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i -n mm??' " ^ ? - - <5l|r (fiamiten (Cliruntrlr U09 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JNO. M. CANNON Da COST A BROWN Editors and Publishers SU BvSC R1PTU) N TE RMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year Six Months _ Entered as Second ( lass Matter at the I ost Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. Friday, February 19, 1943 PAY NOW Twenty-rfeven million Americans will soon be paying heavy income taxes that as time goes on will become even heavier. I o all but a mere fraction of this number, personal income taxes will be a new experience. In fact, according to recent surveys, a fcood proportion of these people do not yet realize they have been included ;n the taxable brackets. They are making no preparations to pay taxes. I hey aie spending their money as fast as they earn it. I he Cir<at to government authority and solvency by a mass of potential tax delinquents, is serious. A practical solution is the prompt adoption of a pay-as-you-go arrangement such as the Rurnl plan. Mr. Rumh former dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the Board ot the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, observes that: "Nothing can be gained by arguing that people ought to have saved the tax on last year's income out of last year's income. The fact is that they did not do it and now they cannot do it." Every taxpayer must realize that we cannot survive war, and return to a system of individual freedom unless the government remains solvent. If it is to do that, the people will have to pay taxes and bu^ bonds on a devastating scale. Tax laws must be mercilessly far-reaching and etticient. FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM Most people think of war industries ius those which actually turn out the finished products. But in reality, the plane, tank, ship and gun factories are the vital middle men in a production ohain that starts deep in our coal and metal mines, our forests, and in our vast oil fields where the pumps and refining plants work night and day to furnish lubrication and luel by the billions of gallons to keep the wheels of industry and ot war turning. Natural resources are the key to victory This country has those resources. Moreover, under efficient management, they are imparting raw matrials in tities that stagger the imagination. The genius of the men who operate the natural resource industries, is second on y to the greatness of the resources themselves, logether, they are an unbeatable combination. In the peace to come, they will be the starting point of a new world, just as they are now t'he starting point of our entire war effort. When the last shot has been fired, our basic industries, like free enterprise in all other fields, will turn again to the sole task of creating a fuller, more comfortable life for all. That ' is why we must preserve tree enterprise. It is the key to a better civilization. Jt guarantees both political ami economic freedom to the individual. And the ^ natural resource industries are the foundation of free enterprise, just as our natural resources are the foundation ot our existence a sovereign nation. LIFE OF AMERICA There will be many changes as a remit of the war. But change in itselt is nothing to fear. Constructive change has made this country great. I he fundamental theory of our government encourages conslant chanK<". which in turn lias brought constant progress. "" ' Every man is urged to exploit his talents to the benefit of society, tor which grateful fellow men pay a fair reward. Our manufacturing and natural resouice industries are built on this principle of service Currently they are turning out the machines of war in mountainous quantity. But in normal times they are ever changing, ever seeking for things that will give the rest of us a fuller, more whomsome life. Not only does this hold true in the development of new products, but also in the field of human relations. Men and women who work in industry whether thev wield shovels or pencils, work in an atmosphere of change, of progress It is manifested in a thousand and one small wavs. from better light and ventilation in the factory to new devices for settling differences between managements and workers. Managements change too. Men w no give their lives to building and operating industries are constantly being replaced. Their jobs are being carried on by other men who work just as hard. "From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations," is typical of tfne changing opportunities that sustain the American system of free enterprise. If we destroy individual incentive and its desire for change, the life of America will be destroyed. * *iiifc I. I .? ' 'J!.- - r.i r - . - -------- - j LIVING UP TO TRADITION The medical profession hasn't done a jot of talking about the "sacrifices'' its members are making. And yet doctors, perhaps more than any other group next to tJhe service men, are making real sacrifices in this war. Thousands of them have voluntarily givea up their practices. They live in the foxholes with the soldiers. They fight and die with the navy and the marines. They perform miracles amid blood and suffering. Gone is the business for which they spent so many years in preparation, often on a financial shoe string. The doctors left at home are making sacrifices too. Men who should be enjoying the leisurely aftermath of useful careers are back in harness working at a killing pace. They are on duty 24 hours a (iay?and they don't yell for time-anda-half when Mrs. Jones is having a baby at 8 a. m. The doctors are carrying out the tradition of American medicine in every ? emergency. Their example might well be tt>1 lowed by workers in other fields. Camden's loss of medical men to the armed forces has been greater than that of most communities. We pay tribute to those men of human science who are serving their country so unselfishly. A high debt of gratitude is due the remaining two medicos upon whom has fallen the burden of combating sickness and disease on the home front. Dr. Rhame and Dr. West, together with the other doctors of Kershaw County, deserve special recognition for their tireless efforts in the endless war against "all the ills that flesh is heir to." The' health of our people is the first line of defense?and the foundation on vJhich we will build a greater nation after the victorious peace. ENCOURAGE THE TAXPAYERS Stripped of all political camouflage, Congress faces two inescapable duties in formulating future tax policies. First, a tax law must be perfected which will provide a practical method tor millions of individuals who never paid taxes before, to pay taxes on incomes as earned. Second, the tax structure must not destroy productive enterprise and profit, thereby eliminating tax income for the government at its source. This will not be so difficult to do if politics can be eliminated from the formula. CHILDREN OF YESTERYEAR By B. Wallace Edwards Camden is awakening to the need of a more carefully planned program of activities for the children. A community project, with its organization and officers, includes five committees, each one of which is dedicated to the task of preventing or correcting juvenile delinquency. A recent examination of the file of Camden newspapers for the year 1860 reveals that Camden has long been a community with leaders wfho were interested in the youth of the town. During that year, the editor of The Camden Weekly journal, as the paper of that time for this community was known, was busy writing article after article on the secession question; publishing political news concerned with Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, and reporting suoh news as the outcome of the raid by John Brown. But he took time out from all of this to prepare and publish a little article entitled "Our Children" which was printed in the Tuesday morning, August 14, 1860 issue. That article might well be reprinted now for its value in relation to the present program: "Our children are to fill our places in society, in church, and in state, and the manner in which they will fill them, depends upon the manner in which we educate them. If we train them up in the Sabbath school, for God and Ilis church, they will amply repay us for all our cares; 1)ut if they be trained up for the world, in the streets, in the gambling and tippling saloon, in Sabbath breaking profanity, licentiousness and intemperance, in idleness, in sin, they will dishonor our names and repay us by and by with a vengeance! "How fearful our responsibility! When we consider that our son may make a talented, useful and happy man, respected, and beloved by all around Ihim, or he may make a consummate villian, detested bv the world as a nuisance and a curse, and that our daughter has a corresponding alternative before her. that in the history of both, in all probability there is a crisis, or turning point, when it is uncertain which way they will predominate, and that we necessarily play an important part in tipping the scale, we can't but feel that it is^i matter not to be trifled with, and that every means possible should be resorted to, in order to secure the right drift, and save those so dear to us. As we would have them honorably act their part upon the stage of this life, so let us sedulously aim to qualify them for it." This might well have been written by that far-seeing editor for the current issue of The Chronicle. As in 1860 spoke the sage, so let the sages of 1948 speak, and so hearken the community of Camden that our children might be among those who "honorably act their part upon the stage of this life!" A New Orleans furniture .store is looking into the possibility of using mule-drawn carts to save tires on deliveries of orders. WAR FUND DRIVE By Virginia T. (Jreen Thla In probably not the firm time, ami certainly not (he last time, that you will be uaked to give your attention Jo the publicity concerning the American Itud Cross War Fund Drive. For several weeks, or until our drive is victoriously completed you will be confronted continuously with one or another of the speakers, both men and women, who are giving their time and whatever persuasive powers they possess. to present to you the alms and ambitions of the 19-13 War Fund Drive. Home of these speeches may bore you, and even antagonize you after much necessary Repetition, just as some recent radio plugs concerning "Lucky Strike (Jreen ... " and "The Rest Times of All .have evoked our impatience. Hut please remember, this subject is not one that can be shut off with the turn of a dial-- -not one that can l>e heard and put lightly aside. | This is our 1 tattle just as surely as any battle our men are now fighting. They cannot afford to shirk their obligations. they dare not retreat one step from their objective. Remember their nerves are frayed too, frayed to the breaking point with the blasts 0.' gun tire, not with the pin pricks of mere phrases and consciences. () tr War Fund Drive is not the solo responsibility of the small percentage of people In Kershaw County who are actively engaged in putting it over, 'l itis Red Cross Wat; Fund Drive, that officially opens on March 1. is the individual responsibility of every man. woman and child, regardless of race or creed in Kershaw County. S. C. We must all work together and now is the time to begin. We must prepare the ground, plant tho seed, and j nourish the grow tit of tit is grand cause with an ever Increasing intensity of confidence and enthusiasm. If this is done from our hearts there will be no * signs of ratiomi^g in the great harvest we will reap. it is essential, absolutely essential, that we start this Drive with the right morale. Anything can be accomplished with a positive morale. Anything can be beaten before it is begun with a negative morale. Do you know the A B C's of morale? A teacher and a lecturer I know reduced it to this formula: for character and confidence. B forhrains and backbone, A for action." Now, one | may have character and confidence. ' brains and backbone and 'still not coin- * bine these attributes into the right sort of action. An action that contains the zip and pep which are necessary to success! So this same teacher tossed in the seasonings that make the recipe tool proof no matter who tlie mixer is. just so lie gives a full measure to each item. "Z?zest, I? intelligence. I'1?patience." "P?Preparation. K--enthusiasm I' -persistence." The whole War Fund quota for this year is 12"> million dollars Kershaw County's portion of this quota is 511,60D. ?^,UUU of our quota will be retained for the maintainance of our own budget and work. The balance must go to National Headquartars for their work. To obtain our Victory "we must seek to learn more fully, to care more deeply and to sacrifice more willingly." We can't fail with the right morale as our general! The Fourth Estate Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON GREATEST PAPER IN NORTH AMERICA By John Ii. Casey Professor of Journalism University o? Oklahoma The greatest newspaper in North America is not published in New York Ciiy Chicago has none that compares with it. The larger cities of the Midwest the Atlantic Seaboard. , or of the Pacific Coast know it not. j Even Canada's great metropolises from coast to coast . . Halifax. Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver . . . none of these can boast of it. , Washington. 1). C.? Not even Wash' ington in war time. i For the greatest newspaper in North America wields ten times the influence, is read by one hundred times more readers, carries inestimably more pagps of advertising and wartime Information than any newspaper in any great city in this great continent of ours. The greatest newspaper in North America gets' closer to its readers, is read longer, believed in more confidently, determines the outcome of more elections, exerts a greater power for sane thinking, sells more merchandise. rights more wrongs . . . than any metropolitan daily ever published. The greatest newspaper in North America today is issued in some 10,000 editions, fifty-two times a year, published in some 9,500 newspape.r offices in 7,500 different towns and villages throughout the United States 'and Canada .V. which offices occupy a combined floor space far in excess of that afforded by the great Empire State building of New York City plus that of the great Wrigley building of Chicago. In comparison, the service rendered to humankind by this great newspaper would mako the achievements of any single philanthropic enterprise or of any individual philanthropist fade Into nothingness. We all love to read it even though we havo drifted far from' home. The greatest newspaper In America la the home-town newspaper, better 1 known to most of us as the COUNTRY WEEKLY. With the added influence and added circulation of the weekly's first cousin, the small city daily, the community newspaper's importance in the affairs of this nation, journalistically speaking, is beyond compare. FULL SPEED AHEAD I D. 8. Trauair JM. wss 72n> Courteay Miami Daily Newi I | IN THE MAIL j CI IAREES STEEZL.E New York City February 11. 1943. Mr John M Cannon. Tin- Camden Chronicle, Camden. S C. Dear Mr Cannon I I -hall he glad 10 see thai y^a receive my material regularly, and I | warn to thank you foi your encourag- i iug comments ahout the article#. I have not been receiving the Camden Chronicle, but would be anxious to see the copies which you will edit. Won't you place me on your mailing list so that I may benefit by your paper? Sincerely yours. Ruth Taylor. Editor's Note You're already on the mailing list. Ruth, beginning with this issue. Camden would be a groat place for you to spend your winter vacation. It's quiet here and you could turn out real copy down in Dixie. DAVIDSON KENNEDY COMPANY Atlanta, (la. February S. 194^. Editor Camden Chronicle, Camden, South Carolina Dear Sir: Congratulations to the new management of The Chronicle. Your February 5th issue has just been received and read from cover to cover. Tho composition is splendid, it is fuli of news and the printing is unusually good I have subscribed to The Chronicle for many years and always enjoy it, as it keeps me in touch with my old home town which I shall always 4ove dearly. It gi\es me pride therefore to receive the invigorated Chronicle and you have my best wishes for your continued successful progress. Cordially yours, A. I). Kennedy. Editor's Note. Thanks, Mr. Kennedy. We'll expect you to look us tip when you're in town. Atlanta's a swell city?I know, I married there. ! CONCR ESS OF CN1TED STATES Washington. I). C. February L\ 1943. Dear Johnny; IP re I was waiting for your first issue of The Enquirer when along came The Canulen Chronicle with glory and a picture as big a? tj about your becoming head man doi there. The Chronicle is a good newt paper, and I have no doubt but th you'll make it even better. You tj fortunate to have Mr. Heath withyo I've never known him personally, fa in my nine years in the businegj heard plenty of him. I read the Camden paper regular along with the 12 others in the fif district. It helps me keep in to? with home. 1 know that you'll get a real kit^ out of having your own paper, and hope you'll be very successful | every way. Our friend John Amk is down at Sumter as you probah know, and I suppose he'll be tip | show you how to jump the clrctdi tion to a million overnight and k crease your lineage by 10,000 percfl With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Bob Ward. Editor's Note: We appreciate yoi good wishes, Bob. We hear that ft are doing a "bang up Job" for M Richards in Washington. You've g the stuff. Even..with Super Amick "would be hard to build faster thain are here. We have a request of ya Please see that Mr. Richards do something to continue our Nhrgi School and the public school luncbo We need these agencies in Camde .KERSHAW COUNTY DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE' Camden, S." V. February 9, 1941 Mr. John Cannon, The Camden Chronicle, Camden, S. C. Dear Mr. Cannon: The Kershaw County Civic Count wishes to express to you their app ciation and thanks for the editor which was printed In last wed Chronicle. This kind of cooperafl is what is needed in order to nu this organization and the work wM we hope to accomplish a succes* We wish to extend to you our fie wishes in your work In Camden, I hope that you will enjoy living hP Very truly yours, T Alma B. Salmo'nd, ; Sec. Kershaw County Civic Pound Editor's Note: You can depend' The Chronicle being one hundrei-1 cent behind any civic program < voted to the betterment of the co munity. 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