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McCORMICK MESSEN<»M^ ■‘Oi TH CAROLINA : Thur-day, Septemliei 1 7v 1944 * K ,★ ★ * *. * 1 Those Boys Need' Before summer is entirely gone, let's take a little tour — among nighbors—for exchange of friend liness and ideas. ********* ************** "KEEP FAITH : US—: \by buying \ WAR BONDS Forward-looking farmers are planning now to exhibit their pride and patriotism along with their products at the fairs. 60,000 NEW PIECES AND NOVELTY POTTERY JUST RECEIVED Make your selection from pieces worth up to $1.50 5c AND A DIME I i With The Purchase Of Other Merchandise BELK-LUKE CO. 845 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, GA. h Augusta... For Fall ind Winter Under One Reef! From Our RETAIL STOCKS « Buy From Our NEW FALL CATALOG Save time when you shop! Save money on Fall and winter necessities backed by Sears famous guarantee! Should you not find things you need in our large retail stocks, stop at our Catalog Sales Department. Most everything, now available to civilians, will be found in our big new Fall and Winter catalog. With everything under one roof, ONE-STOP SHOPPING is the easiest way to buy! IE ARi, ROEBUCK AND CO. BROAD AT THE MONUMENT AUGUSTA, GA. H Hlk \HOME By MARY S. DAGOS • Are you sure that you are getting all the help possible from your elec trical household equipment? You may be overlooking some definite assistance these magical appliances can give you. For example take the deep-well cooker on your electric range. It’s splendid to heat rolls in. Put in the rolls, turn the heat on low and allow about 20 minutes for them to get hot. This takes a minimum amount of current. Use the deep-well to cook dried fruits. Wash the fruit, put in the cooker with cold water to more than cover the fruit, turn the switch on high and as soon as steam es capes turn the switch to low. Sim mer until the fruit is tender. Those tough cuts of meat we must use these days can be cooked deliciously tender in the deep-welL Wipe and trim the meat and put in the cooker without water. Season with salt and pepper. Turn switch on high. When steam comes through the vent turn switch to low and con tinue cooking on low heat until meat is tender. It will take about three hours for two to three pounds of meat, depending, of course, on the cut and the coarseness of the fiber. Add water to the meat stock in the cooker and make old - fashioned gravy. You can cook potatoes with the meat, adding them an hour and a half before you are ready to serve the meat. But don’t add water while cooking the meat, let meat cook in its own juices. If you like rich brown gravy, brown meat on . all sides before seasoning and be fore covering. Of course you use the deep-well for making soups and stews but do you steam brown bread and pud dings in it? When you use the deep- well for steaming put in the rack and add one cup hot water. Place molds containing bread or pudding pn rack and cover cooker. Turn switch to high heat. When steam flows freely from vent turn switch to low and steam for one and one- » half to two and one-half hours. Time depends on size of molds. Watch ing or adding more water is not necessary. Baked Beans. Two cups dried beans (navy or marrowfat), 2 teaspoons salt, 2 ta blespoons brown sugar, 1 tablespoon molasses, % teaspoon dry mustard, Va pound salt pork or bacon, 1 small onion, 4 cups water. Wash and pick over beans. Cut salt pork or bacon in slices and put two slices on bottom of cooker. Add onion peeled/but not sliced. Mix salt, sugar, mustard and molasses and put everything into cooker. Turn switch on high and at the first indi cation of steam turn switch to low. Cook 10 or 12 hours. The beans are not soaked over night, nor are they parboiled with • v soda before cooking. X A super “iron man’’ has turned up in Hawaii. He is Walter Gou- veia, 27, a native of the islands, who put in a sizzling afternoon late ly. First he ran a five-mile race, spotting seven competitors a two- minute advantage. He finished al most a quarter mile in front. Next he jumped into a baseball suit and joined his plantation team in a game with a U. S. navy outfit. His homer helped the 8-1 score, by which the local boys clipped the seamen. Then came the main event. Gou- veia, single-handed, defeated the six-man fleet school team at volley ball, 15-2, and 17-7. Just to prove that his victories weren’t pure luck he took on the cadets for a third match, this time^ using only one hand. He won 15-9. All this hap pened in one short afternoon, be fore a crowd of 4,000 people, in cluding many American servicemen. Two well-known war correspond ents reported the phenomenal per formances. Jim Tabor, Red Sox third base- man, has passed his physical . . . he may be in service any time now . . . the Chicago White Sox have purchased William Nagel from the Milwauke Brewers . . . the 26- year-old player has beat out 23 hom ers this season ... he is currently batting around .318. Jimmy Hagen, athletic manager at Pitt U., swears that he has ore of the greatest run ning guards in the history of foot ball on tap for the fall . . . The open season on game birds has been extended by 10 days, making 80 days for shooting ... if you can fi"d shells . . . the supply is said to be about 65 per cent of normal nov Yankee Maid, a three-year-old fil ly, easily won die 19th HambleV rn- an, the famous trotting race at Go- . shen, N. Y. She dashed off the . first mile in 2:04 minutes, and the second in 2:04 . . . Lefty Grove, . winner of 300 major league games, has fanned 2,271 batters in 17 years in the big time ... he never struck out more than 11 in any one game, however . . . Freddy Lindstrom, . former star with the Chicago Cubs and New York Giants, is now post master of Evanston, I1L . . . lately he was playing softball... a team mate who apparently had never heard of his record, officiously : coached the big league veteran in the proper way to handle the third sack position. _ ( l When better farmers produce better crops or livestock than I do, I don’t scorn them, I learn from them. SECURITY . . . cost One of the hardest things for the American people to decide is how much social security they really want—and are willing to pay for. The introduction of the Murray- Kilgore bill, which provided up to $35 a week for the unemployed, shows the extremes to which some people are willing to have the gov ernment go toward keeping wolves away from our nation’s doorsteps. There is no doubt that a lot of Americans like the social security idea. Some are interested primari ly in having a guarantee that they will be taken care of in their old age. Others also want protection against not having a job. Others want an arrangement whereby their doctor bills will be paid by Uncle Sam and some would prob ably approve a plan by which the treasury would be sort of a Dutch uncle to, all of us and give us a regular allowance. But one thing which seems to be ignored in many cases is the meth od by which this protection will be financed. If the nation, after the war, is able to keep the national income at $100,000,000,000, that would mean an average income of $700 per per son or $2,800 per family of four. If our social security plans reached the point where it was costing 25 billion a year, which some experts figure would be the cost of overall security, it would mean that we would have to give the treasury one- . fourth of our annual income to in sure us against emergencies. CHOICE .... taxes I don’t think there are many peo ple who would want to pay such heavy taxes for all-out protection. Most of us, when we think of all the things we want which could be bought with that money, would pre fer to take a chance on what is go ing to happen to us in the future. But unless we watch out, some of these major social security bills will be put through congress without our knowing the cost until some future tax-day when we will find we ewe the government even more in peace time than we are now paying to help support the war. If you were asked if you would like congress to provide for you to get all of your doctor bills paid, get a comfortable income when out of work, receive a good pension when you become 65 and take care of your family when you are ill, it might sound like an irresistible in vitation. But if you were asked to choose between having these provi sions for the future or having a new automobile, a new home, an education for your children—and the hundred and one major items you could buy with $700 a year— that would put a different com plexion on the offer. And there is one thing of which we can be assured: every cent of the cost of social security must eventually be paid by the people. There is no other secret source of income open to Uncle Sam. PUBLIC .... private Rather than put the government in the insurance business in a gi gantic way, it seems to me that we all might be better off if most social security were made a pri vate matter. Perhaps the government could encourage private insurance com panies to work out low-cost policies which could cover all of the pro visions of any social security plan by agreeing to protect the compa nies which offer such policies against losses. Then each of us could decide just what protection we wanted to buy. We could, for example, agree to pay 1 per cent of our income to get an old-age pension, 2 per cent to receive payments when out of work, 1 per cent more to get our doctor's bills paid, 1 per cent for sickness benefits, etc. Or. if we preferred to take a chance on the future, we could ignore insurance altogether and ke^p our total income to spend as we see fit. One of the chief arguments for mandatory government insurance over private, voluntary arrange ments, is that a lot of people wouldn’t prepare for a rainy day and when the rain came they would become public charges. But it would probably cost the state and federal governments a lot less to care for those who become desti tute than to finance the expensive machinery for running the biggest insurance business in the world. And it still seems much more in keeping with the spirit of our de mocracy to expect people to take care of themselves than to lean more and more heavily on their rirh nnrlr. in Wnr.birrirvn “Postwar planning for a prospe- Irous agriculture calls for a high honagricultural income. The pros perity of agriculture in this coun try after the war will depend upon full employment and income in the city. If his (the farmer’s) prospective customers do not have the income, they cannot buy at a satisfactory price.”—War and Ec onomic Trends, Ohio State Univer sity. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And Al) Other Kinds of Insurance In eluding Life Insurance. >mtmn t REV. ROBERT K HARPER f Saul Rejected. Lesson for September 10: 1 Samuel 13:15, 31. j Golden Text: / Samuel 15:23. It has been said “the dice of God are always loaded.’’ Certainly His word does not fail. This is illus trated in Saulhs tragic career. Dis obedient unto God, he was rejected as king, and, falling at last in bat tle, his royal house perished with him. Saul twice usurped functions of the priest, but this might have been forgiven had he not disobeyed God in sparing Agag and the best of the spoil. When Samuel told Saul that God has rejected him, and turned to depart, the king in his importunity grasped the prophet’s robe to de tain him and it was torn. This Samuel used as a symbol of doom —“the Lord,’.’ he told Saul, “hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day.” Josephus says Saul reigned 40 years. His reign probably contin ued 30 years after he and Samuel separated. But all the while doom was following him. At times a madness seized upon him, with lust to kill. David was summoned to charm away the “evil spirit” with music—this has been immortalized in Browning’s “Saul.” In the battle of Gilboa, three sons of Saul were slain and the king,' mortally wounded, fell upon his sword and hastened his death. The word of God did not fail—a mere lapse of 30 wretched years did not stay the decree. But Saul’s ruin came by the immutable law of hu man conduct. By his own disobe-, dience he fell from his kingly estate. At .the last he hastened his death by his own hand—for 30 years he had been committing suicide in spir itual things. Beware the ruin whic* transgressors can bring upon them selves Treasurer’s Notice The County Treasurer’s Office will be open for the purpose of re ceiving taxes from the 15th day of September. 1944, to the 15th day of April, 1945. All taxes shall be due and nay- able between the 15th dav of Seo- tember, 1944, and December 31, 1944. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31, 1944, The County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not paid on or before February, 1945, the County Auditor will proceed to add Two Per Cent for February, and if taxes are not paid on or be fore March 1, 1945, the County Au ditor shall proceed to add 3 per cent for March, and if taxes are not paid on or before April, 1, 1945. the County Auditor shall proceed to add 4 per cent up to the 15th of April, 1945, after Which time the County Treasurer shall issue executions for all unpaid taxes, plus 7 per cent penalty. The tax levies for the year 1944 are as follows: For County Purposes 16 mills 'For Bonds 1 12 mills Mt. Carmel School District No. 1 2 mills Willington S. D. No. 2 2 mills Bordeaux S. D. No. 3 4 mills McCormick S. D. No. 4 and Bonds 14 mills Buffalo S. D.-No. 5 4 mills Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mills Flatwood S. D. No. 7 00 mills Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 _10 mills Young’s S. D. No. 10 00 mills Wideman’s S. D. No. 11 __ 2 mills Milway S. D. No. 13 2 mills Robinson S. D. No. 14 __ 6 mills Dornville S. D. No. 15 2 mills Bethany S. D. No. 16 8 mills Lyon’s S. D. No. 17 8 mills Hibler S. D. No. 18 6 mills Vernon S. D. No. 19 4 mills Plum Branch S. D. No. 24 and Bonds 16 mills Consolidated S. D. No. 1, Parksville, Modoc and Clarks Hill, and Bonds. 18 mills All male citizens between th? 3 ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to a poll tax of $1.00 each. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 50 years must pay $2.00 com mutation tax or work six days on the public roads, except those ex empt by law. Commutation tax is included in property tax receipt. RUTH P. DUNCAN, Treasurer, McCormick County. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. <58 Broad Street Augusta. G» TO check W Liquid foi i, 66t Liquid for Malarial Sympto.: HUGH C. BROWN. McCORMICK, S. C. READ THE AD$ Along With the News They Are The Only EYES You Will Ever Have DR. R. W. ROPER OPTOMETRIST Ground Floor, Marion Bldg. Augusta, Ga. SUMMONS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In Court Of Common Pleas. DAISY LEE THOMAS and BRAD LEY LEE, Plaintiffs, VS: GARY LEE, JEFF LEE, CASPER LEE, MARSHALL LEE, ERNEST LEE, ARCHIE LEE, NOAH LEE, PRESSLY LEE and HARRISON ARNETTEE, Defendants. TO THE NON-RESIDENT DE FENDANTS, JEFF LEE, CASPER LEE, MARSHALL LEE. ERNEST LEE, ARCHIE LEE AND PRESS LY LEE: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NO TICE, That the summons and corn- paint in the foregoing action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Mc Cormick County, South Carolina, on the 28th day of August, 1944; that by the terms of said sum mons you are summoned and re- auired to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of .your answer to said complaint On the subscriber at his office in McCormick, South Carolina, within TWENTY (20) DAYS after the service hereof up on you, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the- plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court- for the relief demanded in the complaint. J. FRED BUZHARDT, W. H. NICHOLSON, Plaintiffs’ Attorneys. McCormick, S. C., August 29, 1944.—3t. WANT ADV. WANT — Small grain seeds to clean and separate. Am equipped to take vetch, cockle, etc., from different grains. J. J. Griffin, R. 1, near Moriah Church. Green wood, S. C. • LOST — My “A” gasoline ration book. E. B. Smith, R. 3, McCor mick, S. C. LOST — My No. 3 and No. 4 ration books. Joe Arthur Price,. R. 1, Box 36, .Plum Branch, S. C.^ cf. Jane Wells. LOST — My No. 4 ration book. Alice Ida Tucker, R. 1, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE — Beardless Barley^ at $1.80 per bushel at my home.. H. E. Freeland, R. 1, Parksville, S. C. FOR SALE — 282 acres good farm land 2 miles west of McCor mick, 7 room dwelling, 2 tenant houses, good road through place. Known as the D. J. Wardlaw home place. If interested see Miss Em ma Wardlaw, McCormick, or W. H. Robinson, Agt., Troy, S. C. 'J The Poor Cave Man Had No Newspaper To Advertise In. But You Have !! <$ “Farm people carry a greater re sponsibility for the preservation of cur great tradition of democracy than any other group.” — E. A. 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