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Sunday School Lesso?»
BT RET. CHARLES E. DUNN
Deborah: Emergency Leadership.
Lesson for Today: (July 17th)
Judges 4 and 5.
Golden Text: Esther 4:14.
Of all the odes in the Bible the
Song of Deborah, Judges 5, is the
longest and most elaborate. Little
information is giv^n in it con
cerning the fierce battle waged on
the northern plain of Jezreel at
the river Kishon. But we are
made to understand that the He
brews won a splendid victory
largely because nature came to
their aid. “The stars in their
courses fought against Sisera,”
we are told, which means that the
Kishon, swollen by a tremendous
rainstorm, swept the enemy away
in its swirling waters.
A fresh interest in this- violent
contest has lately been aroused by
the sensational discovery of its
long hidden spoil. Unearthed by
archeologists cpnnected with the
Oriental Institute of Chicago, the
collection of recovered objects,
numbering about 200 pieces, has
lately been on exhibition.
This dramatic old tale teaches,
that women have as important a
task to perform in the life of a
nation as men. The heroes of the
battle are not men, but women.
Deborah, who led the hosts to vic
tory, and Jael, who smote Sisera
with her hammer, carried off the
honors. One is at once reminded
of Joan of Arc, maid of Orleans, a
patroit with visions. The day oi
such women, clad in armor, is ob
viously over. But there is abund-
* ant need for women of the mili
tant spirit of Frances E. Willard,
Florence Nightingale, and Clara
Barton. '
The story albo teaches that na
ture seems to favor a righteous
cause. One must be careful not
to press this point too far, but it
is worth noting that not only were
the Cannaanite chariots of our
lesson stuck in the morass caused
by a torrent of rain, but that in
later times the galleons of the
Spanish Armada were routed by
storms, and Napoleon was soundly
beaten ih his march on Russia by
the severity of an early winter.
Speaking broadly, nature sympa
thizes with good causes. The stars
fought against Sisera, and they
fight still against entrenched evil.
' txz
Opportunity In State
For Forest Farming
Clemson, July 2.—“A simple and
dependable method of meeting
many farm needs including cash
income is provided by that impor
tant but neglected branch of farm
work called forest farming”, says
Donald R. Brewster, forester for
the Clemson College Extension
Service.
“Every farm needs fuelwood,
fence posts, and construction tim
bers for home use”, Mr. Brewster
continues. “Every farm needs an
easily cared for crop that will
make profitable use of the poorer
lands and waste spaces not suit
able or needed for cultivated crops
or improved pastures.
“Every farm family needs addi
tional cash income and a source
of employment for spare time
during the slack winter season
when other farm work does not
require full use of available labor
and equipment.
“Every farm family needs a fi
nancial reserve to provide for
emergencies such as crop failures
cr sickness and for future needs
such as replacement of buildings
and equipment, college expenses,
a..d o.u • -carity.”
^ ^r. Brewster
defines as the deliberate and in
telligent management of wood
lands and waste or idle lands for
the continuous production of
valuable timber products as a
farm crop. It can be used to ad
vantage by nearly every farm
owner to provide timber products
for home consumption, to restore
soil fertility and prevent erosion,
to improve the appearance and
sale value of the farm, to furnish
supplementary income and em
ployment for spare time, and to
give the farm family greater fi
nancial security and a more com
fortable standard of living.
“To the farmers of South Caro
lina, forest farming offers excep
tional opportunities for attaining
these desirable objectives”, \,he
forester concludes. “Few states
have more favorable timber
growing and marketing conditions.
In few, if any, other states is it
possible to produce such a wide
variety of valuable forest products
so safely or so profitably.”
x
Almost $18,000,000
Available To Finance
Rural Family Loans
In S. C. And Three
Other States
Montgomery, July 9.—“Almost
eighteen million dollars will be
available for Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, and South Carolina, to
finance loan requirements of low-
income jrural families who qualify
as borrowers in the 1938-39 fiscal
year’s program undertaken by
FSA”, announced Robert W. Hud
gens, Regional Director of the
Farm .Security Administration.
“$13,500,000 has been allotted
this region for loans to rehabili
tation borrowers, and $4,295,805
made available to finance pur
chases and improvements in the
tenant purchase program author
ized by the Bankhead-Jones Farm
Tenant Act.”
According to Mr. Hudgens, the
$13,500,000 for rehabilitation loans
will enable low-income families to
put in crops, improve lands and
buildings, finance purchases of
livestock and workstock, buy
equipment for home-making and
farming activities and improve
sanitary facilities. Loans to new
clients will be made for subsis
tence and feed items, necessary
equipment, and stock required to
engage in successful farming.
“Group service loans will be
made to low income individuals or
to rural groups for services or
squipment beyond the means of
the farmer to acquire individually
and where such equipment or
service is needed in the commu
nity for cooperative use. Loans of
this type will provide harvesting
machinery, pure bred sires, en-
silege cutters, grist mills, cane
mills, tractors, curing houses, to
bacco sprayers, loading platforms,
scales, and other facilities where
by the earnings from use of same
appear to be sufficient to provide
for retirement of the purchase
loans advanced.”
“Two hundred a6d sixteen loans
of this type amounting to $234,-
031.34 were made during the year
just ended providing services for
1188 rehabilitation cUents and
3400 neighboring families. More
group service loans will be made
this year and funds for these pur
poses will be provided as neces
sary,” Mr. Hudgens continued.
* “For budgetary purposes the
State rehabiUtation loan program
allocations are as follows: Ala
bama, $4,000,000; Florida, $2,500,-
000; Georgia, $4,000,000; South
Carolina, $3,000,000. With these
funds, approximately twice the
number of families may be aided
this year with the guidance and
finance included in our rehabili
tation program inasmuch as the
money made available is almost
double the total authorized for
the fiscal year program which
ended June 30, 1938. The 1937-38
fiscal period enabled 38,607 re
habilitation loans to be made in
the four States totaling $7,801,570.
“The allotment for tenant pur
chase loans in Alabama, Florida.
Georgia, and South Carolina total
ing $4,295,805 will finance farm
purchases and necessary improve
ments to same in accordance with
the provisions of Titie I of the
Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act. Un
der the terms of this Act, eligible
low-income rural families may be
assisted to acquire family size
farms capable of producing an
abundant living, and the neces
sary margin of profit to enable
repayment of the advances re
quired.
“Ihe allotment by States for
tenant purchase loans for the
second twelve month’s period of
the tenant purchase prograrrf
commencing July 1, 1938, is as
follows:
Alabama $1,538,827.50
Florida 154,057.50
Georgia __ 1,587,507.50
South Carolina __ — 1,015,412.53
Total __ $4,295,805.00
Reviewing the accomplishments
of the first fiscal year of the
Tenant Purchase Aid Program,
Mr. Hudgens stated that funds
allotted for this work were en
cumbered within the fiscal period,
for loans to families in accord
ance with the terms of the Bank
head-Jones Farm Tenant Act.
The allotments for the year lust
ended were as follows: Alabama,
$615,531; Florida, $61,623; Georgia,
$635,003; South Carolina, $406,165.
According to a report just com
pleted, the actual advances by
states were listed as follows: Ala
bama,' $612,792.20; Florida, $60,-
645.00; Georgia, $633,963.50; South
Carolina, $405,949.21.
Because of limitation of funds,
only a few counties in each state,
and only five to ten farms in each
county were authorized this first
year. The increased allocations
for the coming twelve month
period will enable more counties
to be added and more loans per
county.
"The tenant purchase program
will provide gbod farm buildings
for families who are assisted to
acquire farms. Repairs or re
placement costs will be included
in the loans to these families. In
no instance will purchase loans
be approved where probable earn
ings do not appear to be suf
ficient to justify adequate farm
buildings”, concluded Director
Hudgens.
txx
Chevrolet-
Second School Of
Modem Merchandis-
ing And Management
Detroit, July 6.—A reiterated
faith in the long-pull future of
the automobile business and of
the country was voiced by A. P.
Sloan, Jr., chairman of the board,
General Motors Corporation, Wed
nesday, in Detroit to the gradua
ting members of the School of
Mcdern Merchandising and Man
agement founded by W. E. Holler,
general sales manager of the
Chevrolet Motor Division, and
conducted for the sons of Chevro
let dealers. Mr. Sloan stressed the
importance of relationships in in
dustry and in communities and
told how a better understanding
of problems is achieved by apply
ing a few simple truths in their
nolution.
“I think the automobile business
will continue to be a wonderful
business,” said Mr. Sloan, “and
you can’t learn too much about
its intricacies. I can't conceive of
anything that will diminish the
desire of the public for motorr cars.
In the evolution of industry and
the nation there will be a growing
demand for automotive transpor
tation.
“I can’t see why the future in
retail merchandising of automo
biles should not be better than in
the past. Automobile retailing re
quires a high grade of intelligence
a broad understanding of organi
zation, finance and related prob
lems that involve relationships
with enterprises and many people
in all communities.
“It takes what Mr. Holler speaks
of as the scientific approach. Tlu
successful operator must knov
how one thing fits into anothei
and into the picture as a whole
An opportunity to get an overal
view of the background of -*etai
selling has been yours in the
school for sons of dealers.
“We look on dealers as partner,
in our business and earnestlj
strive to promote better relations
v/ith them through such agencies
as the dealer’s council and tht
dealer’s board. As business part
ners, we know that the consumei
has a lot to say about what we do
in the automobile business.
“You’ll never go wrong in
learning intimately the details oi
the problems that confront you
and getting a better understand
ing of the relationships of those
problems that involve your well
being and the well being of all.”
Twenty-seven students from all
parts of the country attended the
seven-weeks course that finished
this week. All sons of operating
Chevrolet dealers, they will enter
or continue in their fathers’ deal
erships and eventually become
dealers themselves.
SERVE YOURSELF RIGHT...
WITH A REFRESHING PAUSE
It’s part of the game to take “time out” for a bottle of ice-
cold Coca-Cola...pure, wholesome, delicious. So team up
with one yourself...and be refreshed.
GREENWOOD COCA-t OLA FOTTLING COMPANY
Greenwood, S. C.
Delicious and Refreshing
Camp Modoc News
Camp Modoc, July 9.—Visitors
during the week were Mr. Ed Ver
non, Associate Civil Engineer, of
Columbia, and Sub-District In
spector Geraty, of Fort McPherson.
Material has arrived for the
bridge on the Turkey Creek Road
and the site has been selected and
laid out. Construction will begin
on this project during the coming
week.
Material has also been received
for the cattle underpass on the
Key Road and construction is well
under way.
The rough construction on the
Parksville Road has been coni-
pleted with the exception of two
box culverts and material is qjj
hand now for completion of these.
Fine grading of the Key Road is
well underway and the topsoil
work is moving along at a more
rapid rate as more trucks have
been received for this project.
Some evidence of the pine
beetle has been noticed in this
section recently. The pine beetle
is quite destructive in the pine
forests and it would be well for
those noticing pines dying to
ascertain the cause as the pine
beetle may be responsible and
proper precautions should be
taken at once to bring the beetle
under control.
The public is now invited to visit
our camp and feast their eyes on
the many flowers that are in
bloom here. A few of them are
very unusual. Many of them are
the old-fashioned flowers but
most of us still like them best
and when seen in the numbers we
have here we are prepared oc
wager that anyone who makes the
trip to see them will feel amply
repaid for the time and effort.
Visitors are welcome at all times.
Last week the camp personne
entertained several friends ftom
Augusta at a chicken supper. A
good time was reported by all.
xx
Increase Of 150 Per
Cent In Tenant Pur
chase Funds Allotted
South Carolina
JESTER’S CASH MARKET
Phone No. 25
Main Street
We Deliver
McCormick, S. C.
Open from 6:30 a. m. to 7 p. m.
When you are in town he sure and come by our
market and let ns 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.
Special on Balentine’s Sugar Cured Sliced Break
fast Bacon, per pound, 29 cents.
Fresh Fish on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
We highly appreciate your patronage.
Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We
pay the market price for them.
Experience Service Facilities '
Those are the Important things in measuring the worth
of a funeral director, and should be home in mind when
you have occasion to choose one
DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICR
and there Is no additional charge for service oat of town
J. S STROM
Main Street McCormick, d. C.
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th«t will keep v<'-- SAFER
against germ* * * infer,
firms. It’s Mcnn- ■ >Mseptic
TV.wder Vbur «lo< "» */ill fell
f r '\i that whem*< .u i,uy a
baNy powder it rnght to
be Mermen .leouon is
more than lust ac’uatmg powder
-i»’s cn^epfiC' And it costs no
more' So. mother buv a t<n
fr.,-n your druggist, today
Mennsn pova/osr
*
To all America in the luxu.'
GREYHOUND SUPER-COdri. ^
Greenville __$1.50 Augusta $ .90
Asheville 2.80 Richmond 6.90
Knoxville -- 4.65 Abingdon 5.25
Greenwood .60 Washington 7.9Cf
Los Angeles _ 35.60 Bristol 4.90;
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Big EXTRA Suvtnqt on P«u«« l T ^**' **•-«
| STROM’S DRUG STORE
Phone 95 McCormick, S. U.
Columbia, July 13.—An increase
of 150 per cent in tenant purchase
funds, over the fiscal year just
ended, for the twelve month per
iod commencing July 1, 1938, ha^
been allotted South Carolina tr
help tenants and other low in
come farm families to become
owners, according to R. F. Koll
State F3A Director in a relea^
from his offices in Columbia, S
C., today.
“$1,015,412.50 is South Carolina’
share of the nation total of $23,-
750,000, appropriated by congres
to finance ownership undertaking
of rural families under the pro
visions of the Bankhead-Jone
tFarm Tenant Act. The allotmen
o South Carolina for the yea
ust ended was $406,165. The lev
allotment represents two and on
lalf times the last year’s amount
;aid Mr. Kolb.
“During the first year of the
jrogram 123 families were loanded
1405,949.21 to buy family sized
’arms and to repair or replace
iwellings and farm buildings on
,he farms purchased. Farms pur
chased averaged in size 112.42
acres at an average cost per acre
>f $23.72. Farm improvements,
ncluding new construction, re-
oairs, land development, fencing,
etc., required additional loans
averaging less than $820 per fatm.
Total average loans, including
land costs, repairs or new con
struction of buildings, fees, and
other items amounted to $3,300.-
40.” "
“All facilities of the rural re
habilitation division have been
made available to these clients
and such additional assistance as
required, and as can be justified
by income-producing activities of
the farms, may be secured as
needed.”
“Farm families who assume
ownership contracts on these
farms are assisted in adiusting
their debts, if burdensome, to a
basis within the ability of the
family to pay from earnings of
the new farm. Loans for addi
tional equipment may be secured
where such equipment or stock
will enable increased earnings to
be realized,” continued Mr. Kolb.
“We expect to be able to make
more than 307 loans this year $o
help tenants or other low income
rural families become owners.
Details and dates of application
periods open in each county des
ignated will shortly be released”,
Mr. R. F. Kolb concluded.