McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, March 19, 1931, Image 3
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-
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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
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$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 ■
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“GREENWOOD’S LEADING
DEPARTMENT STORE”
COMPANY
“THE HOME OF
BETTER VALUES”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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7
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52c
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67 c
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10
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$1.08
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84c
91c
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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.
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Auto thefts are not as common
as they once were because nearly
everybody has one.
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Some men don’t contest the di
vorce suit because they know it’s
impossible to win an argument
with their wife.
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What old-fashioned parents used
to call cussedness is too often pass
ed off as individuality nowadays.
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The most insignificant person
can easily attract attention by
snoring in church.
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Most of our experience is the re-*
suit of the other fellow’s profit.