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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 16, 1942 ) McCORMICK MESSENGER L * MMished Every Thursday ■rtabiished Jane ft, 1MI fS.;. JT 1 BDMON1} J. McCRACKEN, r Editor and Owner ^ilinrffl at the Poet Office at Me- Oermick, 8. C M as mail matter of the second class. ! • \ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ] Qne Tear j $1.00 ’ mx Months .75 Three Months JSO EVERY VOTER WHO EXPECTS TO VOTE THIS YEAR MUST ENROLL It makes no difference how many times you may have voted in the past, if you do hot enroll again this year, you CANNOT vote In the first primary which will be held on August 25. Reports indicate that the enroll ment in this county is rather light so far, and the time for enrolling is getting short, as the books close on Tuesday, July 28th. Each voter must enroll for him self or herself, and if this hasn’t been done yet, and ypu want to vote in the primary in August, now would be a good time to attend to this. The books close in just a little over, a week from now, and the time will slip a- round in a hurry. xx A LUMP OF COAL Bigger Bumps Are Yet to Come Take a lump of coal in your hand. It certainly isn’t pretty. jx doesn’t even look useful. But coil is one of tho^e extraordinary products which w:!I revolution ize the world of the future. Out oi coalyfconies None kind of synthetic rubber—and America’s highly-developed coal industry will be an important factor in eventually solving the grave rub ber problem. Out of coal come many plastics —and we're just on the verge of the “plastic age” today. AU- plastic cars, all-plastic airplanes, all-plastic furniture—these are but a few of the amazing develop- I OFFICIALS . . predictions ments. " The war will last ten years, it American Industry and Ameri- will be over In six months, our can inventive and chemical genius country will be attacked, there is are opening up vast new horizons. | no chance of it being attacked, Miraclts are in the making. 1 txt TODAY aad TOMORROW B/DON ROBINSON RUBBER FOR HITLER win we are outproducing the rest of the world and our production is way below what it should be. If that sentence is a little tlie (confusing, please pardon it—I’m just repeating the “inside dope” the 11 got f rom talking to officials Everybody wants to war. Everybody knows one of vital ingredients of our war ef- r in “Washington, fort is rubber. j also i earne( j that the rubber Everybody knows rubber can’t shortage is a lot of poppycock be obtained from normal sources an( j that we may be entirely out and that the country is depend- L f rubber in a y y ear; ^ y ugar upon our scrap rubber to fill rationing is necessary because Its needs. our imports are cut off and that Therefow, it would be logics,! there is no sense in sugar ration- to assume that everybody would i n g since the nation’s sugar bins just naturally search every nook are having ^th sugar; that the and cranny of their property and rubber shortage and the sugar turn in every last piece of rub- nuisance are entirely the fault ber that could be uncovered. of the oil interests, of the alcohol But so far, although a lot of rubber has been turned in, there are still many people who have I culture postponed doing anything about it and others have only done a halfway Job. interests, of Mr. Ickes, of con gress, of the department of agri- FACTS As for the war- -if . fiction I am per- Maybe we don’t take this de-1 mitt^d by censorship to reveal mand for rubber seriously enough, such vital information—the *Brit- Maybe some of us are just plain ish are definitely going to open lazy. But whatever the excuse, a second front this summer; let’s remember that any scrap there is no chance that the Brit- rubber which remains in our homes instead of being turned in to war industry is a valuable contribution to Hitler’s war chest. X “In the United States we wel- >.sh will attempt a second front this year; the Japanese have been greatly weakened by our sea vic tories and other attacks; the Japanese are now stronger than hey were at the beginning of the war; the Russians can’t hold out against the Germans and the Germans never will be able to defeat the Russians; the French ire about to revolt against Ger man rule and the French are ready to go to war on the side of come the changes in our agricul tural plant that war has com pelled, for we believe that the result will be a sounder agricul tural economy. Many people of our nation have never eaten enough milk, poultry, and fruits. —Home production of protein and | Axis vitamin-rich foods assures better | Having learned nutrition. We have found that malnutrition is as common on the farm as in cities. The answer is increased consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs, and milk products.”— Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture. \ Voo -J SWoutoj TRADE’ | BLOW YOUR OWN HORN In The Advertising Columns OF THIS NEWSPAPER all of these vital facts, I talked with a fairly prominent official about what I should say to newspaper readers to inspire them to play a more helpful part in our country’s war effort. His advice was for me to do everything possible to urge the people to stop criticizing our government. “Everyone down here,” he said, “is doing his level best. Mistakes are made, but in general it should be made clear that every department is doing an excellent job. Look at what Donald Nelson is doing, for in stance.” NELSON exhibit Donald Nelson, I found, has be come Exhibit A of Washingion ef ficiency and accomplishment. When other officials pull boners ‘DIVIDE AND CONQUER’ If somebody harshly criticizes an Ally during wartime, it does not, necessarily indicate that that someone is a saboteur in the di rect pay of the enemy and that he should be shot before break fast. But if that criticism tends to weaken the unity which must exist between Allies, if they are to be successful; then it aids the enemy to the extent that it in fluences those who hear it. While the British were fighting a desperate and successful battle to prevent an invasion of their homeland, they were all “super men” and “superwomen” but at the time of this writing it is the popular pastime to abuse them daily and vitriolically for the fail ure to stop the drive 6f Rommel’s forces in North Africa. In fact the “picking” hks attained a volume and a complexion out of all rea- onable proportion; and it is quite possible that subversive persons are trying to make a regular cam paign out of it. This sort of thing is one of the most troublesome enemies a na tion has to combat in time of war. In a Democracy, where free .speech is fortunately still the vogue, it can only be controlled by the ef forts of the individual patriot with the common sense to realize that wars are won by creating discord in “the camp of the enemy.” In a nation like Germany, where instant measures can be—and are —taken against anyone who in terferes in any way with the war effort, the solution to problems such as this is quick and simple. The government merely lets it be known that the act of breeding or fostering internal, or inter-al lied, friction is, “out” for the du ration. It is not difficult to imag ine how the people of Germany feel about their Ally Italy—or vice versa; but the probability is that these feelings are not even dis cussed in the bosom of a family. Americans don’t need to be shot against walls to stop them “dis cord breeding”; All they need is the knowledge and realization that the Axis can win this war Jf they can create a sufficient a- mount of antagonism between the Allies, or if they can breed serious internal discord in one of the more powerful of the Allied coun tries. It is very difficult to refrain from jumping all over an Ally when he takes what seems to the layman - to be an avoidable beat ing from the common foe. It must have been difficult for the British to refrain from subscrib ing to the very same self-criti cisms in which we indulged after Pearl Harbor. It must be hard for the Russians and the Chinese to “lay off” the British and the A- mericans for the mistakes which they make. It must be an* awful strain on the Germans to keep their mouths shut every time the Italians “flop.” But it is done in the other countries and it has got to be done here: and the sooner we learn this oldest lesson in war fare—the sooner we will win to victory. We Americans would much rather go without sugar and gasoline for the duration than stop talking. But if we don’t stop talking—thoughtlessly — we may never have any sugar or gasoline. It is up to the individual. Each one of us should constitute him self* or herself a “hot-air raid- warden.” of criti- which invite a barrage cism, no matter how unrelated to war production a boner may be, critics are met with a scornful re minder that Donald Nelson is part of the government they are crit icizing and he is doing a master ful job of getting war materials produced. There is no doubt that Mr. Nel son is doing a remarkable job — lut the things we criticize, such as the sugar and gasoline ration- ' ig confusion, have nothing what ever to do with Mr. Nelson. He s simply being marched out when n example of Washington eff*- iency is needed in the hope that nefficiency of others will be over shadowed by the glowing accom plishments of the head r .i the Var Production board. ”n war time, it is true, wc TRUCK TIRES RECAPPED We have all sizes rubber. Send us your tires and rationing certificates, or see John Warren. HOLLOWAYDOUGHTY 811 Ellis Street. Augusta, Ga. Tractor Tires Repaired. * HEATS, LAMB, FISH, CHMS ABB EIM Ours is a First-Class Meat Market with a good variety of Fresh Meats, % * • l such as Pork, Beef, Lamb, Veal, Dress- I ed Chickens and Fresh Country Eggs every day, and various kinds of Fish on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We deliver. JESTER’S CASH MARKET PHONE 25 McCORMICK, S. C. should probably all try to work to gether as one big family, we should follow the advice of our leaders and make a real effort to co-operate with every pjiase of the war program. But the heads of the family need to get together more than they have so far. !(n any family, when the parents fight among themselves, it is impossi ble for the children to be obedi ent. SECRETS lips Anyone visiting Washington is mmediately impressed by the tnovv-it-allness of the third and !ourth assistants to the assistant tead of practically any depart- lent. These men, feeling the bn- mrtanc of their official connec- ion with the government, realize hat they must impart tasty nor-1 Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. t • No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. sels of secret information if they hope to make any impression whatsoever on their visitors. So, with warnings not to repeat what they tell you, they reveal that Roosevelt has told his inner circle the war will last ten years but doesn’t think the time is ripe to pass this information on to the people, that Ma Perkins and Ma Roosevelt are on the outs, that a prominent member of the govern ment is tied up with the Nazis, that the FBI is expecting trouble in certain factories—or any other stories which they can concoct, or that other fourth assistants have confided in them, which give the impression that they spend most of their time in the inner chamber of the White House. It has reached the point now where you needn’t go any further than to the nearest taxi driver to »et the real lowdown on our na tion’s most guarded war secrets. The only trouble is that every taxi driver has a different story, as has every thiyd and fourth assistant. Those posters we see everywhere these days warning us “to button up our lips” and not spread ru mors because an enemy agent may be listening, offer sound advice. But in Washington the trouble seems to be that all lips are made without buttons. txt Problems Of Farmers In War Emergency Clemson Extension Report Re views Progress Of War Ef- • fort On Farms Clemson, July 11. — The war emergency has added to the prob lems of farm people; it has in creased the emphasis upon those activities that will contribute most directly to victory in the war. Di rector D. W. Watkins of the Clem son Extension Service, said here today, calling attention to the an nual report of the Extension Ser vice for 1941 just off the press. The annual report, titled Victory", outlines the extension program and pre sents specific facts and figures showifig results of efforts to es tablish improved practices of farming and rural life. It is at tractively illustrated. Copies may be had through county agents or directly from the Publications De partment at Clemson. “During the past several years the Extension Service, through its field force of county agents, home demonstration agents, and spe cialists, has stressed the develop ment of a program of Better Farm Living on South Carolina farms,” Director Watkins explained. “This program has been aimed at the production of the food and feed necessary for the proper nutri tion of all farm people of the state; the efficient production and marketing of high quality crops, livestock and livestock products to provide the necessary income for an adequate standard of farm living; land tenure relationships; and other activities toward the de velopment of satisfactory farm and community life. “To this long-time Better Farm Living program, the Extension Service has, for the duration of the war, added an intensive pro gram designed to assist farmers in producing, in addition to their ‘ farm and home needs, the prod ucts necessary to meet the goals that have been established for the state. In this program all ac tivities of the Extension Service have been carefully scrutinized and the emphasis placed upon those that do their part efficient ly in the production of those products, needed by the nation at war.” NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AT YOUR SERVICE TOvHELP YOU SELL-