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-^1 strian Protection? ' xxl Kmiuwple u Vital \ WISE parents Jtfrt a ?6od example O 9 habits of safe walking which will last their children a lifetime are fostered by wise parents who ?et good examples by always crossing at corners and observing other safe walking rules. ?AAA Safety9 features The most dangerous action reportJ for pedestrians during 1941 in (outh Carolina was crossing not at n intersection in 145 accidents with 3 walkers killed and 72 injured, loints out State Highway Patrol ofIcials in an appeal for greater pelestrian care. Don't walk diagonally across the treet or cross against the red light gys the highway patrol In remindQg the person on foot that he must onsider the curb line as a danger ine. farm families now . operating 8y8tematically One hundred and ninety-three farm families in Kershaw county rre operating under systematic farta and home plans which thay have worked out with assistance of farm and home supervisors of the FJarm Security Administration, It was reported today by B. P. DeLoache, FSA County Supervisor. These one hundred and ninety-three county families are part of the 90,067 in Region ~ prised of the four southeastern states of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, for whom plans looking toward better llviig standards, better Income and rehabilitation mmT been worked out in connection with FSA, from July J, 1941, through April 30, 19^2. In the Southeastern region, 11,321 plans wero made for new borrowers, 77,877 for borrowers who have been participating in the program for one year or more, and 869 who have obtained loans enabling them to increase their production for war purposes. In this county, the number of new borrowers in the ten-month period was 28. old borrowers 165, said the local supervisor. Mr. I)eI>oache pointed out that the plans are worked out in consultation with the low income farmers, and are created to enable them to make the most of their farming operations, while making the most of their living practices. ' "The farm and home are considered as a unit," said Mr. DeLoache. "In the Farm Security program it Is considered that a good home must he supported by a good farm, and that there can be no proper farming plan unless It is developed on the idea of proper standards In the home. "Both farm and home plans create the basis of careful supervision. They Provide standards by which the supervision can be applied and by which effective results can be obtained. It is the planless farmer, and the housewife who fails to live According to a budget and a system, who comes I to grief." Sumter Man In Auto Wreck R M. Hildebrand, Jr., of Hagood, ? traveling salesman working dut of Sumter, was admitted to the Caindeif hospital early Monday morning suffering from injuries sustained when his car turned over at an early hour ooar RemberL His Injuries are not thought to be serious. It is said bis automobile was a complete wreck. In a 26 1-2 mile stretch between the atate of New Hampshire and the province of Quebec, the United StatesCanadian boundary line changes direction 767 times. Outstanding accounts created by the purchase of automobiles will probably be reduced as much as 80 per j^nt this year due to decreased new "nanclng. mm. r^666 - A'-** i _ . ^ COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS (By Spectator) Ex-Governor Ollu 1). Johnston In the first Ex-Governor to run for Governor Mince the adoption of an amendment to tl?e Slate Constitution which makes a Governor ineligible to re- , election. When 1 say that a Governor is ineligible I am relying on a general impression, though 1 oau't find any law against a second term, even a second term immediately following the tlrst term. If this statement surprises you let's read the constitution. Here it is: "The Governor shall be elected by the electors duly qualified to cote for members of the House of Representatives, and shall hold his office for four yeaVs, and until his successor shall be chosen and qualified, und shall be re-ellglble. Ho shall be elected at tho tlrst genorul election held under this constitution for members of tho General ABBembly, and at each general election thereafter, and shall be installed during tho first session of the said general assembly after h)s election or such days as shall be provided by law. The other _ aLai? officers-elect shall at the same time enter upon the performance of their J duties. Provided, that he shall not be eligible for re-election. Most of us are sure that tho legislature intended to submit an amendment that would bar, prevent and exclude any governor from being eligible to succeed himself, but the language of the amendment, as ratified. and as embodied in the constitution, does not say that. Even if it precluded a Governor from running again it isn't clear whether it intended to bar him forever or just to prevent anyone from two successive terms, ei?ht years hand-running. We need some one to revise the wording of our statutes and constitutional provisions. Our constitution contains many contradictions, all of them due, perhaps, to lack of editing. Some of our statutes, and even constitutional sections would be a reproach to an eighth grade pupil. Referlng to section 2 of Article 4, let me call attention again to the lack of editingMt says that the Governor shall be elected "at each general election thereafter". "VYe have general elections every two _ years. So, don't you see what a confusion of language we have? 'It should be the business of somebody to incorporate amendments so that they will make sense; Just as some one should take out a section which has been repealed by amendment. That may not sound correct ! but any change in the constitution is an amendment, even when you strike lit out What is the truth about the gasoline situation? The government is unfortunate in presenting these matters to the public. We people of the nineteen states under gasoline rationing have been fold that because ofi transportation difficulties we must be , restricted. Others say that the real problem is to save rubber. As I read the news from Washington, and hear oil men talk, neither Is true. Well now, wh,at about it? Take the two reasons given. If the purpose of restricting us is to save rubber, why not save in all forty-eight states; and in all parts of each of the forty-eight states? So, that can't be the reason. Well, If transportation is the problem how do we reconcile that with statements of oil men that we have the gasoline available and ready for delivery? A gentleman came to see me representing a major oil company and told me that the only reason why he or his company could not deliver gasoline as usual is the government's order. The President and many congressmen have been In conference about this. The unrestricted states are resisting the application of rationing to them. Why? Last year we were restricted in our use of power. We had plenty of power for our use; but we were restricted In order to send our power to the T. V. A. In a national emergency we should make sacrifices. Well, of course. But why does not that rule work today with gasoline t Wnot treat us all alike, as a nation, as one people, to share like in prosperity or In scarcity? I do not argue against the rationing as it has been applied to us. There must be a reason for it, but the plan should be applied everywhere. If the western congressmen can save their people from the proper plan to ration the nation, then our war effort is too much subject to small politics. The government ought to consider a course well before adoptjng it, but it should then apply It . to all ajiko- _ - . -. The most Informative statement j've seen about the gasoline situation I read recently. According to it the people who live In southwestern and mlddlewestern United States Tear that<> they are about to be rationed on gasoline while almost wading In a superabundance of It. In the production of 100 octane power gasoline for war planes the refineries skim off the more volatile fractions of the petroleum, leaving great quantities of automobile gasoline as a byproduct. We are making, or shall probably soon make, 100,000 barrels of aviation high octane gasoline every day. That means more than five and a quarter .million gallons every day. When Britain sends a thousand planes across the channel she requires at least a milljon and a quarter gallons of gasoline on hand. Every one may guess, but it Is probable that during the week of the great air attacks, Britain used not less than 10,000,000 gallons of gasoline in all theatres in which she fought. That is a great quantity of gasoline, but it tells Its own story of building great reserves for service use. When America does her full part In the air, the need will , be at least doubled. The fact remains that much of this I fuel In the middle west Is moved by tank cars, which, if used elsewhere, would make the distribution of gas- < oline more Equitable. Today factories of the middlewest" use electric energy generated here.. Either a part of their power; comes' from North and South Carolina dl-1 rectly, or else, comes from sources J which, in turn draw on our power. | Shall we selfishly hold all our power | here, heedless of the great Industrial I need of the war movement- That would be just as logical and Just | as fair as is the course of our western! fellow citlzeps. They object to being' rationed while plenty abounds near them. But they use transportation to get gasoline. It does not flow from the ground anywhere. At every point, it .requires transportation to be avail-! able to motorists. Why, then, should j they go unrestricted, while using the transportation facilities which would help our conditions? The government would do well to proceed on the ground of broad equity, treating all citizens alike, so far as individual cases may be the same. We do not ask to be exempted; we only ask that all be treated alike. Our paval strategy seems to be to hold ships together so as to oppose strength with strength. If we had battleships and cruisers going about singly, the enemy would pick off our navy one ship at a time, just as the British converged on the Blsmark and sank it. No one can object to our strategy. And the fleet must have with it a full escort of destroyers and planes. But we have, or can get, hundreds of small pleasure yachts and cruisers?enough to report on any submarines patrolling our coaBts, Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. In our naval plans we seem to be overlooking the great help which capable civilians could render. There are In Georgetown, Beaufort and Charleston, for example, civilians of yachting experience and adequate seamanship capable of great service in guarding against submarines. Why not mobilise all these men and boats as a home naval unit, extending the call to experienced men in every port? During the depression the total of all incomes in the United States fell to about $66,000,000,000. We had dreams of $80,000,000,000, but the total for 1941 was $92,100,000,000, and at the present rate it is expected to reach $109,000,000,000 for 1942. That is the record for all time. According to the figures, each one of us. Bhould be doing pretty well; the figures show that each one of us must have nearly a thousand dollars, each man, woman, child, white and colored. A family of father, mother and six children would have an income of $7,000 a year at least. But, the statisticians often beguile us into idle dreaming. Throw your shoulders back, put out your chest and strut into your local bank and see if the banker recognises you as a man of big income, say $1,000 jpiead. No, sir; I fear to try that. The banker is almost sure to overlook our new importance as monled men, for bankers never move more tban one foot from firm old Mother Earth. A banker can go into raptures over music, or whoop and yell tumultously at a ball game, but he never shows enthusiasm over loans without security?and he doesn't mean social security. But if he has read about our wealth (statistical stuff, buddy, that's all) we'd better stay away; he might call the loan after reading the paper. Rembert Girl Reported Kidnaped Rural police officers and highway patrolmen were searching today for an automobile said to contain two men in uniform and a girl reported kidnaped by them from Rsmbert. The girl was identified by Sheriff Mabry as the daughter of Heyward Chandler of Rembert and from an informant It waa learned that she was about 16 years old. The alleged kidnaping was said to have taken place in the business district of the town about 60 yards from the Chandler home. A witness said that the mother, who was with the girl, tried to prevent her getting into the car, but . that she was pulled in by the men and taken off toward Camden. The girl was thought to have made plans previously to go off with one of the men in the automobile, the witness added. Tho car was described to officers as being a blue Plymouth with a New York license and two fog lights. ' At Rembert it was said that the men were thought to be from Fort Jackson. The girl's name was given as Rosa Virginia.?Tuesday's Sumter Item. final discharge Notice is hereby given that one month from this date on July 3, 1942. 1 will make to the Prpbate Court of Kershaw County my final returns as Administratrix of the estate of Mrs. Anna Smith, deceased, and on the i?n? date I will apply to the said Coort for a final discharge as said administratrix. | DOROTHY S. HEATH, Administratrix. Camden, 8. C., Jnne $, 194$. Mortality of males is higher than that of females at almost every ago. Farming For Victory Stresses Food First Clemson, June 18.?"South Carolina (arm people are fully aware of their Important part In the war aad they are putting their farms through a conversion program as fast as their resources and the season will allow," Director D. W. Watklns of the Clemson Extension Service said here today discussing the Farming For Victory program. "It .takes a year to make even a small change In farm plans because most crops require the use of the land for one season and once started must be carried through," Mr. Watkins continued. "But in response to the government's request, our farmers have changed their production plans so that they will produce more livestock, milk, poultry and eggs, oilproducing crops, and gardens." Enlarging upon the relation of good gardens to the war program, Director Watklns said: 1 "Gardens are Important in peacetime (and many people knew It and always had good gardens. But an all-1 out war Is not to be won by a nation in which a large percentage of its people are slowed down and always feeling poorly' If not actually sick. The business of keeping all hands well and strong to do what must be done Is now a wartime duty. Now the best scientists In the world have shown without a shadow of a doubt that the fresh vegetables that come from a good garden have diuch more to do with our day-to-day health and vigor than was imagined even 15 years ago. And I am glad to see more gardens in South. Carolina this year than ever before. "Farm and city people should do .more canning this year than .ever before, not filling all the cans with one thing, but following a budget that will give the family a variety all the next year. Until home needs are lip* plied, every can of good food put up this summer will release a can of i commercial food for our men in arms and those men of other nations who are fighting with us, or will create the equivalent in fighting strength at the home front." LEMOCO CSl Hinhrtrt * Sopply fl?)ll) STEEL WORKERS BOOST WAR BOND SALES BY USE OF POSTERS At (be Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant, Bethlehem, Pa* Workers at the vast steel plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Bethlehem, Pa., whose purchases of war bonds are being encouraged by the means of giant posters, at present time are 96.3 per cent buyers of war bonds by means of payroll deductions, it was announced yesterday by Eugene O. Grace, president of the company. Purchases of war bonds by employes at all plants of the corporation have virtually doubled in tbe last three weeks, bringing the number of buyers to 137.000 out of 215,000 persons on (he payrolls. On April 1, when the company launched a drive for 100 per cent participation, only 70,000 workers were purchasing bonds through regular payroll deductions. fourteen plants of the company have scores of 80 per cent or better at present, led by the Leetsdale Fabricating Works, with a perfect record, and the Ranking Fabricating Works with a 99 per cent participation. Of the major plants Johnstown comes first with 98.3 per cent, fol' wed h" Be'Me- | quarries are 94.1 per cent signed up; the Lebanon plant, 92.8 per cent; the Lackawanna plant, 87.8 per cent, and the Steelton plant, 88.6 per cent. In the New York area the shipyard at Fltty>slxth St., Brooklyn, 1h 86.6 per cent represented and the Staten Island shipyard, 84.S per cent. Other good scores are S3.1 per cent at the Preston Mines. 82.7 per cent at the Willlamsport plant, 81.1 per cent at the Sparrows Point, Md., steel plant and 80 per cent at the Sparrows Point "Mnyard. - Help Them Qmbm the Bldod i of Harmf?al Body Wa?t? ( Your kidney* arc constantly fli twins waste matter from the blood stream. Pot kidney* *omettmse lag >B their work- * do not act a* Nature intended?(ail to remove Impurities that, if retained, may poison the system and upset the whole body machinery. Symptom* may be aaulm backache, persistent headache.attack* of diastases. getting ap nights, welling, puffiaem under the eyea?a feeling of aervoaa anxiety and loss of pep end strength. Other eigne of kidney or MadderdJo'1 order are sometimes burn lag, scanty or too frequent urination. There should ba an doubt that prompt treatment Is wiser than neglect. Dee Dees'* Pills. Den*'* have bean winning new friends for seem than forty yearn. They have a netlon-wide reputation, j Ire rnmdtmwdri by grateful/??P*? the country over. Ask yon/ MtfUw/ ? 1 " H _m. - -tZl J.' / *~ ; " - / Keep On Fighting In Victory Garden June in no time to let up lu the tight for a successful and protttuble "Victory Garden", says county agent W. (\ McCnrley, who remind* gar. doners of the need to protect the mowing crops from posts and to provide for late summer and fall vegotables. Three protection suggestions the agent makes are: ? Mexican bean beetle control.?DuHt with mixture containing rotrnone or ? cryolite. Kotonono la UHely to bocomo scarce, and cryolite Is recommended as a substitution. It should not bo used on snap beans after pods begin to form, to avoid tho harmful residue. These mixtures are usually found with local Meedinen, properly diluted for use. ltutonono is a non-poisonous iusectlclde. Spray with 1 13 pounds of undiluted derris dust to 60 gallons of water as often as needed, or 3 pounds of undiluted cryolite to 60 gallons of water. Tomato fruit wArm control.?Apply polKon bait when the first fruit sets and at weekly intervals until four applications huve been made. Mix bait with 9 pouuds of corn meal and one pound of culcium arsenate and scatter lightly over the foliage. Get a copy of Extension Bulletin 102, "Garden und Truck Crop Insects." Suggestions for later crops are: Make successive plantings of corn ?Stowell's Evergreen, Country Gentlomen; bunch beans ? Bountiful, Strlnglesa Green Pod; pole beans ? Kentucky Wonder, McCaslan. Sow seed of Georgia or Georgia Southern collards. One ounce of seed gives about 1,600 plants. Sow in early June for fall crop. | Sow seed of Succession and Lata Flat Dutch cabbage. One ounce ol seed gives about 1,500 plants. Sow In Jane and early July for late fall and winter. Sow seed of Marglobe (wilt raslatant) tomatoes. One ounce of seed gives about 1,500-2,000 plants. Bow BeCd now for transplanting In July. One Killed Result Of Manning Storm Manning, June 16.?A woman was killed by a falling tree and power and telephone lines were knocked down when a two-hour storm, combining tornadlc winds with thunder and lightning, hit Manning Saturday afternoon. The woman was fdentlfled as Ernestine Curtln, who was said to have j been walking from her home Into town when the falling tree crushed her. Coroner C. M. Tblgpen said an inquest would not be necessary. ^ Women who depend upon cosmetics to flatter their individual personalities will take note of the prospective regulation of' toilbtrles and cosmetics and the materials used In their manufacture. Clean Up Property i All parties owning vacant lots that j have become overgrown with weeds and j brush are hereby notified to have sapie ! cleaned up at once. v j Section 56 of an Ordinance of the j City of Camden requiring the cutting of I weeds reads as follows: j "That all owners of unoccupied j premises shall cut and remove therefrom I all weeds before the said weed bloom or I ripen. "That anyone violating this section j shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor." I By order of the City Board of Health. Donald Morrison, i w I HEAL