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<3 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 10, 1939 IODAYmmI W* BMNKIVUUCERl SIDCKBRIOGE INDIANS friends Near the ancient church in my old home town in Massachusetts is the Indian burying ground. A rough-hewn obelisk bears a oronze plate inscribed “to the friends of our Fathers.” Descendants of the first white settlers placed it there, as a tribute to the kindly tribe of the Mohicans, the Stockbridge In dians. This old New England town is celebrating this month the 200th anniversary of its establishment as the first community in America to give Indians equal rights of citizenship with the English colo nists. The first Board of Select men of Stockbridge, elected in 1739, consisted of two Indian chiefs, Konkapot and Umpachene and one Englishman, Ephraim Williams. By 1779 the failure of the at tempt to impose European civili zation on the Indians was appar ent, even to the Indians. They drifted westward and the last remnants of their tribe now live in Wisconsin. The English set tlers prospered. Ephraim Wil liams founded Williams College. "The Colonists paid the Indians for their land, but the Indians did not understand the value or use of money. Few Indians know any thing about handling money - to day. RELIGION conformity The Mohican Indians were hunt ers who were glad to trade their beaver-skins for the rum which the white men brought them. My wife’s ancestor, Jehoiakim van Valkenburgh, and my own ances tor, Charles Stockbridge, whose name the town bears, did a thriv ing trade with the Indians for years before earnest young mis sionaries from Yale College came up to Christianize the people of the Housatonic Valley. Many Indians professed conver sion and were baptized into the church. It now seems doubtful that they ever grasped or accepted -MEATS- TROY MARKET Specials Saturday Veal Steak 25 C Roast Per Pound WW Stew < Cf* Per Pound Leg-O-Lamb 00#% Per Pound fcfcW Mutton Chops PQC Per Pound Mutton Roast 1 8C Per Pound TROY MARKET TROY, S. C. JACK GABLE, Prop. LET US HELP YOU LOOK YOUR BEST! Clean, neatly pressed clothes are indicative of a neat, orderly personality. Far from being expensive, you’ll find that it actually pays to be immaculate in your ap pearance. We are experts in this type of work—we know just how to treat even the most delicate frocks in your wardrobe, so that they will come back to you looking like new. Free pickup and delivery service, of course! Greenwood Dry Cleaning Co. Dependable Cleaners J. C. Dalton, Mgr. «< the rigid Calvanistic doctrines of Puritan New England. It is certain that they were unruly under the harsh discipline of the Church. John Sergeant, the devoted young minister, died after ten years of disheartening efforts to wean the Mohicians away from their pagan practices and their fondness for the traders’ rum. Religion, to the missionaries, meant conformity in outward ap pearances to the standards of the teachers of religion, as much as it meant spiritual regeneration. The Indians of Stockbridge pre ferred to live in wigwams instead of houses, and to go unclothed in Summer. CIVILIZATION tolerance To me there seems to be a par allel between the failure of his first organized effort in America to civilize the * Indians and the efforts of powerful nations to con quer or absorb weaker nations composed of people of a different race and tradition. The roots of all present warlike manifestations throughout the world lie, I be lieve, in the assertion of superiori ty of one race over others, and the attempt to make the so-called in ferior race conform to the stand ards of the other. We have learned a lesson in America. We no longer try to make Indians live like white men or adopt the white man’s religion and customs. So long as they do not behave contrary to the uni versal code of morals, which is essentially letting other people’s lives, property and customs alone, the American Indians today are not only permitted but encouraged to maintain their ancient tribal customs and beliefs. I think they are much more civilized, on the whole, than some of the peoples of Europe—or their rulers. COLONIZATION . . . interference The reason the English are the most successful colonial adminis trators is that they do not inter fere with native manners, habits or religion. It took them a long time to learn tolerance, but in the British colonies all over the world the maxim of Thomas Jefferson that “the best government is the one that governs least” seems to be the rule. Spain was once the world’s greatest colonial power. She lost her colonies because she tried to make natives into Spaniards. Her little neighbor, Portugal, is still a great colonial power because she does not try to change the col onists into some different kind of people. Germany is notoriously the world’s worst manager of colonies. Its colonial governors afe arrogant, domineering and wholly lacking in respect for na tive beliefs and customs. Two races cannot live on the same soil without constant fric tion and conflict unless each recognizes that the other has an equal right to live, act and be lieve as its racial inheritance im pels it. FARMS FOR SALE BUY A FARM On Easy Terms, For a Safe Investment, for Old Age Security, while prices are low. This is your opportunity to buy one of these South Carolina Farms Offered for Sale by The Federal Land Bank. 103 acres, known as The Mrs. Irene J. Duncan Farm, located 4*4 miles West from McCormick, with approximately 55 acres cleared. One 4 room dwelling, tw 1 © tenant houses and out buildings. 131 acres, known as the Richard Robertson Farm, located 12 miles south from McCormick, with ap proximately 40 acres cleared. One 4 room dwelling, tenant house, feed barn and other out buildings. McCormick County 58 acres, known as the W. T. Ramsey Farm, located 5 miles Northeast from McCormick, with approximately 37 acres cleared. One 7 room dwelling, 3 barns, and 4 storage houses. 83 acres, known as the H. N. Coleman Farm, located 6 miles Southeast from McCormick, with approximately 30 acres cleared. One 4 room dwelling, feed barn and crib. 195 acres, known as the Robert J. Mann Farm, located 7 miles East from McCormick, with approxi mately 60 acres cleared. One 5 room dwelling, feed barn and sev eral out buildings. 450 acres, known as the H. N. Coleman Farm, located 8 miles East from McCormick, with approxi mately 200 acres cleared. One 9 room dwelling, five tenant houses, several barns and out buildings. -- EASY TERMS -- Small cash payment, balance payable over a period of from 1 to 20 years with only 5% interest on the balance remaining unpaid from time to time. Special consideration will be given cash offers on some of the lower price properties. After looking over the above list of farms, pick out the one that you feel you will like and then make a trip to see it, and if that one doesn’t suit, look at more of them, for most likely one of these properties will just suit your requirements, and remember it will pay you to act promptly, as these properties are being sold at real bargain prices. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PHONE, SEE OR WRITE C. A. WILSON, Salesman for the Federal Land Bank P. O. Box 615, Phone 5191, Mezzanine Floor, Hodges Building, T. G. DUCKETT, Secretary-Treasurer N. F. L. A. Greenwood, S. C. day’s delay is one link nearer Giant Pascal. j motor fuel. “Jack Frost”. Cabbage—Succession; Late Flat Next to gasoline taxes, registra- up ground ; Dutch, and Charleston Wakefield, | tion and license fees represent the for heads this fall. highest taxes paid, costing $5.67 Tomatoes — Greater Baltimore; on a state wide average last year. LESSON peace If there is one lesson the world should have learned by this time it is that peace is never achieved by conquest but only by tolerance. Some groups, many individuals, have learned that. To a degree some nations and their rulers have at least got a glimmer of that truth. It is the ones which have not grasped it that are mak ing all the trouble in the world. The lesson of tolerance is not learned wholesale. It is arrived at/ one by one, as individual after in dividual discovers his own true place in the scheme of things. Men who find that place recognize that they are no better than other men. They find it by abandoning selfishness, hatreds and dis honesty. A great and growing movement for peace is sweeping over the world, led by groups of men and women who believe and teach that the salvation of the world lies not in guns but in the hearts of peo ple. It is called “Moral Rearma ment.” You will hear of it, if you have not already. If enough in dividuals are morally armed, the world will need no other arma ments. There is no other road to peace. txt McCormick Farmers Reminded Of Garden Work For Auirust o Cultivate and clean where vegetables have matured. Decaying vegetables and vegetable plants are likely to increase dis ease and insect damage next season. Gathering vegetables, fruits, and flowers when ready encourages longer bearing. Sweet corn loses some of its sugar if gathered and allowed to stand long enough to wilt before cooking. Suggestions Fall tomatoes usually bring a good price on the local market. If all the fruit fails to ripen be fore frost, it can be kept far into the winter wrapped in paper and laid away in a cool, dark place. Plants set now will mature fruit before frost. Use strong stocky plants and retain all the soil pos sible on the roots. Set deeply and pour a pint of water around roots and cover with thick layer of dry soil. One thing should be attended to promptly when growing rutabagas StRtC LclSt YCclI* and that is to thin them to a stand just as soon as possible. This should be done when the plants Nearly 300,000 Vehicles Paid Aver- Bonny Best, Marglobe, Transplant at once. Watch For Insects Red Spider—Dust with super fine sulphur, or spray with one pound of white soap flakes in six gallons of water. Harlequin cabbage bug and squash bugs—Hand pick and de stroy adults. Spray with one pound of white soap flakes in six gallons of water. Blossom end rot of tomatoes— Usually caused by insufficient moisture—Water when practical, or maintain a good mulch of leaf mold or straw around the plants. Federal automotive excise taxes on lubricating oil, on tires and tubes, parts and accessories, and on new automobiles and trucks amounted to $2.65 while the $2.99 balance of the bill is made up of miscellaneous other state and local automotive taxes. “It is apparent from the fact that 35 out of the 48 states in the Union experienced a reduction in the average amount of taxes paid per vehicle that a general levelling off of the motorists’ tax burden is occuring throughout the nation, a trend which this state has not yet experienced,” Mr. Melton said. Destroy weeds and crop rem- | “Analysis of last year’s records in nants to aid in controlling insects other states indicate that and diseases. the thought that it was wrong to see the sun rise or set, and for twenty years he never witnessed this phenomena. Faddists, before the time of Christ lived on raw vegetables, roots and herbs, eschewing meats of all kinds. Others subsisted en tirely on milk. The early Etheo- pians wondered how the first white men they saw could live on bread when the only diet they knew was raw meat—which in cidentally they prefer to this day. In Greece, lived a group that ate rammish and drank only sea water. *xhe Emperor August ate only a crust of dried bread for supper and had one division of his army do the same thing. Seneca, the philosopher, was a dry bread faddist, and always ate standing up because he argued it there | was easier for his food to enter D. Austin Shelley, County Agent. XX Motor Tax Increased are several methods by which his stomach, when in that posi- motorists’ taxes are being reduced, tion. He too established a school j In some states motorists are ap- ' 0 f f co i food faddists, parently driving smaller cars than when Rome was in its greatest ! they, have in the past, thereby slory> the entire na tion, following saving on the cost of license tags. f a( jdistic teachings of some are not over 2 inches high. Give them plenty of distance, leaving them 8 to 10 inches apart in the drill, one in a place. This prompt thinning will prevent them from becoming shanky. Plants will then be stocky and the roots well shaped. Remember that consecutive age Tax of $56.05 In South Carolina. Motor vehicle operators in South Carolina paid 1.98 per cent more in motor vehicle taxes on a state wide average than they did In others, they are apparently purchasing used cars instead of buying new vehicles in order to avoid payment of the federal government’s excise taxes on new vehicles. “The most effective means of reducing tax costs, of course, is to lend support to those legislators, both state and federal, who are striving for reduction of automo bile operators’ excessive tax load. It is quite likely that the next few years will be marked by a consider now forgotten man, ate but one meal a day, and that only after the sun had set, because they ar gued that the quiet of the evening was the right time to assimilate food, and not the busy hours of the day while engaged in work. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who lived in Egypt, 2,500 years ago. started a fad which he observed while traveling in the Land of the Pharos—that of fasting three days each month, refusing even a drink of water during these periods of in 1937, figures compiled by J. T. planting every 15 to 21 days as Melton, Secretary of the S. C. OJL u prescribed through your monthly Petroleum Industries Committee, ■ able number of tax reductions in abstinence letters keeps a supply of crisp reveal. South Carolina was one ( automotive taxes, especially in this | tribes of Africa the Pa . vegetables for the home table and of the few states which went^con- J”*. k t ^ e ci{ic Is iands. and North and South ' American Indians, fasted for days rrr\ 4-l-tA A *VW* VI/»€! n HFlfr* 111 Iri-1. A 1. CVft ULl* t/AVTAA w. nationwide average the American line of tax reduction elsewhere. Make Plantings of the Following motorist’s tax bill dropped 3.6 per Irish Potatoes—Lookout Moun- cent, the first drop in his tax costs tain; Irish Cobler—Plant at once since 1921. Turnips — Rutabagas — Plant s once. Turnips—Extra Early Pur pie Top; White Egg-Plant up t Sept. 15. Beans — Bountiful; Stringle Greenpod—Plant up to Sept. 10. Beets—Crosby’s Egyptian; Dc troit Dark Red—Plant now. Carrots — Chantenay; Corele (Nantes)—Plant now. Corn — Stowell’s Trucker’s Favorite—Plant now. Lettuce—New York; Mignonett The 287,913 vehicles registered in South Carolina last year paid an average of $56.05 apiece in special motor vehicle levies com- oared with similar payments of $54.96 made in 1937. The gasoline tax remains the heaviest and most costly levy placed on motor vehicle operators! in this state, the combined federal ^ - JfLE m* iL before going on a hunt and their women folks did the same when their men were away fighting. There is no doubt but that in some cases fasting does benefit the individual, while in other in stances it has the opposite effect. It is remarkable how long one can exist without food or drink. Only recently a convict refused food or water for sixty-three days, desiring to commit suicide and ac- while a Fall vegetables must be planted in time. Every day counts, as one Fasting The general impression is that complished his purpose, and state motor fuel tax account- | the American is the most given tr jewly born infant, left in a paste- Evergreen; ing for 7g82 per ce nt of the total being a faddist of all the people board box in a railway station annual bill. Last year the average of the world, when as a matter c baggage room, where its unfortu- automobile owner in S. C. paid fact men of all nations have bee nate mother had checked it. —Sow seed for fall transplanting. g aso iine taxes amounting to $44.74 faddists since the dawn of record actually went for five days with- each, $39.09 for the 6c per gallon! ed history. out sustenance of any kind, when state tax and $5.65 for the 1c a Smindyrides the Sabyrite, starte. taken to a hospital, made a quick Transplant Collards—Georgia Southern. Celery — Golden Self-Blanching; gallon duplicating federal levy on a cult which had as its basic ide: | recovery from its imposed fasting.