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Josus the Bread of Life.
Lesson for January 31: John 8:
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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
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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.
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Farming Praised
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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-
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become a very common term, but, the farms through agricultural
1,598,668
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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“The pursuit of farming is the
pursuit of peace. Farming is a
creative enterprise, not a de
structive one.”—Dr. C. B. Smith,
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