read la the paper the other day where a truck had to be called to pull two mules out of the mud. Mn. Stella Drinkwater of Salem. Maas., got a divorce from her bus- band because he was addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors. An other man who couldn’t live up to the family name! A Tampa, Fla., woman charges that her husband cursed and threatened her in the sign langu age. A sign of the times. It is a pity that we can travel this kray only ona time. How valuable the information we have gathered, on UOn JliP woul<J be on the second trip! # - If a girl is named Pearl would yew refer te tea mother as the mother ef Pearl? Sometimes we wonder if those people who Just depend on the gov ernment to take care of them eve? worry about what would happen to them if the government should run out of money. They should be like the negro woman who was complaining to the Judge about her husband. “Isn’t he a good provider?” the Judge asked. ‘Tea. sir,” tee replied, “but I’se always scared to death he’s going to get caught at It,’’ If the night has a thousand eyes, wouldnt it be a catastrophe If It should suddenly develop an acute need for glasses? Every time we see a hotel ad vertising that it Is so "homelike” we think of th* traveling man who was told by the hotel manager when he registered that they would do all they could to make him feel at home while he was staying there. “Don’t trouble yourself—I don’t want to feel at home; that’s the reason I came here,” replied the guest. John L. Lewis has evidently been hoping to strike a bargain with the coal operators. And then there was the old old man who went into the store to buy some “neoa” stockings for his wife. It’s a whole lot easier for a wo man to make up-her face than it Is for her to make up her miud. People swallow too much air, ac cording to a doctor. And it aeems that it is hot ail’. “ • A story from Rome says that the people of Italy now have plenty to eat. but H sounds like a lot of spaghetti to us. MM 0 It seems that the won’t power of most children la stronger than the will power of moat parents. An agricultural expert writes a long article on the beat time to wean pigs as if an old sow doesn’t know a whole lot more about It than he does. A fellow who to Just back from one says that the safest way to go on a deer bant to to go dis guised as a dear. Probably one reason H. S. T. hesitated to use the T.-H. against the cos! miners was he knew that it was full of TNT ter him. A new giant cyclotron to to be put in operatioa at the University of Chicago next tall, ao something else terrible may be invented. Seeing where a mechanical pen cil was removad from the stomach of a little boy the other day, re minded us of Ike s(pry of the parents who pteaed that their litfte boy a pencil “Well, what tog?" the phystelaa phone. “Wen. we are Press Off the Mud ironed tho world to naval stations, to sltogitd to have greeted the -luiHiy from the mad of the greet tettfetelp Mtooourl whose deck marks the spot where Hlrohito signed the £pers of surrender of Japan to the United State#. . It to gratifying to know that **Operatto« PuD-ofT was met ful: that the red lights white aomtalonaly from of tho Mighty. Mo at night to ter aasoemiy berth on Thimhle steal esa te lowered, and that tho great vessel shall not have te remain there landmark te tto It took a lot of dotes, hat a tot ■a at stake, mate of all the navy's Ml the historic tradition to the batttowagon te of tho lapaator surrender aboard ter. No doubt to tho future greater prscanttons will te takan to pre vent f*— n * r accidents to tke Mo and otter vessels.—The State. Watte For talas Tax The house of represents Uvea last weak to Columbia passed aa ap- pveprlatton bill to excess of fill.- Md.MO. white was JUM.H8 more than the bill of the ways and means committee and f8.W0.000 more than this year’s estimated revenue. Unless the senate or free con ference committee scales it down, additional taxes are inevitable. What kind of tax this would be baa net yet been indicated, bat there has been a good deal of feeler talk abou ta aalea lax. Until determin ed public opposition is registered such a tax may be “just around the corner.” It would be an unwarranted act for the general assembly this year to pass a sales tax. Such a tax has not been discussed before the people and the people have had no opportunity to express them selves on it at the polls as they should have on matters of such Importance. if the legislators have a sales tax- hi mind, they should not wait until the last moment and spring it. Ample time should be given the people so as to obtain their reaction.—Laurens Advertiser. ^Wtettobor and -pH* 1 ^anfxeJ?e£e£lly of thodO Hke, are neither wanted "nor need ed—Pee Dee Advocate. The Old Treman By-Paaa mendtog*the appointment of^afjet- flndtng board to settle tho cool dto- poteTagato has shirkad his respon sibility to carry out toe tow As in th# cam of toe*tods trik *; te tea dtoregaidod the question of right and wroog, and Ttoyod toto the haafe ofthen ITtect-ftodtog board to tte ateol caae resulted to tho CIO a. complete victory to Ha r .to Itet iten L. the Tmmon ■t of Hto Ae- stons ter Lowto, If be aoaapm -- co-ild not tovoke the *et wS gotog hock oa a promte’nS later anion leaders before thT election. r«—~ ssr ure^-e. — —' Are the hands of the ms waist to conttaoe tte cool strike of the United Jutes tied to simply to dsmir-*—that he to political deal under whkhL « MAowh to hrinc American not. dare not. obev i._. Mr. lowto to and wo Bo not bo will aaooL Mo to strong onongk to bring Amoricaa production to a halt. In case of tte noal walkout Mr. Lewis and his miners have repeat edly defied tho law. Union minors have kept the pita closed by shoot ing and has ting non-union men who conuvi once*, it te. n monopoly which tm con people bow srsv* wkat ^ od^tb# 71 sshIJsu 1 ir* ago. Tte cool Strike has on emergency under which tratoe hove stopped nnuu*. some ind as tries have cWaY Tte mails have boon detowi many John have been lost £7. man iwfaoed to do ao. Bit J aigned merely ta , which to the bn pas* the land. Senator Harry F. Byrd mU a speech hare recently that* belief Mr. not, dare not, obey the lav* no*, why does not Mr - boy It? Ho invoked the Taft Hartkr on several occasions before 1848 elections. Not once since th regardless of emergencies, hu dwaMfemst IB RImmrm . willing to work. The union has invoked It—News and Courier Hike LDW COST Fimciig liicplu! / / Not Wanted Hare A national official of the CIO, one George Baldanxi, recently wrote Lester 8. Moody, secretary of the Augusta Chamber of Com merce, advising that hia organiza tion was conducting an organizing campaign in Augusta, and added that in his (Raidanil's) opinion, the drive for CIO members would “prove a blessing to your com munity.” Baldanxi went a little further, however, and this proved to be hto undoing. He aoked-Mr.-Moody-toi — comment on the campaign, which Mr. Moody proceeded to do at some length. In fact, he let the CIO leader have it with both barrels. “I assume yon are the asms per son who once promised that the southern CIO drive would not bo a honeymoon, that before you were through with the southern drive there would be bloodshed, that there would be people killed ta the south,” Mr. Moody wrote Baldaml. “You have asked my advice and suggestions ... I give them to you freely . . Take your ‘blessings’ elsewhere,” he said in a acaldingly sarcastic note. The Chamber of Commerce sec retory also pointed out that “em ployers in this area do. not, and have not needed outside pressure to interest them to the welfare of their people.” What Mr. Moody says of Augusta and Georgia may also be as surely applied to Marlboro county and to South Carolina to general. No out side interference to needed to bring about accord between employers and employees. The accord and mutual regard for each other to »I \ Just as important as the structural pin of your new home ... is your financing plan. Both must be sound if you an to enjoy the full satis faction and security of hone ownership. 1 or buy a! A mortgafe loan that is yow requiraoMots ns to < payments...; Maka this bank your firtt atop in . the road to sound homa-ownenhip. 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