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TRUE TO OURSELVES* OUR NEIGHS ORS* OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Ninth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. .C. Thursday* January 15, 1931 Established June 5, 1902 Number 33 General Assembly Opens 80th Session SENATORS'AND HOUSE MEM- BERS TAKE PLACES AND GET READY FOR WORK COLUMBIA, Jan. 13.—The tap of the gavel in the hands of President Pro Tem John F. Williams called the 80th session of the senate to order at noon today in its white and gold chamber. The first debate of the session came after the reading of the pro posed committee list, drawn up last night. Senator Hammond, of Richland, said he was opposed to large com mittees and moved that the rules of the senate of last year be fol lowed. He urged that the commit tee membership be held to the maximum of twelve. “Just think,” he said, ‘‘when the major committees go to overlap ping you are going to paralyze them.” Senator Williams, who had given over the chair to Senator Stukes again, argued for the large com mittees. He said he did not be lieve the size would hinder the orderly dispatch of business.” He said for years the size of the committees had exceeded twelve.' Senator Harvey of Beaufort de clared he sided with Senator Ham mond, insisting “a day of reason ing must come.” He pointed to Sen ator West, who, he said, was on 14 committees. Only a few spectators were scat tered in the galleries. After a prayer by the Rev. R. C. Betts, of Columbia, the chaplain, the senators elected in the last election, were sworn in, their oath including the anti-duelling clause. Senator Stukes of Clarendon took the chair and the senate im mediately elected Senator Williams as president pro tem. James H. Fowles, of Columbia, was re-elected clerk. The house of the 80th general assembly was convened promptly at noon in the 'State house here today. J*. Wilson Gibbes, house deck of many years, called the body to order. Phillip H. Stoll, Williamsburg county, was unanimously . elected temporary chairman. He was administered the oath of Office by Mr. Gibbes and took over the gavel. Hammond C. Bowman, member of the Charleston delegation, was the first member reported absent. He is ill in Charleston. Among them was C. E. Jones, of Lexington county, „ ex-highway chairman. John K. Hamlin was nominated for speaker and was elected by ac- lam at ion. After expressing his apprecia tion, the speaker said, “I believe that prosperity will come back, s z while that is true, it behooves us to held our appropriations down as best we can.” He asked members to introduce local supply measures as soon as possible in the interest of time. “I do not believe in hasty legis lation,” however,vhe added. In a brief address Stoll, former congressman, said: “It is our duty to do the things which the people of South Carolina expect us to do. These are troublesome times.” After prayer by the Rev. Dr. C. W. Wimberley of St. George, the work of administering the oath of office to the legislator^ was begun by counties in alphabetical order. Mr. Stoll moved that the house adopt the rules of the 1930 house, with one amendment. It would require the sponsor of any bill providing for a state ap propriation to present a certificate from the comptroller general stating that the bill did not call for a larger appropriation than was set aside for that purpose in 1930. He said it would mean that the appropriation bill could not be above the 1930 one. D. A. G. Ouzts, Greenwood, of fered amendments to the rules which would give the house a vote yn committee appointments. Car Accident Death Toll 25 During Past Month COLUMBIA, Jan. 12.—Deaths in motor vehicle accidents reached a peak in December, when 25 people died in wrecks on state highways according to the highway depart ment’s official report, released re cently. Handicapped by a month of sleet, snow and treacherously icy highways, motorists found them selves in 145 accidents, about the normal number. The death rate ranged to the highest number of 1930, however. In addition to the 25 killed, 18 were seriously injured and 94 slightly injured. November disas ters took 16 lives, October 22, Sep tember 11, and August 18. The number of accidents with horse-drawn vehicles was high, comparison with other months shows, there being 11. Four mules were killed. Six of the wagons were with out lights, the report shows. ; v Of 19 pedestrians struck down by automobiles, 7 were killed. Ten persons were killed in crashes be tween cars, one when a car hit an animal, five when cars overturned, and two when they hit fixed ob jects. Careless driving again caused the largest number of accidents, 42, the report set forth. Reckless driving was responsible for 15, speed&ig for 12, and liquor caused 12, the report states. Carelessness of pedestrians brought on 13 accidents, the re port showed. X South To Feed Itself And CARL WILLIAMS ASKS FARMERS BE EXTENDED CREDIT MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 12<—Carl Williams, member of the federal farm hoard, today admontehed the south to feed itself and help farm ers acquire credit as a means of re ducing cotton acreage. He came to Memphis to attend a conference of the Southern Asso ciation of Commissioners of Agri culture, called to study means for reducing cotton production and in creasing its consumption. Before the conference convened, he issued a statement, saying “the problem of cotton acreage reduc tion will solve itself if the south will feed itself/* . He said bankers and merchants should demand of their farmer- customers and debtors assurance that cufficfent feed and food for their stock and themselves be ;~rown. Whether 1 cotton production can be reduced sufficiently to meet the present depression and expected heavy carry-over “is up to the south itself,” he acjded. “Production must be forced tc Jag while industry throughout the world is catching up. The problem of increasing consumption depends on restoration of the buying pow er of the people. “People are not buying now and they haven’t the money to .buy whether they are in England o- Arkansas.” Williams cited the Georgia and Texas Bankers Associations’ pro grams of insisting upon growth on farms of feed and food fgr home needs and said that in this lies at least part of the answer to prob lems facing the south. Generally, he said, a 12,000,000,- bale total production instead of the usual 14,500,000 or more is the maximum which can be grown with out disastrous results,” this year. He said a 10,000,000 bale crop would be still more desirable because of over production in the east. Congress was urged “to do ev erything humanly possible to ex pedite the passage of all relief measures now pending,” in a reso lution submitted to the commis sioners. Red Men Finish 90-Day Campaign More than 1500 members of the Improved Order of Red Men as sembled in the High School Audi torium at Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday afternoon January 3rd, at a Jubilee conven tion in celebration of the finish of a ninety day membership Cam paign, in South Carolina. The meeting was presided over by S. S. Tiner, Chairman of the local com mittee. Mayor Ben Hill Brown, of Spartanburg, made the address of welcome, which was responded to by United States Senator-Elect J. F. Byrnes, a member of Seminole Tribe, No. 1, after which Governor- Elect Ibra C. Blackwood, of Lack awanna Tribe, No. 161, addressed the assemblage. The meeting was adjourned until seven o’clock. . Following the adjournment of the afternoon session one of the most spectacular and interesting parades ever witnessed in Spartanburg was staged with 1200 members in line. Over 500 of them being in Indian Costume and lead by “Bishop Band,” and a police escort headed by the Chief of Police. Many of those in line were new members from among the 2000 secured dur ing the drive which ended Decem ber 31st. Silk Parade Flags were awarded to Wanatchee Tribe No. 162, of Arcadia; Powhattan Tribe No. 42, of Woodruff, and Ettawah Tribe No. 48 of Ware Shoals. Many other prizes will be awarded as soon as complete returns are in from the campaign. The following tribes were among the most active units in the Mem bership Campaign: Delaware No. 23, Belton;; Wampoo No. 91, Pelzer; Ottawa No. 108, Greenville; Semi nole No. 1, Spartanburg; Tugaloo No. 38, Anderson; Chattooga No. 58, Walhalla; White Oak No. 155, Rock Hill; Wampum No. 62, Fort Mill; Comanche No. 39, Honeapath; Chequala No. 11, Pelzer; Shewano No. 112, McCormick; Ettawah No. 48, Ware Shoals; Tippecanoe No. 99, Whitney; Cohoe No. 9, Winnsboro; Buffalo No. 40, Buffalo; Powhattan No. 4t, i¥oedniff; Papoose Na 181, Fork Shoals; Setting Sun No. 137, Darlington; Appalachee No. 144, Arlington;' Ozark No. 182, Green ville; Little River, No. 92, Newry; Cangarie No. 129, Laurens; Wahahu No. 136, Greenville; Hopi No. 123, Greer; OcOnee No. Ill, Seneca; Ocallu No. 146, Piedmdht; Tiger No. 142, Fairmont; r Waunakee No. 94, Whitmire; Standing Elk No. 167, Iva; Pee Dee No. 102, Great Falls; Oklahoma No. 3, Piedmont; Car- awba No. 12, Pacolet Mills; Patoka No. 2, Greenville; Oudale No. 18, Union; Bergell No. 24, Newberry. The Jubilee Committee recon vened at 7:30 at which time Her bert F. Stetser, of Philadelphia, Na tional Secretary of the Improved Order of Red* Men, addressed the meeting. During his address he ‘commended the state of South | Carolina for still being able to lead jthe nation in the number of new members secured during their Membership Campaign. T. Eugene Ross, of Greenville, Great Chief of Records of South Carolina and Past Great Sachem Carl P. Dill, of Greenville, were in charge of the campaign and are the recipents of many congratula tions from every section of the country. The Degree work was exemplified by Buffalo Tribe, No. 40, of Buffalo South Carolina, on a class of pale faces. Mr. Garnett Makes Reply To Critic Plum Branch, S. C., January 12, 1931. McCormick Messenger: , I see in your paper a clipping from the Bamberg Herald stating it would be terrible to pass a law requiring a tax receipt and state ment from the banks saying the party had paid all due them before he could buy a tag for his car. This Mr. G. J. Sanders, Jr., New Member Public Works Commission ‘The Town Doctor DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: HOW IS BUSINESS GOING TO BE? Business is going to be whatever At the regular, meeting last Thursday night, city council elect- you make it as far as you are con ed Mr. G. J. Sanders, Jr., as mem- cerned. You may think that is all ber of the Public Works Commis- bunk—you may be the sort that Sion to fill out the unexpired term says “You can’t make a pink shirt of Mr. J. J. Dorn, who has assumed yellow by thinking it’s yellow.” But his duties as State senator from you can take it or leave it, BUSI- McCormick County. Mr. Dorn’s NESS WILL BE WITH YOU JUST article goes on to say there would on the commission would EXACTLY AS YOU MAKE IT—. I be a lot of people who could not have expired next year. The oth- if you sit around and WAIT for ride to work. People used to not! er members of the commission are “good times” they will be a long -TXT* With The Sick Miss Josie Talbert, who has been ill the past two weeks at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. H. Fooshe, is reported considerably better today. Mrs. Talulah Sanders, who has been ill at her home on Avenue 5, is much better at this time. Mr. Jeff Harmon remains quite ill at his home on Oak street, showing little or no sign’ of im provement. ride to work. I either walk or ride Messrs, the mule I am going to plow. It Br own. goes on to say they could not visit friends and relatives on the Lord’s day. This is one thing I am driv ing at—too much visiting and not enough church going. As to people degrading their health by work—work is a healthy occupation; don’t hear of many getting sick at work. If the doc- J. S. Strom and J. C. time coming. If you cry “hard times” to every customer that you come in contact with and go around with a face a mile long, blaming politics, religion, dry weather and prohibition for what you alone are responsible, then business always will be punk and - | with such people it never should be least otherwise. Highway Dept. To Spread Dragnet For License Law Evaders COLUMBIA, Jan. 12.—At 50 officers, the entire personnel of j How come you are in business tor did not get any calls except to the State Highway Patrol and the anyway? What did you do before those sick from over work he would | regular license inspectors of the you went into business? Are you perish to death. We all know our courts are bur- ciened down with bootleg cases. To get this off of our tax expense, I would suggest that our law mak ing body pass a law that when a man is caught making whiskey fix his sentence 12 months at hard la bor on'the chaingang and if a man is caught transporting or selling whiskey put. his sentence at 12 months at hard labor on the gang and if a man or woman be caught on the highway or at any public place drunk or staggering take either of these offences before a trial justice or let him with the proof, commit either of these par ties to the gang. No pay off in it; then v[e can save so much court expense and have prohibition. I understand that l North Carolina has a law something to this effect. J. M. GARNETT. rtXX— U Whoopee”. Film Version Of Zieg- feld Stage Hit As the first screen musical com edy to which Florenz Ziegfeld gave his own personal supervision and skill stagecraft, “Whoopee” which is showing at the Abbeville Opera House, Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday January 19, 20 and 21. “Whoopee” is very much a continu ation of Eddie Cantor’s stage suc cess that ran for two years at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, transscribed bodily the films, with its huge spectacles magni fied in size and beauty with the magic of Technicolor to give it reality. Samuel Goldwyn, who pro duced the picture, claims that it is the first perfect all-color cinema extravaganza. Yet despite its mammoth size, “Whoopee” is still the same intim ate comedy that, as “The Nervous Wreck,” was one of the most amus ing plays ever written. • Ziegfeld managed ’ to regain the uproarious humor of the original story when he set it on the great stage of the New Amsterdam with music anc song and hundreds of beautifu girls. Eddie Cantor remains the pro tagonist of the comedy. “Whoo pee” on the stage gave him a suc cess that surpassed even the phen omenal record of his “Kid Boots’ and the many Ziegfeld “Follies’ that he headed. Its screen adap tion is Cantor’s first talking pic ture,—also the occasion that in augurates the partnership of pro ducer Samuel Goldwyn and im presario Florenz Ziegfeld. Hundreds of the world’s most beautiful girls, gathered from the beauty marts of Broadway and Hollywood by connoisseurs no less than Ziegfeld and Goldwyn them selves augment the original stage cast, headed by Ethel Shutta, the silver-voiced tenor, Paul Gregory, Chief Caupolican, Spencer Char tres, the fair young Eleanor Hunt and a dozen others. Thornton Freeland directed the picture. Highway Department, have been ordered to go out on the morning of Friday, January 16th, on an en forcement campaign against per sons driving motor vehicles with out 1931 license plates on their ve hicles. It is planned to spread a dragnet over the entire state on the same day, according to a memorandum sent by Ben M. Sawyer, Chief High way Commissioner, to the director dead sure that you are IN BUSI NESS right now? Maybe it’s just a store you are running and if so where are you running it? Here is a sure fire way of telling how YOUR business is going to be! Put on a disguise so no one will know you and go out to your cus tomers and see yourself as THEY see you. Ask them how your busi ness is going to be—they can tell you better than anyone else. Be of the Motor Vehicle Division. An sure and put on the disguise tho. effort will be made to summons to a magistrate’s court all such driv ers' of motor vehicles upon whose cars are not displayed the new license tags.. The law provides that licenses must be applied for by December 31st and it allows the - Highway Department the period ending Jan uary 15th to deliver such licenses as have been applied for. Those who have made applications since Jan uary 1st are being given full co operation by the Highway Depart ment in having such licenses sent out on the same day.. However, licenses applied ^for too late to be delivered by the morning of Janu ary 16th will subject the motor ve hicles owners or drivers to being summoned to court* / The State Highway Department has no financial interest in the law enforcement campaign in that all fines assessed by magistrates for violation of motor vehicle laws remain in the county in which the violation occured and go into the county’s general fund. A year ago> in a similar cam^ paign, hundreds of persons were caught by license inspectors, and in the ensuing trials in magis trate’s court, the fines imposed bj magistrate’s were in most case# $10. To be of as much assistance as is possible to the motor vehicle owners, the Highway Department remains geared up at present 30 as to expedite all applications now coming in. X Light Snow Early Yesterday Sunshine and clear skies Tues day gave promise of more pretty weather following a 24 hour dowr pour of rain since 6 o’clock Sunday evening, but clouds and wind frorr the south to southwest Tuesda- night brought a blanket of snov about a quarter of an inch deep Snow fell a short while after sun rise yesterday morning, but the strong wind from the west kep' the clouds moving in such fashion that prophets wouldn’t venture predictions. Snow from the south or west is something out of the ordinary in this section, which has, to this date, had practically three months of real winter weather. This is the second snow of the winter here. tXT About one-fifth of the road mile age in the United States has been improved to some extent. X Lake Titicaca in South America is the highest navigable sheet of water in existence. for sure as they recognize you they will not ^11 you just what they think—That's always the case- ay be wrong attitude for custom- s to take but nevertheless they will give you a wrong steer if they know who you are. It’s too bad that every Seller can not see himself as others see him. If it could be, there would be few er “lost customer#” and sure there, would be fewer failures in every line of endeavor. < YOU don’t know YOU as others know you—don’t forget that! You can’t look in the mirror and See what the fellow that looks over your shoulder sees—no, it can’t be done, for you look from the inside out—the other fellow looks from the outside in and hinety-nine per cent of the.fellows only see your' outside* And that goes for your business as well as for your person al self. Can’t get away from it, business is going to be with you, what you are going to make it. And. the whole “works” depends on knowl edge of yourself, how much you know of others, plus gumption and “git.” (Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone. Re production prohibited in wholo or in part. This editorial published oy McCormick Messenger in co-op- )raticn with local Lions Club.) ' x Eethany H. D. * . Club Meets The Bethany H. D. Club met Tuesday afternoon, January 6th. In absence of the president and vice-president, Mrs. E. H. Christ ian was asked to act as president and the following program was carried out: Song—“O Come, All Ye Faith- ful.” Scripture—Isiah VI, by Mrs. La mar Williams. The Lord’s prayer was repeated. Roll called and minutes read. A letter of thanks to the club members from Nannie Mae Dun lap was read, also a letter to the club members from the president was read by Miss Emmie Sheppard. A poem, January, by Miss Mary Remsen. A poem, the New Year, by Miss Ebbie Lee DeLoach. The meeting was then turned over to Mrs. Stallworth and a very interesting talk was made on fruit- land and nurseries. Also, trees were discussed during the after noon. Several catalogues were . distributed. After a contest ou j trees we adjourned.