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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCOKMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 11, 1944 fcCORMICK MESSENGER .L f Pablished Every Thursday •fT' established Iona 8, IMS ir* JF VDMOND J. McCRACKEN, ’T’" Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Me- ftarmick. C., as mail matter of . I class. Tf? THE ITALIAN ‘FAILURE’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year __$1.00 Oiv Months .75 Three Months .50 ====s9Be9sae===! H licit wfrmmi t REV. ROBERT H. HARPER f : P f ; Paul Crosses Into Europe. Lesson for May 7: Acts 15:36, 1£:40; Epistle to the Phillippians. | Golden Text: Phillippians 3:7- 14. ’ After disagreeing with Barna bas, Paul chose Silas to accom-! jpany him on his second mission- | ary journey. “Confirming the .churches” in Syria and Cilicia and reaching Derbe and Lystra, Paul made a convert he was to call his ‘‘son in the gospel.” Timothy’s mother being Jewish, Paul circumcised him. The “spirit suffered them not” to go into Bithynia; Paul and Silas went on to Troas on the Aegean Sea. There the vision of a man of Macedonia led Paul to cross into Europe. At this point In the narrative of Acts the word, ‘“we” indicates fhat Luke, the au thor, had joined Paul. Nearly 500 years before, 2,000,000 Persians bad crossed the Hellespont but bad not conquered the Greeks. Paul began a different and vaster conquest than Xerxes had dream ed. The name of Philippi suggests another name, Lydia, convert of ibe riverside who took the dis ciples into her home. The stay in Philippi was marred by the in cident of the damsel, the trouble tier owners roused, the beating and jailing of Paul and Silas. After they had been delivered from their stocks by the mid- earthquake, the terrified jailer was converted. The magistrates were alarmed when they learned they had beaten and imprisoned Homan citizens and they released Paul and Silas and besought them to leave the city. After visiting the home of Lydia, the disciples departed for Thessaloni- ca. Limited space does not pern^it extended comment on the Epistle to the Philippians, included in the lesson text. Written from Rome, It declares Paul’s love for the Philippians, his own purpose to fcnow Christ, and includes an exhortation, and a concluding m .testimony. X Ill Conservation News m .... ■.*? I (By Benj. W\ Crouch) Before the Allies drove the enemy out of North Africa and took Sicily and southern Italy, shipment of war material through the Mediterranean was frought with such dangers from enemy submarines, warships and land- based planes, that traffic had to be routed all the way around the C&pe of Good Hope at the south ern tip of Africa. This entailed such vast distances as to make a British naval attack-in-force up on the Japanese positions in Bur ma or in the East Indies, next to impossible. When the Italian campaign—so often now-a-days called a “fail ure”—caused the surrender of the Italian fleet and opened the Mediterranean to Allied traffic, it made it possible for the British to concentrate large naval forces in the Bay of Bengal with which to whittle at the Japanese posi- tions in Burma, Malaya* and the Dutch East Indies. The attack of a few days ago on the western tip of Sumatra would appear to be the opening of such a cam paign. Most of the supplies for Japan’s forces in Burma go by ship a- round Singapore, through the Straits of Mallaca and north a- long the coast of the Malay Pe ninsula to Rangoon in southern Burma. If the Allies can retake Singapore and the island of Sur matra—or, at least, blockade the Straits of Mallaca—this traffic will be stopped and the Japanese forces in northern and western Burma will be hopelessly strand ed. ■ It is the present position of the Japanese in north Burma which is holding up the construction of a road from India to a junction with the old Burma Road and on into China; and it would seem obvious that the struggle being LYTLE HULL waged around Imphal and Ko- hima—so much in the news to day—is to make possible the con struction of this road by the Al lies—or prevent its construction by the enemy. The situation in China today is not very cheerful, and if our Far Eastern ally should be driven out of the war, or should have to quit for lack of material with which to fight—it might mean that we could never drive our enemies out of China and so be able to attack Japan from the mainland. It isn’t a situation which can be permitted to lie dormant pending the termination of the German phase of this war. China has Been fighting against frightful edds for too long a time. It is not getting any strong cr, it can’t fight with bare hands, and the present state of inflation there is helping to break the camel’s back. If the fighting admiral—Lord Louis Mountbatten—is getting the ships, men and weapons which he requires, we will probably begin to “go places” in this theatre of warfare before it is too late. The British navy has doubtless had some tough obstacles to overcome to place itself in a position where it can really force an issue in the Bay of Bengal; but it is the same old powerful British navy, and when it does get its teeth into something it seldom lets go. All this has been made possible by the Allies present position in and around the Mediterranean; so what particular advantage would there be in driving the Germans—at great sacrifice—all the way to the mountains, and we would simply shorten the German lines, lengthen cur own, and release a number of their di visions to operate elsewhere. It seems to this rocking-chair mili tary analyst that the criticism of the Italian campaign may be a bit premature. A Mother’s Prayer on Mother’s Day ■Jr y New Life Raft That Doesn't Sink Unproductive lowland areas on farms can often be developed into excellent pasture, if cleared of brush, fertilized and limed, and then seeded to adapted pasture grasses and legumes. Since moisture is one of the principal limiting factors in the development cf good pastures in fhe South, lowland areas where moisture conditions are favorable generally pro’/ide the best loca tion on the farm for pastures. In many cases, because these areas have been found too wet for production of row crops, they have been allowed to grow up in willows, alders, and other worth less growth, while the use for which they are best adapted has been entirely overlooked. Work done in clearing and de veloping such areas for pasture during the spring months, when other farm .work is slack, will pay good dividends later in the pro duction of more milk, meat, and other livestock products which are vitally needed in the war pro gram. This new nnslnkable life raft, ma»5e of 16-gauge cold rc!led siccl, is 15 feet 2 Inches long with an 8 foot beam, and has a tow to aid sa.Tug or rowing. No matter how the ra't hi'.s the water, it always floats topside ur, for both si2e^ are exactly alike. This welder is assem bling completed sections of the new raii. Ward Seizure Aired in Court DOUBLE DUTY ■lOLLIPJH WANT ADV. Sweet Potato Plants for sale, Strain 24, Louisiana Improved, at $3.50 per 1,000 at my home. Am now taking orders and have some slants ready. C. E. Wilkie, Plum Branch, S. C. Attorney General Francis Biddle, nearest door, with paper in hand, is shown at the court cf Federal Judge Holly, where the momentous battle over seizure of the Montgomery Ward and company plant in Chicago has been raging. Biddle told the court that the President car ried out hij duty to order seizure of the plant, with ample constitutional and statutory authority for his action. - . LOST—My No. 3 ration book. Jimmie Jackson, Mt. Carmel, S. C. LOST—Our No. 4 ration books. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mann, McCor mick, S. C. Rawleigh Route available at once. Good opportunity. Write at once. Rawleigh’s. Dept. SCE- 211-105, Richmond, Va. FOR SALE—Cne Jersey Milch Cow, now has second calf. Also one 1S38 V-8 motor, in good con dition. J. W. Loveless, R. 3, Mc Cormick, S. C. FOR SALE—On good plug mule. Cheap. For immediate sale. C. K. Epting, McCormick, S. C. Training Our Chinese Allies ncse Capt. Joseph Naviochick, U.S.A., of Cleveland, Ohio, instructs Chi- ; students in the art of machine gunnery at a target range of the LOST—My NO. 4 ration book. Rosa Tutt. P. O. Box 203, McCor mick, S. C. •«,f r—'V «»»» ^ ‘ Call 113R for your Mother’s Day Corsage, Pot Plants and Cut Flowers at reasonable prices. Deason’s Flower Shop, McCor mick. S. C. “Read ’Em and :Reap”..ouR ads 5,315th infantry training center in Kwangsi, China. Here Chinese troops arc trained in the use of modern weapons by American oflicers. Instructions are usually given through interpreters. TgtSFACT PROPOSITION OF MILITARY EXPENDITURES -A. 1 ' NU 5 “ UDO " '■i||r tn PSCAl ^ ^ Civil EXPENDITURES YEAR ■'••vyo 1915 4 C’l 1910 1933 1940 1944 4 MILITARY EXPENDITURES 9 <? Eoch symbol represents 10% ©I the Fedarol budget