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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, October 1, 1942
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Plan For Fuelwood
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*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.”
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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.
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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
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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
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calendar, yard stick, and ration book
safety folder.
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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,
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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
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Every farm can have and should
have its own vitamin production
! assembly line—from garden to
table.
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Bomb the Japs with junk!
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PRACTICAL COSTUME
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and months of long wear and
still look neat and new. The
jumper may be corduroy, velve
teen, wool crepe, or plaid—to
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Pattern No. 8097 is in sizes 4 to
12 years. Size 6 jumper requires
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yards 35-inch material.
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Name of paper
Pattern No. -.
Size
Send 15 cents in coin, (for
each pattern desired) to—
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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-
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