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• TEtmaay, March 22, 1928 MeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Four McCORMICK MESSENGER PablUhed Bwy Thursday . BiUbliahed Jana &. ^92 BDMOND J. > MeCRACKBN, Editor and Owner. CIRCULATION: 1,300. and growinf 1. DISPLAY ADVERTISING — 25 cents per inch lor 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, • cents per lipe "for each insertion, average of G words to line. WANT ADVS^ 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to Mne. 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. t Entered at the Post Office at Me Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. fUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1.00 K|x Months .75 Three Months .50 Get The Shoe Oh The Right Foot “Two highly organized bandit raids within twenty-four, hours; one with machine guns on a bark in the heart of Kansas City; the other with high explosives on a ma : l train in the outskirts of Chicago. It is not a pleasant picture of American civ ilization,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. “The loot of $180,000 is not im portant. The significant features are boldness, the organizhtion of the bandit gangs, the elaborateness of the plans and the deadly manner in wh ; ch they were carried out. It is all added evidence that organized crime is in relentless warfare against aocety. “The first purpose of civilized government is 'to protect the people ai life, person and property against evildoers. Gag at it as we may, Americans must swallow the sicken ing fact that, measured by other enlightened nation^, this country is a flagrant failure in dealing with crime. “The Bidwell brothers, two Amer icans who laid a plot to rob the Bank ef England by tunnel’ - ng under a street, serVed a long term in a Brit ish prison. They returned to th's country eloquent over the gruelling punishment they had suffered. ‘We took a chance,’ said one of the Bid- wells, ‘because we are Americans and didn’t know any better. No man who has ever served a term in an English prison is likely to commit another crime in England.’ That was twenty-f ve years ago, but the American people have rot yet learn ed the lessen. We are still dawdling and coddling and temporizing, and sometimes even lionizing the crim inals.” We spend too much time in this country considering and legislating •n ways to restrict law-abiding cit izens and too little time on catching and punishing criminals. Wie listen to visionary proposals to prevent the sale and ownership of small arms to honest home owners, well knowing that such a law would not prevent the criminal from smuggling in all the guns he desires, or prevent him from using knives, wire, dynamate, •clubs, poison* etc. Automobiles are M greater aid to the criminal today than are guns, but who would dare •ogTgest prohib’ting their sale on the theory that such action would pre- Trent crime. Instead of continually curtailing the rights of the “law- leeper” make the “lawbreakers” pay. Broad Silk Mill Comes To Clinton Hunred Thousand Dollar In dustry To Be Started « *• There Sdon AT $16.00 PER TON HAY DELIVERED Freight paid to any railroad station in McCormick County, or at Packing House on Au gusta Highway. Freight allow ed. W. M. ROWLAND P. O. Meriwether, S. C. Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York CLINTON, March 16.—Negotia tions were closed here todav by which Clinton landed a $100,000 broad silk mill to be erected with’n the next few months. The proposi tion was sponsored by the chamber of commerce in conjunctoin w'th Sid ney M*. Edelstein & Company, indus trial engineers. The principals in the new corporation are W. J. Had- f ; eld and Sol Stutz of the Hazelton Heights Silk corporation of Hazel- ton, Pa., and the Newbursrh Silk Company of Newburgh, N. Y. The new mill will manufacture crepe de ch'ne, georgettes, crepe re main and cantons for the cutting up trade. The corporation hao a capi tal stock of $10-1000. one-half of which has been locally invested and the other half by the Northwestern interests. Arrangements are now be ing perfected for the housing of the plart. the build : ng to be of modern mill type construction with 20.000 square* feet of space and additional land for future expansion. The f nal details will be perfected within the next few days and it is expected that the building will be erected, all new machinery installed, and the plant put in op eration by the middle of July. This is the first industry secured for Clinton through a campaign being sponsored by the industrial commit tee of the chamber of commerce. High School Lad Clears $132.75 On Crops in 1927 William Moss Makes Good In School And Also A Success With Cotton And Oats Several of the boys enrolled in the Agr culture classes of the local High School have made good crops and realized a profit from their farm wo^k which is in connection w th their work in the class room. William Moss had two ciops, cot ton and oats, last year in connection with his studies and made a good prof t on both of them. His cotton crop yielded a gross return of $116 and after subtracting h ; s cost and ex penses had a net profit of $72.55. His oat crop brought $78.00 less the cost of $19.80 he has left the net profit of $60 20. Adding the net profits from the two crops he has as his total earnings on tire farm $132.75. This work done in connection to the regular school work and is required of everybody tak : ng Agri culture. It is an effort to have the pupil put into practice on the farm what he learns in the classroom. It is evident from the above story that William has been trying to use some of the things he found out in school. William has been enrolled in the Agricultural Classes for three years and stTl keeps up his other studies in a very creditable manner. His responsibilities at home probably help him to achieve success through a steady line of application to his duties. He is already a good far mer. Others can do the same and reports of other boys’ work will fol low : n later issues. William sometimes mixes his fer tilizers and uses improved methods when he can. He figures these out for himself most of the time. W. A. MASON, JR. jXl Pink Boll Worm May Soon Overrun South Is Warning Issued By Repre sentative Buchanan Of Texas WASHINGTON, March 15—Un less the pink boll worm now infest ing large cotton areas in Texas is eradicated within a few years it will spiead to the remainder of cot ton belt and cause tremendous de- vastat’on. Representative Buchan an, Democrat, Texai predicted today on the House floor. He proposed that the United States negotiate immediately with Mexico to secure co-operation in con trolling the pest. This would be the only method of eradicating the boll worm from southwestern states, he said Buchanan was joined by two Tex as colleagues, Hudspeth and Sum ners, both Democrats, in the pro posal that negotiat : ons be launched to secure Mexico’s aid If the boll worm continues its invasion of Eastern Texas, Huds peth declared “a west wind will blow into the Mississippi delta, where untold destruction to that section’s cotton crop will occur.” Sumners claimed that the only effective era dication could come through an inter national campaign waged on both sides of the Rio Grande.” His bill to authorize $5,000,000 to compensate the cotton planters in Texas for the boll worm damage was | urged by Buchanan. He said thatj while it was favored by Secretary | Jard : ne, the measure had been disap proved by the budget bureau. ! He traced the boll woi m’s march across four continents from India to Egypt, then to South America and its entrance into the United States j from Mexico. “If the United States eradicates the boll worm, it will be the only country that has waged a successful fight against it,” he concluded. txt Miss Edith Royon was released on s. c. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Reflection Of Industrial De velopment Is Good Over South Carolina Intelligence and courage are re quired in developing our great na tional resources, so as to obtain the highest efficiency, greatest practical good and w dest distribution of ben efits to the most people. Newber:y—Local Chamber of I Commerce’ oo-operating with Clem- son College beginning April 1 will put on full time dairy expert for Newberry County. Clemson College—South Carolina Five-Acre Cotton Contest will be v held this year. Beaufort—Buildings damaged by recent fi:e w ll be repaired. Belton—First Baptist. Church to , erect new addition for Sunday School department. Belton—Total of 9911 pounds of poultry sold here on recent day. Long Branch—Several of farmers here sowing spiing oats. Long Branch—Road leading from Craytonville to High Shoals being surveyed. Conway—Chapin Company formed here with capitalization of $200,000. M ley—Farmers in this community planting large acreage Irish pota toes. Milcy—Gasoline motor train oper ated by N. & B. Railroad being over hauled in railroad shop here. Municipal air port to be establish ed in Georgetown. Easley—Highway No. 2 will be paved through here. St. George—Ed sto Light & Power Company setting up poles to biing high power current into this place. Bounty Land—Farmers of this section holding weekly meetings in Bounty Land school house. Hiott’s—New post office at Hiott’s begins operation. Pageland — Baptist Congregat'on j planning to rebuild house of worship burned several montnhs ago. Sumter—Work on hardwood mill of Galloway-Pease Lumber Co., will be rushed to completion. Large number of farmers in Col leton County to plant cucumbers this year. Columbia*—Re-location of road in Dorchester County discussed. Greenville—Slater Manufacturing Company innereases capital stock to $1,500,000. Columbia—$263,522 contract let for construction of new’ Broad River bridge here. Lexington—$25 000 street. im provement bonds sold by town coun- ciL New’berry — Hayme’s Phai’macy, new d:ug store here, wall settle on Main Street adjoining Anderson’s Dry Goods Store. Myrtle Beach—New’ Myrtle Beach school dedicated. Conway—New’ fire house under construction here. Myrtle Beach—W. H. W inbourne Company will establish lumber plant and yards here. Myrtle Beach—L. G. Miller recent ly purchased approximately half million feet cf timber from Myrtle Beach Estates and is installing saw’- mill plant on property. Easley—Work will be resumed im- mediatey on grading preparatory to pav’ng new route for Greenville- Easley highway. Dillon—30,000 • pounds of chickens shipped out of county during recent week for which shippers received $6,- 000. Greenville County will surface- treat 103 miles of county highways. Greenville - Spartanbuig paved highway will be completed this Improving And Planting On The School Grounds Class In Agriculture Co-oper ates IT ith Parent-Teachers' Association In Improv ing Grounds The class in Agriculture has tried to co-operate with the Parent-Teach Assisting Small j RUPTURE SHIELD Business Man Department Of Commerce Re ceives Many Queries From Business Men Seeking Ad vice On Various Problems Queries from small mercha Expert Coming To Greenwood Wednesday and Thursday, April jth and 5th, at Oregon Hotel, from !9 a m. to 4 p. m. Evening by appointment. Two days only, i No Charge for Copulation i The successful expert of C. F. Red- I lieh for Scientific Rupture Appli ances says: o'* The “Perfection Retention Sh'elds,’ ers citizens planning to engage ir. busi- ^9^ ruptu.e perfectly, no matter what sit on the body assumes or how heavy a weight, you lift. They y've instant relief, contract the open ness on a limited scale comprise Association in improving and rubstantial per centage of the 13 a setting plants and flowers on the 000 letters which have been received ^ng in a remarkably short time and grounds of the High School Build- DomcsUc Commerce Division ng. So far the Agricultural boys ’ . . „ ^ „ nave spent two clays in hauling top of ^ Department of Commerce. Be- strengthen the weak tissues (the real cr.uoe of rupture) so that they requently recover their previous soil with teams that were furnished cause so many problems of the small natural retaining power, needing^.no by them and some of the patrons of i-^e community. F.fty eight loads have been placed on the grounds and so:n will be scattered around the en- trances to the buld’ng. The Agricultural classes have '’•wmed a locr l chapter of the Future Palmetto Farmers’ Assoc : ation and have aitacked the v. T o:k on the in to deal up a special section : o f ten ,; aused by Rupture ' promptly ic Commerce D.vision disappear. business man are u: usual, it h » v c de l to set he D mest with them. Accoi’ding to Dr. Frank M. Sur face. Assistant Director of the Bu reau of Foreign and Domestic Com- s been; further outside support. Stomach backache and ccnst.pat’ou j trouble. grounds as one of their co-operative mrree. who supervises that Bureau’s projects for the year. Service faci ities applvlng to market It is hoped that patrons of the .. , school will co-operate whenever pos- P- eblems in the Umted o ates, tne r, b!e. There h still lots to be done 1 smaller busiress men’s” questions be .ore the grounds will be anything have ranged over a great variety of like presentable a d ^ to If anv p any t'me never mind how small it •”’cl grocery trades have originated may seem, you will please give the largest share. information to the local Teacher of. * " 0f . neeti vp husmess man in the Agrculture. W. A. Mason, Jr., or to! A prospective Pus ness man m tne Superintendent S. P. Clemons. It west, for example, asked for “data is a community proposition and r-n the average cost of a meat mar- should receive the entire help of the ket the per cent of p ro fit. salary, fth P e C fo“ a th d e. f^V!, the r fit f le ° P ;! letups f anv patron can give assistance at» 10 * ** iCeail stores but the meat lutelv worthless. Truly icmarkable results have been obtained with recent and not yet fully developed ruptures and many old ones also. No legstraps or elastic belts are used. Can be worn w’hile bathing and are highly sanitary being im pervious to sweat. Letters from highly sat'sfied clients available. Advert.sed mail order contrap tions as well as elastic belts with are abso- people in geneial. What can you do to help the cau^e and insui’e the suc cess of the project? THIS MEANS YOU. X Chevrolet Company’s Freight Bill Last Year Totaled $34,805,556.86 rent, light and power costs which prevail in that business.” Full information regarding retail grocery stores and statistics on the average cost of clerk hire was re- j quested by a resident of a small town in Oh : o. The frequency of turnover among small grocers, the average volume of business and the amount which should be spent for advertising were the leading questions in a oucry from New England. Among the other queries were re quests for information concerning ! the wearing apparel business, sell- DETROIT, M ch., March 20 —That -'ng- jewelry on the installment plan Automobile Best Friend Of Railroads, As Shown By Statement Of Chevrolet Motor Company Call on me and I will show you. Result; o n children are 95 per cent favorable. Business engagements prevent vis- itirg any other city n this section. C. F. Redlich, Rupture Appliance Ex perts, Home off ce, 535 Boston Blo<dc, Mirreunolis. Minn. Itpo. mm WANTED ■Man with teams and complete outfit to log saw mill near Mt. Carmel, S. C. Call at Messenger Off ; ce. 2 tpo. sprng. -txt- DAILY THOUGHTS has gone on the water wagon. But’ a theft charge in a Chicago court he hastens to explain that it is for when a young ma n offered to marry restive and not moral reasons. i her and she agreed. ; I. Being with boys makes me a boy; becoming a boy makes me a man. Daddies, learn to be pals with your boys. They will teach you. II. “He that oveicometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I shall not blot out his name from the book of life. Rev. Ill 5.” III. Young men, what was Henry Newman’s definition of a gentle man ? “As a gentleman, treat girls as you would have other gentlemen to treat vour s : ster.” IV. “Ye that is without sin among vou let h im first cast a stone at him.” You idle talkers, search your own hearts. V. If the young people would clothe their hearts with righteous ness, they would solve the problem of the short skirt and other modern problems. Sermon, R. L. Holroyd. VI. I preached as never sure to preach again, as a dying man to dy ing men—Baxter. VII. A prayer. Lord, forgive me as I forgive my enemies. Give me a new heart so that sinners may be drawn closer to thee, and trangressors may know thy wavs. E. A. WILKES. the automobile is one of the rail road’s best customers was revealed here today with the announcement that the freight bill of the Chevrolet Motor Compar.y for 1927, represent ing inbound and outbound shipments to the fourteen domestic Chevrolet plants, was $34,805,556.86. In releasing this figure, C. R. Scharff general traffic director of the Chevrolet Motor Company, stat ed that it covered the movement of 289,575 carloads of fre'ght totaling 5,950,263,608 pounds' as well as 208,- 152,247 pounds of less-than-carload freight. “Our freight bill was considei’ably higher last year than in any previous year in our history,” Mr. Scharff said, “yet the proportionate cost per automobile was lower because our reco:d volume cf more than a million units built last year, coupled w’th the efficiency of present transporta tion agencies, affected large econom ies in transportation as well as in manufacturing. “Of our total freight movement. 153,496 carloads repierented inbound shipments—mater'als and parts for building cars which were received from sources of supply only. This figure does not include the enormous amount of freight cars icquired to move this tonnage ‘ in its raw state, into the various pointn where it was manufactured before being shipped to the Chevrolet Motor Company. “Outbcund shipments—finished au tomobiles and 237,990,146 pounds of export traffic—totaled 136,079 car loads weighing 1972,962,117 pounds. These figures also are exclusive of 262,551 diive-aways which would have approx‘mated 65,638 additional carloads, and of outbound shipments from parts and service depots. “This tremendous freight move ment was accomplished through the splendid service and co-operation ex tended by the railroads. While no figures are available yet to show the cartoad movements of the entire au tomobile industry for 1927, it ; s es timated to be approximately 900,000 carloads of automobiles a n d parts; while the total number of carloads shipped last year which can be di- lectly credited to the automobile in dustry is estimated at 3,125.000. Consider : ng this huge volume it is obvious that the automobile is one of the railroad’s chief benefactors.” TXT THE TREE the The kindest thing God ever made, His hand of very heal ng laid Upon a fevered world, is shade. Green temples, closed against, beat Open to any pilgiim’s feet. This is God’s hospitality, And who so rests beneath a tree Has cause to thank Him gratefully. —Theodosia Garrison. TXT Judging by what is happening in England, a fruitful source of future civil wars may be seen in attempts to revise the prayer books. the battery serv’ee station, the retail furniture business, management of a millinery sto:e, and so on through out the range of business which might be carried on successfully by a citizen with more or less limited means. In explaining the functions and fac : lities of the Domestic Division, Dr. Surface points out that the new section was established to balance the service that Division is in a po sition to render American citizens generally. He said that information gathe: ed as a result of the recent trial distribution census in eleven im portant cities in the’United States indicated that there is an enormous number of merchants who operate on a relatively small scale. The re turns disclosed that in one city near ly 33 per cent of the retailers were doing less than $5,000 worth of busi ness a year. Some concerns were not reported because they did less than $500 worth of business annual ly* Over 18 per cent of the retailers :eported from all eleven cities did fiom $5,000 to $10,000 worth of business a year and over 28 per cent did from $10,000 to $25,000 annual business. The information collected ’indicated that perhaps 79 per cent of all the retaile: s operating might be termed “umrll bus ness establishments.” Dr. Surface points out that the prime purpose of the new unit is to co-opcrate with those merchants in helping them to help themselves. He said that much informat : on has al ready been collected by the Depart ment which may be had upon re quest dealing with a very wide range of retail store problems, such as store location and planning, educa tion of a retail sales force, budget ary control in retail store manage ment depaitment leasing of retail stores, vehicular traffic congestion and retail business, measurnig a re tail market, etc. In the op’nion of Dr. Surface, “it is the so-called little fellow in busi ness,” who can often profit to great er advantage from governmental ass ; stance of the type outlined and as a result special efforts are made to provide detailed answers to all requests of this kind. He sa:d as the Department’s work develops a much greater range of infoimation will be available to the business man to as sist him in avoiding the mistakes and pitfalls which have wrecked so many small businesses in the past. An examination of the records of FOR SALE ■350 Red, Barred Rocks and other large breeds, 10 cents each. March 31st. J. P. Talbert, R. 2, Plum Branch, S. C. 1 tpo. WANTED •$8-$10 daily easily made—man 25 to 55 with can. good reputation ambitious, -can run McNess Business. No ex perience needed, no lay offs, no boss es. Use our capital—opportunity of Pfetime. Write today FURST AND THOMAS, Dept. C. G. 2, Freeport, Illionis. 1 tpo. FAD C! AI 17—R ea Hy choice R. I* rUIl oALIL R8d baby chicks of high vitality that are hatched cor rectly, and will produce long-bod ed, even dark red stock. Three thousand ch cks every Monday, reds exclusive ly. Set your hens to hatch on Mon days and give each all the chicks she can cany. James W. Cooley, Phone 81, Anderson, S. C. Price at hatch ery 15 cents each. —2 tpo. WANTED Milch Cows and Beef Cattle. J. L. Smith, McCormick, S. C. COFFEE ^■Murdoch a cn >o Oft) o 2 ** Coffees from high altitudes have distinctive character, full flavor, body, mellowness and fine aroma. It is such coffees that are chosen "or the famous Monarch blend. If ycu paid a dollar a pound, you couldn’t buy finer coffee than Mon arch. T. CARLTON FAULKNER McCormick, S. C. LOCAL MARKET COTTON— Middling 18 Strict Middling 18 1-4 Good Middling 18 1-2 Cotton Seed, bu. 60 eta Breakfast Bacon 50 per lb. Eggs per dozen 20 cts. Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 18 cts. Meal per bu. $1.50 to $1.75 Flour per barrel $8.00 to $11.00 Butter per lb. 45 cts. the | Green Coffee, per lb. 30 to 60 cts. morgue of business failures, accord-1 Roasted Coffee, per lb. _30 to 55 cts. ing to Dr. Surface, shows that mis- j Rice, per lb. 7 to 10 cts. management is the cause of the j Grist, per lb. 4 cts. greater per centage of commercial' Molasses per gal. 50 to $1.00 Com per bu. $1.35 Fine feed, 75 lbs. $2.00 Oats per bu. 90 cts. Wheat per bu. $1.50 Cheese, per lb. 40 cts. deaths. FORD BATTERIES $7.95 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE R22 BROAD PHONE lift* AUGUSTA. GA. Canada may have a national direc tor of electricity if a proposal made in the Dominion parliament he ad opted.