Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday' May 1, 1930 McCOHMICK MESSENGER, McCOJZMIGK, Soufll Cmrolimm. Page Number TErSQ McCORMICK MESSENGER 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 matter 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. BUSINESS READING NOTICES: G per cent per linp for each inser tion, average of 6 words to line. WANT AD VS., 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 — .in i ii i-.... i .i ■! BETTER ROAD BUILDING METHODS * the parent-teacher association, the schools, the civic organizations, will ask their newspaper to do nate hundreds of dollars worth of :pace annually and then fall in with a bunch of outside grafters and let them come in and reap a rich harvest right out of the news paperman’s garden, and then send iway for printing.—Press and Banner. txi WHAT ABOUT RULE 32? One of the big issues in the Dem ocratic State convention in 1923 was Rule 32 governing the “oath” taken by Democrats who partici pate in the primary. This rule re quires all those taking part in the primary to swear they will support the nominees of the party “both state and national.” There was strong opposition to this rule. Many of the counties sent dele gates pledged to vote against the rule. Other counties instructed their delegates to vote to retain the rule. After a great deal of discussion before and in the con vention the rule was retained. At the time the matter was receiving so much attention, some of the delegates declared they favored changing this rule but felt that 1928 was not the proper time, as such action would be interpreted as a protest against the leading candidate for the Democratic nom ination for president. The rule was not changed, 140,- 000 of South Carolina’s 210,000 qualified voters refused to take part in the general election. The time is approaching for another Democratic state convention. This year there is no presidential elec tion. Therefore, the objection raised in 1928 to modifying or amending Rule 32 no longer holds good. Are the Democratic party leaders in South Carolina willing to trust the people of this state or do they wish to keep them tied. Why not amend the party rule having the voter pledge support to “the nomi nees of the primary.” This will include both state and national who enter the party primary. Such a change would project the party primary and go far toward meet ing the objections raised by 140,000 in the face or will they modify the rules for the sake of party har mony?—Carolina Free Press. iXX TO SPEED THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY WORKING GIRLS’ EXPENSES (From The Chicago Tribune) In any part of the United States —not many years ago—a road was anything which was passable with horses and a wheeled vehicle— stones, ruts, dust and mud were the rule. Farmers were permitted to “work out” their road taxes. Then came the automobile, and the demand for surfaced roads. Tractors took the place of horses; ingenious machinery was develop ed for use with tractors, enabling ono or two men to do work for merly requiring a large crew of laborers. The amazing transfor mation that has taken place in American road building practice is summarized by H. F. Fairbanks, highway engineer of United States Bureau of Public Roads, Washing ton, D. C. who says: “The development of road build ing from a rule of thumb practice into a scientfic art, has made it practically impossible to permit continuance of this old custom (permitting farmers to work out taxes), and the improved economic condition of the rural population is such that there i$ no longer a public demand for its continu ance.” It has been said that in the United xStates, when public demand arises, the means of gratifying this demand are made available more quickly than in any other country of the world. Surely the develop ment of modem tractors and road machinery in which this country has taken so conspicuous a lead, is o. striking sample of American initiative and enterprise. None of us -would return to the old meth ods—and the best part of it is, none of us will have to. -j X ADVERTISING GRAFT The Press and Banner is an ad vertising medium covering Abbe ville county. How long will people fall for the graft that poses as ad vertising. Just a few days ago an adver tising specialist breezed in the city selling advertising at unheard of prices to the merchants of the city in a proposed magazine. The very firms that have been support ed and made by the town are the firms that took the most promin ent spaces. Last week under the guise of a charitable institution a person came to town and sold advertising to the amount of $75 which actuallv cost only $35.00.1 dropped from the payrolls. That | that the welfare council should i Another slicker comes in and sells ! further aggravates the situation, j oublish the results of its years of I advertising on a card, another j because their buying power is cur-: observation. Perhaps some girls! sells advertising on the backs of ; tailed, and the moment when the j may be kept from unhappy or dis- ! writing tablets and so on ad in- i excess of goods disappears from ! astrous experiences. A confident j finitum. The merchants are easy'the market, which is the moment young creature w 7 ho might have A period of depression, as every body knows, is accompanied by de creases in employment, industrial output and the turnover of goods. The current notion of the extent of these decreases, however, is much exaggeratea. As a matter of fact, a change of only a point or two in the per centages is suffi cient to change sunshine to gloom and vice versa. The economic ma chine is ‘nicely balanced. Accord ingly a slight disturbance in one of its cylinders is likely to have pro foundly disquieting effects seem ingly out of all proportion to the i cause. Take the question of unemploy ment, for example. It is generally agreed that current statistics are none too reliable, but few statis ticians would venture to say that unemployment today is more than 5 per cent above what is regarded as normal for the season; a good many would say that the increase in unemployment is considerably less than 5 per cent. Depressions, it seems to be gen erally agreed, commonly result from an accumulation of goods in excess of the purchasing power of of a job, if only a temporary one. here and there will be sufficient to make a marked reduction in the percentage of unemployment. It is not as if 50 per cent of the work ing, population were out of jobs. As has been pointed out, 95 out of every 100 men and women ordin arily employed are employed to day. Jobs must be found now for jonly the other five. Almost evovy building is in need of at least minor repairs and addi tions wdiieh must be inade sooner or later. Those repairs should be made now, when labor is plenti ful and prompt and thorough at tention can be given to them. Thousands of men and women could be employed usefully in painting, cleaning and repairing. This is the time for every house holder to make an inspection of his property with a view to cor recting defects in construction and repairing the accumulated dam ages wrought by time. No one who walks about the streets of a city can fail to see countless opportunities for work of this character. Broken sidewalks, cracked window panes, stairs in need of repair are common sights. Every building owner expects to make these repairs sooner or lat er. Another fruitful source of jobs should be the heating installations. In a few weeks the furnaces will be closed down. Many thousands of them have outlived their useful ness and are a liability. Great advances in heating apparatus have been made in recent years, and the' expense of new furnaces can be more than met by savings in fuel bills. This is the time to obtain estimates of the cost of modernizing an old heating plant, which will not only save money spent for fuef but reduce the smoke nuisance as well. > THE SMALL-TOWN NEWSPAPER (Hampton County Guardian) (From The New York Times) When a group of women observ es how difficult it is for great numbers of the girls they are try ing to help to obtain proper lodg ing and food in this city, it is natural that they should offer dis couraging advice to prospective newcomers. The various organiza tions working under the auspices of the room registries section of the welfare council published a statement recently that might well give pause to any girl ambitious for a New York career. They tell her that she must be sure of $25 a week to live here in comfort and independence. The typical budget they offer may seem high in some of its essential items to many girls who plan to come here. Cer tainly it leaves little enough, $1.40, for recreation, medicine, doctor and dentist bills, vacation funds, dry cleaning and other incidentals. It would be interesting to know what proportion of the $25-a-week girls, not living at home, now in New York, came to the city with out the resource of friends already here or a companion coming at the same time. One imagines there are not many arriving out of a blue sky. Even those who write to the various associations from foreign countries surely got their impulse to try their fortune here from the example of some one they knew. Those who come with out knowing any one often arc traveling in pairs, and there is no doubt that two girls together can cut down on the price of food and rent. The cooking, laundry, sewing and dry cleaning that two healthy young women can do in one small room would astonish some of the budgeteers, who are bound to hear more from the lonely, the ill, the the^ consuming public. In cense- friendless and out-of-w’ork than quence some of the men and wo- ^ they do from successful managers, men employed in production arc j it is undoubtedly a useful thing Running a newspaper in a small towm is a far more difficult prop osition than running a paper in a city—that is, when the editor strives conscientiously to print news of the community hapnen- ings to which the public is entitled. In a city, news is of a more or less impersonal nature. When a citizen of a large city defaults or murders his wife or commits sui cide or runs off with another man’s wife, his action makes news all right, just as it does in a small town, but the chances are that particular individual is personally known to comparatively few peo- jple in the city in which he lives and the editor of a large paper ! publishes the facts of the story as impersonally as he does the weath- !er report. They are all in the day. It is his business and means no more, personally, to him than does a patient beneath his knife means to a surgeon. The life of a big-town newspaper editor is a bed of roses, compared to that of the smalltown editor. Startling things happen in small towns, not so many of them, naturally, as happen in a city, because there are not so many people to make them happen. But in small towns, bank cashiers do sometimes abscond; occasionally a man kills his wife or a wife her husband; once in a while a breath taking domestic scandal disrupts the even tenor of small-town life; prominent smalltown citizens’ sons very often get arrested for being drunk and disorderly or smash into a telephone pole while on a “petting” or drinking party. These incidents make news that the readers of a newspaper are en titled to know. Supression of them by the newspaper does not keep gossip down. Very often publish ing the straight facts clears up a situation where gossip liever could. Yet the mere publishing of such a story, somehow, to the small town “victim” seems an unnecessary cruelty on the part of the newspa per editor. He takes the attitude that the paper is against him merely because it published facts as everybody knows them. It seems this way, merely be cause small town people are so close. Perhaps the man who made the news is a next-door neighbor, may be a kinsman. He and the edi tor probably shot marbles togeth er when they were kids. They are members of the same church. Their children are playmates. Yet, very few people probably ever think of the small town edi tor’s side of it. How are his read ers to know of the sleepless nights he spends agonizing over a “story” that he must print because it is his duty to do so? A newspaper per son is offered no choice. He serves an implacable master—the public. He has a trust that he cannot throw down. If his father or his brother commits murder or robs a tank, he might print that news as impartially as though he were a stranger. KE * <• ■ I KEEP IKE FLIES OITT Flies are not only bothersome in the house, but most dangerous as well, for they carry filth and dis ease. Now is the time to prepare to keep them out. Get the old screens out and determine how many new ones you need or how many re-covered. WE HAVE BEST SCREEN WIRE TO BE HAD Our stock of screen wire is most complete. We have black enameled, galvanized or copper to suit your needs and pocketbook. but each is the best quality for the money. All come in different widths for different size frames. Also nails, straps, screws, hinges, etc., for hang ing window screens and screen doors. Also a com plete line of the best paints. WHITE HARDWARE CO. ft -x- S. G WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be considered generally cor rect. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. THE FIRST S1EP OWNING TOUR J. S. STROM FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EXPERIENCED EMBALMER IN CHARGE McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA. FURNITURE AND STOVES Night Phone, 55 — —- Day Phone, 76. Start a savings account at this bank. A home of your own is not beyond your means if you will make up your mind to have it. The first essential is to start saving and accumulate your surplus earnings for a start. WE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT This bank is adequately equipped to take care of your financial problem and is capable to advise you expertly. Conservative management by ex ecutives and adequate capital and re serve makes this bank safe and re liable beyond a doubt. We invite you to partake of our splendid banking facilities by starting your account now and saving regularly THE PEOPLES RINK McCormick, S. G prey for any Slick talking person, i when the upswing begins, is by The money spent in the home that much delayed, newspaper would have stayed at j If this analysis is correct the im- hoped to stretch a hundred dollars over two months, allowing that much time to get work, may wait home to return to the pockets portance of maintaining employ- now until she has saved up twice from whence it came eventually, j ment during times of depression as but now the salesmen are laugh- nearly normal as possible is plain. ing up their sleeves and living high somewhere else. Your local newspaper man knows advertising, its value and its worth. It is his business and in this business he professes to be efficient. He knows the problems of the town and the merchants and to advise concerning adver tising is a pleasure. He must make your advertising pay and In or der to make it pay he knows just exactly what you need. It will hasten the day when fac- as much. But the determined and persistent, with the New York idea buzzing in their bonnets, are un- tories can again be operated pro- likely long to be deterred by dis- fitably with full staffs. On this theory governments and large in- dusties have been urged to under take large capital expenditures now, but governments and large industries are not the only agents which can, and in self-interest should, co-operate in the endeavor. Every employer, every real estate owner, and every householder can play his part in hastening the re- couragement, even when they must admit that it is based on honest information and a genuine 1 desire to help them. Youth and health find it hard to see obstacles in the way of a strong desire. If the welfare council could only make sure that the girls who come here looking for work are strong and well, there would be much less concern about their future well- The churches, the merchants, turn of prosperity. The creation (being. Orangeburg County shipped to tal of 14 carloads hogs during Feb ruary and March, for which ship pers received $20.792.—Camden Wateree Messenger. Proposed construction for two Carolinas amounts to $1,978,650 in addition to $574,214 in South Caro lina road work, according to bulle tin of Carolinas’ branch of Asso ciated General Contractors. Conway — Courthouse building i being improved. Georgetown — Home Telephone Company of this city seeks per mission to lay two cables, one un der Sampit River and other under North Santee about 96 feet south of North Santee bridge. Lexington — Home National Bank merged with Peoples State Bank of South Carolina. Camden — Dixie Radio Company leased store room recently occup ied by Camden Clothing Company. Union — A. & P. Store No. 1 moved into Glymph bubUding. Newberry — Smeltzer Hall qjt Newberry College campus, will be remodeled this summer. Walterboro — New fire truck ar rived here. Belton — Road leading from Belton-Honea Path highway at Clement’s store south of town, to Shady Grove by Dick Smith farm, recently top-soiled. Pickens — Work cn new Pick ens Mill school building being rushed to completion. Palmetto — Palmetto Packing Corporation installing machinery in plant near Southern Railway station. Newberry — Building formerly occupied by Copeland-Hipp Com pany being remodeled for occup ancy by Weir’s Inc., dry goods firm. Sumter — Albert’s, modern lad ies’ ready-to-wear store, opened to public o» North Main Street, pext to Peoples State Bank. Kinstree — Peacock Grill, new tea room, opened in Gourdin build ing on Main Street. .Q11 m f ~*v U Harvin Street sold to Carolina Ice & Fuel Company. Charleston — Horse Show held ihere recently. Greer — Brick building being erected on Trade Street to be oc cupied by Elmore Lunch. Summerville — Work progressing on laying $130,000 waterworks sys tem. Greer — Scotts Variety Store opened to public in newly con- [ structed building on Trade Street. ! Kingstreo — J. D. Palarz opened dry goods store in Kellahan build ing, formerly occupied by T. C, Jacobs. Summerville — City Council pro- : poses to lay over four miles of as- ; phalt over principal streets of i town. Allendale — John Davis has tak- i en over Standard Service Station I at corner of Main and Bay streets. Hartsville — American Railway Express Company added new de livery truck to service. South Carolina National Bank purchased $10,000,000 worth of State Highway bonds, proceeds to be used to construct State high ways.—Denmark. Edisto News.