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Friday, March 29, 1946
THE BUTTER §ITUATIQ]^
TheHButter situation daily becomes more acute. The
Wall Street Journal in its issue of last Thursday states that
production is now at the lowest rate in 26 years, over 30 per
cent under a, year ago. One big Philadelphia wholesaler
hasn’t had a poUnd for sale in weeks. In San Francisco sales
are 60 per cent below a year ago; in. Chicago 30 per cent
below. Black market sales are universal. In some of the
larger cities retaBers increasingly sell butter on a “tie-in”
ba^. You take some frozen eggs, say—or you get no butter.
THE STUFF THEY’RE MADE OF
Virginia born Nancy Langhorne Astor, who was guest
of South .Carolina last weel^, ^Id Charlestonians that Win
ston Churchill was not responsible in putting the “stuff’ in
the British people during the last war, for the reason that
^‘the stud^’ she si^id, has been there all along.
' We rather like the way Sam Latimer of the Columbia
State speaks of Lady Astor’s remark. He sdys:
“F^ •
rom time to time the remark, Those people have
really rot guts’, cornea from some awed American who serv
ed isri-England during the war. Only recently a returned
officer who had been there an unusually Jong time put it
PUBL/C FORUM
To the Editor of tho Cundon Chro>
nicle: *
I have been rtrj much inteijoated in
the letters and a^dea pablished
winter in Chronicle aufgeatmg
^e establishment of a nuraing home
for the old people of oar* community.
It it hoped that the eitiaena of Cam
den and the county will take enough
intereat in the project to noake it a
realityr
Our Welfare workera, dergymen-
and doctora who are in a position to
see and know the need, have apohen
strongly in favor of the plan. They
tell us that there are forty eases in
immediate need of such a home.
Our local hospital is over-crowded
at^ should not use its beds for_the
chronically ill and these cases could
be adequately and more economically
cared for in the suggested nursing
home.
Thefre are two alternative sugges
tions, one to establish an institution
serving, the needy^of perhaps three
counties, and supported by all three;
the ether, a smaller home for Ker
shaw County alone. It is proposed to
have a trained nurse in charge.
Surely we shpulfT feel sympathy and
an obligation toward those of our
community who^^re’old, sick and
poor,
Major West Is
Given Otation
JOHN S. MYBtS
John S. Myers, cdored eemtraetor
and former resident of Camden,.died
Sunday morning, March 17, at 8 aon.
QScnafiCl!
It is hoped that more citisms of
m R
Camden Wnl get behind the plan. One
ly, as suggested by Dr.
nis article, of doing so
P’
V
incenx in
would 1i)C to write to our represents
tives, urging the necessary approp
riation.
The names and addresses are:
Mr. Wi> T. Redfcm of Camden, sen
ator; Mr. R. M. Kennedy of Camden,
member of the Hopse, and Mr. L. C.
Clybum, of Westville, member of the
House.
' MRS. JOHN DEVINE.
CAIDOPTHANKS
We thank our many friends for
their kind sympathy shown.us dur
ing the malady and bereavement of
our deir husband and father.
Signed: ^
EUSE MYERS AND SON
Dfivt Cartftally—Bate m life.
more fonnall;^and more grammatScally.
“ The ability of those people to take punishment,’ he
said, ’is truly amazing. I often wonder if our people could
have atood what they went through’.
“That is an interesting qu^on. If bombs had been
dropping nightly on New York and Chicago for four years,
what would have been the popular reaction?
“The only thing we have to go by is the radio program
some five years ago that described a fictitious invasion from
another planet. The result was mass hysteria and panis over
a wide area. '
It might be well to remember that the British Isles serv
ed as a buffer and a bulwark between Hitlei^s armies and
us. It might be well to reflect upon this matter in connection
with the proposed loan to Great Britain. Perhaps the services
rendered were worth more to us even than 3% billion
dollars.”
Major Shelton J. West, Qeno Farm.
Camden. 8. C., sop of'Mra. Mattie R.
West, haa received the foUowing
citation for merKorioua service as
an .active executive oficer in the
Greenland Baa Command:
“For merltorioua aervice aa Acting
Executive Officer, Greenland BhM
Command. He la admirably fitted for
the position which he now temporar
ily occupies. He heads a smoothly
working and coordinated staff, and
has demonstrated hia qualifications
by the excellent mannei* in' which
that staff functions. His manner of
performanc of duty ia such as^ to
elicit Jbigh praise from all^ who have
the opportunity of observing it.”
Major West waa in the Coast Artil
lery Corps.
Major Shelton J. West, a graduate
of -the Camden high school, graduat
ed from the Citadel in 1940. He enter
ed the Army in July 1941, after
teacbing-A year at-Golf Port Military
Academy. He, entered the Firat
Borage Baroon Training Class at
Camp Davis, N, C., in 1941. He was
ordered to Panama in December,
.1941, and spent two‘years there with
the Baroon Barage Outfit. He then
spent six months in California. He
was ordered to Wa^ington, and was
one-^of the twenty-six offlcws sent
obt-tiif the United States to handle
the soldier's vote in 1944. His assign
ment Vas Greenland. After that work,
he was assigned to Greenland Base
Command and has been there ever
since. He is making preparations for
his wife (Gladys Burbage) to join
him in Greenland. He expe<^ to stay
In ths Army. '
He waa a member of Trinity Metii-
f ailed to at-
odist chnrch and never .
tend and soppoft it libovally. To the
community lo tremendous was his
ideal that he could not let any trouble
stop his toUs fox^it.
b'uneral services were held Wednes-
SlUlUiU
Scout News
Troop SA...jpet on March 20. The
meeting started with a short game of
tag. We went Inside and said the
Scout Oath and Law. We went out
side and practiced the knots for the
campore which is coming up. After
this we WMre assigned to other posi
tions. First Aid, Ilrebuilding, etc.
Mr. Sheeiy asked how inany were go>
Ing on the hike the SOth and we dia*
noissed with the Great Scontmaatera
Benediction. •
^y,_Mkrch 20, at 4 p.m. at which Rev.
“ ~ ided.
W. R. Gregg presit _
.He is snrvived by his widow, EUse
H. Myers,'and one son, Harris S.
Myers.
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merchant to put his store in his customen’ homes.
In serving business, the Telephone Company
accepts a great responsibility—the obligation to
meet every need of the business txian who depends
on the te^lephone.
With the Company—as with the corner drug
storo—eariiings are vital to continued success. And
because the telephone has become a part of every
day life, telephone earnings are a subject of im
portance to all.
. In 1945, telephone earnings were the lowest in
the past 23 years. For 1946, the outlook is for even
lower earnings. In keeping with the general trend
throughout the country, wages have recently been
increased. The cost of 'everjrthing else going into ~
the furnishing of telephone service is also climbing.
Adequate earnings are a basic^ necessity to the
American way of life. Earnings must be sufficient
to enable industry to maintain high'standards of
aervice and to attract capital for expansion. As for*
the Telephone Company, they are indispensable if
Hie full usefulness of the ulephone in carrying on
the business of the community is to bs saf sgusrdsd. #v
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LET'S STOP
-A:
FEEDING INFLATION
Y,
ou know what happens
When you continue to spend more than
you make and ...
Yet that is exactly what’s happenin| to«
r-
day. Our government is spending billions
more than it takes in. And it continues to
borrow to make up the difference.
Keep on borrowing to make up the dif<
lerencel
This is the kind of money-handling that
causes inflation.
You know too, that a big chunk of every
dollar you earn and every dollar you
spend goes to pay the cost of government.
fconomy In govornmont moona
mcnoy in your pockot
That’s why it’s important for you to take
e good look at the way the government
■penda your doilara.
6ov«rnm«nt should bogin no'w
to ttvo within Its moons
If the American people — through Con*
great — will reduce government spending
and take steps to encourage production,
inflation will be stopped... and tbit is tho
only way it can be stopped.
During the war government necessarily
spent huge sums of money. Yet, with the
war over, die government plans to spend
four tiinee as much in the coming year
as it spent in the highest pre-war year.
K^oat thoughtful people believe that gov
ernment expenditures are now far greater
than they need be.
Write your representadvea in Congreae
today.
Urge them to cut the cost of government,
eliminating all waste ... ril unnecessary
services •.. and postponing ail expendi*
tures that can be put off until our war bills
have been paid.
They believe diat government, like e
family, should Uve within its maims ...
that it should not spend more than it takes
in . . . diat it should not keep on gning
deeper into debL
Urge theti. lo make the government start
living within its meant... at a level that
you and your neighbors can afford to pay.
You’ll see die results soon in dm cost of
everything that you buy... food, plothing
end everything else. And youll be
yeur cMmtry s real service.
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