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Thursday, August 21, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, South Curohu* Page Number Twa MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc- • Connick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. DISPLAY ADVERTISING— 25 cents per inch for each inser tion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column dis play, nor less than 2 inches for single column display. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. BUSINESS READING NOTICES: 6 per cent per line for each inser tion, average of 6 words to line. WANT AD VS., 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents per line, 6 words to line. All advs, set in body type, 6 cents per single column line; extra charges for big type on all single column advs., except head and signature. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months.50 BYRNES OFFERS EXPERIENCE AND PROVEN ABILITY IN CONGRESS IN PRESENT CRISIS Having Made Good in the House He Will Make Good in the Senate—Has Conducted a Constructive Campaign, Discussing Economic Problems and National Irsues Vital to the People of South Carolina Rather Than Dealing in Personalities IT’S WISE TO CHOOSE A SIX A crisis confronts South Carolina and the nation. Agriculture is paralyzed. Industry is crippled. Economic conditions are worse than for a decade. In our own state more than 200 banks have closed in the past five years. Farm mortgages have been foreclosed and families driven from farms where they have spent their lives. The first reports of the census dis close that in South Carolina thous ands, forced from the farms by in lands. But while this is true it is idle for a Senator to introduce a reso lution asking the Farm Loan Banks to withhold proceedings. The of ficials retort that they must pay the interest on the bonds of the bank because these bonds were purchased in good faith bv the in vesting public. Therefore, the Congress must direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the coupon^ ability to wrest a livelihood from on outstanding bonds of the banks, this basic industry, and from all)The banks could then extend the the small towns, have flocked to;time for the payment of the in- the larger cities and to the mill stallments now due. If agricul- villages in search of employment. | tural conditions improve, not o This great influx of unemployed I dollar would be lost. If agrieul- from the rural sections has rend- 1 tural conditions do not improve, ered more difficult the problem of there will be no hope for the fu- the manufacturer and impaired ture of America. But suppose con- the prosperity and well-being of ditions do not improve and the the mill employee. The reduced | government should lose a million purchasing power of the farmer dollars by reason of its guaran- BELIEF IN SIGNS in in People who do not believe signs, particularly road signs, this day and age are as a rule of few days on earth. Road signs are put up for a pur- ppose, a wholly commendable pur pose—to save people’s lives. When their warning is disregarded, it is ignorance of the rankest sort. A sign reading “Danger, Bad Curve,” means just what it says. If there were no danger at the curve, motor clubs and highway commissions would not have erect ed one there. A warning sign signifies that* there have been accidents at that point—probably fatal accidents— and for one to disregard a friendly effort to save lives and property is unpardonable. / There may be occasions when warning signs seem superfluous, af ter they have, been obeyed, but if the motorist who has such an idea will go back and travel over the same path at normal speed, he will find ample excuse for the sign, if he escapes unscathed. Road signs require too much time, energy and money for them not to be taken literally and seri ously. They are on the road to protect you apd others who are driving. Use them, believe in them and you will not regret it. (Mttleal MnviUmmtl # * Candidate For . Lieutenant Governor has" resulted, not only in lessening the sales of manufactured goods by the mills, but has similarly affected all lines of business. While this dependable plight of the farmer has challenged the at tention of thoughtful people of the nation, members of the United States Senate have, after long de bates, continued consideration of a* tariff bill for more than a year, causing greater uncertainty in business and finally have seized upon the depression in agriculture as an excuse for placing additional tee. Our government, which has appropriated millions for the re lief of Russians and Germans in distress, of the suffering ones in the Far East and for the relief of Porto Ricans in their financial disaster, • can assuredly afford to help its own people in distress, not by dispensing charity, but by mere ly extending time for payment of amounts now due. I believe that Congress can grant relief to agriculture, but it can never be secured by a Senator de nouncing conditions and offering Annoasncing a new production record 2 9 000$000 Chevrolet Sixes now on the road Since January, 1929, Chevrolet has produced over 2,000,000 six-cylinder automobiles—nearly five times the record of any other manufacturer over an equal length of time. These 2,000,000 buyers have chosen Chevrolet because it offers scores of desirable qualities not obtainable in any other car so low in price. Yet, despite its many fine car ad vantages, the Chevrolet Six is unusu ally economical. Its gas, oil, tire and upkeep economy is unsurpassed. And any model can be bought for tariff taxes upon the already over- remedy. I believe that the so- burdened taxpayers of the coun try. The only result of their ill- advised labor of 15 months is to greatly increase the price of every thing which the farmer has to buy without increasing in any way the price of the products he has to sell. The farmer has listened to his so lution lies in the co-operation of Senators from the South and the West, a combination of cotton and wheat, of bread and breeches. The fight for the debenture up on agricultural products must be continued. Without it the cotton farmer cannot survive. The tariff called friends in the Senate depict bill will further reduce his income his trials and troubles. He has next year. A debenture of two heard of “farm relief.” But the i cents a pound on cotton exported only relief the farmer knows is would mean $10 a bale to the far- that he has been relieved of the mer and help offset the higher farm he formerly owned. At the time of this economic crisis confronting the people it be comes the duty of the voters of the state to determine which of the candidates before them is best qualified, by experience, ability and tariff taxes. They say it is un sound, but eight nations now give this aid to agriculture, and if it is economically sound in eight na- < tions, it should be economically sound in America. The admission into this country. Modetnproduction methods assure high quality The Coach, $565,/. o. b. Flint factory a small down payment and excep tionally easy monthly terms! Some Distinguishing Features 50-horsepower six-cylinder motor ... full-length frame... four semi- elliptic springs . . . fully-enclosed four-wheel brakes • . . four Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers . . . dash gasoline gauge... Fisher hardwood- and-steel body... adjustable driver’s seat. . . safety gasoline tank in the rear ... non-glare VV windshield ... and, for your protection, a new and liberal service policy. THE SPORT ROADSTER $515 THE COACH $565 THE COUPE $565 THE SPORT COUPE $615 ROADSTER or PHAETON 495 THE CLUB SEDAN $625 THE SEDAN $675 THE SPECIAL SEDAN $685 (6 wire wheels standard)" / on Special Sedan) All prices/, o. b. factory, Flint, Michigan sympathetic understanding of their duty free, of cocoanut oil from the m 1896, at Edgefield, at John C. and Helen Wal- Attended Edgefield S. C. C. L. and graduated at; C. University 1911. With dally i newspapers two years. Has. law at Edgefield since 1915. to House of Representatives throe times, serving as Vice-President Judiciary Committee and member of Joint Committee on Printing. Missed election four years ago by •nail vote. Will appreciate support f the voters of the state. JAMES O. SHEPPARD. problems, to represent them in the Senate of the United States for the next six years. Throughout the campaign I have devoted my dis cussions on the stump to the prob lems and issues involved, determin ed as I have been to conduct a con structive, intelligent campaign. Political discussions have hereto fore been devoted too much to the negro and to liquor and not enough to the vital economic ques tions confronting the people. Six years ago I was a candidate or the senate and out of a total of approximately 200,000 votes I lacked only 2221 of being elected. again submit my candidacy, irmly convinced that by reason of my experience as a member of Congress for 14 years, my intimate apquaintnace and influence with members of the Senate, most * of whom served with me in the House, and my knowledge of the people of South Carolina and their interests, :: can be of service in helping solve the problems .• with which we are now so sorely troubled. It has been said that Farm Re- ief has been accomplished by es tablishment of the Farm Board and an appropriation of $500,000,- 000 for use by that board. But the price of cotton is six cents a pound ower today than it was oh the day this appropriation was granted.' Senators idly talk about reduc ing cotton acreage in South Caro lina, offering this as a remedy. This great increase in acreage, from 32,000,000 to 47,000,000, has occurred, not in the Southeast, but in the Southwest. One factor in that increased acreage in the Southwest has been that Mexican peons have been permitted to come Philippines has resulted in driving our cotton seed oil out of the mar ket and depressing the price of cotton seed. We should grant in dependence to the Philippines and thereafter place a tariff tax, for revenue only, on Philippine pro ducts and restore our own to their rightful marketable value. There has been pending for years the Bill for government op eration of Muscle Shoals. As a principle of government, I do not believe in government ownership or operation, but since during the World War the government ac quired this plant at a cost of more than $100,000,000, it should not be permitted to stand idle simply be cause the Power and Fertilizer Trusts oppose its operation. I should advocate that, for six months, Muscle Shoals be offered for lease with the provision that it shall be operated to produce fert ilizers at lower cost and with some restriction upon the price to be charged for power. If the govern ment is unable to lease it within six months, then as a matter of expediency the government should then proceed to operate the plant and sell the fertilizer to the far mers of the country and the pow er to the communities of the South at a fair price. , " I unreservedly favor the payment by the government, in cash, of tjbe adjusted compensation certificates held by World War Veterans, not only because these ex-service men are in need but particularly in view of the fact that the federal government has greatly reduced its debt, and has turned back many millions in income tax refunds to big business. Furthermore, while over the border without restriction government has reduced the and, living under slave conditions, of interest being paid by Eu- have made possible increased acre- ropean nations borrowed during the war to 2 per cent, the ex-ser vice man is being forced to pay 6 per cent on money borrowed on his certificates through the Federal age and increased production. South Carolina farmers cannot hope to compete with farmers of the Southwest who employ this cheap Mexican labor in growing Reserve Bank, cotton or in the production of There is no way to judge a fruits and vegetables, and, al- ! man’s possibilities for accomplish- though South Carolina is spending ments in future except to review the taxpayer’s money to encourage his accomplishments in the past, the growing of fruits and vege- With no spirit of boastfulness, but tables because of the iodine con- merely as a matter of information, tent in the soil, until the competi- I call attention to my record in tion of slave labor from Mexico is Congress. removed by immigration restric- i found that bills had been in- tions there will be little hope of troduced in Congress by 25 mem- success along this line. bers all providing for Federal Aid Jn 1929 the Farm Loan Banks ac- in road construction. In a con- quired possession of 3072 farms ference of these members called with a total investment of $12,669.- by me we agreed upon one Bill at *80, which, however, does not tell my suggestion, and I helped draft the whole story. On December 31,‘that Bill, which, after passing thf CHEVROLET SIX McCORMICK CHEVROLET CO. Main Street — McCORMICK, S. C. SIX-CYLINDER SMOOTHNESS AT LOW COST To broil tomatoes, Wash * them, remove the stem ends, cut in half, put in a greased shallow baking -dish, add salt, pepper and melted butter or other fat to season, and place under the flame of a broiling oven, far enough from the flame to House, was amended by the Senate the result being the appropriatior of $500,000 to experiment in Fed eral Aid projects. Of this I se cured $10,000 for South Caroline 1929, there were pending 1921 fore closures representing unpaid prin cipal of $6,000,000,000. During 1929 the Farm Loan Board sold more s.ofiO farms. The effect of a continuance of this policy will be i and the first road completed i to destroy rural life in America and jthe United States with Federal Ai( ; bring loss*to the holders of bonds under direction of the Bureau o in these banks. It will drive from Public roads, was built across Ai he farms men who are unable to ken County, from the Barnwell ppay this year but who, because of the Edgefield lines. In the nex: he love of hmne. will come nearer j Congress I initiated the movement na ving out than any person to ; to create a committee on roads ar '« vhom the bank may seU and lend became a member thereof, with callow the tomatoes to cook before ! ' r,one y to make the sale possible, two other members drafting an i hmtunintt TiroH fnr 9A fr* in min They can do better bv giving tbe putting through Congress the firs f browning. Broil for 20 to 30 min- >j ome _ owner a chance than by sell- Bill establishing the principle of utes or until tender and lightly ing to a negro tenaht and lending Federal Aid and appropriating browned. Serve hot garnished him the money with which to pur- $25,000,000 to aid the states. There with rvir«ipv nn rricn hntforori chase. Throwing all these farms after, as a member of the Appro- jnui parsley on crisp buttered on the market has destroyed what priations Committee. I advocated Virtue may have its own reward but it seldom ever collects. txt People are setting all kinds of endurance records, but so far no one has started one to break the record for continuous working. X Experts figure that a family of four can be well fed for $13.74 a week. The expert who figured it was probably a bachelor. X The senate has passed two great things—the tariff and London naval treaty—much to the delight of newspaper editors. X • The old Roman roads, built hun dreds of years ago, are still in use. Probably ours would be too, if it wasn’t for cutting them up for wa ter, gas and sewers repairs. txt If all of the speeches made this year in the senate were typewrit ten and laid end to end, they would still be senate speeches. i—txt Then there was the Scotchman who threw his radio out the win dow when he learned that it con tained dry cells. X An airplane without a tail is be ing perfected, but what is needed most of all, is one that can fool old man gravity. X To be content, it is only best to read the automobile ads that des cribe the superior car that you drive. Build Your Sidewalks •* \ for Permanence —Use Concrete A portland cement concrete side walk^ properly laid, will give perfect service for an indefinite number of years. It requires no maintenance concrete wears 4 little market there was for farm increased appropriations for Fed eral Aid, and as a result of the movement initiated by me in my first term. South Carolina has re ceived from the National Govern ment more than $13,000,000 for highway construction. These are some of the things J have done, some of the views I hold. I submit my candidacy to vou. Mine is no selfish ambition I am prompted solely by desire t r be of service to the people of my state and by the belief that mv experience in Congress qualifies me to render the most beneficia' service at this time and in thy crisis. I pledge you the best tha is in me of mind and heart. Faithfully, JAMES F. BYRNES. indefinitely. An adequate system of con crete sidewalks makes any com munity a better place in which to live. It provides safe, pleasant passage for pedestrians of all ages. Concrete sidewalks increase property values—and add greatly to the appearance of any street. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Hurt Buildmj ATLANTA, National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete Hear James F. Byrnes in His Radio Speech Monday Night, Aug. 25, at 8 o’clock from WBT, Charlotte. 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 Main Street McCormick, S. C.