McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, February 26, 1931, Image 2
Thursday, February 26, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
GROWING COTTON TO
MAKE RAYON
(The Asheville Citizen-Times.)
Experiments now being conduct
ed at the University of North
Carolina attack the cotton prob
lem in a way which, if it succeeds,
may well revolutionize the whole
cotton industry. Dr. Frank R. Cam
eron, Professor of Chemistry, and
one of his students, Nicholas W.
Dockery, are conducting the ex
periments. The latter, with his
mother, owns a cotton plantation
of several thousand acres
Rockingham.
These gentlemen are undertaking
to turn cotton into rayon in com
petition with wood pulp. Their
idea is to use the whole plant in
stead of the lint alone. They wish
to change the method of produc
tion entirely by substituting a sys
tem of growing similar to that now
used with wheat and hay. After
extensive experimentation, they
believe that material for making
rayon can be produced at barely
more than one-twentieth of the
cost by present methods of sup-
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FORD
COMFORT
MSverg new Ford is equipped with
four Houdaille double-acting
. hydraulic shock absorbers
ONE of the fine things about driving the new Ford is the
way it takes you over the miles without strain or fatigue.
No matter how long the trip, you know it will bring you
safely, quickly, comfortably to the journey’s end.
The seats are generously wide, deeply cushioned and
carefully designed to conform to the curves of the body.
Every new Ford has specially designed springs and four
Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers.
These work both ways — up and down. They absorb the
force of road shocks and also provide a cushion against
the rebound of the springs.
Other features that make the new Ford a value far
above the price are the Triplex shatter-proof glass wind
shield, silent, fully enclosed four-wheel brakes, more
than twenty ball and roller bearings, extensive use of
fine steel forgings, aluminum pistons, chrome silicon
alloy valves, torque-tube drive, Rustless Steel and
unusual accuracy in manufacturing.
In addition, you save many dollars because of the
low first cost of the new Ford, low cost of operation and
upkeep, and low yearly depreciation.
The New
Fordor Sedan
near plying lint for this purpose.
It is an interesting fact that
cotton is probably richer than any
other plant in available cellulose,
which is the basic material of ray
on. Ninety-five to ninety-eight per
cent of its lint is cellulose. Further
this cellulose is of a very high
quality and is suited for conversion
into the finest types of rayon.
Nevertheless, the cost of cotton, as
compared with wood pulp, from
which rayon is now mostly made,
keeps it from being much used in
the rayon industry.
For growing cotton for this new
industry two systems are being
considered. One plan provides for
sowing or broadcasting as hay and
grains are planted. The other
method is to drill in rows close to
gether. From experimental evid
ence already obtained, these new
methods are expected to produce
a smaller plant with comparatively
less stalk and more fruit, with
probably a shorter staple fibre, as
well as shortening maturing sea
son.
Under this system of growing
cotton would require no cultivation,
also picking would be eliminated
and a mowing machine could be
used for harvesting. As a matter
of fact, this has already been done
in experiments, although with
plants that had been grown in the
customary rows.
Disposal of the seeds, however,
is a problem to be dealt with in
the process being thus tried from
Chapel Hill. It would be a great
draw back to lose them or any
considerable proportion of them,
because of their value as by pro
ducts. But it seems possible to
send the seed through the pulping
process unginned and afterwards
to recover by chemical processes
the oil which they would leave. An
alternative would be to gin, not
;he lint only, but the whole plant.
It is a question as to which is the
more practical way.
If cotton growing can be thus
revolutionized so as to divert this
staple to use in the rayon industry
the effects should be profound.
The cotton industry of ihe South
is suffering from over production
and from competition with silk
and rayon. But if we are to have
new, better and cheaper rayon
itself made of cotton, the tables
will be turned. Perhaps the pres
ent experiments at Chapel Hill will
prove of incalcuable value to the
South.
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COUNTY AND SCHOOL
EXPENDITURES
ROW PRICES OP FORB CARS
$430 TO $630
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( zZfad' )
$50,000.00 Cigarette
Contest Under Way
A contest offering $50,000.00 in
prizes has been announced by R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company, makers
of Camel Cigarettes, with special
announcements in practically every
Newspaper in the United States.
Eight days are allowed for sub
mission of essays, the contest clos
ing at midnight on March 4th.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best answ'ers to the question: What
significant change has recently been
made in the wrapping of the Camel
package, containing twenty cigar
ettes, and what are its advantages
to the smoker? Answers are limit
ed to two hundred words in length,
must be written on one side of the
paper only and are to be mailed to
the contest editor, R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
First prize is $25,000.00, with sec
ond and third prizes of $10,000.00
and $5,000.00. Numerous smaller
prizes will also be awarded. Judges
of the contest are Ray Long, Presi
dent of the International Magazine
Company and Editor of Cosmopoli
tan Magazine; Roy Howard, Chair
man of the Board of the Scripps-
Howard Newspapers, and Charles
Dana Gibson, internationally known
artist and Publisher of Life Maga
zine.
The contest is part of what ad
vertising experts declare is one of
the most intensive advertising cam
paigns ever staged. Practically ev
ery Daily and County Seat Weekly
Newspaper in the country will be
used as well as College Periodicals
and Financial Newspapers. This
campaign is to be followed by an
aggressive advertising drive through
Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and
outdoor display.
is publicity, the taxpayers of the
county will probably insist on re
forms. If they act with determ
ination, the publicity will result in
netting the taxpayers a saving of
a quarter of a million or so a year.
As The State has heretofore
pointed out, it would be a very
wholesome thing if the detailed
cost of government in every coun
ty were laid before the people of
the county. And in this connec
tion it would be especially valuable
to know just how, on whose au
thority and by what process, the
school money is spent in the coun
ties; what teachers are relatives of
school officials and how contracts
for supplies are made. In fact,
there should be light and plenty
of it.
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AUDITS WOULD SAVE MONEY
AND INCREASE HONEST
SERVICE
(The State.)
(The State.)
Publication in the Spartanburg
Journal of a series of articles on
county expenses, prepared by
county authorities on tne call of
the delegation, has attracted quite
a lot of attention. Greenville had
regarded her expenditures as high
but is surprised to note how much
less they are than those of Spar
tanburg. The Greenville News had
this to say:
Governmental costs may be high
in Greenville county, but it is some
consolation to learn that our
neighbor county of Spartanburg is
wondering why its county govern
ment costs so much more than
Greenville’s.
The Spartanburg Journal pub
lishes in some detail a report to the
county delegation showing that
while Spartanburg county is spend
ing for all purposes about a mill
ion and a half dollars annually,
Greenville’s expenditures run to
around $800,000, or only about half
as much.
One big difference in the ex-
fenditures of the two counties is
in local road maintenance, for
which Spartanburg spent last year
around $550,000, while Greenville
spent $282,340. And in the matter
of bond retirement and bond in
terest, Spartanburg spent over
$569,000, while Greenville spent
$278,000 in round figures. Salaries
in Greenville county were $10,000
less than in Spartanburg. Magis
trates and constables cost twice as
much in the neighbor county as
here. The Spartan health depart
ment cost $10,000 more.
Spartanburg and Greenville
counties are fairly close to equality
in the matter of population, area,
and general governmental respon
sibilities. The comparison in ex-
Representative Rittenberg of
Charleston has introduced a bill
requiring an annual audit made of
the books and records of each
county official and to have such
audits filed.
We do not know how this
measure will appeal to the legisla
ture, but if one judge the present 4
assembly by those which have gone
before, some one is bound to ob
ject on the ground that audits will'
cost money. This writer remem
bers the time when “old time
gentlemen” elected to offices “of
honor and trust” where they had
to handle public money were in
dignant at the requirement that
they should furnish bond for the
faithful discharge of their duties
—and there were many who then
sympathized with their “touch
iness.”
But bonds are required by law
and it is now generally recognized
that they are needed. What, how
ever, is the use of bonds when
there are no audits? The certainty
of an audit is a double protection.
Very few persons who are faith
less to their trusts originally set
out to defraud the public. They be
gin by “borrowing” from the funds
in their keeping, with the full in
tention of returning the money.
But it is not returned. The ice of
honesty having been broken, they
go deeper and deeper into the hole.
In most cases of detection, an ac
cident is responsible for the in
quiry and resultant investigation
and discovery.
Without systematic audits only a
part, and probably the smaller
part, of defalcations are discover
ed. On the other hand system
atic audits would deter many an
official from making that first
false step. They would help men
to resist temptation.
Aside from that sordid phase,
audits would help the people to
know and understand the finan
cial status of the public’s business.
The bill introduced by Mr. Ritten-
penditures is stirring the Spartan
citizenship to renew demands that
its delegation go more thoroughly ; berg is a step toward a businesslike
into the matter and bring govern- | conduct of public affairs. Those
mental costs down. It is grati- who speak for economy should
fying. of course, to learn that our support it as an absolute essential
county expenditures are not so to economical government. No
high as our neighbor’s, but that private business could long survive
fact should not, of course, cause if subjected to the unbusinesslike
any relaxation of the effort to put methods which mark the conduct
our own county affairs on the basis of public business.
of the greatest possible
and efficiency.
economy
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Snapping of a power line by
The State confesses to surprise hpavv wind ~ pt a firp wh irh hnrn-
fV*o Hiffhofn/oon t>»o nnct ne aVy Wind SCt a 1116 WHICH DUm
ed over 1,000 acres in the San
Bernadino National Forest in Cali-
Chained lightning can be
at the difference between the cost
of running the governments in
those two counties. We are sur
prised, indeed, that Greenville’s f 0 rnia
costs are so much less than Rich- j . , ,, .
land’s. This county and Spartan- a l mos t as dangerous as the real
burg are in the same brackets | thing which during a single storm
Here, however, our expenses for se t 73 fires last summer in the
schools will take the place of Spar
tanburg's extraordinary annual bill
for road maintenance.
The Spartanburg Herald is hop
ing some error will be found in the
published figures. That hope, we
fear, in vain. But now that there i
Ouachita National Forest in Ark
ansas. All of these fires were held
to small size, however, by the
prompt work of the Forest Service
officers.
An ANNOUNCEMENT
by your Fertilizer Dealer
No. 2
in s Series appearing in this newspaper
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to make successful crops.
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in years. I can pass this saving on to you. I
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South relies on for real money-making crops*
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fertilizer. For more than 100 years it has.
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and his too. Insist on Chilean and you get the
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the two kinds—Original Chilean (Crystalline)
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in years
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The bag without a backache-
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