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Friday, September 8, 1944
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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. • '
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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.
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OTHER TOWNS FOLLOW THEM
Another big achievement of the Lancaster Merchants
tion is
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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.
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A GREAT COlLBCnON
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MOCK HEROICS
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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.
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Do you ever say I haven’t time to write that letter liow?
riLwrite it tomorrow. We put off writing our girls and boys
in the service, but yet we still expect them to win the war.
How can they win the w«r when we don’t write them the
hometown news that they are so eagerly waiting to hear? Our
boys in training here want mail just as much ^ our boys over
seas. Getting mail from l^ome is like having a heart-to-heart
talk with Mom and Dad, and a letter from that favorite girl
is a date by mall. Our boys are doing a great job, so let’s
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