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^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?.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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