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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 16, 1940 VcCORMICK MESSENGER ^ Published Every Thursday r Established June 5, IMS * JK EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc- , Cermlck, S. C., as matt matter ef • She second class. > EUBSCRIPTION RATES: r One Year $1.00 Sts Months .75 ' Three Months AO SEWIN£ PROJECT Sewing Room Is Project Of Professional And Service Division Of WPA THE CASE OF THE INDIAN One of the most worthwhile projects of the Professional and Service Division of the WPA is the Sewing Room. The Sewing Room has a two-fold purpose—to give employment to needy women and to provide garments for needy families and tax supported insti tutions. The project in McCormick em ploys an average of 18 women, who have produced approximately 31,500 garments, including articles The people of the United States of clothing for men, women, and have not very much to be proud children, layettes for babies, and of in our national record of the household linens. Clothing and treatment of the Indians by the household articles are made for '"'bite men. The early colonists of De la Howe State School. New England and Pennsylvania! Recently line sewing has been took pains to pay the Indians for inaugurated, and the women are the land which they occupied. But being taught factory methods, most of the early European set- Production has almost doubled tiers just walked in and took pos- since this type sewing is being session by force of arms. | done. All cutting is done in a The great mistake the Colonists central cutting room in Johnston, made was to try to force the In- I a month’s supply of cut garments dians to adopt white men’s clothes, is delivered to the local sewing their customs and their religion, room by truck at regular intervals. Indians resented that more than One fourth of material used in they did having the whites occupy the sewing room is furnished by their lands. Most of the Indians, De la Howe State School and the felt no proprietary interest in 1 sponsors. The sponsors also pro- land, anyway. | vide space, water, lights, and find- In recent years there has been a ings. The federal government great change in the attitude of furnishes all labor, supervision, the American people and our Gov- 1 and three fourths of materials. eminent toward the Indian. The latest report of the Bureau of In dian Affairs indicates that the number of Indians has been in creasing steadily for years. There probably never were as many as a million Indians in what is now the United States. There are close to 700,000 Indians now. The Gov ernment is encouraging and help ing them to live according to their old tribal customs—in other words, to be good Indians and not imi tation white men. What has brought about the change in the white men’s atti tude toward the Indian has been the discovery that there is no es sential enmity between the two races. There is room for both, and the old hatreds have disap peared because neither is inter fering with the other’s way of liv ing. The urge to regulate other peo ple’s lives has probably been the cause of more wars and human misery than any other one thing, in all history. It is that sort of in tolerance which lies at the root of the great conflict now going on in Europe. We have set an example of tolerance in our modem atti tude toward the Indians. That is an example which Americans You are not only invited but urged to see for yourself that “This Work Pays Our Community” during the week of May 20-25. The sewing room is located over the Bank Building in McCormick. X HERE AND THERE ON Mc CORMICK COUNTY FARMS (By D. Austin Shelley, County Agent) Good forestry practices in wood- lot management on the farm of D. W. Dowtin in the Dowtin Com munity. ' An excellent demonstration of terrace construction, terrace main tenance, r^d water control on the De la Howe School farm. A well-planned system of per manent pasture development and improvement on the farm of W. L. White of the Bethany Community. A specialized poultry enterprise on Mr. L. C. Talbert’s farm, Dow tin Community. Cotton and Vetch, an excellent combination, on the farm of C. E. might well apply toward others with whom they do not agree in wllKie 01 rium everything. x_ McCormick County Library Project Lime, legumes and livestock on too few McCormick County farms. More than 5,000 acres of les- pe/deza on McCormick County farms. xx Invitation Extended To All To Rin ene sS Important Visit UdUs During Week * Of May 20-25, The WPA Library Project in Mc Cormick County has eight units cm which there are ten people em ployed. These units are located at Mt. Carmel, De la Howe, Robinson Building and High School at Mc Cormick, Plum Branch School, Washington Consolidated School and Parksville. The people in about half of the county are being touched by this service. The bookstock for the county is over seven thousand and there are 1683 borrowers. An av erage of more than two thousand books and magazines are circu lated each month. The Mending Unit, located in the Robinson Building, has three workers who are kept busy repair ing books, pamphlets and maga zines. An average of about three hundred books and magazines are mended each month. Special training is also given each month to the workers in the schools and reading rooms. Sponsors of the library Project are undertaking to assure the ac ceptance of the various local units as permanent, locally supported, library service. Unemployed peo ple are becoming skilled in the art of book binding, as such service is being rendered to tax supported institutions. You are not only invited but urged to visit all or as many of the units as possible, during the week of May 20th to 25th, which has been preclaimed throughout the United States as “This Work Pays Our Community” Week. In “Combining” Grain Farmers who are planning to use combines for harvesting their small grain crops may profit by a word of caution again this year, says County Agent D. Austin Shel ley, pointing out the importance of letting the grain ripen thoroughly before starting the combine. During the past few years there I have been some criticisms of the i combine method on account of ! the grain spoiling after harvest. 'This difficulty, however, was prob- j ably due in most cases to harvest- • ing of the grain before it was j dead ripe, the county agent ex- ! plains. In harvesting most cereal grain the combine should not be started ! ’’ntil 10 days to two weeks after , it is customary to begin harvest- ing with a binder. If the thresh- | ed grain feels damp or is easily dented with the fingernail, the ! moisture content is too high for ! safe storage. If there is any doubt as to the safe-keening qualities of the grain after being harvested with a com bine, it should be spread out on the floor of some shed or other building and stirred frequently for several days. , Another method that has been 1 recommended is to sack the grain in sacks that are not more than two-thirds full and stack the sacks in rows so that air can circulate freely on at least two sides. It is also advisable to move the sacks once or twice a day to insure bet ter ventilation. McCormick Public Schools Honor / Roll For April FIRST GRADE— Cecil Alverson, Bettye Frances Edwards, Doris West, Marv Grace Dansby, Phyllis Chamberlain, Patricia Price, Bobby Holloway, Douglass Britt, Charles Simpson, Billy Parker, Pat Parks, Joe Thomas Seigler, Ken Dowtin, Joe Brown, Joseph Duncan. SECOND GRADE— Anne Carol Abercrombie, Frances Ann Dansby, Betty Jane Deason, Janelle Henderson, Anne Sanders, Lillie Ellen Wise, Melvin Derrick, Grover Davis, Leonard Dorn, Bobby Sanders, Johnny Schumpert, Sammy Lee Young. THIRD GRADE— Billy Creighton, Grady Young, Georgia Rose McCracken, Johnel Caudle. FOURTH GRADE— Sara Ruth Brown, Virginia Seigler, Virginia Smith. FIFTH GRADE— Lois Edwards, Gary Brown. SIXTH GRADE— Billie Freeland. SEVENTH GRADE— Annie Sue Banks, Gynell Dunlap, Helen Fooshe, Frances New. EIGHTH GRADE— Lillie Belle Bowick, Rhett Coleman. NINTH GRADE— Helen Willis, Mary Fooshe, John Wise. TENTH GRADE— Anne Bussey Seigler, Alice Lanier, Nettie Louise Morgan, Norma Holloway, Virginia Fooshe. ELEVENTH GRADE— Lois Freeland, Betty Fuller, Natalie Brown. -xx- WARNS AGAINST NYA RACKET Operated On State-Wide Scale With Penniless People As Victims A new racket being operated on a statewide scale, with the appar ent intent of pinching small a- mounts of money from penniless families in exchange for false promises of employment by the National Youth Administration, was disclosed today by State Youth Administrator Roger L. Coe. In one instance, Doctor Coe said, a man purporting to be a salesman for a fictional publishing company in Columbia sold a Sumter county girl a dictionary, a magazine sub scription and one other book, on the strength of the promise that purchase of the outlay would en title her to an NYA school scholar ship paying six dollars a month. In another, he said, a man sold the mother of an Aiken county girl instead of the girl herself, operating the same trick as the one in Sumter county. In both cases. Doctor Coe said, the “salesman” obtained a dollar down, instructed the dupes of his racket to write the state NYA of fice in Columbia, and then van ished. The man, the magazines and the books never showed up again, he said, and naturally, no NYA scholarship either. Doctor Coe issued a warning to day to school youths, and parents of such youths, in this state to pay no attention whatever to of fers of this sort. He said that NYA school jobs could be obtained only through application to the authorities of the respective schools. The school officials, he emphasized, are the only persons permitted to select youths for NYA work. No NYA representative, he add ed is authorized to sell anything to anyone, and every person sent out on NYA official business car ries a card identifying him or her as a representative of the National Youth Administration. Closing Exercises Held At Washington' Consolidated School Commencement exercises for the Washington High School near Parksville were held during the week end before last. On Sunday morning. May 3rd, the Rev. A. D. Croft of Edgefield preached the sermon to a large gathering of patrons and friends of the school. On Monday evening, May 6th, Misses Mary Remsen, Margaret McKinney and Mildred Hipp, members of the grammar school faculty, directed a “Tom Thumb Wedding” with children from all the grades taking part. Graduating exercises were held on Tuesday evening, May 7th, with Misses Hazel Dukes, Vivian Bailey Frances Robertson, Willie Reid Fowler, Hortense Cartledge; Wal ter Culbreath and John Talbert receiving State High School diplo mas. They were delivered by Supt E. A. Williams. The salutatory address was made by Miss Hortense Cartledge, with Miss Hazel Dukes giving the class poem, Miss Frances Robertson, the History, Walter Culbreath, the Will, John Talbert, the Class Ora tion, Miss Vivian Bailey, the Prophesy. Miss Willie Reid Fowler was valedictorian and was pre sented the J. Arch Talbert Scholarship Medal. A portrait of the late Mrs. W. M. Rowland, who served as president of the Washington School P. T. A. and was an outstanding leader in the movement for the establish ment of this fine school some fourteen years ago, was presented to the school by Mrs. J. J. Minarik. With a beautiful tribute to the life work of Mrs. Rowland and the service rendered the school by the P. T. A. Supt. E. A. Williams ac cepted it. x Catholic Information A PRIVATE WIRE TO GOD “I must say,” stated Bill, “that I do not like this Catholic idea of confessing one’s sins to a mere man—perhaps a bad man for all you know r .” “I must say,” I replied “that I don’t like even the thought of a priest, who has consecrated his life to God and His works, being a bad man. Of the scores of priests I have known each has been to me a marvel of goodness, kindli ness and sanctity. “But,” I went on, “for the sake of argument, we’ll mentally create the worst man you can think of, and make him a priest. Then we come to the thought that is bothering you: ‘How can so bad a man do so godly an act as for giving sins?’ My answer is this similitude: “A young man quarrels with his fiancee and breaks * the engage ment. Later he realizes his fault and his loss. In great distress he telephones the young lady, con fesses his guilt, and asks for her forgiveness and the sweetest of all voices forgiving him and agree ing to take him back to her heart again. “Now, what would that happy young man think if some skeptic were to tell him that it was im possible for so sweet and scared a message to come via a mere piece of copper wire, perhaps some where along the line, filthy with soot and dirt? “Although the Catholic priest has, the Christ-given power to forgive sins, he is also like our private ware to God. We need not consider whether he, as a man, is sinful or unworthy. If we think of him at all, it is as an instru ment through which comes to us, who are truly penitent, God’s own merciful forgiveness just as sure ly as comes the human voice over the telephone wire. “Thus from the time when Christ empowered His first priest to forgive sins by the words, ‘whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are re tained’, up to this day and hour, The Catholic has in the priesthood his private wire to God for the confessing of his sins and for the receiving of divine forgiveness and favor.” Information on anything Catho lic will be mailed you gratis, if you write to: Catholic Club, Father Spiesman, Director, P. O. Box 407, Anderson, S. C. X- Treasure Island on San Fran cisco Bay boasts one of the short est railroads in the world which also has the distinction of having probably the only square round house in the world. LET’S GET ACQUAINTED! 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J. S. STROM PHONE NO. 76 McCORMICK, S. C. I Triple A Notes For the country as a whole, cash farm, income in 1938 was 73 per cent higher than in 1932. Erosion and leaching are re sponsible for 40 per cent of the annual loss of organic or humus matter in the country’s harvested acres, while crops remove only 26 per cent. In the 10 principal cotton-pro ducing states, the 1935 census showed that on a total of 2,714,000 farms, there were 758,000 without dairy cows, 973,000 without hogs, and 340 000 without chickens. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership consisting of W. M. Strom and C. R. Strom, known as the Strom Drug Company, lo cated in the Town of McCormick, S. C., has been dissolved; that C.. R. Strom is no longer connected with said business and that W. M. Strom is now the sole owner of said Strom Drug Company. C. R. STROM. W. M. STROM. Dated at McCormick, S. C., April 10, 1940.—13t. r-