Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE 25° — mm —— tbpn (EljrmttrU 1119 tlortn tsropd 8tr«ft Camden, & C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY , , y- ; EACH WEEK ^ATold C. Boakar - DaCoeta Brown - - - - - Editor • - Publisher ' SUBSCBIPTION TERMS: All Subacriptiona Payable In Advance One Year •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••A** ..$3.60 Six Months ...... 2.00 Entered ae Office et Second Ctass Matter at the Past Aden, S. C, under act of Oow<reaa -■""r 1 — All artidea •abmltud for publication arnet be •igned tor the anther FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 7 - The School BUI Many of the best minds in the county spent a year studying the school system of Kerdhaw county with a view to mak ing recommendations for its reorganiza tion. Countless meetings were held and every effort was made by this group to arrive at a solution that would be fair to every section of the county. This group has submitted its report and its recommendations have been incorporat ed in a bill which has already passed the Senate and is now before the House. The Chronicle feels that an overwhelm ing majority of the people of Kershaw county want this bill passed. Many dif ferent organizations have already gone on record to the effect and many more will do so when the opportunity offers. The bill makes it possible for every school district in the county to have ample funds with Which to operate. The money that goes to support the schools is put in a pool and distributed among the various districts in accordance with their needs. If the bill' does not pass and the old system should be continued, it is highly probable that some of the schools will hf;ve to close because the tax nfoney in the districts is not sufficient to keep them go ing on a good basis. The state board is definitely against continuing the real weak schools Mr. William# Suggestion Ashton H. Williams of Lake City, wh« along with Maxie Collins, Ransome J. Williams and one or two lesser lights, tried to keep South Carolina in the Truman cclumn in 1948, now comes forward with the suggestion that “the state party should adopt a platform of cle$r principles and should attempt to have the national party follow its lead.” * “I am opposed to the FEPC, anti-lynch- ing and poll tax bills,” Mr. Williams said. We fear his opposition is merely token opposition because the espouses the cause of a party which, is trying to cram these bills down our threat. By staying within the party the state would contribute to its strength in the nation and help it to elect congressmen in other states that favor these bills. But, Mr. Williains says, there is very little difference betweefi'dlhe^epublicans and the national Democrats on their stand on civil rights. Well, the proof of the padding is in the eating. Had it not been for Republican aid to Southern Democrats these bills (would have been crammed down the throats of the South. The Republicans were in power for many years .before Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and they never attempted when they were in power to cram such legislation down our throats. And we should remember that the Re publican party owes the South nothing! The Democratic party owes it much for it was the South that kept it alive for many years. -j....—.—„— One interesting feature of Mr. Williams’ statement is that he has broken with Maxie Collins. This just about makes it unani mous. Nearly everybody has run off and left Maxie holding the bag. And yet Maxie was probably the most consistent one of the crowd that tried to hold the party in line for Truman twx> years ago. The truth of the matter is that every conceivable effort is now being made to woo the States Righters back in line. As Representative Rivers said the other day the politicians are scheming to try to re capture the state for the national Demo crats and to punish those who were brave enough to carry the States Rights banner two years ago. J We don’t^eHeve the people of South Carolina will prove to be such ingrates. We believe they meant it when they took ) their stand two years ago and we expect them to be men enough to stand by their guns this year. A Revival of Religion History was made In South Carolina Sunday afternoon when over 50,000 peo ple sought to get into the CaroUna football stadium ip Columbia to hear a minister preach the gospel. Unfortunately only about 40,000 could get inside the stadium —the other 10,000 being turned away— but the service within the stadium was one which will never be forgotten by those so fortunate as to gOt inside. It was a beautiful religious service, en tirely void of the sensational. The im mense crowd sang old-time favorite hyme, the special selections ^sung h* Rgyerlg Shea were beautiful and the brilliant young evengelist—just 31 years old—preached a straight gospel sermon. As Billy Graham closed his sermon there was ringing in the ears of all who heard him, the story of Noah—the good man w(ho was saved from the great flood and judgment and the story of those who were not, those who found the door of'the ark closed to them and who were therefore lost. When the invitation came hundreds from all over the great stadium rushed to the front of the stand where the preacher stood. It is estimated that over 2,000 went forward and knelt in prayer on the football field. It was a scene that beg- gard description. . It was a scene to* give new hope to those who have been thinking that the world was drifting—drifting— drifting away from God. One of the most impressive features of the service Sunday afternoon was the be havior of the enormous crowd. They were as reverent as if in a small congregation inside of a church. There was g great hush over the entire stadium. There was no laughing or talking, even before the service commenced. .Not a sign of smok ing was to be seen. It was a cooperative crowd. When the request was made^ that everybody sit as close together as pos- siole in order that as many of the thou sands who were being turned away could be admitted as possible, everybody co operated. Women and men held their children in their laps. People high in the stands signaled to ushers down below when there was a vacant seat made in this way. The Laymen’s Evangelistic Club, which wc understand, was responsible for bring ing Billy Graham to Columbia must be happy indeed over the results attaned. No revival that has ever been held in South Carolina has fh any measure approached the one that has just closed in Columbia. Its results are far-reaching. And out of this revival comes the deal- ization that the people are hungry for these sort of services. They have been half starved for them. Speaking of Mr. Graham’s message, the Scnth Carolina Methodist Advocate, which is printed in Columbia, said last week: “It is the old, old and forever new message of the awfulneas of sin, the cer tainty of death and punishment, the un certainty of life, of repentance and of salvation through the love and mercy of fered through the Crucified One. And a greater Gospel has never been preached. Billy Graham 'makes it stick. Almost breathlessly his hearers are intent to catch every word he speaks. “We have had in Columbia a demon stration of the fact that many, many peo ple still need and want the milk of the gospel. We have not got far from the fundamentals. We are still of the masses who hear gladly the story of personal sin and personal salvation.” And so the revival at Columbia has been an eye-opener. It shows that the people want the old-time, evangelism, that they need it and that the church which does not furnish It to them is not living up to its opportunities. / ! > > V;7 jt'Vrf * * j With The Piete other * , c1tI1 rtghte" national Democratic That waa two yoora O*o. that time Ne*roea have Started vot ing in South Carolina Democratic | primaries.^ Thursday wight, there other flOO-a-plate ”Jeffei ■on” Day dinner in Washington, at-1 Harrison recently. tended by m number of Nepoea ■ Harrison la president of^rthe g^mtor Barnet B. Maybank had Union Man . The eoM day in July and the —pimnr day In March hare nothing - lithe realm of the unaandl <ower n statement made by George M. HiinkhioOutlond The Germane hare perfected a plan for maiding hotter out of coat The only, trouble la that they havtn't any coal. . ' to be plentiful in Saigon, ladfrOhlna. Bat who want# to live la Saigon, Indo-China? • - - r A Mlnneaota man waa found the other day with his hands tied be hind hla back and his face beat Into pulp. The dispatch said the officers inspected foul play. Of .ppmrse n girl admires a man who to capable of big deeds but somehow she seems to admire one who owns them much more. Wo can remember the good old days when people could have a good time without liquor? •• MM A football coach says that psy chology to to be udsd more and more In football. It wUl be so after a while that only a wen edu cated man can enjoy the game. That Ohio highwayman who held up a school teacher evidently was trying to find out if there is any- tn educe thing lucstkm. With (he General Assembly la seeskm and the /flu raging, these ard rather troublous days In South Carolina. A vateraa lawyer ears that one of life’s pathetic scenes to a young lawyer arguing fate first case in court. And that reminds ns of the one who won arguing his first case and who had thrown himself on into the 7th heavens and was pre- ( paring for higher ascent when the stern eld Judge interrupted him, saying: "Don’t go any higher. You are already out of the jurisdiction of thto court” They say age brings respect ability but that doesn’t apply to the world. A man In Allahabad, India sold hto wife last Wednesday for $100. A Wednesday morning special, we presume. Who can remember when H was quite an event when mother would dress up and go up town to do some shopping? Marriage Is a game of chance end with some it’s the first chance that comes along. Brotherhood of Bailsray Clerks. •» labor union. • . He . told a Detroit -meeting of fellow unionists that they too often ignore the general gdtod while serv ing their own selftoh interests. He said the labor movement probably "ptaces too much em phasis on the narrow policy of higher wa«M and shorter hours to the neglect of other important mab ters.” • That’s putting a-national problem into a few words and Harrison to to be commended tor hto honest attitude. If more labor leaders thought along (he same lines, the United States would be stronger ;snd the working man would not be finding himself constantly behind the eight- ball of unioneered strikes.—And ar son Independent. Lst’s Dramatise •'Our History South Carotins is so rich in his tory K 1* heartening to learn that the movement to have a state pageant is being revived. History says that Jean BJbault and his little band of adventurers who landed at Port Boyal in 1662 were the first white men to set foot on North American soil. Documented and recorded history la hard to change, but there ia ample evidence that a small group of adventurers settled on Waoca- maw Neck (between MurreUa Inlet and Pawleya Island) $0 years be fore entered Port Boyal Harbor. The ships of these pioneers were blown into Cape Fear Biver by a storm. They landed and attempt ed a settlement on Cape Fear but they did not like the location. They abandoned the site and drifted down the coast in ships and land conveyances until they reached Wares maw Neck and established a settlement Disease decimated the colony and there remain signs of the old cemetery in which they were buried. For many years the writer heard thto story from older residents who wbre familiar with coastal history, in a recent toeue of The State ifagaxlne, Paul Quattlebaam of Conway, a student of and aathority on coastal history, confirmed the story by quoting what were evi dently excerpts from ancient docu ments. What would be more thrilling than a pageant depicting the strug gles and hardships of theae cour ageous pioneers who established the flrit white settlement on the North American continent? Here is a glorious opportunity for some producer who has the capacity to vision its possibilities. —Dillon Herald. I a bad cold and didn’t attend. All other member^ of the -genth Caro lina eept one—stayed away tram in# dinner. - The lane sum Senator Olin D. Johns ton, who attended with hto daughter. Belly. Senator Johnston told a February li, 1«0, that because the modey would toe .to help M and tin* JoEityJn_ “Any Democrat that doesn't a majority In congress Janet toe n little touched in the toeed,” toe added. That to what Senator Johnston said in ISM. Hto chair was not vacant In IMA. a year In which toe will offer for renomtouiaan In a primary in which Negroes will vote. Senator Johnston to not tonctoed In the head.—News and Courier. Approximately tl.OOC mres were lost in acideuls in the United States during 1*4$, and i,4M£A$ persons were injured. with •Mm W«jme, sr&ss; nr. the a Mm wiin Stuart f OB GREAT With Bob Hope, Rhonda Mr. Television, five you the laugh i the year in -ALWAYS LEAVE v LAUGHUfG- with Milton Bob Virginia^ Miy c, RiSp It YOU What SHE / Knows! X Governor “Warren of California, haa asked the General Assembly of that state to outlaw all slot machines. Authorities agree that, with hookmaking on horse races, control of the elot machine trade is ike. muscle and sinew of organized crimi nal operation. ^ Two Primaries " Rev. Maxie C. Collins, who continues to act as spokesman for the national Demo cratic party in this state despite the efforts of his former associates to unfrock him, says that there may be two primaries in South Carolina this summer, one to be held by the Trumanites and the other by the State Democratic party. It is our view that this is what ought to be done. Those people who want to trail along after Mr. Truman in spite of the record which he has made ought to have their own primary and the people who believe in States Rights and who resent the continued sniping at the South by the natonal party ought to have theirs. We’d like to see Mr. Collins go ahead with his plan for a separate primary for his crowd. Certainly the twb factions ia South Carolina do not belong in the same party. - Now ia the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country. headline. now? Fuller Rights”— full can they get A Memphis woman ahot her hus band while dreaming. Dreamers have even wrecked nations. A writer .ays that there is no greater Influence for good than grandmother. So evidently what thto country needs is more grand mothers Seeing a plea made by a charit able organisation lor housewives to give it certain coupons, reminds us of the old. old story o' the couple who had a 11-room house which they were attempting to furnish with premiums redeemed from soup coupons. They showed s friend around, proudly comment ing on bow many coupons each chair, table or carpet ‘‘coat •' At the end of the tour the visitor said: ’’But you’ve shown me only five of the 12 rooms; what about the other seven?" "Oh, those” shrug ged the householder. “That’s where we have the soap stored “ In the old daya parents used to burn their children up when they came home and reported that they had gotten a whipping at school. Now tb%y fire the teacher One trouble with the General Assembly is that its members have too much latitude and too much longitude. Hail fell on the pyramids' the other day which It JWCms to us would have been sufficient to canse the sphinx to say something. His Chair Was Not Vacant Two years ago, there was A lot of publicity throughout the coun try about some vacant seats at the $100-a-plate “Jefferson-Jackson” Day dinner in Washington. . *■ The sAats were vacant because some white Southerners boycotted the dinner when they learned that Negroes wonld attend. Among the leaders of the Southern boycott were Senator and Mrs. Olin D. Johnston. Their seats were empty at the dinner in 1948.' At that time on February 18, 1948, Mrs. Johnston told the Asso rted Press: “I hardly see how either Senator Johnston or f could go In the face of things. You know us. You know we cannot go." She added qiat J. Howard Mc Grath, at that time the Democratic party national chairman, “counts a small minority in the North more important than the whole South.” Some Southerners, she said, want their aeata left vacant aa silent Co She knows HOW MUCH die paid and for WHAT. V * i * * ijjfl • She knows WHOM she paid and WHEN) • She knows WHERE she stands finafrj dally today and every day. BECAUSE she pays aU her bills CHECK. Open a checking account in bank NOW ... and know ALL the answers ALL the time! X : »■ t ^ ■ J7 * & a. Stop in today tnd Ut o» tril yon hnw wyj vand ample It to.y' * THE COMMERCIAL NA1 BANK OF CAMDEN A Georgia editor shot at some Ku Klux Klkmunen trying to terri fy him the other night. He evi dently decided that the gun was mightier than the pen. Would you say that that Texas man who knocked hto wife down because she refused to accompany him to Atlanta struck a blow for Atlanta? * The internal revenue depart ment is now trying to discover un told riches ta this countfy. Another one of life’s mysteries is what women find to talk over the phone about oo much and so long. Life to full at frustrations. We read the other day where a wo man had just gone to e lot of trouble learning how to shift gears on a car husband came home with a oar that didn’t have •ay- encountered hto trip to Key Went y prove to be an President rough seas 6 and thto ■ eaten. We ode where aa excited house wife has filed a complaint with the postmaster of her town. TA ago." she toM left hers to I Th#re'« always something doing in "my husband a big husl- New York. Thto him om© R ‘Atlantic City'. 1 SRIDEMKB WINS Studebaker land Cruiser with overdrive wins dess E Award-averaging 24.887 per gallon of gaooline and making 65.6856 ton miles per gallon!' Studebeker Champion with overdrive proved most economical among all * regardless of prioe-daaa or size! It averaged 26.551 miles per gallon of V.! A Thto mMM tlMt Stud^kM-MtOJiAwi ««M* of Sm b«*t to th* tw*h*«t «to* «»• iw to Smwtos-jHwof sn* ** Studahata- to your moat oaoHawtosI buy 1 AND LOOK AT THISi kduch) men i4T!5L motor, company