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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-
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EUB8CRIPTION RATES:
One Tear
Rz Months .79
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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.
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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.
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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
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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>-
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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.
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