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i ^Thursday, January 8,- 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SIX to- —aai and load alfalfa hay for maiKet orny in fair weather, advis es the U. S. Department of Agri culture. In fall or winter much alfalfa hay that was properly cur ed and sweated arrives at the mar ket wet, damp, or hot, because it got wet in hauling or loading. Hay wet or dampened in this way sometimes heats and' molds when packed tight in box cars, even freezing temperatures prevail while it is in transit. XXX If this country isn’t the greatest place in the world to live, why do So many people try to get in?. ■ 1 »- jg. ■ When a woman gets a man up a tree she generally makes a monkey out of him. Late fall is one of the best times to destroy pocket gophers. You may catch them with the special traps now on the market, or pois on them with a vegetable or grain bait. For ridding alfalfa fields, orchards, or ditch embankments of this pest, poisoning is the most practical method. Place the baits in the main runways, at two points in each system of from 10 to 30 mounds, which is usually the home of one pocket gopher. XXI Don’t help your children on school problems. It isn’t right. The children discover that next day. Some farmers enjoy life most when it’s too late for fall plowing and too early for spring plowing. ' BE PREPARED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR OPPORTUNITIES Don’t wait until it is too late—your big opportunity may come any time and if you haven’t the ready funds, it «v may be lost. Many a chance for suc cess has been lost for lack of money. SAVE NOW! This is the time to save so you will be ready for what comes your way. This bank offers you every service and courtesy that you could eipect. We invite you to start your account here now, and save your surplus earn- ings regularly. PEOPIfS BANK McCORMICK, S. C. WE KNOW HOW TO FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTION RIGHT Bring your prescription to us to fill, for we know how to fill them correctly and quickly. You cannot take a chance when it is something serious that is concerned—come here where you KNOW it will be done RIGHT! We use only the purest and freshest of drugs, and work under the most sanitary conditions. Pure and Fresh Package Drugs and Patent Medicine You can always get what you want here in the way of patent medicine and package drugs, for we carry a most complete line of remedies, tonics and drugs, that are re- liable. STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. OUR THANKS TO YOU Let us extend to you our most sincere thanks for your patronage during the year just closed, and as sure you we shall strive to serve you even better dur ing the coming year. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town This Week b Arthur Brisbane 15,000,000 Years Ago Reading and Thought We Should Dance No Russian Home Cooking In northern AJberta engineers of the Canadian government have dis covered the oldest preserved trees in the world. Their branches were wav ing over strange animals, including uncouth, half-developed men, fifteen million years ago, when our continent was connected with Asia. That makes our giant redwood trees, “2,000 years old when Christ was born,” seem very young. j. s. Main Street .1 McCormick, S. C. Hermetically sealed in bitumen sands, safe .from the destroying air, the wood was perfectly preserved, with some of its leaves, and the in sects that were attacking both, when aJI were buried together. Doctor Bailey of Harvard proves that one of the trees is a Japanese variety. Those old trees, growing on a huge continent that included North Amer ica and Japan 15,000,000 years ago, make our few days and little troubles seem less Important. According to Bacon, “reading mak- eth a full man.” British statistics prove that hard times create more reading. Books of all kinds, includ ing worth-while books on science, biol ogy, astronomy, technology, etc., have increased in Humber ot publications and in total sales. When life is easy the average man does tittle thinking. In trouble, he thinks hard, and for thinking he wants printed information on which sound thought is based. < Twenty billion dollars in gold might help the world considerably. Twen ty million earnest thoughts would help it more than any gold. One single ac complishment, based on thought, the production of steam power, paid all the debts that Napoleon saddled on the nations and gave industry such Impetus as never had been dreamed of. Mary Wigtuan, young woman with earnest face, and a plan, arrives to tell us what America needs. Her pre scription may surprise you. WR need to dance. We are “re pressed.” if you know enough about Egeud to understand whaLAbat means. We need to dance, hop, jump, learn to relax, and “stop being puritanical.*’ If Miss Wigman would go to some of our cabarets and dances she might be surprised. A report that Russia’s government intends to take over all food aupfrlies and “end home cooking,” feeding and cooking for the people in central kitchens, is modified by a later state ment Russia will not carry out that plan right away, but that is the “prin ciple and plan.” It would be rather difficult to feed by government officials the 200,000 villages that make up the bulk of Rus sia’s population. Such a suggestion horrifies us in the United States, almost as much as the suggestion that children be taken from parents and brought up by the state. But there was a time when the sug gestion of public schools, supported by the property owners, horrified this country. And the suggestion that Americans would live in apartment? houses also horrified us.- • We were told then that no self- respecting American would ever give up his individual home. Talking by radio to 200,000 em ployees, 267,000 stockholders, and 20,- 000 dealers of General Motors, Presi dent Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., predicts a boom in prosperity to follow this slump. Without fixing future dates, Mr. Sloan agrees with other men of importance, who know the history of past depressions, that “out of it all is sure to come a better order of things, and, eventually, greater heights of prosperity than any we have yet enjoyed.” General Hines, veterans’ adminis trator, has prepared figures to inter est veterans of the big war. Some of them will live 55 years longer. Mortality statistics show that the last will go probably in the year 1085. Some of their widows will last until 2058, which will be 128 years from now. Those last widows, as young wom en, will marry very old pensioned vet erans, and continue drawing their pen sions for many years. The government has already spent five thousand million dollars on vet erans’ relief. By the end of 1940 it will have spent thirteen biilions, three thousand millions more than it lent Europe in the war. Calvin Coolidge, recalling the land ing of Pilgrim fathers on the shore of his beloved New England 310 years ago, proudly reminds you that “the weakest of us have the protection of an irresistible government.” He says that “our circumstances compel us to have faith. Our humility now requires cultivation.” ’ Americans have never been conspi- nous by being humble. But they may acquire humility with cotton and cop per at 10 cents or lower, wheat re ceiving artificial oxygen treatment from the government, oil and coal drugs ■ in thq market and stocks so low there isn't much left for the bears to sell abort. . * <&, 1911, bj Ktnf Featur’d* Syndicate, lac.) This Week b Arthur Brisbane Important Questions Prohibition Illegal! Sewed in a Bear Skin Strange Motions Let those that torment themselves with foolish fears, and permit their fears to interfere with business and the return of prosperity, ask them selves these questions: Have we not had depressions be fore? Did we not then think that the end of the world was coming? Did not men go about shaking their heads, saying: “Yes, but this is a different kind of depression; we never had anything like this.” Those that have been in business a reasonable length of time recall the head-shaking, moaning and groaning of 1907. Haven’t there been good times since 1907? Didn’t business “pick up,” to put it mildly, after 1907? Haven’t we since then added hundreds of billions to the country’s wealth? And haven’t we got everything now that we ever had? Could anything be more stupid thdn talk and action of a kind harmful to business, to banks and other institu tions upon which the prosperity of us all and every man’s employment de pend absolutely? The country discusses the decision of Federal Judge William T. Clark, who says that prohibition isn’t legal because the people didn’t pass on it. Judge Clark is interesting to mil lions of men and women, although they may not know it, for he is one of the famous O. N. T. Clark thread family. Judge Clark’s decision that pro hibition isn’t legal will be reversed by the Supreme court, probably. Everything is comparative, even sor row. The head of a great bank In New York tells of a client 4 *with the saddest face 1 have ever seen in my life.” One year ago this client was worth at least sixty millions of dollars. And today his fortune is reduced to not more than twenty million dollars. “And you can't imagine,” said the banker, “how that man suffers.” Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, to subdue those that opposed him, in vented queer punishments. On one occasion he had a bishop sewed up in a bear skin, and the bish op, in his bear skin, thrown to a pack of half-starved dogs. The bishop suffered horribly, of course, but only for a few minutes. His total suffering amounted to far less than the sufferings of some that have seen their fortunes and the re sults of their life work gradually tak en from them, bit by bit, during the past year. Harvard sends reassuring news about this grand old earth, on w'hich men have lived, according to Profes sor Osborne, for forty million years, and on which geologists, physicists, as tronomers, tell us we shall continue to live for at least a million million years more. Our strange rolling domicile is one with many motions. We all know that q it turns around on its axis, rolls around the sun in 365 days, and is traveling through space accompany ing the sun on its journey. But most of us forget about the many other motions of the earth. We are glad to learn from Harvard that a “recent mysterious shaking of the earth's crust was a movement back and forth, rhythmical and regular, six seconds to each swing.” And while the earth’s crust does move, it moves only two ten-thou sandths of an inch in either direction, the motion continuing for many days. We should be very grateful that lit* tie human microbes can be safe on this whirling globe, twenty-five thou sand miles around, as heavy as though it were made of solid steel, with hot fire under our feet, and absolute zero, more than 400 degrees below freezing, all around us. Mr. Cutter, president of the United Fruit company, says that we did a business last year with Latin-America of more than two thousand million dol lars, whereas we ought to be doing a business of ten thousand million dollars. In i|e Caribbean countries, says Mr. Ciffter, we reach fewer than 20 per cent of the possible customers. American business men, with the Department of Commerce leading, should look into that ten billion dollar possibility. We need the business. France has banking troubles and deals with doubtful bankers in a dras tic fashion. Thirty-five French hank ers are in jail, and 185 under govern ment investigation. Germany has found a way to make danger signals plain even for the color blind. Drivers approaching a railroad track need not know the difference be tween white and red. The warning comes in flashes. While the way is clear a white light flashes forty times a minute. When a train approaches a red light is turned on and flashes eighty “times to'the minute. The train automatically swdtvrhes the red and white lights on and off. . <©. 1930. hv King Feature* Syndicate. Inc.l Improved Uniform International StmdaySchool ? Lesson T (Bv REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.. Mem ber of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) ((c). 1930. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for January 11 THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS LESSON TEXT—Luke 2:40-52. GOLDEN TKXT—And Jesus increased In wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. PRIMARY TOPIC—Ideal Childhood. JUNIOR TOPIC—Growing up for Cod. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Responsibility of Youth. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Being about the Father’s Business. McCormick Holmets> Church Schedule McCormick —. Preaching s^rvic* Saturday night before 3rd Sunday ai 8 o’clock; third Sunday morning ai 10:30 o’clock and third Su day night at 8 o’clock. A cordial welcome ii extended to all. O. E. Taylor, Pastor. 4Xt- I. Jesus Growing (v. 40). While Jesus was as to his person ality, God, yet his deity did not inter fere with his development as a hu man being. The processes of his physical, mental, and spiritual growth were the same as those of any normal human being. 1. “Grew and w’axed strong.” It w as necessary for his body to develop. His brain, nerves, and muscles must not only attain unto the proper size but must come to act in unison, be come correlated. 2. “Filled with wisdom.” As with most children his training was largely in the hands of his mother. She, no doubt, taught him to commit to mem ory Bible verses and taught him the great stories of the Old Testament, from the creation down through the patriarchs and prophets. It seems that it was customary among the Jews to send the child at the age of six years to the synagogue school, where the Old Testament was the textbook. 3. “And the grace of God was upon him.” By the grace of God doubt less, Is meant God’s loving favor and tender care. II. Jasua Tarrying Behind at Jeru salem (vv. 41-43). At the age of twelve years the Jewish child took his place as a wor shiper in the temple. He was then considered “a child of the law.” Be ing thoroughly conscious of his mis sion, Jesus tarried behind and in quired into the meaning of the ordi- mrffees of Gael's house. His heart yearned for his Fafher. ■ III. Jesua Found in the Temple (vv. 44-47). When his mother and Joseph had gone some distance on the homeward journey, they perceived that Jesus was not with them - and sought for him among their kinsfolk and ac quaintances. Not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem and found him in the temple. 1. He was sitting (v. 46). He was perfectly at home in his Father’s house. 2. He was hearing the teachers of God’s Word (v. 46), and was eager to learn God’s will. 3. He asked questions (v. 46). His growing mind w’as inquisitive; it in quired after—reached out after— truth. 4. He answered questions (v. 47). His answers show’ed such great wis dom that he astonished those who heard him. It was the expression of the workings of a perfect human mind suffused by the Holy Spirit IV. Mary's Complaint (vv. 48-50). 1. Her question (v. 48). “Why hast thou dealt thus with us?” She re monstrated with him for his behavior. 2. Jesus’ reply (v. 49). He replied to her question In a dignified yet tender manner, but made no apology, thus in dicating that he was more than mere ly the son of Mary. God was his Fa ther. 3. Mary acquiesced in his revelation of himself (v. 51). She did not under stand all these things, but she kept them in her heart. V. Jesus’ Obedience (v. 51). Though he was fully conscious of his divine being and mission, he lived a life of filial obedience, thus teach ing us that obedience to parents is pleasing to God. and a duty which will he discharged faithfully by those who have the spirit of Jesus Christ. VI. Jesus’ Development (v. 52). 1. Mental. “Increased in wisdom.” Although the divine nature was united with the human, his mind was left free to develop normally. 2. Physical. He increased in stature. His body developed according to the laws of a normal human being. 3. Spiritual. He increased in favor with God and man. As his mind de veloped. and his apprehension of God became more comprehensive, the Di vine Being could be more fully ex pressed through him, and as the per fect life was lived, men could rec ognize his superior qualities, and therefore, their hearts would open to him. A. R. Presby U rim Preaching at Mt. Carmei a. u* he first and third Sabbaths at 1? i. m. Preaching at McCormick, S. C., ox the second and fourth Sabbaths mi 11:30 a. m. Sabbath school at both churches every Sabbath day throughout th« ear. Leon T. Pvessly, Paster -txt- Plum Branch Baptist Church Schedule Rev. J. L. BOBO, Pastor. Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a.m., Luther Ridlehoover, super intendent; preaching on the first and third Sundays at 11 a. m.; prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Baptist Schedule BETHANY—1st Sunday, preach ing service, 3:30 p. m.; 3 rd Sun day, 11:30 a. m. BUFFALO—1st Sunday, Sunday School, 10:30 a. m.; Preaching 11:30 a. m.; 3rd Sunday, Sunday School 2:30 p. m.; Preaching, 3:30 p. m. McCORMICK—1st Sunday, Sunday School 10:00 a. m.; B. Y. P. tJ. 6:45 p. m.; Preaching 7:30 p. m. 2nd Sunday, Sunday School 10:00 a m.; Preaching 11:00 a. m.; B. Y. P. U. 6:45 p. m.; Preaching 7:30 p. m. 3rd Sunday, Sunday School 10:60 a. m.;. B. Y; P. U., 6:45 p. m.; Preaching 7:30 p. m. 4th Sunday, Sunday School 10:00 a. m.; Preaching, 11:00 a. m.; B. Y. P. U. 6:45 p. m.; Preaching, 7:30 p. m. WILLINGTON — 2nd Sunday. Preaching 4:00 p. m.; 4th Sunday, Preaching 4:00 p. m. W. H. BARFIELD, . Pastor. X Troy A. R. P. Charge TROY—Sabbath school at 10:00 every Sabbath morning; morning worship, 11:00. Y. P. C. U. meets 1st, 3rd and 5th Sabbath evenings at 7:00 o’clock. Prayer meeting, 2nd and 4th Sabbath evening at 7:00. BRADLEY—Sabbath school, 3:00 p. m. 1st and 3rd Sabbaths; wor ship 3:30 p. m. CEDAR SPRINGS—Sabbath school at 3:30 o’clock, 2nd and 4th Sab baths; worship 4:00 p. m. J. H. BUZHARDT, Pastor. -txt- McCormick Methodist Church Schedule Christian Victory To trust him and to keep the eye on him is the one secret of all Chris tian victory.—G. H. Morrison. McCormick — Sunday school every Sunday at 10:15 a. m.; Preaching at 11:15 a. m. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sun days, and at 7:30 p. m. on fourth Sundays. Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 7:30 o’clock. Board of Stewards meets Monday night following 1st Sundays. REPUBLICAN Sunday School at 11 a. m. on Sn4 and 4th Sundays. 1st and 3rd Sun days at 2:30 p. m. Preaching on 1st and 3rd Sundays at 3 p. m. Troy — Sunday school at 10:06 a. m. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2n4 Sundays at 3 p. m.; preaching Sntf Sundays 3:30 p. m.; 4th Sundays 11 a. m. Beulah — Preaching every 4th Sunday afternoon at 3:80 o’clock. Lr The Disease, the Remedy “The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.”—Martin Luther. Man’s Religion A man has no more religion than he acts out In his life.—Henry Ward Beecher