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TSUI TO OUBSKLVfcS, OUS NBIOHBOBfl, OUB COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Second Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. ? THUR SDAY, JUJNfE 24, 1943 Number 3 This Week im WASHINGTON llllfflnnj'jMlII Washington, D. C., June 21.— I*st January the President told congress that taxes for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, must be at least 16 billion more than last year. He said this was necessary to keep inflation irom getting out of hand. - But congress became so involved with putting present taxes on a pay-as-you-go basis that it has done nothing about planning for higher taxes. Now that the new fiscal year is 'hbout to begin with no provis ion for higher taxes, and with no prospect that legislation can be put through to provide for the collection of new taxes before $he first of next year, the admin istration will seek to increase the amount to be collected in 18 months, between January, 1944, and July, 1945. Thirty billion in that period, it is figured, would be necessary to make up for the absence of additional taxation for the last six months of this year. Whether congress actually will pass legislation to increase taxes bv this amount is very much doubted here. The chief purpose of asking for such large new taxes, according to the Presi dent, is to close up the “infla tionary gap”—to drain off a large part of the extra 42 billion dollars which, the people of this country are expected to earn this year. But, although congressmen realize that the sound way to do this would be to levy an excess profits tax on those individuals who are earning more money now than they were before the war, there is little chance that they would risk the loss of political prestige which this solution would involve. To a large extent, this surplus \ income is being earned by war workers who are Members of la bor unions and whose wages have been increased with the sanction of the administration. If the ad ministration suddenly tries to force these men to turn over a large proportion of their extra earnings to the treasury wide spread labor troubles wpuld be apt to follow. Senator Josh Lee has suggested that/ an excess income tax, simi lar to the excess profits tax ap plied to corporations, be levied on all individual income in ex cess of the amount earned in 1940 or 3941. thus putting the burden of increased taxation on those who have profited because of the war and easing the burden for those whose income has de creased or remained the same since the war began. This would not only include labor, but also business officials who ,have in creased their earnings and gov ernment employees who are earn ing more than they ever did be fore. But it is more likely that congress will favor various forms of hidden taxes such as increased Mrs. G. C. Rosenswike Claimed By Death Mrs. Kathleen Abercrombie Ro- senswike, age 42, wife of George C. Rosenswike of near McCormick, died at the Greenwood Hospital at noon Friday following an illness of three weeks. Funeral services were conducted from the McCormick Methodist Church Saturday after noon at 4:30 o’clock with her pas tor, the Rev. J. Claude Evans, in charge, assisted by the Rev. E. C. Cromer, Dr. S. W. Reid and the Rev. L. K. s Simpson. Interment followed in the Troy cemetery at Troy. Mrs. Rosenswike was the daugh ter of Austin and the late Zella Davis Abercrombie of McCormick. Before her marriage in 1940 she taught in the South Carolina schools for a number of years. Her husband survives along with her father and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. A. D. Cobb, Miss Ruby Abercrombie, McCormick; Mrs. G. N. Dulin, Albemarle, N. C.; Mrs. Roy Blalock, New London, N. C.; J. Worth Abercrombie, Con way, S. C.; A. Carroll Abercrom bie, Beaumont, Texas; and Lt. Gray Abercrombie, U. S. Army, Boston, Mass. She was a devoted member of the McCormick Methodist Church and active as a leader and teach er. She was also prominent in the county home demonstration club A. R. P. Meetings We have just closed a three days’ meeting at Mt. Carmel. Dr. G. G. Parkinson was with us and did the preaching. Dr. Parkinson is a theological teacher and a practical and popular preacher. Dr* R. C. Grier, president of Erskine College, is to be the preacher at Pressly Memorial A. R. P. Church of McCormick this week. Dr. Grier will preach each evening at 8:30 o’clock, from Thursday through Sabbath, and Sabbath morning at 11:00 o’clock. Dr. Grier is in demand as a pub lic speaker, and we deem ourselves fortunate in being able to secure him for this meeting. Many for mer students and friends of Er skine College in this section will no doubt be glad of this opportu nity of hearing him. The public is cordially invited to all of these services. S. W. Reid. Minister. Postmaster Bell Urges Purchase Of Auto Stamps Now Postmaster J. E. Bell urges au tomobile owners to purchase Fed eral automobile use tax stamps while there is plenty of time rather than wait until the last few days and jam the office. He said that purchases of stamps had been very light since they were put on sale June 10. Automobile owners will not be allowed to purchase stamps after July 1. The new stamps are on sale at post offices and the price is $5.00. X Canning Demonstra tion June 25, At 3:30 O’clock R M. t- L *NU c/YlcGcfanuck Farm (By G. W. Bonnette, County Agent) taxes on sales by manufacturers, unless public pressure is suffici-! work and community activities, ent to force an excess earnings Her untimely passing brings sor- tax. Noting the success of pub lic pressure in putting through the pay-as-you-go plan, some of- row to the entire community. Pallbearers were W. L. Brown, J. W. Corley, J. B. Harmon, Jr., G. ficials here are hopeful that the C. Wilder, John T. Faulkner and J. public will be sufficiently aroused to use pmilar tactics to force the Lee plan. All officials here realize that Frank Mattison. J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. -X- the dangers of inflation—of prices r Fl 1 ; <a I'Vnintv Trk getting entirely out of hand—are A11 s _l u Be Featured greater new than they have been since the war started. The fear of food shortages this year, the increased activities of black mar kets, the demands of labor for stall higher wages < and difficul- In Greyhound Advertisement • • T - 'TV^, Fight, Fight, Fight, To Stop Boll Weevil Columbia, June 19.—The abso lute necessity of immediate, vig orous, and effective control meas ures against the cotton boll weevil is clear from the facts on \weevil emergence this season and the past experience of county agents and others, David R. Hopkins boll weevil control specialist of the Clemson Extension Service, said today. F. F. Bondy, entomologist at Pee Dee Experiment Station, has advised Mr. Hopkins that boll weevil emergence records as shown by frequent examinations of a small plot of cotton planted in isolated location show that 800 weevils per acre have emerged into this cotton field up to date. This emergence is somewhat less than at same date last year in this same trap field. Some weeks ago the Station reported that ap proximately 63 per cent more weevils survived this year than There will be a canning demon stration in the office of the Coun ty Home Demonstration Agent on Friday, June 25, 3:30 o’clock. Those interested in learning the latest methods of canning should atr tend this meeting, since it is im possible to assist each individual Town people are especially invited. Matilda Bell, , Co. Home Dem. Agent. X Course To Begin At Methodist Church Sunday MK 1 ? Caroline Cannon, assistan ; secretary of the Board of Ediite tion of the Upper South Carolina Conference, will begin a course entitled “The Small Church at Work with Children” at the Mc Cormick Methodist Church thi? Sunday evening at 8:30 o’clock This course wUi> ja^^ach.. eve ning from Sunday through Wed nesday. Rental text books are available. The public is invited to share with the Methodists in this course The subject is not doctrinal, but MAH McCORMICK, S. G FRIDAY snd SATURDAY JUNE 25th and 26th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. ROY ROGERS , » • «Mht in “SUNSET SERENADE” Also Chapter 6 SERIAL “DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY” and A CARTOON “LIFE OF FIDO” Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax MONDAY and TUESDAY JUNE 23th and 29th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. PAT O’BRIEN—GEO. MURPHY facts is that we may expect a much heavier emergence into our fields during the next one to three weeks,” Mr. Hopkins said “We know that the weevils in large numbers survived the win ter and that they all have not yet put in their appearance in our fields. The observation :nad by all of us during prior years is that weevils come out of hiber nation rapidly at this season of the year following rain. The u in “THE NAVY COMES THROUGH Also A CARTOON “THE BIG BUILD UP” and LATEST NfiWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15, 17 cents, including defense tax. This county’s part in the na tion’s war effort is being given its full share of prominence in the first of a series of newspaper advertisements to be published in this paper by the Greyhound bus lines. Local and state ac tivities—as well as the part local Greyhound people and service play in them—will be featured in all of these advertisements. Some highly interesting facts about the state’s great highway system will be the basis of one advertisement -r- with special em phasis on what these roads have meant in the past, and will mean in the future, to this county and its neighbors. The newspapers of our state—both dailies and week lies—will come in for their share of attention as will the splendid grade schools, secondary schools and colleges cf this state. Our nride in the rich farmlands of this urea and the state’s leading .ndustries will be expressed in still other advertisements. / Greyhound executives state that they have chosen to “point with pride” to local achievements and institutions because Grey hound feels itself to be a part of the community—its people live here, their children go to school here, and a great proportion of the bus service Greyhound pro vides in this region is definitely I local in nature—a great share of this service being to war plants, farming centers and neighboring ■ friends who were so kind to us *.n our hours of sorrow. All of these tokens of kindness have helped us last year. i. . ,. , The significance of the above 15 ot Poetical worth to any per- 'son who teaches children or who is the parent of a small child Any person interested will be welcome. J. Claude Evans, Pastor. X Six Inch Sermon BY REV. ROBERT H. HARPER John’s Counsel to Christians. Lesson for June 27; II John 4- recent local showers may be ex- 111; III John 5-12. pected to cause rapid and large Golden Text: HI John 2. increases in weevil population. The second and third epistles c’ Since boll weevil poison ma- [John each comprises but one shor' terials are high and scarce in chapter, the former to the “elec' many cases, the importance of lady” and the latter to Gaius. Wf thorough collection and destruc'ldo not know who either was—eac v tion of punctured squares for next must have been influential in th three-week period is urged. church. “At the Pee Dee Station, Mr. J^n commends the elect lad^ Bondy has had approximately the "•’ the conduct of her children, same control with ‘Mop and Mix’ v}tether her own or persons a- CORN: The prospects for a corn crop look much better than they did ten days ago. In fact, we have plenty of good corn for the time of year. COTTON: The county at large is perfectly satisfied with the progress of pur cotton. Mopping has done much towards controll ing the weevil. To produce good milk we mufet practice cleanliness, and cool im mediately. A dirty strainer will cause milk to sour rapidly and g» to whey. Do not use soap, and rags to clean milk vessels but aa alkaline wash powder and a brush instead. A good strainer will not take dirt out of milk for dirt dis solves. Livestock growers!!' Watch aM wounds as “screw worms” are with us again. Your agent has treated several cases recently. Fight garden insects — it takes a thorough dusting about once a week to control, most chewing bugs. See your county agent and ask for bulletin number 102, which gives methods of controlling gar den insects. Grain: Most of the harvesting of small grain is over. Some re port high yields—some low—but on an average I am afraidr*we will fall short, taking the county as a whole. • Gardens: More interest has been shown this-year than ever before in home gardens. These gardens show what can be done, a£ many places that have been growing weeds are growing vegetables now. First cotton bloom;—M. M. Wall was the first to hand the county agent a cotton bloom this season. I can hear you saying now, that you have plenty of blooms—al right, I din’t say you haven’t. X Mt. Carmel News ’ Jeff Black* of Charleston is vis iting his grandmother, Mrs. Ida Black. Mrs. W. A. Scott and Mrs. Hun ter McKinney were visitors in Au gusta Tuesday. We are glad to say that Miss Julia Cade is recovering; from a recent illness. Mrs. W. B. Sharp spent a pleas ant week end with Lt.-Col.'W. B. Sharp at Anniston, Ala. Mrs. Gladys Bowyer of Anderson was a spend the day guest of Mrs. W. A. Scott Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dunaway and Anne, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis and Boll-Wee-Go’ flour and whom she labored. Who- [Dunaway and baby of Tignall, Ga starch mixtures, as with 1-1-1 mo- ^-er thev were, thev reflected lasses mixture. We still recom- •'wn ChristiPn character. Th'' mend first the molasses mixture j 'he is warned of teachers who d*' but where that is not possible, the nv the humanity of Jesus. F use of some substitute is certain- I'-sed against receivincr them i ly advisable,” Mr. Hopkins con - | ‘he homes of the peonlp. Ca eludes. -X- Card Of Thanks communities. b^uld be exercised as to the cha'* acter of persons received aseu°«t Gaius was thanked for hospital ity to John and others. In writ- , „ , . . . ng Gaius, John showed that b We gratefully acknowledge our bv a bad mar a P preClatl0n ™ an ! ! He referred to Diotrephes. who rr ' nhrvstions hospitality aru tried to prevent others from re '•eiving them. It is sadly tru ties of enforcing OPA regulations t0 bear the g re at loss of our wife. thaf in near ] V ev ery church are creating a crisis. So far, daughter and sister higher taxes and compulsory sav- m? | ings arc the chief solutions of- ; fered. Although the treasury op- poses ccmpuisory savings, the secretary of the treasury is ob- ifl viously worried over a possible de- crease in voluntary savings which G. C. Rosenswike, Austin Abercrombie, And Family. X Card Of Thanks trouble-maker may be found. To John love was the supreme thing and the whole thing. If r Christian has love, he has God The apostle closes with a fine ex ample of Christian living in one Demetrius, who was far differed We wish to take this means of I from Demetrius the silversmith he fears will accompany the pay- expressing our sincere thanks anc’ We often remember bad men more as-you-go taxation. The chances appreciation for the kindness {readily than good men. But let us are tl compulsory purchase of shown us by our friends and war bonds will become necessary neighbors during the illness and if if is r '.nfi that many people death of our beloved husband, fa- meet ft. ' ’'Vuefions for income ther. and brother, James F. Stroud. ‘ •' tax b ng their deductions May God bless each of you. y for bonds. . The Family. remember this good man who res cued the name of Demetrius from the evil that the silversmith of Ephesus gave it, and let us emu late him as one who exemplified j observed after vhe sermon So-. -2/ John’s great theme of love. ^ morning. and Mrs. Ben DuBose of Lisbon. Ga., were guests of Mr. and Mtsl J. B. Curtis Sunday. Mrs. W. A. Scott, Mrs. Hunter McKinney, Miss Susie Patterson and Mrs. W. H. Horton were Abbe ville visitors Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Leonora Hardaway left Tuesday morning to visit relative* in N. C. and other places. Mrs. Rebecca Boyd was a visitor of Miss Annie White Sunday af ternoon. Many friends were de lighted to see her again. People in and around Mt. Car mel enjoyed quite a treat during: the week end in attending the meetings at the A. R. P. Church here. Dr. Parkinson of Due West Seminary was the visiting minis ter and his clear, forceful sermon* illustrating the wonderful love of God and how He is able to save all who trust Him. Dr. Parkinson is an unusually fine preacher and all were charmed and benefitted by his sermons. The ministers from nearby towns were very in terested attendants. We all hop.* he will come again scon. The S.e- rament of the Lord’s Supper w;.;