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7 Thursday, August 28, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. MeCORMICK, South Carol] I NmnBer Tinfoil Collected By Trainmen—Cripples CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 18.—During a recent ^rnpaign 717 pounds of tinfoil ^alhered by trainman, shopmen, clerks, stenographers, and othe? '"took Island and New York Central employees at La Salle Station ami Englewood on the Illinois and Western & Toledo divisions of these railroads, and delivered Medinah Shrine Tc-m- to be sold and the proceeds «¥?ied for the .support- of crippled children at oho Shriners’ Hospital hei-e. This tinfoil came from cigar and tobacco wrappers, candy, chewing gum, etc. It sells around twenty- five cents a pound and was gath ered in two months under the sup ervision of G. B. Dodd and T 5. B. Martin, station masters at the La Salle Station, and Herman Fau- istich, station master at Engle wood. As a result ^of the campaign for tinfoil, which has been under way for sevearl months among the Rock Island and New York Central employees, very little of this material goes to waste around the Reck Island offices. According to The Crescent, a to tal of 7,550 pounds of tinfoil had been collected by the Shrine to be sold for the benefit of crippled children. •Tbo Town Doctor ,99 DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: Ath BUSINESS UP AND IT WILL PICK UP MASTER’S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Court of Common Pleas. THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF COLUMBIA, against JIM K. DUNCAN, ET AL. Pursuant to judgment of the Court and a decree of sale in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction on Salesday in Sep tember, 1930 (the same being the 1st day of September), in front of the Court House Door, in the city of McCormick, County and State aforesaid, during the legal hours of sale, on terms specified below, the following described real estate to wit: All of that certain tract, piece, or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Bordeaux Township, County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, containing Fifty <50) Acres, more or less, and bounded as follows, to wit: On the North by lands of F. C. Robin son, Republican Church Lot and lands of Dr. R. G. Killingsworth; East by lands of Dr. R. G. Killings- worth and L. N. Chamberlain; South by lands of L. N. Chamber- lain and West by lands of Mrs. A. G. Chamberlain, L. N. Chamber lain and F. C. Robinson, being more fully described by reference to a plat thereof made by S. R. Rosenswike, Surveyor, January 5th, 1922, and being the identical tract of land purchased by Jim K. X>un- can from Sarah G. Mattison by deed dated October 25th. 1919. and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for McCormick County, S. C., on October 25th, 1919, in Book of Deeds No. 4 at Page 207. As a condition precedent to the consideration of any bid, the Mas ter shall require a deposit of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars before considering any bid. Terms of Sale: One-half of the accepted bid in cash and the re maining one-half on credit, pay able in two equal annual install ments. Purchasers to pay for papers and 'stamps/ L. G. BELL, # Master. August 12, 1930.—3t. FORD BATTERIES $7.95 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE €22 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA. GA. Unintentional Suicide Many people are slowly poisoning themselves just as surely as if they drank iodine every morning for break fast. They are daily absorbing tho toxins, or poisons, created by accumu lated waste matter in their conslipi/cd digestive systems. Sooner or later disease will conquer their weakened bodies. If you have dizzy spells, headaches, coated tongue, bad brea. , ^ p no appetite, bilious attacks or pains in the back and limbs, you arc probably —— * caused by pleasantest Buffering from self poisoning caused by constipation. The surest and pleasantest relief for this condition is Herbme, tho vegetable cathartic which acts in the natural way. Get a bottle today from STROMS’ DRUG STORE 66 6 Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the First day, and checks Malaria In three days. 666 also in Tablets This is the season when the back seat driver of a canoe decides to change places in the middle of the stream. " r ho »?v" fyervs there has wt'eii a new competition for the oid storekeeper. To say it is a : ’ » > ipeth.L’i incorrect, for it aas been in existence for seventy i ve^v s: but only recently lias it -en an alibi ior failure in busi ness. Everywhere you. care to go you can hear that “all over” merchants ft being forced out of business by his competition. Every four-cor ners storekeeper who for any of a dozen sufficient reasons closes his doors, lays the blame for it on either this new competition or “business depression.” The truth of the matter is that there are no more people going out of business than there ever was. It could be said here that a man cannot go out of something that he was nev er in; and as for going out of business, by far majority of these were never in “business.” It was because they did not get into “busi ness” that they failed. A man e^n “run” a store without being IN business. To prove further that this “de pression” is more a mental hazard than fact, let us consider the sell ing of a class or particular group. Take the farmer for an example. Not long ago I stood in a first- class retail store in a very good town of average size, when a far mer entered. The owner of the store called the man by name and said: “Well, Jake, how’s things?” And right away Jake started tell ing just how things were with him —everything wrong from A to Z. I The merchant stood there and | heard the tale of woe—a tale that !he knew by heart—and after 1 many minutes of it the farmer said: “Well, guess I’d better ge getting,” and out he went. I said to the merchant, “Why didn’t you sell him something?” to which he replied: “Oh, he didn’t want anything. These farmers, you know, are in a bad way.” Without explanation to the merchant I im mediately left the store. The farmer was walking down the street and I followed. He went into another store—a different store—and just as I entered I heard a man say to Jake, “How’s things by you?” Again the same tale of woe. While the narration was going on another farmer came with his wife, and the four of them—the three farmers and the merchant—had a ten-minute talk on how terrible things were. At the conclusion the merchant said to one of the men: “You folks going to need a stove this year?” “No” was the answer. And what else could it be? I followed Mr. Jake into three other stores in that town, and in each case the merchant gave him an open invitation to tell how tough things were; and in all but one case he left the store without a single purchase. The purchase, made in the last % store, was an item that was carried by the first store he entered. It is a ten-to- one shot that he went into that first store to buy that item, but af- c er telling of his troubles went out without it. BUT, “Jake” thought he was in a bad way, he thought times were hard, and the merchant not only agreed with him. but encouraged him to believe it by prompting him L o talk about it. Therefore, he WAS in a bad way, Tnd times WERE hard, whether they were or not. Let enough people think a thing s so and it will be so. If you leave your home some bright morning and say to the first five men you meet “Isn’t this a fine day?” and each one says: “Yes but I think it will rain before night,*’ by the time you reach your •'tore or office it IS going to rain —for you—and you’ll see black clouds on a perfectly clear horizon. Get sold on the idea that you can sell more; sell the customer on the idea that you ARE selling more; and give that customer a reason why he should and CAN buy more, and this “business de pression” hazard will fade into the myth that it is. (Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part. This editorial publish ed by McCormick Messenger in co operation with the Lions Club.) — xxt The time is drawing near when the father will have to buckle down and begin working his son’s way through college. Railroads Still Haul Most Of Our Lumber Seventy-five' per cent of the 21,- 000,000,000 board feet of lumber which entered inter-state traffic from the larger mills of the coun try in 1928 traveled by rail, accord ing to a census recently completed by the Forest Service of the Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture and the Census Bureau. It is not surprising that railroads still haul such a large portion of the lumber shipped from one State into another, since many destina tions can not be reached by water and most of them are too distant for economical trucking. | Water transportation on ocean ,and rivers is used to great advant age by lumbermen and buyers in the Pacific Coast States and South Atlantic States. Eighteen per cent of the country’s interstate ship ments go by water, and the aver age water haul is 2,500 miles. While the motor truck accounts for only 7 per cent of the country’s interstate lumber traffic, it comes into its own in the Northeast, where one-fourth of the sawmill products went to market by truck, I and in the Pacific Northwest, where more than half of the hard woods and 10 per cent of the soft woods In interstate traffic go by truck. The average rail haul of lumber increased from 360 miles in 1914 to 750 miles in 1926, as the prin cipal centers of production retreat ed farther from the great con suming regions. There was, of course, some over lapping of the several methods, as a great deal of the lumber shipped by rail or by water was handled by trucks at some stage. txt Nut Grass Grows From Underground Tubers One reason why nut grass, one of the worst weeds of the South west and the Southeast, is so per sistent, according to M. W. Talbot, weed specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture, is because of sprouts from under ground tubers, or “nuts,” even when these are buried very deep. On each plant the nuts are ar ranged on long, slender, under ground steins like widely separated beads on a string. Usually the nuts occur in the top foot of soil. In recent tests at the Mississippi Delta Experiment Station it was found that nuts 'buried to a depth of 1 feet, and one nut buried 6 feet, sprouted and sent up shoots to the surface. It is not yet known how long nuts will live in the soil awaiting favorable conditions for germination. One thing is certain, however, nut grass can not be conrtolled simply by cutting off the tops, for growth after the tops are clipped is amaz ingly rapid. A remarkable discov ery of the Mississippi Delta Sta tion is that individual nuts, when permitted to germinate and grow unmolested, have produced more than a thousand other nuts in one summer. A special treatment for thnre years has proved an excellent method of handling nut grass-in fested land. The following defin- it operations must carefully be observed: (1) Prepare the seed bed with more than ordinary care. (2) Plant the infested land to corn or cotton, in checkrows. (3) Culti vate very thoroughly, at least once a week. (4) Remove the crop as soon as it is mature; plow and harrow the land, and seed it to a v/inter cover crop adapted to the locality. A mixture of oats and hairy vetch has been widely rec- •mmended for this purpose. *5) The following spring, after the '3’F and vetch have been harvest ed for hay, repeat the whole oro- 'ers. Cotton may be planted the 'Tond year, if corn was planted ‘ he /hrst. Nut grass does not thrive in dense shade. Next to rigid cultiva tion through a long period, thr best hope of eradicating nut gras*' is by smothering it with r,omc shade crop, such as velvet bean? 'oybeans. or cowpeas. In Louis' ins two recently introduced varieti^' of sugarcane, known as P. O. J. 36-M and P. O. J. 213, have proved useful in controlling nut grass and other weeds, when planted on the same tract and in good stands for about three years. THE INDIVIDUAL YET NEEDED BY BUSINESS John G. Lonsdale By JOHN G. LONSDALE President American Bankers Association OOME seem to think that the day o? ^ tho individual in business has passed. But they are wrong. While the i n d i v 1 d ual may not attract, such outs tan diner attention as he did in the days of old when institu tions w'ere con ducted on a smal- ler scale, he nevertheless is to be found in any large corporation, dominating the situation, giving orders here, co operating there and shouldering tho responsibility of keeping a large group of lieutenants, captains and privates working in uni son and moving forward under the banner of progress. And all of these are held accountable to the public be cause tho public has entered into a partnership agreement with the cor poration through purchase of stock. Welfare cf Workers Even In tho gigantic mergers that have taken place within the last two years there remains more than ever tho necessity for a leader, an aggres sive personality, whose duty it is to see that basic principles are not for gotten, that the rights and privileges of the individual workers and the cus tomers they serve are as well pro vided for as in the smaller business units. It is gratifying to note that our cor porations are giving more and more concern to the welfare of their work ers. Numerous benefit organizations have been formed, opportunities of fered for advancement of education and position, hospital service estab lished and insurance and retirement pensions provided. This general humanitarian move ment in reality is the outgrowth of analysis, which has disclosed the need of improving the well-being of our in dividual workers, realizing at the same time that our institutions will benefit. SAVE AT LEAST ONE-TENTH OF WHAT YOU EARN You should put one dollar out of every ten in your thrift and opportunity account and more if you possibly can, out of each week’s salary. Then add to this your sur plus dollars money that you would other wise spend foolishly and watch the total of your savings grow. You will soon have enough to begin to realize your ambitions in life. THIS IS THE BANK YOU NEED Not just because it is a home bank and possibly managed by your friends, but be cause of its excellent points of service. The service we offer includes safety, expert financial counsel, good interest on your savings accounts, and co-operation in any and every way to make your connections with us pleasing and profitable. START YOUR ACCOUNT HERE NOW THE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. tmm PREPAREDNESS IN BUSINESS By R. S. HECHT, American Bankers Association. My observations for many years, both as an employee and as an execu tive, havo convinced me that tho rea son come men and women go ahead and others do not is that some keep themselves constantly prepared to ac cept and fulfill larger duties and re sponsibilities as they offer, and seme do not. Grant, as we must, that there is a certain element of luck in tho condi tions under which opportunity for promotion comes to different men and women, we nevertheless must also see that it is each indtviduara own state of preparedness which determines hie ^ability to seize opportunity if and when it comes, and having seized it, to succeed in meeting the greater de mands which it Inevitably places upon him. Real advancement never means go ing ahead to easier tasks, but always to harder ones. Opportunity for ad vancement is worthless unless in ac cepting it you are able to carry with you the abilities and qualifications that prepare you to meet the heavier exac tions that are an inherent part of op portunity. It is far better to go into action in the field of enlarged responsibility prepared and qualified, rather than that you and tho institution you work for shall be exposed to the hazard of your having to build up to new re sponsibilities after having assumed them. Tho new spirit of all business seeks to prepare its people in advance through education for tho higher duties it holds in *tore for them. ES V 8 FIX THAT ROOF This is the time to fix that leaky roof or replace the old worn out roof with good new metal roofing or rubber roofing. We have what you need and our prices are right. Mower repairs and paints. Tin pans, 2 to 6 quarts, 5 cents. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. 3E 39 M t.O'} A? <xs> ‘4 Bank Bandits Active Thieves the other day in a near by state stole an entire bungalow, which might be one way of lifting a mortgage. The greatest number of bandit raids on American banking over recorded In the figures of the protective depart ment of the American Bankern Asso ciation were reported during the aix months ending last February. Rank members of the association reported for investigation 311 forgery cases, 107 holdup robberies, 16 burglaries, 2 sneak thefts and 8 mortgage swindles while non-member banks, numbering less than half the total enrolled in the association, suffered 86 holdup robber ies and 9 burglaries, non-members be ing burglarized or held up once for every 89 banks, as compared with onco for every 164 member banks. The as sociation detective agents caused the arrest of 143 of tho 236 bank crimi nals apprehended during the period covered. Tho association’s report on these conditions urges support of the move ment to provide city police depart ments with radio-equipped cruising automobiles which have proved par ticularly effective in Cleveland and Detroit in the broadcasting of alarms and the closing in on criminals imme diately after or even iu the midst of the perpetration of crimes. Last year the average time elapsed between the receipt of radio calls by these cars i.nd the 1325 arrests which followed was one minute and forty-two occonds, the report says. g THE BEST MEATS AT THE LOWEST PRICES We have established an enviable reputation for good meats which we prize very highly. We try at all times to live up to this reputation that we enjoy. You can depend on us to furnish you the very best no matter what cut or what kind of meat you may wish. LOW PRICES PREVAIL HERE You are not penalized lor the high quality of our meats when it comes to price. Low prices pre vail on all cuts. We want you to be pleased in every way and we try our best to do so. Depend on us for all of your meats. You’ll find it most satisfactory. BEST HASH EVERY SATURDAY T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET McCormick. S. C. 9 M m n M m * FIRST AID REMEDIES Come in and let us help you select a stock of first aid remedies to keep in your home for emergency use. The cost is nominal and they may prove life savers in time to come. Prescriptions carefully compounded day ' or night from pure drugs. Pay our soda fountain a visit. STROMS’ DRUG STORE Main Street McCormick, S. C.