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'U* P/kOE FOUR THE CAMDEW CHWOWICLE, CAMDEII, iOilTH CAWOLINA,-PEIOAY, SEPTEMEEW g, 1f44 f Camlim (S^rnnirb ' 1109 North Broad Street Camden, S. G. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY DaCOSTA BROWN • - ■ « - - Publiaher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: i All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year - - f2.00 Six Months —... 1.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post OflTice _ at Camden, S. C. ' r*' ■ ■ I ■ All Articles submitted'lor publication must be eigned by the author. Friday, September 8, 1944 s—■■ Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may he the sex or complexion- —William Lloyd Garrison. • ' 4 EXCELLENT JUDGMENT The announcement by Rev. Edmund Burke, Catholic pastor, that the mass meeting of citizens that will be held in Hampton Perk on the evening of V-Day will be one of prayer and thanksgiving, reflects praiseworthy reflection and judg ment. The Chronicle does not feel a celebration of riotous pro portions and carousing in wild demonstrations- would be in good taste at a time like this. The Chronicle believes a wild unrestrained orgy of joy would inflict deep wounds upon the feelings, and in the hearts of-those whose homes have been invaded by the dark spectre of death and also upon those homes that yet may feel the blight of the war now raging in the Pacific. V-Day will not be the end of the war—it will be the finish of one-half of the war. A Lancaster editorial writer tells us that at a football game the supporters of the team that is leading at half time do not stage wild demonstrations of joy between the halves. They wait until the game is over. And right he is. This present global conflict is like a football game. The Allies are about to finish the first half with a wide margin of victory. In the second half which will begin in earnest -when we throw our regularB into Mtion against the enemy, thousands of our brave boys will lose their lives. Just for that reason, let us keep our joy over the first half victory within bounds. - And again,, quoting the able Lancaster writer, “To cele brate by staging wild drinking parties, destroying property and in rioting would be to indicate that perhaps we are not worthy of the victory that has come to us." So let us suggest'lhat we celebrate the first half of our victory with'prayer and thanksgiving. uangarous Gam9 Harvey McKeime Killed ht France t »n MiicGovem in Nno York Post Kindergarten Opens Its 19th Season * Magnolia Kindergarten, under the direction of Miss Sara Wolfe, wUl open its 19th year October 2nd. The kindergarten, well boused, and steam heated, is located at 1214 Lyttleton street, and offers a Varied program, including clay modeling, woodwork, doll house keep* Ing, block building, painting and crayon art work, story teUing, dra matic play and liiythmlc exercises and games. The playground is equipped with a Jungle gym, slides, sand box and swings. The, class is limited to 30 pupils. The kindergarten plans to operate for four terms of 8 weeks each. Postponed The trustees of the Bethune school have decided to postpone the opening of school lintil Monday morning. Sept. 18, at 8:30 o’clock. This action was taken because of the pressing need for the school children In the cotton fields. With his oldest son having made the supreme sacrifice in Prance, L O. McKenxie of Camden, an eidployee of the poet n»otor pool at Fort Jack- son, expresses the ‘sentiments c4 many a father throughout the natloa when be says he wishes he were gounger so he could Join his four other fighting sons in ther service. Origjpally there were five Mc- Kensie boys in the service, but the oldest one, Sgt Harvey McKenzie, gave his life for his country. The war department notified the parents that this son was wounded in France on July 13. They later received an* <^her communication saying that he bad died on July 18. Mr. McKensie recently received a letter from 21-year*old Pvt Robert McKenzie, now pursuing the Germans through Prance, in which he said that his company had captured an entire German armored regiment The young soldier inclosed several snapshots, one of which showed two very you^^l* looking Nazis, anSTthe otEer a group of German artillerymen, many of whom had been killed^ he explained. Also in the letter were two patches from German uniforms showing a Coldy Tniesdale Dies bi Aeddeid Coley Blease 'Pmesdale, 34 of WestviUe. died in an autoS accident near Atlanta Satnrdi^ He was married to the bin Kathleen,, Peach of Westrllle taj the son of the late Si^ey t vL! dale and Kathleen Sanders. * ^ Surviving are his widow ters, Mrs. Steve W. Clyburn uJ C. Hilton, Mrs. Henry Truesda^ Hoyt McCaskfll and ’ Thompson. * ** Funeral services were conduetM 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon fi^, Kalb Baptist church by the Rm <^inn. Interment followed b ‘ church cemetery. “vulture” with wings spread m awastika. The McKenzies are serving ti eral branches of the service, in tlon to Pvt. Robert McK^ France, Hosea. 23, is there wl medical unit; Isaac J., 25, is wit Seabees in California, and Colei Kensie, 20, ia^:4a^-the navy ab« destroyer somewhere in the Ptci The two McKenzies who are li navy, enlisted. The other three l erg were inducted Into the arn Fort Jackson. Magnolia Kindergarten will re-open Monday, Oct 2nd. Interested patrons kindly phone 168W, or contact Miss Sara Wolfe at 1214 Lyttleton street Magnolia Kindergarten plans to operate 4 terms of 8 weeks each. LONDONER’S VIEW The tranaatlantic edition of the London Daily Mail carries the answer of its New York correspondent to a question fre quently put to him on his return to London: “How does Britain at war strike you as compared with America at war?” Here is the answer: “There is no comparison. The American civilians—all of them, not just those with big bank rolls—are living a life hardly distinguishable from peacetime existence. There are mountains of food and acres of clothing for everyone. Rationing is the merest pinprick. ‘There are plenty of luxuries. More money is being made by the entertainment, catering and clothing industries than ever before. The war is remote. Almost, it does not exist in a physical sense, Psychologically it is close—^for remem ber there are ten million Americans or more in uniform, and tKeir r^atTv^TieTong to fiearly every home in America." Exaggerated, would you say? Not to a man who has seen wartime London—^just the daily living, not the blitz and the robots. It might be well if we would try to look at our-' selves* now and then through a Londoner's eyes—we who gripe and gn’ouse and gouge and strike.—^Exchange. I OTHER TOWNS FOLLOW THEM Another big achievement of the Lancaster Merchants tion is »— \ associatibn is the anti-spitting campaign which was started last^spring and wMcli bas been a big success. This cam paign has attracted attention all over the state and many other-towns are taking it up. There is just as much need for such a campaign in Cam den as there is in Lancaster. Too much expectorating is being done on Camden’s main streets, especially on Saturdays when the sidewalk literally swims with the loathsome slime. It is not Oinly repulsive but it is unsightly and one of the surest ways- of spreading disease. The Lancaster campaign is also directed against flies and a strenuous effort is being put forth to stop the practice of throwing used ice cream cones, coke containers, orange and banana peelings, wrappings from candy bars, etc., on the sidew’alks and pavements. Flies transmit polio germs. /ii it MM/ A GREAT COlLBCnON 1 \ MOCK HEROICS i Under the caption “Mock Heroics,” The Charlotte Ob server in-a lead editorial wonders why everything in the in vasion of Paris had to wait for DeGaulle to lead the triumphal march. The Observer calls attention to the fact that American troops made the invasion landings, drove the Germans back from “impregnable” positions by the sacrifice of blood and lives, in other words, it was American arms led by old Blood and Guts Patton that captured Paris. The Charlotte writer points out that DeGaulle simply waited until all was clear and then rode in as a conquering -hero. “It was a role that might have been left to someone else, a humble French patriot who bad fought against despair, starvation and torture, who had sben friends shot, family ex terminated and had been hunted like a wild beast,” says The Observer. Coat FASHION NEWS, 1945!. Newly smooth suedc-^ish all wool fabrics, softer shoulders, feminine, rounded lapels. Vibrant coiors^fiicfasia, green, RAF blue, warm grays—as well as Harlr^ tones and blK.lc. All warmly interlined and ijmfd with iljrpn crepe or satia USE OUR CONVENIENT LAY AWAY PLAN Have Your Coii Paid for by the cine yo« a^d ill •. 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