McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 11, 1932, Image 7
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.
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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.
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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
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TotalS 41,735 16,909