The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 09, 1943, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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."
?
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1929 To 1941 Models
Cash Waiting
Call 46
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v? " " " ?J,
rhiifk wfuit oar Boys are Giving?
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. AT PENNEY'S
IN the wind-whipped Aleutians
and the steaming
jungles of the South Sea
Islands ? aboard shrapnelraked
bombers and fighting
ships at sea ? our boy* are
giving everything they've got
co win this toughest of wars.
In honor of the tremendous
job they're doing, we
are devoting the month of
Julv to the sale of War Bonds
at Penney's.
In every department, at
every counter at Penney's,
you will find War Bonds on
sale all this month. Buv
Bonds at Penney's?all you
can afford and a whole lot
more!
No one can own too many j
War Bonds?there's nothing |
better, anywhere, for your
money.
* Buy War Bonds?today?
At Penney's!
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FRIDAY, JULY 9
The Laugh of a Lifetime In One
Great Picture
"THE GOLD RUSH"
?With?
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
SATURDAY, JULY 10
Six Shooting, Son of the Saddle ,
| TIM HOLT
?In?
"FIGHTING FRONTIER"
Plus Our Serial
"G-Men V?. Black Dragon"
And Funny Comedies
MON.-TUES., JULY 12-13
"REAP THE WILD WIND"
?With?
RAY MILLAND and PAULETTE
GODDARD
Also News Events and Novelties.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
"SPY TRAIN"
?With?
| RAYMOND TRAVIS
A Grand Picture. Also Serial and
Comedy
| THURS.-FRI., JULY 15-16
| "ACROSS THE PACIFIC"
?With?
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???k, never (topping, the k idneye
waeto matter from the blood. ...
If mora people were aware of how we m
kidneva must constantly remove ?w~ I
plua fluid, exoeea aclde and other ve**
matter, that cannot atay in the M0^
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be better understanding 3
whole ayatem la upeet when kldnaye '**
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Burning, scanty or too fr?e"??TVTL |
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be using a medicine recommended "
country over. Deea'a stimulate 9
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1
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