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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950
A Crusade Against Crime
Newspapers in many of the country’s
major cities are attacking the operations
of organized crime and the leaders. These
papers began publication of articles on
the subject last week, following a three-
day meeting in Chicago of their crime re
porters, who exchanged information.
The stories appeared as Federal and
local crime law enforcement agents from
across the country met in Washington at
whklh the federal government called for
a nationwide crusade against crime, aimed
at stamping out post-war “resurgence of
underworld forces living in vice and
greed.’’
The newspapers at the Chicago meeting
last week were represented by veteran
crime reporters who exchanged knowledge
about racket operations in their own lo
calities. They agreed to seek information
in their home towns which might deter
mine to what extent there is widespread
underworld organisation.
The papers cooperating in the drive
are the Chicago Daily News, Miami Her
ald, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Daily Oklahoman, Denver
Post, Detroit Free Press, Louisville Courier-
Journal, Minneapolis Star & Tribune, New
Orleans Times-Picayune, New York Her
ald Tribune, Omaha World Herald, Provi-,
dence Journal-Bulletin and San Francisco
Chronicle.
~Iirthg-firal of » series ot-a
on the combined work of the group of
nowspapermen, it was stated that “the
rackets, dhief among them, gambling, fun
nel off hundreds of millions of dollars
each year from the legitimate trade chan
nels.” - M< -
“There’s a loosely knit federation in the
racket world,” the article said. “Despite
their seemingly catch-as-catch can work
ing arrangements, the mobs blanket the
country. There are connections sometimes
clear, sometimes shadowy between Cos
tello (Frank Costello of New York) and
the Rkca-Capone mob of Chicago, the
hoodlum set-up in New Orleans, with the
bombed-out and shot-at Nickey Cohen in
Los Angeles and with the rich gaming
fields of Florida, Arizona and Nevada.”
Jn the conference at Washington Mayor
de Lesseps Morrjson of New Orleans, said
that organized gambling alone harvests
a “take” of $4,000,000,000 to $10,000,-
000,000 a year from the public.
In a blunt, name-calling report to the
conference the New Orleans mayor told
the delegates that “there are two major
crime syndicates in America today and
that no state or community is immune from
invasion.
The Mayor said that one of the syndi
cates controls a far-flung slot machine in
dustry and engages in “allied gambling
raokets” and the other “dominates the
racing wire service.”
The country was infested with rackets
in the 20s and these were blamed on pro
hibition. The country was told that the
abolition of prohibition would put an end
to these rackets.
Now it seems that they have seized
upon slot machines and other forms of
gambling.
Weather Prediction*
The strange weather we have these days
has caused ahnst all former signs, to fail.
The weather bureau and the amateur
forecasters alike have been missing it
regularly in their predictions during the
past year or so.
It is true, however, that some age-old
proverbs sometimes are more accurate in
predicting the weather Khan modern-day
gadgets and instruments. A scientific jury
recently reached this conclusion.
The jury, composed of three teachers
of physical science and a meteorologist,
studied 153 weather proverbs, gathered
from all sections, to determine whether
they have a basis in principles of .physical
science. They agreed, finally, that 87
were valid.
\ Some of the better known proverbs that
the scientific jury believes true in predict
ing the weather are: ' -
“If the sun goes pale to bed, ’twill rain
tomorrow.”
“If the sun sets red, it will be a clear
day tomorrow.”
“Mackerel clouds in the sky, expect
more wet than dry.”
Our forefathers had to be their own
weather forecasters. They didn’t get the
weather forecast over the radio or out
of the daily paper then because neither
was accessible to most of them. They had
to sort of study thfe weather so as to J>e
able to do their own prophesying.
' And tRby didn’t do so bad at it.
There is merit in Senator Kennedy’s bill
to prohibit the posting of any bill, placard
or other advertising medium on any tree
or structure without the written consent
f the owner of the property. It is father
presumptions to use the property of an
other pereon without getting permission
to do so. Candidates for political offices
have been notorious in doing this.
A dispatch from Washington says that
only two of the six congressmen from
South Carolina were allowed to name
census supervisors for their distrets. One
was Representative Bryson of Greenville,
who admitted that he voted for Truman
in the last election and the other was young
Representative Hugo Sims, Jr
Spending Your Money
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Under the heading “Expensive Grass
hoppers,” Editor Wilson Harris in the Clin
ton Chronicle says:
“The agriculture department’s bu
reau of entomology and plant quar
antine liired an airplane for two
weeks for $27,840 to spread grass
hopper bait over an area in the West
•with a big, organized farm voting
population. That was at a rate of
$450 an hour. The plane, it was re
ported was bought from the war as
sets administration by a private com
pany for $6,653.
“A plane of the same type could
d from-a.Jarge. com-
mercial airline for about $150 an
hour—complete with pilot, co-pilot
and stewardess.
“Thafs just one of tihousands of
examples of how taxpayers' money
is being squandered. It is to be hoped
the grasshoppers got a good dose of
that expensive bait But that is
doubtful, for a rancher reported that
the airplane corps in these high-priced
rented planes were dumping poison
at random.
“And President Truman says we
can’t do anything to reduce expenses
and stop extravagance. He says sit
back and enjoy life, for by and J»y
all will be lovely, and we will (have
the trillions.
“In the meanwhile the federal gov
ernment is running $5,000,000,000 a
year in the red as we travel the road
to bankruptcy at high speed.”
One (wonders if anything will make peo
ple stop and think now. If there is, the
above editorial ought to set everyone to
thinking.
As Editor Harris says we are already
beginning to talk in terms of trillions.
Sooner or later the well is obliged to go
dry.
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Acting Like A Dictator
Representative James B. Hare of the
third South Carolina congressional district,
a World War II veteran, is one of the
younger members of Congress who does
not hesitate to express himself when the
occasion demands.
Angry over the action of Speaker Sam
Rayburn’s refusal to recognize members
with preferential motions thereby making
it possible for the FEPC bill to be called
up in the House on Feb. 22, Mr. Hare said:
“In all my experience, I have never
witnessed anything that equals the high
handed and arrogant decisions of the
speaker of the House.
“Today he acted as a dictator, rather
than a presiding officer, when he refused
to recognize members with preferential
motions.
“The speaker literally threw the rule
book to the four winds and in doing so,
said, in effect: 'Boys, I’m running this show
apd I don’t care If you do represent the
people of this country’.”
The FEPC measures, Mr. Hare said,
originally were written in Russia and have
been sponsored in* this countfy by the
American Labor party, which he said is
controlled by Communists and Fellow
Travelers. /
One of the objections to keeping one
party in power too long is that it tends
towards dictatorship. That is just what
ThinktaqOutLoud
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A Connecticut woman adrertlaea
that the Is the world's champion
Jam maker, tfet personally we don’t
think she can beat Joe Stalin.
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A newspaper filler says that
deserts cover 24 per cent of the
world s area. Tea bat the rest
of it Is definitely wet.
The times may be ont of joint
but It seems that this nation has
plenty of them.
"The old man kissed hie wife
on her reappearance" says a news
tern from Chicago. Maybe the old
gentleman's eyesight is bad. . -
A Kansas City woman has Just
cremates! her third husband. That's
the way of the world! Some wo
men can’t get husbands while
others hare them to burn.
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"Fathers and mothers ought to
talk to their children every now
and then about life,” says s family
counsellor. Yes. they might learn
something that way.
A Boston doctor says that If peo
ple would walk more they’d live
longer. Yes, but they’d see less.
‘‘Why Is cotton caUed the fleecy
stapler* asks a youngster: Be
cause the people who grow it are
continually getting fleeced.
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Education causes so many rows
that sometimes we think It ought
to be abolished.
Midway
MARY RAY and GRETCHIN
WEST, Reporter!
The J! A. C club held its second
meeting Feb. 10. Since the birth
days of two great, men come In
this month, a historical program
waa given on them. ’In this pro
gram. Roby Ne8 Guest told about
the Waahipgton Monument and the
Lincoln Memorial; Betty Jean De-
Bruhl gave the life of Abraham
Lincoln, and the First Inauguration
waa given by 'Maxine Holland.
Last of all was a matching contest
hv Mary Ray. In thin contest,
there were famous sayings by fam
ous men. Which the members of the
club matched.
Our next meeting of the J. A. C.s
will be held March 24.
The faculty has introduced an
Honor Roll of Courtesy through
which all pupils who are courteous
in their contacts with people are
recognised. Their names aro pub
lished In our school paper and are
put on the bulletin board
The pupils who have been placed
on the Honor Roll of Courtesy are:
First grade, Leon Bracy; Second
grade, Glen Carraway; Third grade.
Rendel Ray; Fourth grade, Gail
West; Fifth grade, Alice Reynolds:
Sixth grade, Doris Young; Seventh
grade, Bonnie Lee Dixon; Eighth
grade, Jerlene Ray; Ninth grade.
Betty Mae Hatfield; Tenth grade.
Peggy Hall; Eleventh grade.
Gretchen West, and Twelfth grade.
Mary Ray.
Bethune
ESTHER SQUIRES, Reporter
We are glad to have Ban WUr
Hams from Union, to Join the 11th
grade at our school. Ben. we
hope you like Bethune. hot be
careful, because there are some
free girls arVnnd. ,
Some of our J. H. A. members
attended the county J- H A. meet,
ing which was held In Camden
Monday, Feb. 12. Red Hilton waa
a candidate for Queen of Hearts
and walked off with first place. I
The reason mohair is so scarce
is that It is so difficult to shear
a Mo.
"Be careful of a live wire when
you are taking a bath,” advises a
safety expert. Why not play safe
and Juat lock the door to the bath
room? -
A man who talks about himself
too much la very likely to become
a common, ordinary liar.
What baa become of the old-
fashtoned wife who’d "put the big
pot in the little" one when com
pany would come?
A Chicago man boasts that he
has the last word in a house. • We
have <an idea he Is just bragging—
that is 1C he has a wife.
Oxftn hi essential to all apisaal
life aad yet it waa not discovered
until Just a little over a century
ago. How did animal life exist
before thent
Up in Lovell. Mass., a merchant
advertised for a boy one day and
the next dhy his wife had twin
sons. And yet some people think
advertising doesn't pay!
An article in a pet magazine
says that whereas It used to be
that only women, particularly
spinsters, cared for cats, many men
are now fond of them aa pets. And
that reminds us of the story of one
spinster who didn’t like them.
‘‘Cats,’’ she was quoted as saying,
"I hate the very sight of them!
I had a sweet little canary and
some cat got that. I had a per
fect "parrot and some cat got that
I had an adorable fiancee and . .
oh don’t mention cats to me."
"Protestants Back Extensive
Taxation To Cut Inequality’’—
headline. Which makes one won
der just what it is that we have
now.
It’s a wonder that Moscow does
not claim that a Russian created
the world.
It Is estimated that the tele
phone companies require one mil
lion new telephone poles annually
80 why not buy n farm and go to
raining telephone poles?
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According to safety authorities
the three great menaces on the
highways these days are drunken
driving, uncontrolled thtynblng and
indiscriminate ^.necking—hie, hike
and hug.
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Speaking of automobile wrecks
it's amusing how the drivers of
two cars which hook up try to
blame each other. It is said that
after one Vreck on! of the drivers
Involved climbed out of his car
and angrily approached a man on
the sidewalk, mistakenly believing
him to he the driver of the other
car. "Say," be bellowed furiously,
"where the douce was your tall
light T’ The innocent bystander
looked at, him in amazement
"Whaddaya think I am—a lightn
ing bug?” he aaked.
Many a man wants work until
he gets a Job.
Just suppose marriage licenses
expired each year just like auto
licensee!
The triable with most men Is
that In obeying the adage that they
should work eight hours and sleep
eight hours they try to do both
at the same time.
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Who can remember when we
used to have lots of cold waves
in the winter that were supposed
to have come down from the Mc
Kenzie valley In Canada?
Would yon call a gloomy girl
a pesslmlp?
According te a newspaper fillsr
"testa indicate that cutting, shav
ing or singeing do not make hair
every man veer 49 ooiHK teeU-
The last two games of the Upper
District tournament were played
Feb. IS, between the Midway and
Mount Plsgah girls; also between
the Midway and Bethune boys at
the Armory. While both teams
played well, the Mldwhy girls won
but the boys were defeated. The
trophy for the girls was presented
to the Captains, Judith Young and
Janet Hall.
Antioch
FAYE REYNOLDS, Reporter
We ate very proud that Marie
Stokes of the Antioch 10th grade
won over six other contestants for
the county J. H. A. second vice-
president at a meeting of the J.
H. A.’s on Feb. 14, at the Home
Economics Department of the
Camden High* school. Marie will
compete for the district J. H. A.
second vibe-president at a meeting
on March 18, at Irmo. If she is
winner there she will enter in the
state contest. We all wish her
lots of good luck.
We sure are missing ear class
mates these days, aa many are out
sick with the flu. The attendance
has been bed but maybe it will
soon be better.
Congratulations, Wildcats, for
winning the upper fifth district
championship! Their winning from
ML Plsgah, Antioch and then the
finals with Midway made this pos
sible.
Colonial Store To
Restrict Parking
In Its Concourse
Parking in the concourse of the
Colonial store on Broad street will
be limited to two hours In the
future.
The management of the Colonial
store stated that the business of
the establishment bas grown to
such an extent that the parking
restriction would have to be ap
plied, in order that the customers
can be taken care of.
The Colonial store parking area
Is one of the largest in the city
and has been free for public use
ever since the store opened. Many
motorists have Imposed on the
genoroeity of the big super store
by utilising the parking area for
all-day occupancy and as a result
there have been occasions when
the capacity of the area has been
overtaxed.
In Columbia the Colonial stores,
as well as other super stores, have
a checker who issues tickets to
car owners who drive into the
parking areas. These tickets cost
25 cents and call for a limited
parking time. When presented to
the cashier in the store, they are
redemmed at full value ox^jNtOte
purchases. In the evefllTt&ere has
been an overtime on the parking,
there is no redemption.
The fee system is not contem
plated at the Camden store, it may
CAMDEN’S Tm»,
Editor The Chronlcl*™
I have Just wed * .
The 8Ute aewspapw? E*
the author of MunTy*.
who resented the pw
tlag of ear dear oig „
were truly a canopy owT
in the past ten or tweh*,
present ooudltlons of a!
I am aare, aid 1
are anay others like JL
love the old trees, resnel
cusatlon. We tried to
treeg.
We did object to the
of the trees by those wW»
ly knew nothing a beat tk 1
way to prune a tree. -rCi
some of the trees were m
Pletely off; while on aw
limbs were cut to the
tree, and than to
the remaining limbs don j
of the tree were cut 0
ter never coaid have
wires.
I. am sorry to say tL
deed true that the trees L
ed attention for boom
also know that It la
that'llmbe of trees do
electric and telephone
there is. a more kindly
treating even a tree.
The trees la question
ed when the Town of Cu
laid out ih the year ITU 1
Kershaw, who settled
named the town
does not find such
of Chmden for a radius
miles. They mean 1
who live here, and
always remarked about owi
ful trees. Their frisi
has helped to make the l
In Bummer more bearahs 1
The trees on LyttkUij
used to meet In the ce&tej
street from DeKaib to
“Hobklrk Inn,” truly a
vista.
So, it la with a
I look on my friends,
and know that some 1
down. However, I aa
that We are having wemm
the trees whom I bet
knows hpw, and lovss
If ike writer at
wishes proof whereof
will show him many
Celeste
Diesel locomotives 1
placing the long-ossl
but a return to coaMInti
fives is predicted; tbsy
steam turbines or
turbines.
be necessary to tabs
that will limit the
leges' te store enstomn
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The fourth and fifth grades gave
verjrwrefcttve play last Friday 1
In chapel. The name of the play
waa "Bachelor’s Troubles." The
characters were as follows t'-’.' >
Bachelor, Wllllard Cunnlnghatn;
Society girl. Fay Rochelle; Old
maid, Jean Elmore; Widow, Mary
Long; Widow’s children, Delbert
Hinson, Joseph Stevens. Ann Hol
land, Betty Jo McCasklll, Iris Out
law and Iris Self; Attractive young
lady, Ina Reynolds.
On Wednesday of last week Miss
Fewell and Mr. Mullen met with
the the Antioch Grammar and
High school 4-H members. They
both gave very interesting talks.
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Antioch
will play Lydia at Lamarr. The
first game begins at 7 p. m.
The Antioch boys’ and girls’
basketball teams are entering the
Eastern Carolina tournament at
Timmonaville. The tournament
begins on Wednesday, the 22nd of
this month. •
Boron DeKaib
JUNE PLYLER and MARY BRAN
HAM, Reporters
The basketball tournament of the
upper fifth district was completed
on February 13.
The referees were Mr. Arthur
Robinson and Mr. M. B. Parriah.
The timer and scorer was M. H
W. Hast and Mr. C. J. Mclver.
Antioch. Baron DeKaib, Blaney
and Mt. Plsgah were the schools
that were Eliminated.
The highest scorers In the'flnal*
were Midway girls and Bethune
boys.
The Baron DeKaib Beta club is
sponsoring a square dance -at
Baron DeKaib High school on Fri
day night, Feb. 24, at 8 p. m.
Hade By Sdwol Disli
• 1950 U the year for real estate tax reterwl
made. Also returns of paraowal propertj,
buildings, transfer of real estate, poll and nail
aro to be made. The County Auditor's
open now for such returns and the boobs
main open until March 1, 1950. All
be made by School Districts. Du not wait urill
last day to make your returns. AH bousebsUj
and furniture used in the boms of the
such goods and furniture an hereby
from taxation. Household goods and
jsed in business not exempt from taxatioi
household goods and furmtuate used in botsb,i
ing bouses, runted rooms and apartments, * 1
places of business.
•The county auditor will bo at tka follownf |
for the purpose of taking tax returns!
February 2: Kershaw at Coafs Bat
February 7: Blaney.
February 3: Kershaw at Cm's Bus
February 9: Mt Pasgah.
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February 14t Bethune.
February 16: Westrille.
February 28: Liberty HtlL
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