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Jacob Realizes the Presence of God.
Lesson for August 19: Genesis 28:
10-22. .
Memory Verse: Psalms 145:18. 1
Soon after Jacob had secured the
birthright and supplanted his
brother, he was forced to flee from
JEsau’s wrath.
At Bethel the fugitive Jacob
dreamed a heavenly dream—he
saw a ladder set up on the earth,
the top of it reaching into heaven,
and on it, ascending and descend
ing, the angels of God. Surely there
never was a more beautiful symbol
of prayer.
Appearing at the top of the lad-
er, Jehovah repeated the promise
He had made to Abraham and
Isaac—the posterity of Jacob would
be as the. dust of the earth, in his
descendants all families blessed
and God would be with Jacob
wheresoever he went.
Jacob awoke with the realization
that he was in God’s presence.
“And he was afraid" and saidL
"This is none other than the house
of God, and this is the gate of
heaven."
Beside the bright ladder .v
prayer Jacob lifted the pillar of
sacrifice. Better than the oil was
the offering of his vow and also
himself unto God. Remarkably ro
In that distant age, Jacob vowed
to give the tenth unto God if Grd
would keep him in the wav b»
should go.
VThatever Jacob’s faults and er
rors after this, his life was differ
ent. Jacob the supplanter, in tlv*
course of time, did attain unto the
dignity of Israel the prince, arw*
formed an important link in th-
ancestry of a people who have bi—•
Known by his later name.
[
f By EIXIOTT PINE
Proposed stadium for the District
of Columbia will seat 200,000 per
sons ... it will be covered by a
, curving steel roof, 200 feet above
, the ground. Arches will be 500 feet
'across. Easeball, football, hockey ;
] pr any other game can be present- •
' ed, day or night, fair weather or I
! fouL World fairs, pageants, ;
(Olympic games and other giant ;
{ events can be staged. According
: to plans the great structure will be
erected at Anacostia Park, on the
eastern border of the district. Sen. ■
Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi is
chairman of the commission.
Navy football coach Rip Miller
is worried about his line . . . the
boys are big and fast, but inexperi
enced. The backfleid, with such vet-
I erans as Scott, Jenkins, Kelly, Du-
I den and Hoemschemeyer is con-
) sidered adequate. Army’s line has
, experience sis well as power . . .
{ their passing is said to be getting
<. better all the time, too.
Old time ball players like Ty
Cobb and Miller Huggins used ;
to let a pitched ball hit them
when their teams were in tight
spots and needed a run . . •
the practice Is rare today, but
Frank Crosetti of the Yankees
is doing it successfully, accord
ing to opposing clubs. And
speaking of the Yankees, it is
reported that they have of
fered $40,000 to Larry Gilbert,
Nashville manager, for the sig
nature of his 16-year-old son on
a contract ... the boy is a
; first baseman . . . the Chicago
Cubs are after the youngster,
* too.
Outfielder Lou Finney rejoined
i the Red Sox when he had finished
planting the cotton on his Alabama
plantation. The New York Boxing
commission has instituted a new
rule in an effort to decrease gam
bling . . . hereafter there will be
only win and lose decisions, no
draws. The Browns paid out $575
in one week in fines. Howard Ehm-
ke, one-time Philadelphia Athletics
rtar, shot a 64 at golf a few weeks
ego.
Equlfox, famous race horse, has
won $133,160 for his owners with 21
big victories. He is a son of Equi-
i poise. Cpl. Charles Edwards of
Hammond, Ind., ran the 100-meter
event in 10.4 seconds, within one-
Lfth second of the new world rec
ord, during the 75th division track
meet in France. It is rumored that
Bing Crosby is negotiating to buy
t’;C Chicago White Sox. Bernard
l/ocusen, sensational New Orleans
ji«ehlweight boxer, has been called
b- his draft board. He lost only
one light in 25 contests, during 18
mriths as a professional. Outfield-
••r .Kerry Chozen of Mobile beat a
’ oulhern Association record by get-
::-:g one or more bits in.48 succes-
. i»vo games. '
Clemson, July 28.—It has been
known for many years that the
chemical composition of hay or
pasture crops may be influenced by
the degree of maturity or time of
cutting or grazing, and by the
kind of soil -on which they are
grown. The first spring grass or
early-cut hay is more palatable,
more digestible, and more nutri
tious. The protein content de
creases and the crude fibre in
creases with the maturity of
grasses and hay. It is only re
cently that experimental results
have shown that the amount of
protein, minerals, and carbohy
drates in plants are changed by
the application of different min
eral fertilizers.
South Carolina farmers general
ly think of the application of fer
tilizing materials in terms of in
creased yields, giving little or no
thought to chemical or nutrition
al difference in the foods or feeds
resulting from difference in soil
treatment.
“Yet experiments have recently
been reported showing that appli
cations of superphosphate and
lime increased the acre yield of
lespedeza hay by 27 per cent, and
the hay from the treated area
?ave an Increase in animal pro
duction per acre of more than 43
per cent,” says J. M. Napier, Clem-
son extension AAA agent. “This
is an Illustration of increased
yields and an increased quality of
the feed produced Which resulted
from the addition of fertilizing
materials. A few farmers are be
ginning to think of fertilizers not
only as a means of increasing']
yields but also as a means of im
proving the quality of the crops
to which the fertilizer is to be ap
plied.”
Mr. Napier points out that last
year over 5,000 farmers in the
state applied 17,000 tons of super
phosphate and basic slag to pas
ture and legume crops, for which
they received about $275,000.00 in
cash assistance from the Triple-A.
The same general type of pro
gram is in effect this year, and
interested farmers may get de
tails from their county agents and
county AAA officials.
BARBECUE HASH
ON SATURDAYS
Will serve Barbecue
Hash to the public ev
ery Saturday at my
store. Will sell by the
pint, quart, or any a-
mount with container
furnished.
F. Walker LaGroon,
R. 1, McCormick, S. C.
Don’t Gamble! Have extra
KEYS
Duplicated While-U-Wait
2 for 35c
Guaranteed to fit or money
refunded.
Ben Franklin
Stores
McCormick, S. C.
BY
MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS
Auodofe Cdilor, Par*eft’ Magazine
DON’T MISPLACE THOSE TAGS!
? TX/E’D like to shout from the
• YY house tops “Beware of tagst
j No, that Isn't a misprint-'-we skid
! tags, not dogs. And by tags we
• mean those little snatches of psy-
. chology that are on everyone’s
< tongue. You hear them constant-
• ly:
' “Jane couldn’t help failing in
\ school—she has such an ’inferior
^ itv r>nm nlov ’ ”
1
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l
itj' complex.’
Or (and we heard this one in a
movie) “If a boy is hard to get
along T»ith just ignore him—don’t
give him any ‘unearned attention’
and he’ll soon come to appreciate
his parents.”
Now let’s see why these tags are
dangerous. Each of them might be
quite true in a particular case,
but applied thoughtlessly to every
child who fails in school, to every
hostile boy, they become highly
misleading.
Take the inferiority complex
tag—It has come to be an alibi
for a lot of people who just
don’t want to exert themselves
enough to succeed at their vari
ous jobs. True, there are many
nfortonate persons weighted
down with a sense of inade-
qu. cy because they were never
give i the chance to acquire
self-confidence. But as a rale
the real sufferers from this
feeling of being less worthy
than others don’t use it as an
excuse, bui instead keep trying
to work oit of it.
Judge John F. Perkins of the
Boston Juvenile court warns that]
we are building up in young peo
ple a “philosophy of exc6se A by?
blaming all delinquency on par-)
ents or on society. Though both 1
have a great deal to answer for, it ‘
doesn't do the individual much *•
good to provide him with a ready >
alibi for all his wrong doings. Chil- •
dren still need to be taught what *
is right and what is wrong and in 1
so far as they are capable of un-;
derstanding, given responsibility *
for their actions. So don’t pick out i
a handy tag to excuse your chil- '
dren’s failings—look for the real s
reason and help them overcome it. !
As for ignoring an unfriendly |
boy, as we heard a psychologist in j
a recent film advise a stepmother l
to do, this might work if the boy’s )
hostility were merely a form of)
showing off. But the boy in ques- ‘
tion was hurt and frightened be-
cause he had lost the sole compan- ,
ionship of his father through the
latter’s remarriage. Ignoring him ‘
would, in real life if not in the '
movies, tend to make him feel more 1
lost and unwelcome. Again it is •
true that unearned attention is re
sponsible for a great many spoiled 4
children. Especially do they need
to learn that good behavior earns
more attention than deliberate
naughtiness. But to apply this tag
to a boy who is going through the
terrific adjustment of taking sec
ond place in his father’s life illus- .
trates what we mean by “Beware
of tags.”
"HOW TO WIN FRIENDS and
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- ~ ^ SMALL START ENDED BIG
N 1918 the Frisco railroad ran a demonstration train on
what was called its “Leaky Roof Branch.” The train
3assed through Clinton, Mo. Egg experts were on this dem-
instration train and they went to the high school auditorium
md talked on eggs and poultry. The people in the audience
put their names in a hat and prizes were given by the rail
road to the winners. ,
In the audience was a high school senior. His ^
name was called as one of the winners. His prize
was a setting of pure-bred White Plymouth Rock ^
eggs. His first thought was to eat the eggs, then g
he said to himself, “These are fine eggs. Why not
set them and learn something new?”
But he did not have a hen. So he rented one from the
foreman of the railroad section gang at five cents a week—
15 cents for the three weeks that it took to hatch the eggs.
Thirteen fine downy chicks were hatched; so he rented the
hen for two more weeks to take care of the chicks. The
chicks grew and thrived; he sold half of them at a profit.
Meantime he was learning something new, getting a peek
into a wcrlJ he’d known nothing about.
Next he bought some more eggs of the same pure-bred
strain; by the time he was ready to graduate from high
school he had a good-sized flock of pure-bred White Plym
outh Rock chickens. He bought a second-hand incubator
and started in earnest to learn everything he could abou*
the chicken business. He read everything on it, went to
every lecture he heard of, read all the poultry bulletins
issued by the Agricultural department, Washington, D. C.
He put a small ad in the paper offering baby chicks for
sale. People came with boxes, buckets and baskets. Then
he said, “Why won’t this work by mail?”
He discovered that a chick does not need food or water
the first 72 hours after hatching. During that time it lives
on the sustenance absorbed from the yolk. He ran an ad
in the paper announcing this, saying he could ship chicks
before they needed food. Answers poured in.
Well, today Clinton, Mo., is the “baby chick capital of
the world,” and Royal Booth is a rich man. In 1943 he sola
six million baby chicks. ^
Aug. 13.
rd. r«w. A«.t nr
»/ • w s.u u.;'i i;»« JVashinzton Bureau of
National Weekly Service. 16/4'Ey* St,
A. W^ Washington, D. G, to answer
questions pertaining to servicemen and
veterans. These questions will be an
swered in this column if addressed as
above. No replies can be made by mail,
but this paper will print answers to all
questions received.
Q. Can the parents of a service
man receive a pension from the
government after his death?
A. If the parents can prove their
dependency and death occurs in
line of duty or as a result of his
service, such a pension to parents
may be granted.
Q. Is there any way to safeguard
your discharge papers to prevent
loss in sending them with applica
tion for a G.I. loan?
A. Apply for Form No. 545 from
your nearest Veterans administra
tion. Fill out on this form the per
tinent facts from your discharge
papers, notarize it and send it with
your application for loan instead of
your original papers.
Q. Does an officer In the army
have any rights with regard to his
retirement because of physical dis
ability?
A. Yes, if you, as an officer were
retired or released to inactive serv
ice without pay because of physi
cal disability you have the right,
within 15 years, to request a re
view of the retirement board’s de
cision. Subject to the approval by
the Secretary of War, or Navy, if
you are a naval officer, the review
ing board may change, or modify,
discharge or issue a new one, if
evidence warrants. Apply to your
own branch of the service.
Q. Has a discharged soldier suf
fering from a disability, the right
f hospital care at the expense of
the government?
A. Yes, if you have a service-in-
rurred oisabidty, hospital care and
i) ee tr.?nto the hospital
>»« .vrcvt. ii y.vr is not
: rr: j t yo.« are 'ir-nn-
ci«i*y :o yjy tht « «,*cu !
may stnl gu: h.vp:taliz«...on, .t »
bed is available. If you have a
permanent disability, disease or
defect (service - incurred or other
wise) that prevents you from earn
ing a living and you have no ade
quate means of support, domicil
iary care is provided. Apply to
your nearest Veterans administra
tion office.
Q. How much education Is a vet
eran entitled to under the provisions
of the G.I. bill oT rights?
A. At the start you are entitled to
one year of school or college or its
equivalent in paxt-time study, if you
desire a refresher or retraining
course. In addition, if you were
not over 25 years of age at the time
you entered the service, or if you
were over 25 and can demonstrate
that your education or training was
interrupted or interfered with by
your entrance into service, and if
you complete these courses satisfac
torily, you will be entitled to addi
tional education or training not to
exceed the length of time you spent
in active service after September
16, 1940, and before the end of the
present war. This does not include
ASTP or navy college program.
This additional course of edu
cation or training, however, may
not exceed three years.
Q. Does the army still use horse
cavalry to any extent?
A. Although probably most cav
alry is now mechanized, the army
still uses horse cavalry and these
troops have carried out vital recon-
naisance missions in the rugged
mountains of central Italy, pene
trating ravines and reaching
precipitous mountain paths inacces
sible to mechanized troops.
Q. Is an enlisted man who wears
the medal of honor entitled to a
salute from an officer?
A. No.
Q. Does the U. S. naval reserve
go into battle the same as the regu
lar navy?
A. Yes, personnel of the USNR
on active duty status are subject
♦o same combat duty as mem-
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1016S. TAM NliA
‘It Is Far Ahead Of Any Med
icine I Ever Tried,” States
I
Mr. * Harris. Eats, Sleeps, j
And Feels Like Different
Man.
Notice For Bids For/
Transportation Pupils
MALARIA
CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH
LIQUID for
MALARIAL
SYMPTOMS
Take only as directed
666
Sealed bids will be received un
til 12:00 o’clock noon. September
1, 1945, for the transportation of
pupils from the following school
districts:
Willington School District No. 2
to Do la Howe State School.
Bordeaux School District No. 3
to De la Howe State School.
Vernon School District No. 19 to
Sullivan’s School.
All bids shall be addressed to
the County Superintendent of
Education, marked on outside of
sealed envelope, “Bid for Trans
portation of pupils in
School District No. ” and
shall be opened at the hour des
ignated in this advertisement.
Bids will be opened and awards
made by the County Board of
Education, within two days after
bids are received, who shall have
the right to reject any and all
bids, and to re-advsrtise for new
and additional bids.
MRS. BERTHA S. HARRIS,
County Supt. Of Education.
McCormick, S. C.,
August 13, 1945.—3t.
DEALER
Will buy by the
Pen, Unit or
Boundary
HARRY REAM
McCormick, S. C.
I surely found the right thing
for my case when I took Retonga;
it did everything claimed for it,”
gratefully declares Mr. Amos D.
Harris, well known salesman re
siding at 2469 - 5th Ave., Chat
tanooga, Tenn., in discussing this
famous Vitamized gastric tonic.
Describing his case Mr. Harris
on tinned:
“Eor about six months I went
down hill so fast I was alarmed.
My appetite left me and my food
seemed to sour in my stomach
within a few minutes after every
meal. I got to feeling so nervous
that I could hardly sleep and I
lost weight. I was continually us
ing laxatives and I got so little
relief that I thought I would
have to go through life taking a
laxative every day. I felt tired
and weak all the time, and it was
difficult to look after my busi
ness.
MR. AMOS D. HARRIS
“Retonga lost no tim3 in re
lieving all this distress. I eat
anything I want, and I sleep fine
again. I no longer need those
strong laxatives, and I have re
gained nearly ten pounds. Reton
ga is far ahead of any medicine
I ever tried.”
Retonga is intended to relieve
distress due to Vitamin B-l defi
ciency, constipation, insufficient
flow of digestive juices in the
stomach, and loss of appetite. Ac
cept no substitute. Retonga may
be obtained at Peoples Drug Store.
—Adv.
The Middles By Bob Karp