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Thursday, May 29, 1930
McCORMlCK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SoutK CaroTtna.
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W ashiiigton High
^vjiiooi /early Honor
Roll Is Given
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Each pupil must make an aver
age of 90 per cent or above on each
subject: Deportment and attend
ance entitles those making such
marks to this distinction.
HONOR ROLL
FIRST GRADE—
Hazel Dukes
SECOND GRADE— < ’
Henry Jennings Bussey
THIRD GRADE—
Edna Cartledge
Emily Dukes '
L^wis Rich
FOURTH GRADE—
x Mary Belle Jennings
FIFTH GRADE—
Mildred Blackwell
SIXTH GRADE—
NONE.
SEVENTH GRADE—
Floyd Drennan
EIGHTH GRADE—
Lucille Parks
NINTH GRADE—
Alice Bunch
Louise Cassels
TETTTH GRADE—
Blanche Middleton
ELEVENTH GRADE—
Fred Bailey
Ruth Cartledge
Robert Middleton
ATTENDANCE
The following are the ones who
were not absent more than 3 days:
FIRST GRADE—
Frances Robertson Id)
Hortense Cartledge (2)
Hazel Dukes (3)
SECOND GRADE—
Vivian Bailey (0)
Henry Jennings Bussey (2)
THIRD GRADE—
Edna Cartledge (0)
Eunice McDaniel (0)
Martha Hazel Bailey (0)
FbURTH GRADE—
none.
FIFTH GRADE—
Mildred Blackwell (2)
Jack Rich (2) >
Ckrolyn Dukes (2)
\T’ R. Cartledge (2j
SIXTH GRADE— . ;
Evelyn Bldckwell (1)
George Bunch (3) \
Mary Eckard (0)
Clifford W; Robertson (0)
SEVENTH GRADE— . r
Eunice Stone (1) '#
EldHTH GRADE—
James Bussey (0)
Ben Bussey (1)
NINTH GRADE , *
Annie Martha Ryan (0)
Louise Cassels (1) ' r,
Hugh Mi(Ml^ton (1)
Anel Edmunds (2)
J. M. Reese (3)
TENTH ofiADE—
Blanche McDaniel (0)
Warlick Keller (3)
ELEVENTH GRADE—
Sallie Mae McDaniel (0).
Ruth Cartledge (ft) * *’
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Nitrate Of Soda
Helps Cotton Make
\ Bigger Yields
UNION, May 28.—Demonstra- j
tions conducted by A. M. Vick, ;
county agent of Union county, on
farms of Berry Jeter of Santuc,
H. L. Sprouse of Jonesville, and
J. W. Fincher of Union, R. F.- D.
No. 4, last year to determine the
efficacy of nitrogen as a sides-
% dresser for cotton,- produced some
very positive results, as the records
on file in the office of the county
agent show.
On each farm a plot of one acre
was set aside where two hundred
pound* of Chilean nitrate of soda
was used as a side-dresser for cot
ton and on each farm a plot of
cne acre was set aside where no
side-dressing was used.
On the farm of Berry Jeter, the
acre where nitrate of soda was
used produced 480 pounds more
seed cotton than the acre on which
none was used. With the excep
tion of the side-dresser the same
-"^brjds nf cultivation were fol
lowed on both plots.
On the farm of J. W. Fincher,
the plot on which soda was used
produced 380 pounds of seed cotton
more than the check plot where
pone was used.
On the farm of H. L. Sprouse the
plot on which the side-dresser
was used produced 355 pounds
more than the one where no side-
dressing was used. i
Mr. Sprouse and Mr. Fincher
also used the same methods of cul
tivation on the plots where no
side-dresser was used as they did
on the plots wherfer the side-dresser j
was used, the only difference be- ;
ins tlio us? of the rdde-dressor. \
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
They Sang
To Discourage Reds
Marx and Confucius /
The World WiU Last
Mrs. Naidu, Gandhi's successor as
leader, goes to jail for nine months.
Two hundred thousand... Hindus
marched on the British fort area at
Bombay. You would call that serious.
But 400 nolicemen stopped the 200,-
000. The latter sat. down on the
ground and sang songs.
Irishmen wouldn’t do that.
A. F. Lever In Race
For Governor
FORMER CONGRESSMAN FROM
SEVENTH DISTRICT THROWS
HAT IN RING
Congress votes, 210 to 18, an in*
quiry into “Red activities.” This means
the effort of “Red Russia”*to change
the government of the United States
by persuading the “toilers to arise
In their might and throw off their
chains.”
Throwing off your chains would be
ail right, but throwing off yotir auto
mobile, radio, vacuum cleaner, talking
machine and other accessories of the
modern worker would make life dull.
. If pongress will use its brains and
the Ration's resources to keep com
petent w*orkers busy, it need not
worry about any imported Russian
“Red program.”
If It doesn’t keep American work
ers busy, it may have a “red pro
gram,” homemade, more dangerous
than anything ever devised.
The “Red” movement in China, at
tributed to Russia, worries the Nan
king government and threatens per
manent disturbance and war.
Premature transplanting of new
Ideas into minds unprepared is
dangerous.
The Chinese, not' ready for the
theories of Karl Marx or Reclus, take
them too seriously.
Much better if they would stick to
Confucius for a few more centuries.
Here is comfort. Worry no more
about the world coming to an end. . A
Canadian Scientist says the sun Is
about ten billion years old and will
last at least ten billion years longer.
Ten thousand million years is a long
time.
wlille the sun lasts the earth will
last The" human race may* be par
tially or completely wiped out at im
tervais, compelled to begin all over
again, working its w*ay up from micro
scopic creatures floating in salt water.
France permitted the Graf Zeppelin
to sail over all her West Indian col
onies except one place on the island
of Marimique. 4
Britain gave permission to fly ovei
British Caribbean territory.
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That nonsense about giving other
nations permission to use the air
should end. Anybody can use the
ocean of water and dowhnt he pleases
on It, eight miles out. The other
ocean, of air. soon to be more im
portant, should be similarly regulated,
anybody allowed to use it, anywhere,
one mile or two miles up. Interna^
tional law should settle that. ,
Secretary Lament predicts ' normal
business in three months.” April con
tracts for new construction amounted
Jo $483,000,000, biggest month since
August, but lower than last April.-
Many will be glad to hear that, even
those that specialize in pessimism.
Mussolini believes in emphatic words
and energetic deeds to back*them. Re^
cently he told a crowd of 100,000 ifi
Florence that Italy was prepared for
everybody^ France included. Now he
is adding twenty-tw’o submarines.
With those twenty-two submarines
Mussolini could do a great deal to the
peace of mind of France, Great Brit
ain and other ship-owning nations.
Peace is beautiful, but Mussolini
means to be ready for the other thing.
London, which often knows more
about our affairs than we know’, says
money. will be even cheaper than It
was. The ■ bank rate may be reduced
to 2!& per cent.
. Paris reports money “unlendable.”
if only that lihfl been the case last
October, when the sky was the limit
and everything going up! Then peo
ple wanted money and had to pay 13
and 20 per cent to borrow* it. Now
they don’t want It and can get It for
almost nothing.
Union square in New York is to
have a high fldgpole costing $80,000.
erected by the “Charles F. Murphy
memorial committee.” Mr. Murphy
was a Tammany leader of consider
able power, possessing the faculty of
saying little and keeping his word.
The flagpole Vrtiich was to be erect
ed in Murphy's honor will dominate
monuments to Washington, Lafayette
and Lincoln, all in Union square.
On a second thought, the memorial
committee decided that Mr. Murphy,
although a powerful Tammany leader,
was no greater than th4 three others
in Union square, so the flagpole is to
commemorate American independence.
Mr. Murphy, who had a sense of
humor, w’ould approve of that change.
Talkies have worried musicians,
making theater orchestras unneces
sary. In Schenectady, with television
radio, General Electric company bus
shown that one orchestra leader could
conduct a thousand orchestras at the
same time.
Musicians played in a theater, led
by ‘'televIsion' , pictures of an <>rchea~
tea conductor miles away.
A Frank Lever, a member of
Congress from the Seventh Dis
trict for 18 years and long a prom-
jinent citizen, announces his can
didacy for governor of South Caro
lina in the primaries this summer
in*the following statement issued
Saturday:
I With agriculture in the most dis
tressing condition I have ever seen
it in; with farm homes being clos
ed under the sheriff's hammer;
with farm boys and ,farm girls
mo,ving into towns and cities, ana
thus adding to the overcrowded
condition of the labor market;
with the tens of thousands of un
employed working men in the
state, and the most of our textile
workers now on reduced time; with
the small merchant and business
man struggling to make ends meet;
with the rapid inroads of the dan
gerous chain store system upon the
little independent merchants, not
only thieatening but actually
crushing them; with the growth of
chain banking largely controlled
ffom Wall Street, which has prac
tically closed the doors of credit
to the average man and woman in
or out of business; with the com
mercial bank having ceased entire
ly to meet the credit needs of ag
riculture; with the breakdown of
the intermediate credit banks,
which at one time furnished a hope
for production credit to the far
mer; with farmers being forced to
get small items of credit through
special congressional action; with
the rapid growth of the tendency
of public utilities and hydro-elec
tric power to become concentrated
in the hands of a few companies;
with the government, state and
•national, more and more each day
j passing out of the hands of the
•average citizen; with the growth
of bureaucracy in state and nation,
it would seem that the next four
years will continue to make grave
demands and require peculiar qual
ifications of experience and ability
in the governor of the state.
I Critical Situation
j It is in view of thife critical sit
uation—we may say it is even trag
edy—that I am responding to the
call to enter the race for governor
in* the coming -primaries and to
offer to the people of the state a
record of nearly a quarter of a cen
tury of public service, both in the
state legislature and eighteen years
in Congress, seventeen of which I
was a member of the great agri
cultural committee and six of
which I was chairman of that com
mittee. The philosophy of my
•program of relief especially for ag
riculture is based upon the prin
ciple that either we must lower the
standard of living of the South
■Carolina farmer and take him bacl?
to the day of ox cart and the tal
low candle, or we must increase
his earning power so that he and
his wife and children may enjoy
something of the conveniences and
comfort employed by others. It is
my thought that this may be done
by the building up of a practical
and adequate marketing system, for
both staple and perishable agri
cultural products which will give
to the farmer the real value of his
products and at the same time take
them to the consumers in the cit
ies—the working man and others
—at a less cost.
I have always been an advocate
of good roads. As chairman of the
agricultural committee in the na
tional house of representatives I
passed through the house the first
federal aid bill, which in large
measure became the model for sub
sequent legislation on the subject.
Transportation over good roads is
one of the elements, so far as ag
riculture is concerned, in my well
worked out system of marketing. (
stand four-square, without quali
fication or pussy-footing, for the
present highway act and the pro
gram for the construction of a sys
tem of state wide hard-surface
roads to be paid out of the gaso
line tax, and if elected governor I
shall not hesitate to sign the bonds
from year to year, necessary to
carry on this work, provided, as is
required by the act itself, the
showing is sufficient that the
highway department revenues will
meet the interest and sinking fund
on the bonds. I should feel this to
be my duty in respons e to ch '
mandate of the people of the state,
as expressed through their legisla^
! lure and as affirmed by the sud-
ireme court of the State of South
Carolina and again affirmed by
the supreme court of the United
States.
Biennial Sessions
The movement already begun for
the development of the natural
resources of the state, biennial
sessions of the general assembly,
upon which the people will again
vote in the general election this
fall, havihg already twice voted
biennial sessions and being denied
this economy and legislative stab
ility by the failure of succeeding
legislatures to ratify the peoples
will as expressed at the ballot box;
classification of property for the
purpose of taxation, also to be sub
mitted at the general election; the
abolishment of all state taxes on
homes and on agricultural land
being used by bona fide farmers,
as called for in the manifesto of
the farmers and taxpayers league
and included in the platform ad
opted by the State Democratic con
vention; enforcement of all the
laws of the state, including a rigid
enforcement of the prohibition
laws, both state and federal, and
rigid enforcement of the laws
against gambling, including the
iniquitous slot machine which
holds an invitation even to the
children of the state—these and
other things for which I stand I
will discuss fully during the cam
paign.
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Card Of Thanks
We wish to extend our sincere
thanks and appreciation to our
many friends, neighbors and rela
tives for their many deeds of kind
ness and words of sympathy dur
ing the illness and at the death of
our mother, Mrs. Ella E. Cheatham,
also for the many beautiful floral
offerings.
J. R. Cheatham and family,
B. B. Cheatham and family,
Mrs. Louise Cheatham,
Miss Lola Cheatham.
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17 Oconee Men
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Are Indicted On
Lynching Charges
WALHALLA, May 27.—Seventeen
Oconee county men, including R.
L. Ballentine, mayor of Walhalla,
were under $5,000 bond each today
on charges of lynching Allen
Green, 50-year-old negro.
Trial has been set for July 7 in
court of general sessions here.
True bills charging the men with
murder, assault and battery, rob
bery, conspiracy to commit mur
der and rescue of a prisoner, were
returned yesterday at a special
session of the court ordered after
the negro had been dragged from
jail and his body riddled with
bullets by members of a mob
Green was charged with having
assaulted a young white married
woman.
In addition to Mayor Ballentine
those named in the indictments
were John Sanders, Nelson and
Harold Matheson, J. L. Harris,
Dock Carver, John Stevens, Tilman
Leard, Grady And Mich Lee, Will
iam Smith, Will Elrod, Alvon Tones,
night policeman at Walhalla, Jake
Wilbanks, Joe McColl, Jr., Irba*
Patterson and Pete Epps.
The court granted a defense mo
tion for continuance of the trial
on the grounds that only four of
the defendants had been named
in connection with the lynching
before yesterday and that the ma
jority had not had time to prepare
their case.
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Town Killers
People who kill a town:
Those who oppose improvements.
Those who run it down to
strangers.
Those who distrust public-spir
ited men.
Those who never advertise their
business.
Those who show no hospitality
to any one.
Those who hate to see others
make money.
Those who oppose every public
enterprise that does not appear to
be of personal benefit to them
selves.—Gainesville (Fla.) Sun.
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Two Barns Burn
Saturday Night
In Callison Section
(FREE ICE With Every Refrigerator
Purchased
This Offer For a Limited Time Onlv!
TONS OF ICE
We are giving away THOUSANDS OF
TONS OF HEALTH GUARD ICE ab
solutely free for a limited time only to
purchasers of LEONARD all Steel lee
way REFRIGERATORS.
('all our plant and one of our repre
sentatives will gladly visit you and ex
plain this amazing offer without obli
gation on your part.
EASY TERMS
CAROLINA-GEORGIA SERVICE
COMPANY
McCormick, S. C. Phone No. 9920-9930
HEALTH GUARD ICE
NOTICE TO FARMERS
PODtTRY RAISERS
GREENVILLE, S. C., May 22, 1930. On account
of the low market in New York and the present slow
movement of Poultry in South Carolina, we are sor
ry to state that we are closing our Greenville Plant
and branch houses temporarily. May 24th.
We hope to re-open our plant when market con-,
ditions are better and when the volume of South
Carolina Poultry is big enough to warrant our stay
ing here the year round.
We appreciate the co-operation we have had from
farmers and poultry raisers the year and a half we
have been here and trust we shall have the same co
operation when we return.
Watch your paper for our re-opening
ALEX GETZ & COMPANY
Greenville, Gaffney and Anderson Plants
P. W. MAYER, General Manager.
Have You Been Enumerated?
If not, or if you have any doubt, fill out this coup-
\ on, place it in an envelope, and mail it to
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K Walter S. Peterson,
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£ Supervisor of the Census,
£ Greenwood, S. C. »
£ On April 1, 1930, I was living of the address given
\ • below, hut to the Lest of my knowledge I have not
§ been enumerated, either there of anywhere else.
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£ Name
^ Street and No. 5
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Three mules and a large quant-
priced mules, a wagon, much fod
der and pea vine hay and ail his
gear with the exception of one
bridle when his large bam caught
fire between 12 and 1 o’clock and
T. B. Bell, whose farm is about
three miles distant from Mr. Rod-
ity of feedstuff were lost in the gers’, lost his barn, a crib in which
burning of two bams in the Calli-jwas stored much corn and ail his
son section late Saturday night, ‘roughage. He succeeded in sav-
B. H. Rodgers lost three high- ing his ^tock. but the animeds were
driven out of the burning building
just before it fell in. The fire at
Mr. Bell’s was discovered about 11
o’clock and started in the crib.
It is believed that rats caused
both fires. Mi*. Rodgers carried
$250 insurance and Mr. Bell is $aid
to have carried only about $75.,
Neither has been able to estimate
the loss. " 1