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Thursday, August 11,1932 McCOhiilICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEIf Writes of “THE MASTER EXECUTIVE’ IN LATE AFTERNOON It was very late in the afternoon in Galilee. The dozen men who had walked all day over the dusty roads were hot and tired. The sight of a village was very cheering, as they looked down on it from the top of a little hill. Their leader sent two members of the party ahead to arrange for accommodations, while he and the others sat down by the roadside to wait. After a bit the messengers were seen returning, and even at a dist ance it was apparent that something unpleasant had occurred. Their cheeks were flushed and their voices angry. Breathlessly they told it —the people in the village had refused to receive them, had given them blunt notice to seek shelter somewhere else. The indignation of the messengers communicated itself to the oth ers. This bick-woods village refuse to entertain their master—it was unthinkable.' He was a famous public character. He had healed sick people and given freely to the poor. In the capital city crowds had followed him. “Lord, these people are insufferable,” one of them cried. “Let us call down fire from Heaven and consume them.” The others joined in with enthusiasm. Fire from Heaven—that was the idea! Make them smart for their boorishness! Show them that they can’t affront us with impunity! Come, Lord, the fire There are times when nothing a man can say is nearly so powerful as saying nothing. Every executive knows that instinctively. To ar gue brings him down to the level of those with whom he argues; sil ence convicts them of their folly; they wish they had not spoken so quickly; they wonder what he thinks. The lips of Jesus tightened; his fine features showed the strain of the preceding weeks. He needed that night’s rest, but he said not a word. Quietly he gathered up his garments and started on, his outraged companions following. It is easy to imagine his keen disappointment . . . Would they never catch a true vision of what he was about? Down the hot road they trailed after him, awed by his silence, vaguely conscious that they had failed again to measure up. In the mind of Jesus the thing was too small for comment. “And they went to another village.” Eighteen hundred years later an important man left the White House in Washington for the War Office, with a letter from the Presi dent to the Secretary of War. In a very few n^inutes he was back in the White House again bursting with indignation. The President look ed up in mild surprise. “Did you give the message to Stanton?” he asked. “Yes, and he tore it up,” exclaimed the outraged citizen, “and what’s more, sir, he said you are a fool.” “Did Stanton call me that?” he asked . . . “He did, sir, and repeated it.” “Well,” ss^d the President with a dry laugh, “I reckon it must be true then, because Stanton is generally right.” The angry gentleman waited for the storm to break, but nothing happened. Abraham Lincoln turned quietly to his desk and went on with his work. THE FA WHY DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D, POISON IVY In most rural communities this spiteful plant is in evidence. It gets in its baneful work on tourists, vacationists, native ruralists, all in, warm weather, and it is a very painful guest to entertain. I have seen i * or 3 70 against it Last Liquor Vote In State Showed 3 To 1 Dry Majority COLUMBIA, July 30.—Until the state legislature responds to de mands for a prohibition referendum South Carolina remains on ^record as opposed to the manufacture and sale of liquor within her boundar ies by a three-to-one state-wide vote cast at a special election in 1915. In 37 of the 44 counties then ex istent, the electorate refused to continue the dispensary system of distributing liquor by a vote of at least two to one. Charleston and Dorchester sur vived the balloting as the only counties in the state favoring the sale of whiskeys, wines, and beer. Wet forces put up an obstinate fight in Richland, Barnwell, Beau fort, Berkeley and Horry counties losing in each by fewer than two votes to one. Heavy Dry Vote The total vote of 58,544 went 41,735 against the legalized man ufacture and sale of liquor in South Carolina, and 16,809 in favor of state production and dispensation of alcoholic beverages. Anti-prohibitionists today point to the outcome of the Literary Di gest poll in this state as the sole indication of what the outcome of a state poll on liquor would be at present. Of 30,643 votes tabulated in the magazine’s canvass, 18,361 advo cated repeal v/hile 12,282 upheld prohibition. The vote, approxi mately one-half that of 1915, re vealed the dry course as a lost cause by a ratio of three wets to two drys. Where the state voted dry three to one in 1915 it appears wet by three straw ballots in 1932. Laws enacted after the 1915 dry victory still limit the sale of liquor in South Carolina to one quart a month, with allowances for medi cinal and religious purposes. Ef forts of legislators to repeal the code this year failed. Embattled proponents of a dry state pushed the fight to abolish the dispensary system upon election day, September 14, 1915. The legis lature had fixed the date upon pop ular demand the previous spring. Drycst County Marlboro won the title of dryes county in the state by a vote 'o: nearly 22 to one against the dis pensary and liquor. Edgefield came a poor second in struggling agains the demon rum with a ten to one vote. Charleston, v/et then as .now : swung squarely against the out lawing of liquor with eight wet votes for ever dry one in the coun ty. Dorchester managed to emul ate its larger neighbor by a 43-vote margin, but other counties were overwhelmed by dry votes. The Charleston vote was 2,607 Marl- There’s Sandwich For Every Occasion “There’s a sandwich for every oc casion,” says Inez S. Willson, home economist. The range of sand wiches from the man-sized club sandwich down to the dainty little sandwich for the bridge luncheon or the garden tea party is wide and varied. “Nor are the possibilities exhausted for finding new kinds of sandwiches,” continues Miss Willson. New combinations for sandwich filling are being used all the time and they depend largely upon what the refrigerator con tains. A little roast pork, beef, or lamb, a few slices of bacon, a few olives, a bit of celery, some crisp lettuce leaves, and green peppers —these are the makings of delici ous sandwiches. Salad Sandwich Filling Cold roast meat, diced. 2 tablespoons peanut butter. Salad dressing. 1-2 cup finely ground raw car rots. Salt. Lettuce. Mix the peanut butter with enough salad dressing to make a creamy paste. Add to this the salt ed carrots and diced roast meat, either beef, lamb or pork. Chopped Sausage and Olive Sandwiches 1-2 cup summer sausage, cut fine. 1-2 cup olives, chopped fine. Crisp lettuce leaves. 1-2 cup mayonnaise dressing. Thin slices white or rye bread. Mix the sausage, olives and may onnaise. Spread the mixture be tween thin slices of buttered bread, placing a lettuce leaf between the bread and the mixture. Fll Build Me A House skins literally on fire and eyes swollen shut—fever, sometimes delirium from Ivy poisoning. Look out for it, with its three-in-group leaves of glance-head shape, growing* vigorously over blighted trunks of trees, upon old fences and in neglected places. It is easy to know—and avoid, if one tries. I don’t pretend to take the work of the skilled physician and try to place it in amateur hands. But the pointers here are worth while for my friends to know. Bear in mind that this is an ACID poison, and it takes “alkalies” to neutralize acid. My best success with ivy poisoning has been with equal parts of alcohol and lime-water. The alcohol, with its affinity for water, rap idly depletes the inflamed skin; the lime-water counteracts the acid. Apply on cloths continually, until the trouble is corrected. Never treat poison ivy 'with ointments or “salves”; they simply hold the poison in the tissues. Sugar of lead is dangerous—lead poisoning, you know. No ivy remedy should be permitted between eye-lids, It has been said that ivy poisoning gets well in a few days of itself—and ie last remedy used gets the credit. That nothing is “specific” remedy such cases. I have taken the swelling and pain away in 24 hours, ith the mixture of pure grain alcohol and lime-water, equal parts. The jhol is hard to get—but that’s another matter. Friends Want To Hear From You Of course there are many friends apart from you this summer on vacations or for other reasons and they want to hear from you. Be sure your stationery is new and smart for your letters reflect your person ality. ^ SMART NEW STATIONERY We have an ample showing of the very smartest new stationery for your choosing prices are exceptionally low. STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. boro at the dry extreme, voted 828 against the dispensary, and 38 for liquor. Hampton county, which held a private county referendum in 1920 to oppose the 18th amendment four to one, stood in the dry ranks in 1915 by a tv/o-to-one margin. The Hampton vote at that time was 545 dry to 227 v/et. Results of the 1915 election laid the basis for subsequent political action in which congressman and state legislators adopted the 18th amendment and Volstead act for South Carolina. The liquor election vote was less than one-half that cast for governor in 1914, 130,000 votes, or in 1916 137,000 votes. The 41,735 votes which placed the state in dry ranks would not have elected the governor either year. The following table shows the vote in each county; Against For County Liquor. Liquor Abbeville 723 246 Aiken 1,126 315 Anderson 1,985 847 Bamberg 448 232 Barnwell 543 488 Beaufort 203 164 Berkeley 248 186 Calhoun 346 185 Charleston 370 2,607 Cherokee 1,200 258 Chester 825 234 Chesterfield 387 496 Clarendon 550 157 Colleton •_ 891 226 Darlington 1,152 149 Edgefield 710 70 Fairfield 453 138 i Florence 1,514 362 Georgetown 319 154 Greenville 4,096 1,028 Greenwood 1,172 234 Hampton 545 227 Horry 861 727 Jasper 152 46 Kershaw 620 335 I’Jil build me a house—well, I don’t know of what, For it isn’t much money, the money I’ve got, But I’ll build me a house, if it’s roof is of thatch, With a rock for a door step, a thong for a latch Yes, I’ll build me a house, build a house of my own, And of logs or cf lumber, of brick or of stone, For I want me a house, be it plas ter or pine, And it doesn’t matter, as long as it is mine. I’ll build me a house—well, per haps on a hill, Or below in a hollow, if heaven so will, But I’ll build me a house, on the highland or low, For the wife and the kids and a chicken or so Oh, I’ll build me a house, for a man’s not a man Who some sort of way cannot fig ure or plan To build him a house, be it mighty or small, For the size of the house doesn’t matter at all. I’ll build me a house, I’m deter mined on that; I’m tired of your tenements, sick of your flat I’ll build me a house, and it may not be grand, But I’ll own the gateway and I’ll own the land. I’ll build me a house, for a bird builds a nest, There is some sort of hole that is home to a mouse. And I may be poor—but I’ll build me a house. * AND if I could write poetry, I’d add that when the house was built I’d plant some trees and flowers around it and try to make a home out of it. —The Pickens Sentinel. txj A German fur farmer has equip- aed the cages of his foxes with microphones, so that he may listen in and know when the animals are ighting or hungry. ancaster 989 aurens 1,416 Lee 473 exington 1,495 Marion 604 Marlboro 282 Newberry 1,179 Oconee 1,108 Orangeburg 1,415 Richland 1,257 Pickens 1,028 Saluda 787 Spartanburg 3,338 Sumter 652 Union 1,281 Williamsburg 565 York 313 -OO •O O- —o IE IKE HE JOB PRINTING 4 ; We are prepared to do various kinds of job printing neatly and promptly and solicit your orders for S' —Ruled Letterheads —Typewriter Letterheads —Noteheads \ —Billheads ‘ —Statements % —Envelopes —Posters . —Circular Letters —Folders 1 —Business Cards —Visiting Cards —Special Invoices —Dav Books —Receipt Books —Tally Sheets —Lumber Tallies —Notes —Chattel Mortgages —Crop Mortgages —Trespass Notices —Salesbooks \ And many other special forms of printing or rule work. 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