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Thursday, January 2, 1930
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORAlIGR, South Carotins*.
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McCORMICK MESSENGER
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EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
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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.
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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.
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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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HIGHEST QUAL
ITY MEATS AT
LOWEST PRICES
A. f>ro?.cl assertion, v/cii a'lmit but ou . ,u«i iue
our meats for a while, you’ll find you will appre
ciate the truth of it.
For tastiness and wholosomencss, our meats are
second to none and when it comes to price, you’ll
find you can always buy here cheaper than else
where.
We also have a fine supply of fresh fish and
oysters for those who like seafoods.
A. H. FAULKNER
MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C.
Business And Politics
(From The Columbia State.)
reaching
very e
A great political change whose
consequences will be most far-
g place under our
ny decades pol-
ctically monop-
and orators,
industry began
des they found
ed and controll-
by the politician,
en but to come to
somehow. These
of patronage and
friends at court
legislative halls, the
the cabinet, and
ency, were filled
pwed their positions
large part to the
and influence of
siness had enter*
:h the back ; door,
nt might have
ry to both par-
itely but for the
power of the
e glare of pub-
re intense each
of lobbyists,
, senators, and
•wing too thick
ashed or de-
r arrangement
The era of
ng to a close,
t the lobbyist
have known
is rare as a
that progress
the path is
of politician
>olitician—is
id Hoover,
Irundy are
The model
ful and at-
:essor, but
.and better
ionly time
better to
and di-
iretly and
^r for the
^.Darkness
ise and
.light in
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loth will 1
le, and
[to pass
Principle
to the
ethics as
st represen-
Irry over into
jigh standards of
[play the nation
id lose nothing,
there is every
the history of
rnient is • any
performance,
many cem-
ficial cabinet of
captains of in-
mdid opportun-
a new, epoch-
jf national his-
ler the coup-de
asm. Sovietism.
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Jatorships, with j
nations are;
igerously. Re
affiliation,
st wish the
business-politician, as a type. God
speed and abundant success.
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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.