McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, March 11, 1943, Image 4
MtfCOttMIC'K VH \*.M virMlKMM K ih <;ANOtJOiA Thursday, March 11, 1943
Rationing For
South Carolinians
Bicytles
Bosons -gainfully employed or
doing volunteer war work can
cualify for certificates <to buy
Hcydes. “Bicycles also are :avail
able .to*pupils who need them -to
get vto-and from schodl. Certifi-
cates should' be Obtained ’ from lo-
«.al raUoniag • boards.
Oiffee
Stamp-No. 25 -in War Ration
Bdok^One ^odd *tor one pwtxrtd Of
coffee until midnight Matth'21.
Fuel-OU
XJoupons marked ^PeticW " 5” be
came valid March 7 and will be
good for 10 gallons until Septem
ber 30. Coupons‘marked “Period
4”, valid Since January 30, will
be good for nine .gallons until
‘April A.
Gasoline
Coupon Ko. A in ^A“ gasoline
books good for three gallons until
March 22. Value of “B” and “C'’
coupons still three gallons. “T-l”
“I ALWAYS GET
PROMPT AND
DEPENDABLE
SERVICE FROM
F0RTS0N . .
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One friend tells another . . . FORTSON’S
first when it comes fo replacement parts . . .
for maintenance equipment on all types of
farm equipment.
Call Fortson for: Bolts and nuts and screws
. . . belting and belt dressing . . . steel bars
. .. pipe . . . pipe fittings valves . . . wrenches
and miscellaneous tools. HERE’S real
SERVICE! HERE’S QUALITY merchandise.
Write or Wire today.
We sell — Meyers
Pumps . . Rams..
Water Systems . .
Windmills . . Tanks
. . Towers . . Cord-
wood Saws . .
Hack Saws . . Files
. . Cross-cut Saws.
WRITE OR WIRE YOUR ORDERS
9th at Reynolds Sts.
Last Poultry Truck Of Season At
McCormick Friday, March 12th
PLACE: McCormick Depot Platform.
TIME: Friday, Mar. 12th, 10:00 A. M. ito 12:00
Noon.
PRICES: )'
Colored hens ' ‘ OOjt
Per Pound COU
Leghorn hens
Per Pound fcUw
Roosters i^Afb
Per Pound IIIU
Ducks and Geese 1
Per Pound Ida
Turkeys
Per Pound d#U
INSTRUCTIONS: Please do not feed or water
poultry on day of sale. Cull your flock and sell
non-layers.
Greenville Poultry Company
Cooperating with G. W. Bonnette, County Agent.
Buy Your Furniture From
J. S. STROM
Easy Payment Plan.
No Carrying Charge.
McCormick, S. C.
and “T-2’’ coupons good fvr flvH
;!lons. License number of au-
rmcbU" Pt time of gasoline pur-!
'rase must be written in ink!
^.long with name of state ini
which automobile is registered, on
back of each “A”, “B” and “C”
coupon. Name and address of
owner must be written in ink on!
back ■ of each ““T” 'coupon.
"Meat
* Maximum -rttiiil etfttng pttces
on pork, effective April 1, have
been announced by the' OPA. ' No
restrictions’have‘been placed on
safesAf live "meat, or ton 'the
Slaughter of live meat for home
sonsumption.
"Shoes
' Stamp No. 17 hi War Ration
|Book One can be used to pur
chase a pair df shoes through
June 15. The stamp must be
torn out of book at the time of
(purchase in the presence of the
rson selling or deliverihg the
|shoes. If you buy shoes by mail,
the stamp may be detached and
(sent with the mail order. Stamp
No. 17 is transferable - among
members of a family living in
(the same household and related
[by blood, marriage or adoption.
For example, parents may use
their stamps to provide extra
shoes for their children. If a
person needs to buy shoes and
has no Stamp No. 17 in his im
mediate family which he can use,
he may apply to his War Price
and Rationing Board for a shoe
purchase certificate. Certificates
for the purchase of men’s rubber
boots and rubber work shoes
must be obtained from rationing
boards. Certain types of play
shoes have been exempted from
rationing.
Stoves
New coal and oil-fired heaters
are being rationed. “Persons who
will use new coal stoves to re
place oil burners may apply to
their local War Price and Ration
ing Boards for purchase certifi
cates. Oil-fired heaters can be
purchased only under very unusu
al circumstances because of the
fuel oil shortage.
Sugar
Stamp No. 11 in War Ration
Book One, good for three pounds,
will be valid until March 15.
Stamp No. 12 will be good for
five pounds from March 1G
through May 31.
Tires
Owners of passenger cars and
commercial vehicles using tires
smaller than 7.50 by 20 may get
their casings recapped with re
claimed rubber camelback with
out applying to their local War
Price and Rationing Boards for
certificates. Rationing restrictions
have not been removed from re
capping of commercial vehicles
With truck-type camelback, which
contains a large proportion of
crude rubber. Motorists who ap
ply to their local rationing boards
for tires or recaps, or for new or
renewal gasoline rations, must
have had their tires examined at
an offiqial OPA inspection station
and must take with them to their
local boards their offical tire in
spection records. Present dead
line for tire inspection for “A”
book holders is March 31. There
after, “A” book holders must have
a tire inspection every six months.
“B” book holders must have a
.ire inspection every four months;
“C” book holders, every three
months. Tires on trucks, taxi
cabs and other commercial motor
vehicles must be inspected every
■>0 days or every 5,GOO miles,
whichever comes first. Final date
for initial inspection of tires on
omiuercial motor vehicles wab
’ebruary 28.
Typewriters
Rentals of nonportables manu
factured after 1934 are banned
•Tonportables made between 1927
and 1934 may be rented to per-
;ons who obtain certificates from
their local rationing boards.
Rentals of portables made be
tween 1927 and 1935 may still be
made on a 6-month basis. I'ast
portables made since 1935 r ’so
may be rented on the same bc.-ls.
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war,'-dreads the f day'when .Junioi
will shout, “Hey, dad, can I havt
the plane tonight—I’ve got a dat(
ith a girl in Chicago.’’
It was bad enough with -au
tomobiles, parents protest. They
will never forget some of those
sleepless nights when they spent
hours pacing the 'floor listening
for‘the car to drive Into the
garage and fought Off 'horrifying
mental pictures - of smash-^-pps ? and
of their children lying uncon-
scious aJong the roadside.
But i planes — youngsters ; going
for j oyi-rMes 1 through' the skies—
that’s most too frightening for
them -to contemplate. 'Yet there
4s every reason to : beMeve -.that
private planes will, within ,a ffew
years after the war, be whizzing
around the air!by the '.thousands
—and our children will take fly-
:na as much for granted as we
oldsters have taken motoring.
SAFETY ..... fears
When we actually learn the facts
about what those planes for pri
vate use are going to be like,
some of our fears may vanish.
At present we are apt to picture
.he rickety planes which used to
jeare the daylights out of us
when some local show-off would
take one up and see how close
he could come to his girl’s house
without taking the chimney with
him.
But after the war the private
planes we picture now will be as
old-fashioned as a Model-T Ford.
For the people who plan to make
the private planes of the future
know just how fidgety we feel a-
bout private flying and they
know that they won’t get any
where with the idea unless they
can turn out planes which will
make it just about as safe to be
in the air as to be sitting in
the front parlor.
FLYING . . . automatic
We got a hint of what is to
come a couple of w r eeks ago when
the army announced that one of
its huge four-motor Liberators
had actually flown itself for
2,000 miles without any pilot a-
board. The plane seemed to be
in trouble off the Florida coast.
The crew bailed out and set an
automatic control to steer the
plane out to sea. The next day
the plane, with no human hand
guiding it for 12 hours finally
collided with a mountain peak in
Mexico.
The important revelation in
this announcement was the fact
that a plane could fly automatic
ally, which is one of the great
steps forward in taking the dan
ger out of flying.
Until the war is over, most
manufacturers will talk about
safety discoveries in generalties,
but a clear indication 'of the
trend was pointed out recently
by a man who makes many of
the safety appliances which are
counted upon for safe flying.
This man, Ernest R. Breech,
president of the Bendix Aviation
corporation, told his stockholders:
“It is our conviction that the
average person wants to fly his
own small plane if he can fly
safely and automatically. Devel-
ophients to date make it possible
safely to say that we can see
the time of automatic flying com
ing within the next few years.”
HIGHWAYS . . . airways
I don’t know what the plane of
the future will be like, but if it
is to be safe enough for popular
appeal it will have to dod^e
noantains automatically, keep it
self out of collisions with other
planes, find its way through fog,
land still in the air, land safe
ly when the gas runs out and
cope with all the other unpredict
able emergencies which have
caused crashes in the past.
How all this will be taken care
of is a job for the smartest en
gineers to work out, but the fact
that such a plane will be devel
oped is no longer to be doubted
The whole aviation industry is
depending on it—and nothing can
stop it.
By 1950 and probably before,
even the most skeptical of us are
apt to consider the airways as
safe, if not safer than the high
ways.
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March Farm Calendar
ABOVE ^HUttmtOO
By LYTEE HULL
OF THE PEOPLE' FOR THE
PEOPLE, AND BY THE
PEOPLE
That is the most important
phrase in the English language—
or in any other language. It de
scribes a form of government de
vised by our clever, farsighted
forefathers 150 years ago; pat
terned somewhat after the ancient
Greek and Roman democracies
prior to their decay and their us
urpation by minorities.
Many of us have known Com
munists, Nazis, Fascists and Mon
archists. Each -will tell you that
the people are happier under his
form of government than under
any other. What people? The
members of his party—or the
great mass who are not members?
There is no question but that
members of the Communist party
are happier now than they were
under the Tzarist regime. Why
shouldn’t they be? They now rule
170 million people with a rod of
iron—which is much more pleas
ant than being sent to the mines
in Siberia for plotting revolutions.
But the Communist party is made
up of a tiny minority of Russia’s
vast millions. The Nazi party al-
co comprise small minorities of the
population. These parties are a-
bout as exclusive as a Fifth Ave
nue club.
But are Germany’s millions
happier being bossed around by a
himself
Demo-
‘ freedom and can enjoy
(almost) as mtlch as the
crat.
Tt isn't what you name your
form of government that counts :
it is how that ^government realty
functions. And any nation which
is run according to the .. judgment
df one man, or one group of men,
cannot afford the same opportun
ities for advancement and happi
ness as can a nation which is op
erated by the people for the peo
ple.
The great fallacy of individual,
or group, management of a nation
lies in the principle that the citi
zen must follow an allotted, rou
tine plan of living which sub
merges and destroys his own ini
tiative. The result, in the long
run, is a foregone conclusion. The
citizen loses all ambition and be
comes a fixed cog in a wheel: the
managers develop into what is
known as a “ruling class” — and
we are right back where we came
from.
Communism in Russia; Naziism
in Germany; Fascism in Italy—if
they should_ continue for 50 more
years, will develop into the same
old type of autocracy and feudal
ism * which dictatorships i.^/e
turned into from time immemo
rial. It could not be otherwise.
Human nature does not change
over night, nor over a century,
nor over ten centuries; and all
the high-fallutin dreams of the
lot of former tramps than they starry-eyed theorists about “all
were being bossed around by a
lot of kings and emperors? Is the
Italian more contented being-
looked at through the nose by
Muss and his son-in-law Ciano,
or by members of the royal house
of Savoy? Is the Russian moujik
any happier? We are told so by
members of the Communist party;
but pre-war American travelers
certainly did not confirm this.
In our country the Democratic
party is at present in power. But
the Republican has the same
men being equal” if they will only
“join up” with the Communists
or the Fascists or the Nazis or
some other like left wing philos
ophy—simply grow out of igno
rance of what has happened so
often in the past.
If we in our country ever allow
an overdose of bureaucracy to ob
tain such a strangle-hold that
ours develops into a one-party
government, we too will become a
two-class nation—the masters and
the servants.
soil. 3. Plan to manufacture ni
trogen on the farm; that is, grow
more legumes. 4. Purchase e-
nough improved seed to grow your
next year’s supply of seed, to
maintain quality production. 5.
If not already sown, sow lespe-
deza early in March.
Horticulture
1. Set out fruit trees"for home
orchards if not already set. 2.
Plant raspberries and blackber
ries any time this month. 3.
Prune and spray fruit trees. 4.
Apply spring fertilizer to orchards.
5. Plant hardy vegetables now,
such as cabbage, turnip, mustard,
spinach, kale, lettuce. 6. Begin
now making plans to produce an
abundant supply of vegetables for
home use throughout the year. 7.
Get gardening publications from
extension agents.
Insects and Diseases
Early Spring Guide
On Care Of Livestock
Providing for ample feeds and
proper feeding are the -most im
portant matters in attention to-
livestock in early spring, says
County Agent G. W. Bpnnette, in
making spring livestock sugges
tions.
Animal Husbandry
1. Give brood sows special at
tention at farrowing time. Large
litters mean greater profits. 2.
Place sows and young pigs on ter
ritory uninfested with parasites-
3. Cull out the unproductive sows.
4. Plan to plant some Biloxi soy
beans for hog grazing. 5. Use
barley, rye, and oats for grazing
with beef cattle and hogs. 6. Give
the ewes special care at lambing
time. “Lambing time is the
1. Treat peanut seed and cotton shepherd’s harvest.” 7. Prefer oats:
seed to prevent damping-off and | to corn when mules start heavy
to obtain better stand. 2. Ma- j work,
chine-delinting of cotton seed j Dairying
should be done before and not j t Rcmove milking cows from
after treating with mercury dust. 1 lightly onion-infested pastures
3. Grow corn as far as possible , five llours before milking. ,Keep
from last year to control billbugs cows off of heavily infested onicn
and borers. 4. Do not plant corn p as t ures 2. Thoroughly clean 'up
adjacent to small grain in chinch an ^ bau i 0 ff utters and ma-
bug area. 5. Plant velvet beans nure to destroy breeding places
or crotalaria on small grain or for fli?s and make up for fertili-
“resting” land in wireworm area. zer shortages. 3. Use some acreage
6. Control cutworms with poison- cut from cotton for m0 re feed
ed bran mash. 7. Plant wilt-re- crops 4 silage and legume hay
sistant tomatoes and cotton. 8. make ideal roughage feed for nekt
winter. 5. Plant one-half acre per
and
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
PARENTS .... planes
Many a parent who keeps hear
ing that airplanes will be as pop
ular as automobiles after the
Better care of bees will help out
in sugar shortage. cow in pearl millet for summer
Agricultural Engineering grazing. 6. Clear brush and apply
1. Check over farm machinery 200 Pounds of superphosphate and
for needed repairs, and order one fo* 1 ground limestone per
parts now. 2. Plow terraces before
planting to give them extra width Sow lespedeza on permanent p
and height. 3. Repair screens on t ure s °d if none is present,
doors and windows before the fly Poultry
season opens. 4. If you have a i. Raise baby chicks on new
nmall stream or other source of ground. 2. Provide feed for chicks
water supply on your farm, inv ;- j n c ican troughs or hoppers. 3.
To get ready for a better year
in farming, County Agent G. W.
tonnetto, makes these better
farming suggestion for March:
Agronomy
1. Make, save, and use farm
manures and compost in pro
ducing crops. 2. Before buying
fertilizer, study carefully the
ierds of your soil for plant food
to feed the plants grown on that
tigate the possibilities of
ng the Victory Garden.
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Get chicks into sunshine early. '4.
Clean brooder houses regularly.
5. Plant green feed for summer.
G. Arrange to procure stock for
flock improvement next season.