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Thursday, September 4, 1930 McCURMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCR, Sou** CfTIn*. Page NumEe* TEfol McCORMICK MESSENGER Published 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 ADVS., 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. decisive means to keep the reck- Immediate Improve- less, the irresponsible, and both the .r ^ ment In Low Priced mentally .ana physically incompet ent from the public highways, where they menace the lives and property of all other motorists. xxx Politieal Legislation SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months.50 READING AND THINKING Some people read much, but do very little thinking. They see the words in print before them.^but not the great fundamental truiThs that inspire those words. The habit of reading is one of inestimable value to the individual but it should not be carried beyond the point where intelligent thought can dissect the subject and master the secrets that are not otherwise revealed. Cramming the mind is like jam ming the cylinder of an engine. It becomes too tight to function, and is thus rendered useless. Read a little, think a lot, and you will travel easier and go farther on your way. XXX GIVING THEM A CHANCE Every young man is entitled to a fair opportunity in the business and social world. He is entitled to be judged by his own mental and moral qualifica tions, and not by the standard of the parents who brought him into the world. Such is sometimes, but not often, the case. Many a young man of great promise is seriously hampered by the reputation of one or both of his parents. The sins of the fa ther are visited upon the son, and the innocent youth suffers for the acts of the guilty adult. This is true because as a civilized people we are not yet entirely civ ilized. A polished veneer covers the surface, but often fails to pen etrate to the heart. Give the young man a fair chance, and let his own acts make nr break him. X The Automobile Is Responsible In spite of the fact that 31,000 people were killed last year by au tomobiles, the general accident sit uation affords grounds for optim ism. Accidents among children of school age have increased less than one-tenth of one per cent in the last seven years. Less than 100 passengers were killed while traveling on all the American rail roads in 1929. Hundreds of our large industrial concerns have made remarkable records in reduc ing their accident rates—both in frequency and severity. A multi tude of smaller plants are estab lishing one, two and even five-year 4< no-accident” records. Had it not been for the tragic increase of deaths and injuries due to the au tomobile, the national accident rate would now be 30 per cent lower than it was 17 years ago. The crux of the entire matter is that we have made good progress In preventing all kinds of accidents except those for which motor cars are responsible. Safety work and instruction in schools and indus tries, fostered and encouraged by casulty insurance companies, has been the means of saving thou sands of Uves in the last decade. This work is being carried on with Increasing intensity and vast pro gress will be recorded in the fu ture. The automobile accident record will not be reduced until we take In a recent editorial the Boston News Bureau says, “Legislatures ex ist for the purpose of legislating, and some members are so consci ous of their duty that they put their brains to work originating legislation, when there is nothing that seems obviously to need a new law.” It then cites the attempt of a lawmaker to provide means for limiting or regulating the use of machines and inventions which save labor, in order to lessen un employment. . It is interesting to note that without our labor-saving machin ery, workers in the United States, which has forged ahead of the rest of the world by being first to take advantage of new inventions, would find themselves competing on equal terms with European and Asiatic workers accustomed to low er standards of living. Concluding its comment; The Boston News Bureau says, “Per haps such suggestions make good campaign material for politicians seeking the vote of the unemploy ed. But they also make good cam paign material for those who decry the intellectual capacity of demo cracies to govern themselves.” Automotive Field Future Hopeful For Mining A hopeful future is forecast for the mining industry which has suf fered severely from the economic depression during the first part of 1930. Metals are morfe essential to in dustrial progress today than they have ever been. The electric, radio, telephone and railroad in dustries—to name but a few—are virtually dependent on an ade quate, fair-priced supply of the base metals. Twenty years ago the mining in dustry was still in the throes of “Wild west” conditions. At present it is operated on sound economic principles that compare favorably with those of any other industry. Scientific discoveries and innova tions and improved standards of management have enabled it to make great progress. The industry’s principal problem is the agitation for excessive tax rates and burdensome legislation in several states. It is to be hoped that the people of the west, know ing that mining is one of their principal employers and taxpayers, will not be led astray by unfounded criticism of a great industry. X Winter Quarters For Bees DETROIT, Mich., Sept., 2.—Del- inite signs of immediate improve ment in the low priced automotive field were noted by J. C. Chick, As sistant General Sales Manager of the Chevrolet Motor Company, during a recent field survey which brought him into contact with every major marketing area East of the Mississippi. Sales are picking up. Stocks are in satisfactory shape. And the re lation of new to used car stocks is in decidedly better proportion than in 1929. “Perhaps the most noteworthy sign, however, is the confident at titude voiced by business leaders I spoke with during the trip,” Mr. Chick said. “Merchants, bankers, professional men everywhere seem to feel sure of an improved Fall and Winter, and such opinions are a reflection of the attitude of that part of the public which those men deal with. If, as has been said re peatedly, the recession this year was mainly psychological, then we may expect an early return of new record months, for the public is looking to the future with confid ence, where a few months ago it looked with a certain amount of hesitancy. “The best proof of this changed attitude is provided by the sales chart. In the Carolinas and ex treme Southeast, which I visited just % before the middle of the month, our sales for the first days of August were above the same period in July. ' “Throughout my territory, sales today as against the same period last year are comparatively better than they have been at any time in 1930. “Our recent announcement of a wider variety of colors, the M0 re- ^ second and third wife may duction on all sport models, and ge ^ m0 st petting, but the first wire wheels furnished without ad- automobile gets the most polish- ditional cost are factors which will j n g tend to aid sales in the late Sum mer and Fall. But the major fac tor is that changed public attitude —the replacing of hesitancy by confidence.” Probably fewer sandwiches would be discarded from children’s lunch boxes if the bread were always of the best quality. Children will eat more bread if different kinds are served. Sometimes so simple a change as baking the bread in a new form,—a twist or roll instead of a loaf, or cutting the sandwiches into fancy shapes with a cookie cutter, will increase interest in it. The change of flavor given by add ed raisins, dried currants, dates, or nut meats is another inducement to like the lunch bread. txx Every time an airplane does a nose dive or a tail spin, or a mine blows up, we are reminded of what a firm thing it is to have the earth at our feet. txt When you think you have “put one over” on someone, remember that the whale thought he had turned a good trick when he swal lowed Jonah. txi Society decrees a time for girl’s coming out, but there is no cer tainty about when she will come in. X Another fine thing about a vaca tion is that it requires work to save up for the next one. x When you feel a dollar bill in your pocket it serves only to re mind you that you’ve forgotten to pay a bill some place. txt It is a wise thing to keep in touch with the world, but still wiser to keep beyond its touch. X Folks who know it all have one thing yet to learn—what other people think of them. x Here is something to remember: Napoleon is better known because of his Waterloo than any oi his victories. XXI Thorough plowing under in the fall of crop residues is the most practicable means of controlling two widespread tomato diseases, early-blight and leaf-spot. When properly done,- spraying and dust ing are effective in controlling these diseases but the necessary applications are expensive and are difficult under some weather con ditions. These two blights are caused by fungi that live chiefly on dead plant materials, and com plete destruction of crop debris is the most economical means of de priving the fungi of food. Experi- Utilization of farm by-products, wastes, and surplus crops, through feeding to livestock, may maan the difference between profit and loss in feeding, ifeore than $100,000,000 worth of corn stover and straws are burned, plowed under, allowed to rot in stacks, .or otherwise wasted each year in the United States. Large quantities of inferior hay, grain, and roughage for which there is no .ready market may be advantageously fed to livestock. Cottonseed meal is often used as a direct fertilizer in sections where it is cheap—though it is usually ments conducted by the U. S. De- ; more profitable to feed it to stock, partment of Agriculture indicate! Crops such as potatoes and pea- that tomatoes grown on fall-plowed j nuts may be so plentiful and cheap land are freer from blights than as to warrant feeding the surplus those grown on spring-plowed land. to stock instead of storing them. Although good colonies of bees with plenty of stores often survive very cold winters with little pro tection, it is usually better in the North to provide some protection, Packing and protection tend to re duce the necessity for heat produc tion by the honeybees. Consequent ly they consume less food and their vitality is not reduced so much. Pack the hive in chaff, leaves, or similar material to check loss of heat. In generating heat bees con sume honey, and the water in the honey passes off into the hive as vapor. Unless the temperature within the hive is high enough this water will condense. If water runs onto the cluster, harm results. If the hive is packed properly and if the colony is in rood condition, the beekeeper need have little fear that water vapor will condense within the hive to the injury of his colony. In cold weather entrances should be contracted to keep out the cold, sudden draughts, and wind, and to prevent mice from en tering. It is best to contract the entrance to a space just high en ough for a bee to pass through. This will then permit flight in. suit able weather, will allow the bees to carry out debris, and will prevent the bees from becoming restless as might be the case if they were con fined. Here’s a good Septemebr menu: Com soup, made from fresh com cut from the cob; omelet with Spanish sauce, which contains to matoes and peppers; rice; new yel low or white turnips; apple sauce from some of the windfalls, with cup cake. Introduction of a new one and one-half ton truck by the Chevro let Motor Company is announced today by H. J. Klingler, Vice-Presi dent and General Sales Manager. Highlights of the new type in clude dual-wheels as optional equipment; heavier rear axle; new pressed steel wheels interchange able front and rear; new one piece steel channel frame, and internal expanding brakes on all four wheels. The new truck lists at $520 f. o. b. Flint, Mich., while dual wheels including six truck-type cord tires are $25 extra. Coming directly after the an nouncement by Chevrolet that pro duction of light delivery trucks for the first six months of this year exceeded the same period last year by twenty per cent, the introduc tion of this improved larger truck seems destined to add to the grow ing importance of Chevrolet in the low priced commercial car field. More than 1,160,000 trucks have been built by Chevrolet since the company began to turn out this type, Mr. Klingler stated. The new chassis is built com plete with cab, and affiliations with body manufacturers enable the purchaser to choose the exact type of body for the work to be done from . thirty six different types. Chevrolet dealers are sup plied with complete details on the various bodies available. Production of the new truck is now in full swing and dealers throughout the country are being 'rapidly stocked with this new mod el, Mr. Klingler announced. XXI The “hot pack” is not a new method of canning. It is the meth od of filling -the jars to get good results. By the hot pack is meant cooking the fruit or vegetable to be canned for a short time, and then packing it boiling hot into jars or cans, which are then processed the required length of time. The hot pack shortens the time needed for the food in the center of the can to reach the required temperature for sterilization, insures a better product, and does away with the step that used to be known as “ex hausting.” txx Oysters are in season again. They are extremely valuable as a source of various minerals needed by the body. Like fresh fish, they supply iodine. You can get a free government bulletin on about any subject ex cept the art of saving the taxpay er money. X A driver back in the horse and buggy age didn’t depend entirely on his own intelligence, which may account for more accidents nowa days. X If the weather man would pre dict a severe winter right now, we would all feel better because of his inability to hit the mark. X A New York hotel cook who has been discovered to possess a fine operatic voice, will no doubt need a wonderful range: X No matter how profitable a business deal, it never provides the thrill that comes from finding a $1 bill in a discarded suit of clothes. x x t If you can’t afford a vacation this year, take out your window screens. The flies and mosquitoes can bite just as hard at home. ixi It used to be that every town had plenty of water troughs for the horses, but it is getting so now adays that you can’t even find them in the barn lots. —: x There is no pest worse than the fellow who knows a little about every subject that might be men tioned. X Now that the tariff measure is passed, if anything goes wrong, we know where we can place the blame. X Some people never exercise their iudament often enough to keep it in training. tXi There is really nothing wrong with the rising generation, once it gets up in the morning. Automobile drivers all agree that roads should be made wider —also shorter. X After a heat wave, we believe a summer every other year would be a high enough average. XXT There may be automobile drivers who can think fast, but. chances are that they wih drive even fast er than that. —tXt- — . > STORAGE CAPACITY 100, «0« BALES Ship Your Cotton to Us! Low Rates—Every Service— This organization was recently formed to take over all properties of the Atlantic States Ware house and Compress Company. We will store your cotton at most attractive rates. Further, we will arrange for you to secure ad vances on such cotton up to 80% of its value, pro vided proper margins are maintained. The rate of interest will be most attractive. If you like, we'll gladly sell your 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 here the kind of service you've always wanted. Get in touch with us AT ONCE! m RATES FOR STORING COTTON First Month, per bale 30c Each Month ^hereafter, per bale ..25c INCLUDING INSURANCE Georgia-Carolina Warehouse & Compress Co. AUGUSTA, GA. LANSING B. LEE, President HAMILTON PH1N1ZY, Vice-President J. J. BRESNAHAN, Secretary and. Treasurer r New GOODYEAR Heavy Duty All-Weather AC 375-B BOTTOM PRICED TODAY! Enjoy the pride, and protec tion of riding on these stun ning new Goodyear Heavy All-Weathers—for as little as ordinary 4-ply tires cost last year. Liberal trades. GULF SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, F^rop. PHONE 40 McCORMICK, S. C. Mep are becoming handsomer, says an English surgeon. Now won’t the women folks be jealous about that? ... jXt . Jesse James was no “piker” in his day, but just think what- would have-happened if he had lived in the automobile age. 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 ho additional charge for service out of town j. s. Main Street McCoi S. C.