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Thursday, August 7, 1930 McCOKMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, Senatorial QlTirjjfjateS other states campaigning for Dem- Mr. Blease, wherein the senator ■ocratie candidates, and that he In Anderson Monday sOU held dear 01056 old principles J ,of democracy. In concluding his address, Mr. BLEASE REPLIES TO HARRIS’ Byrnes declared that his record ATTACKS. WILL BE IN Mc CORMICK NEXT WEDNES- X \ PAY, 12TH INSTANT said that he had been ignored by democratic members and officials in Washington, was not invited to any of the meetings, and was vir tually ignored. “Why is it that the people of South Carolina are was available to the people of the ! state. He said that he was a mem- j not entitled to the same respect ber of the Episcopal church and and dignity that is shown the rep- an officer in his church, and that resen tat ives of other states?” he did net believe that his church j Mr. Blease has said that he Candidates for U. S. Senate membership was any reason why didn’t know whether he was a Cole L. Blease, seeking re-election, Qj^y man should vote for him, or democrat or not. My democracy James F. Byrnes, former congress- w j 1 y they should vote against him. has never been questioned, and man and Leon W. Harris, solicitor,, LEON W. HARRIS never will be. You’ll never have Anderson, will address voters of Harris received some ap- to worry about my favoring Joe McCormick County at the court pi ause when he was introduced as Tolbert. I’ll never champion Tol- house here next Wednesday, Au- sec0 xid speaker of the meet- bertism, republicanism, but will gust 13th, beginning at 10 o’clock, an( j began by expressing his stick to the good old democracy. The ‘hottest” meeting they have appreciation of the handsome vote It’s the old time religion that was had so far was the one in Ander- fcbat the people of Anderson coun- good enough for my fathers, and it son on Monday, and is reproduced ^.y bave given him in his races for is good enough for me.” here in full from The Anderson solicitor & ^ p^. | *C0LE L. BLEASE Daily Mail of that date: you’ll close your eyes and Mi^ Blease began his address by J. F. BYRNES listen to the claims and the an explanation of the unemployr Mr. James F. Byrnes, of Spar- speeches of the other candidates, ment of two of his relatives by to.nburg, was the first speaker this y OU wou i^ think that when Vow stating that when he was elected raorning. He explained that it had 0 p en them that you will see a land to the senate in 1924 that he mov- T>een customary for the speakers to f] 0W i n g with milk and honey> and ed soon afterward to the home start at 11 o clock each day and the streets be paved with pure gold, owned by his wife and her two tnat he had not been notified of try, and see for yourself. You brothers at Boscobel. Mrs. Blease, any change in plans. He stated see those same conditions here and he declared was stricken with ill- that he was sorry to have caused ^ they are not good.” ness, and for several weeks was in any delay. j Mr Harris cautioned the crowd the local hospital and later under ^He told of his race for the sen- no j. ^ expect too much. “Not one the care of physicians at Boscobel, a^e six years ago, when Out of 200,- ^ he said, “if elected, could with nurses in attendance upon her 000 votes cast, he had failed of 0 y ern ight change the price of cot- constantly. “She is still stricken,” election by but some 2500 votes. t on , or start the mills to operating he declared. “This is the first Your senator,” he declared, “is on fu h tbne.” time I ever made a speech in An- your ambassador to the nation. His j jj e TeA) ^ a C f ^he farmer derson county at a political meet- eoaduct, his character and his W h Q decided what was the matter ing that she was not present.” views give expression for the peo- with the country folks in South He declared that while he was pie he represents and it behooves, Carolir ; a> tracing the man’s life at Boscobel and during Mrs. ys in electing such an ambassador, f rom the time he rose in the mom- Blease’s illness that the resigna- to consider closely his qualifica- in g f through the day, constantly tion of one of his secretaries caus- using foreign made articles and ed him to have to employ someone The past twenty years have . winding up with the statement else. “There was a young wo- jeen South Carolina poUtics de-| that th e farmer went to bed to man living with us. Miss Ruby to ~ too much time and attention hgt en to the dog, the only home Van Zant, who was an expert ■to liquor and the negro, and not grown product on the farm. stenographer and typist and I enough to the economic problems j Mr Harris spoke on general sub- employed her because we could not which confront us. He spoke of as t he first part of his have an outsider in the home on the decrease in ttie income of declaring that he was the account of Mrs. Blease’s illness, armer and of the textile worker, first one ^ the campaign to come She was employed for two months. ^ _ a income j f orwar d with the suggestion that Later J. D. McCullough, one of my om the .farms have dropped J^" : the adjusted compensation certifi- clerks resigned, and I hired Jack’s er n ou Carolina than they cates of t he world {war veterans wife, M#s. Irene Summers, who is e some other states. Com is now ^ cash the money made also an expert stenographer and available to the former service men typist, to help me with the people’s now. He spoke of the need of a business. She was employed from veterans* hospital in South Caro- ’ July 1st, 1928 to November 1928. lina. jThat is the fact, so far as the “By his own admission,” said two ladies are concerned. It is Mr. Harris in launching into his in the record, and any honest man .attack upon Cble L. Blease, the could have found it, and any de- ■hw fv! °xt v C ^ n a° *. ^ present senator, “Mr. Blease is cent man would have found it be- E ^ land had , defeated. On January 27th, 1926, fore he used it in the campaign.” controlled the-balance of _ power he said that when you get a maI1 : .. CI Int Summers,” he declared. selling for 87c a bushel, he de clared, and cotton at 12c to 15c a pound. The census shows con clusively a trend of population from the farms to the cities and smaller towns. The speaker declared that the weaned away from its natural ally, the agricultural West by New Eng land influence. “Wheat and cot ton,” he declared. “The 'South and the West. Wheat and cotton. u had been eX piaining on the stump, he’s a “was on the pay roll” and had been goner. Well, that is what he has of more value to Anderson coun- been doing in this campaign. |ty than “some people will ever be “Through all these meetings, I if they live to be a thousand years .have not made anything personal old because they haven’t got the — , . in this attack. I have but quoted brains.” Mr. Blease declared that from the records and I shall con- the Anderson papers, and other Continuing his address on eco- tlnue 10 stIck to ^ records them ' papers ln the state had but re ' nomic problems, Mr. Byrnes de- ? elves f f M ° T ne word that 1 " tt ® r cently congratulated Mr Sum- elared that the huge cotton crops V 04 1 e ° nUgh to “ erS ° n SOme f ne w ° rk he had •f the Southwest would not be pos- get up and apologl2e for tt - . t done ,n connection with securing sible without the aid of Mexican 1 “ Mr - Blease> 016 other night at certain road work in the county, peon labor. He stated that if elect- Laurens ’ 1 am infomled ' made, “That’s the thousands and thou- ed. he would seek to restrict this the followi ng statement. I did not sands and thousands of dollars thot oll ^. W . f,® „hear it myself, but the chairman that have been referred to,” he without fertilizer would not be pos, 016 meettog and others told me declared. sible. “With this cheap labor to that he sa!d 1x1 snbstall ce. If myj Mr. Blease, in explaining the pick and work a crop and notl chances on BoIng 10 heaven de - charge as to his vote being the de having to use fertiUzer, they can 1 on my speaklng to Harris, ciding one that sent a negro con- wiake cotton profitably at 10c a 111 be dam ^ ed ^ 1 wouldn’t die and gressman to Washington, declared pound, a price that means bank- g0 ^ Hell ** > that after reading the record, any- ruptcy for us.” I tt 1611 charged that Mr. Blease one who said that he voted to send He spoke of the tariff bill, and has llad raenrtters 0 f his family, his a negro to congress, was “either the need for American exports to kins People on the pay roll of the woefully ignorant^of the matter or other countries. He said -that he government as clerks, and that is a liar.” He said that when he tfcyrf favored a commission to pro- ^ ie y ^ ave n °t rendered the serv- was 21 years of age, that he was mote the use of American made * ce - H * Clint Summers, brother- elected to the legislature and that goods in foreign countries when he in ~l aw of Mr* Blease, is carried on he was on the board canvassers for was in congress and that he still government pay roll at a sal- the state. The election of the negro thought such work should be car- ar y of $3»300 a year. “You know he George W. Murray . occurred in vied on.” He referred to the de- has 1)66,1 living ‘right up here at Sumter county. There was a con- Lenture plan in connection with Boscobel all the time. And, he has test and the matter went to the the tariff bill and said that if k een a member of the highway state board of canvassers. He was elected he would continue the commission too. He has also had a member of the committee on fight to have the debenture plan Mrs - Irene Summers, the wife of election privileges at the same finally included in our laws, ex- Jack: Summers on the pay roll, time. He produced a copy of a plaining that through this method, and also a cousin of Mrs. Blease certificate of election, signed by credits for importers would be al- from Virginia. If I get to Wash- various officers attesting to the lowed on goods exported, and that l n g ton » I can promise you that I’ll election of Murray as congressman, the ultimate effect would be to in- n6ver have any of my kin folks which included his name as a crease prices without working such drawing P a V and not rendering the member of the board of canvassers, a hardship. service for which the taxpayers “When any man says that I cast He told of his fight for federal are P a y in S them.” the deciding vote to send a negro aid for the roads of the nation Mr. Harris - then declared that to congress, he is either woefully when he was in congress, and the Mr. Blease had boasted on the ignorant of the matter, or a liar, final passage of the bill under floor of the senate that he had Mr. Blease then reviewed his which South Carolina has received cast the deciding vote that sent political history, telling of the millions of dollars for road build- fhe last negro congressman from numerous offices to which he has ing from the government. j South Carolina to Washington. He been elected by the people of New- As to immigration, he declared, said that the man had been lat- berry county, and of the state of that he had always voted to re- er tried for forging a note and South Carolina. When he came ctrict labor. “When there are five mortgage and trying to take a to his election as governor, he add- men on the outside of the mill man’s home away from him. He ed. “and when I was governor, I pates to get a job for every man waa tried in Sumter county, and was THE governor, too.” Applause who has one on the inside, then when it looked like he was going greeted this statement, things are getting In bad shape.",to be convicted, he fled to Chicago.] Launching into his explanation It is now a question with many and he didn’t come back “until af th* attack imon his tahiw the t of the attack upon his tabling the Cole Blease pardoned him. to provide separate accomoda- He further chAcped that Cole tions for white and colored people many mills of working but half the time. It is work three days. Fish three stays, and the fish are getting L. Blease voted to table a bill that mighty scarce. | would segregate white and color- Declaring that his democracy'ed passepgefs in the street cars]bill, S-781 to provide for such seg- MMd never been questioned, Mr. in Washington. He then read from | relation, and that it was hardly Bymes declared that he Worked in the records certain statements of likely that he would move to have .in Washington, Mr. Blease de clared that he had introduced the his own bill tabled. He explained jthat hfe had fought to have the bill j passed, but that it has been im possible and that he had suggest ed that it be placed oil the table until the next session of congress. He said that a senator from Utah had suggested to him that the bill be handled under the provisions of rule nine, and that he had acced ed to this suggestion. “The report of my motion to table this bill is as cowardly a lie as ever came from human lips,”, he shouted. “Why I introduced the bill orig inally. It is the only bill that has been introduced for that pur pose. Seeing it could not pass, I made an amendment that if white | people in Washington wanted to ride with the negroes, and if the negroes did not object; that they j be allowed to do so by the man in charge of the cars. The hill will be brought up at the next ses sion.” “I have been attacked on every stump where we have spoken, he declared, “but for reasons best known to me, I have waited until we got to Anderson to make any answer. I wanted to make my j answer at the home of what calls himself a human being, which is also the home county of Mrs. Blease.” In regard to the Wheeler resolu tion, Mr. Blease said that he had been charged with voting against it, but as a matter of fact, no vote had ever been taken on it at all. He added that he, with nine oth er senators voted against Judge English, insisting that he be im peached and not allowed to resign and have charges against him dropped. In the matter of women’s suff rage, he declared that he, with Senator Smith and every repre sentative from South Carolina had voted against the bill, not because it was womens suffrage, but be cause he considered it an infring- ment of state’s rights, and that he did not approve of congress, saying w r ho shall vote and who shall not vote in South Carolina.” The vote on Judge Parker’s con firmation, he said was cast for Judge Parker. He said that he had asked for the files on endorse ments from South Carolina, and found expressions of endorsement from the South Carolina supreme court and various bar associations over the state. “And here’s a funny thing about that,” he added. “We got them all except from Spartan burg and Anderson.” He said that Mr. Byrnes had written a let ter endorsing Judge Parker to the committee. As he concluded his address, Mr. Blease said that he had no time for further answers, and that this would be the only time he would answer any attacks made on him. “I want to tell you that I’m a Democrat. I am a Methodist and I’ve never changed my religion, not even to get some good woman to be my wife.” X New Farm Publication This Week I? AkTHUR BrUSBANfJ LEGAL The Unimaginable A Really Big City What’s Wrong With Us? Meden Agan, and Edcrle Britain’s, airship R-lOO, greatest that ever rose into the air, has safely crossed the Atlantic and arrived at Montreal, with thirty-seven crew and seven passengers. The U-100, faster than the Graf Zeppelin, represents Britain’s determination to rule the ocean of air, as for centuries she has ruled the ocean ef water, regardless of expense. A few years ago the average man could not have imagined that. Now that it has happened, not one in a hundred realizes what it means. Long after steam railroads were operating successfully in England, wise men, in and out of parliament, said the locomotive could not possibly be a success. Many equally “wise” still think that “flying never can be practical.” New York city’s population is fixed at 0,959,195. It will pass 7,000,000 in a few months. Manhattan Island, which until re cently was all of New York, has lost 18.0 per cent in ten years. This is made up by gains in the outlying bor oughs, 130.1 per cent in Queens, 28.6 per cent in Brooklyn, 73 per cent in the Bronx. Queens is probably the fastest "grow ing big place in the world. Manhattan still holds the pocketbook. Hundreds of thousands work there and sleep elsewhere. Americans from all over the nation come to spend their money, between Fourteenth and Fifty- ninth streets, to say nothing of what they spend downtown in Wall street. When you are traveling serenely in an express train and it stops suddenly you put your head out of the window to look, or you ask the conductor, “What is the matter?” We were all traveling in the pros perity express train, it stopped with a jolt last October and everybody is still asking, “What is the matter?” Adolph Zukor, an Intelligent Ameri can business man, who retains his ca pacity to keep cool and think clearly even when business is not so gdbd, says: “For one thing, we had lost our heads. We began to think about a dollar as we ought to think about a 25-cent piece. “After a while we shall learn what money is, what thrift and common sense mean. Then we shall be better off than we ever were. “Nothing better than this so-called ‘slump’ could have happened to us. “For my part, I was never more op timistic in my life.” Mr. Zukor, of course, speaks sincere ly and his optimism is justified. This country needed a lesson and is having It. How long it will last nobody knows. Every little while something reminds you of two words that the wise Greeks wrote above their temple doors, “Meden Agan,” meaning “Shun Ex cess.” Aristotle put it almost as briefly, “Not too much, not too little.” CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 2.— Two new Experiment Station bulle tins of interest to farmers have x re cently been issued by Clemson Col- 1 ege. Station Bulletin 266, The Rice Weevil and Associated Insects in Relation to Shuck Lengths and Com Varieties, 7>y O. L. Cart wright, assistant entomologist of the South Carolina- Experiment Station, is the result of three years’ study at Florence, S. C. It gives data to prove that varietal resistance to corn earworm, pink corn worm, angoumpis grain moth, and flour beetles is negligible in the varieties studied, but that in festation by each species of insects shows a correlation with the length of shuck, varying inversely with the length cf shuck. Methods of control and handling are discussed to the limit of the study made. | Station Bulletin 267, Analysis of Commercial Fertilizers, by R. N. Brackett, chief chemist, and D. II. Henry, secretary board of fertilizer control, contains the analysis of 1356 official samples commercial 1 fertilizers. In the tables, under headings Found and Guaranteed,] ">ne can compare at a glance the . results of analysis made in the laboratory and the relative com mercial value calculated from these results, with the guarantees made by the manufacturers and the commercial values calculated from these guarantees. These publications r may be ob tained free from the Division of Publications at Clemson College or from county farm agents. ‘ \ This time the “Meden Agan” re minder comes from Gertrude Ederle, who swam the English channel, amaz ing, the world, four years ago. She has become almost entirely deaf as the result of the fourteen hours spent in the cold English channel. The “outboard motor” idea, used for years on little boats, is success fully applied to the air. Myrten Johnson, from Oakland’* field, In a glider with a thirty horse power engine attached, went up 14,- 600 feet. Boys and young men will want to experiment with that. John MacDonald years ago swore that Tom Mooney ami Billings were responsible for a bomb that destroyed many lives. Now he swears his orig inal testimony was perjury. “If he Is telling the truth this time,” Mooney and Billings will, of course, be set free. How are the seven justices "of Cali fornia’s Supreme court to know whether MacDonald was lying then, or is lying now? Knowledge of hu man nature may help. One thing Is certain, MacDonald committed per jury, then or now\ The governor and the judges might w,eir htfbitate to keep men In jail on his testimony. Canada’s election surprised many of our friends in the north. Mackenzie King, who has been prime minister for twelve years, lost the election to a Conservative, a lawyer named Bennett. King, educated at Harvard, was al ways on friendly terms w ith the United States. Perhaps his defeat means that Canada doesn’t like our new tariff. For the first time a woman Is elected to the Canadian parliament. Nine more that wanted to be elected failed. CITATION OF LETTERS • OF ADMINISTRATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, dtt T Co Ji nt y of McCormicK. B ^VHEkFA^ L ’a^° BATE JUDGE: -mT lo^ EAS ’4 Allce Curr y made ? uit , to me to grant T. F. Curry Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of K. H. Curry* 'THESE ARE, THEREFORE ^o C u ac *monish all and singular -fn ^ ln and Cre ditors of the fr ld r H - purry, deceased, that and a PP ea r before me, in ^k 6 Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick Court House on Au- fion II th ’ J 930 ; next ’ “ftefpubiicL tion hereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any hav £’ ^Jy tt 16 sai d Adminis- ^ not be granted. und6r A m y hand this 4th day of August, Anno Domini 1930 L. G. BELL, Probate Judge. ORDER FOR PUBLICATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of. McCormick, r A In i. Tlle Pr °bate Court. Talbert, as Administrator of the Estate of Fred Seigler. de ceased, Petitioner, „ r against Wylie Hardy, Henry Hardy, Geor gia Hardy Walton, Georgia Sharpton Talbert, and all other heirs at law, devisees, legatees and other persons, known and unknown, sui juris, minors and non compos mentis, having or claiming to have any right or in terest in or claim against the Es tate of Fred Selgier, deceased, the Estate of Joe Seigler, de ceased, the Estate of Emma Parkman Seigler, deceased, the Estate of Malissa Parkman Hardy, deceased, or the Estate of Eliza Parkman Sharpton, deceas ed, Respondents. It appearing to my satisfaction from the verified petition on file in this action that the action has been commenced and is pending and that a cause of action exists in favor of the petitioner for in structions of the Court for the distribution of the Estate of Fred Seigler, deceased, and that the parties named in the caption are proper parties to said action, and that the petitioner is unable with due diligence to determine wheth er there are any heirs at law, de visees, legatees, or other persons other than the above named Wylie Hardy, Henry Hardy, Geor gia Sharpton Talbert, and Georgia Hardy Wqlton having or claiming to have any right or interest in or claim against the Estate of Fred Seigler, deceased or against the Estate of Joe Seigler, deceased, the Estate of Emma Parkman Seigler, deceased, the Estate of Malissa Parkman Hardy^ deceased, or the Estate of Eliza Parkman Sharpton, deceased, and is also un able to determine with due dilig ence whether any of such unknown parties are minors or non compos mentis or whether they are resi dents or non-residents, and is un able to make personal service of the summons in this action upon such unknown parties; Therefore, On motion of W. K. Charles, Esq., and Messrs. Mays & Feather- stone, Attorneys for the petitioner, IT IS ORDERED that service of the summons in this action upon unknown respondents, Tesidents and non-residents, be made by publication thereof in the “McCor mick Messenger,” a newspaper pub lished at McCormick, in the Coun ty of McCormick, State of South Carolina, which said newspaper is hereby designated as most likely to give notice to the said respondents, once a week for three consecutive weeks. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that if any of said unknown parties make themselves known- to the pe titioner that the petitioner may at his option make service of the said summons by delivering same to such respondent or respondents personally, either within or with out the State of South Carolina. L. G. BELL, Judge of Probate for McCormick County, S. C. August 2, 1930.—3t. WANTED—Veal Calves. Let me know what you have. See me at J. L. Reynolds’ market or write me. G. B. Smith, R. F. D. 4, Mc Cormick, S. C. 3tpo. FOR SALE—Fury’s Ferry flat boat. Apply Daniel McKie, Meriwether, S. C. Itpo. WANTED—Am paying highest prices for veal calves and fat cows. Phone No. 1420 or 1430, or call on me at filling station 2 miles west of McCormick on Abbeville - Green wood-McCormick highway. Jamie L. Smith, Rt. 1, McCormick, S. C. tf. Turkish territory was invaded by savage tribesmen coming out of Per sia. Kemal Pasha threw his troops into Persia to get them and killed thomsands of them. To • Persia’s demand for “for invasion" Kemal replies, “Ootne sad get ths damages." <(©. 1510. br Kins v*at«r«i %|C.) Don't cheapen your business standing by writing on fivm cents tablet paper. Let Ths Messenger print you some neat letterheads and envelopes. A black cat recently won three prizes at a pet show, which dem onstrates that they don’t . always bring bad luck.