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^ ! ^Thursday, April 9, 1931 Schedule Of Services At Colored Churches Schedules of services at the Col ored Churches are as follows: Young Mt. Zion, Chappell, First Sunday. Old Mt. Zion, Epworth, Second Sunday. Bethany, McCormick, Third Sunday. New Hope, Plum Branch, Fourth Sunday. REV. J. F. MARSHALL, pastor. MeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Springfield, First Sunday. Ebernezer, Second Sunday. Shiloh, Third and Fourth Sun days. REV. DOUGLASS, Pastor. Zion Chappel, First Sunday. Piney Grove, Second Sunday. Bailey Bethel, Third Sunday. % REV. W. S. MIMS, Pastor. Liberty Spring, Second Sunday. Mt. Moriah, Third Sunday. REV. WILLIAM PETERSON, Pastor. Cedar Spring, First Sunday. Mt. Lebanon, Third Sunday. Carry Hill and Mt. Hermon, Fourth Sunday. REV. E. D. TALBERT, . Pastor. St. Charlotte, First Sunday. Mt. Moriah, Second Sunday. Hosannah, Third Sunday. New China, Fourth Sunday. REV. E.D. TALBERT, Pastor. X—Y— • If the driver in front holds out instructive and highly profitable to his hand, you can always tell what he is going to do if you are a mind reader. Simonds' F Inserted Tooth Saw holds its it-flh, lasts ihnjrer and r ruls 10', more and better lumber. Let us'change your saw to this tiHOh. or trade it in on a new Simonds. Our S LI DIN O l.LMUKK SLALK and MOW TO STRAIGHTEN A DISHED SAW IS FREE! J. H. MINER°SAW CO. Meridian Mi*«- < 'olutahia. Leather furniture coverings look better and last longer ( if they are rubbed occasionally with castor oil. This restores to the leather the oil that gradually dries out. Rub the oil in well and wipe off any excess. Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial Eyes fitted without Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrists #56 Broad Street Augusta. Ga Murder is reported by a newspa per writer to be on the increase. That’s because the women have taken it up. /""HECK up on your Public Liability Insurance. Liability is the most dangerous word in the dictionary. To you it may spell ruin, debt, disaster. See this Agency today about your Liability Insurance. F C. Robinson INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 66 McCORMICK Renew Your Health by Purification Any physician will tell you that “Perfect Purification of the System is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect Health.” Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermin ing your vitality? Purify your en tire system by taking a thorough course of Calotabs,—once or twice a week for several weeks—and see how Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs purify the blood by acti vating the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. Trial package, 10 cts. Fami- 1 ly package, 35 cts. All dealers. (Adv.) The Economie . Crisis In South (Radio address by Senator Elli son D. Smith, South Carolina, Co lumbia Broadcasting System, Sta tion WBT, Charlotte, N. C., March 27, 1931.) LEGAL SUMMONS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, In Court of Common Pleas. J. E. Hernlen and Mrs. Essie Hern- len as Executor and Executrix, respectfully, of Joseph Hernlen, deceased, Plaintiffs, against Alice Curry, W. N. Curry, W. L. Curry, M. G. Curry, Mirah Rad- den, Pearl McCord, T. F. Curry and W. K. Charles, Attorney, De fendants. TO THE DEFENDANNTS ABOVE NAMED: % YOU ARE HEREBY SUUMMON- ED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the sub scriber at his Office at Greenwood, S. C., within Twenty (20) days af ter service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service ; v and if you fail to answer the Complaint with in the time aforesaid, the Plain tiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. / W. K. CHARLES, Plaintiffs’ Attorney. March 28, 1931. TO W. L. CURRY, M. G. CUURRY, AND PEARL McCORD, NON-RESI DENT DEFENDANTS: YOU WILL TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for McCormick County on April 1st, 1931. W. K. CHARLES, Plaintiffs’ Attorney. Attest: J. A. TALBERT, (L. S.) Clerk of Court for McCormick County, S. C. April 1, 1931.—3t. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE On the 24th day pf April, 1931, I will make a final settlement as ad ministratrix of the estate of J. J. Langley, deceased, in the Office of the judge of probiEtte at McCormick Court House at ten o’clock a. m., and ask for a discharge of same. All .persons holding claims should present them before that day prop erly attested or be forever debar red. / • '* • ' . LILLIE E. LANGLEY, Administratrix. March 24th, 1931.—4t. . ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE All persons indebted to the Es tate of Mrs. Mona M. Jefferson, de ceased, will please make payment forthwith to, and all persons hav ing claims against said Estate will file them duly proved with the undersigned. EARL C. JEFFERSON, As Administrator of the Estate of Mrs. Mona M. Jefferson, deceas ed. McCormick, S. C., March 31, 1931.—4t. ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 I \\ A f - WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA, GA. a thousand school children as far south as Atlanta and ir west as Chicago, will tour ric Virginia this spring. Remember that the table is a place for good comradeship with one’s children and not for discip- Une or nagging. Take it for grant ed that the child will eat happily everything served to him, and be sure that he becomes acquainted with a variety of foods. Prepare xnd serve everything appetizingly and he is more likely to enjoy his :ood. i x Cormorants whose wings have practically disappeared through lack of use are now found only in Galapagos Islands. The period of the World’s War clearly demonstrated what an abundant and adequate supply of capital and credit means to the South and to the Nation as well. The urgent demand for the nec essities of War and the impera tive need of currency to purchase these caused prices of all commod ities to rise to unusual levels. While there was a demand for all kinds of materials during this period and for labor, skilled and unskilled, or ganized and unorganized, the par ity of prices was maintained. There was, therefore, during this period when we were forced to increase our money supply and use it in ev ery department of our industrial life, the greatest era of prosperity this country has ever known. It is not true to designate this period economically as dangerous, abnor mal,- unsubstantial, and as one of war inflation. Labor wafc receiving high wages and spent freely; farm products, for the first time in a half century or more, were return ing a real profit. Industries of all classes were profitably employed. Old debts were wiped out, new en terprises were being launched, the resources of the country were be ing developed. The spirit of the people was buoyant, eager, confid ent. There was abundant capital and it was being splendidly used. Consumption was enormous, not in the war zone alone, but here in this country. There was then, as now, enormous need and there was the ready means of meeting it. The restricted, insufficient capital of the dreary heart-breaking years following the Civil War was now changed. The South began to real ize her possibilities, her rich re sources in natural wealth; soil, climate, minerals, timber and wat- et power. The sudden availability of sufficient capital to develop these was such a change, such a revelation to all that it really changed the civic and industrial character of the people. The leth argy of perennial disappointment, the yearly inadequate returns for grinding effort was changed to a realization of hope, yearly disap pointment and loses into real pro fit. There came the fateful year 1920^-Deflation. I have not time to analyze this horrible blunder, if it can be called by so mild a name, nor to discuss the reasons that prompted those responsible for the so-called deflation. Without warn ing the supply of capital was sud denly shut off from the masses. Enterprises, of all sorts in the making and those that were com pleted and prosperous were plung ed into chaos and ruin. Debts in curred, rightly incurred on the prospects inherent in the condit ions in which they were contracted must now be met under conditions that made.their settlement impos sible. Labor was left without em ployment. The products of the farm did not and do not bring the cost of production. In 1917 Mr. John Skelton Williams, then Comp troller of the Currency, wrote me that the banking situation throughout the country had stead ily improved under the then New Federal Reserve Act;that from 1914 when the Act began fairly to func tion until the time of his writing, bank failures had steadily decreas ed until there was scarcely a single failure in the year then cur rent. It seemed something to boast of that a system of banking had at last been devised by which an adequate currency could be supplied at all times to meet the rapidly expanding development of our resources and the consumptive needs of our people. What, a revelation came in 1920, and our fate since then? From 1920 to date the banks both small and large that had been establish ed, naturally and logically, to meet the needs of prosperous and en terprising communities w er e smashed In the ruthless grip of deflation—carrying ruin and death in its dismal wake. This at the beginning of an era when without the stimulus of a war, a greater per capita circulation was impera tively demanded. The animal-pow er age was gone and the machine- power age was come. The cost of living was correspondingly increas ed. The difference between the cost of a wagon and team and the cost of a motor truck illustrates the difference between the cost of living under the old order and the cost under the new. % The Federal Reserve System was devised be cause it was recognized before the World War was dreamed of that a more flexible system of banking was imperative—one that would as nearly as possible respond to the rapidly expanding wealth of the country and the increasing demand for currency. The South being more generally agricultural, the crisis that is now upon her is caused by a collapse in the prices of her agricultural pro ducts. The cause of these ruin ously low prices is not fundament ally over-production, but under consumption^ This is .proven by starving millions now forming the breadlines in this country, while we are burdened with a load of unconsumed wheat,—the Red Cross is soliciting old clothes for the rag ged and naked while we are strug gling with a superabundance of cotton and wool. The depression that has now reached this dangerously acute stage is the direct result of two things; the destruction of credit by the deflating process and our enormously high tariff laws. The deflation, of course, had its worse, most immediate and permanent ef fect upon agriculture. Cotton dropped from 35 cents and 40 cents per pound to six and eight cents within a .year. This product is the principal cash crop of the South. It is practically the currency of the South. This drop in price would not have been so deadly had other things dropped in proportion, but this was not the case. Organized and rich industries having ample reserve capital were not appreciab ly affected. War prices were main tained and until now are compara tively maintained. The organized industries are doubly protected, both by an abundance of reserve capital and a high protective tariff, while agriculture, which by the very nature of the case cannot benefit by protection, is being ruined, both by having to pay more for what it must buy and receiv ing less for what it sells. This high protective tariff system has not on ly affected our domestic market for agriculture but has had the ef fect of ruining our foreign market. The foreign trade has been prac tically shut out, making it impos sible for a profitable exchange of wealth between America and fore ign Nations. So daring was and is the difference between the condit ion of agriculture and industry that in the midst of the so-called Coolidge-Hoover national prosper ity, Mr. Hoover called an extraord inary session of Congress to devise means of saving> the very existence of the farmer. This crisis can only be met by a drastic lowering of the tariff, a freer trade with the World and an increase in the monetary circula tion, making possible a normal dis tribution of our wealth among the masses. The progress of the world in its splendid material achievements— in the marvelous inventions of modern times, making poss^e for mankind a life infinitely .^higher, better, more healthful]; more com fortable, more luxurio„us>' will not go backward. Nor will ‘ mankind allow these blessings to be enjoy ed by the privileged few for the lack of sufficient currency to make these available to .the masses. These wonderful inventions are the gifts of God to mankind and the masses will demand their right to share in His largeness. x By-Products From Farm Challenge U. S. Chemists il HARD PROBLEM That is for the housewife to plan three meals a day at this season of the year without our help and suggestions. We have the groceries, fruits and vegetables to solve your problem and suit your purse. Call in person or ’phone 43 for suggestions and quick delivery. T. T. MARTIN Main Street, McCormick, S. C. ’Phone 43 SE 3E 3E SATISFACTION OF A GARDEN You will derive genuine satisfaction and pleasure from a garden of your own, whether you make it produce beauti ful flowers or tasty vegetables or both. The thrill of work ing with nature and the pride of achievement will more than repay you for all your work. We have a most complete line of the best garden and lawn tools and equipment, including rakes, hoes, spades, forks, cultivators, trowels, sprinkling hose, lawn mowers, clippers, and other needed items. Every article is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction. Also a variety of seeds. WHITE HARD WAKE GO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. S mmm & NEW “ : If you need new furniture in your home. Spring is the logical time to have it. It marks the event of new life and what can create more enjoyment than new life in your home brought about by new furni ture? WE OFFER YOU A FINE SELECTION of the very newest and best for every room and every use in the home. Every suite, every piece, offers you the utmost in quality, beauty and utility. We invite you to visit our store and see our many lovely pieces. We will help you select to best ad vantage if you wish. J. S. STROM’S Furniture Store Main Street — McCORMICK, S. C. EE EE ®£ GOOD SPRING TONICS The indor life of winter usually leaves the system slug gish and abnormal in its functions. Nothing serious in most cases, but there is a lack of pep and vigor. One of our good spring tonics will restore normal action, and give you new pep. y WE HAVE JUST WHAT YOU NEED Here you will find several good blood and stomach tonics that will accomplish fine results. Procure a bottle and start in on a regular program of toning up your system. You will be surprised how quickly your pep will be back to normal and you will be feeling fine again. STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. J Describing them as “by-pro ducts” of the farm, rather than by the more common term, “farm wastes,” Dr. W. W. Skinner, of the United States Department of Ag riculture, said in a recent address that according to a careful esti mate the United States produces annually more than 250,000,000 tons of these by-products, divided about as follows: Cornstalks, 100,000,000 tons; cereal straws, 115,000,000 tons; corncobs, 20,000,000 tons; cot ton stalks, 18,000,000 tons; oat hulls, 3,000,000 tons; flax straw, 2,- 200,000 tons; cottonseed hulls, 1,- 800,000 tons; sugarcane bagasse, 500,000 tons; and peanut hulls, 70,- 000 tons. Doctor Skinner, who is assistant chief of the chemical and tech nological activities of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, says that these by-products of the important crops are composed approximately of cellulose, 40 per cent; lignin, 30 per cent; and hemicellulose, or carbohydrates, 30 per cent. Cellulose is the material from which paper, rayon, and many oth er products are manufactured. It is possible at present to make pa per pulp from a wide variety of crop by-products now wasted. But Doctor Skinner, who is thoroughly familiar with recent developments, says frankly that he does not know whether at present it is possible to make profitable use of cornstalks and straw. . These materials all have a cer tain basic value on the farm for fertilization and to provide organic matter for the soil. To this base cost the manufacturer must add the expense of collection, trans portation, concentration and us ually storage. Increasing the size of a plant usually tends to reduce manufacturing costs, but it also tends to increase the average.of the transportation costs for the bulky raw materials. At this point the investigations of economists and engineers must supplement the findings of the chemists. Doctor Skinner is of the opinion that the only way to an swer the question is by actual mill- scale production extending over several years. He points out that whether paper making from crop by-products will be profitable un der any given circumstances would depend on a complex balancing of many factors, a few of the more important being the cost of wood pulp, the cost of transportation of raw materials and finished product whether these are derived from wood or from crop wastes, effici ency of manufacture, and relative cost of labor. X Among the few creatures that may live to be more than a cen tury old, are listed the giant tor toise, the eagle, parrot, raven, the German carp, tbe white-headed vulture. S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Greenville — Southeastern Cor poration purchased controlling in terest in Southeastern Life Insur ance Company. Walterboro—New park and play ground under construction for this city. Belton — See Wee Manufactur ing Company will move to newly remodeled Cox building about first of April. Darlington — Bids'opened for erection of maintenance shop. Belton — Dr. T. Willis opened offices in Horton’s Pharmacy. Carolina Contracting Company received contract to pave Highway" No. 30 from Hartsville to Bishop- ville. Boyle Road and Bridge Company grading and building several bridges between Hartsville and Lydia. Belton — Holmes Street resi dents petition for improvement of thoroughfare for curb and gutter ing and surface treatment. Union — Union Finance Com pany opened offices in Hamlin., building. Dorchester — Work started on new Methodist parsonage. Belton — Work practically com pleted on new building for Bel ton Light and Power Company. Fairfax — Walker Smith opened filling station in this town. tXT Simmer new peas, never boil them. Add salt when the cooking is half done. Salt lightly. Do not cover during cooking, and do not cook longer than necessary for tenderness. >