Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, April 17, 1930 MESSENGER McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCOHMICK, South Carotin*. Page Number Two Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail jnatter of the second class. DISPLAY ADVERTISING— 25 cents per inch for each inser tion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column dis play, nor less than 2 inches for single column display. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. • » i ■ BUSINESS READING NOTICES: 6 per cent per line for. each inser tion, average of 6 words to line. WANT ADVSf., 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. additional appropriations of $125,- 000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1932 and 1933. Apportionments from these Fed eral funds are calculated upon the 1 area, population and post-road mileage of the several states, and the share allotted each state is available for expenditure upon roads included in the Federal-aid system, under the joint supervision of the state highway department and the bureau of public roads in the United States department of agriculture. South Carolina is well circumstanced, in respect of the allotment basis, to share liber ally in the distribution. IXI INCREASE IN PLANTING TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents per line, 6 words to line. All advs, set in body type, 6 cents per single column line; extra charges for big type on all single column advs., except head and signature. Embarrassing Moments THINGS WORTH KNOWING (Anderson Daily Mail.) Lives of great men sometimes have their embarrassing moments as well as the lives of little men, medium sized men, and all the women, big and little. The New Yorker tells a story of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Edsel Ford. They were lunching at the Roose velt recently, and Vanderbilt, dis covering that he was out of Easter lilies are now grown com mercially in Florida. Five states ha\e abolished fixed speed limits for automobiles. A super-power miscroscope re cently made magnifies an objeet 2,259 times. Metz claims the oldest unmar ried woman inhabitant, Mile. Ger- — — trude Gorious, who recently cele- change, presented an American , t, ra t e d her 102d birthday. Express checque to the cashier at her window. “It w^as obvious” tFrom The Hartsville Messenger) says the New Yorker, “that her SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 m in’ ' ■■■■■■■' Creates Responsibility The opinion grows that higher demands should be made upon groups than are made on individ uals; that when men and women live together in communities, they should justify their existence by worthy accomplishments. The principle which makes high er demands of groups than of in dividuals is recognized in our laws against conspiracy. Frequently individuals can do that which col lective bodies may not do. Any individual may fritter away his time about as he pleases, but it is the popular verdict that when people spend their lives together, their time here on earth is wasted if they do not make an effort to improve conditions and prepare the coming generation for useful citizenship. There is justice in this verdict, for any community that does not grow and improve will eventually waste away and the people who are at the helm now, the citizens whose opinions are respected and whose leadership will be followed, should feel that they have a very grave responsibility. ; XXX — A Big By-Product America, watching the pheno menal multiplication of motor cars from a few hundred to 25,- 000,000 since 1900 has hardly been conscious of the growth of a sec ond industry as a by-product of the automotive age. The building and operation of garages has be- cqme just that. At present, ac cording to an estimate, there are 5l ,600 commercial garages in the country, representing a total in vestment of $3,000,000,000, to say nothing of the uncounted millions of private housing spaces. But in spite of its growth from the humble status of a converted stable to the impressive massive ness of a lofty building, the gar age continues to be a problem to the architect builder, for as soon as the building goes beyond two floors in height it has been neces sary—until recently, at least—to give up from 40 to 60 per cent of According to a recent report from the department of agricul ture, the intentions of South Caro lina farmers as of March 1 were for increases in acreages of all im portant crops, cotton excluded, of from 5 to 10 per cent this year. An act of Congress prohibits a report by the department on intended cotton acreage. Intended plantings in per cent of last year’s harvested acreage are reported as follows: Com, 10 per cent; oats, 105 per cent; tobacco, 105 per cent; Irish potatoes, 110 per cent; sweet pota toes, 110 per cent;' tame hay, 110 per cent; soybeans, 110 per cent; cow peas, 110 per cent; peanuts, 105 per cent. If there is a promise in this report, it would seem that South Carolina farmers are looking more, and more to the production of those crops so essential to a diversified program*, a cutting down of imported feed crops and more food* crops for the table. X THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER (From The Manufacturer) According to Ayer’s Newspaper Directory, there are some 13,000 smaller city dailies and country weekly newspapers in the United 1 States, outnumbering all other newspapers published. These are read by the great majority of home-owning tax-paying Ameri can families. These newspapers are nearly all owned individually by the country editors and pub lishers, and are read by the great middle class of people comprising our workers and thinkers from which our most successful nation al leaders are picked. Like the painters and artists, the poets and musicians, the country editors of our country are mostly individuals. They do not live in the skyscrapers of the big cities, but constitute the great body poli tic of our country and voice the consciousness of the nation—that means , American conservation, family life and business stability. They are stronger than Wall Street, more powerful than Con gress or the Senate, and their voice is heard in the Inter-the Court of the World. X IS THIS ECONOMY? Two young men arrested in Lon don for fighting gave their names suspicions were aroused—it’s an as George Winter and Albert Sum- old trick saying you are Cornelius mer Vanderbilt. Her evident doubt made TO AID YOU WITH SPRING HOUSE CLEANING At this drug store you will find many needed supplies to help you with your spring house cleaning and renovating. Just take note of the things you need and then pay us a visit. You are almost certain to find just what you need here. It will be the best quality, too, for we handle only good merchandise. We have Sponges, Stove Polish, Window Cleaners, Rubber Gloves, Chamois, Lacquer, Metal Polish, Paint Brushes, Naptha, etc. STROMS’ DRUG STORE Main Street McCormick, S. C. * 33 Vanderbilt uneasy and SI For the first time Shakespeare’s was Egypt, today among the world’s most prosperous nations, derives her wealth mainly from the soil through irrigation and drainage work. It is reported that 10,000 Ger man colonists, representing a stock that has lived in Russia 200 years, are now seeking new homes in Canada and Europe. Ten years ago about 2,000 uses of wood could be listed; now there are 4,500. - — */ X KJ A. X XX O U Wkj thinking to convince her of his » Muc h Ac j 0 About Nothing w^o identity, he remarked, T have lust 1 pro d ucec i i n the Dutch tongue at had lunch here with Edsel Ford.’I Amsterdam recently. This was too thick. Bang, went j the money drawer which the cash ier had opened. She said he’d have to see the credit manager.” Many stories are told of Rocke feller not being able to get credit at a Standard Oil filling station, of Ford trying to get service in a Ford agency, and of the great and near great and their embarrass ments. One in particular is told of four of the great; Ford, Fire stone, Edison and Charles Evans Hughes traveling in Florida. Mr. Ford went into .a service station and asked about a tire, and seeing a Firestone tire for sale, told the attendant. “You might be interested to know that Mr. Harvey Firestone is out in the car. I’ll just get one of his tires. I want a lamp globe too, and receiving an Edison lamp bulb, made a like re mark to the mechanic about Mr. Edison being in the car. He added that he was Henry Ford and he would like for the mechanic to put the tire he had just bought on the car. The mechanic seemed unim pressed with the personages of greatness visiting his place of busi ness, and gathering up his tools followed Mr. Ford to the car. As they approached, Mr. Hughes lean ed out of the car and spoke to Mr. Ford. The mechanic stopped, drew back a tire iron and said, Now listen, you may be Henry Ford, and Edison and Firestone may be in that car, but if you try to tell me that old bird with the whiskers is Santa Claus, I’m gonna smack yoii over.” X J. W. Crawford Enters Furniture Business In Aiken More than 500 cities and towns in Texas teach fire prevention in their schools. College and university summer schools enrolled 412,824 students in 1929. This is the largest sum mer term attendance on record. Moving large trees was once thought close to impossible, but now large trees are successfully transplanted by aid of derricks, trucks and proper technique. The copper-ore content of the only Finnish copper mine now un der exploitation, Outokumpo, amounts, according to recent es timates, to approximately 8,000,000 tons, the average copper-content being 4.5 per cent. Alexander the Great is said to have founded no fewer than sev enty cities. Night-flying birds are less va ried in color than those that are active by day. Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of the University of South Carolina, feels that the work of that insti tution during the coming year will be injured by the cuts in the ap propriation made by Governor Richards by way of executive veto. Not only is the work of the insti tution impaired, says President Douglas, but a great injustice is done to regular employes, who have had their salaries lopped away without warning. But even with the effect on this institution and certain of its offi- — — *— cers, of which Dr. Douglas com be space to ramps, driveways and I plains, one might feel that the gov- pace for manipulating the cars, iernor was probably following a No office or factory building proper course in making every pos- :ould begin to pay its way if half ! sibie reduction—if it were not for >f its space was devoted to corri- 0 ne thing. Neither can a garage. Whichj While the governor was chopping out these comparatively small items, the understanding is that he approved a measure passed by , the legislators, paying themselves lors. jxplains why the garage owner has jeen restricted to side streets and mtlying sections where real estate ralues are low. , — — But necessity dictates that the i $260 each in extra compensation, garage must come downtown— | which increased state expenditures nust be near the heart of even the | by about $44,000. argest cities, and must follow the | in a year when the necessity for office skyscrapers up into the air j economy is so greatly stressed, one l traffic congestion and parking wonders how it happens that the The following item from last week’s Aiken Journal and Review will be of interest; to friends of Mr. Crawford in McCormick Coun ty; *■ 4 * The furniture store of Couch & Timmerman located corner of Laurens street and West Hayne avenue has been purchased by Messrs. T. B. Hallman and J. W. Crawford, and they will continue to conduct the business under the firm name of Hallman & Craw ford. The transfer was completed on Saturday, April 5th, and the new managers are now in charge of 4.he business. Mr. Hallman has been a ffe’sidtfnr of Aiken for the past twenty-three years, and has conducted several businesses in Aiken very success fully. Until a few weeks ago he was a member of the firm of Hallman & Johnson, having . the sales agency of the Buick automobiles. Recently he sold his interest to Mr. C. A. Owens. Mr. Crawford has been a resident of Aiken for the past three and a half years. He is an experienced furniture man and before coming to Aiken was employed by J. S. Strom, furniture and funeral di rector, at McCormick, and A human heart contains among other substances, copper, silver and aluminum. X Cotton Hulls For Litter CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 12.- Cottonseed hulls are being used for litter in the brooder house with good results, declares P. H. Good ing, extension poultryman. This source of litter is probably the cheapest and most available to poultrymen throughout Jhe cotton belt. “Some materials used for litter in the brooder house will keep the floor in a sanitary condition and be comfortable for the chicks, while others have proven to be less desirable,” says Mr. Gooding. “The litter must serve three pur poses. First, it must absorb mois ture in order to keep the floor dry. Second, it must be light in weight so that the droppimgs are easily covered. Third, a soft material will make the floor more comfort able for the chicks. “Cottonseed hulls see'm to supply all of these requirements. It takes 50 to 60 pounds of hulls to make a litter one inch thick in a house 10 was i by 12 feet. “When more than one inch jroblems are to be solved. tut A FEDERAL-AID PICK-UP (From The State) ; governor did not use his veto to ! prevent the payment of $44,000 ex- !tra to the legislature? Does it ! look like real economy to give the (legislators a nearly fifty per cent . — i increase in compensation, while South Carolina gets a tidy pick- pinching the pennies for a state p, some $710,070, in Federal aid educational institution and lopping )r highway construction, from the off entirely the salaries of certain iipplementary allotment made by employes who were at least per-j ^ ^ ongress for the fiscal year begin- forming useful services at that empire, Rome was linked with oth ing next July 1. This brings the institution? i er cities b y a system of twenty tate’s increment from Uncle Sam Which is more important to the nint roads. }r that year to 31,775.175, or norc welfare of the state—a “bonus” of. 344.000 for the legislators or the The United States with this firm for about tw r elve { “When more than one inch of years. He has made many' friends ; litter is used on the floor for young since coming to Aiken. He has been | chicks there is a tendency to allow connected with the Holley Hard- it to stay in the house longer than ware Co., and wall continue with is advisable for the most sanitary this firm until the end of this conditions. The floor is easier to month. ; clean and will be more sanitary The new firm will operate this! when the litter is removed at least store selling only the best high grade furniture on both cash an-' installment plan. They are re ceiving new shipments of furni ture now, and invite the people t the city and county to call and in spect their stock. t Xt In the great days of the Roman -1X1- once a week.” han one and ih;TC-qua'.ter Lens cf doearr. WYthc mo- mil- W uesident recent iy ‘ contempt- w buys from i maintenance of normal activities foreign countries 3.590 tons of lie- ; at the university? — Greenville orice every year, and most of it i: ' News. gathered from wild plants. j Nature Thought of Everything Nature thought of everything when ♦he human body was made. When the body is about to become ill, nature planned danger sisals to warn us. Thus, if our children grind their teeth when they sleep, or 1 -clc appetite, or Buffer from abdominal pains, or ite.i about the nose and fingers, we should know that they may have contracted worms. Then, ii v.c arc v.’i-c, wo l bot tic of Y/hite’r. Crnam Ycrmifug safely and surely expel the worms. I in: we avoid the danger « f very eerrn;: trouble. White’ Cream Ycr:: fugc ensi J only ooeabe-tfle, and tan be bought from LTiCOMS’ DRUG STORE .. a i mvf mi rmifs A few specials are listed here for FRIDAY and SATURDAY, only, FOR CASH, to show how you can save money by trading with us: FLOUR, Aunt Jamimas Pan Cake, 2 for 25c SYRUP, ]V^aple Log Cabin, 1 for 25c SALMON, Pink, one can 15c SOAP, Octagon, 7 bars for 25c MATCHES, Six 5 cents boxes for 17c SUGAR, 10 lbs. 55c GOOD FLOUR, per sack 95c BEANS, Southern King, 2 cans -25c PEAS, Stokely’s, 2 cans 25c CORN, Stokely’s, 2 cans 25c LARGE MULLETS, per lb. ...15c ■ — ■■■■—■■ .M f ■■■■ ■■■■ We also carry all kinds of fresh meats found in up-to-date marivet, fish, oysters in season, etc. Buy from us and save the difference. The specials are for cash for FRIDAY and SATURDAY only. A. H. FAULKNER Main Street McCormick, S. C. You’ve often heard of the constant dropping of water wearing away stone and perhaps seen the result. The same constancy in saving will build up a nice reserve for you—a foundation for your success and a safeguard against adversity. START YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT HERE We invite you to start saving here now for your future. We offer you genuine safety and complete service. Start your account now, no matter how small you start. McCormick, S. C.