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Thursday, July 3, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCURMICK, South Carotin*. Page Number Two Some of your friends may need your vote this summer and you may want to cast it for them, but that’s impossible unless you put your name on the club roll before Tuesday, S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW July 22nd. Clemson College Scholarship Examinations Competitive examinations for the award of vacant scholarships in Clemson College will be held on Friday, July 11th, 1930, beginning at 9 a. m., by each County Super intendent of Education. These scholarships will be open to young men sixteen years of age or over, who desire to pursue courses in Agriculture and Textiles. Scholar ships are awarded by the State Board of Education on the recom mendation of the State - Board of Public Welfare. Persons interested should write the Registrar for information and application blanks before the time of the examinations. Successful applicants must meet fully the re quirements for admission. Each scholarship is worth $100.00 and free tuition, which is $40.00 additional. For further information write— THE REGISTRAR Clemson College, S. C. Don’t leaye any cereals in pack ages when shutting up the house for a vacation, however, short. It is better to give away small rem nants than to have to combat wee vils on your return. Weevils get ting into one kind of cereals may spread to your flour or any other cereal foods not in tight glass or tin containers. The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informal ion from which the paragraphs ire prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and nay be considered generally cor- ect. Union — Swimming pool opened to public. Bamberg — Population of this town for 1930 census totals 2,449. Easley—Edwin L. Bolt’s Store re opened for business recently. Rock Hill — $100,000 business building will be constructed here by Belk Brothers. Easley — New Western Electric Sound System installed in Lyric Theatre. Georgetown — Newly installed power plant will start operations September 1st. Kershaw — Contract awarded to J. J. Seastrunk, for $22,495, for con struction of new grammar school building. Gaston — Oil well recently brought in on W. I. Jumper prop erty here. McCormick — Carlot shipment of spring lambs recently made from this town. Elloree — South Carolina Na tional Bank Corporation purchas ed First National Bank. Greenwood — Plans underway to reopen American Bank. Sumter — Building permits is sued in this city during May to taled $52,110. Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION t The examination for the award of vacant Scholarships in Win throp College and for admission of new students will be held at every County Court House in the State *on Friday, July 4, and Saturday, July 5 at 9 a. m. This examina tion will be held whether there are vacant Scholarships or not, as va cancies may occur after the exam ination. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant af ter July 5, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, providing they meet the conditions governing the award. All who wish Scholarships should attend the axamination whether. there are vacancies re ported or not. Applicants for Scholarships should write to Pres ident Kinard before the examina tion for Scholarship blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 arid free tuition. For success in home canning of string beans, corn, peas—in fact all vegetables except, tomatoes—the canner should provide the high temperature of the steam pressure canner. Troublesome bacteria are likely to lurk in these nonacid vegetables, and unless killed by adequate processing, they will cause the canned foods to spoil. The U. S. Department of Agricul ture, with its nation-wide view of the home canning question, strongly recommends the steam pressure method for all nonacid vegetables. Time-tables are sent free on request from Washington. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, S. C. D. M. DOUGLAS, President SCHOLARSHIP AND Lancaster — Guard rails being placed on new paved road on High way No. 26. Red River — Red River Cotton Mills changed hands. Conway — Quattlebaum Light & Ice Company opened up-town mer chandise and business offices to public. Walhalla — Oconee County had increase of population from 30,117 tt 33,355, gain of 3,283 since 1920. Blair — 16 new machines added to equipment of Blair Mills. Union — Several independent grocery stores in this city and vicinity joined Quality Service un it. tXt All Voters Must Enroll Before The 22nd Of July J 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 the last Tuesday in July, which is the 22nd. Thereafter, no new 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. X Take Care Of Raw Hides ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS Examinations for award of va cant scholarships in the University and for entrance will be held at the County Court House Friday, July 11, 1930, at 9 a. m. Applicants must be 16 years of age. Scholarships are vacant in the following counties: Abbeville, Al lendale, Aiken, Andersen, Barn well, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charles ton, Cherokee. Chester,, Chester field, Florence, Laurens, McCor mick, Marion, Oconee, Williams burg, York. Applicants for scholarships should write to Committee on Nor mal Scholarships for application blanks, to be returned by July 9th. Scholarships worth $100 plus tui tion and term fees. Next session will open September 17, 1930. SUMMER SCHOOL June 18 to July 30, 1930 Hides and skins—particularly cattle hides and calfskins—are among the highest price-per-pound raw products of agriculture, yet many farmers and small butchers treat them with little regard to their potential value. Many far mers think that four or five cuts in a hide make no difference and that a half-rotted skin will produce first quality leather. They do not real ize that one cut, or a hole, or nair slip from poor curing, may render the whole hide unfit for tanning into some kinds of leather. Grubs, ticks, brands, mange, warts, sores, rubs, bruises, prod marks, muck and manure, and scratches made by horns, wire, and currycombs all lower the value of hides and skins. X I Many people borrow trouble, J while most of us can get all we •want for nothing. I DO NOT HAVE TO VOTE “The Town Doctor” From The News and Courier. There is a singular persistence on the part of those who object to rule 32, whereby voters in the pri mary are pledged to support all the nominees of the Democratic party, including the president and vice-president, to assume that a white man or woman in South Carolina is under a sort of legal or moral obligation to vote in the primary. No such obligations ex ists. One who does not wish to tie himself to the Democratic party in this state can stay out of it. Thousands of people do. Four years ago less than 175,000 persons voted in the primary for governor al though the whole number of white men and women of voting age was estimated by the census bureau at that time as around 450,000. It is a small minority in South Caro lina that continues militant about Rule 32. X ADD EDITORIAL ERRORIANA There is a woman in Henry county who is offended at the Clinton Eye as for some reason the announcement of the birth of a baby at her home sixteen months ago was accidentally left out and she has been trying to convince her friends for the past sixteen months that she has a baby, which is^a darling. We’re sorry about the error, but she was much more easily pacified than the woman who accidentally got credit for having a new baby a few months ago because her husband’s name was like another’s that was pub lished in the birth records. As soon as the announcement came out presents descended upon their household from many sources for the supposed new heir. She then ascended the stairs and appeared in angor at the desk of this edi tor, who spent some time trying to convince her how many good friends she hard and to pass the presents on to the other baby.— Clinton (Mo.) Eye. tXt LET NON-ADVERTISER^BEWARE (Augusta Chronicle.) Day by day the trend toward publicity grows 1 and actual contact is becoming a factor'. This applies to merchandising, to business in other lines, and everywhere the public is concerned. The people demand now that they be supplied with facts. For this reason rail roads, public utility companies, merchandising establishments and other concerns have publicity di visions. The merchant who cannot ad vertise his offerings and in addi tion to this offer advertised goods is scheduled for a slump in busi ness. In presenting a summary of the situation for next year it is re vealed that national advertisers will spend $20,000,000 dollars more next year in presenting their of ferings te the public and the state ment says: “Two hundred a,nd forty nation al advertisers whose advertising expenditures for 1929 approximated $186,000,000 anticipated spending $206,000,000 in 1930, an increase of 11 per cent, according to a report submitted to the National Busi ness Survey Conference, called at the direction of President Hoover, by Bernard Lichtenburg, president of the Association of Advertisers. The report was made public De cember 9. “The greatest increase, the re port says, is indicated to be in the field of small-price produ«ts for DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: HERE IS SOMETHING WORTH READING If people would apply the same good business principles to their attitude toward their community as do “1930 Sellers” to the store, firm or business they represent, there would be fewer “dead” towns. In a recent issue of a bulletin called “Better Selling” appeared an editorial from which every think ing citizen of every live commun ity can get much good. Here it is vlth quotation marks ommitted: Did anyone with a secure posi tion, drawing a regular salary and knowing that he or she could not or would not be fired for indiffer ence, carelessness, laziness, impud ence or inattention, ever advance any new idea, accomplish anything worth while or ever GET anyplace? No! The real things of life have been accomplished by men and women who counted the days and hours, not by the hands on the clock but by the results obtained; people who had a goal to be reached, a prize to attain, a reward to be carried; men and women who were BIG enough to “take telling” and who DID take telling and who got out and WORKED to profit by that which they were told. If I am ready and willing to work twelve hours a day and do work twelve hours a day, it is none of your business. If you are will ing to work only six hours a day and work but six hours a day, it is none of my business. BUT, if I work twelve hours a day and you work but six hours a day, it is none of my business. BUT, if I work twelve hours a day and you work six hours a day, it is none of your business if my wife and children wear better clothes, eat better food, drive a better automobile and live in a better house than your wife and children. Indifference toward McCormick on your part can keep it from ever “getting any place.” Carelessness in what you say regarding it can cause inattention to it at a time when attention is most desired to obtain a worth-while industry. Failure on your part to get out with others and work together for a common good can and will keep you from * accomplishing anything. If some other community gets together and works consistently, persistently and harmoniously to make their town a better, more in teresting, more attractive place in which to live, work, play and make money—that’s their business. If you refuse to put your shoulder to the wheel along side the men and women who are trying to push Mc Cormick ahead; if you lie back and not only refuse to work but don’t even shout encouragement—that’s your business. BUT don’t crab if some other town takes business away from you, people move away and—yos, even if your factories close down, and you are laid off. Say what you please, think what you please; but the f&ct remains that empty houses, empty stores, empty factories and empty other things are sure signs that some where along the line there have been some empty heads. No hand ful of people in any town can do everything, but all of the people, working in the right directibn, TOGETHER, can do anything. (Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone. Re production prohibited in whole or in part. This editorial published by McCormick Messenger in co-op eration with the Lions Club.) X jmestic use. More than 300 reports have been ibmitted by various industrial id trade organizations and a immary of these reports was ade public on December 9. This immary includes reports made •ally at the conference meeting i December 5, which were print- I in full text in the United States aily of December 6 and 7. The inference summary of report hich were not made orally at tlv inference meeting will be pub- jhed in full soon.” To be sure, there are many no: Ivertisers who will spend vas ims in national advertising an 1 lis will be augmented by som veral millions of dollars. Mer- lants in Augusta and throughout lis section who are complaining ' poor business might well con- ilt their competitors who are ad- irtising. The postoffice figures, te bank figures, and other indi- itions, go to show that there has k en a steady increase in business, imebody has obtained it. Vitamin C in the diet is supplied by the citrus fruits (oranges, grapefruit and lemons) raw cab bage, turnips and tomatoes, raw, cooked, or canned. Apples, pota toes, raspberries, spinach, sprouted legumes, and string beans are oth er good sources of this vitamin. The body has only a limited cap acity to store vitamin C. Also, this vitamin is very easily destroyed by heat and exidation. Hence in plan ning the menu it is well to include at all times one or more of the foods known to supply vitamin C. i—t\l A mixture of one part of am monia sulphate and three parts of cottonseed meal makes an excel lent fertilizer for lawns, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Apply it three tunes in the growing ! season, at the rate of 12 to 15 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Cot- jtonseed meal alone is satisfactory, though it does not act as quickly ■as the mixture of ammonium sul- Iphate and cottonseed meal. ■irigrA 01 SERVICE! $ * Now that so many women are driving cars, TIRE Service is becoming more important every day. * You can send your wife, your sweetheart, your mother, your sister, your daughter here and he certain they will re ceive prompt, expert, courteous Tire Service. We Sell Goodyear Tires, Tubes and Ac cessories and render service. There’s nothing else on our mind. BOLE SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. PHONE 40 McCORMICK, S. C. S3E Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Street McCormick, S. C. Has Great Sales Training School What has been termed the great est sales training in the history of the automobile industry—a series of five meetings conducted over a period of 10 days in each of 12,000 Chevrolet retail stores in the United States, and attended by 24,000 salesmen—has ju£t been completed by the Chevrolet Motor Company. So successful were the meetings that Chevrolet central office offi cials are considering making the “school” an annual affair. In prac- / tically every instance Chevrolet dealers reported their complete sales personnel Jm attendance at each meeting, and in addition the office and service staffs requested and were given permission to at tend the sessions. In all, it is es timated that an average of 40,000 sales, office and service employees in Chevrolet retail stores attended each of the five meetings. Increas ed selling efficiency by their pres ent staffs and the addition of many salesmen to their organiza tions are expected by many dealers as a result of the “school." The thought behind the school was the belief that most automo bile salesmen possess only the the ory of selling and usually are forc ed to undergo long experience and overcome many difficulties before they are able to furnish prospec tive buyers with a fully satisfactory exposition of the car’s features. The school would immediately put the salesmen in possession of the experiences and methods oC the most successful men in the indus- I try. All phases of the meetings were worked out and the materials pre pared by the central office of the Chevrolet Motor Company. Hold ing the School was optional with each dealer, but practically the en tire Chevrolet dealer organization responded. One of the features of the meet ings was the use of motion pic tures of the “still” type in present ing the subject of each session. In all, five films were used. The most novel of these was the one entit led “Mr. Lilliputian Sells a Chev rolet." It depicted a salesman ex plaining the features of the car to a prospect. Both figures were so ^educed in size and the car’s parts so enlarged that the men crawled into the cylinders to inspect the pistons; into the transmission and differential to discuss the gears; jumped, in diving suits, into the oil-filled crankcase to examine the crankshaft, oil pump and bear ings, and perched on the instru ment panel controls, spark plugs, steering wheel, shifting lever and other parts while these were being explained to the purchaser. Many dealers have asked permission to retain the film for future use in training salesmen and illustrating the car’s advantages to prospective buyers. x Washable maps for tourists are on the market, but no matter how hard you wash it, the detours will remain. txt In this day it is a serious mis take for any girl to get married before her father can afford rL