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/ t* McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCOKMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, January 28, 1943 VcCORMICK MESSENGER rablbihed 1 ■rtabltehed BDMOND J. McCRAOKEN, Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Me- Connick, S. C„ as man matter of ' 1 dons. .«it.oCUIPri(>N RATES: One Tear $1.00 ■tk Months .75 Throe Months JO Six Inch Sermon RY REV. RORERT H. HARPER a a Josus the Bread of Life. Lesson for January 31: John 8: *-14, 30-35. Golden Text: John 6:35, The disciples had wanted to if he reads the newspapers doesn’t end the people away—to avoid think he’s “talking big unless he TODAY »*d TOMORROW By PON ROBINSON NUMBERS ' . . (trillion When I was in school I was un der the impression that about the biggest numbers which existed were astronomical distances — the 93 million miles to the Sun, the 150 million miles to Venus and the 286,000 miles to the Moon. But I imagine the modern school child, who has. advanced beyond the fourth grade, pooh- poohs little numbers like that and, away- the responsibility of feeding them. They evidently desired to “call it a day.” But the whistle should never sound for us so long as men are in dire need. Only one among thousands, boy-like, carried his lunch to school that day—school of the Great Teacher. But the disciples didn’t see how his lunch could feed a multitude, though Jesus would serve. And we may fail to meet some great need now if we forget that the resources of heaven are at the command of those who truly believe it. . The boy’s lunch would not go far in a restaurant but in the Lord’s hands it became food enough for an army. The value of anything depends upon what done with it. Transmute your things and yourselves into the . food of service by consecrating them unto the Master’s use. We readily believe, though the record does not say, that the lad willingly shared his lunch. And we will gladly share with others if we first take Jesus as our Bread of Life. This was the sign that Jesus gave his questioners— his coming as the Bread of Life, as heavenly manna to the soul far surpassing the manna of the wilderness. And the whole of the day’s lesson will profit us much if we join the people of long ago in the plea: “Lord, evermore give us this bread.” refers to hundreds of billions. Live r At-Home ~ Farming Praised By Governor r 71 - Praise and encouragement for South Carolina farmers who are striving to make their farm self- sustaining came from Governor R. M. Jefferies, Monday, Jan. 18, in his final public address before •■r?tiring from the governorship. Speaking on a statewide radio hookup in connection with the awarding of honors to five thou sand or more farm families in the 1942 “75 per cent live-at-home campaign”, the Governor said in part: “Conceived in time of peace, this 75 per cent campaign has become even more appropriate in time of war. “There was a time when this state was a cotton-producing em pire—little else. But gradually the teachings of enlightened hus bandry from Clemson and the ex- Seeing Their Shadow / -3 IWCSEASiMx STCEM6T-H OF” UNITED NATIONS \ >»* IvN V c u The word trillion hasn’t yet periment stations have reached become a very common term, but, the farms through agricultural 1,598,668 lbs. of 7,129,923 lbs. of Chevrolet— Dealer Scrap Drive Detroit, Mich., Jan. 8,. — More than 120 million pounds of scrap metals—sufficient to build Uncle Sam 20 more submarines, six de stroyers and a cruiser—have been collected by the 8,000 Chevrolet dealers In America as a .portion of their contribution to the war program. l; An activity sponsored by the Victory Service League, - patriotic alliance of American motorists supported by Chevrolet dealers, the scrap drive has been a con tinuing operation, under the gen eral supervision of William E. Hol ler, Chevrolet general sales mana ger. Cumulative totals through No vember show that the dealers have collected: 98,946,833 lbs. of iron and steel; 1,099,855 lbs. lead; 197,832 lbs. cop per, 171,943 lbs. brass; 104,827 lbs. aluminum, and other metals.. In addition, scrap rubber have been amassed by Chevrolet dealers to swell Uncle Sam’s diminishing rubber stocks. Other items collected in cluded 923.203 lbs. of paper, 205,978 lbs. of rags, 7,088 lbs. of burlap bags, 3,228 lbs. of rope, and 145,- 054 lbs. of miscellaneous scrap. In the reporting period, dealers junked 6,269 cars and sold another 6.225 cars for scrap. Batteries junked numbered 10,273. In a letter to all Chevrolet dealers listing these scrap totals, Mr. Holler said: “Encouraging as the result has been to date, recently inaugurated offensives of the Allied Nations accentuate the need for addition al scrap for the production of more tanks, guns, planes and am munition than ever. To accom plish this, the war production in dustries will need more scrap than ever. •“The end of the year means in ventory time for most business firms—an ideal time for uncover ing obsolete, broken, damaged or idle parts and machinery which eould feed the scrap drive. “Scrap can help make 1943 the Victory year.” as I studied the. President’s bud get for 1943, it was obvious that it will soon become a household word. ;i Because of the way the word billion, in reference to dollars, is bandied about in Washington, I Imagine that . eyen the penny- pinchers in congress are getting so they are willing to approve any bill which only calls for a reason able number of millions. MILLIONS . . . tips As we thumb down the list of items in the new budget, those which are under a hundred mil lion look sort of like the item for “tips” on a salesman’s ex pense account. As far as the general public is concerned, little interest is shown in any of these miscellaneous items which altogether add up to only a billion or two. Yet up to 1917 the total annual expenses of our government had never St.- mounted to one billion, except for the year 1865. at ’ the end of the Civil war, when the government spetit $1300,000,000 to put our country together again. Billions, Sts far as government expense 4 - '’oncerned is a term which came into vogue with the last World war. In 1917 govern ment expenses went over the bil lion line and soared during the two years of the war. In 1918 government expenses totaled $12,- 698,000,000 and^ in 1918 reached $18,522,000,000. After that they dropped back to around three to four billion a year until 1932. Then they went up to five, six seven, eight and nine billion and, in 1941, reached $12,775,000,000. All of those figures sound like small change now, as we plan for 100 billion dollar expenditure for the year 1943. FAMILY $3,125 To get down to the kind of mon ey individual citizens deal in, our government expenses for 1943 will amount to approximately $3,125 per family. And if, by the end of the war, the public debt reaches 300 billion, as it may, the average family debt will be over $10,000. For each billion the government spends, the average cost per fam- ly is $31. So, in checking the fed eral budget, a family should de cide, for each billion dollar ap propriation, whether it seems worthwhile for them to spend $31 of their own money for the pur pose for which the money is being appropriated. Even from the viewpoint of our own money, however, a million dollars or so, spent by the govern ment, is still “small potatoes.” The average cost for each family for a million dollar government expenditure is only about three cents. So if we can have a new building in Washington, or a big park built by the WPA, for the price of a postage stamp per fam- ly, we’re apt to say,, “What the heck . . and let ’em have the million dollars. I have been talking in averages so far, but actually it is the peo ple who have a decent income who pay the great proportion of our tax bill. Some families won’t pay any of it, others of average income will have to pay more than $31 per billion to make up for those who don’t pay any, and people with large incomes will be called uppn to pay many times that $10,000 average necessary to get the country out of debt. DEBT erasing Some people argue that the public debt is merely a bookkeep ing notation and infer that, b\ some arithmetical juggling, it ma^ workers, and the state has grown from a one-crop state to one in which diversified farming has made marked progress. “I do not have to point out to you the value of this transforma tion at this time of total war, when the threat of starvation stalks the world. This country of ours nor mally feeds our population of a- bout 140 million people, and ex ports some foodstuffs, but not a large percentage of its production. Now we are called upon to help feed in addition to our own, per haps another 400 million allies of ours, who but for our help would likely be forced out of the strug gle at an early date. “So, I say, for our farms to be now growing their needs instead i of having to get most of them from the commercial food and feed stocks of the nation, as in the days when King Cotton reign ed supreme here, is a fact of first-rate importance at this crit ical time. For this happy situa tion, our thanks are due to Clem son and the various agencies that carry those teachings to the en lightened farmers who carried them out. “The Clemson Extension Service has taken the lead in this 75 per cent campaign, the participants in which we seek to do honor today. “Beginning in 1940, farm fami lies by the thousands were enroll ed over the state, thereby signify ing their intention of trying to make their farms as nearly self- sustaining that year as possible. During the three years that the campaign has run, a total of 68,- 000 enrollments have been ob tained.” X Meet To Study Uses Of Sweet Potatoes mi V _ • \ l V'//- 'Ull.'-' trtMt, “ ' V - * 4$* /' r .jjgfetL-r J THE HOUSE OF HAZARDS —by Mac Arthur mY mp. UA7Af?D t THEM PE OUT OF n TOLUMf, /YAH/— WHY DO YOU ASK, JOE? -IN UJEAT EE 17 LUCE MRS H. HAS YOU SUNDLBD UP LIKE AN APtr/C EXPLORE/?. <i< f W ( -NO MOPE OF THAT, SWFF--LEAVE WOP COAT OPE A! ONCE W A WHILE— YOOP BODY HEEPS A1P TOO- Clemson, Jan. 23. — To discuss fully the sweet potato as food and feed, a Southern conference on sweet potato research problems will be held at Auburn, Alabama, February 3 and 4, Dr. J. B. Ed mond. associate horticulturist of the South Carolina Experiment Station, announces. The conference will be attended by research horticulturists, animal husbandmen, and agricultural en gineers from various Southern TEE WAY THEY TELL YA TO WEAR nUO AND WEAR THAT-AND DID YOU PUT YOUR RUBBERS OH?- - 6ETS AWFULLY ANNOY/NG m -IN FACT DA MOC ANNOYDtNG TH16 OF ALL /5, THEY'RE USUALLY RIGHT FA •s I*. -A <S& -Tv be possible to wipe it out. Expert accountants can do re markable things with figures, but I doubt if even Einstein could devise a formula for erasing those hundreds of billions of debt from the government’s books. Other wishful thinkers, who hope to get out of spending the rest of their lives paying government debts, suggest that the govern ment might carry the debt on its books forever instead of trying to collect it. But if there is a 300 billion dollar debt, this would mean that about eight billion dollars in interest would have to be paid states. From the South Carolina Experiment Station Vice-Directoi R. A. McGinty, George B. Nutt associate agricultural engineer; L. O. Van Blaricom, assistant in horticultural manufactures; W. B Rogers, superintendent of th r Edisto branch; M. D. Bryant, as sistant horticulturist, and Dr Edmond will attend. The production and utilization of sweet potatoes for feed will b considered the first day of th<- conference, with attention cen tering on production methods, oroduction machinery, natura drying, dehydration machinery and the feeding of potatoes v cattle and hogs. Sweet potatoes for food will b r discussed in all phases during th -.econd day, with special attention o production problems, dehydra tion, and dehydration plants. Dr. Edmond, commenting on the need for more knowledge about dehydration of sweet potatoes, says that the Army is now using FOR SALE T ' 1 j ^ Quantity of lumber, timber, tin, Houston engine, steel pump, 4 rolling steel buckets, various other materials. Apply A. C. KEHAYA McCormick, S. C. m on it each year. At that rate, by the end of 40 years we would have I large quantities of the dehydrated paid 300 billions in interest and product and wants to contract for would still have the 300 billion 52 million pounds. There is need, debt on the books. he thinks, to study the advisibii- Whatever plan is worked out, ity of changing over some can- we are going to be paying heavy I ning plants to dehydration and of taxes for many years to come to j establishing new dehydration Buy Your Furniture From STROM pay the cost of this war and to pay off the excessive wages which millions of men, working on war orders, are collecting today. So, even though it only costs us •in average of a postage stamp jer family for the government to oend a million dollars, it would be a good idea if we all decided o go in for stamp saving in a bip ay. I plants. The possibilities seem great also for developing sweet potato production for livestock feed and for making starch. X “The pursuit of farming is the pursuit of peace. Farming is a creative enterprise, not a de structive one.”—Dr. C. B. Smith, USDA. Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. U!