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FRIDAY, MARCH 10,1950
New Citizen* of Our Town
New families are coming into Camden
almost every week now to be stationed
here permanently in the operations of the
DuPont plant
. ,We know that the people of Camden
will want to bid them all welcome and will
want to do everythin? they can to assist
them in getting happily located and in
making t^4m feel at home. *
The Chronicle wishes to Assure them
that it welcomes them into the citizenship
of our community and we look forward
to their active participation in the various
civic activities of our town.
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Looking To New ^Grags?
According to a press dispatch from
Washington, national Democratic party
officials are hoping that a grass roots
movement* in South Carolina will return
the Palmetto state to national party allegi
ance.
The dispatch quotes national party of
ficials as saying they are depending on
the state party's biennial reorganisation
this month and next to turn the trick.
“The grass roots movement,” it was
pointed out, “would have to be in the
.1,530 precinct club reorganization meet
ings on March 25.”
If the national party officials are lopk-
ing for a grass roots movement in tfils
state to return the state to the national
party allegiance they must be looking for
some new “grass” in the party to turn the
trick.
The State’s Rights movement in South
Carolina, and we think in all of the other
states, was a grass roots movement. The
politicians went along with it until they
saw that it meant business and then they
became as shy as timid horses. As the
grass rootep became more and more de
termined the political officeholders became
more and more alarmed.
Finally when the movement assumed
such giant proportions in this state that
it was seen that it was going to swamp
the state in the election many of the poli
ticians climbed aboard the wagon. Others
ran alongside it trying to create the im
pression they were on it but at the same
time trying to be in a position where if it
failed they could say they had nothing to
dTiH ft Many who were on the wag
tried to be as inconspiclous as possible so
that if the wagon brokd down before elec
tion day or immediately thereafter they
wouldn't have been noted on it. None of
them wanted to be seen around the driver’s
seat. It was a miserable year for the poli
ticians and they dread another like it.
But the State’s Rights movement was
imbedded so deep in the hearts of the grass
rooters that there was no stopping it in
the last election. And it is just as deeply
imbedded in the same grass rooters now
as it was two years ago.
Now there will be some new “grAss
in the elections this year and of coursa
this “grass” will be entirely different from
the other sort of grass, wtoich produced
the State’s Rights movement. This “grass”
would like to produce a movement that
- w ould return the state to the Truman fold,
support his FEPC and socialistic measures
and ride with him down to tjie country’s
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It is to this “grass” that the national
party officials are looking for a move
ment that will return the state to the fold.
The question is whether this new “grass”
' can bring forth a movement that will oust
the State’s Rights movement Which the old
glass fostered—Will the new grass offer
_ a more tempting field in which to graze
than does the old grass which has nour
ished the Democratic party in this state
si’ice its foundation?
There will be some politicians who will
try to graze in both pastures. They will
want to eat off of the old grass and also
off of the new grass and will try to make
each grass think it is the best. Tliere will
to others-who will takte bold stands either
for the one gr%ss or for the other. There
will be no pussyfooting on their parti
We are in for an interesting year in poli
tics in South Carolina—a year fraught
with grave possibilities, if we don’t know
our politicians and know who is going
where. 4*
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Keeps Him On Mettle ■
The Governor of a state in which the
newspapers had been rather critical of -his
administration paid these newspapers a
great compliment the other day. He ad
mitted that they had made him a much
better Governor than he would otherwise
have been. They have kept him on the
alert, he said. •
The 'New Yorker magazine tells about
a shortstop who migrated South of the
border and joined the Mexican league. He
^didn’t like it there 'because the Mexican
fans had the habit of whistling instead
of booing^ He missed the booing. “You
sorts get used to a boo,” he is quoted as
saying, “and it just doesn’t seem right not
to hear boos when you muss up a play.
Booing is part of baseball.” '
f Wilferd Peterson, the writer, says that
to be cheered and applauded all the time
causes a man to become egotistical and
smug. A little booing in baseball, or in
business, he says, puts a man on his mettle.
It makes a man humble. It reminds him
that he has not arrived and that there is
still room for improvement. - -
“Two of the men who have stimuated
me the most,” says Mr. Peterson, “have
been my greatest critics. They have dis
agreed with me, fought with me over many
issues, pointed but my errors, and in many ^
ways have made life miserable for me. ^jr i Jdul t it7 0UklD 1
And yet when I look through the years
and take inventory, I think I owe more
to these men than to those nice fellows
who are always easy on me. These critics
forced me to do my best? By resisting me
they made me develop my strength. They
put me on the spot and stimulated nfe to
deliver the good*. They made me work kDow had , w00<| . n ^ untll
hard to prove to them that I was “not a fafter ttorind carries, -mmtauu
complete washout. They made me grow.'
rmpreHy sure hoW that they were tryu
to help me all the time. V ^
“Being too soft and easy on young men
does not build manpower. It lulls them to
sleep. It causes them to be satisfied with
mediocrity. Men who are made of the
right stuff are awakened and challenged
by a few boos now and then. It aids their
development.”
Mr. Peterson’s testimony is, in effect,
about the same as that of the Governor
and of the ballplayer. Criticism has help
ed mil of them along.
Were the newspapers not on hand to
criticize when they think criticism is due
many an'officeholder would become a fail
ure on his job. The fear of criticism like
criticism itself helps to keep a man on his
mettle. *
On* trouble about the theory
that two can lire as cbeaply as one
la that usually there are more than
two.
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Wouldn’t It be wonderful If
everybody had so much money the
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Must Be Wonderful
A member of the House of Rejireaenta-
tives from ^Greenville county has "already
told that body how the race for the United
States Senate in this state is going to come
out this year and has even told them how
Kershaw county is going.
It must be wonderful to know every-
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We shaH soon see whether the
ment is bigger than hhe coal
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Go to church Sunday.
union.
Meaningless Applause
Senator Edgar A. Brown of Barnwell,
made a stirring appeal in the State Senate
the other day for economy in government.
He pleaded with the Senators to guard
against deficit spending 'and asked that
they adopt an appropriation bill within
the income of the state.
The Senators applauded him vigorously
and then began immediately to offer
amendments to the bill introduced by the
Senate finance committee so as to make
it exceed the income of the state.
The applause was meaningless. We have
become a people who can’t resist holding
out our hands.
\Every man is for economy so long as it
doesn’t affect him or his pet institution.
And so the merry ride will continue on
until
They Should Tell
Every candidate for public office in
South Carolina this year should be pre
pared to answer the following questions:
Did you support the State’s Rights ticket
in the presidential election of 1948 along
with the overwhelming majority of your
feilow South Carolinians?
Do you still believe in the State’s Rights
movement or are you in favor of returning
back to the National Democratic party
which is espousing a program of socialism
for this country?
The question of the hour: Shall South
Carolina continue on a firm financial basis
or imitate the Federal government and
go on a deficit basis?
It's a pfty winter had to wait uatO March
to arrive.
Alllfatoro have a Ufa span of
over S00 years, according to
newspaper filler, but somehow or
other we don’t believe they have
much fun.
Seeing in the newspapers the
other day where a Nebraska wo
man. suing her husband for
a dlvoree, testified that sh* didn’t
us of the old story about the girl
who toM her fiance that she had
tdkl me,’* he replied, “t
I don’t mind telling you
have a wooden leg.’*
There’s one thing about the popu
lar/songs today as compared with
those of yesterday and that to
those of today don’t stay popular
as long/ . ;
Who can remember when a drug
store had a drug store smell?
There ought to be a good sale
for pink grapefruit in Washington.
“The older generation thought
nothing of getting up at 8 o’clock
in the morning,” says a writer. The
present generation doesn’t think
anything of it either, brother!
A writer says that the day of
building railroads is past In this
country. And that brought to our
mind the old, old story about the
boy who had never seen a railroad
train. A new railroad had been
built through a very remote section
of the country and on the first
run over it, the engineer overtook
a country boy riding his horse
along the roadbed. The engineer
blew his whistle and the boy whip
ped his horse, but stuck to the
track. The train was forced to
crawl with the cowcatcher fairly
nipping at the horse’s heels. Fin
ally the engineer leaned from the
eab window and shouted: “You
durn fool, why don’t you get*oft
the track?’’ The fleeing boy stream
ed back at him: “No, Sirree!
Ye’d ketch me in a jiffy on that
ploughed ground.’’
The whole world seems upside
down and if the upside doesn’t get
busy it Is going to, stay down.
There’s too much ideology and
too little theology these days.
Some men have dens, others just
growl all over the house.
The guy who talks his head off
usually doesn’t have much head.
At times we find ourselves won
dering just exactly how so many
people happba to know how the
devil feels.
There is one Mg difference be
tween pretty and ugly. Pretty
fades while ugly doesn’t .
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A man haa to think fast on his
feet new, particularly a pedestrian.
Another trouble with this coun
try is that it has too many cd the
wrong sort of expats.
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If thd newspapers would quit
carrying the reporta of the “speech-
” of Representative Culbertson
of the South Carolina House he
would probably quit making so
many. Whenever he sees the re
porters taking notes of what he
is saying he Just keeps on and on.
Reminds us of the story which we
have used before la this column
of the witness in a ease who was
talking as faat as he could. Look
ing down at the court stenographer
the man noticed for the first
that hto
duced to
was trying his best to keep up—
and thereupon the witness began to
talk faster than ever. Finally he
burst forth: “Say, don’t write so
fast! I can’t keep up with you.”
It very often happens that “the
funniest thing’’ a person ever saw
was “just too funny for words.”
This is campaign year in Georgia
and for Governor the people of that
state will have to choose between
two ladies, a former school teach
er, a fat legislator, a “sober” man
and Herman Talmadge.
If every man could oo his own
Job as well as he thinks he could
do the other fellow’s this would be
a perfect world. »
And then there was the fellow
who sjald he thought he was born
on the ISth of the month and on
the'Vrong side of the bed.
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