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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.
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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
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I got back here yesterday, and go
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May L'S, 194 3 i
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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
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May 7. 1943. '
Camden Chronicle,
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Holding tho Nation In
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Tho crisis through which the *<?u
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editor. More than ever before
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Hon. This xuuat bo done becaua^l |
tho confusion in which thc i
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prominence sometimes irtbUtJ
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information. Meu traluod in
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to the Information the public want*, H,
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ELECTRIC POWER
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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*
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