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Thursday, February 26, T93l McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Me 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 TELLING THE WORLD I “I’ll tell the world,” was once a slang phrase in good standing. It lost caste through too much use, but even yet it is expressive, and it fits the purpose of the booster who really is sincere about his regard for his home community. There are two classes of boosters and one of knockers. Of the for mer, one class is silent and the other never loses a chance to praise his home town. The silent booster, the man who is at heart sincere but never says so, could be of much better service if he would voice his sentiments now and then. He is a desirable citizen and a much valued citizen. He believe in his community to the exten that it is the best place in the world for him, but he never lets anyone know about it: he is never an aggressive force for the up building of the place which he re gards very highly. The booster who possesses all these traits ancf in addition nev hesitates to “tell the world” ai every opportunity that he is proud to live in his own home town is the man who is of most value to the community. This type of citizen believes that, regardless of what small grievances may exist among the home people, no one should be ashamed to/speak up for home whenever the occasion presents it self. He minimizes the shortcomings of the community, instead of mag nifying them as the knocker does and tries to correct them with some constructive effort. All the while he is repeating to the luke warm citizen and the kicker en couraging things about his home that in time may open their eyes. No place ever improved or grew bv hiding its light under a basket. The community that wishes to thrive must advertise itself and the boosting citizen is the most valu able citizeh in this role. IXT WONDERFUL PLAN $ (Anderson Independent.) To Pendleton, of which Ander son is a suburb from a historical standpoint, goes the honor of hav ing launched in its school a move ment that is destined to spread over the entire South. The pupils of that school, under the capable leadership of Prof. J. C. Holler, have established cotton goods as the style in Pendleton. This is just the beginning, for these pupils, in co-operation with the faculty, plan to spread the gos pel of more cotton -consumption throughout the South by sending letters to high schools, teachers’ or ganizations, boys, and girls clubs, asking that similar action be tak en. In Pendleton, to be in style, one must wear cotton-r-from the skin out. Therefore, the fastidious de sire to keep in style has put the idea over and King Cotton is ac claimed soverign in a style and manner befitting His Majesty, who has been somewhat under the weather of late because of eco nomic high blood pressure and other ailments. The task ahead is to convert school and college students, and the public as a whole in Southern states, of the magnitude of this undertaking. If demand for cot ton goods can be stimulated, mills will increase spindle activity and an increase in price to the farm ers will result. Pendleton merchants reoort an encouraging increase in the sale of cotton goods. This will be no ticeable wherever the movement is put into full swing. For that reason, the importance of the plan should be emphasized and the fullest possible help and co-oper ation gvien in making it operative at the earliest possible date. X SMOKE THIS that those in the profession keep that training up-to-date by per iodic attendance at Summer schools. Yet the pay of the aver age teacher is not as good as that of the average worker classed as skilled, who drew pay while he was being taught his work. The teachers of this state are not ovor-paid. The boot is on the other leg. To further cut their pay will mean that the best teach ers are going to be driven into other employment or into teach ing in other states, where the pay is better. That is a risk South Carolina cannot afford to run. To put the training of the children of the state in the hands of in competent instructors will be a crime against them and the fu ture of the state, of which they will be the majority of the citi zens a few years. In this time of stress the econ omy that can be effected by in creasing the teacher load can be justified, hot not a reduction of salaries which injuriouslv affect the efficiencv of the teaching force of our schools. X ANOTHER BARGAIN FIELD (Spartanburg Journal.) Comoared with the actual value of their phvsical properties, build ings. machinery, equipment and holdings, the dommon stock of some of the oldest and most suc cessfully managed textile plants in the Southeast is selling at ridicul ously low figures. Here is a field for investment of ready cash that in time will prove most profitable, if the judgment of those who know values in this territory is any guide. With some of these proper ties, it is not a question of possib ilities, what they may do in the future, or what demand may be found for their products. The very properties as they stand today rep resent millions of dollars invested. The mills have earned regular dividends for a generation, and af ter present depression clears up and the world’s demand for cotton goods gets back to normal, they will resume profitable operations. Meanwhile the efforts to stabilize production in keeping with the law of supply and demand will continue until that consummation is brought about. Spartanburg county’s two great industries are agriculture and textiles. They are interdependent. When one lang uishes the other shows the effect. Rejuvenation of agriculture will hasten the date when the mills will again be profitably operating. Leaders in local circles in both fields are sanely optimistic that conditions not only will change for the better, but that the turn ing point has already been reach ed. *Xt Washington High School News game was over but ope of the play ers fouled which gave Johnston two free shots which was success ful. This gave them a one-point lead at the end. The line up follows: Washington (18) Johnston (19) Buchanan (3) • Derrick Holloway (8) Grim D. Bussey (1) Watson P. Wells (2) Herlon°c O. Bussey Stilwell Substitutions:—For Washington J. Wells (2) for Buchanan; Robert son (2) for Holloway. Referee—Mr. Clyde Savage. The Washington boys played Edgefield at Edgefield Friday. The score was 18-10 in favor of Edge- field. Our boys seemed to be lacking in spirit and pep Friday and didn't show up as good as they did against Johnston. The line up follows: Washington (10) Edgefield (18) Holloway (4) LaGroon J. Wells Andrea (6) I D. Bussey Tompkins (8) j P. Wells (2) Davis (2) O. Bussey Gilchrist Substitutions:—For Washington Robertson for Holloway; Buchanan for Wells. Edgefield—Jackson for LaGroon; Davis for Andrea; Gilchrist for Tompkins; Dorn for Davis; Nichol son (2) for Gilchrist; Lynch for Nicholson. Rreferees:—Mr. Bishop and Mr. Bradshaw. The friends of Mrs. L. V: Mayer will regret to hear that she is very sick at her home with mumps. We miss her at school and all are wishing 'for her a most speedy re covery. We are glad to have Miss Lily Dowtin of McCormick as a mem ber of our faculty for a few weeks. Miss Dowtin is taking Mrs. Mayer’s place and has charge of the third and fourth grades. Miss Margaret McKinney spent last week end with her home folks in McCormick. Misses Annie and Minnie Jack- son and Miss Marion Herron spent last Sunday with Mrs. L. A. Jack- son in Abbeville. (The Anderson Independent) Not everything that cuts off expense is economv. What seems a saving mav in the end be verv costly. For instance, if a man cut his exoenditures for food to the point that he and his fnmilv are under-nourished, that will not be economy. Their efficiency would be decreased and th*ir health might be so undermined that bills for doctors, medicine and even, hospitalization would cost many i times more than the aooarent sav- in?: bv reduction of the food bill. That thought should be seriously 4 considered by our legislators be-1 fore they cut the salaries of teach ers. A seeming saving attained that way may be exceedingly cost ly- Garfield said that his idea of a university was a log with Mark Hopkins at one end a scholar at the other. Our legislators should study that remark until thev fully get its wisdom. A good teacher can do good work in a poor buil ding and with inadequate equip ment, but a poor teacher cannot do good work in the finest of school buildings, with the best of school equipment. Teaching is a E rofession for which people must ave training and it is required The social event of last week was a George Washington party given at the school building on last Saturday night by Miss Her ron in honor of the girl’s basket ball team. The agriculture room where the party was held was beautiful upon this occasion, be ing decorated with a profusion of red, white and blue paper and flags. The first part of the even ing was spent in stunts, games and contests and the latter part was filled with “proms.” After the last prom refreshments, consisting of Eskimo pies and mints, were serv ed. Miss Herron made a short talk in which she thanked the girls for their untiring efforts and hearty co-operation during the basketball season. In behalf of the boys who were the invited guests, Mr. Fred Bradshaw ex pressed their appreciation. Those who were present were: Misses Blanche Middleton, Louise McDan iel. Blanche McDaniel, Ella Ree Buchanan, Annie Martha Ryan, Mary Frances Drennan, Anel Ed munds, Margaret Robertson, Jose phine Parks, Bernice Prescott, Eliz abeth Prescott, Annie Jackson, Minnie Jackson, Marion Herron and Mrs. Rountree. Messrs. Davis Bussey, Olin Bussey, Hugh Middle- ton, Joe Price, Eubert Eckard, Har old Robertson, Mack Campbell, Watson Parks, Hubert Williams, Ray Bailey, Monroe Prescott, Fred Bradshaw and Mr. Wooten. The girl’s basketball team play ed its last game of ball for this season on the Edgefield court last Friday against Edgefield. This game did not prove to be very thrilling as neither side did very much starring but played slow ball throughout the contest. Edgefield was victorious with a score of 26-15. Holson and Holmes for Edgefield showed great ability in ringing the basket for goals, while Edmunds, forward and Buchanan, side center for Washington played an excellent game. To the rest of the players should go a word of praise for each played well. The line up was: Edgefield (26) Washington (15) Holson Edmunds Right Forward Holmes Ryan , Left Forward Hume Middleton Jumping Center Swearingen Buchanan Side Center Allen McDaniel Right Guard Anderson Drennan Left Guard Substitutes: For Edgefield— Kemp for Holson; Berry for Hume; Padgett for Swearingen; Smith for Anderson. For Washington—Prescott for Drennan. • Referees: Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Gressette. cj[ku Two other games of basketball were played during the past week between outside teams. One of these was played against Johnston on the Washington court and was a very good game. The Washing ton mixed team lost by a score of 22-17. The line up was: Washington (17) Bradshaw (2) Holloway (10) Price (2) Wooten (2) g Robertson f ■ iitip: Williams fpr Holloway. Referee—Mr. Clyde Savage. Your Dollars Are Worth More Now Even, if dollars are a little scarce with ^ ome people now the ones they have will certainly go much further than they formerly did. Prices on Cotton Goods of most all kinds and Silk Products are cheaper than they have been at any time during the last 20 years. We are selling yhrd wide Prints for 10c yard that we sold a year ago for 15c. Prints that we sold one year ago for 25c we are now selling for 15c yard, now we are selling Prints for 19c yard that we sold last year for 29c yard. You will be surprised to see what big Towels that we are selling for 15c and 10c each. Towels that we sold last year for 43c and 39c, we are now selling for 25c each. 81x99 Sheets that we sold last year for one dollar are now sold by us for 79c each. 81x99 Fine Muslin Sheets we now sell you for $1.10 this same Sheet we sold last year for $1.48. All kinds of Silks are very cheap, cheaper than the writer has ever known them to sell for, and he has been in the business for more than 20 years. Ladies’ Full Fashioned Pure Thread Silk Hose are just about half the price that they were one year ago. We are selling Ladies’ Full Fashioned Pure Thread Silk Hose that we sold one year ago for $1.65 now for only $1.00, and Ladies’ Full Fash ioned Silk Hose that we sold for one dollrr a year ago, we now sell you the same Hose for 75c per pair. Now we sell you Ladic s’ Full Fashioned Silk Hose, slightly imper fect that last year we sold for from 79c to one dollar pair for the small price of 48c and just think of Full Fashioned Silk Hose for 48c pair. Hose that were $1.95 and $2.00 per pair one year ago we are now selling same for $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 per pair. Beautiful Silks that only few months ago we sold for $1.98 vard we are now selling you same goods for $1.18 yard, and you should see the beautiful new patterns. Ladies’ Silk Dresses that you would expect to pay $10.00 for and that you will pay $10.00 for some places now for only $4.95, and you will be surprised to see such wonderful values as these for this small price. You should see the wonderful new Spring Patterns in Ladies’ Shoes at $2.95, same Shoes one year ago sold for $4.95 and some sell for that price now, but you know we Sell Them For Less, our price only $2.95. Ladies’ Fnna Jetdck Shoes, not our entire stock but all sizes in $5.00 and $6.00 quality, that we are selling for onlv $3.95, and we have them in Patent and Kid, Light and Dark colors, low and medium heels. Covered and Leather Heels. GALLANT-BELK “GREENWOOD’S LEADING POM DA MV “ THE HOME OF DEPARTMENT STORE” bUlTlI All I BETTER VALUES” P. S—If you are not now getting more f or each dollar you spend, you are not spending your money at the right place. Johnston (22) Lewis (12) Wright (4) Watson (2) Herlong (1) Jones (3) Substitutions:—For Washington, Again this past week Mrs. Roun tree reported a hundred per cent record on “good health” habits for her room. These pupils are to be commended. The boys basketball team played the best game of the season against the strong Johnston team on the home court last Wednesday, being defeated by the score of 19-18. The game was interesting from beginning to end. One side never got over a three point lead on the other all during the game. The Washington boys were in the lead about thirty seconds before the The other game was against McCormick which proved victor ious for them to the tune of 40-13. The McCormick quintet was too swift for Washington and got by with lots of passes and secured many goals. The line up was: Washington (13) McCormick (40) Bradshaw (7) Tavlor (6) Wells, J. (2) Bentley (16) Price (2) Abercrombie (12) Savage (2) Jennings (4) Wooteen Acker (2) Substitutions: —For W ashing ton Williams for Wells; Robertson for Savage. AGRICULTURE NOTES. There has been quite a demand for the agricultural classes, serv ices for terracing, prunning, snray- ing. etc. Due to the rush of im portant classroom work, this out side work has been neglected until this week. This whole week has been devoted to this work, how ever, as follows: Mondav—Terracing for Mr. Ern est Wood, Parksville. Tuesday—Terracing for Mr. Ern est Wood, Parksville. Wednesday—Terracing for Mr. W. McDaniel. Modoc. Thursdav—Pruning and spraving orchard for Mr. J. M. Bussey, Parksville. Fntfpv—Pruuing orchard for Mr. T. J. Stone, Modoc. It looks as if practically all the new shrubbery nut out by the class last fall will live. We have nlanted shrubbery on nractically three full sides of the building now which adds much to the beauty of the camnus and building. The class is planning to finish all their pressing outside work next week, February 23-27 and then continue with thei r interrupted classroom work on fertilizing cot ton and com. early fall layers. Elbert Dorn has placed an order for two hundred ducklings. Most of the agricultural boys will carry cotton and com as their project work, however. 1XI Results Of Cotton Fertilization Last Year Made Public John Price, a member of the first year class, has finished a 12x14 brooder house and is plan ning to build a brick brooder this week. John intends to put about three hundred March hatched baby chicks to grow out for layers as part of his project work. Flovd Drennan has kept records on his hundred and twenty pullets since last fall and has made money des pite the low prices obtained for eggs this winter. He is also plan ning to put in some baby chicks for COLUMBIA, Feb. 17.—Results of twenty projects conducted by vo cational agricultural teachers of the state last year to instruct their classes in the value of nitrogen on cotton and the time of applying it have been made public. These re sults are about in line with those of the three preceding years in that they show greatly increased yields on plots where the nitrogen was used over plots where none was used and also they show further increased yields on plots where part of the nitrogen was used at planting and part as a side-dress ing. There were three plots in each of the twenty projects this year. The ; fertilizer used on each plot and the average yield per acre for each were as follows: Plot No. 1—Three hundred pounds of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of muriate of potash. The average yield for the twenty plots was 627 pounds of seed cotton per acre. Plot No. 2—Three hundred pounds of acid phosphate, 50 pounds muriate of potash, 200 pounds of Chilean nitrate of soda, all applied at planting. The aver age yield for the twenty plots was 945 pounds of seed cotton per acre. Plot No. 3—Three hundred pounds acid phosphate, 50 pounds muriate of potash and 200 pounds Chilean nitrate of soda, one-fourth of the nitrate of soda at planting and three-fourths as a side dress ing. The average yield of the? twenty plots was 1,027 pounds. The acid phosphate and muriate of potash were applied at planting on each of the three plots. Valuing the seed cotton at 4 1-2 cents a pound, it will be seen that the average value of the increase of plots No. 2 over plots No. 1 was $14.78 per acre and of plots No. 3 over plots No. 1 was $18.91 per acre for the twenty projects con ducted in 1930. Eighteen similar projects con ducted by vocational teachers in 1929 gave an average increase for plots No. 2 over plots No. 1 of 271 pounds of seed cotton and an aver age increase for plots No. 3 over plots No. 1 of 502 pounds. Twenty similar projects in 1928 gave an average increase for plots No. 2 over plots No. 1 of 377.5 pounds of seed cotton and for plots No. 3 over plots No. 1 of 457 pounds. Thirteen similar projects in 1927 showed an increase for plots No. 2 over No. 1 of 450 pounds of seed cotton and for plots No. 3 over plots No. 1 of 457 pounds. -txt- Bank Head Says News paper Gets Into Field Exclusively Its Own NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Newspa- pers have outstanding advantages over other advertising media in speed and action and furnish the best medium for the trust com pany, Charles H. McMahon, assist ant vice-president of the First Na tional bank of Detroit, told the mid-winter trust conference of the trust company division, American Bankers association, today. Mr. McMahon told the confer ence that daily newspaper reading is an outstanding habit of the American public. “A financial advertiser has as surance that today he can reach the literate population of any or all communities by advertising in the newspapers,” he said. “You may not have listened to a radio today, nor have received any ad vertising by mail, nor read any outdoor advertising, but most of you will read the newspapers. Thus newsoaper advertising duplicates the influence of all other adver tising and touches in addition fields that are exclusively its own.” “Despite occasional statements that newspaper space is too cost ly to be efficient in the educa tional job of the trust company, Mr. McMahon said that as a mat ter of fact newspaper advertising enjoys the advantage of costing less than any other form of adver tising. Population, wealth, and buying power are concentrated about the points where daily news papers are published, he said, and newspaper advertising “opens the door for our representatives and saves their time once they are face to face with their prospects.” txt It’s fine to have the Ikw on your side, but still better to have the jury. . * Prevent Poultry Parasites It is easier and cheaper to pre vent poultry parasites and diseases than to cure them. Infectious dis eases reach the flock through new birds from infected flocks, expo sure at poultry shows, or contact with diseased fowls. Infection may also be spread on shoes or animals’ feet, or by free-flying birds. TJie greater the number of fowls kept on a farm and the more they are crowded, the greater the danger of disease and parasites. General con trol measures for parasites include arranging houses and yards so that rain water will not wash from one to another, and draining marshy places and filling holes in which water collects. It is desirable to rotate yards; one yard may be ploughed under and planted to green stuff when not in use. Give feed and water in containers which prevent contamination of the con tents with the birds’ droppings. Remove and dispose of droppings frequently. It is dangerous to use chicken manure as fertilizer if it is spread where poultry have ac cess to it or where small animal forms feed on it. Poultry houses and feeding and drinking utensils should be cleaned and disinfected frequently. Permanganate of pot ash in the drinking water helps to prevent infection through the wa ter. Farmers’ Bulletin 1652-F, Dis eases and Parasites of Poultry, which may be procured from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., describes the common poultry diseases and para sites and the best methods of com bating them. txt Cattle owners in sections where the fever tick is a pest should begin now and dip their cattle ev ery 14 days until next November. If throughly done, this will era dicate the pest. The parasite transmits tick fever, reduces beef and milk production, and ticky cattle can not be shipped inter state. Such cattle usually sell for from one-half cent to 2 cents a pound less than tick-free cattle, says the Bureau of Animal Indus try, U. S. Department of Agricul ture. .