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1 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, March 3, 1938 i i f 4 1 VcCORMlCK MESSENGER Published Every Thursdav { Established June f. 1M> : EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, ' Editor and Owner . Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. Subscription rates: One Year $1.00 Blx Months .75 Three Months ;— JO his father’s bench. Most of us, like Jesus, belong to the rank and file. Our financial and social standing is not that most coveted. But v/hat of it? Like our Master we can use our simple gifts for the glory of our God. xx T©1&&V and !*r'“ FRANK PARKER I STOCKBRID6E The New Build- . _ , QUININE . . . 300 years old lllg .bOOm Malaria has been one of the most widespread scourges of the human With the Government at Wash- race since the beginning of time. ington using all the means at its command to stimulate home build ing, it seems to be on the cards that the long-looked-for building boom will soon be under way. In deed, it has started now in many parts of the nation. Government stimulation of building takes four forms. There is the construction of Federal buildings, v/hich ha been going on for several years a a tremendous pace. There i building by states and municipal ities with the aid of P. W. A. loans But those are public or semi-public structures, and in their entirety they cannot take up all the slack in building trade unemployment or production in the building supply industries. Only building enough new homes to provide modern housing for everybody can do that The two Federal bureaus engaged in promoting home building oper ate on different lines, though they are often confused in the public mind. The U. S. Housing Admin istration is concerned with provid ing better homes for the very poor, on a semi-philanthropic basis, with states and municipalities cooperat ing with the Federal Government in supplying the funds. This is often referred to as the “slum- clearance” program. The Federal Housing Adminis tration, on the other hand, does not give or lend any Government money, but provides a means of insuring private capital against loss if it lends money on long and easy terms to individuals who want to 'ir build new homes. ki&atrthe enlarged F. H. A. plan, anyone with $500 in cash or land can borrow from his bank or build ing association enough to pay for a $5,000 home and lot, and have as long as 25 years to repay the loan at 5 percent interest. This ought to start a new wave of home build ing and home owning. xx Not until modern times was any cure or palliative for the disease known. Only within the past forty years was it discovered that mala ria is caused by the sting of a certain type of mosquito. In thick ly settled countries mosquito con trol by draining marshes, oiling different | standing water and simular meas ures has practically stamped out the disease, but over a large part of the world it is still a scourge, and the only means of combatting it is the use of quinine. In February this year the 300th are, it seems to me there is lots of room for improvement. * * * NEWS by radio The trouble with relying on the radio for news of what is going on in the world is that one has to stick around the receiving set all day. I predicted years ago that some day a way would be found to make a record of the news as it came into the home receiving set, so that it could be heard or read at leisure later on. Now that sort of a machine has been made and a few of them have been put into experimental use. Inside the set is a roll of paper on which news bulletins are written as they are sent out from a central office. It runs all night and al day, and at any time you can tear off a strip from the roll and read all the important news. If the system proves practical one effect may be to cut down the. circulation cf at least morning newspapers. But that day seems far distant. BUY A MODERN CAR NOW-whiu YOU HAVE MORE TO TRADE AND LESS TO PAY Card Of Thanks Sunday School Lesson BY REV. CHARLES E. DUNN Serving With What We Have. Lesson for Today. Mark 6:1-13. Mrs. Ervin Long wishes to e press heartfelt thanks to tl people of this ccmmunity who so graciously ministered to her and her children during their recen anniversary of the discovery of illness. Especially is she gratefu quinine is celebrated. In 1633 an to Dr. Workman and ladies cf the Indian told a Spanish doctor in Ann Watson Circle of the Baptist Peru of a tree whose bark had IW. M. U. for their kind services marvellous curative properties, and it was used to cure the Countess Chinchon, of malaria. Botanists took the bark to Europe and named it Chinchona, but most folk know it by its Indian name of quinine. Quinine is one of the very few specific curatives known to medi cine. A large part of the world To each and everyone who helped them she is deeply grateful. X Camp Bradley JNews Camp Bradley, Feb. 26.—Lieu tenant Meuse reported for duty as Junior Officer at Camp Bradley would be practically uninhabitable i as t Saturday. Lieutenant and Mrs. without it. I Meuse hail from Birmingham, Ala bama. It is hoped that they will VOICES .... men or women?| enjoy their stay in Bradle y. I think there is no question that February 22, being a holiday, was the youngsters of today are hear- i S p e nt in various ways by the per ing better voices, speaking English SO nnel and enrolled men. Those more accurately, than children of men being close enough to do so my generation did. The radio is, visited their homes; Foreman on the whole, a liberal education in Tompkins was a day early in at- how to speak well. The trouble is tending the Fat Stock Show in ;hat so many announcers overdo it, Augusta; and the men left in camp in the eifort to dramatize their | en ^e r * a i ned themselves in the usual words. I have often wondered why wo men would not do better as radio announcers than men do. Now Mrs. way. Camp Educational Advisor Baker and a number of enrollee* visited “Green Pastures”, Mr. Maxon’s Genevieve Hofstedt, who trains cattle Ranch, Wednesday, to look i H SEE ANY CAR DEALER DISPLAYING THIS SIGN Get there early while the choice is wide— fine cars now offered at rock-bottom prices This National Used Car Exchange Week gives you a great opportunity to OWN A BETTER CAR for a small invest ment. Automobile dealers co-operating in this big sale have a fine selection of used cars — and prices are far below those of several months ago. Many are 1937, ’36 and ’35 models — backed by the finest of dealer guaran tees. All have thousands of miles of first-class unused transportation in them. And the “first-class” transportation of these modern cars represents satisfac tion which the owners of older cars cayi hardly imagine. Beautiful, modern styl ing — a more comfortable ride — more room for you and your luggage — finer, more powerful engines — better gas mileage — better brakes — bigger tires — dozens of improvements introduced since your old car was built. „ Now’s the time to make the switch, while you have more to trade and less to pay. Your present car may cover the down-payment—balance on easy terms. If you have no car to trade, you can still take advantage of the low down-pay ments and easy terms during this sale. » * . BRING IN YOUR OID CAR DRIVE OUT A BETTER CAR EASY TERMS SPONSORED BY THE AUTOMOBILE DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES Golden Text: Acts 3:6. Our lesson tells us that the people were offended at Jesus because he seemed to be an arrogant upstart. “Where did he get all this wisdom and miraculous power?” they ask ed. “Is not this the carpenter, Mary’s son?” Yes, he was but a humble carpenter, the son of a low ly peasant girl. But “blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Think of the kind of home Jesus knew in those early, unknown years. Every morning, as he awoke, he looked upon white-washed walls of rough stones. The windows were small and high up, and the broad wooden door stood open all day. There was but one room. The well- swept floor was made of beaten earth, and food was stored in tight- oehave. telephone operators in the proper use of their voices, comes forward with the same idea. She points out that the female voice nas a wider range and superior modulation than the male, and that women are not so prone as men are to speak with a forced or unnatural accent. I’m sure I'd rather hear a woman ‘on the air” than most of the men announcers, who usually sound dolish to me. * * * LISLE ...... popular again Partly, I suppose, because of the growing tendency among Ameri cans to boycott everything Japa nese, many American women are giving up silk stockings and substi tuting rayon or lisle. Lisle thread stockings used to be the standard fine stockings for all but million aires when I was a boy. I am glad to see some of the big stores adver tising them again. The revival of lisle is partly due to the revival of the Sea Island Cotton industry. There they nave lately found a way to control the boll-weevil, which practically ruin ed the planters who used to grow that Icng-staple, fine-fibred cotton from which lisle thread is spun. Last season 5,000 bales were mar keted from Florida alone. If we stop buying silk from Ja pan that country will lose about seven-eighths of its export *rade Then—peihaps—the Japanese w.L at some beef cattle. The majority of the men in the Company were farmers oefore they enrolled and will probably go back to the farm when they leave camp; therefore, classes are taught in the produc tion of pork, beef, chickens, and field crops. Lockouts Jenkins and Hawthorne are now stationed at the Troy Lookout Tower, Sister Lawrence Crawford having returned to camp. Telephone Foreman Cantelou and his crew are on the last leg of the Faulkner Mountain Tele phone Line. When this line is completed another tower can be manned and there will not be an other occurrence of anything like the Oak Grove Fire. Clerk Talbert and Driver Frost went to Columbia yesterday to take a load of worn-out property and to get an additional pickup. Rain checked the dangerous fire weather early this week, and we have had no trouble from forest fires since February 13. * xx Civil Service Examinations Announced woven baskets hung from the ceil ing to protect it from rats. There were no chairs, the family, at meal time, sitting on the floor about a low wooden table. Water jars were kept near the door. SAFETY in motor car.. Looking over all the new cars as I see them on the highways, and driving* in a good many different makes, I wonder whether the mak ers have not sacrificed a good many We must never forget that our elements of comfort and safety in Lord was nurtured in a poor man’s their efforts to make their ma- home where the pinen of poverty j chines look prettier, was felt. He knew the value of a I admit that in many respects penny. At times he must have been the cars of today are structurally hungry. And there is great signi- 1 safer than those of only ficance in the fact that for about 20 years he worked in a carpenter’s shop. No doubt he enjoyed the practical usefulness of his trade. He rejoiced in the tangible fruit of his craftsmanship. And we can see a connection between his skill with prop, joist and beam and the di rect, immediate accent of his teaching. That sure grasp of his for foundations is, in a measure, the outcome of long hours spent at two or three years ago. But an important element of safety, it seems to me, is that the driver should have a clear view of the road ahead and on both sides. High hoods and low driver’s seats make it harder for the driver to see ahead, while the thickness of the supports at both ends cf the windshield certainly cut off a good deal of the range of vision at either side. Good as the modern automobiles —Ti-.ifori stetes Civil Service Commission has announced open examinations for the following positions in the Depart ment of Agriculture: Marketing specialist, and princi pal, senior, associate, and assistant marketing specialists, $2,609 to $5,600 a year, Bureau of Agricul tural Economics. Junior Veterinarian, $2,030 a year. Bureau of Animal Industry. Associate agronomist and super intendent, $3,200 a year; assistant agronomist (sugar beet investiga tions), $2,600 a year; assistant plant physiologist (sugar beet in vestigations), $2,600 a year; Bureau of Plant Industry. Full information may be obtain ed from the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office or customhouse in any city which has a post office of the first or second class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Wash ington, D. C. POULTRY TRUCK HERE FRIDAY. MARCH 4, 1938. A poultry truck will load at the depot in McCormick from 9 to 11 o’clock a. m. on Friday, March 4, 1938. The following prices will be paid: Colored Hens 1 per pound 1 Leghorn Hens 4 per pound w Roosters fic per pound Ducks & Geese 1 per pound Hen Turkeys 9QC per pound Tom Turkeys 17c per pound Guineas 30c each E SS S 12c dozen tafa ///; LIGHT IMfOHM.' ClauSSenS CHOCOLATE CAKE Rich, ereamv, delicious choco* late icing . . . light, smooth-tex tured, uniform rake that’s mad* of choice ingredients . . . Plain Chocolate . . Chocolate Malted Milk . . or Chocolate with Nuts! J AT VOlfft t ft 0 C I ft’g ClauSSenS HV' ilLVER LABEL CAKE! B 'A' K-E ; JJ L E ••Y-.b;'E A f H 0 R. D. SCBER, County Agent. NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS. Election will be held Tuesday, March 8, 1938. Polls will open at 8 o’clock a. m. and close at 4 o'clock p. m. J. O. PATTERSON. City Clerk. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 956 Broad Street Augusta, Qa JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 We Deliver Main Street McCormick, S. C. Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. % When you are in town he sure and come by our market and let us suggest your meat needs for yen. We will give you your choice of meats. Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to he at your service. Fresh Fish and Norfolk Oysters, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them.