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McCORMICK MESSENGER. lucCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 14, 1938
ftp Modoc News •! en th' a t they have well justified
d. ; thMr continued existence.
• i Believing that they have justi-
_.p Modoc, April 9.—On Sat- ^ the confidence placed in
ay, April 2, Camp F-ll at Mo- * them, they not cnly proudly celc-
>c joined in the National Cele- hrated the fifth bii-thday, u -
__ation of the fifth anniversary of equally as proudly celebrated ive
the CCC. Five • years ago it was years of real accomplishment,
conceived by the Administration A program of well-baxanced
to give temporary employment to proportions was staged fox * e
some of the youth of the country edification and enjoyment cf e
who were unable to secure employ- many visitors present,
ment. As is well known, the CCC As the guests arrived they were
has been a going concern since conducted on a tour of inspection
that time and, if 'various editorials of the grounds and buildings,
are to l>e considered a concensus Welcoming committees endeavored
cf public opinion, they have prov- to show the visitors that they were
more than welcome.
The program indoors was open
ed by Lieutenant Donald Hancrck
who greeted and welcomed the
visitors in a few well :hosen words.
Project Superintendent Bodio fol
lowed with an enlightening talk
on the work and werk projects of
the CCC. Next to address the
assemblage was Ranger David, of
the U. S. Forest Service, wh® dis
coursed on the part the
Forest Service has played
in the CCC activities and
also the part the CCC has played
in the U. S. Forest Service pro
gram of Conservation. Doctor E.
F. Gettys very appropriately
three-minute bulletin giving the j
“headline stuff” of the past few 1
hours.
Three and a third million calls j
for this service were- made las 4 -
year. It cost each caller only the
regular price of a phene call—
about two cents in American mon
ey. It made money for the tele
phone service and goodwill for i,u£
newspaper supplying the news.
SMELLS recall past
Driving over the wooden bridge
which crosses the Matanzas River
above St. Augustine, I was sudden-
se ly transported in memory to my
1 childhood home in Maine. The
NEW SPRING STYLES
Thousands of pairs of New Spring Shoes for women
in Ties, Straps and Buckles with medium and high heels
—whites, patents, blues.
Hundreds of pairs of Childrens Spring Shoes in Straps
and Ties. Now’s the time to buy
33c ~ $1.98
MEN’S FINE SHOES
Men’s New Spring
Footwear in gray, also
white and brown, all
leather shoes.
Men’s while, brown
or black spring style
blucher or bal-composi-
tion sole, pdr pair—
USE OUR LAY AWAY PLAN.
Anderson’s Department Store
GREENWOOD, 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 ehoose one ^
DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE
and there is ne additional charge for service oat of town
J. S. STROM
M*in Street
McCormick, d. C.
JESTER’S CASH MARKET
Phone No. 25 We Deliver
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
Open from 6:30 a. m. to 8 p. m.
When you are in town be sure and come by our
market and let us suggest your meat needs for you.
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 be at your service.
Fresh Fish and Norfolk Oysters, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
We highly appreciate your patronage.
Before selling your rattle and hogs, see us. We
pay the market price for them.
lected the social aspect of the CCC _ . , _ .
as his address. Senator W. P. tlde ou ^’ and the odor which
Yonce spoke of the work done by a j :0 ® e f ^ om t e mud-flats, a min-
the CCC and also the good done ^ e , odor of decaying seaweed,
the morale of the unemployed by j dead and salt water ’ was
the CCC. County Agent Jones of ’?f e , C i Se1 ^ J th ^„ 0d0 L, I U ! e ?. t< ! sme11
this County spoke to us on Con
servation as done by the CCC.
Appropriate music was rendered
by some of the enrollees before
the speakers began.
A real old-fashioned barbecue
with all ( the “trimmings” was
served to the guests and thorough
ly enjoyed.
A baseball game that had been
arranged as a part of our amuse
ments had to be postponed due to
rain. i
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Coming Back Home?
at low tide in Portland Harbor.
I believe the sense of smell has
the strongest memory of any of
the five senses. A sudden whiff of
a long-forgotten odor brings up
•dormant memories of places, per
sons and events of many years ago.
The scent of harness soap, not
long ago, carried me back to a
New England barn and a sorrel
mare named “Jessie” that I used
to have to curry as a boy.
Crossing the Capitol rotunda in
Washington the other day my
nose picked up a scent which took
me back nearly sixty years, to my
first visit to Washington as a
small boy. The Capitol still smells
the same as in 1881. It is the same
smell that all state capitols and
most city halls have. It is the
characteristic odor of politics.
LONDON . . . Again persistent
rumors are heard that the Lind
berghs plan an early return to the
United States. One of the reasons
cited is the recent overhauling
given the Lindbergh home ..t
Hopewell. N. J.. indicating iiiat
the now deserted house, scene of
the tragic kidnapping, may once
more become occupied. Neither
Mr. nor Mrs. Lindbergh -vvouiu Rf-
firm or deny the reports.
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TODAY and
K>!
GRANDMOTHERS . . . know
It has been one of my pet beliefs
for years that some day the grand
mothers of America would get to
gether and take over the manage
ment of everything, including Gov
ernment. They’d make a better
job of it than we men have done
so far, and wouldn’t spend near as
much money doing it.
Thirty-nine grandmothers, all of
them in business in Chicago, have
organized a Grandmothers Club,
with the avov/ed purpose of show
ing the world that grandma’s place
Is not in the chimney-corner. They
have the sensible idea that women
get more sense as they grow older
They certainly know more about
human nature after they have
raised a family and married them
off than most men ever learn.
A world run by grandmothers
would be no place for loafers. It
would be a well-ordered, comfort
able world with a lot less fighting
going on in it, but a lot more real
work.
NEWS by phone
We Americans are not always
the first to have bright ideas. A
Paris newspaper has developed a
telephone news service which
might well be adopted by the press
of America.
In Paris if you want the latest
news you don’t have to look at the
day’s radio program to see what
station is broadcasting news at the
moment, or call up some news
paper where you don’t know any
body and be made to feel that you
are an impertinent intruder when
you ask what has happened. You
merely call “Information One,” or
if it’s a dial ’phone, you dial “INF-
1” and you get, without delay, a
THOUGHT ... . with body
A few weeks ago I commented
here upon the fact that intensive
mental work causes actual physi
cal fatigue, so closely are brain
and body linked. It occurred tor
me, and I find psychologists agree
with me, that the opposite is also
true, at least to the extent that
we do a great deal of our thinking
with our bodies.
A child learns about the world
he has just come to live in not
alone through his eyes and ears,
but through his hands and feet
and all the rest of his body. The
sensations of cold and heat are
mental reactions to physical
causes. We have brains in our
fingertips, and we learn through
them that objects are hard or soft,
smooth or rough, that knives are
sharp and rocks heavy. Those im
pressions are stored in the brain
so that we don’t have to handle
such things a second time to know
their qualities; our eyes tell us.
Just as there can be no brain
apart from a body, so the brain
cannot reach its fullest develop
ment without the help of the body.
A person has not reached his full
est possible mental development
until he has learned through phy
sical contact how things feel as
well as how they look. Think that
over.
HOUSES by Ford
Henry Ford is tackling the hous
ing problem in his own original
way. He has announced his plan
to build a model community on his
90,000-acre plantation at Ways.
Georgia, and I am willing to make
a good-sized bet that the result
will set a mark for governmen J
town-olanners and rural commu
nity builders.
The trouble with government-
promoted housing projects is that
they always cost more than the
people whom they are designed to
benefit can afford to pay, either as
purchase money or rent. The dif
ference has to be made up out of
public funds contributed by the
taxpapers. That is not only un
fair to the taxpayers, but also to
the occupants of the subsidized
homes, for it makes them objects
of charity.
I have talked with Mr. Ford
several times about his ideas of
community housing, and have seen
some of the things he has done in
that line. I am convinced that by
the application of sound business
methods the whole nation could be
housed better and more cheaply
thm by any scheme in which pol
itics and politicians have a finger.
American Horse Wins Grand National
Im! illli fMMiMiK -d 1 • W§M$m
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AINTREE, England . . . Battleship, son of the famous Man O’ War,,
becoiner the first American owned and bred horse to ever win the
Grand National Steeplechase here in all the 100-year history of the
turf classic. Battleship won the Grand National at Belmont Park, N. Y,
In 1934. the National Hunt Cup and three other major race® in the
United States before rapturing the English crown.
Generalissimo Surveys His Conquest
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•*?AIN . . . Crushing all Loyalist resistance, the mighty Rebel war;
machine composed of Mooris, Italians and Germans pushes relentlessly/
.feward the Mediterranean and toward a speedy end of Spain’s bloody
Qvfl War, now In its second year. Here, (Generalissimo Francisco!
(Franco (left foreground), with his staff, inspects the terrain over which,’
III® troops will advance in drive to the seacoast, a few miles away.
Police, Strikers Clash In Labor War
DETROIT. Mich. . . . Again Michigan is the scene of labor war.
i Throughout the state, strikers in possession of strategically located
eiectric plants threatened to turn off power * but acceded to a last-
minute settlement after Governor Murphy had rushed here from a
Florid?, vacation to take charge of the situation. Here, at the Federal
Screw Works, police charge into strikers picketing the plant.
Sleep
Sleep is nature’s sweet restorer,
for as long as one is wrapped in
the arms of slumber he does not
need food, has neither fears, hope,
trouble or glory. It is a generous
host to princes and paupers, the
comforter of grief-oppressed
minds, the blessed barrier between
day and day, the mother of fresh
thoughts and the producer of
joyous health.
StiU a Mystery
Sleep is perhaps the most im
portant function of one’s existence.
More than one-third of each per
son’s life is spent asleep—where
nature has drawn us back to the
sphere of submerged consciousness.
After we have been refreshed at
this invisible fountain, we come
back again spiritually and physi-
callv fortiflrrf and ready for the
work of the day.
Despite our great advance in
every line, I doubt if we know
more today about sleep and its
mystery, than did the first man.
Many theories have been pro>-
pounded by ancient philosophers
and modern savants, but none are
entirely what might be termed
satisfactory. We do know however
that sleep is not a merely passive
condition of slowing down,, but an.
: active and vital functioning of the
I human economy. The body is built
| up by sleep and that explains why
the infant spends so much of its
early life sleeping. Fatigue theo
ries of sleep ire not tenable in the
light of modem investigations. '
Customs and Practices
In early days the soul of the
sleeper was supposed to have left
the body and for that reason
sleepers were never awakened, for
fear that the sour would* never re
turn to its former habitation. This
perhaps account® for the belief
that it is impolite* to awaken* a
sleeping person:
Many methods have been do*-
vised to induce sleep. Often *
brisk walk in the cool air before
1 rearing, or a cold bath, will ac-
cr’nplish this result. Counting
ir*Aginary sheep vaulting over a
i r 'ce, lulls others to- dreamland.
/ to-sugestion helps hundreds. A
!'• ‘v drink before retiring is a
p--lacea' fbr ihsemnia for many..
A quiet room, a comfortable bed;
and a mind free from worry, per
haps are the greatest inducements:
to a. calm: and contented, night..