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TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
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Forty-Third Year
Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945
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Number 375
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — The job
of director of War Mobilization and
Reconversion, held by James F.
Byrnes, seems suddenly to have
reached a rank second only to the
President Although Mr. Byrnes' as
aignment, according to the legisla
tion creating hia post is more ad
visory than authoritative, he ap
pears to be very much in the
driver’s seat at die present mo
ment
His speech to congress, com-
xhenting on practically all angles
of our domestic war problems, and
even suggesting a plan for tax re
vision, came before the President’s
message but covered many of the
same problems. The fact that Mr.
Byrnes has his office in the White
House adds to the growing convic
tion * that he is speaking for the
President in many of his state
ments.
This was accentuated by his let
ter to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
director of selective service, sug
gesting that the general get moire
young men for tfce army by re
examining all deferred farm work
ers between the ages of 18 and 25.
In that letter he made the sug
gestion on behalf of (he President
dnd himself.
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The plan to draft more farm
workers is undoubtedly g6ing to
create hardships on many farms
jand will, in' some cases', cut down
on production of food for the na
tion. But since the army insists
that it must have more young men,
no one here seems to know where
else to turn to get them. Three
hundred sixty-four thousand men of
I the desired age have been deferred
ifor farm work—which is a great
Jdeal more than the total in that
jage group deferred for war equip
ment production.
It is expected that the need for
men win force draft boards to take
many of these farm workers, re
gardless of the consequences. But
first they wiU take the compara
tively small number of deferred
war workers who have left their
essential jobs.
The new house of representa
tives, although considerably more
democratic than last year’s house,
may not give the President much
more support on domestic issues
than it did in 1944. This was strong
ly indicated by the first house vote
of the new session in which it ap
proved making the Dies committee
on Un-American activities a per
manent committee. It is well
known hem that the President has
opposed this committee ever since
its formation. Yet 70 Democratic
members of the new house voted
for its continuation.
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One of the most interesting and
significant of the year-end figures
cm the war was that on the pro
duction of planes. In 1944, accord
ing to the War Production board,
our factories turned out 1,112,000,-
000 pounds of airplanes — which
was just about twice the weight of
planes produced in 1943. The num
ber of planes actually was less than
in ' 1943—but this was due to the
shift from ~ fighter and trainer
places to heavy bombers. Total
planes produced in 1944 was 85,946
as compared with 109,000 smaller
planes produced in 1943. It is esti
mated that* our plane production
rate is approximately five times
that -of the Germans and eight
times that of the Japs.
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The long fight between doctors
and advocates of group medical in
surance may come to a head in
this session of congress. A senate
subcommittee on wartime health
and education, headed by Senator
Pepper of Florida, has proposed an
elaborate set-up which includes
group financing of medical care,
an end to the present pay-as-you-
go method of getting medical help,
further extensions of social se
curity, and a system of health cen
ters throughout the country in both
rural and urban areas. The plan
includes federal grants for a large
postwar hospital building program.
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BUY MORE WAR "BONDS
KMFmmHmm
BUY MORE WAR BONDS
Bond Quota Exceeded
McCormick County is to be con
gratulated % upon exceeding the
quota of $95,000 in the Sixth War
Loan Drive to reach a final total
of $175,806.75.
On a percentage basis the coun
ty sold 185.05 per cent of its quota.
The E-Bond ouota was also ex
ceeded, according to announce
ment by County Chairman G. J.
Sanders, who expressed his deep
appreciation for the enthusiastic
response of the people.
Mrs. Mildred Christie
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Mildred Rogers Christie, 20,
died suddenly at her home at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, Tuesday
morning, January 9th, at 1 o’clock.
Funeral services were conducted
at Berea Baptist Church, Edge-
field, S. C., Friday at 3:00 o’clock.
Mrs. Christie was the youngest
daughter of Mrs. Jim Giles and the
late Mr. Joe Rogers. She was a
member of the Baptist Church of
McCormick.
Besides her mother, she is sur
vived by her husband, Cpl.. Henry
Bell Christie, of Fort Smith, two
sisters, Mrs. R. B. Dorn of Augus
ta, Mrs. Claude Dillashaw of Mc
Cormick, and one brother, Joe
Rogers, of Greenwood, S. C.
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Pfc. Floyd Shaw
Reported Missing
In Action
Al^ov^ t/\e
Mr. Homer Shaw has been no
tified by the War Department that
his son, Pfc. Floyd Shaw, has beer
missing in action overseas since
December 16th.
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Pvt. Robert Richey
Reported Wounded
In Action
Pvt. Robert L. Richey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Richey of Route
1, was slightly wounded in action
overseas on December 19, accord
ing to War Department message
received by his mother.
Pvt. Richey has been in the
service seven months and over
seas one month.
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March Of Dimes
January 14-31
£v EYTXE HULL
Judgment vs. Emotion
Mrs. Bessie K. Parker
Claimed By Death
Funeral services were conducted
at Abbeville Sunday afternoon at
three o’clock for Mrs. Bessie Ken-
Many know the story of the
second worst epidemic of infantile
paralysis in its history—the story
of Hickory, North Carolina, last
summer _ _ _ 1944.
The people there would have
been helpless, had it not been for
the aid rushed to them by the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
It could happen in McCormick
County!
That’s why we want to join the
“March of Dimes” and be ready
should such an emergency strike
nedy Parker, wife of Edwin us -
Parker, prominent farmer of the |' ^ r - ^• Fred Buzhardt, County g l_ _ _. ■ _. .
Bellvue section of McCormick Chairman of this Campaign, Dr. ^ . 9 t** i
Cppnty. •* ’ >’ '■ C. H. Workman, President of- the V<OUnty S U UlRl
McCormick County Chapter,
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A N “OPTOPESSIMIST” once
opined to this correspondent
that “people should always be hap
py with their lot—because things
are sure to get worse before they
get better.” In other words—that
we are comparatively better off at
any given moment than we will be
later on. It might not be a bad
idea to keep the thought in mmd,
because our great trouble in time
of hardship—and otherwise—seems
to be that we won’t believe things
can get any worse than they are
and therefore must get better. We
hope you can translate the above.
Now there’s nothing criminal in
“wishful thinking”—but it is some
times expensive. If we hadn t been
optimists by nature we would nev
er have dug ourselves out of the
primeval wilds and built this flour
ishing nation. But optimism with
us is a two-way disease, and once
it gets well started it runs away
with our judgment. If there is a
boom in Florida real estate we buy
more town lots than there is < dry
land in the whole state. (This op
timist atill owns some. They are
under water.) We won*! acknowl-
edge that there is any limit except
the sky. The same with a stock
exchange boom, or a boom in cat
tle, or any other similar phenome
na.’ The results are expensive.
Then the tide turns: We are at
war—and we go at it with all the
i vim and vigor for which Ameri
cans are justly famous. There
comes a break in the clouds;
i we believe the sun is out to stay
j and we throw away our um-
i brellas. When the s'torm veers
• back it spoils our new hats. It
is very expensive.
Constitutional pessimism is a far
more blighting enemy than over-
optimism: But there must be a
middle course somewhere between
the two, down which we could steer,
with our Judgment at the helm and
not our Emotions. It would save ust
a lot of misery!
Today our Judgment tells us that
the war in Europe could be ended
in. a month if’a powerful Allied of
fensive suddenly broke through the
German defenses and penetrated
the very vitals of that country be- •
fore its military positions could be
reorganized. Four weeks ago ouir
Emotions were beguiling us into the
firm belief that something like this
was just about to happen. Today
our Emotions are telling us that,
the war has been prolonged from ;
six months to a year by the Nazi .
breakthrough. Our Judgment should
be telling us that we have no more
assurance of this than we have that- ‘
it will be over tomorrow or in 1947. ;
It is—and has been—Impossible for
anyone to estimate with the slight
est degree of certainty the time of :
the termination of a war of suchr
magnitude and ramifications—and
the last four years of stupid, costljr
and utterly valueless prophesying:
about this unknown quantity by
men who should know better-
pro ves the truth of this assertion.
There is a man in this country
who is well versed in the known his
tory of warfare. He could write a
thesis on the conquest of Gaul, or
Marlborough’s campaigns on the?
Continent. He could recite the in
timate details of the Napoleonic
debacle in Russia and of the mili
tary movements which led up to the
unscheduled Battle of Gettysburg.
We have never heard this man tell
us just when our current wars are
going to end! His initials are
F.D.R. He must often chuckle to
himself when he hears some radio-
made strategist — who probably
thinks Marlborough is a cigarette
manufacturer — generously allow
the world to share the knowledge
which his mastery of military techr-
nique has unfolded.
IEAIKE
McCOKMICK, S. G
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
January 19th and 20th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M.
Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M.
WM. BOYD ANDY CLYDE
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. “LUMBERJACK”
Also
LAST CHAPTER ' F i !
’ “GREAT ALASKAN MYSTERY”
and ‘
SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS
Motinep Saturdav 3:30 P. M. Adults 24c
Th ! e services were conducted .by
the Rev. Charles Holding, rector'of
Trinity Church of which Mrs.
Parker was a member, assisted by
thp Rev. G. M. Telford, with the
services being held in the Presby
terian Church. Burial was at Up
per Long Cane cemetery.
Mrs. Parker died suddenly after
a long period of declining health
Saturday morning at 8:15. She
was born July 27. 1877, a daugh
ter of John Boggs and Mallie
Wardlaw Kennedy, both of pros
perous and famous families in this
section. Mrs. Parker was a woman
of quiet dignity and numbered her
friends by the hundreds.
She is survived by her husband,
one daughter, Mrs. Lowrie Wilson
of Abbeville, one son, William E.
Parker, making his home at the
homeplace, one sister, Mrs. G. W
Cade of near Bordeaux, and two
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Leslie Britt,
Robert W. LeRoy, Frank Leslie, A.
K. Britt, Curtis Wilson and T. A.
Sherard.
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|(The Baptist
Radio Hour
and
their committees have set , Mc
Cormick County’s goal at $500.
Half of the amount raised will go
to the National Foundation for re
search, care of recuperating pa
tients and help in such emergen
cies as the one in North Carolina
last year. The remainder stays
in this county for use of the local
chapter.
This dread disease attacks weak
and strong alike, invading the
richest and poorest homes in the
nation. Your contribution will
make it possible to render expert
care and treatment to all polio
victims. Who knows? It may be
you, your child or your neighbor’s
child!!
Mr. G. J. Sanders will take an
offering following a special Infan
tile Paralysis trailer at the Holly
wood Theatre next week.
Mrs. Verna Rogers, Mrs. B. W.
Crouch and Mrs. David Robinson
will canvass McCormick. Misses
Myrtle Ruth Deason ancf Matilda
Bell will have charge of the coun
ty. ‘
*6th War Loan
Figures Given
Mt. Carmel NewS
MONDAY nml TUESDAY
January 22nd and 23rd, 7:15 P. M. and 9:15 P. M.
RED SKELTON_ESTHER WILLIAMS
in
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“BATHING BEAUTY
Also
SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS
and
LATEST NEWS EVENTS
ADMISSION: Adults, 30 cents; Children up to 12,
12 cents; Children 12 to 15, 18 cents, including tax.
Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor of
he First Baptist Church, Dallas.
Texas, will be the speaker on the
3aotist Radio Hour next Sunday
morning, Jan. 21, 8:30-9:00 o’
clock.
His subiect will be “Victorious
Surrender”. Dr. Criswell is the
successor to the late Dr. George
W. Truett. He is a magnetic
oeaker and ought to be heard by
all of our people, regardless of re
ligious faith.
These subjects on the general
theme, “The Call of a New Era”,
are especially designed to help a
war-stricken and sin-cursed world.
If the families all over our ter
ritory would hear these messages
sach Sunday morning and then go
to their respective churches to
Sunday school and to the worship
services there would come a much
needed spiritual revival in our
midst. My personal hope and
prayer Is that no family in our
section will fail to hear these
most heartening and challenging
f* | messages.
Sincerely yours,
yl L. K. Simpson.
War bond sales in McCormick
County in the Sixth War Loan
campaign, just concluded, reach
ed a total of $175,806, according
to figures from the Federal Re
serve Bank of Richmond.
Every county in the state ex
ceeded its quota, and the state as
a whole set new records in exceed
ing goals. Total sales in the
state amounted to $79,492,000, or
162.22 per cent of the $49,000,000
quota. Of this, $21,115,000 was in
E bonds, for which there was a
goal of $16 000,000. E bond sales
reached 131.96 per cent of the
goal.
Never before had South Caroli
na sales so far exceeded the quo
tas.
Christie Benet, State Crairman,! her home here, and
said, “that in one of the war’s j after her return to Knoxville, Miss:
gravest crises it has backed its ' Curtis and Mr. Elmer C. Klingen-
Supt. W. H. Weldon will ar- j fighting men at the front. A smith were happily married. The
range for the school children of | '^lendid record has been made by happy couple are receiving hearty
the county to have a part in the j the individuals, the businesses, congratulations from a host of
2 lan - many organizations and the in- friends everywhere. Mrs. Curtis:
W. S. Mims and his committee. s titutions cf the state. The fig- 1 has just received a letter stating:
^ Jordan, Hattie Adams and* ures speak impressively for them-; that they had been transferred to
selves.” jBaraboo, Wis., and are now settled!
Following is a record of total 1 in their new home,
sales in all counties: j Mrs. W. H. Horton is recovering
Abbeville, $689,309; Aiken, $1,-1 from an attack of the flue since
277,464; Allendale, $143,345; An- Christmas Day.
Pfc. Pickens Scott enjoyed a
short but happy visit at home last
week.
Mr. Horace McAllister of Abbe
ville was a visitor in Mt. Carmel
Monday.
Sen. L. L. Hester was a visitor
in Abbeville and Anderson Mon
day.
Mrs. C. Lane Smith returned to
her duties at Brenau College last
Wednesday.
Miss Sallie T. Cade of Converse 1
College has returned to the col
lege, after a pleasant stay at her
home here.
Misses Lennie and Eliza Covin
and Mr. Pete Cofin have all been
on our sick list last week, but all
are very much better.
Mrs. Gladys Bowyer and MfcsL
Charles Bowyer were recent guests
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott.
Miss Sarah Curtis of Knoxville,
Tenn., enjoyed a pleasant visit at
immediately
Sadie Garett, will collect from the
colored people of the town an
county.
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American Legion
Auxiliary Meets
The American Legion Auxiliary
met last Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. M. C. White with
Mrs. G. L. Jaynes, Mrs. W. J. Bruce
and Mrs. Sudie Edmunds as as
sistant hostesses.
. The opening ritual was conduct
ed by the president, Mrs. Mildred
L. Nave. Mrs. C. R. Strom, mem
bership chairman, reported 43
members. Mrs. R. L. Dendy, sec
retary, read the hostesses for the
year and Mrs. C. K. Epting, treas
urer, read her report.
Legislation concerning the l e
gion and its auxiliary was dis
cussed and explained by Mrs. Ep
ting and Mrs. Nave. Other cur
rent events were discussed by Mrs.
Dendy, Mrs. C. H. Workman, Mrs.
Paul Dowtin, Mrs. J. F. White and luda, $367,226;
derson. $2,274,508; Bambsrg, $554,-
303; Barnwell, $374,326; Beaufort,
£456,516; Berkeley, $169,766; Cal
houn, $328,843; Charleston, $10,-
331,154; Cherokee, $708,610; Ches
ter, $934,674; Chesterfield, $154.-
231; Clarendon, $260,615; Colleton,
$436,752; Darlington,, $1,369,824;
Dillon, $854,552; Dorchester, $309,-
794; Edgefield, $348,953; Fairfield,
$545,472.
Florence, $2,430,772; Georgetown,
$686,469; Greenville, $13,511,883;
Greenwood, $3,939,952; Hampton
$186,110; Horry, $993,918; Jasper,
$261,741; Kershaw, $542,772; Lan
caster, $851,480; Laurens, $2,043,-
996; Lee, $330,380; Lexington,
$676,223; Marion, $1,042,244; Marl
boro, $807,480.
McCormick, $175,806; Newber
ry, $1,149,286; Oconee, $574,151;
Orangeburg, $1,543,887; Pickens,
$882,478; Richland, $8,353,347; Sa-
Spartanburg, $6,-
Dr. L. L. Hester of Charleston:
was a visitor here during the hol
idays.
Miss Jacqueline Smith of Ander
son is spending some time witix
Mrs. Eula Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Black of Bel
ton were guests of Mrs. Ida Black
during Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McKinney
and Martha Jeane were visitors at-
the old home Sunday.
Mrs. W. A. Scott and Mrs. Hun
ter McKinney were recent visitors
in Augusta, Ga. /
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KEEP FAITH f
l with us— \ |
\by buying
War bonds
Mrs. P. W. Roper.
811,188; Sumter, $2,200,308; Union,
$693,987; Williamsburg,
York, $2,587,532.
$696,73G;