Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y / , ^Tkursday, October 23, 1030 McCORMICK MBSShjfrtihjR, J\1 cUOKAlJcK: South KJaroiins. Page Number Two McCORMKK MESSENGER Little talk On Thrift frJr. Published Every Thursday Established Juke 5, 1902 edmoxd j. McCracken, Editor and Owner m. M wi Hr 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 dingle column display. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. BUSINESS READING NOTICES: S per cent per line for each inser tion, average of . 6 words to line. WANT ADV$., 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, 6 cents pef 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 A RECKLESS HABIT An automobile driver in Massa chusetts, was brought into police court the other day on a charge of dangerous driving. And although it was brought out that he had on ly gone at a rate of five miles an hour, he was found guilty and fined $50. His machine was parked at .a curb. He got in and, without look ing behind, suddenly backed his car so that he could drive, away. TWo people, starting to cross the street just behind him, were knock ed down. # This emphasizes once more that it is not necessarily high speed that makes an automobile dangerous. A driver who does not watch very carefully where he is going can be far more dangerous to others when he travels five miles an hour than S. W. STRAUS LONG RECOGNIZ ED AS AMERICA’S MOST MIL ITANT THRIFT ADVOCATE (By H. R. DANIEL, Secretary American Society for Thrift.) S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW a more considerate motorist when driving at a 40-mile clip. txi- THE FIRST 50 YEARS is A good many of us fall into the error of assuming that because* the average expectancy of life for the people as a whole has greatly in creased during the last . forty or fifty years, the man who has es caped the menaces and perils of the first half Century of life is less under obligation than formerly to look out for his physical welfare. It is true, of course, that/ the baby bom today has a far better chance of reaching the allotted span of three score years and ten (than he would have had oply a comparatively few years ago; but it Is not true, on the other hand, that the traditional scriptural al lotment has been very largely ex pended. In the lower age brackets, more lives are being saved, but the life span itself has been very little af fected by better hygienic, social and economic conditions. The mal adies of childhood and the ’teens have been encouragingly subordin ated, but the so-calle<J degenera tive diseases and certain others common to late middle life have - been scarcely touched. As the Portland Oregonian re cently pointed out, “the distinction between greater expectancy for all the population and increase of the ultimate life term is important, be cause those who do not make it are apt to acquire a false sense of se curity.” It is not very difficult to fore- The death of S. W. Straus remov ed from the field of activity the most militant advocate of thrift in American life. It is doubtful, in fact, if any other individual has ever worked as constantly and ag gressively over a long period of years in the interest of popular thrift education. To him, widespread adherence to thrift practices meant the solution of many of our deepest economic and sociological problems. His in terpretation of the meaning of thrift brought about an entirely new and popular point of view on the subject. Before S. W. Straus took up the cudgels for thrift that word to the vast majority of per sons meant merely saving money. It had nothing to do with one’s general progress .and success in life. But S. W. Straus strove to teach throughout his life, particularly during the last twenty years, that thrift of health and thrift of time were just as important as thrift of :noney. It was his belief, so strongly grounded that it might well ^iave been called his creed, that any individual who practiced intelli gent thrift was not only improving his own financial status but was developing a strong moral fibre and rounding out a fine and noble character. To be thrifty, there fore, meant to avoid ail practices and habits that were really harm ful to the individual or were in any way inclined to stay his success. It would not be possible to place any estimate on the value of the work accomplished by S. W. Straus during his lifetime in striving to encourage practices of thrift by the masses of the people in this coun try. His weekly articles were read by millions and the steady stream of letters he received continually from persons who had been en couraged through these articles to adopt habits of thrift attested to the fact that his thrift teachings had a very vital hold on the Ameri can public. “We must not overlook the fact that the standard of living of the American people is steadily improv ing. The bare necessities of life are not enough. We have our rightful conveniences, our com forts, our luxuries. In this way. we are developing new industries as well as furnishing employment for more people and for more capi tal. All of this is within meaning of true American progress and true American thrift.. For Employment Bureau Appeals For Aid _ SEATTLE, Wash., Oct 20.—For the month of September the Ma sonic Service Bureau of this city announced 84 placements in tem porary jobs and 7 placements in permanent positions,- with total earnings of $2,109.65. In making this report the Bureau reported that this was the poorest Septem ber in the last five years. In the number of placements and amount earned it shows just one- third of the average of the month during this period of time. In both of these figures it is just three- fourths of the average for the last, Hartsville — Peoples Drug Store twelve months, when as a rule Sep- p Urc hased by J. A. Curtis of Mc- tember is the best month of the | Bee Name of business will be year. The Bureau gives these ! changed to Curtis Drug Store, figures as proof of the fact that j G ree r — Collins Department employment is becoming more and store remodeled and improved. 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 the i ar(S prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned> and may be ► considered generally cor rect. £ DEPEND ON US FOR Expert Prescription Service When you have a prescription to be filled, it must be done right for often times a life may depend on it. We know how to fill them correctly. We use only the verv best and freshest drugs and exercise the utmost dkre in compounding. There is no question but that it is right when we fill it. SICKROOM SUPPLIES We also have a most complete stock of everything that is needed in the sick-room—all of the highest quality and best known makes. STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick. S. C. l3E ui T more difficult to obtain for those out of work. The report states further that many Masons all over the country are without food for their families and calls upon all Construction of South Carolina highways under $65,000,000 road bond issue, now being carried on at maximum rate of progress, with from 12 to 15 miles paving corn- members of the Fraternity to put^pi^d each week at present, ac- forth every effort to assist these members in some manner. TXI Discrimination. Against Older Workers Shown cording to Charles H. Moorefield, State Highway engineer. Columbia — Highway shops will be erected in Calhoun, Clarendon, Georgetown and Saluda counties. Greer — Graham Cash Store opened for business in remodeled building formerly occupied by Co hen’s on Trade Street. Columbia — State Highway De partment let contracts for con struction of ten bridge projects. Rock Hill — Peoples Warehouse Co formed here by interest con nected with Peoples National Bank and Peoples Trust Co. Ruffin —Second fall shipment of m WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.— Discrimination against older work ers, when additional help is being takers on, really exists even though the employer himself may be un aware of it, according to the Bu reau of Labor Statistics, Depart ment of Labor. This has been the experience of the Employment Aid i hogs made from here recently, of San Francisco, established to Bids opened for paving 7.436 help middle-aged persons find miles of Route No. 183 from Wal- work, it was reported. I halla to Westminster. During an eight months* period, j State Highway Department will 1.108 persons applied to the "organ-| pave 9.09J5 miles of Route 13 from ization for positions, but only 242 : Westminster to Georgia line, of them were placed, despite the | Paving will start soon on 8.936 fact ' that the Employment Aid miles of Route No. 9 from Lancas- specializes in this activity. No ap- ter to Fort Lawn, plicants were found jobs with large Bids opened for paving 5.893 employers, it was stated. Some of miles of Route No. 29 from, Gaffney CAN’T FIND DETTE than that which you can always get at this shop. No matter what kind you want, we have a choice cut to offer you. And we always have a complete variety. You’ll never be disappointed here. DELIVERY SERVICE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE % We are as near as your telephone. A phone call will bring your order to your door, saving you the time and trouble of coming to the shop yourself. Prices are very reasonable too. -You’ll find it economical to trade here. oi-* & r T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET McCORMICK, S. C. the latter proposed to help the or ganization but found it imprac tical to do so. The report con tinued: toward Blacksburg. State Highway Department op ened bids for paving 11.748 miles of Routes No. 4 and 30 from Sum- “Often the older worker, al- i merton to Route No. 45 near Par- though unfit for the work he did ler. paving true f American America never goes backwards.” in earlier days, is still perfectly capable of becoming a useful em ployee at some other job, at which he may maintain his Independence indefinitely. What is needed is a recognition of the facts, followed in some cases by training for a new job, and aid in securing work fitt- ed to the changed capacity. . . . “The present trend is toward the formation of large industrial com- binations and the merging or giv ing up ot smaller ones, with grave results to the older worker.” x It was with these words that S. W. Straus recently sought to use his widespread influence to en courage judicious, thrifty spending by the people of this country as an aid to business. Perhaps his words will be of help just now when ev ery effort is being made to stimu late general business activity. He always urged that in times such as the present people should spend money with as much freedom as might be considered within the bounds of prudence from the standpoint of the individual. He never advocated the wide spread spending of money by the public simply to encourage busi ness. He felt that the individual should always live within his meahs and at all times be prepar ed for the proverbial rainy day. He gave voice to the belief that the general expenditure of money by individuals for things they could not afford could result only in Delay Ih Painting Often Found Costl\ Bids opened for paving 9.557 miles of Routes No. 19 and 39 from Trenton via Johnston to Saluda County line. Route No. 15 to be paved from Laurens toward Princeton, distance of 5D68 .miles. York — State opened bids for paving 2.11 miles of Routes No. 5 and 16 in this town. Moncks Comer —* Athletic field at Berkeley High being repaired. Contract let for clearing, grading and sand-claying Route Nq. 49 north of Myrtle Beach to Little River. Siskron # property at Nettles’ crossing, on Florence-Darlington highway, purchased by Florence ancU DarUngton, counties for erec tion of tuberbulosis canitorium. for which Legislature appropriated $50,000. Walterboro — High school to in- • W> l k-} Camden — Cornerstone laid "o * ^ colored Presbyterian Church edi- -ci i i!ice. I Columbia — South Carolina Cot- Repainting of buildings should not be delayed until the old coat ing has flaked badly enough to ex pose much bare wood, for coatings often fail to give adequate protec tion against weathering long be- st ^ l n ® w equips 1611 ** fore they become unsightly, the Forest Service, United States De partment of Agriculture, says. The old coating serves as the foundation for the new one and if i ton Growers’ Co-operative Associa- it is badly chipped and broken cus- i tion maiIed checks totaling $102,- tomary methods of repainting fail j 000 t0 about 6 - 000 growers of State, in both appearance and durability ! ' n f' na ' settlement for past crops m I \le stall a considerable per centage of dangerous inflation apd a situation the afflictions which menace the! 01 economic unsoundness. At the elderly by early adoption of a sys tem of hygienic living, but we should not fail to give proper stress to the word “early” in reach ing this conclusion. -XXX same time he advocated a policy of judicious spending by those who could afford to spend in order to help busmess. Particularly in times of business depression, he be lieved that those who could afford to spend money freely in ways that Finish and weight are the prime would help relieve unemployment considerations in the fattening and promote better business should pen. The preferred market hog do so. must be big enough and fat enough “Judgment,” he pointed out, to dress a satisfactory per centage “must be used in deciding the and to produce attractive meat. It proper balance to be maintained must be small enough and thin between spending and saving by enough to yield “apartment cuts” the individual. We should not cul- with a good distribution of fat and tivate habits of miserliness, neither lean. The housewife prefers small 1 should we spend beyond our means, chops that cut four or five to the No man has the right to pauperize pound; she likes half ham that himself today and jeopardize his -costs less than $2; she is partial future economic independence un- Flat grained boards of some species that hold their paint well because of their low content of summer wood may need repainting long be fore they become unsightly. Conspicuous wood checks or cracks show clearly that the wood is no longer receiving sufficient protection even though the coat- j ing is apparently intact. Repaint- j ing neither heals nor entirely con- marketed co-operatively, according to R. B. Caldwell, president. Union — Marrinello Beauty Shop of Bessie Smith sold to Edna In gram. Newberry — Plans being made for Greater Newberry County Fair to be held on November 4-8. Due West — A. R. P. Church will I be dedicated November 29-30. :_x Why not spend il and enjoy it while you can? W hy deny yourself any pleasure it might buy? The answer is to be found in the personal histories of those who succeed and those who fail. Successful men, it will be found, have started on their road to success by feeding a savings account while failures are the sort who spend all as they go. NOW IS THE TIME TO START SAVING. The longer you put off starting, the longer it will be before you are able to start on Ihc road to success. Dont wait start your savings account now at this home bank. Wc offer you the utmpst in service and safety and will co-operaic in every way to help you along to your goal. PEOPLES BANK ceals weathering damage that has , A cellar wall or floor may be become conspicuous, but if the ‘damp proofed” by mopping it with wood is repainted promptly when lot coal-tar pitch or asphalt, or by minute wood checks begin' to ap- ; jrush coating it with a cold pre pear, it can be protected from :>ared bituminous or other water weathering indefinitely. | .cpellant paint. Apply the priming txt coat so that it covers all spots and Many livestock owners think *111 the pores, hair cracks, or other to bacon in which red ^ean predominate. reason whatever.” owners their cattle become infested with lice because they are unthrifty, but the unthrifty condition is often the result rather than the cause of lousiness, says the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. Dipping is the best method of eradication. Give two or more treatments about 15 days apart. Arsenical dips, coal-tar cresote dips, or nicotine solutions may be used. Fall is the McCormick, S. C. mvities. In using hot coal-tar pitch or asphalt, apply it as soon as the primer sets. When the first coat is hard, put on a second. Mop the walls downward and sideways. For a bituminous paint, use a very thin primer. Apply two coats of bitum- : inous paint, the second about 24 hours after the first. , txt Taking beauty sleeps is a waste streaks of der any circumstances or for any .best time to dip cattle, especially of time when you can buy it at the 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 no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. in the Northern States. drug store.