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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.”
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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.
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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,”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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