The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 12, 1940, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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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
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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."
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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