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7 % TBUI TO OUSSXLVVS. OUB NBIGHB OBB. OUB COUNTRY AND OUB GOD. Tlihrty-Niiith Year Established June 5,1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1940 Number 28 WAfHIIKION here in Washington and have been doing more real and constructive work since the President tried to chase them home than Congress usually does in any such space of time. The biggest thing, of course, that this Congress has done is the series of laws and appropriations for National Defense. No nation in peace time has ever authorized Washington, Dec. 9.—The refusal or spent so much money. That of Congress to adjourn until the j the next Congress will carry on new Congress comes in to take its, where this one quits, goes without place on January 3 is only one saying. sympton of the fact that the Pret- Outside of the defense laws and ident is not going to have as easy the acts relating to them, it may sailing as he has had in the past, j not be too much of an attempt at The majority of the new Congress humor to point out that Congress is made up of members of the has at last got around to defend- present Congress, and while they ing itself, against the collapse of have a Democratic majority, they have a strong “loyal opposition” facing them, and they are going to be very careful indeed not to its own roofs. For years the ar chitect of the Capitol and expert engineers have been pointing out that unless something is done a- take an attitude which might be 1 bout it the whole roof of both the disastrous to many of them in another two years. For while the public at large is accustomed to thinking of nation al politics in four-year terms, every member of either party in the House of Representatives is painfully conscious all the time that his term is only two years and that if he doesn’t begin lay ing the ground work as soon as he gets in, he is likely to go out soon er than he expected to. Adjournment Urged The President has been egging Congress on to go home ever since last June. Congress, as soon as the national alarm began over the whole defense situation, took a stronger stand against the Presi dent than any Congress of any party has taken in recent years. Republicans and Democrats alike joined in retorting to the Presi dent’s statement that he did not think it was safe for him to go more than twelve days’ journey from Washington, that in that case it wasn't safe for Congress either. So, much as they disliked sticking on the job, these gentle men who sure accustomed to long vacations, have been staying right Senate wing and the House wing will collapse some day, perhaps after a heavy snow, and kill a few hundred members of Congress. So this Congress finally got around to it and is finishing out its days in other places than those where it customarily meets. Original Rocjm The Senate is meeting in the room which was originally built for it but which was used for seventy-five years or more by the Supreme Court. The House has abandoned the old wing at the Christmas Program At Methodist Church Sunday Evening The public is cordially invited to attend the Sunday evening worship service at the McCormick Methodist Church at 7:30 o’clock, on December 15th. The Epworth League will have charge of the entire program and will be happy to have a large con gregation at this meeting. A Christmas program has been plan ned for this occasion. The leaguers have been given the privilege of conducting the worship service each third Sunday evening in the month. The public will always find welcome there. a Newberry College Singers To Give Program Sunday Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Edmunds to Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary Of Their Marriage Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Edmunds of Parksville will celebrate the fif tieth anniversary of their mar riage on Sunday, December 22, 1940. Invitations have been issued, and they ask that friends who do not receive one, consider them selves invited just the same. The invitations sent out were as fol lows: 1890 1940 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newton Ed munds s request the pleasure of your presence at the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of their marriage Sunday Afternoon, December Twenty-second Nineteen Hundred and Forty 2 to 5 • v Parksville, South Carolina Robert Newton Edmunds, / Cornelia Strom Edmunds. Newberry, Dec. 9.—The Newberry College Singers will give a program of Christmas music in Holland Hall at four o’clock on Sunday afternoon, December 15. Music from many different lands will be I J rma J 0 £ n Connor presented. 1 There will be no admission charge and no offering will be taken. President James C. Kinard north side of the Capitol building extend an invitation to the pub- and is holding its sessions tempo rarily in the caucus room of the new House Office building. Archi tects and builders are replacing the stained glass roofs on cast- iron frames which have stood to their job for three quarters of a century. And sometime in April or maybe later, the new 77th Con gress, which comes into existence on January 3, will find itself in quarters befitting its importance Outside of protecting the nation and protecting its own members, one of the last acts of the old Congress was to pass a law in tended to protect the public a- To Appear On Major Bowe’s Program Mrs. J. F. Bracknell Claimed By Death 1 I Mrs. Joe F. Bracknell, age 59, died at her home near McCormick Saturday morning at 8:20 after an illness of seven weeks. Funeral services were conducted at the graveside in the McCormick City Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock with Dr. S. W. Reid, pastor of the Pressley Memorial A. R. P. Church, in charge. Mrs. Bracknell was before mar riage Miss Sue Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Price of Mc Cormick. Her husband died eleven years ago. Surviving are four sons: Edward W., Qtis Henry, Otto J., and R. Marshall Bracknell, all of McCor mick; one daughter, Mrs. C. T. Major of Charlotte, N. C.; one sister, Mrs. Cora Powell of Phil adelphia; and two grandchildren. She was a member of the McCor mick Baptist Church. Pallbearers were Claude Dilla- shaw, E. N. Creswell, J. P. Young, Sam Weeks, Amos Mercer and J. F. Mattison. J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. X2T McCormick Public Schools Honor Roll For November nm McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY December 13th and 14th, 7 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. v ERROL FLYNN_BRENDA MARSHALL in “SEA HAWK” Also Selected Short Subjects MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30 P. M. Adults 20 cents MONDAY and TUESDAY December 16th and 17th, 7 P. M. and 8:50 P. M. JOAN BLONDELL—DICK POWELL m “I WANT A DIVORCE Also A Popeye Cartoon f “My Pop, My Pop” and LATEST NEWS EVENTS 99 lie to join this Well-known group of musicians in this festival ser vice. Irma Joan Connor, young gainst improper jurisdiction of I Hqi,or bter of Mr. and Mrs. Kluqrh purely statutory bodies. This is I Connor, of Union, will leave for the so-called Logan-Walter Act, New York City on December 15th, Which provides for Court review and will be accompanied by her of 4Uiy decision or action, with I mother, Mrs^ Connor, her sponsor few exceptions, made by any one and two other contestants. She of the more than one hundred ha s been assured of a special au- Govemment bureaus which have I dition in preparation for the fol- been set up under the New Deal lowing Thursday evening program, and given quasi-judicial powers, on December 19th, beginning at This is one of the laws that Presi- nine o’clock. On this program she dent Roosevelt did not want Con- will sing a popular song and do a gress to enact. The danger that tap dance, it would be passed is generally Another exciting part of the credited to Mr. Roosevelt’s efforts I trip will be sight-seeing in Wash- to get Congress to hurry home. I higton, D. C., and New York, a But it finally was passed and now courtesy extended the contestants awaits a Presidential veto or ap- I by the sponsor, proval. r-k i rk i I GRAMMAR SCHOOL— December 19th I first grade— Bettye Ann Campbell, Mary Ann Cosey, Beth Davis, Margaret Dansby, Joan Holliday, Catherine Mercer, Connie McAbee, Bettye Ann McNeil, Billy Bruce, James Franklin, Tommie McAbee, Charles Sanders, Jimmy Schumpert, Jimmy Smith, David Wardlaw. SECOND GRADE— Ken Dowtin, Billy Parker, Pat Parks, Elizabeth Henderson, Sondley Robinson, Joe Brown, Joe Thomas Seigler, Charles Simpson, Douglass Britt, Phyllis Chamberlain, Mary Grace Dansby, Patricia Price, Betty Frances Edwards. THIRD GRADE— Leonard Dorn, Frances Anne Dansby, Betty Jane Deason, Janet Caudle, Anne Sanders, Bobbie Sanders, Johny Schumpert, Lillie Ellen Wise. FOURTH GRADE— Billy Creighton. Registrants Should Notify Boards of Change In Address Civil Service Extension Another important ^>111 enacted in the last days of the session and signed by the President is the Ramspeck Bill which puts into the so-called merit system of the Civil Service about two hundred thousand men and women who I Columbia, Dec. 9.—Registrants j have been employed in various who have moved and have failed unclassified departments of the to give their correct new address Federal Government. They have to the local board under whose to pass a stiff examination to get supervision they originally resided a permanent appointment. But, were blamed today for cases in of course, those with experience which local boards have been on the jobs stand far the best forced to call on law enforcement chance, and once appointed they agencies to locate them, are fixed for life, with a pension General Holmes B. Springs, at whatever may be the pension Utate director of Selective Service. J FIFTH GRADE age when they get to it. At pres- said that several reports of “lost” j Theresa Earnhardt, ent Federal Civil Service employ- registrants had come to him from Virginia Smith, ees are retired at seventy. various parts of the state but Bobby Lowe Huguley Before the President started on that investigation revealed that SIXTH GRADE his “inspection” or “fishing” trip, it was lack of knowledge on the Gary Brown, whichever you want to call it, he part of the individual registrant L 0 * 8 Edwards, sent a warning telegram to Martin which had caused the confusion SEVENTH GRADE Dies, the Texas Democrat and in every case. Billie Freeland, Chairman of the House Committee “This state has been particularly Pauline Henderson, which has been investigating un- fortunate in not having any actual Margie Osborne, American activities. Mr. Dies and cases of ‘dodging’ so far as I Bruce Jaynes, his committee have put out a know,” General Springs said. “The HIGH SCHOOL great deal of publicity about the one thing that has caused a ma- EIGHTH GRADE activities of representatives of lority of the little trouble we have Helen Fooshe, breign agents In America. While experienced is that the registrants Bertha Mae Harris, the President did not say to Mr. do not realize the importance of Frances New. Dies that he had been talking informing their local boards NINTH GRADE through his hat, he did say that when they change their address Carolyn Hitt, “carefully laid plans for the ob- or their status afte^ questionnaires TENTH GRADE— ♦aining of further information have been completed and return-1 Betty Osborne, may be severely handicapped by ed to the local boards, premature disclosures of facts or “I know that it must be very ELEVENTH GRADE— of suppositions to the public, or by embarrassing to a man to have a I Anne B. Seigler, hasty seizure of evidence, or by local board call on the federal of- „ r* of Mrs. J. W. Boyd Saturday af ternoon. Messrs. Will and Warren Cowan of the Bellvue section were visitors here Saturday. Miss Julia Cade was a visitor in Anderson last Tuesday. Mrs. D. J. McAllister compli mented Mr. McAllister on Decem ber 1st when she entertained with a dinner on his birthday anni versary. Quite a large crowd of relatives from Augusta, Abbeville, Columbia, Spartanburg, Green ville, Laurens, Calhoun Falls and other places enjoyed a very pleas ant day and the delicious, bounti ful dinner served by Mrs. McAl lister, assisted by other ladies. Between 40 and 45 people were present to wish him a happy birthday. Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd and son, Julius, of Greenville were visitors of Mrs. J. W. Boyd Sab bath afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fergurson and family of Greenville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Wat son Sunday. Mrs. Gladys Bowyer of Anderson and Mr. W. L. Miller of Greenwood were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott Sunday. Miss Mary Hardaway was a visi tor in Greenwood Sunday. Miss Sara Curtis of the Warm Springs Foundation came home Friday afternoon to spend until Monday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Curtis. Other guests for Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dunaway and Anne, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Dunaway of Tig- nall, Mrs. Ben DuBose and Jack DuBose of Lisbon, Ga. Miss Cur tis returned to Warm Springs Monday afternoon. Mrs. Mabel Brown spent a pleasant week end in Atlanta with friends. Mrs. Ida M. Black spent a very pleasant week end with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Edmunds in Laurens. txt ‘ Modoc News X giving of immunities to wit nesses.” That is a long sentence, even or the President. It is taken in Washington to mean that the Dies Committee has turned up a ficers when he cannot be located, but that is the enforcement a- gency for the Selective Service system and the local boards have no other recourse. “If the registrant will take care ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents; Children 12 to 15, 15 cents lot of damaging facts about Nazi, to notify his local board of any Fascist, Soviet and Japanese change in address or of any foreign agents at work in this change in his personal Henrietta Gilbert, Norma Holloway, Nettie Louise Morgan, Virginia Fooshe, 1 xi Mt. Carmel News Well, the farmers are finishing up their wheat now as we had spring weather the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Shumate from Greenwood made a short visit here to friends on Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Donald Hancock from Jef ferson, Ga., spent the past week here with her mother, Mrs. G. E. Dukes. Miss Lucy Bussey is spending several weeks among friends in Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Clem from Fort Benning, Ga., are spending 30 days here with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johnson from Iva were week end visitors here to the latter’s mother, Mrs. Mattie Key. / Mr. and Mrs. Barrett Edmunds from Augusta spent the week end here with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Clem were the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Seigler at Parksville. Mr. James Bussey, accompanied by Misses Permelia and Etoyle Clem, were shopping visitors to Augusta Saturday. Mr. J. M. Stone from Clinton is spending some time with relatives here and in Augusta. Mr. B. M. Bussey from Columbia spent the week end here with homefolks. Mrs. C. H. Stone was the guest Sunday evening to Mrs. E. F. Bus sey. Mr. T. J. Clem, who has been on the Santee-Cooper project for several weeks, was a week end visitor here to homefolks. Mr. T. J. Stone and Buddie Brown made a short visit to Au gusta Saturday. Mr. Richard Key from Columbia was a week end visitor here to his mother, Mrs. Mattie Key. Mrs. Virginia Middleton from Meriwether made a short Visit here Sunday to Miss Lucy Bussey. Misses Juanita and Sara Curtis Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Bussey are status and Mrs. Hunter McKinney were rejoicing over a fine baby boy country but hasn’t got its stuff in after he has completed his ques- Augusta visitors Saturday. that was born in their home Dec. shape where it would be wise to tionnaire, there will be no em- Mr. and Mrs. Dode Phillips and 9th. His name will be Henry [Jp make it public. barrassment or trouble.” David of Due West were visitors ^ Milton. _ ^