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\ ; | - McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 20, 1939 TODAY and TPW FRANK PARKER SIOCKBRID6E safety, physical or economic, the guiding rule of his life. Men grow great by taking chances. Nations prosper and increase in wealth and power precisely in proportion to the extent to which their people are ready and willing to take risks. The word “security” is on every body’s tongue these days, as if it were possible for anyone to daring achieve security for himself or for coined Government to confer it upon him. That notion is what the “safety first” idea has grown into. If it took possession of everybody, nobody would get anywhere. To me it seems a better way of life to dare to take one’s own chances -MEATS- SECURITY I don’t know who first "the phrase “Safety First,” but I feel that he did the young people cf America a disservice. Too many cf them have grown up taking that slogan seriously, as a sound working principle of life. Safety of others ought, of winning or losing. course t° be everybody’s firet I LANDMARKS value uideration, but I sometimes think we are becoming a nation of Ut> in my old country of western cowards by applying the “safety Massachusetts a good many people lirst” idea to ourselves are protesting the destruction of Nobody ever achieved anything ancient tavern which has stood of importance who made his own f° r more than a century on the boundary line between Massa chusetts and New York. The old State Line House was built beside the primitive Indian , trail, which later became a stage read, then the route of the east- west railroads, because it was the easiest pass across the Taconic mountains. Now a four-lane con crete motor road is going through the pass, and the old inn has to come down. I can’t share the grief over the demolition of the dilapidated structure merely because it is old. It has no beauty worth preserving, and no historical significance. Better a fine modem highway than an old frame house that has outlived its usefulness. The value of ancient landmarks lies in the traditions which they enshrine. If those embody the spirit of the pioneers who made America great, then they should be preserved. The only part of the past that concerns us of the present, and those who came after i us, is the spiritual inheritance | left by the Founding Fathers. mm vw.'twtysw.'Wf m iA ^ ' ' m w x#':. Drink TROY MARKET Specials Saturday Veal Steak Per Pound Roast 4! Op Per Pound 1 s,ew 1 Sc Per Pound B Mixed Sausage 4 Choice Breakfast Bacon, Per Pound ™ ^ Mutton Next Week End. iaaot _ m* •« ^ 9 Delicious and Refreshing GREENWOOD fvwmr*- Coca-Cola goes along...for the pause that refreshes When you’re out for an outing, you’re in for a good time, but a thirsty one. Make it perfect with ice-cold Coca-Cola • •. for the pause that refreshes. It does things for thirst that you’ll like. COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENWOOD, S. C. TROY MARKET TROY, S. 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Before the Great War an En glish engineer, Sir Charles Parsons, had a project for digging a hole several feet in diameter to a depth of two or three miles, in the be lief that enough heat could be drawn from it to run the steam boilers and heat the buildings of a great manufacturing city. Now a drill has actually been invented which will cut a five-foot hole, and somebody may try it. TREASURE * adventure Most of the digging men do into the earth is in search of treasure of some sort. Nations have gone to war for centuries over the pos session of land in which valuable minerals may be found. A few days ago a new diamond field was opened in South Africa, and prospectors grew rich over night digging the stones out of the blue clay. Only a small fraction of the earth has yet been fully explored by treasure-hunters. Africa and South America hold unlimited op portunity for adventurous pros pectors. The deepest gold mine in the world, a mile and a half deep, is in South Africa. The owners have lately had an American company install an air-conditioning system to keep the lower workings cool enough for the miners to work in comfort. American copper mines produce so much that they control th( world price of that metal. Canad' has almost a monoply on cobaJ and nickel, and new Canadia gold mines are constantly bein discovered. One man who wer prospecting for gold in Canac’ found radium, and made million Only those willing to take chance of losing can win in th hunt for treasures beneath th earth’s surface. 81,209 malaria Cases reported in the U. S. in 1938! DON’T DELAY! START TODAY with vv ^ 666 Checks Malaria in seven days. Insurance PER Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In* eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. nesr - <7* The Poor Cave Man Had No Newspaper To Advertise In. But You Have !! <$ CENT DISCOUNT! 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