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K; ^4- Thursday, January 22, 1931 MESSENG! Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 McCORMH SGF cCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months -75 Three Months *50 BIG THINGS OF LIFE does the advercising for the mer chant who goes out of business because he “couldn’t afford to advertise.”—Anderson ^Independent. X NO BED OF ROSES One of the ne.wly elected mem bers of the legislature in a nearby county has discovered the fact that he has no easy job. Not that he was expecting a snap—he saw work ahead on the first campaign day last summer—but he says he had no idea that so many de mands could be made upon one person. Not a day passes that he is not tackled by job-hunters and solicitors in their behalf, and re- I quests and petitions for this and A study of the life of any success- p 0Ur ^ on every hand. Peo- ful man shows that he achieved ple come ^ home at early rreat things because he kept stead- morning hours> ring h is doorbell ily before him fixed principles by at R ight, visit his office through- which he was guided. As an ex- Qut the day ^ hail hlm on the ample of one who succ< * de <*' streets any time, and even ask to through following a well defined k tQ him at church 0 n Sun- course, the late MarshaU Field is a dayg Jhere ^ no rest ^ the leg _ notable example. It has been Mature, and the annual session said that he had twelve dommant hag gt | jegun He jg frank to say ideas in his life from which he nev er swerved. They were the value of time, the success of perseverance, the pleas ure of working, the dignity of sim plicity, the worth of character, the work honestly for , their daily power of kindness, the Influence bread ..Q^er citizen, of example, the obligation of duty, that he is going to do the job the best he can, but never again while he must work for a living. It is a plkce for idle men, retired men, or men who do not have to the wisdom of economy, the virtue of patience, the improvement of talent and the joy of originating. There is nothing extraordinary about a man who adheres to such WORK WHILE YOU WORK However dire the conditions and the stress and force of circum- stances attending the depressed a life program. A community ( times, you have not and will not with a fair sprinkling of men like hear of anyone starving to death, this would soon surge ahead of all ^ That just isn’t done in this coun its competitors and stand out as a try. Society recognizes its respon- model for all others to emulate. |sibility to the unfortunate, afflict- Nothing retards a community so |e d and distressed and throws out much as selfishness and other neg ative characteristics that are de- the life line. And there is another thing that you do not encounter. stmctive, among its leaders, who No one in this record-breaking en- should be good examples. -X CHARACTER durance age ever works himself or herself to death. The trouble with most of us is that we do too little work; just manage to put in This strong lay sermon from enough to make it a day and stop Robert Quillen’s Fountain Inn fox another sun to roll round. Tribune should^ be read a dozen There is a proverb reading some- -- -- thingrlike v this: “Those who work only for what they* get paid for, are never over-paid.”—Spartanburg Journal. X- times by a few'thOUsands of us, and particularly by the young peo ple among us, says The Newberry Observer. - *. ■ * As old man Ben Holland used to say: “The sun doesn’t shine in one man’s back yard all the time.” All have their ups and downs. Men who were the big Ikes in Fountain Inn twenty years ago never are mentioned now except in derision. Do you think you will always be as well fixed as you are now? Does it never occur to you that the time may come when you will need to borrow money without other se curity than your reputation and your word? You can’t tell. You may be in that fix next year. And then you will learn a great lesson. You will learn that people have faith in a man who always kept his word and paid his debts when he had the money to pay with. And you will learn that nobody trust a man who lived high and forgot his debts when he had a good income. Money isn’t everything, but it is much better than religion or per sonal habits or family name as a test of character. The man who makes enough to live on and yet lives beyond it—who lives, that is, THE BOY WONDERS When one real business man meets another real business man one or the other asks “How are at the expense of those who trust collections?” him—who “beats” everybody while* times are good—will find himself “Much better than you would expect,” is the reply we heard made in a cold, cold world when hard ^ question yesterday. And times come. You have only your- I ^he opinion was advanced that self to blame if you are caught many persons are really giving that way. Store up money while times are good, if you can, but above all else store up a good repu- thought to the payment of their bills as a means of making their contribution to business improve- This Week b Arthur Brisbane Nathan Straus A Farmer’s Charter So Much Russian Money See Your Country The death of Nathan Straus in New York, three weeks before the comple tion of his eighty-third year, is a great loss to this country. Mr. Straus set an example of wise philanthropy, devoting more than a quarter of a century of his active working years, and a substantial for tune, to his fight for pure milk throughout the United States. As an example to others he distributed pas teurized milk, including milk properly modified for young infants, in the poor districts of New York. His influence Is felt in foreign coun tries as well as here. Because of his work pasteurization of milk and care ful handling and bottling are now en forced by law, and, thanks to Mr. Straus, the death rate among infants in New York has been cut down 50 per cent. Mr. Straus was one of three broth ers, all distinguished for good citizen- j ship and public spirit. His brother Isador, whose heroic death on the Titanic will be long re membered, represented his state in congress, and was one of the three greatest merchants produced by the United States thus far. A monument In New York city was erected in his ! honor. Oscar Straus, the youngest ; brother, represented this country as j * Ambassador to Turkey at Constanti- j nople, * and was in the cabinet of j Theodore Roosevelt ' Nathan Straus literally saved the j lives of millions of children. His j memory, will be enshrined in the hearts of mothers all over the world. Gallant-Belk Company GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE LEADIN G 1931 AS IN LAST FOUR YEARS, JANUARY 1 UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST, IN BETTER VALUES. WE SELL GOOD MERCHANDISE FOR CASH, FOR LESS MONEY. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY HERE FOR BAD ACCOUNTS. Palmolive Soap Cake Farmers of Saskatchewan have for mulated a “charter of liberty.” They threaten “a co-operative common wealth within the British empire.” That has a Russian sound. The demand a basic price for wheat to covr the cost of production, retro active to the first of last August. That sounds like Uncle Sam. They would abolish grain ex changes and all speculation In farm products. And they would have the government crop Insurance, “guaran teeing all farmers’ production against all natural risks.” That sounds like heaven. Also the farmers ask an arrange ment that would regulate the cost of things bought by farmers to fit the selling price of commodities that the farmer produces. Octagon Soap and OCft Powder, 8 for ™ , V Good Apron and .Dress Ginghams yard 5c 39 Inch Unbleached i Sheeting yard 5c 36 Inch Dress 4 Aft Gingham, yard * 39 Inch 80x80 Smooth Sheeting, 36 Inch Prints, yard 36 Inch Good 15c 4 Aft Quality Outing ■ ww 36 Inch Dress Prints for Spring Dresses 1 Af* 19c quality, yard ■ $1.00 Quality Ladies’ Full Fashioned Silk Hose. Silk all way to top. Picot Top. $1.00 Ladies New Spring Coats $9.75 and Dresses $14.75 values Ladies’ Non-Run Silk Bloomers, 79c quality, pair i J 9x12 Congoleum Rugs $4.95 New Patterns with Borders Good 4-string Corn OCft Broom fcww FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO GALLANT-BELK “GREEffWOOP’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE” COMPANY “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES” The best advice that can be given to young men just out of college is to tell them to' forget that they are any longer “boy wonders” but just common clay like everybody else and that they must act accordingly and be sat isfied with slow progress, or they will never get anywhere. If they think they are educated, the best thing they can do is to forget it. Of course they are not educated but many of them cannot realize it and go to work to learn some thing by actual experience. If they could be brought to understand that education has only just begun when they step out of the college door with a diploma, perhaps something could be done with them.—Horry Herald. txt HOW ARE COLLECTIONS Where does Russia get the money? Her annual budget is $10,500,000,000, much bigger than ours, biggest In the world, and she has a surplus of $750,- 000,000, while we face a deficit. The Swedish Krupp works receive from Russia an order for military supplies amounting to $14,500,000, and Germany has just shipped into Russia thirty carloads of machinery and equipment for a large ammonia fac tory, one of several such shipments sent by Germany to Russia within the last few years. German engineers and chemists will erect and supervise the factories, which can be used, and prob ably are intended, to manufacture poisonous war gas. Perhaps we underestimate Russia. The allies may have made a mistake disarming Ger many and making her worthless as a buffer between Russia and western Europe. Every American should see all of tftis wide, beautiful country, West, East, North and South, going by one railroad and returning by another, and without fail making one trip through the Panama canal. The pessimist especially should see his country, from the giant trees of Washington and Oregon in the North west, to the palm trees and sand beaches of Flordia. A trip from the Atlantic to the Pa cific means only three nights on the train now, and the comfort of modern WE SELL EVERYTHING AND SELL IT FOR LESS S. C. Continental Telephone Company Offers First Stock An attractive opportunity for residents of McCormick to pur chase the First Preferred Stock of Telephone Bond and Share Com pany and become part owners in one of America’s largest independ ent telephone systems, of which the South Carolina Continental Telephone Company is a part, is announced by R. L. Knell, of Ab beville, district manager of the South Carolina Continental Tele phone Company, In line with the Company’s pol icy to encourage customer-owner ship in the communities which it serves, Mr. Knell said that through | the local telephone employees of been successful in the development and management of telephone properties for many years. Total consolidated assets of Tele phone Bond and Share System as of June 30, were something over $41,000,000—approximately $290 in Buy Chicks At Home CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 12.— That “distance lends enchant ment,” is too often true in the pur chasing of baby chicks, is the opin-. assets applicable to each share of | ^ on Prof. C. L. Morgan, chief its outstanding 7 per cent First | poultryman. Many farmers and Preferred Stock. Net earnings for poultrymen buy chicks from dist- the first six months of 1930, after 1 ant states on the basis of high- setting aside substantial reserves, sounding advertisements, when of- were $1,086,400 and after all prior tentimes these chicks are no bet- interest charges, net earnings were ter than could be obtained at home equal to 3.3 times requirements on at the same price or less. Many the outstanding First Preferred j times the chicks are a distinct dis- Stock. appointment to the purchaser. The 7 per cent First Preferred South Carolina flock owners and Stock is $100 par value and may be | hatcherymen are now able to sup- called at $115 a share, plus accrued P J y practically every demand for dividends, on thirty days’ notice. | chicks within the state. Many Dividends are payable quarterly— breeding flocks have been rigidly January, April, July and October culled and mated with selected males from high-producing hens. This appears to be a high-grade The Pullorum test has been made security, amply safeguarded by es- on many flocks and the reactors BEATS POORHOUSES tation. It isn’t pleasant to hear ment. And no more effective way friends say “No.” |of causing the early days of the X " new year to take on brighter col- BETTER LATE THAN NEVER 'ors can be imagined, than through a quite general resolution on the After several years of unsuccess- t of the public . to clean cur „ ful effort to get a merchant to rent obligations . _ Spartanburg advertise, the publisher of a week- ly paper in a nearby state was sur prised to receive an order for a full-page advertisement from the former non-advertiser. The 0 id_age pension goes into Olancing at the copy the pub- operation in New York state this lisher discovered that t announc- month It must be comfortlng to ed a closing out sa e. The mei the'Increasing veterans of time, chant was going out- of business. th n 5500 approvedi ms advertising competitors had that they wU1 be able t0 Znt on taken his trade and there was recelvlng monthly $26 if residing nothing left for him to do. So the outslde the city and $33.50 if resid- newspaper man had landed his lng in New york These sums do prospec a as . not represent luxurious, or even The merchant recognized the comfortable living> but they may power of newspaper advertising to serve to k life smolderlng * low help hhn get out of business, but embers for some tlme still ._c olum . had failed to recognize its power bj state to help him stay in business. There J x are a lot of people like that, whoj Bogus $ 20 bllls are ln c i rcu i a ti 0 n wake up too late to the advantages and those who are well acquainted around them read y and willing to w | th bills may discover them, help them in their business.— xxi—— Hartsville Messenger. | Every bigamist knows after he gets caught that marrying is a the South Carolina Continental travel is unbelievable—solid trains of Teiepnone Gompany xne / per cent j ^^ed record of earnings. Fur- removed, thus giving reasonable as- Steei cars, running smoothly, with ev- First Preferred Stock of re ep one thermore, it is a fact that tele- surance that the chicks are free ery comfort of a first-class hotel, and Bond and Snare Company is being ^ one securities have an enviable from bacillary white diarrhea as 4.1^. 1 v-iianm crmna* soTYip- off*pfpH fnr h limited neriod. Qeffin— «■ • j . the additional pleasure of going some where and seeing the world as you go offered for a limited period, begin ning January 20 to investors in this territory. This Preferred Stock is being offered at $103, plus ac crued dividends, to yield the in vestor 6!75 per cent. You sympathize with the turtle be cause he cannot go far. But at least he goes as far as he can. You feel sorry for the Texas “tick,” brushed from a cow, and unable in his whole lifetime to crawl more than two only share in the ownership of the or three feet in search of another g ou th Carolina Continental Tele phone Company but will also have record as profitable investments the disease is commonly called, and not influenced through any| South Carolina breeders have great degree by fluctuations in long enjoyed an enviable reputa- general business conditions. tion for quality show birds. Egg- Mr. Knell said that the stock laying contest records in past years Purchasers of this stock will not ^onth^avS plan.° r ^ ^ Pr ° Ven ^ ^ ° f S ° Uth X Carolina birds to lay well. Pros pective purchasers have chicks of cow’s leg to start in business again. Don’t be a turtle or a Texas tick. Travel, see your country. Sometimes it is th« sheriff who good custom but a bad habit. Retail potato dealers in the East the highest quality literally at their an”interest to a large group of im- P refer Potatoes ranging from 2 1-4 own doors. portant telephone companies in the to 3 inches in size, the Bureau of j The purchaser who buys at home Doctor williams editor of Mental United States which are controlled Agricultural Economics found in a can find out in advance the qual- Hygiene, says, very truly, that those through stock ownership by Tele- survey of market preferences in six ity of stock and the reputation of that practice or contemplate trial mar- phone Bond and Share Company, eastern cities. Very large sizes of the flock owner or hatcheryman, riage “lack sincerity and faith In each -j-hggg companies serve, without tubers weighing more than 14 a nd adjustments can be made other.” competition, an estimated aggre- ounces-called “bulls” or “lumpers” more easily if there is any dissat- sure^o/'one" 1 thin 1 ’—namely ^that’ the gate population in excess of 1,250,- — are not^ wanted by any class of isfaction. Buying at home also man thinks little of her. 000. The territory served includes trade. Although most dealers do, puts money into circulation where If Ms opinion of her were what it cities and towns in Illinois; In- not want small potatoes, some in- should be he would want to marry diana, Kansas, Georgia, South dependent retailers carry “seconds” and forever, with no trial, no doubts Caro ii na> Kentucky, Michigan, for certain classes of trade. Of 416 and no misgivings. Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, dealers interviewed by the bureau, Detroit, after a period of hlberna- Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Missouri. 192 preferred Maine potatoes; sfnd tion shows signs of life at full speed. There are over 218,000 stations in 55 preferred Pennsylvania Rural- Tens of thousands of additional men service in the system. |type stock. Prince Edward Island have gone to work. Seventy-five thou- Each company is a compact and potatoes ranked third and the sand started at the Ford River Rouge na t ura i operating unit to permit Long Island product fourth. Idaho ^Chevrolet promises 30.000 steady economy of operation. The plants bakers are handled as a specialty, jobs through the winter. Dodge. Hud- are in B ood physical condition and j txt , eon, v Lincoln. 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