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TKursday, May 21, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR iiICK MESSENGER i 1 Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C. f as mail matter of the second class. Subscription rates: — Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 1 ' 1 "" 1 ■ 1 r 1 ~ ~ J v " GRADE CROSSINGS A large majority of crossing ac cidents occur in daylight, in open country where there is no obstruc tion to the view, nothing to pre vent the automobile driver from • seeing the approaching train, and at crossings with which the driver is entirely familiar, usually in the locality in which he resides. During the past year more than ene-fifth of the crossing accidents resulted from the drivers running into the sides of trains. A sub stantial proportion of these acci dents are due to the drivers run ning through lowered crossing gates, either in front or into the sides of trains. Not infrequently, acQordig to a compilation of acci dent data, crossing flagmen ’in the center of the highway to protect the motorist, are run down by au tomobiles and killed.' j These things happen in spite of the constant efforts of railroads and other interested agencies to persuade automobile drivers to be more cautious. *> . • j England has partially solved this serious problem by elevating ! eighty per cent of her railroad' crossings. In this country only j eight per cent are elevated, and there are those who believe thao j the railroads should be forced to a 1 program of grade crossing eleva- ti.iii in order to reduce the heavy cieath«toll from this cause. In the end. we may have to come ! to this solution. Safety campaigns' have failed to effect any sizeable | reducticn in the deaths at grade crossings. People continue to ap proach crossings thoughtlessly and I carelessly. txt — “More Jobs” Seen As Cure For Depression NASHVILLE, Term., May 15.— M More jobs” is the prescription of Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secre tary of commerce, to cure the busi ness depression. Further, he told the NoshvF'c chamber of commerce at its an nual meeting, the ^more :obs” rem- • cdy is the only one that will bring about business recovery. “We have got to sustain ana strengthen the buying power of our wage earners.” h? said. Dr. Klein listed a, “dec* * of the depression” that he said was an outgrowth of “several salutary lessons business has learned dur ing its oeriod of trial.” The deca logue, in brief follows: \ Don’t blame the depression for everything which has marred the economic scene since 1929. 2. Don't compare peaks with slumps. Both are abnormalities. 3. Don’t fall into the fallacy so common among European indus trialists cf expecting ’ the wage earner to fcear~ the brunt of read- j ustment. 4. Don’t cut loose from associate activities in business—collaborate in chambers of commerce and trade associations. 5. Don’t ignore the amazing po wer of the new technology. 6. Don’t cut smarketing research. 7. Don’t overlook the stabilizing value of foreign markets. 8. Don’t fall again into the pe rils of mass mania—quantity op erations whether in output of dis tribution are by no means invari able assurance of quantity profits. 9. Don’t overlook the perils of obsolete eouipment. 10. Don’t be stampeded by un founded rumors. 1XI Big Profits In Corn If Crop Is Well Fed' Corn is the “Orphan Annie” on southern farms. Too frequently it is left to shift for itself. As a result yields are low, and many farmers have to buy corn at the market price to feed their own livestock. \ Records show that local farmers can make corn one of their best paying crops through the use of fertilizer. The crop is a heavy nitrogen feeder. The most sue- 1 cessful method for applying nitro gen is by side dressing with Chilean Nitrate of soda when the plants are knee-high. The usual application is 100 to 200 pounds per acre. | A summary of more than 1100 corn demonstrations conducted in; the South shows that a side-! dressing of 200 pounds Chilean ni- ! trate increased the vield bv 17.3 bushels and net profits by $12.31 1 an acre. Returns of this kind en- . '’♦hie farmers to follow the “Live at I Home” program which agricultural’ leaders believe to be the basis of' real farm prosperity in the South. 1 This Week h AithUr Brisbane Belasco Gone Strange Sights in Spain A Wall Street Story Too Much Greek, Latin David Belasco, one of the ablest, most brilliant theatrical managers and producers, is dead. He had been an important factor through all the im portant history of the stage in Amer ica. From negro minstrels and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” up to the modern play in which the “heroine” is a street drab, he had seen them all. He leaves no successor in his field of work. He would not permit, him self to “fall behind the procession,” but he belonged to another age. , Prize Winners In Plum Branch Club Cigarette Contest Had Good Meeting MILKMAN GETS FIRST PRIZE OF $25,000.00 In Spain, strange sights are seen. Bands of workmen going through the cities cheering before blazing churches, groups of tourists following them. Firemen make no effort to save any church building set on fire, contenting themselves with playing streams of water on adjoining buildings to pre vent flames spreading. Spain has seized cash and lands be longing to Alfonso, the former king, and wants to get hold of him if pos sible to try him on charges of incit ing mob violence. Wall Street’s uncertainty is illustrat ed in this story from that financial canyon. An energetic broker w T as urging his client before the “five cent's profit in three months” report came out, “Buy Steel. I tell you I know what they are doing. You can’t help making money.” The client replied: “Steel is good, hut I don’t like it just now. I ,\vould rather sell it short.” Instantly the broker replied. “Oser nicht eine srhlecte idee,” meaning “Not a bad idea either.” in spite of. the double negative, the “oser nicht” statement was sound. Yale decides that Greek and Latin are not necessary. Students are per mitted to substitute classes in civiliza tion courses for dead languages, a sound decision. Time devoted to Greek and Latin grammar is time wasted. One student in a hundred thousand knows Greek well enough to read with appreciation the great Greek trage dies. In. the whole United States there are probably not ten men that know Greek thoroughly. And they don’t really know it, or how It was pro nounced or accentuated. livery student should know a cer tain nur ’-'*r of Greek an.d Latin words and their meaning. Some teacher «5f Knglijrth should prepare a list of a few hundred Greek and Latin words which every boy that gets out of col lage should know—for instance, that anthrojms means “man,” that logos means “the discourse” or “the word.” Ilveryhody should he taught the part that Greek ami Latin play in our lan- gung", the derivations of phonograph, teleehom*. microphone, etc. All that is needed of Greek or Latin could be learned by an intelligent boy in one week. While many discuss birth control pro and <•; n, (’hicago wisely undertakes to encourage births, sound babies and safe mothers. The total hospital cost of a new baby under the Chicago installment plan at the Presbyterian hospital will be $ r». installment plan babies will be well taken care of. The total charge of $4,0 will include ten days in the hos pital and monthly “prenatal” visits to the clinic. Other cities might imitate that. Captain Hawks continues, by deeds, not words, as the late Theodore Uoose- velt would say. to prove that he is the best fiver in the world. He amazed Murope by breaking the record from Lcndon to Rome, splitting it in two, then breaking the record from Rome to Paris. A few days ago he broke all records between London and Ber lin. and then broke the record from Berlin to Hamburg. The prince of Wales says Americans are the best advertisers. Captain Hawks is an excellent adver tiser cf the fact that this country can produce real fiyers. And real flyers will settle the next big war. Youngstown steel mill£ have in creased their pay rolls substantially. The federal reserve board reports a sharp increase in department store sales for April over March and Feb ruary. Sales in department stores in dicate the prosperity of the public. Department store sales show a gain for April of 9 per cent over March, in spite of the fact, because of the early Easter, most of the Easter buying came in March. Small straw’s are welcome when they blow toward prosperity. While Spain is torn, as Mexico was recently, by religious strife and hatred, the authorities of Prussia have signed a “concordat” or treaty with the for mer state Lutheran church similar to that signed in 1929 wdth the Catholic church. The Lutherans are content with the new arrangement, and religious dis content, .open or secret, will cease. A nation is fortunate that can prog ress free from religious difficulties. And the foundation of such freedom is absolute separation of church and state, in all their functions. '*•*1 h* Kin? Future* *— * — ---- — ■ - WINSTON-SALEM, N., C.,? May 18.—James Thomas Sharkey, 32, a milkman in Boston, was awarded the $25,000 first prize in the $50,- 000 nation-wide contest for the best letter setting forth the ad vantages to smokers of the new moisture-proof cellophane wrap per on Camel cigarette packages, officials of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the contest judges announced last Thursday. Sharkey lives at 101 Train Street, Dorchest er, Mass., suburb of Boston. Mrs. Walter Sweet, mother of three children and wife of a Marine Corps captain now stationed at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard, won the second prize of $10,000. Third prize of $5,000 went to Julius M. Nolte, real estate dealer of Duluth, Minn., and former sec retary of the Duluth Commercial Club. In all thirty-eight prizes were awarded, of which five were for $1,000 each, five were for $500 each, and twenty-five were for $100 each. Judges of the contest were Roy Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard League of newspapers; Charles Dana Gibson, famous artist and publisher of Life Magazine, and Ray Long, President of the Ihternational Magazine Company and editor of Cosmopoli tan. The five prizes of $1,000 each were awarded to the following: Albert'B. Franklin, 3rd, 22-year- old graduate student at Harvard, who lives at 52 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass. John R. McCarthy, 38, blind to bacco store proprietor of 721 Main Street. Wnlimantic, Conn. Frederick E. Robinson, Laitin- American mining engineer residing in Coronado Beach, Calif! William A. Schrader, aerial photographer at Qurtis-Wright Air port, Louisville, Ky., who lives in the Brent Apartments in New Al bany, Ind. Dr. D. H. Soper of 523 E. Brown Street, Iowa City, la., an instruc tor in dentistry at the University of Iowa. The five prizes of $500 each were awarded to the following: Frank Cartwright, engineer of 702 Transportation Building, Wash ington, D. C., who lives in Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Edith Paddleford Cochrane, Glenvale Avenue, Darien, Conn., housewife, mother and author. Miss Barbara Lawless, 21-year- old stenographer of 311 East Lan caster Avenue, Ardmore, Pa., who lives at home. * Mrs. Jane Parsons of 325 East 79th Street, New York City, a for mer actress, now married and the mothpr of two children. Richard W. Vogt, Green Bay Road. Waukeegan, 111., Swiss nurse ryman, who has been in the United States only six months. Twenty-five prizes of $100 each were awarded to the following: Miss Marie Alberts, 6252 S. Spaulding Avenue, Chicago, 111., who lives at herna. W. B. Barker, Jr., 420 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, N. C., em ployed by an insurance company. Eugene Barton, 3625 LaLuz St., El Paso. Tex., railroad timekeeper. Mrs. Edward F. Daly, 1133 Louis ville Street. St. Louis, Mo., house wife. Miss Kathryn R. Francis, who lives with her mother at 148 East 22nd St**eet, Baltimore. Md. William G. Erbacher, 308 N. Front Street, Conway, Ark., meat and cattle dealer. Lercy Fairmah, 69 Dartmouth Street. Forest Hill, N. Y., advertis ing :nan. Mrs. Alexis Godillot, 191 Waverly Place. New York City, housewife. C. W. Grange, 2316 Central St., Evanston, 111., magazine space seller ^ C. S. Graybill cf PaxtonvRle. Pa.. a fa m?r wh^ works as a foundry foreman d*-tring the winter. John I. Griffin. 1203 Jackson St. Puerto. Cclm. employed by a fuel and r’^n company. David C. I-till, Peyton and Ar- : ng^on Pood'. Yo: k, Fa., hard- cr -Hf- manager. ~ t; -~ —Jamord. Porter Apartments, Lansing, Mich., secre tary of Stae Board of Health. J. W. Keating, 523 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, salesman for an arms and ammunition Com pany. J. H. Kennedy, 2627 W. State Street. Milwaukee, Wis., electrical appliance service man. John Kilpelainen, R. F. D., West Paris, Maine, Finnish lumberjack. Dr. Clinton B. Leech, 211 Angell Street, Providence, R. I., heart cnppifi lict- P Edward Martin, 121 Liddell St., Buffalo, N. Y., draw bench opera tor. Mrs. L. C. Millard, 609 Stockley Gardens, Norfolk, Va., grand daughter of former Governor Kemper of Virginia, and promin ent socially. Eugene Sartini, 745 Chapel Street, Ottawa, 111., chauffeur. Gregory Luce Stone, 755 Texas Street, Mobile, Ala., welder. C. L. Thomas, Mount Airy, N. C., dentist. Lee R. Womack, 448 Tenney Ave nue, Amherst, Ohio, locomotive fireman. J. Arthur Wood. 21 Burke Street, Mechanicville, N. Y., locomotive fireman. Emery Herbert Young, 266 Fair- view Avenue, Painted Post, N. Y., < glass worker in Corning, N. Y. A total of 952,228 answers were received in the contest, which was announced in an eight-day news paper advertising campaign in which 1713 dailies, 2139 weeklies and 426 college and financial newspapers were used'. The only other announcement of the conr test was bn the Camel Pleasure The H. D. Club held its Mav meeting in the home of Mrs. R. M. Winn on Wednesday afternoon, May 6, with Mrs. J. L. Wells as as sistant hostess. A round table discussion on, screening unsightly places around; the home was held, which was i helpful to each member. Plans for a flower show were I discussed and we hope to hold one later in the season. After the business session, games were enjoyed, after which a sweet course was served by the hostesses. txi Veterinarian Coming Here On May 26 County Agent, E. L. Rogers an nounces that there will be a State Veterinarian here Friday the 26th, to vaccinate dogs against Rabies. A charge of 50 cents per head will be made. All dog owners who wish to have this work done should carry their dogs to the county agent’s office between 10 a. m., and 3. p. m. Come to us FOR i WltiAN .NITAAm aimi Chilean Nitrate of Soda M. G. & J. J. DORN (Incorporated) OFF TO LAKE MURRAY Rev. Leon T. Pressly, Dr. C. K. Epting and Messrs. H. M. Schum- r»ert. J. S. Strain, M. L. CMbert and E. B. Brown left early this morn ing to spend todav fishing in Lake Murray near Saluda. . NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF CAROLINA-GFORGIA SERVICE COMPANY STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Anderson, In Court of Common Pleas. CLARENCE A. SOUTHERLAND. RALPH J. RITCHIE AND WILL- ITS H. SAWYER, AS REOEivERo OF ATLANTIC PUBLIC SER VICE ASSOCIATES, INC., Plain tiffs, against CAROLINA - GEORGIA SERVICE COMPANY, A CORPORATION, Defendant. Notice is hereby given that pur suant to the Order of court in tho above cause, granted on the 12 th day of May, 1931, all creditors of the defendant, Carolina-Georgia Service Company, are notified, di rected and required to prove their claims against said Carolina-Ge^’*- gia Service Company before the undersigned, as Special Referee, ar, his office at Anderson, S. C., on or before July 15, 1931, and notice is further given that by the terms of said Order any and all creditors failing to so prove their claims as therein required and as herein above directed shall be barred from participating in the funds derived from the administration and dis position of the assets of the de fendant as administered by said court. H. E. BAILEY, Judge of Probate for Anderson County, South Carolina, as Special Referee. Mpv 12th. 1931.—2t. No Magic Necessary To Make Cotton Pay Dealers McCORMICK, S. C. It docs not take magic to make cotton pay a profit at the present low price. An analysis of the cot ton situation issued recently by the Georgia State College of Agricul- c^,vrr, s that the size of the yield will largely determine wheth- c” or not a farmer makes a profit this year. According to the report, the __ , _ . . ^asi°et way to increase the yield is Hour broadcasting network and ^y the use of fertilizer. Where consisted merely of an invitation a <ior. ua te fertilizer was used the to read the contest details m the yi e id was increased on the average newspapers. by one-third of a bale per acre. Sharkey, the winner of the first Figuring seed cotton at 4 cents per prize of $25,000, is mamed, and is po 6 un d 3 (whic h brin-s lint to 9 a milk route foreman at the South Writs') but valuing the fertilizer Boston Plant cf H. .. Hood & at to ^ 10 a ton above present Sons, JJuUf distributors, and p r i ces> the increase in yield was hves at 101 Tram Street, Dorches- : wor th a clear profit that ranged ter, Mass. He wears overalls at ^ om $9 90 to $17 92 per acre his work, and is slender, of medium ^ re view shows that farmers height, and has deep-set blue eyes. can coun t on nearly $7 extra pro- i ^ P er by side-dressing with land, he c^me to the United States jqq to 150 pounds Chilean nitrate alone at the age of sixteen. Lan £- after chopping. It is shown that mg at Ellis Island m New York, he if farme rs reduce the “before- went at once to Boston, where he pi an ting” application this year it is did odd jobs. Eight years ago he a u the more important that they got a job with the Hood Company side-dress with quick-acting nitro- delivermg milk. He rose to the Ren ^ & rank of foreman and now has sev- «■' '■ eral milk routes under his’super vision. i Sharkey believes he is best fitt ed for a salesman. It was chis flair for selling, plus his own ex perience in getting his cigarettes wet while delivering milk that caused him to enter the Camel contest. He was quick to. note th5 advantages of the new cellophane wrapper on Camel cigarette pack ages, and his letter was bascrei on personal experiences in testing t!v wrapper both as to protection of the fresh tobacco flavor, and to the ability cf the new package to exclude rain, moisture and ge’ms Mrs. Sv/eet. winner of the $10,003 second prize, is the mother of thru'' boys, the oddest of whom is only ten. A graduate of Radcliffe Co 1 - lege in 1920. she has travelled with her Captain husband to Marl le Corps post in Santa Domingo, the Virginia Islands, and other out-of- the-way places. She experienced the hurricane in Porto Rico, and was in Dover. N. J.. at the time of the big explosion there. She is a sportswoman, and is tremendously interested in child psychology. In her travels about the vo v ld with her husband. Mrs. Sweet ob served how torrid and damp wdather in varying climates parch ed or mildewed cigarettes. Sh • pot?d *hat carton afte*’ carton cigarettes shipped to the Marines spoiled and had to be thrown away, and easily realized how the protecting moisture-proof cello phane wrapper on Camels would £ result in fresh smokes for service if men in distant lands. j & The third prize-winner. Mr. Nolte, who will receive $5,000. is a ■ real estate dealer, and instructor ~ in the English extension division of IMPORTANT CHANGE IN SCHED- the University of Minnesota. ULE C. & W. C. RAILWAY He lives with his wife m the! Duluth suburb of Glen Avon, and Effective, Sunday May 31, Train 1S f a ovf : e jj r ‘ lc * ua £f anc * a member j^o. 1 Daily, for Greenwood, Laur- °^, honorary enSj Spartanburg and Greenville scholastic fraternity. He is a typi- w ju leave McCormick at 7:25 a. m. cal outdoor man, and bud lover, ( m uauv. irom Spartan- hunter and fisherman. During the burg and Greenville for Augusta - war he was an aviator with the leave McCormick at 5:19 p. m. 1 ^m^^ao Army, and is a former ANDERSON BRANCH: No. 21! nf He 18 thc mixed except Sunday, leave Me- ! °k fam Coimick 7:JO a. m.; No. 5, Sunday Nolte based his contest letter on only, leave McCormick 8:00 a. m.; the many advantages offered to n 0 . 21 mixed, except Sunday, ar- the outdoor cigarette smoker by the ri ve McCormick 4:15 p. m.; No. 6, new moisture-proof cellophane mixed> Sunday only, arrive McCor- wrapper which protects Camel cig- mi^k A nn n rr» arettes in all kinds of weather and , 1^—„ —_____ keeps them fresh. Telegrams of notification were! sent to each of the prize winners last Thursday by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Winners of the I wish to take this method of three major prizes were invited by thanking all of my neighbors and the Company to come to Winston- oth°r f-iends and loved ones for Salem in the near future to receive their kindness shown me while I their checks at a formal presenta-- was, ill at my daughter’s, Mrs. W. tion. Checks were mailed within C. Jenn’ngs. May the Lord bless the next few days to the thirty-five each cne. other prize winners. 1 ' MRS. SARA PRICE. ON THE AIR TUNS IN on our radio program 31-picce, ill-string orchestra. Grantland Rice interviewing world celebrities, • Every Wednesday Night O WSB ATLANTA, GA. GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Greenwood, S. C. :t had to be good TO GET WHERE IT IS GREENWOOD, S. C. THUF^DAV FRIDAY May 21st-22nd Irene Dunne Bennv Rubin :‘n ‘LEATHER NECKING” SATURDAY, May 23rd Ken Maynard in “MOUNTAIN JUSTICE” 0 MONDAY aui TUESDAY May 25th-26th Constance Bennett Robert Montgomery Adolph Men J on Anita .'Page Marjorie Rambeau in “THE EASIEST IVAY” WEDNESDAY. Mav 27th Duster Keaton .: 'mnaM Denny Cliff Edwards .7 e:n /ood “PARLOR, FEDROOM AND BATH” THUP^DAV and FRIDAY May 28th-29th El Brendel Fifi Dorsay in “MR. LEMON OF ORANGE” FOR SALE—200 bushels yellow Com at $1.00 per bushel. 100 bushels Wannamaker Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed at 75 cents per bushel. W. C. Holley, Rt. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. STRAYED—One Collie dog, male; color, light cream, pointed ears, long sharp nose, large frame; an swers to the name of Jim. Last seen in McCormick Wednesday, May 13. Will appreciate any in formation as to his whereabouts. Finder please notify. , Kate Cres- well, McCormick, S. C., Rt. No. 4. GRAIN CUTTING—I have a trac tor-binder outfit and am in posi tion to cut oats and other grain for the public. J. L. Smith, Mc Cormick, S. C. FOR SALE—Fodder at $2.25 per 100 bundles; baled hay at. $20.00 per ten. B. I. Chiles, Rt. 2, McCor mick, 3. C. I FOR SALE—One Burrough’s Add ing Machine in perfect condit- irn. Mrs. W. II. Horton, Mt. Car mel, S. C. FOR SALE—500 bushels good sound ear Corn in shuck at $1.00 per bushel. Also several hundred bushels Coker 5 Cotton Seed. J. W. Bracknell & Son, Plum Branch, S. C. 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. Professional Card W. K. CHARLES Attorney-At-Law I office. Farmers Bank Building j I Days at McCormick TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS Card Of Thanks Street Taxes Coining Slowly City Clerk and Treasurer J. O. Patterson states that street taxes are being paid rather slowly, and he wants to urge those who have not- yet v paid to be sure to do so be fore June 1st, after which time ST cents oenalty will be added to all not paid.