Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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T v.,'- f . * 1 Thursday, April 2, 1931 McCORMICE; MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER THRE$ D. W. Watkins To Washington ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TAKES EXTENSION ECONOMICS . WORK WITH DEPART MENT AGRICULTURE CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 28.— D. W. Watkins* who for 12 years has been assistant director of the Extension Service of Clemsoh Col lege, has been appointed senior agricultural extension ‘economist of the U. S. Department of Agri culture, in the Bureau of Agricul tural Economics and the Office of Co-operative Extension Work, and has obtained leave of absence from his duties at Clemson College for six months. Mr. Watkins* hew work will be in connection with a new unit in the U. S. Department of Agriculture to deal with prob lems relating to the extension of economics material for the prac tical benefit of farmers. This unit will assist the state extension ser vices In formulating and carrying out economics programs and in disseminating information made available in the work of the Bu reau of Agricultural Economics. Mr. Watkins will give special at tention to marketing and outlook work with cotton and his work will, therefore, be chiefly in the cotton states. Mr. Watkins, who is a na tive South Carolinian, was educat ed at Clemson College and did graduate work in economics at Harvard University. This training and his long experience in exten sion work in South Carolina fit him admirably for his new duties. O. M. Clark, extension farm management specialist, has been appointed acting assistant direc tor until the termination of Mr. Watkins* furlough but will continue his work as specialist in farm man agement. His duties as assistant director will be of the same char acter as those performed by Mr. Watkins. The golden rule is a good one to follow, but far too . many folks want to lead the procession. OLDEST FORD DRIVER V* !g|| |§gp ; » IS Jill t 1^, lit <. •> iiii§ > v > jr 1 ^ III ; » W 1 J i f-p® t. -V «! f I f r <0i S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers isually of towns mentioned, and nav be considered generally cor ed. •J. M. Crow, 89, of Ethel, Miss., the oldest Ford driver in Mississippi, traversed the historic old Natchez Trace in a covered wagori eighty-seven years ago. m S rugged today at 89 as the age in American history he so pic- ^ turesquely typifies, J. M. Crow *of Ethel, Miss., is the oldest Ford driver in Mississippi and one of the .oldest in the United States. When as a babe of two years he rode with his parents in one /of a train of BO covered wagons out of Cobb county, Georgia, into Mississippi, the old Natchez Trace followed by the brave little band was still infested by the swashbuckling ruffians whose bloody •outrages gave that era its place in this country’s history 'as ■ ‘'the outlaw jrears.” » One of his vivid memories is hear ing, as a boy of six, the news of Gen- oral Scott’s victorious assault on the lieights of Chapultepec which 'ended the Mexican War in 1847, and his proudest memory Is of honorable ser vice as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. When the southern cause collapsed. Crow was compelled to trudge 400 miles on foot tor the old homestead at Ethel where he settled flown to rear a family. In the intervening years he has seen the lumbering stagecoach give way to the fleet automobile and the comfort able motorbus, the soggy gumbo and rough corduroy roads of his childhood to the wide, paved roads of today, and although he was long past middle age before the modern automobile became commonplace he is as enthusiastic a driver as youngsters who can boast less than one-quarter of his years. Five generations of Crow’s family are frequently seen together in his Model A Ford, the second of its type Crow has owned and driven. Belton — C. J. Carter to move his lunch and fruit business to Rice block on North Main Street. Lexington — Dr. M. S. Riley re opened Riley Drug Store under new name of Lexington Drug Co. Greer — Lynn Service Station opened for business. Darlington — Work completed on renovating store formerly oc cupied by Rogers Brothers, which will be occupied by new depart ment frtore. Murdo — M. E. Sanderson and Wayne Sanderson opened new im plement store. Federal Government considering plans for construction of new # U. S. Veterans hospital building in this state.—Dorchester Eagle. Mumbird — Lorenz Krueger pur chased Humbird Cheese Cheese Co., for consideration of approxi mately $5,000. Lone Oak — Fremont Wonn re cently purchased Hiller factory and store and will open same for busi ness. Fremont — J. F. Bachman sole his cheese factory, located south from this town, to John Thielke o Suring. Belton — Miss Eunice Wamock opened beauty shoppe here. Hartsville—J. G. Wofford recent ly purchased interest of W. H White in Pee Dee Hatchery. Belton — Extensive repairs made to Haynie*s Drug Store. 80* 75* 7<f Ginnings Reported ByS. C. Counties COTTON GINNED IN SOUTH CAROLINA: CROPS OP 1930-1929 FOR RENT OR LEASE PLANTATION 652 ACRES 1-4 MILE OF MERIWETHER TO RIVER SOME RIVER BOTTOMS. GOOD FOR STOCK RAISING, HAY FARM, ETC. Apply H. C. Middleton, Masonic Building Augusta, Ga. m.ini *55 SPRING HOUSE CLEANING Spring housecleaning will loss its laborous proportions and become a task that you can dispose of with dispatch if you will start it right. The first move should be of acquiring the needed supplies from our complete stock You will find just the things you need here — Brooms, Carpet Beaters, Scrub Mops, Varnishes, Stove Polish, Paint Brushes, Oil Mops, Wall Paper Cleaner, Metal Polish, Ham mers, Carpet Tacks, Steel Wool, Paints, Knife Sharpeners, Chamois, Scrub Brushes, Lacquers, Furniture Polish, Tur pentine, Sand Paper, Floor Wax, Window Cleaners, Sponges, Tack Pullers, etc. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. Is It Alright For The Children So many times that question is asked of foodstuffs. But it isn’t necessary at this grocery. If foodstuffs are pure, fresh, and of the highest quality, they are just as good for the children as for grown-ups. If it isn’t alright for the children, it is not alright for anyone. We always have the very best and freshest to offer you throughout the store, assuring the health of your family. Ydu can prepare any and every menu you may want from the fdodstuffs we offer: This enables you to have meals that are different and’ appetizing every day. • . JT..MARTIN . McCotmicl^cS. C. x—————^ 'Phone 43 The Department of Commerce through the Bureau of the Census announces the preliminary report on cotton ginned, by counties, in South Carolina, for the season 1930 and 1929. The total for the state was made public Friday, March 20, 1931. (Quantities are in running bales. Linters are not included.) County 1930 1929 The State 1,515,015 833,054 AbbeviUe 17,720 17,965 Allendale 7,136 6,381 Aiken 28,931 19,634 Anderson 65,928 65,113 Bamberg 15,265 12,151 Barnwell 19,641. 16,868 Berkeley 3,392 2,607 Calhoun 116,925 14,816 Charleston 1,609 1,854 Cherokee — 21,242 21,865 Chester .23,753 18,139 Chesterfield 34,468 22,097 Clarendon 19,622 13,668 Colleton 10,456 8,773 Darlington 20,444 13,50C Dillon 28 560 21,351 Dorchester ^ G,568 4,935 Ldgefield 19,242 15,153 Fairfield 10,793 7,457 Florence 20,467 13,519 Greenville 57,699 52,395 Greenwood 18,256 16,208 Hampton 7,311 5,533 Horry 2,202 2,156 Jasper 1,893 1,340 Kershaw 21,932 14,155 Laurens ..35,073 30,125 Lancaster 15,993 11,655 Lee ___28,266 16,041 Lexington 18,341 14,784 McCormick 7,559 7,652 Marion 10,839 9,198 Marlboro 45,860 33,266 Newberry ..24,766 19,740 Oconee 21,184 19,353 Orangeburg 63,222 55,122 Pickens 26,161 23,749 Richland 8,780 8,042 Saluda 13,059 10,315 Spartanburg 88,167 84,289 Sumter 32,408 19,662 Union 19,224 16,725 Williamsburg 16,398 11,975 York- 36,206 29,906 All other 2,054 1,522 X Proper Fertilization Tomatoes Important 5? SO? • 4 C 7Zi 1922 1913 2924 !92S 2926 2927 2920 2929 Chart showing steady increase of taxes paid per spindle by South Carolina cotton mills. 2930 Taxes Increased 40 Per Cent for South Carolina Cotton Mills The above chart shows the steady upward trend of the taxes paid per spindle by South Carolina cotton mills during the past nine years. Each year shows a definite increase except the last one. The slight de crease of 1929-30 is one brought about, not by a reduction of assess ments, but rather by poor conditions that made it impossible for many mills to pay income taxes. This increase of taxes paid per spindle of 40% brings to light the fact that the increase in South Carolina has been greater than in any other textile state. While taxes in other textile stakes have actually in many cases shown decided decreases, the burden in South Carolina has stead ily grown heavier. The mills in South Carolina pay a higher tax per spindle than in any other textile state in the United States. If this tax load in South Carolina is confined to the cotton mills, then unquestionably the state owes it . to .its principal industry that it be re lieved, for the sake of competition with other textile states; for the sake of the development of the industry and the building of new tex tile plants; If this condition is more or less characteristic of the state v- J * , at large, then we as South Carolinians owe. it to ourselves to further emphasize governmental economy* and institute tax reforms that will reduce the burden. ' . Such a record hampers the growth of the entire state. “A* Industry Prospers—So Prosper The Psapls* Ginty, chief of the horticultural division. This is especially true in view of the generally accepted idea that the canning quality of our tomatoes is inferior to that of to matoes in other canning centers and that such quality may be af fected by the quantity and kind of fertilizing materials used. While no experimental data is available from this state, the ex periment stations of Georgia, Miss issippi, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York have all carried out important tests along this line. Their. results lead to the conclu sion that about 1000 pounds cf a 10-4-5 (PNK) mixture should be used per acre where the crop is grown for canning, to be applied a short time before setting the plants in the field. When the plans begin to set fruit, apply a side- Virginia Bunch Peanuts Promising In The Pee Dee DILLON, Mar. 28.—A net profp of $43.10 per acre was shown on four demonstrations covering 16.5 acres with Virginia Bunch peanuts conducted by S. W. Epps. Dillon county farm agent, in 1930. The average productioit cf hay was 2108 pounds valued at $20 per ton and 1497 pounds of peanut* valued at four cents per pound total value cf hay aod nut? per, acre being $80.38. The average cost per acre, including seed, fer- ; tilizer, planting, cultivation, pick- I ing, stacking and baling of ha^ j Public Schools Must Meet New Conditions and land rent averaged $37.78, dressing of 100 to 150^ pounds per leaving a net profit cf $43.10. f acre of a reqdily available nitre- Dillon county farmers have been genous fertUizer. Where the crop planting Virginia Bunch peanuts is grown for shipping, it will prob- for three years, and the acreage | ably be profitable to use 1500 j though not large is considerable. I ^ lierenc - pounds per acre of the complete Mr. Epps has this to say regarding fertilizer. The increase due to the the crop: extra fertilizer will usually pay where the tomatoes are shipped, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Mar. 31.— That the public schools must as sume the burden of meeting the changing conditions that are being brought in modern times, when the . influence of the home and the chtirch is being replaced by the newspaper, the motion picture, the radio, and similar factors, was the belief expressed by Wm. John Cooper, Commissioner of' Educa tion, in a recent address made here. He said in part: There is a tendency to place more responsibility on the .school and many educators are believing that the good of society requires that the school assume this res ponsibility. The best statement of the situation which we have in this country is to be found in the proceedings of the White House In brief its conclus ions are that the school must do more than has been done in the past and that* the hands of par ents must be strengthened, not weakened. The first step required in co-op eration of any kind is mutual un derstanding. On the part of a school this requires much more knowledge about the children who come to the school than has been “This is a new crop in the coun ty and while both the acreage and but the low price received may per acre yield are much smaller -in hold down the profit when they are 1930 than in 1929, still we are not °Town for canning. discouraged, for we feel sure that In a tomato fertilizer, Prof. Me- peanuts are here to stay as one Ginty says, phosphorus is consid- more money crop in the county, ered of much importance, there- In 1930, because of the extreme dry ore, the relatively high per cent- weather at planting time quite a ^^/“LretoTor^^'Emotiorai age is recommended. It stimul- few farmers got such poor stands rvontoi ates early growth and hastens ma- that they plowed up and planted urity of the crop. One-half of the other crops. Those who had seed nitrogen should come from cotton planted the second tune, and some seed meal or other organic source' few the third time, before getting and one-half from nitrate of soda stands enough to justify working or other inorganic material. Either the crop.” sulfate or muriate of potash may J* T. Lazar, Pee Dee district far- be used as the source of potash. mer agent, in commenting on the Stable manure is a valuable fer- demonstrations says: ulizer for tomatoes and three toj “Virginia Bunch peanuts as an v **^***- eight tons per acre should be used additional money crop should r ®-! selves with the school w hi c h their wherever, available. 'ceive more consideration from children attend and lend their aid Experimental data from Texas, farmers in the Coastal Plains area ^ SU p por t 0 f these institutions. Mississippi and Pennsylvania indlr • cate that none of the fertilizers. differences which involve mental hygiene in the complete education, of children are not now receiving attention. But it can hardly be asserted that mental hygiene is anywhere a regular part of the educational program. • The Commissioner lauded the work being done by parent-teacher associations and urged that par ents thoroughly familiarize them- CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 31.— With an increase in the produc- tiojn of tomatoes in South Carolina, incident to the establishment . of cangerle#' the proper fertilizaUon x>f this crop becomes of greatfs importance, states Prof. R. A. Mc- particularly nitrogen and potash, lave any effect upon the .color, fla vor, solidity, or, shipping; quality of tomatoes, a • • •••i.-r.*/ . . X ■ ■ R^ed, canary grass is a promise ing new forage grass for the North Central States. ; .-a- t. The -preachers- marty for- monty but don’t always get it. -xxx- of South Carolina.’ ^ ^ ; ^. |- g ee that the dairy bull Is well Contrast in flavor is Important housed and gets exercise. Don’t in a meal. Do not repeat the sapie keep a bull in a small stall without flavor too often. For instance, al- 1 exercise; it may ruin him as a though tomatoes once .in ^the^jneal breeder and make him vicious. A are heartily’reeommendedtbsis*-a * Storongly built bam or shed, open- mistake'to serve sst* meal begittnihg with toni^tOVSpttfc foiloWed 'bf $o- jpato saiice oh v £he meat, qr . stj{v- ed . tomatoes* fresh .sliced Xqts mato salad. - - - • ing into a paddock or yard, is a practical shelter. A feeding alley fn^ront of ;the bam allows the bull tp be fed without anyone having to enter* the pen."