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i, TRUE TO OUKSKLVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Third Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIU 12, 1945 Number -33 WASHINGTON, D. C. — Shocked by the results. of the poll among coal miners, im^irhich the vast ma* jority approved a strike in war time, congress is expected to throw out or revise the Smith-Connally law which made such a vote pos sible. By expending $300,000 of the taxpayers’ money to conduct the poll, the government learned that 208,797 miners voted “yes” and only 25,158 voted “no” on this question: “Do you wish to per mit an interruption of war produc tion in wartime as a result of this dispute?” Amazed over the willingness of such a large percentage of miners to put a small increase in their wages above the continuation of war production, the public is de luging congress with letters and telegrams urging a stiffer control over manpower. Many letters from families with boys in the service are highly indignant over the fact that congress permits civilians to vote on whether they want to sabotage war production, while mil lions of soldiers are being drafted, without any choice, to risk their lives on foreign battlefields. Although this crucial situation may lead to the discarding of the Smith-Connally law, it is doubtful if congress actually will take any action to replace this measure with stronger control over strikes. Thei senate’s Unwillingness to draft la bor, after being urged to do so by the President and the heads of all branches of the armed services, in dicates that little can be expected along this line from congress unless they are forced to act by united pub lic demand. .And while the war news is so good, the public will probably not be gs insistent on action as it might have been six months ago. Although the vote of the coal miners is one of the darkest spots in the war picture to date, and will be used by our enemies to demon strate the lack of morale in the United States, many people in our country have come to think of the miners unions, under the dictator ship of John L. Lewis, as no longer representative of American labor. There is a brighter spot in the labor picture in the new charter for labor and management worked out by William Green, president of the AFL, Philip Murray, president of the CIO and Eric Johnston, presi dent of the chamber of commerce of the United States. Although the new charter deals only with broad generalities, it does show the will ingness of labor leaders to sit down with business management and at tempt to work out policies which will stimulate production and pros perity, from “both sides of the fence.” The new business-labor code is concerned primarily with relationships which will follow the war and is aimed at cooperation between the two groups. * » * War leaders here are greatly / concerned over the “all over but the shouting” attitude toward the war which is sweeping the country. They fear that the end of the Ger man phase of the war will be the Signal for a general relaxation in war work—and that the Japanese war may be prolonged unless that attitude can be nipped in the bud. Predictions that the Japanese will give up soon after Germany’s surrender are considered to be without any foundation whatsoever. No one, in official circles, is mak ing any prediptions on how long the Pacific war will last, but all of the planning is still based on its tak ing a long time to bring about Japan’s surrender. Japanese state ments that it may last 10 to 100 years are not taken seriously, but they indicate that the Japs will hold out as long as possible. Any attempt by congress to relax war control measures will therefore be fought tooth and nail by military leaders and by the President. YOU HE NEEDSH^// BimUflR B0I1DS jfr’P bum w sows nUVWOOD THEM McCORMICK, S. C THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, APRIL 12-13 GINGER ROGERS RAY MIDLAND 111 66 LADY IN THE DARK 79 SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Show starts at 2 p. m. and runs continuously DONALD RED BARRY \ in “The Man From The Rio Grande” Also: “MANHUNT OF MYSTERY ISLANDS” SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Late Show, 10:30 p. m. KAY KYSER m “SWING FEVER 99 MONDAY AND TUESDAY, APRIL 16-17 PAULETTE GODDARD SONNY TUFTS m 66 I LOVE A SOLDIER” Also: NEWS Mrs. Press Brown Claimed By Death Mrs. Press Brown, 36, died at her home here early Tuesday morning after a few days’ illness. Funeral services were conducted from the Plum Branch Methodist Church, of which she was a mem ber, yesterday afternoon at four o’clock, with her pastor, Rev. M. E. Boozer, of 1 McCormick, in charge, assisted by Rev. Foster Speer of Plum Branch. Interment followed in the Plum Branch cem etery. Mrs. Brown, who was the for mer Miss Emma Lou Reese of Evans, Ga., is survived by her husband and five daughters, Mil dred, Elizabeth, Mary, Bettie Joe and an infant; two sons, J. B. and Edward Brown; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Reese; five sisters, Mrs. William Snellings, Mrs. William Maddox, Sarah and' Myrtle Reese and Mrs. Mack Brown of Plum Branch; three brothers, Marion Reese, U. S. Army, and Frank and Ben Reese, Jr. J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. X Thomas A. Dowtin Lawrence Scott Berry Receives Medal Awarded Father The Purple Heart medal award ed posthumously to Cpl. William Lawrence Berry of Walhalla, wh<" was killed in action overseas on January 3, 1945, has been received by Cpl. Berry’s son, Lawrence Scott Berry, who makes his home here with his aunt and uncle r Mrs. J. S. Strom, and Mr. Strom. X Pvt. Jerry Thomas Killed In Action Word was recently received by friends and relatives in S. C. of the death in action overseas of Pvt. Jerry Thomas on Feb. 19th. He was 19 years of age, and was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Thomas, now of Lawrence- burg, Tenn., but formerly residents of S. C. ’ Mr. Thomas, brother of Mrs. S. L. Britt of the Buffalo community, was McCormick County’s first county farm agent, serving until July, 1919, then farming at Cope, S. C., in Orangeburg County, for as . -• -r» t'v i several years, again serving Claimed By Death farm agent in Live Oak, Fla. He is now farm loan agent for The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany, and the family has made its home in Tennessee for about ten years. The young soldier’s mother was Thomas A. Dowtin, 77, former member of the House of Represen tatives from McCormick County Important Training Union Meeting The Edgefield Association w'l observe Southwide Associational Training Union night on April 2< at Edgefield Baptist Church be ginning at 8 o’clock. Every church is asked to send representative even if it does not have a Train ing Union. This meeting will serve as our rally for this quarter. Our attendance goal is 100. Let’.: reach it! The following is the program: 8:00—Song service, 8:10—Scripture reading and prayer—Rev. J. S. Dukes, 8:15 — Announcements — State and Southwide meetings, 8:20—“Bringing the Training Union to Its Best”. Open discus sion, led by Associational Director, assisted by Associational Depart ment Leaders, 9:00—Report on Associational goals and plans, 9:05—Special music, 9:10—“The Training Union Task in the Centennial program”. Speaker, Rev. J. A. Estes, pastor, First Baptist Church, Newberry, 9:30—Adjourn. Louise Bracknell, Associational Director. X Woman’s Society Of Christian Service Holds Meeting The Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service held its March meet- eterv at 4 o'clock vesterdav after-! ty ' then aS distrlct a S ent in s - c - k r, ... , y . r i with headquarters in Orangeburg, noon-by Dr. S. W. Reid, pastor of s c for several years In addition to his parents, Pvt. Thomas is survived by a sister, Miss Mary Alice Thomas, Law- renceburg, Tenn., two brothers r Henry ThomaJP Lawrenceburg, Pressly Memorial A. R. P. Church of McCormick. He was born in Abbeville Coun ty, a son of the late David War ren Dowtin, Sr., and Mrs. Sallie Watson Dowtin. and well known farmer of near Troy, died at the Anderson Coun- 1 .. . I before her marriage. Miss Mary ty Hospital Tuesday afternoon at .., Q c ^ . i i *4. , ,,, Martin of Simpsonville, S. C., and 12^45 o clock after a long illness. she served as county home demon _ at UiTArrive.-irtT'in^h? ccm i stratlpn agent in Abbeville Coun- ing at the Educational Building at the graveside in the Troy cem- !t „ .. — - « - Mr5 . w . N . Smlth> Mrs c w pen b . nal, Mrs. W. M. Strawhorne and Mrs. W. C. Jaynes served as host esses. Mrs. C. H. Workman conducted the devotional. Mrs. J. L. Smith was program leader, her topic be ing, “The Three Lives.” Mrs. Mil dred Nave, Mrs. A. J. Hendrix and Mrs. Keown had part on the pro gram. Mrs. J. L. Caudle, president, presided over the business meet ing. Buying plates for the Sun day school rooms was discussed. Glasses and cups have already been purchased Twenty dollars of the fifty dol lars that was pledged on the Cru sado for Christ, has been paid by our society. Mrs. W. W. Keown, Jr., Publicity Chairman. Tenn., and Nathan J. Thomas who Mr Dowtin spent his entire life ^ ln servlce overseas . in the community where he was born and reared. He was a faith ful member of the A. R. P. Church of Troy. On January 7, 1897, Mr. Dowtin was married to Miss Janie B. Rob inson, of Troy, who survives him Mt. Carmel News Miss Harriette L. Seabrook Monday returned to her liome with "five children. The ‘ children ® harIeston ' „ a,t * r s P endlng are, three daughters. Miss Nell, 8 P_ r _ in B vacation hej-e Dowtin of Troy, Mrs. S. C. Porter of Charlotte and Mrs. C. C. Sisk of on in the Mr. and Mrs. Fred Belton spent Sunday Black of hi» with Newport, Tenn.; two sons, James, Curtis Dowtin and Thomas A. Dowtin, Jr., both of Troy; also three brothers, Kennedy, David and Paul Dowtin, all of R. 3, Mc Cormick; and three grandchildren. x B. T. U. Organizations To Hold Meetings On the evening of April 24 there will be meetings held in the 921 associations of churches in th? Southern Baptist Convention. 1 mother, Mrs. Ida Black. Sunday was Mrs. Black’s birthday, and was quite a pleasant one. Mrs. Alice Frazier and Mrs. D. L. Bry son of Calhoun Falls, Mrs. Roy Edmunds and daughter, Miss El sie Edmunds, of Laurens, were al so visitors for the day. Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Harling of Greenville and also Mrs. Weber and little son were pleasant guests in the home of Mr. W. D. Harling and Miss Monnie Harling for ths day Sunday. Misses Julia Cade, Jaunita Cur tis and Harriett Seabrook enjoyed WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 MATINEE 3:30 P. M. Adults 24c FRED MacMURRAY BARBARA STANWYCK m “DOUBLE INDEMNITY” ADMISSION: Adults, 30 cents; Children no to 12, 12 cent.; Children 12 to 15, 18 cents, including lax. These reach from the Atlantic to j the Pacific and include twenty l states. These meetings will be icld by the Baptist Training Un ion organizations of the various associations. South Carolina has a total goal of attendance for the evening of 0,000 in the thirty eight associa tions in the State. Each program will be presided over by the di rector of that association. A pre sentation of the Baptist Training Union work by the department eaders will be a feature of this program. The Abbevillj association will meet with the Callie Self Memo rial church in Greenwood, starting at 7:30 p. m. The closing mes sage of the evening will be given by Rev. Carl Giers, pastor of the First Baptist church of Union. His subject will be, “The Training Un ion Task in The Centennial Pro gram.” Mrs. J. O. Long, associa tional director, will preside. X a pleasant day shopping in Ander son Thursday. Mrs. J. J. White, Mr. W. A. Scott. Mrs. Hunter McKinney and Mrs. W. H. Horton were visitors in Mc Cormick Monday. Mrs. White and Mrs. Horton attended the meeting of the Executive Council of Farm Women at the home of Mrs. Buz- hardt. Plans were made for th meeting of the Spring Council of Farm Women. Mr. H. O. Watson and Sen. L. L Hester were business visitors in McCormick Monday. — X Girl Scout News Banquet For Young People’s Counselors vr&orr- tKUOkX. iak. * 4/JL . aAT.'!-. —I The Girl Scouts of Troop No. 1 met Tuesday, April 10th, at the Scout Hall. A camping trip was planned for Saturday week, and a card of sympathy was sent to one of our members. The following Scouts were pres ent: Jacqueline Bonnette, Janelle Henderson, Irma Joan Connor, Julia Holloway, Doris West and Joan Holliday. Scribe, Janelle Henderson. X The Young People’s Counselors of the Abbeville Association W. M U. enjoyed a most delightful ban quet at the South Main Baptist Church in Greenwood Thursday vening of last week, 'the theme of the program being “The Light Of The World Is Jesus”. Mrs. D. C. Taltfert of McCor mick, the Y. W. A. Leader, was in charge and introduced the gues and the following leaders who ir urn presented their counselors: Mrs. W. B. Jeter of Ninety *Siv Sunbeam Leader, and Mrs. W. O. Self of Ninety Six, G. A. Leader. Mrs. J. Fred Buzhardt of McCor mick, R. A. Leader, was unable i attend because of illness. Miss Ruth Provence, State Young People’s Director, wa guest of ‘honor. She brought i- most helpful message on “Beacon of Light”. Mrs. H. T. Medlock, Association al W. M. U. President, brough ‘‘Lights Of Welcome”, and Mrs. C. H. Huguley of McCormick gave “Thank You Light”. Ladies of the church served a two course meal, the long table being beautifully appointed with snapdragons, roses and sweetpeas -X “Great oaks from little grow” and great profits from lit i tie pine seeds grow. “Look at the Mississippi. It is a ! mile-wide flow of mud carrying the! soil from the greater part of Am- 1 erica, dumping into the Gulf of acorns Mexico the basic wealth of an em pire.”—Robert Quillen, on Conser vation. HOSPITALS . . . 6.30* In practically every part of the country, the hospitals are full to the hilt—and many sick people, un able to get accommodations, are patiently waiting their turn for x hospital bed. Until the war started, it was be lieved that our country was ex tremely well-equipped with hospitc# facilities. We had a total of almost 6,500 registered hospitals with « capacity of about 1.400.000 pa tients. If the average visit to * hospital is 10 days, that would meax that the hospitals during a yeax. could handle about 50.000.000 case*. That would seem to be more thax ample—and it was until the last few years. But suddenly, for some not to apparent reason, the demand for hospital space has reaches an all-time peak. Our natural first-thought explanation woulS be that It is caused by the war. But on more careful analysis^ there seems to be no relation ship between the war and the number of civilian cases in hos pitals. I have asked a number of people, who ought to know, how they ex plain this condition. Their answers indicate that there are a number cP reasons for it. but the most impor tant one is group hospitalization in surance. INSURANCE . . . 10,000,00* In 1933, when the hospitalizatior insurance idea first started, there were 6,000 participants. Today there are over 10.000.000 people tied uf' with one of these plans—all pay ing premiums each year so tha£. in case of emergency, they can be- assured of proper hospital care without a big outlay of money. With so many people parti®- pating in this new form of security, many who would normally try ev erything else before giving in tc going to a hospital, will now go witki little hesitation. They have fount that it is considerably cheaper tv get proper care in a hospital thase to arrange for often inadequate* care af home. It is undoubtedly true that a geog number of people who had pesl- poned doing anything about an op eration Uiey knew they would even tually have to have, are now taking advantage pf the hospitalization insurance tp |o ahead with 4L Others are gplpg. tp hospitals for Isicknesses which, in the past, woul£ never have feechf thought of as has- ' ital cases. f Some are evep taking advantage M hospitalization insurance in order fo get a much needed rest. By gel ling a debtor td Vend them to a hospital for “observation” or physi cal checkups, these people spend a. Jew days ih a comfortable bed, with good food, fine service and a*' the Comforts of life, without having to pay a red ceqt. Such a use of hospital facilities is, of course, not the purpose dC the insurance, but these cases em phasize the changing attitude to ward hospitals. *171086 who used to dread the thought of being sent to a hospital are gradually coming around to the point where they al most welcome the opportunity. GROWTH . . . postwax There is no reason to think that there will be any let-up in the de mand for hospital beds after the war. For today, health recordr show, the amount of sickness is less than normal, yet the facilities of hospitals are taxed beyont capacity. After the war our ci villa* population will be greater. . more people than ever wil have hospitalization insurance, and the fear of going to a hos pital will continue to diminish. It is evident that a vast ex pansion program will be neces sary. We wi’l probably he able to use twice the hospital space that is available today. And everything should be done io encourage such a program For there is no doubt that greater u?e of hospitals, quicker attention t# needed operations, and even hos pital health check-ups will mak* us a healthier people For the fov people who may take advantage vT their hospitalization insurance, mil lions will be kept in better p ; iv«v. cal condition bv havinc the fina-v cial burden of hospital service eliminated. The hospitals, too. should be ir. * more secure financial position th; 3, ever before as a result of this in surance. Every hospital hand ev so: r.e “cha rity" cases, but as PU >">' ber of people bolding this O' ■* t V l of irs • ep inert a^es. r nf«: • an M.Oll' e» .c vide to pu> Uieu VV 4 4 y. “T 1:2: ? z t r;.:pcintment . i ... »* " ! I’-crcau,* the r IZiXi- : A •! wl-.V: v.-h l:s '-.'p . .. -i he.: not?