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HINDSIOm J FORESIGHT
(BY CLAYTON RAND)
*1 regret to learn that the money market is no
easier. It will become easier and money will be
come plenty enough when all fail who ought to fail;
and when all the crazy ^speculating, reckless and
lieadlong merchants, traders and speculators, who
*want to become rich without industry and economy
shall be made to stop in their careers.
“The times are out of joint and will continue so
until business men are made sensible that fortunes
are not to be made in a day.
“There is a great tendency in all classes to live be
yond their means. There is in this country too much
of the high-pressure principle.”
Written yesterday? No. Written today? No. The
foregoing is an editorial from the Boston Post in
1837. ‘
As we shook out of 1837 we are shaking out of
*29 and ’30. The reason some of us don’t see it is be
cause hindsight is still better than ^foresight.
Unde Sam’s Trade
With Chile Growing
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Our Manufacturers Supply
One-third of Imports
to That Country
Chile is one of Uncle Sam’s best cus
tomers, according to the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce. Thirty-three cents
of every dollar she spends abroad
comes to the United States. In 1929
this amounted to silty million dollars,
or more than double the amount spent
»wwa
ftoatosa*
THE PEOPLES BANK
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 oat of town
J. S. STROM
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
AN ADV. Will HELF W
No matter what you may want—
buy, sell, find, trade, or rent—an ad
vertisement in THE MESSENGER
will help you. There is no limit to
the results it may bring. Your mes
sage goes into the homes of several
hundred people, and will be read in
leisure time when decisions are
made.
You won’t miss the small amount
that advs. in this paper will cost.
Unloading Cargo American Made Loco
motives in Valparaiso, Chile
In any other country. Chile’s imported
gooda amounted to $44 per capita that
year.
The ’principal products purchased
from the United States included cotton
fabrics, automobiles, trucks, gasoline,
and iron and.«leel manufactured prod
ucts. Since these and many other
products are manufactured in this
country In excess of the home demand,
the development of markets in other
countries is essential to the future
prosperity of our country.
In exchange for the products sold to
Chile, the United States bought raw
materials, principally copper to be con
verted into manufactured products and
nitrate of soda to be used by farmers in
producing profitable crops. Govern
ment.; of both countries actively en
courage this exchange of trade. Our
commerce officials have shown that
American manufacturers can, enlarge
their markets in South America. Near
ly all these countries have raw prod
ucts to exchange for the goeds we
produce.
Vast Nitrate Fields
Once Floor of Ocean
Entire Region Now Barren
Desert High Above
Sea Level
Piece by piece, scientific discoveries
have been put together to reveal the
story of one of the great mysteries of
nature, the origin of the nitrate fields
in South America.
According to geological history, the
vast, barren desert of Northern Chile
in which the nitrate deposits are found
was once the bottom of the Pacific
Ocean. Millions of years—no one
knows the number—have probably
passed since Nature buried this treas
ure in that desolate plateau thousands
of feet above the Pacific.
Authorities who have studied th«
deposits believe that, either as a result
of a sudden upheaval or the gradual
rising of the continent, great bodies
of waters from the Pacific were com
pletely enclosed by rising land. A
beating sun, pouring down upon th*
inland lakes in this new region, grad
ually dried up the salt water, destroy
ing plant and animal life. Then fn!
lowed slow oxidation which, with othe
natural processes, produced almost b:
magic an entirely new substance—
Chilean nitrate of soda, as it is called
today. The nitrate, with other min
erals, is now found in beds in an area
covering 75,000 square miles, where it
has been baked and seasoned for ccn
turies.
It is generally thought that the
natural origin of Chilean nitrate ac
counts for its unusual record of service
to farmers of the world. It contains,
besides nitrogen, a number of other
important elements—potassium, caici
um, magnesium, iodine, and boron.
All of these are essential for the
grow’th and health of plants. It i?
because of the presence of these ele
ments that Chilean nitrate is fro
quently called “nitrogen plus.” It is
more than a source of nitrogen.
The commercial exploitation cf the
nitrate deposits, commenced >in 1830.
The fertilizer has been used ever since
and it is now recognized as the oldest
of the commercial fertilizing mate
rials. In this country’ about three
quarters of a million tons are used
annually. According to conservative
estimates, the supply is adequate to
meet the need of the w’orld for several
centuries, even if the rate of consump
tion is materially increased.
You may bear false witness
against your neighbor and get away
with it, but you can’t get away
from your conscience.
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Troubles aren’t helped any by
carrying them in your* face—and
neither is your face. * ..
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
The Late Speaker
Bad News, and Good
‘ A Useful “Don’t”
Honor to Michigan
The death of Speaker Longwortli
will be deeply regretted In Washing
ton and throughout the country. He
was able, witty, good-natured and tact-
fill. His colleagues liked him, the na
tion respected him for his ability and
character.
The country feels deep sympathy for
his widow, daughter of President
Theodore Roosevelt.
The had news from Europe deals
with probable revolution in Portugal.
Cheerful news tells of better feel
ing between Italy and France. Presi
dent Poumergue calls Italy “a noble
and friendly nation” and recalls Italy
“fighting gloriously and valorously at
the side of France.”
France, said President Doumergue.
had suffered enough from war to ap
preciate the value of peace, “but she
lias also acquired too much experience
through her own history to ignore the
fact that there is no durable peace
without security of frontiers.”
* Dean Loomis of New York univer
sity offers among “dont’s” to parents
this excellent one:
“Don’t urge your children to go to
college because you went, or because
you didn’t, or because the youngsters’
chums are going, or because it is the
avenue to a sorority, or fraternity, or
to atldetic success.”
College lifeNfeurts as often as it
.helps, and oftener. Better for a young
man to spend four years at work real
izing Ids shortcomings than more or
less at study acquiring an exaggerated
idea of his own importance.
Citizens . of Michigan honor their
state by refusing, in overwhelming ma
jority, to restore the death penalty in
their state.
That penalty, abolished in Michigan
84 years ago, is an imitation by the
state of the murderer’s tactics. The
installation of an electric chair in the
State prison at Jackson would have
been a blot upon the state, a back
ward step for a great commonwealth
that has not known capital punish
ment for 100 years.
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Mr. Kenneth Collins, who knows
about buying and selling, and how to
promote both, says: “Buying power is
on the upgrade.” An important fact,
according to Mr. Collins, is that people
are liquidating their installment debts.
The depression of 1029 found them
owing about $0,000,000,000. They have
paid off half.
A great German military authority,
Gen. Berthold von Deiiuling, declares
that Germany no longer needs a great
army, because Hying machines, ex
plosives and poison gas will alone be
important in tiie next war. In the
next war, says he. the fighters will at
tack entire populations with poison
gas; “against attack from the air
there can he no real defense and no
protection—at least for the masses of
the population.”
It is important for parents to know
that the dreaded poliomyletis, or in
fantile paralysis, attacks children
mainly through the nose. The germ
infects water, and can be taken
through the nose passages by children
swimming in unclean water. So says
Doctor Weyer of the Willard Parker
laboratories.
The germ is probably introduced in
to the nose most often by the fingers.
Children should be taught from in
fancy to keep their hands away from
mouths and noses.
Quakers have amended their “rule of
discipline” for the first time in thirty-
eight years. Quaker girls and women
may add “frills” and lace to the plain
Quaker garb.
It is decided that mutton-leg sleeves
for girls, suits of plain black with no
collars or cuffs for men, are not neces
sary to good morals here or happiness
hereafter.
If the Quaker girls wanted to attract
attention, which presumably they do
not. the old-fashioned plain gray dress
would he the best dress.
Many eligible Americans are tired
of “frills” cut off above the knee or
below the waist in the back.
In the cathedral of Palermo. Sicily,
Prince Henri, son of the duke of Guise,
pretender to the French throne, mar
ried Princess Isabelle of Orleans and
Bragance.
Both are descendants of the last
king of France. Much royalty attend
ed the wedding, the ceremony per
formed by Cardinal Lavitrano.
As far as royalty goes, that wed-
iting was like marrying a Confederate
tive-dollar bill to one of the $1,000
Kerensky bonds.
They are a nice young couple, twen
ty-three and eighteen years old, but so
far as the throne of France is con
cerned, they are as much out of date
as the Confederate money or the Rus
sian bond.
Rev. Dr. Reisner objects to Sunday
loud-speaker advertising from the sky
by airplane, and his objection is sound.
The sky belongs to everybody; no
one sliould be permitted to write ad
vertising on the clouds, or bellow ad
vertising copy Into unwilling «3ars, on
Sunday especially.
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(Rv REV P. B. F1TZWATER. D. D.. Mem
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(©, 1931, W.stern Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for April 26
HOW TO PRAY
LESSON TEXT—Luke 18:1-14.
GOLDEN TEXT—And it came to pass,
that, as he was praying: in a certain
place, when he ceased, one of his disci
ples saW unto him. Lord, teach us to
pray, as John also taught his disciples
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus Teaches Us
to Pray.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Teaches Us to
Pray.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—What Is True Prayer?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADtJLT TOP
IC—Why Pray?
I. “Men Ought Always to Pray”
(v. 1).
Prayer is absolutely necessary to
tiie spiritual life. It is to the spiritual
like what breathing is to the physical
life. Men ought to pray under every
variety of circumstances—in times of
sorrow and burdens for strength to
endure, in times of joy and success for
grace to behave aright. Prayer ought
to be persisted in even when the an
swer is not Immediately seen. “AH
men pray at times.” To the Christian
alone belongs faith-filled and persistent
prayer.
II. The Urgent Prayer of a Widow
<vv. 2-8).
Tiie picture here is of a helpless
widow who was being cheated out of
her property rights, coming to a god
less judge for redress. Her only means
of getting help was to prove the jus
tice of her claim by her persistence.
Even tlds did not gain access to his
heart for he feared not God nor re-,
garded man. He complied with her re
quest to get rid of her. The point
here is not that God is like tins unjust
judge, that lie can be teased into com
pliance, but rather the teaching is by
contrast. If such action can be secured
on the part of a godless judge by per
sistence, how much surer will the help
of God be given to his elect who cry
unto him day and night. Tiie helpless
widow pictures the church in this age
suffering the deprivation of her rights.
It Is not the church praying for vet;
geance upon her enemies, but suing
for the possession of her rights by
virtue of her covenant relation in
Christ. The inheritance of the church
will be actualized at the coming of
Christ. This is why the truth concern
ing the coming of Christ is so vital
to Christianity, and why so disastrous
consequences follow the loss of this
blessed hope. Every prayer offered h>
the church will surely be answered.
The apparent delay in the vindication
of the church may dishearten some
and cause others to mock (II I’etei
2:4). Jesus’ question sliould be a sol
emn warning against allowing appar
ent delay of the coming of tiie Lord
to crowd out our praying. Though
many may give up, we should be as
sured that genuine faith will abid<
and that the divine promise eonee: i.
ing tiie coming of ifhrist shall be ful
filled.
III. The Prayer of the Proud Phar
Isse (vv. 9-12).
1. He took a striking attitude (v
ID.
Tiie Jewish custom was to stair’
while praying, but tiie word “stood’
implies the assumption of an osten
tatious position. He was self-rightecu:
and trusted in himself.
2. He prayed with himself v
11. 12).
He used the name of God, but ii
was really a soliloquy. Lie pretended
to he thanking God when lie was real
ly complimenting himself—rehearsirj.
his own goodness. Ills whole thoughi
centered in himself. He congratulated
himself for his morality (v. 11). He
thanked God that he was not as other
men are, such as extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as the publican
who was standing afar off. One who
lias been kept from these gross sins
ought to he grateful to God but should
not set himself above his fellow men
because of it. He congratulated him
self for ids religious merits (v. 12).
He fasted twice a week and gave
tithes of all he possessed. He thus in
formed God that he did more than
what was required, implying that God
was under obligation to him.
IV. The Prayer of the Humble Pub
Mean (v. 13).
In contrast with this supposed saint
stood tiie publican, whose shame kept
him from even looking up to heaven
beating upon his breast as a sign of
anguish of soul and crying out to God
to he merciful to him, a sinner.
V. Christ's Testimony (v. 14).
Christ declared that the publican
went away justified rather than the
Pharisee. Tiie one great and urgent
need on the part of men is the con
fession of sin and a willingness to
cry unto God for mercy.
The Ear of God
A friend of any kind and to any ex
tent or degree is something in this cold
and lonely world, but to have a friend
who has the ear of God, and who
fills God’s ear from time to time with
our name and our cause, Oh, who
shall find such a friend In me!—Alex
ander Whyte.
Trusting in Gnd
Surely it is a poor creed that wil)
only allow us to trust In God for our
selves.—George Macdonald.
PAGE NUMBER SIX
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Church Schedule
Sabbath school every 1st, 3rd and
5th Sabbath afternoon at 3:00
o’clock.
Preaching every 1st, 3rd and 5th
Sabbath afternoon at 3:45 o’clock.
A cordial welcome awaits you at
these services.
W. C. KERR,
Pastor.
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Plum Branch M. E.
Church Schedule
ASBURY—Sunday School every
Sunday at 10:00 a. m.; Epworth
League every Sunday at 7:00 p. m.;
preaching 1st Sunday at 11:15 a.
m., and 3rd Sunday at 8:00 p. m.
BARR’S CHAPEL—Preaching 1st
Sunday at 3:30 p. m., and 3rd Sun
day at 11:30 a. m.
BORDEAUX—Sunday School ev
ery Sunday at 10:00 a. m., on the
1st Sunday; 3rd Sunday and the
4th Sunday, and at 3:00 p. m. on
the 2nd Sunday; preaching 2nd
Sunday at 3:30 p. m., and 4th Sun
day at 11:15 a. m.
ST. PAUL—Sunday School every
Sunday at 10:00 a. m.; Epworth
League every Sunday at 7:00 p. m.;
Preaching 2nd Sunday at 11:15 a.
m., and 4th Sunday at 8:15 p. m.
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McCormick Holiness
Church Schedule
McCormick —■ Preaching service
Saturday night before 3rd Sunday at
8 o’clock; third Sunday morning at
10:30 o’clock and third Sunday night
at 8 o’clock. A cordial welcome is
extended to all.
O. E. TAYLOR,
Pastor.
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A. R. Presbyterian
Preaching at Mt. Carmel, S. C.,
on the first and third Sabbath at
11 a. m.
Preaching at McCormick, S. C.,
on the second and fourth Sabbaths
at 11:30 a. m.
Sabbath school at both churches
every Sabbath day throughout the
year.
LEON T. PRESSLY,
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
McCormick—Sunday school every
Sunday at 10:00 a. m.; Preaching
at 11:00 a. m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sun
days, and at 7:30 p. m. on fourth
Sundays.
Prayer meeting Wednesday ev«.o-
ing at 7:30 o’clock.
Board of Stewards meets Monday
night following 1st Sundays.
REPUBLICAN
Sunday School at 11 a m. on 2nd
and 4th Sundays. 1st and 3rd Sun
days at 2:30 p. ra. Preaching os
1st and 3rd Sundays at 3 p. m
Troy — Sunday school at 10:0* a
m. let, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2nd
Sundays at 3 p. m.; preaching Snd
Sundays 3:30 p. m.; 4th Sundays 11
a. m.
Beulah — Preaching every etfc
Sunday afternoon at v
W. S. HENRY,