Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f Thursday March 8, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every ITiorsdsy Sstablished June S, J[f cCORAflCK MESSENGER, McCORAIICK, South Carolina. Page Number Foi irt are far supe:ior to old-fash- \X7rki'lr pork barrel methods, ard the ^ I1U 11 W UrK I may term ‘bootleg’ p : stols out of crnmer the hands of the criminals. ioned “The theory upon which ant'-pis- public is mor • and more demanding With His Hands? tol legislation is based is erroneous bdmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner. CIRCULATION: 1,300, and griming DISPLAY ADVERTISING — 26 cents per inch for each insertion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column display, nor less than 2 inches for single column dis play. BUSINESS READING NOTICES. 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. WANT ADVS., 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents per line, 6 words to line. All advs. set in body type, 6 cents per single column line; extra charges for big type on all single column advs., except head and signature. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. Altered at the Post Office at Mc> Cormick, S. C., as mail matter ef the second clues. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance -— One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months M Seducing A State Just why various states and the government should figure on doing state, printing any more than they should figure on doing state banking, state, clothes manufacturing or state grocery wholesaling, 's a mystery to most people. The cost records of state printing plants and of govern ment 1 printing do not offer encour agement to the taxpayers to have public funds expanded in this man ner, even if such state industries were consistent with our form of government. The Mississippi Press Association, backed solidly by the job pr nters of that state, are fighting a state printing plant from tho standpoint of the principle involved in the un dertaking. The publishers are working under the hiQtto, “Keep the government out of business, but put business into government.” Thoy will seek to show that it is bad business judg ment for the rtate to engage in the wholesale grocery or clothing busi ness; They hope to save the state from being seduced into setting itself up in business in competition with pri vate citizens and taxpayers. After the state went into the printing bus iness, it would be but a step for sup porters of a socialistic program to advocate that it go into some other line of businoss. Thus all private citizens and busi ness men are interested in the fight of the Mississippi publishers, to up hold the American principle favoring private initiative and enterprise and the right of the individual to carry on his business fiee from the crush ing influence of government owner ship, control or operation of indus try. IXt We do not prohib t automobiles, though they are used in committing crimes; nor pens because they a-© the tools of the forger. The real remedy for crime lies in more prompt and efficient work by the police, the district attorney’s office and the courts. The Baumes laws have done more to reduce crimes of violence than could be accomplished by all the anti-pistol legislation ever suggest ed. “The so-called Sullivan law und" 1 !* which we operate in New York has increased the opportuniries for black mail and injustice, for it is easy to ‘plant’ a gun on a person and then charge him with a crime. “To show the folly of our law,I had a case before me where a man was attacked by a thug, armed with a revolve®, and he took the revolver away from his assailant. When he complained of the attack on arriva of police off'cer, he was arrested for having the revolver in his possession There have been a number of cases before me where liousehold ^rs have fired at burglars in defense of their lives and property, and have them- solves been arrested for violation of our statute. “I could give many concrete in stances where our law has done harm, but no case in which it has bern of service.” txt business administration in public af fairs. XXt- (Frcm Tho Belton News) Some Relief But Still The schools a:e turning out an un- j 1 in.'ted number of bosses, managers, directors, superintendents, foremen, Some JJi»erimmation go gett , rs also bookkee pe rs> c ierks. —— — jrtc. Meanwhile ther'* is a shortage (Publishers’ Auxiliary.) ' of pcople ' vho ' vil1 takc hold with Father And Son Banquet Was Given At Plum Branch A most enjoyable occasion wa". that of the father and son bar.que f held in Plum Branch, Thursday March 1st. money on your The ladies of the community w're hostesses and se:ved a delightful Saturday specials. , their hands and do work calPng for dinner—“the ladies can’t be done muscle. without” Congress and the Post Office de- This dispaiity will probably in- Th^re were songs and a spirit of partment at Washington heard from crease, judging by figures given out f-llow^hip was felt throughout the the country on the idea of the pro- by the National Industrial conference program. posed discrimination aga nst the boarty which finds that the number of j. Grace—Rev. W. B. Garrett, smaller mercharts of the nation in unskilled workers who return to Eu- ( Seng—Hail Hail, the Gang’s all the matter of third-class postal rope since 1924, is three times as Here. rates. many as those who came thence to! Toastmaster—E. A. Wilkes, “Why When t^e country told the people the United States. Perhaps many of we have Father .and Son Week.” at Washington what was thought of these people were disappo nted when j “A father’s duty to his son,” Rev. this effort to benefit the big city, di- they found they could not pick up H. M. Hodgens. Come to our store and save Friday and We carry a complete line of vegetables. “A son’s duty to his father,” ward Hodgens. loves rect-by-mail interests at the expense gold in our streets, of the smaller merchants, and told The man with the hoe and the pick them emphatically the Griest bill is ne-ded. There is an equal demand | Poem—“Every laddie was promptly amended at the lequest for the one who can swing a car- daddy,” E. C. Winn, of the Post Office department. penter’s hammer, a brick layer’s As the bill now reads it provides trowel, or a house painters biush. for mailing at one cent per piece any Many who pract ce these trades are third-class mail weighing two ounces d-iv;ng shii y automo des, \\ ’-le or less, when the total number of cl© r ks ard bookke' x pers are walking, pieces is three hundred or more. Anyone should be gald to shake There is now no reference to any hands cordially with the man in number of pounds, and the effect of overalls, and be glad to walk down the amendment is to reduce the min- town with him. The fellow who can imum from what, under the bill as mix paint so it will stick or who can originally drafted, would have been fix th e chimney s o it won’t smoke, approximately 650 pieces, to 300 has pract : cal views of life. We can ' .all learn from him. I We should pay mgh respect to the Ed- Knocking Railroads Uncalled For waymake ‘ he k:u «“*J*» M * to i It Tubs'tar‘t a"r'"dignir y r s amendment w : ll go a long farmer. As an owner of land, he has Making A Law , | Ridiculous New York has the “famous” Sull ivan law which thumb-prints and keeps a record of every law-abiding citizen who owns a gun, the same as it does of a crook and criminal. Thr're is a growing 'tendency to ir-nke it harder for honest citizens to ob 0 y a multipi’city of laws without actual hardship and ’nconvenience, while allowing criminals more loop holes for escape and greater oppor tunity to prolong cases in court. Commenting on this situation, Joseph E. Corrigan, Chief Magis trate of the City of New York, ex pressed his Meas emphatically in a letter to Carl T. Fredericks, a prom inent attorney in New York City, a member of the American Bar As sociation, an d the National Crime Comnrssion. Magistrate Corrigan said: ’ “Anti-p’stol legislation is urged on the ground that ir. will prevent Freight rates on American rail roads are the lowest in the world. The average late on a ton of freight carried one mile in Our Country is approx : mately 1.1 cents. For aji equivalent service English railroads receive more than three times as much, and F:ench and Ger man roads about four times as much. Despite these facts, demanis for still lower rates continue. Crippling railroad service would cost the people far more than they could hope to save by reducing rates, for fi eight rate reductions which would bankrupt many • Railroads, would hardly affect most prices to the consumer. A case in point is the recent in vestigation of the bread and flour in dustry by th-' Federal Trade Com mission. While the American fam ily pays an average of 8.5 cents for a pound of % br^ad, railroads receive but .6 qpnts for transportation. Instead of making great profits, the railroads in 1924 actually pa : d $1.06 in taxes for eveuy dollar paid out in dividends. Yet they went steadily ahead bettering their ser vice to the public, and it is estimated principal ra ; lroads spent $750,000,- 000 :n 1927 for permanent improve ments. IXT Practical Tax Re- i duction Demonstrated country merchants. It icmoves . , , , . , . x. ^ • .. | When we give due social honors to much of tne objection to it in the . u -n such people, moie boys will see that more thickly settled sections of the nation, for in such sections few mer chants would wish to mail less than 300 dr: ect-by-mail pieces at any one fme. There would he, as a mini mum, that number of farm homes within the trad’ng rad us of the town in which the merchant is doing busi- J ness. | But the provisions of the bill still discriminate against the merchants ,in the smail towns n the th nly pop ulated sections of the nation. In sec tions of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico the Dakotas, Colorado, Texas, Oregon, ard some other states, there aie many towns which do not have as many as 300 farm houses within a reasonable trading radius of the town, and the merchants in these towns are to be penalized and made to pay a one and one-half cent rate on their direct-by-anail business sol- ic'tat ons because they are unfortun ate enough to be pioneering in these still new fields. The Auxiliaiy wonders if the rep- these callings are desirable. IXI The Press And The Legislators (The Columbia State.) Music by harp, Raymond Hollo way. Address—“Relationship of father to son, and son to father,” Rev. W. B. Garrett, Greenwood. Song—“Mv Country Tis of Thee.” XXX DAILY THOUGHTS I. “By the grace of God I am what I am.” I. Corinthians XV, 10. II. Next to sin I hate the word can’t. III. “If in th ; s Lfe only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” I. Corinthians XV, 19. IV. Those who indulge in “Petting and Kissing,” 1. Lack intelligence. 2. Are poor conversational sts. 3. Are wrecking their morals and bodies. 4. Need to know more of Christ. V. “I take pleasure n infirmities, in weaknesses, in nccess’tics, in per- Under the caption, “The Plight of secutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.” II. Corinthiaris XII, 10. VI. A mother was separated from her child the other day. Once in awhile a tear would fall—a mother’s love. VII. A prayer: “May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be ac ceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and redeemer.” Psalms XIX. E. A. WILKES. DIXIE STORE No. 16 * McCormick, S. C. South Carolina,” the Dillion Herald says: • S6uth Carolina newspaper men ask?d the geneial assembly to g ve them a libel law similar to North Carolina’s and the senate refused the request by a very decisive majority vote. The North Carolina libel law ; s fair to the publishers and the pub lic. The South Carolina libel law is one of the antiqUit es of the statute books. Like many other old laws it is indefinite, ambigous and suscep tible to many different contsructions. It belongs to an age when men want ed something but d ; dn’t know what they wanted. For some reason South Carolina newspapers and the general resentatives of these states in con- 1 assembly have not always been in gress are going to be willing to let such a bill become the law of the land, and so force many of their con stituents to pay a higher rate of postage than is pa’d by others in more thickly populated sections. We wonder if the publishers and mer chants of these sections are going to sit supinely by and permit such a bill to pass without a protest. Stripped of all its verbiage, this bill proposes nothing more .than to restore the old one-cent third-class postal rate. If congress wants to re store that rate, or : f the Post Off’ce department wishes to recommend a restoration cf that rate, The Auxili ary certainly has no criticism to of fer. But why try to camouflage it? Why try to make of it something that^it is not? If passed in its pres ent form, practically 95 per cent of all tlnrd-class mail would be handled at the old one-cent :ate—-in fact, we bcl eve it would In nearer 98 per cent. If a one-cer.t rate is fair for 95 to 98 per cent of the third-class A United States Senator warns against continued increase in tax lev ies. He points out that about $9,- 000,000,000 a year in taxation is ex tracted from the American people, with the total for 1927 about $500,- 000,000 greater tha n the year before. State and local tax^s const’tute about $5,000,000,000 of the yearly ^otal. He emphasizes the necessity of states, counties and municipalities lowering their tax rates, as well as the federal government reducing the federal tax bill. The city of Baltimore, with the aid of leading executives from the largest taxpaying corporations in the city worked out a businesslike form of city government which in four years reduced the tax rate from $2.90 per $100 to $2.39 per $100. Dur ing the same period largely increas ed appiopriations were made for im provements to school system, fire department, pension system and oth er city activit es and a deficit of ov er a million dollars was paid off. The California Taxpayers Associa tion, with headquarters in Los Ange les, has given a number of similar striking object lessons. Pasadena undertook certain street improve ments which were estimated to csot more than $3,000,000. The Taxpay ers Association investigated and pre sentod an alternative plan which cost slight reference to been eliminated complete harmony. They do not think alike. Both cannot be right and one or tho other is wrong. It :s an unfor tunate situation. The state suffers when there is disagreement and dis cord between two representative public bodies. It would be difficult perhaps, to get either body to agree to the arrangement, -but if one could be induced to exchange places with the other for a season each would have a better understanding of the other’s problems and difficulties. Surely the esteemed Herald would not for a moment entertain the idea that because newspapers may have in the exercise of their public duty, criticized the acts or opposed the pol icies of legislators, said legislators claiming to be the “servants of the people,” that those leg : slators would in the exercise of private grievances, countenance laws wh’oh are out rageously unjust and which, in fact give unscrupulous persons opportun ity to take advantage of mechanical errors, unavoidable by the newspaper INI ADVS. RATES — 6 cents per line foi each insertion, average of 6 word* to line, or 24 words or less 25 cents 24 to 30 words 30 cent* 30 to 36 words 36 cents 36 to 42 words 42 cents 42 to 48 words 48 cents 48 to 54 words 54 cents 64 to 60 words 60 cents ani 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. MAIF HFIP — $ 8 - $10 dail y ITl/iLEj lUiLr easily made Man 25 to 55 with cai«, good reputation, ambitious, can run McNess Business. No experience needed—no lay offs, no bosses. Use our capital-oppor tunity of lifetime. Write today FURST AND THOMAS, Dept. C. G. 1, Freeport, 111. 1 tpo. -XXX- Boy Scouts America Plum Branch, S. C mail handled by the department, why | managements, for the purpose of ex- is it not fair for the other 3 to 5 per! tracting money from those r.ewspa- cent? Why make goats of this 3 to P ers - 5 per cent of the mail useis, and I Should a bank refuse to extend sheep of 95 to 98 per cent? I ciedit to a person, that person would The United Typothetae claims it' hardly , make hirnse ' f more worthy of has desired a pound rate on third- credit by leaving the way open to a class mail, and that the users of this ea "? °f burglars to loot the bank. such Thc time is approaching when the In the | jght of the many uses to The scouts held their regular meet ing Friday, March 2nd. Mr. Wilkes, our scout master, led the devotional and made a good talk on the follow ing subject: “I will spew Thee out of My mouth.” A report on good tu:ns was given Eight scouts gave a daily report; two gave five and two gave four good turns. We adjourned to go and clean up M:\ Banks’ store. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done There are thousands to prophesy failure There are thousands to point out, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But buckle right : n with a bit of a grin Just take off your coat and go to it. Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That cannot be done and you will do. EDWARD HODGENS, Scribe ex-tempo. txj Gas In 1809 WE WILL *k ras k cane seed for the public in Troy S. C., Friday ard Saturday, March 9th and 10th. J. A. & E. C. Young, 1 tpo. FOR SALE-'’;"! at $1.50 pfci bushel. S. J. Chiles, R. 2, McCormick, S. C. ' 1 tpo. UAD -CAI 17 — A few hundred rUli oALUj bushcls Delta-type Webber, Strain 5, Cotton Seed at $1.50 per bushel in new 5 bushel bags. Seed bought from Coker last year and are now absolutely pure. This cotton is Early, Drought resist ance, Bolls large, Hulls thick, resists weevil punctures, picks good, length 1 1-4 to 3-8 inch. Produced last year equally as much as any short staple and sold early in fall at a premium from 8 to 12 cents. Why not increase your cotton acreage this year at least 25 per cent and let this be in Delta-type Webber, the cotton with a premium? R. M. WINN, Plum Branch, S. C. I ACT 1 —On© White Liver Colored Pointer, female, medium size. Last seen between Parksville and Key Bridge. Has collar on. If found please notify M. R. LeROY, Sheriff, McCormick, S. C. WANTED--!^ " McCormick, S. C. class of mail are entitled to , , , ~ rates, but the bill never did provide P eople of the stat e> the people who w hi c h gas is put today, and the bil- lv rpfprpnpp w^sh 1’ght and justice and an unmuz- ]j 0 ns of cub : c feet that are sold an- zled press, may have to take a hand in this matter. X- a pound rate, and its only reference to pounds was in the fixing of a min imum weight that could be mailed on the old basis of one cent for each two nually to manufacturers and homes, it is interesting to note the attitude of the people toward this great time FORD BATTERIES $7.95 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE •22 BROAD PHONE 11M AUGUSTA. GA. LOGALMARKET cuuc' > s or fraction thereof. With the! Many sloping fields could be pro- and labor-saver when it was first in- amer.dment as recommended by the' tected from eiosion by terracing, but troduced into England in 1809. Post Office department, and adopted some types of soil wish too readily, ^ was almost impossible to get the by the house committee, even that! for cultivation and should never be people to use it, and during the first pounds” has' used for any purpose other than two years the company furnished gas ! meadow, pasture, or forest. Terrac- free of charge to calm the fears of i n . i residents that it could not be safely' E ^ s per dozen 20 cts - I Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 18 cts. COTTON— Middling 18 Strict Middling 18 1-4 Good Middling 18 1-2 Cotton Seed, bu. 60 cts Breakfast Bacon 50 per lb. hold-ups ar.d homicides. It has not less tha n half the sum. It has con done so here, on the contrary, they ducted extensive surveys of budget For the sake of the merchants in will become more popular. have increased. items in various state jurisdictions, the small communities of what arei^ineeis and soil experts of the ^ e -1 us ^ d ’ i Meal oer bu t si “It is foolish to think that a man revealing the astonishing variations still more or less p : oneer sections of P ar ^ men ^ °f Agr’culture are confid- 1 Many queer laws were passed Te " j pi our Der barr i " sa ftn t °sil *nn who is willing to risk the electric in effciency, in purchasing plans, in the nation, for the sake of the mer-' en L when research has developed garding t e use and sale of gas, one ig utter j b ° chair for shooting another person, budgeting which account for the dif- chants who are blazing the way to n 'w methods of soil conservation and ^ vvhich was that all gas pipes must f r ' 7. ,, c S ’ ’ _; when expfcrimental demonstrations be kept at least six inches from any | ( ' reen por lb ' — 30 to 60 cta - have proved that terracing is good wall, for feaCr the pipes would get hot ^p astet ° oe > per lb. _30 to 55 cts. and will result in direct a,1( l start a fire. i lce ’ per * 4 to 10 cts. will be deterred from shooting him ference in expenses home by the tax- a greater development of the com by the thought that, in addition to payers in an intelligently regulated munities in these sections, The Aux being electrocuted, he may be fined community and the taxpayers in a iliary hopes for fair play in this business $25 for carrying a concealed weap- careless community. i matter of third-class postage, and on. A man who is bent on a murder It is well to state that business j that means the same charge to all or a hold-up will carry out his pur- me n are behind the California Tax-1 without fixing any minimum. Con- p: ot vide to the landowners who pro- -1X1- such care for their XXX fields. pose with some other weapon, if he payers Association the same as they cannot obtain a pistol, and no were behind the Baltimore plan, amount of legislation will keep what Business principles applied to gov- gress will play fair provided these commun ties are heard from through out in the incubator of G. W. Borleyj then representatives in Washington.' of Kirkton, Eng. j | Grist, per lb. 4 c ts. T , • ' Molasses per gal. 50 to $1.00 I* Tightened by rats when she went Corn per bu. $1 ig to the cellar to kill herself, Miss pine feed, 75 lbs. A gosling with 4 feet has hatched; Elcnor Cogloy of Buffalo screamed Oats per bu. iled. a!? up her $2.00 90 cts. Wheat per bu. $1.60 Cheese, per lb. 40 cts.