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Otye (EantiU'tt flUjruuirlr 1109 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBUSHED 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 Mutter at the Post OtficC at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. '.,v Friday, April 16, 1943 FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER? A letter from members of the 750th Tank Battalion, Company A, at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to workers who recently struck in a war industry, said in part: "We feel deeply hurt to think you would let the boys overseas down. Just what do you think would happen to this country if the boys overseas would sit down, and quit fighting, because they just make $50 a month? We need more fighting equipment. What do you Americans want? .Moro money now and slavery later, or less money and freedom/ Just think how some of your sons and brothers over there would feel if they know you were selling them out, and that's what you are doing when you stop production. There is a bible story of a sell-out for $0 pieces of silver. ReAd it. NONE TOO SOON There are growing indications that good news is in the offing for civilians. The retail distribution industry may be relieved of some of the voluminous regulatory red tape which is now hampering operation. This means, if it actually ^ oc' ' curs, that merchants can spend more time meeting the needs of customers and less time filling out government blanks. It would also mean that the regulatory authorities are beginning to realize that a smooth functioning retail distrbution system is essential in these critical days. Government spokesmen have been crying for greater efficiency and better utilization of manpower. We have heard grim warnings of a labor draft, yet government has been a great offender in causing a waste of manpower. The distribution industry has pleaded for simplification ot rationing and price controls. Retailers are desperately short of able employes. But attainment of greater operating efficiency has been difficult because of cumbersome government regulations. In recent months, the problems ot distribution have grown to proportions that actually threatened a breakdown m the movement of necessities to consumers. Retailers have warned officials that the steady drain of key employes by the military services and war industries, and unworkable price and rationing controls, must be corrected. If streamlined operating rules for the merchant are actually in the making, they will not have come a moment too soon. The next step should be prompt clarification of the draft status of key employes. The merchants, the farmers and the business men will give everything they * possess if need be to win the war. But if their efforts are to succeed, government must give. too. It must give cooperation and intelligent control. BUREAUCRAT'S DREAM Humanitarian idealism often outstrips common sense. Such is the case with plans for compulsory health insurance. Perhaps the most startling revelation contained in the Northwestern University report on compulsory health insurance, is the extent to which bureaucracy would expand under a government health insur- ^ ance program. As the report observes, there are between 50 and o5 million gainfully employed persons in the United States at the present time. This with members of families and dependents, would swell the number of potential beneficiaries to over 100 million, depending, of course, upon the type of coverage embraced in the system. Approximately 50,000,000 cases would receive medical attention each year in the United States. All of these cases would have to go through the process of certification, filing, inspection, payment, complaints. and adjustments. If an adequate staff and organization were provided, it would mean an army of government employes. In the words of the report: 'To practical politicians . . . such an expansion in the number of Federal employes means primarily one thing, namely, patronage, patronage for whatever political organization may happen to be in power ami a patronage tliatvwould surpass anything that politicians hnyo- dreamed of in the past." . . Congress ls struggling to curb bureaucracy, well knowing that unless it is curbed the American form of government will be destroyed. A broad compulsory health insurance program would make the bureaucratic menace virtually uncontrollable. If a woman does house work for $4 per week that's domestic service?-if she does it for nothing, that's matrimony. ? i mm THE RIGHT APPROACH FVice Administrator Prentiss M. Brown deserves the wholehearted cooperation of all citizens. He speaks a language which our people understand and appreciate, instead of the "$ 10,000 fine and 10 years in jail" lingo. When enlarging the rationing program, Mr. Brown said: "The necessities of war have once again compelled the government to ask the American people to bear the burden of another rationing ,prograin. I should like to ask the foreb&arance of the public . . . while the trade is adjusting itself to new demand and supply conditions." That's the American way. Freedomloving Americans should cooperate 100 per cent. REMOVE THE MILLSTONE NOW The Florida National Bank of Jacksonville has been running some striking newspaper advertisements on the necessity for changing the Federal income tax laws to meet present day needs of the taxpayers. , , One of its recent advertisements said: * "Remember how a few years ago the government solemnly talked about 'Freedom from debt . . . freedom from want . . . freedom from fear, etc? "The 'Freedoms' theory is.a great one ?but why doesn't Uncle Sam practice it with income taxes? Instead of treeing his taxpayers from debt and fear, the present income tax system perpetuates a peculiar type of peonage because the taxpayer is never out of debt. ?? * "Last year's income taxes hang around his neck like a millstone. Let's adopt the pay-as-you-go plan now and make the 'Freedoms' an actuality rather than a pretty theory." THE LION'S SHARE The investor of $100 or $500 in the stocks or bonds of an industry in our country, has a tremendous interest in the nation's tax policies, both national and 1OCH1 The Southern California Edison Company is typical of electric properties owned by thousands of small stockholders. Vice-President Mullendore of the company said that with war absorbing more than half of the currently produced wealth of the country, enormous tax bills can be expected. To show how the government depends on the earnings of private enterprise, Mr. Mullendore said: "Whereas last year our common stockholders received only $1.50 a share as dividends, taxes equaled about $5.25 a share." He then pointed out that by comparison with publicly owned electric utilities, which are financed with public credit, and whe'h are wholly or partally tax exempt, private electric companies bear an unfair tax burden. Also, he stressed the unfairness of applying the so-called "excess profits" tax to the earnings of a regulated utility, for, under public regulation, utilities are not permitted to earn more than the rental value of capital?true "excess profits" are prohibited. If government wishes to continue to collect the lion's share of the earnings of industry, it should correct inequalities in tux laws which can ;destroy private enterprise. CONTROL BUREAUCRACY NOW Advocates of a socialized bureaucracy invariably introduce their schemes as part of broad, benevolent programs that are hard to criticize because superficially they sound so good. Always they are represented as coming direct from the heart of the masses and are therefore an inexorable demand which it is undemocratic to oppose. . Most of these schemes, as their first objective, seek to destroy private ownership and management of basic industries. Basic industries such as mining, electric power and oil are the bulwark of free enterprise. They are easy to attack for the simple reason that they seem remote from the welfare of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. Actually if they should fall under domination of boards and bureaus and patronage-loving politicians, the end of individual liberty for all of us will be n sight. A bureaucracy that controls a people's source of jobs, soon lays a heavy hand on personal freedom. That the people of the United States want no part of alien bureaucracy is abundantly clear. Robert Watt, a labor leader of great prominence in government, has said : "After this war, I want no gigantic governmental Reconstruction Finance Corporations to finance business and dominate it; and I want no gigantic governmental Works Progress Administration to employ labor and dominate it." And again, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has warned: "If this country ever gets a system of governmental regimentation, labor will suffer most. Labor, therefore, is deep-ly interested in t'he preservation of private business; and labor should everlastingly maintain that the owners and managers of business are entitled to a fair and just return upon their investments." Americans want to remain free under a regulated capitalistic system, protected by constitutional government. They must not be fooled by the false promises of the get-something-for-nothing philosophers. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of a powerful feeling. "They Give Their Lives-You Lend Your Money" i i ... . _ ? OUR TOWN By Jim Gould | With the U. S. Armed Forces iu Florida.?Odda anxl Ends: The boys down at Key West say it isn't any hotter there than you'd expect only you should expect quite a lot because you'll get It. We were down that way for a day and at one of the local, ordinary restaurants we paid 95 cents for scrambled eggs, toast and something the waiter called coffee. Ix>cal Inn keepers have gone money mad as is the regrettable case In so many places where military men are staPloned, and a room at his alleged hostelry that normally rented for one or two dollars?and probably still does to the natives?now comes at six, seven or even eight. Imagine, eight bucks for shut eye. That's a buck an hour. The old park bench has come into its own once more and the cops close tholr eyes to the practice. Such conditions are, of course, disgusting. Like the Flack market. Human beings?that is some human beings?will do anything for money. Witness the quislings. A young navy ensign who is down hero for instruc-j tion in celestial navigation tells us that the little county seat town where tie' has been stationed in Ohio is 110 exception, so all the jipping isn't confined to any one section of the country. He says the merchants' in this Ohio town are really doing a job on the boys in uniform and he doesn't mean just a once over lightly. Rut good! And it isn't just the little merchant that is dipping his greedy fingers into the bountiful profits created by a war. The big fellow is right .in there batting, too. One of America's most famous and exclusive department stores recently carried a page ad in which was the usual display of women's finely. This part of the country swarms with Air corps men and their families and this merchant wants to be right in step so he advertises something absolutely new in women's more intimate garments known as a "Dra" in such lovely colors as Air Corps Gray, Nurse White and Navy Iilue. Paaalileese ! ! ! During World war one a lot of us very young and very smart boys over in France thought we wore really slickers \%hen we bought Schraft's chocolates at the Army Canteen and took them into the town of Vichy \v<here the civiliar population hadn't so much as seen candy for two years and, of course, where they would pay n^ost any price for sarafe We would go to a cafo and spend the precious pieces of candy?and no one In this world loves chocolates like the French ?as If they wore gold coins. One piece of chocolate for a glass of wine. Another for one of those pink drinks that made you got chummy with the Captain, etc., e?tc.f ad Infinitum, ad nauseum. Yep, just a bunch of wise guys. Well, we find this hero new war ain't no different. Some sailors here have been wondering at the tremendous popularity of one of their boys. A little, short, pug nosed guy we will call Joe. All the gals were( going for Joe and Joe was the kind of a boy that moves right In and grins like Andy Hardy. His pals figured no one could be that good so they sleuthed around and got the dope. Little Joey has been bringing the gals a pound of butter now and then, interspersed with some coffee at frequent intervals. Joey had access to the precious stuff in his round of duty and there you are. That, being illegal, besides making the Old Man on Joey's ship very, very unhappy, is why Joe is now in a place where he is lucky to get even bread and water for himself. Hiya Joe whattayaknow! But seriously, the boys are really working hard. That Ensign we mentioned was up there in the second stanza says he has from Saturday at 1 p. m. until Sunday at 7 p. m. off each week. He has to be back in quarters at that time on Sunday so as to get in throe hours of study before lights out and be on the ball next morning. And this Sunday he has to be back at 4 p. m. on account of because ho has to take over as O. U. 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