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Thursday, April 23, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO Garden Week And Better Homes Week During this month two weeks in succession are being celebrated nationally—the first April 19th to; 25th being National Garden Week, and immediately following, from April 26th to May 2nd, being Bet ter Homes Week. These two events should be of in terest to every woman in South Carolina, for what woman is* there who doesn’t love a garden, or who isn’t interested in a Better, More Convenient or More Attractive Home? And to the extent of her interest, every woman is being asked to observe these two weeks. Garden beauty, like charity, should begin at home, but neither should stop there. The influence of beau tiful home gardens cannot be gauged, but would be difficult to overestimate. Home gardens are merely the neuclei from which this garden beauty grows. National Garden Week should act as a fresh impetus to beautify homes, cities, roads, schools, churches, and pub lic institutions. During this week let our aim be to spread beauty all over the neighborhood. Attractive gardens, either in town or country, usually mean neat and well kept grounds and buildings, a family that is enjoying life, and a place where people couldn’t help being home loving. The surroundings of the country larm or home might be teimed three outdoor rooms. The front yard, the living room, where on a hot Sunday afternoon or in the evening after the work is done, one rests on the porch or under the trees. The vegetable garden is the dining room—for one leads up to the other, and the farm yard is the kitchen—the scene of a deal of one’s work. Without extravagant landscaping and with the use of many of our lovely native evergreens from the nearby woods, any farm home can be made “a thing of beauty and a joy forever” at practically no cost except time and labor. May this be a plea to the far mers, as well as their wives, to be gin today to plan to beautify, and make attractive their outdoor rooms. And with attractive surround ings soon will follow Better Homes. ^Whitewash is cheap and easily made. A good coat of whitewash on fences, bams, and outhouses will put new “pep” in any com munity, and do away with that dejected appearance that looks as if/spring fever had every home in its grip. An era of whitewashing throughout the state, coupled with a clean-up and paint-up campaign, wherever . possible, and a little transplanting of native shrubbery to the “outdoor rooms,” would mean a new and encouraged rural South Carolina. Let us also extend our efforts be yond the city limits to the high ways. Schools also have no excuse to be without some planting.. With proper care and understanding a school may become a very paradise of welcome. National Garden Week is a great success if it en riches the countryside so as to bring back the original beauty of our land. Better Homes Week offers an ex cellent time to stage a “Clean-up and Paint-up Campaign.” There are this year in South Carolina 105 Better Homes Chairmen for whites and 38 for colored people, working on programs of bettering home conditions in their respective com munities. The Better Homes Movement is not intended to encourage the building of expensive homes or thei purchasing of expensive furnish ings or equipment. Quite the con trary, it is to encourage modest, well-kept homes and to inspire worthy home life. Remember the dates, April 19th- 25th—National Garden Week, and April 26th-May 2nd, Better Homes Week. Street Taxes Due May 1st Street taxes are due and payable on May 1, 1931, at the office of the town clerk and treasurer or may be paid to Chief of Police, C. H. Crawford. Penalty will be add ed on June 1st to all not paid, without exception. Pay promptly and save penalty. C. K. EPTING, Mayor. J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk and Treasurer. McCormick, S. C. April 20, 1931.—3j. Legion And Auxili ary Meet In Charles ton July 27 and 28 CHARLESTON, April 14 —Prelim inary arrangements for the annual convention of the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary of South Carolina, to be held here July 27- 28, have been completed by the convention committee of the legion headed by J. J. Altman of Char leston as general chairman. A. Stanley Llewellyn of Camden, department commander, estimates that 100 legionaires and members of the auxiliary will attend the convention in Charleston repre senting 75 posts of the legion in ' South Carolina. Each post has ap- i pointed an “On to Charleston” committee the members of which are working actively to the ends of having the greatest attendance of any legion convention yet held. The convention hosts in Char leston are jointly Post No. 10, of which A. E. Davis is commander, and Palmetto Post 112 of which George E. Barton is commander. The general committee arranging the convention consists of seven from each post. The preliminary program as an nounced by Mr. Altman and his committee calls for the first day, Monday, July 27, to begin wtih reg istration followed by a great par ade in which will be reviewed all of the colors of all legion posts in the state. Several bands will par ticipate and furnish music as the parade swings down the designated line of march through gaily decor ated streets. The speaking program for the convention is to be of national significance and the speakers, whose names will be announced later, are men whose names and utterances draw international at tention. A feature of the first day’s pro gram will be the selection of the Legion Queen, a contest which will be determined in the evening at the Isle of Palms, adjacent sea shore resort where the good fel lowship and merriment of the pro gram will be centered. Beginning in the afternoon and continuing until the early hours of Tuesday the program of entertainment at the Isle of Palms will include var ious forms of entertainment, among which will be aquatic sports, surf bathing, novelty entertain ment and the Legion Ball in the great open dance pavillion. Tuesday will be devoted primar ily to business sessions when the election of officers will be held and the next meeting place selected. On this day also will be sightsee ing trips about the historic city and vicinity and fishing trips for those anglers among the legionnaires. Mr. Altman in announcing the preliminary plans also announced that all members of the legion must have their 1931 membership cards to participate in the con vention program. ixt The Conceited Driver f Conceit, which often finds ex pression in thoughtlessness, rude ness and selfishness, is considered of prime importance as a cause of automobile accidents, by Dr. Paul Schroeder, Illinois State Criminol ogist. “An appreciation of the rights of others on the highways appears to be a more important qualification of a driver than even normal in telligence,” he says. Dr. Schroeder’s opinion is back ed up by statistics. He recently made a study in Detroit of 100 prisoners convicted of manslaught er with an automobile. Only three had serious physical defects, one was subject to epilepsy and one was insane. The old idea that anyone in good health and with reasonable mental qualifications can drive an automobile safely no longer holds water. The ego-cen tric driver, disregarding all but himself, taking chance after chance, whether he be mentally a genius or a moron, Is a constant menace to life and property. A little old-fashioned courtesy, which amounts to regard for the rights of others, is the individual j cure for the conceited driver. He presents a problem that must be solved as he is responsible for a large part of motor accidents. The year 1931 opened with a record-breaking motor fatality toll —2,410 deaths in January, an in crease of 30 per cent over January, 1930. Here is grisly proof of the! need for thorough-going investi gation into every phase of the ac- J cident situation. . , S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Dillon — L. Kornblut’s store op ened. Newberry — Road from this city to Whitmire may be paved soon. Beaufort — C. E. Blume filling station, Boundary Street, opened. Andrews — Andrews Veneer Corporation, establishing hard wood plant here. Greer — New equipment install ed in Dixie Shoe Shop. Columbia — Bids received for construction of eight bridges at ap proximate cost of $150,000. Hilton Head—Roy Rainey Hunt ing preserve here sold to L. K. Thorne and Alfred Loomis for sum approximating $250,000. Bluffton — Hodge road near here to be improved for distance of three and one-tenth miles. Winnsboro — Community build ing completed and opened for use. Camden — Midway Farms, Inc., with capital stock of $12,000, chartered t° d° general farming and livestock business. Anderson —. Contracts totaling approximately $175,000 let for im provements and repairs to Apple- ton Mills. Union — Barnes’ studio opened for business. Wilkins — Messrs. T. E. Hodges and S. L. Oakes leased local ware house for use as tobacco warehpuse this season. txt AND IF THIS HAPPENS? (The Dillon Herald.) In his demands for a reduction in the tax levy and more economy in the administration of public affairs Editor Woodward of The Conway Herald does not paint a very bright picture of the future. Editor Woodward says we are go ing backward in two ways: Ex penditures are exceeding revenues and the people are not paying their taxes. “Ask the county treasurers all over the state and see if they will not confirm it,” says Mr. Wood ward. “In every county in the state the obligations of the county cannot be met as usual and the reason is that the taxes are not being paid as usual. They will not be paid this year,” continues Mr. Woodward. “The reasons are not hard to find. The people are with out the money. The farms did not produce it. It is not there.” Mr. Woodward is right in what he says. If a state or county or municipality continues to spend more money than it earns the in evitable result is bankruptcy. The individual himself is responsible to a large extent for present con ditions. Too many individuals are spending more than they are earn ing, and in cases of this kind some body loses. Too many people lack the strength of character to lower their standard of living. They can not adjust themselves to changed conditions. If the trend continues downward says Mr. Woodward, the state will be forced to the necessity of buy ing in the lands, but the state can not farm or sharecrop these lands and they will be a burden on its hands. The Herald hopes this will not happen, but it has happened in other coUhtri$s. About 50 years ago agriculture in Denmark col lapsed and the abandoned lands were taken over by the govern ment. The government rehabilit ated agriculture by subdividing the lands into tracts of from 5 to 50 acres and sold the subdivisions to. ambitious and thrifty farmers on easy payments. The scheme suc ceeded and Denmark became the world’s leading agricultural nation. But in the meantime the people of Denmark had passed through a gruelling process of readjustment. They paid ’a high price for the prosperity that came to them in later years, but out of this period of adversity was born a spirit which will perhaps endure for many generations. The United States may have to pass through the same fire before the dross is removed from the gold, but let us hope not. X — Advertising Pays One of the reasons why the local newspaper editor believes that ad vertising pays is that the ad vertiser who always insists that he wants “good” position so that his advertisement will be read was in the office the other day when an irate subscriber protested against the publication of a three line article, which appeared on an inside page, and had his name spelled wrong.—Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Any merchant who alleges ad vertising does not pay and that people do not read ads never hau the experience of an error occur ring in one of his ads, such as the dropping out of a cipher, whereby he was made to offer for $1.00 an article whose sale price was really $10.00. Anderson Independent. The Children Of The Confederacy The C. of C.’s under the leader ship of Miss Reid reorganized in February with ten :nembers. Since that time another one !ias ioined making a total of eleven members enrolled. The following officers were elected to serve one year: President—Betty Workman. Vice-president—Eva Coleman. Secretary-Treas. — Kajheryne Brown. Registrar—Mabel Lyon. Chairman of Program Commit tee—Elizabeth McAlister. We have held three meetings since organizing. The C. of C.’s held their regu lar monthly meeting at ihe home of Katheryn Brown Wednesday af ternoon. The meeting was called to order by president. The min utes were read by secretary. 3ach member answered the roll call with the name and date of a battle fought during the war Between the States. After the business the fol lowing program was rendered: Voice of Spring—Henry Timrod— Mabel Lyon. Life of Wade Hampton—Allene Arrington. Music—Eva Coleman. The Sword of Lee—^Elizabeth Mc Alister. After the program a delicious salad course was served by the hostess. We adjourned to meet the second Wednesday in May. MABEL LYON, Reporter. txt How Advrtising Aids Return Of Prosperity Advertising pays. That has been uttered so frequently it is almost a platitude. From it has come the erroneous belief that only the ad vertiser benefits. It is far from the truth. It doesn’t take into consideration that advertising as a whole is overwhelmingly honest. You have a mill in the area in which you live, let us say. It em ploys 1,000 in normal times. Now only 700 are working. Why? Be cause there is not the demand for its products. That demand can be increased by advertising, and men will go back to work. The entire community, as well as the employ er, will benefit. Producers will be come buyers, and the welfare of the whole people, from millionaire to laborer, will be affected. In 1929, $60,000,000 was spent to sell 5,358,000 cars, a cost for ad vertising of $11 a car. Without ad vertising it is reasonable to assume many less cars would have been sold.* Thousands, perhaps mill ions, employed in the automobile industry wouldn’t have had a job. Steel workers, tire manufacturers, paint producers—all would have been affected. The analogy can be applied to department stores, other types of stores—to industry as a whole. We save our teeth because we read of benefits of using a tooth brush. We play healthful sports because we see sporting equipment advertised and recommended. We, furnish our homes attractively be cause we see attractive furniture advertised. We are educated how to live more fully by advertising. And creating demands means chat more men and women have jobs. Just now, in a period of depres sion, there is buying caution. Peo ple are saving their money, in some cases because they aren’t working and earning more, in oth ers because of the fear of losing their jobs, in still others because they do not understand. It would seem, regarding the matter from an unbiased view point, that, since the average citizen reaps the greatest benefits, he should buy from the concerns which advertise. He should un derstand that it is one way he can. help prosperity to return. And wise executives, realizing that advertising does pay in more ways than one, should insist on volume advertising. It means busi- nes for them. It means more work for employes. It means they are contributing something to aid re turn of prosperity.—Gastonia Gaz ette. X In making chicken salad let the diced chicken stand several hours in a French dressing. This is call ed “marinating” it. If you like to make the most of the chicken flav or, use chicken fat instead of oil for this dressing and give it a sugges tion of onion flavor by soaking a few slices of onion in the vinegar before mixing with the fat. Use equal parts of chicken fat and vinegar. Part of the acid used may be lemon juice if you prefer. in a Series appearing in this newspaper I HAVE a good supply of Chilean Nitrate; for your side dressing needs in the new* 100 lb. bag. They call it “the bag without a^ backache,” and jcu sure can handle it easily*. The new bags are good and sturdy. They don’t: rip. No waste. The price is also good new^It’a lower than I can ever remember. T HE new 100 lb. bags are good news to* thousands of farmers. These sturdy bags reach you in good shape. The contents, too* keep in better condition in the new bag and won’t sift out. Be sure you specify “Chilean** when you order your fertilizer. Then you’ll get the real natural nitrate—the super-nitrate^ This time-proved nitrate is now sold at thei lowest price in years. Order now to have plenty for side dressing your crop. Remember the two kinds—Original Chilean (Crystalline^ and Champion Brand (Granulated) both: natural nitrate. 1 LOWEST PRICE in years • ^ NEW 100-lb. BAG The bag without a backache _ Chilean rntrateolSotia EDUCATIONAL BUREAU 810 Carolina Life Bldg^ Columbia, S.C. Jn writing for literature or information, please refer to Ad lYo. 6? MEAT MARKET. SIRE IN NEW STAND I have opened my meat market in the building on Augusta Street formerly occupied by City Market, and am ready to serve old and new customers with the chociest Beef, Veal, Pork, Sausage, Cured Meats of all kinds and a full line of the best staple and Fancy Groceries and various kinds of Canned Goods. Have varied selection of best Fish every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Am stocking South Carolina Products mainly. Highest market price paid for Beef Cattle, Veal, Hogs, Hides and Country Produce. Leaving old stand on Gold Street and now located in new quarters on Augusta Street. ’Phone 19 and have your order delivered or shop in person. T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. You Can Afford New Furniture So often you think of new furniture, or replacing the old or adding to what you have, you dismiss the idea with the thought that you can’t afford it. We want to impress up on you that you can afford it at the prices we are now of fering you. Quality furniture has never been so low In price as now, or so charming. We can soon prove to you that we are right if you will pay our store a visit. We want to show you beautiful new things we have to offer you and acqur 7 ’* with the astounding low prices that prevail. You will be under no obligation, whatsoever, if you do not wish to buy. Be sure to come. J. S. STROM'S Furniture Store Main Street - McCORMICK, S. C.