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9 T’ I Thursday, January 2, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORAlIGR, South Carotins*. Pape iS umber T wo McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. DISPLAY ADVERTISING— cents per inch for each inser tion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column dis play, nor less than 2 inches for single column display. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. BUSINESS READING NOTICES: 6 per cent per line for each inser tion, average of 6 words to line. WANT AD VS., 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months — .75 Three Months .50 Better Education Approximately, there are 80,000,- 000 persons in the United States over 21 years of age, and at least 40,000,000 of these could be educat ed further in some organized way, the National Home Study Council points out, adding that not less than 10,000,000 of these adults, however, are getting some kind of “tklucation” in some one, or more, of the many different ways. Furthermore, the council de- —s^ eJarea at least one-tenth of the —country’s 1 adult population are earnestly trying to improve them selves and their welfare through aimless, or unorganized, home study, largely directed by their own impulses. However, a recent •survey covering the field of adult education reveals an increasing trend toward expertly directed home study instruction as given approved schools. This fact by the raster of going. His answer was: “To Char leston.” Further inquiry revealed the fact that there were ten trucks* in the fleet with an average of six teen bales of cotton and that they were all from Westminster. Here then was one shipment of one hundred and sixty bales of cotton being made over state high ways from Westminster to Char leston. from the mountains to the ^ea. The whole thing was un dreamed of ten years ago. The trucks were making the trip over roads which had not cost the owners a penny directly. The maintenance does not concern them at all. Railroads which lost this ship ment of cotton will have to pay taxes this year to help pay for the building of these roads and for the upkeep of the roads. And they will have to keep on paying such taxes for many years yet to come and the highways are taking busi ness away from them. We tax ourselves and the railroads to build roads which take business away from the railroads whose taxes help to run our schools and many other public institutions. Some day this anomalous situa tion will dawn on the people and something will be attempted.' Why not try to study it out now?—An derson Daily Mail. txi Home-Town Paper i The home-town paper is the town’s best advertisement. It is widely distributed and each and every issue reflects accurately the business life of the community. An editor may work his heart out but unless he is given support and en couragement by the business men the paper will not prosper and it is impossible to render the service that would result from more lib eral support. Georgia has several weekly papers that issue from twelve to twenty-four pages every week. They are a Wonderful trib ute to the enterprise of the busi ness men who make this possible. On the other hand these are many papers that issue only eight pages and this is often done under severe handica the bus in ha but slam them in the face of Hef lin. This is not written as a brief for Heflin. This paper is not overburd ened with admiration for Tom, who mistakes strenuosity for states manship. This paper did not want Smith nominated, but took its medicine when the Democracy poured out the dose. It wants to see the Democracy return to power and sweep this country. To have a chance to do so, the party mus" not only win recruits from the Re publican ranks, but win back those who strayed from the Democratic fold last fall. Now, Senator Heflin’s colleage, Senator Black, questions the legal-' ity of the disbarment procedure against the farmers and quotes the plain, unequivocal statute under which the fiery senator can chal lenge the whole action of his state committee. Anyway, if Tom gets all his personal followers and the Anti-Smith vote in Alabama com bined, he really won’t need help in any form.—Anderson Independent. txt An Editor Speaks Up (From The Macon Telegraph) Robert Quillen, well known to newspaper and magazine readers, runs a little paper over in South Carolina called the Fountain Inn Tribune. In a recent issue of the paper, he had this to say: “The business men of Fountain Inn have been asked to pay $250 for a survey of the town, the ob ject being to discover what ad vantages and inducements this place has to offer a Northern cot ton mill that wishes to come South. If they pay it, they are suckers. No mill would consider coming here. There are no transportation facilities; there is no water; taxes are high. There is no reason on earth why a mill should locate here. And if .>any mill owner should contemplate such a surdity, he would s buy a site wit purpose an an ac: the association, to describe the struggles cf girls and women f o obtain the necessities of life at the wages offered in many New York offices and factories. “ ‘The very lowest sum for which a girl can get shelter and three meals a day in New York City is $14.69,’ she said. “These figures were compiled in September. 1929. by the Bureau of Women in In jus- try of the State Department < ~- Labor. This sum dees net provide for clothes, or even car fare. At the same time, the current begin ner’s wage was from $13 to $15 a week. You see at once that the wage was not sufficient to obtain the necessities of life, much less the insurance against illness and :ld age which ought to be included : .n a proper wage.’ “Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, vice- vresident of the association, pre- •idei and introduced Ivlis; Mar shall, who announced her belie! that the solution of the housing problem for girls lay in the self- supporting club in which the girls were not subsidized by any phil anthropic group. “She estimated that about 25,000 girls in Manhattan alone were ‘econcmifcally adrift,’ that is, liv ing away from their parents’ homes, and dependent wholly up on their wages. Of these, she said about 6,000 were in partly charit able institutions.” While unsatisfactory conditions here shoud be corrected, let none suppose that only in the South is there need for improvement in la bor conditions. ! 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God speed and abundant success. -txt Union Labor Should Wait (Editorial The Columbia Record. Columbia, S. C., Issue November 26, 1929.) So truce arranged for by Presi dent Hoover between labor and capital is not to apply to the South. There is no opposition among many people in the South towards having the union try to organize the cotton mill employees, but if there is to be a making of an exception of the South it will not lie well. If there is to be a truce let the : be a truce, ana organized lab' will not advance its interest amon ; those who are kindly disposed to it by making an exception of the South. The proposal of President Wil liam Green, of the American Fed eration of Labor, to campaign North and South Carolina, Geor gia and Alabama, while the rest of the country is resting on its oars, is bound to stir resentment that will not help the cause of organ ized labor. 1 If there is to be a resting from agitation elsewhere as proposed by President Hoover there should be a resting here. This thing of making the South an exception stirs the blood, and will not do good. It would be infinitely better to wait until the embargo is raised elsewhere and then there will be an open and unprejudiced mind. Federal Trade Commission states ihat practically all of larger oil companies have accepted trade practice rules adopted by petrol eum industry at St. Louis confer ence in February.