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McCORMICK MESSENGER, MctfORMICK, SOUTH CAK«»MNA Thursday, January 13, 1944 ■h VcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1MI EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner festered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C M as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 imtuin t REV. ROBERT H. HARPER t i Jesus Answers His Critics. Lesson for January 16: Mark 2:- 15—3:35. Golden :t: Matthew 5:11. The le. including answers of Jesus'to txk* critics, is of chief val ue because of the truths which Jesus declares. At the feast in Matthew’s house, Jesus said He had come to call sinners to repentance. As to fast ing, He indicated it was no time for His disciples to fast when He was with them, but rather one of rejoicing. The old order, with its many observances, could not be joined with the new order of the gospel. , Jesus proclaimed His lordship of the Sabbath and said the day was made for man. Interpretation turns upon the nature and needs cf man. He primarily needs to find spiritual help on the Sab bath. Turning the Sabbath into a holidays defeats its purpose as a holy day. Certainly it is a fit time for doing good. The healing Of the withered hand was one of seven instances of healing by the Lord on the Sabbath. The Lord’s ministry to the mul titude leads us to conclude that “mass evangelism” may still be profitably employed by the church es. Passing over the call of the Twelve, we consider the unpar donable sin. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost ascribes the work of the Spirit to the devil. ’Tis easy to see that this sin cannot be forgiven in this world or that to come. The man guilty of it can not be forgiven because he can not turn to God, cannot pray. The closing incident shows the blessed privilege all may have of feeing in the family of Jesus. “For,” said He, “whosoever shall do the will of God, the same ia my broth- cr» my sister and my mother .’’.Let us claim the privilege of being the kinsmen of Jesus. * * TODAY Md TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON GET DRAFT CREDIT WAR MAN^pr '“Mr.c® 0 C ~ON. * <5 FARMERS CAN HOLD Dm STATUS duttinb pulpwood T, Chairman — s T0 the FARJJIERS OF AMERICA: Member 1, 1943 ^ our* pumo^p* +Vi«+ ^ hope that they wUl hT ^ ° ther ^Uv/ties^ 00 " ^tlng, 6 regard off_sea^r, , be ava iiabZe th<c * wUh a 3110 ”- In or d W e r rk that e th enUal ^tivUie?! that tha V will with a minimum of person??^ they ma y transit^ as a wartime 11 ■ POints P Qf 7lmnu rf^ im e * e have ° take'^f Ul W01 * by every iar^A^e^ -hers .or d ' erSt0 ° d .or work in io^^l^^otiTWtiff—^So^tTSHT^ ' Pulpwona 2. lumbering, sawml ri^^^V^ayie So Tone oo + -2—other wap— four S° l effect their d h raft^ S t ea . SOn “onagrlcultnr 6 i asricul - Board Memorandum No 11s n tus * Selective sJ? " ork will United States !^ C ° VerS ^ L °°** ■ -oosaary"^^- 31 ^ We6ks ’ the^S^^r^^ with the employer wr 0n i<r the Em Ployment obt ain urgenfl/^ 11 ® 0 * ^re^ff sP^o^e^"^ 11 ^ 13 a ey take a gently needed. °..-season farm workpr= Itoploymen t These measure. °rkers are most lumbering Indust^s.^^ p -™y to aid the pu l P w 00d Md I FARMERS: If you want to make good money in off-se'ason time on essential pulpwood production, write or call: *** **- VICTORY PULPWOOD CAMPAIGN ** ** ****** WEST VIRGINIA PULP & PAPER CO. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA R. M. WINN, PLUM BRANCH, S. C . . . • deductions A recent cartoon in Collier’s magazine showed a line of factory workers stopping at a window marked “Pay” and then going on a few feet further to a window marked “Deductions.” The head of the company was explaining to a friend, “New innovation. Each employee gets to hold his entire pay all the way from that win dow to this one.” „ Although the cartoon was amus ing, it seemed to me that it also contained a valuable idea. For most of us these days, are begin ning to lose track of just what we do earn and what value there is for us in the deductions which are taken regularly from our pay. U we could hold the whole wad for a few minutes, just to get the feel of our actual total earnings, we might get considerable satis faction out of it. As it is now, particularly among those who didn’t begin working until after most of the wartime deductions had been put in force, weekly pay is apt to be thought i uf in terms of dollars received without consideration of the dol- put aside for social security, bonds, taxes and, in some 1 cases, hospitalization and group • insurance. Deductions by employers now total about 30 per cent of total income, so that a man who re ceives $35 in cash probably earns about $50 a week. That $35 is all that is available to him for pres ent spending, but he shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that a good j part of the other $15 will later come back to him with interest. BONDS . ; . social security The most tangible returns we get from our deductions are in the war bonds which are handed to us periodically. They show the growth of our deposits in the sav ings account which we have opened with the United States government. They also show that the government agrees to pay us, in ten years, $4.00 for every $3.00 we deposit now. To those of us who have always meant to put some money away for a rainy day but have never before got around to it, this in vestment, inspired by patriotic motives, is going to prove a great blessing in the future. The de duction for war bonds, therefore, should not be thought of as some thing that is taken away from us or as a contribution toward help ing to win the war, but as a splendid opportunity to save money at a good rate of interest. The same is true of the same deduction which is taken for social security. There are some people who think that the social security program may eventually blow up, but the chances are that it will be carried out as provided by law and will assure us of a livelihood beginning at the age of 65. Under the social security act, a man who earns $60 a week for 20 years will, at the age of 65, re ceive $72 a month for his wife and himself for the rest of their lives, with extra benefits if they have children under 18 years of age. This may not seem a lot, but it is low-priced insurance and —like war bonds—can be thought of as an easy way of saving for the future. TAXES benefits The deduction for taxes is the only one of present deductions which is not returnable with in terest. And, even though some of the money we pay in taxes is wasted by the government, the major part of it can also be look ed upon as a worthwhile invest ment. The heavy taxes we are paying now are largely an investment in the war being fought to preserve the kind of a nation in which we want to live. Other tax monfcy is used to give us schools, roads, public buildings, police protection and countless other things from which we all benefit. So, under a soundly and eco nomically operated government, our tax money can be considered as an installment payment on things we all want. But too many of us, today, are apt to think of f axes as a govern ment “cut” from our pay which has nothing to do with us. Ac tually, under our form of govern ment, it is still the people’s mon ey after the government gets hold of it and is to be soent as the majority of the people want it spent. Therefore, if we want to get a worthwhile return on our invest ment in taxes we should watch the expenditure of government funds just as carefully as we do our owh personal expensed—and if we don’t like the way the gov ernment, which we have entrust ed with part of our money, is handling it, we should impress on our congressmen their responsi bility in making better use of our funds. of patients during the wide attack -X- 100 Gases Of Syphilis Are Treated Here One hundred cases of syphilis were under treatment in the ve nereal disease clinics of McCor mick County during the month , of October, acording to figures from the Division of Venereal Disease Control of the State {Board of Health as announced today by Dr. M. J. Boggs, McCormick County Health Officer. Two hundred and seventy-six treatments for the disease were given by the clinics during the month. While the number receiving treatment month represents a on the veneral disease problem in McCormick County officials of the Division of Venereal Disease Control believe that it is short of the actual number of cases in existence. Some are receiving treatment from private physician, while many others, officials be lieve, have not yet been brought under treatment and thus arr capable of continuing the spread of these dangerous diseases. . Looking toward bringing vene real disease to the minimum in South Carolina the State Board of Health is now operating thre Quarantine Hospitals or treatment centers in the Columbia area— Number 1 at Pontiac,- for negro women, Number 2, “Camp Vic tory,” for white women, near Styx in Lexington County, and Number 3 on the Greenville high 1 - way about eight miles from Co lumbia. :—X Ivlacstro’s Gift A On his 50th birthday, Artur R«d /inski, conductor of the New Xwft 1 hilharmonic Symphony orche - as presented with * (.reed Guernsey cow, by the ort i.a’s board of directors. Mrs. i * inski shows the maestro hoof .oilk ‘‘Tulip.” ADS For SALE IN .Q.UK NE/yj.,iSSU£