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VOLUME 53 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNAfFRlDAY, MAY 30, 1041 NUMBER 10.
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Business Licenses Show City
Growing at a Rapid Pace
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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
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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County Board Orders WPA
Projects Here Discontinued
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every fourth married woman In ?
Copenhagen, Denmark, is self-supporting,
according to government: 7^
figures. ^
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