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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 24, 1945 Mrs. R. T. White and son, Alton, have returned to Panama City, ^la., after spending four weeks 'with her daughter, little Miss Pat sy, and her mother, Mrs. E. R. White, of White Town. Visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Mitchell of Hodges to celebrate Mrs. Mitchell’s 75th birthday were Mr. and Mrs. Pres ton "Chandler of Pelzer, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mitchell and daughter, Dorothy, of Greenville, Mrs. Elmer Seigler and sons, David and Charles, Mrs. Luther McKinney and son, Douglass, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. White and little Miss Patsy White, Miss Jessie McDonald, Bob by and Tommie McDonald. Ev eryone had a grand time and all wished Mrs. Mitchell many more happy birthdays. Sgt. W. E. Chamberlain, Mitch- DEALER Will buy by the Pen, Unit or Boundary HARRY REAM McCormick, S. C. ell Field, N. Y., Doris Sue Cham berlain, S 1-c, New York City, N. Y., and Mrs. William R. Wansley and daughter, Neina Ellen, of Warner Robins, Ga., have been vis- iting'in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chamberlain. Pvt. and Mrs. O. H. Bryan and son, Howard, of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. E. P. Bryan and Delma of Greenwood were visitors of Mrs. J. B. Smith the past week. Sgt. Luther J. Andrews of Jack- son, Miss., spent a furlough here with his mother, Mrs. Annie J. Andrews. Mrs. Lillie Langley and Julian Chandler of Plum Branch spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. B. Smith. Lt. Ralph Hubert Bowick of Fort Knox, Ky., spent ten days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bowick. Mr. J. J. Collier of Plum Branch was among the visitors here Mon day. Mrs. A. S. Rawls of San Antonio, Texas, is visiting here in the homes of her sister, Mrs. G. C. Patterson, and brother, Mayor T. J. Sibert. Talbert, "In Joy land”; "Pastoral Reverie —R. S. Morrison-^Jan Parks, "Playful Rondo”—^C. W. Greene —Ann Sanders, “Melody of Love”—H. Engle- mann—Irma Joan Connor, “The Flatterer”—C. Chaminade —Betty Jane Deason, “Shubert Serenade” — Shubert —Betty Jane Deason, Irma Joan Connor. An informal reception was held after the program, during which time punch and cookies were served. Birthday Dinner For Mr. W. D. Brown Music Recital The piano pupils of Mrs. Rebec ca S. Boozer were presented in a recital Thursday afternoon, May 17th, in the McCormick High School auditorium. The following program was given: “Drifting”; “Gentle Night” — Georgia Britt, “Marigold”—Frank H. Grey- Rose Weldon, “Daffodils and Tulips”—Louise E. Stains; “June Flowers”—Mati- lee Loeb-Evans—Kathryns Dorn, On May 20th, Mr. W. D. Brown of Troy was presented with a sur prise birthday dinner by his fam ily and relatives, honoring his 63rd birthday. The dinner was arranged on three tables in the yard under the shade trees where a beautiful cake centered the table. After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room where Mr. Brown was presented with many useful gifts. Everyone enjoyed be ing with Mr. Brown and family and wished Mr. Brown many more birthdays. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Phenice Cosey and family, Mr. Homer Brown of Plum Branch, Mrs. Polie Brown and children, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dillashaw and family, Mrs. Yarbrough Brown and children, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Lagette Brown of Greenwood, • Miss Essie Mae Wilson, Mrs. Charles . Brown and son, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mc- Kittrick, Mrs. J. H. Wilson, all of Ninety Six, Sgt. Clarence Weeks of Macon, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Brock and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lott j Claude Brown and family, Mr. 1 Leroy Brown, Cecil and Catherine to Hard Task Well Done Patton Hodges Gerow Simpson Patch Truescott j The organization of the American forces in Europe which brought about the complete collapse and uncon ditional surrender of the once-unbeatable German forces which set out to rule the world. To Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, his army group commanders, Bradley, Devers and Clark, we render thanks. To General Pat ton, General Hodges and General Gerow, under Bradley; General Simpson and General Patch under De vers and to General Truescott, under Clark in Italy, the credit of directing the world’s finest army is due. A job well done, by the finest staff ever assembled in the history of any war. The Church Speaks By M. E. BOOZER “The White Seal’s Lullaby”—Es- | Young, Cecil Long and Mildred ther C. Benson; “Gray Pussy Wil lows”—Sidney Forrest—Sara Will Hudson, Buddy Hudson of near Troy, and Howard Ray of Texas. Remember — You Always Save At... GALLANT-BELK COMPANY FUN DUDS FOR BOYS! For comraencement . . .. summer-long . . . or year ’round fun . . . Gallant-Belk Company has a smart collection of young men’s wearables. See them in our new big basement boys’ and young men’s department. BOYS’ SUITS Smartly tailored suits of durable fabrics for boys. All colors and sizes. Get him a new suit for graduation. 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"RELIGION AND SCIENCE” Down through the ages there has been a mistaken idea among some people that science and re ligion are incompatable and that man must either be scientific and throw his religion and ideals ov erboard, or else he must be su perstitious and ignorant and dis own any belief in scientific the- cries and achievement. This con viction grows out of a misunder standing of what religion and science really are. The difficulty is that science deals in one realm of human activity and religion in another. Science goes into the laboratory and through experi ment finds out v/hat the reaction of a given object will be when subjected to a given condition. The scientist never attempts to give explanations to anything except what the eye can see. His work is altogether of an objective na ture. Religion is an area of human life which involves very different technique. Religion deals with motives and purposes of the indi vidual, with the seat of emotions. It seeks to give a philosophical, intelligent picture of the prime reason for the existence of man and for the ultimate achievement of the soul. One thing that pos sibly has clouded the issue is the fact that when people begin to think about religion they think of a stale, dead, static sort of creedal form which has once been en trusted to the human race through some magical proceedure by God himself which will forever answer the religious needs of man. Con sequently, religious thinking and progressiveness has been retarded many years behind the aggressive spirit of science. We have failed to realize that religion itself hSts gone through evolutionary pro cesses since its earliest form when men believed in animism and all sorts of superstitious cults. Re ligion must never attempt to deny scientific conclusions when those conclusions have been proven rea sonably and well. Religion is not an explanation as to how the wolrd was created—This is a mat ter for science to explain. Reli gion is a guiding force that leads man to the creator. X 'Above. tAe H J>V UYTLB HULL There Can Only Be One More World War! ; '"p'HE most recent tabulation of American casualties made pub lie prior to the time of this writing exceeded 950,000. This total in cludes killed and died of wounds, wounded casualties, prisoners and missing. The last war cost the United States in lives 126,000, in •wounded casualties 234,300, in pris oners and missing 4,500—or a total • of 364,800. We fought in the last war for a little over a year and a half, and have fought in this war for three years and a half. In the last war we had mobilized 4,355,000 men, and in this war we have mo bilized probably 12,000,000. Below—in round figures—are the total official mobilization and mili tary casualty lists of the First World war. There are, of course, } no comparable records as yet for the present war. I”. ALLIES Killed Total iJ&mj'-'-A,**' ' and Mili- Died tary Cas- ro ’-'. . V Mobi- of ualtiesof lized Wounds All Kinds \ Belgium 267,000 13,700 93,000 Empire 8,900,000 908,000 3,190,000 ‘ France 8.410,000 1,358,000 6,161.000 Greece 230,000 5.000 27,000 Italy S.eisioOO 650.000 2.197,000 Japan 800,000 300 1.210 Montenegro 50,000 Portueal 100,000 7,200 33.300 Rumania 750 000 336,000 ^ 536,000 Russia 12,000,000 1,700,000 9.150,000 Serbia 707,000 45,000 331.000 U. S. 4,355,000 126,000 365,000 CENTRAL POWERS A ILingary 7,800,000 1,200.000 7.020.000 Bulgaria 1,200,000 87,000 267,000 German ILOOO.OOO 1,774,000 7,143,000 G TOTAL 65,000,000 8,540,000 37,500.000 The Austro-Hungarian casu alties were 90 per cent of their total mobilized forces. The average casualties for all mo bilized forces—both Allies and Centra) Powers?—was 57.6 per cent. The loss of civilian life in the present war is far great- ji er than in the last war. Wheth- er the military losses are as ^ great, or greater, remains to be seen when all tabulations * have been made some time in the future. If this, and worse, is going to happen to the world every 25 or 50 years, we can, with perfect con fidence remark—“It won’t be long now.” For it is obvious that the next world war will be infinitely more devastating than this one, just as this war was far more de structive—of civilian lives and ma terial values at least—than was World War No. 1. We don’t know yet how we are going to emerge from the ruin which is Europe. We can only guess at what stage world civilization will find its level again. We can be very sure that it will be lower than it was prior to the holocaust. Today world leaders are attempt ing in San Francisco to regulate war off the map. Peace-keeping or ganizations have frequently been attempted after wars between na tions or between groups of nations. They have never been successful for long, and the world has gone on fighting, killing, debasing itself, and retarding human progress. But only now has peace become the “sine qua non” (necessity) of civ ilization. . Prior to now science had not discovered the mediums through which the total destruction, of mankind can be accomplished. But science has left us only two choices—peace or oblivion. Two thousand million human be ings demand that the governments represented at the San Francisco conference work out a solution—or resign to make room for men who can do so. Failure To Renew License Means Driver Examination GALLANT-BELK COMPANY GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE GREENWOOD, S. C. H Failure to renew your driver license before July 1st, unless you are a member of the armed forces, will result in the handling of your application as a new one, and in this case each driver must take an examination before being al lowed to operate a motor vehicle in South Carolina, according to J. S. Williamson, chief highway com missioner. Renewals are now being accept ed by the highway department for licenses which will be valid through June 30, 1949. If you have a current driver li cense, renewal can be made by simply filling in the renewal form now obtainable and mailing it with fifty cents to the motor ve hicle division of the state highway department, P. O. Box 1498, Co lumbia. If you fail to renew, you get a chance to see firsthand the mod ern, nationally approved pro cedure the state has for testing new applicants for driver license. The new applicant is given four tests, for vision, knowledge of road signs, knowledge of traffic laws and regulations, and skill in driving. The eye test, simple but impor tant, is designed to show if the driver is able to read signs and if he can recognize accident hazards. The driver must prove that he knows what the different road signs mean, and that he has a knowledge of traffic and safety rules and regulations. 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