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1»A«E FOUR THE CAMDEN CHNONICLti CAMI SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9E IMS t' •I ’( > ' ; I' 1 : \ K . (Eamben (&l|rontrle 1109 North ^oad Street Xamden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY . SUBSgjHPtlON TERMS: AUSubscriptions 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 sismed by the author. _-#L - —■ - ■ _ ■ _ Friday, December 10, 1943 Here lies a soldier wihom all men applaud; He fougrht many battles, at home and abroad; '' But thcr hottest engagement he ever was in \ Was the" conquest of Self, in the Battle of Sin. r. —An Old Epitaph. CRITICISM-Am THE Since 1865 Americui stnekraisers have been taking their am- mala to the Unkm Stockjrarda at Chica go,'maintaining an in- atitotion that helped to make America great. EntraiKB—Umen Stockyord^ diiaigo ■J Up to^A<:€^in pointy eritieism of the war offort^^n the^ domestic front is at once a democratic safety valve and an incentive to more strenuous and more efficient endeavor. But criticism can igo too far. By stressing failures, it can cause achievements ToTbe dverlooked oY minimized. It can lead to loss of confidence in those ’charged with highly critical responsibilities. It can engender distrust of and even hatred for entire groups and classes. Unless controlled, it may even generate widespread dissatisfaction, which in turn leads to apathy and bad morate. “If those nitwits in Washington can't count up to ten," people begin to say, or “if those vk^age- flushed and power-drunk unioneers don't stay on the job, why should I buy another war bond and work my fingers to. the bone?'' Now the fact is that people on the home front are doing a fairly competent job—and so is their Government. Not that there is any room for complacency, or that we can afford to relax our efforts—work fewer hours, buy fewer bonds, go less often to the blood-donor stations, cease our vigilance over prices and the rationing of scarce commodities, give up all effort to use our manpower more efficiently or to persuade the Congress to pass a real anti-inilationa^ tax bill. If any thing, we must intensify our efforts and, so to speak, strive to outdo ourselves. But on the other hand there is no sense in telling ourselves that we are making a mess of things.xThat simply if not true. / Consider the case of organized labor. Some people, and some newspapers and radio commentators, are at the present time sharply critical of war workers. Reading about a brief strike' in the nation's coal-fields, or on a Los Ang< railway, or in an aircraft plant in Detroit, these war-minded citizens leap at once to the conclusion that labor is conducting business as usual and lying down- on the boys overseas. And ”theiTThey^roceed^o T^rrhe publiY alobuT it^! In such cases, it is always helpful to have a look at the general situation, or to compare our record with that oif our enemies or our allies. Some of labor’s most acidulous critics might be surprised to lefern that our workers made a better showing last year with respect to strikes than did the em battled British, With allowance made for our three-to-one advantage in employment, Britain had twenty-nine per cent more strikes in 1943 than we did; and these strikes involved sixty-one per cent more men and caused a loss of seven per cent more man days than strikes in the United States. Yet no one 'has thought of accusing British workers ol being apathetic toward the war or doing business as usual. Judicious criticism is constructive and essential to the efficient conduct TTf the'waT.'. Yn the past we have iiidulged in some ourselves, and as days go on we shall indulge in more. But there is no room for ill-natured and short-sighted carping. People who criticize recklessly are not assisting the progress of the war. They are scattering sand in the gears. JUST PLUMB DISGUSTED Kmp Onr Traditions;' Buy More War Bonds In HitlePs Enrop* die farmers are prodoang too, but tbeir product goes to Nazi Germany to feed the soldiers who are shooting thousands of prisoners who object to this form of tyranny. 17 and 18-Year-Old Boys Wanted In Navy Thousands of additional high school graduates and seniors. 17 and 18 years of agOi'^ were flMidO-^ligible today for Naval Aviation Cadet Training next year by~ the Navy’s decision to open enlistments in its V-5 flight training program to 17-year-<M Boniors--artto will graduate by July 1, 1944, and to 18-year-old seniors who will graduate by March 1, 1944. The V-6 program was hitherto llmH- ed to IT-year-olds (seniors) who would graduate by March 1, 1944. Because few Suthern schools have mid-year graduation, many current seniors in this are« were ineligible for enlist ment until the new policy was adopted recently, opening V-5 to next June’s graduates. Announcement of the new enlist ment plan was made by Rear Admiral William H. Allen, director of Naval Officer Procurement, in Atlanta, who said the only age limitations will con cern 17-y«ar-ol4—seniors wbp will reach their ISth birthday prior to January 1, 1944. They will become eligible, he said, as soon as they enter their final school semestw. Admiral Allen’i announcement was made through Chief Bpecialiat F. C. Sanders of the U. S. Navy Recruiting station at Columbia, S. C., who said all schools in this area are being con tacted to acquaint seniors with de tails of the V-S program which calls for intensive flight, ground school, and physical training, qualifying suc- cesHful cadets for their Navy Wings of Gold and commissions as Ensigns in the Naval Reserve, or Second Lt. In the Marine corps reserve. . Chief Sanders pointed out that high iPtrooT’wntOTff TQsy enlist now a nff will not be called for training until after their graduation, which is a pre requisite for V-6 instruction. R.E.A. Service Extended Farmers Clemson—South Carolina’s 23 REA- financed rural electric systems con nected 560 a(|ditionaI farms to their lines in the first nine months of 1943 under an emergency program to ex tend electric service to farms produc ing food for the war, says W. J. ICd- amt,—Ur-,—extension rural— Few Weeks Remain For Pulpwood Drive WarnTIlg that only a few weeks re main to overcome the sbort^e in puTpwWff pTSdnctlon^for 1943, Walter M. Dear, chairman^ of the News|»per Pulpwood committee, rbcently urged the more than 1200 lopal Newspaper Pulpwood committees to exert every effort to reach their goals by Decem ber-11 when the drive to Cut-a-Cord of Pulpwood for Every Local Boy .In Service ends. "While the need for pulpwood to meet military and essential civilian requirements probably will continue until the end of the war and there after, I am anxious that we .attain the 13.000,000 cord goal set for 1943 by the War Production Board before the i^nd of the year,” Mr. Dear said. "Production has increased substan tially since the newspapers entered the Victory Pulpwood campaign In August, but the shortage was so grea\ that we cannot afford to slacken our pace, partlcnhirly at a time when onr fighting forces are pressing their at tacks on the Axis on all fronts.” OPA Wm Get Yuo If You Don’t Watch The Atlanta Region of the Office of Price Administration recently passed along to the Treasurer of the United States a check for $12,673.18, repre senting settlement of a treble damage action brought against Z. B. Bulluck, Rocky Mount, N. C., meat dealer, for alleged OPA price ceilings violations. Professional And.. ... Business Cards GenATAl Inaurance C. P. 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Furniture Rebuilding and Repair UPHOLSTERING Quality Upholetering By Skilled Crastemen Shirley’s Upholstery Shop East DeKalb SL Phone 288-J OPA enforcement officials said Bul luck, a wholesaler, sold meat at re tail prices between June and October, 1943, at pvercharges totalling $4,- 191.27. His check in settlement was for three times the overcharge. iw, S. C FRIDAy7dEC. 10 “SALUTE FOR THREE" With Betty Rhodes and MacDonald —I Garay - SATURDAY, DEC. 11 “iOST CANYON" ‘ TYith Wm. Boyd and Aphy cfiyde SAT,, Doc. 11* 10:30 p. n. “GILDERSLEEVE'S BAD DAY” ’With Harold Peary MON.-TUES., DEC 13-14 “SOMEONE TO REMEMBER" With Mable Paige and John Cravsa WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15 “THE WEST SIDE KID" ““With—* Donald Barry and Henry Hall THURS.-FR1., Dec. 10-17 “SILVER SKATES”. Wlttr— Kenny Baker and Patrkta Morrison Matlnaa—Adults tSe; ehlidrsa under 12, 11a Evenlng—Adulta, 80c; cbHdrea under 12, lie It is with utter disgust and amazement that we read stories about disorders in Japanese relocation centers here. When war beifan between America and Japan, many thous ands of Americans were interned by the Japanese. They were glad to be released, by exchange, on the first trip ot the (jripsholm. Only those who-have been interned by the Jap anese, can full^‘realize the conditions which exist, and con tinue t-o exist, in the-internment camps. For 6,000 Americans to surround an administration build ing in a Japanese camp, would mean 6,000 dead Americans! It is fatal even to think of a demonstration against Japanese rul-e in their concentration camps. You do what they say, you eat what they give (in many instances almost garbage), and you don’t even think of protesting. In our opinion, these Japanese in American camps ought to thank God that the United States hasn’t shipped them all back to Japan. Perhaps many of them are living in conditions which they could never afford before, and then they 'have the nerve to protest against the goodness of the United States. The Japs are smart, they give.the interned balf the caloric energy required by the average person. The result is, that they don’t have energy to protesL Let’s make them realize that they are war prisoners, or before we know it, they’ll be sending a delegation to Wash ington for a wage increase and butter every day 1 THE WORLD OF^LASTICS Practically unnoticed except for an occasional ni article that doesn^t make the front page, plastics are .playing an increasingly important role in war" production and every day life of American people, plastics are now’ being used in the n;ahufacture of numerous articles once made from metals. Wood pulp and textiles are winning the war and keeping up production on thq 'home front. Modern civilization is built upon steel, perhaps plastics will be the foundation of future civilization. • The Glenn L. Martin company has recently announced a new elasto-^)lastic that promises to outmode natural and synthetic rubber in the manufacture of many products is not a rubber substitute, but an entirely new material. It is called Marvinol arid is said to be especially adapted to making inner tubes for automobiles and delicate gloves for surgeons. Ac cording to company experts it out lasts natural rubber, and is KiP'per cent reclaimable. Thu.^ another triumph is chalked up for the chemist.^—The Pa^elahd Journal. tlon apeclallst. Thin program wa.s ptimulated by W'ar Production Board regulations which stnee January have authorized ejUttOaiop of service to farms able to use electrical food^rwluclng and la bor-saving devices in livestock, dairy and paultry production. Reports received by the Rural Elec trification Administration indlcat«- that electrical equipment is used ex tensively on South Carolina farms con- heK-tiHl to RKA-financed linea under the W’PB regulations. For example. .13 electrical devices were reported in | use on 20 recently connected farms, including 15 water pumps, ten chick brooders, five feed grinders, two In cubators and a milk cooler. About 50,000 South Carolina farms had central station service on June 3o, 1943. REAfinanced systems furn ished electricity to 25,000 of these farms. CAN BE PURCHASED HekaUrPhamiaq Tuberculosis is still the .first cause of death ifroih' disease during the age period from 16 to 45. Acrs2wAY$ TOREUEVEMISERIiSOF CHESTCOIOS Now get grand relief from colds’ symptoms this home-proved dMiM«-actio« way that actually ^ j^wavi ST pocTwres to upper bronchial' tubes with soothing medicinal vapors. 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