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rnmmm \ 11 THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. P. Nlllli Rrfttor mn4 P.oprUtvr l'ubU?h?d mvry Frldmy mt Numb** 11M North Broad fltTMt. tnd ?t th? C?md?n, South OwoUa* * Mcond cl?? mail in*tt*r. Prto? Y**r II. 00. No uh#ortpt<au? lor than Sir Month* In all ln*tiat?a? tho ubaorlptlon prkja l? 4*a nnd W*bio hi advance. All aifbaorlptlona M* cancelled when aubecrlby- fall* to renew. Represented In New York by th? A?*n* can 1'reee Association and elMwherb by all reliable Advertising A|fdl|t We accept no advertising ot a doubtful HA" tare and try to protect our patrons from misrepresentation by Advertieeye. No Liquor Advertteements aocept^^ at any Friday, July t2th, 1940 COMMENDS CITY POWERS FOR TRYING TO 8AVE LIFE AND LIMB Kdltor Camden Chronicle: Tho geiitlemeu who compose the present city council httve beeifr guilty of many good deeds?ralplnf ' their salaries, public dinners, pdvfng some very dusty streets, and the like, but the best and most cqiURiendable Is the erection o{ standard! IfSffic lights at the corner of I^yttletou and DeKalb. This is the most dangerous corner next to that of the postoffoe. This is not an advertisement but a life and 11 tub saver.?C. THE STUPIDITY OF TERROR The bomb explosion at the New York World's Fair Is one of those things which leave one speechless It Is so cowardly, so contemptible, so useless, and so stupid. Three such outrages have now been perpetrated In New Yofk in two weeks. The uet results: Ten Innocent bystanders Injured, two brave policemen killed In protecting others from the sneaking attack, five other police badly Injured. Whatever may have been In the warped minds of the prepetrators of these outrages, It Is almost certain that these were not the result hoped for. No possible result can over follow such things except to Inspire In every decent person a loathing and contempt not only for the persons Involved but for whatever cause they hope to serve in this vile way.?Sumter Item. LET'S GET STARTED We are all talking iproparedness, congress Is rushing through measures to appropriate huge sums of money for defense various suggestions are advanced by high officials as to this or that procedure, but what are we doing In tho way of starting the wheels turning for actually producing the power this country must have to block possible attack? That question Is frequently asked by the man In the street who is confused by the multiplicity of Ideas aired and feels that precious time Is being lost while our leaders are wrestling with the avalalanche of details which the preparodness drive has thrust upon them. With prompt action as a pressing necessity, an Impression prevails that the government Is slow In realizing the people of the nation are ready to support to the utmost broad and boldly conceived defense stops and have progressed beyond the "trial balloon" stago of sentiment. They are not looking to a political platform for protection against a potential enenvy but demand adequate air, land and sea .strength. Industrial mobilization, unity of all interest umlorstutidlugly led. to acc impli-di national defense ou a sea'-- undreamed of a few months ago. It :nu> be that much progress has l.'C-'n revealed. if so. well and good. l.?'t s it?" started. That Is tho call of :li-* hour. There Is no time to waste in hesitating and conflicting policies, -t'h.i; i.'Ston livening Post. I'hf liebo.u was invented by a land^tn.ni who never saw tho sea. I>ouM? trouble: Walter W. Nelson u-m* to the Topeka. Kansas, police j s'.i'ion m report the thief of apples from his orchard While ho was ln!-! * Sf)rr,.--wne stole a tire, tube and whoel from his car I I??W? the lonq hope ! (Sadie vonTreackow, Chairman Pub llclt-y Volunteer Corps R?d Croat) Haiubono bays' "Look lak de laad low dat Mlatah Hitler a mougbty lawng rope?but some of deae day* Ho gwlnc tek up de alack!" No doubt we add, "How long, oh Lord, how long?" and pray the alack will aoon be taken up. eapoclally wheu we road In Tueaday'a paper the Uor rlble. but true atorlea of the war re latod by an eye-wttneaa, Dr. 1* 8. Ful jer, of Houth Carolina, who has Jual returned from Parla. Of thouaanda of lleelug Belglana Dutoh and French; of the Belgian couple frantically driving BOO inllea tc Parla with their two children ou tht back teat, machine-gunned to death; of a truck of 15 persona, alx or elghl of whom were dead, lylug dn the flooi of the truck; of one distracted couple who In the mad rush before the on coming German a, had loal their child from the car and <U4u!V, dare go 'back to look; ahell-ahooked refugees, fear mad from "screech sheila" that chill ed the marrow and racked nervea, oi these reports from correspondents In Europe: "A woman from Arlon walking for six days to Parts without rood?often bombed and machine-gunned, carrying her baby not yet a year old. "A truckload of twolve seven of them left, the other five corpses ?maohtne-gunned near Paris just when all seemed clear. Thousands homeless, naked, starving! The saddest of all those hopelessly crazed?made mad by Hitlers ruthlessness as carried out by his henchmen. Thousands In vile concentration camps! Will the slack In the rope atone for all this? The Bed Cross national appeal for war relief funds has brought In more than fourteen million of the twenty million dollar goal. The original plea made May 10. asked the public for a minimum of ten million dollars but on May 28, it became obvious that at least twice that sum would be required. even If only the most urgent needa were to be met. So chairman Davis aBked all chapters to double their quotas. Our first quota was $1,200 for Kershaw county and so we were asked to send. If possible. $2,400. Chairman Shannon Heath and our chapter has been most gratified at the voluntary and generous rosponse and to date $1,336.77 has been donated. But of course we want Kershaw count> to go over the top and we beg you to continue to send In your dimes or dollar^ to the treasurer, Harold Funderburk..until our gdal is reached without a special drive. Prosldent Roosevelt has received assurances that our mercy ships will be protected and allowed to land In harbors not In immediate danger tones, such as Marsallles, Lisbon and Irish ports, and our Red Cross workers In foreign lands guarantee the help to those refugees most needing It. "In times like these we are proud that America Is represented in the holocaust of Europe by the tireless tenderness and sympathy symbolized by the Red Cross,'' says Time magazine. And now as the Red Cross pours out medical supplies and food and I clothing to help the helpless, and as j the Red Cross doctors and nurses and ambulance drivers and stretcher-bearers tax their nerves and bodies to meet the strain, their need for your 'support grows greater every hour. I Your Red Cross room Is open and . calling for you. Phone' Mrs Nettles Lindsay for wool. Mrs. Reuben Pitts will he in charge of the room for the ' month of August. | Morocco, well-known In the binding of hooks. Is a product of goat skin. Paris Is "Hell Hitler" now. A Paris short wave broadcasting station Tuesday came on the air with a short program of German nows and signed off 1 with "Hell Hitler." NORFOLK Portsmouth * Virginia Beach Friday thru SKConday July 19 -22 $3.00 . . round trip adult fare to Portsmouth. Fares to Virginia Beach 75c higher. Children 5 and under 12 half fare. SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE No Chanee of Cars. Lv. Camden 5:15 PM, Frl., July 19. Returning. Lv. Portsmouth 10:00 PM, Sunday, July 21. Tickets good going on Thursday afternoon, all Friday and Saturday trains (except the Silver Meteor). Retumrng leave Portsmouth as late as 5 30 P M , Monday evening. Tickets good in coaches only. No baggage checked. CONSULT YOUR SEABOARD AGENT FOR OTHER DETAILS. j THE SUROPSAN SITUATION Recent developments show how utterly greedy god selfish ere the peI tlons across the ocean. Italy went Into the war after It looked Hltlerlsh, i to gain some colonies. That bastard nation did the same thing in the first i World War. Hven Japan, with no mol ral excuse, Is looking with longing i eyes to the carcass when the war - ceases. Most of them are tarred wfTh the same stick. We cau uever think - that Belgium, Holland, and Norway : should have suocumbed to Hither without a desperate flghtv A brave , man usually defends his castle against i any opposition. There Is hot a word > of praise for France. Hfifr vthole hisi tory 1b smeared with treachery and hypocrisy, but her cowardice and base ; treatment of England can hardly be too severely condemned. Why she > wished to be a slave to her bloody and beastly enemy?Hitler?Instead I of England, is a mystery. ; No explanation from France can Justify her penfldy and Lreaohery. It seems to us that enough has develop ed to show how reckless and lnexcusi abl? It will be for us to go to war for such nations. They are totally uure' llu/ble and only after the spoils. Next to America, the fall of England will bo the greatest calamity that can happen. Short of bloody war, we are all anxious to see her pull through i hor greatest trial since the Revolu, tlonary war. She is the only English > speaking nation, In that galaxy of tongue-tied talkers. We got our laws from England aud - a large percentage of our valued citizenship. Have you noticed that nearly all these Communists and other motley breeds In this country, hall ' from such countries at Italy, Russia, and now unfortunately Germany. Very few from England, Scotland aud Wales. During the last fifty or seventy-five years it would have been lucky to restrict Immigration to Eng' land. Wales and Scotland. Heaven forbid that England should fall Into the hands of this devilish brute/ Hitler. England has her faults, bllt she i is, by all oddB the pick of that European bunch. Take Canada for Instance, right under our nose. She really loves England with the possible exception of Quebec. England does not interfere with any colony's religion. Can you say the same about any Catholic country, with the power to Interfere? When England goes, there is not much left over there that Is worth saving or preserving. There was great sympathy for Holland until it fell down at the feet of Hitler without a fight.?Calhoun Times. REPORT OF WORK DONE BY TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION Immediately following the wind-tip of the 1939 Christmas Seal Sale, the loon) tuberculosis association began to use the funds raised to defend the homes in the county against the rav-j ages of tuberculosis, a disease which annually takes the life of from ten to fifteen Kershaw County people and makes numerous others physically unfit for long periods of time. From March first to July 1st, the dollars contributed during the 1939 ChrisKhas Seal Sale by men. women and children throughout the county have helped to accomplish the following. Tuberculin tests given 649; nufitber found to have positive tuberculin test i 131: rh?'st examinations with fluorI scope and X-rav 203; cases of active " I tuberculosis found 11. probable cases of pulmonary tuberculosis placed under observation ?; cases of probably inactive pulmonary tuberculosis found 3; cases of first infection tuberculosis found 13; cases found to be expectorating tuberculosis germs 6; cases admitted to the sanitorlfim 7: newspaper stories published 26; posters exhibited 69; leaflets and pamphlets distributed 1.69a; talks to groups 8; attendance 278; motion j pictures shown 3; attendance 1,550., With increasing prices of necessities and other hardships connected with the National Defense Progrhm. more cases of tuberculosis are expected to develop, so the 1940 Christmas Seal Sale Committee, including Mrs John Mullen. Mrs. A. C. McKain. Mrs Henry Carrison, Mrs. W. J. Mayfield. Rev A D. McArn and Doctor A. W. Humphries are meeting tomorrow. Friday. July 12th, to lay plans for the annual Christmas Seal Sale drive that will lead to success in raising the funds that will be needed to meet the increasing emergency for continuous service in tuberculosis control. Notice to Public All persons interested in Randy Grove cemetery are asked to meet?>n Friday, July 19, for the purpose'of cleaning off church grounds and cemetery Please be there early and bring tools with which you are to work, requests H. R. Hall, the Sunday school superintendent. England exporvs at"out 80^00 blrycles annually, in normal times. Oyly four Mates now require raofnrT^s to renew their license tags on January 1. All the others have advanced the renewal dates to spring i -'ion h* 1 (Ilnnniirin \mA independence day Washington, July 5.?Yesterday all ovor the couutry celebrations were held In honor of the great American nl>ay?July 4?a day close to the heart 1 of every true American. On a sheet of parchment, close-written lu an old Script, v with boldly scrawled signature* at the bottom, where flfty-sl* patriots set down their names on that far-off, troubled summer day. This original peclaratlon of Independence Is now placed In a glass case under locked doors Id the (Library of Congress, where everyone may see it. Copies of it ~are huug in schoolrooms, transcripts ipriuted in every history book. Yesterday we celebrated the annl-| versary of what? Is the Declaration of Independence merely a faded memory? A curiosity? A symbol of Ideals once believed In, having nothing to do with the liberties we now enjoy? On the contrary, that Declaration once was^and still Is, a document of flaming personal concern to every man, woman and child in the country and Its closing words may well be taken today as the motto of our people. Everybody knows how the Declaration begins: "When In the course of human events ..." But few people remember how ltvends; and the end Is the most significant part of all: "Aud for the support of this Dec-, laration, with a firm reliance on the] protection of Divine Providence, wei mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes aticl our sacr'etl Honor." These words were not empty rhetoric. The Declaration?for all its tempered tone?was a desperate document. The men who signed It knew only too well when they pledged life, fortune and honor, that they might be called to pay that pledge In person? at the end of a hangman's rope. At a solemn moment In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin arose and reverently said: "I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs 1 see of this truth, that God governs In the affairs of men." He then quoted the words of Scripture: "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build It," and added, "I firmly (believe this." The whole story of America's rapid rise has no parallel in history. We survived wars from without and with-, tn and today our nation is the great* est nation in the world. The great document is yellow with age. The men who forged it lie In the dust of the centuries. The grievances that fired them are by some forgotten. The rights they bought in common sacrifice are all ours. Do we appreciate them? But now, In the glare of what has happened to others, we can see that tyrannies aro not things of the past; that the privileges of a free people are not for the timid and the weak, and the price of holding them may be very high?-so high, indeed, that it can be afforded only by a nation in which | every Individual Is resolved that the J price is part of his personal obliga-j t ion. Brute force is at large in the world j ?so big, savage and competent that it makes the mad whims of George III look small In comparison. We have declared that we will be independent of this force, and have set about arming ourselves to implement that declaration. But declarations and arms can do nothing by themselves. It is resolve behind Intent and citizens behind arms that make a declaration good today as in 1776. We have seen the Impact of quickstriking ferocity upon peoples who were merely wishful not to meet It, and who In consequence were weak, unready, divided In counsel, tolerant of traitors and of fools. We have seen the folly of peoples who were preoccupied with pettinesses, obsessed with what they could get without giving, beguiled with the notion that nothing could be so bad as to Justify the hazard of personal safety. We need many things today, but none more than the old resolve running in a blaze across the land. Wo need, each of us, the fire and faith of our ancestors. "We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." The words are old, but today, as then, they are the words of Freedom. "This is America, these quiet hills So still and green beneath the summer sun Where not one clod by violence is upturned, Not one tree riven by a distant g^|J. "This Is America?O happly land Fpon whose hills and piaines God's peace Is shed, m God Keep thee still the same, a haven where, Except In love, na alien foot shall tread." i -a t : ? :? ? July Fourth Ganie Won by Rock Hill The Rock Hill Junior* staged two luiilug uprising at city part last Thursday and spoiled what otherwise would bare been a perfect Fourth o4 July baseball gairie! For the twc* frame blltskrleg netted the Invaders from the north seven run. whloh with from the north seven runs which with them an 8 to 6 victory over the Oam< den Juniors. In The break In the winning streak ot the Camden lads came when grandstand and bleachers were comfortably (filled with one of the largest gatherings of spectators to jam the olty park. In the big audience were baseball fans from CheraV, MOBee, Rook Hill, BlShopvllle, Sumter, Columbia, Lancaster and many other points. The presence of a group of fans from the home townrMoBee may have placed (Lefty McLeod under a tension, and accounted In a measure for his Inability to curb the Rock Hill hatters. But as a matter of record the real cause of the visiting scoring feat was the blowup of the Camden defense In these Inntnga. Outfield drives that should have been cheoked for singles gave runners two and three baBes when the ball got by the outfielders. Kight errors were chalked against Ca,mden, with four coming In the two fatal frames. The game was a ding-dong affair for four innings. Camden staged its usual first Inning uprising when with two away Bowers was given a pass, stole second and scored on Johnson's single between short and third. Johnson swiped second and scored on Hough's blow to right. Rock Hill took the lead In the fourth by pushing three runners home. Three errors mixed with three hits did the business. Camden came back in the last of the fourth by scoring two ruaa. ..Hits by Tucker,, McLeod and Robinson did the trick. In the fifth the visitors reared up and got nasty. Four hits and an in* field bobble sent three runners over before Coach Smith sent McLeod to the showers and called upon Johnson to stem the scoring fest. A freak single scored a fourth run but that was the finish as Johnson fanned Wolff and caused Wallace to pop feebly to Robinson at third. In the eighth the Camden infield wavered again and two errors and a single added an eighth run to the Rock Hill total. In the last of the eighth Camden went to work. Hunter was safe on an infield error. Robinson got his triple for the afternoon and scored Hunter. Minis singled to score Robinson, Bowers rolled to first and the side was retired. In the ninth when Johnson walked, the Rock (Kiii board of strategy jerked Boulware and sent Tarleton In to steady the team. The strategy work-: ed. I In the four and a third innings McLeod worked he gave up 9 hits while Johnson yielded three in four and two thirds rounds. 'McLeod fanned 2, Johnson 5 and Boulware 4. Boulware walked 5, Tarleton 1 and Johnson 1. First of Title Games Played Here Monday The first of the district playoff series between the Camden and Rock Hill Junior Legion teams will be played at the city park in Camden on Monday, July 15, begining at four o'clock. It is also announced that the two umpires from Belmont, N. C., who have been working in the elimination round robin series will be replaced 'by two others who, It Is hoped, will offer a more competent demonstration of arbltering efficiency. The second game of the playoff series will be staged at Rock Hill on Tuesday, July 16, and if a third game1 is necessary the place will be determined by the toss of a coin. Camden fans believe that the local team which has suffered the loss of three games following a five game string of victories In the elimination series will snap back and fight to take the district honors. This belief Is also shared by Coach Smith and members of the Legion baseball committee who are also hoping that the Camden fans will turn out strong for the Monday game here. DeKalb Pharmacy THE REXALL 8TO&E Phone 95 We Deliver FOR COTTON WtlQNtJ^jl I hereby announce myt#l( . I date Cor cotton weigher a. ?? L B. C. With vwwdy yayM/{JgW weighing thousands of baU?SI ton, 1 feel fully conuwtenL J promise honest and faithful \yISH > auce, and will appreciate Bethume, 8. C. The Blohm and Vom~h^u1 Herman plane reported to be irM plane, has four engines and , i of 3,200 miles. *** : Wants?Forsjjfel FOR SALE?-8eoond-haud irou kj with mattresses and spr<^| bureaus, ice box, kitchen tabkl other household items. If luteal phone 645-J, Camden, S. c LOTS FOR SALE?Have two J lota east of Camden that l wmB oheap for oash. Address or mil W. Clinton Moore, Camden, 8jJM WANTED?To (buy sereral .wfl of land. Address D. J. QJ Camden. 8. O. CURTAINS STRETCHEO?Atrial able prices. AH work guan3 Address 904 Campbell StreetiJ den, G. C. |rfK 8HOE8?For shoe rebuilding ujjH pairing call at the Red Boot ail next door Etepress Office, 111 B ledge street. Abram M. J ohm B prietor, Camden, 8. C. | 8ALE8MAN WANTED?To 8?1]B ternatlonal Trucks. M yotics*}! duce Results, see us. WhlufcJ^] Company, Camden, S. C. lt-iB SALESMAN WANTED Good r9 leigh route available in KerijB County. Dealer In adjoining jqS ity in Lancaster county mil! sales of $75 and more for aB weeks. Bxceptlonal opportunity] man between 25 and 50 wttfcB Write Rawleigh's, Dept. SOGMlS Richmond, Va. 15-llu^] FARMER8?AUts-Ohalmers UrictiB give most power per dollar UtS ed. We trade for surplns ftjB produce. Low overhead, dS prices. No overage or urrfl^] charges on time deals. Ony6j| cent. Full line powdrdnH equipment. . Power units. Att-cr^] Harvester Combines, hammer SlB Free literature, Green Harwfl & Implement Company, &U Street. Phone 9273, Columbia, 8,Cfl June 28pdtf For Dixie -1 ? First in your xnhtd, perhaps the telephone industry's pri? a cipal contribution to tin I South is quick, dependabls 1 communication. But 'Southern Bell is also I important as a citizen, as so I employer of people, as t payer of taxes, as a pur chaser of materials. In 1939 ;9 alone, operating expenses J amounted to approximate^ | fifty-five million dollars, not I including additional millions I used for new construction. To build, operate and H maintain this system requires more than twenty-one thoo* sand skilled worker* who*. annual payroll is approximately thirty million dollar* 1 These telephone men and 1 women contribute to the host* j ness and social welfare of 1 their communities, and d J the South. They and their families compose a group of "H perhaps eighty thousand peo> pie who are dependent ? I this business for their life 1 As a tax-payer, the Sooth* M ern Bell does much towsfdR the support of the locsl,difi i ! and national government*. Total taxes last year exceeded nine and three-quarters m*" lion dollars, nearly twenty* seven thousand dollars a day. H The Southern Bell Co?- J pany is a Southern industry in the fullest sense and ilsT| activities form a substantial a contribution to the and prosperity of the South- 1 Soother n Beil Telepho?? nno telegraph co/nreM I