McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, January 26, 1928, Image 4
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hn of some of the
[f^qme/ Of the larger
|r 1$e State and
o^tort of these daily
wduM do any better
ttey .were placed at
the - average weekly
not. For it
_ Itide, as The Herald
' ^tl^y would find problems
that are unknown on
ipers.”“ This -is most cer-
Long experience in the weekly
newspaper field tends to full sup
port of The Herald's statement. It
would take a volume to explain. The
editor of a weekly newspaper has
h's hands full most of the time.
True, he' may spend more time in
the drug store senate in the morning
when taking his daily dope and may
linger longef on the sidewalk with
Has Education In
S. C. Really Helped
Is Pertinent Query
(From The News and Courier.)
The young schoolmaster was corn-
placing, as usual, about the poor
pay of teachers, parrotting. “why a
good bricklayer or plumber earns
more than^we do;" to which his old-
, fashioned father responded.
“Why choiidn’t they? Aren’t they
of more value to the community?"
The younger man could only stare,
I and the elder tongue was set go-
I ins- /
I *T remember when all the college
men in my county, ministeis and
i teachers included, were not three
, d^zen—now there are at least a
j thousand, and ha f of them have
j reached middle age. In the last 15
years a million dollars has been
spent on school .buildings and equip
ment in the county and the salaries
of begCners like^ yoursd f, which
used to be $35 or $40 a month, have
A Debt Of Honor
To Greece
(By E. O. Watson, *Ed tor Southern
Christian Advocate.)
to the
uouftra of
pMgta and
r before 12
f r Jifura-
clerk at the
ites' names will
t’cfcet In the order
is, first man
k Nf , Pledge, comes first jon
and so on in Hie same man-
bffers each cand-
free space for his announce-
and the setting forth of his
I; ** after such fashion ' or
as may. be desired or neces
sary; provided, ther^ is no “mud
slinging," or attempt made tp take
undue advantages of others. ^ ;
The -Messenger heartily entfj^ses
Mr. J. J. Dorn for xe-election to the
board of Commissioners of Public
Works. He has rendered good serv
ice as ' a commissioner since creation
Of t|ie board over two years ago; is
familiar with the affairs of the com
mission, well qualified, and in po
sition 2o render the best of service
in that capacity. We feel that he
should be re-elected without opposi
tion: ■ - ;
Friday, February 3rd, ‘s the last
day for enrollment. 129 voters had
•isqolled up to yesterday morning
the mail under his arm when tempt-, b=)m trebIed what have you
ed to “pass the time of day and all ^ got t<> sh(|vr fof jt , . Imteracy
-hat sort of thing than he Should,
but he needs that personal contact
w.th his-fellow citizens if he' is to
correctly ^interpret their feelings,
their needs, "their yearnings, and
community interests.
' The bfgg&t handicap, perhaps, is
that'too many weekly ^papers start
w th limited capital . -Most of us
£an look back to the time when such
a thing as “working capital" was as
unknown ga it was unthought of in
the business and to an extent it is
so yet. The “liquid asset" was an
for mayor, item that figured only in big corpor
ations in the East. The newspaper
man felt he h&d done a miracle in
financing when he had “raised"
enough to meet the weekly payroll.
Mud he pot a whole week ahead to do
it again ?
But aside from this, he has prob
lems which do not . appear on the
surface. Unless he is a marplot or
one who finds dePght in. keeping
things stirred up, he has to exercise
a diplomacy worthy of Walter H.
Page, in keeping the town quiet and
on good terms with itself. And was
not Walter H. Page himself ? pro
duct of, the weekly newspaper?
When one .compares the weekly
Intel est is k«
and those-who-have
keen,
not put their name on the book are
urged / to go to the McCormick Mer
cantile Company's store and do so
on or before Friday, February 3rd.
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Looking Forward
.newspaper of today with the files of
weeklies of thirty years ago or say
f!fty years one will be impress
ed- with the that the older pa
per* did print moire “staff' but it
was “stuff which would not be read
today, poetry, essays, long winded
theories . and what not. The local
news Was no more, if so much, as
'it -is today. A death notice *as
rare. It was somehow held that such
notices should be pa : d for so “obit
uaries." Recently in going through
a file of a weekly paper published
in Upper South Carolina in 1850, not
more than ten death notices were
found in the year’s volume. This
would argue.a death rate lower than
the world has ever known. But the
truth is that the paper did not look
upon such events as “news" in the
modem sense. A very strange idea.
The daily papers of South Caro
lina are sadly deficient as well as
the weeklies in the matter of local
news. They hav2 too much wire
service, too much syndicate service,
too much feature service, and all
that sort of thing. A daTy news
paper with a staff of four or five re
porters should fill up from ten to
I thirty columns of “local" stuff every
day. But they do not do it. When
A xew year has dawned, leaving
1927 an episode in American history.
It was. a great year and great things
were done. And looking forward to
the end of 1928 we cannot do other
wise than believe that * there is a
tweIve*month more coming of pros
perity and development and nationar as
growth. . * # j editorial writer, local reporter, so-
With the period of experiments g^j^or, publisher, circulation
ever, always necessary in a young manager and advertising solicitor
country, each year brings the .Unit- g^ds out six or seven columns of
ed States greater stability, prestige J „ local „ he has done a week ’s wor k,
and world recognition. Every year, and no m i 8 take about it.
^messes great new projects execu- There are four or five daily news .
papers in South Carolina with a
4ed. Our government is safe and
practcal. 'Radicalism of an earlier
got to show fot it? ‘Illiteracy
almost wiped out,’ you say? That’s
true—perhaps one-fourth of the
white men could not read 40 years
ago.
“But," the old man continued, “the
tone of the county has not improved.
No greater proportion of the people
are reading good books, or have pri
vate 1'brarles. Among your ‘edu
cated people' the pd itical tone is not
high, it is harder to beat a dema
gogue or blatherskite for office now
than it formerly was—the people
are more easily fooled than ever. The
county has not had in a generation
half a dozen men equal in ability arid
real patrotism to the half dozen who
led it m the eighths. What are
your thousands of ‘literates’ doing
with their ‘book-learning?’ why,
they are reading the baseball scores
and the comic pictures—mostly. It
hasn't even made habitual voters of
them.
“There are a ^thousand college men
in the county, ye>, but they* don’t
rpay their debts ^ as promptly and'
generally as a thousand ignorant
farmers did before the spread of ed
ucation. The schools have taught the
people more about spending than
making and saving money. Where is
'the boy who is resolved to be inde-
pendent, to own a home before he
owns a car? Do you teachers get
it into the . heads of your scholars
that a man who owns nothing, who
has to borrow to get into a hospital,
and often can't borrow it because he
hasn't an acre of land or a yearling
he'fer to secure the loan is in slav
ery—is almost as much of a slave
as one of his grariddaddy's negroes
was? His car is already mortgaged.
Those thousand college men—you’d
better not inquire how many of them
owe the busted banks in the county.
I’m glad the bricklayers aqd carpen
ters can read and write—it enables
them to subscribe for a newspaper
and keep up with Andy Gump and
the ‘All Southern’ teams and such
stuff. And these football coaches
get more than the professors be
cause they are worth so much more.
“You people have not produced
juries that convict for murder and
your educated populace is persecut
ing and proscribing people on ac
count of their religion more than
their ancestors did in 1780."
The News and Courier of course
does not underwrite the Old Fraud’s
indictment. It is absurd to say that
illiteracy is a blessing in disguise (a
kind of robed and hooded blessing)—
though the first class artisan is, fn-
d-'ed, worth a lot of money, and the
sneering at him is the sneer of an
ass. Julian Huxley wrote in a mag
azine last year that popular educa
tion is too new for any just judg
ment to be passed on its fiuits. The
masses have been illiterate 60 cen
turies, until half a century ago, or
larger staff of reporters than Dano
..period "is giving place to sensible ; had ca ^ Sun when ft was bias- 1 d ba] - f do „ n eenerations
«onservatMm that . understands the . ith br q liancv in the loca i f ie i d ’ and * a d0 ^ en ge rat
needa of both capital and labor in “fj y „„ not ^ t0 do , t now and <=ome ■>"<’ *o before anyone can
their close relationship. I do no ^- do Few of us would.
We still have our problems and
conflicts of opinion; but it is obvious
-txt-
universal schooling is
re-
Sweet clover has come to be
that national understanding and in- ' a8 one of the major Quines.
In the Northern Great Plains States
telligence is deciding important is
sues. We have every reason for
looking forward eagerly to the com
ing months of 1928.
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it is exceeded in acreage only by
alfalfa or by timothy and clover mix
ed. The chief difficulty with sweet
clover seems to be to obtain a stand.
Studies by the U. S. Department of th a t direction :n'south° Carolina”
say what
woith.
One thing is certain: Schools will
never make silk purses out of sows’
ears. There should be all sorts of
education for all sorts and condit-
■'ons of men, and the first thing to
taught men is how they shall get
out of slavery. The schools are not
perceptibly doing a great deal in
now
Handling the hide from farm
slaughtered cattle requires attention Agriculture indicate that the most _ but we must give them time The
to details for best results. Remove reliable method of obtaining a stand bricklayers may be makin& more
d ; it, blood, and any pieces of flesh is to sow unscatified or even unhull-
progress than the so-called educated.
the hide scraping with the back ed seed in the late fall or early win- They are hard er-headed and harder-
ef a butcher knife and' by careful ter, thus imitating the natural meth- work j n g
cutting. Allow the hide to lose its od of sowing. Of course it is nec- ■ ■ —
animal heat before applying salt, essary that the soil contain lime and
When the hide has cooled sufficient- the necessary bacteria, or that these
ly, spread it, hair side down, being bo supplied if not already present
sure to straighten all folds and laps. — tXI
Sprinkle fresh, clean salt over the Dead men tell no tales so the boot-
NOTICE
Beginning February 1, 1928, I will
be in my office at the court house
flesh side, using about 1 pound for loggers don’t care who they sell their two days each week, Monday and
every pound of hide. See that all stuff to. j Saturday, for the purpose of collect-
parts of the flesh side receive a
sprinkling (of salt, rub it in well j
along the cut edges and heavy por-1
tionn. i
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A thoughtful husband is one who,
ing delinquent taxes.
T. J. SIBERT,
scatters the Sunday paper in only j Tax Collector, McCormick County,
‘ S. C.
one room,.
The world knows and acknowl
edges its incalculable debt to
Gnece for tlrngs cultural, art, phil
osophy, lite:ature, religion. Ameri
ca acknowledges her share of this
debt and yields to none in due re
cognition. Payment of th's is not
asked and could not be made save
in terms of appreciation and good-
wTl toward the land from which our
civ : lization has so largely come.
There is another debt due Greece,
a debt, more recently cont acted ard
of which only a few are inform-'d.
In going 'nto the world war on the
side of the Allies, Greece had every
thing to lose in case the issue should
go aga ; rst the Allies. Yri at a
time when the cause of the Allies
seemed moit desperate she went
in, declaring war Novemb r 23, 1916,
nearly five months ahead \>f Amer
ica, and afte. June 1917, the entire
Greek nat'on was whole Reartedly
in the war. The Allies assigned cer
tain tasks to the Greek army on the
Macedonian front, at the same time
allotting to the Greek navy an im
portant part in the work of ending
the subiftdrihe menace in the Medi
terranean.
That G.feece. depleted in resources
from previous struggles for inde
pendence, might be able to carry on,
Great Britain and France with
America obligated themselves in a
written contract to make certain
loans to the Greek government,
America’s part of the obligation
amounting to $48,000,000, Of which
promised amount only $15,000,000
was paid.
With credit established through
these promised loans, Greece carried
f.ut the task allotted her, doing on
the Eastern front what the United
States did on the Western, and as a
deciding factor hastening greatly
tHe conclusion of the war. In achi
eving th : s much more was spent
than the amount of the promised
loan and Greece gave in addition a
much larger blood treasure in pro
portion than did we. Later when
Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson
asked Greece immediately to occupy
and hold a mandate over Smyrna
territory, it w»s promptly done and
carried out with jusrice and effici
ency. Then came the unfortunate
turn in affairs due to forces of
which we could not speak result ; ng
in the debacle that culminated in the
burning of Smyrna by the Turks,
and finally landed 1,500 000 •. ef$\
goes, stripped of every possession,
in Greece. These were received and
cared for by an all but ’mpoverished
nation in a manner that has com
manded the admiration of the world
and makes tho noblest record of ser
vice in the annals of nations. With
all this let it be remembered that
Greece is the only one of the Euro
pean Allies that did not recoive com
pensation for her part'd pation in
the war.
When after the war the Greek
people changed their form of gov
ernment about as America, Great
Britain and France changed by dis
placing the. war administration, pay
ment of the promised loan was sus
pended. Great Brita ; n having paid
$31,000,000 of hers, Amer ca only
$15,000,000 and France none. There
the matt"'r has been allowed to rest
until now the Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, after
conversations with representatives
of the Greek government, recom
mends the adjustment of the whole
matter by the Greek government
agreeing to the funding of the $15,-
000,000 already received, with inter
est added to January 1, 1928, over
a period of 62 years; the United
States to further advance to Greece
the sum of $12,167,000 which equal
izes American payment with that of
Great Britain; this last part of the
loan to be retired in twenty years,
and the Greek government to fore
go all further claims under the orig
inal agreement of 1918. The pro
posed settlement further provides
that the $12,000,000 shall be spent in
the work of establishing the 1,500,-
000 refugees on the land productive
ly under d’rection of the Refugee
Settlement Commission the chair
man of which according to the or
ganic articles must always be an
American citizen, Mr. Henry Mor-
genthau having been the first chair
man and Mr. Charles B. Eddy now |
chairman.
While this is a compromise
agreement and calls for little more
than three-fifths of the original
loan promised, it is at least honor
able recognition of an agreement
and if Greece can get along with it,
as presumably she is now in posi
tion to do, will relieve her of the
amount of difference finally to be
paid back. Certainly it is the least
Forest Road
Funds Apportioned
Appc.’^onmcnt of Federal fores*,
road fund"; total’ng $7,500,000
among the States and Territories
which contain rational forests, has
jus^ been aporoved by Secretary of
Agricultu. e Jard : ne. The funds were
authorized by Cbngress in 1926 for
appre priation for the n^xt fiscal
year which begins July 1, 1928.
Of the total of $7,500,000, there
was authorized $4,500,000 for the
Forest Highway Fund, to be expend
ed :n the construction and improve
ment of roads in and adjacont to the
national forests, of primary value to
the publ : c for travel, etc., and $3-
000 000 for the Forest Road Devel
opment Fund, to be used in the con
struction and maintenance of roads
required mainly for the development,
protection, and administration of the
forests.
The States conta’ning national for
ests and the amounts apportioned to
each State from the two funds for
the next riscal year are as follows:
Total Apportionment Apportionment
State of $4,500,000 of $3,000,000
authorized authorized
Alabama ’ $ 4,214 $ 11,932
Les&cftt
Alaska
466,446
24.398
Arizona
284,884
136,371
Arkansas
38,197
41.181
California
671.088
441,067
Colorado
329,051
148,012
Florida
11.902
23,627
Gec.gia
7,298
18,919
Idaho
502,403
649,397
Illinois ____
383
Kentucky
1,540
2,123
Maine
1,329
6,681
Michigan
3,450
1,628
Minnesota
27.946
32,702
Montana
394,994
285,157
Nebraska
. 4,604
1,171
Nevada
93,833
4.205
New Hampshire
. 17,729
21,993
New Jersey
810
421
New Mexico
208 313
121,185
North Carolina __
12,439
34,773
Oklahoma
2,068
342
Oregon
621,758
453,141
Pennsylvania
6.838
6,262
Porto Rico
520
252
South Carolina _ _
2,293
5,203
South Dakota ___
39,195
19,610
Tennessee
11,626
30.380
Utah __
1*68,329
50,564
Virginia
15,591
27,948
Washington
330 255
303,624
West Virgiria
* 5,603
21,038
Wyoming __
213,OYl
j We’ll begin with box; the plural is
boxes,
1 Cut the plural of ox should be oxen,
not exes.
J One fowl is a goose, but two are call
ed gfc^se,
i let the plural of mouse should never
be meese;
You may fnd a Ir.ne -mouse, or a
whole n^st of mice,
■ But the plural of hou’o is houses,
not hice.
If the plural of man is always called
men,
i Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be
called pen?
The cow in the plural may 5 be called
cows or kine;
But a bow, if repeated, is never call
ed bine;
And the plural of cow is cows, never
vine.
If I speak of a foot and you show
me two feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair
be called beet?
If ore is a tooth and a whole set are
i teeth,
l Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be
called beeth?
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If the s ngular’s this, and the plural
is these,
Should the plural of kiss ever be
written keese?
Then one may be that, and two may
be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be
hose.
And the plural of cat is cats, and not
cose.
We speak of brother, and also of
brethren,
But though we say mother, we never
say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he,
his and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis
and shim!
So the English, I think you all will
agree.
Is the funirst language you ever did
see.—Typbs um.
Grand Total __$4,500.000 $3,000,000
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Utopia is a mythical country where
there are never any bills to pay.
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LOCAL MARKET
COTTON—
Middling 18 3-4
Strict Middltaer 19
Good Middling 19 1-4
Cotton Seed, bu. 60 cts
Bacon per lb. 15 to 20 cts
Breakfast Bacon _• 50 per lb
Eggs per dozen 40 cts
Bacon per lb. 15 to 22 cts.
Meal per bu. $1.50 to $1.75
Flour per barrel — $8.00 to $11.00
Butter per lb. 40 cts.
Green Coffee, per lb. —30 to 60 cts
Roasted Coffee, per lb. -30 to 55 cts
Rice, per lb. 7 to 10 cts.
Grist, per lb. 5 cts
Molasses per gal. 50 to SI.00
Corn per bu. $1.1 P
Fine feed, 75 lbs. $2.00
Oats per bu. 65 cts.
Wheat per bu. $1.50
Cheese, per lb. 40 cts
RATES 6 cents per. line fot
each insertion, average of 6 words
to line, or
24 words or less 25 cents
24 to 30 words 30 cents
80 to 36 words 36 cents
36 to 42 words 42 cents
42 to 48 words ... 48 cents
48 to 54 words 54 cents
54 to 60 words 60 cents
anl so on at the same rate.
TERMS — CASH to accompany
order for each insertion desired
At this low rate we cannot keep
books for this department, so cash
must accompany order in all cases.
WANTED WIRETTSta*
for win fencing; state kind, con
dition, and amount in first letter.
Care of McCormick Messenger, Mc
Cormick, S. C.
FOR SALE-^ a a n t “I
prices. J. J. Hester. Troy, S. C.,
Route 1. / • 1 tpo.
I ACT—Poland Ch’na Pig, about
IAAjI ten weekr> 0 ] d> rniss'ng
sirce last Friday. Reward if return
ed to W. K. Charles, McCormick,
S. C.
HEMSTITCHING
that our country can do with honor.
The question is now before Con
gress for authorization. No other
course than ratification, promptly
and grac’ously, will be- fair and hon
orable. Nothing less than the pro
posal of the Secretary of the Treas
ury should even be thought of by
Congress, and no time should be
lost in ratifying the agreement.
As man to man would it be fair
to engage with a man for h : m to do
certain things promising him funds
to enable him to perform the agree
ment, and then when his part was
done and he. had spent even more
than the promised loan and accomp
lished all that was asked and more,
because of a change in Jthe cut of his
clothes or hair refuse to carry out
our part of the agreement after less
than one-third had been paid over?
Principles governing dealings of one
man with another are equally appli
cable to nations.
America can never repay the cul
tural debt due to Greece. We can
meet an obligation in making a
promised loan which will relieve
measurably a distressed nation and
enable that nation to carry forward
a great humanitarian enterprise in
■\vh ; ch the whole world should g’ad-
]v ehare.
|—and Pieoting
10 cents
per yard. Special attention to mail
orders. Mrs. J. H. Bush, Box 4, Mc
Cormick, S. C.
FOR SALE- Rl ;; r h :;: t :;- :
per ton.
S. C.
Rich Cowan,
mix-
$15.00
Bordeaux,
4tpo.
FOR SALE-”” “ SC
acity. One Belle City Brooder 500
capacity. Will take $25 for both.
Good as new. Mrs. Bertha Harris,
McCormick, S. C.
STOCK HOG-** b Z r , P r
elator’s Boy,,’’ No. 169173, 1st Junior
Boar pig, and Junior Champion boar,
State Fair 1927. Fee $4.00 to non-
registered, $6.00 registered sows, or
pig at 8 weeks age. O. C. White, Rt.
1, Plum Branch.
ROR R—S evera l fresh milch
* ^ cows; also pigs and
shoats at reasonable prices. J. L.
! Smith, McCormick, S. C.
for RENT-t::;,: 1 -:;; 0 ::
for 1-2 or 1-4 of the crop in four
miles of McCormick. R. F. Bradley,
Troy, S. C.
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