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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 12, 1945 VcCORMICK MESSENGER Pabltehed Every Thnraday Established June S. IMS f EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Ed Iter mnd Increased ' Allotment In State AAA Funds at the Peat Office at Me- Garmlck, S. ©.. as Kail matter af EUB8CRIPTION RATES: One Tear Rz Months .79 Three Monttis JO Pioneers of Faith. Lesson for April 15: Genesis 12:1-2; 4cts 7:4-7,12-17. Memory Verse: Hebrews 11:8. Following the history of the race through which God chose to reveal himself to the world, we think today of four founders of that race. ; Abraham was a man of great faith and called the “Friend of God.” Native of Ur of the Chaldees, he obeyed God and went out from Haran into Canaan, where he .be came the father of the Hebrew race. • Isaac was a man of peace who held his family together in a strange land—an important link be tween Abraham and Jacob. ■ Shrewd and even dishonest. Jacob robbed Esau of the birthright, de ceived his father, and outwitted Laban, but in the darkest hours of his course he found God, closed his long life in Egypt, and left his sons to bscome the founders of the 12 tribes. Joseph’s career was remarkable in an age when few but those born in kings’ houses attained exalted position. Pampered and favorite son, vain as a lad, paying bitterly for vaunting himself among his brothers, he had moral stamina and great ability, turned slavery to account, found opportunity in a dun geon and, raised to high place, cornered the wheat of a nation, ra tioned food and saved Egypt in famine. Better still, he brought his tribe of nomads into settlement in an old civilization. After 400 years In a land 'of ancient culture, grown into the numbers of a na tion, they were ready for the Exo dus and the conquest of Canaan. May we look to God in faith that, like Israel, we may journey in strength and hope toward our own land of promise. -XX- I fti- ‘i j By ELLIOTT PINE * Jai-alai, the “fastest game in the world,” is played in only a few fspots in the United States. Miami, JFla., is called the capital, but some California cities have flourishing i“frontons” or courts. It is strictly p professional game, being too swift C ’ nd dangerous for amateurs. Play- rs are nearly all Latin-Americans Cubans, Mexicans, Brazilians— land a few Spaniards. • This strange game, which Is 'something like handball, is sup posed to have developed in the .Basque section of Spain some 300 years ago. It is now played in a special court, or fronton, 50 feet long and 30 feet wide. Walls 40 feet high run around three sides . . . the fourth wall is a steel net ting to protect spectators. Strang est feature is the cesta or racquet- like thing each player wears bound on his right arm. The cesta is semi - circular, three feet long around the curve, and made of wicker. The hard ball often comes ripping out of a cesta at 100 miles per hour . . . one more reason for the marvelous footwork of the lithe jai-alai stars. In Florida they earn from $250 to $550 a month. (The name is pronounced “high-lye.”) Fastest rink skater is Lew ; Testa, who holds the world rec ord for a mile reeled off in 2 minutes, 32 seconds . . . this is three seconds swifter than the ice skating mile mark. Best running time for the distance is just over four minutes. A race horse sprints the mile in 1 minute 40 seconds or less. Willie Hoppe, the billiard cham pion, set a new world record for the three-cushion game by running 20 straight points when he defeat ed Welker Cochran 60-36 in 24 inn ings on March 21. George Mikan, 6 foot 9 inch center on the DePaul U. squad, broke some kind of rec ord when he scored 53 points against Rhode Island State in New York City. De Paul, won 97 to 53. thereby qualifying for the national collegiate semi-finals. A great sports era will follow the war, predicts Big Bill Tilden, the old tennis star. “It will make the gold en era of the twenties look like tin sel.” he said. Major sports— baseball, football, racing, golf and boxing, have contributed 16 million dollars to war charities in the last three years. Catcher Joe Sprinz is another old-timer in baseball . . . be is starting his 22nd season In league play and his ninth with the San Francisco Seals. mfioti It REVJtOBERT H HARPER t Darlington, April 7. — As a re sult of recent Congressional action, the South Carolina AAA Commit tee has been authorized $3,088,000 for the 1945 soil-building prac tices, under the Agricultural Con servation Program, J. M. Napier, Clemson Extension AAA agent, said here .today. This is an Increase of $731,000 over the amount previously al- I located. The conservation allow ance for farmers will now be 70 cents per acre of cropland. It was formerly 50 cents per acre. In addition to the soU-building allowance, those farms which have carry-over limestone obtained last year through the AAA will re ceive 80 per cent of the 1944 pay ment rate on limestone, provided it is applied in 1945 in accordance with the provisions of the AAA Program. This additional allocation of $731,000 will aid the farmers in two ways, Mr. Napier stated. It will encourage them to produce more food and feed, and it will help them to improve and con serve the soil. Other provisions of the 1945 Ag ricultural Conservation Program remain unchanged. X Home Canning Sugar QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Q. When can I get canning sugar? A. The Canning Sugar Panel of the War Price and Rationing Board here in McCormick will be gin issuing sugar for canning on April 10th. 2. Q. Will stamps in my ration book be made good for canning sugar this year? A. No. 3. Q. How do ; I get canning sugar? A. By filling out an applica tion blank, which .you can get at the Ration Office or different cen ters in the county and attaching a “Spare Stamp 13” from War Ra tion Four for each member of your family covered by the ap plication. 4. Q. Where do I get the ap plication blank? A. Ration Office, Civilian Defense Office, Mt. Carmel, Wil- lington, Plum Branch, Parksville, etc. 5. Q. What do I do with the completed application? A. Mail to War Price and Rationing Board. 6. Q. What does the Board do with the applications? A. The Board will go over your application and, based on your actual needs and on the reg ulation, issue five pound and one pound sugar coupons. Your cou pons will be mailed to you. 7. Q. What do I do with the sugar coupons? A. You sign your name and write the number of your War Ra tion Book Four on each of the five pound coupons. The coupons then can be used in any grocery store for buying canning sugar. Be sure to take War Ration Book Four as well as the coupons when you go to the store to buy your sugar for canning. 8. Q. How much sugar will be issued this year per person and per family? Q. As much as the Board de termines you actually need, up to 20 pounds per person, or 160 pounds to a single family. For canning fruits or fruit juices, the allowance will be on the basis of one pound of sugar for each four quarts to le canned. 9. Q. Will any sugar be issued for making jellies, jams, relishes, catsup, etc? A. Within the maximum al lowance, up to five pounds of sug ar for each person named in the family application will be allowed for these items. 10. Q. How many applications for canning sugar may I make this year? A. Two applications may be made, and they must be made by April 30 and June 30, 1945. AT FIRST Sion* of a 666 Co’d Preparations as directed. I use ‘What a blow! Now I find out it may be V-Day plus maybe two or three years before I can get one.” ‘But my Gulf man cheered me up. Said he'd help keep my present car rolling, if I'd let him give it the Gulfpride* and Gulflex** treatment reg ularly.” • m W : 4, S': : : : : : S ' < . liptiyg ill# «« Fir" - • >:• :vx*.v»: •:••••• That's good advice. I’d sure hate to take a chance on anything but the finest lubri cation. I don’t hanker to walk everywhere I go.” GULFPRIDE # FOR YOUR MOTOR An oil that's TOUGH in capital letters ... protects against carbon and sludge! STUDV OF INTERNATIONAL WE81TI0N lOD Groups and Individuals Urged to Study All Postwar Peace Bids (Editor's Note: With the date of the San Francisco conference drawing nearer, this newspaper presents herewith the ideas of Raymond B. Fosdick, former undersecretary general, League of Nations, on Dumbarton Oaks and the principles of international cooperation. Fosdick. a former assistant corporation counsel and member of the New York City board of education, was a special rep resentative of the war department in France ^nd aide to General Pershing during 1918 and 1919. He is president and trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Gen eral Education board, and a member of the joint army and navy committee on welfare and recreation. The author of several books on police systems, war and liquor control, his viewpoints are received with interest.) By Raymond B. Fosdick The casualty lists are growing and the tragic telegrams from the war and navy departments are being delivered at the doors of homes in every town and village of the United States. There is scarcely a person anywhere who is not acquainted, directly or indirectly, with the sorrow which this war has brought. On all sides there is deep and pas sionate feeling that this must not happen again. It is more than a feeling; it is a tight-lipped determination that the children of the next generation shall not have to live in a world in which such overwhelming disaster is possible. Twice in 25 years the people of ev-<S>- GULFLEX FOR YOUR CHASSIS ' Knocks out friction at up to 39 vital chassis points! Protection plus! ery continent have been plunged into a war which they have been powerless to prevent because no ade quate machinery to stop it has been devised. Now we have a chance— perhaps our last chance—to build a barrier against a mounting cata clysm which threatens civilization itself. That is why the name Dumbarton Oaks is so significant. That is why the coming conference at San Francisco, by the degree A) which it succeeds or fails, will shape the kind of life which our children, and their children after them, will live for years to come. But the conference at San Fran cisco can succeed only as it is sup ported by an overwhelming public opinion. The best efforts of our delegates and of the delegates of other countries will in the end ac complish nothing unless behind them there is marshalled the driv ing force of people everywhere. It is the people, and not the men that govern them, who suffer from war. It is the people, therefore, who have everything at stake in this coming conference—people from villages as well as cities, from farms as well as industrial plants, every kind of people from every Main street and crossroad in the country—all of us together in all nations deter mined that this time we shall not muff the chance to establish a sys tem of international relations in which our children and all men’s children can live in decency and peace. There is a great hymn that is frequently sung in our churches: “God save the people.” That is the motive behind the coming con ference at San Francisco. Public Discussion Urged. But again the point must be stressed: the people cannot wholly delegate their responsibility. Be tween now and April 25 when the conference meets, every citizen should feel that he has a place at ; the peace table; he has a part in building the new order. His voice, added to that of millions of his fellow countrymen, can so support the proposals -which Dumbarton Oaks has roughly outlined that they cannot fail. This involves under standing what Dumbarton Oaks means; it involves debate and dis cussion—the same kind of debate and discussion that took place in the 13 original states in 1787, pre ceding the adoption of the Constitu tion. Our forefathers understood what the Constitution meant and they adopted it because they be lieved in it. So today every farm and la bor circle, luncheon club, church, sewing circle, bridge club and corner drugstore should be a center of discus sion, so that we can all of us understand what the issues are. and through our understanding > place intelligent support behind • ( the efforts at San Francisco to * stop war. We had a chance 25 years ago to do something like this, but . we muffed it. Some of us didn’t real- • ize how important the problem was, ‘ I and we were cohfused by conflict- •_ ing counsels and by the attempts ^ of a few men to draw red herrings , across the trail. In the end apathy , and. skepticism won out, and a > quarter of a century later we . learned through blood and fire what * that apathy and skepticism had cost ' us. / May Be Last Chance, Now the second chance has ; come. If once more discourage- • ment or selfishness gain the upper » hand, and the project is again de- ■ feated, another opportunity may ’. not come. Always in the affairs v of men there is a clock which . strikes the final hour. Winston' Churchill has summed up the situa-: tion in these eloquent words: ) “Mankind has never been in ^ this position before. Without > having improved appreciably in ; virtue or enjoying wiser guid- . k ance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by t which it can unfailingly accom plish its own extermination. That is the point in human des tinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. Death stands at at tention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en mrsse; ^ ready, if called on, to pulverise without hope of repair what is •*’ left of civilization.” This then is the problem—far) more immediate and acute today i than it was 25 years ago. We must [ face it with the boldness which our k forefathers showed in 1787—un-‘ afraid of new plans for cooperative J action even when they run counter^ to traditions and techniques which > have long been cherished. Peaces involves taking risks just as war* does. We must face it, too, with; courage and faith, although we are 1 confronted with a task that may' well seem beyond solution. The only workable assumption for tbe.’> world is that international accord; is a possibility, and the only hope for civilization is that enough peo-; pie will believe it a possibility to' set up the necessary machinery ta^ make it go. There is no altema-4 tive. It is this or chaos—a chaoar^ that would multiply for the homes! of America in the next generation are r the yellow telegrams that today are spreading their tragic message across the land. NOTICE OF ELECTION FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES —Buy War Savings Stamps— An election is hereby ordered to be held on the 4th day of May, 1945, in Plum Branch school dis trict, No. 24, in McCormick Coun ty, S. C., for the purpose of elect ing school trustees for the said school district as provided by law. The said election shall be con ducted under the same rules and regulations as the general elec tions are conducted in the Coun ty and State. School Trustees now in office °hp 1 l act as managers of said e- lection. Voting nlace shall be at the school building. Polls shall open at 8 a. m., and close at 4 p. m. All returns of said election shall be filed with the County Board of Education m ten days after date of election. MRS. BERTHA S. HARRIS, J. L. CAUDLE, J. M. BROWN, County Board of Education, McCormick County, S. C. April 9, 1945.—3t. - On Anything ; Within 5, Minutes 1“, No Delay or Red Tape® , LOANS ^ Of $1.00 to $1,000 OLEIN’S 1008 BROAD AUGUSTA, GA. Oo You Suffer From Arthritis, Rheum^sm And Muscular Paris? t Some people would give a fortuo*- 'o tind relief from the dreadful pain n t' esa ailments, but many peonle nuv \L- • READY experienced amszing rr n by '.along D. M. C. COMPOUND N«> i rry ' it today: get a package and take i> di rected. Sold on a money-back p,u .dtdea ) if not satisfied witli results. Price—$o.00. For Sale By _i| PEOPLES DRUG STORE —Adv. TO SELL ’EM, TELL ! ! ’EM- With An Ad