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mmm PAGE POUR tHl CAMDEN CHROffiCLE,'CAMDEN. gdUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER S, IMt Qlamiifn (ttlfrmilflf 1109 North Broad Street , Camden, S. C. PUBUSHED eVeRYi FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payahle-In Advance ^ One Year — - -|2,00 Six Months — l.QO 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, December 3, 1943 — ■ ■ ' ' r ■ - THIS EDITOR SPEAKS OUT - : Because The Daily Oklahoman had what it takes to de nounce a bare-faced extortion, that paper published at Okla homa City was threatened with a Congressional investigation. What aroused the editor of the Oklahoman was that tens thousands of Southwestern ianhers were forced to pay a cruelly heavy union initiation fee in order to obtain jobs in essential war plants. Every newspaper and every citizen who dared to defend the rights of people to work for their country without having to pay tribute to racketeers was brought as a “labor baiter" and__the tool, of predatory priyilei^e. ^ But every word The Daily Oklahomaii ever published in criticism of the racketeers now finds emphatic support in an editorial of the Railroad Workers' Journal.. That editorial is sighed by Maurice R. Franks, editor of the Journal and long an inffhential labor leader. Let those who choose to brand The Daily Oklahoman as a labor baiter, consider these grave words from one who has spent his years in fighting for labor’s interests. “The closed shop challenges three of the ‘four freedoms.’ . How can the worker have freedom of speech and expression if forced to join a labor union without expressing willingness to do so? .How can he have freedom from want if he does not accept the principles of the closed ship? Unless he sub scribes he is automatically deprived of earning a livelihood, and this brings immediate want. How can there be freedom from fear when there is constant fear of losing the means of making livelihood?’* / Under the old order when the employer was supreme, “workers” according to the Journal, “were forced to sign “contracts notto toin a union for the right to work.“ Those contracts became known as “yellow dog contracts,” which Samuel Gompers and other labor leaders devoted their life to destroying. But ^^^t has succeeded the notorious yellow dog contract? Let the Railroad Workers’ Journal supply the answer. ■•i ' “This system denied certain citizens their right to live, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The closed shop of today will stand out in history as equally distasteful. “Call it what you may, closed shop pr union maintenance, this system, when carefully examined, is the 'yellow dog’ con tract jn reverse^^ only now the leash is inJhe handgLof labor. Teadere instead of employers. The closed shop is beneficial only to labor leaders. It places them in supreme authority— even more authority than employers. It makes the union leader sole judge of who Shall or shall not be employed. . . If a worker is not admitted or >f he. is expelled from a union, even through BLp-^ault of his own, he is deprived of earning a living.” , Mind you it is a union labor leader speaking editorially in a union labor journal who makes the following a.s.sertion: “Records disclosed instances where workers, under a closed shop, Were deprived of employment for having courage to voice opinions contrary to their leaders. Jobs were lost through failure to pay tribute in the form of exorbitant initia tion fees" (tues, a^e^ssm^ts, and rhahy more unjust reasons. Yes, the closed shop i.s truly named. If is closed to everyone not in the good graces of the powers that be.” It is no labor baiter who presents that grave indictment. It is a life-long friend of labor—» life-long soldier in labor's ranks. It is the testimony of an expert who speaks with an intimate knowledge of his subjeetj, PLAN FOR DEFEAT i I* i Some two million American .soldiers who fought in France in 1918-19 came home to say that the major German weak- ' ne.s.s, as fighters, was lack of imagination, iniative and the ability to extemporize in a hurry. ^ ' ' WJieji__WQrld War 2 b^an, it appeared for a time that they had been wrong or^e German mentality had Been com pletely re-yamped in a mere twenty-five years. Nazis invad ing Ploand, hVance and the lx)w Countries showed great cap ability whether in the mas.s, under skilled officers, or of their own in little units ranging down to individuals. Now, it appears, the A. E. F. was correct. Germans can not fight except according to plan. They resemble a'football team under an autocratic coach. They are given a wide varie ty of plays, each to fit a particular need,.and are drilled in tensively in r^ognizing the occasion for each play and execut ing it efficiently. So long as.no emergency un/forseen by the war college strategists arises, they look good—and are good. The moment a setup ari.ses for which they were given no play, they can think of nothing except to fight blindly and take a whipping. These suggestions came from new details about the 1940 Battle of Britain which have just been revealed. If the Nazis had not been completely dependent upon slavisihly following elaborate plans, Britain would have fallen three years ago and the Axis would have won the war. The invasion of Britain was to follow a minutely sched- , uled afr blitz—so many days to demolish coast fortifications, 80 many days to destroy the air fields, so many days to break morale by ruining Ix)ndon and to smash the island’s communi- cationik—dive weeks of bombing, and then the end of the British empire. But the schedule was a trifle off. The blitz left the coast‘d just as' it was abqut to achieve its objective there; it left the air fields just b» it threatened to tie them up disastrously; it failed to breax British morale by the damage to London. A little variation in that plan-^r better/yet from the dictator’s standpoint, a last minute snift to substitute summer invasion for tte preliminary blitz—and there would no longer be an England. It is comforting to think about such things. It is because ad‘!|hem, and Hitler’s errors, that the Allies are on the way to Vlafcory. *^t*doe8n*t cost anything to hope.”—Hitler feels that the are not backing him up. Never mind, Adolph, the t at your back. all t^e War Rondsv they can. ‘♦canV’ A real .lY news analysis First U* S. Landings on Gilbert !3!andc Reveal New Strategy in Jap Campaign; Diplomacy Claims European Spotlight; ChincGe Battle for Provincial Capital NOTF; WIica •flaUa* art npT»4«M In th»** (•Inmn*. thest •< VCealrra Ntwtpaticr Uiil«n's ••ws aMlfnot neectuirllr tbt* acwapj^jier.l —. .1 . -I . i< >.ia«d by WMtern Newspaper Union. —— Islands 6y l/S- ^ ^ an<i7h:>cpJ Gilberts—'Laadinc nadar cover af the bobmiaf (ua* of Americaa warcldpt, U. S. araijr and aiariao force* ewarroed aaboro on Tarawa, Makia and Apa- mana in fba Gilbert island* and pushed back tha Japs in stiff fighting, amid coconut palm* and jungla brash. Midway batweaa Hawaii and Australia, tbo Gilbdrt* Ha astrida U. S. communicatioa Unas to tba South Pacific area. Coasistiag of numarous islats, Tarawa, Makia and Apamama ara fronted on thoir wostans sides witk sunken roofs, sandsplits and coral patches i bnt on tba east, ships can approach within a half-mile or mile from shoro. As U. S. forces poured ashore, Japanese artillery sought to broah up landing formationa. On the islets thamsolvas, Jap machine gunners operated from piU boa dofensos hidden in the dense foUago against advancing U. S. infantry. DADS’ DRAFT: Slotted Again ' To President Roosevelt’s desk for signature went a senate-house bill which would put all fathers in the U. S."at the bottom''of the draft list by requiring the induction of all eligible single men first. Approved by voice votes of both legislative chambers, the «lso would abolish the present practice of drafting men accerdihg to their em ployment in essential and non-essen tial industry classifications set up by the War Manpc>wer commission. The bill provides for the review of any occurational deferments by the appeals boar i within the district persoir-works, and~ would establish a special medical com mission to stirtly the possibility of lowering physical standards of the , services. WHEAT: Loan Stocks Dotvn Through the second week of No vember, 117.677,380 bushels of 1943 wheat were under governthent loan, as the feed situation remained tight with many areas in the corn belt un able to produce Sufficient stocks. The loan fimires compared with 512,884,567 bushels held by the gov ernment at the sa;.ie time last year. Of the current stocks, 37,339 271 bushels wore on iarms. With mar ket prides at practically all termi- nal-s favorable foi redemption, more than 2'i million bushels of 1943 loans have been liquidated. To counter the tight feed situa tion, an Iowa State college bulletin suggested marketmg pigs at 200 to 220 pounds thi? fall instead of'270 pounds to assure maintenance of, hog numbers next spring. INDEPENDENCE: For Lebanon, Syria Under LeagiTc of'NalTons mandate, France was entrusted with supervi sion over the small countries of Leba non and Syria, to ■ the north of the Holy Land. When Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s Free French took over these territories in 1841 with British aid, they promised their people they would grant them independence. But when the Lebariese took matters into their own hands re cently and revised their constitution to accomplish their freedom, the Free French’s resident supervisor disbanded the govern ment and placed the president and premier under arrest. Rioting ensued, and to Lebanon’s —ancient capital of Beirut flew .Free France's No. 1 trouble-shooter, .Gen. Georges Catroux. Lebanon’s offi cials were released, and not only Lebanon, but also Syria, was told that Free France would enter into negotiations for their independence. MEDITERRANEAN: Turkey in Picture Ak the Allied attack slowed before the Nazis’ strong nlountain line some 85 miles south of Rome, attention in the Mediterranean area was focused on ffie diplomatic front, where Tur key maintained its delicate relations with both sides. representatives of the two govern ments in Cairo, Turkey reaffirmed her military alliance with Great Britain, calling on either nation to help the other in case of attack in the Mediterranean area- Turkey’s entrance into the War would give the eastern Gen. Georges Catronz Greece and eljininate complex sea operations against the country, but the question appeared to be whether the wily Turks would Consider an Allied offensive as a protection of .their interests, putting the alliance into effect. In Jugoslavia, guerrillas continued vexing operations against German communication lines and industries supplying the Nazis with war ma terials. On the Continent, 1,000 RAF heavy bombers struck at Berlin, firing . every ’sertiim of the Germarv-cdpitel of 5,000,000, and disrupting gas, electricity and street car facilities. -CHINA: Japs Attack Toward Hunan province’s capital of Changsha, two columns of a Jap anese force^of 80,000 men launched a deternrrined attack, making prog ress in early fighting. The attack marked the -Japs' fourth major effort to take Chang sha, the other campaigns failing when wily Chinese commanders struck at the enemy’s extended lines. This time, however, the Japs made every, attempt to^buil their way through, massing men and ma terial and using bombers to smash at Chinese defensive positions. To counter the^ Jap attack, the Chinese sprung a drive through the mountains to the rear of the fight ing, designed to relieve pressure on their main front. WAR PRpDUCTION; Experience Counts Because of better management, greater effort by labor and rftore trained workers, U. S. arms output in October registered its biggest g&in since last April, the War Pro duction board said. ^ Stimulated by its experience, U. S. industry can now be expected to function at ^ak efficiency, WPB de clared, with this efficieney mostly accounting for increases in produc tion, since a limit has been practical ly reached on material and man power. , During October, WPB sedd^^ntresa- was laid qn output of aircraft, which showed a 10 per cent increase over September; ships, up 5 per cent; ammunition, up 11 per cent, and communications equipment, includ ing radar, up 9 per cent. BASKETBALL: • Following its course in abandoning football for the duration, Uie Midwest Conference of colleges has decided to drop inter mural basketball games. * • # * TIXY; Ed4>e Bray,-Univfei=sity el > * vtaarx.'«wiU7 vs Ilnnois back, who weighs only 142 pounds, has carriert the ball 80, times for a tot;*l of 578 yards gained In 1 *ix games. He is only 17 years, old MACgNETISM: Transatlantic broadcasting was rendered practi cally impossible by magnetic storms on November 21, the Columbia Broadcasting company said. v._ ^ * ' • baa « new secret weapon in the “sound- directed torpe^io ’ that can turn cor- ners and foU^ the vibrations of a ship’s propelllers. ’ MORAL STANDARDS: Demand High Level To molders of ^biic opinion, the Federal Council of the ChurchcAjff Christ in America appealed for lead- ershijp in maintaining tbe’highest sex standards and impressing the dig nity with which men and women are endowed as custodians of the hopie. Protesting against the exploitation of material in newspapers and emotion, the'council lashed against the portrayal of the human body in ways detractive to the reverence in which .jnen and wdmen should be h^ld as creators of homes and guard ians of the sacredness of family life; Demanding strict 'enforcement of laws against sexual prorhiscuity and commercialized prostitution, the council saM venereal diseases have rendered “millions of American men and women unable to serve their country as they ought.” Tbe desert’s warm, shifting sands have covered historic bat- tlefieids of Worid War II in North Africa, with oniy faint traces of tank and artiiiery tracka remain ing, and these mostly in scarred green vegetation. OIL: l/^S. Offers t^cues To capitalize on the 17,000,000 bar- r«ls oil and gas Affiderlying tba Cerritos channel between Los An geles and Long Beach, Calif., the U. S. government invited private op erators to submit bids for leasing privileges to develop ffie properties. Besides obtaining a bonus for use of the land, the U. S. will also re ceive a royalty of 16^ per cent on production from the area. Under terms, 10 wells must be drilled to production within 12 months, and six more within 18 months of deliv ery of the lease. Highest bonus ever paid for drill ing oil on federal landis was |1,407,- 500 for 262^ acres in the Elk basin field in Wyoming. U. S. PAYROLL: Lop Off J31,058 During the period from June to September of this year, 131,058 em ployees were lopped off the federal pay^ roll, Senator^ Hnr^ P. Byrd, Va., re vealed as chairman of the joint economy committee. This left 2,964,405 still at work for Uncle Sam. The total dis- charged amounted to 157,997, but the figure was brought down by the navy’s employment of 15,- 314 new workers, and an increase of Senator 7,920 in the post of- Harry Byrd fice s personnel. The w'ar department trimmed its payroll by 139,968; the War Man power commission by 11,931; the Panama canal by 3,548, and the ag riculture department by 2,550. RUSSIA: l^azis Hit Back Duplicating their tactics used at Kharkov last winter the Nazis struck at the Reds’ extended posi tions at the important rail junction of Zhitomir and hurled them back 20 miles to the east in heavy fighting. As Field Marshal Fritz von Mann- stein’s 150,000 Nazi troops attacked near. Zhitomir, the Russ sought to ease pressure on their lines in this sector by intensifying their drive to the north near Gomel, within 100 miles of the old Polish border. As the Nazi forces held fast to the iron and manganese centers of Kri- voi Rog and Nikopol in the south, the Reds probed the ehemy'’s lines on either side of these strongholds, in an effort .to find a weak spot for a break-through. Fighting Russian units on the east coast, tlie Nazis clung to the Crimea, which dominates the Black sea. WAR LOAN: To Begin 4ih Drive With the third war loan drive well over its goal of 15 J)illk)rt dollars, the U. S. treasury announced plans for a fourth drive beginning Janu ary 18. ■ Although the 14 billion dollar goal qf the new drive is below the last mark, individual investors will be asked to contribute 5% billion dol lars, more than they were requested to do during the third campaign. To meet investment requirements, savings deposit departments of com mercial banks will be allowed to pur chase limited quantities of a 2'% per cent issue matu^ring in 1970, and a 2% per cent security due in 1959. To sell as many securities as pos- slblc with current purch&sing pow- er, the government will ask banks to refrain from loaning money for speculative purchases. , PROFITEERING Almost two-thirds of the nation’e farmers believe that manufacturing companies are making “excessive profits” on war orders, a survey tak en -by the Association of National Advertisers reveals. Results of in terviews of 2,800 typical farmers, divided into seven classes, showed that 60 perzjent think tha^rofitecr- Jng la. gbing on, althoug^^s—p^ cent of the group are of the opinion that industry is doing a “reaf xu.bly good job.” .^venty per cent slated that labor could -do better / Profe^ioiial Ami.. ... Business Ciiriis y- Geiwral Inaurance , C. P, DuBOSE & SON Hfe ■N Casualty h»ur«i,ciH Fidelity Bonds—Real Estate ’ Savage Building ^ C^tmden, S. C ' KENNEDY INSURAN^ AGENCY ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE Estabiiehed 1866 1037 Broad Street ^ Camden, S. C. C. O. STOGNER ^ All Kinds of Fire Ineurence Agent For Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. 80 percent Coverage on Auto ColHsi*. Alt<Mmeya-At-l -aw W. L. DePASS, Jr. ATTORNEY AT LAW BtevtiMoa Building " Camden, S. C ALLEN B. MURCHISON ATTORNEY-AT.LAW Stevenson Building Camdmi, S. C Dentists DR. C. F. SOWELL OENTIST Croekar Building Camden, S. 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