McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, January 13, 1944, Image 2
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£