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/ 4 1*12* KB McCORMTCK MESSENGER, McCORMTCK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 2, 1942 ■cCORMCK MESSENGER rablished Every Thursday t Established lime 5, IMS J5 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, F Editor and Owner EMered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, s. C., as mail matter of ' the second class. KOBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Blx Months .75 Throe Months.50 GARDEN WORK FOR APRIL The most important result of producing vegetables on the farm is the improvement which may be expected in the health and food habits of the family—not- the sav ing of money spent for those sup-, plies. Medical authorities and food specialists say that to be healthy and strong and active,; week end. He had come from a TODAY mm! Don Robinson YOUTH .... Comfort Before the war started, one of the favoriate subjects of discus sion was whether the young men of this country were too soft to make good soldiers. Perhaps we have not been in the war long enough yet to have thoroughly tested the toughness of all our young men, but we have already had plenty of fortitude and heroic action to prove th£t at least some of them are made of the same fiber as their much- tooted ancestors. Last week a young soldier who has been in camp for several months visited my home for the one should eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. Hints : Do not allow tomato plants to grow long-legged. Transplant them to other boxes or frames and give each plant room to be come stout-stemmend and stocky. If well hardened they may be set in the open ten days earlier. In setting tomato plants dd not follow the old rule of setting only as deep as they stood in the seed bed. This is not deep enough. A good tomato plant is about eight inches from the root to the top, and about as large as a lead pen- dLL Set the plants so that half the stem is below the surface of the ground. Plants set in this manner will have roots enough to resist drought, besides roots will come along the part of the stem that is under the ground. Early kinds of vegetables that were planted in February and March, such as beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, kale, lettuce, mustard, peas, spinach, etc., need to be cultivated frequently and thoroughly, and should be given a side dressing of nitrate of soda. Scatter this between the rows without getting it on the plants. Cultivate the ground with a wheel hoe.' You can kill as many weeds and pulverize as much crust in an hour with a wheel hoe as you can in at least three hours with an old- fashioned weeding hoe. In order that an unbroken sup ply may be had, make another planting of the vegetables planted during March. Beets and onions from seed may be transplanted when they are too thick and miss ing places filled or new rows set. Make plantings now of the fol lowing vegetables: (If in upper Piedmont, plant April 15:) Beans: Gaint Stringless Green farm in Texas and is now being and fortitude by years of easy liv ing, to give up their luxuries and comforts. Most of us realise by now that the sacrifices we have been hear ing about for the past two years are no false rumors. There was a time when a lot of us just listen ed and decided we’d worry about them when they came — and if they came. Some are still hoping at this late hour that something will happen which will suddenly bl8w the black clouds of sacrifice in some other direction . . and are living accordingly. This tendency to cling to things as they were until the last possi ble moment appears to be a lot more prevalent among parents than among their boys of military age. The boys are volunteering, many of them, just as they did 20 * years ago, Jsut many of their parents are resisting to the last any move to volunteer for the role which they must eventually play in this all-out war. There’s not much doubt that the boys in the army will give every thing they have to win this war. Let’s hope their parents will do likewise. —Buy Defense Bonds— v_v School Saturday given a thorough training course in aviation mechanics. The whole army life to him was a wonderful opportunity. He was enthusiastic over the training he j Field Day Exercises was getting—a course which would rvii aat* tt* i have cost him thousands of dol- JtlelCl At iVlllllS Lllgl lars in ordinary times and here the army was paying him to take it. He felt better than he had ever felt in his life. The food was I The Annual Field Day exercises swell,” the boys he was meeting were held at the Mims (colored) were real friends, the physical ex- High School of which W. S. Mims ercise was making a new man out is principal, on Saturday, March of him. j 28. J. T. U. Mims, principal of the Bell Street High , School of OPPORTUNITY . complaints j Clinton, was the main speaker on While this young soldier was the program.* visiting me, his buddy, who at- Ten schools of the county had tended the same training school excellent exhibits displaying the and was living the same life, was various types of work being done visiting at the home of a friend Along with the notebooks, fancy of mine. After the soldiers had sewing, rugs, mats, etc., were no left we checked notes. ted miniature air planes, tanks, Their soldier had come from a wagons, trucks, and many evi- city. His folks were well off and dences of patriotic and other his life had been an easy one. He worthwhile training activities, objected to being pushed through Mims school exhibit was awarded a course in six months which first place, Pine Grove, Plum ought to take two years. The work Branch, second place, and Spring- was too hard. The food was ter- field school, third place. rible. The sleeping accommoda-1 x tions were crowded and uncom- STATT: OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMIS SION, COLUMBIA, MARCH 26, 1942. __ _ _ MT 304 IN RE: DOCKET NO. 1993 — The application of Blue & White Bus Lines, Inc., Greenwood, S. C., for Class A Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to ren der motor bus service over the following routes: 1. Between Greenwood and Honea Path, S. C., via Ware Shoals and returr via Hodges, over U. S. Highway No. 25, State Highway No. 39 and U. S. Highway No. 178, distance of 30 miles. 2. Between Greenwood and Mc Cormick, S. C., over State High way No. 10, a distance of 25 miles. 3. Between Greenwood and Drennan’s Store, approximately 5 miles beyond Abbeville, over State Highway No. 7, a distance of 20 miles. 4. Alternate for No. 3.—Between Greenwood and Drennan’s Store, (approximately 5 miles beyond Ab beville) and return from Abbeville via State Highways No. 7 and 702) a distance of 22 miles. 5. Between Greenwood and Ninety Six, S. C., over County Farm road and S. C. Highway No. 22, and return over State High way No. 22, a distance of 10 miles. 6. Between Greenwood and the Dr. Self Place on U. S. Highway No. 25, and return via Callison, over State Highways Nos. 43, 67 and U. S. Highway No. 25, a dis tance of 22 miles. 7. Between Greenwood and Wise’s Store on U. S. Highway No. 178, approximately 25 miles/ A public hearing in the above entitled matter will be held in the Commsision’s offices in the Wade Hampton State Office Bldg., Co lumbia, S. C.. at 10:30 A. M„ EWT, Thursday, April 16, 1942, for the purpose of determining the re quirements of public convenience and necessity. W. W. GOODMAN, Director, Motor Transport Division. FOOD ESSENTIAL AS ARMAMENT mm mmi Mmm FINAL SETTLEMENT fortabe. II3 wanted them to write Save Vegetable to the government and complain Q /I -. XT 1 about conditions at the camp. oeeClSI IVlaKe But the soldier who was doing Anril Plaiit^iura all of the objecting was getting! -IT Id IJ lingo excellent marks in his courses, was working hard at them in spite of | Clemson, March 28.—Don’t eat his objections—and when it came the last collard or the last tur- to the Japs—he too was just nip, A. E. Schilletter, extension counting the days until he could horticulturist advises; you might get his hands on them. need the seed that these. left-over It is natural, with a group of slants would produce. boys who have been brought up under totally different circum stances, that some find it a lot more difficult than others to cope with the army life. As in the last war, there will be some who will Pod and Bountiful. Sow in open j find things to object to wherever 1 1-2 inches deep, one quart to 100 feet. Rows 2 1-2 feet apart. Three to four beans to every eight to 10 inches. Pole Beans: Kentucky Wonder, Cornfield. Sow in hills three by three. Lima . Beans: Henderson Bush Lima or Wood’s Prolific, (pole) Carolina Pole or Seiva Bean. One pint to 100 feet. Rows 2 1-2 feet. Seed sown thinly in drill. Pole Lima, one-half pint to 100 feet. Seed sown 1 1-2 inches deep in hills two feet by three feet. Squash: Yellow Crookneck, Ear ly White Bush. Hills four feet by four feet. Cucumber: Early Fortune, Stays For Green, Boston Pickling. Hills five feet by five feet. Okra: Clemson Spineless, Per kins Mammoth. Sow seed one inch they turn and others will consid er it all a great adventure. STRENGTH .... test But in spite of their complaints, there is little doubt that many of those who don’t fit easily into the army routine are basically just as healthy and strong as the others, and when it comes to fighting the enemies of the country in which they have led such comfortable lives they will feel that they have even more to fight for than those w r ho have had to struggle for a living. In a recent “Town Meeting of the Air” radio. program a high school girl condemned the young men of her generation as being silly, lazy and lacking in all interest of the affairs of the wrorld. She feared for the future deep, two ounces to 100 feet. Rows when our CO untry would be run 2 1-2 feet apart. Plant six inches to 10 inches apart in drill. Com: Trucker’s Favorite, Stow- ell’s Evergreen, Golden Cross Ban- by the boys and girls of her gen eration. This war will certainly serve as a test of the calliber of the young tom. Sow seed one inch deep. (men who h ave been brought up Rows 2 1-2 feet apart. Seed sown . n ^ ie “ SO ft er ” circumstances of in either hills or thinly in drill. , the cen t ur y but from the Transplant tomato, sweet pota- con ^ ac ^ s j have had with them, I to, eggplant, pepper to open field can >^ s hare any fears about their after April 15th. capability. Their lives may have Matilda Bell, j been comparatively easy, but their County Home Dem. Agent. intelligence, ambitions, health anci fair-mindedness probably ! surpass any generation which has preceded them. OR HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glassea Professionally Fitted. Wrnprt Augusta On READ THE AD$ Alon? With the News PARENTS .... doubts Mothers and fathers who worry about the softness of the younger generation might be better off to give more concern to the softness of themselves and their friends. In the tough times that are coming soon, it is going to be a difficult struggle for the millions of modern parents, who have in jured their health and strength With the great likelihood of scarcity of garden seeds, partic ularly tufnips, mustard, collards, etc., Schilletter thinks it impor tant that all farm gardeners save a few plants of these vegetables now going to seed and allow them to mature. These can be gathered when mature, stored until well dried, and the seed separated from the pod easily. In the same way throughout the summer, he suggests, such garden seed as can be saved should be gathered to provide against short ages of seed that have heretofore come from foreign countries. In making garden suggestions for April Schilletter reminds farm people that the most important result of producing vegetables on he farm is the improvement which may be expected in health and food habits of the family rather than the financial saving, though that is important. Medi cal and nutrition authorities in sist on plenty of vegetables and fruit to make healthy and strong bodies. For April planting the horticul turist suggests Giant Stringless Greenpod and Bountiful * beans; Kentucky Wonder and Cornfield pole beans; Henderson’s Bush li ma or Wood’s Prolific butter- beans; Carolina or Sieva pole but- terbeans; Yellow Crookneck or Early White Bush squash; Early Fortune, Stays Green, or Boston Pickling cucumbers; 1 Clemson Spineless or Perkins Mammoth okra; and Trucker’s Favorite, Sto- well’s Evergreen, or Golden Cross Bantam corn. In the upper Pied mont these should go in after Aprli 15. Tomato, pepper, eggplant, and sweet potato plants may be trans planted into the open field after April 15. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. Notice is hereby given that An sel Hamlin, Executor of the es tate of R. Claude Talbert, de ceased, has this day made ap plication unto me for a final ac counting and discharge as such Executor, and the 20th day of April, 1942, at 10 o’clock, A. M., has been fixed for the hearing of said 'petition. All persons holding claims a- gainst said estate are hereby no tified to present same on or by above date. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. March 20th, 1942.—4t. ntfttHSmmw fST Jf/ '' 1 ? uallzln g a continued life of liberty and freedom, realize their vital importance in producing food and fiber for the armed h workers of America. The above illustration is being used by the State Department of Agriculture as a cover design their annual report and has been furnished us through t' e couitcs- of Agriculture Commissioner J. Roy Jcneq , ' nrou g n r -- e couitcsr “Food for Victory—The Farmer is the First Line of L :fc tse.” ABO VE ^HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL GARDEN AND FIELD SEED See us for cheapest prices on all garden and field seeds. Giant Striata Crotalaria, Cotton Seed, Cane Seed, Dallis Grass, Field Corn. WALTON SEED CO. 737 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Ga. WANT ADV. FOR SALE—Three mare mules, weighing from 1,050 1,100 to 1,200 oounds; all plow tools, one good two-horse Webber wagon; also cotton seed for planting. W. A. Winn. R. 1. Plum Branch, S. C. FOR SALE—Five-piece bedroom suite; one large iron bed, two sin gle iron beds, all with springs and mattresses; one five-piece break fast room suite; and one large kitchen range; one child’s kiddie kooo. Mrs. A. C. Barnhart, Mc Cormick, S. C. FOR SALE — Truck load of, Planting Cotton Seed; one year materials and men—we can from Coker’s; treated; grown in day next door to D. C. Talbert’s store. M. M. Wall, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE—Improved Louisiana Yam Sweet Potato Plants, State inspected, for delivery after 10th of April, at $2.00 per thousand, at my home. C. E. Wilkie, R. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. MEN AND MATERIAL WILL WIN There is a saying that “money alone won’t win the war.” This is true—but money and men will win it. By “money” is meant those things which money creates—ma terials. Ever since this war started our side has been handicapped by a scarcity of the materials of war— airplanes, tanks, etc. Practically every major engagement which the enemy has won has been che result of a preponderance and superiority of equipment. Our complaint has been “too little— too late.” Now the time is approaching when we will be on a par with our enemies as to both materials and men. And it won’t be long after that when our armies will be larger and better armed than the enemy, and backed t>y much greater reserves of both men and arms. If the U. S. were planted in the niiddle of Europe, it would be quite a different matter, for the reason that our factories also would be continually under fire; or in dire need of basic materials, or in danger from invading armies. “The Arsenal of Democracy” is an appropriate term for this country. As soon as our factories are going at full blast on war materials alone, they may be grinding out as much fighting e- quipment as ail the rest of the world combined: and if the Ger- nans and Japanese can win cam paigns with a preponderance of do the same. Unless this war devel ops airplanes which can fly 10,- 000 miles without refueling and thus be capable of harrying our efforts or unless we relax to such an extent that we lay ourselves open to invasion—we will be able to exceed in production anything our enemies could even dream of. -Tactically our only danger would ae the saboteur—and he never gets very far. He may destroy a few planes and a few factories; but half a’dozen lamppost execu tions soon put the fear into the most daring. There is nothing new in all this: wars are practically always won by the side which can continue pouring in the greatest number of men and the greatest amount of weapons. The smaller and less rich participant may cut a deep swathe in the early stages—particularly when he has prepared himself and when his bigger enemy has not. But as time goes on the smaller opponent uses up his best men and his best material and finally the day arrives when he must “carry on” with second rate sol diers and insufficient and low grade armaments. The German armies which marched into Russia were more formidable than those same armies are today—and be fore the pending “spring cam paign” is over, the difference will be even more pronounced. The big, rich side can always win if it can “take it” and keep plugging away. However, it will win so much the sooner if the people have faith in its manage ment and call a halt on uncon- structive criticism for the dura tion. —Buy Defense Bonds— The program will culminate with annual High School Week at the 6,000 Pupils To Compete In S. C. University of South Carolina Apcil x 1 . , '29 through May 1 when final . PRINTING » to Ord er at o ur PRINT SHOP mick, S. C. FOR SALE-Fresh load of mules' ,rom cv< ' ry P art of the state wil1 and mares. J. L. Smith, McCor- Participate In the mental contest program of the South Carolina High School League this spring. More than 9,700 separate tests have been mailed to participating schools by the personnel bureau of the University of South Carolina to be administered in preliminary examinations March 30 through 1 April 2. Many students will com- jpete in several fields. League Contests 1 state-wide winners will be de> termined. In addition to mental contests. High School Week wii feature state finals in forensics and athletics. Columbia, March 30. — Approxi mately 6,000 high school pupils TO SELL ’EM, TELL ’EM- With An Ad At least five contestants will be selected to represent each of the League’s 13 districts in finals of each of the 18 mental contest fields except short story writing. One of the general scholarship final winners will be awarded the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship to the University of South CaroUna, a- mounting to $100 per year for four years.