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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 29, 1943 Dale Author of Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People" DON’T HARANGUE MATE ABOUT MINOR FAULTS I had Sunday dinner with an old friend of mine and his wife. He did the carving, and served the chicken and the vegetables. In doing this he committed some small crime of etiquette. I have for gotten what it was. He put the applesauce on top of the asparagus —or something like that. I was so busy talking I didn't notice. But his wife noticed, and she immediately jumped on him-^in my pres ence. She said: ‘‘John, look what you’ve done. Why can’t you iearn to serve properly?” Then, turning to me, she added, “He is always making mistakes like that. He lust doesn’t try.” He may have made a mistake in his servings, but she made e mistake a thousand times worse. She humiliated him before others He felt uncomfortable, and I felt uncomfortable. The truth is, would rather have eaten a ham sandwich in peace out behind the garage, than to have eaten that Sunday dinner in an atmosphere ol wrangling and criticism. And mind you, she is an excellent housekeeper. I have knov/r her fifteen years. She is a good cook. She is economical. She has reared two children. She has worked day and night, and done ev erything for her husband except the most important thing—made their home a happy place. Her husband would rather come to a happy home, even if he found the applesauce in the middle of the carpet, than to come to a perfectly kept home filled with scolding whining and fault-finding. I have a bit of advise for both husbands and wives: Eliminate your own faults before beginning on your partner’s. One marriage out of every six ends in divorce. And think of the marriages that would end in divorce if it weren’t for children, relig ion, economic circumstances, or social pressure of smaller communi ties! If marriage is a failure, it is because some one—probably both husband and wife—has failed to make the home a happy place. More happiness* is wrecked by a lot of unimportant things than by big things. Remember, the only way you can ever change any one is by making him or her WANT to change. That cannot be done by constant faultfinding and complaining. It may possibly be done, however, by love, tact, devotion and encouragement. SUCCESSFUL PARENTHOOD By MRS. CATHERINE C. EDWARDS Assooiat* Editor. Par*nt'» Magaaia* IcCORMICK MESSENGER . rabUshed Every Thursday f Established June 5, IMS | EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, r Editor and Owner Patered at the Post Office at Me- Cermick, s. C., as mail matter of the second class. / SUBSCRIPTION RATES: } Qne' Year $1.00 \ Elx Months .75 Three Months.50 Six Inch Sermon BY REV. ROBERT H. HARPER God Delivers His People. T.ess'm for August 1: Exodus 5 6:1-7; 12:51. Golden Text: Psalm 50:15. Moses had returned to Egypt, he and /Aaron had erlist«d tlv-ir people, had asked Pharaoh to al low them to go into the wilder ness to hold a feast unto their Lord and the monarch had re fused and ordered the burdens of the Israelites to be ma'ie heavier, when Moses presumed to ask God why he had not delivered his people. They had upbraided Moses for the evil he had brought upon them by causing Pharaoh to add to their burdens, and nothing had come of the ef fort to help them. Evidently Moses was disheartened and unr willing to wait upon God’s time. But God was patient with his servant, repeating his promise to deliver the people. The last verse in the lesson text tells of the fulfillment of the promise. Be tween the repetition of the prom ise and its fulfillment came the plagues which God brought upon Egypt to induce Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go, the institution of the Passbver, and the flight of the people toward the Red Sea. And it came to pass that “Jehov ah did bring the children of Is rael cut of the land of Egypt by their hosts.” Let us be patient as we wait before God for deliverance from some burden of our own, or the fulfillment of some good thing we have begun in his name. It may not be in our way, but in his own way and time God will answer us if we continue earnestly in pray er for something that accords with his will. X Good School Lunches Spell Better Health Clemson, July 17.—Hot lunches served to school children re sulted in gains and weight and height and in an improved gen eral nutritional condition, reports Miss Ada Moser, home economist for the South Carolina Experi ment Station. The specialist’s statement is based on an experi ment conducted in two rural elementary schools in Pickens county, one supervised, the other tmsupervised. In the supervised school hot noon lunches were served under WPA supervision and following a plan worked out by the local home economist. These hot lunches included canned and stored products from the school garden and commodities furnish ed by the Agricultural Market ing Administration, supplemented by fresh bottled milk and other foods. The non-supervised school served fruit and such food as canned pork and beans, that could be served without cooking. Both the hot lunches and the cold lunches caused improveriient in the di?t of scores of the pupils. Greater improvement was noted in the case of the hot lunch pro- cram. Better gains in height were observed also among the children receiving hot lunches. Over half the pupils in the school serving hot lunches made 130 per cent or more of the expected gains in height. In the unsupervised school slightly more than one-third of the children made unusually good gains in height. Where the hot lunch program was followed, a better nutritional condition was prevalent among the children. Fewer pupils had dry hair, rough or discolored skin, or flabby muscles than in the unsupervised school. X Agricultural Lime In AAA Program Clemson, July 24.—Ground ag ricultural limestone in bags can now be supplied to cooperating CONFIDENCE WITH RIGHT I once heard a psychologist say that the K ~st gift parents could give a child was the ability to take himself for granted. That is, to have a true sense of personal worth without a sense of superi ority about it. Perhaps this is what Jesus meant when He said: “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Cer tainly we know that He did not mean cringing humbleness by the word “meek,” but rather a calm acceptance of oneself as worth the gifts of life. Why then do not all human beings gain this happy state? One reason is that it takes so many years to learn from experi ence what really constitutes a sense of personal worth. We be gin by over-rating achievement as a means to securing it, only to discover that one can have success and acclaim and still lack an inner sense of being worthwhile as a human being. Nor is it dependent on good works (though the gift of taking one self for granted is usually ac companied by a generous spirit) for some cover up their very sense of inadequacy by counting their meritorious deeds. This of course is undesirable. Instead, personal worth is qpm- pounded of all the things you can count on yourself for. A few children seem to be born with a natural goodness which gives them this sense from birth. But most children find it hard to live up to what is expected of them, and later even harder to live up to what they expect of themselves. Thus they need con stant help in experiencing small daily victories over the tempta tion to shirk, to grab, to blame farms by the Agricultural Adjust ment Agency, J. M. Napier, ex- tension-AAA agent, announced to day. A deduction (cost) rate amount of $4.50 per ton ground dolcmitic limestone, in 100-pound bags, delivered to any railhead within South Carolina as a conservation material under the 1943 Agricultural Conservation Program has been approved, said Mr. Napier, and the County AAA officers are ready to accept ap plications from cooperating farm ers. ' The minimum carload for ship ment is 40 tons. Two or more farmers may cooperate in ordering a carload. The application of others for their failures, and, a thousand and one other human v/eaknesses. These daily victories are forgotten but little by little they add up to the conquest of an undesirable trait. Then some fine day it suddenly pops into your head that you no longer need be afraid that you’ll ever cheat or take pleasure in hurting someone’s feeling, or whatever the fault was you’ve been battling with. I was reminded of this need for constant parental guidance in forming a child’s standards of conduct by a conversation on a recent train trip with a girl who was bitterly disappointed because her fiance’s leave had suddenly been cut short while she was on a visit to him. She had taken the next train home and remark ed that she hadn’t even can celled an appointment to have her hair done. “Oh, well,” she said, “that won’t matter, I’ll never see that girl again.” It wasn’t so much this particular discourtesy which made me feel sorry for her, but the excuse she gave herself. For H showed she hadn’t been taught that the omissions or misdeeds you aren’t apt to be caught at are the very ones about which you must be most strict with yourself if you are ever to merit your own self esteem. All this, of course, is part of character education. But what w& are specifically trying to point out is, that it isn’t what the world thinks about your child but what he comes to think a- bout himself that will form the basis for his happiness or lack of it. It is your job to help him get not only a true picture of himself, but as favorable a one as possible. ing practice payment of $2.50 per ton. “It is felt that limestone avail able in bags will meet a need a- mong many farmers in this state and result in a greater use of limestone. Interested farmers should contact their county a- gents or AAA officials for details.” aa.'a l T^ ===/ 1 NEWSPAPER /^ZT\ ADVERTISING AT SERVICE TOvHELP YOU SELLJHw this material carries a soil-build- in the for Invasion on the Back-Yard Front a AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE KEEPING OF COWS, CALVES, YEARLINGS AND OTHER ANIMALS IN THE TOWN OF McCORMICK Be it ordained by the Town Council of the Town of McCor mick in regular session assem bled: SECTION I: That from and af ter this date it shall be uniawiui for any person within the Town limits of the Town of McCormick owning, having in possession or charged with keeping any cow, calf, yearling or other animal to allow said cow, calf, yearling or other animal to run at large within said limits of the Town of McCormick or to tie out or per mit any other person to tie out any such cow, calf, yearling or other animal on any street, side walk, highway, alley or on prop erty of any other person; pro vided that nothing herein con tained shall be construed to for bid the owner of any cow, calf, yearling or other animal from grazing said cow, calf, yearling or other animal on said person’s own oroperty or the property of another if written permission is first had and if it shall be so se cured that it can not go upon any highway, street, sidewalk, al ley or property of any other per son within the Town limits of the Town of McCormick. SECTION II: Any calf, cow, yearling or other ajiimal running at large or tied so that it may go upon any of the property herein above restricted shall be taken up by the policemen of the Town of McCormick and impounded and notice of such taking given to the owner of or of any other person having charge of such cow, calf, yearling or other animal, if prac tical, and such person shall be liable for the expense of keeping said cow, calf, yearling or other animal and if such cow, calf, yearling or other animal should not be claimed and charges paid within twenty-four (24) hours af ter notice, such cow, calf, yearling or other animal shall be dealt with as an estray. SECTION III: Any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon con viction, be fined not more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or , imprisoned or sentenced to work upon the public works of the i Town of McCormick, or on the , County Chaingang for a period of ! not more than thirty (30) days. | DONE AND RATIFIED by the ! Town Council of the Town of Mc- i Cormick this the 15th day of i July, 1943. T. J. SIBERT, Mayor, M. L. GIBERT, C. H. HUGULEY, J. T. McGRATH, C. R. STROM. P. R. BROWN, DAN A. BELL, Town Council. ATTEST: , J. O. PATTERSON, Town Clerk. NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Common Pleas. J. S. STROM, Plaintiff, VS: KANDAS BERRY, ROSA LEE ' WRIGHT, LUCILLE THOMAS, TALMADGE SEARLE3, LEWIS COATS, JOHN COATS. HARRI SON BERRY, FLORENCE ED WARDS AND JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE. Representing the unknown heirs of Charlie Berry, deceased. Defendants. PURSUANT to order of the Court in the above entitled mat ter, I will sell before the Court House door in the Town of Mc Cormick, County of McCor mick, State of South Carolina, on Sales Day in August, the same being the 2nd day of August, 1943, during the usual hours of sale, the following described prop erty, to wit: “All that piece, and parcel or tract of land lying and being in the town of McCormick, in the State of South Carolina, contain ing one acre, more or less, and bounded on the east by C. & W. C. Railway, on the south by lands of H. R. Deason, on the West By lands of the estate of J. W. Dea son, and on the north by lands of J. P. Deason.” ALSO: “All that piece, parcel or tract of land lying and being in Mc Cormick County, in the State of South' Carolina, containing three acres, more or less, and bounded on the east by lands of M. G. & J. J. Dorn, Inc., on the north by lands of other lands of M. G. & J. J. Dorn, on the South by lands of Peoples Bank, and on the West of lands of G. A. Lewis." TERMS OF SALE, CASH, pur chaser to pay for stamps and papers. No deficiency judgment being demanded in this matter, the bid ding will close on August 2, 1943. J. FRANK MATTISON, Master For McCormick Coun ty, S. C. x July 9, 1943.—3t. Land For Sale 200 acres known as the Old / McIntosh Homeplace about two miles from Bordeaux, containing residence, two tenant houses, barn and other out houses. If interested, notify the owner. Mrs. Howelle Zeigler Dickson, 116 Cir cular Street, Greenwood, South Carolina. WANT ADV. WANTED—PINE PULP WOOD— Dn the C. & W. C., G. & F. and Southern Railroads at top ceiling price of $8.93 loaded on cars from trucks and if “Banked” (loaded from the ground) $1.05 additional, totalling $9.98 per unit. Will ad vance when loaded $100.00 per car of 12 or more units. R. M. Winn, Plum Branch. S. C. LOST — Gas Rationing Book F5175589EI. J. A. Talbert, Mc Cormick, S. C. WANTED — Sober, skilled shoe repairer, to operate modernly e- quipped shop. See Jno. T. Faulk ner. Office - 603 Georgia Ave., North Augusta, S. C.