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TEUB TO OURSELV3SS, OUE NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Twenty-Eighth Year
8 Pages — All Home Print
McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, January 23, 1930 Established June 5, 1902
Number 34
Senator Smith Gets
Money For Flood
Farmers Of 6 States
The Legislature
Re-elects Judges
The filling of vacancies in State
i offices by vote of the legislature
FARMERS IN SOUTHEAST WHO was taken by a joint session of the
SUFFERED FLOOD DAMAGES I house and senate last Thursday,
WILL GET LOANS
Engineer Rheney
Honored By His
Brotherhood Order
In a telegram to the Messenger i
The Augusta Herald of Sunday
gives the following account of the
with the results being as follows f j fete which will be of interest to
Associate Justice Jesse F. Car- Mr. Rheney’s friends along the
ter, re-elected to the supreme road. Mr. Rheney has been on the
road between McCormick and An
on January 17th, Senator E. D.! ccurt bench.
Smith savs: M. M. Mann, re-elected judge derson the past 29 years, with his
Immediately upon convening of first judicial circuit. home in McCormick the greater
my lat resolution 0r apifro I priatiIfg lt ”ix Hayne F. Rice, re-elected judge part of that time. The Herald
million dollars to loan farmers in second Circuit. • says:
Southeastern States to make 1930 Joh* S. Wilson, re-elected judge i Mr. W. E. Rheney, of McCormick,
crop. Secured unanimous consent third circuit. s. C., was honored here Saturday
p^sa^withlutT S dSn‘tmg a vote | f E ' Denn t is ’ re - eIected ^“ge:night by the Brotherhood of Lo-
Resolution now goes to house. fourth circuit. comotive Engineers on his 70th
Press reports of the same date! J. H. Henry, re-elected judge birthday.
Sa £L o ^ 4. ^ ! sixth circuit - Mr. Rheney has been with the
The Senate today adopted and i c c Fe atherstonc, re-elected charleston & Western Carolina
judge eighth circuit. Railroad for more than 45 years,
Thomas J. Mauldin, re-elected and holds the distinction of hav-
judge thirteenth circuit. i n g worn the honor badge of the
! Sam B. King, re-elected insur- organization since that time,
ance commissioner without opposi- showing continuous membership
tion. - in the brotherhood.
sent to the house a joint reso
lution by Senator Smith, Dem-
otfrat. South Carolina, to ap
propriate $6,000,000 to be used
this year as loans to farmers
of southeastern states whose
crops were damaged by floods
in 1929.
An attempt by Senator Harris, j
Clifton Rivers, re-elected Honoring Mr. Rheney, a short
Increase^of °3,o r oo!o6o t0 m 0bt th2 ap" 1 warehouse commissioner over Mel- , program was staged. Mrs. Forney's
propriation, was voted down when I vin J. Ashley, 97 to 49. j orchestra played several selections,
Senator McNary, of Oregon, as- Mrs. Virginia C. Moody, state j Miss Mary Givens gave a dance
that n the department ^f^agricui- I librari£n re-elected without oppo- : number, Joe Brucker played a sax-
ture had not approved the pro- j s ^ on - ophone solo, and Miss Gladys Lu-
posal. Sam C. Blease, of the second quire rendered a vocal solo.
The fund would aid farmers and j district, re-elected to the railroad ^ dance was then staged by
GeoreS° W North ^IrolSTa ^South I commission without opposition. Frank an d Elizabeth Kitchens, a
Carolina, and Virginia. A similar Earle R. Ellebree, of the sixth reading given by Miss Eleanor
amount was granted by congress | district, re-elected to the railroad p r i n tup, a solo dance by Frank
last year. | commission over Representative Kitchens, and a vocal solo by Miss
x William J. Revell, of Florence 101 Mary printup. Miss Elizabeth
Tim** TTni* to 50 - Kitchens closed the entertainment
A line A Ul oecnnig A E Hutchinson and J. G. wit v, a S0 i 0 dance
T> - n i Padgett, re-elected to the board of . ... M»rv
Pasture Grasses the Citadel without opposition. Just at thls P° int ' Miss Mary
! Thomas B. Butler and Cyrus L. Printup presented Mr Rheney
1 -P-PipptPrf trnstpps Uni- with a decorated birthday cake
The time for seeding lespedeza,! ofSmRhCaroiina without havin g 70 candles. More than 150
carpet grass, and other pasture; South Ca 0i j guests calling to pay their res-
crops for permanent pasture im- A pitts of Saluda pects to the veteran brotherhood
provement is right at hand, ac- Dr. Thomas A. Pitts of baiuaa ^
cording to Thos. W. Morgan, coun- “ c ™ a Zer Dr T H The celebration was held at the
ty agent, who states that he has | South Carolma . . ;Kni ht of p ythias H all on Jack-
already placed several orders for | P °P^ incumbent 94 to 45. i son Street.
pasture grass seeds, and will con- i The niembers of the ju iciary , ■ —’v-
tinue to order in co-operative lots were re-elected without opposition, j make ^ grazin g or
for the farmers of the county hay crop after the grain is cut.
throughout the season. not already on the land, it should carpet grass should be seeded
According to Mr. Morgan, last be seeded with the lespedeza on on low mo i S t bottom lands at the
year was the greatest year for pas- | upland pastures, either by putting rate of 8 pounds per acre. Scat-
ture improvement McCormick j out the cuttings or sowing the ter t h e see d over the ground and
county has ever had. Some 3,500 seed. leave them, or prepare the land
“Puzzled Voter”
Asks Questions On
County Affairs
pounds pasture grass seeds were
placed with the farmers of the
Lespedeza should be seeded on ; and SQW on top wi thout covering,
the upland pastures at the rate of The price of lespedeza seed will
county, and many wonderful dem- 20 to 25 pounds to the acre if there around $4.25 per bushel
onstrations of pasture improve- is no Bermuda sod on the land, of 25 pounds, which is prac-
ment are now in evidence over the and at the rate of 10 to 15 pounds tically the same as last year. The
county as a result. Lespedeza and
carpet grass, have proved to be the
best pasture crops for the county,
though, where Bermuda grass is
to the acre on Bermuda sod. Les- price of carpet grass is around 19
pedeza may also be scattered over cents per pound, which is also the
small grain at this time of the > same as last year. All farmers are
year or later, and be allowed to urged to place their orders early.
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POULTRY MR HERE
REDNESDAV, JAN. 29
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A poultry car will be shipped from McCormick
on next Wednesday, January 29. Loading from
ten o'clock in the morning until five o’clock in the
afternoon. The following listed prices will be paid:
Colored Hens 22c
Colored Fryers 22c
Leghorn Hens 19c
Leghorn Fryers 15c
Stags 15c
Cox 10c
Ducks and Geese 12c
Turkeys, No. i 25c
Capons, 7 lb*, and up 25c
Guineas 35c
Do not feed poultry on date of sale. Do not
bring poultry to car with feet tied. Remember the
date, next Wednesday, January 29, loading ten to
five o’clock at C. & W. C. Depot.
Buyer RISSER & RABINOW1TZ. Philadelphia, Pa
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'j MRS. NELL STALLWORTH, $,
$ Home Demonstration Agent.
| THOS W. MORGAN, |
^ County Agent.
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of accounts.
Editor Messenger:
Being a voter in the county and
having attended several citizens’
meetings here in the past several
months as a casual “looker-on”
and having become somewhat in
terested in the affairs of the coun
ty regarding the curtailment of ex
penses, especially as regards the
chain gang, I am asking that you
allow me a little space in this
matter.
I was interested in the queries
made by “Citizen” and must
frankly state that I was disap
pointed at the answer made to him
regarding the “gang.” It would
appear that . Senator Robinson
dodged the main issue. Were the
situation not so serious, it would
be positively amusing. As “Citizen”
truly stated, after the meeting held
at the October term of court at
which the meeting went on record
as favoring the abolition of the
chain gang, by a good majority,
the matter was referred to the
grand jury, then in session, and
which body was present at the
meeting, with the request that it
look into the operating costs of the
chain gang, make report and make
the proper recommendations to the
delegation. If this grand jury act
ed at all, no report nor recom
mendations seem to have been
made. This grand jury has serv
ed its time, with the exception of
six hold-overs for 1930.
Now the way I understand it,
“Citizen” stated that “as Senator
Robinson is in position to know,
or to ascertain, these operating
costs I am going to ask him to
give us these figures in your next
week’s issue.” The senator appar-
ehtly took it to mean that the
query was solely in regard to sal
aries paid bosses, guards, etc., con
nected with the gang. In order to
throw more light on the subject,
I am going to make a further ap
peal to the senator and will en
deavor to state it more explicitly
than “Citizen” did. What I, as well
as a great many / other voters,
would like to know is, the EXACT
TOTAL OPERATING COST OF
THE CAMP AND CHAIN GANG
FOR 1929, this to include not only
the salaried of those connected
with the gang (which according
to Clerk Patterson’s figures run
around $6,000.00) but also every
item of expense incident to the
maintenance of the camp and the
operation of the gang. May I ask
in this connection how many men
the county is supposed to board?
There should be nothing to con
ceal, it would appear to the look
er-on.
Clerk Patterson’s statement in
regard to the salary account Jan
uary 1, 1930, is not altogether clear.
Is this statement intended to show
what would be paid for the month
of January? Were not W. C. Wall
and E. N. Creswell, with salaries of
I $125.00 and $50.00 per month, res-
i pectively, in the employ of the
| county during the month of De-
! cember 1929, and would not these
amounts have to be paid in Jan
uary? It may mean that the list
given is the new salary scale.
It would seem that the time has
arrived to put the “cards” on the
table. If the chain gang is being
operated at a heavy loss, why
should any one in the county wish
to continue its operation? Certain
ly no one would continue to oper
ate an individual enterprise, year
after year, under such conditions.
Surely, Mr. Editor, your youngest
reader must realize that a bunch of
labor could be hired for far less
money than this enterprise is now
taking, if one may be guided by
reports. In such case, it should not
require the services of an expert
diagnostician to prescribe a rem
edy.
I trust that Senator Robinson
may see fit to give us this total,
without delay, as many would like
to know.
Yours for more light and some
action,
“Puzzled Voter.”
txi
A thirteen-month calendar has
been adopted by a large London
company to simplify the keeping
Plan How Much
Cotton To Plant
The time has come for southern
farmers to consider how much cot
ton they will plant next spring.
Last year’s acreage was too large.
It was the largest planted acreage
of any year in history, except 1925
and 1926. Nothing but crop fail
ure in Texas in 1929 prevented a
total yield of 16,000,000 bales in the
belt. That is more American cot
ton than the world will take at a
fair price.
A national acre yield equal to
that of 1926 on the 1929 \ acreage
would have produced 17,500,000
bales. A 10 per cent reduction in
that acreage with the 1926 acre
yield would return a crop of 15,-
750,000 bales; with average yields
13,500,000 bales; and with the
lowest yield in the past seven
years, about 11,250,000 bales. Large
cotton crops sell for less than small
ones. Ten million bales in 1923
sold for $1,600,000,000. Eighteen
million bales in 1926 sold for less
than $1,000,000,000; that is, far
mers picked and ginned 3 million
bales of cotton in 1926, gave them
to the world free of charge and, in
effect, paid $600,000,000 for the
privilege. That is not good busi
ness for farmers.
Some cotton farmers think be
cause the Federal Farm Board has
been lending to co-operatives at an
average of 16 cents a pound on
middling 7-8 inch staple of the
1929 crop, the Board means to see
to it that the price will be at
least that much for the crop of
1930.
This is not so. The Federal Farm
Board cannot protect farmers
when they deliberately over-plant.
What the Board will do to help in
marketing next year’s crop will
depend upon what farmers do at
planting time.
If southern farmers should
raise their own food and feed and,
in addition to that, should raise
the food that southern city peo
ple eat so far as the climate and
soil will let them, there would be
small danger of any cotton sur
plus or of an unprofitable price.
The Federal Farm Board recom
mends that southern farmers plant
no cotton next spring until they
have first provided acres enough
for a reasonable supply cf home-
raised food and feed. The Board
further recommends that no land
be planted to cotton which has not
produced at least one-third of a
bale per acre on the average of the
last five years.
These recommendations, if car
ried out by southern farmers,
would materially reduce the cotton
acreage and help to remove the
possibility of a cotton surplus.
IXJ
Fashionable London has taken
to counterpanes of the type
Queen Elizabeth used, made by
miners’ wives in distressed coal
fields.
txt
The fine arts section of the Bel
gian Royal Academy has unan
imously elected Whitney Warren,
New York architect who planned
the new Louvain Library, a cor
responding member.
X
An extensive burial place dating
back to the third century has been
discovered in Germany. It was used
by the Goths v
jXi
An Iowa business man feeds
birds by way of a hobby. He spent
$1,000 building a 100-room apart
ment on a pole for his visitors.
THE TOWN DOCTOR
(The Doctor of Towns Says)
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
McCORMICK?
All over the country, newspap
ers and magazines have published
“What Do You Know?” columns,
cross-word puzzles, “What’s Wrong
Here?” departments and such, the
working out and solving of which
has not only proven good sport for
millions but has had an education
al values as well.
If you enjoy such puzzles, quer
ies and other tests of mind and
memory, see how many of the fol
lowing questions you'can answer:
What was the population of Mc
Cormick in 1900; in 1910; in 1920?
What is the division of popula
tion of nationality in McCormick.
How many acres of playgrounds
per 1000 population in McCormick?
What kind of water does McCor
mick have, what is the source of
supply and how is it treated by
your use?
How many school seats per 1000
populations? Classification of
schools?
What per cent of total homes in
McCormick that do not have mod
em conveniences?
How many miles of paved streets
in McCormick? What per cent is
this of the total?
What is the largest industry; or
what do most of the people do to
make a living?
How many people are employed
in the largest industry?
What was the total payroll of
manufacturing plants in 1928? in
1929?
What was the total value of pro
ducts made in 1928? In 1929?
Which is of the greater value to
the town, city payroll or farm
trade?
What was the income per acre
of farmers in 1928? Was it above
or below national average?
How much retail business did
local merchants do in 1928? In
1929?
How many retail store failures,
or how many stores quit business
in 1929?
Why, in your estimation, did
these people go out of business?
What is the per capita bank de
posit, including savings accounts?
What is made in McCormick that
is not made elsewhere?
In your work and play, what do
you do now that you did in exact
ly the same way ten years ago?
What is McCormick doing now in
conduct of city affairs, advertising
and promotion that it did not do
ten years ago?
What is Civic Pride?
What is the purpose of a Cham
ber of Commerce? A Service Club?
If you formerly did business with
a particular store or merchant and
do not now do so, why did you
change?
What thing or product would in
your opinion best typify McCor
mick?
What do you think would be the
best slogan or motto for McCor
mick?
If you can answer all of the
above correctly, you would make a
good salesman for McCormick. If
you cannot answer you should
start now to find out. Ask youi
neighbors, fellow workers, and see
how much they know. Ask until
you find out, for every citizen
should know the true answers to
every one of these as well as other
questions.
Maybe you think it isn’t import
ant; that it does not make any
difference whether or not you
know such things; you may say
that such information is for civic
club heads and city officials.
Sure! They should have it, by
all means! But more and more
industries seeking new locations
and heads of families interested in
making a change of residence feel
you out, and the records show that
many a community fails to get a
new factory—that interested per
sons seeking new homes went else
where just because Mr. and Mrs.
Average Citizen proved their dis
interest in the community by net
knowing what they should knew
about it.
No industry, no thinking head of
a family, is inclined to look fav
orably upon a community the peo
ple of which are disinterested.
Your community is your business
—and IT PAYS TO KNOW YOUR
BUSINESS!
(Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone.
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