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Thursday, July 7, 1932 / McCOhitflCK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Washington The Leader Of Men (By Miss Rosella Rankin, Class of 1932 of Aiken Institute.) (Miss Rankin is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Rankin, former ly of McCormick, but now of Aiken. She was a former student of Mc Cormick High School and has many friends here who will read with in terest the following article which was published in a recent issue of The Aiken Journal and Review): As we stand at the first quarter of the twentieth century and look back over the galaxy of great men who have been instrumental in shaping this beloved country of ours, there are none who stand out with the force of character that has influenced the generations be tween and will give the same in fluence to those yet to come as George Washington. He was a bcrn leader of men. This is in evidence from the very first when he started out as a sur veyor at sixteen. We see it in the Indian wars, in the House of Bur gesses of Virginia, as an officer rn the Virginia militia, step by step, until he is given the High Com mand of the Army, made Com- mander-in-Chief. Here we think of Brandy-wine, Boston, Trenton, Valley Forge and Yorktown, then we see it rising superior to all the petty jealouses, bickerings, rival ries and treachery among his own people and against tremendous enemy odds winning splendid vic tories. Now we see it as an execu tive presiding at the Constitutional Convention, and finally as the first President of the New Republic. As the years elapsed the circle of men who considered his ’eadership indispensible widened from a regi ment to an army and to a nation. More and more men came to believe in his ability, integrity, courage and nobility. His was a comprehensive leader ship. It was most fortunate for the United States that its first presi dent was a pioneer in every effort to advance its progress in civiliza tion. If the United States was to be a living nation, it must first of all be an expanding one. Washington was our first expansionist. He was a practical business man, a careful investor, engineer, builder, explorer, organizer of vast developments, a creator of all obstacles and handi-* caps, bridged a century, as in his mind’s eye the completed projects unfolded in the full magnitude of their possibilities and he did not overlook the detail of operation. It was thus he visioned an empire from ocean to Mississippi, as he planned the first steps to unite the country beyond the mountains with the coastal towns by inland water ways, the highways of commerce. No one was a more consistent oro- moter of Colonization than George Washington in which he was fol lowing in the footsteps of his Am erican Forebears, whose first large ~ tar ^lanrt holdings came as a reward of their colonizing efforts. As a farmer George Washington did his best, in the fragments of time between public services, to at tain his ambition of being the lead ing farmer of America. This was not for personal gratification. He knew the prevailing methods of farming were poor, and that the American farmer lacked the knowl edge to raise the best crops from his farms. In his grounds George Washington was always on the alert for new plans of improvement. A most interesting statement showing the foresight of our first President and his faith 'that any thing might be possible to invention is found in his writings under date of April 4th, 1784 as follows: ‘T have only accounts of air balloons to which I do not know what cre dence to give; as the tales related of them are marvelous, and lead me to expect, that our friends at Paris in a little time will come flying through the air, instead of plough ing through the ocean to get to America.” Another example of his compre hension and foresight was when the great state of South Carolina refused to pass an act to end the slave trade he expressed the “wish from my soul that the legislature of state would see the policy of a grad ual abolition of slavery: it would orevent much further mischief.” What vision! Could it be possible he was accorded the privilege of look ing through the vistas of time? mm*** ** 4- *\ Vfc ** *1* * , VtfiY,, 6wMARY MARSgAU There are so many ways of sav ing a home-made dress from look ing home made these days that it’s a pity girls who make one now and then don’t know the little tricks. And it isn’t difficult to give your home-made dresses the right line. If you baste carefully, and sew the seams smoothly and evenly, and then press them properly, you can eliminate chances of bunchiness or Expenditures For School Purposes LIST OF CLAIMS APPROVED BY THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 1932 MT. CARMEL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose . Amount 3—io—289—Grace Reynolds, Salary $ 45.00 WILLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 5—273—Thelma Louise Moragne, Salary $ 45.00 3— 5—271—Claudis J. Taggart, Salary 45.00 3—10—285—State Sinking Fund Com. Payment on Note 183.33 3—29—302—Annie Lou Lankford, Salary 105.00 V l TOTAL $ 378.33 BORDEAUX SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 3 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 9—280—Emma L. Martin, Salary ^ $ 52.50 3— 5—275—Mary S. Jordan, Salary 50.00 3—29—305—Ida M. Gartrell, Salary 45.00 TOTAL $ McCORMICK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose 3—22—297—Commission cf Public Works, Water and Lights __ 3—15—291—Williams’ Service Station, Gas and Oil 3— 7—279—Commission of Public Work, Water and Lights __ 147.53 Amount $ 6.05 44.04 5.96 TOTAL $ \ 56.05 BETHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 8 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 5—270—Onie Lee A. Cooper, Salary $ 30.00 3— 1—257—Onie Lee A. Cooper, Salary 52.50 82.50 puckering. It id, however, in the finish that the homemade dress so often falls short of perfection. If you are planning to make a dress at home look about you and see how the smart dresses in the shops are finished. They may have very little actual trimming but they usually do have some final touch to give them a finished look. One of the most attractive of these finishing touches consists of “V” edging of bands of the dress material. We speak of it as a fin ishing touch though in reality the bands are twisted and stitched in to position before the dress is put together. Sometimes two rows of this edging can be interlaced and used together. X Foolishness is doing things that you should know enough not to do. txj Veiy few people die today from overeating on home-cooking. poraries and men from that day to chis. The clue to his wonderful leader ship is his superb character. Oth ers were his peers in military and executive ability but none combin ed these with such nobility of char acter as did Washington. That is why the luster of his glory is un- deminished by the march cf the years. His power of leadership did not cease with his death, for more than a century his personality has been projected in the life of the nation, his spirit and ideals guiding us in our destiny. He was the man who could lead an insubordinate and di vided people into ordered liberty and permanent union. Nct.ably is Washington the first American, but all nations have brought their tribute to lay at his feet. In the stormy days of long ago Charles James Fox, standing in the British Parliament, paid this great leader eloquent homage clos ing with the words, “Without one suspicion of his integrity, without one stain upon his character, he has made himself the first man in the world.” Long years after Eng land erected a statute in his honor in Trafalgar Square, London. Amount $ 106.00 TOTAL $ BOLD BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose 3— 1— —Eellvue School, Transfer ROBINSON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 5—260—Mary F. Remsen, Salary $ 100.00 3—26—299—Mary F. Remsen, Salary 100.00 TOTAL 1 $ 200.00 DORNVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3—22—296—Jessie Boyd, Salary $ 45.00 LYON’S SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 17 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3—10—286—Kathleen McKinney, Salary $ 105.00 HIBLER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 18 Claim * Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 5—274—Mrs. Joe W. Hipp, Salary $ 40.00 VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 19 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose x Amount 3—15—294—D. L. Burnett, Transportation $ 63.00 3—26—300—Ida B. Phillips, Salary 47.50 3—23—298—R. N. Harrison, Salary 52.50 TOTAL $ 163.00 PLUM BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 24 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 5—261—Garvice L. Taylor, Salary $ 533.75 3— 5—268—W. E. Crawford, Salary 3— 5—272—Strom Culbreath, Salary 3— 5—269—Louella Monroe Cartledge, Salary 3— 5—267—L. E. Martin, Salary 3— 5—266—Eva C. Shellmon, Salary 3— 5—265—Hattie L. Adams, Salary 3— 5—264—Bernice C. Stephens, Salary 40.00 35.00 55.00 52.50 55.00 47.50 28.13 TOTAL r $ 846.88 WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 25 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose Amount 3— 1—258—L. V. Mayer, Salary .$ 9.00 AH of us join in Lincoln’s tribute Washington was the harmonious' “To add rightness to the sun, or /"ding of a great soldier and a ! glory to the name of Washington ble at statesman in a man of great; is alike impossible. . Let none at- g haracter. Calm, dignified, unsel- tempt it. In solem Lh courageous, to whom duty was ihe ’supreme word, these were the qualities that inspired his contem-. solemn awe pro nounced the name and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.” 3— 4—259—J. L. Caudle, Repairs 3— 5—262—Mrs. De Alva Roundtree, Salary _ 3— 5—263—Miss Margaret McKinney, Salary 3— 5—276—L. V. Mayer, Salary 3— 5—277—Miss Annie Jackson, Salary 3— 8—281—L. V. Mayer, Salary 3— 8—282—Robt. Gilchrist, Salary 3— 8—283—W. H. Wooten, Salary 3— 8—284—W. H. Wooten, Salary 3—10—287—W. B. Haymon, Salary 3—io—288—W. B. Haymon, Salary 3—15—290—J. A. Hamilton, Payment on Note 3—15—292—Fred M. Bussey, Repairs 3—15—293—Fred M. Bussey, Repairs 3—15—295—J. L. Caudle, Repairs 5.10 100.00 100.00 166.66 110.00 23.55 20.00 41.00 20.00 22.00 18.00 16.25 10.00 7.50 32.95 3—28—301—T. J. Price, Treasurer, Bonds and Interest 2,844.10 Claim Date No. 3-29—304- 3_29—303- TOTAL $ 3,546.11 COUNTY BOARD FUND Payee Purpose Amount -Mozelle A. T. Narcisse, Salary $ 35.00 -Mozelle A. T. Narcisse, Salary 35.00 70.00 TOTAL $ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Personally appeared before me, W. H. Parks, County Superintendent of Education and made oath in due form of law that the above is a true and correct account of the expenditures of the Superintendent of Edu cation’s office to date. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of June, 1932. W. H. PARKS. County Superintendent of Education. J. O. PATTERSON, Notary Public, S. C. 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