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The Camden Chronicle U fcx^vi-r - v^ifV * ' * U ' ' " ". * ,v ? ' tS- . V* " *- ' " ' ' i?i?n?ttt-itt i mini mini mini iTiniiwTirpiriwwwnraTiiiiriWTiMiTWiirmTwn'Tinnrri?nritrnrrr^rni?nifi rwwnnirTirnririii 1 VOLUME 53 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNAfFRlDAY, MAY 30, 1041 NUMBER 10. ? ?? i rnrn?mmmmmmMmmmmmm ?? ? . m uj i i mmmmmam i* Business Licenses Show City Growing at a Rapid Pace - . I I ' During the past year the buslnosa rauka in Camden have been augmented by twenty six new concerns, according to figures given out by * the city clerk's office. These figures are taken from the statistica governing the issuance of occupational licenses. Camden Bowling Center, Broad street; Colonial Grill, DeKalb street; T A. Christmas Grocer, Broad street; Schlosburg's Used Car Agency,, Broad street; Mose Sumter corn mill, Broad street, Horace Evans Grocery 8tore. Broad Street, Crosby's Pish Market; Whltaker Drug Store, Broad street; Camden Hardware and Supply Company, Broad Street; John Deare Implement company, "Arthur Lane; Blrdsey'a Flour store, Broad street; H. E. Beard, Jr., Broad street; Pickens Childer's corn mill, Rutledge street; Camden Dairies, Broad str^t; Etchers Department store, Broad street; Cherry Bowl Lunch room, Broad street; Shady Rest Boarding House, Mill street; York street grocery store, York street; Miller Lumber company, York street; Lyndale Nursery, DeKalb street and New Kirk Industries, DeKalb street. Many of the new shops as well as the old ones are featuring the installation of new Neon signs. Recent sign installations are in evidence at the Camden Dairies; the new Seven Seas cafe, the Camden Bowling center, which with many others-Installed by the Camden Hotel, Hotfer Jewelry Btore, Eichel department store make a fine show. In a recent radio address Mayor F. N. McCorkle referred to Camden as the fastest growing city in the midsouth and the recent report of a 22 per cent increase in population since last October, coupled with the new concerns and the 'remodeling of itores and shops would Indicate that the mayor knew whereof he spoke. The fever of modernity has spread to the tonsorial shops. The Sanitary went completely modern several months ago with flourescent lighting, Venetians screens, new stream lined equipment. Now the Byrd shop on Broad street is completing a renovating process which has greatly enlarged the shop, provided for a new front and a complete transformation of the interior with all modern equipment. The Chamber of Commerce reports many inquiries from various parts of the country asking about store rentals and for a list of places available. One Florida Inquirer stated that a traveling salesman informed him that Camden was having a "gold rush". Kershaw Finals Begin Sunday The Kershaw High School commencement will begin Sunday evening June 1, at 8:15 in the high school auditorium. The Rev. W. S. Porter, pastor of the local Presbyterian church, will preach the annual* sermon to ihe^ graduating class at this time. The high school glee club will sing two numbers appropriate to the. occasion. On Monday evening, June 2, at 8:16 in the high school auditorium the final night will feature the awarding of the diplomas to the seniors. On this evening 8helley Horton will deliver the S&latatory. Herbert Gregory, aenior class president, will present the class gift to the school. Louise McLaneiwill make a brief address in keeping with the occasion. The high school glee club will sing. Nannie Williams will deliver the valedictory. The following seniors are candidates for the State High School Diploma: Mildred Catoe, Edna Coats, Sadie Falle, Queen Gardner, Macle Howell, Willye Jones, Dorcas Mackey, Louise McLane, Ludllle Ogbura, Kathryn Pope, Azalea Roberta. Nellie hobertson, Ruby Smith, Iva Lee Williams, Nannie Williams, Kenneth Laker, 01 in Baxley, Elbert Bowers, Lverette Coates, Shelley Horton, S3bert Gregory, Herbert Gregory. Postoffice To Cloao Today Tho Camden postoffice will be ?losed today, Maj 80, this Joeing National Memorial day. The genlral delivery window will be opem 8 a. m. to ? a. ?n. There will o? no rural or city deliveries. Garlic belong* to the ieme plant &rd*r M STSSr. .""T 5 ?: - " ? ?- \k\ Old Kershaw Guard oikes Skipper's Idea The suggestion of the "Skipper" in his "Cruising" column recently that the newly formed home defense guard unit here be designated as the "Kershaw Guard" has met with the approver of J. B. Wallace, of Yazoo City, Miss., who is perhaps the sole surviving member of the old Kershaw Guard unit of the 188(M>0's. In a letter to the Skipper under date of May 23, kir. Wallace writes from Yazoo city as follows: "Dear Mr. Heath: As perhaps the sole surviving member of the Old Kershaw Guard of the 1880-90's, permit me to heartily approve of your suggestion that the newly formed Home Defense organization be designated the "Kershaw Guard" in perpetuation of the title and memory of the faithful old company that served during the troublesome times of SoutJ|i Carolina and Kershaw County's reconstruction from radical and negro supremacy and re-establishment of good native white government. "I was somewhat pained when the company's" title was changed to that of Company M, when the state troops were assembled for duty on the Mexican border in 1916. V "I was a corporal in the Kershaw Guard when the Company took a large part in the ceremonies of unveiling the Confederate monument there. Major Sidney C. Zemp was also a member, end had, before his recent death, a photograph of the company of that period. It was framed and may still be in possession of his family. "I trust the new home organization will adopt your suggestion and with all good wishes for Captain deLoach and the others I am, Sincerely yours, J. B. Wallace". Farr And Sturkie To Address Merchants The Camden Merchants association has arranged with the American Legion auxiliary to use the Legion hall next Monday evening when a 100 per cent membership meeting of the association is to be held. President A. C. McKain has announced that D. K. Sturklie, Jr., executvie manager of the Columbia Merchants association, Inc., and E. F. Farr, known among a wide following of friends as "Bully" Will be guests of the local association. The Camden Merchants association now boasts a membership of sixty and the officers hope to Increase this to 100. All members of the association, as well as the public in general are invited t<f attend the meeting of the association next Monday evening and hear Messrs. Sturkie and Farr. The meeting will be called at 8 o'clock sharp. Use of the Legion hall had to be secured through agreement with the Legion auxiliary as the audltorimum is being used by the auxiliary as a Service club for soldiers. Jurors To Serve At Civil Court Term Jurors were drawn Tuesday to serve for the civil court term to convene Monday, June 9. The Jurors are not to report nnill Tuesday as the first day of'the court will be taken np with the hearing of equity cases. The presiding Judge has not been named. Judge Bellinger is still sick and will be unable" to serve. The Jurors drawn were as follows: R. N. Shannon,, J. T. Rowell, R. A. McDowell, Henry C. Christmas. F. H. Corbett, of Caqgden; C. B. Owens, W. F. Baker, J. T/ Bowers, A. B. Ellis, John Lester Faulkenberry, F. 8. Jones, " Sidney B. Horton, L. C. Threat, B. S. Williams, B. F. Roberts, J. E. Horton, M. G. Fletcher, O. R. Croxton, Carl E. Bennett, B. W. Ellison, N. L. Ray, of Kershaw; H. C. Cat!edge, of Jefferson; D. H. Heath, W. L. Miles, If. H. Hornsby, J. L. Paschal, of Blaney; W. C. Wardlaw, of Liberty Hill; Fred L. Thomas. L H. Roberts, of. Westville; T. J. HJnson, N. D. Williams, Hrnest Gladden, M. C. Klrkland. of Logoff; Ira Lawson Estridge^J^B- Collins, same* ~ " Ti'.. V".' V President Delivers Address of Momentous Significance Washington. May 28.?<4^?The text of President Roosevelt's radio address last night follows; I am speaking tonight from the White House In the presence of the governing board of the Pan American union, the Canadian minister and their families, the members of this board are the > ambassadors and ministers of the American republics in Washington. It is appropriate that I do this. Now, as never before, the unity of ' the American. republics is of supreme Importance to each and every one of us and to the cause of freedom throughout the world. Our future independence Is bound up with the future independence of our slBter republics. The pressing problems that confront ue are military problems. We cannot afford to approach them from the point of view of wishful thinking or sentimentalists. What ^ we face is cold, hard fact. The first and fundamental fact is that what started as a European war has developed, as the Nasi* j always Intended it should develop, into a world war for world doml- ' ~ nation. Adolf Hitler nfcver considered the domination pf Europe as an end in itself. European conquest was but a step tpward ultimate goals in all the other continents. It is unmistakably apparent to alt of us that, unless the advance of Hltlerlsm is forcibly checked now, the Western Hemisphere will be In range of the Nasi weapons of destruction. . For ottr own defense we have accordingly undertaken certain obviously necessary measures: First, we joined in concluding a series of agreements with all the other American republics. This further solidified our hemisphere against the common danger. ' And then, a year ago, we launched, and are successfully carrying out the largest armament production program we have ever undertaken. , We have added substantially to our splendid navy, and we have mustered our manpower to build up a new army which is already worthy1^ the highest traditions of our military service. We instituted a policy of aid for the democracies ? the nations which have fought for the continuation of htman liberties. This policy had Its origin in the first month of the war, when I - urged upon the congress repeal of the arms embargo provisions in* the neutrality law. In that message of September, 1939, I said, "I. should like to be able to offer the hope that the shadow over the world might swiftly pass. I cannot. The facts compel my stating, with candor, that darker periods may lie ahead." In the subsequent months, the shadows deepened and lengthened. And the night spread over Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Fraribe. In June, 1940, BrltAln stood alone, faced by the same machine of terror which had overwhelmed her allies. Our government rushed arms to meet her desperate needs. In September, 1940, an agreement was completed with Great Britain for the trade of 60.destroyers for eight important off-shore bases. In March, 1941,. the congress passed the lend-lease bill and an . appropriation of $7,000,000,000 to implement it.' This law realistically provided for material aid "for the government of any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States." Our whole program of aid for the democracies has been based on hard-headed concern for our own ' security x and for the kind of safe and civilised world in which we wish to live. Every dollar of material we send helps to keep the dictators away from our own hemisphere. Every day that they are held off gives us time to build j mors guns and tanks and planes rfnd ships. We have made no pretense about our own self-interest in this aid. Great Britain understands it ?and so doss Nasi Germany. And now after a year?Britain .still _ fights gallantly, on a "farflung battle line." Wle have dou bled and redoubled our vast production, increasing, month by month, our material supply of tools of war for ourselves and Britain and China?and eventually for all the democracies. The supply of these tools will ' not fail?it will Increase. With greatly augment ed strength, the United States and v the other American republics now chart their course In the situation of today. .'Your government knows what terms-Hitter,, if victorious, would impeee. They are, indeed, the only tenne on which he would accept a so-called "negotiated" peace. * ^ I?--? X*..' , -V -V . ' Under these terms, Germany " would Uterully parcel out the world;?hoisting the Swastika itself over vust territories and populations, and setting up puppet governments of Its own choosing, wholly Muhject to the will and the policy of A conquerer. To the people of the Americas, a triumphant Hitler would say, as ho anld after the seizure of Austria, und after Munich, and after the seizure of Chechoslovakia: "1 am now completely satisfied. This is the last territorial readjustment I will seek." And he would of course add; "All we want Is peace, friendship, and profitable trade relations with you_ In the new I world." And were any of us In the I Americas so Incredibly simple and forgetful as to accept those honey d words, what would then happen? Those in. the new world who were seeking profits would be urging that all that the dictatorships deelrod was "peace." They would oppose toil and taxes for more . American armament. Meanwhile, the dictatorships would be forcing tlfe enslaved peoples of their old wOrld conquests into a system they are even now organising?to build a naval and air force intended to gain and' hold and be master of Ute Atlantic and the Pacific as ifsll. TThey would fasten an eco noroic stranglehold upon our several national. Quislings would be fpvnd to subvert the governments in our republics; and ths Nazis would back their fifth columns With invasion, if necessary. I ani not speculating about all this. I merely repeat what Is already in the Nazi book of world conquest. They plan to treat the Latin-American nations as they are now treating the Balkans. They plan then to strangle the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. The American laborer would hAve to compete with slave labor In the rest of the world. Minimum wages, maximum hours? Nonsense! Wages and hours would be fixed by Hitler. The dignity and power i and standards of living of the American worken and farmer would be gone. Trade unions would become historical relics, and collective bargaining a Joke. Farm Income? What happens to all farm surpluses without any foreign trade? The American farmer would get for his products exactly what Hitler wanted to give. He would face obvious disaster and complete regimentation. Tariff walls?Chinese walls of Isolation?would be futile. Freedom to trade is esesntial to our economic life. We do not eat all the food we' can produce; we do J not burn all the oil we can pump; | we do not use all the goods we I can manufacture. It would not be and American yall to keep Nazi goods out; It would be a Nazi wall to keep us in. The whole fabric of working life as we know it?business, manufacturing, mining, agriculture?-all would be mangled and crippled under such a system. Yet to maintain even that crippled Independence would require permanent conscription of our man-power; it would curtail the funds we could __?pend on education, on housing,^on public works, on flood control, on health. Instead, we should be permanently pouting our resources into armaments; and, year in and year out, standing day and night watch against the destruction of our cities. ? - . _ _ . ^ ; Even our right of worship would be threatened. The Nazi world does not recognise any God except Hitler;" for the Nasls are as ruthlese as the Communists in the denial of God. What place has religion which preaches the dignity of the human being, of the majesty of , the human soul. In a world where moral standards are measured by treachery and bribery and fifth columnists? Will our children, too, wander off, goose-stepping in search of new gods? Ws do not accept, and will not permit, this Nazi "shape of things to come." It will never be forced upon us, If we act in this present crisis with the wisdom and the courage which have distinguished our country in all the criees of the past. The Nazi# have taken military possession of the greater part of Europe. In Africa they have occu pied Tripoli and Libya, and they are threatening Egypt, the Sues CaggL; and the Near" East. But their plans do not stop ther, for the Indian ocean Is the gateway to the Hast, They also have the armed power At any moment to occupy Spain and-Portugal; and that threat ?xnot only to Wench North Africa and the western end of ths <Him turn to page sight) - ?-Jsasiiaft'e- ?-- "i <"? County Board Orders WPA Projects Here Discontinued : ? * i . t -?? 9 City Slickers Enter Team In Ball League By the Skipper A seventh team broke Into the city softball league this week when the application of the Camden city team, captained by Hobby Hell received the official okeh of the recreational bureau. Although the league has already started on tho schedule for the season, based on u six team roster, it will not be a difficult matter to redraw the schedule to include the city team. Captain Hell has ulruudy lined up a powerhouse. The personnel sounds like a page from "Who's >yho In Camden Softball llankB." Old faces to be seen in uction with the city slickers will be: Clarkson Rhame, one of the best softball mound artists to grace a slab In Camden; Bill Nettles, Jake T. Haynes, the hot dog impressario; Jack Halsall, one of the sweetest out garden snag artists this writer has ever seen in action; James Budrlck, a home run king if there ever was one, Jack Marshall . a dependable lad; Herbert Moore, an alert and smart outfielder and also a good batter; Billy Mullen, outstanding high school athlete; Ernest Wooten, a star around the third aacker; Frank Oliyer, good on defense and a fine sticker; Stanley Babln, outstanding first sacker; Carl Lightfoot, fine utility man. ... .... New faces on the team will be Birney B. Dunlap, who was a Btar ball handler in college; Herbert Lewis and Albert Armstrong, who played softball in city' league competition in Atlanta and Charleston respectively. Coffee Shop To Have Fine Home Broad street, already dubbed a "white way" because of the many brilliant Neon sings which grace each side in the up town area is to have its brilliance enhanced by the erection of a fine new cafe on the present site of the M and K coffee shop. The coffee shop, always a popular eating place with local people' and tourists is to be converted into a modern cafe,, with seating aecommo aations for 120 diners. ? ~ The cafe, which will be entirely modern in fixtures and construction will have a frontage on Broad street of 26 feet. There will be 19 booths and six center tables. The kitchen will be one of the finest in the city. A new modernistic front with a! large and novel electric sing will add greatly to the metropolitan appearance of Broad street. The new cafe will continue under the name "M and K Coffee Shop", the owners are Arthur Metrakos and Peter Koumas. The new Seven Jjleas Cafe on DeKalb street, constructed on the former site of the New York cafe, will be ready for business in a short time. The Seven Seas Neon sign now in front of the cafe is one of the largest in Kershaw county, If not In the state. The front pf the Seven Seas is of plate glass set in metal frames and in turn set off in glass brick and black r Double Headers To Feature City League Beginning this evening . the Camden softball league will offer two games each evening at the Laurens street diamond. The revised schedule has been made necessary by the inclusion of a seven team in the roster. The league now Includes the Camden city team, Kendall Mills, Kershaw,'' (Airfield Instructors, Headquarters, U. 8. Engineers, Bethnns platoon, U. 8. Engineers and Pontine platoon, U. 8. Engineers. t> This afternoon the Camden city team takes on the Kershaw team at 6:30 p. m., and at 6:80 the Headquarters team takes on the 2nd platoon of Engineers from Bethune. - The bureau of recreation has Issued a notice to all teams that games will be played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Postponed games Will be played on Tuesday and Thursday providing the Junior American Legion team does not have a home game scheduled. The softball group desires to cooperate fully In the'program of the Legion Junior teem. In the city league games played up to Wednesday night the Kendall ? ??! team has defeated the Headquarters team and the Kershaw team managed to nose eat the Pontlee platoon. - -- - ; ' The Kershaw County Board of Directors on Thursday ordered all W. P. A. projects in this county suspended. Thl0 action is hhUI to be caused by the fact that all funds matching the Federal W. P. A. allotments havo been exhausted and no arrangements was made by the legislative delegation for addltonal funds. The county board hns been seeking for the past six weeks for a solution of this problem and their action yesterday whh the only alternative. The suspension will work a hardship on many workers and those who have been receiving commodities and garments through this agency. It will Involve some Ave to six hundred people employed In the county, but will not affect those from this county employed on the SanteeCooper project. It Is estimated that some 75 to 100 tons of surplus commodities and 1,500 to 2,000 garments are distributed in this county each month. The payroll amounts to from 35 to 40 thousand dollars per month, "the county also has to its credit in Columbia around 924,000 worth of material, such as gasoline, pipe, lumber and other road ,supplies. . The order of suspension will be farreaching?in that it affects W. P. A. roads and bridges, airport project, school lunches, housekeepers aid, library, sewing room, nursery school, W. P. A. offices of administration, cotton distribution for mattresses, which amounts to around 600 bales. It is hoped that some agreement can be reached whereby this work can be resumed at an early date. r " ' 1 No Danger Faces Camden in Drought While the clty<.water plant Is pumping on the average of 600,000 gallons Of water per day and has been maintaining that llgure since the advent of the drought, there Is stUl plenty of water available, according to a report from the pumping station. In fact, even under the present conditions, the water supply is sufficient to take care of a city three times larger than' Camden. The spring fed stream, the source of the Camden water supply was at a normal guage on Wednesday and water plant officials do not anticipate it will go below this standard. It is interesting to note that the springs are adjacent to the pumping . plant and when the water is taken into the plant to be put through toe Altering tanks, it has a temperature of 66 degrees. After passing through the tank the temperature rises about four degrees. After going fnto the mains the temperature is governed more or less by the depth of the main below the street surface. Mayor Wires Chief Executive of Nation Among the telegrams received by President F. D. Roosevelt, expressing approval of hip fireside chat utterances of Wednesday night was one from Mayor F. N. McCorkle of this dtyr who -bespoke the appreciation and admiration of the cltlsens of Camden. Mayor McCorkle, together with the Camden Chamber of Commerce also sent wires to Mayor F. B. Creech of Sumter, congratulating the mayor and the citisens of Sumter upon the acduieltion of the new flyin* base. Fire Department Makes Three Runs The Are department was called to the Burnet home on Pair street early last Friday morning to extinguish a lire which had started in the* kitchen of the dwelling. Fire Chief .Denton said the origin of the tire was defective wiring. An electric Ice box at the home of W. R. Zemp on Laurens street caught fire Friday, necessitating a call to the fire department. Saturday the department was , called to extinguish a blase which had started In an auto at i(he corner of Lyttleton and DeKalb streets. Banks Close Tuesday In celebration of Jefferson Davis* birthday Tuesday, June 3, the two banks of this city will be closed. All . patrons are asked to remember this so no one will be inconvenienced by the holiday. . 1 Every fourth married woman In ? Copenhagen, Denmark, is self-supporting, according to government: 7^ figures. ^ sr ; ..y,.