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?ljr (Sainton (Sljronirlp 1109 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JNO. M. CANNON Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. Friday, April 9, 1943 FLAGRANT HYPOCRISY Public ownership of electric utilities, which is being promoted by the great taxexempt Federally-owned power projects such as Bonneville, TV A, and others in all parts of the country, is going to be a snare and a delusion to many unsuspecting communities. The minute a privately-owned electric company is taken as a government or municipal project, it is no longer subject to the regulatory or tax laws which apply to all privately-owned electric companies. Taxable assets of that community are removed from the tax rolls, with resulting tax loss to city, county, state and Federal governments, which must be made up by other taxpayers. The Oregon legislature recently moved to tax publicly-owned utilities. The howl that went up from the municipal plants was ridiculous. The manager of the principal municipal plant in the state wailed that such a measure would cause an increase in his rates of 20 per cent, although he would still enjoy total exemption from all Federal taxes. What line of business couldn't cut rates if it* were exempt from state and Federal tax bills? Tax-exempt parasites add to the load of every other overburdened taxpayer. If public ownership (socialism) can competw with private enterprise on a basis of equality, why does it so strenuously object to paying its .just share of the cost Of government, the same ;is any other American citizen or industry? THE PRICE OF FREEDOM Everybody wants freedom. "Freedom" is a popular won!. But. as Eric Johnson recently pointed out in an article in Reader's Digest entitled "Your Stake in Capitalism," you cannot have freedom unless you also have "capitalism." Capitalism is as unpopular as freedom is popular?and therein lies the danger to freedom. It has long been good political strategy to talk about freedom and damn capital in the same breath. Under such inconsistent reasoning our lawmakers have enacted much social legislation designed to enhance the freedom of the individual by establishing wage and hour standards and other economic safeguards, while at the same time passing Ihwh which destroy capital ami threaten the very freedom thew profess to uphold. Capital is accumulated saving* which, put to productive use by private citizens, supplies jobs and opportunities. When private citizens are prevented from accumulating capital and using it to create jobs, private jobs dn free enterprise gradually cease to exist. As Mr. Johnson observes: "... A great many people?in polling booths and in legislative bodies?have thought that you can tax business just as much as you like and still have 'free enterprise' and 1 ' the 'American way of life.' You cannot. Just suppose that you taxed all new savings and all new profits and all new capital out of private hands into the public treasury. W>hat would you have left to be the creator of new jobs? Only the govern- , ment. Only the totalitarian state ... We stand at a solemn parting of the ways. Our business leaders and our labor leaders want freedom . . . But what is the price of freedom? I say it is the capital with which to operate capitalism. Theword is capitalism." Freedom will be lost unless we recognize the truth of Mr. Johnson's words. HEALTH AND SOCIALISM Northwestern University 'has just published a report, based on an exhaustive study made by members of its staff, of compulsory health insurance in the United States. ,The report should be read by every American citizen. It warns of dangers inherent in social schemes that envisage government as the sole dispenser of medical care at the expense of the general taxpayer. It stresses tihe need for treading cautiously lest in a hasty grab for Utopia, social and economic progress be lost and medical standards irretrievably lowered. In its practical application, compulsory health insurance reverses the normal doctor-payout relationship. At present the patient is anxious to get well and get back to work. The doctor too is anxious to secure quick recovery for his patient, lie knows that big doctor bills and lengthy illness do not contribute favorably to his reputation in the patient's mind. Under compulsory health insurance, L'he patient is paid by the government (taxpayers) for being sick. The longer the sickness, the more he receives. A "good" doctor is liberal in certifying clients as eligible to receive cash benefits. On the other hand, an ethical doctor often arouses the antagonism of clients by refusing unjustified benefits. Under the pressure of "free money" t'he integrity of patient and doctor inevitably deteriorates. This is a fact borne out by experience in nations having compulsory health insurance. Aside from a tendency to lower medical standards, compulsory health insurance, if adopted, would be one more irrevocable move toward socialism. Its advocates openly admit that it is but a short step from there to total government dojninaton of medicine. Socialized medicine would result in a vast expansion of bureaucracy, and human nature being as it is, the doctors themselves would be forced to | become politicians as a requisite of success. No longer would medical skill be the sole criterion of advancement. WAAC Recruiters Here Next Week The Army Recruit ing Service will open ;i WAAC Recruiting Office In the Red Cross Booth m front of 'he I'ost. office building Monday, and remain through Saturday in charge of this unit is Sgt I'atil McRrtde. ac t( > 11111.1111 ii I hy t'pl Martin V Mrlnkiey. liotn t!o Ihstrh t Recruiting and In din tu>n I loadituartois in Oharlo'tc Tin- K?'< ruil ing otlicers will ho jo :t><l 11> a member of the WAAC IC-cmiting Stalf from Port Jackson. Tin* WAAC lias been ordered an e\ pansioti <>f from L'.Vmii) members t<> tho l ull st r e n g t h of 1 50.nun members as autliorr/'-d hy I'nnnross. In this new itu r?-as.- thorn arc over Pt.uuo open inits for officers. All WAAC officers are taken troin the enlisted ranks In addition to the officer ratings open there are thousands of openings for specialists ?>f all types Pvery wont at enrolling in the WAAC has an oppor t unity to seenro one of these wellpaying ratings in a vory short time The ?|tin 1 ifii at ions lor enrollment in the WAAC ar.' lie a woman eitl/ei: of the Cuited States in good mental and physical condition between fh< ages of 21 through 4f? Married women are el.gihle if they have no children under II years old Wives of service men are eligible for enrollment and upon enrolling their allotment is continued l!v joining the WAAC. the w ife of a serviceman does not lose hep monthly allotment Women who nr.- interested in the WAAC ar.* urged to con'ai t tin WAAC Bet rutting Officers at the re cruiting booth any day next week Missing Mortar Found At McBee The bundle containing a 21 milli meter mortar that was lost from a transport plane In the flight fron Port Bragg to Camden on Monday March 29. has boen found .J C King of McBee, has reported to tlie Camden News Service that th? gun was found on the farm of a mar named Moving noar the Pnion school which is about five* miles from Mr Bee. The Camden News Service has noti fled the parachute division officers at Fort Bragg who will arrange to secure the mortar from Mr Mozing. MAYOR McCORKLE SPEAKER AT KIWANIS MEETING TIim Kiwanis club held their weekly meeting Tuesday noon at Thomas' Tavern with IS members present. Dr. Charlie Sowell was in charne of the proKram and introduced his speaker, Mayor K M. MrCorkle, who spoko on "English Speaking People Are the | Leaders of the World." A brief talk was made by Rosooe K. Stephens of Columbia, on the coming Hoy Scout drive. Additional guests were: Dr. B B Vincent Lyon of Philadelphia, * 1/t. BenJ. Clettys, Uoscoe Stephens. Kiwanian Jeff Bates and Kiwanlan Mill all of the Columbia club. IK Til F. I \ H FL 1 S T II h II \ T IS MIGHT KNOX KNOX "PERSONALITY" LIGHTWEIGHT $5 In limes like Ihese you'll welcome a hat as fine as this, as rakishly smart, as light, comfortable, and lasting, and with the shape-retaining welt edge ... at such a price. And, believe it or not, this hat bears the famous Crest of Knox. [ /TTr// K 1 Department Store ^ CAMDEN, s. c. r ffi mrtlf03"! \ Xjs T- V. OLOABIA WON HER , V independence. r?cvAt>PAiN IN I&ID UNDER LEADERSHIP OF ' ''^^ ^ ?3^A NEARLY . TH?S AT ^ 5 toTO^ vV'-Jt FEET RICHIE TMtSg. ' TMB REPUBLIC IS THfc WORLD'S -'Ajy CAPITAL AND ONE ?? PORTO SECOND LARGEST PROOUCfcR Jjjf J OF TME GREAT |P COLOMBIA OF COFFCC A PRINK NOW 1 I Cultural cemcwfr is Closer to more than ever^tdq^^ / I OF the NEW worldV New York than good to waste';-#^ l |Has more eooKs^^fmHtR t PLAZA 0 BOtlMAA BOGOTA y, The Fourth Estate Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON HISTORY IS TOLD IN THE WANT ADS When the historian of this period collects his material, he probably will ; turn to the ureal speeches, the communiques. the literature, the songs, and. certainly the excellent, file of photographs that is daily accumulating No other period has had such a complete and lucid mass of material upon which to draw Itut ho should not overlook the hunmble "Want-Ads" in the n nr pages of our newspapers. The American story of lh-13 is set forth there* succinctly (llance at today's newspaper, and you will see, set off in the black border that costs extra and denotes special urgency, nds offering employment to machinists: ".Modi tit plant, ideal working conditions. near city, highest wages." Simi lar appeals to pattern makers anil toolmnkers tell of the acme need for experts in manning democracy's arsenal. A near-by appeal interprets another side of today's industrial dislocations. "Automobile Salesman, Attention!" it commands. Those salesmen now out of work because of auto-rationing are invited to lake a fling at selling encyclopedias. There is dvmund. too. for "I'sed Car Mechanics." I'nable to buy new cars, owners must have "the old bus" repaired. The historian will note that in one newspaper there was sufficient "Male Help Wanted" ads to fill two columns and enough "Female Help Wanted" to fill one column. Help Wanted Whether employers have simply abandoned hope of selling the idea that women's place is in the home, or whether the demand is declining, we do not know, but there are very few Domestic Help Wanted ads; and those, ror tne most purt. are . | mothors' helpers." These ads to vie with e*ch other In offering? i tractive terms: "Own room wta i hath, no laupdry, koo<I wakt*( | child." rends one taken at random |t I doesn't say whether the bath u whether the child has a sweet dUpQ. \ sltion, nor does it define the tuarglm of the word "Good" In relation t0 ^ salary. Hut It does appear that aq effort was tuado to see that the hejp. j er was kept happy, as well as busy One bit of national self-revelation u given by indirection. One of i fountains of American strength iH tii? * desire t?r its people for improvement. So. in one column you will read the 1 classifications of workers needed, ana i in the next you will see the adver-"l tisi-nu nts of schools ready to lrH|(J . the aspiring to fill the jobs The philosophor-histoWuu win ^ } able to comment; too, about the dif. j ficulty of defeating a versatile people. \ Wants?For Sale | Received too late for regular columns FOR RENT?2-room apartment, close ; In. Privato bath. Privato entrance Call 1 f?G or 357j\V. WANTED?To trade 1938 Plymouth coach with good tires, for 1937 or J '38 or later model coupe, or will 1 sell Can be seen at John Lang. 1 fords Service Station. 3P4 1 ?M<???Z\ STORE | We compound Prescriptions. And we are proud of it. We have no quarrel with those tores that feature a wide variety of general merchandise, for they do have their place. But our policy is, and always has been to put the accent on \ PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. The compounding of prescriptions is our primary interest. And because we handle a great many of them, our stocks are uniformly fresh and potent. On our shelves are many items rare and difficult to obtain. That's why physicians direct patients to bring prescriptions here for accurate compounding. DeKALB PHARMACY Phone 95 To The Public: I s Following- our usual custom we publish herewith a statement j showing- the condition of our Bank as of March 1st, 1943?the end of the quarter. Then, by way of comparison, and of interest, we believe, a statement as of March 1st, 1938?just five j years ago. Once again the officers and directors of this institu- | tion extend our sincere thanks and appreciation for the busi- j ness entrusted to our care. Statement l! of the COMMERCIAL BANK OF CAMDEN Camden, S. C. March 31, 1938 j RESOURCES Loans & Discounts $ 137,348.82 Bonds owned by Bank 231,115.48 Other Resources including Stock in Federal Savings & j Loan Association 10,000.00 i Documentary Stamps 204.42 Cotton Producers Notes .... 9,951.31 ij Furniture & Fixtures 2,439.43 Cash & Due from Banks ... 224,965.01 ! $ 616,024.47 >;! LIABILITIES j Capital $ 30,000.00 Surplus 25,000.00 i Undivided Profits 7,256.16 Bills Papable None ] Deposits 553,768.31 j! $ 616,024.47 Statement of the COMMERCIAL BANK OF CAMDEN Camden, S. C. March 31, 1943 RESOURCES Loans & Disc6unts $ 306,154.28 Bonds Owned by Bank 466,375.00 Other Resources including stock in Federal Reserve Bank 17,700.00 Documentary Stamps 458.44 Cotton Producers Notes .... 2,946.26 Furniture & Fixtures 2,986.31 Cash & Due from Banks 758,818 89 $1,655^439.18 \ LIABILITIES Capital $ 60,000.00 Surplus 40,000.00 Undivided Profits 10,055.68 Bills Payable None Deposits 1,455,383.50 $1,555,439 18 ?+ The Commercial Bank of Camden II MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION j ? DIRECTORS ? II W. ROBIN ZEMP JOHN WHITAKER, JR. K. C. ETTER8 HENRY SAVAGE, JR. J. COOLEY QILLIt HENRY Q. CARRI80N F. M. WOOTEN ' I s H