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M'j 1 '■ ; ' • " : :wni +■ ■ Wife (Eam&Ptt (Sijrnttirif 1119 Norm uroad Street Camden, & C • PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WEEK ■■ ■ ' Id C. Booker - - - • Editor DaCoata Brown - - - - Publwher — IUB8CRIPTION TERMS: iptiona Payable In Advance xear .$8.60 Six Months .........................m....... 2.00 Entered ee Second Clau Matter at the Poet Office at Camden, 8. C, under act of Concreoe March S, 1ST* — 1 - " ■■■ All artldee anbmltted for publication moat he aigned hr the anther TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950 The Electoral College Representative Adolpihui J. Sabath of 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,” iSir. 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 coifntry.” 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)* may team up with some Republicans to beat the proposal* which must get a two- thirds 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. Uhder 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 61 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 part 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 bohoove the GOP to do its eftmost in states like Tennessee no less than in Onio. Every Republican vote, even though the total was still modest, would help their candidate toward tne 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 '-4,r Time To Think > The nation’s capital, an obvious target in case 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 Congrees is discussing where to locate Be emergency capital. ah of which i» ctfe^ma jMia all think What Country Editor* Think Recently the American Pren, 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 tilings if 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 wrote that “we are more than 60 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 the 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 j 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 he 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 of the so-called luxury taxes on cosmetics, TdrsrjRwulryrgier--- This poll represont* a cross section of the editors of this country, ‘ newspapers from Maine to California ant) from Iffcbi- 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. l * The Right To Work A band of striking miners drove up to the E. M; Reed Coal Company, a strip operation near Nerw Bethlehem, Pa., last Tuesday for the purpose of halting the miners at work there. They ordered the miners fo^stop worl^ and went on. Later they came back the second time, appar ently for the purpose of forcing them to stop. 1 • The second time they came, Mine Sup erintendent Ralplh 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 and. went on. However, if they had advanced on into the mine and the men at wbrk 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. 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 wvuldnft be so Ad, but they also endanger the lives of others. Camden His Players Make fa dfa towaa* It takes unty to make a community. And it will take unity to make a greater Cam- re see Where another American has “trieC by a Hungarian court and of has been iomf ‘guilty. vmm Bin 1 That (allow who has tnveated a sura for which there Is bo disease ’s what row'd call on© of oat “ad vanced , thinkers.’’ Hopa still springs sterna’ bat it Isn’t springing very far now. It seems thst our clvllliatlon Is going to torn out to be a killing success. A medical writer says that living n a house with s cat can cause asthma. Well, how does he sc- count for the fact thst some bache lors Jtave It? It may ha Just Idle curiosity on our part bat we can’t help but wonder nt 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. If soma people have their way we will no longer have free think ing. ' "Can you cure worries by using will power?" a writer asks Dr. Al bert Edward Wlggam, doctor of sociology, who conducts a news paper feature. We’ll answer that one for the doctor—it depends on how much you've got to will Occasionally you’ll find a man with n good head for figures bat oftener you will find a man with good eyes for them. Some one says thst the way to sacrifice la to give up something thst hurts. How about an aching tooth? A bridge contractor often goes down after getting the bid because hla 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 fair 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. Three Camden girls, Helen Cas- sady, Minnie Elliott and Mamie Lon Caulder; three from Anderson, Annie Clare Stephens. Margie wat- son and Barbara Sanders: two front Chic ora, Shirley Munsenmale and Catharine Den nan; two from Conway, Joan Sasser and Mias Moore, and one from Hartsvlile, M. Stuckey, made the all-state team selected at the A and AA tournament for girl teams of South Carolina that cloaed here Saturday night Cassnday, Elliott, Caulder. Baa- ser, Stucky and Stephens were selected from the forwards while Denman, Caulder, Moore, Watson and Sanders are all-state guards. Cocaptains named for the all- state teem are Minnie Elliott of Camden and way. The honors most valuable pier* meat went to Annie Ctatre srepn- ens of Anderson, for sportsmanship Mhs University Hi^^_ for team sportamensfa* ths Broofaj' land-Cayce girV team Preaentatioo of were made by City Manager Rogers of Camden,, who seated by FreaWen* A- W. L Phries of club, the sponsertar orgnaisfaUm for the tournament The winner of the state title by Camden marked (he third time that Coach H. A. Small has taken the coveted heoor fa years that he ha# been coach of tbs gin* team here. Small played for the title six times won it te 1M9 and 1941 when him team defeated Orangeburg and this year when he noeed out Anderson. Cbtacidhiit- ally in the other three final title games, It was Orangeburr that won «h« ! On* ©r uin the Brit atlae in 1570 A. D. r*-® ».'Popcorn Med 247 million 1841;. pounds tx t -■According to g newspaper filler the life span of an ant frequently reaches Al| years, unusually long for an faseqt. Perhaps that t» be cause Ufa fa just ona big picnic for them At least the old-time fatheqp didn’t have to worry about letting the children have the famUy car. ‘NO Horn Blowing’’ signs > in - Those “1 they have Hi some cities must irk politicians who are giving to toot ing their own horns. '••V ^ St* ‘ Our Baby Photographer wll he here... ALL DAY FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd XT*-* Wmr IIF ■ , i < ■> ;•> : % 7 FREE PHO ef —, -fa ■ . ■ ‘H fTr> • ‘ TOUR BABY r ',-rg ^ r •»-*v | • , r • j - „ . - “ : . * *• , '■ Jrav The average youngster of today usually has the answer, like the little boy *ho was being quisled by Ms school teacher. “When man gets two sets of keys for the ne«r car,’’ asked the teacher, “what would be tbs most sensible, logical thing to do with one set?’’ “Take It to the keyamlth and havo 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 civilisa tion or that 5,000 years of civilisa tion la finishing the world v The wife of a physician pays in a magazine article that the only way her husband can ever get' fully away from Ala Work la to go out of town. “He Is never free from cans when In town,’’ she says “and he has bean called from dinner parties, bridge parties, meetings of all sorts to rush to the bedside of s patient" And that reminds us of the story of the young doctor who received a telephone call from a colleague who Invited him to make a fourth at bridge. “Going out dear?” asked his wife suspici ously. “I am afraid so,’’ was the brave reply, "It’s a very import ant case. There are three doctors there already.’’ A California man says he eats prunes for breakfast, dinner and supper. And so there you have a man who i$ full of prunes. ' * — Irate cititens of Potenza, 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. i — They say that each generation vets brighter but it seems to us that It gets more and more diffi cult to teaek children to shut the door when they come In the house. — ‘ Sooner or later 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 wAo 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 to his girl friend. There was? no reply. "I ouid," he repeated. ’I’ll bet yon have been out with worse looking fallows than me.” ^All right—all right—I heard you the first tima,” she snapped. T’m Just trying to re member." i %,■, enME 1 *- wfiMwee’ If you were unojble to hove your baby pfr graphed last week be sure to COMB IN FRIDAY l/ j» Mom,' o t K 0 11r \ .) I u o - -C The COMMITTEE of «ij| r The Carolina Cup Racing . • \, Announces THE THIRD ANNUAL 'V < .'t-n 7 :M * * • • . To Be Hold On The Springdale Course * - Camden, ■ ■* “Twenty freight Cars Bun Wild Through SlhnU Town”—headline In Monday’s State, ft jut seems that everything In getting that way new. i fan*-' ‘ ^oukl you say that In England cent Saturday, March 11,1 at. M.. RAIN OR SHINS Two Weeks Previous to the Running of the Caroline Cup Which Will Be Run ioturdoy, March 25, 1950, Rain or ? TJ XT-... ■ J-M Hr’*’. • -