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t 9 Thursday, January 22, 1931 McCOt MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN McCormick High School News THE PASSING OF ONE WE LOVE. Last Monday morning after the Christmas Holidays Mr. W. E. Lake, in his pleasant ways, Met with the faculty and students of McCormick Hi. And began his work as the mom ents passed by. He seemed to be enjoying his us ual task, And a number of questions he did ask. Till finally he'left with fear of at tack, And never was he permitted to be back. A doctor was called, and so was a nurse. Every day he gradually grew worse, Until last Sunday night while the Raindrops were softly falling, the Angel of the Lord came calling. He came to the home of Mr. Lake, And from this home he did take, Tlie life of a man who was so dear, That all of us wept with many a tear. Never shall we forget the pleasant way. In which he approached us every day. 2h Church, in school and every where. He was always ready our joys to share. . „ . Oh, how we will miss him in our work. He taught us never a duty to shirk, His advice was always good and sure. His heart was clean, upright and pure. Let not your hearts be troubled still, For we all know it was God’s will, With Mrs. Lake, Elizabeth and lit tle Billy dear, We now shed the sympathizing tear. We have never seen in all our days, A man of finer Christian ways, Than Mr. Lake whom we all so dearly love, Who now rests at peace in Heaven above. ROY CALLISON, WOODROW CALLISON. THE HOUSEWIFE FIGHTS WITH SUGAR BOWL TO . KEEP LABOR EMPLOYED FILL IT OUT OF THAT ONE 1 J'° UR I Sf G %OCfQl the ^ A AM u V .SUOAP BOWL/ mif ;j6&Sf/o*E"l ''IfSuGAT* 'll, Cl/BA SuGA^ERNtP 1N 1c!** 6,SN i ini i'tc r» STATES The ^S- llMr. aOV lOO POUNCb unde:* most SAKIITA^ |DutyCOST THAN THE CQNDmONS- PURE AND |W/TeD STATES SO.OOO UNITED STATE PAYS" BUT WOPKERS ANOTHER ^jCOSTs THt TH Elo livei _i* 0< L. S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW 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 paragraph* are prepared is fr-tn local papers usually of towns mentioned, and may be considered generally cor ed. (/ iPJCAl •WIFE n r "MOTHER KNOWS BEST” * There once lived in the city of Washington, D. C., a family* of throe persons, Mr. James and Mrs. James and their beautiful daught er, Margaret. They hved on a love*- ly estate of about a thousand acres, hr a great brick mansion. Mar garet was a society girl, constantly away on camping trips and attend ing house parties. As there was but one girl in the family, natural ly she had everything that heart could wish. Although she was in society, she was very useful at home as well. One day, a message came to the home which was addressed to "Miss Margaret James.” The let ter was opened with much eager ness, and to her surprise, it was from Marion Harris, saying that Margaret was cordially invited to attend a swimming party of ten. both boys and girls. The date was to be on the following Friday night, and they were to have a light lunch. Reading this Margaret was overjoyed, because you see, she and Marion had not spoken to each other for quite awhile, now they were to be friends, thus showing love is stronger than hate. Margaret’s mother and father had spent the day out of town and would not return until late in the afternoon. AH preparations wore made, and Margaret bought a scouting suit and a lovely bathing suit. About five-thirty that af ternoon Mr. and Mrs. James re turned. Their daughter immed iately ran to tell them the de lightful news. Hearing this, Mrs. James quick ly objected and told Margaret of the dangers. This quickly termin ated to her pleasures. Friday night soon came, and it made Margaret feel sad, to see all the other party in such glee, and she to remain at home. This was too much for her, and she began to cry. What! In the morning papers, in large headlines, “Two Drowned and Eight Injured.” After Margaret read this she replied, “I really be lieve mother knows best.” The American housewife, always on the firing line to help in time of trou ble, is again called upon to assist in keeping American labor employed and to overcome the increasing hardship brought about by unemployment This time her help is most vital— comes at a time when most needed— and comes without cost or penalty to her. Her weapons are -the sugar bowl and spoon. Her fight is based on keeping her sugar bowl filled with su gar refined ia the United States, by American labor, and under sanitary conditions, . supervised by the laws governing the manufacture of pure foods, known throughout the world to be the best This clarion call for co-operation is sent out on account of the unfair ad vantage given to the Cuban refiners over the Amerfcan refiners in the Tariff Bill just recently passed. In this bill a subsidy is given to the Cuban refiner of three cents a hun dred pounds, as he can export and enter into the United States 100 pounds of granulated sugar for three cents less duty than the American refiner has to pay when importing raw sugar and manufacturing it into re fined. This saving, unfortunately, is not passed on to the American house wife. She usually pays the same price whether the sugar is refined in this country or abroad. . -This un-American and unsatisfactory situation brought about by the Tariff Bill which was passed last summer, amotints to hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United States refiher, when one considers the hundreds of thousands of tons of refined sugar imported, because of this two cents preferential given, to the Cuban re finers, but when this differential is reduced to the per pound price to the housewife, it is so fractional that it is lost to her. The loss to the refiners in the TJnited States of hundreds of thou sands of tons of sugar to refine, due to the influx of foreign refined su gars, causes the refiners in this unemployment without any gain or saving on the part of the Amqrican housewife. The tariff law charges a duty of two cents per pound on the raw sugar imported from Cuba to be re fined in this country. The same law puts a duty of $2.12 an hundred pounds on sugar refined in Cuba and imported into this country. But, under the most favorable condi tions, it requires 107 pounds of raw sugar to be refined into 100 pounds of refined sugar in the United States, which means to get one hundred pounds of refined su gar in the United States, there is a duty cost of $2.14, or 2 cents a hundred pounds more than the cost to a Cuban refiner. In 1925 only 25,000 tons of for eign sugars were sold in this coun try, but in 1929 it had junjped up to approximately one-half million tons, and some state that over one million tons will be sold in this country the next two years without one cent of saving to the American housewife and with the additional penalty or reducing the output of refiners in the United States, which in turn will cause thousands of la borers to become idle. Over £d,0C0 v/orkers and their families are dependent on the re fineries in the United States for a livelihood, and if the output of their employers is reduced, either their wages will be reduced, or their number will be reduced, without any benefit to the housewife. By demanding that her sugar come from refineries located in- the United States, employing American labor, and refined under sanitary conditions in this country, unem ployment can be avoided and con ditions returned to normal in this industry. Many have pointed out the fact that the United States is appro priating hundreds of millions of dollars on one hand to aid the un employment situation, and on the other give foreign competition a subsidy which will permit an in road into established industries that tcouatry to lay-off labor and add to will beget increased unemploymenL hT, of 10 ,™ Blease Elected Chief we wish him the best of success. We do hope he will enjoy being Justice Supreme Court with us. | l . I am sure the teachers and stiid- III South CcirolillR ents will co-operate with him and the school wm be a^uc Eugene s . Blease> of Newberry> EVA v/OLEMAN, | associate justice, was last Wednoi- " epor r * day elected chief justice of the South Carolina supreme court. He was opposed by Associate Justice T. P. Cothran, of Green ville, who was defeated by a vote of 132 to 32. Associate Justice Blease succeeds Chief Justice Richard C. Watts. He is a half Camden — Dixie Radio Company changed to Dixie Heating and Plumbing Company. Newberry — Dry Cleaning and Pressing establishment of Wilbur Long starting longer shifts. Clover — Bank of this city to reopen after reorganizing. Newberry — Kendall Mills, own ing textile plants in this city, plan construction of 38 residences here. Clinton — Plans underway for purchase of new equipment for playgrounds of school here. Camden — Kirkwood Hotel re cently opened. Contract let for grading High way No. 9 from Cheraw to Chester field. Pageland — Construction com pleted on erection of new bridge across Thompson’s Creek near this place. Loris — Farmers of this com munity shipped 27 carloads of sweet potatoes during season. Columbia — Contract awarded to J. J. McDevitt Co., of Charlotte, for bid of $230,175, for construction of new education building for Uni versity of South Carolina. Easley — F. A. Finley construct ing large hall on second floor of Finley and Whitmire wholesale building, to be used for meetings of local W. O. W. Masonic Orders. Hartsville — Plans being consid ered for moving of local library. ' Sumter — Brooklyn Cooperage Co., and Galloway-Pease Lumber Co., began operations in their plants. Walhalla — Plans being consid ered for locating post office in building nearing completion on Main Street. Abbeville-— Machinery be in stalled for Hartwell’s new overall plant, which will open soon. THINGS WORTH KNOWING After the United States, Mexico ranks highest in petroleum produc tion. It is estimated that nine women out of ten in this country use face powder. Thirteen per cent of the eggs eaten in New York city come from the Pacific coast. The loss in milk bottles in this country each ye?.r mounts up to about $15,000,000. is changed, and thei figures remain statioiiary to remind the motorist when he will need fresh oil. Of the many kinds of prehis toric elephants, only two kinds, the African and Indian have survived. Hail stones weighing more than four pounds were reported from Cazola, Spain, during a remark able storm in 1829. An expert says that in many workshops the natural li^ht is cut down one-fourth by dirty win dow panes. The world’s longest tunnel is the Simplon, in Europe, which is more than twelve miles long. Egyptian mummies in the Field Museum at Chicago range in date from about 2300 B. C. to 200 A. D. The United- States had more cases of smallpox this year than any other country reporting this disease, except India. Constantinople has more fires than any other city of its size. The climate of Chile is like that of southern California and pro duces luxuriant semi-tropical flow ers and trees. Twenty per cent of the student? at Princeton last year received some, form of financial aid from the university. Brazil has an area larger the United States. than The municipal council has de manded flowers in all Paris school rooms and schoolyards to brighten the existence cf children at school. A remarkable magnet which de rives its power from heat is cap able of holding a weight of 400 pounds. Women are the chief workers in the Japanese silk industry. The oldest proof of iron in In Cairo and Alexandria. Egypt, was found in the * rave of the number of motor vehicles has risen from 19,000 in 1924 to 55,995 in 1928. Most maps of Chile are now out of date, because that country has revised its provinces and now has sixteen instead of twenty-three. At the height of the Roman em pire, its population was about 52,- 000,000. About fifty-fiv^ species of in- re s sects are enemie*of the boll weevil. cotton A Russian district has imposed a stiff tax on bachelors. Persons not members of a cultural, chari table or patriotic society also are taxed. Experiments in Greece have proved that dengue fever is trans mitted by a certain kind of mos quito. A small musical instrument with pipes, played in ancient China, was not unlike *a saxophone in appear ance. the Pharaoh Tut-ankh-amen. The real color of the moon is brown, the color of rocks, accord ing to a recent pronouncement of astronomers. Berlin restaurants which serve dinners at a fixed price are ex perimenting with the “take, as much as you like” system. A camera which can be swallow ed and takes pictures of the inside' of the stomach is useful in diag nosing internal disorders. The British Isles, now very sta ble country, had considerable ex perience with volcanic action in prehistoric times. In the great foyer of the Paris opera is this illuminated sign: “See Germany First.” The wording is in English. Havana is seeking the title of lierhted city in the world Walterboro Construction near- anc i i s extending its street lighting ing completion on office building being erected by Howell and Fish- burne. South Carolina Railroad Com mission Considering reopsning of application of Price Transportation Line, which would render service between Blackville and Yemassee. % Holly Hill — Construction near ing completion on new Methodist Church edifice. txt Urges Instruction Of Uneducated Adults WHO’S WHO IN THE SENIOR CLASS? Most Intellectual—Walton Bur kett. Most Athletic Girl—Elizabeth Mc Allister. Most Athletic Boy—John Thomas w k 0 diec j | ast fall Girl—Alleen i brother of United States Ar " ; Cole Blease. Senator A WELCOME TO PROFESSOR SHIFFLET. yte are glad to welcome our new McGrath. Best Looking rington. • | The new chief justice, Eugene Best Looking Boy—Bill Dowtin. j Satterwhite Blease, is 53 years old. Wittiest—Milton Walker. was k 0 rn in Newberry, attended Best all-round — Welbourne college there of that name and Schumpert. then taught in rural schools. Most Popular—James Patterson. i n 1399 was admitted to the Most dignified—Ruth Banks. b ar p or eight years he practiced Best Sport—James Ferqueron. i n Saluda and returned to Newber- Most Bashful — Helen Burnside, i ry j n 1997 to practice. He has Most in Love Girl—Louise Me- served in both the House and Sen- Kinney. a te and as mayor of Newberry. Most in Love Boy—S. M. Price. jj e was elected an associate jus- Biggest Flirt—Ellen Bosdell. tice January 14, 1926, for the un system accordingly. Alonzo O’Neil, seventy-four-year- old Negro of Bessemer, Ala., has spent twenty-five years and 40 cents in building a house. He dug his rock nearby and used odds and ends of lumber. The 40 cents went for nails. Manufacture of guaro, a native brandy, is a government monop oly in Nicaragua. A Louisville, (Ky.) woman sued a neighbor because one of the latter’s chickens attacked her. Much damage has been caused in Australia by “bush” or forest fires. Only a change of wind sav ed many towns. Some gourds weigh as ’much as eighty pounds. Water pipes in ancient were made of wood. Wife desertion has been a felony in Texas. Romo made The average life of an oil field is about three years. M. O. Bowen, air mail pilot on the Cheyenne-Denver-Pueblo route, sounds a motor car horn when he lands. Coal deposits that appear to be the most important in north Africa have been discovered in Morocco. A wealthy American baker living in Havana owns one of the largest pipe organs in the western hemis phere. Many tourists, Boy and Girl Scouts and housewives have re quested copies of the United States army’s cook book. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.— “America today has probably 15,- 000,000 who cannot read well enough to follow directions in man uals issued by their employers,” L. R. Alderman, of the Office of Edu cation, stated recently. “The old notion that adults cannot learn has proved fallacious. Hundreds of thousands of unskilled workers have been dropped from the pay rolls. It is possible for them to be trained in a short time for some useful rkilled occupation. “Education raises standards of living, increases buying power, and brings greater prosperity to com munities. It appears that the com munity which has the greatest amount of unskilled labor in oro- portion to its population, other fac tors being equal, is the poorest community. “The short work day and work week suggested as a solution of the Open air opera in St. Mark’s „,4ii ™ square is offered to Venice visitors unemployment problem will re- , summer> W ith Pietro Mascagni New-fangled plumbling and thef washing of automobiles are blamed by British newspapers for water shortage. Philadelphia is hardly a suburb of New York, but 175 residents of the Quaker C^ty commute to the metropolis daily. The oldest known pigeon lived to bo nineteen years old. A queen bee~ sometimes lays more than 1,000 eggs in a day. In the last half century Alaska has yielded $360,300, worth of gold. The latest telephone census shows more than 19,300,000 phones in use throughout the United States'. The 3rd United States infantry is the oldest regiment in the United States army. Great Salt Lake, Utah, has a tide of about six inches every twenty-four hours. In one South Carolina county, erosion has permanently ruined 90,000 acres of land formerly culti vated. Bears, when coming from their winter hibernation, sometimes do not break their fast for several weeks. Man Hater—Pearl White. Woman Hater—Walton Burkett. Most Conceited—Helen Talbert. Most Attractive—Helen Brown. Biggest Talker — Mabel Lyon. Most Original—Walton Burkett. MABEL LYON, Senior Reporter, x expired term of J. H. Marion, re signed. • txt While lightning strikes only in the summer time, it is possible to be thunderstruck most any time. X Admitted that there are two quire many adjustments. The new leisure would give time for the de velopment of skill and education upon a scale not yet enjoyed by any people in the world. Used in an intelligent way, the new leisure will add new values to human life. Men and women will have oppor tunity to be trained for self-em ployment during leisure. . . . If unusued schools were opened himself conducting. Fossil pearls found in California rocks are pronounced 25,000,000 years old. Boston has one lunch counter restaurant that employs 1,000 per sons and feeds 25,000 patrons each day. The owners plan to establish another unit. Coney island gets more sunlight than any other part of Greater New York. A department store in an eastern city is retailing automobiles. Reindeer meat is na^atablp a^d resembles a high grade of beef. At an altitude of seven miles, the temperature of the air is about 70 degrees below zero over any part of the earth. The potential value of the Unit ed States’ public domain, excluding the lands to wflich the government has reserved title to minerals, has Jack rabbits are heartv paters to the 15 000 000 adults possessing i and consequently can cause heavy been estimated at $26,000,000,000. the barest education above an 'damage to crops. Ages ago, when the earth rotatect „ ability to read and write, thou-1 A The best of men are generally sldes 1,0 every ( l uestlon » but both sands of unemployed teachers in sent from Winnipeg to Finland f 0 r , faster than {t does now > a d ay on - may be wron S- turn would be given work. Also breeding purposes. ithe earth was much shorter than attention of the public would be | our twenty-four-hour day. men at their best. . X People who don’t look before they focused upon the whole problem 1 A new dial f o add to the automo- The turkey gobbler is proud and leap generally land in a predica- and the solution of unemployment bile dashboard has figures which pride always comes before the ax. ment. would be nearer.” eter mUeagrr^dtog when P the°on The arms of an octopus are some times five feet in length. j