McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, June 24, 1943, Image 1
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
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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.
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Canning Demonstra
tion June 25, At
3:30 O’clock R M.
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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.
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the dangers of inflation—of prices r Fl 1 ; <a I'Vnintv Trk
getting entirely out of hand—are A11 s _l u
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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“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
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;.;