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Friday, Mya 28, 1943
DICTATORSHIP BY DEFAULT
There is a possibility that this nation
may go totalitarian by default. Andif that
happens, we will see "the beginning of a
cycle of tyranny and impoverishment such
-as other nations ihave experienced when .
(he individual was superseded by tl\e
State." That is the warning of Eric Johnson,
president of the United States Chamber
of Commerce.
The danger of America going totalitarian
arises from the illusion that government
is blessed with an inexhaustible supply
of wisdom and cash, which can be
drawn on freely without any strings attached
to freedom. It is a dangerous illusion,
a warped conception of democracy,
the result of which has been a staggering
growth of bureaucracy, debt, and political
domination of private effort. It must be
erased before the future can be approached
with confidence.
Our republic became great because
it has always been a land of individual
enterprise. Its people grew strong because
they were free and self reliant. A man
who .had a good idea and was willing to
work to put it into effect, received encouragement
and reward, providing he could
actually give people something they needed
and wanted. Thus industry was built.
Hard work by individuals keeps it going.
Our bountiful natural resources?the oil,
coal and metals so vital to victory?would
still be buried in the ground but for the
individuals who were not afraid to take
risks and back up those risks with a lot
of sweat.
The people of many nations are counting
on this country. The men and women
of America are literally the last hope for
a better civilization. It i.^ inconceivable
that, with the tradition of greatness which
is theirs, they will seek to solve their problems
by following the same tawdry path of
government idolatry that has destroyed
civilization in a large part of the world.
WILDCAT REGULATION DANGEROUS
Human nature makes people do
strange things.
Take for instance the lady who erected
two 50-foot poles on top of her house
because she lived next to an airport and
didn't like to have planes come near her
house. She even left the poles unlighted
15 feet above the obstruction lights at the
boundary of the airport. An airline was
required in the interests of safety to pass
up the city with air mail, passengers and
cargo until the situation was cured.
In one of our leading cities, a man
built a 348-foot stack one mile from the
airport. The city has tried for several
years to have the stack lowered or, at least,
marked with a red light, but so far without
success.
With such examples to draw from, it
is no wonder the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee of the House of
Representatives favorably reported the
Lea-Bailey Bill to amend the Civil Aeronautics
Act and establish some additional
common-sense Federal controls to aid civilian
airlines. Among other things, the Bill
would give the Federal Administrator of
Civil Aviation the power to formulate a
nationwide program of airport zoning to
assure protection of the approaches to airports
from unreasonable obstructions. The
Administrator would be required to cooperate
with states and municipalities.
The greatest'hazards to air travel are
largely due to lack of uniform regulations,
and to conflicting laws throughout the
country. With civilian aviation destined
to expand rapidly, present conditions must
be improved at the earliest possible date.
SCIENTISTS OF PEACE
Medical science has gone far toward
eliminating plagues and epidemics. In the
nations were dying like flies from infecmiddle
ages, when populations of entire
tious disease, the cynics derided the men
who sought to remove the cause of such
malignant evils, knowing that if the cause
was not found, the human race stood to
perish.
War is a plague. It is a disease that
threatens to destroy mankind. It must be
stopped. Idealism alone won t stop it.
Like plague, it can only be stopped by
science, in this case the science of business
relations between nations. Today we have
our cynics who declare that war is "human
nature." And since human nature is unchanging,
there will always be war. They
are no different than the cynics who
thought that bubonic plague was a normal
and inevitable occurrence.
Fortunately, now as always, there are
men who refuse to believe that the human
race is licked. There are men working
night and day to remove the cause of war.
They are not blinded by illusions or ideals*
?they are acientiats in their field. They
are the men who believe that through international
trade lies permanent peace.
Their belielfl m founded on research and
experiment. At present the 'work of these
men is spearheaded by what is known as
the Trade Agreements Act. This Act will
he before Congress in June for renewal.
If it is not renewed, or if it is crippled by
restrictive amendments, the hands of the
scientists of peace will be tied.
The people can have peace if they
want it. When the present war is wqn,
there need never be another war. Never
again need American men leave the girls
they love or the homes and families they
cherish to die for "Democracy." They
need not?hut they most assuredly will unless
this nation wholeheartedly leads the
way in re-establishing peace on a practicable
basis. That basis is trade. The
world 'Wtill build the future on that basis,
or mankind stands to perish Iftrom the earth.
FINANCIAL ADVENTURES
No description applies more aptly to
a smooth type of gentry than does the
term "financial adventurers." Because of
> their practices, increasingly stringent regulatory
laws have been passed to assure
investors a square deal for their money.
As their hunting ground has been constantly
narrowed in the field of private
financing, they have turned to promoting
the doctrine of socialism under which
they encourage cities, counties and states
to go into publicly-owned business such as
electric power projects, which are not
guarded by the laws applying to private
enterprise. Their activities along these
lines are not scrutinized by any Securities
and Exchange Commission, corporation
commission, public service commission, or
any other agency of government such as
has been set up to check on the merits of
< a privately-financed business. As a result,
the field of public financing for electric
power production is wide open to the financial
adventurers who seek, fees and
commissions for promoting such expenditure
of public funds.
In the interest of taxpayers and investors,
publicly-owned projects should
bear the same scrutiny by regulatory
bodies, as does private enterprise.
A PITIFUL PICTURE
Newsweek summed up a recent week's,
news on the food front with dreary words
that have a familiar ring to millions of
consumers: "... There was still no move
in Washington to deal with the critical
food problem as a whole."
How much longer is the country going
to invite disaster by allowing half a dozen
different agencies of government to argue
interminably in helpless confusion? As
Newsweek points out, the OPA worries
about prices, the Office of Defense Transportation
about shipments, the Food Dis**
tribution Administration about allocation,
the Department of Agriculture about production,
the War Manpower Commission
about farm labor, and the War Production
Board about farm machinery. Over all
reigns the Washington war of politics,
with officials of one agency seeking to
grab the powers and prestige of other
agencies, while people in some sections of
the country face food shortages... It is a
pitiful picture for the richest nation on
earth to present to the world. The fault
for its making does not lie with subordinate
officials. They are doing the best
they can in most instances. The real fault
lies with the Executive branch of government,
which has steadfastly followed a
policy of balancing the powers of one official
against the powers of another. No
one has the necessary authority to get a
job done. This policy increases the gravity
fo the food problem.
Representatives of the food industry
have long urged the adoption of an integrated
program which would rank food
production, processing and distribution
together in the category of a vital war industry
under the supervision of a single
administrator.
FACTS FROM ENGLAND
A few facts from England eloquently
tell the story of compulsory health insurance.
Under the British system of health i
insurance a physician has a panel of 1,000
to 2,500 patients at $2.25 each per year.
He may have to see 100 patients a day.
Frequently as many as 60 persons must
be seen in his office in two hours?two
minutes per patient, including paper work.
There is no time for adequate treatment.
If a panel physician keeps patients waiting
too long, they report him to his superiors.
Unlike American physicians, the panelphysician
in England rarely has the time
or the energy to study, engage in research,
attend medical meetings or take refresher
courses.
It is easy to see why doctors oppose
schemes to emasculate the American
medical system. It has its shortcomings,
but fundamentally it is the most efficient,
far-reaching system yet devised. Infinitely
more important, it is a system which inspires
initiative and progress. Within its
tfVamework doctors are free individuals.
Tomorrow, next week, next year, as the i
future rolls into the present, new tech- J
niques and new cures will come from the
imaginative, probing minds of American
medical men. It would be calamitous to
freeze medicine into a compulsory socialistic
mold that would kill the souls of these
men.
Dim-Out
Hy Kuth Taylor
Those who live in perpetual darkness.
develop acuter perception In
other senses. We who are living in
dimmed out cities and towns are developing
an acuter perception, too
When the little street lamps blink
out we draw together in closer companionship.
in a realization of our
dependence one upon the other. Our
sense of neighborliness becomes more
* When 1 come up into the darkened
Pennsylvania Station or when I walk
along the blackened streets of New
York. I notice this new feeling of
friendliness. There is less hurry, less
rush, more politeness, more consideration.
People talk together, where before
they would have ignored each
other's existence. . There is a feeling
of neighborliness in the air. We are
tied in bonds of common danger.
Our manner of living, too, has been
dimmed ont by war. I hose things wo
thought essential, for which we have
fought, are put aside. We are already
ivstrirted in many of our liberties and
we know that before long, we will
have to dim out other privileges.
Hut?-as our eyes have become accustomed
tb the darkened streets, to
the absence of the strong lights which
detract 1*1 from the details of the every
day scene, we have learned to see,
with other eyes, to know what we
truly believed. As the material things
have been taken from us. we have
learned to uso the senses of our hearts
and minds.
Only in material things does the
dim-out prevail. Our faith is not dimmed
out. Our spirit is not dimmed out.
We know that it is up to each and!
every one of us to make this dim-,
out a temporary thing?that it is up j
to us and to our work, to turn the |
lights on again. J
In this darkened period we need to,
be a united people, to hold hands
with our fellow men, to work with,
them regardless of race , or creed or j
color. We are no longer rich or poor,,
worker or employer, black or white,
Catholic. Jew or Protestant. Wo are.!
each one of us. simply Americans, be- (
lievers in a common credo of Dernoc-1
racy, in the freedom of all mankind,!
in the sanctity of the individual.
In the dark hours the barriers of
pride dim out first. We* are at last
free to meet as neighbors, ready to
serve, comfort and befriend one another
regardless or whom our neigh-'
bor may be. I yet us resolve, therefore,
that when the lights go on again, we
will carry this friendliness into our
daily lives, living as bravely in the
light as In tho darkness! j
PULPWOOD NEEDED
(Continued From First Page)
trees should be cut into those products
which bring the greatest return
?but all cutting should follow good
practices. Remember that careful cut-,
ting and protection from fire are Just
as important in times of war as in
times of peace in order that the
wood lands be kept In continuous production.
Harvest the mature trees
and thin and improve the younger
stands.
T r YOU RAN
If OUR STORE...
# It is our sincere desire to run
this store precisely ?s we would
like to hare you run a pharmacy,
if we were your customer. If we
fall short In our efforts to senre
you?or if you have a suggestion
to make for the improvement of
our service, we shall be most
happy to hear from you. Meanwhile,
we hope you'll bear ever
in mind that we are prescription
specialists, offering the services
of skilled registered pharmacists.
Each prescription is filled
from fresh, potent drugs. Yet it
costs no more?often less-Mo
have a prescription filled here.
DeKalb Pharmacy
Phone 95
Mrs. Tindal Named
Service Corps Head
Mrs. Hughey Tindal has been oppointed
director of the Camden
Citizens service corps, according to
I announcement made this week by
Chairman W. It. Bonsai of, the Kershaw
County Council for National Defense.
Mrs. Tindal is replacing Mrs. A. C.
McKain who resigned in order to
take over the duties of the chief clerk
of the County Rationing boaVd.
Mrs. Tindal will be presented to the
Citizens Service Corps at a monthly
meeting to be held in the Presbyterian
church Sunday school auditorium Mon"
day evening. May ill at 8:30 o'clock.
Chairman Bonsai urges all block
leaders and members of the corps to
be present.
ensign trotter graduat.^
IN SPECIAL NAVAL COV|JH|
Charleston, 8. C., May-?j*. A ^
tUH Masseuburg Trotter UtiiJj'i
1608 Lyttletou St., Cumd**, h5J
wan graduated here with &
Naval officers and men i
special training in detecting i}|
?troy lug enemy submarine# R
The anti-submarine tral'ma. J
part of the Navy'a coniprohejuwJlJ
paredneaa program In which riS
dutlbs are supplemented by
Intensive courses in varietur *.1
of Naval warfare.
Ensign Trotter was commbgj
in July, 1942, und has been suuS
at May port, Fla. lie *H8 gradSS
from the University of South CtrB
In 1942 and is the sou of the lauil
and Mrs. T. K. Trotter. ^
COMING ATTRACTIONS1
?AT? j
| Camden Theatre
FRIDAY, MAY28
Alice Faye, John Payne. Jack Oakk
and Lynn Pari T
"HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO*
Filmed in Technicolor i
SATURDAY, MAY 29^
Lupe Velez-Michael Duane i
"REDHEAD FROM MAN?
HATTAN" j
A tuneful tornado from the tropin
sweeps Broadway off its feet!
Added: Smllln' Jack
Sat. Night, May 29, 10:91
"LADIES' DAY" 1
SUNDAY, MAY 30
All-Time, High-Time of ..Muslctj
Entertainment! 1
"FOLLOW THE BAND?
With Leo Carrlllo, Leon Errc|
Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Roodi^
Alvino Hey and Tho King Ststenj
Frances Langford, Tho Kings Mq
Skinny Ennis and the Groove Boj|
MONDAY and TUESDAY.
MAY 31-JUNE 1
This Is Your Picture! J
Unforgettable! Overwhelming!
John Steinbeck's 5
"THE MOON IS DOWN"
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
Joan Davis?She's got that gleu
in her eyes!
"HE'S MY GUY"
Dick Foran, Irene llervey, Fuaj
Knight and The Mills Bros. 5
THURS.-FRIDAY, JUNE34
Maria Montez and Jon Hall Sdt
"WHITE SAVAGE" j
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EVERY DRIVER CAN HELP
KEEP EM HULLING
I
\/l f Ml t'M3 style, U war on wheels. Aien,
T weapons and materials iil.il to victory
uiutil Im) moved swiftly, safely <iud i>iiiioul ili'ltij.
Hut rath ilti) accidents at grade crossings in
America Injuiv im kil| I*) motorists and delay 38
trains a total of 22 hour*?a drain on manpower
?nd lime that a nation at w ar simply cannot alfoid.
Will you, as a patriotic driver, enlist in llio
nationwide campaign now under way to slop
these accidents? Here's how you can he^i;
1. He eclra careful ? wartime careful ?
. hi all your driving.
2. He especially alert when approaching a
grade crossing.
3. He sure the Way is clear Indole you
cross the tracks.
4. LOOK, LISTEN, gjyl^lVE!
Help keep em roiling for victory!
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