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Friday, April 2, 1943
SANTEE-COOPER
Just what do we know about the Santee-Cooper
and its proposal to purchase
other utilities?
Unless you know reasons of a compelling
sort for the State to embark on
a great POLITICAL VENTURE into the
highly technical field of electricity it
would be wise to oppose energetically the
commitment of Soutlh Carolina to a K)KTY
MILLION HOLLAR BUSINESS investment.
If you don't know, it you are not
thoroughly convinced, that this is a sound
policy, then the State should not lend its
moral support and legal sanction to a i
dubious departure from the safe and sane
principles of government inherited from
our fathers.
As business men do you think the
State should permit the purchase at par
or book value two corporations whose
parent corporation, or holding company,
is in receivership? Would we not do better
to bid it in at a judicial sale, or auction?
Why all the hurry to buy? Really,
now. should we buy at all?
WHAT'S THE RACKET?
Will there be a Commission for the
sale of" $40/000,000 of Santee-Cooper
bonds?if the Legislature should sanction
the magnification of fc.'ie Santee-Cooper
colossus? Ordinarily, when a syndicate
of New York and Boston bankers buys an
issue of bonds it pays a commission. A
commission of $200,000 on a forty million
dollar bond issue might be in order.
Who is representing the New York
and Boston bankers in this deal? W ho will
get the commission? $200,000 is quite a
tidy sum of money. Can it be that the
New York and Boston bankers can coolly
walk off with those tax-free bonds and
not pay the USUAL commission? It^tV
they are too smart for us; and if not . . . rC
Who would get the commission? X
Perhaps the New York and New Eng- \
land bankers would jump at the opportunity
to buy an issue of bonds guaranteed
against taxation by the solemn contract
of the State of South Carolina. And
for such a good thing they ought to be
willing to pay a stiff commission. If they
were allowed to sell us the stocks and
bonds they NOW HAVE; or exc'hange
them for new tax-free bonds, the commission
should be even greater!
GOOD NAVIGATION
Several days ago this editor, in his
hunt for news and views as well as the
more lucrative display advertising, wandered
into the sanctom of Frank HeatH,
the Skipper who pilots the Chamber of
Commerce, the Public Relations Bureau
and the Camden News Service.
From the several chats I have had
with the Skipper, I found we have a lot
in common in that he was a newspaper
reporter and editor for over 20 years and
lias been engaged in the- Chamber of Commerce
work and publicity tor over 15
years.
In that period the Skipper has picked
up a lot of knowledge, not only of individuals.
but of business routine. He has
some well defined ideas as*to his Chamber
of Commerce feature. Imagine my astonishment
when he began a nautical discourse
regarding the Chamber program.
"You know Johnny," said the Skipper,
"away back in the days when transAtlantic
travel was largely by sail, a
philosopher set down a metaphor to the
effect that the charted course of any vessel
was not a straight line from port to
port but a zig zag record ot a hundred
tacks. Steam navigation has robbed this
observation of its timeliness perhaps but
not of its significance.
"A Chamber of Commerce should
have*a port of destination?a definite
service to its community through the accomplishment
of a specific program. But
the going is often rough; and in spite of
modern methods of organization and management,
the Chamber of Commerce still
operates (for the purpose and meaning of
this comparison at least) under sail rather
than under steam.
"Business world generally is equipped
for steam propulsion?and high-pressure
propulsion, at that. ?So is the Chamber
of Commerce?in theory; but in practice
it is buffeted by the winds of public
opinion, and hindered by the adverse tides
of indifference and financial neglect. It
must "trim sail" more often, perhaps, than
private business enterprise, for the reason
that there are more factors to make direct
progress difficult. Even steam vessels are
often driven off their course. Private enterprises
of major importance frequently
veer and tack. The Chamber of Commerce,
perforce, must do likewise.
"Important thing is to keep moving
in the general direction of the port of destination.
Only those who have never held
the wheel will criticise a zig-zag course.
A wise navigator will avoid storms as long
as possible, and will take advantage of
every favorable current and tide. The
Chamber of Commerce proceeds continuously
among conflicting currents. Its members,
even its directors, often do not agree
on the best methods of readhing its ob- ? I
jectives. Sometimes, indeed, they do not
agree on the objectives themselves. Practices
and even policies are frequently the
results of necessary compromise. Without
forsaking any real matter of principal, the
Chamber of Commerce is obliged to reconcile
conflicting points of view; consolidate
divergent opinions,?steer a course, in
short, that will avoid shipwreck, utilize
favorable currents of public psychology,
and reach port!
"That does not mean (to continue the
marine metaphor), that the ship must always
run to cover. It must be so timbered
and manned that it can go fearlessly into
a storm when such a course is wise and
necessary. The object of the mariner is
to reach his port quickly?but in safety,
with all hands and a full cargo aboard.
Sometimes this means that he will tack and
veer; sometimes that he will ride on a sea
anchor; sometimes that he will run before
the wind ; sometimes that he will go ahead
into the hurricane. At sea, it's a matter of
navigation. In the Chamber of Commerce
it's a matter of horse sense."
WE BELIEVE
"There is no atheism in the fox holes."
To my mind that ringing sentence which
came out of the battle fields of the South
Pacific is one of the most soul-stirring slogans
of the war.
Years ago I heard it phrased slightly
differently. One day in mid-ocean when
there was a heavy sea rolling steely gray
to meet a slightly paler sky, a ship's doctor t
said to me: "No man who follows the sea
can be an atheist. Those wjho live amid
storms cannot help but believe in God."
If this war, to which we are giving all
that we hold dear, were but a struggle
between rival nations for power and land
?an enlarged gang warfare?there would
be no hope for the future. The darkness
would cover the earth and it would be as
it was before the beginning of time.
Hut it is not that kind of a war. This
is warfare between those on the one side
who believe in God and in the God-given
rights of man and those on the other who
deny both the sovereignty of God and the
free will of man.
In this world there is not sufficient
room for those who believe in the dictatorship
of the few and the enslavement of
the many, to dwell side by side in amity
with those who believe in a monotheistic
doctrine?whether they be called Protestant,
Catholic or Jew. The two methods of ,
life are diametrically opposed to one another
and there is no common meeting
ground.
We" will win this war because "we
fight on God's side," to use the great
phrase contributed by an American Negro.
All of us have been brought up to say,
whether it be in cathedral, church or synogogue?"The
Lord is my light and my salvation,
whom shall I fear?" We are not
fighting from desperation, with secret
police dogging our footsteps and a firing
squad ever ready for its hapless victims.
We are fighting voluntarily that we. may
live as free men?free to carry out the
will of Him whom all of us worship, though
in divers ways.
We are a God-fearing nation?not
fear in the sense of terror, but in a spirit of
reverence. We owe allegiance to a God
of mercy, to a God of justice. We fight on
His side for the liberation of the oppressed
and subjugated people. We fight that
peace may come again to earth and that
children the world over may have a Chance
to grow strong and healthy in both body
and mind, learning to put God before man
made rulers, to obey His Commandments
and to put into practice that other commandment.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself."
No, there is no atheism in the fox
holes. And when the powers of evil are at
last vanquished, God grant that the great
upsurge of faith will show us the way to
make an everlasting peace in which all
men will live as brothers acknowledging
the fatherhood of God!
A Montreal inventor has developed
a silencer for airplane engines up to 1,000
horsepower that cuts out 70 per cent of
the noise without causing excess pressure.
Soundings taken at 5,400 feet have
established Lake Baikal in southern Siberia
as the world's deepest freshwater lake.
The utilization of farm wastes in the
making of candy has been reported to the
American Chemical society.
Reduction by 20 per cent in the manufacture
of ice cream and frozen desserts
wili save 2,300,000 pounds of butter in
December, or almost three-fourths of a
pound apiece for every soldier in the U. S.
Army.
U. S. Army training and proving
grounds are contributing five million
pounds of fired cartridge cases a month
as copper scrap.
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The Fourth Estate
Conducted By
JNO. M. CANNON
THE ADVERTISING MAN
I'm the advertising man.
I am the oil 011 the wheels of progress.
They might move without me.
but they wouldn't move so smoothly
or so efficiently.
I am the link between the people
who want to sell and the people who
want to buy. It is my job to bring
people together? to bring people who,
want jobs to people who want help to
bring people who have lost a treasured
possession to people who may
"nave found it?fo bring the person
u ho seeks shelted to him who has
shelter to offer?to bring buyer and,
seller together as a carburetor mixes'
air and gasoline to produce a mixture!
latent with power.
1 am an agent of progress. Who
has built a better mouse trap? 1 am
the signpost that directs the world;
to his door. Are there newer and
better products, newer and better i
ways of doing things? Through mel
the world learns of them. In that
way I serve progress.
The little girl who has lost a be-1
loved puppy, the aging man who
wants to sell out the business to
which he has devoted a lifetime, the
inventor with a new machine or a
new process, the great merchant with
his fairyland of new things to sell?
all these I serve, and many more.
I am alert and aftgreesive. Opportunity
is the stock in which I deal;
I am trained to see it and to discuss
it. From the full-page display ad with
its compelling message, to the tiniest
liner with its whispered suggestion,
I am ready to serve, and untold millions
have found me useful.
They seldom credit me with being
an educator. Rut I am. I te.aeh new
and better ways of doing things. I
am a gadfly constantly buzzing to
prevent people from getting set in
their ways.
In ti business civilization, I am the
sparkplug of business. In a world
where people grow farther and farther
apart, 1 bring them together. '
NAVY WANTS MEN
FOR POLICE DUTY
Men from the age of 38 to 50 may
now enlist in the Navy Specialist (S)
shor? patrol. The applicant must have
had as much as two years experience
in police work and one letter of recommendation
from his present employer
or respective chief of police.
Information regarding this matter
may be obtained from the Navy recruiters
who visit Camden on Saturday
of each week or from A. Sam
Karesk at the Fashion Shop.
Help Them Cleanne the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
kidneys sometimes lag in their work?do
| not act aa Nature intended?fail to remove
Impurities that, if retained, may
poison the system and upset the whole
body machinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
persistedt headache, attacks of diastases,
getting up nights, swelling, pufflneae |
under the eyes?a feeling of nervoua
anxiety and loss of pep and strength. !
Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder
are sometimes burning, scanty or j
too frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt |
treatment is wiser than neglect. Use
Doom's Pill?. Doom's have been winning
new friends for more than forty years.
They hare a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
country over. Atk your neighbor I j
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OUR TOWN
By Jim Could
With the V. S. Armed Forces In
Florida - A lot of tlit* towns down
this way experienced a complete
blackout one night this week. Not
their first but the first one for you*
reporter. It was a grand thrill but
maybe that's because we haven't been
around much.
The sirens started to scream at
S: tr> that night, at first as a warning,
in intermittent?jerks to you?blasts.
This was the alert but it was followed
only a few minutes later with the
long, steady wailing that is at once
frightening and chilling and the signal
for "All lights out." And they do
mean all! We were in a favorable
spot for watching tho city go black
and we shall never forget it. Lights
blinked out in spots. Sometimes a
large group of city blocks would seem
to go black as if the entire section
had been controlled from a single
switch. At other seconds lights1
would snap off from one side of the
town to the other in rapid succession
like dominos falling down. But,
pleiise know, the entire city as far as
these eyetffc could see was absolutely
black In the matter of one minute or
less.
Radios were ordered to be turned
on throughout the blackout so that instructions
could be given. Sitting
there in the dark?we were even
afraid to light a .cigarette?it was a
weired feeling to hear a voice coming
from the radio barking clear, afisp
and firm orders. The penalty for failing
to co-operate is quite convincing.
When the "All Clear" signal came
both over the radio and from the
sirens, lights all over the city camo
on again quickly and it reminded one
of a child that has been taking an
enforced nap but who was quite anxious
to get up and start playing
again, rubbing his eyes in the process.
We can barely imagine the excitement
that comes with a blackout that
is the real thing and not just makebelieve.
The first warning signal to
he on the alert and then the intermln,
able walling f?r the drone of enemy
planes and the terrific impact-rf
many explosions while homes are be.
ing destroyed and lives are being ej.
tlngulshed for the eternal blackout
The horror and dismay of seeing' "one't.
home in ruins and perhaps all or part
of the family gone forever so that
even when rebuilding of the home li
possible it can nover be the same.
All of which leads us to this: Prom'
Army and Navy officials with whom
we have had considerable contact it
the last few weeks we gather the
one general Idea that this war is not.
only far from being won. but will
take a lot of hard work, tough, bitter
fighting. Fighting and self denhl
whether you're in uniform or not
The idea that men in uniform must
do all the suffering and do all th#
fighting is as outmoded as (hi
daguerreotype or Aunt Minnie's corset
cover. The one with the pink
lace. It just won't work and all of
us might just as well start listening
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POETS' COUNETI
THE AMERICA^ ROY
The weather man said the
spring.
Wore flowers, buds and
But wire Hues tangled in kite* ^ 1
airing M
Are a better elgn than tho?e. 1
The surest signs of an early sprl^ a
And the beet beyond a doubt; I
Are the boy pianos upon the wluK 1
And a boy'H shirt lull out. 1
Not the dogwood trees, and bumble. 1
boon,
Nor tho tender buttercup,
But skinned shins, and skuff^ Upi
knoos, j a
And tousled hair stuck up.
With coats and sweaters hare and 1
there. 1
And boys gone out to play; I
This is the sign that spring is here. 1
And the world is young and Kay I
American wealth will vanish )ik?]
steam, *
The gold at Fort Knox be a toy; 1;
If we should awake from u horribli a
dream,
And there be no?American boy.
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I A irYI*? t,I*E I
You know that Doctors ut 1
overworked these days ? with
so many of their essocistes in ?
the Armed Forces. Naturally, --M
you may have hesitated to take
your "little" troubles to a medi*
cal practitioner. That's under*
standabie. But your desire to
"help" the Doctor may, in the
long run, make more work for 9
him, and needless suffering for
you. Don't postpone needed medi
cal attention or counsel, Visit voor I
Doctor before he bos to call on
fou! And remember this "Re*
table" pharmacy when yon H
have a prescription to be filled.
DeKalb Pharmacy!
Phone 95
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KATTY KITTY Says: - I
"Lucy Always Smells Like a Filling Station."
INOt ttiat IvllCV iMn'-f + j?
cleaned regularly r!! J0?8, She bas her clotnea
I cleaning in which the ^ S a Yictim <>* "bargain' II
flirt-logged that it leavpl solvent has become so .V
able and obnoxious odor *arments wi^b an unmistak- j^M
do a betteVj ob?and th ev cleanin? solvents. They I
ass
Palmetto Dry Cleaners, lnc.1
East DeKalb Street. J