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TBUI TO OUB8ELVVB, OOB NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Thirty-Eighth Year
Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1939
Number 24
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Washington, Nov. 13.—The fact
that many “old line” Democrats,
including such staunch party men
as Senator Carter Glass of Vir
ginia, elected to go along with the
Administration in advocating the
repeal of the arms embargo, has
been taken in some quarters as
proof that the split in the party
ranks has been closed up and that
all is harmony once more between
the New Dealers and the tradi
tional Jeffersonians.
Nothing could be farther from
the truth, as the political events of
the next few weeks are certain to
demonstrate. The recalcitrants who
jumped the party lines last year
are still as bitterly opposed to the
President and the acts of his ad
ministration as they were before.
They simply regarded the Neu
trality matter as something out
side of party lines, went along
with the President not because re
peal of the embargo was his idea,
but because they believed in it as
the best way of keeping America
. out of the European war. Their
attitude was much like that of
Gov. Alf Landon when he went to
the Lima Pan-American Congress:
“Politics ends at the water line.”
Opposition Still Strong
When it comes down to the
struggle for delegates to the
party nominating convention and
the effort to pick a candidate for
1940, the same Senators and Rep
resentatives and party organiza
tion men who have opposed Mr.
Roosevelt on domestic questions
will be found opposing him again.
It is generally admitted, how
ever, by astute political, observers
here, that it is likely to be more
difficult to prevent him from get
ting himself nominated for a third
term than it would have been had
the European war not broken out
Beyond any question, the very
fact that the President, as chief
executive, is responsible for the
management of our international
relations, has strengthened Mr.
Roosevelt’s position immensely.
Even if there is no untoward inci
dent to stir up public indignation
and make people believe that we
are bound to get into the war, re
ports from the nation at large in
dicate a growing feeling that the
Administration intends to insist
upon the recognition of American
rights by all the belligerent na
tions.
That puts the President, person
ally, in the position of the outer
guardian of American liberties, in
sures him first-page publicity and
distinctly improves his popularity
with the masses of the voters. It
also puts on him a tremendous re
sponsibility to watch his step and
see to it that no act of the Admin
istration gets us embroiled.
So long as he makes no misstep
in the handling of foreign affairs—
for the Secretary of State is, after
all, merely the President’s personal
aide whom he could dismiss at any
time—Mr. Roosevelt is bound to
enlarge his personal prestige with
the voters.
Talk Of “Incident”
There is much speculation going
De la Howe Opens
Basketball Season
Friday Night
The De la Howe Basketball
teams will open the basketball
season at De la Howe Friday night
when they meet the boys and
girls from Calhoun Falls at 7:30
o’clock. Both teams are as yet
untried, but the De la Howe teams
are considered somewhat stronger
than las% year. The many fans
who have followed the De la Howe
teams during the past years are
expected to be on hand to cheer
the Blue and White Flame to
victory Friday night.
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Chicken Supper
At Buffalo School
House Nov. 30th
The Buffalo-Bellvue Home Dem
onstration Club will serve a
chicken supper at Buffalo school
house on Thursday evening, No
vember 30th, beginning at 6:30
o’clock, vrhich the public is cor
dially invited to attend. The pro
ceeds go to the Buffalo Baptist
on in Washington'as to what sort I Church cemetery fence fund. The
of ar^ “incident” might precipitate
a crisis in our foreign relations
which would give the President an
opportunity to further assert him
self and gain still greater popular
acclaim. The German government
has always been notoriously inept
in its handling of foreign affairs,
and many who understand the in
ternational situation are expecting
some move on Germany’s part
which could be taken as seriously
here as was the German effort to
line up Mexico against the United
States, which was the final straw
that brought us into the last war.
The effort to make such an “in
cident” out of the seizure of the
American ship “City of Flint” by
a German sea-raider is being pro
moted by some of the little group
price per plate will be 25 cents.
The menu is given as follows:
Rice, baked chicken, dressing,
gravy, potato salad, macaroni pie,
rolls, cake and coffee.
Hunting Season
Opens Nov. 23rd
County Game Warden D. M.
McGrath announces that the
hunting season opens on Thursday,
November 23rd, in McCormick
County.
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Mt. Carmel News
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McCORMICK, S. C.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
November 17lh and 18th, 7 P. M. and 8:50 P. M.
Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M.
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who believe that for the United
States to get into the war would
insure their jobs for another four
years, and so would like to see the
shooting start right off.
There is no concern among
sober-minded observers here over
the “Flint” affair, since Germany
has only applied the rules of con
traband which were first formu
lated and made to stick in inter
national law by our own Govern
ment, during the Civil War.
There is little concern, either,
over the bungling of the Russian
authorities in the “Flint” matter.
They chased the American ship
out cf a Russian port as soon as
our Government protested. Unless
the Germans pull a boner by
harming the American crew of the
“Flint” nobody in Washington
feels that the incident is anything
to worry about, since a neutral
shio carrying contraband to a
belligerent port is always subject
to search and seizure.
The President made a quick and
j snappy come-back to the charge
of the Russian foreign minister
that he was meddling in European
affairs by expressing sympathy
with Finland, when he pulled out
the letter from the Russian gov
ernment praising him for his ap-
oeal to Russia and other nations
for peace.
Build-Up For 1940
Such things as that, heralded to
the nation by press and radio, are
becoming regarded in Washington
as part of the New Deal build-up
for 1940, if not for a third term
for Mr. Roosevelt himself.
Henry Wallace, Secretary of Ag
riculture, who is as enthusiastic
over the New Deal as religious con
verts are said to be when they
first experience a change of faith,
got a slap on the wrist from the
WhitjC House for saying publicly
what many of his associates say
privately, that Mr. Roosevelt must
be reelected. Mr. Wallace was
born and bred a Republican, like
Secretary Ickes of the Interior De
partment, the only other Cabinet
member who has voiced the third-
term idea.
The President could kill off
third-term talk in a single sen
tence. At the same time, how
ever, he would kill a lot of his in-
Mrs. L. C. Deal, of the Callison Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd and
-ection, spent several days last son, Julius, of Greenville were
week with her sister, Mrs. J. P. dinner guests of Mrs. Ludie Boyd.
Sullivan. In the afternoon she accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Reames spent them on a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
several days last week in Aiken, Dode Philips of Due West,
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. A very pleasant social event of
Johnson. last week in Mt. Carmel was the
Mrs. Blanche Rambo and daugh- barbecue with which Mr. and Mrs.
ter, Ann, Mrs. Ida Kemp and Mr. Lawrence Hester entertained many
W. L. Winn visited Mrs. Janelle friends of this and adjoining
Winn and family, Saturday even- counties. Quite a number of pee
ing. pie were present from McCormick,
The children and grandchildren De la Howe, Willington, Calhoun
of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Mayson met Falls, Abbeville, Spartanburg, and
in their home Wednesday evening, other places. The supper con-
honoring Mr. Mayson on his 70th sisted of delicious barbecued pork
birthday. and two kinds of barbecued hash,
Mrs. J. E. Reynolds, of Clinton, pickle, bread, coffee and iced tea
and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith, Jr., all in abundance. The cordial
of Johnston, were week end guests welcome extended to all by . Mr.
of Mr. J. E. Reynolds and Mr. and and Mrs. Hester made it a very
Mrs. H. M. Reynolds. pleasant and enjoyable evening.
Mrs. I. C. Reames spent several This gathering was in the cabin
days last week in Greenwood as and the N. Y. A. park,
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Capt. and Mrs. James McCelvey
Langley. of Spartanburg spent Wednesday
Friends of Mr. J. T. Reames, night with Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Warren, Arkansas, will be sorry to Hester.
know that he has been ill for the Messrs. H. O. Watson, W. H.
past week. Hester, Harold Gilliam, John
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Callison and Rawls, Pat Hester and Mrs. Cecil
Mr. Harold Corley visited Mr. Gilliam attended the Clemson-
Callison’s sister, Mrs. C. C. Rodgers, Wake Forest football game at
who continues to be critically ill, Clemson last Saturday,
in the Callison section, Saturday Miss Matilda Bell attended the
evening. meeting of Mt. Carmel Home
Miss Trula Winn spent several Demonstration Club Tuesday after
days in North Augusta last week noon,
as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mrs. Mabel Brown attended the
Hughey, Sr., and family. Clemson-Wake Forest footbal
The Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Diggs game Saturday. Her son, Cade
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Drennan Brown, and friend, Cadet
H. L. Ashley, Tuesday, and Mr. St. Clair Knight, of Clemson Col
and Mrs. R. T. Mayson, Tuesday lege, accompanied her home for
night and Wednesday. the week end.
Guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, Messrs. Har-
Mrs. W. W. Mayson, Jr., Wednes- old Gilliam, John Rawls, Misses
day, were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Juanita and Sara Curtis spent
Holloway and brother, of McCor- Sunday in Social Circle with Mrs.
mick. Misses Elizabeth and Cecyle O. C. Hart and family.
Mayson returned home with them Quite a serious accident occurred
for a short visit. near Mt. Carmel Monday morning
Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun Jordan in which two colored W. P. A.
were guests of the latter’s parents, workers were seriously if not
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Flynn, Sunday, fatally injured by a cave in at a
. Mrs. Janelle Winn spent Wed- gravel pit in which the W. P. A
nesday with Miss Leonora What- workers were engaged in digging
ley. gravel. The injured men were
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Reynolds, Mr. carried to Anderson Co. Hospital,
and Mrs. H. M. Reynolds, and Mt. The many friends of Mr. and
and Mrs. J. A. Smith, Jr., were Mrs. L. L. Hester will be glad to
guests of Mr. and Mrs. . R. H. know the family escaped serious
Quarles, Jr., in the Bethany sec- injury in their recent automobile
tion, Sunday. accident. All were injured slight-
Miss Mary Mayson spent Sun- ly. Mrs. Hester suffered some
day with Miss Willie Mae Jordan, time from the shock, Carolyn and
in Kirksey. Pat were hurt on the face and Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Mayson, of Hester had some ribs broken. It
the Limestone section, visited in seemed almost a miracle that
the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. their lives were spared. Car was
Mayson, Thursday evening. demolished.
Visitors to Mr. and Mrs. I. C. txt
Reames, Saturday evening, were
Old Maids’ Conven
tion At Mt. Carmel
November 17th
Mt. Carmel, Nov. 13.—The Mt.
Carmel Grange sponsors an “Old
Maids’ Convention” at the Mt.
Carmel community house on Fri
day night, Nov. 17th, 7; 30 o’clock.
Be sure and come, your friends
will be there to greet the Old
Maids.
Admission, adults, 20 cents;
children, 10 cents.
and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mayson
Beth.
Master James Winn spent
Thursday night with his cousin,
Master Ralph Bailey, in Edgefield.
Mr. I. C. Reames and Mr. Mar
vin Reames, of Columbia, spent I DEPARTMENT OF
5,792 Bales Of Cotton
Ginned In McCormick
County To Nov. 1st
the week end with Mrs. I. C.
Reames and children.
Callers in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Winn, Monday evening,
were Misses Marie and Jaunita
Reames and Messrs. Wilbur and
Edward Reames.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Reames, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Seigler and chil
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Reames,
and Mr. Eugene Reames were
spend the day guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Johnson, in Aiken, Sun
day.
Misses Jaunita and Janie
Reames spent Friday night with
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. T. Mayson.
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Sandy Branch
Club Meets
COMMERCE,
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS.
WASHINGTON.
COTTON GINNING REPORT.
fluence v/ith Congress.
The Sandy Branch H. D. Club
met with Mrs. J. B. Walker at the
regular time with only one mem
ber absent. Several visitors were
present.
Miss Bell talked of plans for
yards, lawns, drives, flowering
plants and shrubbery.
A most entertaining social hour
followed when Mrs. W. R. McNeill
held a contest after which che
hostess served a delightful salad
course with an iced drink.
Reporter.
Census report shows that 5,792
bales of cotton were ginned in Mc
Cormick County, South Carolina,
from the crop of 1939 prior to
Nov. 1, 1939, as compared with
3,578 bales for the crop of 1938.
Very respectfully,'
James E. Bell,
Special Agent.
Date 11-13-39.
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The Messenger To
Print On Wednesday
Next Week
The Messenger expects to print
on Wednesday next week instead
of on Thursday, in order to ob
serve Thanksgiving Day which is
on the 23rd, and asks all who
have items or advs. for that issue
to get them to the office as early
as possible.
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With a 40 per cent increase in
Army and Navy personnel voted by
Congress, your Red Cross will be
called upon for greater service in
the year to come. Do your part.
Join today.
A. H. Ward To
Discuss 1940 Pro
gram Here Monday
Mr. A. H. Ward, District Farm
Agent, will discuss the 1940 1 Agri
cultural Conservation Program at
a meeting in the McCormick
County Court House at 10:00 a. m.
Monday, November 20th.
Mr. O. M. Clark, Extension
Economist, will be present to dis
cuss the present cotton situation
and what might be expected from
the war conditions.
Mr. C. G. Cushman, Extension
Dairyman, will also speak briefly
on the 1940 dairy outlook.
Every McCormick County farmer
is urged to attend this meeting
and become informed upon pres
ent agricultural conditions, out
look, and program plans before he
votes in the cotton marketing
quota referendum on December
9 th.
D. Austin Shelley,
County Agent.
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McCormick Post
Entertained By
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* Auxiliary Friday
The Thomas J. Lyon, Jr., Post
American Legion was entertained
by its auxiliary Friday evening at
the community house here. Fol
lowing an oyster supper with Post
Commander Paul Dowtin presid
ing, short talks were made by the
Rev. G. P. Lanier of Plum Branch,
James M. Cox of Troy, and Dis
trict Commander Tillman Pinson,
ef Greenwood. Dr. Garnet Tuten
spoke on “The Blessedness of Be
ing an American”, particularly
from a religious and an economic
standpoint.
The principal speaker, Vice Com
mander Malcolm Shirley, of Honea
Path, was introduced by Dr. C. K.
Epting, service officer and past
post commander. Mr. Shirley
stressed the principles for which
the American Legion stands—
Apiericanism, National Defense,
Child Welfare and Rehabilitation
and urged legionnaires to go out
after every man who was eligible
to join the organization. In
enumeration of the advantages
and benefits brought about by the
American Legion he said that men
eligible to receive such benefits
should stop “thumbing their way”
on their comrades who had made
them possible, and join the Legion
themselves.
Music for the program was
rendered by Mrs. J. K. White and
A. C. Horne.
Following the program sons and
daughters of the Legion , and other
young people were invited in to
dance.
Baptist Associational
Sunday School Meet
ing On December 10th
The Abbeville Baptist Associa
tional Sunday School meeting will
be held at the Gallic Self Memorial
Church in South Greenwood on
December 10th at 2:30 o’clock. All
McCormick Baptists in the associa
tion are urged to make prepara
tions to attend.
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