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*>A- / V- *' . U ■ •.; : . V ;> ■ ' ' * , ■ ■• i . . ' .•*••', •Hr-*a. I H CAROLINA Thursday, August 27, 1942 rfi'- .. • s * N IlHIlWEEIt IN * * * . * y uni Washington, D. C., Aug. ,24.— (NWNB)—^Political ^‘experts,” who believed that the charge of pre war isolationism would be a t eath-blow to any candidate for political office, axe still puzzling ^/er the success of isolationist candidates, such as Hamilton Fish uf New York and John M. Vorys of Ohio, in the recent primary elections. Explanations have been running ''hick and fast, but there is no doubt that the anti-New Dealers are elated by these victories and die New Dealers are plainly worried. The anti-New Dealers are pleased because they see these re sults as clear evidence that the jters, in spite of their support of 4 he war programs, are not going to vote according to advice from /ashington. The New Dealers, on the other hand, are disturbed on two aits: (1) that they may not get the majority they anticipated in . ae coming election, and (2) that the support of pre-war isolation ists indicates that a lot of people are not yet properly aroused about uie war program. Pre-war isolationism, which was expected to be one of the chief battling points in the election, is now likely to be side-tracked for the more timely subject of the way present congressmen voted on recent war measures. There is little doubt that there h be considerable re-shuffling of seats in congress in November d the congressmen, now on un official recess, are busily engaged l i their home districts in check ing up on lockl sentiment. Congress still continues to hold ."^ssions in spite of the fact that the great majority of members ’: re ,away, and the house even ' ^ted on a controversial measure recently with perhaps the smallest / roup present which has ever voted on. any measure. The vote ' -as on a bill to give immediate ‘ 'nancial aid to the dependents < f men in the armed services in stead of waiting until November, <? provided by the present law. ^hily 28 of the 430 members of the liotue were present and they voted for it unanimously and sent the measure to the senate. \ A major shake-up in the press sections of government depart ments has now been started, fol lowing an order issued several weeks ago by Elmer Davis, new KINGTON HE es. The committee is known to be giving the subject of a sales tax serious consideration and is also considering reducing the personal income tax exemptions to a figure lower than those approved by the house. But it is still the genera! dpinion here that in spite of all o the means of increasing taxation which are being considered, the senate committee is not apt to recommend new taxes above those approved by the house until af ter the election. The tax bill is due to go to the senate early in September, but whether it will ac tually be voted on before election is still doubtful. « € ON THE NEWS FRONT V-Mail Service To Soldiers Overseas Should Be Usee Plum Branch News Significant Changes Observed In Spending By Rural Families ' ead of tjtie Office of War Infor mation, fhat all unnecessary pub- xc relations work should be dis- ontinued. The first department to act was the war department, •which has one of the ihost un wieldy press set-ups of all. Fol lowing an order by Secretary of War Stimson, 75 per cent of the approximately 100 war depart ment press sections are being e- ’iminated. Although the secretary did not - 'bnit it, it -is generally believed that the plan to reorganize the uress section of the army was -ushed through following the ‘ hoax” story, officially released by an army department, about mark ers in fields and woods prepared to aid enemy avaitors in reaching war factories. Investigation show ed these markers were found last spring, had been investigated ai'.d found to have nothing to do wjr;h enemy plans. Before the tr\ th was discovered however, pictures jmd a story released by one of the army offices was carried in news papers throughout the country. Immediately the newspapers ask- c d that action be taken to prevent the release of anything but truth ful and reliable information by the army. The newspapers have bad a very difficult time getting news from the army, which thejf are willing to accept as a war time necessity, but this fact made them doubly annoyed when they found that the first “good story” released In some time was a hoax. Increased pressure for a high sales tax, as the easiest means of raising the billions in taxes de sired by Secretary Morgenthau, is being brought on the senate fi nance committee. A spokesman for the United States Chamber of Commerce recommended a 10 per cent sales tax and he was follow ed by J. Cheever Cowdin, chair man of the finance committee of the National Association of Manu facturers, who recommended an IS per cent sales tax as a means of collecting $4,800,000,GCC in tax- Rural families have made sig nificant changes in their spend ing for living since 1935-36, the department of agriculture has an nounced in reporting a Bureau of Home Economics survey that described the situation in 1941 and the first quarter of 1942. In 1941 farm families put more than twice as much into savings as they did in the earlier period. The outlays for living were in creased by approximately one- third. Net money incomes of farm families averaged 46 per cent higher in 1941 than in 1935-36. Increased agricultural produc tion «and rises in prices paid to farmers for their output moved many farm families from lower to higher income classes and made possible higher total expendi tures. Farm families with money in comes between $500 and $1,000— the model group in 1941—used about 7 per cent of their income for furnishings and 16 per cent for clothing in 1941 as compared with 5 and 12 per cent, respective ly in 1935-36. On the other hand, families in this income class spent less for automobile pur chases and operation—11 per cent in 1941 as compared with 13 per cent in 1935-36. Despite the increases of re cent years, total net incomes of rural families (including single persons) in A941 and the early months of 1942 were much below those recently reported for urban groups by the U. S. bureau of la bor statistics. Although national income from agriculture was ap proaching a record level in 1941, more than a third of the farm families and almost a quarter of the rural nonfarm families had net money incomes from all sources amounting to less than $500 in that year. Even after adding in the value of food, hous ing, fuel and other items obtained without direct money payment, nearly 40 per cent of the rural families had total net incomes of less than $1,000. Only 20 per cent of city groups had incomes equal ly low. Both in average amount of in come and in distribution of fam ilies by size of income, rural non- farm families as a group are more like farm than urban groups. In 1941, the average incomes (money and nonmoney) amounted to $1,- 539 for rural nonfarm families, $1,664 for farm, and $2,347 for urban. Of these amounts, $228, $518 and $519, respectively, repre sented the value of noncash in come such as that represented by food and other goods produced at home or received as gift or pay and the value of occupancy of the farm house or of the owned nonfarm house. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spec icicles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 956 Broad Street Augusta. G» BUYER MEETS ccri i cd ,N ° UR ad OC-LcLCfN COLUMNS...; Postmaster J. E. Bell has given out the following press release from the Post Office Department: The Post Office Department an nounced today that the V-Mai Service, inaugurated on June 15 1942, is now past the experimental stage, with each week showing large increases in the number of letters mailed to American soldiers •overseas. The War Department has in creased its facilities to handle promptly the volume expected in the future. , Facilities for photographing and reproducing V-Mail to and from the United States and the British Isles, Australia, India, Hawaii and other points are now in operation. A similar service is being planned for Iceland and other points where the volume* may warrant. Pointing out that V-Mail pro vides a safe means of communi cation with members of our Arm ed Forces, the Post Office Depart ment gave assurance that the film (upon which the communications are reproduced) are given the most expeditious dispatch availa ble. Because of the small space taken up by the rolls of film, they often can be carried on ferry planes or bombers. Every pound of weight which can be saved on air transports ov erseas, said the Department, means that an equivalent amount of weight can be allotted vital mil itary material. In recognition of ^this, and in an effort to insure delivery of mail to as many men as possible at overseas destinations when space is limited, the War and Navy De partments have directed that V- Mail be given priority in dispatch over all other classes—including air mail—when transportation fa cilities under control of those de partments are used. V-Mail letter sheets have been distributed at all post offices; and have been provided all military and naval personnel at overseas points through Army and Navy post offices and military channels. Private firms and individuals have also been permitted by the Post Office Department to repro duce the letter sheets. The sheets also will be available soon to all stores selling stationery. V-Mail Service provides for the i^se by patrons of a special letter sheet form which is a combination letter and envelope of uniform size and design^ The patron writes his message, completes the name and address of the addressee and the return card in the space pro vided, folds, seals, and mails the letter in the usual manner. Pa trons are warned that only the inner or letter side of V-Mail let ters are photographed, and should be careful to show the complete address of the person to whom the message is sent in the panel provided therefor above the space for the message. It is preferable to print the address in large block letters. Enclosures must not be placed in the letters. V-Mail letters are photographed on micro-film by automatic ma chines at the rate of 2,000 to 2,- 500 per hour and the film rolls containing 1,500 letters each are transmitted to destinations. Re productions are then made by other automatic machines and de livered to the addressee in indi vidual sealed window penalty en velopes. When V-Mail letters are ad dressed to places where micro film equipment is not in opera tion, the letters are transmitted to destination in original form by the most expeditious means avail able. Even in these instances sav ings in weight and space are ac complished since there are ap proximately 97 V-Mail letters in a pound, whereas, ordinary letters average 40 per pound. The War, Navy and Post 0" f ^e Departments all cooperated in de veloping this Service, largely h a view to decreasing the volume of mail to be carried overseas e-d providing an expeditious servi The public is urged to use it at every opportunity. TO CHECK . | s V'V-fe ; X* <«/«666 Bomb the Japs with junk! Mrs. R. N. Broadwater and daughter, Roberta, of Augusta are visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Thoe Ridlehoover and little Theo of Augusta are spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ridlehoover. Miss Nerine Wall is enjoying her vacation with relatives in Lau rens. Bob Banks of Columbia is vis iting his mother, Mrs. R. H. Banks. Mrs. J. C. Godsey and little son, Jimmie, of Greenwood, and R. M. Winn, Jr., of Laurens, are spend ing this week in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Winn. Miss Annie Humphreys visited her grandmother, Mrs. Ida Fur- queron, in McCormick a few days this week.- Miss Saree Talbert of Greenwood has spent her vacation recently in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. \ Talbert. Mrs. R. M. Winn and Mrs. G. E Langley attended the annual mis sionary meeting of the Edgefield Baptist Association at Antioch Church on last Thursday.* Mrs. J. Herman Rainey and sons Billy and Theron, of Anderson tiave visited recently in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Forrester. Mrs. Archie A. Langley of Ab beville visited relatives in Plum Branch and McCormick the past week end. • Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Freeland and daughter, Billy, spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L Langley. Miss Carolyn Freeland has re turned to her home near Plum Branch, after spending two months as counsellor at Camp Conestee, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crawford and little daughter, Martha Gene, and Mr. W. E. Crawford have re turned irom Durham, N. C. Messrs. R. M. Winn and R. M., Jr., made a business trip to Can ton, N. C., on Tuesday. Mrs. H. P. Schmidt of Norfolk, Va., and Mrs. Ella Lankford are visiting this week in the home of Mrs. G. E. Langley. Mrs. Herbert White is spending this week in Charlotte, N. C. Charles Robertson of Augusta spent the week end in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Robertson. • Mr. W. L. Humphreys was a bus iness Visitor in Anderson last Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Willis and little son, Floyd, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C., visited in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Wil lis, on last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wideman have returned home from a recent visit to Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Brock- well in Newberry. Miss Louise Bracknell left Mon day for Beulah Baptist Church near Columbia where she will teach a class of B. T. U. members. Charles Lanier is visiting his brother, G. D. Lanier, and family, in Sumter and Miss Alice Lanier spent several days the past week as guest of Miss Anne Bussey Seigler of McCormick ■mmsa SUCCESSFUL PARENTHOOD By MRS. CATHERINE C. EDWARDS' Associate Editor. Parent's Magazine HOW FRIENDS CAN HELP Have you ever discovered how helpful friends can be in straight ening out problems with your children? Take the ’teen-ager who won’t keep herself present able. She is scornful of the least touch of makeup, and mussed hair and droopy clothes seem to satisfy her. Of course, sometimes girls go through these stages of care lessness because they are honestly so intent on becoming a second Mme. Curie or Florence Nightin gale that thought of clothes and appearance seems to them in their young earnestness a very trivial thing. Other girls may be so disappointed at this age with the kind of face* or hair nature gave them that they pretend to have no interest in looks and try to be as sloppy as possible. Now here’s where your friend steps in! Choose the one who is the most attractive and well groomed, provided she is also a nice person—but she would have to be that to be your friend, for vain, shallow women rarely have genuine friendships. Take this friend into your confidence and together you can arrange a luncheon downtown with your daughter. Make it casual—you might better appear to run into her by accident. Ask her to wear the trimmest clothes and her very nicest perfume—young girls ad mire an older woman who has a delicate scent because they them selves can’t wear perfume without eeling self-conscious. Now no matter how un-dressed-up your daughter may be at the moment your friend will make a casual but complimentary remark about her eyes, or her facial expression or the texture of her skin or hair— even nice eyebrows or dainty ears can rouse a girl’s pride in her ap pearance if they are admired by someone whose taste is superior. This is just a beginning, of course. If the two don’t hit it off try the plan with another friend. But if your daughter shows a spark of liking and ad miration for your friend, then go on to further meetings. Have your friend drop in for a cup of tea about the time daughter is due from school. What you are trying to do, of course, is encour age a friendship between your daughter and thhs older woman. (They may have known each oth er for years, but on the plane of child and adult.) Friendship blooms slowly so don’t expect miracles at once. When your daughter’s confidence has been won, this friend who is clever about clothes and hair and grooming <^an begin to make suggestions to the girl about her appearance—suggestions she might ignore if you made them. This same method often works in reverse—that is, if your daugh ter is too much taken up with her looks and neglects her brain try to foster a friendship with a woman who is both nice looking and intelligent, preferably one with an interesting career to her credit. x Not only will your daughter benefit but friends who have no daughters of their own will cherish an opportunity to have a hand in helping a young girl acquire the charm and poise of womanhood. POLITICAL CARDS FOR GAME WARDEN I hereby announce my candida cy for re-election to the office of Game Warden for McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. The continuation of your support and influence shall be highly appreciated. D. M. McGRATH. FOR GAME WARDEN I hereby announce my candi dacy for the office of Game War- len for McCormick Cunty, sub- iect to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. I highly appreciate the support given me in past years and shall be very grate ful for your support and influence ;his time. W. O. GRAVES. FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce my candida- y for Magistrate of the McCor mick Magisterial District, subject to the rules and regulations of he Democratic party. Your sup port and influence will be highly appreciated. J. BRUCE WALKER. ABOVE ^HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL THE FARM TO THE RESCUE FOR MAGISTRATE It is estimated that about 13,- 000,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on Cologne and Essen in the two big raids made by the Royal Air force. Half of this ton nage would be steel and half of the steel would be made from “scrap.” Or in other words about 3,250,000 pounds—1,265 tons—of scrap were dumped on the facto ries of Cologne and Essen in just two big air raids. These figures give us a rough glimpse of what we are going to need in scrap-iron and scrap-steel to win the war. Every pound which each one of us can dig up is going to be needed. We have got to have a stock pile of millions of tons in reserve. We can’t just keep doling it out to the factories day by day hoping that the sal vage Collections will keep up with their daily needs. If we handled it in this manner factory after factory would have to close down because they had run short of material temporarily and had to wait for their allotment. This would be the way to lose the war. Over and above the terrific load which has been placed upon the industries is a new job which they have taken on voluntarily and in a spirit of patriotism of which Americans can be proud. Volun teer committees of business exec utives are already operating in ov er 400 industrial centers in a tre mendous drive to salvage every ounce of useful material which the factories can spare. Obsolete machinery, tools, stocks and dies, fixtures, etc., are being gathered for the national scrap heap. Stuff which “may come in handy sons day” is going in with the rest of it. “Some day” must take care of itself—“today” is the all important moment! But the industries can’t do it all—they haven’t got the amount of scrap we must have to win this war. The six million farms in the United States must do the rest— and they will do it and are doing it. In small towns and big towns, all over the country, scrap com mittees are being formed. Towns, counties and states are running an imaginary race to outstrip their rivals. It should be made a real race with public honors to those who lead. . But it takes the individual farmer to make the town scrap heap. If he puts his contribu tion off week after week — the scrap heap won’t grow. If he thinks “it may come in useful some day”—we may lose the war some day. Every piece of useful material which we own but which we can do without at this time should go toward victory. If we put all the money we can possibly spare in savings banks and war bonds we can buy new and better things when the war is won. And won it will be—if we do our full share; if every farmer throws something on the town scrap heap every Saturday when he comes to town; if every town forms a com mittee to push the drive and keep it going and if we “do it now” and keep on doing it. Our county war board or farm implement dealer—can advise us how to start a town scrap heap and how to sell it. The proceeds can go to some Town Institution or Charity. If no one knows what to do to get started—write The Conservation Division, War Pro- dutcion Board, Railroad Retire ment Building, Washington, D. C., for advice. I hereby announce my candida cy for re-election to the Magis trate’s Office in the McCormick Magisterial District, subject to the rules and regulations of the Dem ocratic party. Your support and influence will be appreciated. H. C. WALKER. THEY WOULD READ YOUR AD TOO, IF IT APPEARED HERE