The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 10, 1943, Image 6
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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.
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Camden, S. C.
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AGENCY
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Established 1866
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Camden, S. C. .
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Attomeys-At-Law
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Btevenaon Building
Camdan, S. C.
ALLEN B. MURCHISON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Stevenson Building
Csunden, S. C.
Dentists
DR. C. F. SOWELL
• DENTIST
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Camden* S. C.
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.
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Tuberculosis is still the .first cause
of death ifroih' disease during the age
period from 16 to 45.
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Now get grand relief from colds’
symptoms this home-proved
dMiM«-actio« way that
actually
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pocTwres
to upper bronchial'
tubes with soothing
medicinal vapors.
STMUUTES
chest and back siv-
faces like a waim-
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To get all the benefits of this
combined mKIMTINfr^TIMOUTING
action. Just rub throat, chest,
and back with Vicks VapoRub at
bedtime, lastantty VapoRub goes
to work-2 ways at once as shown
above-to felieve coughing
spasms, ease muscular soreness
OT tightness, and invite restful,
comforting sleep. Often by morn
ing most of the misery Is gone.
Get relief from chest cold distress
taiiitM with double-action, time-.
tested Vicks VapoRub.
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$1.00 to $2.50
Your Monogram for
'’an additional, 10c.
Make this a truly me
morable Xmas for the
one you love, by buying
practical gifts. Come in
today while we have a
nice assortment to select
from.
Beautiful
Evening In Paris Seta,
$2.95 up
Glass or Wooden Music
- Powder Boxes
OTHER GIFT SUG
GESTIONS
Bath Powder $1.00 up
Perfumes $1.00 up
Nowelty Soap 69c up
Tussy Wind and Weather
Lotion $1.00
- (In Gift Box)
Nice, Billfolds $1.50 up
Service Bags $3.59* up
Beautiful Bibles $3.00 up
Dixie Ann Dolls $2.00
Coffee Brewers $5.95
Candy, 1 and 2 pound boxes
Old Spice ^Toiletries
Knitting Needle Kits r...... $1.49, up
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A WAR BOND MAKES
A NICE GIFT
Pre-War Dresser Sets
$4.95 up
T '
Lovely Compacts
$1.75 up
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