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TSWey, FeKruwy ^16, f928 MESSENdR MeCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK. South Carolina. Page Number Four iwm «. im CIRCULATION: ui frowtac DISPLAY ADVERTISING — 15 cents per inch for each insertion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column display, nor fees than 2 inches for single column dis- pl*y- • ' . r -' BUSINESS READING NOTICES, • gents per line for each fttkertian, overage of 6 words to line. WANT ADVS., 6 cents per Bne for each insertion, average of 8 words to Ine. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents per Hue, 6 words to Bne, AH odvs. set in body type, 8 cents s&utie column line; extra charges type on all single coUm it head and signature. Positions given at ONE-THIRD * W- hjyp> at the Peat Office at Me- g.. c, as mpO matter ed RATES: ifhit’ • "-p;.- .1 :nt Pokes In Everything - \ ' only is there too much govern- business, but there is a tendency to ramify gov- activities in all directions, Iderle Thorpe, editor of Business.' <* come to expect the gov- to do everything fopat ms- inspection to the operation merchant |j^2**y 8 - *‘ We to pxice .ef wheat asti lowir ^Tug^t; Wfc expect to our economic ills for the ‘Be it enacted.*- growth in the number of bureaus, commissions haa been appalling. ’ Ja govfom-- three main department?: legislative and judicial; carried' in mind the that the people best govern- those least governed. Today government reaching out agencies'Into; all'phases of life. four departments alone it : has. paWisbed 21 on the oyster, covering %um the births of; .foe foster through his education, on to fofo death and bis -ultimate gastronomic disposition. “And we go blithely ahfod, aak- fog Washington to enter new fields ef business activity. We forget that •very gentry requires more laws, more office holders, more expenses, more taxes. And eveiy law which puts government idto Business str kes at that which makes this aation great, individual reward for make this direct intetr-state itoad, which can be ddtte at no mor3 cost, via Clark's Hill. We are interested chiefly because it would be a great trunk line through our common country, Edge- f 4 eld ar.d McCormick counties, and on this ground of reasoning I wish to make &n appeal to the officials and people of Edgefield town and county to do what will mean the most to all. This would give the nearest way by 20 miles from Columbia and the trying to serve my state to the best of iry ability, impartially, honestly, and in the interest of the taxpayers, smashing special interests and sol- f ; sh purposes whenever the hidden schemes are revealed.” Commissioner Jones says further: “Speaking from my own personal knowledge and observation of exist ing conditions in at least one of the agencies I do not know where addi tional politics can enter; it is already full and overflowing, even standing Washington High School News McCORMICK DEFEATS WASHINGTON.' Our boys met the McCormick basketball team on thoir court last Friday afternoon and were defeat ed. However, the game was clean, quick, and good from start to finish and though our boys lost the h J gh- Jones Not After Place Fertilizer Question ities. Two extra trees came in the shipment and these, have been plant ed on the school campus by foe agri culture boys. In a few years these trees will furnish both shade and fruit. Recently the shrubs ordered by the S I A have come and been set out. At present we only have plants im mediately around the build ng as we WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—I n a * ra waiting for the main campus to second letter to Attorney General'b* graded and the drive way made C. E. Jon°s, chairman of the state highway commission, last Wednes day night issued a statement denying that he desired to become , chief high way commissioner, and declaring that under no circumstances would , . , ^ . ■ he take the position now held by Bop * eneral approval farm or uatiox . Ir-dhri individual effort” -2X2- Suggestion Concern ing The Edgefield -Modoc Road Edtor The Edgefield Advertiser: # I ask space to address a few lines < to the- good people of Edgiefield town and county about the new stato rorj that is about to be built from Edgefield to the McCormick-Augusta wmd. If the majority of the county high way commission and of the Edgefield delegation to the legislature will Ugiee, we are told this road will be Ira'lt on a direct line front Edgefield to Thomson and Macon, Ga., about M. Sawyer. The commissioner’s statement said it was evoked by a news article pub lished in The News and Courier of Wednesday reporting a cm rent rum or “that the cards are being played to displace Ben. M. Sawyer, highway commissioner, .with C. E. Jones, the present chairman of the commission,” with the statement that “the sole au thority for the story is rumor and rumor in this case has many tongues.” Mr. Jones opened his statement by saying that in Mag, 1925, the com mission unanimously passed a reso lution introduced by h ; m to the ef fect that no member of the state highway commission should be elect ed chief highway commissioner. “This in itself ought to be a suf ficient answer to all such well-organ ized far-flung propaganda as that contained in the news dispatch quoted,” says his statement. \ After asaserting that he; was largely instrumental in having Saw yer elected to succeed Admiral Sam uel McGowan when the latter resign ed in the fall of 1926, Mr. Jones’ statement goes on: “I love the highway work and have given unstintedly of my time and "V through Clark’s Hill or Meriwether, Which would give a trunk line from I of whatever ability I possess entirely Columbia and the North to Macon,' without remuneration and without Montgomery and New Orlfons. We reward or hope of reward, direct or started this movement two years ago indirect. The thought, suggestion or and when the bill passed the legisla- 1 propaganda—whichever it is—that tare it was with the intention the the cards are being played to dis- road should go ( as stated, the exact place Mr. Sawyer with me is absurd point it would Up the McCormick and false. If they are being played road being left out purposely, be- to displace Mr. Sawyer, the vacan- epuse it was not known where a di- cy, if one occurs, will be filled by rect tfa** would cross. Then our good some one other than me. At no time friends at Modoc naturally got busy have I been nor am I now seeking his and wished the road. But that would place. Under the xesolution hereto- be 5 or 6 miles out />f line and could fore mentioned and unanimously ■ot serve as a direct road between passed by the commission, even Columbia and Macon, etc.—^make it though I desired to do so, I could John M. Daniel which followed one sent a few days ago in which the Na tional Fertilizer association offered to co-operate wholeheartedly in mak ing the investigation of fertilizer pretis in South Carolina, Charles J. Brand, executive secretary of the as- sfoiation, declared that the compan ies are not attempting “to gain back in one year the enormous losses of last year” as has been charged. “Last year’s losses, which we esti mate at $2,500,000 in South Carolina, have been largely absorbed by stock holders of these companies, some of which are banks which have had practically to go into the fertil : zer business to protect their previous advances,” Mr. Brand declared. “The companies realize that it is impos sible to regain their losses in any one year; many will be fortunate to recoup in 10 years. Most of the loss is gone forever. The price this year does not include a single penny of reclamation of la t year’s serious losses. ^The copfl$ahi«* a replaced in an unfair position when their prices for fois year are compared with last year’s pricesi, because last year’s places lacked from $3 to $5 a ton from covering the manufacturer’s costs of production. “A more proper com par'son is this year’s price lists with those issued abotit the same time-u year ago: The atmounced prices for both years are practically the same. Therefore, the industry is not charging any more than a normal price this season. In fact it is sub-normal, considering present cost of raw matefials.” Says Congress Shoufd Help Farmers. In h : s letter, Mr., Brand, who drafted th'i original McNary-Haugen Surplus Control bill which has re- oy tv mues irom ^oiumum »«u , “7*.*! est score, they won the honor of be- North to Macon, Montgomery and room i» at a premram. Unless thm called of d ts „ fop southwest. Also it would be the condition is severely and quickly nearest way from Charlotte and checked disaster will result. I will northward to Macon, etc*, and be: not put myself in the position of nearest way from Columbia to Atlan-1 being a deserter and quit the high- ta, tfbssing the river twenty miles'way department but just as soon as abqve Augusta. Otherwise this tra- I can be relieved without seriuos vel will continue from Batesburg by detriment to foe best interests of Aiken and from Johnston by Tren- South Carolina I desire^to retire be- tdn, to Augusta—Edgefield and the cause I cannot. i n justice to myself, country district will lose it—as well serve much longer.” as McCormick County. An impor-j ——XXX——— taut road, the Dixie, would continue geCOIld Letter Oil The by Trenton to Augusta, as well as foe load from Columbia. Edgefield town would have two very important truck lines—the Dixie and this new road—and the new one would prob ably have mota travel on it than the Dixie. At Appling and Thomson con nection would exist to federal No. 1 via Wrefts to Florida, as well as to .Macon* etc. *’ A bridge across the r'ver here would inevitably follow the road— state roads do not stop at intersec- tions^ if they should go on. What a boon ift bridge and this road would be to Edgefield town, and county! Don’t overlook the advantage and opportunity, v . » _ This matter, we are told, is to be decided by the highway commission in Columbia on Februaiy'bth. As it stands now, it is to go to Modoc. The big dam here is going to make it additionally worth while for Edge- field to reach this neighborhood and for us to reach Edgefield. A fine road exists now from. Meriwether to Thomson and the Georgia counties have offered tp make this an A-l road in" every respect—as good, they say, as , t foat from Edgefield. And Georgia Wilt be urged to make it a state road. The moment the road were completed ffuar Rdgefieki, tra vel could continue to Thomson. Later a bridge might re-locate the road. Let’s have foreign travel pour through our territory, helping, us all to develop. . ^ , J. p. MARSHALL. Cia&V Hill S. Jan. 30. dent of the organization. In the re- ; turn, I promise to fulfil my office as best I can and feel sure that, wifo the co-operat'on of each nrmber, our soe'ety will have a successful term.” Our new secretary Joe Price per formed his duties i n his own indi vidual and efficient manner and we are confident that he is the light person for the place. The following program was en joyed at th's meeting: Devotional—<Nina Edmunds. “Types of Poetry ”—A talk by Os mund Buchanan who volunteered at the last minute to fill the vacancy made by Charles Osborne. SHRUBS PLANTED. The two agriculture classes order ed quite a numbsr- of pecan trees for ^ . farmers in the surrounding commun-1 ai J a ve ° r ^’ paper y ! Osmund Buchanan. “The Ballad and the Lyric,”—A talk by Georgia Ella McDaniel. “Anr.abelle Lee,”—A reading by Lucy Bussey. Song—“Flow Gently Sweet Aft- on,”—Society adjournment.' gatuzations r including the cotton co operative?' pointed to \a fundamental situation pertaining to agriculture in general which he said needs to be remedied. “The present dissatisfaction with fertilizer prices,” he said, “is an un fortunate, but nevertheless usual, af termath of dump : ng distressed sur plus cotton on the market which from time to time plunges the price of cotton below its intrinsic value to the world. “We all remember the disastrous prices which prevailed in the fall of 1926 when we made an 18-million bale crop which sold at 8 to 12 cents. This meager pr'ce so impoverished the farmer that he could not buy his regular quantity of fertilizer or oth er supplies last year. This resulted in nearly a fifth less fertilizer being used in the South than had been used in 1926. “With this smaller demand for fertilizer, the companies were forced to abandon their announced quota tions and scramble for business at much reduced prices, as many of them thought, in order to liquidate their inventories. “Theq last fall, owing to a 13- milllon bale crop, the farmer got 18 to 21 cents for the bulk of his cot ton, and thus today he ; s in a much bettor posit on financially. But it is a great pity that the 18-million bale crop of 19261 brought the South $330,000,000 less than the 13-million bale crop of 1927. Despite the fact that ih'* southern farmers in 1926 produced the biggest cotton crop in histo: y, they suffered a general loss, J ma was a girl.” before further planting is done. The shrubs that we have are pretty and we are proud of them. Some of them are the Carolina Che:ry, the English Laurel, Japanese Privet ^Abelia Grandifiora, Mandira Domestieu, Sp res \Thumbergia and Revesiona and others. WltLIAM CR6FT. RINGS FOR SENIORS. One morning not so long ago Mr. Mayer announced in chapel that he would like to see all seniors in his office immediately after chapel. The twinkle in his eyes must have given away the secret for a knowing smile spread across the face of each “grave ole semor.” Sometime later each one of the five girls returned to the classroom proudly exhibiting her class rng to the underclassmen. However, the junors did not feel so envious as the others for they could look at each other and say quite gayly: “This time next year!” We are all proud of these pretty new lings, which are standardized for the foufc present high school grades, and hope that all who wea/ one w ll con sider it a privilege and always will be an honor to the school the seal of which she wears on her finger. THE EVOLUTION OF DRESS. Although climate has been an im portant factor in "Ihe evolution of man’s dress, the desire for person al ornament has bean a greater in fluence. , * In warm countries the first and simplest art'de of clothing to be invented by primitive man was the lois cloth. This was worn by the Egyptians who made from it a short skirt and later a long tunic reach ing from the armpits to the ankle. The babylonians used a long piece of fabric which they wound around them leaving the right arm and shoulder bare. Although we have evidence that the Greeks wore hats the custom was not general among the ancients. The Roman cit’zens went hatless but in the middle ages a cap or bonnet was not unsued. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries hats were worn more frequently. In the Elizabethan age both men and women wore a ruff or frilled collar reaching from shoulder to car and completely hiding the neck. At this time doublets, hose and capes marked men of nobility. In the seventeenth century, trous ers came into vogue in Western Eu rope. They qu’ckly passed through all the transformations fashion could give them—from long to short and from short to long and from be ing embellided with frills and furbel- ous to plainess. The tendency of the present time is towards uniformity of dress. Styles in women’s dresses are fixed by designers in Paris and are mark ed by radical changes from season to season. Men’s fashions change less. The styles of clothing for both men and women are more sensible now than they have ever been before. To day it \s evident that clothes are planned with the idea of ornament secondary to that of comfort and freedom for the body. We young people rejoice in the evolution of fash : on in dress and have no sympathy for h ; m who longs for “the good old days when grand- RUTH CARTLEDGE. which was reflected to all business j connected with farming. When this — fundamental situation is met by Con-J WASHINGTON-LEE gresa, which I sincerely hope will be LITERARY SOCIETY, done during its present session, the Lagt ppi^ay our literary society State of South Carolina, the South. me j. £ or f j is t time under the LINCOLN REMEMBERED. On Friday morning in chapel the eighth grade enterta'ned the student body with a program on Abraham L : ncoln, one of our foremost presi dents. Davis Bussey read an origin al paper on “Lincoln, the Man,'; Blanche Wilkie read a poem dedicat ed to bim and his service to the na tion and War lick Keller read h : s Gettysburg address. . tXt v W. H. Lokey Dies Of Pistol Wounds (Augusta Chronicle o? Tuesday.) W. H. Lokey, former* Augustan, died at a Spartanburg, S. C , hos pital yesterday morning, at 4:20 o’clock from the effect of five pistol bullet wounds inflicted by Mrs. Re becca Williams, of Spartanburg, on February 3. Funeral services will be conducted tha afternon at 3 o’clock at Elliott and Sons funeral home. Rev. Thomas Walker ofiic : ating, and interment will follow in the city cem etery^ Suffering from a blow struck by Lokey after she had fired the fatal shots, Mrsr. Williams several days ago leaped from a third-sto'ry win* dow of the hospital and died shortly afterwards. W fo Your wrounds in the abdomen and another in the lung, surgeons held out scant hope for Lokey’s re covery, declaring that he- had 1 only one chance in a hundred to recover. Becked by a strong physical Consti tution, he rallied after the reaction .following an opreation'and had ten aciously fought for life. Pneumonia developed less than & week ago and then it , became apparent that there was practically no hope for his l : fe. He remained consc ; ous until the last. William Henry Lokey was foe son of Samuel and Jane Garrison Lokey and was bor n in Augusta, but moved when a boy with his family to the old Lokey home near Borfeville, Ga., where he sp'mt his early manhood on the farm. At the time of h : s deafo he was an engirner on the Chaileston & Western Carolina rail way, rumrng, out of Spartanburg. Of a genial disposition, h"> made friends quickly ara was widely known throughout this section Mid in rail road c'rolci. He was 53 joars of age. Survivors are: Wife, Mrs. Annie Johnson Lokey; three sons, Louis Lokey, Warren Lokey and Bowdre Lokey; a daughter, Mrs. G. F. Ted- dardf, of Augusta; mother, Mrs. Jane Garrison Lokey, of Thomson; two brothers, George W. Lokey and Charles E. Lokey, both of Thomson, and a sister, Mrs. C. F. King, of Grove town, Ga. X Honor Roll Of The Wideman School DAILY THOUGHTS r I. “Anybody can cuss ” II. There will be one Judge before w' on we dare not make a plea of i.'ranity. IT. “O, fo' a touch cf a voice that is still.” A mother’s love, embrace, voice; w e know' their value when she is gone. IV. Sin is a short word; but it de stroys kingdoms and souls. V. Peter—“Silver and gold have I none, but in the name of Christ rise up and walk.” Christians, give in the name of Christ while you have opportunity. VI. If we forgive not and love not our enemies, how can. God forgive and love us? VII. If we are to prepare for Heaven it is essential to prepare for death. Watch and pray, you know not the hour. VIII. Me n and women, during the World’s War, faced death to rescue the wounded and dying. Soldiers of Christ, men are dying everyday without Christ. IX. We eat usually three times a day. Souls usually starve for lack of the Bread of Life. X. “The Lord is My Shepherd.” sicknessi in my joyS and pleasures. I want him in my sorrows and I want him in death. E. A. WILKES. —XXX— A Little Talk "On Thrift (Bj S. W, Straus, President Ameri« can Society for Thrift) “Is there any royal road to inde pendence ?” asks a correspondent. t Yes, indeed, there is such a highway* not always easy to travel but leading d rectly to that^goaL That roadway' Is Thrift. Here are a few figures that show Why this is true: Five doQars a week for fifteen yeais at 4 1-2 per cent Compounded semi-anAually will givir you $5,5(H). What better pla£. incidentally, could be carried out for the educa tion of one’s children than this? Save $90 a month during twenty- five years of your life at 6. per cent compounded usem’.-a^iTUinUy will have $61975*;' . .»■ ^ One dollar deposited weekly in a saving-, bank fo* ten years will amount to $635.32 at 4 per cent com pound interest. Start at the age of twenty und save $33.14 a month with interest compounded at 4 per cent semi-an nually and at 65 your aaccumulations will be $50,000. Let us suppose you are twenty- five years old and that your earn ings are sufficient to make it pos sible for you to save $25 a month. You go along on this basis, saving systemafically for a period of five year'i when your earning capacity mak^s possible the zegular saving of $50 a month. ^ At thirty-five you increase your savings to $100 a month. When forty you find yourself able to saVe $150 a month and at forty-five you still further increase your monthly sav ings to $200. By following this plan you will at the age of fifty have $54,946.61, pro viding your savings have been com pounded semi-annually at 6 per cent. Yes, there is a loyal road to in dependence, and many persbns are making a happy pilgrimage along it. X LEGS 5# A too long and the travel would con- not accept the place; furthermore q and the Nation will be immensely leaders h ip 0 f our new officers. Our - - - - .... beneiittea. 1 •» * " *■+—»— *j-j tinue to go by Augusta. Besides the do not choose’ the job. I hope this is Mg pond will make it impossible to plain enough to stop the rumors from •tom the river at Modoc. Let Edge- I do not field county build a fine county road job if of -XXX- president Helen Harvley presided in ' a most graceful, pleasing and dig- Hog men are realizing that pigs nified maimer. In assuming he ( r new raised on the same old pastures year duties, Helen said “I wish fas foank for the month ending February 11, 1928. Louise Bowick, Jessie Bowick, Willie Bowick, Mattie Bowick. Evelyn Bowick, William Bowick, Lucille Spence, Bunard Spence, Jim Spence, Mattie Spence, Elizabeth Wideman. MRS. AVIS T. BRITT, Teacher. tXt Hard-fiber-composition washes one-eighth to three-sixteenths inch thick cost about 10 cents a dozen anc^ should be kept on hand for re-, placement in vibrajting orf leaking! faucets. These arc in general usej and are suitable for either* hot or cold water. If none are at hand, a temporary washer may be cut from a piece x)f leather, rul *' - to the good town and community of Modoc—all of them are our friends —bat do not lose the opportunity •' * • /i4 any other ; after year suffer heavy losses from the members of the Wi m-Lee sheet packing/ Leather is pi with intestinal worms and other disorders. Literary Society for the honor they on cold-water^ A change of pasture is important. ' have given me in electing me presi- hot-water fajj Legs to the right of us. Legs to the left of us. Legs out in front of us, How they display them! On they go, trippingly. Dainty and skippingly. Frost that bites n’ppingly Does not dismay them. Straight legs and bandy ones, Bum legs and dandy ones. Awkward and handy ones— Flirt with the breezes. I Round legs and flatter ones, £ < Thin legs and fatter ones, Especially the latter ones— Showing their knees. Mates and ill-sorted ones, Straight and distorted ones, Home and imported ones—• Ain’t nature grand! (STOLEN.) $X$ In the year 1915 the aggregate ilumq^of business done by co-op- ' marketing and purchasing Ltions in the United States >3,838,000. I n 1925 this had to $2,400,000,000.