McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, September 20, 1945, Image 1
TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR NEIGHBORS, OUiK^OUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Forty-Fourth Year
M,«hed June 5. 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1945
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — Although
President lYuman’s proposals tor
handling the multiple problems of
achieving peacetime prosperity are
the subject of many heated debates
among congressmen, it is a fore
gone conclusion that the Presi
dent’s plan for handling these prob
lems is, in a broad sense, the pro
gram which will be followed.
Analysis of the President’s pro
posals shows that he is more con
cerned with jobs and good wages
than with any other one thing. He
has asked for higher unemploy
ment compensation, a higher
minimum wage, full employment
legislation whereby the government
would And jobs for men who can
not find jobs in private industry,
a permanent Fair Employment
Practices committee, an increase
in the funds provided for the
United States Employment service,
increased monetary provisions for
veterans, and a multi-billion-doUar
public works program.
Congressmen who have been
' serving for many years, includ
ing all of President Roose
velt's years in office* fail to re
call any general Presidential
message which was so greatly
concerned with the sccnrity of
the worker. The social pro
grams of President Roose
velt’s pale into insignificance
beside the broad program of
Mr. Truman’s. But, strangely
enough, the Truman program is
not meeting nearly the opposi
tion that was brought to bear
against Mr. Roosevelt’s social
reforms. Congressmen be
lieve that the people now favor |
social reforms and, although *
they may revise the Truman
ogram considerably, the ma-
rity seem ready to fall in line
with the demand for making
tedividnal security a prime
concern of government.
Throughout Mr. Truman’s pro
posals was the demand that social
\ legislation be written to include
V agricultural workers.
, He Indicated that he thought
prc
jor
ti
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groups outside of labor had been
slighted in former legislation and
should, from here on, be included.
To help the farm workers he asked
that they be included under mini
mum wage legislation, that price
support for farm products be con
tinued and that a well-rounded
system of crop insurance be
worked out
One part of the President’s pro
gram, which should have easy
going in congress, was his sug
gestion that congressmen have
their salaries raised to $20,000 a
year. Although many have been
hesitant to support raises for them
selves in the past, fearing that
their constituents might object, the
“request” for such legislation by
the President is all they needed to
come out in open support of high
er pay. Actually there appears to
be little actual opposition to the
doubling of congressional salaries.
Most people realize 'that a con
gressman who has no outside
funds, and who has to have a good
home in his state as well as in
Washington, can’t afford to do any
adequate job on $10,000 a year.
Furthermore, it is known that
many men who should be in con
gress have refused to run for office
because they could not afford it.
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In the near future, Mr. Truman
is expected to outline other social
legislation for the consideration of
congress. In his first message, he
did not touch on the Wagner-Mur-
ray-Dingel bill which includes em
ployment guarantees to all workers
and a $6,000,000,000 medical and
health insurance plan. The Presi
dent indicated that he would soon
give his suggestions on this type of
legislation, indicating that he
will support a nationwide health
protection program of some sort.
Although President Truman seems
to have smoothed over some of the
New Deal-Anti-New Deal fights in
congress, all indications now are
that he is going to outdeal the New
Dealers, so far as social programs
are conCefnedT
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Ed. Note: This newspaper has ar
ranged wi/h the Washington Bureau of
National Weekly Sareica, HloEye St.
N. W., Washington 6, D. C n to answer
questions pertaining to servicemen and
veterans. These questions will he an
swered in this column if addressed as
above. No replies can be made by mail,
but this paper will prim answers to all
questions received.
Q. Win my boy get pmy after he
is discharged from the army? He
came heme a year ago from the
front line with malarial fever and
has had the fever four times since
he arrived bat never has reported
to the army doctor, bat has had
the family doctor? Mrs. A. S.,
Lockport.
A. Unless he has back pay com
ing your boy will not receive pay
after he is discharged from the
army. If he obtains an honorable
discharge, he will be entitled to
mustering-out pay, which in the
case of your son would be $300,
payable $100 upon discharge and
the rest in $100 monthly install
ments. He likely will be entitled to
service - disability benefit pay
ments, but he should report to his
nearest Veterans administration
personally, or through his doctor or
local draft 'board for a rating on
service - connected disability pay
ments as a result of his malarial
fever.
Q. How are the bodies of men
killed In action at sea bnried?
A. The bodies of officers and
men of the U. S. navy who die at
sea are placed in a flag-draped
canvas or coffin with weights to in
sure sinking. The flag is pulled
away as the body is committed to
the sea. Religious ceremony is con
ducted by the commanding of
ficer, or the chaplain if there is
one aboard ship.
Q. What is the difference between
the merchant marine and the
maritime service?
A. The United States merchant
marine is a term used to designate
our off-shore, coast-wise and great
lakes merchant vessels and the
crews that man them. The United
Stete? maritime service was era* 1
a ted under the merchant marine
act of 1$36, as amended, to give
training and other benefits to mer
chant officers and men. It is a unit
within the merchant marine organ
ization and has no relationship to
the army and navy.
Q. Will the G.I. guaranty enable
a veteran without capital of his
own to borrow all the money he
needs to buy, equip and operate a
farm?
A. No. There is no provision in
the G.L law for operating loans to
finance purchase of feed, seed, fer
tilizer, family subsistence, etc. The
veteran who does not have funds
of his own for these, purposes must
be able to borrow them without the
benefit of the government guar
anty.
Q. Can yon tell me what pay a
second lieutenant in the paratroops
overseas would receive?
A. A second lieutenant in the
paratroops receives about $2,600,
plus $100 per month extra for be
ing a paratrooper, plus 10 per cent
of his base pay of $1,800 for be
ing overseas. That would total
approximately $3,980. An enlisted
man in the paratroops gets $50 per
month extra.
Q. Must a discharged veteran
report to his local draft board?
A. Yes, within 10 days after his
arrival home. He receives a new
registration and a new classifica
tion card.
Q. What is the purpose of a field
artillery service battery?
A. The war department says that
a service battery of the army is an
administrative unit that provides
supply and baggage transport in an
artillery battalion or regiment.
Q. Can two or more veterans
baying the same business get sep
arate loans under the G.I. bill?
A. Yes. the Veterans administra
tion says that each man is eligible
for the maximum guarantee of $2.-
000. If a husband and wife are both
veterans they also can make sep
arate applications and each get the
maximum guarantee.
National War
Fund Campaign
To Start Soon
Again the citizens of McCor
mick will be called upon to show
e heir characteristic generosity in
sharing with others less fortu-
late. The county campaign for
the Nat. War Fund will begin at
an early date with B. W. Crouch
as County Chairman.
The work of the National War
Fund is being carried out in
friendly services and missions of
mercy to some 70 million people
in 125 different countries and ma
jor geographical areas.
The National War Fund is gov
ernment-endorsed, but not gov
ernment-controlled or financed.
It operates in full accord with the
President’s War Relief Control
Board, which authorizes two ma
jor national campaigns a year for
war appeals—Red Cross in the
Spring, National War Fund in the
Fall.
The National War Fund is a
voluntary war agency. More than
half its funds are allocated to a-
gencies serving our armed forces.
Its work must go on even though
the war is over—until our fighting
men are back in their homes and
all the service flags * have come
down.
Mr. Crouch attended the “kick
off” of this drive in Columbia
Wednesday and final plans for
McCormick County will be an
nounced next week.
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Mt. Carmel News
District Council
Meeting Saturday,
September 29
The Central District Council
Meeting will be held in Columbia
on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Ho
tel Jefferson. All Council Mem
bers wanting to attend this meet
ing should notify the Home Agent
at once so that a seat on the
bus may be reserved. A bus
schedule will be mailed to those
going.
Matilda Bell,
Co. Home Dem. Agent.
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Petit Jurors Drawn
For The October
_ . Term Of Court
Mrs. Eula Scott enjoyed a peas
ant day Sunday with Miss Alice
Stuart and Mr. and Mrs. Gayly of
Anderson as guests for the day.
Rev. Mr. Ralston of Due West
will preach at the A. R. P. Church
in Mt. Carmel at 3:00 o’clock p.
m. Everybody cordially invited tc
be present.
The storm was real bad. Guess
damage to the crops was righ'
bad.
Mr. John McAllister is able to
be out again, after undergoing a
tonsil operation. This will be good
news to his many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Dode Philips of
Due West were recent visitors
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Feaster Mauldin
of McCormick were visitors here
Saturday. |
Mrs. Clara Majette, Miss Virginia
Majette, Mrs. George Peel, Mis
Calhoun Harris and daughter and
husband and precious baby were
visitors here Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. J. J. White and Mrs. W. A.
Scott were visitors in Augusta re
cently.
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Price Information
Petit jurors drawn for the Oc
tober term of general sessions
court for McCormick County,
which begins Monday morning.
October 1st, are:
Hyman Drucker,
G. A. Robinson,
W. E. Britt,
W. McDaniel,
Carl Willis,
Ansel H. Hamlin,
R. H. Wilkes,
Lyn Jennings,
W. W. M. Lindley,
L. W. Pettigrew,
J. T. Dorn,
J. E. Strom,
W. P. Cosey,
T. J. Sibert, Jr.,
G. C. McKinney,
Luther Rankin,
O. J. White,
C. R. Edmunds,
T. A. Dowtin, Jr.,
C. E. Wilkie,
Luther Dillashaw,
David A. Young,
A. B. Wood,
E. M. Winn,
J. C. Butler,
J. E. W. Banks,
Horace D. Brown,
J. C. Dowtin,
Manley Willis,
J. E. Wiley,
J. D. Richey,
W. C. Strom,
Bussey Bowick,
M. B. Goff,
Robert McNeil,
J. Ollie Wideman.
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Plum Branch School
News
Vance Ellison
Given Surprise
Birthday Dinner
The faculty of the Plum
Branch school is: Mrs. Irene Free-
'and; Mrs. Virginia Culbreath;
Mrs. Elsie Chandler, principal;
and Mrs. Lillian Freeland in
charge of lunch room.
Our school opened September 6
at nine a. m. with Rev. W. E.
Brant conducting the devotional.
Special guests at this exercise
were friends and parents of the
school. Among them were Mrs.
Alma Creighton, county lunch
room director; and Mr. Harry
Ream, one of the school trustees.
After the announcements, Mrs.
W. E. Crawford, P. T. A. president
called a meeting to plan for the
jchool lunch program.
Rose Marie Creswell.
Good Citizens!
Our janitor is absent the first
month and we are keeping our
school clean. We will receive the
janitor’s salary to use for school
equipment.
We are proud to have new
■hades in our class rooms, and
lunch room.
Betty Anne Langley.
Lunch Room.
Our lunch program will begin
oon. This week Mrs. Freelam
rved home-made ice cream to u.
vice. We think she. was kind t
emember to do this for us. W
mew that we will have a nic
inch room.
Dot Wall.
School Activities
Different pupils volunteer
conduct the devotional in th
5th, 6th, and 7th grade roon
The following conducted the de
votional the first week of school.
Betty Anne Langley, Nell Whit
Jorothy Anne Strother, Dot Wall,
and Betty Jean Ream.
Nell White
The first grade has had a good
ime getting acquainted this week
Janice Coleman is moving her
from Charlotte, N. C., and we are
glad to have her in the firs
grade.
Betty Jean Ream.
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Conservation News
(By Benj. W. Crouch)
his
Vance Ellison was honored at
a surprise birthday dinner on
Sunday, the 9th. It was
seventy-second birthday.
Upon his return from church
services with Mrs. Ellison Sunday
noon, he found all his children, a
of grandchildren and
widespread violation of ceiling. three great-grandchidren as-
priees on fat back, lard ant , sembled at his home, located bc-
hortening. There has been n^ tween Troy and McCormick, and
There have been reports of I number
"The danger of inflation will be
greater during the next year or
two than it was during the war.
For that reason farmers should
use caution ard judgment in pur
chasing high-priced land, live
stock, land, and equipment which ,
may have to pay for itself at low
er prices for farm products than
prevailed when it was bought.”—
W.
Clemson Extension Director D.
Watkins.
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“Farming is not a career for
mollycoddles. Farming is still a
career for people of character,
courage, and energy.”—Dr. F. D.
Farrell, former president Kansas
State College.
Advance in these prices. Listed
’oelow are some of the top legal
orices: Fat back, 19 cents per
pound; lard, 20 cents per pound;
hortening or compound, 21 cents
We should also like to call, to
the attention of the consumers
md the merchants, the fact that
t is illegal, to require the custo
mer to purchase any other article
n order to buy one of the scarce
items.
We feel sure that these viola-
ions arc due to lack of informa-
ion. We are asking the retailers
md the consumers to cooperate
with us in our efforts to keep
prices down and get an equal dis
tribution of scarce commodities.
O. L. Sturkey,
Price Clerk.
Presslv Memorial
j
Church
a picnic dinner spread on tables
under the large oak trees in the
yard. A decorated birthday cake
was placed in the center of the
table.
After dinner general conversa
tion was enjoyed and later in the
afternoon a number of snapshots
of the group were made.
Present for the birthday dinner
were: Mrs. H. C. Sandifer and
:hildren, Irma and H. C., Jr., of
Fairfax; Mr. and Mrs. George
Ellison and daughters, Elaine and
Faye, of Columbia; Mr. Morse,
Mrs. Johns, Mrs. Murray Norris
and children, Jonel, and Marion,
of Charleston; Mr. and Mrs. Mof
fett Young and .children, Patricia.
Morris and Ellison, of Bradley;
Mr. and Mrs. Livy Ellison and son,
Adrian; Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Strcm and daughter, Warrenette;
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Reid and
children, Gwendolyn, Ann and
Bill; Mrs. Ton Teal and daugh
S. O. Bouknight was in the of
fice this morning and we talked
about the strip rotation that he
has established along the high
way on his farm. He is convinced
that this is the type farming
necessary to conserve soil an
moisture and has expressed hl c
intention to devote 75 per cent ol
his farm to strip cropping thh
year. This farm presented many
problems, but Mr. Bouknight
working with the district pro
gram, has solved most of them.
W. C. Strom told me the oth-r
day that he intends to cut hin
kudzu for hay as soon as he car
get to it. All farmers are invited
to see this operation. Watch thi
paper for time and place.
L. D. Blake, dairyman of De 1?
Howe school, has just completec
planting of his winter grazing
ogram. In June 2 tons of lime
and 1000 lbs. of superphosphatr
per acre was applied to the land
It was turned in July and disced
again during the first week of
Sept. On the 10th of Sept. 300
lbs. of complete fertilizer was ap
plied and 8 bu. of a mixture of
barley and oats was planted per
acre. The grain can now be seen
coming up.
Mr. Blake devoted 18 acres tc
.his program for 40 cows or abou'
1-2 acre per cow. He expects
grazing from Nov. until May and
20 per cent more milk than he
would have/ been able to produc;
with oidinary v/inter feeds. He
expects to save about 1000 lbs. of
hay per cow and his cows to be
in a better physical condition next
spring—and, my, what pretty yel
low butter.
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iiers, Thomasene and Norma Jean
Services will be conducted at and Mr. Billy Rush, all of Gre.n-j Blessed are the country people j
Pressly Memorial Church on Sun- wood; Mrs. Louise Brown and who have ears to hear the music|
day, September 23rd, by Dr. H. J. granddaughter, Gwendolyn Brown of birds and breezes and eyes tj
Ralston. The public is cordially of McCormick. see the handiwork of God in na-
invited to attend. , He received many nice gifts. lure.
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CONFLICT . . . group*
Perhaps the one thing we mu«.
guard against most, in putting thi*
humpty-dumpty world back togeth
er again, is to avoid building ti*
group antagonism.
If a Russian makes a speech
which angers us, we must not cow-
clude that his remarks are repre
sentative of all Russians.
If m labor leader stirs oar
wrath by calling a strike for
some petty cause, we must a«ft
assume that all laborers, or aR
members of his union, are t»
be condemned. ,]
If the head of a manufac
turing concern attempts to eo^
dace the earnings of his cm- ;
ployees, we mustn’t jump to t
the conclusion that all Indus
trial leaders are “out to gef*
labor.
If one company or one union goes
in for race discrimination, we musk
not assume that others are plan
ning similar discrimination.
Most of us are much too prone
to condemn a group because of thr
actions of a few individual mena-
bers of that group. On the inter
national front such an attitude
leads inevitably to warfare. AnA
on the domestic front it cause*
wide splits in our national unitgr
which do irreparable damage anfi
result in conflicts that’ cannot help
but delay our nation’s progress.
LABOR . . management
It is going to be difficult, if nek
impossible, to wipe out some of the
group antagonism which has a real,
hold on our people—particularly
that which exists between labor anff
management.
There are undoubtedly many in
dustrial managers who are so in
censed against labor unions thak
their natural reaction is one «ff
keen enjoyment as they contem
plate the possibility of being able
to put the screws on labor. * During
the war, many of them will tell you.
they haven’t been able to run their
own businesses—they have had «*
put up with waste, inefficiency and
super mollycoddling in order te
keep the men operating the*
plants.
Labor leaders, on the other fcswft.
know that with certain compamea
the men would still be getting star
vation wages if it wasn’t for th*
organized insistence on bettesr con
ditions.
Both sides have strong case* •
and can give vivid examples ’
to prove their point. But fall*- -
minded, unemotional analysis
will also show that there ace
many labor leaders who do ask
make excessive demands and
there are many industrial lead
ers who would treat men fairly,
and pay the highest wages they <
could, whether their worker*
were organised er whether thqy
weren’t.
In order to avoid conflict of class
against class and group agamsk
group, we must try to consider each
case individually. We must try k»
stop blaming all labor for the shm
of some individual membexs off
their group and we must avoud:
blaming all management for Che
sharp practices of a few Industm-
alists.
INDIVIDUALS . . vatic*
A woman who lives in the oewa-
try visited Detroit. When she re
turned she was asked at a local
club meeting to tell about her trip. ,
In telling of her experiences shr-
said, in a tone indicating that she
expected to shock her audience, H
met a man who was a member oC
the United Automobile Workei*
Union—and you know, he was real
ly a very nice fellow.’’
There are plenty of people *A«r
don’t have much contact with Wt-
dustrial communities who think
that all union members wear boras.
But if they met a sizable group of
workers they would undoubted^
come to the conclusion that unions,
like all other organized groups, in
clude all types of people and should
not be judged as a group.
Similarly, the laborer wht
works in a factory where the
management seems to have nt
interest In the welfare of work
ers is apt to conclude that at
business management is “the
enemy.
But if he met with s.
large group of business men he
would find that they too include
all dir??rent tvpos—some xS '*
whom are flghJ.ig against la
bor and others who are more
Interested in the welfare of
their employees than in any
thing else.
If we are going to have a united
smooth-run...ng nation we must ad
try to stop taking sides. And the
very best way to avoid group*
clashes is to avoid thinking of peo
ple in terms of groups, but to third -
of each group as a varied assem
bly of individuals.
We may debate the question efi
whether there are some “good Gee-
mans” or “good Japs” but we sM
know that, in every sizable graqp
of Americans, there are plenty at
individuals who, if we knew thew^
would win our respect and admai*-
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