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Thursday, October 30, 1930 McCORMICK tr&K. v/.. Page Number Two 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 lii/e; extra charges for big type on all single column advs., except head and signature/. PEOPLE ARE NOT HARD UP Walterboro Press and Standard SUBSCRIPTION RATES:' — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months.50 NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WORK A commentator on American life of today recently wrote that the average small town and little city “stands at the cross roads.” He reasons that the small town that stands too long is doomed—it will YO backward and eventually die. There is some truth in what he says. We can’t stand still with out being passed by somebody who is advancing. And when we see Somebody going by we realize that we are slipping. Unless some heroic methods are used at once we are lost drifting backwards. It’s a searching question every individual should ask himself. Is the place where I live drifting to ward oblivion. If so, am I responsi ble equally with my fellow towns men? Wfcat am I doing for my town? Do I think only of getting something for myself and never giving anything in return? What does a family want in a town or city? Good churches, good schools, good neighbors, good jobs, and a chance to make a liv ing. Am I doing my share to make conditions so that people will want to live here? This is the question for every citizen to ask himself. Every live place wants to grow and prosper. Therefore, it must be inviting. To attract new enter prises and new residents, its peo ple must be friendly and fair and somewhat harmonious, it must have leaders with a vision and a definite program toward which to work. And there must be an organiza tion to carry out the program. In the organization there must be plenty of workers, not men who dodge responsibility. No one has ever found a substi tute for work. All the visions of dreamers, the inspiration of lead ers avail nothing unless the people are moved by the right spirit, have a clear vision of the community’s possibilities, are hitched up to a definite program, have a good or ganization to carry it out and are willing to do some unselfish work for the good of all. txt * THE “GOOD OLD DAYS” Notwithstanding that the im pression prevails that the country is hard up and that strictest econ omy is necessary in the matter of expenditures, people are not hard up. • People have the money for the things they want, and as long as they have the money for the things they want they are not hard up. In support of this contention we would call attention to the fact that bank deposits are up, build ing and loan deposits are on the increase, the bond market is good and, coming down to our own com munity, every fair, every show, every amusement place of this community, is crowded at every performance. Owners of automo biles are driving them as usual. The gas station men report that gasoline sales show no decrease. If this is true, it is also true that people have the money for the things they want. If there is still plenty of money in the community, it is foolish to resign to a feeling of poverty and hard times. Merchants should present their merchandise in good, strong, well written advertisements full of op timism and sales argument. If they do it will create a desire for the merchandise and business will begin to return to normal. The merchants can help the situation greatly and it will be to the bene fit of all merchants to refuse to talk hard times and put up the best front possible and go after the business that is here if the minds of the people can be diverted from hard times long enough to permit them to buy. (Then why the dickens is it that it takes a corkscrew to worm hon est dues out of so many people?— Editor Calhoun Times.) THE COLQUITT PLAN (From The Charlotte Observer) A Is Not Libelous When you hear an old-timer sigh for the days of his youth, when many of the conveniences of this age were unknown, smile to your self and think of this: The ancients got along without automobiles, radios, soap,. stoves, toothbrushes, window glass, rail roads, telephones—without practi cally all of the things we now re gard as the bare essentials of life. There never has been a time when life bettered itself so rapidly and so consistently as now. New conveniences and new comforts are continually being thought out and brought out for your benefit. In order to reap the advantages that are yours today, you must read the advertisements. They bring you news of all ihat the world of invention and discovery is doing to make your work easier, your home life more pleasant, your clothing and food problems less difficult. They keep you informed ’ of all that is new in the market and stores. They tell you not only about the things, the styles, the varieties and prices, but also where and when these things are to be • Jiad. (Spartanburg Herald) New York Supreme Court Jus tice Dunne has ruled that calling a white man a negro is no more lib elous per se than calling a negro a white man. The press of South Carolina reads this decision with an interest, for here in South Caro lina that matter pops up with al arming regularity and throws fear into the hearts of men who write and publish what they have writ ten. Justice Dunne’s decision was in the case of Emilio Salomon, pro fessional boxer, against The Brook lyn Eagle for $100,000. Salomon, known to the sporting world as King Solomon, charged that. The Eagle had a story, reading in part Hke this: “Salomon formerly work ed with Schmeling, and Sharkey believes he can get some idea of the German’s style by boxing with the negro conditioner.” Justice Dunne looked over the situation and immediately dismissed the complaint.- - \ “To say that th^ words publish ed by the plaintiff are libelous per se,” Justice Dunne said, “is to say as a matter of law that a whole people, nowise responsible for an accident of birth, are to be placed in a category signifying in the pub lic mind some degree of moral ob loquy or other degrading imputa tion. The public policy, at least insofar as such may be declared by law, does not sanction such con struction, for the Federal consti tution and the organic and legis lative enactments of this state, fol lowed by judicial expressions, have so indicated.” After citing a decis ion of the court of appeals bearing on the status of the negro, Justice Dunne continued: “If, in error, a man is denominated a negro, and thereby per se acquires a cause of ! ction, with equal cogency, so far as the law is concerned, if a man, l,4 n error, is demoniated a Caucas ian or any other member of the inuman family, he should likewise j'oer se be entitled to recover for the mistake.” x i Seed prices are apt to be low- ;er during the fall and winter than at planting time, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture, which advises farmers to buy their seed early if they can decide upon the crops and the acreages before spring. The quality of seedsmen's stocks is usually better early in the season, seed obtained early is sure to be on hand when needed for sowing, and it may be tested and replaced by other seed if found to be unsatisfactory. jxt If a woman’s place is in the home, where is man’s? A rotary meeting of more than ordinary interest was held a few days ago in Macon, Ga., for the usual funny business gave way to something decidedly practical, in exploitation cf what is known as the Colquitt County Plan for help ing the farmer, with coincidental revelation of results that might be called startling in effect. This Colquitt plan has so revolutionized the conditions of the farmers of that particular county, the Macon Rotarians started campaign to make it cover the state. It is Governor Gardner’s “live-at-home’’ program, more directly applied. The Greenville News gives details of the plan, which, it says, is “no such sudden or overnight development, but one that had inception a num ber of years ago,” consisting essen tially in a determined and sys tematic effort of the business men and bankers of the county to bring about agricultural betterment. They set out with the objective of providing a fair cash market for everything the Colquitt farmers profitably raise, and accompanied this with a careful survey of the agricultural possibilities of the county and an intelligently con- » ducted educational campaign, aim ed to stimulate farmers to take ad vantage of all possible means of producing better incomes, through diversified production and more efficient methods. A packing plant provided a growing market for hogs, and last year a quarter of a million hogs and 40,Q00 cattle were handled by it. Other markets for various farm products have also been provided, and it is stated that the result has been that the Col quitt farmer need have no idle sea son, and can market a cash crop every month in the year. Last year Colquitt county far mers produced 250 different edible products. Better farming methods have increased cotton yields with curtailed acreage, thus reducing costs. Within a few years the ag ricultural products of the county have grown from a value of $3,000,- 000 to $8,000,000 and there is ex pectation that it will ultimately reach a total value of $50,000,000. And there is not today, it is stated, a vacant house in Moultrie, nor an idle farm in the county. “No payroll has been cut and there have been no layoffs of employes. In some industries production has been speeded up. The farmers of Colquitt county have paid all their obligations with their watermelons, cotton'and tobacco.- Their other crops will represent clear profit.” Colquitt does not claim to be en joying a '‘boom,” but it is hardly conscious of the “business depres sion.” We are agreed with our South Carolina contemporary that the example of the concerted effort of the Colquitt county citizens to put their community on a better eco nomic footing deserves the pro found thought of other largely ag ricultural communities of the South that are faced with serious prob lems at this time. It is an ex ample of what can be accomplish ed by an intelligent, systematic and thorough-going effort to util ize fully all the agricultural oppor tunities which this section of the country so abundantly offers. It also demonstrates how such a pro gram can be promoted along sound and successful lines by the initia tive and co-operative activities of the business and financial ele ments of the community in con nection with the building up of satisfactory marketing systems. Many other Southern communities might study the experience of Moultrie and Colquitt county with benefit. I Little Journeys in % A . * £ Americana x Dy LESTER B COLBY Major McLane, Native Of McCormick Goes To Texas Major John T. McLane of Me- Cormick. S. C., has just been de I ailed as a member of the Genera Staff Corps and assigned to dut;* at Headquarters Eight Corps Area Fort Sam Houston. Texas, by tlv: War Department. Major McLane was recently on duty with the 3rd Cavalry at Fori Myer, Virginia. He began his 'nil'- tary career as a cadet at the U. C. Military Academy, West Point. N. Y., in June 1907, and was gradua ted as a second lieutenant of Cav alry in June 1912. ? r t r y v ••• The State That Never Was M ANITOUMIE, the state that nev er was. Manitoumie, an Algon quin word. It means the “Land of God.” Leld settlers planned that .slate, which would have been an is land of civilization surrounded by red-skinned savages, so long ago that the story is all but forgotten. Gold towns have risen in our gold en west, caused tumults, scattered wealth, decayed and become Gbost Cities. Gut the metals that hired a host of men to what might have been Manitoumie still come out of the ground. They have been coming out of the ground for 200 years; since 1728. It was North America’s first mining rush. Philip Ilenault, a Frenchman, brought in more than a hundred San to Domingo negroes in 1728 and start ed to sink shafts. Ue had with him almost as many artisans in silver. They had been enlisted in bis cause in nortbern France, Belgium and Holland. Kenault was a friend of John Law. brains of that vast scheme winch has come down in history as the Missis sippi Bubble. Law got the trading concessions to the Mississippi valley from France.. It was the first great venture in blue sky promotion. The Compagnie d’Oecident was started with 100,000,000 Hvres capital. The Banque Royale and the Com pagnie des Indes, which followed, created a frenzy in France. The ex citement was at its height in 1720. Law offered 50,000 shares for sale in the Compagnie des Indes and 300,000 profit-mad people battled for right to buy them. AH this excitement was started as the result of rumors coming down the river that vast treasures of silver lay somewhere up the Mississippi valley waiting to be taken out Per haps it was the greatest mining ex citement that the world has ever known. So Philip. Renault, his hundred black slaves and bis artisans in sil ver went up the Mississippi. They stopped where the fabulous silver mines were supposed to be. Here to day stands Galena, Illinois. They sunk their shafts and found lead. , Never since Philip Renault opened those shafts in 1728 have the mines of the Galena district been wholly closed. For more than a hundred years his Santo Domingo slaves, and their descendants burrowed in those holes. For more than 150 years Galena was a wild mining camp. Everything was wide open, the lid off—gambling, liquor, bad men and worse women; hell and pistols popping in every block. Galena was a city when Chi cago was a village. It had a daily newspaper seven years before Chi cago got one. In its heyday Galena had a pop ulation of 30,000. That included Rag town where the floaters lived. Ga lena was built on the Fever river. It had brave stone wharves where Mis sissippi river steamers tied up. The wharves with iron rings In them are still there, but the river is gone; lit tle more than a rivulet now. General Grant marched down the main street of Galena one day with a black pipe between his teeth and a carpet-bag grip in one hand. He was going to war. He had been a sort of village ne’er-do-well. He came back, years later. President! Abraham Lincoln and Zachary Tay lor, Jbcth later to ho«ome Presidents, helped to defend Galena dm*in7 #he Black Hawk war. Jefferson DstvN president of the Confederacy, and AI bert Sidney Johnston, his gen«*n:i who fell at Shiloh, both sought for tunes in the Galena mining excite ment. Janies J. Hill, who became an em pire builder, learned his knowledge of transportation as a baggage smash er on the Galena wharves. The Wash- biirnes, flour kings, who figured large in making Minneapolis, got their first dollars there. Galena was the center of a rough, detached, isolated settlement of white men for many years. This district, now a part of Illinois, Iowa, Minne sota and Wisconsin, hundreds of square miles in its rougher places, the peaks of some ancient, weathered- off mountains, was never covered by the glacial cap. It was tins unglaciated area, so quickly settled because of its min eral deposits, that the early settlers planned to form Into a state apart. It was to .have been the state of Manitoumie—Land of God. The state that never was. ((c). 1929. Lester B. Colby.) DEFEND 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 very best and freshest drugs and exercise the utmost care 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 cf the highest quality and best known makes. STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. Coffee Held in Esteem Coffee was in use by the Abyssini- •ms early in the Fifteenth centurj and was said to have been a drink in that country from time immemorial. It did not come into European homes until much later, the first coffee house In London being opened In 1052. It advertised the virtues of the now Arabian drink as follows: “It much quickens the spirits and makes the heart lightsome; it is good against sore eyes and the bet ter if you bold your head over it and take in the steam that way. It is excellent to prevent and core the dropsy, gout and senrvy.”—Detroit I CAN’T FIND BEHEB MEAT 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. K ft 0 w 'M T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET McCORMICK, S. C. H it w MAT’S THE USE SAM? Why not spend it and enjoy it while you can? Why deny yourself any pleasure it might buy? The answer is to be found in the personal histories • i 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 the road to success. Dont wait start your savings account now at this home bank. * • t We offer you the utmost in service and safely and will co-operate in every way to help you along to your goal.* THE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. i £ m ii 1 I l 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.