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V % - \ Thursday, February 20, 1930 McCORMICk iViti&Sfol*/Cr££K t \lcCiijtiMKJK., HouiK tJ&roitH*. Page Number Eight T. B. Seal Committee The seal committee in McCor mick county wishes to extend thanks to those who so willingly responded through the mail sale and to the schools—McCormick, Plum Branch, Young’s, Modoc, Willington, De la Howe, the East ern Star Parksville, Lyon’s, Red Men and U. D. C. of McCormick. The final report sent in $82.51. OYSTER SUPPER The ladies of Parksville W. M. • will sell oysters at the Bank Build- ; ing Friday, February 21, from 6 to 8 p. m. NOTICE Oysters, Fish And Fresh Meats The banks of McCormick will be closed on Friday 21, instead of Saturday 22, account Washington’s Birthday. For the best the market affords In oysters, fish and fresh meats, call at our place. All handled in a sanitary manner and sold moderate prices. S, L. REYNOLDS, Augusta St McCormick, S. C Be Cheerful Life is but a fleeting show at i Filled with weal and woe, ! But let’s be cheerful, happy, gay Let the world wag as it may. —M. L. B. STURKEY. Five Acre Cotton Contest Winners Are Announced To Mr. C. E. Wilkie, of Plum Branch, with a production of 3,690 pounds of lint cotton on five acres, goes the honor of producing the highest yield of lint cotton on five acres in the South Carolina Cotton Contest in McCormick county for 1^9. Closely following Mr. Wilkie’s record is that of Mr. W. C. Holley, of Plum Branch, with a production of 3,265 pounds of lint cotton on five acres. Third place in the county contest goes to Mr. W. K. Charles of Mc Cormick, with a production of 3,245 pounds of lint cotton on five acres In addition to these records, 23 other farmers of the county com pleted their records in the contest, making a total of 26 completing with an average on the 130 acres involved of 516 pounds of lint cotton per acre at a total cost of production of 8.5 cents per pound. Figures for the cost of production included all costs connected with the pro duction of crop, such as rent on land, cost of preparation and plant ing, cost of fertilizer, cost of cultivation, harvesting, ginning, hauling etc. Man labor and mule labor was figured by the hour on the same basis the farmer had to pay for it if it were hired, and every hourr work given the crop was counted. Picking was charged at the regular cost for every pound of seed cotton produced. Following is a summary of the records of the 26 farmers who com pleted their records in the contest: BANKERS REPORT DROP IN SAVINSS Lure of Stock Market Partly to Blame, but Slackened Specula tion Expected to Bring Return to Thrift. Lint Name Lbs. Lint Value Crop Cost Prod. Net Profit Cost Iper it C. E. Wilkie 3,690 $825.42 $268 61 ~$583:8r “7.3 W. C. Holley 3,265’ 653.76 267.47 386.29 8.2 W. K, Charles 3,245 705.81 279.16 426.64 8.6 KeowA Brothers 3,210 612.90 273.85 339.05 8.5 R. T. White 3,194 610.18 251.44 358.74 7.9 Moses Wideman 3,048 581.00 190.56 390.44 6.3 W. O. Covin 2,965 578.28 197.88 380.41 6.8 K. Dowtin 2,853 549.41 251.37 298.04 8.8 Jim Bryant 2,973 578.84 223.01 355.83 7.5 J. P. Freeland 2,732 526.60 190.07 336.53 6.9 T. A. Dowtin 2,575 500.77 188.89 311.88 7.3 W. D. Morrah 2,189 442.87 153.90 288.97 7.0 W. L. White l— 2'304 469.32 220.67 248.65 9.6 W. S. Wall 2,632 542.08 206.12 335.96 7.8 R. L. Dowtin 2,449 476.77 198.40 278.37 8.1 James DeVett 2,492 472.27 193.32 278.95 7.8 Britt Brothers 2,258 437.46 256.58 188.88 11.4 E. Hanvey 2'438 440.63 259.60 181.03 10.6 S. L. Britt, No. 1 2,060 420.08 313.58 106.50 15.2 J. M. Strother 2,301 445.17 186.45 258.72 8.1 Nor. Cartledge 2,170 417.04 182.64 234.40 8.4 S. L. Britt ,No. 2 2,154 415.68 190.52 225.16 8.8 Paul Brown 2,146 399.03 219.50 179.53 10.2 Y. E. Seigler 2,224 379.38 190.13 199.25 8.1 R. T. Mayson 1,831 379.63 198.81 200.82 9.8 AT 1 A. Holleman 1,800 335.62 196.10 139.52 10.8 Average yield per acre on 130 acres 516 lbs. Average cost per pound lint cotton 8.5c. lb. Average value per acre ^ $101.50 Average profit per acre i $57.52 Average yield lint cotton per acre for county 106 lbs. Average value per acre for county $23.10 (County Figures based on Government reports for past 5 years.) Each entrant in the cotton contest was required to have 5 acreg of land, plant a variety of cotton that would pull at least an inch staple, and keep an accurate record on the production of the crop. Yields on all plots were carefully checked during the harvesting season, and high yielding fields were checked several times, in order to insure ac curacy. / > These results show that these 26 farmers produced nearly five times the county average of lint cotton per acre, and at a good substantial profit. If all McCormick county farmers produced cotton on the same basis as these men, the annual crop would amount to around 21,000 bales instead of the 6,000 to 7,000 we now make,* and the county’s income would be increased over one and one-half millions of dollars. County Agent Thos. W. Morgan, who conducted this contest, states that there is very little land in McCormick couny that is not capable of producing a bale of cotton per acre if properly spaced and fertilized, and that all farmers who are making less than that amount are los- mg money that should come to them from the production of cotton. rOUM TRUCK , FEB. 26 We will continue ou- # poultry Buyine Schedules with our Trncks at places and hours mentioned below ^ T Ku 0r *V? iC o S - C - Every Wednesday 9:30 to 11 SO a. m. Abbeville, s. C—Every Wednesday 12:00 to 2:00 p m We will pay the following prices next Wednesday. Feb ruary 26. 1930: »Colored II ns 23c Leghorn Hens jAp Colored Fryers 1 1 ~ ‘ 22c Leghorn Fryers "" 111" ’ ~ isc Cn’orod Stags 1“ 15c Old Roosters jq c 15( . 'T'lirV^vs Ducks 20c 15c ALEX GETZ & CO. Greenville, S. C Anderson, S. C Phone 1634 Phone 207 The first recession in the naton’s savings account in banks in the twen ty years dt^ring which records in this field have ijeen kept by. the American Bankers Association was disclosed for last year in the i*ecent annual compila tion prepared by its Saving Bank Division. The shrinkage amounted to over $195,000,000, on the basis of fig ures for the year ending June 29, 1929, whereas a year earlier the reported in crease was over $2,300,000,000, the largest ever recorded. The number of savings depositors also decreased during the year covered by more than 500,000 accounts. The lure of the stock market and affiliated activities are cited as part of the explanation for these changes. The association’s statement says that savings deposits in banks and trust companies of continental United States on June 29, 1929, stood at $28.- 217,656,000, The recession in savings, it declares, indicates a fundamental change in the savings situation.’Irre spective of whether it Is temporary on not. How Savings Used to Grow “In 1926 savings deposits increased $1,562,000,000, In 1927, almost $1,400,- 000,000 and in 1928 over $2,300,000,- 000,” it says. “It appears now that some influences in one year have taken the gain that might reasonably have been expected in savings deposits for 1929 and lowered them from the high mark of the preceding year. This re cession is not one coming as a result of drouth, famine, unemployment or conditions outside of the United States. “A year ago it was stated: ‘The year closing June 30, 1928. registered the largest gaih in savings deposits in banks and trust companies of conti nental United States ever recorded in the history of this country.’ What a difference one year makes! From a gain of more than 2 1 A billions of dol lars in savings deposits to a loss of al most 200 millions! “The loss 4n savings deposits is re flected also In the loss of savings de positors. The year 1929 showed a to tal of 52,664,127 depositors, against 53,188.348 for 1928. a loss of 524.221. “Industrial production was much higher last year than the preceding year. Factory payrolls were consid erably greater, in production, em ployment and trade, advances were made over the preceding year. In the farm areas the improvement noted for 1928 did not recede in 1929 and the livestock industry in all its branches was prosperous. • The Causes of the Drop “The causes of the recession are possibly multiple. There is scarcely any reason to doubt that one of the Important factors draining away sav ings and decreasing 'depositors has been the lure of profits to be made in stocks. For a mlmber of years the people have been regaled with stories of profits made in stocks in all types of companies. During the last few years there has been a specious phi losophy preached that panics such as formerly occurred were no longer pos sible. “If It' was the lure of profits in stocks which caused the recession in savings, then a factor in future sav ings will be the success attendant upon this -venture of savings depos itors in stock*, If the experiment did not prove generally successful, then another year will doubtless witness an Increase in savings deposits as well as in savings depositors.” HELPING YOUNG FOLK TO BECOME BANKERS Through the American Institute of Banking, which is the American Bank ers Association’s educational section, the banking profession is educating 35,000 bank men and women in the technical and scientific departments of their work. These students are en abled by this institute, which is entire ly non-commercial in its operations, to obtan a grasp of the finer points of banking without interrupting their employment or interfering with their earnings. In their bank jobs. The courses given, including bank ing economics and law and bank ad ministration in all the departments, have been worked out under the di rection of senior college educators and the lectures are always given by practical men, such as lawyers in the legal courses, experts in banking oper ations and college professors in the economics courses. There are chap ters with meeting rooms in over 200 cities and also a number of smaller study groups are fostered with cor respondence aid. 4 It has been said tbat the A. I. B., as It is familiarly known throughout the banking field, is the greatest adult ed ucational organization in the world and is supplying the banking business with the largest supply of trained workers each year that any compar able line of business Is receiving. Tim organization holds an annual conven tion attended by hundreds of young bank workers as well as senior bank officers actively interested in further ing the institute’s educational work, at which numerous technical subjects of practical banking nriplication r.:*? presented and discussed. ThlJ yea:' convention will be. held at^Den' Colorado, June 16 to 20. JtiiWuK by Arthur Brisbane Mr. Hughes, Chief Justice Henry Ford’s I\cv/ Plan No* Bolshevism Needed A Real Stigma Mr. Hughes is now chief justice and the people have in their service a man of great ability, profound knowledge of the law and highest integrity. They know that Mr. Hughes, for the sake of public service, exchanges a private law practice worth $o00,000 a year for , the small wages paid by the richest na tion to its highest judges. Henry Ford may spend $100,000,000 establishing schools that will enable students to “fit into life” when they come out at eighteen years of age. He says: “The reason we have so much crime and racketeering is because schools do not teach our young men how to fit in the world. Racketeering is nothing but a revolt against the present improper, ineffectual system of teaching.” ARBOR DAY The P.-T. A, is planning to ob serve an Arbor Day next Tuesday, February 25. Anyone having any kind of evergreen or blooming shrubs that they will donate to the McCormick school grounds, it will be greatly appreciated by the P.-T. A. If you have no way of sending plants ’phone Mrs. D. M. McGrath and the committee will come for them. X Schools at present are better than they were 50 years ago before racke teering became a science. Students should all learn to use their hands, particularly those not well adapted to using their beads. It would be waste of time for men of the type of Vol- i talre, Milton. Moliere or Beethoven to learn a trade, but they are scarce. Mr. Ford should modify Ids resolu tion to “devote the rest of his life to educational undertakings. Fart of Ids effort should produce tractors of the caterpillar type—plenty of power with the traction “track” fully in closed, protected from dust. H. R. Sims Named Orangeburg Senator ORANGEBURG, Feb. 18.—Henry R. Sims was elected in today’s special election to fill the unex pired term of Senator W. C. Mar tin, senator for this county, who was killed in an automobile wreck a little more than a week ago. Sim c received 707 votes and L. A. Hutson received 188 votes in returns from 23 x out of 24 boxes. A little l$ss than half of the en tire vote in today’s election was cast in this city, which went for Sims by 349 to 62 for Hutson. The newly elected senator, who is a member of the local bar, will go to Columbia next week to be sworn in. xxx Good Attendance At Poultry School FEEDING, BROODING, DISEASES DISCUSSED Ford To Spend Many Millions For Education In one column vou read about a i A number of interested poultry- “mob” of 1,200 idle men. fighting po lice In Cleveland, twenty in the mob injured, oflicers hurt. In another column you find com fort, perhaps, in news from Washing ton that our national banks have re sources of over twenty-nine billions of dollars. Seven thousand four hundred and eight institutions have on deposit more than twenty-two billions. A country so rich ought, not to have so many men who are willing to work and idle. men attended the poultry school held at McCormick on last Friday, February 14. These talks on poul try keeping were made possible through the co-operation of coun ty agent Thos. W. Morgan and Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Nell A. Stallworth, and local poul- trymen. Feeding^ brooding and disease problems were the subjects dis cussed by P. H. Gooding of Clem- son College. High winter egg pro duction cannot be expected unless You arc told that the mob of riot- ing unemployed men in Cleveland had i the birds are being fed a balanced been influenced by “Bolshevik propa ganda.” j It is very easy to say “Bolshevism.” But when a man is out ot work, wor- ration, and it was pointed out that a ration containing from 10 to 12 per cent of meat scraps or high grade tankage was usually most profitable for laying stock. The riea and pc., Uap s Iranm , he needs no it j supplied by yellow corn help from Lenin to make him danger- . and direct sunlight or Codliver oil are necessary for egg production. ously dissatisfied. Men adrift on a raft In midocean that had never heard of Lenin or Bolshevism have kilted and eaten each other. ^ Five states of Die South, highest in Illiteracy, are conducting educational campaigns to reduce “the stigma.” Census takers list illiterates. Iowa has only 1.1 percentage of il literates, lowest in the nation. Ne braska came first uutil 1920, and is striving to regain the championship. However, persuading or forcing hard-working people to study at night when they are tired out, and learn enough about their A F. C’s to remove the illiteracy stigma is not doing much. To be aide to read and write when you lack leisure to-do either, and have no access to books worth while, is no help. As well teach a man o.OOO miles from Egypt to read hieroglyphics on Egyptian monuments. Hard, under-paid. labor and lack of work are a “stigma” worse than il literacy. high hatchability and growth in chicks, according to Mr. Gooding. During the session on the sub ject of diseases Mr. Gooding em phasized the need of practicing sanitation with poultry. The use of clean ground for brooding chicks, the separation of laying and growing stock, and the mov ing of pullets into clean laying houses in the fall are important steps in fighting diseases. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE The world- still loves titles. In a Los Angeles lawsuit about money col lected for a newly invented religious “cull” you meet a mild-Iooking gentle man called “The Four Winds of the Whirlwinds.” He wrote down with ins typewriter 50,090 pages dictated by angels to the priestesses of Hit “Great•Eleven Cult.” “Concords of stars led the priest esses to various locations, and there the angels did their dictating.” Men and women gave tens of thou sands of dollars in return for non sense of this kind, which proves that tiie human race is largely foolish. Ogdon L. Mills, assistant secretary of the United States treasury, in a few words convinces you that this country lias genuine prosperity if prosperity consists in getting more of life's good things than anybody else gets. On the 18th day of March, 1930, at 10:60 o’clock a. m., I will make a final settlement in the Judge of Probate’s office in McCormick and ask for a discharge as adminis tratrix of the estate of W. W. Sisk, deceased. . All persons holding claims should present them prop erly attested before that date, or be forever debarred. MRS. LILLIE B. SISK, Administratrix of the Estate of W. W. Sisk, deceased. McCormick, S. C., February 15, 1930.-4t. The United States lias only 7 per cent of the world’s population^ and yet, says Mr. Mills, “that 7 per cent consumes approximately 48 per cent of the world's coffee, 53 per cent of the tin, 50 per cent of the crude rub ber, 21 per cent of the sSgar, 72 per cent of tbe raw sllu, 30 per cent of (lie coal, 42 per cent of the pig iron. 47 per cent of the copper and 09 per cent of the crude petroleum. “Out of nearly 32,<X>0,000 nutomo teles in the world on January 1, 1929, more thaw 21,000,000 were owned in (lie United States.” We certainly get our share. Per- LOCAL MARKET COTTON— Strict Low 16 Middling 16 1-4 Strict Middling 16 1-2 Good Middling 16 3-4 Cotton Seed Bushel 40 cts. Breakfast Baccn per lb. __ 35 to 50 Eggs per dozen 30 cts Bacon per lb. 15 to 22 cts. Flour per sack $1.00 to $1.40 Flour per barrel — $8.50 to $11.00 Butter per lb. 50 cts. Green Coffee, per lb. 30 to 60 cts Roasted Coffee, per lb. -30 to 55 cts ^ ice. per lb. 7 to 10 cts Grist, per lb. 5 cts. Vlolasses per gal. 50 to $1.01 Corn per bu. $1.40 ! Fine Feed, 75 lbs. $1.85 Oats per bu. 90 cts iVheat per bu. $1.6( Cheese p n v lb. 35 cts This is the time of year when father begins to compliment mo ther on how fine she looks in las spring’s hat. . t Xt FORT MYERS, Fla., Feb. 14.— Henry Ford intends to devote the rest of his life and probably $100,- 000,000 of his money to education. He so declared here today in an interview. The automobile manufacturer said he intended to build a num ber of schools in various parts of the country—how many he does not yet know—but some of them will be very large institutions. He said he “would not be surprised” if he invested the huge sum men tioned in the project. “I want to do all in my power to help young men of America fit themselves into the world,” Mr. Ford said in the interview. “Socie ty owes it to the young people to educate them for useful citizen ship, and, for my part I am going to devote the rest of my active days in the interest of trade schools and teaching. “I intend to invest my money in my own way, I have a definite plan. Consequently I do not wish to be bothered by suggestions from persons who never made or saved a dollar telling me how to spend a million. The schools will be strategically located throughout the country. I am not yet pre pared to say where they will be situated. But our school, the Edi son Institute of Technology at Dearborn, Mich., will be the prin cipal school, the nucleus of the other educational institutions. Everybody should learn a trade. He should have something to fall back on, something to keep his mind active and keep him out of trouble. I believe there should be a technical school in every indus trial institution. ' % “When students come out of school, at 18 or so, people should want them. They should be in de mand and not find themselves shifting aimlessly without a defi nite purpose in life. “The reason we have so much crime and racketeering is because schools do not teach our young men how to fit into the world. “Racketeering is nothing but a revolt against the present impro per and ineffectual system of teaching. , “If taught properly every boy upon leaving school could go to an employer and say he was specific ally fitted to perform a given task. Now they say: T went through high school’ or T went through, college.’ That does not mean any thing. But if they said they are a machinist a chemist or a cab inet maker, that does mean some thing. T dp not know how many schools we shall build but some of them will be large institutions. All these schools will be self supporting.. Academic subjects will be taught in the lower grades but as soon as the students are ready for it they will be given vocational train ing. All the arts will be taught. When a student is graduated he not only will have a good basic education but a trade that will enable him to immediately put his mind and his energy to prac tical application. The students will be taught to buy and sell, to’ be traders as well as mechanics.” Mr. Ford has no interest in the accumulation of money solely for the purpose of acquiring money, he asserted. “Money in itself is nothing,” he said. “It is merely a medium of ex change, and understanding be tween each and every one. Its real value lies in what it enables you. ot do for others. “Ail classes have more money than they did formerly. Things are different in every way. More men have control of money who know how to use it than ever be- iore. “I don’t say they are richer. I say they have more money. To be T-her you must use money in the ight way. “I knew in my own case I have a right to squander money ancl hat I must use it for the good of he general public. I can think of no better way of using my money than in the cause of teaching. From the day I made my first car until today I have had to teach and I intend to go on teaching un- ,il the end of my days. I see no better way to be of service to hu manity.” x Poor brakes cause auto crashes md bad breaks cause business crashes. tXt There is a place in this world i„ ’•'“s the World court will toll js we |seems for everything except worn- goi too much. Uut chewing gum. , jday. Lives of great men often re- mxnd us that one is born every