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X McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, October 1, 1942 t ■ i> .*■ * . ■ ' % .* > r-.' Plan For Fuelwood Ra-.v .1 *Trtie proper selection of fuel- wood," says G. W. Bonnette, coun ty agent, “can do much towards improving the remaining stand of Umber. Although the use of fuelwood has decreased steadily fx& the United States for more than 50 years because of the increased use of coal and fuel oil, the •quantity that is cut each year ts still nearly half as great as it -was at the peak. "The use of fuelwood also is second only to lumber in the a- raount of wood that is used each year. Proper selection of fuelwood, therefore, offers a very impor tant means by which farm wood lands can be improved. "If fuelwood is cut according to plan,*' Mr. Bonnette continues, ~many of the mistakes of the past can be corrected. Firewood abouM be obtained from crooked, dead or diseased, suppressed, or 3acge, limby, ‘wolf’ trees. The removal of such trees as these wBl do much toward improving nay woodland. It removes the rufi trees and leaves the good, and well shaped ones to growth. that are suitable for veneer logs, box bolts, or special products should not be taken for fuel. Large quan tities of straight-grained hickory nra needed by the airplane indus try for laminated propeller blades, f»od oak is needed for ships, hickory and ash are needed for handles, and lumber and pulp- wood are needed for other war industries. These products can be obtained only from well shaped fices. The cutting of these trees for fuel, therefore, is a waste of luable resburces.” : ■ TO SELL ■ TELL IE With Ad uioniEn BY .«ANET CUPLER ARMY WIVES: If you are a “new” army wife, suddenly shift ed by the war into a strange .world full of unfamiliar problems,, you will undoubtedly welcome the news that there is an organization of women like yourself who can, and who want to, help you The or ganization is the Association of Army Wives, and it grew out of a series of lectures presented last winter in the Fourth Corps Area. Membership in the Association is open to the wives of all army men, Supplies by Air for New Guinea Front ABOVE ^HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL JUSTIFIED HOMICIDE Crew members dump supplies out of the door of a transport piano over the Kokoda area of New Guinea, where American and Australia* soldiers have been engaged in' fierce hand to hand combat with the Japs driving on Port Moresby. No roads pierce the mouhtainous inland territory, and all supplies must he carried by plane or by natives on foot ago, before the Air Transport . .. command organized its women’s active or retired, and there is no I auxiliary (WAFS), Miss Cochrane membership fee. Applications for took a group of American women membership (giving your hus- to England, where they have been band’s name and rank) should be doing fine work as ferry pilots, addressed to the Association of Now Miss Cochrane has oeen ap- Army>Wives, 1428 East 57th Street, pointed director of women’s flying Chicago, Illinois. , | within the U. S. army air forces. * * * SUNNY SIDE UP: Women of the unoccupied French town of Cannes are permitted by a recent decree to wear shorts (banned by the ar- Imistice of 1940) on the street . A release from the Office of War Information reveals that meat ra tioning is nothing to be alarmed about. Most people will be per mitted to have just about as much as the average amount they have had during the past 10 years and very little less than they had last year. NAVY YARD: Another “For Men Only” barrier has fallen with a significant crash . . . For the first time in 141 years girls are being trained for men’s jobs in Brooklyn Navy yard. FOR TODAY BY PATRICIA DOW ‘DELIGHTED*: Commenting on the new opportunities offered women by the U. S. army air corps, Jacqueline Cochrane said she is “delighted that the more than 3,000 women pilots in Amer ica are going to have an opportu nity to prove their competence to serve in their chosen field in the war” . ; . Back of that simple statement lies the story of Miss Cochrane’s ceaseless efforts to gain just that opportunity foi American women. A few months Card Of Thanks Mi a Soutb- Carolina’s Most Beautiful Selection im- s . * SILVER — National and Frank W. Smith. If you know the bride’s pattern, you’ll find it here. If you don’t know it, you may select from the state’s most beautiful array of flat ware in pieces to be cherished for a lifetime. Friends nave come to depend upon us—vis- dtors have exclaimed with surprise over us— rou will be delighted with what you find FREE — Coupon — FREE Cl|p this advertisement and present to Gambrell Hardware Co. for free 1943 calendar, yard stick, and ration book safety folder. /(• Downstairs In Qur Subway Gift Shop GAMBRELL HARDWARE CO. TIME IS MONEY — BUY HERE AND SAVE BOTH Telephone 3141 ' Main Street Greenwood, S. C. We wish to use this method of expressing our heartfelt appre ciation for the many kind words and deeds of sympathy rendered us in pur recent sad bereavement. Mrs. J. T. Dillashaw And Family, J. O. Dillashaw And Family. txr Echoes of Midway m i 1MK MES RECAPPED We have all sizes rubber. Send us your tires and rationing certificates, or see John Warren. HOLLOWAY-DOUGHTY 811 Ellis Street. Augusta, Ga. Tractor Tires Repaired. Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. ‘ McCormick. S. C. Rear Admiral Raymond A. Sprn- ance, USN, receives the Distin- guished Service medal from Ad miral Chester W. Nimlts at Pearl Harbor. Award was made for “meritorious service in a position of great responsibility as task force commander” daring the battle of Midway. t .. Crowned Hog King Richard Johnson, 18-year-c? 1 farm boy of Prophetstown, III., wi: » took top honors and the PillsLu: y award for agricultural achievenv nt with his hogs at the Chicago Junior Market Hog show^ His pen of Durocs defeated over 500 ov^or entries -X- Every farm can have and should have its own vitamin production ! assembly line—from garden to table. ’ i-jfx— * Bomb the Japs with junk! / 8097 PRACTICAL COSTUME Pattern No. 8097—Please your little girl by making her this appealing costume—a jumper with a low cut top attractively fram ing the fresh blouse beneath—a costume which will give months and months of long wear and still look neat and new. The jumper may be corduroy, velve teen, wool crepe, or plaid—to ?ive service until it is outgrown. Pattern No. 8097 is in sizes 4 to 12 years. Size 6 jumper requires 1 3-4 yards 35-inch material; 1 1-8 yards 54-inch, blouse 1 1-4 yards 35-inch material. Name . _ - _ Address Name of paper Pattern No. -. Size Send 15 cents in coin, (for each pattern desired) to— Patricia Dow Patterns 206 W. 17th St., New York, N. Y. QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID FreeBookTetls of HomeTreatmentthat Must Help or It Will Cost You Nothing Over two million bottles of the WIL/LARD TREATMENT have been sold for relief of symptoms of distress arising from Stomach and 3uod«nal Ulcors due to Excess Acid— Poor Digestion, Sour or Upsot Stomach, Gxssiness, Heartburn, Sleeplessness, *tc.. due to Excess Acid. Sold on 15 days tnsll A 5k for “Willard's Message" which fully explains this treatment—free—at PEOPLES DRUG STORE Why didn’t the man who invent ed war provide for the disposal, by torture or otherwise, of that par ticular variety of shopkeeper, or store clerk, which informs the cus tomer that “there’s a war going on” whenever he gets short of merchandise—or of his temper? What cruel fate decreed that suf fering humanity should be com pelled to bear the burden of a thousand wars plus the existence of this fishy-eyed “consequence” of military strife—this “eruption” from the volcano of social unrest, which advises the shopper of the current political status of the world every time he himself hap pens to run out of canned beans. We haven’t legalized murder as yet in this country^ That pastime is still solely an international privilege. But among the scientif ic giants of this modern age there must be one genius who could invent a spray, or some other in secticidal implement which would relieve mankind of this fungus on the “body politic.” There are two varieties of this pernicious rash; Type No. One — which merely states that “there is a war going on”; and the even more noxious Type No. Two, which creates a superfluity of adrenaline in your system by asking ynu if vou rr e aware of this fact. These bacilli-pestae are definitely re tarding the war effort by causing mental and physical anguish in those whom they advise, or ques tion. on the war situation. Now the only way to effectually arrest the present trend toward inflation is to keep people away from the shops. So why not pass legislation compelling every store in the nation to have at least one of these “there’s a war going on” clerks behind the counter. The death rate would undoubtedly be high, but the ranks could be re filled from the simian collections in the various municipal mena geries. The results of this wise legisla tion are easily predictable. The American shopper is now buying" everything in sight with the “easy money” which he should be in vesting in war bonds or tucking; away in the savings bank against the hard times which always fol low war. A few “run ins” withi Types One and Two, and we would soon be avoiding the entire shop ping district in order to preserve our mental equilibrum or to stay our hand from murder. The probability is that thh* in valuable suggestion will not be en acted into law, because congress is; too busy thinking up new taxes, and the president doesn’t have to do his own shopping. So the cor rective becomes the obligation qt the tortured people. Philosophers and scientists have' come to the conclusion that ridi cule is the surest antidote for this baneful malady. They suggest some of the following crushing rejoinders to the “statement” of Type One: “So what,” or “I can scarcely believe my ears,” or just plain “No??!!” Type Two might be temporarily squelched by “Yes: —is that the reason they had to employ you?” or “I have known that for a long time—did you just hear it?” or simply “So I hear.” Fellow sufferers—let us arise ih: ; vociferous revolt against these de stroyers of the proverbial Ameri-, can “Gentle Disposition.” Let each one of us help to win the war by crushing these termites with our most scintilating sarcasm. Let us.‘ rid war forever of this smirch up on its otherwise glorious name, so that in the future nations may fight happily on in the knowledge that those “behind the lines” don’t have to learn about the war from those “behind the counter.” successful; PARENTHOOD By MRS. CATHERINE C. EDWARDS Associate Editor. Parsnl** Magaxin* FIRST AID TRAINING IMPORTANT Having had as yet no large- scale war emergencies to meet some are beginning to question the importance of First Aid courses and other steps to nursing made available since the war be gan. Why anyone should doubt the value of having learned some thing useful, even though you may not have been called on to apply your knowledge, is difficult to see. Certainly mothers need have no such feeling of wasted effort for even if the bombs are kept away from our home the shortage of doctors and nurses will mean l ,hat every mother who has equip ped herself to look after the minor ailments of her own family is making a direct contribution to winning the war. Perhaps no generation of par ents has depended on professional ervices in • supervising their children’s health so much as the mothers and fathers of today. This has been an enlightened pol icy and the superior health of ‘oday’s young people proves its soundness. But it should never have resulted in a mother’s loss of ability to nurse a child at home or to keep the doctor’s visits to a minimum. Now with doctors’ and nurses’ time at a premium your responsibility as a home nurse cannot be shifted except in cases of serious illness, so if you haven’t already done so, ta*;e advantage of the many opportu i- ities being offered to take a First Aid or Red Cross home nurr, 13 course. If you haven’t anyone to leave the children with during the day sign up for an evening course when Father can be on duty at home. One of the greatest benefits of a Red Cross course is getting rid of one’s half-baked ideas about what to do in an emergency or how to make a preliminary diag-i nosis of illness. For if we knew 1 nothing we’d be better off than' knowing the wrong things, many of which we half remember from childhood. Another thing, your course will make you more safety conscious, so that you’ll spot the pitfalls in your own home, which might otherwise have been the scene of one of the nation’s three million yearly accidents. There may be epidemics before the war is over since wholesale disease has always been an accom paniment of war. The woman who is trained to nurse her own family or lend a helping hand to a sick neighbor will prove her value as surely as those who have replaced men in factories making war machines or entered the military service directly. The ambition of the Red Cross is to have 25 per cent of the adult population trained so that they will know what to do when human life is endangered. To achieve this one-out-of-four status, ir it is at all possible either father or mother of families with children should be among those qualified to act effectively in an emergen- THEY WOULD READ TOO, IF IT YOUR AD APPEARED HERE