Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, September 20, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SouOi Carolln*. Page Number TErSI S. C WEEKI. Y INDUSTRIAL REVIEW industlia:, conditions have SHOWN STEADY UPWARD TREND SINCE 1921, WITH FIRST HALF OF 1928 MAIN TAINING A STABILITY THAT GIVES NO SIGN OF RECEDING ACTIVITY University Of South Carolina News Items COLUMBIA, Sept. 15.—With no less a personage than Bill Laval as Chevrolet Company Making Progress Marking, for the second time with- Camdcn—Work under way enlarg ing Bank of Camden. Camden—New airport will be es tablished here. New Brookland—New bridge may be built over Saluda north of New B: odkland. Belton—Work started paving Belt- cn-Anderson road. Belton—^Broadway gins being over hauled. Gaffney—Fou:« acres of land pur chased for city park. Beltcn—New sewers being laid in several sections of town. Sumter—Nqrth Purdy Street to be paved. McClellanvillc—Wo-k nears com pletion on lower Santee bridge. Belto&r^-Several streets of town to bo paved. Varirwlle—New tourist cafe opened in old Chrysler building. Walterbo.-o-—Banner hay crop an ticipated in this section. Greenville—Fork Shoals, Pelham and Anderson Bridge roads in Green ville County to be improved. Walterboro —• New Methodist Church here completed. Beaufort—-Work nears completion' wingardTbac'ksr Shap'd ‘andT Der- oi new factory of Davenport-Brooks new h-ad coach tho University of in eight month'* the passing of a South Carolina Gamecocks will open the r 1928 football season next Sat urday when they meet the Seced- ers” from Erskine College in Colum bia. it will b-J Laval’s first game as a Southern Conference coach but the great teams which he has been turn ing out at Furman University in the S. I A. A. has caused him to be s •netimes referred to as the- “mir acle coach.” The new Gamecock mentor has thirteen letter men on his squad and in addit on he has some likely ma terial from last year’s Yreshmen and reserve teams. While the team w.ll be lacking in weight it bids fair to be a fast-stepping aggregation and, like all Laval teams, will be smart one. It is one of Laval's axioms that a man must havo bra ns td play foot ball. The Gamecocks will introduce to their Soathern conference opponents the famous Laval “huddle,” which he has used so successfully at Furman. Tho Gamecocks have taken to this “huddlo” with alacrity and in a man ner that has been highly pleasing to their coach. The letter men who a:*e back are Beall and Fulmer, centers; Guarino and Joye, quards; Wolfe, Rogers and Watcor* tackles; Captain Cooper, Zobel, Joyner and Melton, backs; and B. Stoddard, end. Rogers has been shifted to end by Coach Laval in practice and is showing up well at the wing position From the freshman team of last year Coach Laval has Carlisle Beall, Edens, Bloun} Doneln, Matheny and Ack, tackles; Gressette and Muller, ends and Boineau, an end who has been shifted to the backfield. From the reserves of last year have come Mayfield, tackle; Thomas, guard; Hr Stoddard^ end; Smith, quard; Graham, tackle; Griffin, end; Farr, center; and C. Derrick, tackle. The Gamecocks will receive their Baptism of fire on the Saturday fol lowing the Erskine game when they go to Chicago to met the University 0 ^ _ , of Chicago team. This will be the South Carolina on June 30, totaled + * <.u cmoor-oAoi i first game of the season for the Corporation, shrimp canners. Williston—^Contract let for surfac ing Williston-Springfield road. Liberty—$25,000 bond issue voted for street and sidewalk improvement. Six Mile—New high school estab lished here. Rocky Bottom—New post office op ened here, and new mail rcVite es tablished from Rosman via Rocky Bottom to Sunset. Resources of 203 state banks in $108,278,021 Gaffney—O. P. C. store installing; new front with k show-windows. Brt'ad River br’dge leading to Blacksburg being repaired. Myrtle Beach—New airport estab lished here. Norway—iContract let at $49,252 for building State Highway No. 24 from Norway to Denmark- Olar-—Wo Me started on construc tion of Denmark-Olar highway. Yemassee—Filling station on Coastal Highway here being enlarg- el Yemassee—Road between Yhmas-* see and Savannah completed and op ened to traffic. Sumter—Over 40,000 pounds of tobacco sold on local market recent ly. Pageland—Catoe Brothers opens new stole here. Columbia—M. Klugh, Inc* broker age firm, capitalized at $25,000 g.'anted charter. Columbia—Broad River bridge re cently washed away, will be rebuilt. Georget-v/n—New bridge will be built across \tyr.yah Bay connecting Waccama\, Neck with rest of coun ty. Varnvillc—Great Salkehatchie Cy press mill resumes operations at lo cal plant. Lexington—Work under way re~ pai ing roads and bridges recently damaged by rains. txi Cotton Co-operative lorts Cotton Deterioration Rep< Chicago team. Coach Laval has an able array cf assistants in Coaches A. W. Norman, who was his assistant at Furman; Hairy L'ghtscy, J. M. McFadden, Burnet Stoney and Si Seideman and the squad has been put through in tensive work since reporting on La bor Day. While the introduction of a new system is always more or less confusing, the manner in which the Gamecocks have mastered the Laval system has been highly gratifying. Carol na is facing a hoavy sched ule this year. Fallowing the Erskine game cn September 22, in Columbia, and the Chicago game on September 29, in Chicago, the Gamecocks play the University of Virginia at Char iot tesvil’o on October 6; th? Univers ity of Ma:yland at Columbia on Oc tober 13; Pnesbyter an College at Columbia, October 19; the annual Clemson-Carolina classic at the State Fair in Columbia on October 25; The Citadel at Orangeburg on November 1; University of North Carolina at Chapol Hill on November 1C; Furman at Columbia on Novem ber 17 and North Carolina State at Raleigh on November 29. Coach Laval never makes any pre dictions as to the outcome of a game except that his team will be in there, fighting from the first whistle to the laso That was characteristic of his Furrpan teams and will be character istic of his Carolina teams because if a man does not fight for the game he doesn’t play for Laval. IXI COLUMBIA, Sept. 14.—Reports deceived from the field agents of the South Carolina Cotton Growers’ Co operative Asscoiation indicate much deterioration of the cotton crop throughout the State as a result of the recent heavy rains. In the south ern tier of cofton producing counties it in estimated that the crop has de teriorated 20 to 25 per cent. In the northern portion of the State a re duction of about 10 per cent in the estimates appears to be conservative. The present outlook is that the State, instead of producing a crop in excess of last years’, will make a crop ap preciably smaller. In addition to the smaller crop there is considerable damage to the cotton which will re- dute the grade and staple at least of the early picked cotton in the southern area. It is believed, how ever, that if the weather clears up and continues fair for a considerable period there may be some slight im provement in the crap. The move ment of the crop is about four (4) v/Ci hs later than it was last year. millionth milestone, the Chevrolet Mo ton Company announced today that the five mill onth Chevrolet was produced at the Flint, Michigan, plant, September 8. The f • :r mill ionth car was bui’t January 11, fol lowing quickly cn the spectacular na tion-wide reception accorded the present “Bigger ard Better” model. The early arrival of the A 000,000th car was in response to a continued demand that has kept Chev olet plants on a day and night bas s since the first of the year and has resulted in the setting of new monthly pro duction recoxls every month this year. Production for the year promises to go well beyond the million mark and will show more than a 1,000 per cent increase over 1921 when 77,- 565 cans were built. The epochal five millionth car was a standard coach and came off the line amid the cheers of a vast army of assembled mechan'cs who gather ed meoientarily to see the record making modpl glide off the line un der its own power. Exacting sched ule requirements did not permit of any ceremonies and a few seconds later the five millionth car bncama history, when numben 5,000,001 was driven away. It was po'nted out that whereas it had required a little more than 10 years for Chevrolet to build its millionth car, the last four millic'n were produced in a little more than five years, an indication of the spec tacular march that the Chevrolet Mo tor Company has made in recent years to attain its present position as the world’s largest automobile manufacture^ It was shown too, that since January 13, 1927, when the 000,000th car was produced, a lit tle less than 20 months had been re quired to produce another two mill ion. This 'Record-breaking production program was in response to the greatest demand in the company’s history. During the first six months of this year, 50 per cent of all auto- mob'les sold in Chevrclet’s price class were Chevro’ets. This was an increase over 1927 when Chevrolet outdistanced all competitors by sell ing 40 pe? cert of all cars purchased in its price class. In light of the fact that Chevrolet production is geared to meet the de mand, ranking company officials viewed the recent production achieve ment as a tremendous popular tribute from the mot;«r‘ng public. W. S. Kr.udsen, president and general man ager, stressed the point that precis ion is the father of speed. He ex plained that to make such a record possible it was necessary to adhere even more closely to precision manu facturing methods and to make the limitations even more exacting. The slightest inaccuracy in workmanship or inspecti would increase costs and slow production, he pointed out. Chevrolet’s spectacular mnrch to the I? 000,000 mark is shown in the following dat's on which the various millionth cars were produced: One millionth car Feb 27, 1923 Two' mill'onth car July 10, 1925 Three millionth car Jan. 12, 1927 coring the (greatest Success --’became of Distinctive Beauty Thrilling Performance ^Amazing Economy The COACH *585 Th*"Touring OCT o> Roadster .. Zs D The $ CiQC Coupe J JZj The 4-door 5/^ -J C Sedan O/D The Convertible Sport Cabriolet.... The Imperial f" Landau / JL^ Utility Truck . 520 (Chaisit Only) Light Delivery ^371> (C.'iossis Only/ All price* f. o. !>. Flint Michigan Week after week and month after month the Bigger and Better Chevrolet has swept on to greater and greater heights of popularity—until to day it stands acknowledged everywhere as first choice of the nation for 1928! Never has any Chevrolet en joyed such overwhelming public acceptance—for never has any low-priced car pro vided such an outstanding combination of distinctive beauty, thrilling performr-sate and amazing economy 5 . Its beautiful bodies by Fi ~ long, low an 1 racy,and finished in colors that reveal to-day’s mode for smartness ard indi viduality—are far in advance of accepted standards in the field of low-priced cars. Inside and out they prove anew that Fisher craftsmanship is a thing apart. But Chevrolet performance is no less impressive than Chev* rolet beauty and style. Never before was a low-priced car so easy to handle—for the steer* ing mechanism is fitted with ball bearings throughout . . » the clutch and gear-shift lever respond to the slightest touch ...and big non-locking 4* wheel brakes give a measure of braking control that is more dian equal to every occasion. A-'or/ie in and see the car that Fas -von the approval of more than three-quarters of a million buyers »ince January 1st. Learn for yourself why it is scoring the greatest success of this great automotive year! ran CHEVROLET CO. McCORMICK, S. C. QUALITY AT L OJW COST u The Value Of Highways” “Rome was only as great as her highways, a keen minded historian has pointed out. He was right,” says the Grand Fecks, North Dakota Herald. Destroying The Wealth We Create Co-operation Vs. Corporation “The rate at which we create FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVES FAY wealth, and then convert it intc« a ^ colossal heap of ashes is appalling,” j ORED BY GOVERNMENT said I. Q. Hoagland, a fire prevention j engineer of New York recently.^ . As the roads spread the “During the past two years the act- power and prestige of the nation spread. The Alps were scaled, the territory now occupied by the French COLUMBIA, Sept. U.-t-It is well known to farmers that in this coun try business, industry and labor are so well organized that they exercise a large degree of control over the commodity in which they are inter- esteu sc much so that they are able to determiee prices of commodity, service or labor. Whenever these or ganized interests come in contact Card Of Thanks From Sheriff LeRoy To the Veters of McCormick County: I wish to extend to you my sincere thanks for the nice vote that have given me at all elections which I have been a candidate. I hope that I have been as thoughtful of you as you have been of me. I have tried to be as lenient in my du ties as possible, having at all times tried to extend all courtesies possible allowed me. I hop.:* you will co-oper ate with my successor and help make him a good officer. Again thanking you for your sup port). I am, Yours very truly, M. R. LeROY, Sheriff. X- A message says that gold has been found in a new place in Alaska, but it may have been a tourist with his mouth open. X Staying up all night may make you vs wise as an owl, but owls havo nc sense during the day* ual property loss in fires was more than $1,000 000,000, an amount that would finance employment cf 400,000 republic was covered with a network men at $1 an hour for one year. And of hard surfaced highways, and all j also the human casualties were roads led to Rome. ' j heavy. “The old roads of Caesar’s day; “During the past forty yeais the were built as mil'taAy roads, of total property loss was $10,000 000,- course, but they were used for pur- 000. If the rate of burning during unorganized interests such as poses of the hour and served their the past two years continues, the to- emi | tal for the next forty years will be “In the United States hard sur- $20,000,000,000. Four millionth car Jan. 11, 1928! faced roads are not needed primarily, It must be admitted that in the as military roads, but we are living matter of fire we are the most care- in the age c*f the automobile and no- i less of nations. Our waste for one body is going back to the horse and yeap could very possibly bankrupt buggy. We travel by motor and move less prosperous countries. And the our supplies to a considerable extent , very fact of our prosperity is no by motor. The state with poor roads i justification for our countenancing is beh'nd the times and not abreast destruction. with the needs of the age. Progress ^ r e must do more than merely re- The modern trend of the electrical I de P end s to a considerable extent up- gret fire waste We must give every industrv has for five vears bepn tn- on roads and 80 lon £ as we burn gas - effort toward (Outlawing it, and pro- oline and travel on rubber this will, viding ways to prevent it. Fire is ^anization for the pooung of the mu- cor.tinue to hold true. preventable in almost every instance. ;^ ua ^ i n t er ests of the stockholders) is “Is the United States, or any state It is our own fault if we fail to con- ! “ be mos t effective way to get re- within the United States, only as ; trol :t. | suits. In business and industry tne Five millionth car Sept. 8, 1928 IXI Mass Production Gives Cheap Electricity agriculture it is natural that they should win out. For this reason the farmer has generally received the short end of the deal and is unable to compete with these organizations. If a group of experienced business men should go into the- farming bus iness and find that they were unable to market their products to advant age one of the first steps they would take would be to organize a corpora tion to handle this end of the busi ness. Experience has shown them that a corporation (which is an Gr and larger ward fewer companies generating units. During that tima the number of opc ating companies declined from C‘,255 to- 4,409, while the capacity al- nuai; clou bled and the number o" kil owatt hours generated went up from 43 billion to 75 billion. I This is the reason why we get! you, electricity so cheaply, in spite of in constantly bettered service. Mass! production is today a synonym of economy and efficiency. Outmoicd, petty methods meant duplication and waste. The modern generating plant, serv ing a tremendous territory, takes the place that was formeily held by sev eral small plants. It has at its com mand engineering and service facili ties that no small plant cctild possib ly provide. Its limitless resources permit of extensions and improve ments that would be financially im possible for the small plant. When sales are few, large profits must be made on each sale. Mass production, on the other hand, as sures good total profits with veiy small individual profits. This is the principle that has made the electric industry great and has enabled it to give necessary service at a negligible cost. great as its highways ? An affirm ative answer may be a trifle harsh and a bit overdrawn, but at that it would not m:s s the mark a great deal.” IXI Card Of Thanks From Mr. W. T. Strom -Y_ WVirds are inadequate to express my sincere appreciation to my friends who so loyally supported me in the election of September 11th. I am grateful fo* the noble hospi tality extended to me by the people of McCormick Cou.-.ty during the campaign. I dare say there is not a more hos pitable people. W. T. STROM. IXI Trying to keep up with some neighbors, is a good way to get be hind. X Now is the time of year when mos- quit<>3 are taking up bare back aid ing. ; corporation has been proved by num- i p mi ■ crous examples to be more efficient Card Or Thanks Erom tban tbe ^^viduai and it is now the A/T TAJ 1 accepted method of conducting busi- iVlr. i-j Cl 111 1111 (IS ness where large interests are con- . cerned. Dear Mr. McCracken: A farmers’ cooperative marketing Please allow me space in your val- Organization is in form essentially ued columns to express to the people the same type of organization as a of the entire county my appreciation corporation with the exception that for the splendid vote given me on * usual, y has no capital stock and last Tuesday. I want especially to that is better favored by federal thank those who did not see fit to and state laws than the business cor- cast their vote for me, for the kind P°ration. Given a business manage- and courteous treatment extended to ment equal to that of a successful me at all times. I realized tVom the, commercial or ind ustri a l corporation outset that if I was to be elected it and there is no rea son why the far- would be by the defeat of some of the 1 mers ’ co-operative should not be very best men of the county and I ef l ual, y as successful When it is con- deem it a privilege and honor to sider cd that the farmers’ co-opera- claims them as friends. It shall be my tive is f avorcd by law and can borrow purpose to show my appreciation by! cheap government money it may be giving to the county the best service seen tbat tbe farmers have a distinct of which I am capable. advantage if they wish to use this Yours truly, methdd of organizing their business. R. N. EDMUNDS. ! X Parksvillq. S. C. IXI When the political pe-t boils, there is always a lot of smoke. A man in a neighboring State died other day and left the government $16,000. The strange part of it was, the man was a farmer.