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, Thursday, March 12,1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR McCORMICK MESSKMiKK Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner HEntered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C.» as mail matter of the second class. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash Jn Advance — One Year $100 Six Months .75 Three Months -50 MEASURE PASSES Congress once more has over ridden a president’s veto, and the veterans’ loan bill was enacted for the benefit of ex-service men. The congress only on rare oc casions has passed a bill over the veto of the president. In doing so they assume the responsibility, rather than the chief executive. In 1924 when the soldiers’ bonus bill was before congress, the same ac tion was taken with the president dpposing the bonus. President Hoover,, in vetoing the loan bill, declared that it came at a time when the recovery of the nation's prosperity might be hind ered. Congress, on the other liand, contended that the loan bill will enable service men, who are in need, an opportunity of borrowing to the extent of one-half on their adjusted compensation claims, and hy so doing, will stimulate business. -IXX- Railroaders’ Talk (The State) Representative Sanders of Texas has put into the Congressional Record a paragraph from a con stituent, a railway trainman, ex plaining how a collision came ttbout: We’d just pulled the drag off the main stem onto the two streaks of rust, but she hung over. The hoghead was down on the ground greasing the pig, and the tallow pot was up on the deck crackin’ diamonds. The con was in the doghouse fumblin’ tissues, and the hind shack was cooling a red hub; he ought to been a tryin’ to put 15 sticks between him and the hind end. I was up ahead hendin’ the rails when the streak of varnish and plate glass came round the bend. • The eagle eye seen us and throwed her in the big hole on two streams of seashore, but he'd been pounding her over the back, and they slid into us. Tbft was just so much Greek to the congressman, who wrote to his "friend lor a translation. The cor respondent then supplied this version: We had just pulled in front of the main track to the siding but the rear end of the train was not into clear. I was up ahead of the locomotive reversing an interme diate switch, so that we could com plete the movement. The engineer was on the ground oiling the loco- emotive. The fireman was on the •deck of the engine breaking up some large lumps of coal to firing size. The conductor was in the •caboose checking over his copies •of train orders, and the rear hrakeman was cooling a heated journal under one of the cars, in stead of attempting to get back the required 15 telegraph poles from the rear of the train in order to afford the necessary flag protec tion against following trains. Just then the passenger train camfc round the curve and while the en gineer saw our train and made an emergency application of the air- . brakes, in addition to sandhis both rails, he had been running at such high speed that the efforts were futile, and the train collided with ours. X Eddy Leaves Station Cartwright Acting CLEMSON COLLEGE, March 7.— Prof. C. O. Eddy, associate entom ologist of the South Carolina Ex periment Station, has resigned his position to become associate en tomologist of the Kentucky Experi ment Station, Lexington, Ken tucky. To take his place Mr. O. L. Cartwright, assistant entomologist at the Pee Dee Branch Station, Florence, S. C., has been appointed acting associate entomologist. Mr. Eddy, who has been with the South Carolina Station a num ber of years, has. done much im portant research work, particular ly dp the insects of cotton and on the-Mexican bean beetle. Mr. Cartwright, who comes to his new work with excellent training and experience, was educated at Alle gheny College, Pa., and Ohio State "University, and has had five years' experience in South Carolina at the Pee Dee Station where he has given special attention to com in sects. He will arrive shortly to take up his new work at Clemson "College. This Week b Arthur Brisbane To Kill or Not to Kill Paderewski Still Practices Chicago Does Not Do This Your Rich Relative Los Angeles. — While Governor Brucker signs a bill to re-establish capital punishment in Michigan, Cali fornia discusses, and will adopt, it Is hoped, a bill abolishing capital punish ment. The state cannot discourage murder by imitating murderers and killing as they kill. Instead of death, thfc extreme pen alty should be life imprisonment, and it should mean life imprisonment, with eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for regret and re flection. Two criminals recently received sentences aggregating more than 200 years, and it was announced officially that they would actually stay In jail about fourteen years. That makes a joke of justice. THE COMMUNITY AND ITS BANKS R. C. STEPHENSON The one “secret of success” is work. Paderewski, in his private car on a sidetrack in Los Angeles, amazed rail road workers by practicing for hours on the piano that he carries with him. One worker remarked: ‘They say he’s the best piano player in the world, and listen to him, still practicing.” That is one reason why he is the best player in the world. The other reason is his possession of genius. But even genius, without work, as proved by the careers of many bril liant men born rich, is genius wasted. New York newspapers continue to advertise Chicago as the city of crime, although Chicago, as proved by sta tistics, stands far from the top as a crime center. New York’s newspapers also relate the interesting story of a New York woman strangled to death after she threatened to tell about po lice corruption. One policeman, one lawyer are suspected. That has not yet happened in Chicago, where kill-, ings are confined to men, and usually to thugs. To make the death of the miserable New York woman more tragic, there comes news of her daugh ter’s suicide. The unfortunate girl, sixteen years old, could not stand the mockery of her high school compan ions, and killed herself. It is a comfort to have rich relatives even when you feel poor, and the na tion’s Uncle Sam is rich. He has in solid gold $4,590,000,000, within $100,- 000,000 of the greatest amount he ever had. With such a gold supply it is hard to undei stand why such a fuss should be made about the soldiers’ bonus. But everything about finance is hard to understand. Fashionable tailors in New York ex hibit what they call “host coats.” Brightly colored, blue with green la pels, or wine colored with red lapels, they allow the eaters and drinkers at the party to pick out the man who Is paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not Impor tant, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concen trated intelligence, and is nearly al ways sober. Congress has gone home for the summer. No extra session, and high finance feels happier. Congress does little to frighten even a mouse, but it might do something, and finance is nervous just now—jumpy. In fact— looking back over its stock-issuing jobs during the boom. * Gandhi has agreed on a settlement with England, one that will save his face and not worry England much. Having led his followers to the sea shore to make salt, in defiance of Brit ain’s salt monopoly, Gandhi had to get some concession. English statesmen quite solemnly say. ‘Those that dwell at the edge of the sea may make their own salt, since God has placed them so near it. We shall make the salt for all others.” Soon even those near the sea will buy theit salt, since making it Is a nuisance. n\ A powerful French radical complains that France spends too much keeping ready for war. Briand, a real states man, replies for the French govern ment that the Russian army Is today the most formidable destructive power in the world, and he does not intend to have France taken by surprise. Hop! Indians, of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, have adopted Professor Ein stein, giving him for a tribal name, “The Great Relative.” a tribute to his “relativity” theory. In spite of his pa thetic struggles, it seems impossible for Professor Einstein to keep out of the limelight or avoid publicity. Try vanilla Joe cream with hot bakfd Indian pudding. Dr. C. G. Shaw, who specializes In : culture, art and such things, says wom en soon will write all the best books 1 and paint the best pictures. The state ment pleases the ladies, does no harm, is absolutely inaccurate and will re main Inaccurate for centuries. Nature arranges our work. Men work ex ternally. Women will continue to pro duce the capable men and the men will continue to produce the greatest books and pictures. That need not annoy women. Michael Angelo, creating his Moses, or decorating the Sistine chapel. Is no greater than the mother that produced him. He Is her work, as the Moses is his work.' It Is, at the same time, her mental grandchild. (0. 1931, br Kiat Feature* Syndicate, Inc.) T.i* * •• V.vV « By ROME C. STEPHENSON President American Bankers Association While upon the individual bankers there rests without qualification the di rect responsibility for the prudent, hon est conduct of their institutions, nevertheless the soundness of banking as a prac tical matter of fact is a commun ity problem in which the public has a part to play as well as bankers and government officials charged with the super vision of banks. In the first place, the assets of a bank, outside its government bonds, consist mainly of loans to business men and of invest ments in securities created by corpo rate enterprises. The deposits of a bank are not kept in the vaults as idle cash but are employed in these loans and Investments to earn the money to pay the expenses of the bank so that It can render services to its customers and also pay them interest on such deposits as hear interest. If there were no such thing as unsound business men or enterprises there would be no such thing as unsound assets in a bank. It is of course the unquestioned duty of the banker to chooso only sound loans and investments, bnt the diffi culty of such judgment, and human judgment is never Infallible, Is plainly increased in such times and under such conditions as we have been passing through, with many businesses not making expected earnings and there fore. hampered in meeting their obliga tions. Unfortunately some invest ments and loans created by persons outside the banks which found their way into the banks in a relatively few instances have reflected the unwise business policies and conditions that became more than usually prevalent in our business activities and contribu ted* to the difficulty of banking. The vast bulk of bank assets, however, are 100 per cent Round above all ques tion. “Hard Boiled” vs. “Easyf’ Banker In another aspect the people of the community have a part to play in main taining the soundness of their hanks, and that is through the medium of patronage. The existence of a bank is dependent on public patronage. If only those banks were patronized in which th% most careful policies were practiced'Aind the most conscientious and able men in charge, it would go far toward maintaining the standards of banking. If business men In a com munity when refused loans by their banks for good and sufficient reasons because conditions are not favorable, thereupon withdraw their business to banks where 16ss careful methods pre vail, they clearly contribute to the cre ation of a less sound banking situation. Also if, in the heat of competition, a banker offers higher interest rates or more free service to attract custom ers than the earnings of conservative banking justify, and is encouraged by the patronage of the public as against a more conservative bank, obviously the public is again playing a part in bringing about a less sound banking situation. It is an unfortunate fact that the banker who is strict, “hard boiled” if you please, is liable to be less popular than the “easy” banker, and by that same token the public it self has a voice in influencing the char acter of banking. Also it is the public in the end which pays the main part of the penalty if unfortunate results follow. Still again the public can exert an influence in shaping the character oU banking by supporting the purposes of bankers to maintain intelligent, inde pendent, honest banking supervision by the public banking departments through insisting that this function of government shall be kept as free from political influence as the Judiciary it- solf and shall be manned only by men of the highest ability and character. In still another way can the people themselves contribute to maintaining the ability of their banks to meet their obligations, and this Is by granting them the fullest possible confidence. As I said, the deposits are not kept as cash but are invested in loans and se curities. Even the soundest assets of this type require some time to recon vert at full value into cash deposits. In many cases of bank troubles the only thing wrong with a bank was an unduly suspicious and apprehensive state of mind In Its customers created by no act or condition of its own but by baseless rumors which sometimes led them to destroy the value of their own deposits by demanding them im mediately, forcing a bank to sacrifice its assets and otherwise disrupt its financial operations. Bankers Help During the year 1930 the Bankers* Association of Langlade County, Wis consin, worked out the finances for a cooperative milk plant, which entailed the raising of $1.00,000, and also spon sored an active 4-H-Club campaign that culminated in an “Achievement Day” program, in which upwards of 400 yeung people participated. Tha j 'Increase In the number interested In ; this wtipk was 200 per cent over the l past two year period. | Larry Ramsay Saved * Girl’s Beads | sis By LEETE STONE % * * *************************-x (Copyright.* T ARRY RAMSAY was one of the J- 7 best of university specimens, who possessed a generous income and a thirst for first hand glimpses of all the seven seas and the countries that are scattered on their shining sur faces. Larry was an idealist, too; about life, women, horses and dogs. Fond of all four, he was nothing less than particular in his choice of per sonal favorites. Aboard the steamer Galatia, Ply mouth and Havre bound, from New York, he was chatting sociably with a typical globetrotter the third day 4ut. This chance acquaintance was of the type that are never seen without their black or tan cased glasses strung over their shoulder; their shapeless cloth hats and their tan belted top coats, the pockets of which are usual ly bulging with the knickknacks of world travel. “Know England at all?” the older man inquired idly between puffs of the inevitable shipboard pipe. “London—a little,” Larry respond ed In the same key. “You’re an appreciative sort,” the stranger pursued, “I’d like to warn you not to miss the quaintest town in Cornw’all—or for that matter In all England. It’s got the most beautiful name there Is . . . Lostwithiel . . . pronounced Lostwith-eal. You lose the music of it unless you slightly accent the ‘with*. You land at Plymouth, you say. It’s not far from there and there are busses. Man alive, don’t miss it I” , The man’s earnestness compelled Larry to note down the name. That night Larry lay sleepless due to a rough sea and the deadly Insist ence of the fog siren. Toward morning he dozed off and in his sleep dreamed of meeting a beautiful girl on one of the lanes of Lostwithiel. Due to his Celtic ancestry, Larry was a believer in the portent of dreams. He found himself looking forward eagerly to the day when he might follow this lead. At least It would give him, Larry argued, some definite objective in hie present entirely elastic itinerary. And that, more than all else, was what he needed; for Larry’s mania for con stant travel was due to deep-seated loneliness and the fact he was for ever trying to run away from the memory of a girl he had cared for in his cqllege days. She had broken her engagement to him and married some one else. “Don’t forget Lostwithiel!” was the last thing his shipboard companion said to him as they shook hands when Larry boarded the tender which c&me to meet the ocean liner in Plymouth harbor. For the first time in several years of wandering over the face of the globe Larry felt himself buoyed up by a queer sense of both elation and ex citement. By turns he laughed at his dream of the quaint corner of Corn wall with a lovely girl awaiting him at the opening of an English lane, and by turns he believed in its reality. His first morning in Plymouth Larry was disappointed in the weather, which was rainy and threatening. Even this did not daunt his enthusiasm, however, so he bought a serviceable specimen of the Englishman’s Inevi table umbrella, and boarded a bus which Included Lostwithiel in its tour. And for a wonder, after a half hour’s riding the skies cleared and the clouds dissolved into that wonder of won ders, a perfect day of sunshine in England. With the driver’s comment, “Ap proaching Lostwithiel,” Larry knew that his dream of seeing the quaintest of English hamlets was coming true. He glimpsed it nestling in a valley through a wide break in the tall, thorned hedges that rise from every English road. Larry alighted from the bus at the foot of the hill and prowled into the first lovely, narrow lane that Invited. Old houses with thatched roofs curved over dormer windows, old hedges, love ly old colorful gardens—here indeed was English tradition epitomized, and for the first time Larry wished he possessed the camera habit of most tourists. ’ As he passed a particularly beautiful and sheltered holly-fringed gate lie heard a sharp little gasp. He turned quickly to look in and there, sure enough, stood the very girl of his dream. Her hands were tensely clutched at her throat and her face ex pressed dire distress. “Oh, please!” she cried softly. “My beads—they’re very old and valuable —and dear to me. The string has brok en. I think they’re all here In my hands; but I don’t dare take a step —oh . . “Righto!” Larry Ramsay was a quick thinker. “I’ll save your beads if you’ll promise to show me Lost- wlthiel.” Her eyes answered him. With lithe motion he was at her side; his de spised umbrella was opened and its ground end punched in the gravel di rectly in front of the girl. “Step Into that, lean over a trifle, and drop your hands gently,” Larry commanded. TRADE m 1 TRADE US YOUR OLD LIVING ROOM SUITE FOR A NICE NEW SUITE. WE WILL MAKE YOU A LIBERAL ALLOWANCE FOR THE OLD SUITE AND LET YOU HAVE A NEW ONE AT A REASONABLE PRICE. J. S. STROM’S Furniture Store Main Street — McCORMICK, S. C. STRETCH TOUR DOLLARS ON BROCEBIES AND MEATS It is just as much your duty to stretch your money out on groceries and meats as on anything else you buy, and our store offers you the opportunity to buy more quality groceries and fresh meats for less money. Read the few items listed and remember that we offer many other items at low prices. DIXE BELL SALMON, per can 48 lb. THREAD OF GOLD FLOUR r FAT BACKS, per pound 5-STRING CORN BROOM, each SELOX, large size, 2 for PLOW BOY SYRUP per gallon 10c S1.35 10c 39c 60c Best fresh meats, fish and oysters at prices you don’t mind paying. Phone No. 8 and have us de liver your order promptly. We buy and sell coun try produce. A. H. FAULKNER MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. qfr 3 3E Live At Home,” Help For Economic Ills LIBERTY LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY TAKES LEAD IN CAM PAIGN TO PROMOTE USE OF STATE’S PRODUCTS Pasteurising Milk Pasteurization, simply defined, Is the heating of raw milk to a temperature of 142 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit, hold ing at that temperature for 90 min utes, following which, period It is rap 'd U cooled to 38 0£ 40 degreed More than $100,000,000 is spent yearly for foodstuffs of various kinds by South Carolinians. In the effort to check this out going tide, and to bring about prosperity through increased con sumption of home products, The Liberty Life Insurance Company, of Greenville, has taken the lead in the state-wide “Live at Home” Campaign. The purpose of the campaign is two fold, the first being to en courage farmers to produce more fruit and vegetables and less cot ton. The second is to encourage South Carolina housewives to de mand South Carolina products in their shopping expeditions. South Carolina foods are unus ually rich in iodine, a health-giv ing property, but there has been comparatively little demand for these goods. Housewives of this state have been prone to accept canned goods of all varieties with out ascertaining whether or not they were grown in this state. By purchasing South Carolina goods housewives will be serving a double purpose, officials of The Liberty Life Insurance Company believe. In the first place they will obtain a better grade of food than can be otherwise obtained. In the second place this buying of home products will tend to bring a certain degree of prosperity to this state. Club women in all parts of the state are becoming vitally inter ested in the movement and have requested their grocers to keep liberal quantities of South Caro lina vegetables. The continued de mand for South Carolina foods will impress upon the grocers the nec essity of keeping abundant stocks of these goods, it is pointed out. Farmers and truck growers in all parts of the state are now plan ning to plant unusually large crops of peas, beans, cabbage, spinach, tomatoes and vegetables of all kinds. They have noted the increased interest being shown in South Carolina vegetables and are determined to share in this busi ness. Canneries have been organized in various parts of the state and by the time the present crop is produced it will be an easy thing for jobbers and wholesalers to se cure stocks of South Carolina pro ducts. This in turn will make it easy for the retailer who wishes to meet the demands of his trade, and for the housewife who wishes to set her table with the best pro ducts obtainable. The present movement, which has rapidly spread to all parts of the state, is expected to sharply reduce the quantities of goods brought into South Carolina. In one year this state has purchased elsewhere 123,000,000 pounds of meat; 300,000 tons of hay, 73,000,- 000 pounds of butter; 37,000,000 bushels of com; 20,000,000 dozen eggs and 13,000,000 heads of poul try. >—2X2— People • who find prosperity around the ^corner harV ' tq know which comer it is.