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Thursday, September 25, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, South Cmron** Page Number Two McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established Jane 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 tingle 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 f 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 ^ SPEEDING EDUCATION jf" ■ ; Changing social customs in the United States constantly result from the invention and introduc tion of more scientific machinery. The increase of 25 per cent in the number of students in junior col leges has been pointed to as an in dication of the desire of young people to equip themselves to meet the highly competitive social and industrial conditions that obtain ' throughout the Nation. Strangely enough the total en rollments in colleges in the Unit ed States have shown a decrease in recent years and this indicates that college students are stopping short of obtaining “higher educa tion,” and i are content to obtain specialized scientific knowledge that they can turn into quick dol lars in business, or in a profession al way.. Doctor William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education of the United States, believes that new customs and machinery production are crowding out the traditions of education. Evidently humanity is in a hurry to obtain its education, just as it Is in a hurry to do everything else In life. i mat it Milder met o ON BEING PUNCTUAL It was Oscar Wilde who describ ed one of his'Characters- as “al ways late on principle, his prin ciple being that punctually is the thief of time.” It is the type of jest which many a -literary person has launch * Milder, yes-but something more. Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying flavor. BETTER TASTE—that’s the answer; and that’s what smokers get in Chesterfield in full est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. Better taste, and milder too! © 1930, Lpacw t Myers Tobacco Co. agatastthe discipiesof 8= 12,4S5 Persons Killed On Grade Grossings The Past Year Smiles, who held that if punctula- ity was the politeness of kings it was also “the necessity of men of business.” But if punctuality be a base commercial virtue, what can, the literary jesters make of a man A railroad locomotive engineer who was so fond of being late that attalns his P<>sH*>n only after long he even ordered his funeral to be y ears of training in which he must behind the promised time-and I not only demonstrate that he has who yet compiled a fortune as a lnt i mate knowledge of his engine, - London draper? but that he has the i« d 6 ment and The facts are given among the tbe sense of responsibility to safe- news of recent wills; the fortune is e uard the llves and P^Perty en- there specified, and at the end of trusted 40 hls care - He 18 bound ^ the will was the instruction “As i strict rules, rigidly enforced, and have always had the reputation of the operation of his train is pro being late for my appointments, my tect f d ^ elaborate safety devices joy will still be to be late at my AlnM> st any person who can shift funeral—and hope my friends will * ears ls Permitted to drive an au- enjoy the Joke. Make me ten min- tomobUe - and a ^ “ umber of utes late.” motorists pay scant attention to This is a case where the business I laws intended to make highway travel safe. In 1929 grade crossing accidents caused the death of 2,485 persons and injury to 6,804 others. More than 25 per cent of these accidents occurred when motorists, driving so recklessly or so rapidly that they could not stop, drove their cars in- .. .. . « K 0 the sides of trains. Most of the tination; only a ghost which miss- . . . , - .. ’, . j I remainder were caused by the ed the chimes of midnight and . .. . . ... . . , .. . . . . I failure of automobile drivers to ex- then dawled on after cock crow siiehtest deeree of cau- could improve on this gesture °f I tion at Kradi crossi^s contempt for time tables. The ^nly^emedy is a sustained But the testator faUed to achieve .ho .. . . . , . _ . . ... „ . effort to educate motorists to the this triumph, for his wiU was not Crossine Crossing opened until - after the funeral, j of Crosslng Crosslngs when the instruction was discover- x ed, and his interment had taken place on time. x world seems to have carried the war into the enemy’s camp with rare determination—no merely lit erary person has ever contrived a jest against punctuality of greater levity than this. To be punctilious ly late for one’s own funeral seems to be the last triumph of procras- ing 1930, will reach the appalling total of 36,000, or approximately 10 per day, according to estimates just inade by the American Motorists’ Association. The estimates .are based on A preliminary survey'for the first six months of this year, which shows that there has been an increase of 9 per cent in automobile fatalities, over the corresponding period of 1929. “At the same rate of increase, for the entire year of 1930, it will mean that a total of 36,035 persons will meet their death as the re sult of automobile accidents, rep resenting an increase of 2,975 over the 1929 traffic toll which was 33,- 060,” declares J. Borton Weeks, President of the A. M. A. The greatest number of acci dents, according to reports made to the Department of Compierce, oc cur between 5 and 6 o’clock, dur ing the motor vehicle traffic move ment homeward. The next most dangerous period of the day is be tween 7 and 8 p. m., while Sunday com and hay crops. Some private estimates have placed the corn crop at less than two billion bush- elsi‘ If the crop falls to this figure it will be the smallest crop in 29 4rears. It is estimated that the' hay production will be about 93 million tons, or 11 per cent below the five- year average. The estimate for the South Atlantic States is 27 per cent below the five-year average for this region. Because of the^ con dition of the pastures, which has been the lowest in 67 years, much grass that normally would have been cut for hay has been pastur- country, ed. All the indications are that both corn and hay will be high in price next winter and spring. The demand for corn may be lessened somewhat by the fact that there are fewer * hogs than usual on the farms. On January 1 of ed without a great deal of expense and the farmer has the alternative of letting it mature for grain, cut ting it for hay, grazing it off, or turning it under as a green man ure crop. If the corn and hay sit uation should not be as serious as is now indicated, the oat crop may be advantagously turned under for green manure purposes and the land planted to some 1 other crop. If allowed to mature for grain, the Plowing To Control Borers Plowing com fields to control the corn borer is not effective un less the plowman makes a clean job of it. Disking before plowing is sometimes helpful, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. If the soil is dry and cloddy before crop will come off before the sit- P lowin «- dlskin e ffV hel P P u ‘- verize it, so that the plow will uation has been relieved by a crop in the grain-growing section of the cover the stalks more completely. Disking will also cut the stalks in to short lengths which the culti vator is less likely to drag out. However, if the ground is damp In view of the fact that meat will likely be relatively expensive the coming year it may be well for . .. . . South Carolina farmers to under- and ^ f ough dlsku f take to increase, by inexpensive ma y leave , * mor « , d ‘ fflcuIt t0 P” 1 ' means the farm supply this win- a « d bind « coverage. ,ter. Little can be done now to in- R°“ ing or dragging the stalks so on I crease the number of hogs hut by tbat ^ , lea " ? f tbe dlre< \ t, ° r \, of this year there were fewer hogs on ^ ^ ^ ing plow travel is helpful provided the farms than any year since 1914. zln and otherwise feed- sta,ks arc not broken loose and the except 1926 when the number was more carefuUy the pounds of f oU 18 not , " ared , b y ^ckmg lt about the same as this year. Be- be increased _ It is real . s always difficult to leave the cause of the small com crop, a jzed of course that th<2 Wgher corn headlands and backfurrows clean is the most dangerous day of the greater proportion than usual of js reIative to the lce of hog . s the because the ground is almost al- week due, of course, to the increas- this year’s hog crop may be soldj^ one can afford to feed it ^ ways packed on headlands and it ed use of automobiles on that day. and if the price of corn gets too hogs; but fortunately South Caro- ’ 8 impossible to turn tne stalks to the statement concludes. high relative to the price of hogs, lina farmers do not have to de- the P ro Pcr de P th m the backfur- -X- many hogs may be put on the mar- pend upon corn for. growing hogs. , 1 '® w 1 8 ’ . D ‘ sking . ^ bar ° wl mg is TT . , ^ . j tj ket at lighter weights than nor- ft may be good farm management llkely the surface Higher Corn And Hogs many. Nevertheless, if the crop to finish hogs on even high-priced eyen tbough th , e field , seel " s , ' we " runs as low as conditions now in- Qornj y t h e hogs have been grown cleared when plowing is finished. FARM ECONOMIST ADVISES chcate corn is almost certain to sell on inexpensive feeds. FEED CROPS AND WISE FEED- at a hi S h P^ce. Likewise, the indi- cations are that hogs will also be The old skinflint who drops a „ . _ ^ , i high during the coming year. nickel in the collection box and border around tew ole field will TNG OF HOGS Therefore it is best to rake and burn thees strips before plowing. Raking and burning a 25-foot In the light of the present situa- expects a dollar’s worth of blessing Because the old-fashioned crook ^ed-neck summer squash is hard to pack for marketing, a grower has Automobile Accidents ■ By ^M^aTement's^rclal^t^™ tion it would seem that the far- is doomed to disappointment. I Wrea,,. n„rin„ Y-ar I ^ Lam ">«. »' South cr.,,„. could u. . - ‘ ^ CdoC XTUr ig X Car sections from the excessive drought greater degree than usual, plan. drought greater aegree man usual, pian. Another one of life’s inconsist- which has prevailed over much of oats for grain and oats and vetch, encies is that a baseball player also dispose of most of the borers that might otherwise crawl out of the plowed land to find new shelter in fence rows or other fields. tXt ^ _ _ WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 12.— the country, the indications are or other winter crops for hay and works when it is too hot to work A new material for footwear, a produced a new strain with a | Deaths, as the result of automobile that there Mil be a material re- for grazing. The oat crop in South and loafs when it is too cold to combination of rubber and leather* straight neefc. j accidents in the United States dur- duction from the normal in the Carolina, fortunately, can be plant- work. , v is being developed. • *