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?Ijr (Stttnftrii (EljrunifU 1109 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J NO. M. CANNON Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year Six Months 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, June 11, 1943 "IN OUR OPINION" How many men have you met who said "I don't know?" It takes a lot of courage to profess ignorance?but the bigger a man is. the more ready he is to admit that he doesn't know everything. Too many people today claim exhaustive knowledge. They are continual critics of every one around them, of those in authority, even when they have elected them ?and they always know just what should have been done under every circumstance. They have to express an opinion on each and every subject. Must we express an opinion? Must we always take time off from important, even if monotonous tasks, to say something? Can't we ever say "I don't Know?" Can't we learn to weigh our words before we speak? If we stopped to consider what our opinion was worth, there are lots of times when we wouldn't jfive it. It is that habit of oursffr always having an opinion that has been played upon by enemy saboteurs. Our boys have died in burning oil on the high seas because we must show our knowledge of sailing ships. Munitions have exploded, shipments been lost or delayed at the cost of lives, all because we must talk, we must express an opinion. W e could have kept still or said "I don't know"?but we didn't. That other saboteur, the propagandist, has also used this habit of ours to further his long range aims. Hspeecrh means generalizations to cover up the lack of facts. We have had an opinion that such-and-such a group wasn't doing its share in the war. (Fill in the name with whichever one you don't like?the story is always the same, only the group is different). Wo have cried profiteer at all groups except the one to which we as individuals belong. We have condemned en nicissc the mistakes of <111 individuHl. And what we have done those like us have done?which is just what the enemy after, a division into groups of an indivisible nation. . . Must we express an opinion. It we must, then let us not talk of the things we don't know, of those things on which we have <>nly opinions and not facts. Let us talk of the things we do know and believe. Let us express what is our real opinion, the opinion that made our nation, that kept it together against hardships such as those who complain the most have never known. e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by thenCreator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. I hat to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. This is the American opinion?let us expiess it in every word and deed! CAN THIS BE IN FREE AMERICA? In Russia they call it Communism; in Germany it's known as Nazism, the Italians pin the name Fascism on it; but here in America its sponsors refer to it as Collectivism. To take liberties with Shakespeare by misquoting him a trifle, but still not losing his meaning: "Socialism by any other name would smell as sour." But call it by whatsoever name you choose, IT is on the march in this country. Its armies are attacking on all fronts. Those of us who still believe in private enterprise, incentive and thrift must needs marshall our full strength, else the planned economy boys are going to take the nation over, lock, stock and barrel. Especially on the legislative fronts are the "something-for-nothing," "divide-thewealth" advocates blasting away at our Capitalistic System. Bill after bill is being proposed in both Houses of Congress, the underlying, motives of which, in most cases very skillfully camouflaged, are^ to destroy some phase of our American System of Free Enterprise. In a recent editorial we discussed one of those neat bits of proposed legislation? the Bank head Bill to subsidize newspapers with government advertising?a bill which, whether such is the intent or not. wou d destroy the independence of the weekly newspapers and make them subservient to Government. It speaks well for the wisdom and courage of the weekly newspaper publishers that they are showing no inclination to grab at this bait being dangled before them. They prefer to starve as free gentlemen rather than to dine as slaves at the government table. Another Bill which tears at the vitals of our American System is S702, introduced into the Senate by West Virginias Democratic Senator Hurley. M. Kilgore? a bill to KILL and GORE-?kill incentive and gore hapless inventors. Its companion in the House is HK 2100; introduced by that arch-enemy of business, Representative Wright Patman, Democrat of Texas. When worse legislation is proposed, Patman is the boy who will propose it. He gust can't miss. This Kilgore-Patman Bill is the "tops" I in a long line of proposed destructive legislation. It presents a comprehensive plan for the most ambitious project to socialize industrial research and technical resources that hatr ever been conjured up. This Bill proposes the establishment of a federal Office of Scientific and Technical Mobilization. That's a high sound-" ing title, isn't it? The OSTM?one more for the alphabetical array of bureaus. At one fell swodp-this Bill proposes to wipe away investoWWxclusive rights to their discoveries as lamHkidicd in the Constitution and heretofore'^iisidered inviolate. The OSTM to be set up by the Kilgore-Patman Bill wqtytd be provided with means by which it niay acquire complete information regarding projects and developments under way by industry as well as by independent inventors. It could then proceed to destroy the fruit of the labors of those from whom the information was acquired, by having the Government itself develop or turn the project over to someone else to develop, thereby vesting the completed invention in the OSTM. No redress would be available to the one who originally furnished the data on which the invention was developed. The Bill provides not only for the piracy of inventions, but it lays claim in advance on the inventors' unborn brain children. This provision for the vesting of exclusive rights in the OSTM would weaken the INCENTIVE given to inventors by the Constitution to encourage invention, and it also ignores INCENTIVE to speculative capital and industry to develop new enterprises which is now provided by the grant of exclusive rights in inventions to individuals and corporations for a limited period of years. We marvel at the audacity, the effrontery of two men elected by their (fellowAmericans to ihigh office in making such a communistic proposal to the people of this country through their Congress. This Bill must be beaten, beate.n..so overwhelm--?ingly, that no one ever again will have the temerity to make such a ridiculous, unAmerican proposal to the Congress of a nation that climbed to such 'heights on the "Sanctity of Property Rights." # THE NEW FRONTIER Every great war opens a new frontier. Prior to the first world war, the frontiers were geographic. The civil war was followed by the great westward trek of war weary men and women looking for new opportunities and a new life. With the close of the current conflict, at least a major portion of the new frontier, like that of twenty-five years ago. will be in the industrial field. BuJ instead of automobiles. it will be this time in the scientific development of the nation s natural resources. Research men of the coal, nvtal mining and oil industries, woiking quietl\ in laboratories surrounded by military secrecy. have lifted the veil of the tiiture. They have seen the new frontier in all its promise, and enough hints regarding its nature and extent have leaked out to start the imagination of the man in the street. The miracles of the sulfa drugs, derivatives of coal, are just one phase of the coming revolution in discovery and ***-" search. Rubber synthetics are multiplying almost by the score, along with plastics and other materials, each of which can easily mean the establishment and growth of an entire new industry. Beyond these is a vast realm of discovery of which the public as yet knows nothing. There is a petroleum synthebic, for example, that is effective for its purpose even when diluted in a ration of one part in 100,000,000; it is handled in a "concentrate" of .01 per cent. / The future will see lOO.OOO^mile tires, 20,000-mile lubricating oil, 50 to 70-mileto-the-gallon gasoline, and sealed cooling systems with petroleum-product liquids in both cars and planes. This country has just begun to grow. Individual initiative and the capitalistic system are inseperablc from the American republic type of government. They have barely begun to flex their muscles. If the way is kept clear, they will make the past seem puny by comparison with the future. The way for future achievements can be kept clear only by a steadfast resolution that in thus country government must not be the sinister competitor of free enterprise This is as true of the natural resource industries as of the smallest popcorn stand. These industries hold the future of a new frontier. It will never materialize except by the efforts of free men under the stimulant of private ownership and management. Some people's idea about a vacation is to spend one month on the sands and eleven months on the rocks. There's no person in the world so ignorant that we can't learn something I from him. When a man thinks he's sitting on top of the world he's kidding himself. Marriage is the conva.lcsce.nce of a love affair. Oil ON THE TROUBLED WATERS i - ^r-A I ! ?BBBMB A jx (}. .... s IN THE MAIL VU_?- -?? - -- ? * j Camden Chronicle. Dear Sir: Enclosed find $2.00 for your much improved and interesting paper. I am blind but I enjoy having your paper read to me. Best wishes, I Mrs. Luke Davis, Bishopville, S. C., R. 3. I> II. Vincent Lyon. M.D. Philadelphia May 1 1, 1943. Dear Mr. Cannon: How did the Victory Ball turnout? How much net profit went to Red Crosp ? Hope you had good weather and a fine turnout, and that Tony Pastor ' gave out" properly to the citizens of Kershaw county. I got back here yesterday, and go up for physical and X-ray examination tomorrow. Regards to MimI and Mrs. Cannon and Mr. Heath. j Sincerely, B. B. Vincent Lyon. Long Island, N. Y. May L'S, 194 3 i Dear Editor: As I didn't get last week's Chronicle I'll bo more than glad to send you my new address. I'm sure that is the1 reason I didn't get it, and I missed it awful. That was the first issue I've missed since I've been taking it. n:nl it was all my fault. I was home two weeks ago on a furlough, visiting my family and Camden. My folks began telling me of things that have happened since I left for the armed services. I told them I had already read all about everything from the Chronicle. That's why 1 like it so well. Yours truly, William It. Watklns. American Red Cross Kershaw County Chapter May 14, 1943. Mr. John Cannon, Editor The Chronicle, Camden, S. C. Dear Mr. Cannon: At a meeting of the Executive Committee, Kershaw County Chapter, A. R. C., a resolution was adopted directing me to express our appreciation of the generous services of The Chronicle and of yourself, personally, in behalf of the above Chapter dur lug the Red Cross War Fund Drive. i With best wishes for the continued success of The Chronicle, and kind I personal regards, J Sincerely yours, j A. Multrie lirailsford, Chr. j{ May 7. 1943. ' Camden Chronicle, Camden, S. C. Gentlemen: i It is with pleasure that 1 send check I for a renewal of my subscription to H The Chronicle. You are publishing an intereethg 1 and highly creditable newspaper, and fl I read it with pleasure each week. Very truly yours. 1 James H. Hoykin. I The Fourth A'atafe")! Conducted By J JNO. M. CANNON ! Holding tho Nation In Every week must bo newi^,B week in America If tho proJ2*^^, hold its Piate of trust In the Tho crisis through which the *<?u is passitiK ia a -challenge t0 editor. More than ever before newspapers must emphasize to* tr!$^Bf in every atory regardless 0f wh*t2Bu biory' lb about, the medium in it lb published or the bite of duK^?^B , Hon. This xuuat bo done becaua^l | tho confusion in which thc i public finds itaelf today. "BH1 (Jovernmeut offlclala In position I prominence sometimes irtbUtJ tized press releases In place of fac^B information. Meu traluod in ing facts to tile public turough iWa^Br newspapers have only limited acc*#] to the Information the public want*, H, ITogrosBive newspapers are cot stahtly developing new sources of formation and methods to get accw-B' ately the news behind the new#. ' Hi The leader of a nationwide civic | organization expresses it ihi8 *#?. Hj "We. the people of tho I'nited Sut<#'^B are confused. We are beginning to I lose faith. Tot) often we have H misled. Too often we are forced toB secure our information Jlroin uu&atb, B i factory sources." J , Therefore this should bo a tin# I of reaffirmation of the ethics of tha.B ' profession. Information that inspire#"? i leadership muHt be grounded In truth, I I simply told, fearleslsy presumed. No H greater service ia possible on auy ^B battlefrout. i j PROTECT YOUR SKIN I 4 U from wind and sun I . Don't let the weather rob your complexion of its appealing beauty 1 Give it protecting care ? and make your v ' powder cling more lastingly ? with Cara Nome Foundation Cream (for dry skin). Vanishing Cream (for normal skin), Skin Lotion (for oily skin) or Finishing Cream (for all types) I At your Rexall Drug Store they will help you choose the most flattering powder base for your skin. CARA NOME CREAMS DeKalb Pharmacy #j||!?? J Phone 95 1 You Don't Have to Stand in Line ... I r ifir TrT ny \ To Buy njzj ELECTRIC POWER , Ji THAT'S TRl, E, even chough the electric light and power ^ industry in America was called on to produce, in 1942, the greatest { amount of electric power in history?189 billion kilowatt-hours I Arui at the same time the average cost per kilowatt-hour to the consumer was lower than ever before! Not only were all the demands of war plants, military camps, naval stations, and arsenals met?but there remained 27 billion kilowatt-hours of electrical energy to take care of the needs of shops and stores, 30 billion for homes, 13 billion for public transportation, street lighting, and other uses. ! - These are tame of the accomplishments of the electric light and power industry and of the electrical manufacturers who build the equipment used to generate, distribute, and ; utilize electricity?working together with the teamwork so typically American. How Wo Holped POWER GENERATION. More than one half of all the electric power generated by electric light and power companies in the U. S. is produced by generators manufactured by General Electric. And such has been the improvement in the efficiencies of rurbine-driven generators that if the electric power used in 1942 had been produced with the machines of 1924, it would have required more than a million extra cars of coal and one hundred and forty thousand men just to mine and haul this extra coal. ? POWER DISTRIBUTION. To have ample power available wherever new war plants have sprung up requires large and highly efficient transforming and switching equipment and the solution of highly intricate engineering problems. General Electric has had a hand, and a Scad, in the development and manufacture of ch of this equipment. POWER UTILIZATION. Building machine*, lamps, and appliance* that put electricity to work more efficiently in factories and homes is one of our most important jobs. The United States has more of these electrical helpers than any other natiot^ In 1942, the average home used twice as much electricity as in 1930, and in those 12 years the average price per kilowatt-hour decreased 40%. This it only a small part of the itory of America'* electrical industry. When the full story becomes history with the passing of the year*, it will reveal a group of men who, with a determination which now seems providential, kept on co-operatively developing nfw and better equipment, increaa,ng generating capacity, lowering costs, expanding service, planning always to be ready for the demands of the future. It ~ will he s itory of remarkable vision and courage?for it all had to be planned, and the work started, years ahead of the need. The next time you meet a man from your eldctric service company, be he the local manager, or meter redder, or spurred lineman carrying out his assignment/in rain, sleet, or heavy winds, give him a word of cscoaraitucflt' kr be i* the who is making it unnecessary for yenr'to stand in line for.electric power. Gtwrsl EUetru C*., Schtmcfij, N- Y* 1 GENERAL # ELECTRIC ? ^ ^ r"