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V McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICR, SOUTH CARO! I V* Thursday, July 19, 1945 IcCORHlGK MESSENGER i rabllshed Every Ttaonday Established Jane ft, 1M1 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, 8. C., as mail matter of Em second class. r EDBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear $1.00 Six Months — .78 Three Months Jo Inch ►iTffidti < t REV. ROBERT tt HARPER f Abraham** Practice of Brotherhood. Lesson for July 22: Genesis I3:l-i2. Memory Verse: Genesis 13:8. After the sojourn in Egypt, Abra ham went up “into the South”— the southern portion of Canaan, and came at length to his old altar at Bethel and called upon the name cf Jehovah. Going into Egypt, Abraham relapsed from faith #nd trusted in his own devices, with bad consequences. In returning to Ca naan to make a new start, he re turned also to his altar and his faith. He and his clan were rich and the land was not “able to bear” both his flocks and those of his nephew. Strife between Abraham’s herdmen and those of Lot was unseemly and might be perilous in the presence ®f the Canaanites and the Periz- sites. The older man bade Lot choose whatever portion of the land he would. And Lot chose the rich plain of the Jordan and “pitched his tent toward Sodom” and dwelt in Eat wicked city by and by. Contrast the motives of Abraham and Lot, when they separated, and see the results in each case. Abra ham remained in the hills, but his generosity brought him rich re ward. Lot reached Sodom but his worldly spirit and his selfishness brought his material ruin and he soon passed into oblivion. Thus does self-interest often lead men to more than they bargain for. Abraham, in his “practice of brotherhood,” accepted the poorer section of the country but he re tained his earthly riches and in time received infinitely more than the riches of earth. Unselfishness brings men to the higher good, without which material things prove a delusion and a snare. 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CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associato Editor, Parent** Magazine TI.UrF, 3AC.-'.in i \ T HERE was an almost singing note in President Truman’s voice not unlike that of the Psalm ists of the Old Testament as he pronounced the Charter of the United Nations “a declaration of great faith by the nations of the earth—faith that war is not inevit able — faith that peace can be maintained.” This hope that war can be outlawed was given sub stance by no less a military lead er than General Eisenhower when he told the cadets at West Point. “If we stick together intelligently with the other peoples of the world we will never have to fight.” A pictorial plea for this intelligent sticking together is made in a fea ture, done in comic strip tech nique, which will appear in True Comics magazine. The eight page feature was prepared in coopera tion with the American Association for the United Nations and has as its stirring theme, “A ’"bird World War Can be Prevente' 1 NOW “ In hard-hitting ' ashlsn f t tells us that we must chooso between continuing on the re- 1 that leads to recurring wars - each more terrible than the last—and a new road to an in ternational organization w”h power to enforce a lasting peace. The picture st**ry, printed in four colors, sketches dramatically the growth of co operation among men, from the first tribal associations of the Stone Age through the rise of cities, states and nations. The pictures show how each evolved in turn for the pro tection and mutual benefit of greater and ever greater num bers of citizens. Follows a warning glimpse of the automa tic planes and rocket bombs of the future which leaves no doubt that the time has come : for the next step in human CO- 0, ration — a world organiza- tion of the United Nations. How .j the United Nations organization : will function in the fields of se- ; curity from aggression, eco nomic and social welfare, and L, promoting respect for human rights is also illustrated. International affairs presented in comic strip form can be understood by children, though adults, too, will welcome this simple, graphic presentation of the hopes and plans for world organization. If you wish a free copy send a stamped, ! addressed envelope to the American Association for the United Nations, Inc , 45 East Sixty-fifth Street, New York 21, N. Y. Organizations can secure quantities of this pamphlet for distribution at $4 per thousand. It is the responsibility of parents to help their children understand 1 what the Charter of the United Nations really is, and also what it doesn’t attempt to be. Young peo- ^ple after the last war were led t expect too much of the League '■ Nations. When it disappointed their highest hopes they turned a 1 linst it entirely. The series of 01 1 wings in the True Comics book- will help you get over to your Idren President Truman’s warn- uis that the charter is only a first rru to lasting peace. Another mis- t. :e we made after the last war w;ts to hustle back to our private affairs and expect a signed docu- * ^nt to keep the peace for us. This ti ne each of us must accept some responsibility for improving rela tions between our country and the rest of the world. Parents, especial ly, must bear in mind that their teen-age boys and girls will be voters 10 years hence when the charter comes up for revision. Be gin now to build in their minds and hearts a determination to help make it work. The Middles Bob Karp TVuij's 31s, mom/iVe META SWELL. NEW, ptRlBND/ D'VOJM THINK IT'D BE- ALL. RLIOHT FOR. MB T' BR.1NK3 HIM HOME TO DINNEA. , fWwvOF tCOUttSB. DBAS. r COME ALONO Ha's eiewT > Welv_.p»ut\ OUTSIDE, MOM/ S IT IN TWB ME BBOUGMT 1 / BACKVAAD HIS WAGON,TOC ( AND COMB IN AND WASH. 0 -W*0»0 f HEVf MOM, we J CAN'T CHET IT * THBOOGHTHE GATE / 7* // if /. see/ %: vvV- U to Looking Into the Ine\liable DROP THAT PLUNDER/ MISSOURI VALLEY BILL LACES STILL STRUGGLE Utility Lobby Opposes Federal Ownership of Electric Plants By Walter A. Shead (NWNS Staff Correspondent.) When Senate Bill 555, seeking to establish a Missouri Val ley authority for control and development of natural re sources along the reaches of the Missouri river, again comes to life on Sept. 17 before the senate reclamation com mittee, it will face opposition of one of the most powerful lobby groups ever assembled in Washington. Opponents of MVA won the ftrst^ round of this bitter struggle when the senate commerce committee to which the bill was assigned “with respect to navigation and flood control.” It was a foregone con clusion as to how this committee would act, and although its juris diction was concerned only with “navigation and flood control,” the committee reported unfavorably on the whole bill and recommendec that it does not pass. Under the provisions of senate resolution No. 97, adopted March 15, 1945, the Missouri Valley bill was also assigned to the commit tee on irrigation and reclamation to consider the irrigation and rec lamation aspects, and to the senate committee on agriculture and for estry with respect to soil erosion and other agricultural aspects of the measure. Thus three senate committees will have had a hand in the measure before it reaches the senate floor for consideration The commerce committee re ported it favored letting existing federal agencies, such as the bureau of reclamation and the army engineers, the department of agriculture and other agencies in terested carry on the federal activities in the basin of the river “in the established way instead of becoming extinct as far as the Mis souri river basin is concerned.” Throughout the testimony before the senate committee, opponents of the bill used the Tennessee Val ley authority as the basis for their opposition to the establishment of a single or regional authority in the Missouri river. The department of the interior’s bureau of reclama tion, while favoring objectives of the bill, opposed the establishment of a Missouri Valley authority. And their opposition can readily be based on the fact that the reclama tion bureau would lose control of the various reclamation, irrigation and power projects which they have already undertaken in the Missouri basin. And it can readily be seen why the large utility interests in the basin, and as a whole, industry throughout the nation are opposed. They have opposed every step of the progress made by the TVA on the theory that the government was entering the business of manufac turing and selling electricity and power and underselling private utility corporations. They maintain that this underselling is accom plished by TVA because TVA pays no taxes, no interest on bonds and other expenses faced by private companies. , The opposition to the TVA idea or regional plan now, however, has grown to greater proportions than just opposition to the sale of power. The opposition is expressed to TVA as “a way of life,” that it is “un democratic,” that it is “un-Ameri can.” There are sincere objectors to the TVA program which would be encompassed in a Missouri Valley authority for the reason that func tions of existing federal agencies, such as army engineers for flood control, reclamation, for irrigation and hydro-electric power, agricul ture for soil erosion, the national park system and the forestry serv ice—all of which now operate inde pendently in the Missouri basin, would be taken over by a single agency if the MVA is authorized. As a matter of fact such unity is the essence of the single regional authority idea, as was pointed out by Chairman Lilienthal recently. Probably the bitterest critic of TVA before the senate commerce committee in the MVA hearing was Congressman A. J. May of Ken tucky. He asserted the whole TVA system is a failure . . . that instead of controlling floods, TVA has created a Hood menace . . . that as a soil conservation project it has done more harm than it can ever undo . . . that TVA is an anti social institution, its evil effects far outweighing any social progress 1 and reform ... as a power project it is doomed to be a red ink bureau . . . . that it is a clever combination j of wishful thinking and fanciful ; conjecture . . . that its industrial ; power rates have proved a disap- i pointment . . . and much more. To be fair to Cie utility com panies, TVA, of course, does not pay federal or excess profits taxes but it did turn back into the gen eral fund of the federal treasury approximately $14,000,000 repre senting r.st income, a return of slightly more than 4 per cent on the average investment in power facilities. While this reporter holds no brief one way or the other for TVA, it is a public project started with the taxpayers’ money, now self-suffi cient and operating without appro priations from congress, and it is but fair to set out some of the ac complishments during this last fis cal year. Here are some of these accomplishments as set out in the 1944 annual report: - Generated more than 10,000,000,- 000 kilowatt hours of electricity of which three-quarters went into war production; Increased production of elemen tal phosphorus by 30 per cent; * Produced more than 100,000 tons of calcium carbide for synthetic rubber production; Produced 130,000 tons of am monium nitrate for use as fer tilizer; Supplied both ammonium nitrate and phosphate for lend-lease ship ments; Carried on 31,500 test fertilizer demonstrations on Tennessee Val ley farms; Extended the commercially use ful navigation channel the full length of the Tennessee river which carried a record 206,000,000 ton- miles of freight; Provided technical advice to food processors . . . supplied the army with 20,000 pounds of frozen food . . aided timber growers and farmers to increase output of tim ber and other wood products . . . maintained 24,000 cubic feet per second of water flow in the Ten nessee river as compared to mini mum natural flow of 5,000 feet . . . held flood stage to 6 feet below maximum crest under natural con ditions. In addition, TVA has maintained and increased its recreational facil ities in parks, forests, fisheries and wild life and in stream sanitation. While this may seem to be a de fense of the TVA, the over-all at tacks against the program, which would be operated in much the same manner by the authorization of an MVA, calls for an explana tion of what is going on in TVA and what likely may be the case if a regional authority is set up ir the Missouri valley. ^ Clean Culture, No Cover, Exhausts * Cotton Land Clemson, July 14. — The state ment has often been made that growing cotton continuously on the same land results in a serious depletion of the plant food ele ments in the soil. Experiments made at Clemson College have shown that cotton is not as great a soil-depleting crop as is claimed, and indicate that the practice of clean cultivation and the lack of winter cover crops with accom panying erosion and leaching are chiefly responsible for soil deple tion, says Dr. W. R. Paden, agron omist of the South Carolina Exper iment Station of Clemson College “For 17 years results have been obtained from growing cotton con tinuously in small concrete frame plots,” Dr. Paden explains. “The frames prevented erosion and the cover crops used the soluble plant food during the winter months and returned it to the soil for util ization by the succeeding cotton crop, thus saving what otherwise would have been lost through leaching. Only the seed cotton was removed from the soil in the experiments as the stalks and leaves were left as residues.” An average of 1181 and 128J pounds per acre of seed cotton, respectively, were harvested from unlimed and limed plots on which rye grew as the winter cover crop and on which no fertilizer was used for the 17-year period, the records show. i A Good SALESM WHO WORKS CHEAP , nEWPAPER ADVERTISING <J>