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HeCOBMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, November 16, 1944
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.
LONG SEARCH ENDED
BV REIONGA, SHE SAYS
Enjoys Her Meals Now, Sleeps
Fine And Feels Lots Strong
er, States Well Known Resi
dent. Discusses Her Case.
“I tried one medicine after an
other but Retonga is the first
medicine I ever found that gave
me the relief I so badly needed,”
gratefully declares Mrs. Lillie In
gram, 1004 E. 26th St., Cleveland,
Tenn. Mrs. Ingram has four sons
m the armed services. Discussing
Retonga she happily continued:
“My appetite became so poor
that often I didn’t even go to the
table at mealtime. What little I
ate often disagreed with me and
brought on sour stomach and gas.
My strength and weight went
down and I became so nervous
that the least thing upset me.!
Sluggish elimination forced me to
use one laxative after another. My
sleep did not seem to refresh me
and I felt draggy, nervous, and
rundown almost to the point of
exhaustion.
“I never before experienced any
thing like the relief Retonga gave
me. I enjoy my food, I sleep like
a top, and I never notice being
MRS. LILLIE INGRAM
nervous anymore. Even the slug
gish elimination is relieved. I feel
so much stronger that I can now
go about my work with a song.
Retonga is grand.”
Retonga is intended to relieve
distress due to Vitamin B-l defi
ciency, constipation, insufficient
flow of digestive juices in the
stomach, and loss of appetite. Ac
cept no substitute. Retonga may
be obtained at Peoples Drug Store.
—Adv.
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