McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 07, 1941, Image 4

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r McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 7, 1941' *cC0RMICK MESSENGER Mt. -Carmel News PaUlshed Beery Thursday BaUblished Jana 5, r‘ BDMOND J. McCBACKEM, Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Me- Cermick, S. C., as mall matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 ■tz Months .79 Three Months .50 ONE MORE STEP Thirty years ago tuberculosis was the first cause of human death. Today, in the United States, it ranks eighth. The last decade alone has seen a decline of 37 per cent in the mortality rate of this once most dreaded disease of all mankind. Thousands of men, women, and children are brimming with life, who would otherwise be but tear-choked memories. You or I might be a- mong those thousands. The arm of tuberculosis prevention, as well as cure, is long. Doctor R. H. Sundberg, in his annual report as President of the California Tuberculosis Association, pointed out that while spectacular gains have been made against tuberculosis, it would be extremely unwise to take victory for granted. He observed that: “Tuberculosis is still one of the major causes of death, especially in the younger age groups .... the incidence of the disease might easily increase again. In the present world crisis, for example, one may properly be concerned over the possible effect of post-war condi tions .... This means continued segregation of infectious cases, earlier diagnosis, particularly through mass surveys and follow up of contacts, and more adequate treatment of discovered cases be fore clinical activity develops.” The successful battle being car ried on against tuberculosis should demonstrate conclusively to the average layman the ability of the American medical profession, and the responsive willingness with which that profession applies its ability, regardless of class, color, creed or financial position. Tuber culosis is no respecter of social and economic barriers. It strikes all. To fight it successfully has meant a campaign in every comer of the land and in every so-called social stratum. Medical men, in tuberculosis as in other afflictions, carry on with little thought of personal gain, but with a flaming hope of promoting mankind one step nearer to a better civilization. X 5FENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS ON SAlRATYplJR POSTOFFICE OR fy\JVK America On Guard! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department's Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact dupl'cation of the original “Minute Man' statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bor da and Stamps, on sale at your : or post office, are a vital part of America’s defense preparations. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. P56 Broad Street Augusta. Ga TO SELL ’EM, TELL ’EM- Wilh An Ad (Too late for last week.) Miss Lillie Miller of De la Howe Infirmary is enjoying her vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Campbell and little son, Tommy, spent the week end with Mrs. J. W. Boyd. As Mr. Campbell has been trans ferred to Charlotte, N. C., they were en route to that city, leaving here Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Russell of Augusta were visitors here Sunday and carried little Tommie home with them to stay until Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are settled in their new home. The many friends of Lieut.-Col- l pnel and Mrs. W. B. Sharp will be delighted to hear he is getting along nicely, being able to sit up some, now. Several weeks ago he had to undergo a very serious operation. They, i are spending some time with Mrs. J. D. Cade and Miss Julia Cade. Mr. Tarrant Scott of Fort Wheeler, Macon, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott. Misses Carolyn Hester and Mar garet Ann Todd returned home Tuesday from a pleasant five days' stay at a camp in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hester, Messrs. W. H. Horton, Barnard Smith and Pat Hester enjoyed a pleasant trip to the mountains and visited Clemson College and other places of interest. Mrs. W. B. Sharp and Drew Cade were visitors in Columbia Friday, and Mr. Billy Sharp of the University returned home with them for the week end. Mr. Lawrence Hester, Jr., of Greenwood spent the week end here. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dean of Columbia spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dean. Mr. James Miller, Misses Florence and Susie Patterson and Miss Lillie Miller worshiped at the A. R. P. Church in McCormick Sun day morning. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Watson and Miss Lura Jean Watson spent Sun day with Miss Virginia Watson in Saluda, N. C. Mr. and Mrs, Feaster Mauldin of McCormick were visitors of Mrs. Myrtle M?.”ldin Sunday. Mrs. Roy Edmunds and Miss Elsie Edmunds of Laurens spent Sunday with Mrs. Ida Black. Mrs. D. L. Bryson was also a visitor. TODAY ond m READ THE AD$ Along With the Newi Don. Robinson PROPERTY jolts It looks as though we are soon going to see the anomaly of a pe riod of prosperity and a period of depression taking place at the same time and even in the same communities. Our old economic practices are in for a series bi severe jolts, our business “cycles” are expected to revolve in all directions and even that law of supply and demand, upon which business has always functioned, is apt to be twisted into unrecognizable form. It’s going to be a period when people who have money to buy goods may not be able to buy the things they want most, when stores which could do a landoffice business have to turn customers down and when non-defense workers are losing their jobs while defense workers are getting paid premium wages. Total income and purchasing power may break records in 1941, but there will be new groups of unemployed, many non-essential industries will be hard hit and the government will be issuing count less rules and orders to try to keep the situation from getting out of hand. SCARCITY bonds There seems to be something almost sacrilegious about “repeal ing” the law of supply and demand even during such an emergency as this. Under that economic law, any product which became scarce would automatically soar upward in price. If 5,000,000 people want ed to buy automobiles and only 3,- 000,000 new cars were available, the operation of the law of supply and demand would be similar to an auction—the automobile dealer would in effect, sell the cars to the 3,000,000 highest bidders. But because the government is forcing the automobile manufac turers to create a possible scarcity by requiring them to prodace mil lions of dollars worth of defense equipment, it feels that it must protect the consumer’s interests by preventing the high price increases which scarcity would naturally cause. To prevent prices from skyrock eting is the job of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, which, to my mind, has one of the hardest tasks of all the de fense organizations. It is faced with keeping prices down when it is natural for them to go up. More and more, as that office, known as the OPACS, faces its problems, it comes to one out standing solution, namely: most price problems would melt away if all people who are earning more money would put those extra dol lars in defense bonds. ALUMINUM .... unemployment During the week of aluminum showers, when most of us contrib uted old pots and pans to help re lieve the aluminum shortage, a lot of housewives must have pondered over the fate of the door-to-door aluminum salesman who sold them much of that equipment. The answer is obvious—he is out of a job, along with a good portion of the factory employee? in the aluminum cooking. utensil industry. The aluminum scarcity has been so dramatized that we are all conscious of it, but there are hundreds of other businesses which are faced with similar problems. There will be many business heart-breaks. There will be many small companies forced out of business because supplies are not available to them. But if a choice must be made between freedom and hardship, most American business men will be willing to take hardship and like it. PATRIOTISM buying Many consumers are asking what they should do, from the patriotic standpoint, about buying products which they want but which they could get along with out. Is it against the best interests of their country for them to buy an automobile or a refrigerator? Should they cut down their stand ard of living? Should they stock up on necessities to put away for a rainy day? One of the best answers to these questions was made recently by Miss Harriett Elliott, associate administrator of the OPACS, who said: “If you really need, and had in tended to buy a car, or a refrig erator or a new washing machine, then go ahead and get it by all means. If you had no such plans, then don’t make any. Put your money into defense bonds. They are a much more patriotic invest ment and you will be saving useful materials for defense. There may be days ahead when the cash will make you a good deal happier and a good deal more secure than a worn-out washing machine. There may be days ahead when the bar gains are a good deal better than they are today. Above all, there is no need for anyone of us to buy durable consumers’ goods at this time with the idea that we are getting in ahead of somebody else.” In other words, the decision is left pretty much up to you. You won’t get a patriotic black mark if you buy that new car, but you will get a plus for your patriotism if you let the old car do and buy defense bonds instead. HOW TO CHECK RHEUMATIC ACHES QUICKLY—AGREEABLY | —and Save Money Besides If achey-tired-painful muscles break Into work and play, heed nature’s warning right away. In finding welcome relief, thousands of users vouch for RUX COM POUND (liquid) for its speedy, agreeab.e, relief-giving Ingredients. Pains are often i relieved overnight. So easy to use. Noth- , mg to mix. All you do is put a teaspoon- Xui or two in a cup of water. See for . yourself how agreeably a really fine medi cine can act. This popular home remedy sold from coast to coast by leading drug gists. Insist on the Genuine RUX COM POUND (liquid in brown-yellow package). 3 sizes—get the thrifty l*lg slzq.jrQgftY, Special at PEOPLES DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And Ali Other Kinds of Insurance In cluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. 12 White Men To Enter Training, 14th Dan A. Bell, president of the' local board of Selective Service, announces that twelve white men will report at Fort Jackson on Thursday, August 14th, for a year’s military training. They are William Thomas Wells, Dave Hill Willis, volunteers; Louie Wilson Moss, William Robert Buchanan, Clifton Henderson Drennan, Avery Home, Ronnie date Dunlap, Leonard Edward Brown, Bennie Griffin Robertson, Caleb Albert Howie, Robert Wilson Edmunds and Henry. Furman Lagroon. Alternates are Ray Mathis Bailey. Charles Collier Robertson, Fulton Weeks, Edwin Cox Cheatham, Jr., James Middleton Self, Daniel Eudolph McGrath, Paul Edward Price, Raymond Albert Dunlap, Joseph Samuel Bowen, Ralph Addison Creswell and Vincent Aster Hammond. X Order Numbers Are Assigned New Registrants. Dan A. Bell, president of the local board of Selective Service, has submitted for publication the following, which shows the order numbers, serial numbers, names and addresses of the twenty-one- year old men who registered with the board in the July 1st regis tration, to whom questionnaires have been mailed: S-759 SI Freddie Lee Searles, R. F. D. 1, B. 62, Mc Cormick, S. C. S-747 S2 Criste (Nat) Warren, R. F. D. 2, McCormick, S. C. S-831 S3 Moses (He) Wideman. R. F. D. 1, McCormick, S. C. S-807 S4 William Henry Wide man, Box 221, McCor mick, S. C. S-771 S5 John Marshall Lind- ley, Bordeaux, S. C. S-712 S6 Jeff Lewis Devlin, Troy, S. C. S-416 S7 Mark Searles, R. F. D. 1, B. 56, McCormick, S. C. S-891 S3 Thomas Lester Fend- ley, C. C. C. Camp 11, Modoc, S. C. S-237 S9 James Clarence Col lier, R. F. D. 1, B. 105 A, Plum Branch, S. C. S-440 S10 Odell (Little Bud) Wells, R. F. D. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. S-249 Sll Thomas (Tom) Wells, R. F. D. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. S-522 S12 Harvey Elton Dilla- shaw, R. F. D. 2, Mc Cormick, S. C. S-474 S13 Thomas Henry Young, Troy, S. C. S-582 S14 Ansel Edward Brock, Troy, S. C. S-783 S15 James Archie Talbert, McCormick, S. C. S-617A S16 Lewis (Luke) Wiley, McCormick, S. C. S-285 S17 Carlton New, R. F. D. 3, Box 67, McCormick, S. C. S-261 S18 Wyatte Ellington Chamberlain, Jr., R. F. D. 1, McCormick, S. C. S-641 S19 George Morris Fur- queron. Box 52, Mc Cormick, S. C. S-428 S20 Zingo Terry, Jr., R. F. D. 2, McCormick, S. C. S-688 S21 Charlie Middleton, Jr., Meriwether. S. C. S-7G0 S22 Luther Bell Prescott, Meriwether, S. C. S-629 S23 Marcus Williams, Mt. Carmel, S. C. S-927 S24 Charlie Cain Blair, Parksville, S. C. S-463 S25 Rufus Middleton Wardlaw, R. F. D. 1, McCormick, S. C. S-356 S26 Leonard Edward Reames, R. F. D. 2, McCormick, S. C. S-867 S27 Charlie Gilchrist, R. F. D. 2, Box 27, Mc Cormick, S. C. S-392 S28 William David Lasker, R. F. D. 1, Mt. Carmel. S. C. S-368 S29 Vernon Bell Spence, R. F. D. 3, McCormick, S. C. S-939 S30 Robert (Boss) Martin, R. F. D. 1, B. 32, Plum Branch, S. C. S-546 S31 Joe Wilson Gilchrist, R. F. D. 1, B. 38, Plum Branch, S. C. S-987 S32 Manly Devan Haskell, McCormick, S. C. S-819 S33 William Simpson COTTON STAMPS REDEEMED HERE ■ ■ 1 ’ - ■ ■ — -- - * Our store appreciates the Cotton Stamp Program. , We will be glad to handle your stamps for the purchase of Cotton Goods. Our stock complete and prices very reasonable. J. L BRACKNELL PLUM BRANCH, S. C. 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. Kelly, R. F. D. 3, B. 8, * McCormick, S. C. S-975 S34 Ralpfi Talmadge Smalley, Modoc, S. C. S-879 S35 John Thomas Turman. Willington, S. C. S-297 S36 Felton Price, R. F. D. 1, Plum Branch, S. C/ S-404 S37 Willie Claud Robinson, Mt. Carmel, S. C. S-915 S38 Wilbur Milton Strom, Jr., McCormick, S. C.. S-213 S39 Robert White, R. F. D. 2, Box 12, McCormick, S. C. S-225 S40 A. J. Anderson, R. F. D. 1, Box 17, Mt. Car mel, S. C. S-558 S41 Clyde Griffin Long, R. F. D. 1, McCormick, S. C. S-735 S42 Jessie Crawford, R. F. D. 1, B. 50, Plum Branch, S. C. S-594 S43 Clarence Walton, Meriwether, S. C. S-436 S44 Befort Cochran, R. F. D. 2, McCormick, S. C. S-570 S45 J. P. Jennings, R. F. D. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. S-498 S46 Steve Cowan, R. F. D. 1, Box 69, McCormick, S. C. S-534 S47 Henry Edward Hester, Box 42, McCormick, S. C. S-380 S48 John Wesley Harrison, Troy, S. C. S-843 S49 Dave Hill Willis. R. F. D. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. Thomas Walton Dorn, R. F. D. 3, McCormick, S. C. Hollie Settles, R. F. D. 2, Box 110, McCor mick, S. C. S-606 S52 Levi Martin, R. F. D. 1, Box 79, Troy, S. C. S-344 S53 Robert Phillip Searles, R. F. D. 1, B. 147, Plum Branch, S. C. S-309 S54 Charles Leslie Ed munds, McCormick, S. C. S-855 S55 Ulysees Winn, R. F. D. 1, Box 51. McCor mick, S. C. S-665 S56 William Tinsley Brown, R. F. D. 1, Mc Cormick, S. C. S-724 S57 Charles Willie Craw ford, R. F. D. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. S-273 S58 Allred Battle, R. F. D. S-333 S50 S-677 S51 S-903 S59 S-951 S60 S-451 S61 S-963 S62 S-510 S63 S-795 S64 S-653 S65 S-321 S66 3, McCormick, S. C. Samuel Lewis McCier, R. F. D. 1, B. 20, Troy, S. C. Charles Lamar Wil liams, Jr., 60 Tea St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Jessie Howard Turner, R. F. D. 3, McCor mick, S. C. Robert Frank Lyons, R. F. D. 1, Box 52, Troy, S. C. Eddie Morten, R. F. D. 1, Box 4, Plum Branch, S. C. John Oliver Gibert, Star Route, Box 26, Mt. Carmel, S. C. John Leslie Middleton, R. F. D. 3, Box 46, Mc Cormick, S. C. James Talmadge Freeman, R. F. D. 1, Box 58, McCormick, S. C. kRIA k IN /DAYS WANT ADV. FOR RENT OR SALE—One hundred acres of land about 1 1-2 miles north of McCormick. W. O. Whatley, R. 3. Augusta, Ga. farms for sale ACRES OF OPPORTUNITY—450 acres four miles west of McCor mick. Electricity and telephone line available. 135 acres in culti vation, remainder woodland. Dwell ing and barn. Terms you can af ford to pay. W. H. Purdy, Field Representative The Union Central Life Ins. Co. 658 E. Main St. Spar tanburg, S. C. Phone No. 3154. ADS For SALE IN OUR NEXT ISSUE