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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
Rid Home Of Disease Carrying Germs
No matter how clean you may keep your home, insidious
germ life is bound to find its way in. It is carried in,
in many ways.
The sure way to sanitize your home is to fumigate it
at least once a year with some good accepted form of fumi
gation.
Here you will find several excellent fumigators in differ
ent forms. Consult us now and select the one best suited
to your needs. It won’t take long to use it or cause much
trouble, then you will be sure your home is a safe abode. •
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C.
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Urging Use Of Home Garden Helps
Home Products j Economic Problem
CLUB WORKERS AND OTHERS A
GETTING INTERESTED IN
THE MOVEMENT
Six million cases of canned goods
are consumed annually by South
NOTED HORTICULTURIST
PRAISES GARDEN OVER
RADIO
Recently W. R. Beattie, Senior
Horticulturist of the Bureau of
Carolina housewives and chefs ac- Plant Industry, United States De-
cording to Ashton Williams, of
Florence, who is interested in the
Live at Home movement being
sponsored by the South Carolina
Natural Resources Commission and
the Liberty Life Insurance Com
pany.
partment of Agriculture, in a na
tionally broadcast radio talk on
the farm garden, stated that in
every economic crisis through
which the agriculture of any sec
tion of the country has passed the
home garden and other sources of
Mr. Williams, pointing out that home food supply have saved the
We Now Offer You The Lowest
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Furniture Prices In Years
Never before have you been able to get such high quality
at such low price in furniture as we are now offering. You
can refurnish your entire home or replace the worn-out
pieces at half what it would have cost you not long ago.
* WE WANT YOU TO SEE OUR NEW SPRING SHOWING
We now have a beautiful new spring display for your
approval. The newest and smartest in furniture for every
room of the home is here.
We invite you to come and see it at your very first op
portunity, and learn what wonderful values are to be had
throughout the store.
J. S. STROM’S Furniture Store
Main Street — McCORMICK, S. C.
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E T Y
Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield
has saved many lives in collisions
EVERY new Ford is equipped with a Triplex shatter
proof windshield. This is made so that the glass will not
fly or splinter under the hardest impact. It has saved
many lives and prevented injuries in many automobile
collisions.
This shatter-proof glass windshield is* just one of
many features that make the new Ford a value far above
the price. Others are the silent, fully enclosed four-
wheel brakes, sturdy steel body construction, four Hou-
daille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers, more
than twenty ball and roller hearings, extensive use of
fine steel forgings, aluminum pistons, chrome silicon
alloy valves, torque-tube drive, three-quarter floating
rear axle. Rustless Steel, and unusual accuracy in
tnanufacturing.
In addition, you save many dollars because of low
first cost of the new Ford, low cost of operation and
up-keep, and low yearly depreciation. .
The New Ford
De Luxe Coupe
LOW PRICES OF FORD CARS
$430 TO $630
T. O, B. Detroit, plot freight end delivery. Bumpert end tpmre tire emirs
mt tmsil eotl. Pom cmn porches* m Ford on economicmi terms through
the Aothorimod Ford Firumce Plant of the Universal Credit Company.
200,000 cases of South Carolina
canned goods are now stored in
packing houses, says that this
quantity would last this state only
12 days if every housewife de
manded Palmetto State products.
“Our club women and others are
already getting interested in this
work, the movement spreading
from the coast to the mountains”
Mr. Williams said. • “It must be
state-wide, however, if it is to be
successful for there must be a de
mand for South Carolina grown
vegetables before the farmers and
canners will again put up such a
large crop as they did in 1930.
“Last year around Fairfax and
Orangeburg, for instance, unusual
ly large crops of beans were put up
because of the drought. Whether
or not the quantity will be as large
this year as last depends upon the
sale experienced in the next few
weeks for South Carolina vege
tables. If the demand is good, the
farmers will be encouraged to
plant large crops of vegetables, and
the canners will alsi^ put up large
quantities of the various fruits and
vegetables.”
Mr. Williams said that in many
of the larger cities of the state, in
cluding Greenville, housewives are
now able to obtain South Carolina
canned products. This was not the
case a few weeks ago but the in
sistent demand has caused mer
chants to stock their shelves with
these goods. Many, housewives,
however, do not specify South
Carolina vegetables and because of
this fact they often obtain a pro
duct which contains considerably
less iodine than the goods produced
in this state.
Mr. Williams also pointed out
that the canneries of South Caro
lina employ something like 4,000
persons yearly. If all goods con
sumed by South Carolinians were
packed in this state, however,
something like ten times as many
persons would be given employ
ment, and this does not take into
consideration the number em
ployed on farms.
“The employment question alone
is an important angle of the can
nery movement” declared Mr.
Williams.
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WORSE T0AN WAR
(The Camden Chronicle)
During 18 months of the World
.War,. 50,510 members of the Ameri
can Expeditionary Force were kill
ed in action or died of wounds.
During the 18 months preceding
January, 1931, 50,900 people were
killed in automobile accidents in
this country.
There could be no better illus
tration of the seriousness of the
automobile accident situation.
According to a survey by the
Travelers Insurance Company, the
leading cause of accidents in 1930
was failure to give right of way,
which accounted for 15 per cent
of deaths and 31.5 per cent of in
juries. Second was excessive speed
which was responsible for 21 per
cent of all accident, and third,
driving on the wrong side of the
road, which totaled 16 per cent.
Higher speed is a natural result
of improved roads and cars. But
the other two primary causes of
accidents—which together ac
counted for 27 per cent of deaths
and 47.7 per cent of injuries—
amount to simple ignorance, reck
lessness or carelessness. They
show improper training on the
part of the motorist, coupled with
inadequate enforcement of traffic
laws. That such accidents could
be at least partially curbed by ex
amining and licensing laws, and by
adequate enforcement of modern
ized traffic codes, is well within
the limits of plausibility.
Every year complete and detail
ed resumes of the previous year’s
accident record are prepared.
Study of them should show what
enforcement is needed, what can
be accomplished. A few states, in
a period of rising hazards, have
managed to appreciably decrease
accidents within their borders. All
other states can do the same.
day. •
When the boll weevil struck the
cotton growing sections, Mr. Beat-
tie pointed out, one of the first
steps taken was to start a cam
paign for vegetable gardens, poul
try, pigs and cows on every farm
so that the land would at least
provide d means of livelihood.
Things haven’t changed much and
the same principles apply today.
The farmer, however hard times
may be for him, who plants and
cultivates his own garden has a
form of insurance against privation
that is denied the city worker. In
this respect he is far better off
than the thousands of unemployed
in the cities, many of whom left
the farm at the time of industrial
prosperity and are now looking
wistfully back at the land.
“If everybody engaged in farm
ing,’? Mr. Beattie said in his ad
dress, “will produce plenty of
fruits, vegetables, milk and butter
poultry and eggs, home grown and
cured pork, also fresh meats to
some extent, they can at least have
a good living at home and that is
more than a lot of people who are
out of employment have today.
‘But,’ says the pessimist, ‘that will
only increase the difficulty and
reduce the market for foods that
are grown in a large way for sale.*
Perhaps, provided the farmer has
the money with which to buy the
food, but suppose he does not have
the money, what then? As a mat
ter of fact, it is good business and
economy to produce most of the
living for the farm family and the
hired help right on the farm.”
In all parts of the country there
are far sighted agricultural leaders
who are in agreement with Mr.
Beattie in preaching the advant
ages of making the farm as much
as possible a self-sufficing unit;
not only in these times of agricul
tural and general economic de
pression, but as a permanent agri
cultural policy. In South’ Caro
lina, Virginia, Arkansas and other
states, statewide campaigns to
bring about the planting of farm
gardens are being actively pushed.
In these campaigns the agricul
tural colleges and the state’s home
demonstration agents are taking a
leading part.
A well planted and cared for
half-acre garden will produce more
vegetables than the average fam
ily can eat, during th4 period when
the crops are maturing. Carrots,
late cabbage, beets, onions, pars
nips, potatoes and turnips can be
grown and stored for use during
the winter, thus cutting the» win
ter food bills. One acre of garden
was worth as much as 65 acres of
cotton on a farm in Texas last
year whose owner figured that the
acre yielded a profit of $400.
It is not only from the point of
view of cutting the family food
bills, however, that the vegetable
garden deserves a place on every
farm. So much has been said and
written about vitamins during the
last few years that practically ev
eryone knows they are .essential
to good health. Fresh, green vege
tables are among the best sources
of these invaluable vitamins, but
entirely too frequently the farmer,
busy with his money crops, feels
that he has no time to bother with
a garden even though his wife and
the older children may easily be
able to take care of it once it is
ploughed.
The result is that in many in
stances the farm diet is too much
restricted to meat, potatoes and
bread. Green vegetables, one of
nature’s best preventive medicines,
have little place on the menu. The
various deficiency diseases have a
chance to creep in, breaking down
health and stamina. Investigators
have found that a large proportion
of ill health in rural districts is
traceable to the absence of a well
balanced diet. No diet can be call
ed well balanced that lacks an
abundance of fresh, green vege
tables.
A vegetable garden planted this
spring will return ample dividends
in health and in helping to make
the farm family self-sufficing, able
to weather any economic storm.
SOUND ADVICE
by your Fertilizer Dealer
No. 4
in * Series appearing in this newspaper
G IVE first thought to nitrogen this year in
ordering fertilizers. It’s nitrogen that
gives your crops healthy growth and healthy
yield. This year, more than ever, on account
of unusual dry weather, nitrogen is most lack
ing in the soil.
Play safe. Buy plenty of Chilean Nitrate of
Soda. I’ve got a big supply. Cheaper than it
has been for years. New 100-lb. bags, too.
Order now and be sure of your requirements.
C HILEAN NITRATE now comes in new
100-lb. bags that make it more popular
than ever. It always has been the dependable
fertilizer c£ Southern farmers. Side dress, top
dress with Chilean Nitrate. v and increase your
yields, quality and profits.
Be sure you specify “Chilean” when you order
your nitrate. “Chilean” is the one important
point to remember. It is your protebtion and
your dealer’s too. When you get “Chilean,**
then you’ll get the real, money-nfaking fer
tilizer— the natural nitrate. Remember the
two kinds — Original Chilean (Crystalline)
and Champion Brand (Granulated) both
natural nitrate.
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