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HOT Oil IKE KYI ^rTHE SKIPPER. lla?a ye driven over the newly P^l struct* -yet? Over aud hHlf miles of smooth-surfaced highways added to Camden's paved street system. And what a fine Job. Wish that my own avenue, namely Hampton IflUtt Pr?*d 10 MtttotflB street had received the same kind of a job. * Well, that paving program is but another of the many fine things the present administration has done for Camden. We subscribe 100 per cent to the editorial comment in last weeks Chronicle anent the administrative processes of the past several years. What. Oh, What, will Camden do to take care of the anticipated demand for houses and apartments the coming fall and winter when right now, there isn't a place available in the city. What a fine thing it woud be if the owners of some of the old fashioned dwellings in the city would remodel and modernize them. It is true there are vacant dwellings in Camdeu and as long as they continue in the present out-moded and out of date condition, they will always be vacant. m Well, don't say we did not warn you. Ca mden ja?. the We time lo really build up, but bow are we going to do it when we have 110 places to offer new residents la.lire la. ?? - -t J It's a dad-busted shame that some of the gazaboos with money to spare do not put up homes or apartments as a civic gesture. By the way speaking of new com- j #rs in the city, we wish to give spectat mention and a very cordial welcome to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Newcom* ier, who have taken up residence on Lyttleton street. For' a fact, the Newcomers are new comerB. * ? ? The intention of the city to paint ;he electric light standards in dark jreen rather than aluminum is but mother step toward up-to-datenefts. i 5Ve noted on our trip north this sumner that the aluminum colored stanJards are a thing of the past. * And we also noted that street aarkings are in the lemon yellow hat Camden started to use until compiled to change by the state highway lepartment, as white is the color idopt"d by the state office. The yellow has good body and lasts almost six months without having to be done aver. The white used here is not lasting. , * ? ? Now for a few words on baseball. Spartanburg won the state legion title defeating a weak Sumter team In three straight games. The playing of both the Spartanburg and Sumter teams lacked state title polish. In fact, it was, to use a slang expression, lousy. ? To our way of thinking the Legion baseball program in South Carolina *as just as uninteresting and un?.P9r.. ui-iniikd tble -eeeeen?Mr-to past" years. The appeal of Chairman Carl West for sportsmanship failed completely. We wonder why a state chairman Is named if his findings in disputed cases are to be flouted. If the Legion baseball program Is to succeed, there should be a complete face about on the part of all concerned. By the way, have you made your date for tonight. Remember, it's the all-star game at Zemp stadium, the first football event of the 1941 season in the nation. The proceeds of this game go td the football camp fund. We hope that every football fan in Camden and Kershaw.county who has the welfare of the gridiron future of the Camden Bulldogs in mind, will make It a point to cough up for<this classic. * Dropped in on the aviation base at Woodward field last Thursday afternoon and chinned with some of the English sailors who were over to visit their British cousins on the flying detachment. Fine bunch of lads and it did my heart /gbod to see sailors and flyers from merrie old England walking about, their faces all lit UP with happiness. Some of the sailors Knew ioms of the flyer* back in the home land and believe me, the reunions were tear-jerking. * -/r I ~ Observing the alley hack ' of the Crocker building and wondering how long before it will be impassable, what with the debris and Junk that litters it at the present time. Which makes us wonder why not a community clean up week. ' Hearing from jthe Clarkes up on the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin and noting that the weather up there is cool and bracing and that the good rector and his son Mike are getting in some interesting golfing action. Lucky folks, that's all I can say. Chatting with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. McKain Just as the? pulled in from a ten day visit in Florida. And admiring the wire-haired terrier that Cliff and Selma annexed down in Orlando. Finding that a combination of ginger ale, grape Juice and a dash of lemon^ dumped into a pitcher of ice water, to which ice cubes are added makes about the swelleBt drink we have partaken of during the hot weather. ' Giving three cheers and a banza when told that Hoot Mon Donald is on the road to recovery. The Italian press has gone haywire in paying tribute to Bruno Mussolini, son of the dictator, who met his death when a plane he was testing, crashed. "Glorious death at the post of duty" as the Facists say. Rats?any one who would fit Bruno Into a setting of any sort of glory, either in life or death, must have a depraved mind. Bruno, the killer, died as he lived, without glory, with guns and weapons of cruelly mid death Big pisytninga. The killer Is no more worthy of the name of hero than the beast of the forest who has filled his greedy maw witb the blood and flesh of Innocent lambs. Speaking o\ the far east situation has it over occurred to any of you folks that if it Were not for the sale by this nation of oil, gas, jron, steel, machines, tools, copper, autos and planes there would be no war scare involving Japan. , The politicians ip Washington declare we mast save China. On the other hand our business men have 6oYS"6ne~Hnd a half billion dollars worth of ^a^ir materials and finished products necessary for war to Japan since the Jap* invaded China. ^ ?>\ Flash?Mil?? Clarke travels Riverview course i^ear Sheboygan with a neat 39. Loo>t out you Camden golfers?the minister's son looms up rather dangerous. w m w m Excitement:?Colored girl does a broaie on the sidewalk in front of our office. Twenty men gather around, rntr -r their schnozzles and scratch their heads as they eye the recumbent girl. Norse from the county office bustles up and goes about the business of reviving the girl with a skill that was refreshingly effective. v" V- ' i l; There are approximately^ 100' annjr States. P ^ -?X HKC >?B< 3MC >W< yUKX ?H*X ^SKK ?OK >3K< 29BG96c >a^ I To Our Patrogns: | I Saturday, the 16th of August, | | being the last day for discount, | | the Water and Light office will s ibe open from 9 a. m. to .4 p. m. I and from 2 p. m. to 5. p. m. ? | ^ P Camden, S. C. I LEMOCO PRODUCTS \^7 Camdan IhrdwiM^ y.-'itk Supply Coii>|ii?y Concentration Points Aluminum Named . > Cltmson. Aug. It. The three aluminum collection concentration point* of Spartanburg. Columbia, and Charleston *will be ready to receive aluminum from the different counties as scheduled, and couuty chairmen of the collection campaign are asked to have their aluminum forwarded to the concentration t>oint most convenient for delivery,, says Extension Director L). W. {Watklna. state chairman of the Aluminum Collection Campaign. "It will be necoBsary for us to know which of the three concentration points Is to receive delivery from each county", Director Watk'ne states, "and 1 am aBking the active working committees to advise me as state chairman when and where they deliver aluminum and how inauy pounds are delivered! also that they get receipts for all delivery made." Places of delivery ami persons In charge of receiving aluminum at the three concentration points are: Spartanburg: lot at rear, of main I flre station on Broad Street. Contact I the city Purchasing Agent at City | Hall nearby. * I ' Columbia: the 2000 block of Blanding Street. Contact City Euglneer ; W. S. Tomllnson, City Hall. 1 Charleston: the Politle Station, Vandertiorst and St. Phillips Street. Contact Major Henry F. Church, Office of Port Development, 92 East Bay Street, or hlB representative at the Police Department. | "In many cases", says Director J Watkins, "local county chairmen are arranging io have the assembled I aluminum laid out on hard pavement and rolled flat with a road machine. This may be of value in compressing the load for transportation to the concentration point and may develop considerable Interest In connection with the program." 57-YEAR-OLD SENATOR TO WED 20-YEAR-OLD HEIRESS Washington, Aug.11?Senator Robert E. fieynolds of North Carolina, w&ose red'bait shows^no gray at &7, disclosed plans today to take 20-yearold Evalyn W. McLean as fifth wife. Miss MVLean, a tall, willowy blonde, is the daughter of-Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the celebrated Hope Diamond, and the late Edward B. McLean, former Washington newspaper publisher who died in a Maryland sanitarium last month. She is a close friend- of one of the senator's two daughters. . "I consider myself a very fortunate man", Reynolds said, as he confirmed reports of the forthcoming marriage. The bride-to-be was reported to be In 8tockbridge, Mass. As chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Reynolds plans to go to Iceland late this week for a visit of three or four weeks. He said the wedding would take_pUce_soon after~hlfl return. Asked To Clean Cemetery All those who have loved ones buried at Shiloh churchyard and cemetery In the Gates Ford community are asked-to meet at the ohurch, Tuesday, August 19 In the morning and clean up their plots. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS (liy Spectator \ $ . ^7 Any farmer witthiug to profit through a sli|o crop might think of the unusual opportunity to market peanuts which may be enjoyed next year. Today wo have three candidates in the tteld during a short cam paign; but next summer there will ho a campaign not ouly for the United States senate, but for representatives in congress, for the governorship of the state and other state elective officials, for representatives in the state legislature and half the state senate. It might be a propitious time to suggest to our friouda of the "Triple A" that, suitable bonutlts be allowed for peanut crop. There are men among us who are never so happy uu when delving in figures?our frieud, James M. Smith, the State Auditor, for example. 1 have run into another gentleman who delights in interpreting figures?Mr. W. Iloyden Watkius, Chief Examiner of the State Board of Bank Control. We are all familiar with the type of businessman who thnlks with a pom cil, whose mind will not work unless ho is making figures. Just hb some men may rejoice in a delicately attuned hit of poetry, or the supreme masterpiece of an Illustrious composer; so there be brethren among us whose souls are aflame with the joy of numbers. One such has made a study of our counties, our friend, Watkins, and from his devoted labors I cull some facts of interest. Let us look at a fow counties at rftndom: AbbevlUe, Allendale, Anderson, Bamberg, Chesterfield, Darlington, Florence, Greenville, Horry, Marlboro, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland and York. Here we have small counties and large counties; counties of the low country and counties of the Piedmont; counties of the Pee Dee and counties of the center. Some of the counties have lost population between 1920 and 1940, as example, Abbeville which had 27,139 In 1920 and 22,931 in 1940. The assessed Valuation of all property like wise decroused from f3,867,000 to $8,692,000, but the tax rate seems to have climbed, for it rose from $24 on every < thousand dollars of value in 1937 to $36 per thousand in 1939. It had outstanding in unpaid taxes $132,971. The ratio of debt to Assessed Value is 9.4 per cent. The ratio of Interest requirements to total receipts is 21 per cent. Here is something which we find in many counties and which the public ahot^d reckon with: The High Cost of Debts. We see In Abbeville that 21 per cent of the total receipts must be devoted to the payment of Interest charges on the public debts. We turn from Abbeville In the upcountry to Allendale In the lowcountry. Allendale lost in population between 1920 and 1940. The assessed valuation of property fell off about fBOGtffid. The delinquent Taxes amounted to $140,700 and the ratio of net debt to Assessed value was 12.9 per cent, with the ratio of Interest requirements to total receipts 15 per cent. Now let us take Anderson County, which Is a great agricultural and industrial county: It's population Increased from 1920 to 1940 and its property valuation increased slightly. Its tax rate remained about the same In 1937, 1938, 1939. Its delinquent taxes totalled $79,898. The ratio of net debt to assessed value was 6.7 per cent and its ratio of interest requirements total receipts was 7 per cent In 1939. * All these figures are through 1939, in matters of dollars and cents. Speaking of the heavy cost of debt, the good county qf Suinter payd 23 per cent of Its total receipts for interest on the public debt. Richland county pays 7 per cent of Its recipts for Interest; Orangeburg County . 16 per cent; Newberry/ County 19 per cent; McCormick County 20 per cent; Marlboro County 20 per cent; Marion County 3 per cent; Lexington County, 1 per cent;. Laurens 11 per cent; Lancaster 19 per cent; Kershaw 6 per cent jasper 9 per cent; fciorry 8 per cent; Hqmpton 10 per cent; Greenwood 12 per cent; Greenville 12 per cent; Georgetown 10 per cent; Florence 11 per cent; Fairfield 10 per cent; Edgefield 14 per cent; Dorchester 19 per cent; Dillon 7 per cent; Darlington 5.6 per cent; Colleton 23 per cent; Clarendon 10 per cent; Chesterfield 22 per .cent; Chester 18 per cent; Cherokee 7 per cent; Calhoun 4.5 per cent; Beaufort 17 per cent;'. Barnwell 11 per cent; Bamberg 0 per cent; Anderson 7 per cent; Aiken 5 per cent. Just think of a man obligated to pay 20 per cent of his income as interest on debts! Would you call that sound financing? Would It be sound, even If he paid 20 per cent of his income on the principal of the debt? But. to let Interest charges devour oneV Income like Thai would not impress any one as sound business. I must, of course. wHct the source of my Information, Bankers may be poor politicians end guess wildjr about political trends; but when It comes to figures, they hit the null on the head, and of all figures a hanker excolls In the calculation of interest! You know t lie uncanny habit bankers have or proving everything by dollars and cents. You may think your hank balance is wrong and! go down to the bank with blood in your eye. But the bookkeeper will pull out two or three checks thqi you'1 gave over the counter, or in expatisive' momenta, and leave you dangling In ' the air. " I When I read these figures I thought I might traoo certain nationalistic' tendencies. The sturdy Scotch of Marion hold down their debt to 2 per cent of assessed valuation, with interest requirements of 3 per cent of the county's income. The unpaid taxes don't amount to much; the population has steadily grown; the assessed valuation has remained about i the same, but the tax rato has fallen from $18.BO per thousand dollars of assessed valuation to $10. Just offhand, Marlon Justifies the tribute of being Scotch. I was about to say that Lexington, with only 1 per cent of its revenue for interest, was an example of Dutch thrift and management, but Orangeburg and Newberry are Dutch, too, ancl the Orangeburgors have to pay 16 per cent of their revenue for Interest and the Newberry citizens pay 19 per cent. Calhoun is Dutch and and backs up Loxington by paying only 4.6 per cent of Its receipts for Inter-1 est. Calhoun saves the day for the' cause by owing virtually nothing In back taxos. One must yiold the pulm j to little llamherg which -owed noth-j lag, though it carries some unpaid taxes. Is there a wee bit of Scandinavian influence in Bamberg? Before the voracious maw of Hitler gobbled' them, the Scandinavians were among the best governed nations of the world. Over In the Welsh neck, land of the thrifty Welsh, Darlington paid 6.6 per cent of her income for interest on debt, while the ratio of debt to assessed valuation was 6.6 per cent In spite of $185,697 of delinquent taxes. There is no Justice i.u blaming our representatives for bad conditions, !'ten these conditions are due to pub-j services demanded by a very vocal j d persistent group ot citizens. Those < 10 favor sound business in county d state affairs must learn to be as i:al as the plungers. Those are all d, unemotional figures, I know; but er what the weatherman has done us in recent weeks we can stand nothing cold and dry, ^ Jreat business enterprlBees are ping heavily of their earnings to j Government. As we have noted tore frequently a much greater vole of output results in much less ct profit, because of higher wages I taxes. Republic steel, for exple reports a decline in net inae due to higher taxes. The Ited States Steel Corporation proed 5,101,606 tons of finished steel lng the second quarter of this XT" operating at 102.4 per cent of theoretical capacity. This was 8 cent above the production of the t quarter. Taxes for the second rter, not including Income and ass profits, were $20,168,300 for the >nd quarter, against $10,803,400 for first quarter. Three per cent e production virtuallly doubled taxes in some items and trebled, n in others. Incomes and Excess I [Its taxes for the second quarter 0 $32,800,000, against $11,800,000 the first quarter. Total provision taxes for the second quarter was 500.000, compared with $27,600,000 the first quarter, large motor manufacturer res sales of $700,000,000 for the nd quarter, or $60,000,000 more for the first quarter. Its tax bill $93,000,000 for the second quaragainst 75 1-2 millions for the quarter. $60,000,000 more of aess added $17,600,000 to the r the week ending July 26, railfreight loadings were 897,399 25 per cent above the same per>f last year. NOTICE In Ho: Docket No. 1931?The application of Checker Transportation ami Storage Company, Inc. for a modfled Class 1) Certificate or Public CiA\vonlenco and Necessity to render a limted oommon carrier motor freight service in the unloading of pool cars at Columbia, South Carolina, and the distributing of the contents thereof to points and places In the following counties lie South Carolina: Aiken, Allendale, llatuherg, llurn* well, Calhoun. Cheater, Clarendon, Darlington, Edgefield. Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown. Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Lexington, Marion, Newberry, .. Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, Sumter, and Williamsburg., under continuing by-laterals contructa to bo entered into with the applicant's shippers, . The Commission will hold a public hearing in tho above entitled matter Ip Its .offices In tho Wade Hampton State Office lhiilding at 10:00 o'clock In the forenoon, Thursday, September 4. 1941, for the purpose of determining the requirements of publio convenience and necessity in tho premises. W. W. GOODMAN, Director Motor Transport Division. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on September 6, 1941, I will mako to tho Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator, de bonis non of the estate of M. L. Smith, deceased, and on tho same date I will apply to tho said Court for a final discharge as said Administrator, de bonis non. WILLIAM W. BATES, Administrator, d. b. n. Camden. S. C., August 6th, 1941. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on September 13, 1941, wo will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County our final return as Executors ot the estate of John B. Onskln, deceased, and on the same dute we wJJi apply to tho moid Court Tot a final discharge as said Executors. THOMAS P. GASKIN, GROVER C. OASKIN, , Executors. Camden, S. C.. August 13, 1941. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that one month from this date, on September 8, 1941, we will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County our final return as Administrator of the estate of W. R. Clyburn, deceased, and on the same date we will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administrators, ? a LEWIS L. CLYBURN. W. R. CLYBURN, JR. _ Administrators. Camden, 8. C? August 8, 1941. notice of shareholders meeting To the shareholders of Chancefleld Plantation, Camden, 8. 0.: Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the shareholders ot Chancefleld Plantation, Camden, S. C., that a meeting of the shareholders of said corporation will be held in iSfce law ofTlces of Henry Savage, Jr., Esq.; In | Camden, S. C., on the 8th day of September at 10 A. M., for the purpose of considering resolutions for the dissolution of said corporation and the surrender of Its corporate charter. WALTON FERGUSON, 3rd, President. Camden, S. C., August 8, 1941. Food worth $25,000,000 annually, equal to seven-tenths of the nation's needs, Is produced by Englahd's poultry Industry. kria k IN 7DAYS Coming Haiglar: Mon.?Tues. AUGUST 25?26 GENE AUTRY in^ 'SUNSET IN WYOMING* -Paving Assessments # By order of City Council all unpaid paving assessments on prop ' -y*- - 7 : ' j erty will be levied upon and sold. Mrs. Louise Boykin, City Clerk and Treasurer.