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NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All pattlea Indebted to the eetat? of Koubin Itranham are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all partleH. If any. having claims against the said estate will preaent them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. Fannie A. liranhaiu. Administratrix Camden, H. C.. July 7, 19-13. Id 18p NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate of K. \V. Mitchum are hereby notified to make payment to, the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims Against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. Mrs. Gertrude M. Zemp, Kxeculrix. Camden, 8. C.. June 23. 1943. 1116 South Can Conquer Industrial Handicaps The Fortune Magazio Declare* * h Handicaps Must Be Removed. From The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg) Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of Hrtlcles on tiie Industrialization <;f the South. The Heath's wartime industrial gains can he preserved and extended after the war only by the removal of tlte economic handicaps under which it has lived since 1K05. Fortune magazine declares in its July issue. Pointing out that a further increase in industrialization will help the adjustment of Southern social problems. Fortune asserts that Just as the Month's industrial facilities have about doubled during the war, so has its awareness of the difficulties of maintaining these gains after the war. "Informed Southern leaders," Fortune explains, "do not expect greater Industrialization to polve automatically the Deep South's problems, economic or social. They do see In Sfrit a chance to put the progress made so far on a sound economic busis. "The Negro problem, true enough has a psychological basis that wealth alone cannot completely uproot. Uui little more can be done with the problem until the South achieves a fair degree of prosperity, and a poor white does not have to derive satisfaction from being superior to another race. "The new industrialization is a step toward what Southerners wanted for years?a broad economic basis for the solution of apparently insoluble problems. For the first time Blnce the War Hetween the States, almost any native of the Deep South who wants a Job can get one. "The manpower supply has grown 'so lean that even a Negro can get a common job ulmost any time he wuiitM to. White raeu ami women are moving from service Jobs into factories. Negro waitresses and elevator operutors, who lost out in the depresaion in moat of the Deep South, are again becoming commonplace. "Thla kind of 'upgrading' haa stimulated race friction, which may be explained in terma of fear of the day when war enda. More important-*?and remarkable- ia not that there hue been trouble but that the trouble haa occurred on bo amall a acale?that an clont prejudlcea bud hubita are being bypassed with ao little event.^ "Hut now Southerners are worried about how they will keep their new InduHtrialization?and expand it?In the face of what thoy regard aa ob Htaclea imposed from the outside. "Southerners aver that one reason for the inadequacy of their markets la the II. S. protective tariff. Foreign countries retaliated with tariffs on U, H. cotton, among other things. So Southerners could neither export all their surplus cotton nor buy cheap foreign manufactured goods. The tariff imposed on the South by the North, in the opinion of many a lead lug Southerner, was the greatest de vice for the exploitation of a region ever invented and put into operation by any civilized nation. "Equally if not more unjust today, Southerners insist, are the handicaps on Increased industrialization. One iu the freight rate structure, which riot only keeps Southern industry from competing in Northern markets, but discourages entrepeneurs from starting industries except as employers of cheap labor and hence at the cost of the Souths buying power. "Another handicap is the North's almost complete financial control of the South. The South has been a victim of absentee ownership. Southern ers say, ever since the War Between the States. "It seems imperative." Fortuno states, "to maintain and increase the level of the South's industrialization. As a first and major step. Southerners hope to see freight (and truck) rates altered before the 1944 elections. It still costs 50 per cent more to ship an auto storage battery from Jacksonville, Fla., to Washington, D. C., than from Chicago to Washington, sltf miles farther. "From war's beginning through Feb. 1943, the government's investment in plant and facilities in the Deep South amounted to only 7 per cent of the national Investment in war plants during the same period. Worse, most of the large war plants are Northern ?owned or Northern-operated, considered as branch factories, and many may be closed In a post war retrenchment. Still worse, approximately half the prime contracts were accounted for by ship yards, few of which hope to have much postwar business. "Though the South will have gained a pool of semi-skilled labor and marhlne tools, these may mean little," Fortune warns, "unless somebody arises with a workable program for making and distributing industrial products. "The Tennessee Valley Authority lias put cheap power at the top of the list of Southern advanatges. has made possible the development of vital wartime light metal, plastic and chemical industries. It has increased the average per capita income in the Valley 7f> per cent since 1933 I against a national Increase of 56 per cent.) ''Without more of this, a blind postwar trek back to the farm may occur. The trouble with traditional farming is that it probably never can employ ar-'. -jh1 ..'.iijjau .. . mpi-m?h?-??=rj all tho Southern farmers efficiently. I 'oht war development of farm machinery will doubtless throw thousands inter unemployment. Development of a more dlversl(j?d ?agrlculture, to be sure, may result In a greater demand for inuppower; but* die South's single #K>p system has been so inefficient that an efficient diversified farm ecouomy would prob ahly demand few more men. "Today's racial troubles are nothing beside what muy well occur if Negroes and whites go back to their old status after the war." Fortune continues. "For postwar dispersion and displacement are bound to follow race lines. Unless more plans are now made, there will be few jobs, and whites vylll probably hang onto most of them. And the Negro can hardly avoid Interpreting the systematic displacement of bis race by the whites as a centradltlon of everyhting he has been told the war was fought for, "Six million of the Southeast's 17 million people are Negroes. The fundamental fact to remember is that the white's attitude toward the Negro Is not peeular to the South?tho attitude there is merely more Intense and less conscious. A second thing to remember that the white South was for years and years united in ltB basic attitude toward the Negro, This unity of viewpoint, contradicting the poor white's own economic interests, was born with slavery. "Southern politicians still run the race issue rugged. In constantly harping on white racial unity, demagogues have probably kept It more lively than it otherwise might be. "Negroes are having a hard enough time getting economic opportunity. Tho President's Committee on Fair I Employment Practice held enough hearings to establish proof of general racial discrimination in southeastern war industry. I "Nevertheless, the economic level ; of the Negro is being considerably bettered. And the unity of whites ugalnst Negroes Is not what it once was. Developed in a feudal agrarian South, it has tended to soften up partly ss the result of union activity. 1 Since 1935, it is estimated, nearly one million white Southerners have Joined trade unions with 100,000 Negroes. "The bulk of white Southerners have no objection to the Negro's attaining a greater degree of economic opportunity, and many favor political equality. Southern Negro leaders met at Durham, N. C., last fall to propose a plan for Improving race relations. Last April a similar group of white leaders met under Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, to frame a reply. The two groups plan to Issue a joint statement. "The South has probably come further in the past 25 years than the rest of the nation. While other parts of the world were slipping into an orgy of visceral reactions, the South was developing a remarkable capacity for self-criticism and even some tolerance for ideas alien to its tradition. While totalitraians were perfecting the art of legal lynching, the South was gradually abandoning illegal lynching. Whereas the South used to vent its emotions in bombast, it has been changing them into some of the tnost arresting novels and stories in the language. "The question is now whether the Deep South can hang onto and increase its gains?as it must if it is not to slip back further than it has come. Southerners believe the job will be terribly difficult unless the handicaps are removed. And most know that politically the time for thotr removal is ripe." FINAL DISCHARGE Notion is hereby given that one month from this date, on July 29, 1943 J Team Oettys will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County his final return as Executor of the estate of Mattie T. Oettys, deceased, and on the same date he will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Executor. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate Camden, S. C.. June 29, 1943, 15-18 Horse chesnuts get their name from tlio fact that ancient Turks found them useful as a drug for sick horses. An automobile speedometer will not register properly unless the tire pressure is up to the specified point! Index of Merchandise At Barringer Hardware | Asbestos Paper;?You tell 'em. Auger Bits?L' sizes. Axes?Yes. Balls?Base, foot, basket, soft. B. B. Shot?I'll. huh. Bikes?Victory Model. j Blades?Hack Saw, yes. Boilers?.'10 gallon. ! Brooms?Hood selection. Brushes ?Scrub, paint, steel. Bulbs?House and Flashlite. ' Canners?Coining. Chain?Now I'sed for Anchors. Chick Feeders?Few. Cory?Makes good (H)ffee. Chore Balls?Hone to war. Clothes Line?Hope. Wire. Combinets?Some Times. Crescent Wrenches?Out for the I duration. i Dish Pans?You bet. Electric Irons?Gone Bye-Bye. Files?Flat and saw. Fluorescent Bulbs?Sure. Forks?Hay, manure, spading. I Garbage Pails?All gone. j Garden Plows?No. Galv. Pails?Gone to war. Gifts?You bet. Glue?It sticks. Grass Seed?No. \ T Hampers?Good selection. Hose?I.adies, no. Garden, a few. Lawn, yes. Ironing Boards?Yes. Lamps?Electric, a few. I Oil, several. Milk Palis?Now and then. Mops?Your choice. Nails?For Hitler's coffin. Nursing Bottles?Try drug store. Poultry Fence?See AAA. Pyrex Ware?Most items. Radios?Sold out. Rakes?Garden. Lawn, Stove. ! .1 Saws?Some kinds. 8coops?Sonio day. maybe. j Smooth Wire?9, 12, 14 size?. Picture Wire?Hang It. Step Ladders?4. 5, 6, 7, 8 foot. Wagons?All wood. , Wash Boards?All wood. ; Wheelbarrows?Gone.'^Ti Wicks?Plenty, lamp and stoves. Barringer Hardware Phone 21 I Merchants Sluggish; Kendalls Grab Tilt By 9 to 4 Count Robinson Stingy With Hits While Merchant* Register 8 Errors. Nosed out in the first half race in the City Sof t ha II league by the Merchants team, the Kendall Mill gang took sweet revenge in the initial battle of the second half schedule Tuesday night, routing the Merchants by a U to 4 score. It was a bang-up game with" the Kendalls playing fine ball, listing but one minor error, while the Merchants, usuully full of pep, were sluggish and erratic, kicking the error column for eight boots, the big majority contributing to the opposition scores. Reuny Robinson, flashy shortstop of the Kendalls, gahered four hits out of five times at-bufund scored three times. Arthur Robinson kept pace with his brother by scoring three runs and gathering two blows. One-arm Artie Robinson kept the Merchants under control throughout the nine rounds, giving up but four hits, all singles with the exception a triple registered by Rowell In the ninth. Outstanding in the Merchants lineup was Ruddle Bruce who did some brilliant roving in the sort field. Buddie gathered In five difficult drives. Tne sensational play of the game came in the seventh when Carol Cox made a brilliant catch of Threatt'a long drive to deep left. All gumes in the league scheduled for last week were rained out while the game scheduled last Monday between the Home Guard and the Maintenance team went for naught when the Home Guard and their rivals failed to produce sufficient players to go Into action. Because of a dearth of material In the Guard ranks, the team on Tuesday announced its withdrawal from the league. The Bureau of Recreation will continue the program into September with a five team loop, which means the teams will get more games to play. Team R. H. E. I Kendalls 9 9 l Merchants 4 4 8 Batteries: Robinson and Harrison; Cooper and Hancock. Outstanding I{?Zj1 Made By L. E. SnSftl Lew Than Half the fi,e| ^1 Year Before, and Aireftge I Much Smaller. AccordluK to statistics of the otm ty forestry service, the year ci<2U,l June 30, was one of the moat iT*I standing In the history of the unti I During the yegr there were a 1!\ . I of 125 fires hahdled by the fQr?J| service under the direction of Co* , I Ranger L. B. Smith. This Ih than the preceding year. Thd It,<AI I age Involved last year was 1,9753**! against 7.876.6 the year before or decrease of (.900 acres. *1 Prosecutions however showed Increase indicating the alertness im! efficiency of the ranger service wl the year just closed there were SI arrests wRh 20 Convictions or an j I crease of 9 over the record of tlafl previous year. This Is most lnterest.1 Ing In view of the fact that the touil fires was less than half listed in tj*| 1942-43 report. County Ranger Smith in discussal the figures shown in the annual re.I port stressed the fact that he sail his workers had been extended the I finest of cooperation throughout thai county in their efforts at fighta.! fires. H. Brown Discusses I Dangers of Inflation! "Are we losing the fight against In I flation?" This is a question propounded br| Marry L. Brown, general agent of the! Farm Credit Admlnlsratlon of Co. | lumbia, which serves the CarolinuB Georgia and Florida. And in answer! to his own query, Mr. Brown has thefl following comment: "Some folks nuy| think that the President s order ts| hold the 'line' applies only to tbecoshl of-living front. But there is mors| than one front on which Inflatkafl threatens." "What are these fronts?" he the! was asked. } He answered: "Land prices art! rising and this fact is borne out tqrl figures which show that for the 11M months ending March 1, farm realH estate prices nationally were 9 ptr| cent above a year ago. In this district,! the average per cent of rise wasafat| the same. ! "But this Is only one front, higher! incomes and cash accumulations ar?! making buyers willing to pay more! and the sellers to ask more, and, too,! the supplies of land available tor! sale, particularly good land, are! dwindling." "How about credit?" And to this the General Agent r*H plied, "Credit is easier, especially^ from private lenders." "Well, what are you Farm Credsm Administration folks doing about this! situation?" "Fighting land inflation Is ojds I specific job our Farm Credit people ! have. Wo are continually emphasis- ! ing long-term earning capacity ol land ! as a guage of fair price, for we feel that this is one way to. wage this fight. Many of us remember the ter?! rible effects of the land boom during I and after the last World war. Otffl farmers today have another problem m which is much "greater than it wtifl in World war 1. That is the shortigt of labor, machinery, equipment, tilizer and transportation, not twS mention increased income taxes'*^! "Well, what would you say shoiM ho done to curb this increase In lv prices and the subsequent part it V^H play in adding to inflation?" "Back in 1941," Mr. Brown anew*? ed. "the Farm Credit AdministratimM sponsored a conference of agrlculWlM credit agencies and farm organlOS tions for the purpose of forming National Agricultural Credit com , ! tee. This committee meets periodic*^ ly to review the farm mortage credit and real estate situation and Is CO* posed of representatives of fv>! organizations, insurance companies,? bankers aqd the government depart* ments concerned with agricultural credit. The primary objectives of t? committee are, first, to avoid maWI? farm loans for specuative purposes? second, to make normal values primary factor in all appraisals ?*! farm real estate loans; third, to courage borrowers to use blgbijj! comes now available for the repjr ment of existing debts; and, fourth,? to encourage farmers to build reserrj out of high incomes today by inrwr Ing in war bonds. ^! "While this commitee can and doing much to avoid speculation H farm lands by holdihg loans to si normal value basis, Individual fsi?-? era are the only ones who will be ?we 1 to prevent a farm land boom by f*? fusing to bid agalnkt each other ? land." ? Buy Wsur Bonds tnd Sttf*1 I WANTED CLEAN Used Cars 1929 To 1941 Models Cash Waiting Call 46 Shaw Motor Co. KERSHAW, S. C. 1 1>i July Bargains 1 | MOTHERS WILL APPRECIATE THIS VERY EARLY BLANKET EVENT! YES, WE ARE FORTUNATE IN HAVING THESE LOVELY BLANKETS FOR YOU. 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