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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOOTH CAROLINA Thursday, February 22, 1945 tfcCORMICK MESSENGER I V T f VmWnht* Ewwj Thandaf «itabliBhe4 Jnn* MM CDMOND J. MoCRACKBN, Editor •t the ik, 8. C Post Office at Mo- natter of •UBSCRimON RATES: One Year $1-00 Six Months .79 ‘^ree Months —— AO HE- 1 I XjQmovuHV ’ by Don Robinson | 52KABITS • • • conversion : Speaking of reconversion, it will Me interesting to see, after the war, j*arw long it will take the average ^person to “reconvert” his living wsabits to the extravagant and per- %aps wasteful standards of prewar <4tays. i' JUl of us have learned a lot about servation during the last three i. We have learned that an icbile can go almost twice as on a gallon Of gasoline if driven 30, instead of 80 miles per hour, have been taught that tires can Me made to last for thousands of 'sextra miles If we keep the speed Mown, use brakes less, and shift the around every 9,000 miles. And have found that, with proper s, we can increase the life span Cthe family car by several years. IFhose lessons about automobile ition are just an example of education in economy which have been given all along the We have been taught how to our homes with less fuel. We learned a lot about food SMquirements and are now well •ware of the fact that we can keep haealthy on a much more restricted »t than we used to consider essen* h And we have learned how to along very comfortably with meat, less sugar, less coffee, 2kpss ice cream, less cooking uten- -«Qs, fewer tools, less paper, less vtiigarettes and many many less ^gadgets. Except for the fact that prices liave risen considerably, all this f. lias taught os how to live com- * Yortably on less money. ADS • • • • sales At the beginning of the war it Billed like a minor revolution in advertising when manufacturers ^Mddenly started spending good ad> WErtising money to tell us how to 4)Bt along with a smaller supply of vOaeir products. To most Americans ^Ooertising has always been consid- the heart and soul of high- selling and it was rather dhock to see this sales tool be- akgS used to influence us to “please Smyless.” '* Although we have become used snch advertising now, I feel that juaraufacturers showed considerable courage to substitute a ration appeal for a sales ap- For all of them know that the war is over they will want eell all they can and these les- in conservation might be a aserious barrier to maximum sales. 3R a man learns how to go twice far on a gallon of gasoline, it is mat he might continue sivable remember and apply that'-les- when gasoline is available ir abundance. Ant most manufacturers ,.i' Tprobably realise that the aver age American doesn’t like •conservation and tjiat most of ns wHH quickly revert to our old ■mbits as soon as supplies ■make it possible. We may have ■earned how to conserve gaso- JUne, for example, but If we 2mve money in onr pockets -we’d rather step on the gas Sthan diddle along at 30 “con servation miles” per hour. And there is no doubt that those manufacturers who have made an and broad-minded effort to i us to conserve their products in wartime have won public good will Which will benefit them in the Rmstwsrr era. For a recent survey Showed that of afl types of war- rSmne advertising, the conserva tion theme has met with greatest ipablic approval. SECURITY . . . income Our “How to Get Along Without” education hasn’t been nearly as ex pensive as it has been in other countries. But it has been exten- enough to give us a better iluation of what is really essen- tSal and what isn’t. A friend of mine who was out work for many months during depression, and supported his -fiamily during that time on the ill allotment available through smployment insurance, says that experience was one of the most waluable he ever had. For it showed faxm that he could exist, if it ever became necessary again, on an amount of money far smaller than Ose had ever thought possible. That experience, he says, gave him a deeding of security and independ- which he never would have without learning how little imoney it takes to buy the real es sentials of life. Today we are all learning that KBesson to some extent. We will (probably store it away in a remote esorner of our minds when the post war spending spree gets under way, but we will find satisfac- tSkxn in the memory of how many tattings we can get along without if «sircumstances force us to econo- esuze. ttdkl I Jem*, afc« Son •/ God. Lesion for Fekruery 35; Matthew *kn i347 { 17*44. Memory Vent: Matthew 10:32. Jn Ilia north of Palestine. the ruins of a pagan temple, e where the sources of the Jord ■*. unite—In a spot beautified by na ture and once adorned by the hano of man—the first and Great Confo- •ion was made. His name having became known everywhere, Jesus asked the disci- e es the opinions of men concern- g Him. The answers indicate^ that all thought Him some grew! Person. He was all the answe** implied, but infinitely more. “Bab who say ye that I am?” The tirr-a comes when all men must answ*e that question for themselves. Hebrew kings had been anointea when called to rule their peopl*. Christ means Anointed. Jesus (Saviour) is the itame of the Son of God, the Christ (the Anointed of God) is His title. What a blessed combination! The declaration Peter made was noon confirmed from heaven. Six days afterwafd, probably on Mourt Hermon,/Jesus was transfigured i - the presence of Peter, James an ! John. Heaven touched the earth t.« glorify the Son of God. The Law and the Prophets, which Jesus ful filled, stood with Him in the per sons of Moses and Elijah. No won der Peter wanted to build three tabernacles for the great Persons and dwell there in that rapt place and state. But they were called to serve and they could not remain on the moun tain top. The glory of the trans figuration departed, Jesus re mained. But may the heavenly scene strengthen us to make our own confession in the Son of God and, like the disciples, go into the busy scenes of life to serve men— through Jesus the Christ. $739 v IMS Military Air No. 8739—Princess frocks are fa vorites with the high school crowd —they’re so right for coke parties, dances and juke box sessions. This enchanting one has a gay military air with its buttons parading down each side. Pattern No. 8739 comes in s’zes 11, 12, 13. 14, 15, 16 and 18. Size 12. three-quarter or short sleeves, requires 2& yards of 54-inch mate rial. Name Address Name of paper Pattern No Size Send 20 cents in coin (for £ each pattern desired) to— j; Ch If 5. HOME f-v '**#>>*' v* f rf* y i*i At j\ T t* iv AV * J l‘-> M ANY housewives are pondeTf ing over the relative food val ues of fish. eggs, cheese, mtik, legumes and meat. While (he total contribution of each food has many variants. It’s the protein con tent that concerns us most just now. On this score comparisons can be made with considerable equity, although they must necessarily be general. Weight for weight, fish and meat contribute about the same amount of protein so that a serving of fish is just about equal to a serving of meat. Cheese, being a concentrated food, supplies more protein per pound than either meat or fish. But, since a “serving” of cheese is smaller than a serving of the other foods, when we consider serving for serving, cheese compares fa vorably with meat. One cup of whole milk fur nishes approximately 33 calo ries of protein, 2 eggs 51, while a piece of lean round steak broiled, about 2 ounces or 4 inches by 3 inches cut 114 inches thick, gives 39 calo ries of protein. Dried beans, peas and lentils must be served in generous por tions if they are to equal the pro tein content of the other foods. For practical purposes, we need not worry about substituting eggs, cheese, beans and fish for meat a few times during the week provid ing we make good use of milk and eggs in cookery and use milk as a beverage. Furthermore we can take advantage of the breads and cereals which contribute protein from the grains themsleves as well as from the milk used in the manu facture of bread and that which we naturally use with breakfast cereals. Three to five slices of bread, depending on its thickness, supply about one-third as much pro tein as does one serving of meat or fish. Baked Potatoes en Surprise. Four good-sized potatoes, four eggs, four tablespoons cream, two tablespoons margarine, salt and pepper, four tablespoons grated cheese. Bake potatoes. Cut a slice from one side of each potato. Scoop out and mash. Season with cream, ( margarine, salt, pepper, cheese, •; and beat until smooth and light, j Line potato shells with mixture, ’ slide a poached egg in each potato i and cover with potato mixture. | Bake in a hot oven until potato is delicately browned. Serve at once.} Another good main dish is to serve welsh rarebit ove£ deviled eggs on toast. > Cheese souffle uses both eggs and ; cheese to make a nourishing main dish. i Baked macaroni with peanut but^ ter may appeal when potatoes are scarce. . _ Patricia Dow Patterns 1150 Sixth Ave., New York 19. N. Y. By ELLIOTT PINE An Important official of the Office of Defense Transportation told a delegation c? baseball owners. “Heck, we v d-'* to see you con tinue playing bull. We hope ail leagues have good seasons. It’ll keep the fans home on week-ends to see ball games.” Ford Frick headed the big league boys who were in Washington to see what they could do about keeping going. General Hershey’ of Selective Serv ice seemed to be sympathetic, but made no promises. The first maj.Br league star to be inducted after the order to reexamine 4-F athletes went into effect was Hon Northey, 25, outfielder for the Phillies. Gabby Hartnett, big league catcher and former manager of the Chicago Cubs, rolled 297 in a match game. Th ?n his op ponent howled a perfect 300 a few weeks later, when Gabby was absent on a hunting trip. . . . Gabby wants a return match. Frank Gotch. the wres tler, won 154 of his 16) contests . . . his six defeats were dealt by Dan McLeod, Farmer Burns, Tom Jenkins (three times), and Frank Beall. This was between 1902 and *06. One night Gotch, who weighed 215 pounds, took on five Jap jujitsu experts at once. ... at the fin ish three Nips were unconscious and the other two had broken legs. The Detroit Red Wings have been beaten only twice on their home ice since 1942, a record for other pro hockey clubs to shoot at. Hariy Stuhldreher, the Wisconsin U. foot ball coach, thinks that hockey and lacrosse should be included in col lege sports programs whenever pos sible. Bobby Bragan of the Dodg ers was the National league’s most versatile player last season ... he caught 35 games, played shortstop in 51, third base in six, and sec ond base in one. Sammy Byrd, who recently took the Texas open golf tournament, de feating Byron Nelson by one stroke, is a former Yankee outfielder. Only girls’ and women’s events will be scheduled for the Pacific coast ice skating championship contests in Berkeley, Calif. ... all eligible men have gone to war. •• v v 'VTfr : t:v*V. sh w buyer MEirs CPI I CD IN.OUfrAD OlLLuCin columns ... ' >.V", At* MOTORISTS FACE HARDEST WARTIME PERIOD PINCH IN TIRES, PARTS AND FUEL WILL CONTINUE Farmers to Get Quarter Of Truck Needs. With 1,500,000 passenger cars breaking down with lit tle or no chance for replace ment and the spare parts sit uation tight; with gasoline and tire supplies remaining critically short, and with the serious shortage of lead ne cessitating the greater con servation of batteries, vehicle operators will face the hard est period of the war in 1945, the Office of War Information reported. As a result of the cloudy prospects for the year, car owners will be wise to make tha most judicious use of their vehicles, be quick to attend the smallest trouble, and, where possible, share in driving, it was said. With no new cars to be manu factured through 1945, and the pool of second-hand cars drying, scrap ping of private passenger automo biles continues at a high rate and the total number of such cars in the hands of essential drivers is getting dangerously low. ODT, making its study from sources oth er than registrations, estimates that the national total of passenger cars as of January 1, 1944, was 25,900,000. This figure dwindled to 24,400,000 as of January 1, 1945. It is estimated that of these 24,400,- 000, approximately 23,750,000 are actually in use and that 650,000 are Immobilized. ODT warns that if shortages of replacement and re pair parts become severe, this number may increase. Further more, automobiles would h***? for the scrap heaps more quick? r than now if gasoline were to be rationed liberally. Less than one-fourth of the mo tor trucks estimated as needed to vineet essential civilian transporta tion requirements during 1945 will be produced and distributed to commercial operators*. Authcrized civilian program amounts to 186,- 792 light, medium, light heavy and heavy trucks or 21.4 per cent of ODT’s stated requirement of 773,- 935 vehicles. ODT, as claimant agency for commercial vehicles, estimates that farm trucks and off-the-highway farm vehicles totaled 1,550,000 in* 1944 and will total 1,630,000 in 1945. The average age of farm trucks is between 7 and 8 years. The na tion’s farmers, WFA estimated, could use 200,000 new trucks this year, but probably will get about 60,000. Even though the certified produc tion of all petroleum liquids for February, 1945, is at an all-time peak and the current production of ail grades of gasoline is also at a record-breaking total, the problem of gasoline supplies for civilians re mains acute. Reason for lack of improvement: Military demands ✓ have expanded along with in creased production. Military requirements are cur rently on the increase. This always causes greater demands on trans portation facilities. At the present moment, transportation is tighter than supply. Every car, barge, tanker and pipeline is being used to capacity—the greater require ments for military supplies during the last six months making the movement of civilian supplies more difficult. Gasoline allocations for passen ger cars are based upon an ODT estimate that the essential trans portation work of each automobile can be performed with an average mileage for the nation of between 5,000 and 5,500 miles a year. The average annual mileage before the war was 9,000 miles, about 4,000 of which was for social and recre ational driving. With tires carrying more freight and passenger traffic today than ever before in history, and with military mechanization requir ing more and more tires, the prob lem of producing enough tires for essential civilian and military transportation is acute, ODT offi cials emphasize. The armed forces now need about 30 per cent more tires than they, are getting. Officials point .out that 1 military tires undergo rough use in| all war theaters. These tires do i not roll over smooth concrete, but * bounce over ruts, sand, rock and! the debris of war. Tin cans, shell! fragments, broken glass, shattered; parts, rubble and bullets are nor- j mal hazards of the tire on war' duty. Roughly, three out of every! five tires replaced in France suf- ‘ fered from carcass damage rather: than from wear to the treads. In the face of multiplied mili-! tary tire requirements, the nation’s j civilian owners of passenger auto- j mobiles will have to endure another ; year of stringent rationing. WPB | has reduced the quota for civilian > passenger car tires in the first ’ quarter of 1945 frort! an anticipated i 8,000,000 tires to 5,000,000 tires, be- < cause heavier emphasis is being { placed on the output of tires for | light trucks and jeeps. Currently the greatest threat to j U. S. transportation — military and j civilian—comes from the shortage t of lead, material used in the manu- | facture of batteries. A decreased • lead supply will require a 40 per i cent cut in meial a.for civ-i ilian batteries. Lead assigned for | civilian battery conptru n may be cut from about 224,000 tons in 1944, to 143,000 tons in 1945. Because of the shortage of lead, ODT urges all motorists to con- J serve their batteries. Maintenance suggestions include the following: | Replenish water as soon as liquid i falls to the top of separators; ad- ] just “hold-downs” or battery sup- 1 ports to prevent battery from bouncing in its cradle; avoid over charging or undercharging; avoid “battery dopes,” since no satisfac tory substitute electrolyte has been found for the simple mixture of sul phuric acid in water. Production of permitted spare parts for civilian needs was ac-! celerated in 1944 to reach an all- time record value of $750,000,000, i% was revealed by the WPB. Thu high rate production is expected continue through 1945. ^ J , i ISSt Auditor’s Notice I will be at the following places, on the dates given below, to take tax returns, on all personal property, except the kind that is returned to the tax commission. All owners, agents, guardians, ad ministrators, attorneys, etc., please take notice and make correct re turns for 1945: Office, Jan. 1st thru the> 3rd. Plum Branch, Jan. 4th, 2 to 5 p. m. Office, Jan. 5th thru the 10th. Parksville, Jan. 11th, 2 to 5 p. m. Office, Jan. 12th thru the 17th. E. M. Morgan’s Store, Jan, 18th, 2 to 4 p. m’. Office, Jan. 19th thru the 24th. Bordeaux, Jan. 25th, 2 to 4 p. m. Office, Jan. 26th thru the 31st. J. C. Talbert’s Store, Feb. 1st, 1:30 to 3 p. m. Mrs. M. M. Link’s, Feb. 1st, 3:30 to 5 p. m. Office. Feb. 2nd thru the 7th. Vernon, Feb. 8th, 1:30 to 3 p. m. Mrs. Callison’s Store, Feb. 8th, 3:30 to 5 p. m. Office, Feb. 9th thru the 14th. Willington, Feb. 15th, 1:30 to 3 p. m. Mt. Carmel, Feb. 15th, 3:30 to 5 o. m. Office, Feb. 16th thru 21st. Modoc, Feb. 22nd, 1 to 2:30 p. m. Clarks Hill Jeff Sharpton’s, Feb. 22nd, 3 40 4 p. m. J. O. Marshall’s, Feb. 22nd, 4 to 5:30 p. m. Office, Feb. 23rd thru the 28th. After Feb. the 28th, the law says add 10% penalty to those who failed or refused to make re turns. All male persons between 21 and 60 years old are liable for poll tax, all between 21 and 50 years old are liable for road or street tax, except those in the armed forces. C. W. PENNAL, Auditor, McCormick County. WANT ADV. FOR SALE — 300 bushels of pink skin Louisiana yam sweet potatoes at $3.00 per bushel. W. A. Winn, Plum Branch, S. C. FOR SALE—Premium Egg Coal, Pine Slab Blocks and Good Pine Stove Wood. L. M. Horne, Troy, S. C. FOR SALE: Pure Yellow Buff and Parmenter Red setting eggs at 75 cents per setting. Mrs. Jphn T. Faulkner, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE — 82 acres of land, three miles east of McCormick on public road and mail route, two- horse farm open land, pasture, five-room house, barn, and out buildings. Improvements on this place worth price asked for the place. R. L. Faulkner, McCormick, S. C. WANTED — 25 women, 18 to 45, regular work, pleasant v. irking conditions. Apicly, McCormi k Un derwear Co., McCormick, S. C. WANTED — I would like to get in touch with any one having a small house for rent in town of McCormick. W. T. Mullinax, Mc Cormick, S. C. LOST — Between Plum Branch McCormick or nine miles east or highway 43, one tarpolin for picl up truck. Reward for recovery. W A. Winn, R. 1, Plum Branch, S. C