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1110 Noctn tsroad Street Cwndt, 8. C PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK Harold C. Booker - DaCoata Brown - - - Editor Pablifther , SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subacriptiona Payable la Advance One Year .$3«S0 Six Months 2.00 Entared m Second Clnsa Metter at the Feet Office at Camden, S. C, nnder act of CongveM March », l»7f All article# aobmitted for pahUeatlon maet he aigaed bjr the anther TUESDAY, FEtRUARY 2t, 1950 The Electoral College ' ' * Representative Adolplhus J. Sabath oi Illinois, one of the so-called “Democratic” leaders of Congress, who loves the South just about like the average man loves poison oak, has urged President Truman to take another look at the proposed con stitutional amendment to abolish the elec toral college. The Illinois congressman has told his good friend, the President, that the proposal might give the South “much greater power than it now possesses,” which the Illinois man evidently thinks would be a catastrophe. “I have heard it expressed,” Mr. Sabath wrote the President, “that in a close elec tion it would give the South a tremendous advantage and perhaps make possible its welding the balance of power. I am commencing to feel that it might give the South much greater power than it now possesses.” ' He concluded with the observation that “I fear that the legislation is not for the best interest of the Democratic party and of the country.” We suppose the “of the country” was just for effect because we have an idea that Mr. Sabath’s main in terest is “the Democratic party.” He could have very truthfully put his period after the word “party.” The Washington dispatch says that Mr. Sabath’s position gave support to reports that northern “Democrats” (Socialists) up .with fiepublicans to beat the proposal which must get a* two? third! vote in the House before it can be submitted to the states. + The proposed amendment would abolish the electoral college system as it is now constituted and replace it with a system based on the popular vote. Under the existing system, the candidate who gains a majority in a state gets the entire vote of the state in the electoral college, It doesn’t make any difference how bare dhe majority may be. He might carry a state by a single popular vote— yet he would get the whole electoral vote, and that is the vote that counts. The constitutional amendment which is now pending provides that each candi date’s electoral vote shall be proportionate to his popular vote. In other words, if a man received 51 per cent of a state’s popular vote, he would get that percent age of the state’s electoral votes instead of all of it. And if, on the other hand, he get 49 per cent, he would be given that port of the electoral vote instead of none. If the amendment should pass and be ratified by the states it will revolutionize the established pattern of political cam paigning. For instance, the Republicans never spend much money or exert much effort in the South. They know that their chance of gaining a majority in any of the Southern states has always been< slight. However, under the proposed new system, it would behoove the GOP to do its rftmost in states like Tennessee no less than in Ohio. Every Republican vote, even though the total was still modest, would help their candidate toward the White House. By the same token, Democrats would no longer go through the motions of cam paigning in solidly Republican states such as Vermont. They’d be out to get the largest proportion of the vote possible. We hope the amendment will pass but >we can hardly believe that the northern “Democrats” will permit it to pass since they will see in it a chance for the South to hold the balance of power in the next election and thus halt the trend towards socialism. ’ t' . TWE CmpgW CTAOMOA OMDEW. KWTW CMOm*. TOPPATi What Country Editors Think Recently the American Frees, an inde pendent magazine for weekly newspapers, took a poll of the editors of these papers all over the United States on vital topics of the day. Among other things it found that 78 per cent of them fear that our nation is headed towards Socialism. Twenty-one per cent did not think so and one per cent did not answer. Some of the answers returned by the papers to this question “Are we headed toward Socialism?” were very emphatic. For example, the Colorado Springs News iwrote that “we are more than 50 per cent over the line and are proceeding at an alarming rate.”* . The editor of the Holley (N. Y.) Stan dard wrote that we are headed toward Socialism “and I’m afraid Communism.” “I don’t fear it; I know it; the only doubt is whether we are already there.” wrote the editor of the Hertford (Mich.) Day Spring. The editor of ihe East Hampton (N. Y.) Star wrote: “The answer can be seen by comparing the New Deal and Fair Deal platforms with the Socialist platforms of the Debs days. His dreams have been realized far sooner than he expected.” “As matters now are, it appears that a sure enough socialistic state is in the making,” answered the Lee County (S. C.) Messenger. It U also interesting to note that 57 per cent of the editors think the Taft- Hartley law should be left as it is, while 26 per cent of them think it should be made more stringent. Only 5 per cent thought it ought to be re pealed and 11 per cent thought it should be made less stringent. Fifty-seven per cent of the editors favor compulsory military training and 41 per cent are against it. Three per cent did not answer. Seventy-one per cent thought that more governmental authority and the expense it entails should be turned over to the states by the Federal government. Eighty-five per cent would like to see Congress rewrite and simplify the income tax law. Sixty-two per cent favored the repeal oLthe.so-called 1uxuj4 taxes on cosmetics, furs, jeweler etc. This poll represents a cross section of the editors of the country/newspapers- from Maine to California an4 from Michi gan to Florida having participated in the poll. it indicates that the dissatisfaction with the policies of the administration in Wash ington is nation-wide. \ Out loud The Right To Work A band of striking miners drove up to the E. M! Reed Coal Company, a strip operation near New Bethlehem, Pa., last Tuesday for the purpose of halting the miners at work there. They ordered the miners to^stop work and went on. Later they came back the second time, appar ently for the purpose of forcing them to stop. The second time they came, Mine Sup erintendent Ralph Toy stepped atop a mound of coal and yelled: “If any of you men step onto this prop erty we are going to open fire. This is fair warning.” The strikers climbed back into their cars I and. went on. „ However, if they had advanced on into the mine and the men at w'ork had fired on them in defense of their right to make a living, the unions and union-courting politicians would have eulogized the strik ers who were shot as martyrs. “We want to work but the pickets don’t. That’s no reason for them to deprive us of making a living,” said the spokesman fer the non-union miners. And that’s good Americanism. No man has a right to tell another man he cannot worlc. Time To Think * The nation’s capital, an obvious target in caae of war, is all set for evacuation in such an emergency. Secret plans for the dispersal of key departments and personnel to areas of greater safety from which the national government may be operated already have been drawn «p by a special commission. The Congress is discussing where to locate the All of which 1 to make us all think Causes of Accidents According to the State Highway De partment failure to observe legal and courtesy rules of the road caused most of this state's 10,716 traffic accidents last year. Failing to grant right-of-way, driving on the wrong side of the road, following too closely behind other cars, speeding, ignoring safety control devices and im- pioper turns were prime accident causes, the department’s report reveals. If people who fail to observe legal and courtesy rules of the road were endanger ing the lives of nobody but themselves, it wouldn’t be so Ad, but they also endanger the lives of others. It takes unty to make a community. And it will take unity to make a greater den. i UJ ' * We see where another American has beep ‘*ried” by a Hungarian court and of course hiF That fallow who hat In Yen tod a sura for which there la do disease a what ros’d call one of odi “ad vanced . thinkers.’’ Hops still springs sterna! but tt Isn’t springing very far now. It seems that our clrlllsatlon Is going to torn but to be a killing success. .. * A medical writer say* that living n a house with a cat can cause asthma. Well, how does he ac count for the fact that some bache lors have It? It may ho Just Idle curiosity on oar part bat we can’t help but wonder at times how many of a centipede’s legs would have to be hurt before It would limp. Two causes of “liver" trouble now are high taxes and high cost of living. ./ ; ' TT ' y If some people have their way we will no longer have free think ing. * “Can you cure worries by using will power?" s writer asks Dr. Al bert Edward Wiggam, doctor of sociology, who conducts a news paper feature. We’ll answer that one for tho doctor—it depends on how much you've got to wllL Occasionally you’ll find a man with a good head for figures but oftener you will find'* man with good eyes for them. Some one says that the way to sacrifice la to give up something that hurts. How about an aching tooth? A bridge contractor often goes down after getting the bid because bis bid was loo high. “The rhlnocerous. king cobra and sloth bear are the only three ani mals which regularly attack men without provocation," according to an animal specialist. It may not be exactly ffclr to say that they at tack without provocation. They probably are so provoked with the way men are acting that they Just can’t stand It. 3 Camden Players Blake • '* All-Tourney Team - - ■*" Three Camden girls. Helen Can- sady. Minnie Elliott and Mamie Lon Caulder; three from Anderson, Annie Clare Stephens, Margie wat- son and Barbara Sanders: two from Chic ora, Shirley Munxenmaie and Catherine Dennan; two from Conway, Joan Sasser sad Miss Moore, and one from Hartsville, M. Stuckey, made the all-state team selected at the A and AA tournament for girl teams of South Carolina that cloned here Saturday night Cassaday, Elliott, Caulder, Sas ser, Stucky and Stephens werahlile nix selected from the forwards while Dennan, Cahlder, Moore, Watson and Sanders are 'all-state guards. Co-captains named for the all- state team are Minnie Elliott of Arthur Camden and Joan Emdw M way. The honors fbr In moat valuable player fes th* ment went to Annin CMEw Steph ens of Anderson, for Indfiridtaal snortsmanship Sn MIsn Bradley os University flgh of ColumM*asid for team sportamnBshiw the Broo* • tsnd-Cayce glrfs r team Columbia. Presentation of dse trophies wsrTmLle by City Manager LOU Rogers of CamdetL.who was pre sented by President A. W- Htaf phries of the Camden Kiwanls club, the sponsmtei for the toonmment. The winner of tho state title Camden marked die third time' that Coach H. A. Small has taken the coveted honor fa 7®“* he has heen^eo^ M UiegW^ team here. Staall pteped 1 tar the ft im and 1*41 when his team defeated Orangeburg and thin year when he nosed out Anderson. Cbtocaihnt- u - 8- Popcorn prodactioi jed T A " — * games. It was Orangeburrthat won treses ally in the other three final title .aged 247 million pouaSnfci sndihrtMl} One of the Hr Small's came in 1S40 when^T n seven year Hr “£ ■treal of the MousttT Or tellur is , According to a newspaper filler the life apan of an ant frequently ■ ■ - its, unusually long I-' t Perhaps that if be-11 i Ife U| Just one big picnic fer [f 4 them ▲t least the old-time fathers didn’t have to worry about letting the children have the family car. ‘No Horn Blowing” signs » in - Those they have Hi some cities must irk politicians who are giving to toot ing their own horns. The average youngster of today usually has the answer, like the little boy *ho was being qulzied by his school teacher. “When a man gets two seta of keys for the ne«r car,’’ asked the teacher, “what would be tho most sensible, logical thing to do with one set?” “Take It to the keysmlth and have him make some more for the rest of the family,” replied the youth. Would you say that the world is finishing 5,900 years of clvilixa- non or that 5,000 years of civilisa tion Is finishing the world* The wife of a physician says In a magazine article that the only way her husband can ever get fully away from his work Is to go out of town. “He Is never free from calls when la t two,” she says “and he has been called from dinner parties, bridge parties, meetings of all sorts to rush to the bedside of s patient" And that reminds us of the sthry of the young doctor who received a telephone call from a colleague who Invited him to make a fourth at bridge. “Going out dear?” aaked his wife suspici ously. “I am afraid ao,” was the brave reply, "It’s a very import ant case. There are three doctors there already." 4. ■ — A California man says he eats prunes for breakfast dinner and supper. And so there you have a man who ig full of prunes. 1 V “ Irate cltitens of Potenxa, Ital>, stormed thd city hall the other day and burned the tax lists. That’s nothing—a Congo tribe ate the tax collector several years ago. —* They say that each generation gets brighter but It seems td us that it gets more and more diffi cult to teaeh children to shut the door when they come In the house. 1 ■ ‘‘Sooner or Inter every conceited man has the wind taken out of his sails,” says a writer. And that reminds us the old one about the young squirt who was. to put it mildly, a trifle conceited. "I’ll bet you have been out with fellows who were worse looking than me," he suggested te his girl friend. There was no reply. ‘T said," he repeated, ‘711 bet you have been out with worse loolring fellows than me.” j/All right—*]! right—I heard you the first time," she snapped. ’Tm *ittat trying to re member.’ Twenty Freight Cars Run Wild Through assail Town"—headline in Monday’s EtatA It Just seems that everything Is getting that way new. that In Our Baby Photographer «3f be here. -=rT- ' ' Mi * | . ■ _ ML DAY FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd ■ ■ & 'mir FREE PH01 TOUR BABY TT -<4' •<’ , v • ' it • • • mm ;rv ST'S ■ If you were unable to hove yam baby photo- graphed last week be sure to COME IN FRIDAY H o m i- f H t’ l f i r \ .i I u c s The COMMITTEE of .,4323 The Carolina Cup Racing Asodafion — Announces THE THIRD ANNUAL To Be Hold On The Springdale Course • • 2 P^M., RAIN OR SHINE Two Weeks Previous to the Running of the Corolinfl Which Will Be Run Saturday, March 25, 1950, Rain or