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HOT OIF THI KEY) \jfy_THE SKIPPER. IB,.It Easter has been sad gone?at It for ;i year. 'Twaa a gay and fesI day in Camden. The populace ly turned out. Churches reported pity congregations, beautiful if and impressive rituals. * Kid the ladles, God bless 'em, were I in-their Easter finery. Gating at Be of the Easter hats, oh so funny, If me ill ink it would take u real lit tan to be uble to pull a bunny of one of them. If I were a rnb|l would run a mile when I saw * * * * Bonnie lad dropped in Monday to I me that the way he figured It out I that Japan's position right now lint she has the whole world by the | and can't let go.* * I Ihe government at Washington Is L' given tho razz because it enik's a nudist as an economist. Hut the matter of clothes at any rate nudist furnishes positive proof It he is an economist. ? * row! fellar said to the 'ther fellar" lee's sting is 100 finer than the fini needle." Just the very thing to V a hue scream. ? fapan has occupied a lot of points the Pacific. Ever hear of the guy 0 sat 011 the cactus? Get it? * ? L recent biography of a successful n ends with the statement "he rer married". And that says Chartho Incurable Bach tells the story a nutshell. * * * * 1 siren over at Myrtle Beach has big advantage over one of Ralph union's air raid sirens." She does have to make a noise to attract ention. However we have seen sevd samples which might be classified quite loud. When a man clicks ho clacks loudly about his victory. Hut when a hen clicks, she just clucks. j Sport Potpourri BY THE SKIPPER The fans who watched the TorontoAugusta game last Friday saw a neat exhibition of baseball. Johnny Gee, elongated port side fllnger of the Leafs made tits initial appearance in action for Toronto. Johnny ueeds ;a lot of seasoning if he is to remain in the International. * * * Hurgess Whitehead, the 30-year old speed laddie got the attention of the fans by his tine work. ? The double steal engineered hy ^ Williams and Meyers in the seventh , was beautifully tinted and executed. J The ball park has never looked I finer than right now. Let us hope , that after the Leafs depart this week ' on their hop to Toronto that the park will be maintained in the same man, ner as it has been the past several I months. It certainly was an awful mess when tho McKain-Morrison-Raley trio took over to prepare it for I the Toronto invasion. ?> * The park should be kept under lock and key when not in use. The city has a big investment there and when the stands, club house and grounds 'are permitted to deteriorate, it only i means the expenditure of a big sum of cash to bring it back into shape. ? It is to be hoped that future carnival shows will be excluded from using the ball park. This has been the real source of difficulty in maintaining the right field area as the g?RBBB?BWB?P^?rg3BM83Weai carnival trucks churned up the field surface badly. * We have to pass the posies to I)ou Morrison for his fine work in keeping the park at a peak condition during the stay of the Toronto teuiu. According to Messrs (lee MacPhail and Burleigh Crimea and the visiting news writers, l>on has really been the indispensable Mister Morrison. Congrats Scotty. -? ? ? m ? Speaking of high school baseball, Jdndsay Pierce, high school coach, lias the making of a neat team at the local high tills season and we hope that the baseball minded of the community give tiie team some support. < While the lads dropped their opening game to Newberry, 1941 state A title winners, at Newberry hiBt week, it was the first game for the BuU~ dogs. The team showed promise and tile Wilson kid pitched a whale of a game until he tired in the later innings. While fresh the youngster more than held his own with the Newberry slabhist. ? * * After the high school season comes the Legion period. Frankly we hope that some of the Legion chaps who are somewhat pessimistic over the idea of having 4 Legion team, change their attitude. Lpt^e-Uuivc a team. If 1 tfyere was over a |lme when we need-' ed to exert every effort to maintain civilian morale, this is it. It doesn't make a bit of difference if the team loses every game?it wilf bo some-] thing for the boys to do, something for you and I to see. It will be good clean healthy outdoor exercise for the youngsters and backed by the sportsmanship fostered by the Legion program, it should be a character building prescription. * The ball park is only a few minutes walk from any place in Camden. A lot of the lads have Jobs that permit of their taking an occasional aurrn !?iuujluluiuj afternoon off. will Ami that motor trips, etc.. will be quite out of tho picture- it they hope to make their tires last for several years. So why not plan to wulk down to the hall park and see a baseball game. llaseball is a truly American sport aud in tny humble opinion the guy who ways ho doesn't care for baseball, must have a loose screw somewhere in his American makeup. | ROSES and THORNS | By the way. have you noticed the lasting quality of the paint that state' highway places on the traffic lines Hlong tho highway. After months of use it is still blight and at night offers a form of redactor effect. Here' in Camden an application of white paint lasts about a week. NVhy not use the saute material tho state uses and cut out time and expense in making frequent markings. * * * Paging Mr. Leon Tobln. How about I getting some Menu's bruoer or something like it ami bringing some of those leaning light standards to an upright stance. They have been, thut way for months now -makes the tow n look sort of cheap. * * * * Hack several months those long trucks were not permitted to angle park and ofTer hazards to traffic on Broad and DeKalb streets. Since the comfort and rest station was established at Broad and DeKalb streets, the trucks are getting by with any kind of parking. * " The Camden police are the envy of the coppers in all of the other communities in South Carolina. That cozy nook provided for shelter from rain and cold is a great boon to the boys in blue. A New York police Inspector when shown the cottage, snorted and growled "great snakes, what they irym to no. make molly i coddles out of the tint feet? They , ought to be tip In ipy town where the hoys have to cover beats miles long In summer heat and zero cold.' ' But all kidding aside. That weewee-bird cage has been a real asset in many ways. Visitors to tho ctty have been quick to roulizo it is a sort of information center and the police huve done a smart job in giving out valued facts there. * But speaking of love nests and tho like. That little white house in front of tho postoffice has been vacaut for some weeks now. How a bout moving, it to some nice secluded pluce and letting some of the newly weds com-" ing down the first week in June use it as a domicile? Boykin Driver Is Victim Of Wreck Myron llernlo Corbett, 82. of Hoykin, driver of a kus truck for tlit* Heard l.aney Hauling coinpuuy, died at the Warret) Oandlor hospital, Havannuh. (Ja.. at 7 p. in. Sunday fob low ins an accident near llluff ton. whore hta truck wrecked, caught on lire and exploded around t> p. m. Mr. "CorBetT was burned over hts entire body. He was born near Antloch in 1 ee county Intt had made his home at HoykIn for the past few months. He is survived hy his widow, Mrs. Lllllo May Trapp Corbelt, and live small children of lloykln; his father, J. K. Corhett of Lee eountyj three brothers, T. (). Corbelt of Lee conn- . ty and J. J. Corhett and J. H. Corbelt In military service, one sister ] in Greenville. ' Funeral services were conducted at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the Antloch Baptist church by the Hev. Henry Collins. Interment was in the church cemetery. Lioutonant Richards to Graduate Savannah, Ga., April Si-^Socond Lieutenant Robert M. Richards, U?8. Marine Corps, will graduate on April 2f> from a course la Huso Defense Weapons at Marine Murrucks, Quailtlco, Virginia. I Lieutenant Richards graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis on December 19, 11141, and > was assigned to an indroct lnat Ion course In military, subjects on January f> of this year. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Murine Corps upon graduation from tho Naval Academy. Lieutenant Richards is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Richards, Jr., 1719 Fair street. Camden, S. C. '?< The synthetic rubber Incident goba ? to show that America as a nation ranks business, or the dollar, ahead i)f practically everything else. If we had had an eye for our own preservation and national safety Instead of being so concerned about the almighty dollar, there'd be immense stores of synthetic rubber in this country today as well as plants to turn out tho product by tho wholesale. Hut our greed und our uucouceru led ua to disregard something so palpablo as ?ur. future needs, wltli Germany and Japan running amuck, and we are paying tho penalty. And It bids fair :o be a rather long druwn-out and unwelcome penalty.?Chester Reporter. ; J A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE J. C. PENNEY COMPANY I|| A TREMENDOUS TASK LIES AHEAD OF US! |jj I 'I Today America Is at war. Now, in wartime, because of the I t) I tremendous Job ahead of us, we must learn again to work I :|| I fi' l bard and to live simply?to put into the preserving of I 1 I jjjm America what we once put into the building of it ? to re- I I i|il turn to the old ways of Thrift and Savings that were the I II | general rule at the beginning of this century. |r ft I I Wo feel that the Penney Company is peculiarly well equipped 11 jjj I I to make a substantial contribution toward the Thrift and j |Jj I il'W Savings of the nation?because the Penney Company I fW | knows from long experience what thrift is all about. I ml I III Thrift is .nothing new to the Penney Company ? it is our |m I 11 tocfc In trade. When the Penney business was founded, In I IUh I | III 1902, hard work, and epartan living were the general rale. jl] I Our first little store in Kemmerer,Wyoming was dedicated W I i I I to Thrift, and all through the years, as our business bos I II] j | grown. Thrift has continued to be our guiding principle. i I ||!| THRIFT AND SAVINGS ARE A BIG PART OF THE JOB 1 I I The Penney Cow's practice et Thrift end Savings Is I Oil I ill evidenced In everything we dox We buy for cash and ll[j]l I III >di for cash; we. make no deliveries; we eliminate all 1 I I costly frills and extravagances; we operate en an ex- N] I I'll tremefy small margin of profit per transaction; we bey at W I the source In the most economical quantities; we save at 1 I every turn! All this means that new when Thrift and Sav- i j Ings mean more than ever, N will pay you. It will save Imil j j precious dollars for you, always to shop first at Penney's. I mj I WE REDEDICATE OURSELVES, TODAY, ON OUR | I 40th ANNIVERSARY, TO THE SERVICE OF AMERICA 1 ij il We rededlcate ourselves to Thrift and Savings. We rededi- | ijil ;!< cate our 1600 stores, which now stretch from coast to j!|l cccct, to the great |ob of helping American families to W |lij| continue to live well for less. Jjjljl THE PENNEY WAY IS THfc uu THRIFTY WAY-THE THRIFTY HO WAY IS THE AMERICAN WAY M * ? \i\jjfijWR Hi * i * . - - - . ? . ? f " t >v r * '+. ?? H ^ ^ vvi.,:vvv'f' ^' ,v -4;: THRIFT POLICIES REAFFIRMED ON FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF DEPARTMENT STORE CHAIN J. C. Penney Company, in Nation-Wide Celebration, Points Out Country's Need For Universal Economy. The Company hat traveled a tong road since Mr. Penney.'s first little store in Kemmerer, Wyoming (right). Now it includes stores as the Company's largest, in Seattle (Above), which, in many a single day, does several times the business which the Mother store did la its first year of operation. , 'In a celebration featuring the historical background of the business, the J. C. Penney Company marks Its fortieth milestone. 1,609 stores all over the country are taking part In the celebration, which extends through the month of April. The keynote of the event was set by the founder of the Company, J. C. Penney: "We have chosen thrift as the theme of our fortleili anniversary", said Mr. Penney, "because It seems to us particularly timely to stress the need for our return to pioneer simplicity. "Today America is at war, Now, In wartime, because of the tremendous job ahead of us, we must learn again to work hard and to live simply?to put into the preserving of America what we once put Into the building of it?to return to the old ways of thrift and savings that were the general rule at the beginning of tills century. . "We feel that the Penney Company 1b well equipped to make a substan, . | r w, i. n f '? "< + Mr. Penney behind the counter during the cloemg day? of the Company's fortieth year, a place he atlll loves to occupy after forty . years of storekeeplng! tlal contribution toward the Thrift and Savings of the nation?because the Penney Company knows from long experience what Thrift about. Thrift is nothing new to the Penney Company?it is our stocfc In trade. When the Penney, business was founded in 1902, hard work and spartan living were the'general rule. Our first little store in Kemmerer, Wyoming was dedicated to Thrift, and all through the years, as our business has grown, Thrift has continued to be our guiding principle." This thrift theme appears in advertising and window displays in Penney stores all over the country, together with messages reminiscent - of his early store days by/.Mr. Penney. Back In 1902, when Mr. Penney founded his first store, he found that many people who could 111 afford it made a practice of buying everything on credit, and "paying up on ray day." He came to the conclusion that he could serve people more ecO -T . nominally by selling only for cash, thus eliminating credit costs. Mr. Penney found, too, that haggling over fcVlces were a general practice, and making a purchase or a sale became a battle of wIIb between customer and store-keeper. It was this that decided Mr. Penney to maintain a fixed price, and as soon as his customers found that that fixed price was the lowest price, they expressed their appreciation in an impressive loyalty to that first small store, and, through the years, to all other Penney stores as well. Mr. Penney tells of his many planned economies in the conduct of his business ? economies, many ef them small, which added up tAX a successful and prpfltable business. One i such economy was Mr. Penney's decision to offer no delivery service to bis customers. In this connection he 9 remarked, "My customers carried their packages from Penney's Qolden Rule Store;, and tpey did it gladly because they knew that my No Deliveries policy helped them to buy for less. * "I resolved that nothing should ever be wasted in my store. Time and energy, string and paper,, all were carefully conserved to avoid any expense that might boost prices." The management of the Penney Company, which in forty years has grown from one store to 1,609, still adheres to the policies laid down by Mr. Penney at the very outset. Quoting q Karl Corder Sams, president of the Company, and lifelong associate of Mr. Penney: "The Penney Company 'still believes in, and practices, the thrifty qiethods of 1902. It stands ready tolhelp America save at a time when savings are essential!"