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McCORMICK MESSENGER? McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, February 5, 1942 • . . • f ' 75 Per Cent Live-At- Home Fanners Honored Feb. 7 Clemson, Feb. 2. — Fifty-five hundred South Carolinia farm families will receive public recog nition Saturday, .Feb. 7, for “fur- of better farm living in South Carolina by pro ducing on the farm and conserv ing for * home use at feast 75 per cent of their food and feed re quirements” in 1941, Director D. W. Watkins of the Clemson Ex- tension Service, announced here. Of this number, 4p00 will receive certificate? for ^ 19^1 for the first time, and 1000 who first qualified in 1940 will receive seals to be attached to certificates IF VOB CAN BUI TIRES ANYWHERE YOU CAN BUY AUSTATES FROM SEARS —IN AUGUSTA-— 11 We Hove o Large Stifle of AH Sixes* fllftC'S WHAT TPU DO: First, go to your local Tire Rationing Board in your home County. Ijf board approves and issues certificate under any of the classifications to receive new tires or tubes, then come to Sears in Augusta to purchase Allstates bringing your approved certificate. ★ Remember, your certificate or rationing card permits you to buy your new tires or AA tabes wherever you desire. ' '' ■ i • * ~ ‘ *•* WE STILL HAVE OUR SAME LOW PRICES! As of date there have been no mcrease in prices! Bring your certificate to Sears and we will save you money on your tires! YOU CAN STILL BUY TIRES ON SEARS EASY PAYMENTS Up to 6 months to pay . . . pay as little as 50c per week. SEARS. ROEBUCK AND CO. Brood Street at The Monument Augusta, Georgia 1 i i 1 1 | : ' 1 1 I 1 | —''4 1 » i FRESH MEATS. oysters! and fish Call on us for Fresh Oysters-Extra Standards and Extra Selects-Pork, Beef, Lamb, Veal and Fish of All Kinds. We grind sausage for the public at any time. We deliver. JESTER’S CASH MARKET PHONE 25 McCORMICK, S. C. ac conservatively assumed that 90 to 95 per cent of them have ob- •:ained other employment since hey have not returned to the WPA asking for work. It would appear then, under that assump tion, that approximately 6,300 to 6,700 must be engaged in other employment since voluntarily leaving the WPA. Together—that .s. those 2,284 known to have ob tained other employment, and those 6,300 to 6,700 estimated to have obtained other employment —during the last six months ap proximately 8,584 to 8,984 have moved from WPA work into other employment. Demonstrating that the last six-months period is not unusual, Mr. Pinckney cited WPA records which show that for the first six months of 1941 a total of 4,866 WPA workers were known to have obtained private employ ment while 9,651 WPA workers voluntarily left the WPA without specifying a reason for leaving, _ TT _ r „ T _ . the great majority of whom are production ^program fits remark- believed to have obtained other ably well Into the war program for employment. agriculture and as such should The same situation holds true be greatly stimulated by the calls for the last six months of 1940. being made upon farm families to Records reveal that 3,613 persons feed themselves during 1942”, says voluntarily left the WPA to take Director Watkins, who announces other employment and a total of that the program is being con- 6,189 workers voluntarUy left the tinued in 1942, with opportunity WPA without specifying a reason for farm families to enroll at an for leaving. given them last year. It will be remembered that th? 75 per cent food and feed produc tion certificate plan was started in 1940 and that in February 1941 certificates were presented to some 280P farm families who com plied in 1940. For presenting the certificates apd seal? Feb. 7, meetings will be held at all county seats at which tiie families to receive the recog nition wiil be present. County fanp apd home agents are ar ranging plans for these meetings. A 15-mipute radio broadcast frprp Columbia beginning at 10:45 a*, m. will * opep the program of each county meeting. Speakers Will be Governor Harley or his representative; Director Watkins; and Prof. Verd Peterson, state supervisor of vocational agricul tural education. The local pro gram in each county will consist of brief talks or other features and the presentation of the cer tificates and ?eals. This 75 per cent food and feed =5= ABOVE ^ HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL early date. x U. S. Marine Corps Will F.nlist Men Not Physically Qualified For Combat Duty In The Limited Service Re serves Division. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 31.—En- Thus, during the past 18 months 10,753 WPA workers are known to have obtained other work while an additional 22,889 workers vol untarily left the WPA without listing any specific reason for leaving. On the basis of 90 to 95 per cent of the 22,289 finding other employment since they have not returned to the WPA for work The Battle Of Marathon Now that war has again become the universal fashion, it might be a good idea to study a bit of its history. Of the thousands upon thousands of battles in which we human beings have in dulged, about 2Q of them have decided the fate of the world up to this time. The first of these decisive battles was fought on the coast of Greece, 20-odd miles from Athens, in the year 490 B. C., on a little plain called Marathon; between the Athenians under Miltiades and the Persians under their famous general Datis. From Tripoli, through Egypt and around the eastern end of the Mediterranean; through Turkey and into northern Greece, tht great Persian empire held sway Practically all Eastern civilization except China, bowed in submis sion to King Darius. The defeat of the Athenians at Marathon would mean the conquest of all Europe: Asiatic domination anc civilization over the whole of the known world. Before the battle opened the Athenian army was stationed in the hills overlooking this little six-mile-long by two-mile-deep it appears that some 20,600 to 21,- listments in the Limited Service 744 c f them must have found plain. Datis and his fighting - - — - ‘ Persians had landed and made Reserves Division of the U. S. | other employment. Marine Corps of men between 30 Figures from WPA records for their camp on Marathon bay. The and 50 years of age who are not the past 18 months then would Greeks had the advantage of . . i * . ... i Viai-nrr o o fr* ytto -frrvm o physically qualified for combat indicate that something like 31,- duty was announced here by 353 to 32,097 South Carolina WPA Major A. C. Small, officer in workers have moved into other e5e VULCANIZING We Can Vulcanize Casings And Tubes. Work Guaranteed. McGRATH MOTOR CO. McCormick, S. C. 81 charge of the Savannah recruit ing district. Men enlisted under this new plan will relieve for combat duty Marines now on guard posts at various naval shores stations. Major Small said. In addition to the age limits applicants must meet reduced physical requirements but cannot je qualified for combat assign ments, or by reason of marriage or dependents may not be quali fied for general duty, Major Small said. Recruiting officers, he con tinued, have been advised to use extreme care in accepting men for enlistment under the new classification. ‘‘Only men of high caliber and in good standing in their communities will be ac cepted,” he said. Former service men will be re appointed immediately upon en listment to the highest enlisted rank, up to sergeant, they attain ed during their previous service, he said, adding that in no case would rank or pay be less than that of a private first class. Full pay, according to status at tained, will begin immediately upon enlistment and in addition those accepted will be allowed subsistence, quarters and trans portation of dependents. Limited Service Reserves will be given recruit training prior to assignment to permanent posts. If possible, Major Small said, choice of station will be left up to the volunteers so long as it is within the naval district of their enlistment. 1XI WPA Provides Flow Of Workers For Other Employment S3 Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. Columbia, January 31.—The Work Projects Administration in South Carolina, as elsewhere in the nation, is providing a flow of workers from the WPA into c er employment, Lawrence M. Pi ney, State WPA Administr ->ointed out today as he < figures to support that state " During the six-months r ending December 31, 1941. Pinckney said, the WPA re reveal that no less than ' project workers resigned fror WPA to accept private em ment. But there is a gr number — 7,049 — who volun r, ^d t. >d jr emnloyment. The natural question is, Mr. Pinckney said, why has not the roll of WPA workers declined in proportion? The answer is clear, Mr. Pinckney added, when it is remembered that no less than 14,116 South Carolinians, certified by the state welfare department to the WPA as in need of relief employment, were awaiting as signment with the WPA as of December 31, 1941. 14,411 were certified and waiting WPA assign ment on June 30, 1941, and 11,419 were certified and awaiting as signment with the WPA on De cember 31, 1940. The records re veal that in each of the periods surveyed a larger number was certified and awaiting assignment than the number of those leaving WPA employment. 1XI Displaced Workers Advised Of Job Insurance Rights Columbia, Jan. 31.—Automobile and tire salesmen, service station n^rators, construction workers, and other employes who have be- r> totally or partially unem ployed due to defense priorities *nv be eligible for *ob insurance benefits and have the right to file claims, the Unemployment Com pensation Commission, announced ''day. Dunn" the past several months claims have been increasing at a anid rate. December payments -r«re about 29 per cent greater than in November, and indications are that the January total will ‘’how an even larger gain over December, the Commission said. In general, the South Carolina Unemployment Compensation (job insurance) law provides pro- ‘-ection for workers who have jobs hi business and industrial con cerns employing eight or mor' " > ersons. (However, many small businesses are branches of large multi-unit concerns and for that reason are covered by the law.) Claims mnv be filed at any one of the 19 full-time or 30 part- time offices of the United States ! Employment Service. Workers 34 j must apply for jobs when they file he | their claims for benefits. Fre- y- I quently jobs are found for appli- being able to watch from the hills every move the enemy made. The leaders of the small Greek army looked down upon the vast horde of Persian cavalry, archers and infantry, and placed to a vote—as w r as the custom in that then democracy—the issue of whether to attack or to await at tack. Fear of fifth column treachery in Athens influenced these brave generals to take a plunge which seemed suicidal. Though they little realized it, their vote decided the destiny of the civilized world. Miltiades was given supreme cpmmswid gpd ordered the army tp prepare for battle. His troops were all infantry, armed with spears and short swords. All young Greeks in those days were trained to run long distances without fatigue. So to take ad vantage of a surprise attack the entire army advanced on a run„ in close formation, across the first mile of the plain, until it reached the Persian outposts. Miltiades had weakened his cen ter in order to strengthen his two wings so as to prevent encircle ment by the Persian cavalry. The result was—as he had anticipated -a retreat of the Greek center jack to the strong defensive posi- ion afforded by the hills, and omplete success on both wings. These wings then joined and at- .*eked the Persian center which .rumpled under this surprise as- ault. Fighting like madmen— but at a tremendous strategic ■isadvantage—the hitherto un- oeaten warriors of Darius and his colonial allies were driven into, -he sea, and what was left of them escaped in their troop trans ports. And thus ended—fortunately for the European races—probably the most important battle of all time.. An almost contemporaneous his torian wrote the following as a. .-eason for this seemingly impossi- ole victory of a people, who, but a short time before, had thrown, off the yoke of a dictator and created the Athenian democracy: ‘Liberty and equality of civic rights are brave, spirit-stirring, things; and they who, while under the yoke of a despot, had been no better men of war than any of their neighbors, as soon as they were free, became the foremost men of all; for each felt that in fighting for a free commonwealth he fought for himself, and, what ever he took in hand, he was zealous to do the work thorough ly.” —Buy Defense Bonds— HEALTH 64, ARTIE MSOOVCRN Inspection Of Res taurants And Hotels To Begin In County The rules and regulations of the State Board of Health pertaining to restaurants and hotels make it unlawful for any person to oper ate a restaurant or hotel in the state of South Carolina who does not possess an unrevoked permit from the County Health Depart- Bui,d BsswtW? to Colds ment and in whose place of busi- The common cold is looked upon ness such a permit is not posted as the country’s most expensive in a conspicuous place, reports the ailment. It costs its victims both local Health Department. \ time and money and while the Mr. H. D. McDaniel, inspector exact cause has not as yet been f rom the State Board of Health, i discovered, medical science has will be in the county within a few ! proved that anyone can, to a cer- days to inspect all hotels and tain degree, build up resistance eating places serving food to the to the insidious germ. By build- nublic to see that the above regu- ! ing up resistance, we do not mean lations are complied with. Those the fool-hardy attempts made by restaurants and hotels which are some to “harden” themselves operating without a permit at through exposure to Arctic nresert, and in case where the weather conditions. We have all permit may be revoked, must com- i read about Polar Bear clubs whose ply with the regulations of the members break through the ice State Board of Health if they are f 0 r mid-winter swimming. Others to continue in business, Mr. Me- believe that walking barefoot in Daniel says. i the snow, going hatless and with- Further information may be out overcoats in zero weather will secured from the local Health De- preserve them in some mysterious partment and the rules and regu- W ay from infection. It is more lations obtained in order that a pt to bring on pneumonia, each operator of a business of this i Building up the Jody’s resistance kind will know what is expected to disease of any kind involves no of each resteurant and hotel in such fantastic performance. It Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. , quentiy jods are iuuuu *w-‘- Broad street Augusta. G» e r * cants during, or shortly after, the * they ” the county. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined •ily ! on ^-week To relieve Misery of COLDS _ _ , waiting period left the WPA without listing my must serve before becoming eli specific reason for leaving, f ice 1 gibie for benefits, tbo need for employment wa • es- > The commission emphasized tablished before those people that unemployment compensation could qualify for WPA employ- is NOT a form of relief. It is ment, Mr. Pinckney said, the need strictly an insurance—the em- for employment must still exist ployers paying the “premium.” _ COUGH DRt, * for the vast majority of them, which last year was at the rate of Try “Rub-My-Tism” - a Wonderful, On this basis, he said, it may ue 2.7 per cent of payrolls. j Liniment LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DRO does demand common sense, mod erate living habits, including care in diet, with a dfiily supply of the so-called protective foods, plenty of fresh air without any blasts of icy wind, clothing that is warm enough for comfort but not too warm for steam heated homes and offices, sufficient daily exer cise, regularity of routine and plenty of rest. These are the things that do more than all the ™; medicines in the world to help the ' body build up resistance against ' colds or any other sort of infec- I tion. —Buy Defense Bonds— 1 i READ THE AD$ Along With the News