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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
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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
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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*
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#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
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-1. That an election be held in the
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. Or you may find this also
helps saas your periodic discomfort:
Take CARDUI a few days befotf ^
and during "the timer1* 60 years si
use and popularity invite your
confidence in CARDUI*
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CITY REGISTRATION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
books of Registration for the City of
Camden, South Carolina, will be open
in the Office of the City Clerk of the
City of Camden, South Carolina, for
the registration of the names of the
qualified electors therein on Wednesday,
the 27th day of November, 1940,
and will remain open from 9 A. M.
to 1:30 P. M. and from 3 P. M. to 4
P. M. each day except Sundays, until
Friday the 6th day of December, 1940,
inclusive. t
LOUISE W. BOYKjN,
Supervisor of Registration for the
, " City of Camden, S. C.
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Coughs 3
from common corns
That Hang On
Creomulsion relieves promptly because
it gctoLrfsfrt to the seat of the
trouble to heft> loosen and ezpu germ
laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe
and heal raw, tender inflamed bronchial
CreomSstwu with
Before you buy that ?
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CHILLS ?11 FE??B
The bite of a malaria infected
njosouito, that takes hold in the
Wood, starts to kill otxt the Md
blood cells you need for health.
You often may start to feel tired*
rundown, depressed, lack normal
P?P. have no appetite, can't sleep,
end have nanlng aches and pains.
Then when cnllls and fever appear
you are Hat in bed.
If you have the most common
w of malaria we have in the
Sooth, try Oxidine, famous for over
80 year? as a doctor's prescription.
Oxidine is a tonic. Oxidine contains
iron. Oxidine gently helps keep the
system hefllthfuIJyopen, and Oxidine
la made specifically to attack common
malaria infection in the blood.
Use Oxidine for ? days. If not
delightfully, entirely, satisfied, your
druggist will return your money.
Priding only 60c. Ask for it today.
pnif Store, Bothuno, S. C. DoKalb pharmacy, Comdon, 8. C. I
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Charlotte 1.10
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Raleigh ... 2.40
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