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...years have built factories on the city's outskirts-looks down even on the rest of South Carolina when it stoops to push for prosperity. The temperament of old Charleston invigorates the bosom of 71-year-old, baggy-suited Dr. William Watts Ball, editor of the Charleston News & Courier...
...Ball, the son of a Confederate colonel, is a passionate believer in Southern womanhood and States' Rights. Once, in a letter to the Baltimore Sun, Editor Ball wrote: "The News & Courier would . . . protest against sending two young women to jail even though they made slighting remarks about the Confederate flag...
...years Dr. Ball fought Prohibition because he considered it an encroachment on States' Rights. Since Prohibition was repealed in 1933 he has fought the New Deal for the same reason. In sulfurous editorials the News & Courier repeatedly attacked the Santee-Cooper River hydroelectric project, which pushing politicians set afoot to get $40,000,000 out of the New Deal for South Carolina (TIME, June 12). He described it as "a set-up of politicians without known qualifications to build and develop industrial plants," called it a project "shot through with extravagance and waste...
What the VADS (Voluntary Aid Detachment) were to World War I, the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) are to this one-tens of thousands of British women, mostly below 40, enlisted to serve with the British Expeditionary Force. Besides driving cars, ATS duties include clerking, signaling, courier service, running canteens. Like the VADS, the gallant ATS come in for a lot of British ragging. Because their daily basic meat ration is 8 oz. (compared to about 3 oz. for civilians), the Daily Express calls them EATS. Because they are invited en masse to Army dances and sociables, their love life...
...long time daily newspapers have been magazines, running largely, though, to the light and comic type. We are going to put more weight and bulk into the Courier-Journal in the belief that America has passed her adolescence, and readers are willing now to learn the facts of life...