McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 29, 1930, Image 3

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I Tmms r Thursday, May 29, 1930 ) McCORMICX MESSENGER, McCOttMlCK, South CurothuL Page Number TGrH run 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- tfon; 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: 6 per cent per line for each inser tion, average of 6 words to line. WANT ADVS., 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 During the month of June, thou- cents per single column line; extra sands of boys and girls will gradu- charges for big type on all single ate from the high schools through- column advs., except head and out the country. They emerge, fill- have exceeded those of any prev ious year and have exceeded the deihand. Every member of the graduating class already has ac cepted a job. “Scientific improvements, M he writes, “which are constantly be ing made in machinery, processes of manufacture, finishing, testing and distribution of textiles are creating an increasing demand for young men who have been thor oughly trained in the science and practice of the textile arts.” A shortage of trained men in an otherwise overcrowded field—it is a condition to be studied, particul arly by young -people nearing the close of high school days. Trained men in any line seldom are jobless. X A Common Duty signature. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months i .75 Three Months.50 CHRONIC PESSIMISTS It’s the easiest thing in world to knock. It’s the easiest thing in the world to stay away from the pri mary election and then complain about the nominee of your party. It’s easy to take no part in the parent-teacher association meet ings and then knock on the schools. It’s easy to play golf or go pic- nicing all day Sunday and then criticize the church because it does not draw crowds. It’s just the easiest thing in the world to degenerate into a sour faced, disagreeable, self-satisfied, chronic grumbler. Every city, every town, no mat ter how large or how small, has its chronic pessimists, who see noth ing but the bad in everything and cto'ndbfchJg to porreet it. • A '•certain* nuitlber will always exist, no doubt, as a horrible ex ample for the rest of us, and even though they do no good, they at least forever will stand out as a living manifestation of what for ward-looking people should not be. X SPENDING OUR MONEY Wlien a merchant sells an ar&cle he makes a certain profit over and above the wholesale cost of the goods, the transportation, • and the cost of handling. This rule applies the world over. Suppose the people of this com munity have $500,000 to sflend within a given length of time. Is it better to keep the profits at home and in circulation among us, or is it wiser to send it all away? For purposes of illustration, we will say the dealer’s profit is 15 per cent, or $75,000. If the people send away for this $500,000 worth of goods all of the money they send away will stay away" Wo will never see it again. If, on the other hand, the peo ple buy those goods from local dealers, the only money" to be -sent away the wholesale cost of the goods andjthe trans portation charges. The 15 per cent profit will re ed with confidence, to ^ continue their studies in institutions of higher learning or to take their places in the business world. In | either course they are to be more [or less upon their own. Until now, ( they have been t# a great extent =! funder the watchful care and guid ance of their parents, but from henceforth, either in college or the the business world, they must depend more upon themselves. Upon the foundation laid, the character formed, the ideals fixed in their mentality rests the cer tainty of success. The questions in the minds of many parents are: Will they, upon their own initia tive, go forward? Are they equip ped to meet and cope with the problems and difficulties which will confront them? If not, upon whom is the blame? Primarily, the responsibility for their future rests upon the public schools. It is in these institutions that the boys and girls have spent the greater portion of their time. It is there that they have received their initial equipment. And, since the schools are what the public makes them, the duty of seeing that the youth of this country has the best possible training is shad ed by every citizen. This duty is a grave one and should not be skirk- ed. ‘ Let every citizen take an inter est in the public schools and, wit nessing the ceremonies of a gradu ation exercise, be able to assure himself that he has done his part, to the best of his ability, to give these young citizens a good, basic foundation upon which to build their future. —H. *Xt- 3 3 3 •H 3 3 3 i, i •H $ 3 When A CLEANSING MEDICINE Is Needed *1 have taken ' Black-Draught all my life, when ever in need of a medicine for con- j atipation,” says Mrs. G. C. Burns, of Buna, Texas. * , "My mother and father used it in their home for years, and I was raised to think *bf it as the first thing if I had a headache" or was con stipated. "At one time I had indiges tion real bad. I was all out of sorts; my skin was sallow, and I had gas pains. After a course of Black-Draugh^, I got all right.«I have given Black-Draught to my child ren, whenever they needed a medicine of the kind.” Insist on Thedford’s Black- Draught WOMEN Who need a tonic should take C&rdul. In use over 50 years. ie j I 3 3 H* Cellulose Industries Use Peanut Hulls Peanut hulls, now regarded as a farm waste, with a value of only about $2 a ton for fuel, may be come commercially important as a source of cellulose to supplement cotton linters and wood pulp in America’s rapidly developing cel lulose industries, say D. F. J. Lynch and M. J. Goss, chemists of the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, who have been seeking to discover and develop profitable outlets for this farm waste of the Southern States. Several attempts to dispose of the 70,000 tons of peanut hulls which collect annually at the L ^ WD ii oc +vip nvpr- 1 shelling plants in the Southern head Expenses? such as clerical ^ have as yet met with only S ^ ^ e^enS af variot..> ot er i • home in cattle feed but they have little Keeping 4 th ^ “® ney th a * h °“t feed value; small quantities are 'does two ^Portent thtags^It incorporated as a dUuent ^ fert _ and it gives employment ulz ers; and attempts have been % at home, a b made to use the hulls in magnesia who are In the habit of P last f^ “es, and fiber concrete, oa^r zing their home merchants bu ‘ the ®" r « au ° f Standards re- patroi-^i* & . mnrp ports that the fiber concrete is invariably have a better and more . concrete orenared nrosoerous community than those n ^ e concrete prepared prosperous vmhit with hardwood chips, who have the catalogue naoit. ** These are facts worth looking in the face. TRAINED MEN IN DEMAND It is only a matter of time, say the chemists, until the depletion of the forests and the attendant scarcity of wood pulp, together with the rapidly increasing demand for a cheap, high-grade cellulose, (From The Greenville Piedmont) will make our present sources of <-■ ■ ■■—• cellulose inadequate. The search With unemployment an interest- f 0 r a supplemental supply would iiur and serious topic, it is the more naturally turn to our cheap farm impressive to learn of a shortage waste products. Peanut hulls, be- Tmen In any given field of en- cause of their cheapness and their deavor availability in large quantities at Of such shortage Dr. Thomas the shelling plants, appear to offer Kelson dean of the Textile School a promising source of cellulose for # Krtrth Carolina State College, the future. 2JK writes in a communica- x to The Piedmont. ! probably it is called the rising ^ ifelson says that requests for generation because it makes its textile graduates at his institution elders go up in the air. Thurber Praised In Report Of Near East Relief Work WASHINGTON, May 28.—The work of C. C. Thurber, formerly on the staff of the U. S. Public Health Hospital at Greenville ^as been commended in the annual report of Near East Relief recent ly submitted to Congress. A plan to improve methods of living in Near Eastern countries by proper leadership, using as a nucleus for operations 132,000 children previ ously in the American Orphanages and now living in village, rural and refugee communities, was out lined in the report. It is on this basis that Near East Foundation, recently incorporated to succeed Near East Relief, will work. As managing director of the Creek area, Mr. Thurber has in his charge 1,255 city-placed orphans still under active supervision and the. direction of six Working Boys and Girls Homes housing 340 and nine Night Schools serving 630. “These centers have a demonstra ble community value and social force in relation to the Armeian refugees in Athens and Piraeus and the low health state contribut ing to tuberculosis, the death rate in Greece being twelve times that of the United States,” the report reads. “In the two cities are 3,000 additional boys and girls not now under active supervision but re quiring some co-operation and ad vice in view of the following eco nomic situation: “A report based on Department of Commerce statistics and con firmed by the Greek Minister seems* to indicate that the present cost of living is approximately 20 times pre-war cost, treble that of 1922 and increasing at an average of 22 per cent yearly, with rents increased 28 times the pre-war index. The average salary scale is somewhat less than 12 times pre war, and wages approximately 15 times. The average unemployment of adults is 20 per cent, with busi ness slowly recovering. “The American centers demon strate what can be done in the ad- j justment of the boy, or girl, to en-' vironment and employment. A result of these demonstrations is that the municipality of Piraeus has included a part of the cost of the work in that city in the mun icipal budget as a beginning of local co-operation, and a society to solve problems of juvenile de linquency has been started. The Piraeus Home and School is situ ated near the docks and is occu pied by 90 boys, with a night school attendance of 100. The boys pro vide their own food, the home pro viding shelter, clothing, medical care night classes and supervis ion.” Under Mr. Thurber’s supervision in Athens are various disease pre vention activities, including sum mer camps for tubercular children, a tuberculosis pavilion for chil dren. The training of nurses, also of deaf'and blind orphans, and a school for leaders in social wel fare, agriculture and other trades on the Island of Syra in the Aegean Sea. Over 2,000 Children Aided By Hospital ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 28.—More than 2,690 deformed boys and girls have been restored to practical normality through operations at the Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children in this city sinoe its open ing in April, 1924. The actual fig ures, as presented in the record of that institution, are 2,623, and jthey are being augmented each month by from thirty to forty. The latter figures do not include what are termed out-patients, or those whose deformities, although | serious to the afflicted ones, are not of a nature to require their stay in the hospital while under- g9ing treatment. j During April of the present year thirty-one children were discharg ed from the hospital, and eighty- eight others had been approved for admission when facilities for treat ing them were available. The ut most capacity is 110 beds, some of which are reserved for emerg ency cases, being in what is known as the receiving ward. No restriction of race or creed is imposed by the hospitals upon the applicants. The only limitations apply to age and financial condit ion. It is a cardinal requirement that no child for whose treatment there is ability to pay shall be re ceived by any of the Shriners’ hospitals, nor is there charge of even a penny for care of patient during his or her stay in the hos pital. • X Weather Man Tells How To Out Rim A Tornado “In level, open country,” says the Weather Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture, “an automobile often affords the best means of protection from tornadoes, except where a well- constructed tornado cellar is avail able. “Tornadoes occur chiefly during the day, and thus in open country they can often be seen for several miles. Though by far the . most violent of all storms, the tornado covers, at any one moment a rel atively small area; generally not greater than that of a few city blocks. While the winds blow at enormous speed around its center, the progressive movement of the storm as a whole is quite moder ate, averaging about 40 miles an hour, and in very few cases reach ing 60 miles an hour. “Most tornadoes move toward the northeast, - a few toward the southeast, and the rest, with al most negligible exceptions, in some other easterly direction. More over, the path generally varies but little from a straight line, so that the direction in which a storm is seen to be moving Is likely to be the one that it will follow until it dies out. “From these facts it follows that when a tornado is sighted several miles away a person generally has time to escape by taking a course at right angles to its path, and the automobile is obviously a valuable adjunct for escape, provided there is a road leading in the right dir ection. * One positive proof that a storm is a tornado is the elongated, fun nel-shaped, or cylindrical cloud dangling from the sky toward the earth. This cloud is not always seen, but the general apearance of the sky in the direction of a tor nado is usually very striking. The clouds are thrown into a wild tur moil and are strangely colored; jet black, greenish, or purple where dark, but often mingled with steamlike grays and whites. A ter rifying roar, which has been com pared to thousands of railroad cars crossing a bridge, may be heard at considerable distance.” TENDER JUICY STEAKS ; What a treat. Of course, you like tlieiB_who doesn’t? But, you say, the problem is to get that kind. Well, we always have them. You can de pend on that. You'll never be disappointed if you will let us furnish the meat for your meals. Good steak is just one of the many high light* of our meat service. We always have a complete var iety of the very best in every line. Our prices are moderate, too. You pay no pen alty for the superior quality of our meat. CITY MEAT MARKKET Phone No. 61 || J. L. REYNOLDS, Prop. Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. ■Lie U 3E WHEN ACCURACY MEANS MOST , . r‘ 5 • ^ When you have a prescription to be filled, with perhaps a lif: in the balanee depending upon the prescription for safe recovery from illness, then accuracy in compounding and high quality of materials count for everything. There must be no guessing or no inferior or unfresh drugs usecL You can depend on us to fill it exactly right for maximum fcmefit to the patient. We use all pos- We always have a most complete stock of high grade patent medicines and package goods. We handle only that which has been tried and proven good. You can depend on us having what you want and need in every line and our years of experience enables us to give you expert advice. STROMS’ DRUG STORE Main Street McCormick, S. C. i'j OF THIS BANK -X- Fresh cream for butter-making should never be mixed with cream from previous skimmings until it has been cooled. The addition of warm cream raises the tempera ture of the older cream and hast ens souring. txt Another petrified forest, the on ly one so far discovered with the trees lying as they fell millions of years ago, is reported to the U. S. Forest Service. The forest, which covers several acres, was found by a road-building expedition on the lower Yellowstone reclamation pro ject. Some of the trees are 10 feet in diameter and more than 100 feet long. is written on the same page with the analysis of the prosperity of the com- munity. They are closely bound for one has progressed as the other help ed. And the story of our growth is the story of the success of our individ ual depositors. Your account is invited on the same basis, knowing that we can help you prosper. PERSONAL INTEREST . The personnel of this hank is ever alert to render whatever service which may be to your best interest. Yon will find it most pleasing and profitable to you to be connected with this bank. Ask your friends, they will tell you. THE PEOPLES McCormick, S. C. hi tv BSE LAWN-GARDEN-SHRUBBERY What a lot of pride and pleasure there is in a smooth, velvety lawn, beautiful flower garden and perhaps *a vege table garden, too, which will produce tasty foods for your table. You must have good equipment, however to keep your lawn and garden in shape and that is where we are ready to help you. We have a most complete stock of all the needed equip ment for caring for your lawn, flower garden or vegetable garden. Every piece is high quality and guaranteed to give good service. Our stock includes: Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose, Culti vators, Grass Shears, Spading Forks, Lawn Rollers, Sickles, Hose, Rakes, Spades, Garden Plows, Hedge Clippers, Grass Catchers, Lawn Sprinklers, Etc. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. 2Ej ns*