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VAifvW 'r * ';• .;?r-r■ .' -•; ^:.<t*£}■}O;'^- ■ ^ .* x.:v T/* TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR KEIGHB ORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Second Year KetabliDhed June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., fHUB SDAY, MARCH 9, 1944 V Number 40 Washington, D. C., March 6.— (NWNS)—“For election purposes" the anti-New Dealers undoubted ly hoped that the Roosevelt-Bark- ley fight over the tax bill would result in a permanent rupture be tween the President and the ma jority of congress. When the President’s outstanding supporter in the upper house, Senator Bark ley pf Kentucky, suddenly turned against him by making a bitter, 45-minute speech charging that the President had made “a delib erate and calculated assault upon the honesty and intergrity of ev ery member of the legislature of the United States," it looked as though anything might happen. "But after the smoke of battle cleared away, it was evident that, although the President realizes he has been severely chastised, the action by Mr. Barkley may clarify rather than muddy the relations between congress *and the administration. Mr. Barkley has made it clear that he has no personal feeling against the Pres ident but that, from now on, he will confer with the President to tell him what congress wants rather than to take orders on how he should use his influence in the senate. The action by Mr. Barkley, fol lowed by the revolt of the sen ate and the house against the President’s veto of the tax bill, although it came suddenly, grew out of a feeling that has been smoldering more and more ac tively during the past few ’months. Members have resented the President’s attempt to dictate legislation to them—and when he asked for a giant increase in .taxes, but opposed the only prac tical method for collecting taxes of that size,, they felt that he put them in an impossible Red Cross Drive Starts March 13th position. His veto of the compro mise measure which they devel oped was the final blow. But although the majority of Democrats in congress stood be hind Mr. Barkley in his dramatic denunciation of the President’s methods, most of them want to continue to be in the good graces of Mr. Roosevelt. For they feel that their own reelection in No vember is very apt Co hinge on the President’s reelection if he runs for a fourth term. When the Barkley speech was first made there were many here who quickly predicted that it would ruin Mr. Roosevelt’s fourth term chances. Some political anal ysts went so far as to predict that Mr. Barkley instead of Mr. Roose velt would be the next Democrat ic nominee. But it now looks as though the President is still the outstanding candidate for the presidential nomination. And there are some who predict that when the President and Mr. Barkley get their differences patched up, Mr. Barkley may turn out to be the nominee for vice president. As for the taxes themselves— that part was almost forgotten w - Boper, during the fireworks. But it seems' Chestnut Ridge likely that when , tax legislation : Gi ^ be ^ t can cause such bitter controversy as it did, the result will be a ma jor reform in our complicated tax setup plus a possible general *ales tax. However, it seems un- likely that congress will favor mlnger , Mrs - W. H. McNair, putting through any new taxes Young’s - Miss 1 Alma Young, until the election is - over, and Mrs - Jack Gable, there is practically no chance Mt. Carmel-Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, that a sales tax would pass until Mrs- Hunter McKinney, the votes are in. -- ' Belhrue-Miss Mary Jane Mor- Me an while, the senate finance ra ^> Edwin Parker, committee is making an exhaus-' Plum Branch-Mrs. J. L. Brack- tive study of our present tax laws nell, Mrs. Sara Frances Carr, Mrs to determine how they can be E. C. Rice, Mrs. R. H. Banks. G. W. Bonnette, Dear Co-worker: The Red Cross Drive for Mc Cormick County starts March 13 and will continue through March 24, 1944. As you already know, there was never a time when Red Cross is needed more than to day. After^ you have offered a prayer for your SON or FRIEND who is in service, the next way to help him is through your Red Cross gift. Our goal is $3,200 for this county. It will not be raised un less you contribute—and contrib ute liberally. The person to receive your gift is listed on the bottom of this letter. Go to the one nearest you. Please don’t wait for them to call on you, as time will not permit. Meriwether—^frs. J. J. Minarik, Modoc—Mrs. J. O. McDaniel, Parksville—Mrs. Fred Bass, J. H. Percival, School Supt. Long, McCormick—Mrs. W. P. Parks, Mrs. J. M. Dorn, Mrs. L. W. Bow- ick,. W. H. Weldon, Miss Myrtle Ruth .Deason, Bethany — Mrs. James Seigler, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth, Jr., White Town—Mrs. H. M. Free land, Mrs. Harry Ream, Rehoboth — Mrs. Strom Cul- breath, Mrs. Edward Gilchrist, Dowtin—Mrs. P. J. Dowtin, Mrs. Home Guard To • Present Minstrel Here March 16th Mrs. Irene Buffalo—Mrs. S. L. Britt, De la Howe—Rev. E. F. Gettys, Clatworthy’s—Miss Clarkie Link, Bordeaux—Mrs. G. W. Cade, Willington — Mrs. Daisy Hem- HOIM fflEATIE McCOKMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY MARCH 10th and 11th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. ^ Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. ANDREWS SISTERS_PATRICIA KNOWLES County Chairman, Red Cross Drive, J. B. Harmon, Jr., County Committeeman, Paul R. Brown, County Committeeman. X Postmaster States New Postage Rates Will Be Effective March 26, 1944. in 66 ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID Also CHAPTER 10 “CAPTAIN AMERICA” and SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Pins Tax MONDAY and TUESDAY MARCH 13th and 14th, 7:15 Pi M. and 9 P. M. SONJA HENIE JACK OAKIE m WINTERTIME” Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS and LATEST NEWS EVENTS Postmaster J.' E. Bell states that the new postal rates will be effective on and after March 26th First class mail for local delivery except that on which the rate under the existing law is 1 cent for each ounce or fraction there of and except post and posta 1 cards. 3 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce. Air mai from one post office to another on the mainland of the United States is increased from 6 cents to 3 cents for each ounce or frac tion thereof, except air mail to and from the armed forces of the United States; the rate on their air mail will be 6 cents for each 1-2 ounce or fraction thereof There will also be an increase in he fees for money orders, regis tered, insured and C. O. D. mail 'Tfective on the above mentioned date. X I waste little time with untried varieties of seed when my state exneriment stations are so well equipped to try them out for me. X Fortunate is the farmer who can d’-a.ft electricity to help fight his Jabot 1 -shortage battles. "implified, both for the people and for the accountants who check them. A great number of protests have come to congress The McCormick County Home Guard will present a black-face minstrel comedy at the McCor mick high school auditorium on March 16th, beginning proipp’:ly at 8:30 p. m. Admission is to be 11 and 22 cents. The cast of characters is as follows: WHIR’S MAH PANTS > Noah Top-Bottom—W. P. Parks, Lillium Top-Bottom—W. R. Mc Donald, Belledona Top-Bottom — Capt. O. L. Sturkey, George High Scooten — Alf White, Cleandestine High Scooten — Capt. C. K. Epting, Arsenic Panhandle — J. W. Fooshe. ASHES AND COALDUST 1 Ordinary—J. Frank Mattison, Bituminous—J. W. Bracknell. GOOD MORNIN’ JUDGE Judge Lukewarm—J. Fred Buz- hardt, ^ v Sgt. Muchworm—James *Dom, Officer Cornfed—Bill' Bracknell, Tarheel Bilikins—E. C. Cheat- ham, - - v-. ' « . I' V. ; ' V'. Peter Pineapple—S. O. Bouk- night, . Zeke Whitehead—J. W. Fooshe, Come-One Wherewith — Mar shall Creswell, Alabama Screw Loose — Billie Bodie, Jr., Percy Pinfeather — Jennings Gary Dorn, Lillie White—J. A. Self, Samantha Primrose — Cliff Fleming, Jr. X Bureau Of The Cep- sus To Ask Employ ment Status At Time Of Pearl Harbor Red Cross Field Men Tackle j Yanks’ Problems Overseas! wm m m mm One of the very important functions of the American Red Cross is the direct communication it affords between the fighting man and his people back home. Here Red Cross Field Director John L. Barnes (left), of White Plains, N. gives a message to Sgt. William J. McDonald, Jr., of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Picture was made in. Sicily outside a strew Italian hutch with the rear headquarters of . the tst Division near Mt. Etna. * v * • ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, U cents; Children 12 to 15. 17 cents, including defense tax. Uncle Sam wants to know what people were doing immediately prior to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, and to the Bureau of the Census has been assigned the job of finding the answer in a sample survey of 68 selected areas throughout the United States. Greenwood and McCormick Counties constitute one of these 68 areas selected fof inclusion in this special study which will be made as part of the survey of the Nation’s labor force conduc ted by the Census Bureau each month. Mr. Philip B. Chovan, local su pervisor for the Census Bureau, •vhose office is located at 420 Textile Building, Greenwood, S ., in announcing plans for the March survey here, stated that nformation on the pre-Pearl Harbor employment status of Americans was needed to deter mine on a national basis how many people engaged in house hold duties and other activities immediately before the country’s ntry into World War II 1 have taken jobs since Pearl Harbor. “If you are one of the persons m this community regularly visited in connection with the Census Bureau’s labor force survey, the enumerator who interviews you vill ask you whether you were 'mployed during the iveek before Pearl Harbor, and if so, what und of work you were doing,’ Mr. Chovan stated. It was explained that this special inquiry in March ties in directly with the the information obtained each month from a sample of local families which is combined with similar figures rom families in the 67 other areas of the country. The moifth- y survey provides national esti mates of employment, hours of unused labor supply, and On Masera'up in the Persian Gulf, where vbere is not a single tree standing wind blows across the island ceaselessly. Red Cross field men brought fi&hing tackle, bboks and writing paper to service men. tMost welcome gift from the Red Cross was clippers for hair cutting—the boys had been without a barber for months. In Persia, a Red Cross Field Direc tor was able to locate a soldier’s moth er whom he hadn’t seen for 25 years. In Africa. Red Cross field men flew in Army planes, hitch-hiked in supply trucks, bumped in jeeps over bombed convoy routes, through blinding sand , •tprro? and glaring sun to help men with personal problems and emergency communications, and to deliver maga- ' zines and books, cigarettes and cbo- olate to isolated posts and bases. In Italy. Red Cross field men ac companied the troops in on the inva sion barges. In. India, a sergeant was sentenced to the guard house for disorderly con duct. His ofllcer couldn’t understand the boy’s behavior. He was a nice kid .—he’d never gone to pieces before. The officer asked the Red Cross Field Director to see him. The Red Cross man discovered a very worried boy. His wife had not been receiving his allotments, she wasn’t well and needed an operation. She thought the soldier must have cancelled his allot ments and a misunderstanding had arisen between them so that she was no longer writing him. The field man got in touch with the Red Cross chapter in the boy’s home town immediately. It took care of her. financed her operation and saw. that she had adequate funds to provide far herself until the allotment again esiaa through. When the Red Cross man explained what bad happened to the soldter’a Commanding Officer, the latter prompt ly released the boy from the guard house. From then on the boy was Alt right. His worries were over, and the- Army had gained a good fighting man. All over the world, in every thea tre of war and active battle front ge the American Red Cross field men — helping soldiers with major and minor personal problems, bringing them rec reational items such as magazines, books, comfort articles, athletic eqnfa- ment. and re-establishing their contact: with home. These men share the con ditions and hazards under which tfce soldiers fight. They also share their lives. They are on call day and night whenever they are needed. G.l.’s overseas have many problems. Often home seems very, very far awnp. With the Red Cross there at hand wherever he may be. the soldier known he can always get in touch with home —that he need never feel alone with problems he doesn’t know bow to solve himself. More than 3,000,000 servicn men passed through Red Cross •eld men’s offices last year. On the mud clogged roads of ftafp*. through the far jungles of New Guinea.. on lonely desert posts. Red Cross Idd: men take your place beside your hop. In order to continue this service, thn* Red Cross urgently needs contrilMltioiwi from the American people to its 000,000 War Fund drive this Month. cerned with manpower needs and policies for the successful con duct of the war. Mr. Chovan stressed the war-time service that families in this area are render ing by cooperating with this un dertaking. The February Survey has bee": completed and tho results mailed to "Washington, Mr. Chovan said Some special questions were ask ,,ri ast month concerning the ex tent to which married women with children or with husbands in the armed forces have taken jobs. All of these items have a direct bearing on planning fo: food and war production in thi months ahead. • - ■ . . . < Additional information about the survey can bo obtained fr~in Mr. Chovan at the local Census office. X 1943 Federal Income Tax Returns Must Be Filed By March 15th, Says Collector Bowers The Collector of Internal Reve nue, W. P. Bowers, stated today that the impression has been cre ated in the minds of some people that an extension of thirty (30) days has been grant’d a’d F- in and to the treasury from n^opJe ■ 'vov* , who found it almost impossible to I so forth. Such estimates are ur- i al taxpayers for filing their in- fill in their tax reports for March' gently needed by the War Man- come tax returns. Mr. Bowerr 15, and congress is anxious to do power Commission, the War Pro- stated further that this is abso- something about this situation duction Board, the Department of lutely incorrect. All income tax before election* j Labor, and other agencies con- returns covering income for thi year 1943 must be filed on or be fore March 15, 1944, or it will be necessary for penalties to be as sessed. Tt Is r>o«?sible that some tax payers have become confused a- bout this so-called extension cf time in that the Bureau of In ternal Revenue has extended the time to April 15. 194*. for filing the declaration of estimated In come for the year 1944. However, tho attention of taxpayers is in vited to the fact that this covers the year 1944 and not the regu lar income tax return for the year 1943 which must be filed on or before March 15, 1944. ( All single persons who have an income of $500 or more for the year 1943; all married persons who have an income above $624 for the year 1943; all persons who filed a 1942 income tax return, and all persons who have had withholding from their salaries or wages during the year 1943 must file an income tax return this year. . , Collector Bowers said as fol- !ows: “I wish to take this op portunity to urge those persons who are required to file an in come tax return covering income for the year 1943 to do so prior to March 15, 1944. No* extension has been granted for filing such returns. If they ar' \ f: i timely, it will uu . j iui x penalty to be assessed for the de lay in filing and this offk: ? wishes to avoid, if possible, any assessment of penalties.” "m m