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Thursday, October 16, 1930 . *1 cOC/i' .w Page Number Eight Sheriff Must Collect Delinquent Taxes Sheriff V7. T. Strom is in receipt of the following letter from Comp troller General A. J. Beattie: Dear Mr. Strom: I wrote you in September regard- | ing the collection of all delinquent! tax executions in your hands. Fol lowing this, I would like to know what progress is being made in this direction. I know of no better time to collect these delinquent taxes, which are long past due. YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED to make a final return for the yea3r 1928 and back, on or before t]?& 15th day of November. If adver tisement and sale is necessary in; order to accomplish this, you are directed to take such action, par-, ticularly with reference to the year 1928 and prior. Yours very truly, . A. J. BEATTIE, • Comptroller General* ■£X$^9t!!S5595S > <» NATURAL ACTION Judge—You admit you entered the house of the prosecutor by the rear door at two o'clock in the morning. What business had you there at that time of night? Prisoner—I thought It was my own house. Judge—Then why did you, when this lady approached, leap through the window, .lump into a cistern, and hide yourself? Prisoner—I thought she was my wife.—Stray Stories. MIGHTY EFFORT \Y Al Butler—Did you call, sir? Mr. Netvriche—Yes, James. Just step over there and push the button— I want me valet! Greenwood, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY October 17th-18th WARNER BAXTER in “THE ARIZONA KID” The west of colorful border bandits and- ladies who know about men’s hearts. MONDAY and TUESDAY October 20th-21st CONSTANCE BENNET and LEWIS AYERS in “COMMON CLAY” Carries you to the inermost depths of the heart of wo manhood! WEDNESDAY and THURS. October 22nd-23rd ROBERT MONTGOMERY v and DOROTHY JORDAN in “LOVE IN THE ROUGH” Golf was his game—love was hers! But cupid was on her side. How could she help winning! Youthful! Gay! Tuneful! Eyeful! The Exception I like folks to be what they are But I am always filled with rage. When I am on a motor trip And my old bus does act its age. Unchanged “Do .you act towards your wife as you did before you married her?” “Exactly. I remember just how I used to act when I first fell in love with her. I used to lean over the fence in front of her house and gaze at her shadow on the curtain, afraid to go in. And I act the same way now.”—Capper’s Weekly. Heard That Before Henry—You’re wanted on the tele phone. Horace—Say I'm in my hath. Henry—I did, but he wouldn’t be lieve it. Horace—I’d better answer it, then. It must be some one who knows me well.—Hummel, Hamburg. REDUCTION .on high grade cab bage plants on quantities from 909 or more. > See, write or phone . H. R. Deason, McCormick, S. C. 0S-S==S=9====3============S WANTED Reliable Man to call on farmers in McCormick County. ’ Wonderful opportunity. > Make $8 to $20 daily. No experience or cap ital needed. Write today. McNess Co., Dept. M, Freeport, 111. tssssssssssssssssssass* .. | g”3sr~ FOR SALE—At my residence inj McCormick one two horse wagon,^ one automobile, one cutaway har- xow, one lot of farming tools, and plow gear. J. D. Richardson. LOCALMARKET COTTON— Strict Low - 8 3-4 Middling — — 9 1-4 Strict MiddUng 9 1-2 Good Middling 10 Cotton Seed Bushel 36 cts. Breakfast Bacon per lb. — 35 to 50 Eggs per dozen 35 cts. Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 22 cts. Flour per sack 79c. to $1.40 Flour per barrel $6.00 to $11.00 Butter per lb. 45 cts. Green Coffee, per lb. — 20 to 60 cts Roasted Coffee, per lb. 20 to 55 cts. Rice, per lb. 5c. to 10c. "Grist, per lb. Sets Molasses per gal. 50 to $1.00 Com per bu. $1.25 Fine Feed, 75 lbs. $1.75 Oats per bu. 80 cts. Wheat, per bu. $1.50 Cheese per lb. 25 to 35 cts. 1X1 Perspiring at a dance and over the kitchen stove are entirely dif ferent things. tXl — Some folks never vary the regul arity of their church attendance by not attending. x Rice is the staple farm product 3ia Korea. Indications Janet (disappointedly) — I guess Roger and I won’t get married so soon after all. Mother—Why, what makes you think that? Janet—He sent me a large box of bandkerchiefs with my initials on them—enough to last a year! Punished Shinn—How’s Abel Sass getting on with that school teacher he’s calling on now? . . Foote—Well, every time he goes to see her she keeps him an hour longer for being naughty. New Deni Fortune Tell—It’s in the turn of the cards that money comes to your bus- band. * Mrs,—No. no. It’s In the turn of the cards that money goes from my husband. WRONG WORD “Lay down, dog, lay down!” “He doesn’t understand you, man. Don’t you see he’s a Boston bull?” We Might Try n Traffic Dove When Noah sailed the ocean blue. He had his troubles same as you; For days and days he drove the ark. Before he found a place to park. Get Steamed Up, John Mr. Slack—I want you to under stand that I have my own train of thought. Mrs. Slack—Yes, I know; a very slow train with an awfully poor con ductor, John. Speechless Emotion “Hallo, where have you been? “To the station to see my wife off for a month’s holiday.” “But how black your hands are!” “Yes, I patted the engine.”—Nebel- spalter. Mad “You should have seen me foaming at the mouth the oilier morning.” “Were you mad?” “I sure was. I’d brushed my teeth with shaving cream.” Wants John to Try It Mr. Jabbs—Good nature is just noth ing more than a state of mind, Jane. Mrs. Jabbs—Well, I hope some day you will be able to get into that state of mind, John. * Why Ho Lost Her “You used to say I was a man after your own heart.” “Yes, but when I found you were after half a dozen other girls’ hearts, I changed my mind.” This Week b Arthur Brisbane A Troubled World The Dean's for Eugenics What Ails Us All Power Unlimited? There is serious revolution in Bra zil, Pernambuco taken by the rebels, according to report. In the Argentine rioting leaders are executed. In China 75,000 “Reds” attack Ki- angsi province. Mild and peaceful-south Germany is rocked by earthquake. Raphael’s beautiful Madonna in Munich, with the exquisite little cherubs looking upward, must have felt the quake, but fortunately was not injured. The dean even takes an Interest in the theory that a woman should be allowed to regulate the size of her family. There is something in the statement that nature doesn’t always function perfectly. Of the first two brothers born on earth by nature’s process, Cain and Abel, one killed the other. When you are ill it is well to know what is the matter. Business is ill, with an illness that affects millions of unemployed, as illness of the body affects billions of cells. Mr. L. Greenfield, of Santa Bar bara, diagnosing, finds the following list of symptoms: 1. Over-speculation. 2. Fear. 3. Loss of confidence in our finan cial system. 4. Very low and cautious circula tion of money. 5. Increase of unemployment by big business methods of “economy.” G. False statements of the country’s condition. What would you add to these symp toms? There is something the mat ter that nobody understands. This country fortunately will cure itself this time as it has cured Itself often before. Experiments in Cuba by Georges Claude, French scientist, may raeam more to the world than all the wars, and most of the inventions, since Na poleon died. Taking advantage of difference in temperature between surface and deep water in the gulf. Professor Claude has . succeeded in supplying power to light 40 500-watt electric lamps. This means actually utilizing the power of the sun. When that is final ly accomplished the human race will possess power unlimited, and will do whatever It can iroagtac*, Mother Britannia begins to realize that her dominion sons are children no longer, and agrees, on demand of the Irish Free State, that the high court of any dominion shall render final decisions. Any dominion, that chooses may abolish the right of its citizens to appeal to Britain’s privy council against her own Supreme court. . ,.. v 1 If Is said the British never re peal a law, but let it die of its own accord. The British rule that a man may beat his wife with a stick no bigger around than his thumb re mained long after such beatings had lost public approval. One scientist, disliking the idea of making money, said when announcing an important discovery: “Thank heav en, it cannot have any practical use.” Probably he was mistaken. Paresis, a disease of the mind, that had always ended fatally, is now treated successfully by radio. The “curing machine” is a small radio station. Its energy is localized between two plates. The patient sits between them, and the radio impulses pass through him, creating a high fever. It is a pleasure to read in Presi dent Hoover’s address to the Ameri can Legion: “We must sustain a preparedness for defense that is impregnable, ye: that contains no threat of aggression.’ There is no threat of aggression in being prepared. The history of thb country proves that it will not cngag« in tlie piracy of war unless force< to do so. Wall Street rend ads you of a b:d>> with tbe colic. Try as you may. yoi. can't soothe it, or stop its weeping It reminds you. also, of the watch a: the mad hatter’s tea party, wliicl. would not keep lime, although *'th< best butter” was put in its works. Wall Street gentlemen tell each otb er. with ley smiles, that everythin;, looks “very good, indeed.” Then be cause some pirate sells their stocks short, they follow suit, and sell also What are those best financial minds doing at present? Taking a vacation7 It is a strange, agitated, restless, dissatisfied world. Dean Inge of St. Paul’s cathedral in London, most important clergyman, warns his fellows in the church that they must not “ignore the eugenists,” namely those interested in producing better children. Nature does not know anything, ac cording to the dean. We have scien tific knowledge, and if we don’t use it, that is “counted to us for a sin.” This Week b Arthur Briseams The President's Speeci* $27 a Hay for All Better Than UoM Germany Hoes Somethin;: The President’s optimistic view the near future, hacked by sound facts and figures, should comfon J many doubting Americans who thought tlie world had come to an end when violent stock gambling produced its usual result. Particularly important is the fact, usually forgotten, that this nation consumes 90 per cent of ail it pro duces. If tomorrow the people of the United States, consumers and distrib utors, should resume their normal purchasing, instead of holding back in a vague, foolish fear, our prosperity conditions would immediately become 97 per cent of normal. Americans now hoarding, they know not why. should remember that the 1930 dollar will do almost twice the Inlying work of a 1929 dollar. Buy now. the dollar’s 1930 value will not endure. If Henry Ford’s latest prediction becomes reality, this country will con sume all it can produce, and more, barring, perhaps, superflous food prod wets. And if they can he produced as cheaply In proportion as our automo biles are produced, our farms could undersell the world, as our automo bile and moving picture factories do. Mr. Ford predicts a minimum pay for workers of $27 f day by 1950, the five-day week to be universal, giving the $27 a day man leisure to enjoy ids earnings, automobile, radio, etc. To many tha* seems preposterous— nhrtost criminal. But not long ago there was only one man in the United States that could earn a dollar a day the year round. The Increase from one dollar a day for one man only, to six dollars a day. and more, foi millions of men, would have seemed as “impossible” as the increase that Mr. Ford suggests from six dollars to twenty-seven. Discovery of a gold mine contain Ing two or three billions of dollars in gold would be welcome news, financ ing tbe world more strongly on a gold basis. Discovery of a mine containing millions of tons of pure copper would be of great value to industry, although it might upset stock prices. But no mineral discovery could be as welcome or as important as the discovery, just announced, of huge ra ilium deposits at Wilberforce, Ontario These deposits are said to be great er than those owned by Belgium in the Congo, hitherto greatest in the world. Germany proposes to meet the crisis • of extreme radicalism on one hand and threat of Fascist leadership on the other by action. Rigid economy will reduce national expenditures by a billion marks. It Is even suggested that General Ton Hindenburg’s pay be reduced. We have no money worries here, with money to loan a drng in the mar ket. We seem, to lack the energy that docs something, or anything. We are like a poor old lady, dispossessed fi om he? prosperity lodgings, weeping • on the sidewalk, not knowing whnt to do. i > lies The fiery llttiei iivuim!:' you of the saying that if oum ’•“"or* go i«»o v Yar he never goes un cim, gone far enough. He not only thresiten** Hlndenhurg but proposes Russia, “because Germany m * • territory for expansion.” A large, Bolshevik bear in Moso. will have something to say about that. George M. Reynolds, head of the oig Continental Illinois Bunk and Trust company of Chicago, ended his fiftieth year In banking with this sen tilde and comforting statement: “Depression don’t kill people. We are recovering from this depres sion faster than we appreciate. There » ts nothing fundamentally the trouble | with this country. In a few months ; the volume of business will startle the nation by Its fcize.” One thing write down and remem t>er for ftiture reference. This is the time to buy good stocks, if you have money to buy and will not be fright ened away from them. But no time is good for gambling. Simple-minded red men - sold Manhattan Island for $24, not sus pecting how that island and land ad joining across the East river would •ievelbo. New York city, with more than 7,000.000 population, has real estate issessed at $19,700,000,000 which means that k is worth at least *30.000,000.000. That is impressive, and interesting. Imp-essive and worth remembering ts tbe fad that il the Indians had put their $24 out at 0 per cent with compound interest they would have enough money now^tp4myJManhattan Island several rimes over. \ The difficulty Is that you can’t make il.aii sort of eoinpcund Interest \in- vestment, whereas you can buy \a good piece of real estate. tr.ke car of it. and later have It take caj you. HER BUYING GUIDE 111 her capacity as housewife, every wo man in charge of a household is its gener al manager. Upon her devolves the duty of making rather large purchases, which leads into another duty-that of economical expend itures of the household funds. The observing housewife has doubtless noticed that her husband reads industri ously what he calls his “trade papers,” pertaining to his business. He reads them to keep pace with his work and to help solve the problems that arise every day. The careful housewife will find that the newspapers are her “trade papers.” The advertisements tell her nearly everything about the purchases she wishes to make, that she should know. i If she is a good household manager, like her husband, who spends many hours en grossed in his magazine and papers so that he may conduct his business more successfully, she will study with care the advertisements in the newspapers and find that they enable her to conduct her business more economically and success fully, and thus add to the comfort and joy of home life. After becoming a careful and thought ful reader of newspaper advertisements, this type of housewife will be able to choose the store that gives her the great est value for her mony. Her choice will inevitably be the store where she can get the advertised goo^$, she asks for and where she has been jfissured in advance through advertisements, that the pur chases she makes will be as advertised. The thoughtful household manager will discover that any merchant who ad vertises will keep the contract he makes’ with his customers in his advertisements, 'on learns that any retail dealer who '•egularly will not betray lier ■ii the merchant in- the newspaper, he is speak- She ) serts an ad with his own n ing to her. Tell the merchants with • you trade that they should advertise their goods regularly so that you may know what they have to sell and keep pace with the introduction of new goods and fash ions. This paper is the medium for this coun ty and adjacent territory, and the cost of advertising is small: McCORMICK MESSENGER . <