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r^.v. j / Thursday, August 28, 1930 McCURMiak MESSENGER! McCORmCTC, Sot; ft ) CmraThta. mV*-.!* 'W&twsUF'; ■ p v Page Number TEfOl wan McCORMICK MESSENGER Fublished Every Thursday \ Established June 5, 1902 edmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, 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 AN INFANT GROWN UP T' penses increase, the Bureau of Home Economics docs not consid-. v er the envelope system satisfac tory. It necessitates keeping more money on hand than is desirable. It provides no permanent classi fied record on which future esti mates can be made. It is confus ing because in order to make change money is transferred from one enve 1r >pe to another. By the* time a boy or girl is in the last grammar grade or ready for high school, a clothing allow ance may be added and its use taught. This is a good time to introduce a check book. If the local Jrank does not .handle acr counts for minors, checks may be drawn on the parent up to the amount of the allowance and all transactions made as businesslike as possible. Poorly chosen pur chases will occur from time to time, but after a little experience the student trained in this way can be trusted away from home to handle funds intelligently. iXt Nurse Tells How CARDUI K6!p®d Her > The United States has definitely grown up. The swaddling clothes stage of its existence is forever past. Not so very long ago we were the precocious child among nations. It was the general custom to kind ly pat the growing child on the head and remark that it might amount to something some day if it carefully emulated its elders. The order of things has been suddenly reversed. The one-time baby of nations is the center of the amazed eyes of its once patronizing elders, 1 It was a healthy child and grew to manhood with unforseen rap idity. It left the nursery to be come a world leader in industry, in business and in finance. We took the best the old world had to offer and embellished it with new qualities of shrewdness, progressiveness and unprecedented foresight. The result is the great est industrial civilization the world has known. At the beginning of any life there is bound to be experiment. It is a necessity of eager youth. What waste it causes is the price of progress. We have sifted the good from the bad. We have found stability; we have blazed our trail and striven toward an ideal—the utermost along sound economic lines. We have exalted efficiency. America produces 70 per cent of the world’s petroleum and 5 per cent of the copper. We have 35 per cent of the world’s automobiles "and also an overwhelming major ity of the telephones. Our rail roads are beyond comparison. We have displayed unparalleled ingen uity in the production and use of gas and electricity. We have set ourselves a stand ard of living that has made nec essities of luxuries. Training Children The Use Of Money A very simple method of start ing children in the use of their allowances is that employed by so cial service agencies in dealing with foreign or illiterate families. It consists of several envelopes— preferably stout manila for dura bility—one for each kind of ex penditure. Two would be enough for a child at first, one marked ‘‘To spend” and one “To save for something nice.” 4 Many parents give their children v few pennies each week when they are but four or five years old. When a child has learned to make change, to add or subtract small amounts, and can be sent to the store, he is old enough to have some money of his own to handle. The envelope system is a help until he can write his “accounts” in a book. Then he should be taught gradually how to find out what he has spent and what is left, how to save for definite purchases greatly desired for himself or for gifts, and ultimately how to man age larger sums which include per sonal money and money for defin ite uses such as “school,” “oar f aftf,” and ^‘lunches.” - A child whb is old enough to ride on street cars alone is ready for a notebook sys tem of accounts. As the number and kind of ex- Moving Forward During 1929, according to a new 1 statistical survey of the electric, industry, the generating capacity of our utilities increased nine per cent; fuel efficiency increased four per cent and electric output was 11.8 per cent greater than in 1928. The number of farms served in creased 21.6 per cent, while the amount of electricity actually de livered to customers increased 12.1 per cent, as compared with an in crease in revenues of but 8.9 per cent. The average revenue per kilo watt-hour for all classes of con sumers was reduced three per cent and the price of current to do mestic consumers went down 5.7 per cent. New construction ex penditures amounted to 853 million dollars, 13" per cent more than in the previous year. An industrial depression charac terized the first part of .1930, yet the total consumption of electric power during six months was 1.7 per cent higher than in the cor responding period in 1929 and 15.1 per cent above 1928. Household use rose 13.7 per cent and an in crease of 6.8 per cent by small in dustrial users was recorded. Large users of power consumed only 2.2 per cent less than in 1929, when the highest record in history was established. This would seem to indicate that the industrial situa tion is not so serious as some of us have believed. It has been well said that con sumption of electric power is an index of prosperity. Translated in to wages and living standards, the statistics show that America con tinues to move forward. Transportation Regulations Mrs. W. A. Cox, a well-known pro fessional nurse, of Burnside, Ky., writes: *1 was in very bad health, and only weighed 110 pounds. I read in the papers about Cardui, and thought I would . give it a try-out. After I had taken one bottle, I could see that I was improving. After I had taken it a month or two, I began to gain, and I weigh at present 168, and Rave weighed that for some time. I am now 55 years old, and can do as much work as the average middle-aged woman can. *T would advise any woman, who is weakly and in a run down condition, to try Car dui, but not to expect one bottle to make her well. 1 take two or three bottles a year, now, and I feel fine.” CARDUI USED BY WOMEN FOR OVER 50 YEARS Take Thedford’s Black-Draugrht for Constipation. 'Indigestion, and Biliousness. E-*8» Chevrolet Now Has Wire Wheels THINGS WORTH KNOWING King snakes are noted as killers of other snakes. More substances will dissolve in Water than in any other liquid. The world produced 1,600,000,- 000,000 cubic feet of natural gas during 1928. The Chinese were the first to discover the usefulness of silk worms and to set them to work. All official automobiles main tained by the state in Brazil are required to use alcohol as motor fuel. There are 33,000 people employ ed in scientific research laborator ies, not including government and college laboratories, in the United States. A man who does strenuous work eats $94.82 more food in a year than a woman who does moderate housework, a Cornell university in vestigation shows. The Florida Everglades reality a gigantic spring. are m There are from two to five eclipses of the sun each year. 1. State aid for transportation will not be paid unless the trans portation lasts for the entire term. 2. Pupils residing within two miles of the school to which chil dren are being transported cannot be counted for transportation aid, and mileage made by buses leaving approved bus routes to pick up iso lated children will not be allowed. 3. State aid will not be paid for children going from one element ary school to another in the Same district unless entire grades have been discontinued for the purpose of securing better organization of school work. ' 4. No State aid will be paid for transportation of elementary pu pils from a local district school to a school in another district unless entire grades are transported for the purpose of securing better or ganization of school work; provid ed that the trustees of both dis tricts approve of such transporta tion. i 5. In case high school pupils are 1115 medlcines * being transported from a district not containing a high school, State aid will be paid for transportation to the nearest high school. Should the high school pupils in such elementary school district be trans ported to any other than the near est high school, State aid will not be paid unless such high school pupils have been transferred to the more distant high school by the State Board of Education, and in such case State aid for trans portation will not be paid beyond the half way distance between the nearest high school and the more distant high school. X The Central . railroad of Peru About 50,000 people visit men tal clinics in New York city in a year. In strengthening the dome of St. Paul’s cathedral, London, 120 tens of steel was used. Certain species of snails and Crustacea have survived almost un changed for 60,000,000 years. Insects are attracted from con siderable distances by the odor of flov/ers. but color is noted by them only within a distance of thirty feet. Further individuality in the sel ection of a C£U* in the low priced f ie*d wos made possible today with the announcement that wire or disc wheels are now optional equipment, without extra cost, on new Chevrolet Six passenger cars. Formerly disc wheels were stand ard equipment except for sport models, on which wire wheels were mounted at the factory. Since the latter part of July, all passenger models are being shipped with wire wheels, while disc -wheels also are being built to accomodate those purchasers v/ho prefer this type. The new wheel-equipment is fin- ’shed in a wide variety of colors to harmonise with the body trim of Mie nine different body models. The extensive color combinations used on the bodies, plus the added :olor harmonies available on the ! new wheels, will mean that the | purchaser of a car in the low oiiced field will be able to obtain \ greater individuality in his car than was possible heretofore. The option of wire or disc wheels went into effect on August 1. Dealers with cars having only disc wheels, at that time, were supplied with sets of new wire wheels to make the change-over for those purchasers desiring it.. An increase of twenty per cent in production of light delivery trucks during the first half of this year over the same period in 1929 was announced today by Sidney fcorbett, manager of the commer cial car division of the Chevrolet Motor Company. Figures for the comparable per iods were 27,236 units as against 22,613 to July 1 last year. This production increase Mr. Corbett attributed to the need for light delivery trucks in federal state, municipal and public utility construction projects now under way, and to the growing use of the hght truck in rural sections. Farmers, especially, are finding the light delivery an economical and necessary addition to farm equipment, he said, and the wide variety of body types available en ables the user to choose the exact body for the work to be done. While commercial car production is necessarily a minor part of the total output of the Chevrolet Mo tor Company, Mr. Corbett pointed out that it is accounting for a con stantly increasing production of each year’s output. The company first began building commercial cars in 1916, he stated, and since that date 1,169,000 units had been built, up to the middle of this year, or in the ratio of better than one commercial car to each six passenger cars. * Railroads of this country are saving $145,000 a day through the practice of chemically treatinor timbers used for cross ties and other purposes. Because of the variation in the size of teaspoons and tablespoons, druggists advocate use of a gradu ated “medicine glass” for measur- crosses the Andes at one point at 15,865 feet above sea level. Rubber automobile bumpers are being featured to absorb the crash before it reaches the chassis. America has almost half of the worlds 21,600,000 radio sets. A way of making moisture-proof glue joints is sought by specialists in wood-working problems. Small species of whales yield some thirty-five barrels of the val uable whale oil, while the big fel lows yield double that amount. Centuries ago, a royal proclama tion in London forbade the burning of coal because of the unpleasant odor it produced. The clop-clop of wooden shoes mingled with the purr of multiple cylindered engines during the re cent visit at Detroit, Chevrolet Mo tor company headquarters, of Ian Hoppe with his wife and two small children, natives of the Nether lands now on a globe-circling tour. The Hoppe family presented a strange picture of contrasts. Where all the world is style conscious, the Hoppes are traveling in a four- vear old car and are dressed in na tive costumes, even to wooden shoes and the peaked white turban of the wife and daughter. And while aviators are planning to low er the record for round-the-world trips, the Hoppe family expect to spend five years on the tour. The small island of Marken, in the Zuider Zee, was the Hoppe home until last December. They, came first to America, landing at Florida, and there purchased a 1926 Chevrolet sedan to use in seeing America. Despite a combin ed luggage and passenger weight of nearly a ton, the four-year old car brought them on to Detroit with out mishap, where one of Mr. Hoppe’s first concerns was to have Chevrolet service experts check the car to determine whether it could be relied on to give satisfactory service during the two years they plan to spend in America. When a check revealed the car in satis factory shape, Mr. Hoppe decided to acquire a trailer for the luggage and proceed with the car on his journey. In answer to skeptics, who doubt ed his ability to drive with wooden shoes, Mr. Hoppe climbed into the car, and drove it over the curb on to the sidewalk in front of the Chevrolet offices with the skill of a veteran at .the wheel. The Hoppe’s plan partially to work their wi£ Ground the world. He sings over the radio, Mrs. Hoppe STORAGE CAPACITY 100, 9C0 SALTS Ship Yom* Cotton to Us! Low Rates—Every Service— This organization was recently formed to t;-’ e over all properties of the Atlantic States Wa e- liousc and Compress Company. Wc will store your cotton at most attractive rate?. Further, wc will arrange for you to secure : 1- vanccs on such cotton up to 80<70 of its value, pro vided proper margins arc maintained. The rate of interest will he piost attractive. * If you like, weft gladly sell ;cur cotton for you at only 50c per bale commission. If you prefer to sell your stored cotton direct, there will be no commission charged. We believe you'll find bee the kind of service you ? ve always wanted. Get in touch with us AT ONCE! RATES FOR STORING COTTON First Month, per b?Jc ”0r Each .Mouth y icrea H er * V** bale ..2oc INCLUDING INSURANCE Georgia-Carolina Warehouse & Compress Co. AUGUSTA, GA. LANSING 8. LEE, President HAMli/rOxN PH1NIZY, Vice-President J. J. BRESNAHAN, Secretary and. Treasurer r L AC 375-B Whenever you see a car equip- ped with Goodyears, you recog nize a car owner who has real ideas of sound economy. Whether you want regular tires or Balloons, clincher or straight side, medium priced or low priced you can’t beat our Goodyears. GULF SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. PHONE 40 McCORMICK, S. C. 2! 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. sells novelties, and the- family where possible obtain short-term employment in line with Mr. Hoppe's native training as a res- tauranteur. Mr. Hoppe states that if the chil dren show any ill-effects of the Studies of the grade and staple of American cotton by the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics show that cotton growers produce too much short-staple cotton which must compete with foreign short-staple cotton. There is good trip, he will immediately call it j mill demand for cotton around one off and return to his home. So ! inch in staple, says the bureau. far, except for quarantine for diphtheria last winter, the chil dren, Hans and Greitje, have been having the time of their lives. The addition of lime to lead-ar senate sprays for apple trees will prevent arsenical injury when the fruit is washed. If abundant fresh water is not available for rinsing, injury from soluble arsenic can be avoided by a lime-water rinse. -X- Corn-and-cob meal is a good form in which to feed com to horses who do not have time to chew ear or shelled com thorough ly, or whose teeth are too poor to eat the whole grain. Com-and-cob meal has about the same feeding value, pound for pound, as shelled corn. It is best ip grind the inetd only as needed, as it may mould in storage.