McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 02, 1931, Image 4
"ITrarsday, April 2, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER FOUR
AcCORHICK MESSENGER
Published Every Thursday
Established June 5, 1902
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EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
Entered at the Post Office at Mc
Cormick, S. as mail matter of
Or second class.
SCBSCR1PTION RATES:
— Strictly Cash In Advance
Coe Year — $1-00
Fix Months .75
• Three Months .50
Paint Up—Clean Up
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A stranger from a distant town*]
in this State was in McCormick
one day recently, and after taking
rsi&s cf the dull appearance of
nuRe houses along the route over
which he entered town, decided to
about over the town a little
see if there were any others of
that kind. He found some more
jbseI made the following comment:
*The town is well appointed, or
jurranged as to location of dwell-
and business houses, parks,
and would be a very attractive
city if you folks would tear
the useless shacks and fences,
•the good houses and make a
clean up of rubbish scat-
here and there—probably
vumoticed by you residents, but
noticeable to strangers. He
this as a suggestion and
criticism, and said he hoped
people would take note of these
and apply the remedy to
beauty to the town.”
was said before our mayor
jmeiaimed next week as clean up
and it is passed along for
ft may be worth in seeing our
and surroundings as others
them. ;
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TOBACCO, GERM KILLERS
■Mil
up, smokers, and have a
Smoke makes your germs
If you have a pet germ whose
in your system you do
exactly relish, smoke and
his resistance. In tim<*
may wear him out and he will
m natural death.
George Wolff of Frankfurt,
says that smoking has
prophylastic effects. Tobacco
ke hinders, growth and ixpan-
cf germs though it does not
them, according to the
physician.
Daring ^ his experiments, Dr.
Wad exposed various germs to
£moke and put them to-
with “unsmoked” germs in-
*10 an oven generating a heat of 37
centigrade. The result
he claims, that the unsmoked
grew more rapidly than the
lii a second test, aiming at in-
voUgatlng the destroying pot-
cntiaffties of the smoke, he exposed
germs for a long time to it.
results were meagre. He suc
ceeded in killing off only the germs
cf the “flu,” while other leswS
“tenrfer” bacteria lived on, though
^considerably impeded in growth.
Dr. Wolff believes that nicotine,
focmaldehyde and pyrrol, soluble
ingredients of smoke, are the ies-
troying and impeding factors.
Tbe doctor does not differentiate
to smoke. Whether it be the
cigar or cigarette, it is smoke,
when the good wife objects to
pipe and its disagreeable odors
call up this expert tsstimony
smile knowingly.
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Women’s Clubs Aid
In Conservation
The South' Carolina Federation
cf Women’s Clubs, under the lead
ership of Miss Claudia Phelps,
Chairman of the Conservation
Division, Aiken, S. C., materially
the Conservation Movement
to five Demonstration For-
Tice Plantations, varying in
aftoe from one to four acres, made
in five counties in South Carolina,
^md designed permanently for
dmonstration purposes. Trees
vrene supplied by both the South
'Gudina Forest Service and the
EWIeration of Women’s. Clubs and
planted under regulations
down by the Clubs. Planta-
were made in the following
;s: Walterboro, Greenville,
le, Lexington and Aiken.
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folks never get back on
feet until they get rid of
automobiles.
MI-
owls evidently reason that
final sleep will be enough for
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
Treat Criminals Kindly
Mussolini's Wisdom
A Billionth of an Inch
Two Fighting Machines
Clarence Darrow, good lawyer, kind-
hearted. exaggerates a little when he
says of criminals: '
"The public likes to see them tor
tured, and guards are anxious to give
the public what it want#.” ■
That is not accurate. Criminals
sometimes torture their victims. The
general public does not like torture.
Prisoners today have baseball
games, vaudeville shows, radios, and
new prisons are planned with sepa
rate rooms, decent beds.
Prisoners should be treated humane
ly, but not made to feel that & crim
inal is some one to be admlsed. That
is overdoing it.
, Mussolini talks common sense on the
wheat question, asking why the world
demands a cut in the wheat acreage
"when in the world there are all too
many people poverty stricken and
grievously distressed.”
The Italian ruler says that the trou
ble with wheat comes not from over
production, but from underconsump
tion.
The nations should listen to him,
a^d find a way to distribute among
the earth’s 1,600,000,000 the grain pro
duced by farmers, and at a price prof
itable to the farmers.
Places Of Interest 'SE
Around Mt. Carmel
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EACH HOME DEMONSTRATION
CLUB WILL WRITE HISTOR
ICAL FACTS ABOUT
COMMUNITY
Professor Compton, winner of the
Nobel prize In physics, shows the
atoms in an electron, separated from
each other by one-billionth of an inch,
and. In proportion to their size, as
far apart as the earth and the sun.
Until lately it was thought that noth
ing smaller than the atom could exist.
Now we know that it is a little solar
system with a proton, or nucleus In
the center, like our sun, and electrons
revolving around it, like planets.
In the order of bigness, matter Is
arranged by Professor Compton as
follows: ‘’Electron, atom, bacterium,
gnat, man, mountain, earth, sun, solar
system, galactic cluster, galaxy and
known. universe.”
That known universe is so big that
it would take light, going 180,000 miles
a second, about 600,000,000 years to
cross f£pm one side to the other. Fig
ure out that distance^
And. for all we know, "known uni
verse” may be merely one little group
of cosmic dust in-an infinitely bigger
universe. Think of "a billionth of an
inch,” and thousands of suns a million
million times as big as our sun.
Uncle Sam is building two airplanes
that will help us to realize the use
lessness of marching troops in future
wars. Each of the planes, called
"hedge-hoppers.” will carry five ma
chine guns, to "spray” marching sol
diers with huilets, while flying fifty
feet above ground.
In addition to machine guns each
plane will carry 500 pounds of bombs.
Are yqu taking golf lessons? Pay
ing some professional to tell yon what
to do with your head, arms, wrists,
feet, knees, eyes and club?
Learn that you may have to take
those lessons oil over again. Slow-
motion "movies” of the great Lobby
Jones and the beautiful Joyce Weth-
ered in action show that these great
golfers do not "break their wrists on
the back swing” until very late in the
swing. And Jones the Great hesitates
at the top of his swing, shifts his body
and gets planted before he brings the
clubhead down.
Theory and practice are far apart
in golf and in all education.
"\ngratitude, thou marble-hearted
fiend,” poor Mr. Gandhi of India
knows all about you now. He worked,
slaved, starved in prison, endured
days of silence, which must be hard
for a man full of Ideas, risked his life
a thousand times, gladly.
Then he arranged a truce with the
British government, the British hanged
three Hindus, and some of Gandhi’s
followers tried to kill him.
Now he will quit, if the Indian con
gress does not take his advice. He is
disgusted to see Hindus and Moham
medans murdering each other in India
the British looking on, careful not to
smile.
Gandhi will learn what others
learned long ago, since and before the
days of the Gracchi—that It Is noble
to try to help people, but usually does
not pay.
You cannot please everybody.
Advanced thinkers In Europe, led
by Briand of France, wanted a United
States of Europe to tear down cus
toms barriers between different na
tions and create a great European
United States, all states trading free
ly with each other.
Germany said, "All right, we shall
start with Austria,” and planned a
trade agreement in accordance with
United States of Europe ideas, making
Germany and Austria the nucleus.
"Not at all," said France, and "Not
at all," the other nations. "We don’t
want you to do that." So the United
States of Europo Is under a cloud.
The wealth of this country, accord
ing to the Industrial Conference board,
has Increased 32 per cent since 1914.
Now we own la all mUOOtOOOjOtft,
about 9X0Tt ter each of $e
009 Americans.
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S1.00
At the fall meeting of the Mc
Cormick County! Council of Farm
Women a gavel will be presented
to the Home Demonstration Club
which has done the best club
work for the past year. This gav
el will be carved from wood grown
in McCormick county and the
wood will be chosen from some
tree growing at or near an his
toric spot in the county. There
being many p’^ces in this county
of historical importance, a dis
interested committee will decide
the location from which wood for
the gavel will be chosen. Each
Home Demonstration Club is asked
to prepare a paper giving the facts
of any historical place in that par- LR
ticular community. The committee m
to act as judges will be guided by
the history brought out in these
papers.
Each of these papers will bv.
read before the respective clubs
and then published in the county
paper. The first paper handed in
was written by Miss Lennie Covin
of the Mt. Carmel Home Demon
stration club and is as follows:
Some Places of Interest Around
Mt. Carmel
After passing through scenes of.
massacres and persecutions a col
ony of 212 French Huguenots sec
retly made their way to part and
embarked upon a vessel sailing to
America. These protestants of
southern France were seeking re
ligious liberty and had been per
suaded that in this new Continent
they could find soil and climate
similar to their native land and be
able to worship God unmolested
The voyage in a leaky boat with
contrary winds was not without
perils and hardships but finally a
landing was made at Charleston.
After residing several months there
and at Port Royal this courageoui
band set out for an assigned terri
tory in the western section of
South Carolina and settled at Bor
deaux. Later a few of these new
home seekers, the Covins, Houst-
ons and others moved nine miles y
northward and located at Mt. Car- g*
mel. From time to time other set
tlements were established on Little | an e ye looking away toward
River. Very early the entire dis- rising sun, we see on the Caro-
trict was called Abbeville in honor lina shore the debris of an old
of a city in France. It is told that fo^a foot print of the first Rev-
at a picnic neighbors and friends oiution Silence and darkness char-
Mt. Carmel received its appellation acterize the place and as we look,
from a village in the mother coun- we wonder where are those who
try. If this be true our little m anned this fort an hundred
town was named under happy aus- years ago.” “Yet another place is
FOLLOW THE CROWDS WITH MR. DOLLAR
Folks meet Mr. Dollar (The Old Kid himself) worth 100 cents at
most places, but double his weight here, simply for the reason that
he is sold on our idea of doing business for cash. The first of
the month doesn’t find any bills drifting his way from us, which
keeps frim smiling and looking ahead to better times. Here at
GALLANT-BELK S it’s a pleasure to “Spend and Save” because
it’s an established fact that .
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bubbles
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coal
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GREENWOOD’S LEADING pA|U|pM|jy "THE HOME OF
DEPARTMENT STORE” llUlvIl All I BETTER VALUES”
WE SELL EVERYTHING AND SELL IT FOR LESS
pices. ''
Mt. Carmel at the time of the
Civil War was owned by large
planters, slave holders, the bone
and sinue of the land, men who
historic. We see the sight of a
pontoon bridge which was marked
for military purposes in 1865. This
bridge spanned the Savannah riv
er. Over this structure Jefferson
always feel welcome to their Alma
Mater.
The play, “Always In Trouble”
will be presented by some of our
high school pupils in the Plum
Branch auditorium on Friday even
ing, April 3, at 8 o’clock. This play
has proved to be very fine indeed
judging from the time that it was
first given, so everybody who can,
should try to see it.
carried heroic blood in their veins ^ Davis and his escort passed as they
and when their country was in! were bidding adieu to South Caro-
peril they gave their lives freely | ina »*
for the Southern cause. Then, again—“Calhoun Mills has
It has been said that at one a history that belongs to the past,
time this portion of the State was j n ^be olden times, in the shadowy
considered the most aristocratic,
recesses of the woods, Capt. Joseph
certainly there cannot be found on Calhoun selected this place as a
the pages of South Carolina’s his-! s j^ e f or a home, a mill and a cen-
tory names more illustrious than £ er j or business. This place today
those of this original Abbeville though hoary • with age still wears
District. , the old time charm. If the en-
Cherry Hill, not far distant from campassing heavens ever bend tc
Mt. Carmel, was the palatial resi
dence of George McDuffie. In this
hospitable home many of the
state’s most cultured citizens often
met for entertainment. There are
look they see no spot more ro
mantic, more touching, more love
ly. Look where you will the poetry
of nature strikes fou at every turn
It may be still in the memory of
other places of interest, we will SO nie that an artillery company
quote Mr. J. L. Covin, a life long^j was organized by Capt. Thomas
citizen of this community and a p a rker in the days of Auld Lang
frequent contributor to one of the gyng a t Calhoun Mills and was
county papers as saying: | commanded by him for a number
“We recall that there are places of years.”
of historical interest in the vicin- These are some of the historic
ity of Mt. Carmel. Looking east- places around Mt. Carmel,
ward we see the old home place of
Rev. J. O. Lindsay, D. D., now de
ceased. “Hohenlinden” was the
name of his country home. It was
given in honor of one of the bat
tle fields of the Great Napoleon.”
To this home Jefferson Davis
and family sometimes came and
during one of these visits Dr. Lind
say vaccinated little Winnie Davis
for smallpox.
Washington High
School News
Miss Annie Laurie Godbee has |
returned from a visit to Waynos- |
boro, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Wooten, and'
little daughter, Jean, accompanied:
by Mr. Fred Bradshaw spent last;
Sunday in Augusta.
Mr. L. V. Mayer has returned
from Columbia where he attended;
the State Teachers’ Meeting.
At the chapel hour on Monday
morning, Mr. Mayer gave a report
on some of the lectures that he
Not a great distance from the heard at State Teachers’ Meeting.
Lindsay place stood the ante heli
um home of the Drennons—known
far and wide for its beautiful
flower garden.
Mrs. Marshall of Abbeville, an
historian of some repute, is author
ity for saying that the U. D. C.’s
were first organized in this Dren-
non home. She was present and
helped to form the organization.
Mr. Covin tells of other places of
interest near Mt. Carmel.
“Standing at the cohfluei&e of
the Savannah and Broad Rivers
He reported a very splendid meet
ing and regretted very much that
all the teachers could not attend.
Quite a number of former
graduates have been seen on the
campus recently. Wates Keller,
Charles Bussey, and Ralph Gales
from Erskine College, Fred Bailey
and Robert Middleton from Clem-
son, and W. P. Parks, Jr., from
Columbia. It was surely a pleas
ure to have these bo?s back again
on a visit and hope that they will
BASEBALL NEWS.
When spring comes everyone
starts thinking about baseball. This
seems to be true at Washington
for all the boys are practicing hard
every day trying to make the team.
There is much interest being
shown by the boys and also by Mr.
Mayer and Mr. Wooten. We lack
a good deal of equipment yet, but
hope to get some before long.
The boys that .are out for base
ball are: Pickens Wells, Warlick
Keller, Davis Bussey, Raymond!
Holloway, L. J. Stone, Eubert Eck- j
ard, Ray Bailey, Pat Robertson,!
Jack Wells, Olin Bussey, Pete Lank
ford, Ray Maddox, Herman Bussey,
Hugh Middleton and Floyd Willis.
Pickens Wells was elected cap
tain of the team for this season.
We feel sure he will make us a
good one.
We are expecting some real base
ball when the Washington team
hits the diamond this season.
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Abbeville Floats Loan
ABBEVILLE, Mar. 28.—Abbeville
county today borrowed from the
Peoples State bank of South Caro
lina $44,000 at a rate of 3.22 1-2 per
cent. . The money is for current
expenses for the year 1931 and tax
es for 1931 are pledged as secur
ity. This is the lowest rate of in
terest secured by the county in
several years, rate last* year being
4.57 per cent.
GET YOUR
ROOFING NOW
PRICES ARE LOWER
THAN EVER BEFORE
Now is the time to put a
new and up-to-date Roof bn
your House and Buildihgs.
Now while prices are down to
ROCK BOTTOM. Buy direct
from the Factory—Freight
Paid.
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ROOFING
2l/ 2 Corrugated^^ ISQ
Per Square
5-V Crimp
Per Square
GENUINE
“Lock Tight”
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Galvanized
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PRICE PER SQUARE
$3.70
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—44c
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52c
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—59c
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—_C7c
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97c
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74c
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$1.08
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84c
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YOU SAVE WHEN
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•FOn SAMPLES AND FULL
INFORMATION
—SEE—
James W. Corlev
McCormick, S. C.
A good man can force himself
ahead almost anywhere except in
a traffic jam.
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Bread cast upen the water will
come back, but not always in K
wrapped loaves.