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# > TRUE TO OURSELVES O v * EIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Secand Year Established June 5, 1902 Wei OKMl< K MIR SD « j -N ARY 20, 1944 Number 33 Washington, D. C., Jan. 17.— her of the members of congress. (NWNS)—Guided by the Presi- j Before February 17, congress dent’s broad message outlining must decide the highly debatable the legislation which he considers subject of subsidies to farmers, most important to the welfare of Before the last session ended, fv>e nation congressmen are now j congress passed a resolution con- drafting bills which will keep them tinuing these subsidies until that o. .v / until tne November election.; date, but unless action is taken The number of controversial before then they will automatical- . measures before congress is prob ably greater than at any time in history, and there is little ques tion but that the next election will be strongly influenced by the action which is taken on these measures. In the forefront o| the matters to be decided by congress are in creases in taxes, simplification of oar whole tax structure, muster- ing-out pay to members of the ahned forces, conscription of la bor, the soldier vote, subsidies to farmers, pay increases for rail road workers, poll taxes and con trol of oil rationing and oil prices. At the head of the senate cal- ly stop in the middle of February. The house already has begun discussion of mustering-out pay for soldiers and is likely to ap prove a measure similar to that already passed by the senate call ing for payments ranging from $2Q to $500. It Is likely that the house will keep to a simple bill, which can be acted upon quickly, and will later consider more com plicated parts of this problem, such as unemployment insur ance, bonuses, government-fi nanced education, financial help for the purchase of homes^etc. On January 25 the senate com- People Asked ' To Subsrrib To War Bonds te Tuesday, January IS was desig nated in a proclamation by the Governor as “Fourth War Loan Bond Day” in South Carolina and the new bond campaign, was ini tiated with r ^pjonriato ceremo nies all over the State that day. Governor Olin D. Johnston and Christie Benet, of Columbia. State Chairman of the War Finance Committee, issued a joint state ment urging the people to do their uttermost in adding addi tional bonds to their existing portfolios end the Governor, in his proclamation, called upon the schools, homes and places of busi ness to display the Stars and Stripes on that day. The quota for McCormick coun ty is $97,900 00. and for the state as a whole is $54,000,000. The camnaign in this county will be under the leadership of G. J. Sanders. County Chairman. The statement warned the peo ple that the war i& not yet won and that vast expenditures are to , be made to insure victory, as at- mittee on education and labor „„ endar is completion of the long- i plans to inquire into the difficul- j tested by the President’s budget delayed tax bill. Although income I ties of white collar workers under, message of last Thursday for one tax blanks already have been! government wage restriction, who hundred billion dollars, of which mailed to taxpayers, with instruc-' are said to have suffered severely ninety billions are for war ex- t^ns based on last year’s taxes,! because of increased cost of living penditures. While certain of the the new tax measure win apply to without increased compensation, ultimate triumph of United Na- As a result of these hearings leg-, tions’ arms, said the Governor islation may be proposed to elimi nate some of the restrictions on increased pay to office workers. In addition to the many contro- and Mr. Benet, yet South Caro linians and the balance of the people of the United States have a long way to go, but this way this year’s income and is apt to call for complicated adjustments to be made by all taxpayers *on March 15. It is clear to congress that the situation will be confus ing to the public and jevery ef fort will be made to get the tax question settled as quickly as pos- consider a flood of new appropn- j country in the best security sible. To hasten action, leaders of ation bills. Although it will prob- known — United States Govern- the senate finance committee will ably okay all requests for appro- j ment Bonds. probably keep the total amount! priations for war purposes, there ; “We do solemnly direct your at- Fourth War Loan Drive Opened At the county-wide Red Cross meeting held at the McCormick Baptist Church Sunday evening. County Chairman G. J. Sanders called upon the ’ people of this county to make a speedy success of their quota in the Fourth War Loan Drive. He said “This is no bargain war. we cannot call upon our men to hold back one ounce of ammunition or effort in this bloody struggle. Therefore, we cannot afford to hold back one cent of the money needed to sup ply them with necessary equip ment.” He presented Cant. John Nixon Talbert, who is home on furlough with his family after two years of service in Newfoundland. Capt. Talbert brought a word of greet ing and told of how the men in his group put one-third of their pay in to war bonds during the last drive. “They cannot throw hand grenades unless the folks back home furnish them,” he said. And added “When the men in service are given a job to do, they do it. I know you people here at home will not fail to do your job either.” X Red Cross Meeting Well Attended versial subjects which congress ca n and must be ’made easier by | will consider, it will also have to massing their dollars behind their ^ lcC ° rmi( ; k Baptist Church faun will undoubtedly be a great deal j tention to the tragic fact,” con- of debate, from the economy eluded the statement, “that every standpoint, on all appropriation day erood and brave men of South requests for non-war purposes. X- Carolina are dying in battle all day evening was well attended and has been much talked of since. Marion S. Symms. of Augusta who is District Chairman of the Camp and Hospital Service of American Red Cross, had charge of the program. He .said, “The over the globe, and, too, our American Red Cross is the closest courageous voung women are serv-; expression of applied Christian of new taxes in the neighbor hood of $2,500,000,000, as approved b-r *v> e house,’ and will not at tempt to increase it to near the $10,500,000,000 figure asked by the u. «>ury. Because of the threat of the railroad strike and steel workers’ strike last month, many con- , gressmen are eager to pass new Portia Seabrook, Eloise Johnson | attitude of South Carolinians al- He named “good books” and “any labor legislation to take the place | and Mr. Geddings of Winthrop ways to do their part for their, kind of musical instruments” as of the Smith-Connally act which; and Clemson Colleges will be in nation and their state, will put urgent needs for the camp day hym so far proved useless. There! the Home Demonstration Agent’s this campaign over with a rush, i rooms already furnished and call- are many congressmen who favor I office for the purpose of cleaning; just as the other three War Bond I ed uoon McCormick County to Iconse ‘ ‘ ‘ - - - ^ " *"~ audit a Nr ir n i Nf r in g with efficiency and fortitude , religion, with a definite objective ikical. ArriJuiNuii v, jn every part of the This j of service to all races, classes and On Friday, February 4th, Misses fact, together with the traditional; colors wherever there is a need.” government although it is doubted if thio <*ould be put through in an elec- ription of labor, and fixing sewinjg machines and! issues were oversubscribed by the support. electrical appliances. If you have wy eq,uipmept thflkt repair, please notify But anti-strike legisla- the Home Agent At once. rougn _ tion year even with presidential is in need of people of the State,” X— tion, with severe penalties for strike leaders is favored by a num- $i(atilda Bell, County Home Denx. Asent- Pre-Inductioja Physi cal Examination At Induction Stations From Now On January 24th and 25th, 7:15 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. RICHARD TUINE—NOAH BERRY, JR. in 66 WE’VE NEVER BEEN LICKED Also A CARTOON and LATEST NEWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15, 17 cents, including defense tax. Brig. General Holmes B. Springe, State Selective Service Director, Columbia, South Caro lina,, discloses that registrants who have never received a I-A classi fication may now find themselves ordered by their local boards to report for pre-induction physical examination by the armed forces if the local board determines that such registrant’s induction will shortly occur. The classification of all such registrants # will be made after the local board has received notice from the armed forces as to whether or not the registrant is acceptable to the armed forces. The registrant will then be classified into I-A, 1-A-O, IV-E or IV-F. Local board physical examina tions have been vastly curtailed as a consequence of recent regu lations and such examinations will be given oAly in exceptional cases or when the physical defect is ob vious. Merit Award Meeting: For FSA Farmers .Tan. 22 of TV4 , ’C?nrrr , iolr 4rr<ll pew 4-f-) o orvo,-|r> of TT'CI A formers for their outstanding a- oVi jr«vprnont<5 ie food m’ortnetinn at a meeting- Honso on Januarv 22. 19M. at 11 oVioei^. i* h-r py Hanvev. County FSA r? —* o v* v m —r* The farmers and w : vos will receive the TTpitp^ s+ate- 5, T '*°- —- r.-*■ of A nrrif»jdtllr r *, FSA. wv 7 1 Merit Arw^rd. Tt'o | o <-i|Pr«c?dpn*' furnish at least 6 day rooms in the Augusta camps. Miss Edith Ross, recreation di rector at Oliver General Hospital, told of the opportunities of real service open to people of this sec- tip® in helping to promote her branch of work. She praised the local committees for the work which McCormick County has al ready been doing. Chaplain Edwin Hair, who serv ed in combat on Guadalcanal and Is now a patient at Oliver Gen eral, toM of his work there and said, “You ask .what the boys want most from. home. They want mail, good books, and magazines ” “You ask ‘How will this war af fect our mpn?' I answer b^ sav ing that they are coming home, men who will not tolerate sham Christianity. They are coming face to face with reality out there on the battle fields and they are seeking and finding God in a very real experience.” Chaplain Mark Anthony, who resigned a Tenn. pastorate he had held for 10 years, to enlist in the army, was also a visitor trom Camp Gordon. He told of the service men’s faithfulness to at tend services and explained the wide field of service offered the chaplains who work hand in hand with the American Red Cross. Mrs. C. K. Epting, County Chairman of Red Cross, invited all the visitors to the church base ment where coffee, sandwiches and cake were served before they returned to Augusta. X— Mrs. Leland Ramsey Claimed By Death Death Claims Mrs. R. G. KilRngsworth McCormick School News ,, „ ^ GRAMMAR SCHOOL GLEE CLUB Mr. Neilson met with the Gram- v-!Trir S Q fl y „^ mar School Glee Club for the York County hospital after an ill- j first time Monday afternoon. This ness of two months. elub contains 20 members, who are Funeral services were conducted striving to improve their musical at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon ability, from the Methodist Church at McCormick, the Rev. J. Claude Evans, officiating. Interment fol lowed in the church cemetery. MOVED TO FLORIDA After Christmas holidays, we lost two of our pupils Joan and , Leon Holliday, who have moved Born Manila Hortense Smith, to Florida where they have en- a daughter of the late Wylie Alex ander Smith of McCormick and Josephine Bell Smith of Monti- cello, Fla., Mrs. Killingsworth was the widow of Dr. R. G. Klliings- worth. A native of Augusta. Qa., she attended the Sacred Heart school there and the public schools in McCormick before her marriage to Dr. Killingsworth in 1900. A member of the Methodist Church at McCormick, she made roUbed te school there tor the re mainder of the session. SEED SALE The seed sale tor Victory gar dens began in the grammar schools this week. The profits from this sale will go tor the im provement of grammar school grounds. BETA CLUB The Beta Club had its monthly her home in McCormick and Co- meeting Friday. Frances lumbia until 1938 when she and the program chairman, conducted her husband moved to Rock Hill. Survivors Include a daughter Miss Ethel Wayne Killingsworth. Rock Hill: three sons, Samuel Ful- ler Killingsworth. Rock Hill; a very interesting taking part were Belton Harmon, gram. Those Hie Freeland, Thomas Cul- We discussed our project, the Library. With the help of Mrs. James Edward Killingsworth, army Brown and Mlss Javnes we are nf thp TTnitPd states now in v.rur- prown ana miss Jaynes, we arw of the United States, now in Eng land; Sgt. WiUiam Manning Kill ingsworth, Camp Atterbury, Ind.; one brother, Paul H. Smith, Sa vannah, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews. Her eldest son, R. G. Killings-* worth, was lost at sea about a year ago due to enemy action while serving with the merchant marine. Active pallbearers were Dr. C. H. Workman, C. H. Huguley, W. T. Strom, J. B. Harmon, J. M. Brown, and D. C. Talbert. Honorary pallbearers were the stewards of the church. X Contributions To War Fund Drive Bethany Contributions to War Fund: Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dunlap._$ 2.00 Miss Nannie Mae ©unlap 1.09 Miss Emmie Shenperd 1.0,0 Mrs. E. K. Moselv 100 Mrs. R. M. Brock 1.00 Miss Gladys Brock 1.00 Thomas R. Talbert 1.00 Len, Jennings 1.00 Mr and Mrs. Ernest H. Christen __ 2.00 Mrs. J. W. Seigler - 2.50 Elizabeth Gable ’ .05 Alvin Gable __ .05 Hoyt Collins __ .05 Sarah Shannon __ .11 Effte Louise Gable .29 Jack Ramsey .50 George Christian .25 Wilson. Hadsoek __ 1.00 Jo Aon Christian .25 $16.01 trying to make our library more attractive and a better place in which to study. BOYS’ GLEE CLUB Mr. Nielson has begun work with the boys. After chapel Mon day he kept them in the audi torium to select the ones who can sing and want to. We are looking forward with pleasure to the time when the boys will sing for us. CHANGE IN DATE AT CANNERY Mr. P. C. Dorn, Jr., agriculture teacher, wishes to announce that the cannery will be open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons of each week. See him to arrange a time for your canning. MR. OWENS VISITS SCHOOL Mr. F. C. Owens cf Lander Col lege visited our school this morn ing and talked to our senior girls in the interest of Lander. Mr. Owens is pleasantly remembered in McCormick, as he assisted in a revival meeting at the Metho dist Church two years-ago. X White Registrants To Report For Induction Soon R. W. Dunlap, chairman of the local Selective Service board, has released for publication names of white registrants called for in duction into- the armed forces in the near future, as follows: Maurice WUUam Ouzts, Carl Parks, Melvin Dennis Willis, Ralph Edwin Ridlehoover, James Ktorrow Bfiemminger, Jr., WHlie Edward. McKinney. r ABOVE ! THE HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL THE REBOUNDING HUMAN Mrs. Daisy Ramsey, wife o f Leland Ramsey, died near Harlem Ga., December 30th % after a shor f ’Uness. She was born at McCor mick, S. C., and had lived near Harlem, Ga., for 2 years. Funeral services were held at the graveside, in the Clem ceme tery near McCormick by Rev, Doolittle of Greenwood, Jan. 4th She is survived by her husband, ! tions which will be struggling to save themselves—and we’ll hear There is no such thing as turn- plenty from our own un-Ameri- bling through the rough waters can outfits of the same hue. of War and gUding smoothly out ^ a ll this turmoil and strife, upon the placid sea of Peace. War which we must unfortunately un is a storm: and when a storm dergo as a result of the present blows itself out the sea remains world war, were something new agitated some time afterward, and unheard of, the human race Storms leave wrecks and near- —with the exception of those pe- wrecks; and often vessels which rennial agitators who revel in have been weakened by it will go other people’s woes, and who down in the less turbulent waters shouldn’t be called “human” any- which follow such convulsions. how -— would doubtless feel like When the great human cyclone jumping en masse out of the win- which is ravaging the world today dow. But there is nothing new is over, the struggle to reach the about it. It is the customary and safety of a harbor will begin. The necessary consequence of every wrecks of many governments will great catastrophe and its serious- have gone to their doom: The ness is measured by the size of near-wrecks left by many govern- the whirlwind which brought it., ments must be patched up or go on. This is a big whirlwind and j S going to have a big after- math; but the world has had ! velt d'^fin''*! t.h'' I Of —for PR ,4 tV*o of j c: f»curioy f r p«tf 0 m > Leland Ramsey, three children, freedom of religion, Luther Ramsey, Floyd Ramsey and James Willie Ramsey, Harlem, Ga., four brothers, Pvt. C. T. | of rv.of.pjn && ! fy - rnr *'OV'> from want and freedom frcim fear everywhere in the WOrld.” Borrowers of the Farm Security Sf Administration are proud of the down also , The “shipyards” will be crowded and the money to make repair, will become scarcer and scarce: as those who have it begin to realize the cost of repairs which their own “ships of state” require. Less rich nations, or terribly devastated nations, will be seeking loans to rehabili tate themselves. There will be quarrels and hard feelings ovei frontiers between old friends, am • t re will be economically de structive enmities and hatreds b~- -v an old enemies which will take a long time to heal. The struggles to pull their na- Waters, U. S. Army; Calvin i back upon firm ground will Waters, Ervin Waters and Grady about the customary unpro- gf contribution to the war' waters, Harlem, Ga., four sisters, ‘ ccrntml?^ ^H^fUien^es effort Those who will receive the , - - xr ^ r r , ir . n „ an ca, ..v_ ccn ^ in, i > uence ‘; , PwqrdR are- L. L. Feroueron. J. C. Mrs - * • T - Tl,rna ^ e ; McCormick, like the military oligarchy of -m. i v’lPTping .Top New Jim Panics lArs. Lila Mae Cribbs, Harlem, oupan or the National Socialist ik Monro° Simn,son, John WiUne. Ga., Miss Dorothy Mae Waters, dictatorship of Hitler will raise i' - • 7 their cobra heads. The whole mess will make a “field day” lor Har- rhp inopl Communists. Socialists Colored families: Will Adams. WU- Miss Mary Helen Waters, parents, their cobra heads linm Canadv. w. C. Crawford. Hen- v\r tt » rdv Muisier, Anthony Williams. Grady Mr and Mrs. John Waters, iwii, ua. worse catastrophes and worse aftermaths and is still* going on— though not “merrily” at the mo ment. Humans are just like ants: you kick over the little hills which ants build and next day they are back again. You can't keep an ant down, and you can’t keep humans down. Several hundred years ago half the population of Europe died in the Great Plague. The dead lay in the streets of the great cities and rotted. Millions starved because the peasants fear ed to bring food into the plague- ridden towns and cities. But when it was over, those who wore left worked just twice as hard to “make a comeback.” It is always .thus; and it will be the same after this period oi 1 uman and material destruction. And five or ten short years af terward, people will already have begun to forcet in the ana a.d Anarchists of tiie various na- i exchtineiit ci cvfc.lCiXQ..