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Thursday, July 24, 1930 McCOKMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, Soutti Carolina Page Number Feat termination Treatment For Fall Irish Potatoes WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT? €LEMSON COLLEGE, July 23.— JLaew method of seed potato treat ment developed by Dr. F. E. Denny the Boyce Thompson Institute Plant Research, to obtain better germination of fall-planted pota toes, consists in dipping the cut ^eed potatoes in a solution made by mixing one pint of 40 per cent ethylene chlorhydrin with four gallons of water, storing the tubers fei a closed and practically air tight.-container for 24 hours, after "vhich they are planted. The tem- j^erafture of the tubers during .stor age should 1 not go above 35 de grees. ) This method has been especially recommended T^hen seed potatoes from the spring crop are to be planted for the fali crop. Its ob ject is to break the dormant pert iod of thb potato tuber so that germination and growth will wake place promptly. It has given good jaaults with Bliss Triumps, Green Mountain, and Lookout Mountain. With cold storage seed or seed of Lookout Mountain kept in common storage from last year, the method m probably of little value since such seed usually germinates sat isfactorily any way, says Prof. R. JL McGinty, horticulturist, in com menting on the new treatment. \ This method does not seem to be as satisfactory with Irish Cobbler ms with the other varieties, With Sfsh Cobbler, soaking the cut seed ffar one hour in a solution made by y adding one pound of sodium thio- ( qpanate to six gallons of water and j Ranting at once has given good ■BRllts. | So far these methods have been used in practice, but there no reason why they should give satisfactory results. The: *CIKLt£st difficulty at-present >$eems tat be in securing the necessary • ' dhemicals, which are not usually wtxried by drug stores and firms -beafirrg in agricultural supplies. Organized Selling Farmers’Best Hope (From The Greenville News) The candidates for governor have fallen into discussion, more or less casual, about the state of prohibition in this commonwealth, and one wonders from their quoted remarks, just what they really think of it. S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW This Week b Arthur Brisbane Taboos Still Live Hard Kurdish Fighters Sarnoff Sees Ahead No Bets Against Jones Civilized men laugh at “taboos” that The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing Ibra C. Blackwood of Spartan- Investment of capital, employ- teep a‘wotoan“lD“the South sms from burg, for Instance, makes vigorous ment of labor and business actlv- j touching a canoe, make It a crime to declaration that the people of this Ities and opportunities. Informa- touch a man with your hands after state are not ready to repeal the tion from which the paragraphs you have touched a horse, and forbid Volstead act, and then added, ac- are prepared is from local papers, the eating of certain animals, etc. cordinir to nress accounts that usually of towns mentioned, and cording to press accoun.o mat j considered generally cor- the Wboo is not dead, even in there are many people who hold to ma y 06 considered generally co cIvilizatlon Horror S ei ze ,i the British the principle of prohibition and ^ . , house of commons' when a Laborite still violate the law. r * ' member, Beckett, laid hands on the What he is referring to, we sup- Crocketville—Local cemetery im- heavy m ace that lies on the table in pose, is the fact that there are proved. great numbers of South Carolin- Hartsville — Local post office The mace S ymt )0 lizes the power of ians who will buy liquor and drink did $11,210 business from January the house of commons. Beckett was liquor, yet who will stm maintain i to May 31, 1930, increase of $1,- suspended, 324 to 4. that they are for absolute prohibi- 171 over same period during prev- , tion, and vote that way. Yet can i 0 us year. .. Kurds from Persia, convinced that the will of Mohammed, undertake to or of absolute prohibition—without ing Hartsville-Darlington stretch CO rrect him. Fifteen thousand of them, hypocrisy—if he is willing to take 0 f Highway No. 35. pouring in from Persia, made their a drink or to purchase from boot- Sumter — Birdsey Flour Mills headquarters on Mount Ararat, burn- leggers? As Col. Keith very apt- opens store at 32 South Main ln ^ robbing and stealing, as proof of ly points out, ttfis the consumption street. | their fondrjQSS for Aliah and ne demand from the citizens them- Camden — Contract awarded to r>rop et ’ selves that keeps the. bootleggers in Lewis Gardner for remodeling Be- business. Does Mr. Blackwood real- leos store building on Main Street, ly! believe that it is possible for a Greer — > Expenditures For School Purposes List of Claims Approved by the County Superintendent of Edu cation for the Month of June 1930 CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE McCORMICK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4 6- 3—510—A. E. Willis, Salary $ 6- 3—511—W. E. Lake, Jr., Supt. Salaries 6- 3—512—W. E. Lake, Jr., Supt., Salaries 6- 3—513—W. E. Lake, Jr., Supt., Janitor’s Salary * 6- 3—514—Ralph Chamberlain, Salary 6- 5—516—J. B. McCrorey, Salary 6- 7—519—J. O. Patterson, Clerk, Water and Lights AMOUNT 54.80 960.00 959.44 61.00 27.00 166.00 12.48 6-28—522—T. J. Price, Treasurer, Interest on Bonds 1,022.55 Kemal killed about 15,000, nearly all of them. But the Kurds, desperately New nine-hole golf courageous as is usual with Moham- citizen to be sincerely and con- course formally opened recently mcdans. say he ^ wI ^ l ha '^ to kin scientiously in favor of .prohibition here. and still buy and drink liquor, or Kinstree — Carolina Theatre in is he, in effect, charging that, we stifled Western Electric Sound have a great deal of hypocrisy in System. this supposedly dry state? 4 Greer — Pause and Putt, minia- But strangest of all is that state- ture golf course, established on lot ment credited by the press report- between Baptist parsonage and ers to W. W. Smoak, who seems to hom& of Dr, Lanford on Emma be running in part, at ikast, on a street. >. kind of prohibition platform. • | Greenville — $275,000 bond issue There is no demand for the re- will be voted upon to provide funds peal of the 18th amendment in for purchase of Chamber of Corn- South Carolina, Mr. Smoak is quot- merce building in this city. ‘ ed as saying. “The people of South, Lake City Collins Department Carolina don’t want light wines store will open for business here and beer. They want hard liquor.” a t an early date in quarters for- /Well, if they #ant hard liquor, merly occupied by Lake City Drug and still don’t want to repeal the company. prohibition law, what is the an- Camden — Dr. W. Robin Zemp swer, anyway? As Sherlock Holmes installing soda fountain equipment would say, what do ypu make of it, ^ hls peKalb Street Drug Store. them to make them leave. Their treatment of one' Turkish avi ator whom, they shot down, immedi ately gouging out his eyes, proves tiieir earnestness. Keraal’s bombing planes are search ing the Mount Ararat crevices where Kurds hide. A change from the day when the ark landed peacefully! Armenians are doing what they can to help the Kurds kill the Turks. In the light of history you can hardly blame them, but they may regret it. Keioul promises to wipe out their villages. Watson?. * % X- 'As we approach the end of the year’s operation of the Fed eral Farm Board we find one fac tor becoming more and more ap- and that is that the funda- step in the solution of the agricultural problem , is organiza- 1 says Alexander Legge, chair- of the Fe^erdl Fqrm Board. •The difficuftty comes in getting producers toxo-opferate, chiefly be- •autse there is still a great differ ence of . opinion as to !just how to acg&nize farmers so that they may uraperly deal with their problems handling particular crops in this that community. You no doubt aerlize that there is a wide varia- iaoa of conditions that have to be zoet because of differences between sonunodities, the people who grow them, and the localities where they grown. These differences are - understood today than they a few years ago as shown by tils progress made by farmers in 3ftelr organization work particul- aziy during the last year. 1 •Back of it all, I think everybody interested is recognizing more fully mstiti day that the first step is that eft organizing to the end that the 3umer may have at least the same atagree of collective action in the ;xau±eting of farm crops that ex- 'Mx. in our most highly organized midcstry. There is really no rea- aon why farmers should not go Esther than organizations of any ornately operated industry. That privilege is in the farmers’ own Hands. Laws have been written within recent years to free farmers KScom the restrictions of anti-trust flcgnlations. •Great advantage comes to tenters who use their privilege to wss together large units of pro- dtets because they have a better bargaining power than when they wosne to market by the thousands, Bach selling his own crop and com peting with the other individuali. The privilege of selling in large inntities makes it possible for an untrained group of far- to market collectively to a advantage than is possible the old system where the qxivate agency, with no control oxter the flow of the commodity, mkes the product as it comes.” X * ' * * 1 ffcce .upon a time there was a match tray that had matchte in it* johS an ash tray that caught all of fte ashes. , J ■. ■ Cross Roads — Electric lights be ing installed in Cross Roads Bap- SOUTH CAROLINA'S ! tist Church edifice. POLITICAL ACTIVITY Newberry — Sweet Fern Tea - ; Room opens in quarters formerly (From The Augusta Chronicle.) 'occupied by Rose Crest Tea Room. The people of Augusta and this Columbia Bids on 40 roads and section of Georgia are greatly in- bridges construction projects, call- terested in the political situation in in S * or expenditure of about $3,- South Carolina, but there is a sort 000,000, received by State Highway of hesitancy on the part of even Department on June 24th. the sons of the Palmetto state, who ! Yemassee Several miles of have come over to help make Au- road in this vicinity being paved, gusta a bigger and better city con- I Walterboro — Standard Oil Com- ceming meddling into the affairsobtained option on comer lot of our beloved neighboring state, of Cummings-Lomacks Machinery However, there can be np possible^ Company for erection of storage objection t^i voicing an expression plant. coming from South Carolina and Belton — Streets in this town the Dillon Herald in an tutorial improved. urging a study of the national sit- Walterboro — New playground nation as related to South Caro- opened to public recently, lina has the following to say: ! Loris — 18 carloads of string For the first time in many years beans and 20 carloads of Irish po- Dillon voters had the rare privilege tatoes shipped from this town the of hearing real national issues dis- first week of June. Cussed at Friday’s campaign meet- | Walhalla — Tom Thumb Golf ing. It was^refreshing. The sole Course established on Main Street, purpose of a man offering for pub- Brookland-Cayce school district lie office—particularly a national approved $100,000 bond issue to office—should be to study national provide funds for construction of and international questions and school building about half way be- enlighten the people whose suf- tween Cayce and New Brookland. frage he seeks. Unfortunately, Dillon — Ritz Theatre installed there has been too much senti- DeForest Phonofilm equipment, ment, too many personalities and Construction under way on two- not enough sound business sense mile joint road between Latta and injected into our politics. Marion County. “With the Yankee politics is a Belton — Dining room of Belton business. His first thought when Hotel now under management of he is elected to either branch of Mrs. C. B. Daniels. Congress is, “How can I vote to Kingstree — Concrete emplace- increase the prosperity of my peo- ment erected in front of court pie? That is why the Yankee has house for canon. managed to use the power of leg- I>avitl Sarnoff. president of tt>e lla dio Corporation of America, like all successful men. has imagination ns well us executive capacity. He says that television, providing “a theater for every home, although the stage may.be only a cabinet, and a curtain the screen, is. 1 believe, the distinct promise of the new era of electrical entertainment.” Mr. Sarnoff sees in the latest gift of science/ to the human race the promise of *‘a new culture.” Ten mil lion homes in the United States now “draw nightly ui>on the programs of the ail* for the family entertainment.** y • S ' -V A ,v : 1 Mr. Sarnoff, young and remarkably able. belieVek that this generation will see the greatest actors, orators, clergymen and singers moving and hear their voices in their homes. That is modern magic. Bobby .Tones taught an anti-gnm- •bling lesson to Lloyds, the great Brit ish insurance company.’ At the begin ning of this golf season, Lloyds, which takes all kinds of wagers, lief 50 to 1 that Bobby Jones would not win the four great golf championships in suc cession. Now he has won three of them, and those that bet against him. seeking to Insure themselves against loss, request Lloyds to bet that Jones will not win lus fourth match. Lloyds says: “No. It will cost you one thousand pounds to get a thou sand pounds insurance against Jones’ victory." which means Hint the victory is considered certain. New York, that recently became the money center of the world, now, to its disgust, seems destined to be the crime center of the United States. Racketeers, gunmen and other ex perts. driven out of Chicago by police energy, are alleged to be gathering in the bigger, richer city. Robberies of various kinds, from banks to deliea tessen stores: a bomb explosion in the Fifth avenue district, business and trade union rackets of all kinds testi fy to the energy with which fhe al leged Chicago invaders do their work. Police say their difficulties are in creased* by the unwillingness of citi zens to tell what they know. Business * men submit to racketeering to avoid islation to enrich himself at the protection if they had made a b 0m bing. expense of the South. study of and understood the great “A solution of our economic injustice the tariff laws are doing Hailstones six Inches in diameter troubles and financial difficulties the farmers of the state. We are fel1 recently in Bulgaria, killing five. cannot be found at Columbia. It Is not familiar with national and in- ‘"Boats are" racing in the wise to keep an eye on Columbia, ternational issues in this state be- Black but the annual appropriation of cause it has been the policy of , imagine millions of small sized old-. 11 miIlioh dollars for state ex- candidates to refrain from discuss- fashioned cannon balls falling from penses is a mere pittance as com- ing these issues on the stump, no the sky, and you can imagine such a pared with the millions filched out doubt the candidates themselves ha llstorm - of the pockets of South Carolin- felt that the people were not in- p r0 fessor Passey, British, of Leeds ians by privileged legislation at terested. 1 university, discovers that mustard gus Washington. South Carolina’s an- “in his Dillon speech at the prevents cancer. It is hailed as “the nual contribution to the recent courthouse Friday, Mr. Byrnes, first discovery of a true anti-cardno- tariff law will amount to eight candidate for the Senate, dug deep 8 e ^ lc agent.” ^ ^ experiment may million dollars more than our an- into the heart of these problems sa ^ the^ives of many humans! nual appropriation bill, while on which so seriously affect the pros- the other hand we are contributing perity of the people of the state,! Herr Holitscher, German author, has from the state’s cotton crop alone but his time was limited to only seen us and reports to hls country- approximately 20 million dollars ;to 30 minutes and he could not go in- men that Colonel Lindbergh and V i the consumers of the world be- to details. However, The Herald ar ® 1 * wo cause we are forced to sell our cot- hopes that every voter at the He gaya . .. The savings bank book ton and cottonseed in an unpro- meeting grasped the significance constitutes the crowning point of an tec ted or duty-free market. It is of Mr. Byrnes’ remarks on these American's life work.” And our great- a two-edged sword that slices the important questions. The Herald est amusement, he finds, is evading state’s ;econorr\ic heart /both. ways, is ajso glad that Mr. Byrnes is de- , th ,® prohlWtifaJaF^ Oocmans “The Herald believes the people voting his full time to a discussion that * UrRR “T*e*V ai Miir would demand that our state pro- of these issues at every campaign u tbe German's highest ainbtttta, and ducts be given an equal measure of meeting in the state.” 1 then the Total Claims Approved $ 3,263.27 BUFFALO SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5 CLAIM * DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT 6- 7— —McCormick School, District Tuition $ 238 34 BELL VUE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6 CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT 6- 7—518—Wallace Banks, Salary $ 35.00 FLATWOODS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7 CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT 6- 2—509—C. E. Stewart. Tuition $ 400.00 V WIDEMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 11 CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE ^ AMOUNT 3- 7—517—Mrs. Avis T. Britt, Salary $ 110.60 PLUM BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 24 CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE , PURPOSE AMOUNT 6- 2—515—McGrath Bros., Repairs $ 113.60 6-28—521—T. J. Price, Int., on Bonds 721.80 , Total Claims Approved 1 : $ 835.40 WASHINGTON CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 25 CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT 3-25—520—L. V. Mayer, Supt., Salaries $ 1,300.60 • COUNTY BOARD FUND CLAIM DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT 5-19— —W. H. Parks, Traveling Expense $ 50.00 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Personally appeared before me, W. H. Parks, County Superintendent of Education, and mode oath in due form of law, that above is a true and correct account of the expenditures of the Superintendent of Ed ucation’s office to date. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of July, 1930. J. O. PATTERSON, , Notary Public, S. C. W. H. PARKS, County Superintendent of Education, McCormick County. • It is often difficult to cure sweet- clover hay because of the heavy green stems. Many fanners get around this trouble by cutting the hay with a binder. They set up the bound bundles in long, narrow, op en shocks like oat shocks and let them cure for several days. Sweet- clover hay produced ► in this way is of good quality and the expense is little greater than for hay cocked by hand. To get the greatest yield and best quality of clover seed, cure and store the crop 'With as little wetting as possible, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Rotting clover in the field or stack, or sweating it in the mow before hull ing, is unnecessary. Let it become as ripe as possible without loss from shelling, cut it in good, bright weather, and protect it from the rain. This picture shows two types of conveyors in use in the Rouge Plant of th* Ford Motor Company. A N ENDLESS chain convoyor. three and a half to four mHes L long, said to be the longest in the world, has just been completed at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company at Dearborn. Michigan. On it parts of Ford cars in the procets of manufacture are transported from one building to another and completed parts are carried direct to railroad cars for shipment to branch assembly plants. The conveyor, which carries its cargo on suspended hooks, has a daily capacity for 300,000 parts weighing over 2,000,000 pounds. It supplants freight cars and trucks which have been used for the transfer of many parts from one point to another in the Ford plant. This longest conveyor of thorn all is a development of the Ford policy that nothing should be done by manual tabor that could. better : be done by machine.."'* In the early days of hla manufactur ing career Mr. Ford devised tho as sembly JUne—a moving track on which cars in the process of assembly Went to the workmen instead of the work men carrying pafts to the car. The assembly lino, perfected in many ways, is now used by automobile manufac turers generally. The value of the conveyor in reduc ing physical labor, in saving time, in preserving system and in cutting costs soon became apparent and its use waa extended to other purposes about tho plant. Now there are literally miles of. conveyors of various types in the Ford plant. Some of them carry parts from one building to another and are care fully synchronized so that the parts arrive at precisely the right moment and in the exact spot where they are needed. Others transport red hot In gots of steel weighing nearly a ton each. Still others move outgoing ship ments. If it were not for the conveyors. *C- cording to officials of the Ford^tom- pany, mass production would not bo«\ possible on' its present scale. • ?