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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946 WANT ADV. In the market for timber land suiy size tract. See me before you relL Harry Ream, McCormick, S. WANT TO TRADE One good rj'iule for a good fresh milch cow, will sell straight out. Come see the mule at my house. Mrs. Tyra Walker, McCormick, S. C. LOST—One silver link bracelet, each link a square blue stone. Re ward for recovery. Mrs. J. C. T>owUn, R. 3, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE — One Mare Mule three years old, niefe size; only rrork has ever done, plowed gar den half dozen times; two hun dred dollars. J. T. McGrath, Mc- 4 mnick, S. C. TRACTORS—Tractors and Roto- tillers are coming soon—with won der-working equipment and imple ments, hydraulically operated. Made by Kaiser-Frazer—; em bodying latest improvements and advantages—fast, strong, efficient, economical. A modern dealer to be in each South Carolina County. Wait and a try, a Kaiser-Frazer tractor before you buy. Remember, anything from Green’s must be satisfactory or your money back— 3 days trial. Ask any farmer in South Carolina. No overage or carrying charges on time deals— cnly simple 6% interest, “Help the poor man—don’t hurt him.” GREEN DISTRIBUTING COM PANY, Henry D. Green, Owner, State Distributor, 903 1-2 Huger Street, Columbia, South Carolina, r hone 27708. POWER UNITS—We expect to soon have a carload of Hercules Power Units—sizes up to 200 H. P., burning fuel, gasoline, or Diesel. Over half of this carload already tcld. If you need a reliable, eco nomical power unit to pull gin f sawmill, etc* please phone, write cr see us. As Distributors of these fine Engines we will render our usual excellent service—large stbek of parts, shop and mechanics. It will pay you to investigate Her cules before you buy. Anything from Green’s must be satisfactory or your money back—3 days trial. 'The larger units have starters, lights, hi-temp and low-oil cut offs and other latest improve ments. There is absolutely no better power than Hercules—fully guaranteed. No overage or carry ing charges on time deals—only simple 6% interest. “Help the poor man—don’t hurt him.” Green McCormick School News Declamation Contest The preliminary try out for the Annual Declamation Contest was held in the high school auditori um on Tuesday with the following pupils participating: Irma Joan Connor, Louise Riee, • Virginia Smith, Katie Bell Willis, Rebecca Simpson, Dorothy Ann Newby, " Johnel Caudle, Lois Edwards, Marian Freeland, Dot Brown, Christine Fleming, Louise Wilkie, Claude Huguley, Bobby Huguley, Richard Cuiortath, Gary Brown, Tommy Forrester, Billy Bcsdell. The judges, Mrs. William Patter son, Mrs. J. E. Scott and the Rev. M. E. Boozer, selected the winners who were as follows: Irma Joan Connor, Louise Rice, Virginia Smith, Rebecca Simpson, Lois Edwards, Marion Freeland, Christine Fleming, Claude Huguley, Jr., Bobby L. Huguley, Richard Culbreath, Gary Brown. The time for the final contest will be announced pending the date of the district contest. Chapel Mr. Weldon conducted chapel and gave a good, and worthwhile talk on “Honesty” and “Time to Think.” He also stressed our need for a better school and more studying and all the things we need to make it better. These talks help us and we are glad to have Mr. Weldom speak to us. Forest Program We enjoyed the recent forest program which Mr. George Sharp- ton conducted. He asked ques tions on forestry and forest prod ucts of South Carolina. Marian Freeland won the first place in the contest with Mose Wldeman winning second place and Paul LeRoy third place. Beta Club Meeting The Beta Club held a meeting on las^ Friday. In the absence of George Bonnette, the president, Vice President Richard Culbreath presided over the meeting. After the discussion of several business problems, we had a program on “Personality, Its Attainment and down on slips of paper each mis take made in speech during dif ferent periods of the day. These slips are dropped in the box be fore the school day closes. Two tellers are appointed. Each of these reads a mistake and calls on someone to correct it. We think this will help us in using good English. Joyce Walker, Fifth Grade. Visitors We were glad to welcome the following visitors to otir school this week: Miss Hammond, District Super visor of Attendance Teachers, and Mrs. Paul Brown, Attendance Teacher for McCormick County, J. S. Agnew, from the State De partment of Education, who tested the hearing of some of the pupils, Mrs. Alma Creighton, Lunch Su pervisor of McCormick County, and Miss Bertha Mae Harris of Coker College and little Miss Patricia Crouch. X Harvester Company, Henry D. Green, Owner, Columbia, S. C., Use.” Those having parts on the Phone 27708. program were: Dot Brown, Vir ginia Smith, Betty Edmunds and Rebecca Simpson. 4-H Clubs The Girls’ 4-H Club met Tues day, March 19, under the direction of Miss Bell. The meeting was opened with the singing of the “4-H Pep Song” after which we gave the pledge to the flag. The meeting was then turned over to Miss Bell, who led the 4-H Club pledge. We studied the arrangement of the kitchen and ways . by which work might be done more easily and quickly. We also learned that “Hot kaps” may be used irr the growing of early tomatoes. Rose Weldon, , Secretary. The Boys’ 4-H Club met under the direction of Mr. Bouknight. The discussion was about making records of crops and live stock. Rae May, Reporter. Who Am I? One day this week the name of a different person about whom we V 'nv'> studied in history was given to every member of the class. Each oupil wrote one or more para graphs which told of the impor tant things which had happened during this person’s life without telling his name. As each read his description, each pupil wrote on a paper who they thought the historical char acter was. When all had finished reading and the papers corrected, H was found that Rose Weldon, Jan Parks and Nellie J. Lawton had tied with each other in an swering correctly. The class voted that Rose Weldon had written the FARM MACHINERY—In Stock: Satisfaction guaranteed on every thing we sell. Hammer Mills, heavy duty, very strong. Tractor Flows. Pick-up Hay Bailers. Heavy duty disc Harrows. Milking ma- cbines—Combine belts & parts. 'Tractor Hydraulic Loaders, front end. Tail gate lime and fertilizer spreaders. Com Pickers—Tractor Wood Saws. Com Shellers—Mule Weeders. Discs, Power Lifts and Parts for Athens Plows. We over haul tractors, power units, com bines, farm machinery, Diesels, etc. Painting, welding, steam cleaning. Hickory Wagons. — Stalk Cutters. Two and four wheel trailer wagons. Home sizes large tractor tires. Guilders Cement and Mortarmix. Electric Chums—Electric fencers. Radios. 28” and 30” Saw Blades. Belting. Lifetime service toy wag ons. Large stock of parts for tractors, combines, plows, harrows, power units, mowers, etc. Electric Water Systems. Small Electric Heaters. Items Not Yet In Stock: Place your order now for early de- r.very of: Kaiser-Frazer Tractors, Equipment and Rototillers (with your local Dealer); Hercules Power . Unit for gin, sawmill, etc.—fhel, gasoline or Diesel type; Cockshutt Combine, Grain Drills, etc.; Dex ter Washing Machines; LeRoy Poreaders; Rome Harrows; Athens Plows; . Aermotor Water Systems; Turner Sawmills; New-Holland 4 ‘Automaton” pick-up Hay Baler; Aluminum Roofing, and many rther items. Everything we sell must be satisfactory or your money back—3 days trial. That !•? why we have so many hundreds rf satisfied customers from the Mountains to the Ocean. No ov- best description. * "age or carrying charges on time r'eals—only simple 6% interest. '“Help the poor man—don’t hurt Mm.” Green Harvester Company, . Croaking Ravens - _ t Thirty-five or forty years ago, a New York newspaper published a cartoon which depicted two croaking ravens sitting on a limb above an object denoting a threatening, warlike Japan. The ravens had human faces — one that of William Randolph Hearst, and the other that of a then rep resentative in congress — Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson — Spanish war hero. These two “croaking ra vens” had become the na tional laughing - stock be cause of their continued warning that sometime — when the favorable moment arrived — Japan intended to attack and to conquer this country. Hobson, supported by Hearst, had to wage a hard and bitter fight in con gress to persuade it to au thorize the fortification of Pearl Harbor. There were many who believed that the act would arouse resentment in a friendly nation and did not feel that the proposed precaution outweighed this fact. Few remembered the “crazy notions” of those thinking men just before or after December 7, 1941: Hobson was dead, and Hearst was never the kind to say, *T told you so.” Ten or twelve years ago these same two men began to take no tice of another — and greater — threat to this nation. This new threat -was the natural outcome of the New Deal policy of plac ing too much power in the hands of too many “little men.” Easter Seal Sale To Open April 1 Columbia, March 12. — The twelfth annual sale of Easter Seals for crippled children of South Carolina will begin April 1, and continue until Easter Sunday, it was announced today by William M. Perry, Columbia, state presi dent of the Crippled Children So ciety of South Carolina, which sponsors the sale in this State. , A goal of $60,000 has been set for 1946, Mr. Perry declared, add ing that the society felt confident that it would be met, inasmuch as over $40,000 was raised last year. He pointed out that the first Seal Sale in 1935 netted . less than $6,000, but since that year receipts have steadily increased. The 1946 seal commemorates the twenty-fifth or silver anniversary )of the national society with which .the state organization is affiliat ed. It is executed in light blue (and rose, with a silver border, and portrays a little girl and a blue bird. | x “The cost of producing cotton can be lowered by mechanization. In my own operations, it has been possible to reduce the cost of lint production to 4 or 5 cents by tak ing credit for the seed at present prices. Mechanical picking could be done for possibly 2 or 3 cents a pound on high-yield land.” — James Hand, Jr., Mississippi cot ton planter. -X- Home Gardening Call For 1946 Is Urgent Clemson, Mar. 9.—Extension Di rector D. W. Watkins has received from Director M. L- Wilson of the USDA Extension Service a tele gram stressing President Truman’s call for maximum food conserva tion and urging that home gar dening be made a major activity again in 1946. “Because of recent developments in the world food situation,” says Director Wilson’s telegram, “we urgently recommend that war time garden committees be con tinued or reconstituted and that the extension service plan and continue an intensive home gar dening campaign.” A. E. Schilletter, Clemson ex tension horticulturist, will work out plans for continuing the 1946 home gardening campaign through the state garden com mittee, Clemson and Winthrop extension agents, and other co operating groups. X “I believe that one day our soils and our forests- from one end of the country to the other will be managed and our supplier, of water will be abundant and e 1 an. I believe that there will be r> ’ un dance for all as God and N' ure intended, an abundance r* "’ 12 rly distributed when man has th? wis dom to understand and sob"' tuch things.” — Louis Bromfield, in “Pleasant Valley”. Notice Effie N. Banks, Fifth Grade. Mistake Box We took the decoration off of j Henry D. Green, Owner, Columbia, our valentine box and are using JB. Phone 27708. for a mistake box. Pupils write j I will operate my corn mill on Tuesday and Saturday of each week until further notice. Mrs. Fannie Mae Parks. Plum Branch, S. C. March 8, 1946. MUSIC K Just opened Flowes Music and Appliance Store in the building on the corner of Main and Augusta Streets, next door to county agent’s office. Prompt radio service, and we also carry a complete line of records. Electric Irons and Phono graph Players now in stock. FLOWES MUSIC AND APPLIANCES McCormick, S. C. WITH A CONCRETE DAIRY BARN FLOOR) FREE.;;complete instructions^ for concrete improvements that ( aid food production A concrete bam floor is essential ] to highest dairy efficiency and I, productive capacity. Means ^ healthier cows. Easy to clean and f disinfect. Rot-proof,vermin-proof j —inexpensive and easy to build. ) Let us send free booklets showing how to build productive improvements with thrifty, lasting concrete—part of this Associa tion’s service to farmers. If you need help, get in touch J with your concrete contractor or j building material dealer. Pasta check-1ht on pasta/ and mail today. □ Dairy Barn Floors □ Granaries □ Storage Cellars D Poultry Houses □ Hog Houses □ Feeding Floors □ Milk Houses □ Foundations ‘ ( PORTUND CEMENT ASSOCIATION. Hurt Building, Atlanta 3, Ga. WIN YOUR RACE! F^r Business Supremacy By Advertising "HOW TO WIN FRIENDS and Author of INFLUENCE PEOPtfT v.- !|p ■' ». CARNEGIK DEFEAT THAT WORRY BUG W ILLIAM H. MEADOWCROFT, who was private seo retary to Thomas A. Edison for a fifth of a century,, said he never saw Edison worry. Work? Yes. Worry? No. Here are five rules to lessen your worry, to help you conquer this mental monster. Rule 1. Make a decision. Most worry is caused by indecision. Worry flourishes and corrodes when you don't know what you want to do in face of a given situation, and you go over and over your problem cease lessly. Once you have determined on a course of action, your worry will Iqssen. Rule 2. Do not make the mistake of never expecting to make a mistake. You won't always make the right de cisions. It is much better that your decision lead you to a poor solution than that you make no decision at all. Rule 3. Don’t go around talking about your worries. If you do, you will magnify them in your own mind—and . the people will cross the street to avoid meeting you and listening to your tale of woe. Rule 4. Decide where thought ends and worry begins. Worriers never do any real thinking—all they do is worry ing. Thinking is constructive. Worrying is destructive. Rule 5. Quit thinking about mistakes you have made in the past. Don't harass yourself with constant reproaches. Sure, you have made mistakes. Who hasn’t? The only thing that matters is your batting average. Do not let fear of past mistakes make you dread decisions on present situations. Bury the past. After you have once made a decision, don't keep going back and wondering whether it is wise. Pdrenttiood BY / f MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS . i Associate Fditor, Parents' Magazine SURVEY SHOWS INADEQUACIES OF DIETS A STUDY of over 2,000 high school students, recently made in New York City, showed plainly the inadequacies of boys’ and girls’ diets. So long as chil dren are at home under their mother’s wing they are usually well nourished, for nowadays most mothers know what the dietary essentials are. But old er children need to be sold on This is a sample school lunch served each day. No wonder she is happy and healthy. eating the right foods — they will no longer do so just because mother says they must. For example, any teen-age girl will respond to the re minder that smooth, shining hair takes more than lively brushing. It requires a well- rounded diet, rich in vitamin A. The best way to get vita min A is from cod liver oil and lots of dark green leafy vegetables in daily meafe. Both boys and girls want to have clear complexions and good color — generous serv- i r ings of fruits and vegetables will do a lot to produce the skin yon love to touch. Then too, a mother can encourage * youngsters to think about good posture and graceful carriage and how much these depend on sound bones and muscles, built from milk and eggs and the other foods recommended for growing boys and girls. This doesn’t mean tljat moth- . ers ought to nag about eating 1 \ Boys and girls are usually much more impressed when the facts ■ of good nutrition are brought to> 1 their attention objectively than i when the subject is fraught with ’. emotion and anxiety. One way . to do this is to teach them to- cook, or encourage them to take a cooking course at school. There i are classes for boys as well as . girls in many' high schools to- - day. For home instruction, the years between 7 and 12 have ‘ proved the most rewarding. It ’ is important for a child to fqel that the kitchen is a happy ; place. That is why no mother k should try to teach a child when ‘ she is tired. There isn’t a boy or girl in the world who will be come a willing helper if he is f subjected to criticism or impa- ' tient commands. 1 Another way in which mothers * can guard the diets of careless * teen-agers is to provide some- • thing besides sweets for after school snacks. Fruit muffins, for instance, gingerbread, oatmeal • or molasses cook^», raw fruit and celery provn/.* lots of min erals and vitamins. A snack com bination most school-agers like is eggnog and graham crackers. ‘ HARVESTING RECORD CROP . . . More than 11,000 acres of Florida’s fertile farn> ea is devoted to celery. This har vest scene at Sanford, i. is the biggest winter celery crop in 30 years, it has a vr h;e of S16,C00,00ft. Three months are required to produce the cre~s. but it is cut, trucked, washed, ieei! and shipped L.v Lou.s. Harvest continues at peak tkiou£h