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Tijiywiay, Jiwie 26, 1930 McCOKMlCK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SoutR CaroTtn*. Page Number Foul Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 edmond j. mccracken, Editor and Owner m ftfUragf/H/ MlTCCG'lUrii'R y ears enrollment by 29 members, which the Committee is making, in HiClMUHLIi IfiEiJOBiIiUJCiIi of this number> Pee Dee district the hope that with better and more *. leads with a total of 196, followed general understanding of economic ! by Aiken with 76, and Piedmont forces, and the laws of their opera- ! with 49. Entries in this contest, ticn, American business may de will close July 1, announces Louis velop increasing self-control.” P. Watson, extension horticulturist, “Prompt action, before condi- Entered at the Post Office at Me- an(i aU f armGrs desiring to join tions become serious, can be as- Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of should do s0 at once through their sured only as there is developed a the second class, * county farm agent. practices method of guaging the DISPLAY ADVERTISING— j T j ie resu its of last year’s con- economic situation, so that unfav- 25 cents per inch for each inser- test shQw condusive iy that pro-Arable trends which threaten ad- tion; nothing less than 4 inches fitable yields of swe et potatoes can versely to influence the economic accepted for double column dis- be ^ South Carolina. The balance may be anticipated and play, nor less than 2 inches for results ^ last year , s con te S t are as compensating factors influenced single column dis P la y* follows- earlier than would be the case if ex^ra charJ ° NE " THIRD Number of entrants 292 natural forces were left in their BUSINESS READING NOTICES: Number of complete records - 180 own time and way. Skilled use of 6 per cent per line for each inser- Highest total yield, bushel the time factor must, therefore tion, average of 6 words to line. ! per acre 672 enter mto a program for stabihza- WANT ADVS.,- 6 cents per line Highest yield No. 1’s, bushel tion. for each insertion, average of 6 per acre 3781 The Committee suggests that words to line. Average yield No. 1’s, bushel • there may b® a “zone of tolerance” TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents per acre 176 within which the action and reac- per line, 6 words to liiie. Number of contestants securing | tion of the most active economic All advs, set in body type, 6 a yield of 200 or more bushel of No. forces have to be considered nor- cents per single column line; extra i's per acre i—- 67 mal, and even healthy. charges for big type' on all single Average cost of production, | “Only when some factor, or corn- column advs., except head and p er acre $ 53 bination of factors, threatens to signature. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strietly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Average net profit, per acre __$125 Contestants reporting a small ca^ry the situation beyond the boundaries of this theoretical ‘zone 1 0SS 3 of tolerance’ and it becomes ap- X ‘ ‘ une rear $i.uu six Months 75 Road Construction Three Months .50 The Coming Fourth 1 . The Fourth of /July will soon be here. And, according to the pre cedent set in other years, it will leave behind a toll of destroyed lives and property c ness with fireworks. COMMITTEE ON RECENT ECO NOMIC CHANGES MAKES REPORT parent tfiat we shall presently be seriously out of balance econom ically, if no counterinfluences are T J T Y7 1 se ^ ^ shoul£i steps be taken to AjCHCiS 111 V omme modify the influences of an over weighted or one-sided develop ment.” It is pointed out in the report that about $3,500,000,000 is expend ed annually on public construe- ^ stressing the importance of Xkem^nd thT/the^end ness wiin nreworss. 'amount of public construction t ronresprit it. U estimated , Fireworks, except when used un- . , . _, lcVl f ' tuies represent, it is estimated, der nroner conditions bv exnerts whlch 11 18 P osslble to P us l for * from 35 to 40 per cent of the total der proper conditions by experts, ward wlth the object of mfluenc- f .. construc t lon ln the coun t rv are a great fire hazard. Blind-^ employln e nt the trend of ° f aU construction ln the country ’ ness, lockjaw,, mangled limbs, fat- buslness a erlod of recession, al clothing bums., property damage the Committe e 0 n Recent - Eco- ia nd crippled bodies have always ; nomic changes of the presidents followed Fourt of July celebrations. Conf erence on Unemployment, in Many cities, and a few states, presenting the results of a new have prohibited the use of fire- st elitltled .. P i annin g and Con r n works except in supervised PUbUc trol o{ p ubUc Works , ma - de publlc ate rhat our time-honored manner awarded fnr nn blir works and roadbuildin S» grade crossings and of enjoying the Fourth must be awarded for P ubllc works a d pub ii C bll ii d i n g S> Cities spent their or enjoying me rourtn must fertilities this year. “To turn the' - - . ^ resttricted but conditions in our course 0 f public construction from modern crowded citiee are such a depresstng t o a stimulating in- a o o prom scuously allow the fi uence i S Q f the very essence of u*e of fireworks is to court in- * usefuln ^ of public works as a bal . _x dea and destruction °* anC i n g factor,” according - to the Public roads in 1929, the largest single item of public construction, cost more than $1,500,000,000. More than one-third of the public works outlay of the federal government was expended on rbads, and on roads and shipbuilding together more than one-half was spent. property. Committee’s findings. “And it is f sp ® cially, are in promptly and comprehensively ered. Not a single Fourth ha s exp^tiug work on projects al- { passed wit out a tragic waste of ready p i an ned, rather than initiat- xvrttvr»<T litroc* v*r»imrV»^ivr rVio < ing new undertakings, that the key to the problem lies.” The Committee’s report is based , „, j . on a fact-finding survey of the p06Slbie , whole public construction situation, s old d be ta en to guard against be g un i as ^ j u jy a ^ fog suggestion young lives throughout the coun try. Make the Fourth “safe and sane.” And when fireworks are misadventure. -X- Prepare For •Fall Garden of President Hoover and carried on by the National Bureau of Eco nomic Research of New York with the assistance of the Department moneys / largely on transportation facilities, schools and hospitals and on water supply and sewage disposal. —txj Deaths Among The Colored People James Willie Settles, year and a half old son of James Settles and wife, died at the home near town Sunday, after a brief illness. In terment was made at Springfield church Monday afternoon, G. P. McCain’s service in charge. CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 23 — If a supply of fresh vegetables is to be assured during the latter part of the year, preparation on' ‘‘“t P la “ nmg and Contro1 of • George Crawford, 80 years of age, died Sunday at his home near of Commerce. The survey, which p ^ um Branch, and was buried Mon- was prepared by Dr. Leo Wolman of the staff of the research bureau, is published by that bureau, along with the Committee’s report, under Public Works.’ day afternoon at Springfield church, near McCormick, G. P. Mc Cain’s service in charge. •Ida Harmon, daughter of Lucy Harmon and the late Scip Harmon, the fall garden should begin at, survev is a continuation of died at her home here at noon last once, says Prof. R. A. McGinty, .. e , s , y . a ua ? ’Fridav following a brief illness a 0 the study of post-war economic * naay ’ I0110wm S a Driei luness, whirh wprp nlantprf in thp snrin!^ cllan S es made by the National Bu- and was buried in Shiloh church- which were planted in the spring issued a vear aco toeeth- yard at 11 ° ,clock Saturday morn- are harvested, the land which they r ... a year ag0 ’ t0 ^ n G p McCain s service in , QTro er with a report of the Committee. lng - Nlc ^' ain s service have occupied can be put in shape ^ pbnrtrp . ... "T The members of the Committee for another crop. If planting is to 1 v c w , ha Hnno at u Kocf ^ making the report include Arch W. | - „ be done at once, it is best to re- ( chairman* Owen D Youn^ 1 Henry W. Turnbull, a former move any coarse plant r emains,i® b ’ h ’ * ^ resident of McCormick, died at his but material which will decay RasKob William Green, Greenwood Friday after- rv,president of the American Federa- 1101116 m wreeilwouu rAlu ^ , f»lT tlon of Labor : Renick W - °unla D , n00n ' He had ^ in During the summer and . fall, ^ ssistant secretary of Agriculture- hea R h a y ear °r more, but had germination of vegetable seeds is j 1 * Lawrence Max Mason kept on the go until a short whUe often poor. Thorough preparation l onn »• Lawre nce, Max Mason, interment was tbA cr»ii txrm JLhha « Eugene Meyer, Adolph C. Miller, Delore nis aeam * 1 ^ of the sod will provide a good Ge McFadden Lewis E Pier- made near Greenwood Saturday seedbed which will aid materially U ge 1 Mc ^ a , 1 en ’ Lewls E ’ Fler in securing good stands, states Mr.; McGinty. son, Julius Klein, Assistant Secret a ft ernoon * tary of Commerce, Louis J. Taber Spanish War Asso- • ciations Announce Encampment Plans ! FLORENCE, June 23.—Disting- juished guests will attend the an- , nual encampment of the depart- Iment of South Carolina, United Spanish War veterans and Ladies’ ! auxiliary, here July 7* and 3, ac cording to Capt. J. A. Anthony, chairman of the committee on ar rangements. Among them will be: Governor John G. Richards, Sena tor Cole L. Blease, Senator E. D. Smith, Congressman A. H. Gasque, Senator P. H. Arrowsmith, Gen. Wilie Jones, who was in command of the Second South Carolina vol unteers and for whom the Pee Dee camp is named, Admiral N. A. Mc- Culley, commandant of the Char leston navy yard, Colonel Busby of the United States army, station ed at Fort Moultrie, Senator Buist Rivers of ^Charles ton, Leon Schwarz city commissioner of Mobile, Ala. | All of the members of congress from South Carolina have been given invitations. Several, besides Mr. Gasque, have accepted. | The guest list includes those who have been invited especially to at tend the banquet, which will be served at the Y. M. C. A. the even ing of July 8. A barbecue dinner at 1 o’clock the same day will prove a feature of the entertainment program. At a final meeting of Camp Wilie Jones Wednesday night, arrange ments were completed for the an nual encampment here. Head quarters will be at the Hotel Flor ence. The veterans will hold their sessions at the county court house, while the Ladies’ auxiliary will convene in Rainwater hall. Regis tration will begin Wednesday night, July 7, at Hotel Florence. The city of Florence and the chamber of commerce are co-op erating with the Wilie Jones camp in making the reunion one of in terest and pleasure. The convention committee is composed of: J. A. Anthony, chair man, W. H. Worrell, J. A. Hudson, T. J. Gable, R. D. Saunders, H. P. Pittman, W. H. Johnson, C. M. Grace, W. D. Garrison, O. C. Dib ble. J. C. Catherwood of Charleston, department commander, will pre side over the business sessions. Leading officers of the department are: J. A. Anthony, Florence, sen ior vice commander; J. A. Berry, Orangeburg, junior vice command er. Election pf officers will take place at the afternoon session July eighth. The program of the Ladies’ aux iliary will follow closely that of the Spanish War veterans, the two or ganizations being in session at the same time. In addition to the barbecue and the banquet, the visiting veterans will enjoy a band concert at the Industrial school and will also pay a visit to the Pee Dee experiment station, where they will be the guests of Superintendent R. E. Gurrin. Motion picture theatres have thrown open their doors to the visitors during their stay here and will offer them all the courtesies. At the opening session, at which Captain Anthony will, preside, greetings will be presented on be half of the city, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Confederate Veterans, the Ladies’ auxiliary of the Spanish War veterans, the American Legion, The United States army, the chamber of com merce and Camp Wilie Jones. This Week b Arthur Brisbanu Mr. Swope Has a Plan Must We Have a Fight? ' Cutting Down Space An Old Marriage Custom Mr. Gerard Swope, • president of General Electric, plans for future unemployment crises. In every General Electric works, on a vote of 60 per cent or more of its employees, a trust fund will be or ganized to meet abnormal conditions of unemployment. « Workers will contribute 1 per cent of their earnings, the company con* tributing an equal amount. The com pany guarantees 5 per cent on the funds accumulated, until such time as unemployment shall make it desirable to utilize the fund for the benefit of idle employees. The employees will contribute half, the company - half, the workers will get all. the company none—a fair arrangement. WANT ADVS. OATS—Feed Oats per bushel, 65 cents. J. b. Blackwell’s Store, McCormick, S. C. An English newspaper suggests that Europe should unite against us in an economical boycott, as European countries united against Germany in 1924. It would be too bad to have an in dustrial. economic fight. But fortu nately we are ready for it, if it must come. FOR SALE—258 Acre Tract Plum Branch Township, $900.00. Doug las Featherstone, Greenwood, S. C. 2t . • T ALBERT’S 11 1-2 ACRE FARM—Just across Green wood City limits, beyond Or phanage. Comfortable 8 room h*"me, ample out buildings, elegant water, lucious fruits, gardens, pasture, splendid soil, all under fence, quick oossession. Rare opportunity. Price just right. YANCEY MAY, Greenwood, S. C. The $10,000,000,000 that we sent to our dear friends in Europe last time would be spent on our own fight this tfme, and $100,000,000,000 more if necessary. Three American workmen can pro duce ns much steel as ten British workmen. Ten American automobile mechanics can produce as many automobiles as 100 French. German or British me chanics. We art* meek and peaceful, but if they want a fight they probably can get It. raph fnr fait anH xxnnfrr^ 1 Master of the National Grange,' Clara Cartledge, 35 years of age, S tetv Z Dan ^ Willard, president of the and wife of Norman Cartledge, mato nlante fnr a late rrnn tit; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; died at her home near Plum be transnianteri tn the fievi viv Clarence M. Wolley, and Edward Branch late Tuesday afternoon, be transplanted to the fie d by secretary. following a long illness. .Burial teadv to^t ln ?he n «eld A°„ U aust.T The Committee explains that the will be made at Pine Grove church and ccllards about Sentemher i report and survey have not ex- near Plum Branch, but the hour other fall veaetabies mnv he niant- hausted the subject of planning has not been announced yet. G. P. ed -AS indicated below and controllin g public works, and McCain s service in charge. Beans, any time up to September urges . development of an in- —— l; beets, August 1; cabbage, ,, e t cre asmg fund of econom.c infor- John Freeman. 55, McCormick plants in August; collards; Sep- mation to enable governments to county Negro farmer, was killed tember 15 to October iv carrntc take P rom Pt action when unfavor- Monday afternoon, almost instant- SS.• •» >;■’'»»«»■»whM,y potatoes, July 15 to August 15; the economic balance adversely. riding went over a fill near Mount spinach, September 15 to October Tbe report also announces tnat it Carmel. Freeman was traveling in 15; tomatoes, July 1; turnips, July 13 Pining a “further exploration” the direction of McCormick alone 15to October 15; kale, September 1 of y arymg l n terest rates or ca P ltal His neck wa f broket \ . ^ ie H car to October 15; mustard, September costs upon the chlef types of con -' turned ° ver twice a “ d nght ® d ^ i iMnvorYiHnr* i • vaHAcHcxe struction and that it is also under- self, Freeman being found shortly 1 to November 1 radishes, October . ., , , , ...ifv, uio taking an examination of that thereafter by a passer-by, with his x fundamental incentive, the “lure of head leaning over the door. The profits,” as manifested during the car top was crushed, which ap- Last Call Sounded past ten years of American eco- parently was the only damage to T> * * nomic life. The report also refers the car. Or Jl OtatO Contest to the Committee’s study of price! Burial will be made Friday at relationship now in progress, con- Mt. Moriah church, of which de- AIKEN, June 23.—To date, 321 cerning which it remarks: “Like ceased had long been a leading farmers have enrolled in the sweet the present report, it will take its member. J. S. Strom’s service in potato contest, exceeding last place in the step-by-step analysis charge. -txt- Red Men Elect Officers For Term At a regular meeting of Shewano Tribe, No. 112, Improved Order of Red Men, held last Thursday even ing, the following officers were elected for the six months’ . term beginning July 1st: J. A. Talbert, Sachem. E. J. McCracken, Senior Saga more. J. T. Faulkner, Junior Sagamore. S. L. Britt, Prophet. W. T. Strom, 1st Sanap. Charles Freeland, 2nd Sanap. J. M. Simpson, Guard of Wig wam. Gary Young, Guard of Forest. J. O. Patterson, C. of R. A. J. Hendrix, C. of W. J. B. Blackwell, K. of W. _X Although American farmers are milking 4.000,000 fewer cows than they did ten years ago, the volume of milk production is maintained ncp better cows. Mr. Einstefn says space is the im portant thing. He may he right, hut the genius of man is making space less important every day. At a world power conference in Ber lin recently, high-powered scientists discussed the latest possibilities of applying electric and other power. At the same time the United States National Electric Light association was meeting in San Francisco. Scientists, using the worldwide radio system provided by M. H. Ayles- worth, head of the American National Broadcasting system, talked and lis tened to each other as though they were in one ro6m, instead of being thousands of miles apart. A solemn German professor, deep in Mohammedan and Jewish marriage lore, says trial marriage is very old. Mohammed borrowed the idea from the heathen Arabs. The Talnjud tells of Rah. “one of the great early scholars, announcing publicly that he sought a wife for the duration of his stay every time he journeyed to Darschild.” Persian princes on their travels en tered into marriages for a single night. Jochanan, according to the Palestinian Talmud, said, three hundred years b& fore Christ. “When a man says to a woman, I marry you for thirty days, then is she married to him for thirty days.” You may go a million years farther back than Jochanan among the mon key tribes or visit the zoological gar den today, and you will find the same Idea highly developed. It Is not what we used to do, hut what we ought to do. The British are slow, but get things done. In Palestine, one day recently, they hanged three Arabs for rioting last August. News spreads slowly in Palestine; no telegrams or radios In their dwellings among the Arabs. There may be trouble when it be comes generally known that three were hanged, and funerals celebrated with violent mourning. It is pleasant to have other men or railroads working for you. The New York Central railroad owns 460,340 shares, equal to 95.50 per cent of stock in the “Big Four” railroad. The “Big Four” now raises its yearly dividend to $10 a share, and will pay the New York Central $920.- 700 additional a year. Even in these tearful times there are pleasant spots. OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY and THURS. June 25-26 GRETA GARBO CHARLES BICKFORD MARIE DRESSLER in “ANNA CHRISTIE” Added Newsreel and Comedy One Day, FRIDAY, June 27 JOSEPH WAGSTAFF LOLA LANE in “LET’S GO PLACES” Added Screen Snapshot and Cartoon. One Day, SATURDAY June 28 GARY COOPER MARY BRIAN “OilLY THE BRAVE” Added Cartoon and Comedy MONDAY and TUESDAY June 30 and July 1 EVELYN BRENT CLIVE BROOK in “SLIGHTLY SCARLET” Added News and Comedy. WEDNESDAY and THURS. July 2-3 LEE TRACY DAPHNE POLLARD STEPIN FECHIT in “BIG TIME” Added News and Comedy. Come to the OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE, S. C., and SEE and HEAR the BEST. Shows ?:15; 7:00 and 9:00. A revolution, starting in southern Bolivia, is important because the rev olutionary force Is said to be com posed of “Indians and Communists.” Communist superstition, like religious superstition, grafted upon ignorant In dian minds, may lead to serious trouble. Lloyd George tells .MacDonald, prime minister, that he will co-operate with the Labor party in legislation to solve the unemployment problem. It will be interesting to see what a man as wise as Lloyd George can do to control the law of supply and demand, which seems to rule us all Hundreds of thousands are idle. Many are insufficiently supplied with goods that the hundreds of thousands could produce. Raw materials are unlimited Yet the unemployed cannot be broughi in contact with the raw materials and the public need supplied. Mysterious finance seems to con trol, and those that control finance miderstand it as little as its makei uedei-'itnod his F.pjinkenstein monstp* W. A. Clarkson Suicide Result Money Matters COLUMBIA, June 23.—W. Ander- son Clarkson, attorney, reading clerk of the state senate, secretary- treasurer of the Perpetual Building and Loan association and «onnect- ed with other business enterprizes in Columbia, Aiken, and Noyth Carolina, died at a local hospital at 1 o’clock this morning from a pistol wound which he inflicted while in his room at the Columbia Young Men’s Christian association. As well as can be ascertained, Mr. Clarkson began preparations for self destruction Saturday at which time he wrote notes to his sister and to the president of the building and loan association with which he was connected. In the notes he. said that he had become personally involved, and added that his life insurance would take care of such debts. His body was found by a maid 20 minutes after a nearby roomer had heard a muffled shot. He-was breathing heavily, stretched out on a rug on the floor, with his head resting on several newspapers. One shot from the Colt .45 automatic penetrated the head and passed through, rendering him unconsci ous. He died three hours after wards. Mr. Clarkson, member of a large and influential family which set tled in lower Richland county many years ago, leaves but few immediate relatives. He is a nep hew of Associate Justice Clarkson, of the North Carolina supreme court, and had never married. Immediately after learning of his attempt at suicide, directors of the building and loan association held a meeting and announced la ter that depositors would not suf fer any loss. X The population of Shanghai, vMf-n-Q fJtnn 9^00 000