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i T g i Thursday, March 26, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR MESSENGI Published Every Thursday EstabUshed June 5, 1902 body properly, no amount of teach ing will accomplish that which is desired. Once upon a time a school teacher sent the parents of a par ticularly unclean child a note ask- Entered at the Post Office at Me- ing he be sen t to school clean. Cormick. S. C., as mail matter of t eac her received the following reply: EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner By Fury’s Ferry Bridge Short Route To Knoxville the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1- 00 Six Months • 75 Three Months -5° Would Change Train • Schedule On Branch Willie ain’t no rose. Learn him, don’t smell him.” Teachers can accomplish little in the modem health crusade in the public schools when parents take this attitude. TXT DAYS FOR CAUTION '• (The Augusta Chronicle) The season of shifting tempera tures is with us again, and for the Petitions prettv geh^rany siemed I next several weeks to come you’ll I I”’ rrr f dents and business men in probably encounter sniffing | McCormick and several nearbv Nations on the Anderson Branch of the C. & W. C. Railway ask that 5 change be made in train sched ules on that line. and sneezing” than .you’ll notice at, all other times of the year. Doctors call it the most danger- j ous season, and they never cease j to warn us to be careful of sudden atmospheric changes that bring passenger, express and ! colds and lung ailments. And these ( At present a mixed train, carry ing - mail. freight, leaves McCormick every often develop into an illness that morning about 7:30 o’clock for An derson and the one from Anderson arrives in McCormick about 10:30 a. m. Two crews of men are used on these runs, as each train makes only a single trip a day and not a round trio. If the proposed sched ule is put into effect ope of the results fatally. Get plenty of | fresh air—but avoid drafts. Drink | plenty of fresh water and sleep' with a window open. Avoid overheated rooms. Keep your feet dry and, if you should get wet, don’t wear the garments while they are drying out but crews will be eliminated, so it is change clothing immediately. Sim- ] said, as the train would leave Mc Cormick about 8 o’clock in the pie hints, every one of them, yet sufficient to save a life. Fresh air morning and return about 4 o’clock: never yet killed any one, and In the afternoon. The Sunday neither did any one ever get too train would not come from Ander- ; much of it at this season of the soif in the morning and return, as year. Keep that in mind. See that it now does, but would be run the children get their share, too, and we’ll have both a happier and a healthier community, with little to fear from this season of sudden changes. # TXT EVOLUTION IN LIVING from McCormick to Anderson and return. At present, mail leaves McCor mick for Anderson about 7:30 a. m. every week day on the train and at 12:45 p. m, on the star mail route. Mail from Anderson to McCormick leaves Anderson About 6 o’clock a. Darwin declared that the human m. on the train and at 4 p. m. on race was merely an evolution of the star mail route. If the pro- the monkey tribe. Some people posed change is made on the rail- | agree with him. Others do not. road, mail will leave here for An- | But there is no denying that derson about 8 a. m. on the train, even within the memory of most of and at 12:45 p. m. on the star us, there has been considerable of route, and will leave Anderson at a revolution in the human mode of 12:15 p. m. on the train and arrive living. And today, this evolution- at McCormick at 4 p. m., while is moving along faster than everJ the star route leaves Anderson at } There has never been a time 4 p. m. and / arrives at McCormick when conditions changed so rap- j at 7 p. m. * That will make McOor- ! idly—when life bettered itself so mick’s first mail from Anderson consistently. New comforts and reach here at 4 o’clock p. m. and conveniences are coming in all the the second mail at 7 p. m. The railroad company claims that the change would improve the freight service out of Anderson, according to J. J. McKellar, C. & W. C. Railway official, who heloed circulate a petition here last Thursday morning. Should the mail from Anderson along the line of road to McCor mick be delayed from morning un til afternoon, some 5,000 or more rural route patrons served from the various stations along the route would not get their down morning mail until the next day, or 24 hours later than at present. The petitions, so we understand, were for presentation at a hearing before the railroad commission in Columbia yesterday, and to some extent were signed by those who were under the impression that the two trains on the branch be allow ed to make round trips daily in stead of single trips which would improve the .service rather than cripple it or make it conflict with the star mail route. One business man of McCormick who signed the petition asking for the change says he was under the wrong im pression and he knows of a num ber of others who did not fully understand the proposition. It is said that the same thing is true of many who signed at Willington and Mt. Carmel. This editorial was written Tues day and a copy sent the State railroad commission in order chat the members might know before hand just what a predicament Mc Cormick and stations between here and Anderson would be in with reference to mail should the change be granted. txt TEACHING HEALTH time. AncJ the rapidity with which they are invented and put before us vitally affects us all. To take advantage of these things, you must keep yourself in formed. You must know not only what they are, but also how much they cost and where and how to get them. The only way you can know this is to be a regular reader of the advertisements. Advertisements tell all that the world is doing to make you more comfortable, your work easier, your methods better, your clothing and food problems less irksome. They tell you how you can save time and effort and money in the sel ection of the things that make life worth while. * Advertisements are interesting, instructive and highly profitable to you. txi Deaths Among The / -v- . \ Colored People . ’ j *' » CINTHANY SEARLES SETTLES Cinthany Searles Settles, 32 years of age, wife of Jack Settles and daughter, of George Pearce Searles, of McCormick, died in Detroit, Michigan, on March 17th, and was buried at Springfield Church near McCormick on March 23rd. G. P. McCain’s service in charge. She is survived by her father, her husband, three children and a number of other relatives. It is said that the distance from Augusta to Knoxville, Tennessee is shorter by 50 miles via McCormick, Anderson, Walhalla and Highlands than by U. S. 25, via Greenwood and Asheville. The announcement in yesterday’s Chronicle that the state highway department of South Carolina favored taking off the tolls and having a free bridge at Fury’s Ferry brings up this inter esting subject. It will be recalled. that the Georgia Highway Depart ment did .not wish to collect toils, from the first and it is assumed 1 that our state highway department will gladly acquiesce in the sug gestion to remove the tolls entire-1 ly. Certainly we hope so. It will also be recalled that at the opening of the Fury’s Ferry bridge Commissioner John R. Phil lips, of the middle division of Georgia, said that Georgia would pave the portion of the highway through Columbia county on the Georgia side of the river as soon as South Carolina began paving on 1 the other side of the river. We may hope for the early be ginning of paving through McCor mick county on this very, important road. Of course, no paving could be done prior to the tremendous task of grading the road on the South Carolina side, which we be lieve has been completed, and the fills should be about settled so that paving can be started within the next few months. During the past few months, while the grading work has been in progress, there has been little travel on this highway and there will not be a great volume until it is paved. Then we may expect the people of the western section of McCormick county and from Ab beville and Anderson to come into Augusta in much greater numbers, for this city is their logical trading center. They ship their cotton and other agricultural products here. And when the road is fully op ened up by relieving the tolls and paving through South Carolina we may expect travel to begin to de velop that will utilize the short route .from Augusta to Highlands, N. C.; and Knoxville. The road now runs from McCormick to An derson to Walhalla, to Mountain Rest, S. C., through a small cor ner of Georgia by Pine Mountain on to Highlands. There are a few miles of this highway not in the Georgia system, and Secretary Moody, of the Chamber of Com merce, is now in correspondence with Rabun county authorities to get it taken into the system. From Highlands, N. C., the road goes to Sylva and then to Smoke- mont, from whence it runs to Siev- erville and then to Knoxville, Tenn. From a look at the map it would appear that the distance to Knoxville could be shortened by fifty miles and this would be a companion route to U. S. 25. At any rate let’s make a start tov/ard this new through route by getting the tolls taken off the Fury’s ferry bridge and the road paved to McCormick. This is the first and most important thing to be done right now. b Arthur Drisbanb 3E 1,650,000 Miles a Minute John D’s $10,000,000 If He Returned Too Many Killings Maud S. trotted a mile In a little over two minutes, and William H. Vanderbilt, who drove, was proud. An Englishman recently drove his automobile at the rate of 245 miles an hour, and flying machines have gone above 300 miles an hour. All that is amazing. But think of Mount Wilson astronomers, **timing” stars that go 1,050,000 miles ifl a min ute, stars distant from us 120,000,000 light years, which means the distance that light could travel in 120,000,000 years, going 186,000 miles a second. Those swiftly moving stars and nebulae are far bigger than our sun, which is a million times bigger than our earth. Whoever believes that a universe of that size and speed has been mam- aged by chance, without direction, for thousands of millions of years, could believe anything. LUDLOW MORAGNE Frank Ludlow Moragne died at his home in the Willington sec tion last Friday, following a short illness and was buried at Spring- _____ field Church Saturday afternoon. A speaker before a national!^* Strom’s service in charge, health conference declared that Deceased was 76 years of age and health teaching must begin in the ^ survived by a number of rela- achools, but the same teaching tives ^ coun ^y- mast also be carried on in the home and parents have to be en tirely in sympathy with the pro gram before the schools can ac complish much, influential as they are. Children’s habits are formed at home before they become of school age. If they are not required by their parents to take baths as fre- JOSEPH WALKER Joseph Walker died at his home in Augusta on March 21st and was buried at New Hope Baptist church near McCormick yesterday after noon at 2 o’clock. He is survived by his wRe and jndther and a num ber of other relatives in McCor mick and Augusta. * v Relatives Can Obtain Bonus John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is building in the heart of Manhattan island, which is the heart of Greater New York, a group of magnificent buildings to house a great radio theater, broad casting station, offices, shops, perhaps a new Metropolitan Grand Opera house. Mr. Rockefeller’s agents have just ordered $10,000,000 worth of steel for his buildings, 125,000 tons Of it. “Big Steel” will supply it. The Rockefeller enterprise, to be finished in three years, will ‘ employ 8,000 to 10,000 men at good wages. It’s a good thing to have many dol lars, even a billion or more, assembled in one collection. That makes big things possible, just as a collection of many drops of water at Niagara creates power. Miss Christabe! 1'ankhurst. daugh ter of courageous British suffragette. Emmeline Pankhurst. says site will live to see the second coining of Christ. It will not mean the world’s end, but there will he no doubt about it. He will not come ‘‘in poverty, weakness and humility, but in nil his majesty, with demonstrations of di vine power more miraculous than any of the miracles of modern science.” First, it occurs to you that anything more miraculous than modem science would be very miraculouST Second, you feel quite sure that if Christ came to earth now. preaching as he preached 1,000 years ago, immi gration authorities of the United States would keep him out and ad vise him to go to Russia. He told the rich man to divide his wealth among those that had nothing. REGULAR BA & We list below a few of our regular bargains on good groceries and urge you to come take advantage of the many others space does not permit us to men tion: DIXIE BELL SALMON *1 per can MEAL, q*4 per bushel JL ■ MEAL, ^ Af* per peck THICK FAT BACK, per pound lU C TOMATOES, ‘ 3 cans for la r d, CAft 4 lb. bucket 3 MINUTE OATS, box - NU-WAY FLOUR, ^ C 24 lbs. m C? Our line of meats includes the choicest Beef, Pork, Sausage, Cured Ham, Breakfast Bacon, Fresh Fish and Oysters. ’Phone No. 8 and have us deliver your order promptly. * We buy and sell the best country produce. A. H. FAULKNER McCORMICK, S. C. j > ' • •• .... — B p— * 32 38 TROY NEWS ITEMS ___ | Dr. C. K. Epting, Commander of the local post said today that* widows, orphans and certain other surviving relatives of deceased World War veterans are entitled to adjusted insurance. The rules are: Any man who served for 60 days or more in the Army, Navy or Ma rine Corps, during the war, and was mustered out 'with an honor able discharge, is entitled to an adjusted compensation certificate, based on the length of service. This is separate and distinct from his war risk insurance. If the veteran died in service his nearest surviving relative can ap ply for an outright cash payment of the amount of compensation he had earned. If he died after leaving service and before applying for his com pensation certificate, the relative can now file a claim for the com pensation earned. Widows, if living, have first rights against such unclaimed com pensation. * Children come next, then mothers and .fathers. Brothers and sisters are not en titled to this compensation. There is too much crime in this na tion. Consider the case of New York city, for: instance. In 1930, police records show 408 murders, including 37 killed by police discharging their duty. Sixteen husbands killed their wives; 0 wives killed their husbands—great self-control ^comparatively on the part of wives. Of those killed, 310 were shot, 78 were stabbed. 58 were black jacked or otherwise hammered to death, 10 strangled. 2 burned to death. 3 thrown from windows, 13 killed by gas, 2 drowned, 1 killed by acid throw ing, 16 cases of Infanticide. ‘‘Criticism is easy, the art is diffi cult,” as the French say. Russia work ing on a five-year plan begins to real ize it. Bolshevism thought all the evil was with the employers, all high virtue with the workers. But at present Russia, an employer on a gigantic scale, laces employers’ difficulties, and realizes that the genial proletarian is not always 100 per cent perfect or devoted. Russia has been obliged to pay high er wages for better work, giving up the theory that all men are equal, which they are not. By the end of the five-year pro gram. which may he a success, al though Wall Street has been ‘‘hold ing Its thumbs”, hoping it wouldn’t, Russia’s rulers will know many em ployers’ problems. If the government succeeds in mak ing an industrial nation of a collection of 200,000 Russian villages a’nd 100,000,- 000 Russian farmers, Russia will grow gigantically rich. Then the leaders will change their views, as they do everywhere else, where money flows in and radicalism ebbs. TROY, March 24.—Mrs. Keown, her attractive daughters, Miss Lu- cile and Miss Mamie, of McCprr mick were glad visitors in our jheme Friday afternoon. Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Henry, also Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Buzhardt, were the invited guests with Mr. J. F. White and family to enjoy dinner after services in their respective churches Sabbath. March has made a record for nothing save, mid-winter weather. All vegetation, fruit trees, wood land forests are lagging for the balmy sunshine and warm weath er. The calendar tells that the 21st of March is the beginning of spring, yet winter holds on with a relentless grip. Messrs. Young Brothers and sons are finding some of the yellow gold Monday afternoon, were our close friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Drennan, in whose home of love and welcome we enjoyed • a visit some months .since. Only wish could claim them as Trojans of former days. • In the passing of Dr. Douglass Haggard, our state and counties have suffered an almost Irrepar able loss, as an able and gentle physician and surgeon. His little visits in our home always brought a gleam of pleasure, so courteous and genial. The blanket of the most exquisite floral tributes cover the mound under which this affec tionate husband, brother and friend sleeps. The sincerest sym pathy to our cousin, who has these w’ords as comfort in her sorrow, ‘‘Lord, I am weary, In Thee is rest, Lord, I am helpless Send what is best, May all life, be Thine to use, Into each act Thy love infuse.” Pleasant visitors in our home ever The misfortune of the individual, thanks to human nature, which is fundamentally good, often brings a blessing to others. Egbert C. Fuller of Connecticut en dured the agony of seeing his wife die of cancer. He is dead now, and In the Anna Fuller fund, in her mem ory, leaves $1,500,000 to fight the world's most dangerous disease. The money will be spent to alleviate cancer suffering, to study its cause and treatment and, wise provision, to educate the public as to prevention and treatment of cancer. New York reports a new kind of killing. It was desired by criminals to “shut the mouth” of a young wom an named Georgia Gray. She is dead of double pneumonia, and the Anti- Crime society believes that the pneu moniae germs were administered 46 her as a mfethod of silencing her. It waar successful. (®. tall, by Kins Fwtttmn Syndicate, Inc.) from their digging and the deeper the excavations the more they are encouraged. They are making successful prospects and we do so hope they will far exceed their expectations. These good folks are always with open doors, open hands and a right royal welcome in their hospitable homes. Miss Mattie Mae Spence, one of Mrs. Leslie Britt’s honor roll pu pils of Wideman School, has our sincere thanks for a bowl of beau tiful purple magnolia blossoms. These good folks down there are Just some more that have a mighty Warm spot in our memory. Mr. J. M. Spence, the State’s best “sole” mender, too has this writer under many thanks when “Mr. Malcom,” as we like him, promises you a mended shoe it will be just as he says.- Can any other one like him answer yes? Miss Ida Harvely is visiting with relatives in Greenwood. We would v Jike with heart-felt gratitude, have our own Doctor C. H. Workman return home. Troy needs his help “all” the time. Please whisper this in his ears— won’t you, good. folks? Mrs. Miriam Hughes is a delight ful visitor with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hughes, in Columbia, aslo to see a new arrival in their home, a precious little granddaughter. It is a real pleasure to this writ er, to see each month the names of two of our very dear young friends, Miss Frances Drennan and her brother, Floyd, on the honor roll of Washington Consolidated School at Parksville. These are with their lovable little baby sister who also is in the roll of honor. These are tha obedient children of our very kind friends and cousins, Col. George Hanvey, his sister, Mrs. May Hanvey Kennedy, her daught er-in-law, Mrs. Leila Link Kennedy and her very lovable Ittle girl, May Agness, of Abbeville. These are just like the first named honor able from the garden spot of ev erywhere on the pretty bank of Bold Branch, where we all learned our A. B. C.’s, and on farther the catechism with which folk of today are not well aequanited. OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY, March 26th Bert Wheeler and Robert’ Wnolpe in ‘HALF SHOT AT SUNRISE’ FRIDAY, March 27 th, Only Joe E. Brown and Joan Bennett in “MAYBE IT’S LOVE” SATURDAY, March 23, Only " Wolheim -ajid - 'hp /\ -rr' -f t in “DANGER LIGHTS” Mon.-Turs. March 30th-31st Greta Garbo and Robert MoTU^mery in “INSPIRATION” Wed. -Thurs. April lst-2nd Constance Bennett ’ in “SIN TAKE A HOLIDAY” FRIDAY, April 3rd, Only Jeanette MacDonald in “THE LOTTERY BRIDE” Shows: 3:15; 7:00 and 8:45 Once we kicked about taxation without representation and now we are getting too much of both.