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Thursday, September 4, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. South Curolin* Page Number Two S C WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be considered generally cor rect. Yemassee—Paving completed on last section of Atlantic Coastal Highway, between this place and Combahee Riter. Belton — Repairs completed on local school buildings preparatory to opening of school September 1st. Swansea — Peoples State Bank of South Carolina opens branch here. Columbia — New playground op ened in neighborhood of Irvin park. Pageland — Road to McBee graded. Easley — The Pansy Shoppe is new millinery and ladies’ store recently opened here. / Columbia—-Ben M. Webber com pletes two-store building at 1523 Sumter Street. Will be occupied by Andrews Garage and a drug store. Newberry — Newberry Barbecue opened on Newberry-Columbia highway at intersection of highway and Glenn St. Saluda — Construction work go ing forward rapidly on local hy dro-electric development of Asso ciated Gas and Electric System. Completion of present $65,000,000 highway construction program will give four separate hard surface outers from mountains to sea, ac cording to Ben M. Sawyer, State Highway Commissioner. Sumter — South Carolina Con tinental Telephone Co., completes rebuilding line to Bishopville. Greenville — New York-Atlanta air mail planes will stop here. Easley — Methodists complete new church »edifice. WalterborO—Waiterboro Ice and Fuel Co., adds new electrical equip ment. Newberry—Smeltzer hall, on col lege campus, converted into girls’ dormitory. Columbia — City market shed to be erected on Senate Street. Allendale — 18-hole miniature golf course located on Main St. Lancaster — Pittman Construc tion Co., gets $402,922 contract to pave 17 miles on Route 26 from this city to end of paving in Ker shaw County. Newberry — E. H. Livingston has contract to remodel Presbyterian Church and erect ,Sunday school building. Darlington — Contract let to W. J. Oakes Construction Co., to pave and straighten Main Street from Public Square south for half a block. Allendale — Contract to be let to pave 11.5 miles from this city to Martin on Route 28. Walterboro — Bridge over Sal- kehatchie River repaired; on road between Smoaks and Lodge. Abbeville — L. R. Laird purchas es Harelson Filling Station on Ab- beville-Greenwood road. Myrtle Beach — Bridges being built on State Highway No. 49 with view of opening this road to traf fic. Newberry — Educational building being built for Central Church. Allendale •—* Oswald Motor Co., capitalized at $5,000, formed to do business here. Bennettsville — Contract let to Simons-Mayrant Company for $205,539, to pave ten miles . on Route 30 between this city and North Carolina line. Eastover — Bates Ferry bridge over Congaree River between this ciyt and ForiT Motte, repaired and re-opened for traffic. Columbia — $20,000 two-story brick building will go up at 1003 Main St, to house ice cream plant. McCormick — Nine miles on Route 43 being paved and two sec tions paving opened in town. Georgetown — Construction of Wilmington, N. C.-Georgetown link of intra-coastal waterway system expected to begin shortly after March 1, 1931, according to Major W. A. Snow, Wilmington district army engineer. Santee — Contract awarded v/ BLACKWOOD REAFFIRMS HIS CAMPAIGN PLEDGES I wish to thank the people of South Carolina for their support in the recent Democratic Primary, as the result of which I am in the second race for Governor. I promise and pledge myself, if elected, to give South Carolina an honest, intelligent and progressive administration. : ' The next four years will be the most important period in the State’s history for the past half century. This is true principally because of the authorized expenditure of an enorm ous amount of public money under the terms of the Highway Bond Act. As I have repeatedly stated on the stump, the Highway Bond Act of itself is not an issue in this campaign. It has already passed beyond the stage of political controversy. But the safeguarding of the $65,000,000 to be spent on highways and the protection of the public is an issue. It is a primary issue. I reaffirm my platform pledge to provide every safeguard and protection in the expenditure of this fund. Notwithstanding the fact that I thought when the Highway Bond Act was before the General Assembly it should have been referred to the people, now that it has become an accomplished fact I favor administering its provisions fairly and equitably. If the income from the gasoline and license taxes is clearly sufficient to provide for the sinking fund and interest, I would not molest the road-building program. But I reaffirm my pledge that the issuance of Highway Bonds will be halted by me before these shall ever become a tax charge against property. As Governor, I would be unfettered and under no obligations to any man or group, nor to any department of the State Government; and since under the terms of the Highway Bond Act the Governor is charged with the responsibility and duty of approving or disapproving of the sale of bonds from time to time, no department nor person would be permitted to dominate or control my ac tions in the discharge of this primary duty. I have not accepted, nor will I accept, any financial assistance from the Highway Department nor any other Department of the State Government, nor from any individual connected therewith, either directly or indirectly, and no person is authorized to solicit funds for my campaign. I shall insist upon all Departments, including the Highway Department, confining their activities to their proper functions, and divorcing themselves from politics. I propose to become Governor of all the people of South Carolina. My every effort will be for a progressive State. I shall strive to bring happiness and prosperity to all of the people. My Record as Solicitor of the Seventh Circuit for the past fourteen years is an assurance of my position on the enforcement of the law, an assurance upon which the people of the State as a whole may place their confidence that boot leggers, gamblers, slot machine operators and other law violators will not be tolerated. I reaffirm my platform pledges to earnestly strive to effect tax equaliza tion and reform, to develop new markets looking to farm relief, for court re form, for just labor legislation, the encouragement of new industries, stricter banking laws and, as the foundation stone of my administration, vigorous en forcement of the law. It is on this basis that I solicit the support of the people of my State in the election of their next Governor. I. C. BLACKWOOD. (Political Advertisement) to Sampit River. Rock Hill — Cutter Manufactur ing C.o, local cotton manufacturing plant, starts full time operations. Abbeville to have miniature golf course in front of Graves Lumber Yard. St. George — LaFayette highway being paved from this place to Ed- isto River. Greer — New building complet ed on Trade Street to house Bailes- Collins Company store. Conway — Roberts Paving Co., gets $367,324 contract to pave 13 miles on Route 40 from this place to Pee Dee River at Yuahannah. Greer — A. & P. Store, formerly located on Trade St., next to Palace Barber Shop, consolidated with and moved to store on lower Trade St. Ninety Six — New Methodist Church completed here recently. grow on trees in a figurative sense. Persons who are not sure of their own judgment in investment mat ters should seek the^advice of those capable of giving sound and hon est advice on this problem. It will only be through thrift ed ucation that an end ever will be brought to this disgraceful situa tion. The masses of the people must learn that thrift does not consist merely in saving money and that it is just as important to know what to do with your money after you have saved as it was to have earned it and saved it in the first place. It is to be borne in mind that one of the great benefits to be de rived from a study of thrift prin ciples lies in the fact that it gives one judgment and perspective in money matters. We learn that 5t Greer — Midget Golf Course op- ; foolhardy to expect the invest- ened on Trade Street. -txt Little Talk On Thrift great activity and apparent pros perity for a while but it would only be a flash in the pan. It would soon come to an abrupt end. Whereas a nation whose citizens are constantly getting ahead and putting something away for emerg encies is bound to enjoy prosper ous conditions. There always will, of course, be periods of temporary depression such as we have been passing through during the last few months but the sunshine of prosperity can always be depended on when people are thrifty. If present conditions were such as to indicate that during the past few months the people of this country have been dissipating their resources and engaging in habits of wastefulness, the outlook at the present time could not be viewed with so much equanimity. The present sentiments of op timism and hopefulness which ment of a small sum of money to make us wealthy over night. Glib- | seem now to be steadily spreading tongued salesmen may tell you | throughout the nation may be true tales of financial miracles but the j forerunners of great prosperity truly thrifty man or woman will perhaps they may or may not be JUDGMENT IN THE INVESTMENT alwa y s remember that such phen- somewhat premature. But the fact OF SAVINGS ONE OF BENEFITS OF THRIFT (By S. W. Straus, President Ameri can Society for Thrift.) omena rarely, if ever, occur. Sensi ble saving; sensible spending; sen- remains that so long as the Ameri can people remain true to practices sible investing; this is true thrift. Q f thrift, the return of real pros- — perity cannot be long deferred. It was officially stated recently that during the first six months of the present year the huge sum of $32,500,000 was lost by people of New York State alone through in vestment in fraudulent securities. This is at the rate of $65,000,000 a year and inasmuch as the Empire state contains about one-tenth of the population of the country, it would seem within the bounds of reason to assume that considerably more than half a billion dollars are lost every year by the people of the United States through this shame less type of fraud. Many laws have been passed to put a stop to these fraudulent practices and state officials every where have been anxious to pro tect the public from dealers in | “blue sky” securities. The chief to fault, of course, lies in the gullibil- Roberts Paving Co., of Salisbury, ity of large numbers of. persons Md., on bid of $267,394 to pave 12 who do not stop -to think that it is jniles on Route 40 from this place, impossible to expect money to It has been noted within the last 2 or 3 weeks that individuals, We are now at the beginning of a groups and organizations who are new school year. ’ Parents, teachers closely in touch with the general and all others directly interested business situation of the country in sound educational progress are hdve expressed themselves in terms urged to join the great work of in- of optimism. To say the least, troducing the teaching of thrift in there has come recently quite a the schools of this country, change in feeling regarding the This work has for sometime been business outlook. making steady progress and there It is to be hoped that this feel- i S every reason to believe that the ing of conservative optimism will ensuing school year will mark the steadily spread throughout th^ attainment of new heights in country because a more confiden thrift education. The introduction attitude upon the oart of everyor 0 f the school savings bank by a will prove a helpful influence in Belgian school master in a Long bringing conditions back to norm- Island village many years ago has al. today grown to gigantic propor- One of the encouraging facton tions and a splendid work is being in the present situation is that accomplished. Millions of children deposits in savings banks have have learned lessons of priceless been constantly growing. This value in saving money. Many suc- means great potential prosperity, cessful men today owe some por- Regardless of what may be said tion of their progress in life to the otherwise, the prosperity of a na- inspiration of the little school sav- tion really must depend upon the ings bank which they learned to thrift of the people. An orgy of love in the days of their childhood, ill-advised spending might bring But teaching children just' to save money is not quite enough in the interest of a well-rouunded thrift conception. There is, in fact, some danger of warping the child’s appreciation of life’s many values by the constant stressing of money. It is important that the child should learn that thrift means in every sense of the word to thrive and be successful in a fine, noble ‘./ay. For a number of years the American Society for Thrift has been working on this problem and two years ago brought out a text book in which the subject of thrift is corelated with several of the common branches. The book can be used by any school teacher in the second and eighth grades, in- j elusive. A copy of this book will be sent without charge to any school I teacher or other school official de sirous of joining this great thrift educational movement. Letters should be sent to the Society s of fice, 9 East 64th Street, New York City. It should be quite obvious to any fair minded person that the logi cal place to concentrate thrift edu cational effort is in the school room. X “The Town Doctor” DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: SELLING A COMMUNITY IS LIKE SELLING ANYTHING ELSE The biggest business today Ls the selling business because, no matter what anybody does to make a liv ing they have to sell. The most important thing in selling is knowledge of self. Many writers on selling will disagree with this, but if a man does not know what he has and what he lacks, he can not influence others—and in fluencing is selling regardless of what is being sold. When you. as a salesman, meet a customer, no difference what you are selling—pickles or pianos, pray er books or peanuts—if you don’t know your own peculiarities how can you fit yourself to the mood, likes and dislikes of that customer? How are you going to adapt your self to make a hit, get on the good- side of that customer? Knowing yourself is the only way you can develop the best you have in you; correct and eliminate the worst. We all have “latent possib ilities,” we all have faults, but nine tenths of us do not know what these possibilities are and we too seldom know, realize and appre ciate the things we do, or fail to do, which make us disliked. There are two kinds of acquaint ances—the ones who don’t care enough about us to take the trouble to point out what we do which they and others do not like; and those who are (or think they are) such good friends that they won’t tell us for fear of hurting our feeling or losing our friendship. The same is true with a business. A customer dislikes some practice of the business, something happens during contact, a salesperson “slips up” on something, or any of a doz- en-and-one things occur that dis pleases a customer. The one type says: “Well, if the owners are so dumb that they allow such things, that’s their look-out.” The other says: “Someone ought to tell them about it, but I can’t afford to take the chance.” Both go elsewhere to trade, and the proprietors live on in ignorance that their busi ness is going to the so-called “bow wows.” True, there are many business people who won’t “Take telling.” Many a friend has been told “you ’tend to your business and I’ll ’tend to mine,” by a store owner to whom the friend had imported informa tion regarding complaints heard discussed by the store owner’s cus tomers. It is a thankless job to tell anyone of his faults; but, take it or leave it, it’s your faults, your weakness, that are most important. And all of the above goes for a community, as well as an individ ual or a business. (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. Eyes examin ed. Spectacles. Eye Glasses, and Artificial iCyes fitted withouf Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist! 956 Broad Street Augusta, Ga. Cotton Farmer’s Cows DARLINGTON, Aug. 26.—The f-rst real Guernsey center of the state was in Darlington county and while there may now be more Guernseys produced and producing in other counties, Darlington OGiiiis proudly to established breeders than whom there are no better. Outstanding herds of real ly scientific breeders include those of A. L. James at Darlington, J. L. McIntosh at Dovesville, and Pedi greed Seed Company, Hartsville. ^heir cows have records known and rend of all men who know Guernseys. The experience of Mr. James with cows typifies what oth ers have done and can do born as raising animals for sale and pro ducing dairy products for cash. When A. L. James, cotton farmer faced the boll weevil in 1916 and 1917, he was raising a few beef cattle but he was induced to pledge such milk as they gave to the first milk route for the Darlington Creamery. He saw the advantage of purebreds over scrubs when he bought a Guernsey cow in 1918 for $250. He now has through pur chase and breeding about 50 regis tered Guernseys. Meanwhile, from that $250 purchase in 1918 he sold in seven years following $235) worth of offspring and has one of her best daughters to keep memory fresh. “Cows,” Mr. James remarked “which I bought with cotton, a bale cf cotton for a purebred cow in prosperous times, have enabled me to almost cut out cotton. My herd has been my mainstay in my farm operations.” The James herd is headed by a son of Langwater Foremost, the Penny bull that sold for $20,000. Another bull is son of Uplands Hol- liston. A carefully planned breed ing scheme is followed to secure superior animals. Selling surplus animals from time to time, Mr. James is now to enlarge his herd, so strong is the cow faith that’s in him. His sales go to many states and big herd owners are among his best buyers. All feed is grown at home, corn for silage, soybeans, velvets, oats, and vetch, good carpet grass pas ture, rye and vetch for winter pas ture. Com as milk brings much more money, and it is cheaper to- carry a cow through winter than through summer, says Mr. James. Mr. James sells whole milk on the Florence and Darlington mar kets which use only Double A. milk. txt A Noted Poultry Breeder In Old Society Hill SOCIETY HILL, Aug. 26.—Start ing in 1917 with breeding Rhode Island Reds as a hobby, a Darling ton county citizen, E. D. Fields of Society Hill, storekeeper by trade, has become a poultry breeder by science, and now most of the Reds in Darlington county and eastern Carolina trace to his Reds. First in the county and section to make breeding a business, he worked on the principle of “Buy the best and breed ’em better,” and now he commands such prices as $10 per setting or $25 per hundred for breeding eggs. It was from his yard that chicks were selected in 1927 for the Livestock train demon stration. This season Fields has 50 hens in five breeding pens for his trap- nesting and pedigree work. His basic breeding pen has in it three hens with records of 252, 245 and 285 eggs at the Southeastern Egg- Laying Contest and two others with records of 248 and 249 eggs at the Auburn, Alabama Contest. A male from a 291-egg hen is used with these champion layers whose average is 275 .eggs—a strong foun dation to build on, yet Fields plans to call on Clemson poultry authorities to help further im provement. A sight for sore eyes is the 300 or 400 young stock in his yards, with a noticeable tendency to “broad backs for big layers.” Sales all over the Southern states are common for Fields, but what is infinitely more important to Darlington county is the fact that farm flocks by the dozen over the county carry the fine blood of Fields' Reds. . , : X When the mosquitoes come around to torment ns again, it may be well to have a copy of Formers’ Bulletin 1570-F, Mosquito Remedies and Preventives. This bulletin can: be secured free from the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. * 4