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QHje (fiantbm (flljnmirlr 1109 N. Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JNO. M. CANNON Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 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, July 16, 1943 I MANUAL OF ARMS Civilian husbands now are up Against a problem n.ost perplexing? A military matter which May prove a little vexing. When wives come home in-uniform, Brass buttoned, chevroned, capped and booted, The question is, should they be kissed, Or just saluted? ?Dorothy ? Quick. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE The Chronicle is informed that the operators of Fresh Dry Foods, Inc., plan to add quick freezing and canning units to the Camden operation after the war. This will be a still greater step forward in the betterment of our community. Realizing the present importance of this industry and its great future possibilities we urge the people of our community to give the new plant every cooperation of which they are capable. We urge the farmers in our trading area, especially, to raise the commodities necessary to keep this plant in operation. They will not only help in the industrialization of this section but they will receive greater economic benefits than from the continued pursuance of the "one crop system." DEHYDRATION The Chronicle, joins with the people of Camden and the citizens of Kershaw County in welcoming Fresh Dry Foods, Inc., to our community. The location of this plant in our city represents another step forward in the economic development of our trading area for which we are striving. We are inducting an industry that is new to our State and one which has far reaching possibilities, not only now, but after the war. The process of dehydration is not a new one. The general principles have been known for several centuries. More recent developments in the process have, however, given this method of preserving food great commercial possibilities. By employing the inventions and discoveries that are known to modern science in the Camden plant the finished product may be kept in storage indefinitely and by the mere addition of water be brought back to its original state before it was dehydrated. An important advantage of dehydrated foods in war times is that by removing the moisture the food is reduced to about one tenth of its normal size and weight; therefore Dt> per cent of the usual shipping | space is saved and there is no trouble with spoilage. In the final analysis, the process is nothing more or less than the removing of water from fresh fruits ami vegetables and in some instances even meats, eggs and other types of food. The advantages to be gained from such an industry can be easily seen: First, it will provide a cash market for our farm commodities and help get us out of the rut of the "one crop" system and it will tend to stabilize market prices for such products or raw commodities. Second, it will no doubt show us that we will be wise to develop our section into a processing' section as well as a producing section. Availible statistics s'how that the wealth of the country is in the processing areas and not in the producing areas. WON'T BE SANTA CLAUS Hitler and Mussolini are now expecting somebody to come down the chimney any minute and they know it won't be Santa Glaus.Aiken Standard and Review. 1 SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE, ETC. It is Haiti thut once a law was passed in Norway, whjoh provides that in the future when , a woman desires to get married, she must present to the proper au* thorities a certificate showing that she is skilled in cooking, sowing, knitting, and embroidery. That is all right, at least ho far as skill in cooking and sewing are concerned, for every woman who thinks of marrying Hhould be accomplished in these two things which are so indispensable in the making of a happy home; but like all laws made by men alone, this one is very one-sided. Why shouldn't a young man who thinks of marrying be obliged to prove that he hJ able to support a wife and maintain a comfortably home for her? CITIZENSHIP x. Henry W. Grady lived in a timy as critical and as crucial as this or any co-un- . try ever faced. He was editor of the Atlanta Constitution following the Civil War. In that position he did more than any other individual to develop an attitude of unity and harmony and to cement the hostile factions of a war-torn nation. Among the great volumes of stirring speeches and brilliant editorials credited to him this statement seems singularly fitting and applicable to these modern times: "The man who kindles the fire on the hearthstone of an honest and righteous home burns the best incense to liberty. He does not love mankind less w\ho loves his neighbor more. Exalt the citizen. As the state is the unit of government, he is the unit of the state. Teach him that his home is his castle, and <his sovereignty rests beneath his hat. Make him selfrespecting, self-reliant and responsible. Let him lean on the state for nothing that his own arm can do, and on the government for nothing .that (his state can do. IA*t him cultivate independence to the point of sacrifice, and learn that humble things with unbartered liberty are better than splendors bought with its price." ADMISSION OF LEWIS VICTORY Speaking in a recent press conference, President Roosevelt said that he had authority to "take over" Montgomery Ward & Co., which he had forced to comply with, a War Labor Board order, but that he doubted whether he had similar authority over a mine union. Thus the president admits that he cannot or will not deal with John L. Lewis in the same summary manner that he adopted toward a business concern. To a reporter who pressed a question as to what the president would do if Mr. Lewis refused to comply with the WLB's 4 ruling, the president inquired in turn what the reporter would do. "I don't know, I'm not president," the reporter replied. The president then was reminded that Montgomery Ward has been directed by the president to sign a wage agreement which provided for maintenance of membership and check-off of union dues, after the company had'defied the WLB. If John L. Lewis can defy the WLB, so can other labor leaders. But what is sauce for the goose apparently is not sauce for the gander. Business concerns like Montgomery Ward must conform to union demands under the authority of the WLB, backed up by the president. Granted that it would be easier to seize the property of Montgomery Ward than to "take over" a union, the administration could find a way to discipline the union if it had a mind to do it. Imperfect as the Gonnally-Smith act may be. it demonstrated the desire of the don gross, interpreting the views of the folks back home. Mr. Roosevelt has admitted defeat by John L. Lewis, and if the folks back home don't like it, they can lump it.?News and Con rier. ON POOR RELATIONS In one of Charles Lamb's essays he says: "A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature; a piece of impertinent cor- ? respondency; a death's head at your banquet; a Mordecai in your gate; a Lazarus at your door; a lion in your path; an ounce of sour in your pound of sweet." One could put up with the taxation gaff being imposed by the urgencies of war if one could be assured that personal earnings thus extracted by the government were going to essential war services instead of into the pockets of swivel chair bureaucrats and their armies of piddling helpers.?Charlotte Observer. ?? ? t The Fourth Estate Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON I i . I.. i The following letter cunte to our desk vie the National Kditorial uasoelation to whom U wuh addressed The sentiments expressed by Mary I). Cain, editor and publlaher of the Summit (Mississippi) Sun, are substuu dully the same uh oura wllh reference to u government aubaldy for newspapers. Her letter to Mr. Charles Allen of the National Kditorial Association Is reproduced In full below. Mr Charles Allen, Kditor, The National Publisher, 1SS W. Randolph, Chicago, Illinois Dour Mr. Allen: hast night 1 came home from the War Conference of the Mississippi Press Association, held In Jackson over the week-end, sick at heart because the organization, badly divided on the issue, had refused to tuke a stand on the Hankhead Hill. I picked up the current issue of The National Publisher aiu^mw the same old argumonts In pfmt that were offered at our convention ,by proponents of the subsidy. And subsidy it Is. There can he no question of that since the hill Is purportedly offered as a "sustaining program" of the government to uld the country press. That'makes the bill fundamentally wrong and denies Its use to those of us who believe with Henry W Grady that the government should lean upon the people and not I the people upon the government ... and that the press must always speak | for the people and not. selfishly, for i Itself. All of the arguments for accepting j this invitation to enter the Hluck \V1- j dovv Spider's "parlor" wore the sume at the convention as those offered by your contributors: that is, that advertising space is our stock in trudo and the government is no better than any private firm when it comes to paying for that space. Nevertheless, occasions are rare, one must admit, when , tlie editor deliberately goes out editorially to attack a private firm. He J counts on personal and tactful meth-1 ods of those private firms. With the j government he cannot use such ta< - tics. His arm is not long enough or' his pen powerful enough to reach Washington, except through helping] to elect or defeat Representatives and Senators, at periodic intervals, and that is often too late to do any real good And wouldn't those Senators and Representatives feel the press most ungrateful if we chided them on1 any score, once they had helped us to "survive"? No. Mr. Allen. the Illack Widow | Spider, better known as the New Deal. J has used these same tactics of "helpfulness" before. It helped the farmers wi'h a sustaining program, so-1 (ailed and today there is scarcity in a land of plenty. It helped the labor unions by a "sustaining program"! known as the Wagner Labor Rela-j lions Act and today this nation is at the mercy of a man named John L. Lewis, simply because of that legislation. The Black Widow's victims, once bitten, require expert medical attention to keep them from death's door. . . Your own argument, that it is the only way to do a thorough, far-reaching. efficient job of selling to billion dollars worth of War tfecurltiea In 11H3, Is uot baaed on fact. The Scrup drive, a complete flop as a government advertlslng venture, finally undertaken by individual editors as a patriotic duty, whh most successful. iih you know. Isu't It a fact that If the NEA or some responsible press organization would undertake, as a patriotic contribution to our Nation, the | writing of an ad campaign to be released to American publishers, to be used without cost to the (Jovernuient, tluu this campaign would be used by I them, almost 100 percent? Isn't it a fact that publishers are now receiving so much junk from the Treasury department that it would be utterly Impossible to use it and they Btand disheartened before this further evidence of wastefulness on the part of government. . . wastefulness us to the personnel required to issue the material, wastefulness of the pa pel* required to promote it, wustefulness of engraving and mat and stereotype facilities, wustefulness of the time of heavily burdened editor-publishers of this nation who must wade through it to see whether it Is newsworthy? Isn't It? Your second and third arguments, that It has been-proved successful in Cunuda and England, and the me chanlcs of handling It are '*r?hthikj simple." mean nothing at all one. oare not a tinker's curs? what 1 done In Canada and England. la entirely too muchj aping 0f 0tS! nations In this country today, i w? things done in the American way atf not the Kugllsh. And at ( opting', J1 sidy from the govermnont la not t? truly American way. Nor is n ca'e way, a? it la England's, to^h tnlt at all tlmee to senseless ceu^ ship. Your fourth argument, that the tlui? la approaching when local inerchuu can no longer pay the Government, bill, enema to me merely another ? . Uinent against thla bill The pooeu aro already burdened with taxatloa with promise of more to tome, it t]2 bill pauses, It opens the door to ^ mands from radio, from magaal?,. from movies, from bill-hoard advertfc, Ing ageuetbs, for similar legislation The press of America has. for ma,; years, condemned the New Deal pra? tlce of wasting the people's monby Shall we now add our names to tk list of "glmmle boys?" "Hut money spent in advertising is not wast?, it Is money well dpent, I believe In ,4. vertlslug!" cry proponents of the bill. That may well be. but tne preee o( this country represents tho last u(, guard of democracy and It muet not (Please turn to page eight) ? J This institution has always stood for the progress and I economic development of Camden and Kershaw Coun- I ty. Thus, it is with pride and pleasure that we salute and welcome? FRESH DRY FOODS, INC. I THE FIRST NATIONAL BAM (I Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. lfl Non-Rationed Shoes - New O.P.A. ruling allows us to offer several hundred pair broken sizes and odds and ends of regular shoes at Reduced Price and RATION FREE. OFFERED ON SALE MONDAY, JULY 19th For Two Weeks Unless Sold Before Then. [ KICHEL'S DEPARTMENT STORE + I I Because Chevrolet Dealers MI ARE SKILLED fl IN SERVICING ALL MAKES OF CARS Because Chevrolet Dealers EMPLOY fl TRAINED B MECHANICS B Because Chevrolet Dealers USE | QUALITY { PARTS Because Chevrolet Dealers | GIVE | GOOD | SERVICE | I ?? _^p_For years Chevrolet dealers have had more trade-ins than any other dealer organization. Therefore, they have had broader experience In servicing all makes and models. They're "America's Service Specialists.". They're the men to see when you want good, dependable service on your carl / BUY U.S. WAR BONDS AND STAMPS V. / < CMCVROtfT DEALERS HAW DCOtCATED nflWP T11P ||n.PH. ..... ...rnl^l?? 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