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h ! J 'r r. -. i -. •.- *, - TBDI TO OnUELVItf, OCX MOGHBOXX, OCX CODNTKT AMD OCX GOD. Hiirty-Niiith Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941 Number 52: WUHUMTON Washington, May 27.—(NWNS) —What world-shaking proclama tion, statement of policy or revela tion of a move toward war will come from administration circles today? ' Most newsmen and congressmen here awake each morning with that question in mind and with the expectation that "today some thing is going to happen.” When things go along for a week or two without any major surprises, many of us get the feeling that it’s a lull before a big storm. Actually, plenty has happened during what our drama-filled minds consider a lull. Congress has given the President the right to seize foreign ships, the giant French liner Normandie has been taken into custody, our relations i with France have reached a dan ger point over the agreement of the French Petain government to collaborate with Germany, major strikes have been settled and others called, new tax plans have been suggested and new stimu lants have been given to our de fense program. The war sentiment — that we mustn’t let Britain lose—has been closely tied up with the absolute necessity of protecting our foreign trade. Both the President and Secretary of State Hull have em phasized that our standard of liv ing and our freedom depend on trading with other free nations. President Roosevelt said: "Inter national commerce in a world dominated by totalitarianism would never be carried on for the mutual benefit of all. It would be rigorously controlled for the sole advantage of those nations and ruling groups which already have declared their determination to cbhquer the world and to subor dinate to their own profit the wel fare of all other peoples.” Secretary Hull outlined our post-war aims in this regard by giving five guides to the trade setup we hope to establish, as fol lows: "1. Extreme nationalism must "1. Extreme nationalism must not again be permitted to express itself in excessive trade restrictions. "2. Nondiscrimination in in ternational commercial rela tions must be the rule, so that international trade may grow and prosper. / "3. Raw material supplies must be available to all na tions without discrimination. "4. International agreements regulating the supply of com modities must be so handled as to protect fully the interests of the consuming countries and their people. "5. The institutions and ar rangements of international finance must be so set up that they lend aid to the essential enterprises and the continuous development of all countries and permit the payment through processes of trade consonant with the welfare of all countries.” War or no war, most all of offi cial Washington agrees that we must build our defenses as if we were going to have war. Stressing the importance of this, W. L. Batt, deputy director of the production division of the Office of Produc tion Management called for still greater enlargement of our presen defense plans indicating that the present $40,000,000,000 program is inadequate and that it should be boosted to $100,000,000,000. He also said that there must be a radica change in the attitude of “some people” in both labor and indus try "if we are to make good our promises to the defenders of free dom.” This statement, of course, re ferred to the strikes in defense in dustries, which, after a brief Thought for Memorial Day aEE * w® 'M * & ^gsiiiiiP: v HOLLYWOOD THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C FRIDAY and SATURDAY May 30th and 31st, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. THREE MESQUffTEERS in “COVERED WAGON DAYS” Also A Cartoon “Mrs. Ladybug” and A Pete Smith Specialty “Sea For Yourself” MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30 P. M. Adults 20 cents Temperance Rally “A Family Affair’ Next Tuesday evening, June 3rd at 8 o'clock, Dr. Albert D. Betts executive secretary of the Feder ated Forces for Temperance and Law Enforcement, will give the new Temperance talking picture “A Family Affair”, in the Metho dist Church here. Rev. L. K. Simpson will conduct the devotional service. This is the annual McCormick County Temperance Rally and is held under the auspices of the County Committee. The public is cordially 'nvited. 3. W. Reid, . Secretary. MONDAY and TUESDAY June 2nd and 3rd, 7:15 P. M. and 9:25 P. M. JAMES STEWART—KATHARINE HEPBURN RUTH HUSSEY in “PHILADELPHIA STORY” Also Selected Short Subjects and LATEST NEWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents; Children 12 to 15, 15 cents period of quiet, have started up anew. The new Mediation board of the government has been suc cessful in postponing and stopping many strikes, but has been unable to cope with some of the most im portant—such as those in the shipbuilding industry on the Pacific coast. Letters and wires to congress men clearly indicate that the public has lost patience with strikes and wants a legal club to deal with them. But congress is hesitant to put through such egislation without encourage ment from the President and therefore the problem is side tracked from week to week in the hope that the pressure of public opinion will in itself be enough to cope with the situation. Calling off of a threatened strike of Gen- 3ral Motors, after the company gave a general raise in pay, plus the action of the Ford Motor com- oany in giving pay increases be fore a labor election, were con sidered victories for those trying to keep labor on the job. The question of reduction of lomestic expenses, in order that more of tax revenue can be ap plied to defense costs, has been mt in the lap of congress, both the President and the treasury lepartment avoiding that prob lem. Suggestions have been made to reduce non-defense appropria tions by as much as $2,000,000,000, by cutting down on money for re- ief, WPA, CCC and other branches )f the government which seem less necessary with increased de- 'ense employment. But each re duction will be fought tooth and lail by interested groups and it is lot expected that the expense and .ax questions will be finally, set- } .led before mid-summer. Final Rites For T. W. Cothran At Salisbury, N. C Local Girls Win Honor Scholarship At Brenau College Final rites for Thomas W. Coth- j GainesviUe, Ga., May 26.—Misses ran, who lost his life in a boat Anne Bussey Seigler, Nettie Louise accident in the ocean about five Morgan,, and Virginia Fooshe, all miles out from Little River, S. C., of the McCormick High School in on May 18th, were conducted from his home at 127 East 11th Street, Salisbury, N. C., at 11 o’clock a. m. Tuesday, May 20th, with Dr. P. D. Brown, pastor of St. John’s Luth eran Church, officiating. Inter ment was made in the cemetery at Claremont, near Conover. Four others from Salisbury and two from Rocky Mount lost their lives and a number of others were injured in the accident. Mr. Cothran was 30 years of age and was a son of Mrs. Addie Palmer Cothran and the late Mr. Wade F. Cothran of McCormick. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lola Minges Cothran; three chil dren, Jo Ann, Frank and Jean, all of Salisbury, N. C.; his mother; two brothers, Ralph Cothran of Union Mills, N. C., and Floyd Cothran of McCormick; two sis ters, Mrs. Max Stringer of Colum bia, and Miss Isabelle Cothran of McCormick. tXl Farmers To Vote Saturday, May 31st, On Wheat Quota Producers on McCormick County farms having 15 acres or more of wheat planted and whose antici pated yield for 1941 is more than 200 bushels will vote ‘ Saturday, May 31st, on whether they favor vheat marketing quota. One ballot box will be available in this county and will be located n the County Agent’s office in McCormick. Polls will be open Saturday from 8:00 A. M. until 5:00 P. M. There are several hundred wheat oroducers in McCormick County but only a small percentage pro- luce over 200 bushels and, as a general rule, use their supply for home use, which exempts them from any possible penalties. The marketing quota referen dum will be similar to the cotton ■juota plan which farmers have voted on for several years. Those farms of the United States lepending upon wheat as a chief source of income will be vitally iffected by the vote. J. W. Everett, Jr., Acting County Administrative Assistant. McCormick, are announced as winners of honor scholarships at Brenau College for the coming year in the annual competitive scholarship examinations of 1941- 42. Brenau College is one of the oldest educational institutions for young women in the South, and is noted for its academic depart ments, its conservatory of music, drama, and art, besides its beau tiful campus of 400 acres, with several lakes and miles of bridle paths, an ideal situation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Moun tains, with a student body from forty different States and foreign countries. TXT Death Of Infant Friends of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Ferqueron of McCormick will sympathize with them in the death of their 15-months-old daughter, Minnie Magdeline, at the Greenwood Hospital Saturday night at 9:30 o’clock. Funeral services were conducted at the McCormi'ck cemetery at three o’clock Sunday afternoon by the Rev. George Pearce. _r * t_ Sandy Branch H. D. Club Meets Thursday afternoon. May 15, the Sandy Branch H. D. Club met in the home of Mrs. C. C. Burdette with Mrs. Dozier Brown assisting hostess. Thirteen members were present. After the devotional, conducted by Mrs. Charlie Bowick vice-president, the club sang God Bless .America. Community inter ests were discussed. Miss Bell gave a most interest ing talk about eggs—the kinds and shapes of eggs, and the care of flocks for better eggs and sort ing and packing of eggs for market. Miss Bell stresses more home grown products, at all times. Certificates and diplomas were awarded those who were not at Long Cane council meeting May 3rd. McCormick County To Receive Double Gas Tax Quota Serving their first terms in the legislature, Senator L. L. Hester and Rep. H. C. Brown, of McCor mick County, drove through to passage an act which will double this county's share of that portion of the proceeds from the gasoline tax which is allocated to the* counties. It was such a feat as few wouiefr have forecast when Senator Hester introduced his bill in the senate, and many a man in Columbia last week said something of a miracle had occurred. Hester’s bill, which was handled in the house of representatives, of course, by Representative Browns is short and . simple. It changes: nothing about the method, or basis, for allocating proceeds frana the gasoline tax to the counties, except that it prescribes that m* county shall receive less than $12,000 a year from this tax. McCormick County had been re ceiving nothing like that muefr. and that is where Senator Hester and Representative Brown have* bagged some bacon to bring home* to their county. McCormick Coun ty has been receiving in recent years, between $6,000 and $7,000 a. year as its share of the proceed?; from this tax. Now it will get $12,000. McCormick County, it so hap pens, was the only county in tlK state which has been receiving: less than $12,000 a year, so that no other county benefits from the* amendment to the laws goveming' the distribution of this money.. Naturally, it will take something from all the other counties, but when the difference of between $5,000 and $6,000 which McCor mick County will get, over and above what it has previously been getting, is taken from the amounts going to the other counties, it wflf be almost microscopic—and since the proceeds are gaining annually, no county will get less than It is now getting. But McCormick County, as a re sult of Senator Hester’s and Rep. Brown’s feat, will gain tremen dously. When it is considered that thjfe county’s entire appropriations bill totals only $32,000, it can be seen what a large proportion of the* county’s expenses is taken care at by this increase, which, of course^ must under the law be applied to rqad purposes. Counties’ shares in the gasolxxe tax proceeds are established on * basis of the amount of money col lected in each from the sale at motor vehicle licenses. In McCor mick County, from now on, that will not be the case—unless regis tration of vehicles in this county- should suddenly double—since Mc Cormick County will get a flat $12,000, as would any other county if the proceeds from the sale of motor vehicle licenses should fait, below the sales in all counties now. During the year, Senator Hester- and Representative Brown suc ceeded in having enacted another- act to saye the county some money. This one reduced the interest rate McCormick County- pays the state sinking fund com mission on loans from 4 1-2 to 4 per cent. The saving will be only about !400 from this,” Hester said, “but in McCormick County that’s a lot of money.” Before becoming McCormick; County’s senator, Hester was mayor of Mount Carmel, a towrr widely known as one with nc* municipal taxes. x Card Of Thanks We wish to express our sincere* thartks and appreciation to oat neighbors and other friends fot the many acts of kindness roi- dered to us during the illness am* The hostesses served a tempting at the death of our darling jittie salad course with an iced drink, daughter. May God’s richest bless- Our club will meet with Mrs. ings rest upon each one, is ook Charlie Bowick, third Thursday in prayer. • June. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Tiiomoscn,.