Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ . -V r J&rsSay, January 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SoutV CaroTtn*. Page Number Font RfrfflRMinK MKSSRNGER anything like adequate machinery iTlL*30£tilUmi for administration. No law of this Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 kind can possibly be self-operative and no matter how liberal in terms or broad in coverage scope, it will bring discouragement and disap pointment to the supposed bene ficiaries unless administered vigor- Entered at the Post Office at Me- ously by an agency sympathetic Cormick, S. as mail matter of with its purpose and unhampered the second class. iby technicalities. EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and- Owner DISPLAY ADVERTISING— in the industries making them they should result in increased ^ lime lit 8 vrllt' business and increased profits. The | To FcirmerS For 1930 entry of numerous states and mu- ’ nicipalities into the borrowing field with bond issues for construction purposes will be another important ‘ factor, as will -the expected in- j crease in general building lines. Even in the industries in which BY W. W. LONG, DIRECTOR OF EXTENSION ‘SERVICE 25 cents per inch for each inser- administration” system tion; ncthmg less *than 4-inches compensation law prevails. We shall have to admit that 1929 has been disappointing so far there have been recessions, manu- *? c l OI l ocrned ’ but wc Specially is this true in those ; f ac t U rers feel that a huge demand " reason t0 look forward to 1930 1 s as a turning point, because the has at last established a definite policy by cn- states in which the so-called “court j ^ b ei n g stored up for future pur- t f P° int ’ - administration” system of tho : r has P s anrt Pvnprf ^ Federal Government chases and expect to go ahead pre accepted for double column dis- states with this system, there is no ' sufficient 1 t^meetT it! °Thus S f^r aclhlg legislation creating the Fcd- play, nor less than 2 inches fpr state commission or department to little increase in unemnlovment eral Farm Marketing Act and the single column display.- enforce and administer the statute, h as been annarpn t inHuc P^'ident by appointing a commis- ex-i Si eh“Le BiTCn “ . ONE - THIRD iniured' employes are left to tries are expected to respond to the °* expe . ri2nced — U1 ullluc lu oe • ex..a eh„rge. , the tender mercies of claim agents (suggestion made in the Hoover ” ever , haVm ^ h , eld two years, and also for the nv.rno^ Notice Of Election j STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Town cf McCormick. In accordance with the crovis- ■ ions of an ordinance of the Town of McCoimick. a Primary Election • will be held on the Second Tues day in February, 1930, (being the 11 day of February) at th° Can’t House in said Town of McCormack for the purpose of nominating candidates for the office of Mayo” and Six Aldermen for the said ■ Town cf McCormick. S. C.. for the term commencing April 6th, 1930, and said terms of office to be fo Adults, Too, Prefer “No Dosing” for Colds Millions Adopt External Remedy Made Famous As Treatment For Children’s Colds BUSINESS READING NOTICES: of insurance carriers. conferences not to cut wages. been^dpJnl^rf tn^ • having ,of nominating a candidate for die ! 6 per cent per line for each inser- Settl « n ’ ents f ° r . injuries are | Agricultural conditions are bet- '' » J offlce of Commissioner of Public i made between the injured worker ter than th have been to severa , No other country has enacted , Works of the Town of McCoj;nick ! years and if the year’s crops are mL Z Z i for the term commencing April 6th. j good, farmers will probably be ket ° n _ act An thafi 1930 ’ t0 succeed CommissLcr .T, I more nrosnerous than at anv time f s required of c Brown whose term of office ex- pires on said date, said Com-nis- “ waKT'knvi 6 « WOrdS t 40 llne „ and the claim agent, and such » -’ oents per hne a g reemcn t is presented to a judge for each insertion, average of 6 -h. u . words to line. for hls TR1RITTFS nr Rrcprrrr a system leaves ^ worker practi- raiBUTOS OF RESPECT, 6 cente u helpless, but his common law per line, 6 words to line. ... V folrQ „ „. , . . . . „ right, of recovery has been taken eimt. i” j. 8 away and he is perforce limited to ■ if J- c° umn e, c x ra w |, a { anything, he can secure fL 8 „ type ,° n “ U H Sing a from an unsympathetic claim advs., except head and ^ wlth appea] t0 a judge not overly familiar with the pro forma approval, such a more prosperous than at any time SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months v .75 Three Months 'j>0 moo , , , ... .the farmer is to put himself in a evcenelt V i W0U f V k “ position, by organizing commodity neifenndftiV ° n 8enera bUSl - associations, to receive aid in the Taken all in all, the year 1930 ! lntell «cnt distribution and mar- promises to be a good one for the United States. If it is not a rec ord-breaker, it should be remem- ibered that it is not possible to go statutes or Its puipose and without | on indefinitely having record a background of industrial knowl edge. The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions and the Association of Government Officials in Indus try, as well as the American Asso ciation for Labor Legislation, have T . . . ^ ^ gone on record strongly in opposi- It is forecast that the states will to «« court administration spend approximately $1,100,000,000 duringl930 on highway construc tion. Municipalities and counties Roads For 1930 are expected to expend an equal amount, or a total of over two bill- increase over 1929. ion dollars. This is a substantial A quarter-century ago road building appropriations were an in significant part any governmental budget; now they are exceeded by -few oQier items. ~Gqr progress, so cial and industrial, is determined to a large extent by the adequacy of our highways. No community cah hang back from the trend, without imperiling its development. As trunk highways are improved there is a growing necessity for farzri market roads. A farmer liv ing 10 miles from a trunk highway and inaccessible to a properly built feeder road to that highway, is practically isolated from the stand point of reaching markets with a load of produce, several months of the year. ‘ These feeder, or farm market rcv.ds, must be iriiproved or built not only to furnish additional transportation routes and relieve congestion on through roads, but to give the farmer his just share of improvements and public road funds which are expended. Every state, in addition to each mile of through highway, probably needs 10 miles of less expensively improved farm market, or feeder roads. -_*X* WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION system. A year ago, when it seem ed that Arkansas would adopt a workmen’s compensation statute, the United States bureau of labor statistics and the New York state department of labor urged that, rather than accept a “court admin istration” system, no statute at all should be adopted. And so, while there now appears to be no need for this or other or ganizations to promote the exten sion of compensation theory, there is a very need to prevent the set ting up of misleading legislation and jto bring about improvement in the statutes of those states wherein the principle of workmen’s compensation is accepted but the real substance withheld. txt CASTING A BALLOT breaking years. The nation has gone through a period of unpre cedented prosperity and should it not be able to keep up quite to the mark it has set, there should be no gnimbling. From all present in dications, however, it should not fall far short of it.. x-x The Offset i (Spartanburg Herald.) While South Carolina as one of four states without such laws, is being urged to consider and pass at the approaching session of the General Assembly adequate work men’s compensation legislation, a discussion of such legislation by the industrial commissioner of New ' York in a contribution to the Unit ed States Daily, will be of interest and help, Mr. Perkins says: The rapid spread of workmen’s compensation legislation in this country during the past 15 years is most amazing to students of political economy, and is highly pleasing to proponents of social legislation everywhere. But mere ly because most of our states have adopted some form of compensa tion principle we must not assure ourselves that workmen and their families of 45 states are adequately protected against the economic dis tress that follows Industrial ac cidents. Unfortunately in many instances A real need in our State is for our citizens to realize the value of the suffrage and to take advant age of opportunities to exercise the privilege of expressihg our belief and bur desires at the polls. Practically all of our elections are either won or lost “by default.” There ar;e so few votes cast in any ordinary election that it is fentirely possible to say with regard to the results, if it is good, that it lay in jeopardy by reason of the apathy of the great majority of the votes; if the result be bad, that it might just as easily have been different, had the qualified voters gone to the polls and performed a duty and at the same time exercised a real and sacred privilege.—Keowee Courier. There is too much indifference to this vital duty of citizenship. In general and special elections there is the pitifully insignificant ma jority that decides the issue how ever, far-reaching its effect. Only recently in a city a bond issue of $390,000 or $400,000 was carried by a scant hundred or more votes out of a voting strength of some 5,000 or 6,000.—Spartanburg Journal X Business Prospects Are Very Good (The Charleston Evening Post) The holiday shopping season, about which business circles were so much perturbed following the stock market crash, has come and gone and according to such reports as have been made available, busi ness was at least as good as in the same season of 1928, which is say ing a suggestion to call for either j our most sincere acclaim or protest; it must be care- many acts of kindness to us dur- fully scrutinized and analyzed. The ing the illness and at the death of common carriers of the country our father, Mr. I. N. Ooleman. are the main arteries that feed it Words are inadequate to truly ex- . . in every sense of the word. Any press our deep appreciation. We poses. Some of the laws are so was highly encouraging to those plan that embodies sweeping also wish to express our thanks for weak in benefits and so limited in who had feared there might be a change from the status quo will the beautiful floral offerings. , ing a great deal. There was some the statutes indicate that the com- falliife off, to be sure, notably in pensation principle is spread too automobile purchases,” but on the thin * for any real remedial pur- whole, the volume of business done Th® Yorkville Enquirer quotes fromni talk delivered by W. W. Smoak. in its town, to the effect that “South Carolina imports $40,- 000,000 worth of canned goods each year.” Coming with The Enquirer in the same mail was The Colum bia Record, with an offset to this line of talk. It was telling of the operations of a cannery opened at Fairfax, last March. Fairfax is a small town, but its cannery, oper ated only a part of the season, shipped 1,440,000 cans of its pro ducts and has not stopped, for it has turned to canning sweet pota toes and expects to ship thousands of cases of this product before it has used up the crop provided by the farmers, and it is so much en couraged at the success of its first season, that it is preparing td en large its capacity for next year. A few more canneries like that at Fairfax, and South Carolina will turn to shipping canned goods, in stead of importing them. In our own State we have a particular example of what the cannery can do for a community in the extra ordinary success that has attend ed the cannery at Hendersonville. The cannery and the dairy barn are doing their bit toward bring ing prosperity to the front door.— Charlotte Observer. . txt MERGING NOT SO EASY There has been no hilarious ac claim of the Interstate Commerce Commission’s wholesale merging of all the railroads into nineteen sys tems. The people have not forgot ten how the country responded to Mr. Roosevelt when he prevented the merging of the Northern Se curities corporation. They had a fear of transportation monopoly. Since then the Congress has guar anteed profits to railroads, thus showing some change in opinion. It seems that Congressional ac tion wi 1 ! be .lecessary to the merg ing. S >mo cf the railroads are not eager and there is muen doubt as to the wisdom of the proposition. Some of the great captains of in dustry and bankers are warning against overdoing this merger business.—Raleigh News and Ob server. The Interstate Commerce Com mission plan to merge all the rail roads into 19 systems it too sweep- keting of his crops. It must be perfectly obvious that the Govern ment cannot deal with the individ ual farmer. Just think for a mom ent what the Government offers— sufficient funds for the commodity associations to withhold the pro ducts from the markets until fair and remunerative prices can be paid, furnishing a large part of the necessary capital to purchase equipment, such as warehouses, compresses, etc., to make it possible for the farmers through their or ganization to secure funds to own co-operative gins, co-operative oil mills, etc. If this means anything it means the first step in organiz ing agriculture. The farmers’ responsibility, which is great, is to elect directors of their commodity associations of intelligence and experience in bus iness affairs, men who are more interested in the success of their association than in the salaries they are to receive. Unless the farmers are going to give special attention to the selection of the officials, including directors as well as ethers, then they may expect failures, no matter what the Gov ernment does. If the farmers are not going to co-operate with the Government in making this legis lation sucotss^pl, then I would like to know what they propose to do? The success or failure of the Federal J Farm Maketing Act is largely in the hands of the farm ers. The federal Farm Board has ■ stated in a public meeting that when a commodity association bor rows money from the Board the Board will exercise Governmental supervision so long as the organi zation owes it money. The Federal Fard Board has suggested that a survey of the present associations be made by its representatives, the agricultural colleges ,the Exten sion Services, and representatives of the associations. It will be interesting to know that a letter has been addressed to the Federal Farm Board signed by. Hon. John E. Wannamaker, chairman of the Board of Trustees cf Clemson College, Mr. Alfred Scarborough, general manager of the South Carolina Cotton Co-op erative Marketing Association, and the Director of the Extension Ser vice requesting a survey of the cotton Association at an early date. Speaking for the Extension Ser vice I wish to say that this sur vey will be as thorough and com plete as can be made. I am very sure that the Farm Board and the officials of the Cotton Asso ciation are equally anxious that the survey be made efficiently and thoroughly. So after all the future holds out hope for agriculture, but let us remember that we must do our part. txt . A generation ago, when Vicks VapoRub was originated, the idea of treating colds without “dosing” was almost unheard of. Today, the whole trend of medical practice is away from needless “dosing.” Mothers of young children espe cially have been quick to appreciate this better, external method of treat ing colds, because there’s nothing to swallow and, of course, nothing to upset the little ones’ delicate stom achs. Year by year more and more adults, too, have found Vicks equally good for their own colds. Just rubbed on, Vicks acts through, the skin like a poultice or plaster; and, at the same time, it releases medicated vapors which are inhaled direct to the inflamed air-passages. Ever-increasing demand for this better method of treating colds is shown in the familiar Vick slogan. Made famous when Vicks reached “17 Million Jars Used Yearly”— later raised to “21 Million”—there are now “Over 26 Million Jars Used Yenrlv.” 1 w m 1 LET US FILL YOUR AUTO NEEDS sioner of Public Works to bo elect ed for a term of six years. J. C. Corley, Clerk; J. M. Brown. H. C. Walker and T. J. Sibert are appointed Managers of said Pri- 1 T mary Election. A second Primary will be held on Tuesday, February 25th, 1930, if same shall be neces sary. Managers of said election shall open the polls at 3 o’clock a. m., and close them at 4 o’clock p. m.. All candidates for the above named offices of the Town of Mc Cormick shall.file with the Clerk of the said Town a pledge in writ ing to abide the results of the Pri mary and to support the nominees thereof. All candidates for Mayor shall at the time of filing said pledge pay an assessment of $5.00 each; all candidates for Aldermen and Commissioner of Public Works shall at the time of filing their pledges pay an assessment of $2.00 each. All pledges and assessments of candidates must be filed and paid on or before 12 o’clock Merid ian of the last Tuesday in January next, preceding the primary elec tion. No vote for any candidate who has not paid his assessment nor complied with the rules shall be counted. G. C. Patterson is the duly ap pointed Supervisor of Registration of the Town of McCormick and the place for enrollment of voters for said Primary Election and for Reg istration of Voters of the Town of McCormick is hereby designated as For safe, dependable winter driving see us for Prest-O-Lite Batteries, 0- as good as the best. ^ Goodyear Tires, the rub- greatest name in *ei her. Weed Chains for wet the store of Patterson’s Clothinc, i Company on Main Street in the Town of McCormick. AUSTIN ABERCROMBIE. Mayor. C. K. EPTING, J. W. CORLEY, L. N. BROWN, C. H. HUGULEY, C. R. STROM, J. L. JENNINGS. Town Council of the Town of Me Cormick, S. C. ATTEST: J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk. Jan. 6. 1930.-3t. Card Of Thanks We wish to express our deep ap preciation to relatives and friends who have been so thoughtful of us, for their many acts of kindness to us and for every prayer that has been prayed for us since the death of our dear husband and papa. May God’s richest blessings rest upon each of you. Mrs. J. F. Bracknell and Chil dren. X MRS. R. M. BARDEN HOME FROM HOSPITAL Card Of Thanks We use this method of extending to our neighbors and other friends. thanks for the The Family. coverage scope that one may doubt let-down In this important item of necessarily have to be brought whether any advantage over the the year’s trade that would have about gradually. Certainly there old liability theory and procedure unfavorable results. is no prospect that anything will has accrued to the workers. I As matters stand now, the na- be done in the near future with re- , The legislature of a state that tion prepares to miter a new year spect to the announcement to the limits or removes the conimon law with every reason for confidence Interstate Commerce Commission. I We use this medium to express remedy of recovery and substi- that fairly good times will prevail.! And congress will have a say. No to our many friends our sincere j>| roads. «£<3») Denatured Alcohol, for your radiator's sake. We are ready and anxious to serve please you. and GULF SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. KMT AD VS. I AM BUYING beef cattle, good milch cows and hogs at highest market prices. See me before sell ing. Jamie L. Smith, McCormick, S. C.—4t. LOST—On* December 26th, one red male shoat with black spots on back, weighs between 50 and 60 pounds. Notify D. W. Weeks, Rt. 1, McCormick. S. C. FROST PROOF PLANTS — For Sale—Cabbage and Bermuda On ion Plants all varieties, $1.50 per 1000, 5000 lots, $1.25 per 1000. Prompt Shipment. Dorris Plant Co., Valdosta, Ga. Card Of Thanks totes a weak prescription under | In most of the basic industries the label of workmen’s compensa- 1 conditions as are sound as ever, tion is entitled to no thanks from The enormous improvement pro- any one, least of all from those ‘grams projected by railroads, pub-, whose protection it purports to se- lie utilities, steel plants and others . ! are certain to require something Unfortunately, too, law makers lilae capacity manufacture in the to seiuie states have failed to set hp material and accessory lines, while creature is greater than its creator, thanks for the many useful gifts and the Interstate Commerce Com- and sympathy given and extended mission will have to get Congres- us since the burning of our home, sional approval to far-reaching We are unable to see you all plans of shaking up the transpor- personally but wish to thank you tation system of the continent and for your kindness, readjusting it along Its own lines. I Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mattison and —Spartanburg Journal. 1 Family. % Mrs. R. M. Barden is at her home 1211 Sixth street from Columbia hospital lifter an appendicitis op eration performed several days ago.—Columbia State. 1X1 Failure to grade eggs is one rea son why many farmers don’t get a higher average price per dozen for their eggs. When small and bad eggs are marketed with good ones the result is a lower price for all. If only a few eggs are obtained from a small flock, grading is less likely to be done than when the eggs are produced by a good-sized FOR RENT OR SALE—Anyone flock. A flock of 200 to 400 birds ( wanting to buy, rent or sell lands, is particularly desirable, in order: I can accommodate at attractive that the marketing of the eggs and prices and terms. Insurance of all also the management of the flock kinds . M. L. B. Sturkey, McCor- may be put on the most ecenomi- mick. S. C. 4tpo. cal basis. i — X FOR SALE—Good wheat straw, Sheredded corn stover has about some loose and other baled, at the same feeding value as un- reasonable price. Apply at Mes- shredded st®ver. It is batter than 1 senger office, timothy hay or straw for NEW OR OLD PIANOS—Tuned repaired and put in best possible condition. John A. Holland, The Greenwood Piano Man, Greenwood, S. C. milk , —^—■ ^ — ,l cows, and better than straw for Never fit a garment wrong side horses. For bedding purposes, out. A person’s left and right shredded stover is more valuable sides are seldom exactly alike^a^d than straw, and much better than , when the garment is turned right the long unshredded stover. j side out it may not fit smoothly.