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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 $100,000,000
establishing schools that will enable
students to “fit into life” when they
come out at eighteen years of age. He
says: “The reason we have so much
crime and racketeering is because
schools do not teach our young men
how to fit in the world. Racketeering
is nothing but a revolt against the
present improper, ineffectual system
of teaching.”
ARBOR DAY
The P.-T. A, is planning to ob
serve an Arbor Day next Tuesday,
February 25. Anyone having any
kind of evergreen or blooming
shrubs that they will donate to the
McCormick school grounds, it will
be greatly appreciated by the P.-T.
A. If you have no way of sending
plants ’phone Mrs. D. M. McGrath
and the committee will come for
them.
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Schools at present are better than
they were 50 years ago before racke
teering became a science. Students
should all learn to use their hands,
particularly those not well adapted to
using their beads. It would be waste
of time for men of the type of Vol-
i talre, Milton. Moliere or Beethoven to
learn a trade, but they are scarce.
Mr. Ford should modify Ids resolu
tion to “devote the rest of his life to
educational undertakings.
Fart of
Ids effort should produce tractors of
the caterpillar type—plenty of power
with the traction “track” fully in
closed, protected from dust.
H. R. Sims Named
Orangeburg Senator
ORANGEBURG, Feb. 18.—Henry
R. Sims was elected in today’s
special election to fill the unex
pired term of Senator W. C. Mar
tin, senator for this county, who
was killed in an automobile wreck
a little more than a week ago. Sim c
received 707 votes and L. A. Hutson
received 188 votes in returns from
23 x out of 24 boxes.
A little l$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.
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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.
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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.”
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Poor brakes cause auto crashes
md bad breaks cause business
crashes.
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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