Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCORMICK, SOUTH Ctititlki 'ftbtM&t, April 26, 1945 By L. G. ELLIOTT, President La Salle Extension University. T HE American farmer, already in spring work, faces the great- • est test of the entire war—the will ? to continue exerting every ounce of j effort after several exhausting . years of record-breaking accom plishment. Much needed new farm • machinery is not available in any- \ where near like adequate amounts. - Hie manpower situation on the j farm has not improved. If any- , thing, it is somewhat worse. And . yet the cry is for food, food and still more food! The cry comes 1 from fellow countrymen and the < near-starved peoples of depleted 1 Europe. That plea will not go un- 1 heeded by the food producers of 1 America. They are planning to ap- < proximate the unprecedented rec- < i a a A \ ord of 1944. Crop prospects early in the , season are fairly good, in most b places better than average. > Moisture conditions almost everywhere are favorable, in \ spring and early summer show con siderable increases are likely. Milk production has been maintained at close to the peak levels of the last two years. Output of meat and eggs has been somewhat lower, but it is holding up much better than many people thought possible under the difficult circumstances. These rec ords show that the farmers are do ing excellent work in meeting the large demands from domestic con sumers who have bigger incomes than ever before, from the armed forces, and from foreign countries where the need for food is great. Many changes are taking place on farms as well as in towns and cities. With the increase in farm income, prices of farm land have been rising quite rapidly and in some sections are approaching boom levels. They have gone up, more than they did during the cor-} responding period of the First- World war, but have not yer ' spite of tee much rain in some ’ spots and a little below nor mal in others. Conditions are ; generally best in those regions ( where production has been • largest. If growing conditions ; remain favorable thronghont ■ the season, farmers will come < close to exceeding their ex- ! ^optionally high food production 1 of 1944. (Latest reports on intended ilantings show that the acreage Jarmed this year will be very close to the near-record amount last tear. Not quite so many acres {/ill be planted to com and other Iced crops. The number of live stock has been reduced. Not so Jnany hogs will be raised. The Reduction isn’t great, however, and feven after it is made the output will be far above the prewar aver age. Farmers have kept their goals high and they are determined to produce to the limit of their capacity. They’ll do their best to turn out the enormous quantities of food that must be kept moving Jto the fighting forces as well as to the people at home. 1 Farmers will get these results gust as they have in the past in the face of pnany handicaps. They tlo not have all the farm ma- jchinery and equipment they need, •but they will use well what they •have to get the job done. Even imore serious will be the shortage of labor, for the number of persons on ilarros is much belovr recent years. To offset this decrease more mem- •'bcrs of the family are busy for ‘longer hours every day each week, : For them it- is m matter of put- 'ting their shoulder* to the wheel and bending, their energies in an other alVottt effort;..... Winter Production Good; ’ Farmers have been producing well during, the winter months. The output of ' winter- Vegetables was very dose to the high record of last year, and 50 pef cent greater than the- average-, of. the, last 10 years; ’Hie reports of'prospects for reached the peak of the postwar spurt in 1920. One encouraging fea ture is that the mortgage debt is not rising, but is being reduced. Farmers are using their added in comes to pay off old debts and to put their money safely in govern ment bonds. They will thus be well prepared for whatever postwar re adjustment may be needed. As a major part of their plan ning for maximum output of food and fibers, farmers are devising new and better ways of keeping up production in the face of handicaps caused by labor, machinery, gas and fer tilizer shortages. They are working out new methods of planting, sowing and cultivat-' ing that will require less la bor, time and machinery., They are using better seeds that yield more. They are planning their year’s work more carefully so as to elimi nate unnecessary operations and lost motion. They are coop- 1 crating even more with their , neighbors in order to utilize | fully all labor and equipment ± tat the community. * Merchants in smaller cities and towns have also been confronted with many changes, They have been able to increase their shier and reports indicate that volume is steadily rising. Many people are not - going so pouch to .the large* shopping penters- but are making more of their purchaser at local stores. The merchants who make the most of' their opportunities through good, constructive mew chandising methodr afrv xegMidtig much of the business which they formerly lest to. the bigger stores- in the llrgCr cities, <4 The general outlook fdr both* industry and agriculture is favor able. With a good- season t&rm- ers wiU make l945 the scveuth con secutive year- in which the total output* of fbod has been' increasing, or close to record amounts. ^ The Church Speaks : By M. E. BOOZER The day of victory is drawing nearer in Europe. Any moment now we may expect to hear the announcement that the war is of ficially over in this theater of op erations. This will bring great joy to the hearts of peace loving peo ple all over the world. But when peace does come, . let us take a sober attitude about it. Instead of hysteria and bedlam, there shoud be a spirit of rever ence and consecration to the great task of building a world in which human values are recognized as being of supreme importance. -T X Bindery Operatives Needed In Federal Service The United States Civil Service /ommisslon is seeking Bindery operatives for war service posi- ions in the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. The an- lual pay is around $1,981 a year ncluding overtime pay. No writ- en test is required but applicants aust have had a year of experi- nce in the operation of at least wo types of machinery used in ommercial bookbinding. Appli- ants must have reached their ighteenth birthday. There is no laxlmum age limit. Appointtees to these positions erform various bindery operations y hand and operate the various machines Used in bindery opera tions. Persons now ..using their highest skills in essential industry should not 1 apply. Federal appointments are made in accordance with War Manpower Commission policies and employment stabilization pro grams. Applications will be accepted until the needs of the service have been met. Further information and appli cation forms may be obtained from the Commission’s Local Secretary, Mrs. Thelma L. Banks, at McCor mick, S. C., or from most first- and second-class post offices, from Civil Service Regional Of fices, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Wash ington 25, D. C. Do You Or Your Friends Suffer From Rheumatism, Arthritis, Muscular Aches? Here’* good news! The excruciating pain and swelling which accompanies these* ailments can be relieved by the new med icine known as D M. C. COMPOUND No. 49. Few numan ailments can be as painful as ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMA TISM. Try it today; sold on a money- back puarantee ii not satisfied with re sults. Price—$3.00. For Sale By PEOPLES DRUG STORE —AdV. v ? 'fFw ■ BUXER MEETS cci I CD IN OUP ah OCLLCin columns.. . W INNING THIS war is a vastly bigger job than we expected. It is going to take many more shiploads of ammunition, food and equip ment than anybody figured on. Producing and packaging all these supplies has created many shortages here at home. One of the most acute is pulpwood. PULPWOOD IS OUR JOB Responsibility for overcoming the pulpwood shortage rests squarely with communities like ours which are plentifully supplied with suit able wood. It is our duty as good citizens to cut every possible cord—quickly. PULPWOOD IS PROFITABLE But unlike many other things we are called on to do, this is a patriotic duty which pays well. Pulpwood prices are high. Now is the time to turn your trees into cash. Pay off the mortgage! Buy more War Bonds! And at the same time you will be helping to get the war over and our boys back home.v WEST VIRGINIA PULP & PAPER CO. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 6»t in touch with tho dealer in your territory from whom you buy wood: ■ T* R. M. WINN, BRANCH, S. C. ! I "HOW TO WIN FRIENDS mmd INFLUENCE PtOHE" I III.. IjJ-. ‘ 1 BLUFF FAILS IN THE END QOME years ago a boy who had been born and reared on a 3 farm near Ripon, Mich., got on a train and went down to Chicago to make his way in the world. The boy’s name was H. Gordon Selfridge. He tried two places and finally he got a job in the depart ment store of Marshall Field & Company, in the furniture department. He worked hard, but he didn’t do well. At the same time there was another clerk in the same depart ment who was a whiz. He made a showy display of his knowledge about furniture; no customer could ask him a question but that he had a chipper answer. Yet he knew very little about furniture. On the other hand the Michigan farm boy did know something about it, for he not only had studied furniture and the woods from which it was made, but he had also got books on the subject, studied them, asked questions, and tried to master his product. But still the showy salesman put it all over him. One day the ex-farm boy asked the other salesman how he managed to make so many more sales than he did. The showy salesman replied: “It’s really very simple. I bluff. When I don’t know the answer to a question, I give one that I think is correct. They never check up on you. If you’d do more bluffing, instead of admitting ignorance, you’d get along faster.” Selfridge said soi" thing like, “It seems to me it’s better to admit y . a don’t know than to pretend you do know.” The other clerk laug’ f. “Well, you see the difference between us. I’m gettin promotions and you’re standing still.” Pretty hard medicir' 'o take, but Selfridge took it and continued his course of 1 ning all about the subject he pos sibly could and, when Lumped, admitting that he didn’t know the answers. What was the result? Well, after a short time Selfridge, in spite of his slow stair, was promoted. Finally he was made manager of a dep-. tment. At last he became a part ner in the business. And the self-confiden' young man who believed in bluff? Well, in a little less thai. a year and a half he was fired for incompetency. Selfridge went to London, England, later, and opened the first London department store. That store made hirtf famous. The man who bluffs is kicking his own chair -4ut from under himself. Sooner or later he is bound to be found out and then he has ta pay for all his glib words. MRS. CATHERINE CONRAft EDWARDS Associate Editor, Patents’ Mogazmo PROBLf. M OF DEFERRED FATHERS B ECAUSE of the wonderful air of expectancy millions of families are living in over the possible re turn of husband, father or son from the war, we should give a thought to those children whose fathers have been kept on the job at home and who may feel left out of the drama of welcoming a family hero. It hasn’t been too easy all along for these children to have nothing to say when other boys and girls bragged about their fathers’ and brothers’ exploits in getting the Germans or the Japs on the run. Sometimes they’ve been made to feel outsiders, too, like the child who sobbed to her mother that the girls wouldn’t let her join their club because her father wasn’t fighting. In helping preserve a father’s importance in the face of these dramatic wartime values it is best to emphasize what the family is contributing to the war effort, rather than to talk much about father’s deferred draft status. A child doesn’t like to think of his father as older or less physically fit than the fathers of his friends. These facts have to be faced, of course, and a child should be led to have proper sympathy for adult disabilities. Likewise, a child should be taught to take pride in his father’s profession, such as teaching, which may be far re moved from a war plant job yet is considered too essential to the com munity for him to be spared. But after you have made sure that your child under stands his father’s place in r -- * lation to the war, build furt* • - i security for him by mak : < ; 1 drama of the family’s ho* 1 - i front activities. Even if * <* bonds are bought through ‘ •• I salary deduction plan, mot • r T- and the children can cont’ ‘:- ute from their allowances at 1 -ji little weekly or monthly ccre- ■p Siooy. Schools put glamour in * war bond sales by having a life raft or an ambulance as . an objective — families can do the same, since you don’t actually buy the war material but buy bonds in the amount of -I its cost. Giving to the Red > Cross should likewise be a family affair and if the children j j give up some favorite treat in i- order to increase their con tribution, so much the better. From the beginning children have taken an active part in salvage campaigns, so we don’t need to go into that. Besides, saving fats and paper is usually supervised by mother and we’re looking now for ways to bolster father’s enforced civilian role. Why not, with V-E Day blessed ly foreseeable, stress the part stay- at-home fathers must play in help ing secure a lasting peace? There are many movements across the country devoted to arousing and giving voice to public opinion favor able to future international securi ty and to the improved welfare of all nations. Their purpose is to demonstrate clearly to the Presi dent and the congress, and to the world, America’s willingness to take a position of leadership in. world affairs. Your children will be proud to be lined up with you. There is one other role a father can play which will go a long way toward keeping him tops with his son and with the boy’s friends, too. And that is to devote some time to being a substitute father to boys whose own homes have been father less during these dragging war years. It isn’t easy to find timo for a neighborhood project in days filled with extra work, for no one can accuse the home front of not working. But fathers owe it to their children, as well as to the men who* are doing the fighting, to double,' their contributions of time and ef fort to keeping the community safe* and healthful for all children.