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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.