Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.t **!. McCORMICK MESSENGKR. McCORMK K.. sVli .. <.AK<>1.iN\ Thursday, May 27, 1943 rr, jt..-■ i- - . . ■•r — ■ ‘ ctr. . .in The Story Of The American. Legion. Auxiliary Poppy 3E ASSURED OF A YEAR ’MUND SUPPLY OF SWEETS dm/Mem/r - SfiRP/flj This Season It it not unpatriotic for you to us* th* full allottment of essential, en ergy-building sugar the Government hat allotted for you — particularly th* extra sugar they have provided to enable you to can fruits and berries. Apply to your Ration Eoard for your extra sugar for canning NOW! DIXIE CRYSTALS i 00 o Pure C ine Sugar CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION las steadily expanded until pop pies are being made in more than .ifty hospitals and disabled vet- .:;ns’ workrooms in forty differ ent states. The crepe paper poppy was se- The idea of the poppy as a lected as the official poppy of memorial flower for the World , The American Legion and Auxili- 3TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. BY J. FRANK MATTISON, PRO BATE JUDGE: WHEREAS, Marie Heath made ruit to me to grant her Letters * f Administration of the Estate and effects of Samuel Mims; THESE ARE THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singu lar the Kindred and Creditors of >he said Samuel Mims, deceased, that they, be ; and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick on May 29, ? 943, Next, after publication here- cf, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration ,‘nould not be granted. GIVEN under my hand, this 15 day of May, Anno Domini, 1943, J. FRANK MATTISON, Probate Judge. = Notice In the future I will handle the caal business formerly conducted by my father. Your patronage will be appreci ated. H. G. SANDERS. WANT ADV. WANTED — Pine Pulp Wood at f8.93 per unit loaded on C. & W. c., Georgia and Fla., and South ern Rail Roads. Extra pay for wood loaded from the ground. Liberal advance when loaded. R. M. Winn, Plum Branch, S. C. V FOR SALE — Bicycle, been re paired; new tires and tubes, bal loon; new wheels, new arm, new peddles, new kiek up stand and seat; new hand grips; good as new. Price $38.50. Ronald Dea- son, R. 1, McCormick, S. C. LOST—My “A” gas ration book, for car license number B 12-455. Reward for recovery. C. H. Av- mmedes, McCormick, S. C. ADS For SALE IN OUR NEXT ISSUE , — J — War dead sprang up as naturally as the little wild flower itself in the fields of France and Flanders. The flower was the one touch of soputv which survived amid the hideous destrubtion of war. A- Vn** the e' e of the trenches, be neath the tangled barbed wire, a- bout the ragged shell holes and wer the fresh graves it raised its brave red blossom. It seemed to be the one immortal thing in that region wh^re death reigned. The soldiers cf all nations came to look upon it as the living symbol cf the sacrifices of their dead comrades. It was a poet who first gave expression to the Idea. Soon him self to lie beneath the poppies, he wre^e: • . “In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row—” Even before the men returned t from the war, the perfect little poem of Colonel John McCrae had winged its way around the world carrying the picture of the poppies. Returning soldiers brought the vision of the peppy fields back with them, engraved indelibly in their hearts with the membnes of the comrades they had left on the battle-front. Spontaneuosly the poppy took on a sacred significance. It became the flower of remembrance for the men who had poured out their life’s blood around the roots of the little plant. Memories of the war dead al ways bring thought of those who did not die but came back doom ed to years of hardship and suf fering, sometimes worse than death. In the poppy was found a way to link the honoring of the dead with service for the living victims of the war. Scon after the war patriotic organizations in different countries began to conduct sales of poppies made by disabled veterans, to raise funds for relief work among suffering ex-service men and their families. A double significance became at tached to the poppy. Wearing the little flower came to mean honcring the dead and helping the living. The poppy also became the memorial flower of the British Legion. Other American veterans’ organizations followed The Am erican Legion and Auxiliary in adopting it as their official flow er of remembrance. Soon many millions of the little red flowers were being worn each year in all parts of the English-speaking world, to honor the World War dead and to aid the war’s living victims. The nation-wide sale of memo rial poppies was begun by the Legion and Auxiliary in 1921. At first silk poppies made in France by French widows and orphans were used. In 1922 the first pop pies made by, the Ameripan vet erans were produced in the hos pitals of Minnesota, and this work £1 FOR REAL BARGAINS IN MEMORIAL WORK write ELBERTON CHY GRANITE CO. P. O. Box 521 Elberton, Georgia WE SPECIALIZE IN MARKERS, MONU MENTS AND COPING Your Furniture From S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. ary because it provided the maxi- num of work for the disabled men, with the minimum expendi ture fer materials. The fabric poppy was considered, but it was lot selected because making thi loppy would net provide suffi cient employment. By 1924 it was seen that the poppy program lent itself more naturally to the work of women ban of men, and The American Legion gave the Auxiliary com plete charge of the national pro gram. This was a heavy respon sibility. Wearing the flower was the nation’s annual tribute to the World War dead. From the dis tribution of the flower came a large proportion of the welfare and relief funds of both organ izations. Seldom has such a gi gantic enterprise been placed solely in the hands cf women. How well the Auxiliary meas ured up to the responsibility placed on its shoulders is shown by the development cf the poppy program. Each year approxi mately 13,000,000 Americans wear Legion and Auxiliary poppies in tribute to the war dead, contribu ting for the flowers over a million dollars for the welfare of the war’s living victims. Poppies will be on sale Satur day, May 29th. X May Garden Letter \ Gardening is one of the biggest single wartime farm enterprises of the year 1943, in which farm ers can engage. You will be do ing a great patriotic duty for your country and your nation if you will undertake to inform a least five farmers, who do not read or write well, of the impor tance of growing vegetables this year, particularly the easy ones such as greens, okra, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, cowpeas, peanuts, roasting ear corn, all of which produce in abundance, are resis tant to disease and insect troubles and some are easy to store and will furnish food fer winter. Hints 1. Do not cultivate beans while the foliage is wet. 2. Deeply planted tomato plants will stand drought better 3. In cultivating, care must be taken not to break the roots of shallow rooted vegetables. Cult! vation is necessary for keeping weeds in check and to loosen the surface soil when it becomes compact. Make Successive Plantings Of: Corn — Truckers’ Favorite, Sto- well’s Evergreen, Country Gentle men, and Golden Bantam. Beans—(Snap, Bunch)—Bounti ful and Stringless Greenpod. Beans—(Pole)—Kentucky Won der and McCaslan. Lima Beans—(Pole) — Carolina or Seiva Bean. Lima Beans—(Bunch) — Hen derson Bush or Wood’s Prolific and Jackson Wonder. Cucumber — Clark’s Special, Early Fortune, Boston Pickling. Transplant—Tomato, Sweet Po tato, Egg Plant, Pepper. Make Plantings Of Seed For Later Transplanting For The Fall Crop: Collard — Georgia or Georgia Southern is a good variety. One ounce of seed gives about 1,500 plants. Sow in late May or early June for fall crop. Cabbage—Succession and Late Flat Dutch are good varieties One ounce of seed gives about 1,5C0 plants. Sow seed now fot fall and in June and early July for winter. Tomatoes—Marglobe (wilt re sistant). One ounce of f gives about 1,500 to 2,000 plo ts. Sow seed in late May for trans planting in July. Watch For Injects Mexican Bean Beetle: Dust h three-fourths of one per • ~ H rotenone content (derris) •' ’.st Apply to underside of leaves "h small duster. Another control is to spray with five level teasp ns magnesium arsenate in one - al ien of water, or dust with •* ns part magesium arsenate ud three parts hydrated lime. Ap ply to underside of leaves. Colorado Potato Beetle: Dust with one part calcium arsenate and four parts hydrated lime. Spray with nine level teaspoon- fuls lead arsenate in one gallon water, or six level teaspoon fuls calcium arsenate in one gallon of j water. , v . , . . Flea Beetles: Spray with 4-4-59 Bordeaux mixture with nine level taspoonfuls lead arsenate, or six .evel teaspoonfuls calcium ar senate ; to each gallon. Derris dust is also effective, ‘ . Harlequin Cabbage Bug: Hand pick and destroy adults. Spray oung on calm cloudy days, or before sunrise, with a solution of nree ounces white soap flakes a one gallon of water. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. X Better Speakers’ Tournament Of B. Y. P. U. In Columbia June 6 Of special interest to Baptists all over South Carolina will be the Better Speakers’ Tournament for members of Baptist Young People’s Unions which will be held in the First Baptist church of Columbia on Sunday afternoon, June 6,, at 3 o’clock. Dr. Harry •Clark, director of the Extension Division of the University of South Carolina and approved worker for Baptist Adult Union work of the state, will preside over this meeting. At the same time and place the Intermediate Sword Drill for the Bapist Intermediate Unions of the state will be held with Mrs. Jas. A. Howard, state approved Inter mediate worker in charge, and the Junior Sword Drill with Miss Florrie Lee Lawton, associate director of the Baptist Training Union of the state, presiding. Each of the thirty-eight associ ations in the state is allowed one parlicipant in each of these e- vents. The winner of first place in the Better Speakers’ Tourna ment will be sent to Ridgecrest North Carolina, in July to partici pate in a Southwide tournament and the winnpr of the Intermedi ate Sword Drill will also represent the state in a Scuthwide drill at Ridgecrest. X Rural Women Serv ing Well In Wartime Work Rock Hill, May 22. — “Rural women, through their demonstra tion , clubs, are quietly getting their hands into a lot of commu nity service and war work,” says Miss Juanita Neely, assistant state heme demonstration agent, of Winthrop College. This is indicated in monthly re ports from the home demonstra tion agents coming to the Win throp office. Miss Neely states, quoting a recent report from Miss Ethel Counts of Newberry county as typical. “Some of the clubs are special- Iv thoughtful of the sick and af flicted,” Miss Counts writes. When Mrs. Corroh got her new house built after the cyclone, the Smyrna club met at her home one morning and planted shrub bery aroufTd the front. She was very much pleased at their re membrance of her, for she was member of the club. “The Trinity ladies got an old automobile seat and made a com- ortable chair for an invalid in their community. “Five clubs have contributed $5 each to the Red Cross. “Mt. Pleasant has contributed Tomething over eight dollars tc the plasma fund. Mt. Bethel Garmany has sent $5 to this fund, and several clubs are taking a collection each time they meet. “The Red Cross sewing has been done mostly through home demonstration clubs. The county chairman of the Red Cross is high in her praise of what the lubs have accomplished. The Red Cress is now making arrange- nents for extra gas for those who will bring six or seven in a ar to make surgical dressings. Silverstreet club plans to bring Wednesdav afternoon.” Guard Allied Food Conference Police carefully scrutinize reporters, cameramen, and their press passes before admitting them to the grounds of the Homestead Hotel in Hot Springs, Va., where Allied representatives attended the International Food conference. The representatives met to discuss food problems af fecting the whole world. Senators Get Free Potatoes There will be no potato famine after the war in the .United States tii if the samples Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana is showing to Mo. r colleagues are typical of the average yield. Every year the senator gives his fellow congressmen something from his farm in Louisiana. 1] Shown are, left to right, Kenneth S. Wherry, Nebraska; Ellender; D» Worth Clark, Idaho; and Ralph O. Brewster, Maine. t Nazis Hustle to Meet Allied Drive 'i mm *vc-.v.>v.w:-; German soldiers hustling with ammunition to load guns along the Atlantic coast with which the Nazis hope to stave off an Allied invasion. This picture appeared in a German magazine and is a marked depar ture from the braggadocio of a few years ago when German propa gandists used such terms as “master rar**’’ in t 0 themselves and “decadent democracies” when referring to the Allies. / Notice Street Tax was due May 1st, all male persons between the ages of 21 and 55 are liable. The ast day for payment is May 31st. after that date a penalty of 50 cents will be added. J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk. Conserve Protein Feed By Use Of Roughages Clemscn, May 22.—“It would b? unwise to look upon this present feed emergency as purely a tem porary matter,” C. G. Cushman, Clcmson Extension dairy special ist who is also secretary of the South Carolina Feed Conserva tion Committee, said here today. “The truth is,” Cushman con tinued, “that the livestock pop ulation of the nation has in- j creesed rapidly. Prices for live- j stock products have encouraged j heavier feeding practices. All of | this farmers have done t' > meet | the goals in production for the j war effort. This feeding program ^ for increased livestock prpulaD i has drawn heavily upon our m *- ! mal feed supplies. “We would be safer if we c" ' not ccntinually have such an bundancc of these feed sup* ' j cn the market as we have ha - n , the past. Feeders of dairy ce* A I should plan to be conservaA /e, with protein cunplements and the grain ration for that ter and give greater emphasis to production of higher quality roughages.” In an analysis of the individual feed records on approximately 12,000 dairy cows enrolled in Dairy Herd Improvement Association, work in South Carolina, the wis dom of heavy roughage feeding to conserve the more costly and extravagant feeding of grain con centrates is conclusively demon strated. These records show that cows which did not receive the proper amount cf quality rough- age crops required 1,586 pounds of grain ration more per year each than did that group of cows fed heavily on a good quality rough- age feeding plan. The roughage program, if it is to conserve tho feeding of concentrates, must in clude an abundant amount of fast-growing, green-grazing crops and leafy, green-cured legume hays cut at the proper stage and expertly cured. Silage crcps which, include a legume such as soy beans also add an econofhical source of iced nutrients to the whole rcughage supply. This sort of program, Mr. Cush man points cut, has oecn amply proven bv dairy farmers who have folowed it, and it will stand them in good stead during this time of grain concentrate shortages.