McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, September 25, 1930, Image 2
Thursday, September 25, 1930
McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, South Cmron**
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^ SPEEDING EDUCATION
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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^ _ _ 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. • *