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flUjmntrU 1109 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J NO. M. CANNON * Editor ' SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.00 Six Months - 1*00 Entered as Second ('lass Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. Friday, July 2, 1943 THE FORK OF THE ROAD There is a great deal of speculation as to just how high our national debt can go before it reaches the point where the interest on it can no longer be paid, to say nothing of reducing the principal. If we had the prophetic vision to see in just what month and year the war will end, we could arrive at a fairly close estimate of what our post-war national debt will be. We do know, however, that if the war continues to the end of 19*15, the total national debt will be somewhere between 800 and 350 billion dollars. Let us hope and pray that 'hostilities will cease long before that time, but as there is strong possibility that we cannot dispose of Hitler and Horohito before then, let's face the probability that Uncle Sam will emerge from the war owing the staggering, almost incredible sum of 350 billion dollars. Can we support such a debt? Can we redeem such a debt? O. Glenn Saxon, President of the Pennsylvania Economy League; Professor of Economics, Yale University; and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the American Economic Foundation,^ writing in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, says that we can redeem such an enormous debt, "if we have the political courage to attempt it." This eminent economist sees many obstacles to be hurdled it we are to avoid repudiation of t'his debt and eventual dictatorship. He sums up the possible situation as follows: "At present, in light of various overambitious, unofficial post-war plans, the future is not too reassuring. For instance, assume for the moment a national income after the war of 100 billion dollars and a gross national debt of 350 billion dollars. The state and local governments are spend- . ing 9 billion dollars annually; the Federal expenditures over the past 10 years averaged 8 billion dollars. This makes a total of 17 billion dollars for ordinary expenses of government. Add 6 to 8 billion dollars for interest on the post-war debt, between 10 to 20 billion dollars estimated for "Cradle-to-the-Grave" social security, 20 billion dollars for the post-war armed services (as estimated recently by Vice-President Wallace) and 1 billion at least for veterans and dependents. This totals to about 70 billion of the 100 billion dollar estimated national income without .allowances for debt redemption, world-wide relief, and other favorite projects. There's the major cause of most of the doubt. MERELY TO TABULATE THE COSTS SHOWS THE ABSURDITY OF THE PROGRAM." To borrow a phrase from New York's ex-Governor A1 Smith, Dr. Saxon has "looked at the record"?and that record proves conclusively that we have to abandon most of t'he grandiose schemes for social security and Government hand-outs in the post-war period. Most certainly the Federal, State and local governments cannot tax away 70 per cent of the national income in order to balance the budget. We thoroughly agree with Dr. Saxon that "merely to tabulate the costs shows the absurdity of the program," which the starry-eyed, impractical dreamers have planned for the post-war period. The peace will find us at the fork of the road. One sign-post will read: "This road is a rocky one. It is paved with thrift and economy. It's up hill all tho#wav, but it can be traveled, and it eventually will bring you to that -desirable destination o;t balanced budgets, debt redemption, democracy and freedom." The other signpost reads: "This road is a smooth one. It is paved with waste and sloth. It's downhill all the way. It is easy to travel, but it finally will bring you to the most undesirable destination of unbalanced budgets, debt repudiation, dictatorship and slavery." Which fork will we take? SANITY IN THE WAR EFFORT The American people should gratefully applaud, and the United States Senate should loyally approve, the recent action taken by the House of Representatives to inject order and sanity into the war effort at Washington to deliver the administration from its festering plague of radical bureaucrats and to preserve for the nation its institutions of free government, a free press and free enterprise. The House has recognized that there are two aspects of the war to be dealt with separately?the military aspect and the civilian aspect. In military affairs the Representatives (have ungrudgingly supported the high commands of the Army and the Navy. On the same day when the Senate was pawing a bill, previously passed by the House, appropriating $27,637,000,000< for the Navy, the House was receiving from its Appropriations Committee still another bill to appropriate $71,510,438,1^3 lor the Army. Such gigantic sums as these have never before been provided by any government for any purpose. The armaments w<hich the money will make have never been approached?the Army Air Force alone is to receive an increase of 99,740 planes. "The cost is frightful," said the Appropriates Committee. 4tThe figure is, almost unbelievable." None the less, the House of Representatives knows that America intends to incur the necessary costs of victory, no matter how stupendous those costs may be. And, likewise, the House knows?and has shown that it knows?that the American people, while accepting the well-nigh incomprehensible burden of war, are not willing tp be plundered and pilloried and suppressed any longer by office-holding bureaucrats and politicians who have been impeding the war effort by misusing it as their unauthorized opportunity to establish, by tricks and devices, a totalitarian system of State Socialism in the United States. For, on the self-same day when the Navy bill went through the Senate, and the Army bill was presented to the House, the House passed a third bill, one appropriating $2,800,000,000 for the eighteen home-front war agencies. In voting upon this single measure, the House, by emphatic bipartisan majorities, took these decisive actions: First-?The House granted $130,000,000 for the Office of Price Administration. But it wrote into the bill strict amendments to confine the OPA within proper and legal limits and to make the OPA an efficient machanism of war government. It forbade the use of OPA funds to pay subsidies or to pay the salaries of employes engaged in extending subsidies. In similar language it outlawed the OPA program of grade labeling which would destroy quality brand names on merchandise and deny the public the right of choice. Finally, the House acted to exile from the OPA its radical lawyers, professors and other radical theorists and functionaries responsible for its outraging procedures and its administrative ineptitude, and to put price control and rationing into skilled hands of business men capable of doping with such affairs. The House accomplished this last vital purpose by the simple method of prohibiting the use of funds to pay salaries to any persons engaged in the price-control program who have not had at least five year's continuous experience in the trade or industry affected. Second?The House of Representatives, likewise, appropriated $28,972,504 for the overseas activities and foreign war propaganda of the Office of War Information. But the House voted to abojish the Washington bureaus and 42 domestic branch offices of the OWI which have sought to control the press, the radio and the films in the distribution of news, views and comment relating to governmental affairs, and to occupy these channels of public information with its own partisan radical and political propaganda. Representative Joe Starnes of Alabama, presented the issue of public information involved by declaring that "America needs no Goebbels or Gayda in Washington." "I think it's an insult to the intelligence of the American people to have foisted upon them the kind of propaganda put out by OWI." Mr. Starnes said. And the House agreed with Mr. Starnes by a vote of 218 to 114, virtually two to one. Two or three New Dealers who rose in defense of the OWI were humiliatingly laughed off the floor by their colleagues. Third?The House of Representatives ordered that the National Resources Planning Board be abolished by January, allowing $50,000 for its liquidation, and ruled that none of its activities should be transferred, assumed or continued elsewhere in the Government. This board has been formulating an "over-all" program to socialize America. The war agencies appropriations bill has gone before the Senate for action. If the Senate should pass the bill? and the Senate ought to pass it as overwhelmingly as the House has done?it will be an historic event. It will mean that a free congress has saved the freedom of America on the homo front while our valiant service men are saving our freedom from foreign aggression. Never again will the menace of creeping totalitarianism and "bloodless revolution" rise in our National Capital as it has lately risen over us. Much has been heard at Washington about a "roll back" of prices and profits. The House of Representatives has started a "roll back" of infinitely more importance to America?a "roll back" of New Deal communism. Now let the Senate complete the regenerative process, and this Congress will have earned a place in history as one of the bulwarks of liberty and progress under the Constitution.?Baltimore NewsPost. An expert is a man from out of town. I FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF U. S. Treasury H WOMEN'S COUNCIL FOR THE COMMON GOOD Right after the present session of Conttnss convened, Congressman Filltiter introduced a hill calling for all the taxes, restrictions and discriminations removed from oleomargarine or margarine as many prefer to call it. By this time, many housewives who had never heard of this product aro now using it. By fall there will be a much greater shortage of butter and' yet the butter lobbyists persist in keeping all the limitations to sale light on in spite of a national crisis and food shortage. What action can he taken to push the Fulmer bill, so that all of us may have a substitute which the Academy of Medicine has termed "nutritionally equal." What is everybody's business is truly nobody's business and so if we sit calmly by and let the other fellow all upon us to do our hit toward this piece of legislation, it will not be done. We aro all consumers and our children are consumers. Wo have grown accustomed to the lactic acid taste of the oil contained in butter fat and we all need oil?whether it be taken as the Eskimo in whale oil or in the tropics as cocoanut oil, our systems require a certain amount of oil. If we are going to hav? any butter substitute when we cannot buy butter, then we must make a fight along with the margarine manufacturers, the cotton seed crushers and the cotton farmers to put the Fulmer bill through right away. It isn't enough to merely do some wishful thinking. But into action today your effort for a righteous cause. Any person can address their congressman or their senator. He is in Washington as your representative. Write him and ask his support of this bill. You are expected to call upon him when you want things. You certainly want this bill passed for your own protection and for the protection of millions that can never afford the price of a pound of butter. The First Baptist Church Sunday services will begin with Sunday school at 10. Worship at 11:15. with tho pastor, Rev. J. B. Caston, Oiling the pulpit. Evening worship 8:30, with Rev. Matthew Rabon doing the preaching. FRIED CHICKEN IN NEW STYLE Some like their fried chicken cookmi dry and some like it wet?but all like it if they appreciate good food. Here's a method, sort of in between, to please all: Allow one 2 or 3 pound chicken to serve four. Cut up fryer, wash and chill. Sprinkle with flour, salt and pepper and brown in small 'amount of fat placed in frying pan. Transfer to baking pan. add one-quarter cup boiling water and cover. The chicken will take about an hour to cook Turn several times for even browning. Make gravy with drippings left in the roasting pan. Wants?For Sale Received too late for regular columns FOR RENT?5-room house, unfurnished. on 713 West Laurens street. Camden. For information, phone 325-W. Mrs. B. Harry Baum, 1335 Highland Ave. 15pd FOR RENT?Upstairs two room furnished apartment, private bath. Specially suited for cadet and wife. 416 Chesnut street. Phone 59. 15cg LOST?Bunch of keys on ring, between Post Office and Camden Theatre. James E. English, Post Office. 15pd Beloved Dr. Caston] Begins His 15th YeJ With Local Church! Has Witnessed Phenoiacil4|l Growth During His 14 I Years Here. By The Skipper ' Sunday. July 4, will murk an 1J portant milestone In the life 0f r~B Joseph B. Catriop, beloved pastor III the First Baptist church In thla ebvfl for on that day. Dr. Caston will betkfl hlu fifteenth year sh head of the iwj Street House of Worship of the tlst faith. nHi DurlnK the 14 years Dr. Caston ul presided as a guiding spirit In thi' lives of the members of the Baptist church, he bus Been UaH church grow from a congregation ?2H BOO to 750 and offerings increase fro9 ' $4000 yearly to $14,500, the lattMH figure representing the amount <3 1 ceived in 1942, Dr. Caston came to Camden fro^H Bamberg, where he was a pastorS^l the Bamberg Baptist church for^B throe year period. The church boM 1 at Bamberg was reluctant to let go, a delegation from the congreo^l lion, headed by the present supr^S' court judge, Jesse F. Carter, makii^B a personal appeal to him to remain In observance of his start of'tyB I fifteenth year as local pastor. n?B Caston will on Sunday deliver a g^B1 mon at the morning worship whlc^H will deal with his observations durlu^l his fourteen years In Camden. Dr. Caston Is one of Camden's moBi beloved clergymen. His courteous ao^B kindly ways, His friendly smile u^B handshake, his always present deslB i to comfort and aid those in troubi^B and distress, has won him the esteu^B and respect of every man, woman u^B child in Camden. With The Sick I Rocky Bonsai, Jr., son of Mr. Mrs. W. R. Bonsai, Green street, j^B a patient at the Camden hospttal^B* E. J. Ingram of Cheraw, is receii^l ing treatment at the Camden hosplta^B Mrs. W. R. Denton, East Hamptoi^K street, is confined at the C&md^H^ Mrs. B. S. Aldret, Hampton stree^B1 is Improving nicely at the Camdi^B hospital after a two wooks Illness, -1 ' Henry Carl Sanders Is a patient i^B the Camden hospital. ~^K Mrs. Joby Hough Is receiving medi^K cal treatment at the Camden bo^H' Mr. and Mrs. James W. Tribble, j^K Hampton street, announco the of a daughter, Margaret Emily, Ju^K 29. at the Camden hospital. Tribble is the former Margaret Dob^B bins of Greenville. Mr. Tribble ls^^a civilian instructor at the Sonthet^H: Aviation school. ?? BARGAINS For Quick Sale J Slightly used, solid mahop^H any, vanity dresser and lof^B poster bed to match. Life-^J ; time furniture. Camden FB Company PhOTel56^^B TO THE PUBLIC: I In accordance with our usual custom we take great pleasure | ^ in submitting, herewith, a statement showing the condition of this bank as of June 30, 1943, and, once again, we ex^en^ V^J ] our many friends in and around this community sincere thanks^B i for their patronage and support. A ? Statement of Condition of COMMERCIAL BANK OF CAMDEN June 30, 1943 RESOURCES | Loans & Discounts $ 315,760.64 Bonds Owned by Bank, State&Municipal 154,371.00 U.S.Governments 460,956.50 615,327 50 Documentary Stamps 372.08 i Other Assets including Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 17,700.00 Furniture & Fixtures 2,986.31 f Cash & Due from Banks .... 598,139.24 i $1,550,294.77 LIABILITIES ^apitaI $ 60,000.00,1 Urp'US 40,000,0^1 Lndivided profits 13,517.73 - 1 'BlUs,Payable Nofae DePOSita 1,446,777.04 _ $1,660,204.77 The Commercial Bank of Camden 1 Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation * Member of the Federal Reserve System ?DIRECTORS? ?! -s.-rff-.- ' W. Robin Zemp Henry Savage, Jr. K. C. Etters John WhIUker, Jr. Henry Gt Carried"_ J. Cooley Gillis - -V * '? f*rtfilB