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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
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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repealed.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.
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All Voters Must
v Enroll Before The
28th Of July
Jarni-y\iade
^fienast
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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
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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.,
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BOLL WEEVIL EX
TENDS ACTIVITY
“The Town Doctor
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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.
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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.
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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.