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I HeCOBMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, November 16, 1944 y McCORMICK MESSENGER' rubllshed Bvery Ihiirsday f ■stabUshedJan* S, !••* j bdmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. Cm as mail matter of the second class. Subscription One Tear Ux Months — Three Months —— CANCER .... ordeal • Z spent last night with a close friend of mine who has been told that, within a month or two, he, will probably die of cancer of the lungs. . For many years I have read Obout the curse of cancer and have 1 known several people who died fromi it after going thrpugh months of ex-[ cruciating pain. But I never quite- realized, until now, how that dread- led disease can so suddenly reach I out and demand a life without the 'medical profession being able to of. fer any means of defense. ( To know you are going to die : Within a specified short time and, k be able to do nothing about it is certainly one of the most frighten ing ordeals a human being can face. !To contemplate a month or more of intense suffering and struggle, \ with the final verdict already hav- j ing been written against you, is un-! ; doubtedly one of the worst possible • forms of mental torture. i Of course there are many cases ! of cancer which can be cured by* .radium treatment, by X-ray, antf by surgery—but there are others, j such as this one, where even the experts admit their helplessness. ( LIVES 160,000 It seemed to me to be a little more than coincidence when imme diately following my visit with a man who is doomed to die of can cer, I went to & railroad station where I was greeted with large signs reading, “Help Fight Can cer.” I suppose I lu^ve seen such signs dozens of times before. I have seen urgent advertising messages in newspapers and magazines car- . lying the same plea. I have half- listened to messages about cancer ’ ever the radio. And I have realized .that there are many organizations !in this country set up to sponsor • research on cancer and to educate : the people about cancer. But somehow this nationwide fcampaign never got under my skin 'until I saw those signs last night. 1 ; 'Having been made so personally : aware of the dire need for knowl- ^ edge on this mysterious disease, I t realized, for the first time, how > shortsighted the wealthy American people are in letting lack of funds interfere with progress toward elim inating this scourge which takes an; I annual toll, in our country, of over, 1160,000 lives a year. t In spite of having engaged in two j world wars within a period of 25] jears, the loss of life by war doesn’t! compare in magnitude with the loss! of life by cancer. If we are willing ' to spend billions and billions of dollars to prevent future wars we. shouldn’t hesitate: a moment to spend whatever amount is needed to speed the search for some meth- 0d—to. wipe this dreaded dissrea from the face of the earth. CURE .... prevention The American Society for the Control of Cancer, Inc., which has branches all over the country, and which has been working on this problem for 31 years, carries on an outstanding campaign to curb cancer, in spite of the shortcom- togs of 'medical knowledge about it, by stressing this one fact: “Early Cancer Can Be Cured.” Ihe basis of this educational cam paign is to get people to have physi cal examinations regularly every six months and to watch out for certain cancer danger signals, such as persistent indigestion and sores that don’t heal. Regular physical examination is the chief answer to avoiding serious aufieriiLg or death not only from ■cancer but from tuberculosis, heart trouble, and other deadly ailments. But a regular check-up has always been something which is almost im possible to “sell” to the American people. Few of us can be coaxed into seeing a doctor when we are not feeling sick. But when we realize that this is about the only insurance available against a disease which can get en tirely out of the control of medi cal treatment unless detected in its early stages, it would seem that such check-ups should be required by law if the people continue to be too short-sighted to act voluntarily. Watch someone dying of cancer, see that hopeless look in his or her eyes, think how it might never have happened if the disease hadn’t been Ignored in its early stages and you’ll really know the full import, so far as medicine is concerned, of the saying, “an ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of cure.” ■ "fiCtrsw f at first SIGN OF A USE fo/d Preparations as^directecfj „ rrmoir .t ffiv. BOWRT H HWER tj Christianity and Democracy. Lesson fer November 19: Micalt 4: IS; Mark 13:13-17; Romans 13:8-10; f Peter 2:13-17, ' Golden Text: Galatians 6:2. M ICAH’S ministry closed 700 years before Christ; in this time of war we note how long ago God’s servants had the vision of peace. The words “last days” give ho clue to the exact time when weapons of war shall be made into ■tools of husbandry. Even now we hear of “reconversion” to meet the demands of peace. When lasting peace does come, even poverty will be done away—every man shall sit, unmolested, under his own vine and fig tree. With the prophecy of the time when God Himself shall judge the •nations, we have three passages dealing with the duty due to govern- ,ment. The first concerns the prac tical matter of paying taxes. We are to render what is due. And there is given the principle which warrants separation of Church and State, while commanding what is due to each. Paul’s statement opens the way to fulfill all obligations. We are to owe no man anything except the infinite debt of love. Daily striving to pay on that debt, we fulfill what is due unto man and God. Peter urges “for the Lord’s sake’’ and the “will of God” that we sub mit to rulers and give honor where honor is due. It is evidently the will of God that orderly government be main tained for the welfare of all. Chris tianity should support democracy— both recognize the infinite worth of the individual. It is clearly the duty of the Christian and citizen to unite with others in giving to every man the rights to which he is en titled. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In cluding Life Insurance. "NJO MATTER what kind of fowl or roast you may decide to have for your Thanksgiving dinner there’s no dessert that surpasses pumpkin pie. It’s as traditional for Thanksgiving as plum pudding is for Christmas. We all have our feelings and con victions about just what a pumpkin pie should be from color to taste. Different sections of the country fol low their own traditions in the mak-. ing of pumpkin pie, making it too dear a dish to be treated lightly, so the following recipes are offered only after rigorous tests and many times of using. If you use canned pumpkin, and most of us do, cook it over a low- fire until perfectly dry. If you use fresh pumpkin, you can bake, steam or stew it until it reaches the stage of tenderness and dryness that is essential. Baking is perhaps the simplest method because the pumpkin is merely cut in halves or quarters. To stew pumpkin wash and cut in narrow strips. Remove seeds and pare off yellow shell. Cut in cubes and put in a heavy aluminum or iron kettle. Add just enough water to prevent burning before pumpkin begins to cook. Cover and cook over medium heat until pumpkin is tender. Then remove cover and' cook over a low fire until pumpkin is dry. When dry force through a colander or ricer. It takes five or six hours to stew pumpkin. Pumpkin Pie I. Two eggs, % cup riced pumpkin, % cup brown sugar, % cup granu lated sugar, 2 tablespoons molasses, % teaspoon ginger, % teaspoon cin namon,* % teaspoon salt, 2 cups milk and cream combined, 2 table-, spoons sherry (optional). Beat eggs slightly, beating in sug-’ ar. Add pumpkin, molasses, spices and salt and mix well. Add milk] and cream gradually, stirring to make smooth. Stir in sherry and pour into a deep eight-inch pie dish lined with plain pastry. Bake in a, hot oven (450 degrees F.) for 10. minutes. Reduce heat to 325 de-! grees and bake 50 minutes longer. Pumpkin Pie II. Two eggs, 1 cup pumpkin, 1 cup : granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons mo-| lasses, % teaspoon ginger, % tea-; spoon cinnamon, 2 cups coffee cream, % teaspoon salt, 2 table spoons sherry (optional). Separate yolks and white of eggs. Beat yolks of eggs with a rotary beater until thick and lem on colored. Stir in pumpkin, sugar,’ spices, molasses, salt and cream' Fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff, mixing thoroughly. Add sher ry and pour into a deep eight-inch pie dish lined with pastry. Bake as in preceeding recipe. If you are finding it necessary to use small eggs these days, use three eggs for a pie. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. &Ce • > £>V LYTLE HULL Or>"o v at'ori F’Vfrtro Prosperity ^ W HEN this is published, the election — thank heaven —will be over. The shouting will have died down, the name calling will be packed in camphor for the next election, and the American public can go back to work. And there will be plenty of work to do. First of all we have a war in Europe to win. It is a very popular and very pleasant pastime to name the day, or the month, or the season, which will see the end of the German war, but people have been naming those dates for several years now and nothing ever happens. So it is fair to assume that “wise” pre sumptions as to the war’s termina tion—no matter who makes them— are just printer’s ink, and that any shifting of plans or policies based upon a declaration of peace at any approximate time estimated by any hurhan being—is apt to be prema ture and harmful to the war effort. Maybe some of the guesses would have been nearer right had not thoughtless statements by promi nent people incited the Nazis to greater efforts. Why can’t writers and speakers and statesmen leave these matters to the spokesmen of the High Command where they be long? Why do they have to blab about what we are going to do to them when the war is over? How much better if we didn’t say any thing about it and then do it! But every time we talk about using rat poison on them after it’s all over we just scare them into fighting that much harder; and the harder they fight the more men we lose. When the German phase is over there will be the new one of re converting our industries—and our whole mode of life for that mat ter—and of putting back into civil ian employment millions of men and women whose interests should precede those of any of us. This is to be no trifling job. We hope that sometime in the not too distant future the war with Japan may come to a successful conclusion; but that date, although subject for a lot of “wise” specula tion, is known only in heaven. We are prone to believe that the end of the German phase will mean relaxation, peace, and rest at last; —and we don’t want to fully realize what a positively superhuman task is still beyond it. But as long as this Japanese war lasts the Ameri can industries and railroads will be principally engaged in supplying our armed forces* This war is cer tainly no side show. It is tremen dous now, will become greater as time goes on, and may develop into —at present—undreamed of propor tions. For when the world is as dis turbed as it is today anything can happen. When the Japanese phase is over there is another neat little task of putting a few more million people back to work and reconverting a few more thousands of industrial plants. Altogether there is quite a job facing the man who will be Presi dent-elect of the United States when this column appears in print The next four years will require from our government the full use of all the brain power of which its com bined members are possessed; and from us—the fullest cooperation, with rancor thrown aside and love of country paramount If our free and not unhappy mode of life is to continue, we will have to work to gether for the next four years as we have not had to do since the days when the Fathers of our coun try were carving out this nation. Fortunately, Americans are so con stituted that they lose sight of ev erything else when the interests of their country are at stake. Parnttiood BY MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine Reading—A Pleasurable Habit H OW to bring children up to love books with present-day compe tition from radio, movies, comics and sports is a problem each family has to solve for itself. There is no magic wand we can give you to bring this about, no fairy dust you can sprinkle on the shelves to draw your children to the books you want them to read. But there is one bait which works better than anything else—and that is, books themselves. A child who receives books as gifts from the very beginning counts them as a part of his life even if he isn’t naturally the reading type. Children who are read aloud to from babyhood to the tinde when they are proficient readers them- selves will find life empty without books, so that no amount of pres sure from other interests will ever entirely rule out reading for pleas ure. It’s like the diet you are brought up on—let’s say that books correspond to fruit. If you’ve al ways eaten it, no matter how much other food you consume there will always be a hunger for fruit Noth ing else takes its place. But there’s another value In de veloping your child’s reading hab its, the fun you get out of it your self. Somehow, we never lose our enjoyment of an imaginatively writ ten children’s book. We may won der what children see in the radio programs or movies they like best, but the charm of a book that ap peals to them is easily shared. Some parents make the mistake of thinking a child should read all the books he owns before taking books from the library. One father of my acquaintance is positively in- suited if he finds a dog-eared li brary book in. the house when '‘you haven’t read ha’f the books I gave you for your birthday.” This is a mistake, for to become a real book lover you have to discover the joys of browsing. One mother tells of taking her son to the library when he was two years old and letting him choose books. By four Danny had his own library card and Mother often left him at the library to pick out his own books while she did her shop ping. The family made several moves dnd Danny’s first question was always, “Where is the li brary?” Finally they moved to the country, ten miles from a library. With gas rationing Danny's library reading seemed ruled out. But his mother wrote to the state library and they rerouted a book wagon so that it came to their door six times a year. The boy was al lowed to take out several books at a time—almost like having six Christmases a year! Another mistake is to object to a child’s reading the same book sev eral times a year. Don’t let your own frustration over not being able to keep up with current books be communicated to the children. The important thing for them is to get deep satisfaction out of reading so that it will become a pleasurable habit—not to count the number of books read on a recommended list. It is better for a child’s lifetime enjoyment of reading that he make abiding friends of a few books rath er than that he should have a nod ding acquaintance with them all. Navy Eleven Coaeii and Star -Wl Commander Oscar E Hagberg, coach of Navy, with his arm the star of the team. (’»' rfe Scott, smiling over their victory over Notre | Dame when Scott scored i*ro touchdowns. y UDGBT 1— Most of the shingles used in the United States are made from: (a) white cedar, (b) western red cedar, (c) redwood, (d- southern cypress. 2— Rock Alpine is (a) a breed of dairy goat, (b) type of rock material imported from the Alps, (c) a section in the Alps; (d) a gem. ; 3— Of the calcium present in the body the amount in the bones and teeth amounts to (a) 40 per cent, (b) 60 per cent, (c) 85 per cent, (d) 99 per cent. 4— An Imperial drink is served to (a) English nobility, (b) members of the Imperial guard, (c) patients in hospitals, (d) generally in bars. 5— —Trichinae occurs in the muscles of human beings, swine, dogs, cats, rats, mice and many other animals. The parasites are found in (a) blood stream, (b) lungs, (c) heart, (d) muscles. ANSWERS— 1— <b) Western red cedar. 8—*d) 90 per cent. 2— (a) A breed of dairy coat. 4—te) Patients in hospitals. 5—<d) Muscles. 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