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HeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday. July 21, 1938 ttcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, IMS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Moved at the Post Office at Me- Cormick, S. as nail matter of the second class. EUBSCR1PTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months — .50 Don’t Be Confused About Enrolling! Those citizens of McCormick county who fail to enrol anew will not be eligible to vote in the coming primary election. A com plete new enrolment is being had this year. The enrolment books close on July 26. which leaves only a few days in .which to enrol. Some persons have confused the matter of enroling with that of getting a registration certificate for the general election. New registration certificates must also be gotten this year, if citizens would vote in the general election, but this matter of registration certificates has nothing whatso ever to do with the primary elec tion. Enrol today on your club roll book, so that you may vote in the August primary. Get your regis tration certificate from the Coun ty registration board so that you may vote in the general election. But don't be confused over the two matters! Taylor Had Big Part With Postoffice, Postroads Body Congressman From Third trict One Of Ranking Members Of Group Dis- Charlie C. Coleman, At West Point, Assigned To 2nd Company, New Cadet Class Washington, July 15.—Repre sentative John C. Taylor of An derson, one of the ranking mem bers of the House Committee on postoffices and postroads, assisted In securing enactment of 17 laws to improve the lot of postal em ployes and the postal service dur ing the recent session of congress. In a statement issued today by Representative James M. Mead of the 42nd New York District chair man of the committee, it is re vealed that while the program West Point. New York, July 18.— Charlie C. Coleman, son of Mr. Lloyd C. Coleman, of McCormick. S. C., who r/as sworn in as a Cadet in the United States Mili tary Academy here on July 1st, has been assigned to 2nd Com pany, New Cadet Class, bv Briga dier General Jay L. Benedict. Superintendent. He is one of a group of 432 new Cadets who have just been enrolled in the 1942 class. For the next four weeks, Cadet Coleman, and his classmates will receive an intensive course of in struction in military subjects de signed to fit them for formal en trance into the Corps of Cadets. •«v.vAv.\w.>' • y. • >.vfv.V. v. vJv BY THE WAY ...PAUSE Park...and pause...where you see the red sign that says “Drink Coca-Cola.** It flashes a welcome invitation to enjoy a sociable pause for pure refreshment. AND REFRESH Thirst asks nothing more. GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY — , Greenwood, S. C. w ^ SR-165-7 outlined by Mr. Taylor and other members of the committee was I Q n July 31st, the class will be ab- only about half finished, several f sorbed into the Corps and will A Theory Disproved Just 140 years ago. In 1798, a book was published which speedily became the “best-seller” of its time. Few books have had such a profound effect upon human thought as “An Essay on the Principle of Population as it af fects the Future of Society,” by the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus. It ran into many editions and has been reprinted in many languages. The argument of Malthus was that “the realization of a happy society will always be hindered by the miseries consequent on the tendency of population to increase faster than the means of subsis tence.” The Malthusian Theory domi nated economic thinking and in fluenced statesmanship for nearly a century. Wars were regarded as necessary to forestall universal starvation by reducing the surplus population. What Malthus could not foresee was that science and invention would so increase the productivity of agriculture that instead of population overtaking the means of subsistence the twentieth century would find a large sector of the human race struggling with the problem of • P e d free how to dispose of agricultural surpluses. In 1798 practically all of the people of America were tied di rectly to the soil for their subsis tence. In 1938 fewer than 10 per cent are inquired, by the direct application of their labor to the soil, to feed themselves and the other 90 per cent of the popula tion. The 10 per cent not only feed us all, but feed us better than any people had ever been fed in Malthus' time. Moreover, the 10 per cent of the people who work on farms are enabled, by the ap plication of modern machinery and scientific methods, to produce so much more than we can con sume that we have seen in very recent years such horrifying spec tacles as the deliberate destruc tion of food-stuffs by Govem- laws were finally enacted and ap proved that have been urged for many years by the postal service and the public as well. One of the first laws enacted, as sponsored by the committee, al lows compensation as postmaster to persons who perform the duties of the office upon the occurrence of a vacancy, and pending the ap pointment of a regular post master, or the designation of an acting postmaster at any third class office. Another act provides that any fractional part of a year’s substi tute service will be included with service as a regular laborer, watchman or messenger in the postal service, in determining eligibility for promotion to the next high grade following ap pointment to a regular position. The salaries of postoffice station superintendents are favorably af fected by counting substitutes, under a new law, and temporary employes in with the regular em ployes in determing the personnel at a station for which a superin tendent may take credit for salary purposes. It was also provided that any fractional part of a year’s substi tute service will be included with service as a regular clerk, garage- man-driver, driver-mechanic, or general mechanic in the motor- vehicle service, in determining eligibility for promotion to the next higher grade following ap pointment to a regular station. The inclusion of watchmen and messengers at first and second class offices, laborers being al ready included, within the pro visions of the shorter work-week law of 1935 for postal employes. A special reduced postal rate was provided for shipments of sound reproduction machines sent for repairs, and removed the weight limit on packages, books, pamphlets and other reading matter for the blind so that sound-reproduction records weigh ing over 12 pounds may be ship- Phone No. 25 Main Street Open from 6:30 a. m. to 7 p. m. In addition, the committee sponsored and secured adoption of laws which: Extended the limita tions on aggregate air-mail route mileage which may be awarded under the domestic airmail con tract system from 32,000 to 35,000, and the schedule of flown mileage from 45 million to 52 million air plane miles; Provided additional compensa tion for rural letter carriers serv ing short, heavy routes; Fixing a -special rate of one cent a pound on magazines and periodicals in raised characters and on sound-reproduction records for the blind; Authorized the postmaster gen eral to withhold awarding star- route contracts for the good of the service, for 90 days; Permitted the printing in blac’.: mental edict and the payment of an( j white of illustrations of bounties to farmers, not for pro- s t am p s f 0 r philathelic purposes. ducing food but for refraining from producing or marketing it. It is certainly permissible to wonder what the Rev. Mr. Mal thus would have thought of that state of things. Surely he would 1 u Liberalized conditions as have said that a nation blessed handling prepaid postage mall; with such a profusion of food Authorized the postoffice de partment to experiment in auto matic pick-up and delivery mail service for improvement purposes. Liberalized conditions as to mdling pre Gave the postmaster general the must have achieved the “realiza- authority to fix the rates on Alas- tion of a happy society” with. kan airma * which he was chiefly concerned, j Continued the protfection af- We have it on high authority forded by the “savings clause in that such is not the case, that the postal laws whereby a rural one-third of the American people carrier’s annual salary cannot be are ill-fed. They clearly do not reduced more than $180 when he lack food because population has is transferred to a short route, overtaken production. Why, then, I Classified the system of bills need anybody go hungry? If there and statements of account in the is famine in the midst of plenty, service as a step for Improve- what’s wrong with the picture? ment. participate with the upper classes in routine activities, including the impressive parades for which the Military Academy is so famous. During the month of August, the entire Corps, less the second class, which is on furlough, will be en camped in the tent camp in Fort Clinton. The last week in August will again be devoted to a dismounted practice march through the mountains southwest of West Point. The New Cadets will be required to live in shelter tents during this period, and will re ceive their initiation to meals served from the Army rolling kitchen. September 1st will see the en tire Corps commencing its aca demic work for the year, having moved into barracks upon the re turn from the practice march. Classroom work will extend from 8:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m., with an hour’s intermission for lunch. Drills and compulsory intramural athletics will take up another hour in the afternoon. The new class will be divided into sections of from ten to four teen men for the academic work in conformity to the Military Academy system of instruction, and each Cadet will be required co recite in each subject every day. 4-H Boys And Girls Attend Summer Camps Olemson. July 9.—Around 209 4-H club boys from four counties, Cherokee, Orangeburg, Spartan burg, and Union, held their an nual camp at Clemson July 6-8, three days full of worthwhile in struction and wholesome recrea tion and pleasure for these junior farmers. Dan Lewis, state boys’ club agent, and Leon Clayton, assistant agent, were in charge, aided by county agents and club leaders, as well as by various specialists of the college. Various facilities of the college were utilized to ad vantage in the schedule of activi ties for the camp. This group of 4-H campers is the only group that will visit Clemson this camping season, but groups of either 4-H boys or girls or both from every county will at tend such a camp, Mr. Lewis points out. Attending Camp Long, the state 4-H camp, in Aiken county during the summer will be 22 groups, and camping at The Citadel in Charleston will be 16 groups. Four groups will camp at Rocky Bottom 4-H camp in Pickens county and one group at Camp Kerby Tyler in Chesterfield county. One group of girls will camp at Camp Nixon and one group of girls at Camp Columbia s c _ June 30 . Harmon, It is stated These two shou , d a 5tudent attempt to work camps are In North Carolina. bls or ber w through college? Camp activities of club girls are _ . ^ , .... directed by Mrs. Harriett F. John. 1 Not un ess 1 1S absolutely nec- son, state girls’ club agent. i “f f*’ ls th « f" swe t r “ f G ’ ® el1 ’ Thus Palmetto State 4-H club Chairman of the student employ- members will benefit physically. ment committee at the University educationally, and spiritually. JESTER’S CASH MARKET We Deliver McCormick, S. C. When you are in town be sure and come by our market and let us suggest yohr 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 borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OCR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service ont of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, 3. C. on animals. Every effort should j generally is more serious, be made from this time until frost | No student should attempt to to prevent cuts or bruises on ani- work more than three or four mals. Pine tar oil, which is dehydrated and acid free, has been obtained by many of the druggists and country merchants in this area and stock owners should have lit tle difficulty in obtaining this product. Wounds found to be in fested with maggots should be swabbed out with clean cotton and benzol applied. Then the wound should be plugged so that the hours a day and, at the same time carry a full course, Mr. Bell said. Nor should a freshman enter the University and depend on outside work to keep him there his first year, for most jobs are obtained later in the college career. A man should have at least $200 in sight to begin with when he enters the University, expect ing to remain a year, Mr. Bell said. “However,” he said, “parents who vapers from the chemical will kill ; give their sons too much money the maggots. | are doing them serious harm. Six The finding of a few screw or seven hundred dollars a year at worms is no cause for alarm, says j t* 16 University is too much.” Mr. Nettles, as the farmers have Mrs. Arney R. Childs, dean of the necessary information with : women, said that a woman stu- which to prevent this insect from ■ dent should have at least $250 in becoming a menace to the live- sight before entering the Univer- stock industry. -xx- Don’t Work Way Through College Unless You Must Protect Livestock of South Carolina. However, Mr. Bell reports, 50 per cent of the men and 20 per cent of the women attending the a • . o VST ~ University are working to pay Against Screw Wonus either all or part of their expenses. Students forced to carry heavy outside work miss many broaden ing contacts which students fi- Clemson, July 11.—Since several reports of screw worm infestation in the lower portion of the state have been received (but not veri fied) by W. C. Nettles, extension entomologist, stock owners, espec ially in the southwestern portion of the state, are warned to apply pine tar oil to all cuts or wounds nancially more independent are able to make. However, he said students who are working their way through generally make bet ter scholastic records than their more fortunate brethren, because their attitude toward their work sity. She should not have to de pend on outside work, unless it is absolutely necesmry. particularly during her freshman year. Jobs made available through the national youth administration have in the past several years en abled a number of students to continue their work at the Uni versity. Others have obtained em ployment on the campus and in the city. J, i * Campus jobs include work in the mess hall and women’s cafe teria, the pressing club, bookstore, canteen, post office, library, posts as student assistants in various departments, etc. In the city, both men and wom en hold part-time jobs in offices and as sales-people in stores of all types. Men hold numerous types of jobs including those as “soda-jerkers”, junior druggists (pharmacy students), law clerks (law students) waiters, night watchmen, janitors, laboratory technicians, filling station at tendants, and many others. A number of men arise before dawn to carry newspapers or fire furnaces, so great is their determi nation to stay in the University. ORING * i AS YOU'D LIKE IT Sr-&OSrt.Wf>sT NAVJII I SKEWHfrl OVER TOTEIA OFFICER? rf 1A THCt MtfT’ pr^—r"'( NO SPEE® U*ttT 1 / /! ^s If SATISFACTION As You’d Like It: There’s something about summer that makes one want to have everything bright and clean. It makes you feel and look cooler. The assured satis- % faction of our cleaning service is the answer white suits, frocks, sum mer sweaters in fact everything may be sent with safety! Greenwood Dry Cleaning Co. tt Dependable Cleaners SPENCER GLASGOW, Rep M SURE TO OIT AN AMERICA’S STANDARD TIME! Get trustworthy time in a smart Ingersoll watch. Yankee is tho smallest and thinnest pocket watch at $1.50. Chi ome*plated ease, dear numerals, unbreak- able crystal. Insurance Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In cluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight \ Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 956 Broad Street Augusta, Ga,