Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, January 16, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SautM CtroTin*. Pagc Number TfirSI Errors Of telligence, cooks in a kerosene stove. The double beds, in each Distant View of the two t>edrooms ‘> were cover ed with snowy counterpanes and | pillow cases. The cottage and the Editorial From The News and premises as clean as any in Spring- Courier, Charleston, S. C., January field . For this cottage the month- 2, 1930: An advertisement of the South ly rental is five dollars and that sum pays for electric lights, water Carolina Cotton Manufacturers’ | and sewerage. Additionally, the Association pointing out that un- ! family pbtains through the mill favorable legislation has caused company household fuel at whole- many cotton mills in New England | sale prices, about five or six dol- to go out of business arouses the lars a ton for bituminous coal, ire of The Springfield Republican In each of these villages is a bought one, second-hand, for $15 j norance and crude interference and sold it for $20. Nor is this i with it might well drive a number man the only creditor among the j of companies into bankruptcy. workers of the mill company. Not in all mills of South Caro lina are conditions so favorable as in these two, but in most of them they are not dissimilar. In That would be to create another unemployed class. The raising of wages in 50 per cent of the South ern mills would be no boon to 50 per cent of the workers in the oth- our textile industry ' are “sore 1 er plants deprived of their oppor- and, in The News and Courier’s opinion, causes it to fall into ig- brick schoolhouse as well equipped, we make bold to say, as are those spots,” but they are not typical. The reference of The Republican to “average wages as low as $9.56 tunity to earn a livelihood. Again, The News and Courier would say that it believes that the in South Carolina” is wholly un- i Southern mill managers should just. The average wage of an i strive to reach agreement for fur- adult full time mill worker is ap proximately $16 a week, but hard- norant and erroneous statements, of Springfield. The cost of each The News and Courier does not was about $30,000 and to that the care to discuss the question fur- mill company contributed one- ther whether the forty-eight hour third. In Arial village is a brick week in Massachusetts has demor- “union” church recently erected by alized the state’s textile business, the owners of the mill for the use but it does not think that The Re- of employees, which must have publican is justified in speaking cost them around $15,000. of “sweating labor in South Caro- | “How many automobiles?” was lina.” It wishes that its represen- the question put to the superin- tative could have accompanied a tendents of both mills and in both member of The New? and Cour- cases the reply was, “30 per cent ier’s staff on a visit to the Alice of our people own them.” Neat and the Arial mills, each having garages near the cottages confirm about 43,000 spindles and owned the statements. These garages are by the same corporaton, in Pick- I built by the owners of the vehicles, ens County, a few weks ago. He ' The operatives are paid twice would have seen communities of j a month in cash. They trade with strong, healthy, vigorous men and ! the merchants in the nearby vil women. No evidence of discon tent would have met his eyes. The Arial mill village, on the wooded foothills of a mountain, is not unlike in appearance one of the summer settlements of middle class Floridians in the North Caro lina mountains. The newspaper.might have gone into a cottage having four large rooms besides a kitchen and wash room. There was no bathroom but there was running water and sewerage. In the family of three one was working wlio earns $20 a week. The cottage has hardwood floors. The housewife, a woman of excellent manners and decided in ly is the machinery of any mill manned by whole time workers. A mill that could be operated by 500 persons usually has around 700 on ther reduction of the hours of lab or. That and not wages is the crux of the problem. We believe that fifty-five hours is too long a week’s work for the wholesome de velopment of the worker’s life, that Smith Proves Farming Can Be Made Profitable its payroll and many of them work i to find work for the poor white lage of Easley and are credited by them as other people are. The Republican’s representative could have talked, as The News and Courier’s did, with a lean, wiry citizen who had been in the mill village twelve pears, who earns $24.75 a week as “outdoor man” and $5 additional paid by the coun ty as a deputy sheriff, a total of $29.75. He holds the notes of the mill company for $4300, interest at 6 per cent payable semi-annual ly. He lives in his own house which The Republican’s man would say was worth at least $5,000. One thing that he does not own is an automobile. He said that he a third of a day or less. When the whole number of wage receivers is divided into the total weekly pay roll the quotient is an wage that means nothing. The gist of the matter is that the labor supply is far in excess of the jobs offering. 'Thousands of people at the end of their tether on the farms are knocking at the mills’ gates. It is silly to talk about “sweating” mill labor as long as men and women by companies are begging to be “sweated.” The effort of outside agitators to sep arate the mill labor question in the South from the general South ern labor condition is obviously people is the desideratum in the South, and we repeat that em phasis on the wage scale in a re average | gion where a huge over-supply of J labor is, the fact is hostile to la bor itself however well it be in tended. One wishes that The Republican could see South Carolina through its own eyes. tXt Two Kinds Building Congress has already authorized appropriations of $248,000,000 for buildings throughout the states and $75,000,000 for structures to be impossible of achievement. One is) erected in the national capital. It surprised that so intelligent newspaper as The Republican does not perceive it. While the New England textile industry apparent ly has been fatally wounded, the Southern industry is far from ro bust. Only the well managed mills are earning any profits whatso ever, and those concerns in which labor conditions are not good are of course those that are least pros perous. The problem of the Southern textile industry is delicate, and ig- is estimated that an additional $175,000,000 will be requested dur ing the present session of Congress. Only $1,500,000 is asked for by the bill, now pending in Congress, pro viding for the establishment of a national Department of Education, and this looks to the building of a greater American citizenship through the agency of the public schools. IXJ Greet the new year while it is young. Old age is not far away. i., ave you seen sensational new Chevrolet COLUMBIA, Jan. 14.—B. R. Smith, prominent farmer of Johns ton, Edgefield County, who has been adjudged winner of the 1929 state-wide cotton contest conduct- ! ed by Clemson College, has proved that farming can be made profit able even under the very adverse conditions which have prevailed during the past five years. Every year he has managed to make money despite boll weevils, drouths, floods and storms and he has im proved a badly run down farm which he bought near Johnston twenty-nine years ago until today it is one of the most fertile farms in South Carolina. Winning prizes is no novelty with Mr. Smith, in fact he has been winning them consecutively since 1926 and he counts that year lost whose last day arrives with no outstanding achievement on his part. In 1926, Mr. Smith won second state prize in the state-wide cot ton contest, producing over two bales per acre, notwithstanding the drougth. In 1927, a wet year, he won the state championship in corn, producing an average of over 100 bushels of com per acre on a five-acre plot. In 1928, also an ex tremely wet year, he won second prize in the centrol district in the state-wide five-acre cotton con test. Mr. Smith, however, does not center his attention on his contest plots as is evidenced by the fact that last year he matfe 84 bales of cotton on 64 acres. He cultivates his whole farm extensively, using modem methods and to this he ascribes the great success which has been his. Immediately after purchasing the old run-down farm he began to practice soil building and has kept it up ever since. Mr. Smith in speaking of his five-acre contest plot which won the state prize says that he fertil ized it with 460 pounds of Chilean Nitrate of Soda, 1000 pounds of 16 per cent Acid Phosphate and 200 peunds of Muriate of Potash per acre. On his regular crop in 1929 he used 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, 400 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate and 50 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. In winning the 1929 prize, Mr. Smith made 5770 pounds of lint cotton or over 11 bales on the five acre piet. — X Woman’s Bureau Collects Eloquent Statistics How To Run A Suc cessful Newspaper Getting out a newspaper is as easy as falling off a log. All you have to do is to obey the rules. All successful newspapers are built along the same lines. Here are some of the “musts” for successful newspapers: You must play grime, because the public just dotes on it. Ex ample: the Christian Science Mon itor. You must be “dry” because pub lic sentiment in America is “over whelmingly dry.” Example: the Chicago Tribune. People want the news boiled down to the last drop and stories must all be short. Example: the New York Times. People are tired of sex and newspapers that play sex can’t succeed any more. Example: the tabloids. You must have a good strong editorial page. Example: the Denver Post. Big heads are essential because people read only headlines, any way. Example: the Kansas City Star. You must have lots and lots of pictures, because a Chinese prov erb once said a/picture was worth 1,000 words. Example: the Spring- field Republican. You simply MUST have a page of comics daily. Example: the New York Times. . . . and so you see how easy it is to get out a successful newspa per. Just follow the rules.— Scripps-Canfield Bulletin. txt Would Have “Iodine Day” For State “IODINE DAY” gested for South 4 Ca as been sug- 'll Those who seek the utmost in motoring satisfaction—at sensationally low prices— should see and drive the Greatest Chevrolet in Chevrolet History . • . now on display in our showrooms! An improved 50-horsepower six-cylinder valve-in-head engine! Four Delco-Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers! Fully-enclosed, internal-expanding, weather-proof brakes! Heavier and stronger rear axle! New non glare windshield! New dash gasoline gauge! And scores of other features! Come in today and see this car. Drive it. Note how comfortable it is—how easy to handle— how flexible in traffic. And remember that it is now available— J** Economical Tran*fortmtion ^CHEVROLET greatly reduced prices! The ROADSTER The SPORT ROADSTER The PHAETON The COACH The COUPE The SPORT COUPE *495 The *525 The *495 The *565 The *565 The *625 The The CLUB SEDAN The SEDAN DELIVERY The LIGHT DELIVERY CHASSIS The 1 1-2 TON CHASSIS *625 *675 *595 *365 *520 *625 '/ill prices f. o. h. 'faeolry, Flint, Michigan SMOOTH BETTER The day is past when women wage earners can regard their sal aries as “pin money,” judging from a report recently published by Ag nes L. Peterson, Assistant Director of the Women’s Bureau in Wash ington. Exactly why double stand ard wages are. unfair in view of the heavy economic burden that most women bear is demonstrated in these most salient facts brought out by Miss Peterson: Women’s earnings from the last line of defense against the wolf at the door pf a large proportion of city families today. A contribution from women is often a necessity because of the increasing needs of the modem family and the high cost of liv ing. Information from 60,000 women reveals that more than half this number turn over all their earn ings to their families. Of 458 working mothers, only 108 report their husband’s salaries to be as much as thirty dollars a week, and they are constantly haunted by the dread of. sickness or unemployment. A study of over 17,000 unmar ried women shows that one in every five is caring for a family without any male help. Cooking, dishwashing, scrubbing, laundering and care of dependents are not reUmquished by most wo men who must struggle side by side with men. As a result of these investiga tions, Miss Peterson plans to ask that State and National Govern ments make a thorough study of the problem of women breadwin ners to prevent the wage exploita tion which constitutes a menace to the health of women and to the welfare of tfle race. __—,x Telephone plant extensions, ad ditions and betterments in 1330 will represent an expenditure of $700,000,000, according to an nouncement of American Tele phone and Telegraph Cocnpany. arolina by 3L—-* W. Shealy, Commissioner of Agri culture, Commerce and Industries, t in the following statement: As high grade products are pro duced in South Carolina as are produced in any state in the Un ion, and they also carry iodine and other minerals which should place them in demand everywhere, and especially by our own people. Therefore, as Commissioner of Ag riculture, and one deeply interest ed in the agricultural welfare of our state, as well as the health of our people, I suggest Wednesday of each week as ‘Iodine Day” in South Carolina. On Wednesday of each week may I suggest and urge every one in South Carolina to demand South Carolina grown products for their entire menu. In doing this we will be helping the producer, and at the same time, from a health stand point, be helping ourselves. It is my humble opinion that after practicing “Iodine Day” for awhile our people will make every day “lodhie Day.” If we believe in our South Car olina products and feel that they deserve consideration by those liv ing beyond the borders of our state, we should ourselves be in terested in the agricultural wel fare of South Carolina and our own health to the extent that we would demand South Carolina pro ducts first when making our pur chase. This would also co-oper ate with the great work of our South Carolina Natural Resources Commission in their campaign for better health, to get people to eat more South Carolina grown pro ducts rich in iodine. In doing this it will not only encourage the pro duction in South Carolina but will encourage the establishment of canneries in our state. I suggest to the Natural Re sources Commission that Wednes day ef each week be adopted as “Iodine Day” for the consumption of South Carolina products. “I further suggest to Governor Richards, Chairman of the South Carolina Natural Resources Com mission, that he appeal to the press of our state that they use their editorial columns to encourage the observance of “Iodine Day” and the consumption of South Carolina grown products along the line of • these suggestions. “By helping yourself you will help others, so help yourself to South Carolina grown products. J. W. SHEALY, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries. 666 for is a Prescriptioi Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue* Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy knowi%