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"»,W **)*!!< ^AQt rOUR SIi;p Qlawben (Ei^rantrlr 1109 Narth Broad Camden, 3. C. PUBUSHED EVERif FRIDAY DaCOSTA BROWN Publisher 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, February 11, 1944 JAP ATROCITIES SHOCK WORLD Nothing that has happened in this war has shocked the •American people as the army and navy report on Jap atroci ties, The eye-witness story af the starving, the torture, the deliberate murder of more than 7,UUU Amencan'and Fttipincr soldiers captured on Bataan and Corregidor seems too terrible for belief. But it is true. Three American officers, after a year's imprisonment* escaped to tell the awful truth. In this country there is a mighty surge of indignation. Our sympathy goes out to all the families of the victims, who fought and buffered and died for us. We are choked by wrath against the bestial criminals. But our anger will not help the dead, will not hurt the guilty Japs. Emotion is not enough. We must do something about it, more than swear or weep. Here at home we may feel there is noj^ing much we can do. But there is. Nothing very dramatic and nothing heroic, certainly. But we can help win the war.' The fight ing front does depend on the home front. And we are the home front—all of us little people, doing little jobs, which add up to such a vastly important total. We make the home morale, which sustains or undermines the spirit of our fighting men at sea and in the skies and in the foxholes and in the prison camps. We can strengthen that morale. We can be asked not to think, much less apeak, of our own petty incon veniences and minor sacrifices compared with the real sacri fices. We can refrain from the partisan bickering that wears away national unity. We can put an end to strikes and slow downs that hold back production. We can stop the profiteer ing and selfish maneuvering^for business advantage. We can speed up the flow of planes and munitions and ships, without wihich our army and navy can not Avenge the victims of prison camps in the Philippines. What a blessed relief it would be if we could turn on those Jap fiends, who have starved and tortured and murdered our men in the prison camps, and wipe them out tomorrow, or next week, or next month! But swinging blind won’t help. It will only delay the knockout. There is no quick way, no easy way. The steady way is the sure way. THF TJEXT PRESIDENT! Everybody is trying his hand at predicting who the next President will be. We don’t predict. We know. The next President will be the man, however unheard of he may be at the moment, who sponsors and actually puts over, a simplified tax program deserving the name. When the so-called simpli fied seport form arrived in homes all over the Nation last week, it produced manifold reactions, all of them species of headaclTw. Th^e^^ and Line 19, multiplied by Line 28 and divided by Line 14, the confusion of legal language and the added queries on forgiveness showed Ijttle reason unless it may be the deliberate setting up of an army of tax experts, to be consulted by muddled taxpayers. We repeat: The man who gets over a system whereby a wartime deduction, even at a greater wage percentage, is made in one complete subtraction, can he elected Presidnet for-as many terms as ihe likes.—Pathfinder. FeDowships Are Available At USC Colambia, Jan.—Several ne# gradu ate fellowships at the' Unirenitr of South Carolina recentljr have been made available to encourage research of value to the state, according to Dr. W. H. Callcott, chairman of the grad uate committee of the faculty. Stipends for the fellowships amount to as much as |600 per year. Doctor Callcott said. Most have been made available through gifts by friends of the University. Applicants for thew fellowships must be graduates of Class “A” col leges, and they may elect to study in any ope of the several fields in which the University condpets graduate work. Donors of funds for the graduate feHpwsbips have asked that Aelr names not be made public. Doctor Callcott said. The latest gift received. 1500, was donated by a friend of the institution who expressed the belief that the time is now propitious to en courage graduate research of benefit to South Carolina. The graduate fellowships will be awarded only to applicants who satis- fy the University that they are cap able of performing work of substan tial and lasting value. AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCB PROHIBITINO CHARGE OP ANY GUN WT THE CITY UMIT8, REGARD OP THE NATURE OP THE Trtatury Dipartmtnt Election Pot It Beginning To Boil (Continued from first page) FAITH-LACKING JESSIE Jessie Sumner, Illinois congresswoman, who has so little faith in the United States that she has already announced she will not run again because the country is (in her opinion) no longer a republic, now informs the nation that it has also lost its self-respect. “Does Stalin,” she asks, “today have the same respect for our country that he would have had for America if, at Moscow and Teheran, we had adhered relig iously to our American principles and kept our self-respect?” How does Miss Surnner know that we gave away our^ princi ples and self-respect? What she means is that she does not like anything ^^■’hich looks forward to world co-operation. But the mothers who raise sons to go to ,war every 25 years have different—and better—ideas. DON’T LOOK SO SAD Herr Goebbels commajites the German people not to talk of German defeats or gvgg to look depreaaed.-- "Wby worry; - the Nazi propaganda ministry asks, because the Huns have evacuated more than three hundred thousand square miles of “debris” in Russia? A year ago Nazi armies were battering the doors *of •Stalingrad, and Herr Hitler promised that the Volga city was about to fall. Now the Russians are surging back into White Russia. LiteraHy millions otf Germans lie dead beside those ““iheaps of debris in the east.” if Goebbels' can force the home folk to refrain from talking about German defeats,^from looking depressed, then we are A^Tong, and there is a miper-race. FRACTURED TRADITION •^he English are proud of their traditions, and war and blitz have left their pride umshaken. But when friendly, free- enjoying a pension which bis long term of service procured for him. Archie J. Stein Is a young man who has followed the profession of a painter. In the second ward W. Roscoe John son, prominently identified with the McLean Hardware company, Roy Mathis^ former police officer and now employed'by tie BbnQterh Aftttlon company, R. A. Purser, who is known throughout the community as the “sewing machine man*’ and J. W. Smith, a well-known insurance man, are the candidates. In the third ward Wiley Sheorp, present incumbent who has served with credit for the past t'wo admlnlH- ■tratlons and a virrerail'oT the first World War, will be opposed by I^ee Myers, well known automobile garage owner and service man. In the fourth ward, T. Lee Little so far has failed to have any opposition develop. In the fifth ward. Joe E. McKain, who has ably served his precinct for some time will have his .re-election con tested by Laurence Graham, one of the execuj.ivea pf the Southern Cotton Oil company here. tbe sixth wardv T. C; ^Gladden, well-known grocer, will be opposed by J. E. RosSfj^ former committeeman, who will seek return to the city couqcil after a two year period which has been filled by the present incumbent. John Mullen. Candidates have up to and including Thursday, February 24, to publish an nouncements, Kershaw County Workers Are Needed DIES IN JAP PRISON CAMP Columbia, Feb. 8.—(AP)—Governor Olin D. Johnston said tonight he had been advised by the War department that nine soldiers from South Caro lina were known to have died in Japanese prison camps. Among them was Sgt. Henry C. Rabon, route 3. Camden. Be it ordained by the City Ci of the City of Camden, in due si assembled this 3rd day of Feb 1944. SECTION 1. It shaU be un tar any person to fire or disc any projectile gun within the c ate limits of the City of Camde gardless of bow or by whaL^ i said projectile may be propelled the gun. SEXJTION 2. Any person viol this ordinance shall be deemed of committing a misdemeanor, shall be punished In the discreti the' Recorder, by a fine or not than five ($5.00) dollars, anc more than one hundred (1100.00 larsL or imprisonment for not than three (3) days, nor more thirty (30) days. Done and ratified In Counci sembled this 3rd day of Febr 1944. F. N. McOorkle, Mayor, City of Came South Carol Attest: Louise W. Boykin, Clerk and Treasurer, City of Camden, South Carolina. PUtng For Training I s ,WACs Is Announced Drive Carefully—Save a Life. Kershaw county workers this week will be asked to “help launch the in vasion," by taking Jobs at the Charles ton (S. C.) Navy Yard, where the newly developed Navy invasibn craft, the LSM, is being built. 6,000 addi tional workers must be employed im mediately to maintain the Charleston Navy Yard’s schedule of slLlpa. for landings on Jap and German beach heads. An urgent appeal is being made here by the U. S. Civil Service and the United States Employinent Service for Workers skilled in any shipbuilding trade. / Qualified workers in Richland, Lex ington, Kershaw and Fairfield coun- ■llcs—^not- 4K>w In war work—will be hired “on the spot” January 24 through January 29 at the U. S. Em ployment Service office, 1625 Sumter street, Columbia. S. C. Workers are urgently needed in practically every classification. W’ages are good. Every worker at the Navy Yard is a U. 8. Civil Service employee. NOW A LIEUTENANT Lt. Ray M.. Tetzlaff received his wings Tuesday, February 8, at Free man Field, Seymour, Ind. He won third highest average in his class 44-B out of several huudred cadets. Lt. Tetzlaff is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Bowers, of Camden. He was- married Nov. 13 to Mary Frieda Bowers. They are now spending a ten days furlough at his home in E^ranston, 111. (Continued from first page At Chanute Field courses opt selected Air WACs wUl include o tor and mechanic for celestial'na tlon trainers, which are devices t( the teaching of navigation by sun stars; control tower operator, cr; grapher, parachute rigger, and wi er observer and forecaster. CORPORAL RUSH TO COLUMBIA AIR BASE • ■■. Clilel.of_Pallcfi-And Mrs. Alva Rush have received word that their son. Corporal Alva Rush, has graduated from the Kingman Army Air school at Kinghan, Arizona. Corporal Rush, a graduate of the Camden High school in 1942, and who distinguished himself during his High school career as a football player, has been assigned to the Columbia Air Base for further training in aerial gunnery. By 1808, when further importation of African slaves was prohibited, R was estimated Negroes were being imported to the U. S. at the rate of 20,000 a year. At Lowry Field, Colo., coorses be given for armorers, camera nicians, administrative and su clerks, . administrative inspec clerks, bombslght mechanics, pi graphers and photo lab technldani Previously Air WACis .workini these specialties received 4Mily the-Job training,” except IR ph graphy where they have been adi ed to certain classes at Lowry I for the past several weeks. “Preliide^ The new Anon PRBLXJDS to years of hospitality O NCE again International Ster ling’s gifted silversmiths re spond to the romantic mood of a new generation of Imdes. Ageless < and chanaong, thk rfira, flower- carved pattern, “Prelade,” set the theme for many years of gra cious entertaining. Hoffer Company Jawelcrs-andhOptomEtrtN Tfcof •xira Skirt yov ntidt wheeling, jeep-driving Americans began buzzing along the English roads in their accustomed manner, even tradition couldn’t take it ^ A returned traveler reports that England is. ready to scrap its ancient custom of driving on the left side of the road, and keep it scrapped. The enlistment of Sinatra in the March of Dimes raises the question of a possible typogrraphical error. It is asked “Could it mean ‘Dames’?” Its an old thesis that when your debts reach a certain level you caji live off them. A little patience, folks. In a year or two. we should know for sure. “Hollywood,” says a gush sc^bler, “is a place of para doxes.” Where marriage breaks up a beautiful friendship, which resumes with the divorce. Obviously there is nothing in a rumor that one of the G. O. P. old guhrd is considering a separate peace with Willki^. 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