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3I|p (ttamhrtt (Eljrtmtrlr 1109 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBUSHED EVERY FRIDAY J NO. M. CANNON Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In A(1 vance One Year * Six Months Entered as Second Class Matter at the I ost Office at Camden, S C. All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. Friday, May 7, 1943 THE LESSON Most people talk about the last war as though nothing came out of it. They forget that there was time before the First World War, and that the sanguinary struggle ohangedb their lives completely. Debt, depression, new quarrels in place of old, broken lives, disjointed relationships, these came out ot the war but so did idealism, awakened social conscience, a broadening of knowledge, ot opportunity, a self-determination of individuals. But the real benefit from the last war was the lesson we have slov ly leai ned, and which it has taken this war to bring home. As a man suddenly wakens to the meaning of what-be studied as a child, so we as a nation are just coming to realize what we learned in the holecaust a quarter of a century ago?the lesson which, if had we put its precepts into practice, might have given the world a peace lasting long enough to prove the futility of war. We have learned that patriotism is/ not measured by power; that love of country thrives on oppression and that a man will fight more zalously for his faith than for his possession. Wo have learned that we are not the only people, that there are no Herrenvolk except in their own eyes, that the aristocracy among nations consists of those wiho are willing to take responsibility for protecting the rights of the weak. We have learned that we can't solve a problem by ignoring it, that what menaces the freedom of some menaces the freedom of all. We have learned never again to stop a fight before it is won and not to be maudlin with those who come wihining for mercy when they are losing, but who are merciless when their side is on top. We have learned to beware those who never stand on their own actions, but who always seek scapegoats, who always have an alibi ready when they are caught. We have learned that more powerful than "invading armies" is the power of hope for the future. We won the battle behind the lines with the Fourteen Points. That we did not win the peace was due not to the cleverness of others but to our own stupidity. We have learned that no nation liveth unto itself alone?that because we tried to live alone, walking out on the world, we had to pass through a period of distress before we could again have a chance to help establish the kind of world in which we want to live. A lesson came out of the last war. We have been long in learning it and our education has been costly but we can at least say, in the words of Kipling atter another war. "Let us admit it fairly as a business people should. We have had no end of a lesson. It will do us no end of good." NO FOOLIN' BEN FRANKLIN Ben Franklin made a speech before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. He warned the builders ot the Republic against the changes of bureaucracy, saying: "There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not if ho could, follow the example of Pharaah?get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever." Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming in a recent address said: "We do not want the government to run the whole show. The natural and inevitable result of concentrated power is the limitation of growth. We must realize that though the government may create debt, only the people can pay it. Production by the people is the only dependable source of government revenue. The supreme task of the democracy, therefore, is to enable the people to produce. The only alternative is some form of national solialism." When the "king" (the government) referred to by Ren Franklin, goes into business in competition with private citizens, the seeds of national socialism have been planted. That has already happened in our country. It remains to be seen to what extent the people will cultivate this alien crop. If they permit it to flourish, it will swallow their money, their lands, and leave them and their children its servants. This nation resulted from individual ambition and enterprise developing the natural resources of the country?with government the servant, not the master of the people. Remember Ben Franklin's words whenever some one talks about the government going into business in competition with private citizens to furnish service "at cost." When it does that, the people go out of business, national socialism is established, and we all work for the government instead of ourselves. It becomes the master instead of the servant. FOUNDATIONS FOR TWO FREEDOMS . Under-Secretary of State Sumner Wei lea, in urging that agreement* baaed on the principles of the Atlantic Charter be reached by the United Nations before an armistice is signed, so that among other things rehabilitation measures can be undertaken without delay, opens up a subject on the successful solution of which the future welibeing and prosperity of our country and the world, depends. "Freedom from fear?the assurance of peace," says Mr. Welles, "and freedom from want?the assurance of individual personal security, requires all the implementations which the genius of man can devise through effective forms of interna* tional cooperation." Peace?freedom from fear?cannot be assured while war threatens anywhere throughout the globe?and until nations jointly exercise police powers to prevent armed hostilities. Freedom from want, Mr. Welles points out, depends upon people being able to find useful work continuously and to exchange the things they produce for things other people can make. The problem of removing obstacles to fair exchange is more difficult than the problem of production. "It will take much wisdom, much cooperative effort, and much surrender of private, short-sighted and sectional self interest, to make these thugs all come true. Hut the goal is freedom from want, individual security and national prosperity." As one of the first steps in carrying out such a program, the world will be watching to see whether Congress takes favorable action on renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, next June. Efficient and continuous production and fair exchange, which the Act encourages, are both necessary to the abundance which we seek, and the responsibility for maintaining a pattern of procedure rests more heavily on the United States today than ever before. HATS OFF TO RETAILERS The retail merchant has become the man in the middle?in the middle of that no man's land?where a fighting government collides with a fighting, consuming public. Both of these fighting elements are allies, bui like most allies they don't get along too well sometimes. A spoiled public which has been in the habit of getting what it wants when it wants it from an incredibly efficient retail distribution system, cannot be expected to don the halter of shortages and be led about by dictatorial decrees without kicking the daylights out of a few regulatory fences. Unfortunately the retailers upon whose shoulders fall the responsibility of explaining and applying the restrictions, are the ones who get kicked most often. For that reason it is only fair to give them a pat on the back occasionally. They deserve it. Retail distributors have shown amazing ability to interpret and put into practical operation literally thousands of new wartime merchandising regulations conceived by lawyers and experts with little or no merchandising experience. Most of the regulations carry heavy jail sentences and fines for violation. Laboring in the shadow of stiff penalties, thousands of merchants throughout the country work out the rules as they understand them, often without benefit of legal advice, and put them in force* They know it has to be done or the distribution system will break down, bringing disaster to the country. They try to explain this to customers, while striving to get the government to simplify and ease inequalities in the rules. Neither the public nor most government experts actually comprehend the heavy responsibility which retail merchants bear in helping to maintain economic stability during the emergency. Consumers should be slow to criticize the retailer for inconveniences over which he has no control. The government should constantly seek to make burdensome restrictions less onerous. BALANCING ECONOMIC POWER By Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahonev That the democratic philosophy of social, political and economic organization is now facing its greatest test-, no one, I'm sure, would be bold enough to deny. The danger, however, is far greater than that which is represented by the military power of the Axis. It is to be measured bv the extent to which the ideas of the authoritarian state have-spread, even subconsciously, among our own people. In America there are people who believe that democracy and the capitalistic system are outmoded and who are confident that out of the war will come a new social and political order based upon the principles% of totalitarianism. The task we must assume when the war is over will be not only the restoration of civilian industry, but the restoration of authority of the citizen over his government and over the organizations through which his economic needs are served. Public debt, in the years to come, will challenge the loyalty of our people to "the American way of life" in a degree greater even than the challenge by which they are now confronted. We must realize that though the govenrment must create a debt, only the people can pay it. Production by the people is the only dependable source of government revenue. The supreme task of a democracy therefore is to enable the people to produce. The only alternative is some form of national socialism. ROAD CLOSED _TO INFLATION The Fourth Estate Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON NEWSPAPER IS BEST BUY IN THE WORLD, SAYS ROGER BABSON By Roger W Bab son Babson Bark. Mass -The public has come to rely upon advertisements. In countless instances, people make it u practice to read the ads first and the news stories second. Naturally, there is some waste in advertising, but 90 per cent of it is good. Generally, the individual or firm which foots a bill for advertising expects his ad to "'pay its way." The return In merchandise sales per dollar spent for space is carefully watched by retailers and other advertisers. In certain types of copy featuring the sales of shoes, dresses, and various other articles of consumer goods, a merchant can determine an hour after his store opens for business whether or not the advertisement is a sue-1 cess. | The average reader accepts his newspaper as a mattev of course.1 Newspapers are. however, as important to their communities as are municipal conveniences and services. A newspaper is the greatest buy in the world All newspapers, regardless of size are highly educational. Unlike other great institutions of learning, however, they tire not endowed and must be self-supporting. Naturally.] what keeps a newspaper going is its u d v e r t is i n g re venue. Our newspapers make it possible for us to have each day not only our local news, but information from every point in the world. Washington certainly owes a debt to all newspapers whether editorially they are "for or agin" tho administration. Rationing and other government controls could not bo put into effect without the free publicity given by the press. The government might well underwrite a series of advertisements prepared. through regular agency channels. to keep the people informed on what is going on. After all, as it has been said before, this is the people's war. They are paying the bills in life and property and have i right to know what Is going on. The experience advertising nun are now having may rPyult in an entirely new concept of the job tiiat advertising in newspapers can do. Many manufacturers are carrying on a sensible campaign of paid publicity with no chance now of getting their money hack through increased sales. 1 hope many other firms will take advantage of today's opportunities to emphasize stories for bhe public good as well as to place emphasis upon sales type of copy. Yoe, I am optimistic for advertising both as a business and as a profession for those who will stick to it "rain or shine." C/\RD OF THANKS To tjhp many friends, both white and colored, who contributed in anyway to helping us during the death of my i husband. Dennis Tucker, we gratefully : appreciate what you did. May the richest blessings of our Heavenly j | Father rest upon you and His aburtd-1 ant grace keep you. 1 7pd Mary Tucker, wife. Thirteen billion dollars?the ' sum the Treasury must raise 1 in the Second War Loan drive, j is only one sixth of the est!- ' mated cost of the war for the fiscal year of 1943. t I ^35^ ?how-Off Creamy leg lotion "Sol Flattering, casy-to-usc leg tint .. . looks like the filmiest hosiery you ever wore! Won't streak, water-spot, or rub off, till washed off with soap and water. Tussy Sbou-Off saves stockings...saves money! 6-oz. bottle 50<. Plus tax. DeKalb Pharmacy Ph?M 95 POETS''CORNER A Prayer For The Day**? Grant mo, O I-<ord. tho strength to4u1 For ovary taak which comes tny ? Cover my eyes and make mo blind*'* To potty faults I should not tbS ^9 Open my eyes and let mo see 9 The friend tny nelKhbor tries to be Tea oh me. when duty see ma severe 1 To see my purpose totalising clear' 1 Let me at noontime rest content ' The half-day bravely lived and anew I And when the night slips down, let 21 B Unstained and' undlahonored be J? Grant me to live tills one day tbrotuk Up to the best that I can do. ? ? Kdgqr A. GUe? MY OLD HOME 1 And 1 have come yet once again to I stray Where erst I strayed in childhood*? Oh, 'tis sweet fl To gaze upon the dear old landscape! ? Here ' ? My thoughts first reveled in th0 wiW 1 delight Of new existence! Hero my infant I First dwelt on Nature In her lovell fl ness; '9 The golden flash of waters, the brleht 1 flowers 1 That seemed to spring in very want- 1 onness From every hill and stream, the a earth's green leaves, The moonlight mountains, the bright fl crimson gush, I That deepening streamed along the? skies of morn, And the rich heavens of sunset! Here I I loved To gaze upon the holy arch of eye ? In breathless longing, 'till 1 almost! dreamed That I was mingling with its glorious fl depths, A portion of their purity; to muse Upon the stars through many a lonely I night, ? Till their deep tones of mystic mln*! instrelsy Were borne Into my heart, to list at I morn 9 The gentle voice of song-birds to'! their joy Lifting on high their matins, 'till my! soul Like t die Irs gushed forth in music,? and to look I Upon the clouds In beauty wandering-? The det-p blue zenith, 'till my heart, 1 like them, Went far away through you high fl paths to"seek The home of thought and spirit to ? the heavens. ,1 ?George Dennison Prentice, fl William Sarovan is the first play, fl wright to receive the Pulitzer and I N\ Y. Drama Critics awards. 1 A boy bicycle bootleg band has been fl broken up In Pietersburg, Souto I Africa. EVERY DAY IS AT PENNEY'S! ^ TO the millions of American mothers we speak today with feeling. Bringing up a family is the hardest job in the world and J. C. Penney's knows itl So to mothers of tiny babies?of school age youngsters?of fighting men?we speak. If your problems never seem to end ?if the war has multiplied them? remember, many of them can be solved at Penney's. For the Penney platform has always been to simplify mother's family shopping job ?to treat mother's family budget with courtesy and care. You'll find at Pe nney's the finest in Socks and Shirts ? Blankets and Bonnets?Fabrics and Footwear. These?and hundreds more! Not in the same wide selection as in other years, but the best that war conditions permit. At Penney's we have never made deliveries, or carried charge accounts, or operated costly stores. Mothers know that the economies made potfible by this policy mean low prices. So, Mothers, we greet you and ask you to believe that every day is Mother's Day at Penney's!