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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, March 13, 1941 f > f Five Colored Men To Enter Training Wednesday Announcement is made today toy Dan A. Bell, president of the local Selective Service Board, that live colored men, all volunteers, vrin report at Fort Jackson Wed nesday, March 19th, for a year’s army training. They are: Jasper (Bud) Calla han, Dewey (Gill) Brown, George Rollison, Barrel Leverett and Floyd Self. Five colored men named as al ternates are: Ernest Thurmond, Freddie Bowie, Willie (Buddy) Patterson, Milton Drayton and .John Henry McKnight. - •- ■■»... i ■ 3L' » Fertilizer Meeting SATURDAY, MARCH 15TH, 10:30 A. M., McCORMICK COURT HOUSE. DEAR PRODUCER: AH McCormick County farmers are invited and urged to attend a fertilizer meeting Saturday, March 15th, at 10:30 A. M., at the McCor mick Court House. Mr. H. A. Woodle, Extension Agronomist tram Clemson, will be there to 4H»cqs8 your fertilizer problems. Very truly yours, M. A. Bouknight, County Agent. X Shows Standardiza tion And Inspection Fruits And Vege tables Needed parlsons may be made, j “Standardization and inspec tion have come about through the desire and need of producers, deal ers, and consumers for a uniform ‘yardstick’ with which can be measured variations in quality” continues Mr. Prince. “The pro ducer wants the price to which the quality and condition of his prod uct and the condition of the mar ket entitle him. The dealer or dis tributor needs a gauge to assis him in buying and selling, partic ularly if at long distance, and assurance that he and the grow er have shipped the product .stip ulated in the contract. The con sumer wants assurance that he i obtaining the quality he pays for. 1 Most South Carolina farm prod ucts now move to distant markets and meet national competitin. Mr Prince points out the consequent need of uniformity for inter-state commerce as based on federa standards and the federal-state inspection service, which insures recognition of federal grades in any of the markets. County agricultural agents wil be glad to advise with those grow ers and shippers who are not fa miliar with the aid which the Ex tension Service can render grow ers and ditstributors along these lines. txi Columbia, March 8.—The stand ardization and inspection of fruits nnd vegetables seems to be more necessary now than ever, states George E. Prince, chief of Clem- ron Extension Marketing Service, if our growers are to keep step with the rapidly changing condi tions. Not only are new areas go ing into production of these crops, which means increased competi tion, but regulations require that most of the perishables used in Army and Navy Camps be pur chased under contract, and this, of course, means “On U. S. Stand ard Grades” in order that com- S. C. E. A. Meet In Columbia March 19-21 Columbia, March 10.—Miss Har riet Elliott, only woman member of the national defense advisory commission, will speak on the program of the South Carolina Education association’s annual convention, scheduled for Colum bia, March 19-21. Miss Elliott will speak at a ban quet of the vocational department of the state association Wednes day night, March 19, at 6 o’clock at the Jefferson hotel. Other out-of-state speakers slated to appear before various departments or general meetings of the convention include: John Temple Graves, Birming ham, Ala., newspaper columnist; Miss Mary Wall Christian of Wil liam and Mary College; Miss Martha W. Smith of the Mont gomery, Ala., public schools. Also, Harold Smith of New York Refrigerators Buy a Westinghouse Refrigerator from us for $5.00 down and balance on small monthly payments. J. S. STROM PHONE NO. 76 McCORMICK, S. C. Uncle Natchel says: m Bays ve natchel KiND, 'CAUSE natchel things is Bightyou are JJ ncleNatchel [—Chilean Nitrate of Soda is ‘“natchel” and it’s a wise plan to rely on natural things. Natural Chilean Nitrate ia good for every crop you grow. Ita quick-acting ni trate. plus the many vita min elements” which it con tains, help to insure better quality and larger yield. * Use it in mixed fertiliser before planting, and as top dressing or side-dressing. And use it regularly-that is the way to get full benefit of its fertilizing and soil- improving qualities. city, author; Harmon Wilson of Cincinnati, O., editor of the Bal ance Sheet; Miss Frances K. Mar tin of Central State Teachers college, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Also, Walter E. Myer, editor of Civic Education Service of Wash ington, D. C.; Dr. Robert D. Eng land, educator, of New York city; Dr. Harold Fawcett of Ohio State University; Dr. Lynn B. Sherrill of Louisiana State university. Also, Dr. fclarence Pue of Raleigh, N. CJ., editor of The Pro gressive Fanner; H. L. Stanton and E. G. Ludtke, both of the federal office of education at Washington. A host of speakers drawn from colleges, universities, schools and business in South Carolina are scheduled for the convention. XXX TODAY «nd Don Robinson RELIGION solution Perhaps one trouble with vhe world today is that God never makes the front page. If Mussolini preaches a sermon of hate, or if Hitler raves about the virtues of destruction, they get the headlines every time—but if a religious leader makes a strong appeal to WOMEN in the NEWS * * * By Hope Chamberlin Synthetic Shiners ' mfim ' umm , KELVINATOR New and used electric refrigerators. See our line of 1941 Kelvinators. Ask us about the easy payment plan before you buy. For modem refrig eration buy Kelvinator. McCORMICK SERVICE STATION J. L. CAUDLE, (Owner) Phone 64' McCORMICK, S. C. mm, No, the young lady did not ran Into a door. The “Mack eyes’’ she %is are made with greaae paint to protect Miss Pat Whitney’s eyes frr.nt sun and snow glare while t.k ***. Miss Whitney Is queen of the -mH (Alberta, Canada) Winter Darnivsl. natures, his talk is relegated to an inconspicuous corner of the paper. I’ve found that my own spiri tual qualities have been bobbing up to the surface more and more since the war got going full tilt. I believe that most of us are apt to turn to spiritual considera tions when problems become too complex for our minds to cope with. We then yearn for a sim pler, more basic solution that comes from without instead of within ourselves. PESSIMISM fire Maybe I’m being over dramatic about the extent of destruction that may result from this war. But at present there is no end in sight. As I see it, Germany and England will go on battling until one or the other is completely knocked out . . . Japan and China will continue fighting for years . . Japan and this country may come to blows . . . America will be aligned against Germany there will be revolutions and mass killings in the little countries of Europe . . . Africa will continue to be a theater of war . . . Russia will wait until the major nations' are weakened and then attack. What will stop it? Most of us are inclined to speak definitely on what we think will happen next. But very few of us, except in a vague spare-time sort of way, are willing to try seeking spiritual guidance on these world-shaking problems. Or perhaps we don’t enow how to go about seeking spiritual guidance. DICTATORS school In Sag Harbor, Long Island, a Dictator Day” was observed in the high school in order to bring lome to students the difference jetween living under our Bill of Rights and living under a Hitler- ike set-up. The Fuehrer was the school principal, who professed a personal dislike for curley hair. Therefore, anyone with curley lair was punished automatically, whether she committed any crime or not. Storm troopers jailed girls for using cosmetics, boys were thrown into concentration camps for not wearing neckties. Most boys and girls in America take their freedom for granted. It seems worthwhile, as a means of increasing their allegiance to the American ws-.y of life, to give them a taste of what life would be like without that freedom. FROM NEAR AND FAR SEVEN GIRLS go to school with 7,000 men in the school of technol- our spiritual ogy at the College of the City of V/HAT? NO ^*5 LETTERHEADS l .. •• < : ' : '• V- X CHUEAN f/f/WfiRAD/o: enjoy WHEN THIS HAPPENS, PHONE US and We’ll Print Sonn- For You lu A Hurry!! New York. . . . Mrs. W. Pugh of Houston, Tex., has worn out three school busses in the 17. years she’s been a driver—and never scratch ed a fender. . . . Marie Angelina, a 12-year-old Brooklyn youngster, makes her pin money by running a backyard dancing class at 10 cents a lesson. ... 50 per cent of the nation’s women do not know their husband’s earnings. . . . Women secretaries are preferred by bosses, according to a Denver, Colo., survey. . . . Martha Wash ington, Queen Isabella, James Whistler’s mother and Pocahontas are the only women ever to have graced a postage stamp. GULF MICE STATION I am prepared to render prompt and efficient service to the motoring public with that Good Gulf Gasoline, Oils, Tires, Tubes and Accessories. Cars washed, greased, polished and waxed 6n short notice. Radiators flushed and motors cleaned by im proved method. Give me a trial and be convinced that I have the service you desire. WALTER T. STROM On the West corner of Main Street and Route 43 Phone 40J McCormick, S. C. SHIP AHOP! TWENTY - YEAR - OLD GRACE BELL, England’s only professional woman tatooist, is working over time designing arrow-pierced hearts, anchors and pretty girls on the chests and arms of England’s sailors. And, in spite of numer ous proposals, she’s going to marry . . . . that’s right, a sailor. EQUALITY THE EXCESS OF MALES OVER FEMALES in the United States, according to the Census Bureau, Is becoming reduced at the rate of 100,000 a year. If this continues, in only five years the number of men and women will be equal! WEDDING BELLS MISS JOAN BENNER, who runs a marriage bureau in New York City, says that before conscription 75 per cent of her clients were women. Now 50 per cent are men! TEN MOST THE “TEN MOST IMITATED WOMEN in America,” according to a recent survey conducted by a cosmetics concern, are Brenda Frazier, Claudette Colbert, Linda Darnell, Carol Bruce and Deanna Durbin, all brunettes, and blondes Betty Grable, Sonja Henie, Mrs. Rhinelander Stewart, Clara Booth and Priscilla Lane. BOILER TESTER PRETTY MARY LEE WILKER- SON, 22, of Middletown, O., is the first co-ed to receive a mechanical engineering degree at Ohio State university in more than 40 years. xx— Kudzu Makes Com Grow And Double The Yield Chester, March 8.—A yield of more than twice as much corn, despite an exceptionally dry sum mer, on some land that had been in kudzu as on surrounding land that had been producing corn con tinuously was the gratifying expe rience of R. B. Caldwell, Chester county farmer who is a cooperator with the Catawba soil conserva tion district. GO GREYHOUND! M/ft ere? Almost ooywhor® In A*n® r,ca * Tffhen? JTiVhf? One Way Rd.-Trip Jacksonville, Fla. S415 S7 sn Charlotte, N C—iriaiS $ H°0 Greenville. S. C. 1.15 2.10 Augusta, Ga. .65 1.20 Strom’s Cut-Rate Drug Store Phone 95, McCormick, S. C. from the land that had been in and kudzu. This was more than doub le the yield made on the surround ing land that has been planted to corn year after year. “I’ve been hearing a lot about the large yields of corn that a number of South Carolina farmers made last fall after kudzu”, Mr. Caldwell says. “Just the other day 1808 already some of the old! settlers had noted that soil was washing away much more rapily than in former times. Later efforts to introduce soil conserva tion practices on a wide scale were largely unavailing as the large landowners represented oply a fraction of the total population and the changes they recom- I heard of a Greenwood county Amended were not economically farmer who made more than seven practicable for the unorganized times as much corn on some land small farmers, that had been in kudzu for sev- j Today, the situation is reversed, eral years as he made on adjoining says the publication, as farmers land that had been producing corn continuously. “Mine didn’t do that well”, he have taken the initiative to con trol erosion on a wide scale by organizing and working together adds, “but my yields prove to me in soil conservation districts. Un- that if we will plant kudzu on der a state districts law, farmers unproductive land in long-time ro- of the South Carolina Piedmont tations with row crops, and give have organized eight districts, em it the proper treatment, it will e- , bracing a total area of about 7 1-2 million acres. In addition, there are four districts with a total area of about five milion acres, located outside of the Piedmont section of the state. “Without question, the struggle j to save the land”, says the publi- Clemson, March 8.—The struggle ( cation, , “will require a continuous of farmers in the Piedmont section effort on the part of farmers, but of South Carolina to control ero- since many are cooperating sion during the period of 1800 to (through soil conservation dis- ventually increase yields.” j xi The Story Of Erosion In Carolina Piedmont I860 and activities of the Pendle ton Farmers’ Society, organized in 1815, and other early South Caro- tricts) toward a single goal, the prospects for attaining a perma nent agriculture embodying the ina agricultural societies are de- 1 elements of soil conservation are scribed in Miscellaneous Publica tion No. 407 entitled “The Story of Soil Conservation in the South Carolina Piedmont 1800 to 1860”, says A. B. Bryan, agricultural ed itor. Arthur R. Hall, of the Climn'ic and Physiographic Division, U. S. Soil Conservation Service, Wn ’i- ington, D. C., author of the pv i i- Mr. Caldwell reports that last spring he plowed up a one-acre ! cation, obtained most of his patch of kudzu that had been in while stationed at Spartar/j the center of one of his corn fields and Columbia, for about six years and planted The publication points opt ' '.t the entire field to corn. 'the firist permanent settler/.: ts Despite an extremely dry season, in the Piedmont section of ‘the he harvested 38.5 bushels pf corn state were made from 1740 to 1760, . 1 ■ . * * v i i’ *.*’*'♦ encouraging.” ' 1 Copies of the publication may be obtained at 10 cents each from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AT YOUR - SERVICE TO* HELP YOU SELL*