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lay, April 26, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Two (From the Herald Tribune Washing ton Bureau.)* C. & W. C. Names Officers Of Road Annual Meeting Of Stockhold ers Held At Charleston— Grier Makes Report ——— w CHARLESTON, April 19.—Elec tion of c<ff : cers of the Charleston & Western Carolina railway was held at the annual meeting of stockhold ers and officers here today. Divi dends of 6 per cent were declared. F. Barron Grier, president of the road, made his report which was ac cepted. He had no statement to make regarding future plans for the com- WASHINGTON. — If Congress passes the farm relief bill in the form expected and President Cool- idge si&ns it, these acts can bring -About one of those poltical turns of fate which may make Frank O. Low- den, former Governor of Illinois, the next President of the United States, observing polticians here said today. Mr. Lowden’s weakness, apparent ly, is not developing. The Illinoisan has shown remarkable strength in re cent Republican contests in several states and now has more delegates pledged than Secretary Hoover. The farm relief bill will cdme be fore the Houes probably next week and is expected to be reported out without much difficulty. Its passage by the Senate also is probable. The measure is now in such form, it is learned, that it eliminates most of the points to which President Cool- idge objected when he vetoed the original h&Nary-Haugen bill. The equalization fee is all that remains pn which the President might again exercise the executive veto power, and there is promise that a com promise may be reached making the new farm measure acceptable at the White frouse. Big Lowden Impetus Seen If the Pres'dent signs a bill giv ing relief to the farmer, i n the opin ion of politicians here—anti-Lowden men, as well as the Governor's sup porters—the impetus given the Low den pre-convention campaign will be tremendous. Mr. Lowden, they say will loom-as a safe candidate for the Republican party and the logical man to administer one of the most important pieces of legislation, polit ically speaking, the country has known for years. Not only that, but it is said, he will appear in the role of the friend of agriculture, and at the same time a figure not unac ceptable to Wall Street. Thus the East and the West are joined, say observers. It was pointed out that while Mr. Lowden’s campaign is making strdes, the boom which flourished for Mr. Hoover for many weeks has percepti bly slackened. Lowden To Gain Most By Law. The chances of former Governor Lowden, it is said in many quarters, must already be reckoned as equal with thebe of Mr. Hoover, for the nomination and if the pending farm relief bill becomes" law Mr. Lowden’s chances must be reckoned as better. The claim that if nominated for mer Governor Lowden would win 322 electoral votes in the national elec tion, against 209 for Governor Smith —assuming the latter is the Demo cratic nominee—was made by friends of the Illinois candidate in Congress. Figures analyzing the probable elec toral vote by states are offered to support the claim. A majority, or 266 electoral votes, is necessary to election. Sm th Victory Over Hoover. At the same time the Lowden sup- . porters say Mr. Hoover can win only 204 electoral votes against Smith’s 827. A table of figures sent to every member of Congress, gives all the electoral votes in New York, Massa chusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island to Gcvernor Smith against Lowden. The Illinoisan is credited notably with the total elec toral vote of California, Illinois, In diana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mich igan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Lowden Can Win Without East. Although the figures are compiled with an evident liberality for the Illinois candidate, their purport is that Lowden would be able to give Smith all the electoral votes of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island—a to tal of seventy-eight—and still be elected President. The table gives the following elec- tc-rial votes to Governor Smith: Ala bama 12, Ar zona 3, Arkansas 9, Con- necticutt 7, Florida 6, Georgia 14, Louisana 10, Massachusetts 18, M*!s- sissippi 10, New Jersey 14, New Mexico 2, New York 46, North Caro lina 12, Rhode Island 5, South Caro lina 9, Texas 20, and Virginia 12. Total 209. Aga'nst this line up it :s said that Lowden would have the following: California 13, Colorado 6, Delaware pany. George B. Elliott, newly-elected president of the Atlant’c Coast Line attended the meeting. Except for the filling of vacancies caused by the death of the late J. R. Kenly, no changes were made in the list of offi cers. Election of officers was as fol lows: F. B. Grier, president. A. W. Andersen, vice-president; H. Walters, Lyman Delano, George B. EH : ott, Avery Patten, C. H. Phinizy, Wu S. Montgomery, J. A. Brock, A. F. Mc- Kissick, W. I. Johns, directors; E. B. Grier, general solicitor; R. D. Cron- ley, secretary; G. L. Mitchell, as sistant secretary; J. J. Nelligan, as sistant secretary; J. T. Reid, treas urer; W. C. Yarborough, assistant treasurer; J. B. Kirby, assistant treasurer; A. W. Anderson, general manager; R. A. Brand, freight traffic manager; W. J. Craig, passenger traffic manager; W. D. McCaig, gen eral auditor. Members of the execu tive committee are: G. B. Elliott, chairman; H. Walters and Lyman Delano. John Wfilson df Sumter was elect ed president of the Northwestern Railroad Company of South Carolina and G. B. Eli ott vice-president. Di rectors are: John Wilson, G. B. El liot, C. J. Shannon, Jr., Lyman Del ano and R. D. Cronly, R. D. Cronly is secretary; J. T. Reid, treasurer; John Wilson, auditor; W. D. McCaig, assistant auditor; W. C. Yarborough, assistant treasurer; G. L. Mitchell, assistant secretary. Officers of the South Carolina Pa- c’fic Railway company elected were:. G. B. Elliott, president; Lyman Del ano, vice-presidentS; P. D. Cronly, sec- eetary; G. L. Mitchell assistant sec retary; John T. Reid, treasurer; W. D. McCaig,' aoditor. ON THE WAY TO SAFETY There’s a way to stop wor ries and cares. There’s a way to make your property secure collateral at your local bank. This way is to take advan tage of the sound insur ance policy of the Hart ford Fire Insurance Com pany. Fire may stalk abroad tonight. Be on guard. Let this agency protect your interests. Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE NO. 66 McCormick, S. C. 3, Idaho 4, Illinois 29, Indiana 15, Iowa 13, Kansas 10, Kentucky 13, Maine 6, Maryland 8, Michigan 15, Minnesota 12, Missouri 18, Montana 4, Nebraska 8, Nevada 3, New Hamp shire 4, North Dakota 5, Ohio 24, Oklahoma 10, Oregon 5, Pennsylvan'a 38, South Dakota 5, Tennessee 12, Utah 4, Vermont 4, Washington 7, West Virginia 8, Wisconsin 13, and Wyoming 3. Total 322. 110 Votes Less To Hoover Listed. States in which Smith might win against Hoover and not aga nst Low den are listed as Illionois 29, elec toral votes; Indiana 15; Maryland 8; Missouri 18; Montana 4; Nebras ka 8; South Dakota 5; Oklahotaia 10, and Wisconsin 13; a total of 110 said to be the difference of sure votes for Lowden and sure for Hoover. Many Americans Have Known What It Means To Save The Pennies (By S. W. Straus, President American Society for Thrift..) “He was compelled to go to work when nine years old. His first job was in a pottery works where he had to endure a daily roasting before a furnace. For th s he was paid 50 cents a day. Later he earned 90 cents a day. He left this place to become bell-boy in a hotel in a near by city.” This paragraph appeared recently in the obituary of a man who for a number of years had been the pre dominating personality and execu tive head of one of the world’s great est hotel syndicates. It is not necessary to embellish the story of E. M. Statler with the statement that he early learned the value of thrift, for, without this ad vantage, he never could have risen from such an inauspicious beginning to become the head c»f a gigantic business organization. Speak'ng from the standpoint of a business career no man can succeed who has not served an apprenticeship in thrift and learned to carry it into every transaction in which he is en gaged. There are thousands of successful men in business and in other walks of l : fe whose rise from an humble beginning has been due to the fact that they at one time knew how to scrimp and save the pennies. Frank W- Woolwcrth began life as a clerk in a store in Watertown, N. Y. Gyrus H. Curtis, Philadel phia publisher, started his career as a newsboy. E. H. Harriman, earned h s first money as a clerk in a brok er’s office. Andrew Carnegie began as a bobbin boy in a Pennsylvania ♦cottcfa mill. Charles M. Schwab was a clerk in a small store and later became stake driver for an engineer ing corps. John Wanamaker began his career as an errand boy. James J. Hill clerked in a steamship off'ce. Henry Ford was originally a De troit machinist. Thomas Edison be gan selling newspapers on trains running out of the same city when twelve years old. Learning to save penn : es in the face cf great hardships makes it possible later to save nickels, dimes and dollars. Thrift’s gift to any man is not so much the golden treasure of a bank balance as it is the golden treasure of a sturdy will and sound character. XXI Household Hints Wise’n Otherwise Melt a few marshmallows over candied potatoes. Peanut butter and cream cheese form a good spread between crack ers. Add shredded lettuce td peanut, butter sandwiches. Cream cheese, maraschino cherries and chopped walnuts blended togeth er make a delicious sandwich filling for a luncheom. Serve a lemon sauce with pineap- if.e fritters. An excellent dish to serve with fried chicken: Drain noodles when cooked,, and mix with one-half cup of coaise bread crumbs fried in but ter. Next time you serve smelts, try broiling them instead of frying them. They are delicious. The flowerets of cauliflower sea soned with salt, pepper and a little vinegar and served with . a white mayonnaise, make a good salad. If you find it difficult to open your fruit jars, just turn the upper end into boiling hot water for a few minutes and you will find that they will open easily. Pare small potatoes rr ^ place them in the roasting pan v '.h the meat about one-half hour 1> jre the meat has finished roasting. Clear soup thickened w'.th sago makes a pleasant change. To prepare spinach fo cooking, shake off the dirt cut off 'he roots and spe/iled leaves, put into the pan, cover with water, sprinkle with salt. Let stand until time to co >k. Add warm water. Souse spinach up and down in the water until free from all dirt. Fill the water-bag only half ful* and then press Cui ail aii lx for screwing on the top. The bag will stay hot much longer, and will be much (lighter for the patient to handle. It is wise, also, to fill the New System Of Col- lecting Daily Weath er Observations An entirely new f— J --m of collect ing and forward ng t-'’phi' \vea 4V ter observations ha^ been "d '-.■ot'V by the Weather Bureab o'* t’’ Un'tcd Stctes Department of Agr culture. It will afford a much mor' '■n’d and fVriblo means of d s cm inating weather reports than th 0 g circu t system which it supersedes '"peed and flex bility are especiall necessary : n view of the exnandin interests of aviation, both commer cial and military. The new syste- does away entirely with the ciibuits which tied up certain wires com pletely, and regular commercial wires are used. The circuit system, which has been in use since 1870, was an ar rangement whereby the Western Union Telegraph Company reserved certain of its lines for the exclusive sending of coded weather reports at 8 a. m. and 8 p. m. To receive and transmit reports from the 200 regu lar weather stations throughout the country by this system some 15,000 miles of telegraph wire were with drawn from commercial use for near ly three hours each day. Observa tions became available to the public in from one to two hours later. Wher it became evident that it was neces sary for fl'ers to get reports on up per-air conditions at an earlier hour, conferences were held to discuss the feasibility of shifting the time for taking and sending observations. It was found that the inflexibility of the circuit system was amebig the various difficulties to be overcome before the needs of aviation could be met in a satisfactory way. Many other interests were also eager to get weather information more directly and earl'er in the day or the evening. The new system, devised by an engineer of the telegrpah comphny has many advantages c^ver the old plan. Regular morning and evening observations from every station au thorized to telegraph reports are sert to two main collecting stations. Chicago and New York. A special organization is provided by the tele graph company to receive the reports as they come in and redistribute them, by a system of rapid duplica tion, to such local statiohs as have requested them. Since regular com mercial wires are used, there are more channels for service ava’lable in case of wire interruption by storms or other causes. Each Weather Bu reau office can be furnished with the reports best adapted to local re quirements withdut the necessity for adujstments to the needs of other stations. W)hen other facilit : es are increased for taking earlier observa tions in the day, changes in the distribution time can be made with out upsetting the system. Account ing will be simplified since the new contract provides for a fixed rate per code word regardless cf the dist ance messages are transmitted or re distributed. All telegraphic weather reports are made in code to avoid errors and reduce expense. To illustrate how the . system works: Take Abilene, Texas, which heads the list of stations. The re port from this station goes to 140 other stations. There are 140 blanks, already ad dressed, in the Abilene pigeonhole at the Chicago collection center. As soon as the report is rece'ved from Abilene, it is passed, with these blanks, to duplicators who make a stencil of the coded words and print them on the blanks. Operators of the wires connecting the Chicago of fice with the points of dest : nation dispatch the messages as indicated on the blanks. Within 6 minutes of the time a report is received in Chi cago the necessary dupl : cations have been made and the messages have been duplicated to all pofnts of de livery. Ten or more duplicators and a group of sorters and messengers are trained for and exclusively en gaged on the work. Reports from nearly 200 stations can be handled at the centers in 35 minutes. In some instances the original observation may go both to Chicago and New York. The Weather Bureau has no concern, however, w'th the details of collecting or relaying messages, since the arrangements with the telegraph company are on the fixed rate per delivered word, and rapidity of delivery is the chief considera tion. bag with hot water, pour that out, and refill w'th more boiling water. The first water takes away the chill of the bag. and the second supply cf water will stay hot much longer. New kid gloves are not likely to split when first worn, if they are between the folds cf a damp (not wet) towel for an hour or two before they are worn. The damp ness settles the proves and allows them to stretch more readily. SERVICE We are prepared to render, on short notice and at very moderate prices, up-to-date undertaking service in or out of town and county. Embalming on short notice and at reasonable price. Free ambulance service in town or county. Call or see G. P. or G. H. McCain or J. B. Smith ariraiN Undertaker, McCormick, S. C. PHONE NO. 77. 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