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Thursday, March 19,1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER THREE) McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick. S. C., as mail matter of the second class. V SUPSCRIPTTON RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Sly Months .75 Months .50 NERVE WRECKERS Americans, and especially those who reside in our metropolitsfti areas, are in danger of becoming a race of neurotics, in the opinion of leading neurologists. Nerve-wracking noise, the hustle and bustle of modern business, the dodging of vehicular traffic and a hundred and one other appurten ances to present day modes of liv ing—all of them are consolidating themselves in a program of human destruction that rapidly grows worse with each succeeding day. The modern city dweller keens late hours and does not get suf ficient rest. Instead of partaking of a leisurely luncheon, he grabs a sandwich and dashes away to close another big deal. In the morning, he gulps his breakfast and runs for the 8:15 or the subway. On nights when he is not obliged to make the opera, the theatre or meet some other social obligation he might partake of a leisurely dinner—but not any too often. • There seems to be no basis for expecting relief from this wide spread condition of neurosis. The pace set in modem business was created by the men so engaged. The pursuit of the dollar must go on, probably with increasing rap idity. Those Who would relax in the interest of their health must sacrifice some of the so-called lux uries of life. And this, a majority are unwilling or too thoughtless of their own welfare to do. FREE PRESS VITAL (The Carolina Free Press.) “Free government is impossible without a free press” Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, said in a letter last week to Earle B. Pauly, secretary of the Ohio Legislative Correspondents* Asso ciation, Columbus, accepting an honorary membership in the As sociation. The honor was confer red on Baker recently while he was absent in Europe. “The Legal Profession,*’ the let ter continues, “from the beginning of our government has been an im portant agency in making and pre serving our institutions. That pro fession owes to yours the duty of ceaseless surveillance to see that the rights of the press are unim paired in order that the truth about public matters can be fear- SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK IN FINE NEW SPRING AT- Gallant-Belk Company Every lady and miss will find it easy and profitable to acquire her spring dress ward robe here this week. The materials are exceptional, the styles are new and authentic and prices are the lowest ever offerd. NEVER WERE FASHIONS SO COLORFUL. SO DELIGHTFULLY VARIED OR SO LOW. PRICED. Specials For This Week DRESS SPECIALS Specials For This Week DRESS SPECIALS _a1 .at. $2.95 colorful frocks in splendid var iety same quality dresses sold a short while ago for $4.95. Specials For This Week DRESS SPECIALS .al $4.95 , Never in our experience have we been ahle to offer dresses possessing such chic and charm at such low price Dresses of same quality were only a short time ago consid ered exceptional values at $7.95 and $9.95. if any women needs an excuse for dressing well she’ll find it here where she can buy real fine quality dresses at such a price. The dresses in this group would have been con sidered bargains at $14.75 and $16.50 only a short time ago. Specials For This Week In The BETTER DRESSES $14.75 Silks as fine as any woman could wish for, styles as appealing as they are new, and only a short time ago such dresses sold for up to $24.50. FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO ■ GALLANT-BELK “GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE” COMPANY “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES” WE SELL EVERYTHING AND SELL IT FOR LESS fa 3E ,m+'- rtifc lessly told.’ -tXi- C. & W. C. Would . Disrupt Mail Service Along The Road Plan to Discontinue Morning Train, Badly Cripple Mail Facilities at Starr, Iva, Calhoun Falls and Other Points—No Bus Com petition at All (Anderson Independent of Mar. 14) The C. & W. C. railroad will again renew its efforts to take off the morning southbound train be tween Anderson and McCormick which provides the major mail facilities to thousands of people who live in the territory through which the road runs. This road has from time to time recently stated its desire to reverse its schedule and run one freight train with coach attached from McCormick to Anderson and return each day except Sunday, probably eleminat- ing all rail service on the road on Sundays. Such a proposal would be the source of much inconvenience to thousands of people living along the road. The bulk of mail for points between Anderson and Mc Cormick comes into Anderson dur ing the night, from north and Sduth, via Seneca, arriving here on the morning Blue Ridge in time to be transferred to the C. & W. C. This mail, together with The Independent, which goes to a large number of subscribers serv ed by the road, would not reach rural subscribers untU a day late, and naturally first class mail will suffer the same unreasonable de lay. As a concrete example, the Jackson Mills, at Iva, would be forced to send a messenger into Anderson each morning to receive first class mail, while other busi nesses would have to do similarly or wait until the afternoon before receiving their first mail. All mall routes in this area would bring mail to the farmers 24 hours late by reason of the proposed change. A few years ago the railroad operated two trains each day be tween Anderson and McCormick, but removed one without any op position from Andersonians upon the assurance of the late President Anderson that the arrangement now in effect would remain per manent if the road be allowed to take off one train, or curtail the service fifty per cent. The C. & W. C. has no bus com petition between Anderson and McCormick and probably would do some passenger business if better service were maintained. The dis continuance of’ the morning de parture will make it impossible for persons returning from distant points via Anderson to make con nection with a train out of the city on this road, while the pro posal to do away with train ser vice entirely on Sunday probably reflects the attitude of the rail road on the subject of maintaining anything like suitable trans portation facilities to and from this city. The road now seeks to justify its plan with a claim that the freight service would be improv ed, which is regarded with much skepticism, but that is about the best alibi that can be offered for crippling the mail facilities to the thousands of people in the rural sections on the branch line. Should the proposed change be permitted by the South Carolina Railroad Commission, not only would rural subscribers to The In dependent in the rural sections between Anderson and McCormick receive their newspaper a day late, but it is suggested that the after noon train would depart too early to carry the Daily Mail to points along the road. Fortunately, a new member of the commission, B. J. Pearman, of this county, is fully aware of all the facts in the case and has full knowledge of the badly crip pled mail service that would re sult from such a change in sched ules. Also, there are members of the commission who reviewed the facts a few years ago and recall that the C. & W. C. specifically agreed that curtailment of its mail and passenger service fifty per cent would be all that it would ever ask of that body. The Chamber cf Commerce here, local newspapers and others will meet the efforts of the railroad to return as little as possible in passenger and mail facilities while seeking the greatest possible freight return from Anderson, and will oppose the plans now on foot when a hearing is held commission. Ford Says U. S. Is Prosperous But Un able Realize Fortune ^HECK up on your Fir e Insurance. Have you given a thought to increasing your protection since you took out your first policy? If you had a fire tonight would it be a heavy loss? Call us up today. F C. Robinson INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 66 McCORMICK FORT MYERS, Fla., Mar. 14.— Henry Ford today described the na tion as prosperous, despite high prices, but unable to realize its good .fortune. The manufacturer toted an other term for President Hoover. He cautioned the government not to enter business through utility ownership. He said appreciation of present by the | good times will not come until the people understand the cause of the business depression which he said was the mental dishonesty of a speculating public. Mr. Ford declared so-called pros perity of the inflated values period preceding the 1929 stock market crash probably will not return. “These really are good times, but only a few know it,” he said. “The only thing I see for a general enioyment of conditions is price reduction and a realization of the cause and extent of the depres sion.” To prove his point he said a dol lar will now buy from 50 to 75 per cent more than it would before the crash. “The average man, however, won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and can not get. out of it. There’s plenty of work to do if peopld would do it. “So many of us to brush the dust off of old stuff in the shelves the merchandise bought at a high price level and sell it without changing the price marks to meet altered conditions. Blames Dishonesty “Dishonesty caused the so-called depression. People inflate stocks —that’s dishonest. People buy inflated stocks with the hope of getting rich at the expense of some one else. That’s also dishonest. Persons of that type are too gullible. They cannot understand. They need experience.” The question of wage adjustment to meet present day living de mands is a hard problem to solve from a national standpoint, the manufacturer said. He has had ■TC added. “We have had no wage cuts,” he pointed out, “with more than 80,- 000 men employed.” Mr. Ford Mewed prohibition as a success but said big business and not the government, eventually will be the greatest factor in en forcement. “Industry will have to help if it is to survive and the real enforce ment will come from industry. The government is working hard to ward enforcement but it must be back stopped for complete con trol. “Manufacturing booze is as de structive and as dangerous to in dustry as war. “The same fellows profit out of both, and war profiteers, booze pro fiteers and the sellers of inflated stocks are cast in the same mold.” Favors Dry Nation “What do you think of the Wickersham report?” he was ask ed. “It was in favor of a dry nation, wasn’t it? That’s all that is nec- 9 essary to say.” “Are you familiar with the Raskob plan for state liquor con trol?” “No, there’s no use to go into it. The Volstead Act went through congress and must be enforced.” The thing for the government to do, the manufacturer said, is to enforce prohibition instead of at tempting government ownership of such properties as Muscle Shoals. “Let the government stick to the strict function of governing. That is a big enough job. LeJ them let business alone. What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.” Muscle Shoals should be, and eventually will be, the property of privately owned electrical compan ies, Mr. Ford said. He praised the Hoover adminis tration for the president’s efforts “to conduct an administration and not a business.” “President Hoover is only in for eight years,” he said laughingly as he predicted another term for the chief executive. “And we should give him every support we can. It’s a big job with an insti tution of the greatest magnitude. “If the head of a great private industry did not get more support than the president has had in the past, his business would be a fail ure. 5S? . “Mr. Hoover is doing the best he “ can to make the government an administrative force. He has been highly successful so far. “Industry has not done its part, but the natural trend eventually will compel participation.” s • rxt Farm Building Plans Service Now Provided S. Carolina Farmers CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 14.— A service to supply plans for farm buildings has been instituted by the Extension Service of Clemson College to take care of the numer ous requests for plans for various farm structures, and C. W. Stro- man has been added to the staff as assistant agricultural engineer, under J. T. McAllister, extension agricultural engineer. Mr. Stroman, who will devote part time to the buildings work and part to assisting with the ma chinery projects now being con ducted as part of the agricultural engineering extension work, is a native of Orangeburg county and a Clemson graduate of the class of 1929. While in College he was student assistant in farm machin ery and since graduation has been connected with the Atlanta branch of the International Harvester Company and during 1930 had charge of tractor cultivating equip ment of that company in Georgia. Heretofore, Mr. McAlister says, the only plans that have been available to farmers are those furnished from Washington by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. These are drawn up for general distribution over the entire coun try and do not always meet the needs peculiar to the various states. Plans that have been found satisfactory will be request ed from Washington and addition al ones will be drawn up and sup plied from Clemson. The buildings on South Carolina farms are, generally speaking in a very bad condition, through decay and neglect. There is necessity also for remodelling and building for various livestock and poultry enterprises that are now gaining prominence in a balanced farm program. % Building materials are now available at a very reasonable cost as compared with prices dur ing the past ten years, says • Mr. *WI GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY and FRIDAY March 19th-20th Charles Ruggles in “CHARLEY’S AUNT” with June Collyer SATURDAY, March 21st Bill Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees in “THE PAINTED DESERT” MONDAY and TUESDAY March 23rd-24th Conrad Nagel and Rose Hobart “A LADY SURRENDERS” « WEDNESDAY, March 25th Marion Davies in “A BACHELOR FATHER” THURSDAY and FRIDAY March 26th-27th Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in “THE MAN WHO CAME BACK” YOU SAVE WHEN YOU GET YOUR ROOFING DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY FOR SAMPLES AND FULL INFORMATION —SEE— James W. Corley McCormick, S. C. Professional Card W. K. CHARLES Attorney-At-Law office, Farmers Bank Building Days at McCormick TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS GET YOUR ROOFING NOW PRICES ARE LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE Now is the time to put-a new and up-to-date Roof on your House and Buildings. Now while prices are down to ROCK BOTTOM. Buy direct from the Factory—Freight Paid. GALVANIZED ROOFING 2*4 CorrugateddJ^J 90 Per Square 5-V Crimp Per Square GENUINE “Lock Tight” Per Square Galvanized Shingles FREIGHT PAID PRICE PER SQUARE $3.70 $4.95 $5.97 Corru 5-V “Lock gated Crimp Tight” 6 ft. .—44c 48c 64c 7 ft. 52c 57c 76c 8 ft. 59c 65c 86c 9 ft. 67 c 73c 97c 10 ft. ...74c 81c $1.08 11 ft. 84c 91c $1.21 12 ft. 91c $1.01 $1.32 no difficulty in his own plant, he; McAlister. The United States uses as much electricity as all of the other coun tries of the world combined, and when we go to pay our bills we be lieve that must be the case. txt Auto thefts are not as common as they once were because nearly everybody has one. XXt Some men don’t contest the di vorce suit because they know it’s impossible to win an argument with their wife. X What old-fashioned parents used to call cussedness is too often pass ed off as individuality nowadays. txt The most insignificant person can easily attract attention by snoring in church. txt Most of our experience is the re-* suit of the other fellow’s profit.