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. . S' Qtyr (Hainan <BJ?rontrU 1119 Norm uroad Street Camdaa, S. C PUBLISHED ON 1 EACH TUESDAY CH WEEK AY and FRIDAY Haroh^C. Booker .... Editor Da Brown PubUfther SUBSCRIPTION TVRMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year 48.(0 Six Months • *>«•«.«•>m*• 2.00 Entered ns 9nemd Ctaas Matter at tha Peat. Office at CMden, A C, vndar net of Con* Marcfc t, U7» All artlclea submitted far. fubllcetkm mnat - ilsnad by tba antbor FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950 -H- mm 9t Crisis Government Spending A man may develop a serious illness which requires the use of penicillin or some of 9 the other now wonder drugs. These drugs may pull him through but he would not be expected to continue to take them t^ie remainder of his life. A Severe physic may be necessary .during a critical illness but to continue to take the l physic thereafter would probably kill the patient. Every one admits that it was necessary for the government of this country to re sort to drastic measures in 1938 and for year or so thereafter, but the continuance^ of the i drastic physics administered then ■ in a critical illness will inevitably mean death to the nation. In an article in this week’s Colliers Weekly, Hon. James F. Byrnes says that following his speech to the Southern Gov ernors about the dangers in “Crisis Gov ernment,’’ which means big government, big spending and big borrowing as a con tinuous policy, several who did not like his remarks began accusing him of in- concistency because he supported big spending in 1983-35 during the severe de- , pression. “I make no claims to consistency,’’ says Mr. Byrnes. “Changing conditions require changing views. Only an irresponsible spender will in this time of prosperity ad vocate the emergency measures of a great economic depression.” The former Secretary of State could not have stated the fact any more impres sively. .says Mr. Byrnes, “approxi- arc employed in civilian jobs. Today the avtoage income p< r capita is close to three times that of 1940. Last year' the national income was about |222,000,000,000. Predictions by the government indicate continuing high prosperity in 1950. “But the federal government is operat- . in{; in the red. Even if there is no expan sion in government activities, the deficit by June 30 .will be from five to seven bil lion dollars. If the Congress adopts the Administrations proposed new programs, no man can tell ihotw great the deficit will be next year.” '• Truly a sad outlook for the country! •The Congreas,” says Mr. Byrnes, “must rise to Its full intended, stature and put a stop to crisis government when there is no crisis. The executive departments that carry on the big spending will never stop it voluntarily. Department heads are as human as any of us. They like to be im portant and powerful. They act the same regardless of what political party is in power. If the government is to be rescued from crisis government, the Congress must play the herofit role.” Mr. Byrnes points out some of the terri fic pressure Congressmen are put under. The efficiency of a senator or congressman, he says, is determined by the amount of money he gets back. The more money a representative secures from the depart ments, the greater is his obligation to vote for additional appropriations which will be asked by the heads of departments. Mr. Byrnes wisely Suggests that the first step towards ending crisis government is to cut taxes wherever possible. It has been demonstrated, as he* says, that ex penses will not be reduced as long as money is available. If by some miracle, the government should find itself with an income of' 150,000,000,000 nex t year, ex penditures would increase. It is good to see this able South Caro linian going to the bat for his country in this hour of its trial Surely, surely, the tiiiie has come when every man who has ar y affection whatever for America should be rallying to its aid and trying to save it from the crowd in Waahington that is steering it to ruin. 1 * u Camden Is Fortunate It Is quite a compliment io William F. Nettles, Jr., that he has been chosen.as the Democratic nominee for city commia- sioner without opposition. if attSits the fact that the people of xhe* city have the utmosti confidence in his honesty, integrity and ability. This confidence, we feel sure, is not misplaced. Camden is to be congratulated on'se curing the services of Iff Nettles and it is to be further congratulated on the fact that it will not have to go through the ordeal of an election at this time. Mr. Nettles will succeed A. Sam Karesh in the city council. Mr. Karesh has made a fine record in that body and only de cided to retire because he felt that he could be of service to the Camden Hos pital as its president. He is one of Cam den’s most civic-minded citizens and al ways is wiling to give of his time and talents to the city. .> • . The Result In BritfUn While the Laborite pyty finally'suc ceeded in eking out a very narrow margin of victory in the British election last week, the result has been generally interpreted as an unmistakable rebuke to the Britsh doctrinaire socialism. This may be said to be all the more noteworthy because of the size of the total vote. The Laborites, the party in power, left ho stone unturned to see that all of their followers voted. The fact that so many Conservatives—many of whom are people wiho doift take the troobU to vote —turned out indicates how arouse) the people of Britain were. Reports place the total vote as between 85 and 95 per cent, which compares with 71 to 77 per cent for the last seven general elections in Britain. 7 And so with a record-breaking vote the Laborites were not able to secure a safe working majority in the House of ’Com mons and predictions are being very geo* orally made that their government will fall in less than a year and another elec tion will have to be held. y, There Are those Who think that it was a blessing that the election turned out as it did—with the Laborite party having a small margin of lead. They argue that the new government will be Obliged to collapse within a Abort time now because of the failure of all of its socialistic schemes ■Olffll CSS/OLOUL nsakT AR TfU. HE SKBS THfpIECK! MARCH 1 Outioud The-flu either leaves yon In a coffin or coughing. Astronomers are divided among themselved as to the age of the world. One group contends It Is three thousand million years old while another argues that It Is not over two thonaand millions years of age. We are Inclined to agree with the former because It seems to us that it would hardly have been possible for it to have gotten in this mess in just two thousand million years. • — % "Johnny’s allowance, sisters mis placed coat and even the broadest questions of family finance and conduct can best be treated in open discussion whan each member of the family realises that his or her rights will be respected,’' says Dr. James J. Waygood, a Philadelphia neuro-psychiatrist. That may be _ true but how dan you ever get the SncT fKaf If Is "better fbr It t& ruttapsc cum- family altogether atone time? With The Press has evidently dechWIthaJ it wffl be better fur his for him to string »*■* "** "J Truaaftites rather then to stksk by the people that elected hj™ 1 ° ^\ e the people of the state will have a chance to ebooia between those who support President Trumsn and Whldeas and tho* who favor rw taining a portion of the rights given ns by the constitution of ths UnKsd States. . ' It wlU beTSther hard, we believe, for s great many people to forgst that Senator Johnston, daring ths last presidential election, tried to make it appear at first that he had voted for President Truman bat then came out at the last minute U> state that he was prevented from doing so because of incle ment weather. In other words, the Senator had hopes of being able to confuse the voters aa to exactly how he stood on the matter of vot : - ing for the president or for the States’ Rights ticket.—Loo County Messenger. Drive Carefully—Save a Life notice to to the undersigned said estate likewise, S- C, Feb. MILLER'S For waiamr *»A!« * mmi, wtyu tan , D. QOODAU Camdta.1 an r. DsCaib st. (omm More than 14,000,000 American men and'women who have saved a little here and there have invested it in shares of American business. They’re stockholders in some of the "bif” corporations our so- cialistie administration in WAshiafton want to break up. i \ - ' Why not plant a tree 7 pletely than for it to have been posted before its schemes &d fail. The result of the British election will undoubtedly b5 felt in this country. The Truman administration in this country has been carrying us down tlhe same road that Britain traveled and the congressional elections this year will be almost as im portant to this country as the election last week was to Britain. They will determine whether we will continue on the road to socialism or whether we will return to thb good old American system that has made this the greatest country in the world. We can but hope that the voters of thia country will be as wise as the voters of AustraUp and New Zealand have been and that they will be as thoroughly arous ed as the voters of Britain were last week to the end that a big “stop where you are” sign will be hoisted in front of the Tru man administration. The Battle of Britain resulted in a vic tory for the world, but as Cecil Palmer, British author and publisher, told the South Carolina Press Association in Cor lumbia last week, the fighting has just begun. The Battle of America will be fought this year. Every man should be getting to his post. In Thick of Fight Representative J. P. Richards of the. (fifth congressional district has been in ; the thick of the fight against the notorious FLPC legislation in the lower house of Congress. His many years’ experience in the Congress and his high standing among his colleagues make him an effective fighter. We of the fifth district can rest assured that whenever any legislation adversely affecting the people of this district or the nation is up, our congressman is there on the job. % Community Concert Series The Community Concert Association is staging a membership campaign next week and it is to be hoped that no difficulty will be experienced in securing the neces- snry membership to bring to Camden again next year a series of concerts by artists. The association is now concluding its second year and it has contributed much to the cultural life of the city. It should receive the support of all p » ii " "i" », It wm tort of an empty victory that Labor won in Britain. Bat than MfcTiignji wu a whoi* lot further d&sm m the mouth than any of u4 are now, and he came out aU right When you say that a man goes "Scot free,” it means that it didn’t coat him anything at all. Very often you can spot a man by tome little characteristic. For example, a married man nearly al- ways turns his back when he opena Ala puree. . A writer saya that one trouble with man ia that he will often ■tumble over the Mine obstacle many timet. And that reminds ua of the North Carolina mountaineer whoM wife apparently had axpi: She was placed te g casket, eral services were held and her body was being carried to the cemetery for interment Near the grave one of the pallbearers aum- bled over a rock and fell and the other pallbearers dropped the casket The woman, evidently a cataleptic, came to life and began groaning The casket waa opened, the waa released end lived eight years longer. Then she died and aa her body wm being carried to the grave, when the pallbearers ap proached the some rock, the hue- band cautioned them to be careful and not stumble over it again. "This ia wherb that terrible acci dent happened before^" he declaim- • And then there wm the woman who eald it wm no nae tor her to advertise for her lost dog "because the poor little thing can’t read.” “Just what should an engaged girl expect from her sweetheart?” an engaged girl asks. Well—she should expect hipa to marry her. Joe Stalin wga christened Joseph Vissarionovich Daugsahvlli. So we have a lot to beat. A traveling man says he finds difficulty in getting eggs cooked long enough. And he might have added “or soon enough.” Who. can remember .when the government planned to hnlld a $tl,- 000,000 canal across Florida? — Hearing "Tin the end of a per fect day” aang. at a wedding hM always seemed a little phetic tons. !; ' ' “The modem girl will always hide her embarrassment,” says a woman writer., It ia comforting to get this assurance regarding the styles of the future. The theory that kissing ia dang erous probably originated from the fact that it had put an end to ao many bachelors. A lawyer's magazine says that "George Washington never saw a fountain pen. a sewing machine, a motor car, a submarine. » street cor, aa electric lamp, a flashlight, a football gadm a movie attow, a match or a want ad.” Neither did he ever see * writ of durtlorai a subpoena dncM to <nm or « Writ of replevin. A Word From Kineteln Albert Einstein, the man who pro- vlded the theoretical knowledge to science to make the hydrogen bomb- possible, steps quite out of his role to give the world a grave warning./ He Bays merely that un less mankind “atop fighting we will disappear from the face of the earth.” Einstein's warning Is, of eourse. no more startling than that mads by thouMnds of others. We havei known since the beginning of wars, ( that mankind should avoid them. ‘ They accomplish nothing for the vanquished and little for the vlc-t tor. But the time hM come when; such powerful weapons are being, employed In mass destruction, that the victor stands to perish along with the vanquished. Aa Einstein Mys “Every step In war appears as the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one. In the end there beckons more and more clearly general annihila tion.” And Dr. Einstein feels that the atomic bomb hM brought about an iflMion that this country can achieve security through military superiority. He feels that ”it is impossible to achieve peace as, long as dvery single action Is taken with a possible future conflict in view” and adds that there must be a solemn renunciation of violence “such renunciation being effective only if at the same time, k supra-. national body is set up.” V Dr. Einstein is on the. right track. But Over the past centuries it is quite true that the country that lagged behind in “miliary superi ority” paid the consequences. While Einstein is correct In his reason ing, it is based on what we hope might come to pass. In the mean- timerwe ban only place our security In ‘‘military superiority," with the hope that the better plan may soon —Newberry come into server. being.- Ob- Johnston Was Present United States Senator Olin D. Johnston, who will be running thia summer for re-etectiom, wm the only one of Sooth Carolina's sena tors and congressmen to attend the Jefferton-Jabkson Day dinner in Washington last Thursday. If we remember correctly Senator John ston raised an "unholy stink” about attending Use samh type dinner a year or so ago due to the fact that /Negroqt would be aMted at the tables with the other pollUclans. Since that time Senator Johnston '• mtm ANSWER... rji, ' atr*' ~ Where v -Your V. S. Wm Bomll? -J —Your insurance policies? —The deed to your home? I —Your contracts or busineii papers? —Your important financial records and receipts? —Your will? —Your jewelry, keepsakes, heirlooms? If yo*: fcpnc were burning, you’d have to answer All , these questions in a FLASH. The best answer at ANY time is "SAFE in my Safe Deposit Boa". The cost? Uee than you pay for your daily newspaper. Stop in and kl us tell you all about k. . w " . THE COMMERCE NA1 BANK OF CAMDEN WfMMM yv N«xt WmIc It Yo«r Only Cfconet! Enroll In Th« Comdon ~ ' The COMMITTEE of ■ > ^ sj ■U*.' j. • - r* :Z -' r T ‘ . ' *■ „ The Carolina Cup Racjug Association Announces THE THIRD ANNUAL ,*i' I To Bt Hold On T!»o . <■ , V ify t: f Jfl •111 ■tl Springdale Course - - Camden, S. C. l/l P. M. RAIN OR SHI Two Weeks Previous to the Running of the Carolino Cup Which Will*Be Run Saturday, March 25, 1950, Rain or Shine I * 4