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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, March 13, 1941
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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J. S. STROM
PHONE NO. 76 McCORMICK, S. C.
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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
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McCORMICK SERVICE STATION
J. L. CAUDLE, (Owner) Phone 64'
McCORMICK, S. C.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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,
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encouraging.” ' 1
Copies of the publication may
be obtained at 10 cents each from
the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C.
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