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Thursday, April 23, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT Payment Of Taxes By Mfiy 1st Urged APPROXIMATELY $190,000.00 UN- COLLECTED TAXES DUE Mc CORMICK COUNTY Savannah River / Destined To Recover Lost Commerce The time tor paying of 1930 State, County and School Taxes will expire May 1st, 1931. Approxi mately $54,000.00 in unpaid taxes remain on the books. In view of the heavy penalties which will go into effect on May 1st, as provided toy law, see comptroller general’s letter, we urged those who have not paid their 1930 tax to do so by May 1st, and avoid paying the pen alty and cost of collecting these unpaid taxes. For the benefit of the public I will also state, that there is more than $46,000.00 of uncollected taxes from 1929 back. This makes a to tal of about $100,000.00 of uncol lected taxes in McCormick County. Only 57 per cent of 1930 taxes have been paid to date. T. J. PRICE, . County Treasurer. The comptroller general’s letter follows: Columbia, S. C., April 15, 1931. County Treasurers, and County Auditors. Oentlemen; ' In view of the fact that all un paid taxes will go into executions after May first, I suggest that you the attention of the taxpayers, through your local papers, to the fact that after; May first the pen-, alty added wUl be 7 per cent plus 5 per cent collection charges and - other collection expenses; whereas,! the penalty if paid on or before) May first is only 1 per cent. , . This should be done promptly ao as to give ample time for mak ing the necessary arrangements to pay taxes. % v Yours very truly, A. J. BEATTIE, Comptroller General. MILLIONS BE SPENT BY FEDER AL GOVERNMENT TO MAKE STREAM NAVIGABLE.— WOULD MEAN MUCH TO ANDERSON (The Anderson Independent) Notice Of Election For School Trustees ’ On May 12th, same being the 2 Tuesday in May, there will be an election held in each school district in McCormick County for the <pur- pose of electing school trustees in the various school districts in the said County, In school district No. 4 there Shall be three trustees elected. Two members of the pres ent Board of trustees in district No. 4 shall remain according to an Act of 1927. The remaining school districts in the said County shall elect three (3) trustees, all of whom shall be elected as provided toy law. Act 1927. No. 288. Said elections shall be conducted on aame rules and regulations as de mocratic primaries are conducted in the said County. School trustees shall act as managers or appoint managers of the said election. The voting place of •the respec tive school districts shall be at or near the school house in the said districts: polls open at 8 a. m., and close at 4 p. m. All returns of said -election shall be filed with the County Board of Education in ten days after date of election. T. J. 3IBERT, W. H. PARKS, County Board of Education, McCormick County. April 21, 1931.—3t. Listen, Legionnaires Legionnaires, as you already know we are entertaining the State Commander and other notable legionnaires on > the 30th of April. It is like this, barbecue at 6 o’clock. You know Where, place near chain Kang camp. Get your tickets from Comrade Frank Mattison, 50c per plate. The band will be here also. If you desire to bring an ex-service man along jbst get him a ticket an invite him. We should know two or three days ahead so we will know how much to prepare. At 3:15 we go to the school - building for the balance of the program. Every member is ufged to be on hand. Best meeting ever held. JIM EDMUNDS, FRANK MATTISON, • BRUCE HOLLOWAY, JIM LOVELACE, GARY CAMPBELL. Committee. Sew up the buttonholes before ou wash a sweater. Then they iron’t stretch. —x The best way to improve the omplexion is to leave it alone. The Savannah river, once a great artery of commerce connect ing Andersonville, 18 miles from this cityAvith Savannah, an At lantic seaport, now seems destined to regain its long-lost glory. The federal government has • already authorized construction of a six foot channel from Savannah to Augusta at a cost of approximate ly $7,000,000. A complete change in this program is now sought by the Savannah River Improvement Commission, however, which ad vocates a nine foot channel, involv ing an expenditure of around $10,- 000,000. / Originally it was planned to se cure a six foot minimum by a se ries of locks and dams, keeping the river entirely within its banks. A nine foot minimum, if authorized, would mean a more elaborate sys tem of checks and counter-checks involving the construction of high levees at places where an increase in depth of the river would result in flooding of farmlands. Lost Out In 1858 Although the project does not provide for dredging of a channel as far up as Andersonville, there is still an old channel reaching from this point to Augusta. It is sufficiently deep to allow for the navigation of flatboats, loaded with cotton. At one time, until the construction of the Blue Ridge railroad in 1858, considerable com merce was carried on along the Savannah. Andersonville was An derson’s “seaport” practically all the cotton grown in this county being shipped from this point to Augusta and Hamburg. Afford New Outlet With the construction of a deep channel to Augusta, which would permit, relatively large ships to come up the sea to this point it is highly plausible that a con siderable portion of Anderson’s shipping will be done by water. Andersonville may be revived as a “seaport” town. But even if this is not done, Augusta is only a re latively short distance from An derson and is connected with this city by the C. & W. C. railroad. This great interior of the South east is one of the richest areas in agricultural and industrial re sources in the world. It is to bring the Atlantic Ocean 200 miles near er this great area that the devel opment of the Savannah river is planned, and Augusta, by virtue of its position at the head of navig ation, will become a great inland port of the Southeast, taking very much the same position that Hous ton occupies in the Southwest. Export Cotton Moved Cotton is now moving from Au gusta to Savannah for export on one packet - boat that plies the Savannah xt^er, at the rate of 600 bales per vrwk and on a rate of 75 cents per 500-pound bale. On the upstream trips, the steamer, which is owned by the city of Au gusta, brings capacity loads of su gar, canned goods from Baltimore and other eastern ports and also from Pacific coast ports, and mis cellaneous merchandise. The steamer is expected to make money for the city this year and surely in the future if the channel were navigatible throughout the year. But cotton is only one article that can be concentrated at Au gusta and compressed and shipped to the ports at a saving when regu lar service is guaranteed. Tens of thousands of bales could be moved to New England mills through the inland waterway at a large saving. Cotton piece goods, produced by textile mills throughout this sec tion of the South, including, of course, the Carolina Piedmont could move by water all the way from Augusta to the East. It is estimated that the mid- western farmers could compete in the world’s markets with their wheat, and make money, at several cents per bushel less than they can sell wheat for now, if they had all-water routes. Certainly the South could better compete with cotton made in India, Egypt and Russia with an all-water route from Augusta, as well as from Houston, Memphis, New Orleans and Savannah. Would Benefit Anderson From an economic standpoint, America must develop its rivers for the benefit of the manufactur er without a water outlet, so that he can sell his products, in competi tion with European manufacturers that have all-water routes. This is not a fight on the railroads, but an effort to co-operate with them in developing water-and-rail facili ties. The railroads have been in formed that they would have so much business hauling freight to and from the barge line termi nals at Augusta that they, would be happy over the development. Houston had a slogan, “Where 17 railroads meet 41 steamship lines,” but the number of steamship lines increased so rapidly that the slo gan was changed to “Where 17 railroads meet the sea.” The project for Savannah River development carries with it econo mic benefit to a vast section, ex tending from Columbia up as far as Charlotte and including Gas tonia, Spartanburg, Greenville, Greenwood and Anderson; up to Asheville, Knoxville and Chatta- nooge and down to Athens, Atlan ta and Macon. The surface has hardly been scratched from the standpoint of agricultural and in dustrial development in this great area. * Southeast Waterway Not only cotton, but also a vast tonnage from cottonseed products kalins and all the ceramic indus tries, lumber and millwork indus tries and hundreds of miscellan eous products of farm and factory would be handled via the Savan nah river and the Augusta gateway while a portion of everything we buy in the Southeast that comes from any point along the Atlantic seaboard, or on a waterway that feeds the Atlantic seaboard would and when a ship canal is built across the northern portion of the Florida peninsula we shall have direct connection with the Gulf ports* and the Mississippi river system. txr Prompt Action Will Pay Poultrymen Well Next Season OLEMSON COLLEGE, April 21.— Everything points to better egg prices next fall with a possible egg shortage, and South Carolina poultrymen, who have been urged to keep up their flocks and in as many cases as possible make ad ditions, should act now if they hope to take advantage of better conditions which are indicated for the coming fall and winter, thinks Prof. C. L. Morgan, chief o* the Poulty Division, who reminds us that time is fast passing for secur ing baby chicks from which to pro duce pullets for next fall’s laying house. f ' , “Statistical reports on the poul try industry continue to indicate brighter prospects ahead for the poultrymen,” Mr. Morgan says. “Hatchings and sales of chicks by commercial hatcherymen through out the country are one-third to one-half less than last year, indi cating that there will be fewer pullets for the laying houses this coming fall. Egg receipts at the central markets are now falling consdierably below that of last year. Storage holdings are slight ly less than for the same time last year. It is estimated that farm flocks have been reduced approxi mately one-third. This is indicated by feed sales, which show similar reductions. “Strong vigorous disease-free chicks raised by the Grow-Healthy- Chicks plan and the use of home grown feeds as far as possible in poultry rations are factors that will make for successful poultry pro duction under all conditions,” ac cording to Mr. Morgan. *xt— For School Trustees The following names are submit ted for trustees for McCormick School District, No. 4, in the elec tion to be held on May 12th. Oth ers desiring to offer may do so before the tickets are prepared on May 8th: J. L. CAUDLE, J. S. DUKES, E. J. McCRACKEN. Acquaint yourself with the vari ous sizes of canned and package goods, to know how many serving! each will give. Get into the habit of looking for the weight on a box of cereal or other goods, or the number of fluid ounces in bottled goods. Compare brands with each other to see which gives the best value. IXt Oratory can’t stand the competi tion of a crying baby. Pass 14,000 New Laws This Year CONGRESS PASSES 1,524 NEW STATUTES. -FORTY-THREE STATES ADOPT 12,000 MORE LAWS NEW YORK, April 18.—American legislators felt “there ought to be a law” some 50,000 times this year *and translated that feeling into more than 14,000 new statutes. 1 The number adds to the var- ! iously estimated 2,000,000 to 10,- 000,000 laws which have been en acted since the United States came :nto beiiig. The national congress accounted for 1,524 of this year’s crop of laws, while legislators of 43 states to date have passed more than 12,000 out of 48,403 bills introduced. The number may be swelled as some legislative sessions still are in .‘progress. 825 For Tarheelia North Carolina, just finishing the longest legislative session of its history, is expected to write 825 new laws into its books. Since North Carolinians need to heed only the laws of their own state and those of the federal gov ernment they will have but 2,349 new guide posts for their conduct. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia held no legislative ses sions this year. Florida has just commenced its biennial lawmaking and forecasting of the output isn’t being done. The remainder of the states have either just adjourned their legis lative sessions or expect to do so within a few days. Many of the laws are relatively unimportant to the citizenry at large. Maryland^ for instance, must pass a law to raise the pay of a dog-catcher. The Free State ap proved 400 new acts out of 954 pro posed. New York Leads New York solons poured the greatest number of bills into their lawmaking progress—4,265 in all— and approved nearly 1,200. California has 2,850 bills under consideration, 10$ so far approved. Minnesota, considering 2,600, is ex pected to adopt around 400. Illinois expects a higher ratio, or 500 new laws out of 1,300 bills introduced. Winopnsin anticipates the same number out of 1,500 proposed. Pennsylvania has 2,152 proposed, 63 so far adopted. Maine adopted 560 out of a pro posed 2,077; Connecticut may ap prove 800 of 1,573 new bills; Oregon considered 805, approved 403. Alabama adopted 125 new laws* Arizona 108, Arkansas 334, Colora- da 150, Delaware 238, Idaho 228, Indiana 180, iQwa 113, Kansas 302, Nevada 255, New Mexico 163, North Dakota 314, Ohio 161; South Dako- to 269, Tennessee 318, Utah 78, Ver mont 243, Washington 142, West Virginia 111, Wyoming 138, and Montana 220. Georgia lags with 13 new laws out of 89 proposed in a special session. . Estimates for some of the states whose legislatures are still in ses sion are Massachusetts 225, Michi gan 300, Missouri 300, Nebraska 200, New Hampshire 250, New Jersey 200, Oklahoma 125, Rhode Island 150, South Carolina 450, Texas 230. X Garden Pointers A half-acre garden, if properly cared for, wiU produce enough vegetables for the average family during the summer and some sur plus for storing, canning, and dry ing for winter. Sunshine is one of "che most important considerations in planning a truck garden. Even foliage crops such as lettuce, kale, and spinach, which do fairly well in partial shade, need at least three hours of direct sunshine a day. Plants which ripen fruits such as tomato and eggplant need at least five hours and should have more. If the soil varies in different parts of the garden, plant crops such as celery, onions, and late cucumbers in low, moist soil. Plant early crops and those that need quick, warm soil where the land is high, warm, and dry. Make successive plant ings from 10 days to 2 or 3 weeks apart of string beans, bush Lima beans, sweet corn, lettuce, peas and radishes, so there will be a fresh supply throughout the season. In clude small fruits with the perm anent crops. X A Federal plant explorer has re turned from the Orient with a col lection of about 4,000 lots of soy bean seed, and samples of 300 soy bean products. But don’t ask for any of this seed. There is only enough for preliminary tests. This Week l>y Arthur Brisbane King Alfonso Is Out An Admirable Will Ford’s 20,000,000th Car An Eel, Our Relative. Europe’s big news is the abdication of King Alfonso. He goes, and a re public rules Spain. It is one thing to vote for a republic, another to make it go. Having a king, or no king, makes little difference. England has long been. In reality, an actual republic, with a king draw ing his salary and avoiding frequent elections. Some republics, on the oth er hand, have not been very repub lican, nlthought they have had no king, with the possible exception of money. The will of the late Colonel Fried- sam sets a fine example of good cit izenship. He provides generously for those dependent on him and related to him and gives to the public his magnificent and skillfully collected works of art that cost $10,000,000, and are worth double that amount. He leaves the hulk of his large for-* tune to the public, to be spent by his executors for the young and “com fort of the old,” words that express a beautiful thought clearly. He leaves to J. S. Burke, vice presi dent of his organization, who for years has helped carry the heavy load of business, a large interest in that busi ness and the controlling influence in carrying out his philanthropic plans. All his life Michael Friedsam worked hard. He lived without ostenta tion or extravagance, and now leaves the result of his life’s work to the people among whom he lived. Not long ago Henry Ford had noth ing. But he was thinking and work ing. Recently he drove from his fac tory to his own residence in his Ford car number twenty million. He made the first in 1893 and the twenty mil lionth will stand In the Ford museum beside the first. Ford has made auto mobiles enough to carry 100.000,000 human beings, in fact our entire pop ulation of 123,000.000. without pack ing them too tightly, the babies sitting on their parents’ knees. It pays to think and work. Neither by itself will carry you far. ' You perhaps never heard of a rare sea eel. which lives in the ocean mud and has for a scientific title a name as long as the eel. Nevertheless, sci ence says you are closely related to him. You do know that you got your five fingers from the foot of a salamander that lived in the carboniferous era, I Ions of years ago. If that sala- nder had had six toes, you would e six fingers, including the thumb; o the duodecimal instead of the imal system, much better for thematics. And the violin would ve six strings. You owe even more to the little mud eel than you do to the salaman der. The brain of that little eel w-as the beginning of yours. It has five lobes, like yours, and a little cortex like the thick cortex on top of your brain. The five divisions of an eel brain are found only in the fully de veloped human brain, and they func tion as in man. Doctor Conel at Boston university. Is studying brains in 100 of these eels. To be related to the five-lobe-brain mud eel Is interesting. Russia has no death penalty for murder, but many death penalties for dishonesty and. treachery. A week ago six were sentenced to death in con nection with grain transactions, now ten more must die for the same of fense. and fifty-eight go to prison as “inveterate class enemies.” » At the same time Russia invites skilled workers from other countries to come and earn good w T ages. Workers will wonder that there isn’t in Russia anybody out of a job. American hotel keepers will learn from Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, that it is almost impossible to rent a hotel room in Russia. He was delighted to get a small room by special favor, with no carpet on the floor, paying eighteen American dollars a day. Some of our best financial minds, that once had only contempt for Rus sia, may soon be going over to find out how* they do it. NOTICE I will be out of my office every Thursday afternoon through May and June, beginning the afternoon of April 30th. C. K. EPTTNG. Professional Card W. K. CHARLES Attorney-At-Law office, Farmers Bank Building Days at McCormick TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS WANT ADVS. FOR SALE—One cow n and calf r $60.00; one work horse, $50.00. C* T. Freeland, Plum Branch, S. C. .tei: :*’• ;■ itpo. ; PEAS—15 Bushels Running Speck led Peas and 35 Bushels New Era Peas, 100 per, cent sound, sacked in 2 1-2 bushel bags, at $2.50 per bushel f. o. b. Modoc. C. A. Seigler, Modoc, S. C. FOR SALE;—One nice 3-gallon Milch Cow with fresh calf. Price right. W. C. Holley, Plum Branch,. S- C. tf. FOR SALE—Cabbage, Tomato and Bermuda Onion Plants, $1.00 per 1000. Pepper, Sweet Potato and Egg Plants $1.50 per 1000. Prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Co., Val dosta, Ga. CORN—White or yellow, dry and sound, shelled or in ear, at $1.00 per bushel. White or yellow meal at $1.00 per bushel. T. A. Dowtin,. Rt. 2, Troy, S. C. FOR SALE—Coker No. 5 cotton seed. Ginned clean. Seventy- five cents per bushel. W. K. Charles or J. L. Strother, McCor mick, S. C. The automobile industry is inter ested in news that the New Haven railroad, during the last year, saved $90,000, using trucks instead of freight cars. In time railroads will use trucks to pick up freight at the factory, curry it to the tracks, then run on rails using steel wheels, at high speed, with no stops, instead of burning up rubber and brakes, then take to the road again and deliver at destination. No automobile truck could compete with a combination road and steel rail truck line. Louis J. Brown, president of the Kellogg company, says: “Necessity will force industry in general to a six hour working day and a higher wage scale.” His firm has adopted the plan. Tin “higher scale,” presumably, means v. higher rate per hour, not per six hour day. As machinery makes fewer men nec esgury, the work day and week must ha (Shorter; «r» -«•.» Kw Jjrnatxirmm JSmmi'*--*— - — ' ii o n i i w j. oi Control Plant Liee Nicotine Sulphate CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 21.— Aphids or plant lice are becoming: common and injurious on garden vegetables, ornamentals, and fruit trees, reports Alfred Lutken, exten sion entomologist and plant patho logist, who states that if control measures are applied in time, seri- ou^ damage by the prolific insect, cari be prevented. Nicotine sulphate (Black Leair 40) is the most satisfactory insec ticide for the control of plant lice and with the addition of fish oil soap or laundry soap very good re sults will be obtained. Soap can be. used safely except in spray con taining lime-sulphur. Black Leaf 40 should be used at the rate of one ounce to five gal lons of water with the addition of three ounces of soap. To make one gallon of spray use one and one-fourth teaspoonfuls Black Leaf 40 and about an inch cube of soap.. Six teaspoonfuls will equal one fluid ounce. The spray should be applied ta hit the insects on the under sides of the leaves. Nicotine sulphate applied in dust form also gives satisfactory results, and in some instances is preferred to spray, according to Mr. Lutken. A two per cent nicotine dust will control plant lice in the garden. A 2.5 to three per cent nicotine dust should be used for the cotton plant louse. The commercially prepared dust can be obtained from most insecticide dealers. Directions for preparing the dust at home may be obtained from the Entomology Division. txt To make mint sauce for roast lamb, mix half a cup of water, half a cup of vinegar, one and a half tablespoons sugar, and one-half teaspoon salt, and heat to the boiling point. Remove from the fire, add two tablespoons chopped mint leaves, and allow the sauce to stand three or four hours, before serving. x Curtains of unbleached muslin are practical for the bathroom as they do not look limp or sleazy when dampened by steamy air. Al so they may be laundered fre quently. Brighten them up'wibh a border or applique of colored checked gingham, cretonne, or plain chambray.