Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, March 20, 1930 McVnRMTm MESSENGER. McCORMICK. South Carolina. mnn 21 South Carolina’s Gold Mine for Economical Transportation If South Carolina had suddenly discovered gold in paying quanti ties scattered throughout the state on its agricultural lands, there would no doubt be a gold rush to South Carolina quite equal to the great gold rush of ’49 to California. Yet a really more important gold mine has been discovered, and there is no gold rush. The work of the South Carolina Research Commission is of more than equal importance to the discoverey of gold throughout the state. By painstaking investigation, it has developed the fact that there is a high iodine content in the soil of South Carolina; that this iodine is taken up, and becomes a part of the food products produced from the South Carolina land, so that South Carolina-grown food pro ducts are pre-eminent in their content of iodine—an element now regarded as essential to human and animal diet for the produc tion of food products calculated to reduce the prevalance of goitre, or prohibit its development. As a large part of the United States suffers severely from this dread disease, the demand for such food products as can be grown in South Carolina should be enor mous, if throughout the goitrous region the iodine content value of South Carolina-grown food prod ucts were well kriow. If our lands abounded in gold, it would re require enormous investment to extract the gold and give it mar ket value. Besides a great deal of technical talent would be required. Similarly in developing the iodine mine to its real value for South Carolina people, large sums of money, and a great deal of exper ienced talent would be required. Hence, there is not only the prob lem of growing the food products on South Carolina soil—a problem which will solve itself once it is clearly apparent that it would prove profitable to grow suph pro ducts—but there is also the prob lem of inducing capital and talent —experienced talent—to take up the business of canning, dehydrat ing, and otherwise put into per manent merchandise from green or fresh food products as they come from the farms. Advertising can induce the cap ital and the experienced talent to come to South Carolina, and devel op such of this capital and talent as may be already present in South Carolina. It can also open the market for the South Carolina products in their green state or fresh state ,and in their canned or packaged condition after manu facture. The problem of advertising, how ever, is a national one. Hence, a bill has been introduced into the South Carolina legislature looking to the state assuming this gener al obligation to develop the possib ilities of South Carolina-grown food products by affording the necessary publicity, develop the market therefor, induce the capi tal and talent necessary for the preparation of the foods and for the marketing of same. The principal objection to this bill is the difficulty of raising funds to cover the already recog nized necessary expenses of the state government. This difficulty, however, while at first thought is the principal objection to the bill, is the principal argument for the bill, since the state cannot pay taxes out of non-producing lands and keep up the process perman ently. We must have prosperity in order to bear tax burdens readily; and so long as we have no well developed natural re sources, and our agriculture is slack, it is absolutely necessary that something be done to open opportunity for our people, to en able them to make the wealth necessary to give them the tax burden-bearing capacity to sustain the state. Advertising the value of South Carolina-grown food products is therefore a sensible course for the state government to take, in its own interest as well as in the in terest of its people. The cost of such publicity, which must be conducted at home as well as out of state, is estimated to be in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars a year. The raising of such a sum by additional taxation would at first sight ap pear to be a burden which might be avoided; but to avoid it is to neglect the only big opportunity for South Carolina progress and as well prosperity, leaving the people to! portance struggle with their already ex treme burden of financial stress and agricultural depression. The success of the Canadian Chevrolet aimoeniices A NEW SERVICE POLICY The Chevrolet Motor Company and its dealers are pleased to announce a new service policy—one of the most liberal ever offered on a low-priced automobile. Put into force as a written agreement given to the purchaser by the Chevrolet dealer when the car is delivered — it offers the following provisions: 1 Every Chevrolet owner receives his car from the dealer in perfect condition —thoroughly lubricated, properly ad justed, and ready to operate efficiently from the first mile of ownership. 2 Every Chevrolet owner is entitled to free inspection and adjustment of his car at the end of the first 500 miles of usage. 3 Every Chevrolet owner is entitled to free inspection of his car every 1000 miles thereafter, so long as the car is in operation. 4 Every Chevrolet owner is entitled to free replacement of any part which may prove defective in workmanship or material, within the terms of Chevrolet’s standard warranty. This includes both parts and labor, 3 Provision number 4 will be carried out by any Chevrolet dealer in the United States. As a result, the Chevrolet owner may travel to any part of the country, with assurance that the guar antee on materials and workmanship will remain in force. This new policy constitutes proof of Chevrolet’s high quality—for such liberal provisions could only be made in connec tion with a car built of fine materials to exacting standards of workmanship. Back of this policy, and assuring its suc cessful operation, is one of the most complete and efficient service organiza tions in the world. There are more than 10,000 Authorized Chevrolet Dealer Service Stations in the United States alone. Each employs skilled mechanics thoroughly trained at Chevrolet Service Schools. Each has specially designed tools and machinery developed exclusively for Chevrolet serv ice work. And each has on hand, at all times, an adequate stock of genuine Chevrolet replacement parts. Chevrolet’s flat-rate charges, including both parts and labor, are the lowest in the industry on many service operations ! In considering the purchase of a low- priced automobile, think what this service means—in terms of lasting satisfaction, as well as in increased economy. Chevrolet cars range in price from $495 up, f. o. b. factory, Flint, Michigan CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, Division of General Motors Cor por ation MICHIGAN A SIX IX THE PRICE RAXGE OF THE FOUR McCORMICK CHEVROLET CO. McCormick, S. C. government in advertising for pop- | fail to accomplish its purposes, al- ulation, and of Florida, California and other states in advertising their climate and residential ad vantages, encourages the opinion that a campaign on the part of the state of South Carolina to ad vertise the iodine content of its food products, when properly con ducted, is assured of success. The result of the campaign, so far as out-of-state territory is concerned, will be that of helpfulness, tht bringing of information which will improve health conditions in the goitrous regions. Within the state, the campaign will be one of hope, encouragement, and the develop ment of co-ordinative effort throughout the state, toward the end riot only of private advantage, but of public progress, and the sal vation of the state as a whole from the sad financial and agricultural conditions under which it has been suifering. Such a campaign, therefore, may look for hearty sympathy on the part of publishers within the state, and in a large degree also on the part of publishers without the state, especially on the part of ways assuming that the advertis ing is intelligently and truthfully prepared and distributed. South Carolina cannot afford to have the world in ignorance of the great scientific fact of the high iodine content of her vegetables and other food products. The world cannot afford to be without the information, but it is up to South Carolina to distribute this information in a way to reach the masses, and to build the market for the South Carolina-grown food products, as well as to develop their manufacture and merchan dising, and the proper grading and marketing in their fresh state. This bill, if passed, will certain ly result in bringing into the state millions of dollars for investment in canning and dehydrating plants hundreds of experienced, capable canners and dehydrators, as well as men experienced in merchan dising such products. The co-op eration of existing trucking asso ciations may be expected, as these associations will be the first to benefit by the marketing, afford ing higher prices for the products of their members. The expan- Drift To Cities Still Continues FARM TRY POPULATION OF COUN SHOWS DECLINE OF 269,000 those who are particularly inter-. „ ,, , ested in the problem of public i slon ‘ hese associations may be expected as one of the benefits to _ ’ , , „ /accrue from the advertising cam- The MI for advertising the food ( The develo p ment of a vast products of South Caroima is en- canning indu5try would be another and very important factor in the titled, “A Bill to Provide for the Rehabilitation of Agriculure in resu ^ s expected to accrue. South Carolina, by Advertising the Iodine Content of Food Products Grown in the State, and to En courage the Production and Facil itate the Marketing of Such Pro ducts.’ Tins pretentious title pre- No step could be taken by the South Carolina legislature which would more highly evidence the intelligent grasp of the present economic problems of the state, as well as of the vast opportunity J. F. JACOBS. Clinton, S. C. sents very properly the ultimate arising f r0 m the fresh informa- purpose cl the bill, which through tion developed by South Carolina’s the means of advertising proposes Research Commission, to capitalize the great scientific | fact of the high iodine content of I South Carolina food products, as the advertising will be based upon 1 i great scientific fact, already well demonstrated—a fact of enormous importance to the world at large, f vast economic im- to the people of South Carolina. It would seem reasonable to be lieve that giving publicity to this important scientific fact would not. 666 Tablets Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 606 also in Liquid The movement of farm popula tion from farms to cities and from cities to farms declined in 1929, according to the estimates of the bureau of agricultural economics, United States Department of Agri culture. The bureau’s figures show that 1,876,000 persons moved from farms to cities last year as com pared with 1,923,000 in 1928; 1,978,000 in 1927, and a peak of 2,155,000 in 1926. The city to farm movement was also smaller being placed at 1,257,000 persons last year compared with 1,347,000 in 1928 and 1,374,000 in 1927. Births on farms last year are estimated at 631,000 and deaths at ! .281,000. Taking these figures into account along with the movement to and from farms, the bureau plaoes the total farm population on January 1, 1930, at 27.222,000 compared to 27,491,000 on January 1, 1929, or a decrease of 269,000. „ The bureau’s figures for the past year show that in the New Eng land states 87,000 persons left the farms and 50,000 returned to farms; Middle Atlantic states, 139,- 000 from farms, 110,000 to farms; East North Central 275.000 from farms, 204,000 to farms; West North Central, 327,000 from farms, 225,000 to farms; South Atlantic, 292.000 from farms, 162,000 to farms; East South Central, 204,- 000 from farms, 136,000 zo farms; West South Central, 331.000 from farms, 204,000 to farms; Mountain states, 127,000 from farms, 78.000 to farms; Pacific states, 114,000 from farms, 88,000 to farms, j sreat Births on farms were 23 to the ! strength in a 1,000; deaths were 10 to the 1,000 Mrs. Lillie Wardlaw Morrah There was a large assembly in the old Long Cane Church, one of the mothers of the Associate Re- I formed Church in South Carolina, i which during the present year will celebrate her one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Her members have scattered, many of them to lands far distant, while many sleep beside the wild wood, where the silence of decadence is broken only by the notes of the song bird, as in the primitive days of her existence. Of those who linger in*the com munion, all were present and many, who had moved to other surroundings and sadness sat upon every countenance. For twenty- five years the thinning line of old Long Cane’s members has assem bled and reassembled to hear the words of the venerable pastor and sing the rugged psalms, as they witnessed the last rites over the remains of their dear ones. The sweet voice of her v. ; hom the church was now called to mourn, had been heard at each service, while her bright face and kindly heart had ever their message of comfort. Banked against the pulpit of the old church was a billow of flowers; flowers rare and costly and flowers plucked from humble yards by hands accustomed to toil, but each brought its message of love and sympathy. The preacher read of the ex cellence of a loving, virtuous, and industrious wife, and without dis paraging the kindly remarks of the visiting ministers, the vibrant words from Holy Writ, so true in the minutest detail, of the life of the deceased, left nothing to be added, even by the touch of sor row. Verily her life was attuned to this ancient but no less noble idea of a perfect woman. The Morrah home has been a home of happiness. Its doors have been open and its cheer prover bial. Whether pleasure or sadness entered there, they were tempered by love that left no unpleasant memories. She was the guardian angel of that home. Standing with her husband, my lifelong friend, beside her bier, while his very soul hovered about the helpless form, in everlasting sleep and the broken tendrils of his life faltered between time and eternity, there came the consoling thought, which through his tears found expres sion: “There was never an unkind word between us.” No higher trib ute could have been paid to the memory of the dead and perhaps never had it been more truthfully uttered. “Life is real,” The wisest man of all time could but speculate as to its significance, and passing on, embarked on the shores of eter nity without chart or compass. Philosophy, after exhausting the field of reason and analogy, con fesses its impotency as to what may lie beyond. Scepticism rears its deadly head and tries to laugh away the responsibility that it would avoid. How futile is man’s finite conception of the infinite! What all may know is, that the span of human existence is but a breath and the works of the mightiest are but as a tale that is told of the moment, a bubble on the ocean of time, ■where the bil lows speak of eternity. Out of the mists of speculation there comes a beacon light. Its rays are not visible to philosophy or scepticism, but only to the eye of faith; faith that recognizes a Great First Cause; Faith that sees a Divine Mediary between benight ed man and the mystery of an in visible God and in this faith the believer finds justification for his existence. Such was the hope of the deceased, whose faith with her works have lighted the path of her life and brought her peace fully to the shore of eternity, to which all human beings must journey, to face either the obliv ion of a transient fleeting exist ence or to begin an existence that w’ill ennoble man, the real man, the spirit, with immortality. Shadows will linger in the earthly home of cur friends where her mission meant so much but time, “with healing in its wings,” will bring balm to the stricken hearts and as those who are left desolate approach the divide, they will fine life whose devotion to home and church has pointed Page NninKer Se.reti Nine-Tenths Preventable Nine-tenths of all the diseases cf tha American people can be traced directly, to constipation, doctors say. Const ipa-* tion throws into the system poisons which taint and weaken every organ; of the body and make them easy, victims for any germs which attack them. Prevent constipation and yc;*' will avoid nine-tenths of all dL:e’X-e,j with, their consequent pain and fi nancial losses. Herbine, the good oil vegetable cathartic, will prevent con stipation in a natural, easy aud pleasant way. Get a bottle today from STROMS’ DRUG STORE Want Bids On Bridge b At Chamberlain’s Mill -X- the better way. A great many building inspec- j tors can tell a defective structure A Triend. TXT the minute it collapses. Tire fool and his money part. The wise man is the who gets it. Yearling hens : pullets for breeders, soon mer usually lay iarg: one hatch into larger a: . chicks than those ot (he for- j- ^ The County Board of Commis sioners of McCormick County will receive bids Saturday, March 22. 1930, at their office at 10 o'clock, for the construction of a bridge across Little River at Chamber lain’s Mill Site, consisting of Two (2) Steel Spans, One (1) Concrete Pier and approaches. Specifica tions can be seen at the supervis or’s office. The right is hereby reserved to reject any and all bids. W. O. GRAVES, Supervisor. ATTEST: J. O. PATTERSON. Clerk. McCormick, S. C., March 12. 1930.-2t. S. C. Rapidly Filling Its Quota Applications for the C. M. T. C. Camps are being received from young men in South Carolina at the rate of over fifty a day. Thi& State’s quota of 600 will soon be filled. A few counties have not been heard from, while quite a number have over subscribed their quota. Those counties from which no applications have been receiv ed, or which are slow in filling their quotas will soon have iireir allotment taken away and given to other counties unless they get busy and submit applications. The District Chief for South Carolina is very anxious to have every county represented, if not with their entire quota, at least with one or two representatives. Last year only two counties failed to send candidates to camp, and already this year one of these counties has two accepted candi dates of its quota of four. The enthusiasm this year for C. M. T. C. training - appears to be greater than heretofore. * More and more young q^n are beconifc\g ac quainted with the splendid oiipqr- tunities offered at these camps for a month of healthful out doer ex ercises, good food, excellent com panionship and fun, and all of tnis at the expense of Uncle Sam. In other words, a real summer vaca tion and all expenses paid. Eligible young men who have put off sending in their applications should do so immediately, else they might be too late. Thousands last year were. Those who have al ready sent in their applications and have been notified by Corps Area to proceed with their innoc- ulation and vaccination should do so as rapidly as possible and send in their certificates so that their names can be put on the accepted list. Don’t forget that one scholar ship is offered to CMTC candidates from South Carolina for each of the following colleges: Furman. University, Wofford College, Uni versity of North Carolina, Oak Ridge Military Institute, and Riv erside Military Academy. Don’t forget, also, thav the CMTC in the Fourth Corps Area sends a rifle team to the National matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, each year, all expenses paid, and young men from South Carolina have an equal chance with those of other states in the Corps Area of making this team. Your county representative. Dr. C. K. Epting, McCormick, has ap plication blanks and will gladly furnish information. Act now be fore it is too late. X Edison has passed his 33rd birth day, and has probably invented the way to obtain long life. X Long hair is good for something after all. A dispatch the other day stated that a person was saved from a fractured skull because of the extra protection. Send us your order for Letter heads, Sot eh ends, Bill .ct.as. Statements, / ally Sheets, l 'n- velopes, Cards, Posters, Cir cular Letters, Programs, In vitations, Pisiting Cat as. etc. l\Ioderale /'rues *ind S. '.is- taction Cjuaianieed .‘L~a' , s+