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T? R?tun* r?lWT.B, Mad* by School DtitncU The County Auditor'# books will bo January 1. 1??. and wlll r.malu ..[u.n through -February, 1142. lor the Suae ot taking Ux raturna. Each tract of land In the county must bo returned separately, giving locations of land and boundaries and whether ? n cleared, timber or swamp land; ?>*(, number of dwellings, tDJULflill Slid other houses. iCach lot In Cities and Towns must Ik returned separately, giving sue. locatiou and number of buildings thereon and their value.'also any new buildings constructed during 1941. personal property tnust be returned Hlsi? and II you have a# automobile please bring your registration card. Your failure to make returns calls for a penalty as prescribed by mw. I'lcase do not wait until, the last day to make your returns, as this year limy require a great deal more time to prepare than usual., Tho County Auditor will be at the | following places for the purpose of faking tax returns for' 1942 on the dates named; . January 19 and 20?Kershaw, at Cook and Larva Store. January 22?Mt. Plsgah, at Ira B. Catoo'a Store. January 26?Haley's Mill at the Mill. * ' January 28?Bethune, at Loring Dgvis' Store. January 29?At the Nye Workman Store. February 4?Blaney, at the S. H. Ross Store. . fred m. ooburn, Auditor for Kershaw County FINAL DISCHARGE cNotice is horeby given that one month from this date, on January 31, 1942, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the setate of Julia Long Knapp, deceased, and^on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administrator. henry savage, jr., Administrator. Camden, S. C., December If, 1941. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on FVebruary 7, 1942, I wUl\ make to the Probate Court for Kershaw County my final return as Executor of the estate of George Hendrlck Hodge, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Executor. john K. 4eL/OACH, Executor Camden, S. C., January 2, 1942. NOTICE to DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate of Bessie Carpenter are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time brescrbied by law. GERTRUDE CULLEN, Administratrix. Camden, S. C.fl January 7, 1942. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COLUMBIA December 31, 1941 NOTICE In Re: Docket No; 1963. The appli< at ion of Palmetto Motor Express Lines for Class D Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to render motor freight service between Spartanburg, S. CM and a fifteen mile radius thereof, and Darlington,. S. C. and fifteen milq radius .thereof, via Camp Croft. Pacolet, Jonesville, Kelly, Lock hart, Chester, Rlchburg, Fort Lawn. Lancaster, Funderburk, MclJee and Hartsville, over State Highways No. ri. 903 and 161; off route points: Great Falls and Rock Hllh The Commission will hold a public hearing in its offices; In the Wade Hampton State Office Building, Columbia South Carolina, 11:00 A. M. January 27, 1942, In connection with Th?- above entitled matter, foi\, the purpose of determining the requirements of public convenience and ne?'-ssity In the premises. W. W. GOODMAN, Director Motor Transport Division. THE PUBLIC 8ERVICE COMMI88ION COLUMBIA T * DOCKET NO. 1956 * in THE MATTER Of APPLICATION OF THE RAILWAY EXPRE88 AGENCY FOR AUTHORITY TO, PUBLISH 10 CENT EMERGENCY CHARGE ON L. C. L 8HIPMENT8 BETWEEN POINT# IN 80UTH CAROLINA. . - *v ^ ' NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OP HEARING. Hearing In the above entitled prodding now assigned for Wednesday, January 14, 1942, Is hereby cancelled and re-assigned for hearing before the ' "mmission at its offices Mobm 31517 Wade Hampton (State Office Buildlug. Columbia, South Carolina,- on ' hursday, January 29, 1942, commences at 10:00 o'clock A. M. m THS COMMISSION Mary Carr, Secretary. ' olumbia, South Carolina, January 10, 1?U., ~ :?r*?: fck , ** * ^ AV 1?-1 ' m ^31 nnieEj^^ K*1 VivJl H - t ?' 1' .iLLOrKterfT 1 *"; H' V>VW- imyi'-.'MMI 'I'lMipi - ft. 1.. 1 , ; , .s; On The Home Front I ; ? ' . > , The President gave the signal aud America's war production machinery, already rolling, switched Into high gear. Today we are moving at constantly quickening , speed along the ( only euro highway *? victory?the hard and rocky road of self-s^crlttce. | There's not a one of the whole 130,000,000 of us. probably?man, woman | or dirlld?who Wou't have carried some part of the burden of this war before it is oyer, before the Japanese are slapped back outo their own islands and disarmed, before Hitler and his stooge Mussolini and their followers willing and'unwilling, have been made j harmless. Expressed In terms of cold cash, the huge 1?*2 program for tauka and guns and planes and ships will ( cost more than $400 for every citlxeri pf these United States. So far the crisis in materials needed for this vast production program has been reflected chiefly In the nation's auto salesrooms and auto supply stores.' So far it's been primarily a I matter of cars and tires. Hut already othef changes are on their way, changes which will be reflected in the products displayed on the shelves of tradesmen in thousands J of towns and villages when present I stocks are exhausted. I Take clothes, for one thing. Clothes I are going to change. They are going to look different, and they are going I to be different, too. That's because I we are cut off from sources of wool in IAustralia and New Zealand, and beI cause so much wool is needed for mil} ltary uniforms. There's from 40 to 50 per cent less wool available for clvllI lan use this year and it's going to I mean that overcoats probably will be ( made out of a mixture of virgin wool j and re-used wool, and that ?oats will I be shorter and trousers skimpier, and an end, for the duration, of the "twoI pants suit." The vital need for more and more {alcohol to make explosives is going (to change the formula of lots of things | on your drugstore shelves. Not things {you need when you're ill, but things [like toothpaste, and perfnme, and a great many cosmetic products. The {office of Production Management has {ruled that no more alcohol may be {used In the manufacture of such products after April 1. ^ j To date, despite tremendous lend{lease shipments to Britain, there {hasn't been any real shortage in any {foodstuff. Nearest approach to a shortage is in sugar, because much {sugar is made from cane, and sugar Lcsne molasses has been largely used to make alcobol. The OPM has ordered distillers equipped to make alcojhol from corn or grain to use these materials exclusively. { At the same time the Office of Price Administrator ordered an upward adjustment in the price celling above refined and other "direct consumption" sugars, a maximum price ad{yance of 20 cents a 100 pounds. This isn't expected to have any immediate effect on retail prices, because retailers now are selling sugar acquired at lower prices. When present stocks are exhausted, however, retailers-will have to pay higher wholesale prices, to replenish their supplies. ' Thd OPM suggests a variety of ways in which dairy operators and milk dis{tributors may overcome shortages. Dairymen can't buy new trucks for home deliveries, but they are urged to repair old equipment, Just as the farmer has been urged to have his old farm machinery repaired. OPM suggests that deliveries be made every other W and that duplication in milk pickup routes be avoided in order to conserve.rubber and machinery and, LfbeldenUlly.vgksoIine: Containers are going to be a problem, OPM suggests | campaigns to salvage used bottles, a, reduction in the variety of container sixes offered the consumer. V The sweeping drive to conserve [ metals for war production continues, with lead?the raw material tor bullets?latest on the list headed T>y copper and steel, tin and aluminum. Just as iron..and steel priorities meant far fewer refrigerators and no pleasure Iautos at all; Just as tin priorities ore working changes in everything from cue to many articles customarily found at the five and dime stores; so - ^? ? with restrictions on the use of leud for pivillan purposes. The lead order, effective APrH * will, oven be felt In the undei taking business?no more may he used In caskets or tn casket hardware* hla more lead, either, for automobile body solder, for ballast or keels of pleasure boats, for foil or ornamental glass or regalia or badges or emblems. No? for statuary and are goods, toys, tennis court markers. Lead may not be used in bats (as weights), or In clocks, decoys, dresses, golf , clubs and Jockey saddles. I America's force of war workers must be doubled or trebled to meet the Victory production program and women must play a larger part In war Industry, says Sidney HHlman, OPM's Associate Director. The OPM has prohibited use of jnethyl (wood) alcohol in manufacture of anti-freexo compounds. You'll probably be put* ting something?ethyl alcohol or Isopropenyl In your radiator. Paper manufacturers were warned by OPM against hulldlng up excessive lnven' lories. Paper pulp to a real wartime military necessity, It's used in making pasteboard contalnere for small arms ammunition. The OPM Is campaiglng for waste paper salvage. Canadian | paper mills are planning to increase ] newsprint prices. The OPA conferred | with representatives of the American | publishing Industry, which gets 75 per cent of Its newsprint from Canadian milk Director o^Defense Transportation Joseph B. Eastman says military needs for Iron and steel constitute a particular danger to the truck-1 Ing Industry. If trucks can't be replaced the burden carried by the railroads may grow heavier. Our ra|l? j roads are doing a Job, Mr. Eastman I said, and they're helped by a public which realises that first things come first. "BROADCAST" (By J. K. Breedin, Director Relations Organised Business, Incorprated.) The New Year comes while men everywhere are engaged In war or trying to solve the problems occasioned by war. As a businessman reviews his operations, and plans for a new year, so may we individually do that, with profit. Much has happened to the world;but want and rumors of war have been common since the early days of history. History, as it Is usually written and taught, Is very little else than war; but though each one of us may be just an atom In the great mass of humanity, the world develops and progresses because of what we are, Individually. The greatest undeveloped resource of mankind is the Individual human being, with his marvellous body, his incomparable Intellectual range, and his spiritual sensitivity, making him a son of the Infinite. Each of us, whether engaged at the front of the great embattled nations or whether doing a dally routine irf the kitchen or the field, ea'ch 6t us?has in himself or herself the dignity nnd the grandeur of Immortality. We can be humble in spirit and lowly in our occupation, but real manhood and womanhood depend on what the person is; not what he has, or the position he holds. We think in terms of the nation today more than we ordinarily do. Our national interest Is our most Immediate and vital one today because of the war. Our people do not take kindly to defensive tactics; we believe In going after the enemy and striking with vigor. Our lack of military preparedness is being bf ought home to us very acutely. Let us hope that with what we have we shall press the battle energetically, aggressively, with that flair for military engagement long characteristic of America. If the high strategist follow reasoning which indicates the supreme Importance of a fleet iA being or the unwisdom of risking separate units, let its hope that some (me will Improvise something which can be used, risked and even sunk without imperiling the fleet Our Legislature will meet within a few days. It meets when the gravest test faces us sincer the days of the Civil War. Already, at the very outset, and Indeed " before we really thought of war, our losses In ships and men are greater that^ ever suatalhed by us at sea. Against us are great ^ar-mad nations, armed to the teeth. Germany, Italy and Japan are rigfcfh^ixs; while others nre lending themselves as aids to the Axis powers. Of our ultimate ,v*?*?ry none need doubt, but that victory will cdhie by Che mobilisation of all our m'gbt. The Government will need money. Notwithstanding unprecedented tajee the as jtmch.monby As the total revenue of the- Government. The stupendous cm* It Is the people who must pull In their belts a notch or two and carry the burden'of the nation. The people who must do this are citUena of the! nation. As cltUens of the State; as' cltUens of the Couutles; an citizens of the Towns aud Cities, they must carry on other public activities. Our School Districts. Counties and Towiih already lay heavy burdens on us through property tVxes ; the Stater taxes compare favorably with those of neighboring states, but with war authorisations aggregating $74,440,000,000 we should look for opportunities to reduce some tgxee or omit some eutirely. We Americana' are alert in gome activities; we are evei) somewhat efficient In mass production, but In getting ourselves war-minded we are prone to think iu military headlines, Instead of in the million details of organisation, finance and self-denial necessary to make proud and victorious headlines. Obviously our $74,440,000,000 already authorised is not the last dollar to be spent; the plans in Washington already are blue-printed for an additional $75,000,000,000, yet even Ihe National Government itself does not retrench; the State Governments don't retrench; the Counties don't retreucli; the Towns don't retrench. Why dcu't we think this situation through. In nothing could Presideut Jtooaevelt serve us better at thiB moment than to cut Federal non-military, expenditures to the bone. If the National Government would throw overbourd all its fol-de-rol and play boy activity, and build the nation's military effort on solid foundation of military efficiency, it would carry a solemn and heartening conviction to all that we mean business. Let our State take stock of its activities and throw overboard all the dispensable services, and I mean that to include all the dispensable services of all the Colleges a'pd other Institutions of the State? We must accustom ourselves to a war economy. Our resources must be used to meet the great aggressor nations In battle, cost 4vhat It may. Well, boys, the New Year Is here; so forget about those alibis; let's start right. What's your first resolution? t > Now is the time to try for perma I V V i nent industries. An industry with a permanent payroll of a thousand dollars a week in worth more than a munitions plant paying out live times as much. A town on a war spurt will bo a dead town when the war ends. We could make a lot of ccments in South Carolina. Lot us not relax our efforts t ^induce industries to coino here. We have one enormous advantage:" virtually. all our people nre American-horn. No such native stock Is available elsewhere, unless it be In some other Southern State. We need more Industry, more varied industry, because there will come a slackening of our present pace and on the industries we have will reduco their rate of operations. We must prepare to take up the slack. Our location should be In our favor, for we aro far from the densely populated centers which aVe more likely to be attacked than our quiet corners down here. We South Carolinians aro too modest; we suffer from an aggravated case of inferiority complex. Whenever the Qovernment spends u million dollars in this State we jump up and kick our heels together in great Jubilation, proudly - proclaiming that the Government is making things hum in our midst. The record indicates, however, that we are Just a lot of small-timers. Experience has taught us that radl. cal changes in plans or structures are more easily made by outsiders than by those on the Inside. Naturally; for a man's mind tends to operate in a groove and he sees everything in relation to what he is accustomed to. Is it not Apparent that when a nation spends four years to build a battleship, at a cost of $50,000,000, which can be sunk quickly by a submarine or a few airplanes?she is hazarding too much time; too much money; too much Irreplaceable life f What is it that a battleship has which a swift Destroyer has not? Heavier guns which fire at longer range. But a battleship is the weakest link as well as the strongest; if it's ever exposed, ; it may be quickly sunk; if it's sunk, | great is the loss. If we need long range guns, why not Ju?t two on a smallor ship? Why not smaller submarines? The Jape have Home with Just two men. If one Ih sunk lt> lan't such a great lose. The Navies of the world tend to ships too valuable to be rlskod. Well, what qre warships for? ^Wouldn't It be more sensible to have a mulitude of ships which could bo risked, whatever the hatard? ' la the battle going to tho hesitant and the cautious, ax.. the attacker who ran afford to suffer losses In order to gain his objective f The big battleships are U>o many eggs in one basket. Just one rock?and all the eggs are gone! The total of all authorised expenditures for war is $74,440,000,000?seventy four billion, four hundred and forty million dollars. We've Just started. Not all has been- spent; some of these Items may not bo reudy within a year; but the authorisation Is almost tho saiye as passing out the cash money. That is two and a half times as much as this nation spent for everything during the First World War. That is more than the total Income of everybody in the United States In an average year. How much more of this can wo Btand? The answer will be one of patriotism, of enlightened Belf-intereBt, not of economies. Wo can stand all th^t may be necessary to defeat the Axis powers, q We can stand it and we must stand It. Hut we need not stand a multitude of foolish social and political experiments costing hundreds of millions of dollars annually. We can stand everything that Is necessary; we should not be asked to stand more than Is necessary. As cltltens, we must strip for action, ay a warship throws sway all the unneccesBary stuff when going into battle. So should we as a nation, throw overboard everything not necessary for winning the war. When ' the war Is safely won we can throw away more money, or Indulge in pleaaant dreams of reform; but until tha war Is won, that la the greatest Job before us; and it will require every dollar the nation can use against tha enemy. i In the past 20 years, mines in Minnesota have produced nearly 61 per cent of the domestic iron ore consumed by the steel industry. QUICK RELIEF.From Symptoms Of Distress Arising From stomach ulcers due to excess acid Free Book Tells , of Home Treatment .that Must Help of It WIN Cost You Nothing Over two million bottles of WiLLJkftD TREATMENT have been sold for re* lief Of s/mphrtns of distress arising fronr Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers doe to Excess Acid-Poor Digestion, our or Upset Stomach, Ossein see, Heartburn, Sleeplessness, eta, due to Excess Add. Sold on IS days' trial! Ask for "W Ward's Message" which I We wr - Out of your pocketbook would jtm to come $1,500,000 every year if beer and ale iwei* ever prohibited again In South Carolina I ' That $1,500,000, which jSouth Caroline receives each year from taxes on the legal sale of the beverage of moderation, is used to: < Support the ?chool Aid fundi Pay part of the costs of government in cities ., and towns of forfyrsix counties m the state. i YOU'D HAVE TO DIG DOWN DEEFER ? IF BEER AND ALKv WERE. NOT LEGAL! v Since beer came back to'South Carolina, it fus provided revenue of $5,000,000 to the state ? and a million dollars a day in tax receipts of all forms over the natlo^ Legal, moderate beer helped create 3,500 jobs in South Carolina, with annual payrolls of $3,000,000 -?.spent for'food and clothing and rent right in South Carolina. Beer his helped make good business betters These benefits, and the moderate beverage on which they are , built, are worth preserving. The South Carolina bear industry pledges full cooperation to keep the places that sell beer at wholesome as beer itself. ' YOlt CAN HtLPf Just buy your beer in the reputable licensed places ^tfcfre ty far the great htajorify. ~ Others should be reported to the responsible officials. SOUTH CAROLINA BEER WHOLESALERS ASSOCIATIO