Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?ijr (Eantbeu (ChrauirU u</u N. Hroiul Street < u"iu'( "' S' PUHIJSUKP EVERY FRIDAY jNO. M. CANNON DaCOSTA BROWN Editors and Publishers SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance ' v $2.00 "n\?Z 1.00 Six Months Entered as Secoiul ( lass Matter at the I ost j ()tTice at Camden, S. C. AH articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. Friday, February 5, 1943 j THANKS A MILLION We wish to take this opportunity to I extend our sincere appreciation to the or- I sanitations and individuals and to the I people at large who have shown sueh a splendid spirit of cooperation and have . given such liberal sup poll to the new management of The Chronicle. j We know from you that you expect a I fair and fearless presentation of the news and editorial views. It will be our policy j to administer such news and editorial cov- j erage without favor or prejudice. ( We realize that a newspaper is a pub- j lie organ and does, to a large extent, be- I long to the people it serves. Ttis the de- I fender of the peoples rights as well as a source of information on pertinent atiairs. I Bearing this in mind we will always welcome suggestions and criticisms from the citizens of this community and from the people we serve. In return for the kindness and hospitality you have extended to us we will bend every effort to place The Camden Chronicle among the leading small newspapers in America. With your loyal support it caij be done! ' JUVENILE DELINQUENCY J It is highly commendable that the al- j truistic citizens of Camden are working 1 out a practical local plan to curb a social menace so prone to develop into a national crisis. It is gratifying to know that our good citizens are imbued with the milk ol j human kindness and understanding that voung culprits who fall into the strong arm I of the law, usually due to the lack of Prop- j er home training, will be educated into the principles of good citizenship. a better word for this training would be REEDUCATION. , . i The Chronicle is deeply concerned j about this social program. It feels that I with proper guidance many of the. t youngsters will become useful citizens and [ a real asset to this or some other community. If there is any program worthy ot evervones support it is < ertainly one that will reclaim the youth < f our land. A ny movement deigned t > rehabilitate children or adolescents, whether they be crippled, criminal, deformed or feeble in(Je| is one that this newspaper will go the tull limit and then some with. We have only one suggestion to maKi. In advance! cases .the guidance of a comnetent psvohitrist-s should be sought. I he State of South Carolina maintains, under the State Hospital, an excellent clinic that tvx?iin adequaxeiy serve this need. I Pis diagnostic and .corrective clinic should meet in Camden twice a month as it does in most of the other towns in the State. Such service would be a great help ill the handling of juvenile delinquency. GOOD SCOUTS In 1918, the Boy Scout Movement in America_-r^ias_iHily^- eight-years old,??I o(jay?and this is Boy Scout W llxT 33. The important difference to the Nation at War is apparent when one realizes that in Uncle Sam's great Army, 2o per cent of the selectees are former Boy Scouts The percentage is still higher in the enlisted brackets?and more than two-thirds of the professional military leaders who attended West Point or Annapolis were Scouts in their boyhood years. The Boy Scouts of America is not a military organization. The ideals for ^ch it stands are the antithesis of militarism. But Scout training produces men?men ot character and decency, men who cooperate for the common good, men who have known Freedom in the fields and on the waters. Discipline and devotion are not new to them, and initiative is at the core of their being. c Colin Kelly was a Scout. So were John James Powers, John^ Bul^ol^v an<* "Butch" O'Hare. Scouting s roll of honor lists countless more. "Be Prepared, was their motto, when they were Scouts. We honor them, and their example, when we share with today's Boy Scouts another birthdav of their organization. Mas it im long and wax mightily, for the good of u> all! . 1 I More than 7 miiin-n people are going j to pav .ncome U n 19-13 .or . "T..1. time. Just how nigh these taxes ul be still a problem in figures for the best mathematicians. The answer is tnat your taxes will be all you expect them to be -and more too! How can it help being that wi:v in view of the fact that our Government has spent the eQul,val^n,^ $600 for every man, womAn and child in the United States, on the war alone. THE END OF THE BEGINNING Watch out! Don't slacken! Don't let the dazzling rainbow of victories won blind us to the fact that the storm is not yet over, that the clouds are still dark above us. The end is not yet. Winston Churchill warned us of that when he said this was the end of the beginning ? not the beginning of the end. And we must take heed. It is the end of the beginning?-of the period of indecision, of the hour in which we woke from dreams of peace to the reality of war, of the days and nights in which we had to reorganize not only our lives but our manner of thought, to reorient ourselves to a world ruled by the exigencies of war. But the end is not yet. We cannot win the war by over-confidence, we cannot assume the game is over when the play begins to run our way. The decision will come at the end of the game when the last play has been made and the last battle fought. We cannot leave the field until the final second of the game. We want to win this war that we may return to what we had. We do not want anything from any other nation. We want only for other peoples that freedom which we claim for ourselves ? the freedom of speech, expression and religion, the freedom from want and fear. We cannot win this war by wishing. We have to win it by work. The quickest way to win the war is the best way to win it, and this means discarding everything that won't, help in the all out effort^To^win the war we must have neither idle hours nor idle dollars. But money is not enough. Production is not enough. Men are not enough. We must add to these that extra effort, that all essential will to win. We must accept restrictions ? willingly. We must do all we can ? gladly. We must not allow ourselves to be caught by Axis inspired propaganda. We must not be spreaders of rumor. We must not be disseminators of hatred toward any of our own people, regardless of class, race, creed or color. We must not be selfish hoarders. Conversely, we must work, we must sacrifice, we rpust fight for the common good. And we must have faith in the ultimate victory, wlhile putting forth all our strength to win. The beginning is ended. Now the rqad lies ahead. It will be rough in many places ?it will go through valleys of depression, skirt dangerous precipices, descend perhaps into quagmires of temporary defeat ?but at the end it will lead, we are confident, to victory and to ultimate peace for all the peoples of all the earth. THE AXE IS THE PATH "The axe is the path into the forest." When the first intrepid voyagers braved the unknown seas to seek a refuge on our shores, they found here virgin wilderness. There were no paths but those created by tihe wild beasts and stall wilder savages. With their axes they hewed out homes,built their villages and erected their stockades. With their axes they hewed a pathway into the forest, felled trees for bridges across turbulent waters, penetrating deeper and deeper into the woods until they crossed the mountains and reached the plains. With their axes they split the timber for the wagons that freighted them to other forests. These they conquered in like manner until at last they came to where the waters of the blue Pacific lapped the western shore. "The axe is the path into the forest." The free man must ever forge ahead into the unknown. The axe is the symbol of his own strength, of his ability to utilize his own talents to carve out his own path into a new world. The path he hews, others will follow, to go on where he leaves off- His is th^ responsihility__ta make-his. ? part of the path run true and smooth, that those who follow after may speed to their own task. "The axe is the path into the forest." We are in the forest of war. Only as j we wield our own axe, lustily and wisely, will we find the path out. Only as we work as did those earlier pioneers, from dawn until sunset will we carve our pathway to the mountain peaks from which we can see the plains of peace beyond. Only as we lop -off the non-essential branches, cut down the poison growth of hates, suspicions and prejudice, level the trees that hide our vision of a free world, can we be worthy followers of those who made this country of ours. As they who preceded us, wielding their axes, built a nation of the free, so can we, wielding our axes, build a Free World. The power is in us. We need but the will to act. "The axe, now a* always, is the path into the forest." YOU MIGHT FIGURE THIS OUT The wise men of Washington and elsewhere tell you about what is going to happen in 1943 and 1944. But Frnie Pvle has been writing home to a string of American newspapers from North Africa, and he reports our Soldiers looking for bets thai Hitler and Mus.-oiir.i will ho licked in April. 1943. The Germans and Italians are facing complete breakdowns in manpower, planes, ships, foods, transportation ami war materials. On the other hand the Allied Nations are stronger today than tlhey ever were before. It doesn't take a military or a typewriter strategist to figure out that American soldiers in Africa are apt to have the low-down on the war. | FIND THE MAN WITH THE MOST WAK BONDS I 1? The Fourth Estate Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON I AM YOUR REPORTER \ I'm your newspaper reporter. You know me well, because I am your second self. While your jobs and responsibilities keep you busy. 1 serve as your eyes and ears. I see and hear for you the many things you have neither the time nor means to see and hear for yourself. Your bank is robbed at midnight. You are asleep, but I am there for you. Your council meets at noon. You are at work, but I am there for you. For you, 1 am all things to all men. The fat politician, the noisy reformer. the hunted criminal, the executive, the housewife, the guy with the pick on the WPA job?I talk to them all. and they talk to me. For you 1 walk through the broken doors of tenements and the marble entrances of palaces. I walk the hard hot asphalt of the ana the cool, soft rugs of tycoons' 'offices. 1 listen when controversies rage.' I hear when self-appointed saviors spout. I 1 see and hear?and impart to you 1 information on which you may form judgment. Thus I help you to vote I wisely, to choose well, and to order; the way of your democracy. Because I live in a democracy. I , am frpe to writ-e^as- l?see aml hear. No Gestapo agent Jogs my elbow when my soft black pencil writes what I have heard for you. No OGPU spy silences my battered typewriter's keys as they clatter out the 'story I have witnessed for you. Few countries own this precious freedom today. I must guard it well. 1 write?fearlessly, dispassionately, without prejudice?whatever I see and hear. It isn't quite history, and it isn't quite literature, but it has living blood. I sift the grain of importance from the chaff of unimportant detail in what one man says or another man does?hoping that I will impart to you a true picture of what goes on in this peculiar world of ours. i That's why. at high noon or at bleak midnight. I am ready at the jangle of a telephone bell, at the staccato chatter of the news tickets' keys, at the gTuTf bark of the city editor. That's why I may seem hardboiled, callous, tough, when I snoop around and ask pertinent questions. I It is because you ynt to see and hear the truth. I am your reporter, j ON THE HOME FRONT As the United Nations get on with this total war, every move at the fronts reflects some effort or sacrifice at home. And every improvement in ' the supply line means a chance to transfer a little more of our abundant material strength to points where It will help flght our battles. A new railway of vital importance to the United Nations, has been built for 120 miles across the scorching deserts to Irap. It was built entirely by the Indian army, with Indian surveyors. railroad engineers and labor, but it will carry British and American Lend-Lease war weapons and supplies to the Russians rolling back the Nazis in a powerful winter offensive. This is a good example both of m? tual aid among the United Nation and of the wide variety of wortl routes taken by Land-Lease supphil to reach their destinations. Although the greater part of reciprocal given by our allies under Lend-Leaii agreements has been in services per formed and military facilities ai supplies provided for our torn abroad?naval, land, and air?tk greatest benefit of all has been til fight which our allies are wagtaf against our enemies. For the benefit of our armed force* and the Lend-Lease countries, n& lions of tons of food?the bulk of I for American troops?must be shippe within the coming year to North Ai rica, England, the Middle East, Ro? sia, Alaska, and other battle front of the United Nations. To all tbes places not much can be sent in tlx way of fresh fruits, vegetables, fresl meats and other fresh foods. Instead the fighting foods must be sent?? pecially canned. dehydrated and dried?in the processed forms thai American ifigmuhy iias aevisefl. In order to make sure that out fighting men will get what food they need and that everyone at home geti his fair share of the remaining can ned foods reserved for civilians, must resort to the "point" system d rationing. \ Fighting men need more food thai they did in civilian life, while we at home, with access to fresh food mar "kers, have much less need of the canned goods. Anyone who finds h* can't buy as much of his favorttl canned food as he would like should remember what these supplies meal to a soldier in the field or lyim wounded in a hospital. ?^ Fine Printing We do all kinds of printing; we don't specialize in any form, but we do specialize in fine work. The finished job is perfect in detail and layout. We try to have ourl customers really satisfied. PHONE 29 For Free Estimates Chronicle Press Perfection Printing m YOUR COUNTRY 4 CAN'T m AFFORD IT! *WWAW tAt Illness ?preventable illness? is a luxury to be indulged in periods of peace. Right now, with a world at war, your country just can't afford to have us sick?or hampered by halfway health. The country needs our fall strength for service. So?let your motto be, "Get Well?and Keep Well!" Don't let sickness drag you down? or keep you down. Go to see a competent physician. Accept his experienced counsel?and bring his prescriptions here to be carefully compounded by our experienced and capable registered pharmacists. ij^HieMEmroBEinwiiMFEEeeES 1 I *' V-jr-k/ r>- - El BHEHHD