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He cannot read it Wt Somt 4?V .vow W,iII *wk* ?t daY f** l"m you. son, i ? bequeath a natioh I XV ft? ^r0n1 scourge \~ <j^ *ioiV??M.\o5is. ^ ? Iristmas Seal Window Attracts , Christmas Seal window on dis?t the Fashion Shop duting last represented the oombined effort irge group of volunteer workers. McOrew and hid hoys made the work; then Mr. MoGafew and tachel O'DanleJ, home economics ir at the Camden High School rlsed the young women at the Center as they placed on the one of the Christmas Seal billposters, featuring Felix Marpainting of a trio of happy m singing carols.Jo Blackwell, Mrs. George ski and Sam Karesh all took a at helping Mrs. F. P. Goodale re. J. L. Wllllford arrange the girls at the NYA Center work the direction of Mrs. Hugh lum, who with the assistance of rls, has done many outstanding Jobs for the Kershaw County Tuberculosis Association, always . coming through with something well worth while, when called upon. The doublebarred cross flags used as table decoration at the association's luncheon on September 21, were made by Mrs. McCallum and the girls. Then, too, these young women have offered their services to rural Seal Sale Chairmen for the personal solicitation campaign in rural territory. At Raley's Mill five NYA girls, working with J. B. Davis, will have charge of fund raising in the Raley's Mill precinct. One of the NYA girls became so interested as a result of what she was doing to help in the Christmas Seal sale that she, herself, purchased twenty-flve cents worth of Christmas Seals. Just suppose that each registered voter, not to mention adults who failed to register, should buy a quarters worth of Christmas Seals, the association would raise $2,000.00, dollars or $400.00 above their" goal of $1,600.00! NOTICE OF TAX LEVY The books for th'> collection of State, County and School Taxes for the fiscal year commencing January I, 1940, will he open from September [5 to to December 31, 1940, inclusive ivithout penalty. When making inluiries regarding taxes, be sure to Hate the school district number in rhlch you live or own property. DeKalb Township Mills School District No. 1 ... 44ft ichooi District No. 2 39 Ichooi District No. 4 ..;. :.~...38 ichooi District No. 6 r.......... .40 School District No. 2iv * 25 icbool District No. 43 .y;tv. .25 ~" Buffalo Township icbool District No. 3 43 f. School District No. 6 25 School District No. 7 .7". 27 ichooi District No. 15 ....26 ichooi District No.. 20 33 School District No. 22 ....44 ichooi. District No. 23 33 ichooi District No, 27 ...38 ichooi District No. 28 27 chool District No. 31 35 chool District No. 40 48 (chool District No. 42 25 Flat Rock Township School District No. 8 38 School District No. 9 88 School District No. 10 24 School District No. 13 28 School District No. 19 32 School District No. 80 2? School District No. 33 38 School District No. 37 ........88 School District No. 41 38 1 School District No. 46 .29 i School District No. 47 '.25 Wateree Township School District No. 11 ...28 i School District No. 12 43 Wool District No. 16 .26 School District No. 29 .35 i Wool District No! 38 25 Wool District No. 89 33 . \ C. J, OUTLAW, Treasurer, ^ Kershaw County, fl. C. 1 --- ?.. J Senator Kenneth D." McKellar (D* Tenn), apoaklng In Nashville, said the ^ed states is safe fratn aggression of the fear that our defenss ( ^t*ram and reputation as fighters , Aspired in dictators. "Bitlor and Germany have not forgotten that ^riau soldiers rdore than 23 yeSrS 1 whipped them and whipped tb&n i Sell." - - -v ' ANNUAL MEETING OF LYNCHE8 RIVER COOPERATIVE The annual meeting of the members of Lynches River Electric Cooperative will be held In the Town Hall at Pageland, S. C., Monday, November 25, at 7:30 P. M., at which time a financial statement and detailed report of operation for the past year will be given. A Board of Directors for next year will be elected. Mr. Walter S. Cauthen, the Project Superintendent, la anxious for all members to attend this meeting. This is your cooperative", Mr. Cauthen has told the members, "And you owe It to yourself, the officers and the office personnel, to attend, and at the same time, meet other members of the Cooperative. ,. i The superintendent continues that they are striving to improve servioe and adds, "We will welcome any suggestion at this meeting that will assist us in doing this." Recently, a portion of the State Authority lines, located between Heath Springs and Liberty Hill, was transferred to the Lynches River Electric Cooperative by an act of the State Legislature, and at this meeting, November 25. will be accepted by vote of the members of the Cooperative. This enterprise Is one of the largest businesses in this section of tho state and when all lines are completed, will serve over fifteen hundred consumers In the rural sections of Lancaster, Kershaw, and Chesterfield counties. "For this reason," Mr. .Osuthen concludes, "Every member should "be proud to belong to it and should make a Special effort to attend the Annual meetings in Pageland on the tweatyfifth* ^ #AN ORDINANCE To Provide for an Election for an alderman for Ward 4 and Ward 6 of the City of Camden, South Carolina. Be It ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Camden, State of South Carolina, in Council assembled and by authority of the same. * - ? -1. That an election be held in the ? r City of Camden, South Carolina, on Tuesday the 17th day of December, 1940,, for the< flection of two alder! men, one alderman from Ward 4 and one alderman from Ward 6, That the polls be opened at 8:00 o'clock A. M. and closed at 4:00 o'clock P. M. Voting places to be as follows: > Ward 4?At Jno. T, Nettles residence. * . Ward 6?At Mrs. C. M. Hough's residence. That the following are appointed as managers for said election: Ward 4?Mrs. Dan Jones, Mrs. H. O. Wilson, C. IH. Yates. Ward 6?.Mrs. T. C. Gladden, Mrs. C. M. Hough. 2. That due notice of Registration be given by the Supervisor of Registration for the proper registration of all the Qualified electors of the City of Camden, South Carolina, in accordance with the statutes of the State of South Carolina. 3. That due notice of election be given as required by the Statute laws of the State. Ratified In Council assembled this 26th day of November, 1940. F.j*. McOORKLE, Mayor of the City of Camden, S. C. Attest: mrs. Louise w. boykin, . citrClerk. 36-38 sb ^ I 3 IconsftEj/man gEBgagBBE ? Washington, D. C., November 22? ! Many people are asking why Congress | ha? not adjourned or why the Uuinoera tic I .leadership's adjournment re so* lutlon wan defeated last Tuesday, November 19. The question 1? a national one lu view of the history of efforta to' adjourn this yoar. Congress really completed Its general program some weeks before the General Kloction. The solid Republican bloc, however, wus concocting a campaign Issue that the President wanted to get us Into war and that If Congress adjourned he would put us In. These Republicans agreed, as one, to fight any adjournment resolution; so, two' or three weeks before the election the leadership of both parties agreed to inaugurate a system of continuing three-day recesses. Neither the House nor the Senate can adjourn or recOas for longer than throe days without the consent of the other body. So, Congroas nominally stayed In session, when as a matter of fact there were only a handful of Members on hand. No work was done. After the election Speaker Rayburn and Democratic Deader McCormaek decided to plaoe the adjournment Issue up to the House. Notice was sent to all absent Members that a vote would be taken on the question on November 19th. Many members heeded the call and many did not. The Resolution was defeated because, first the Republicans voted solidly against; second, niany Members did not return to vote at all; third, fortyfour Democrats voted with the Republicans because they had made campaign commitments against adjournment. Practically all Members are making plans to leave for home, knowing that Congrese will transact no more business before the 1941 Session, beginning January 3rd. The ones who voted against adjournment were the first to leave town. So, this Congress will-- run smack into the next. It Is rather amusing to hear Members say "If Congress does not stay In Session the President will get us in war." As a matter of fact any President, under our Constitution, can do things to involve us In war overnight, whether Congress is in session or not. No president of this country would, I believe, willfully do that. While only Congress can declare war, the President, as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, can order our Navy and Army anywhere under the sun, and such action would bring war against us in many warlike spots today. Action by Congress then could follow only one course. The President of the United States has great power. The recent election proved that a 'biajarlty of the people of our country believed the present President will not abuse It. This will be my last weekly newsletter to my constituents during 1940 as there will be little Congressional news until 1941. I shall take up then where I left off. I COMMENTS ON MEN, AND THINGS (By Spectator) 1 # We South Carolinians ate under tho spell of a few who talk In terms of humanita danism, prouresflveneae ami such high-sounding and soul-moving {terms; and so glibly la this talk delivered to us that many men who are sane and sound in their own affairs are carried away* by the confident assumption of superior wisdom and patriotism of Hitygg who TalKT Let us think of a merchant whoso gross sales during the year are a hundred thousand dollars. He would not bo a merchant prince, but he WiUlfl have a very substantial stake in tho state. He may earn twenty per conl gross on his sales. That would upt make him a millionaire, but it is rather a fair yield. My point here, however, is not whether tweuty per cent gross is tho average profit on salea, but I wish to emphaslxo a probable limit to the amount of the profits. The merchant would have at his disposal $20,000 a year for himself and all ids expenses, from freight and taxes to clerk hire, rent, losses, and everything else. Alt must come from a possible earning of $20,000, assuming that conditions are favorable. If. however, during tho year, say In tho second or third month of his business year he were threatened with.a los3 of one seventh of his sales?what would he do? Would he continue to spend twenty per cent of $100,000? Would he begin to talk himself Into a sort of hypnotic spell, as though he could dream away the stern reality of figures and facts? That Is what our state ha sdone?and Is doing. When the Legislature directed the diversion of $2,000,000 of Highway revenue, It was regarded as a mere political ruse of no effect; that was the opinion of men who knew that many a vote was registered for the diversion by legislators who were sure that It would not stand against a challenge in court. This was so commonly known that one wonders that anyone In responsible position could be misled. But whether a serious proposal or not; whether soundly conceived or not, it must have been obvious to the most trustful person that recourse would be had to the courts and that every resource of the law would be invoked to prevent the use of highway revenue for general appropriations. We respect and admire idealists but in politics I one must be alert to realities and to the extraordinary practicality^?those who want to do things, as well as those who don't. In order to understand men we must be prepared to see hard-headed men I who are successful In their own business turn out to bo most unpractical and visionary in other walks of life. Our State, with a certainty of a law suit, yet went ahead spending all the budget. What is worse, it is still spending as though nothing had happened. We should have seen the, probabl? failure to get two million dollars of road money; and we should I certainly do something about It now.. But we are slowly, steadily and surely heading for a two million dollar deficit which could have been avoided; and which could now bo avoided. Bob Connor, the refreshing philosopher from Bowman, who though a man of reflection, is one of our very practical men of affairs said in a meeting in Columbia that we ought to build a fence around our State to Keep people out until we have corrected some of our bad practices and changed some of our bad laws. I wonder what Mr. Connor would say If we could invited new business to invest in our Stale assuring It that we had I "no sales tax, no income tax, no [bonded debt, no other extra taxes; and, as to labor; intelligent, cooperative, true partners of business?alert, skilled and interested; 90 per cent of population is native born." That Is an advertisement run In some national magasines by one of the States. I note the conclusion of the advertisement:. "All these factors combine to, make X an Ideal location for those who are Interested In the problem of where best to locate Industry for defend*". Suppose we could say something like that for our State! If fifty great war plants could be brought here they would pay as much in taxes as we now receive. Of course H would provoke a titanic struggle to keep our public budget within even the new totals, but some day we may produce a group of super-men and reduce the budget. Or we may go on blindly and Imprudently as we are now doing until the Primary of 1942 brings In another Economy legislature like that of 1933 and make another fifty per cent reduction In one year. I- We know that a cut of 60 per cent wpuld cripple many useful and even Indispensable services, while allowing some others to drain the publio troaeury more or less uselessly as they do nowr At least one, perhaps two, public services should 'be totally removed from the budget; some are operating now In a manner both economical and efficient;-while others should- have their wings clipped. Our greatest need is for more revenue producers; we need new payrblls for our people and new taxpay? era to help carry the publio burden. We all know that our State would reap no substantial benefit from war . Industries which will fold up and die when this war threat is over. Idle factories and rusting machinery are ; a sad and demoralizing picture; and, worse yet, they mean thousands of idle people. But If we can bring In industries of permanent character, or which will be converted and adapted to the uses of peace, after the fitful fever of war they would be real factors of constructive rehabilitation. Uncle Sam has been called a Shylock?and other names, too; but the dignified gentleman with the goatee is no piker. I have before me the figures showing the appropriations made by Congress and they indicate that the nine billion" dollars,?or Is itj eleven billion?due us from the first World War, is Just like small change, for already this Congress has authorized $25,600,000,000. Most of us have a wholesome respect for a hundred dollars and we stand somowhat in awe of a thousand. Beyond a thousand the common run of us are like the story of the linotype operator on a small paper out west. He set a statement that a certain citizen had been employed at a salary of |26,000 a year instead of $2,500. The manager of the paper, In apologizing, said that all amounts above $25.00 a week were the same to the operator. So I wonder at the stupendous figures in the national appropriations. Do our Congressmen understand these figures? Most of those gentlemen, like ourselves * here at home, have never taken part in great transactions; so all of us must be equally intoxicated by the figures. Here they are: "For the first time since the "total defense" program was launched last June, there are now available official figures, from the Chairman of the House Appropriations . Committee, covering appropriations, authorizations and futqre spending commitments by the third session of the seventy-sixth Congress, which assembled in .January, 1940. The total for national defense (exclusive of all civil functions of the Federal Government) Is given as $17,696,227,930. This figure Includes $4,600,000,000 for the two-ocean navy. To the defense total must be added the civil departmental appropriations, Including national debt service, relief and trust fund operatlns. The total of these items was $7,900,000,000? making total appropriations and authorisations 'for the session $25,600,000,000. Some of the major items other than national defense: t Agriculture, $918,000,000; Independent Offioes, $1,100,000,000; Social Security, $857,000,000; Postal Service, $814,000,0001 Federael Relief. $1,100,000,000; Interest on public debt, $1,100,000,000; trust funds $2,100,000,000. Regular army personnel has been ln-~ icreased from 227,000 tb 375,000; National Guard from 210.000 to 346,00; Navy from 145,000 to 170,000; Marine Corps from 25,000 to 34,000; Army Reserve Officer# on active duty from 3,500 to 55,500"; Naval Reserve Officers on active duty from &53 to 3,269, plus 6,000 reserve midshipmen. In addlton, the selectlves service program provides for a year's training for 700,000 drafted men, beginning within the current fiscal year. In material and equipment, the program contemplates all essential items for 1,400,000 m#n in the military service; reserve stocks and supplies for a force of 2,000,000 men; construction of 292 new combat naval vessels and 67 auxiliary ships for a two-ocean navy; 25,000 airplanes for the Army and 10,000 kor the Navy; plus addition[al housing facilities, cantonments, navul bases and air fields to accommodate these enlarged military forces. Completion and maintenance of this vast program over the next five years, according to budget officials, will involve minimum military appropriations of $6,000,000,000 a year. This Item on top of the civil budget of $7,000,000,000 indicates that Federal expenditures will run at more than a billion dollars a month through 1946?unless some current civil Items are diverted to the military program." Doesn't it seem clear that if this enormous sum is authorized by one Congress with a perfectly certain outI look for other billion#, we Q should strike from our national budget every fad and fancy , boondoggle or bondoogle, that today Consumes tax money ? If we prepare for war, let's prepare for war; but don't maintain pampered pet# and frills and foibles with money that is needed for guns and airplanes. "Build-Up" for Women Help* Avoid Distress Do you suffer periodically from headaches, nervousness, irritability, cramp-like pain? If so, here's good news! These may be symptoms of functional dysmenorrhea due to malnutrition, often helped by CARDUL CARDUI usually increases appetite and the flow of gastric juice; so. aids digestion and helps build up strength, energy, physical resistance. Result for many is less periodic distress. 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