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GOOD AND BAD NEWS
Ever since Pearl Harbor we have
been wandering up emotional
hills and down emotional dales.
Over the radio we hear the
sweet music of victories and a few
days later the bitter report? .of
defeats. The victories excite us
with the anticipation of a quick
ending of the war and we cheer
fully 1 envision a better life just
around the comer. The defeat?
send us hurtling into despondency
wherein we picture a war without
end, misery beyond comprehen
sion and a future which is night
marish in all aspects.
If this is a long war, as there
is every reason to expect it to be,
these mental ups and downs are
going to wear our nerves to
frazzles. ' We need to learn to
take our victories with more
grains of salt and our defeats
with stronger dashes of hope, so
far as their effect on the perma
nent outcome of the war are con
cemed. We should remember
that in a world-wide war, it will
take hundreds of victories to win
and even more defeats to lose.
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LOOKING AHEAD
Everybody in this country re
grets that when we were at peace
we weren’t foresighted enough to
prepare for war. Now that we
are at war, let us hope that we
will at least realize the impor
tance of, preparing for peace.
The peace that follows the war
can be, to the people of this
country, a wonderful adventure
in a scale of living higher than
we have ever known before. Or
it can be almost worse than war
itself.
Which kind of peace we will
have will depend largely on what
men are appointed now to work
out the master plan which will
keep our economy functioning at
full speed when the war produc
tion ends. Men like Donald Nel
son are doing a fine job of han
dling the war job—but let us hope
that a group of equally intelli
gent, efficient and visionary men
will soon be assigned the job of
planning for the post-war period.
xx—
County’s July
War Bond Quota
Is Made Public
The citizens of McCormick
County will be asked to buy $8,800
in war bonds this month, it is
announced by the county war
savings committee.
This is the largest quota for
the county so far set, but in every
county in the.nation the quotas
have been stepped up, under the
United States Treasury's • plan to
raise a billion dollars a month by
the sale of bonds.
Among the plans devised to help
reach the monthly quota is the
new ,“Ten Per Cent Club” plan.
Under this, all citizens who possi
bly can are asked to invest at least
10 per cent of their monthly In
come in bonds*- Those who do
will receive buttons signifying
that they are going along to
that extent ^n this great effort to
finance the war and stave off the
spectre of inflation.
W. P. Bowers, state war bond
administrator, in a statement at
Columbia, said the Treasury hopes
that many will invest more than
10 per cent a month, but that
there will be a special effort to
have all do at least that.
South Carolina exceeded its
May and June quotas, and to do
that had to buy more than its
monthly average of purchases be
fore that time. Mr. Bowers re-
, gards this as “a fine and .patriotic
achievement” on the part of the
citizens of the state.
The July quota for the state is
the largest yet, being $4,320,000,
as against the quota of $3,351,000
for June.
TODAY
mnd
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
TTiere is no real cash In cash
crops on eroded, fertility-bereft
-soil. ^ ^
WASTERS . . . . scrap
Our nation is attempting to dis
prove the old theory that people
can’t live off of their own fat.
Having been cut off from our
source of supply for many of the
materials vital to war production,
we are trying to feed the hungry
machines of war by picking up
the scrap which spilled over from
our lavish peace-time tables.
We can no longer obtain rubber
from our former 10,000-mile-away
source of supply, so we are gath
ering it up from our own back
yards.
We can no longer get fats and
oils from the Far East, so we are
collecting them from the kitchens
of American homes.
We are unable to <fig iron out
of the earth fast enough to quench
war’s thirst for steel, so we are
amassing quantities of it from the
scrap piles on top of the earth.
It seems to be proving fortunate
that we have been the world’s
greatest nation of wasters. If it
had been otherwise—if we had
been too thrifty with materials in
the past—many of our war pro
duction machines would now be
on the verge of starvatipn.
BUNGLING . .' responsibility
I’ll be glad to agree with any
body who says there has been an
enormous amount of bungling by
government officials in getting the
scrap in and dn handling ration
ing.
But no matter how much of a
mess the officials may make of
it, that is no excuse whatsoever
for us to relax, in doing our part.
We know our country must have
rubber. We know it can’t get rub
ier from. foreign sources or
through synthetic processes in
time to fill war needs, let alone
civilian n_ds. The only possibil
ity of coming close to filling our
war peeds is for us to turn in
millions of tons of the rubber we
have in our homes. ,
The plan for trying to get this
■crap rubber in between June 15
and June 30 can compete with the
gasoline rationing system and the
sugar rationing fiasco for the gov
ernment’s prize bungle of the year.
Asking people in the East to take
their rubber to gasoline stations,
when 90 per cent of the stations
were closed because they didn’t
Pave any gas to sell, is only one
of the outstanding qualifications
his plan boasts for winning the
prize.
But if the government pulls a
boner like that we can’t just sit
back and laugh or swear about it
and toss our rubber back Into the
cellar. If the government can’t
figure out how to get ’ rubber
rom us, we must figure out how
to get it to the government.
We know there is a rubber fam
ine. Whether the officials help us
or hold us back, we must figure
out how to get our rubber where
it is needed in the quickest possi
ble time.
THRIFT .... conservation
It is lucky that we have been
v/asters. But it will be the most
tragic thing that ever happened
to us if we continue. We must
now change overnight and become
as thrifty as the most joked about
Scotchman.
V A friend of mine who visited
in Germanw way back in 1924 told
me of the great respect for mate
rials which the Germans showed
even then. When he started to
throw a piece of string in a waste
basket, a German told him, ~”We
don’t throw things like that a-
‘way here.” He found the Ger
mans were trained to conserve ev
ery scrap of metal, rubber and
other materials which Americans
have always tossed away without
a second thought.
It’s going to be hard for us to
learn to save things like a piece
of string, a rusty can, old rubber
heels, the dog’s rubber bone,
broken hammers and dull razor
blades. But unless we all do this
as if our life depended on it right
now, we may find, when it is too
late, that our lives actually did
depend on it.
NEW YORK . . . Kansas
Rural America, all figures show,
is doing a much better job in get
ting in the scrap than are the
people of the cities. •
One reason for that is that
country people have more scrap—
but the chief reason is that coun
try people are better Americans
than a lot of metropolitanites. In
the cities the people do a lot of
patriotic shouting, but in the
country there is much more patri-
jtic acting.
The states of New York and
Pennslyvania were probably the
most anxious to get into this war
before it started. The states of
Kansas and Montana were among
the anti-war leaders. But now
that we are in the war and the
future of our pountry is at stake,
'.t’s those isolationist states which
are really doing a job and the
“big-talk” cities are merely talk
ing louder.
As I write this column, the latest
sci*ap figures show the people of
Kansas have turned in 20 times
as much rubber per person as the
people of New York, and the peo
ple of Montana (isolationist
Wheeler’s state) have turned in
80 times as much per person as
the people of Pennsylvania.
If the. figures were broken down
further, they would probably show
rural New York and Pennsylvania
doing their share. But so far a lot
of the city people seem to be just
standing on the sidelines cheering
as the rest of the country goes to
war.
txi
Six Inch Sermon
BIT REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
Adam and Eve: Temptation and
Sin.
Lesson for Jnly 12: Genesis 3:1-
13; 23, 24.
Golden Text: Ezekiel 18:4.
Strikingly the tempter is de
scribed as a serpent—which glides
noiselessly over the ground and
as silently strikes, sending venom
into the victim. Correctly Eve
confessed that the serpent be
guiled her. And it is tragic
enough that the insinuating na
ture of sin is often realized after
one has been deceived.
Adam laid the blame on Eve,
she laid the blame on the ser
pent, and ever since sinners have
tried to lay the blame on others.
But though the tempter deceives
men, men cannot deceive God; he
lays the blame where it belongs—
in the heart that yields to sin.
Men have wondered why God
allowed sin to enter the world.
The development of moral
character requires the freedom of
choice between good and evil.
Adam and Eve made the wrong
choice and thus sin entered. The
pair were soon disillusioned. Their
eyes were opened but to the ugly
nature and penalty of sin. They
realized they were naked and
helpless before God. His presence
terrified them. Volumes might
be written on the misery of a
guilty conscience.
God drove Adam and Eve out
of the garden, lest they eat of
the tree of life. Eternal life in
sin would be a greater tragedy
than eternal death. So the pair
took their mournful way from the
gate of a lost Eden, but with the
first promise of redemption—
that their posterity should bruise
the serpent’s head. And in that
promise of redemption, amplified
and fulfilled in Christ, let us know
that the sin which entered the
world in the beginning may be
trampled under foot by those of
believing hearts.
x
IN THE
WOMAN of the Week: Mary An
derson has a right to be pleased
by the report that there are now
about 20,000 women employed in
the aircraft industry and some
80,000 more in munitions plants.
As director of the Women’s bu
reau of the U. S. department of
labor she began a year or so ago,
through training and surveys, to
create important “woman power”
resources for war production. Now
over 100,000 women throughout
the nation are making practically
everything from sleeping bags to
machine guns. And it seems
likely that before long 100,000
women will be employed in the
#iWar Comes to Town
YOUR CAR OR TRUCK WILL LAST LONGER IF YOU HAVE IT
SERVICED REGULARLY—SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER
He has trained mechanics*
• • • He uses quality mate
rials* • • • He performs all
service operations at reason
able rates. • • • It pays to see
your Chevrolet dealer for
car-saving service because.
for years, Chevrolet dealers
have had the largest num
ber of trade-ins and, there
fore, the widest experience
in servicing all makes and
models. • • • Better have a
check-up today.
Originator and Outstanding Leader "CAR CONSERVATION PLAN ’
McGrath motor
INC.
McCORMICK, S. C.
aircraft industry alone.
* * *
CLIPPER CREW: As chief stew
ardess of the American Export
lines plane which late last month
completed its initial commercial
flight from England, Dorothy C.
Bohanna was the first woman
member of the trans-Atlantic
flight crew. A native of Brooklyn,
she was formerly assigned to reg
ular commercial flights.
* * *
SIGNS OF THE TIMES: A for
mer nail polish factory is now
making bomber fittings . . Ac
tress Helen Hayes revealed an
other talent when she reported
:or war work as a volunteer
witchboard operator . . . Adeline
3ray offered to make a jump to
test a parachute made of. nylon.
* * *
SH-H! CAMPAIGN: So well were
the plans to raid Japan guarded
that Mrs. James H. Doolittle knew
nothing of her husband’s flight
to Tokyo until she accompanied
him to Washington, where he re
ceived the Congressional Medal . .
. And the other day she urged del
egates from 33 national womens
organizations to campaign againsi
loose talk, idle rumors and what
she called “a whale of a lot ot
chatter.”
* * *
SUNNY SIDE UP: That job you
have to drag yourself to on a Mon
day morning could be a whole lo
worse . . Emil Davies, chairman
of the London county council, iolc
a group of American lawyers that -
the average London stenographer
considers herself lucky if, after an
air raid, she can still get running
water! \
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