University of South Carolina Libraries
a t / 1 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McGGRMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, December 16, 1943 | It/* ' IcCORMICK MESSENGER l> Pnbllshed Every Thursday Established June 5, IMS ■DMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc- Cermick, S. C M as mail matter of the second class. •s.V ■■+ X rate: : i — $1.(N) Months .75 Three Months sn StA" HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL JAPAN’S PAST AND FUTURE wmr-A t RtV. ROBERT H. HARPER T * . ' ■' . Christ the Fulfilment of the Law. Lesson for December 19: He brews 1: 1-9; Romans 10: 4-10. Golden Text: Hebrews 1:1, 2. ' The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews shows the superiority of the gospel dispenation ewer that of the law, in the supremacy of Him through whom the gosp?l was brought to men as compared with the messengers God had em ployed in ages past in the minis- Ohina through the Korean penin try of the truth. Having spoken sula, but without success. In 1620 unto the fathers in “divers man- they declared a policy of national ners” through the prophets, God isolation and no Japanese was al- fi’ially spoke unto men in • his lowed to even leave the islands. Son. • | Nationals who were in other lands The glory of Jesus far surpasses; were not permitted to return to A hundred years ago, and less, the territory of Japan would have covered the states oi New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio combined. ...It-would take a mathematician today to compute the amount of territory she con trols. It is mostly wet, but that portion of it which is dry is very vital and important in the scheme of things* today—not only as applied to the Far East, but in j relation to all the rest of the j world. Tomorrow the “rest of the world” intends to push Japan I back one hundred years and con- • fine her to her own back yard. Which is as it should be. Ex pansion by force and at the ex pense of other peoples is bad e- nough any way you phrase it, but the way the Japs do it is horrible. As far back as. around 40Q A. D. the Japs attempted to expand by way of Korea and were more or less successful until the year 663 A. D. when they were pushed off the continent. Again in 1593 they tried for the conquest of that of the angels by whom God had spoken to men, because of his divine nature and the atone ment he made for men (Hebrews 1:3) and because God had said unto him, “Thou art my Son” (Hebrews 1:5-9). Small wonder it fs that the people who heard Jesus gladly recogatzed that he spoke as “one having authority.” , And Christ, Paul writes, “is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believeth.” This means that he is the fufillment of the law—the _ culmination of prophecy, the answer to all typts of the temple, the Perfect One who has kept the whole law, and the Saviour and Friend of men who can empower them to keep the law when they have faith in him. As men realize that by their •wn efforts they fail »to reach the highest good, let them trust in Jesus to ^ make them good and keep them good. For the word of faith is nigh, even as near as it was to the Hebrews Paul address ed. So let men receive the apostle’s exhortation to confess their faith in Jesus and believe In him in their heart. “For with Hie heart man believeth* unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” t X ate his business as he pleases, so does the average farmer want to ( be able to produce as much or as little as lie wants of any com modity and to charge whatever price he finds necessary to as sure himself of a fair profit. He wants legislation to protect him against unfair buying practices but, in general, he is more avid than is the modern businessman about having his success or his failure depend largely oil how good a job he does and the laws of supply and demand. INDEPENDENT . . >. capitalist The farmer considers himself a capitalist. He is proud of being the most independent buslness- * m * * TODAY tad TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON FARMERS . business A group of big businessmen were recently pleasantly surprised to learn, as a result of a survey among farmers, that farmers in general don’t think industrialists have horns. In fact, as a result of the sur- ■vey, they found that many farm- «rs are sympathetic with the problems of big business—perhaps a lot more sympathetic than busi nessmen are with the problems of the farmer. Many businessmen have never realized how closely their prob lems are related to farmer—but the realized this right farmer sympathizes with indus try’s labor problems because he has very similar problems.. He may not be involved with unions (although even that is a threat) Japan, and the construction of sea-going ships was forbidden. Unhappily for our generation— and for a couple before ours— American Commodore Perry “horned in” and as a result Japan signed trade agreements with the other maritime nations and be came part—and a troublesome part—of the world at large. The world almost had a “break” in 1860 when the Isolationists of Japan nearly dragged her back into her old shell. 1894 witnessed Japan’s first modern aitempt at real expan sion, and at the termination of her successful war with China, a year later, she became the pos sessor of the Pescadores Islands, Formosa and the Liao-tung pe- ainsula. Around about this time :he signed treaties in which she acknowledged the independence of Korea, and a decade later stepped in and gobbled that na tion in no unoertain manner. How she treated the peace-loving, ancient land of Korea—is prover bial. 11 I It took the First World war to really put Japan on the map as one of the “Great Nations.” When the shooting was over and the shouting had died down Japan i had amassed a fortune from the sale of munitions to the Allies and had secured mandates over the formerly German owned is lands—the Marshals, Carolines, j Mafiennes and others—from the. League of Nations. And when she resigned from the League in 1933- she announced that she had no i intention of abandoning these mandates. Nothing very original in that—who has? Apropos of these mandates—Japan holds a 99 years lease on Darien and Port, Arthur. Don’t laugh! Well, everyone knows the rest of the story—how she gobbled up Manchuria (Manchukuo), and la ter started to borrow the rest of China from the Chinese. There didn’t appear any way to check i her conquest of China—after we had asked others to help us stop her and had been refused. After Pearl Harbor her con quests went by leaps and bounds, until today she controls a large piece of the earth’s surface. At her recent rate of expansion she would soon have owned this planet and part of Mars. Her population of 75 million or so should be nice and co^y back on the islands where they belong. We can probably put them there in the course of the next two or three years and then hope that no new combination of nations drags them out to start another war against another combination in another generation or two. ducing planes, tanks and guns in spite of labor troubles and dif ficulties in getting materials. And the industrialists are prais ing the production records estab lished by the farmers in spite of labor shortages, machinery short ages and pricing problems. Furthermore, both groups are more cognizant than ever before of their interdependency. The farmer realizes that part of his present prosperity is due to the in creased activity of industry. And the businessman realizes that there would be chaos rather than prosperity in our country today if the farmer had fallen down on the job. If, after the war, industry can man in America. He is in busi-J continue to keep up today’s rate those of the farmer has ness for himself and wants to run that business in his own way % without interference from anyone. If he makes a good profit, *one of the first things he will do with his surplus money is to invest it in the industries in which he has confidence — the company from which he bought a good tractor or a good truck or a good auto mobile. If the holdings of stock in large companies were analyzed on a rural-urban basis, most busi nessmen would probably be great ly surprised to learn how large a part of big business is owned by the farm population. The farmers may be suspicious of industries they don’t know a- bout. In the past there have been plenty of cases where they have been sold worthless stocks and have been “taken in” in other * i ways by city slickers. But, on the, other hand, many prosperous 1 farmers have for years had a steady income coming in from their investments in reliable in- of production, the farmer knows that he will continue to have a good market for his produce and will have little to worry about. To achieve permanent high pro-e duction by industry and thus a. permanent market for farm goods, the*'farmer will invariably take sides with business manage ment when production is threat ened by labor or by government. Dec. 6. WANT ADV. Pot Plants, Cut Flowers, Floral Designs, and Sprays, Christmas Wreaths and Baskets at reason able prices. Mrs. G. C. Sanders, McCormick, S. C. LOST—My “A” and “B” gaso line ration book for car license No. C-18685. Reward for re covery. Fred Lee Gilchrist, R. 1. Plum Branch, S. C. dustries and they have along. The: most respect for those and their management. the ut- industries RELATIONS . respect During the war, according to the survey, the farmers feel that but when wages go up in industry their relations with big business the only possible way that a have become better than they fanner can keep his help from weife before. This is not based on going to the city is to raise farm any new deal between industry ^ges. j and the farmer but is probably And the farmer is equally con cerned with legislation which aims at controlling his output and production. Just as the busi nessman wants to be free to ©per due to a greater respect on the part of each group for what the other is doing. The farmers are taking their hats off to industry for its amazing records in pro- FOR SALE—Giant Pansy Plants. Mrs. F. P. Deason, McCormick, S. C. LOST—Two fountain pens, one Parker and one Schaffer. Liberal reward. R. L. Faulkner. FOR SALE—23 jewel Waltham gold watch, man’s size, passed railroad inspection. F. P. Deason, McCormick, S. C. ADS For SALE IN * A** . 1 AT ONCE MALE AND FEMALE HELP • \ We Need 25Over 18 And 25 Men \ , / To Work Between The Hours Of t 7 P. M. And 7 A. M. GOOD PAY . . . EASY WORK ) , ■ 4 I 1 c / If You Want To Do Something For The War Effort -Here’s Your Chance! Take A Job At J. B. Carr Biscuit Co. Packing Field Rations For Men In The Service. ) For Detail Information APPLY MRS. HERBERT N. COLEMAN 9 McCORMICK, S. C., PHONE 63 DECEMBER 20-21-22 J. B. CARR BISCUIT CO. GREENWOOD, S. C. PARK ST. ■f ■