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iHtCurmirU TBUS TO OUBSELVICS, OUB NEIGHB OBS, OUB COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Ninth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. .C. Thursday, June 26, 1930 Established June 5, 1902 Number 4 Candidates Spoke # • In McCormick Last Thursday CROWD ESTIMATED AT 300 LISTENED ATTENTIVELY TO GUBERNATORIAL AND OTH ERS SEEKING OFFICE Hail, Wind Storms Over Country The candidates for governor, eight in number, mkde practically the same speeches they had used on the two occasions previous to their visit here, but evidently made stronger pleas to McCormick folks for their suffrage. Olin D. Johnston of Spartanburg, W. H. Keith of Greenville and John J. McMahan of Columbia continued their assaults on the state’s $65,- 000,000 highway bond issue; Ashton H. Williams of Florence, a wet, and W. W. Smoak of Walterboro, a dry, touched on the prohibition ques tion while R. Beverley Herbert of Columbia and Ira C. Blackwood of Spartanburg argued tax reform and revision of laws governing court procedure. * A. Frank Lever of Lexington, eighth candidate, was ill in a Co lumbia hospital and unable to speak. All of his opponents ex pressed their regret at his inabil ity to be present. Keith, who followed Johnston after the Spartanburg man had de livered an indictment of the road bond issue, expressed similar sent iments and declared he did “not want the vote of the bootleggers.” McMahan joined Johnston and Keith in promising the political scalp of Chairman C.« E. Tones of the highway commission and add ed to his statement the “prayer” that Speaker John K. Hamblin of the house of representatives and Representative R. E. McCaslan of Greenwood “would go down in de feat” in their races for re-election. He also attacked former Senator F. C.‘Robinson of McCormick, now a member of the state tax commis sion. Smoak, after coming to the de fense of the bond issue and advo cating a compulsory education law, declared in favor of strict enforce ment of the 18th amendment. Williams, an avowed wet, declar ed the prohibition law should be repealed. He asserted it was a “violation of states’ rights” and “cannot be enforced until backed by a healthy sentiment, which is lacking.” Blackwood and Herbert, after pleading their particular reasons why they should elected, touch ed on the bond issue question. Blackwood declared he knew “nothing of some of the charges in connection with the bond issue, but if certain stories are true it is time for the stables to be cleaned out.” Hail is reported to have wreaked much damage to crops in the sec tion of Wilkes County, Ga., near Lisbon, late Saturday afternoon when that section was visited by a wind and hail storm about a mile wide and running out five or more miles into Elbert County on up Savannah river. Two negroes were reported killed near Lisbon when wind demolished their house. A section above Calhoun Falls and the Ninety Six community report hail storms at that time, but not so severe as that in Georgia. Tuesday afternoon a severe storm swept over portions of An derson and adjacent counties do ing considerable damage to crops and buildings. One negro is re ported to have been killed several miles north of McCormick when wind tore his house to pieces. Mc Cormick got a bit of the wind and an electrical storm, but no rain, however, no damage is reported in the immediate community which seemed to be on the southern edge of the stonh. A good shower fell here Saturday evening while storms were raging in other sec tions. The sun has poured out the gen uine white heat the past week, the mercury spurting up around 100 to 1C5 every day except Tuesday, when it showed 106 at 4 p. m. The nights have been real warm also, though not so unpleasant as the days. Herbert said that as a member of the house he had voted for the bonds “after much thought” but that if. elected he would do his “best to reduce the amount of highway bonds.” J. E. Swearingen, candidate for state superintendent of education against James H. Hope, present holder of the office, and M. M. Wilkes of Florence, third entry in the race, today continued his at tack upon his successor in office. His criticisms of Hope was the only time that personalities were drawn into the addresses of candidates for the lesser state offices. The former superintendent of education charged that “Hope is attempting to walk about in my shoes, but he finds them too large for him.” He also attacked what he claimed to be the inequalities of the 6-0-1 law, defended by the in cumbent. Mr. Hope and Mr. Wilkes con fined their speeches to their rec ords in educational work and their qualifications for the office. Other candidates for office on the program dwelt only on their qualifications and past public serv ices, repeating generally the claims they made at Saluda and Lexing ton on the first two days of the campaign. ■■ • • . S All Voters Must v Enroll Before The 28th Of July Jarni-y\iade ^fienast 7/ -sif lexixy Micks was olmosl nine, CtndL I was half past eight — .Had a doable seal all school, CindL traded hooks and bait. Used to say, when, we grew up, We'd never marry wives — Z3uy a farm and Jive atone, Jogethsr all our lives. j turnonpJons are lickle things ^ When taken at their best; Jiiakses sold their rorm. one day Jo move away out west. Spent our last day on the creek, Chad at the pasture gale — , WELL ^ Good-bye ‘s hard lor grownup talks — —J3u£ worse Lor nine and eight Sue has brought me many Iriends, , The wise, the shore, the loll; Still abides a Jriendly iace^ * ^Mgre. precious them them oil— Just a IreckJSd,,IrzendLlzj lace ^ 1 Jhoct seems ho smile and say: 3atm-rnade friendship is the best Chad never fades away. * _ - THE OLD FARM SERIES t? Byrnes Continues Ignore Opponents BLEASE WILL NOT “INSULT IN- TELLIGENCE” OF CROWD BY REPLYING TO HARRIS Under the rules of the Demo cratic party a new enrollment is required this year. Every person who Intends to vote in the primary election in August will be required to sign the Enrollment Book, ir respective of any previous enroll ment. Books of Enrollment are now op en and will remain open until che < last Tuesday in July, which is the" 22nd. Thereafter, no n£w names may be added to the enrollment without permission from the Court. I understand that so far very few have enrolled, and I wish to take this means of urging every one to sign the Enrollment Book before it is too late. The Enrollment Committees of the respective Clubs are urged to keep this matter before the voters of their precinct. W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. BISHOPVILLE, June 21.—Sena torial candidates locked horns here today as the first week of their ten-weeks speaking campaign came to a close. Leon W. Harris, of Anderson, continued to laihbast his opponent, Cole L. Blease; Blease retaliated by informing his audience he would not “insult their intelli gence” by replying; James F. Byrnes continued to ignore Har ris and Blease in his speech. Their addresses were delivered to an audence estimated at 300. Combine With West Byrnes, the first speaker, de clared the government should grant the farmers more time in which to meet their obligations and asserted the only way the South could put measures for its benefit was to combine with the agricultural West. The farm land bank was de nounced as “the ruin of the farm ers.” He cited his record as a member of Congress as reason why he should be sent to the Senate. Harris followed Byrnes, opening by announcing Blease had opposed woman suffrage but that he would be glad to accept the votes of the women of Lee county. “Blease supported Harding against Cox and has said many times he would Ike to see Coolidge elected president again,” Harrir shouted. In opening, Blease declared he needed “no certificate of my char acter in Lee county.” He insisted additional time should be granted farmers in which to pay their lebts. This, he sa>d, was the only solution to the farm problem. Restriction of immigration from Mexico was advocated. Blease defended his party regu larity, declaring he was on five committees, appointed by his Dem- oratic colleagues in Congress. XXt Second Cotton Bloom Starting Monday, June 30, a milk truck will be run from Modoc, tfiru McCormick to E. L. Hollingsworth’s store, thence to Troy and to Green wood for the cheese factory., txt BOLL WEEVIL EX TENDS ACTIVITY “The Town Doctor 59 DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: A SNOW BALL MEANS NOTHING TO AN ESKIMO CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 23.— Sixty-five examinations made dur ing last week’s tour around the central part of the state by mem bers > of the Boll Weevil Control Division of the Pee Dee Experiment Station shows boll weevils present in all fields and actively infesting the squares, thus confirming for that section the reports of county farm agents over the state that there is grave danger to the crop. In some of the fields in Florence, Darlington, Greenwood, and Ches ter counties 100 to 200 weevils per acre were foynd. The square in festation ranged from less than 1 per cent in a very few instances to 36 per cent in one field in Aiken county, the average being 7.8 per cent. Weevils are still emerging from hibernation cages at Flor ence. The fact that the number of weevils and punctured squares varies so greatly in the fields ex amined prompts the recommenda tion that every cotton grower make daily careful examination in all of his fields and poison those part where weevils are found. In thr connection, the Extension Service repeats its urgent advice to us' sweetened poison especially on small cotton and to dust large cot- :on with machines. y LIVESTOCK PAYS 4-H CLUB BOYS A “thinking” resident of a cer tain community in the Great Southwest wants to know .why it is that the people of the community where he lives do not arouse them selves and DO something to pull their town out of the “throes of lethargy” that is not only evident but acknowledged. And he asks— “are all towns like this?” Answering the last first, it is sad but true that the majority of com munities, or at least the majority of the people in the majority of communities, seldom actually DO anything to build their town. Most people think it should be done, but they want someone else to do it. There is a reason for this—sev eral reasons, in fact. The first is that the average person is so fam iliar with and so “used to” the place where he lives that he does not appreciate it. If we do not appreciate a thing we do not get a “kick” out of it; and to expend effort or money on that which does not give us a thrill falls in the class of duty. To most of us duty makes us think of work, and as we are all naturally lazy we resort to alibis to get out of it. Many, many people won’t even think about doing something for their community. Some won’t even take the ‘trouble to READ what others *t,hink, let alone THINK or DO SOMETHING them selves. If you have porter house steak three times a day for a month you get so accustomed to it that it means ^ nothing to you. Sunshine means nothing to a South Sea Islander, and a snowball means nothing to an Eskimo. The people of the average Ameri can community have had every thing “dropped in their lap” so long that it means nothing to them—they are spoiled, and be cause they are spoiled they fail to appreciate. They are like some children— they have always been provided with warm clothes, good food, plenty of things to amuse them, and never question or stop to think where it comes from. Oh yes, they know that father or mother gives it to them, but how father or mother gets it never enters their head. Why should they worry about it as long as they get it? They know that they won’t be “kicked out,” chastised or deprived of it. They do just enough to get by. They will pick up the golden eggs but they won’t even carry food and water to the Goose that lays them —in fact they don’t trouble them selves to iUnd out just where this goose is or why. Half the time Executive Committee Meets Saturday An important meeting of the County Democratic Executive Committee will be held at the court house Saturday, July 28, a't 11 o’clock. Very important mat ters are to be passed upon and a full attendance is desired. W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. txt Notice To Candidates All candidates will keep in mind* that the rules provide that on or before the day for the closing of the entries that they are required to file with the Chairman of the County Committee a pledge in writing to abide the results of the Primary and support the nominees thereof, and at the same time to pay their assessments. The day for the closing of the entries has not as yet been fixed by the Executive Committee, but each candidate is urged to give this matter immediate attention, as & failure to comply with this rule will disqualify him as a candidate. W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. XXI Card Of Thanks We wish to express our thanks to our friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness shown us during the long illness and at the death of our dear father and husband, Mr. W. C. Banks. May God’s blessings rest upon each of them. Mrs. W. C. Banks v and Children. they forget that there Is a goose. A community is somewhat like a store . It is too bad for the com munity that it is not even more like a store, with someone eitipcw- ered to “fire” all who are not good employees—those who are lazy and refuse to do what, according to all that’s fair, equitable and within reason, are SUPPOSED to do; those who are creating a bad impression; those who are constantly creating ill-will among other employees and thereby tearing down prestige and driving business to some other store; and these who refuse to “snap out of it” and come to the realization that “what was isn’t.” If this ever happened in some of the communities I know, not only would many of the “clerkfe” (peo ple) be let out, but ever so many “departments heads” (merchants and other business people) and floor walkers. (Copyright, 1930, A. D. , Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part. This editorial publish ed by McCormick Messenger in co operation with the Lions Club.) Mr. J. W. Dorn, who lives on the old Brooks place near town, brought a cotton blossom to this office yesterday which is the sec ond blossom brought in this season, the first being brought by Mr. Frank Deason on the 16th instant. | females. Mr. Dorn has 20 acres of fine cot- ! ton as a cash crop, but he and his ton which averages about knee boys have demonstrated that a high or over and has been well few cattle well kept is a profit- cultivated and poisoned twice. • ^able investment. SPARTANBURG, June 21.—Ten small purebred Jersey herds have been developed in Spartanburr county since 1925 as a result of 1-F club work, according to Dan Lewis assistant state boys’ club agent. An outstanding example of this is that of C. D. and Woodrow Mc- Millin, sons of L. R. McMillin. o Campobello. They joined the 1-H calf club in 1925, purchasing twe purebred Jersey heifers. The nex f vear these boys purchased another heifer jointly. The boys have bred to good bulls, developed their pas ture, and have been reasonably successful in producing heifer calves. Mr. McMillin says that during the 12 months ending March 31, 1930, they sold $990 worth of regis tered cattle from this herd and now have on hand five registered Mr. McMillin grows cot- A Warning To Farmers On The Boll Weevil Situation The boll weevil situation in Mc Cormick county u fast becomln j serious, aecording tc Hi os. *7. gan. county agent, who otatsc that a number cf fields of old cotton examined this week have shown a", high as fifty per cent punctured „ squares. Quick rction on i h' > ^* v * mers is necessary if the infestation is to be held down and the safety of the cotton crop guaranteed. All fanners are urged to examine their fields of old cotton closely, and apply the liquid poison where punctured squares are found. The young cotton should receive at least one application of this poison before the young squares are large enough to be punctured. Delay will be fatal! We need this cotton crop if w^ ever needed one in the county, and we can save it with 1-1-1 calcium arsenate poison. K Let every man be his own judge.