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Thursday, January 23, 1930
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCOKMICR, SoutH Carotin*
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McCORMICR MESSENGER
Published Every Thursday
Established June 5, 1902
EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner'
W ho is To Drink It
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Six Months .75
Three Months.50
The Tax Toll
Some economist with a genius
for statistics should figure out the
average number of days each citi
zen works to pay his taxes.
In 1927, about 6.12 per cent of
the gainfully occupied population
Of this nation worked for some
branch of government. Assuming
th&t this per centage is still about
the same, and that government
pa> Js~> equal to that received by
persons working for private busi
ness it would sem that about one-
sixteenth of the time of our citi
zens is required to keep the gov
ernment payroll going. This would
be 23 days per annum.
In addition to the payroll, the
government spends vast sums on
building, warships, schools, roads,
the army and navy,, hospitals,
courts of law and for supplies of
all natures. It pa$s otft millions
annually in pensions and for in
terest on bonds.
In all probability, the payroll
is less than half of government
expense. Perhaps Mr. Average
Citizen, whether he knows it or
not, contributes the earnings of
well over a month of his working
time each year to keep his gov
ernment going.
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Rolling Stones
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There is an old adage which says
that a “rolling stone gathers no
moss.” It is as true today as it
ever was. Regardless of locality,
opportunity is ever with the intel
ligent and the energetic, and mov
ing about seldom results in any
good.
Abraham Lincoln was thinking
of this undisputed fact of life
when he said: “If you intend to
work there’s no better place than
right where you are; if you do^iot
intend to go to work, you can not
get along any where. Squirming
and crawling from place to place
will do no good.”
The man who is caught in the
popular rush to some fancied fav
ored spot is almost invariably un
successful. There are no states
and no localities that are endow
ed with all of the desirable things
of life. All have some advantage
in which the inhabitants can take
just pride. And they likewise have over lncrea3ed u per cent ^ 1929
dl ^S?i Ta r ag ^f . , over 1928. Expenditures tor con-
This is not to eounsel against structl0 n an d Vxpanslon exceeded
rCo»*o r r "improvement' S 850 ’ 000000 - against 8786,000.000 In
comes, but to be swayed by every
story of fabulous sums to be made
in some other place is a mistake
that has led countless people to
failure.
The acre of diamonds is at home
This is the report of a dialogue
which took place betwen two
American citizens the other day—
one of them a business man, the
other a clergyman, to whom the
business man spoke frankly as one
does to a good friend.
“Well,” said the layman, with
an air of finality, “prohibition is a
failure, and we must get used to
the idea of making America ‘wet’
once again.”
“But who is to drink the liquor?
queried his friend. “Will you?”
“Why no,” he replied, “you
know I am a teetotaler.”
“Will your son drink it?”
“No, that shall not be!”
“Would you want it to come back
for the sake of your clerks?”
“No, it is my practice to dis
charge any clerk who drinks
liquor.”
“Do you want your customers to
drink it?”
“No; I would much rather not;
I am sure that those who use
strong drink will not buy so much
from me nor pay their bijls
promptly.”
“Will you want the engineer on
your train to use it?”
“No; I admit I don’t want to
ride on a drunkard’s .train.”
“Ah, then; you want this liquor
for the men whom you meet driv
ing cars on the public highway.”
“No, of course not; that is dan
ger to everybody.”
“Well, then, who is to drink this
liquor in America, pray tell me?”
“I am not sure that anybody
should drink it. I guess we’re much
better off without it.”—Selected.
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Alone
It is human to stand with the
crowd, it is divine to stand alone.
It is manlike to follow the people,
to drift with the tide; it is God
like to follow the principle, to
stem the tide.
It is natural to compromise con
science and to follow the social
and religious fashion for the sake
of gain or pleasure; it is divine to
sacrifice both on the altar of
truth and duty.
'No man stood with me, but all
men forsook me,” wrote the battle-
scared apostle in describing his
first appearance before Nero, to
answer with his life for believing
and teaching contrary to the Ro
man world.
Truth has been out of fashion
since man changed his • role of
fadeless light for a garment of
faded leaves.
Noah built and voyaged alone.
His neighbors laughed at his
strangeness and perished in style.
Abraham wandered and wor
shipped alone. Sodomites smiled
at the simple shepherd, followed
the fashion, and fed the flames.
Daniel dined and prayed alone.
Elijah sacrificed and witnessed
alone. Jeremiah prophesied and
wept alone. Jesus loved and died
alone.—Selected.
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Many farmers nbw carry fire
protection through farmers’ mu
tual fire insurance companies. Ac
cording to the latest figures avail
able, about $10,000,000,000 worth of
fire insurance is carried by these
mutuals, at a low annual cost
averaging 26 cents per, $100 for the
country as a whole.
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According to a recent survey,
only 4.11 per cent of the power
generated in this country is not di
rectly subject to regulation by
state commissions, and even this
is ultimately regulated so far as
rates are concerned. ,
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Output of electric light and
power companies, the country
Washington High
School News
, Chevrolet Will Sell
! More Cars This Month
Than Last January
DETROIT, Mich., 21.—Chevrolet
will sell more cars this month than
in January a year ago, according
School opened again on Janu-1 t0 J ' dingier, vice-president
ary 6th. after the Christmas holi-W ge "? ral ? aI “ manager , of the
days. Attendance was good and Chevrol _f t Motor Company, who an-
several new pupils have been en- "°“ n t Cad 0 " ® aturda J , tha ‘ the
rolled. month’s schedule had to be m-
creased in response to the greatest
Everyone has been hard at work a new Chevrolet model
during the past two weeks and the £ as t rece ‘ ved 111 the nineteen-year
reason for such an atmosphere of hlSt0ry of the con W an y.
seriousness was “exams.” The ex
aminations have now been com
pleted and the results are indeed
pleasant to hear ,for according to
the teachers, there are few fail
ures.
The boys’ and girls’ basketball
teams are putting in some good
practice each afternoon. Some
games are to be played in the near
future and each team is anxious
to make an excellent shov/ing for
Washington.
A meeting of the S. I. A. was
held in the school auditorium on
last Thursday afternoon. Not
many were present and plans were
made to have a full attendance at
the next meeting. Mrs. Stallworth,
county demonstration agent, made
a very interesting talk to the as
sociation, “The Importance of Club
Work.”
Mr. Hampton Parks, county sup
erintendent of education and Miss
Thomas, state supervisor of rural
school’s were visitors at our
school on Friday.
Mr. Mayer, Mr. Sam Jones, Mrs.
Rountree, Misses Evelyn Bobo,
Jennye Wood, Margaret McKinney,
Nelle Johnson, Annie Jackson and
Marion Herron attended the coun
ty teachers’ meeting in McCormick
on Saturday. The speaker on this
occasion was Mr. Branch of De la
Howe State School and made a
most inspiring talk on “Illiteracy
In Reading.”
The 4-H club met in the school
auditorium one afternoon last
week, with Mrs. Stallworth in
charge. The following program
was given:
Reading by Marie Gilchrist.
Piano solo by Anelle Edmunds.
Reading of minutes and roll call
by Lucyle Parks.
Then the meeting was turned
over to Mrs. Stallworth, who meas
ured the height of each girl to find
out if she was overweight.
There will be a fiddlers’ conven
tion in the school auditorium
Thursday night, January 23, at
eight o’clock. Admission will be
15 and 25 cents, and the public is
cordially invited. Candy will be
sold and there will be cake walks,
etc., so everybody bring your nick
els and dimes. The proceeds of
this entertainment will go to buy
equipment for the basketball
teams.
On Friday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock the ladies of Parksville are
urged to be at the home of Mrs.
Hoyt Wooten for the purpose of
organizing a Home Demonstration
Club. Mrs. Stallworth will be pres
ent and it is hoped that a large
crowd will be present.
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Redmen Elect
Officers For Term
1928.-
-Boston News Bureau.
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A combination of salt and sugar
and saltpeter makes a good “cure”
for pork. Salt used alone is apt to
make the meat rather harsh and
and" there are ^uTgreener pastures j dry ’ but the sugar meUows the
cure and improves the flavor of
the meat. A good grade of dairy
salt, or table salt, should be used.
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than your own.
Loyalty to home, loyalty to the
job you are doing and eternal per-
sevexance are fixed rules for suc
cess The price of gasoline is lighter
No region has a monopoly of all 1 than air, or at least it doesn’t ap-
natural and artificial, material and P ear to come down,
spiritual blessings. They average
up about the same no matter
where you go. ’
You may find, now and then, a
visitor from a neighboring or a
distant locality who will feel sor
ry for y6u,4>ut just remember that 1
At recent meetings of Shewano
Tribe, No. 112, Improved Order of
Redmen, the following officers
were elected and installed for the
ensuing term:
S. L. Britt, Sachem.
J. A. Talbert, Senior Sagamore,
E. J. McCracken, Junior Saga
more.
C. K. Epting, Prophet.
J. O. Patterson. Clerk of Records.
A. J. Hendrix, Collector of Wam
pum.
Joseph B. Blackwell, Keeper of
Wampum.
J. F. Mattison, First Sanap.
W. T. Strom, Second Sanap.
J. L. Bosdell. First Warrior.
C. L. Freeland, Second Warrior.
G. L. Sharnton, Third Warrior.
J. F. Dillashaw, Fourth Warrior.
Directly on the heels of the first
showing of the new car on Janu
ary 4, a flood of congratulatory
[messages poured into the homo of
fice from every quarter of the
country. Every message told of
unprecedented public interest in
the new car and a consequent in
crease in retail sales, with the re
sult that the January schedule had
to be revised upward to meet deal
er requirements for immediate de
livery, Mr. Klingler said.
That the step-up in the schedule
resulted directly from the number
of orders taken for the new car
when it made its public bow, rath
er than upon an estimate of the
month’s requirements, is indicat
ed in a statement from the Chev
rolet sales executive:
“Our policy for some time,” Mr.
Klingler explained, “has been to
key our production facilities to the
anticipated needs of our sales or
ganization so that dealers might
not become over-stocked. On this
basis we set our January schedule
to parallel the sales forecast, but
so many dealers, upon noting the
public attitude toward the new
car, have asked to have their
quotas increased that our output
for the month will now exceed the
figure for last January.
‘Messages from our dealers re
lating the public attitude toward
the new car have come to us in
greater numbers this year than
heretofore,' and every message
radiates a note of complete con
fidence over the year’s prospect.
Large dealers are increasing their
commitments for cars, and many
small dealers, who formerly sold
six or eight cars in a year, have
asked to have the new 1930 car
shipped to them in carload lots.
“The reduced prices on the new
car contributed materially to the
increased public interest shown
this year, as did the mechanical
improvements. The price reduc
tion resulted directly from manu
facturing economies effected by
our record output in 1929, and our
policy of passing on to the con
suming public the savings effected
by volume production are directly
reflected in the low price of the
new car.
‘On the basis of present indica
tions we expect the early months
of this year to prove exceedingly
satisfactory, and look to the year
1930 to compare very favorably
with 1929 when we built 1,350,000
sixes, a new high record.”
Messages received by Mr. Kling
ler indicate that the national at
tendance the first day of the show
ing of the 1930 models, and the
favorable comments of the public,
exceeded even that which greeted
the first appearance of the Chev
rolet Six a year ago. Typical of
many messages received by Mr.
Klingler is one from the Los Ange
les dealer organization: “Recep
tion of new car by public, dealers
and salesmen best for last four
years. All amazed at price reduc
tion. Many thousands of people
attended showrooms. Even great
er attendance than last year when
we first introduced the Chevrolet
six.”
Expressions of confidence that
their sales for this year would ex
ceed any previous year came from
dealers in all parts of the country.
At Great Falls, Mont., rural pros
pects drove to the showrooms in
sleighs to see the car. Chicago
wired: “We will require in our
territory more cars for the next
three months than we received last
year same period.”
Messages from big and little
towns struck the same note. Clovis.
N. Mex., registered 500 in the
showrooms the first day out of a
What a viewpoint we have. A
boy makes a cigarett and thinks
he is a man, and the old man will
smoke one and imagine he’s a boy.
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Governors of 26 states have re-
**If ^ou intend to work there’s no I ported to President Hoover public
better place than right where you 1 works program totaling $825,000,-
are/*
|000 for 1930.
Joseph P. Holloway, First Brave.: population of 7,500. Minneapolis
Oa£' Young.’ TW?d d B™ve Ve ' I re P° rted the lar 6 est first-day
W. E. Sheppard, Fourth Brave. crowd in ten year experience, and
John T. Faulkner, Guard of the Baltimore the sale of 105 cars be-
Wigwam.
Monroe Simpson, Guard of the
Forest.
Relief Committee:
J. S. Dukes,
J. A. Talbert.
John T. Faulkner.
Trustees:
W. K. Charles,
R G. Killingsworth.
G. E. Qarjoll.
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Milk should be strained in the
milk room, never in the bam.
fore 5:00 p. m.
j “At no time has the financia 1
j future looked better,” said the
(Paterson, N. J., dealer. “If there
j is such a thing as a one hundred
per cent car I feel I have it.” And
,from Seattle: “All dealers expect
more business in January and Feb
ruary than last year.”
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Folks who pay as they go never
have to walk home.
Still More Mijlions
Treat Colds Direct
Arthur Brisbane
Crime’s Loud Voice •
Earth’s Ozone Blanket
Wise Ben Franklin
The Postmaster’s Fleet
Crimes speak louder than words,
and very loud in this fair country
just now.
A man arrested in Chicago, ac
cused of participating in the “St. Val
entine’s day massacre,” was delighted
to lind that “only policemen” were
after him.
Said he: “I am glad to see you;
I thought some guys were going to
take* me for a ride sure.”
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More interesting is the fact that
the well-known gambler, Kothstein,
whose murder puzzled New York’s
police and baffled the district at
torney, was probably killed by a
man who will never be convicted, for
the reason that he himself has since
been murdered by llothstein’s friends.
Even our able corporations might
learn something about ellicient or
ganization from our able criminals.
Scientists of Smithsonian institution
hope to learn about magnetic disturb
ances and weather phenomena gener
ally, by studying the earth’s “ozone
blanket.”
That “blanket” is a thin layer of
superior atmosphere, thirty miles up.
IJy measuring the thickness and con
tents of the earth’s ozone blanket. It'
may he possible to tell what is hap
pening on the sun, 93,000,000 miles
away. ■«,
Round-About Method of “Dosing
Gives Way To Modern
Vaporizing Salve
More and more people each year
are giving up the slow, indirect way
of treating colds by “dosing” with
internal medicines, and are adopt
ing the modern direct treatment—
Vicks VapoRub.
Vicks goes direct to the a.Te-ctcd
parts and checks the cold in two
ways — its medicated vapors, re
leased by the heat of the body, aro
inhaled direct to the inflamed air-
passages; at the same time it acts
direct through the skin like a poul
tice or plaster, “drawing out” tight
ness and coreness.
Vicks is especially appreciated by
mothers because it is just rubbed
cn, and therefore, cannot upset
children's delicate stomachs as “dos
ing” is so apt to do. Today the whole
trend of medical practice is away
from needless “dosing.”
To keep pace with the ever-grow
ing demand, the famous slogan, “17
Million Jars Used Yearly,” was
raised to “21 Million” a short time
ago. This figure too has been out
grown, as there are now “Over 26
Million Jars Used Yearly”—a jar
for eveiy family in the United
States.
It might be possible also later to
bring down some of that ozone, with
its wonderful qualities for the im
provement of the lungs and blood.
Future advertisements may read:
“Ozone fresh from the ozone blanket
every day.”
doing up thirty miles from the
earth’s surface seems a great achieve
ment.
But a microbe living on the face
of an ordinary apple would do as
much if he rose from the surface of
his apple as much as one hundredth
part of .an inch.
Thirty miles is much less than one
two-hundredth part of the earth’s di
ameter.
Here is good advice for youth or
old age:
“Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life
Is made of.” *
More good advice is this:
“He that goes a-horrowing, goes
a-sorrowing.”
And for a nation In which ninety
old men out of a hundred die worth
less than SI00. this is valuable:
“A man may, if he knows not how
to save as lie gets, keep his nose to
the grindstone.”
TAKEN UP—Two head of cattle
which owner can get by describ
ing and paying costs. Calhoun
Palmer, R. 1, McCormick, S. C.
CATTLE—Am paying highest mar
ket price for beef cattle and
hogs. See me before selling. A.
H. Faulkner, McCormick, S. C.
MULES—I have just unloaded a
fresh car load of Tennessee and
Kentucky mules which range
around 1,000 to 1.200 pounds and
are 4 to 5 years old. C. F. Frank
lin. McCormick. S. C. Itpo.
Those wise things wore said by Ben
jamin Franklin, horn 224 years ago.
There is material for a thousand
good sermons in Franklin's common
sense talks.
MEN WANTED IMMEDIATELY—
by giant international industry;
over 7000 already started; some do
ing annual business $13,000; no
experience or capital required;
everything supplied; realize suc
cess, independence Rawleigh’s way;
retail food products, soap, toilet
preparations, stock, poultry sup
plies; your own business supported
by big American, Canadian, Aus
tralian industries; resources over
$17,000,000; established 40 years;
get our proposition; all say it’s
[great! Rawleigh Company, Dept.
S C-33-J, Richmond. Va.
BUYING Cows, Veal Calves, Chick
ens and Eggs. J. B. Blackwell’s
Store, McCormick, S. C.
Mr. Brown, postmaster general, sug
gests a $70,000,000 program to build
a fleet of North Atlantic superships
for American passengers and mail.
The postmaster demands “a serv
ice which could compete with any
foreign flag service on the North At
lantic.”
Americans will congratulate Post
master Brown and President Hoover
on that proposition, and hope that
they Mill not only compete with but
eclipse every foreign service on- the
North Atlantic and everywhere else.
Why should a country with the
best engineers, from the President
down, and M’ith more money than any
body else, ever play second Gddle on
the ocean or In the air?
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The only negro student at West
Point is dismissed “honorably,” for de
fielency In mathematics.
Sixty-three white men failed in ex
aminations with him and were also
dismissed.
Prejudice had nothing to do with
it, although Alonzo Souleigh Parham,
the negro cadet dismissed, is the four
teenth to enter the academy and the
eleventh to We dismissed at the end
of six months.
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.
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.
NEW OR OLD PIANOS—Tuned
repaired and put in best possible
condition. John A. Holland, The
Greenwood Piano Man, Greenwood,
S. C.
Another cut in the cost of travel by
air. The Transcontinental Air Tnms
ports, on Its “air-rail-water” trip
“around the Americas,” cuts $100 off
the price of a IG-day tour.
Air transportation is settling down
to a business basis.
William H. Mullins, son of the lat«
James Mullins, and, like his father
among the most highly respected men
in Ohio, gives to Salem a home foi
nurses. This gift, in memory of his-
mother, sets an excellent example t«
others that can afford to be generous
Young Americans, wondering “b
there Is still a chance,” might study
Mr. Mullins’ start in business on lib
own account. When very young In
saw a locomotive that had been in n
smashup on the Fort Wayne road thai
he bought for its value as “scrap,’
set himself and two or three median
log to work, restored it and sold it foi
onou^tivto start what became a big
successful business.
There are chances for those that
have energy.
((&, 1930, by Kinc Fectaroa Syndicate, Inc.)
Before It Happens
The time to know how
much gas there is in
your tank is before
you reach the hottom.
and the time to make
sure you have enough
fire insurance is before
you smell the smoke.
Let this Hartford Agency
cheek up on your insurance
today. We will go over
your property thoroughly
and make sure that you
are properly protected. "
“JT'e write policies right.”
Frank C Robinson
Insurance Agency .
PHONE 66
McCormick
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