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Thursday, August 14, 1930 McCORM l CK MESSED GEK. M t COR M / i A * ** ' r Page Number Eight L ■ \ . m m r*'-, m i-t. McCormick Schools Will Open Sept. 4th A rumor to the effect that Mc Cormick would not have school this next session seems to have been circulated over the county, and requests for information have come so thick and fast the board of trustees feel it their duty to state that the McCormick public schools will open on or about the fourth of next month—September. For mal notice of the opening will bo given in the paper at an early datef X Holiness Meet Opens Friday Night, Aug. 15 A series of meetings will begin at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in McCormick Friday night, Aug ust 15th, and will continue for ten days. Rev. F. L. Bramblett from Greenwood, S. C., will assist the pastor, Rev. O. E. Taylor. Good music will be one of the main features of this meeting We are expecting part of the String Band from South Green wood to help furnish the music. We earnestly solicit the co-opera tion of all Christians in promoting this revival. Member. -tXT Mrs. Amanda Blake Died Sunday Mrs. Amanda Blake died here at 2 o’clock Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Young, after a brief illness. Mrs. Blake was 97 years of age and the oldest mem ber of the McCormick Baptist Church. She was the widow of the late Mr. Jim Blake who died 15 years ago. Mrs. Blake was buried in McCor mick cemetery at 10 o’clock Mon day morning, the funeral services being conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. H. Barfield, assisted by Rev. J. A. Bledsoe of the Methodist Church. G. P. McCain’s service in charge. TXt Open Cotton Reported The first boll of open cotton from this year’s crop receivea at this office was sent in last Thurs day by Mrs. J. J. White from Mt. Carmel. Others reporting open cotton since that time are Mr. R. F. Freeland of Plum Branch, Mr. J. T. Dom and Mr. J. T. Creswell of near McCormick. As a general thing the county has the best crop this year of any since 1920, and the prediction is that if seasons continue favorable will make ten thousand or more bales. All crops are beginning to need rain again, but not suffering much as yet. X Schedule Of Home Demonstration Work For Next Week Miss Dowtin Wins College Scholarship Miss Maude Dowtin of Troy, member of the McCormick High School 4-H Club, has been award ed a scholarship to Winthrop Col lege for the coming year. One- half of the amount of this scholar ship is offered by the Spartanburg Fair Association and the other half is provided by a loan fund for 4-H club girls under the direction of Mrs. Harriett Johnson, State Leader of 4-H Club Work. These scholarships are won by girls who have done outstanding faithful work in their clubs and communities, and many girls al over the state are taking advantage of this splendid opportunity to re ceive a college education. McCor mick county is very proud to have one of her girls awarded this hon or. Miss Dowtin has done most of her club work in Greenwood coun ty, as there was no club work in McCormick county, but when Home Demonstration work was put on in this county, she began work here having served as president of her club for the past year. txt Curious Facts About Your Car and Its Gas (By A. P. Ingalls) “Stepping on the gas” requires some finesse, it seems, else harm is done the car. Modem motor fuel provides all the facilities for quick getaways and sudden pickups, but too sudden application of foot pressure on the accelerator puts an undue strain on clutch and drive line, with resulting tendency to cause clutch wear, loosen the rear wheels, injure the universals, strain the spokes and burn the tires. Often the trouble is caused by a sticking accelerator, a situa tion which can be improved by oiling the pedal shaft wherever there is friction. Come To Tlie Campaign Meet ing And Big Barbecue Din- ■ ■All ■■■ nerAt S. C., Friday, August 15,1930 This Week b Arthur Brisbane Hard on Stock Gamblers A New Great Flyer 54*6,095,925 in 2030 Gas Merchants, Attention Stock gambling in dull, uncertain times is most annoying to gamblers. They never can be quite sure. Wall Street heard of the drought, and wise bulls said: “That will kill grain crops, and with less wheat and corn, prices will go up. The low price of wheat has held stocks down. Let us buy stocks and they will go up with wheat.” (.(.r rbe Town Doctor” DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: THINK THINGS ARE BAD AND THEY WILL BE BAD They bought stocks and they did not go up when wheat and corn went up. Weevil Infesta tion Complete IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS Provide a little expert attention for the vacuum tank now and then. Neglect may cause trouble and waste, especially gasoline leakage after the motor has stop ped. But don’t try to fix it your self; it’s a job for the expert! Monday, August 18th, 4:00 p. m., Mt. Carmel-Willington 4-H club at home of Margaret Hemminger. Tuesday, August 19th, 3:30 p. m., Rehoboth H. D. Club at home of Mrs. Jane Morgan. Wednesday, August 20th, 9:30 a. m., McCormick High School Senior Club; 3:30 p. m., Bordeaux 4-H Club and H. D. Club; 6:00 p. m., Mt. Carmel Recreation Meeting. Thursday, August 21st, 3:30 p. m., Buffalo H. D. Club; 5:30 p. m., Mc Cormick Recreation Meeting. Friday, August 22nd, 4:00 p. m., Modoc H. D. Club; 8:00 p. m., Mo doc Recreation Meeting. Saturday, August 23rd, office. X Clean Off Long Gasoline is an excellent medium for removing grease and grime from the motor, but avoid using it on the body or other finished parts of the car. Ask your service sta tion for body polish; it won’t’-dulb the highly finished surface. Don’t coast down hill with the ignition shut oft Unbumed fuel is drawn into the cylinders and thence to the crankcase, where it thins the lubricant. A slowly turn ing motor, moreover, is an efficient and powerful brake. txt Deaths Among Colored People Rev. Kelly H. Curry died at his home near here on August 2nd and was buried at Zion’s Chappel on August 4th. He was 51 years of age and is survived by his wife, Alice Curry, two sisters, four brothers and a number of other relatives. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. Celia Talbert died at her home near here on August 5th and was buried at Liberty Springs August 6th, J. S. Strom’s service in charge. She was 30 years of age, is survived by her husband, Charlie Talbert, four children and her father. Mamie H. Connor, 4 months old daughter of Rev. Connor and wife, ^ ^ died at the home here last Sunday CiclIlC Cemetery night and was buried at Martha’s Chappel Monday afternoon, J. S. ’Strom’s service in charge. Besides her father and mother, she is survived by three small brothers. X Do you ever cook cucumbers? All interested parties are quested to come to Long Cane Church next Tuesday, August 19, prepared to clean off the cemetery and help re-build the fence. Each family represented is requested to The y are delicious when peeled, bring a well filled basket in order i cut in halv es or quarters and that picnic dinner may be served steam ed; or cut in lengthwise sec- ana the work outlined be complet- . tions > stuffed with a vegetable mix ed that day. . ture > a «d baked. TXt j tXt Paint of varnish spatters on glass, Vary the tartness of your French may be dissolved with turpentine dressing occasionally by using in or alcohol or may fcrubbed with a dull unif \ on place of plain vinegar lemon or CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 11, Boll weevil infestation now appears to be complete in the eastern and southern parts of the state, ac cording to the current report from survey by members of the Pee Dee Experiment Station staff. Cot ton is maturing so rapidly in these areas and general migration is about ready to begin, so that fur ther applications of poison would probably not be profitable, says Professor H. W. Barre under whose direction this survey was made. In the central part of the state, however, there is still opportunity to increase the per acre yield by urther applications of calcium ar senate dust particularly on fields which have been protected by pois on earlier in the season. Infestation in the Piedmont, while almost too high to furnish the basis for optimism, is yet much lower than in other parts of the state and poisoning in this area should be continued until the period of general migration. The week’s report again empha sizes the beneficial results of care ful and intelligent poisoning. X Bury Bean Beetles Bean plants in eastern fields where the Mexican bean beetle has been troublesome should be plowed under as soon as the crop is pick ed. Thousands of eggs, larvae, pupae, and newly emerged adults can be destroyed in this way. Cov ering the plant remains and in sects with a few inches of soil will destroy them. The fall crop of beans should be planted as late as possible. The beetle does not ord inarily reproduce as rapidly in late August and September as in spring and early summer. X New Fumigant A new and promising fumigant which may prove to be more satis factory than carbon disulphide is ethylene oxide, a material discov ered in the course of a search for better fumigants conducted by the United States Department of Ag riculture. Preliminary tests with this gas have given encouraging results in the fumigation of dried fruits. It appears to be more ef fective, pound for pound, than car bon disulphide, and apparently can be used with greater safety. X Correct this sentence: “Yes, I really made a hole in one, but it was merely luck.” X In framing a treaty it is usual to put all the cards on the table except the joker. X Probably Cain might have been a better boy if Mother Eve had been up on child psychology. The bears said: “This Is our op portunity. We sympathize with the suffering public, especially the farmer. When drought kills crops, that will in jure all the people, and stocks will go down. This is the time to sell them.” They sold them and stocks did not go down enough to make it worth while. Stock gambling is very wearing, ex cept for bulls in good times, and for bears in panics. Then it is “like tak ing candy from a sick child.” It is amazing to see how much misinformation may be accumulat ed by one who earnestly seeks it. i-i — A recent shipment of razors t > Africa indicates that they are go ing to have a big dance over there. X When a person uses an unusual word frequently, it is a good indi- Has yo’ir a ♦ i~e which fits the floor so that part cf the dust is oot brushed underneath? A long-handled raves much stooping. grapefruit Juice, or tarragon vine-Ration that it is a recent acquisi- gar, or spiced vinegar from pickles, tion. The United States patent office “Boy Saves Father From Bull’ issued 42,251 patents last year, Headline. A son like that would be an increase of almost 2,000 over worth having around during a poli- 1928. j tical campaign. Captain Hawks, who stands out now as tiie greatest American flyer, left New York at six o’clock in the morning, eastern daylight time, land ed in Los Angeles at 50 minutes past 4:00 p. m., Pacific standard time, keep ing an appointment to play golf, at the edge of the Pacific, after leaving that morning the edge of the Atlantic. His flying time, all in broad day light, was less than fifteen hours, and he made five stops for gasoline. That will not be necessary in future days, with better machines and better fuel. In “Continental United States” the population is 122,729,472. Uncle Sam says so. This does not melude Porto Rico, the Philippines or Hawaii. In ton years population has in creased 16.1 per cent. If that increase continues, our population 100 years hence, in 2030, will be 546,095,925. Labor union experts reading that will say, “There could never be jobs for so many.” Workers said that ICO years ago, when our population was 5,000,000. Farmers would greet (he idea of 546,095,925 population with joy, ex claiming, “That would give us people enough to eat all our wheat and pay a good price for it.” Germany made a great fight while the war lasted, and has shown amaz ing powers of recuperation following the war, in spite of the Versailles treaty and the allies’ gold demands. You understand that when you read “Illiteracy in Berlin is only 4 per cent, least of nil European capitals.” Of 28,000,000 books on the shelves of European libraries, the city of Ber lin has 9,360,000, and all are serious hooks for students and research workers. The highest rale of illiteracy is at Teheran, capital of Persia, 82 per cent unable to read or write. News from India causes Mother Britain to feel safe. Mohammedans continue fighting and killing Hindus-— 12 killed, 150 injured, in the latest clash, based on revenge. For a wonder the worm had turned, and a Hindu, son of a race ordinarily mild, shot and killed eleven Moham medans and wounded four. That’s like a sheep biting a wolf. Such incidents take the Hindu mind off its grievances against Great Britain. A recent check among merchants of all sizes and kinds in a good sized Central Western city showed that the almost unanimous opin ion was that the acknowledged “business depression” was due to the stock market. Yet on very good and acceptable authority it was learned that less than one per cent of these merchants ever did a dime’s worth of stock market trading. A check among the people in general of this same town showed that more than half of those con tacted stated that they knew there was a depression, but could give no reason for it; they just “knew” there was one, and conducted themselves accordingly. It is my honest, humble opinion that if an area of any section of the United States, 100 .miles square had been roped off prior to the market slump, and all information kept from the people regarding the tremendous paper losses due to the market, that that area would be doing as much business right now as was done the same period of the previous year. The losses and resultant effect have been exaggerated, both in print and by word of mouth. For awhile it was a case of the first fellow didn’t have a chance— everybody wanted it to be known that he had lost the most. It got to be a game of who could tell the biggest one. Thousands jumped at the chance to use the market as an alibi to get out of doing what he was supposed to do; oth ers used it as an alibi to keep from paying honest debts; salesmen used it as an alibi to “let down;” and millions of storekeepers jump ed at the chance to use it as an excuse to get out of work, saying “there’s no use trying to get busi ness, for no one is going to buy anything.” Every little thing that anybody does that is different * from what he had been doing was evidence of hard times. Mountains were made out of mole hills. Because of the cowardliness that is in us we failed to keep a stiff upper lip If Mrs. Jones, who has always purchased porterhouse steaks, goes into the butcher shop and for a change orders hamburger the butcher becomes scared and right away goes home to his wife and says: “Things are terrible—Mrs Jones, who always buys porter house, came in today and bought only hamburger. Business is going to the dogs, so cut down on every thing. Make the children wear their old clothes, cut out desserts start doing your own washings, cell the kids they will have to walk to school and carry their own lunch or come home for it.” Right away the butcher’s wife starts singijig the “blues,” telling all her friends that rich Mrs. Jones is buying” only hamburger, and in no time at all it’s all over town The butcher’s wife goes down to the department store and tells the Unpleasant news from China. Nan king dispatches tell of a British worn- j salesperson that she can not take an, wife of a British official, attacked j the dress she has laid aside be- while asleep by a Chinese soldier and expected to die of bayonet wounds. Shanghai sends stories of torture and other outrages inflicted on women missionaries. cause “everybody” is buying noth ing but hamburger. The other ladies who have heard the tale tell their husbands how Mr. Butcher is about to go broke, and then these merchants happen to think that Mrs. Smith, who al ways bought this or that, bought something else—and they get panicky, and do the same thing as the butcher. David Belaseo obliges Mr. Curtis i A traveling man comes along by picking the “fifty greatest actors ;and is asked how business is else where—he hasn’t been writing as many orders lately, due chiefly to In Fukien province bandits kidnaped woman missionary, cut off one of her fingers and sent it to the authori ties, demanding $50,000, threatening to send other fingers If the money was not paid. of all time,” and many of them are now living—George M. Cohan, fifty- two ; Mary Anderson, seventy-one; Minnie Maddern Fiske, sixty-five; Maude Adams, fifty-eight; Julia Mar lowe, sixty-four. The ages are sup plied by Mr. Belaseo but those that have seen Cohan and the ladies can testify that at least twenty years should be taken from each. Principle And Policies After extensive research concern ing federal relations in the educa tional field, the Steering Commit tee of the National Advisory Com mittee on Education reached an agreement on certain underlying - principles. These principles, stat ed at the Washington meeting of* the committee in June, are as fol lows: I. The Federal Government has: an obligation to aid public educa tion in the states. II. While the educational obli gations of American government upon every level—federal, state, and local—are equally full and binding, these obligations ought, in fact, to be discharged in a manner considerably different on each gov ernmental level. HI. The Federal Government should render large intellectual as sistance to the states in matters of education through research, col lection and dissemination of re liable information, particularly with reference to those types of in tellectual service which the states and the local communities cannot render to themselves. 4. The Federal Government should give some financial aid la education in the states, but in a manner that will not violate other fundamental educational, political, social and economic considerations basic to sound public policy. 5. Financial grants to states in aid of education as a whole should supplant special grants for the stimulation of particular types of training of benefit to special groups of the population. 6. In the field of education at east, matching federal money grants, whether general or special, with state funds is a policy not to be favored. 7. It is unwise to centralize in the Federal Government, as op posed to the state and local gov ernments, the power of determin ing the social purposes to be sens ed by schools or of establishing the echniques of educational proced ure. 8. Modifications of the federal means of aiding education should include provisions to assure ade quate periods of transition. 9. Agencies created by the Fed eral Government to meet new needs should be granted the auto nomy and financial facilities nec essary to overcome the inertia of traditional practice. 10. New participations of the Federal Government in education, designed to meet changing eco nomic, social, and political con ditions, should be inaugurated un- dej > tentative policies, regarded fra|i|cly as experimental, and sub ject to revisions as circumstances warrant. The National Advisory Commit tee on Education has asked for widespread discussion of these principles. Every layman or educa-, tor is invited to forward comment? to the committee at 26 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C., before* September 14, when the Steering Committee meets. xxt Patrick Henry’s Sister Is Buried In Kentne the fact that he is an order-taker rather than a salesman; and he recalls that just that morning he read in the paper that the mar ket was going lower and lower. And, although he hasn’t a dime’s worth of stock, he likes to think The fact Is that we have charming he has and makes others think he actors and actresses, but not “great” actors and actresses. Rachel, born in Switzerland, daugh ter of a Jewish peddler, possessed genius that could not be extracted from all the American actresses that have ever lived. Jean Tasserand, to prove that he loved a girl, wrote her a farewell note, jumped to his death from an air plane. his broken body landing in the garden of his mother’s home. Fools Mill make a hero of him. He would have been more like a hero had he taken care of his mother and lived to prove that he appreciated her, which is every man’s first duty. «£). 1930. by Kina Features Syndicate, Xno.) has. And he remembers, too, that the boss back at the main office lias been riding him because he doesn’t sell more than he did las year. He sees a good alibi for aimself and says, “Well, wo ar bound to have a tiehtfnin^ uv> to the market.” ^nd then bushier IS bad. IN NO time at all itn ch-sf f ^ sf conservation at Service Cl- luncheons and other gathering “how tough business is, or is cr~ir to be.” And right then it starts mg tough. (Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone. BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Aug. 11. —Every school child has studied the life of the early American pat riot, Patrick Henry, but few know that his sister, Susannah Henry, wife of Gen. Thomas Madison, liv ed in Kentucky and is buried in the Cowles family lot in the Smith Grove cemetery, off the Dixie Highway in Warren County, near Bowling Green. The family in whose plot her remains are buried are descendants of Mrs. Matfison Susannah Henry was originally buried near the farm on which she lived, and for many years her grave was neglected, not even having a headstone to mark it. Nearly a hundred years after her death, in 1916, through the efforts of Eu gene Cowles, of Shelbyville, and his brother, John H. Cowles, the re mains of the sister of the noted patriot were moved to their pres ent resting place and a siiitab > stone erected over the grave. Th' stone bears the inscription: “Sj- sannah Henry, wife of Gen. Thom as Madison and Sister of Patric:; Henry the Patriot. Died—1231 " X — Lindbergh won’t walk his baby • > islccp. He will probably fN h* ■, i :rff to 3jiimber?a nd. wfi Reproduction prohibited in |or in part. This editorial br ushed by McCormick Morsen' r or : ■> co-operation with the Lions CIub.> mtBfcSr.