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Thursday, January 22, 1931
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Published Every Thursday
Established June 5, 1902
McCORMH
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. Biulck, CadQSmc and the Company is under the-manage- J Sometimes a certain amount of
Chryzler ara all increasing Inventory, ment cf able and experienced education is necessary to display
((•.iMi.bj King F«»ture»Syndio«t*. Inc.) telcphon j eiiecutives who ’iv/e ignorance.
it will do the purchaser most good
in helping to build a stronger
poultry industry.
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