Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^mmmmmkamiaBKmBTSssssssssssaat^ THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H, D. Editor snd Froprlotor Published ovor* ITrldar ^*l/llI^i,(l3br? 1101 North Broad Street, end entered At the ^Smden, South Carolina * eo second cleee mail metter. Price pe veer II00 No subscriptions Ilk*; !" less then 81* Months. In el! JneUnoee the subscription price Is **?****?*?}?. 1 In edvenoe. All subsorlpHo0* *re celled'%hen aubacrlbor Represented In New York by tb. Am.rlcun Press Association end elsewh?r* oy *11 reliable Advertising A?*ncl,*V..i ??*! Hecept ho advertising of a doubtful as* lure und try to protect our fT mlerepresentatlon by Advertisers. Liquor Advertisements *c0#P*?j) price. Church uotloee Published Cards of thanks and not!? ? ot f? TI talnments where ?n *4 Tributes ot charged will be charged for Tributesim respsct and obituaries will I for. All communications must be slg . otherwise they will bs destroyed. Friday, April 3, 1942 , 1 N?M CM?i ?ssi A?Si I M8e HOW CAN IT BE DONE7 Pay nftor day now tho newspapers are urged by this official and that bureau to appeal to farmers to make more food this year. They should grow more wheat, more corn and so on. Yet there are quotas of all these which the farmer cannot exceed. Kvon tho hens are urged to lay more eggs and (he cows to produce more milk. With the labor being drained from the farms, one class to the army and another to factories where men are getting such wages as never have boon dreamed of, bow can all this stuff be grown on the farm??Greenwood Index-Journal. PUT THE SMALL 8HOPS TO WORK The war production board says^ South Carolina automobile dealers have 148,881 square feet of floor space and possibly many times that amount for manufacturing in connection with ihe war program. Othor southern states have considerably more space. But that Is not all. South Carolina and othor states have thousands of small shops equipped with machinery that will turn out war materials, but they are getting none of this business. A thousand one-lathe machine shops are the equivalent of a thousandlathe machine shop and there hio very few machine shops In the nation of that slzo. . Many of tho big machine shops in the north anil northwest are operating at only SO per cent capacity. This is admitted by department heads in Washington. There are uo lubor troubles In tho south Skilled workmen in tho south are patriotic enough to work seven ten or twelve hour days In tho woek If that la nocessary to win the war. The production of war materials would be greatly increased if these small shops were given their share of the war business. Not only is it the duty but tho war production board has tho power to put these small shops on a 40-hour work-. Ing baHis. After six months of ceaseless effort one Dillon establishment managed to get an order to make army tents?DUlon Herald. Kverybody remembers what happened when the public let loose a mighty roar of Indignation a few weeks ago whou Congress undertook a raid on tho treasury in its own interest Members of both branches fell all over themselves and each other in their efforts to disclaim any Interest In tho move and to make amends for their faux pas. And there'll bo a similar spoctacle. if the people of the country. North and South, East and West, get sufficiently aroused to voice the samo kind of protest against the AdminlstraHons totally un-American manner of dealing with strikes In defense plants. ?CWTstor Reporter. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINOtt lly Spectator Ho mauy mass meeting^ are being held through South Carolina calling for the full force of a united effort to win the war that I cafli't keep up with them. Hamberg citizens have called for a check on profiteers and racketeera. All thiM lack of thoroughgoing participation springs from a weak or confused leaderahlp. Let the people continue to prune their domanda for ull our time and. force. How can we play politics in Washington while thouaanda of our boys face the enemy at sea, in the air, and on land in Hrltalu, Asia and Australia? Thin is no time to be a New Dealer or an Old Dealer. 'Wo are Americana who have already suffered nuI morons defeats and many sinkings at ' sea. The one task before America la to win the war. The fathers and mothers, the wives, brothers and vslsUna, tin; aona and daughters of meu In our lighting services have the right to demand that we at home shall not fail to support the men on the tiring llneV They can't fight by hours, nor dictate time and a half for overtime In coming to grips In battle. And while they risk their Uvea without flinching and without allot, so wo at home must not bo leas purposeful, nor leaa heroically dedicated to win the war. The muHs meeting In Marion wua Inspired by the sacrifice of u soldier hoy of Marion who gave his life for our country. Do you wonder, fellow citizens, that with that fresh sacrifice of fine, vigorous manhood In their hearts our fellow Americans of Marlon should not be tolerant of pollticul by-plays In Washingtony If wo must force the hand of our government, we must reinomber that tho big prlco of this war will not bo puid by prollteers, racketeers or boondoggles, but by those who go forth In battle, risking their lives, suffering every kind of hardship, danger and privation?all to bring victory to our nation. When we look at the boys we send to face the enemy, and all his contrivances of destruction, how can we talk of social gains, forty-hour week, and all that sort of thing? The sons of labor are In the ranks, too, of course, and thousands of their homes suffer the heartache common to all homes today. All aro united before the enemy; let us be united back home In the war effort to givo them planes and munitions. The Japanese complain that the Americans are lighting a war of hate and revenge. Well, of course, that is all wrong. We should be nice and friendly- as the Japs were ut Pearl Harbor, when the yellow demons slipped up treacherously and killed more than three thousand of our people. So let us be friendly, In the manner that the Japs best understand, carrying fire and sword, plane, torpedoes, mines and machine guns. The Japanese have a terrible thrashing due them and we muBt earnestly hope that they will not be able to escape it. I've read that the Charleston Central Lubor Union demands a federal investigation 6f organized business, Incorporated, and its president, C. Norwood Hastie, becuuse we advocate the passage of a bill, introduced by Representative Smith of Virginia, by which the nation would see its inherent sovereign power to mako some men work, if some must fight. Well, obviously, the man who ought to be investigated, arrested and cast into prison, is Representative Smith. If he can Introduce the bill, without calling down flre from heaven, we ought to be allowed to endorse it. As a matter of fact, the Charleston Union, by condemning the Smith bill, is doing what we did: that is, it is expressing its opinion. Is the Charleston Union entitled to an opinion more than we? Are our friends and brethren of Labor entitled to all the hours, wages, laws, enforcement boards, and all the opinions, too? May we not have, at least, the right to an opinion? Our Charleston I*bor friends and fellow ctttsens are not as narrow as that, 1 know. * In Charleston and throughout South Carolina, there la a good feeling among us, which makes this state a shining example of peace, tolerance and good will. We don't challenge or deny the right of labor to petition as it pleases; and It exercises that right In a big way, as we all know. Hut the rest of us are American citizens also; and we also are supporting the nation with taxes and sons and ourselves, if drafted, and we cherish all our rights as citizens. Organized busiuess, Incorporated, asks nothing ror Itself. It does not petitlon the congress for high places, nor for exclusive privileges or consideration; we do not ask that every one be compelled to deal only with us. What it is trying to do Is as much for the benefit of the sons and daughters of labor as for any one else. It Hecks to develop new business in South Carolina; to create new opportunities for employment; to develop markets for our products. In many of our efforth we huve cooperated with Organized labor, and we hope a program of constructive effort will always find us working together. *1 take occasion to ask my friends of labor what a federal Ihvestigation would uncover. As to our activities in organized business, we spoak and write so that all may know what we advocate and what we oppose. As to Mr. Hastle himself, our friends will find a citizen who Is trying to serve his city, his state and country. They will find a man paying a lot of taxes; but, above all, they will find a man who offered himself without pay; who has sent two sous to our country's service, both serving as privates lu the great army embattled America. Some of us who are over ago have .volunteered more than once and ask nothing except a call to duty. Perhaps In a few monhis some of us In organized business and some now lu organized labor will wllk side by side la khaki,drawing twenty-one dollars a month and renewing a cultivated taste for gold fish, corned Willie and bully beef toute do suite. Any farmer who complains of a lack of moisture must be hard to please. Likewise, I hope the bydoelectrlc plants have all the water they need. After all, there hasn't been much dust recently. That's something to be thankful for. Greenwood, Orangeburg and Aiken have held meetings protesting against strikes in munition plants, or others engaged in preparations for war. The President squarely opposes any Increase in the base of forty hours a week, with time and a hajf for overtime. I can't understand that attitude when we recall that soldiers In the War Zone have no time and a half or double time. It ought not to require disasters near us to shake off the political cloak. The domand of some farmers for a price and a half for after hour delivery of eggs and milk and double prices for all delivered on Sundays, I think ought to bo endorsed by our government. Labor leaders meet with the President, I'm told, every week. They must be a sort of extra, private cabinet. However, much the President may regard himself as leader of a "Party tied up with Labor ", as his Attorney General said, the Americun people are not taking kindly to it and will force Congress to untie the knot. The attitude of the people is becoming more and more emphatic in the many resolutions recently adopted. Heretofore the people have bowed so submissively before the Presidential dignity that all appeals and demands have been addressed to Congress. Of late, however, the resolutions and petitions, the demands and the protests. have been addressed to the President and to the Congress. The lie-up between Mr. Roosevelt and labor will not be able to withstand a barrage on Congress. If this Is a land of equal rights and opportunity the people will shed their last drop of blood for it; but if this is a country dedicated exclusively to labor and other New Deal beneficiaries, the new set-up will crash before the resentment of the majority of the people. Surely the present danger is sufficient to make us one people, united in a groat offort to save the nation, but the spirit of service and sacrifice must be the rule of all. We certainly cannot let the peril of war be usod to build up or maintain political groups or favorites. The latest report of the Tax Commission tells something about the counties which surprise me. I live in a county of about ono large industrial plant?a lumber mill. Other lumber plants there are. some grist mills, but decidedly ours is not an industrialized county. It Is perhaps almost the least favored by large taxpayers. I thought Abbeville much better because It has a cotton mill, railroad shops?and all that. Bat on-v? -? dor the head of "Merchant*, Sundry Manufacturers and Printers" the assessed valuation for my county" is $260,170.00, whereas Abbeville shows $140,190.00. lleaufort shoves $181,266.00, though how Beaufort exceeds the Abbeville valuation aud Bamberg's $162,610.00 1 can't understand, for Bamberg proudly claims Bamberg and Denmark. Colleton, which boasts the. Bishop's big paper, and is the hive of touristlsm, shows only $196,650.00. A real surprise to me was Kershaw county with only $280,620.00. Not only is the prosperous town of Kershaw there, with its boulevards, but Camden, a queenly oity, and Bethune fur away. Of course tba?towu of Kershaw is partly iu Lancaster county. Little Clarendon, with $260,170.00 surpasses mighty Union with a real city, and with Jonesvllle and Buffalo thrown in?Union county showing $227,110.00, while Williamsburg shows $290,265.00. I looked up Barnwell, second or third capital of the state, depending on whether a Governor can put Colleton over Barnwell, recalling that Barnwell has the Speaker of the House, chairmau of the Senate Pi- j nanco committee and the chairman of the_ Ways and Moans committee of the house. Well", Barnwell county shows only $151,285.00, though that proud county boasts the towns of Barnwell Hlackvllle, Wllllston and Dunbarton. Among the big boys, consider Charleston. with $2,873,245.00, although outside of Charleston there Is only McClellanville, (and North Charleston) while Greenville, big city and industrial giant that it is, and surrounded by good towns, shows only $3,000,145.00 while Spartanburg county, rich, proud and ambitious, with all the good towns which thrfvo within her borders, shows only $1,909,620.00. Sumter has $774,806.00, and no large town is found in Sumter county except the hustling little game cock city of Sumter, yet York county, with rich Hock Hill, solid old York, pushful Fort Mill, and sedate Sharon ?shows only $609,335.00. Well, now, what about all this? What does it signify; or does It signify f All-Year Golfing Club Is Organized (Continued from first page) a face-lifting operation last fall and with the new surfacing offer an appeal to the most exacting players. The new club has a definite objective in view, that of building up In terest in the sport, not only among | the men golfers but also among the j fair sex. Camden is large enough to support a well-ordered and operated club and it is the purpose of the new organization to make the club onbi of keen popularity in the community. While present plans have not taken on the scope as to list competition with golf teams from other cities in the state, such a plan is bound to be forthcoming. As the club grows, so will the prestige expand and the way will be paved for sectional, divisional, and state events here. It Is to be hoped that the efforts of the interested group headed by Mr. Carrison will receive cooperation from the community. Golf is one of the greatest of outdoor sports. It affords all men and women an opportunity to keep physically fit through exerpise gained in enjoyable social relaxation. We believe that the good people of Camden who are interested in <m. door sports will embrace tho oppor. tunity of becoming affiliated witl Camden's first all-year-round goK club. Officers and directors ol the are prepared to receive memberahl) applications at this time. These ap plications are passed upon by a duly appointed membership committee, . 3, Augusta Tigers Play Here Today (Continued from first page) \ Whitehead had taken second t* Mack's infield out and third on Cbi man's fly. Without any extra mollot the former New York gfant star It out for the counting block, slldlif in under Catcher Wright's frantic A fort to tag him on a snap throw frok Martin, then on the mound for Clem son. , REPAIRS We carry a large stock of REPAIRS for FARMALL TRACTORS, and all other FARM IMPLEMENTS that we sell in this territory. BUT, we urge FARMERS to place orders with us AT ONCE for REPAIRS that will be needed this SPRING. Whitaker & Co. Telephone Four Rutledge Street - n j r " J "t ^ Z j I I I PROFESSIONAL DISTRESS NBKVB HUINMKNTAL ANSVMN Doctor* and their social duties some* time* have a hard time making con* nectioni, and often are the despair family and friend*. : m~' ^nurhnutth, i ? W lr may not be generally thougnrtnat (i , (he modern l>octor takes the case of \ !hl ?> at lent as much to heart as the old family physician, v ?ho? who live clow .o Doctor# will toll you . 4IBer.n> \ rr>rv The Physician who tries r.to divert his hlMtd, or fulAU social obligations, with a seriously ill patient In hi, thoughts. Is a very absent-minded theatre companion or bridge partner. The Doctor espectlng a momentary summons. Is not free from mental strain or wakeful nights. When he finds the case beyond human or scientific help, only the Immediate i family grieves more than the Doctor. Of course It Is up to .h. fWtor not to show distress, and to keep nerve strain under Iwih, but modern Physicians take their profession l seriously, and want Just as \ sincerely to make and keep you well as the old-fashioned general practloner Gel acquainted with your Doctor. : ?.; - - : : ' iSitllt PUPW IS THE IMS! KJlPOOIflftT PftfllOfOUfl BUM I j THIS rs Ho~3C 6T'A SWiS~mTSUtHO~tHi~f0BLlC ABOUT THt DOCTOB." I | l!= ing equipment, uocks ancT radios. Half-Wmife; nannative government (left) stuck to their posts in Java. A UI nk k^ ^K?T.^A "J kl*j ^ J m riA^ wA t Netherlands East Indies original importance as a against Japan. But <. en idies?many of which are ?ock the Netherlands out gether, for the Dutch still >urces which will continue >me of these are now in ind Canada, still others in And the Dutch merchant ifloat, remains in the ser(who need ships badly, t Indies thems?lves, live > prospered under Dutch s. The Dutch themselves, " European nations, have jpressed people can fight me ever comes when the 1 via the Indies, they will irs who know the islands > aid their advance.. f^ve sunk dozens of Jap naval and iwith (J. S. and Australian squadrons. f Europe as well u the Pacific frem reining a second new army in Britain. DUTCH NAVY, together with U. S. and Australian fleets, suffered heavily in Battle of Java, but is continuing the fight from India and Australia || in 11 y |. MEANTIME, in the Western hemisphere, the Dutch are training a new army in Canada and upp^y"|t 40% of British Navy's fuel from West Indies (bclo\vK^gB