McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 02, 1931, Image 4
TjKursday, July 2, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMRER FOUR
..vwiiMiCK MESSENGi
Published Every Thursday
Established June' 5, 1902
EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
Entered at,the Post Office at Mc
Cormick, ‘S. as mail matter of
the second class.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
■r— Strictly Cash In Advance
One Year - $1.00
Six v Months .75
Three Months .50
RURAL READING INCREASES *
The faun family of a genera
te .n ago whose reading matter con-
u^sted cf a Bible, a McGuffey’s
reader, an almanac, and perhaps a
newspaper, * is only a quaint, al
most primitive, memory today. The
movement for the establishment of
public libraries has spread out of
the cities and into rural America
until hardly a village exists that
can not provide a well selected col
lection of books of fiction and gen
eral interest.
Library commissions of 38 tftates
now stan<} ready to contribute
money to the book funds for these
libraries which serve niral areas,
and to assign expert advisers to as
sist in establishing reading rooms
and lending systems.
But, even‘more than the library
commissions or the individual ef-
“ forts of various philanthropists, it
is the farm women themselves, who
are b e &mnihg to realize the power f
of organized effort, who are bring
ing books into rural homes.
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
(The Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Senator Pat Harrison, of Missis
sippi, an enthusiastic supporter of
President Hoover’s war debt propo
sal, concluded a radio address the
other evening with this declara
tion, which is generally recognized
as correct as to results even now
apparent:
“It may. be that an acquiescence
in t??.e President’s plan may not
bring this return in increasec
values to our owm people. It may
not reflect a better attitude in re
vitalized confidence among the
peoples cf the world, but one thing
is sure, and that is that when the
news of the President’s plan was
first flashed to the world, the
wheat farmers of America were
helped within less than 24 hou^c
more than $30,000,000 in an ad
vanced price for wheat; the cotton
farmers of the South more than
$50,000,000 in an immediate in
crease in the price of cotton, and
the holders of, property in the
United States enriched more than
$1,000,000,000 in the rise in values
cf their holdings.”
More than that, gold reserve-
and foreign exchange reserves im
mediately ceased to be withdrawn!
from the Reichbank, and its con
dition immediately improved. The
banking situation throughout Ger
many and Austria became settled,
and an air of confidence prevailed
over Central Europe. /
Every nerve in our economic
structure felt the touch and im
mediately every market from Bag
dad to New York City reflected ihs
rise in values. If the mere sug
gestion by the President was as
helpful, ivhy not expect more and
greater increases from the success
cf the plan?
The world today is a sick patient.
All of us, irrespective of party af
filiation, can at least give our
blessing and wish success to the
physician who is attending " and
writing the prescription.
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Card Of Thanks
This Week
h Arthur Brisbane
Making the World Small
A Wasted Life
If We Had Mussolini
Getting and Keeping
The airplane and courage are mak
ing the world smaller than it used to
be. Post and Catty, 35 hours after
they started from New York to fly
around the world, were telling on the
radio from Berlin about their cross
ing. They are “doers of the word,”
not talkers, and said little.
The Post-Catty airplane is the thir
teenth to cross the Atlantic since the
beginning of the world.
Those, not young, will live to see
thirteen hundred airplanes cross the
ocean every day. in one day, and
attracting no attention.
Write that prediction on your cuff.
Recently the body of a very young
woman was found washed up by the
surf near New York. Photographs
show that she was most beautiful as a
child and a marvelously beautiful girl
at eighteen. The waves washed up a
young woman, barely twenty-five,
ruined by alcohol, drugs and the life
to which they lead.
Murder had been suspected, hut let
ters written to a man show that it
was suicide. One public official says
the letters were forged to shield a
murderer, but no murderer could have
written the notes; the letters are too
genuine.
The unhappy girl writes that she
made “a sordid, futureless mess” of
her life on ee-rth. and did not ‘‘want to
ruin anybody else’s life.”
She goes out of this world hoping
and believing that there is no life he
yond. “If there is an after life it
would be a dirty trick, but I am sure
50,000,000 priests are wrong. Nothing
makes any difference now.”
When
FOOD SOURS
A BOUT two hours after eating,*many
people suffer from sour stomachs.
They call it indigestion. It means that
the stomach nerves have been over-
itimulated. There is excess acid. The
way to correct it is with an alkali, which
neutralizes many times its volume in
acid.
The right way is Phillips Milk of
Magnesia—just a tasteless dose in w ater.
It is pleasant, efficient and harmless.
It is the quick method. Results come
almost instantly. It is the approved
method. You will never use another
when you know.
Be sure to get the genuine Phillips
Milk of Magnesia, the kind physicians
prescribe to correct excess acids. 25c
and 50c a bottle—any drugstore.
“Milkpf Magnesia" has been the U. S.
Registered Trade Mark of The Charles
H. PhillipSk Chemical Company and its
predecessor Charles H. Phillips since
1875
“It is no one’s fault but my own
I hate everything so—life is r.o hor
rible. I take dope to forget, ami drink
to try and like people, but it is of
no use.”
“No fault hut ray own,” r;he wrote.
But it is also the fault of a system
that permits selling dope and bottleg
whisky to young girls. And I here are
men. surviving this girl, who know
that it is their fault.
Powerful man is Mussolini, lie de
cided in 102(5 to wipe out the •‘Mafia.”
an organization of blackmailers,
dreaded and obeyed in Sicily until
Mussolini came. Proceedings in that
care er ’ d two days ago, when 121
members of the Mafia, placed in hn
iron cage In the court, werR con
demned. 15 Imprisoned for life, 10T!
others to 1.200 years’ imprisonment.
They were desperate men, cursed tin*
jury and the judge, and one pulled
off his hoofs and threw them through
the bars of the cage at the jurymen.
But Mussolini is able to deal with
then.
.’lore than 200 others of the Mafia
had previously been sent to -prison,
many of them for life. and ( the “Ma
fia” is dead.
A Mursolini, if we had one. could
sociT settle our gangster problem.
Mr. Mason, an editor, wants the
host story about “How I Cot My Job,”
only graduates of 1021 classes to
answer.
Cetf.ing a job is only moderately im
portant. Keeping a Job and achiev
ing succors where you start is the
big thing.
WHEN BABIES
gm mm mm THERE are times when
f Jr gT a baby is too fretful or
feverish to be sur-j to
sleep. There are some pains a mother
cannot pat away. But there’s quick
comfort in Castoria!
For diarrhea, and oMier infantile ills,
gjve this pure vegetable preparation.
Whenever coated Morgues tell of consti
pation; whenever there’s any sign of
sluggishness. Castoria has a good taste;
children love to taVe it. Buy the gen
uine—with Chas. H. Fletcher’s signature
on wrapper.
Ford Sees Farm And
Factory As Combine
DETROIT, Juno 27.—Henry Ford
visions the nation of the future—
the perfect industrial state—as a
nation made up of factories sur
rounded ay farms ab^e to sustain
.hem.
The farm comm unities wiT sup
ply the factories with carrots,
cantaloupes, corn, wheat and cth-
jr agacuituiai products, i.om
which automobiles, building :.na-
cerial, e’ethmg and hie necessi
ties of ife—with food and inci
dental products—will be turnca
out..
^.xeat industrial centers no
i^neter will be necessary Mr. Ford
theorizes, since the factories and
farms will be scattered over the
nation. Work will be brought to
remote sections with modem trans
portation the intermediary.
Farmers in the perfect indus
trial state, as visioned by Mr.
Ford, will be able to produce more
in less time through highly im
proved methods. At proper seasons
they may be shifted to the factories
to aid in production there, or the
factory labor may go to the farms
during the reaping season.
Turning with renewed vigor to
the theory which he has main
tained^ for years—that agriculture
and industry must interlock, Hen
ry Ford today is enlarging an ex
periment farm near here until at
present it extends over :.nore than
3,000 acres. On this farm engi
neers, Scientists, soil experts and
chemists will# work on a lavish
scale, attempting to prove Mr.
Ford’s contention that agricultur
al products may be turned intc
something other than food.
“We mostly eat farm products
low.” says Mr. Ford. “Suppos -
we leam to ride in them, build
with them, pave with them. T
'J tfiere no other use for Brazil’s cof
fee surplus but to drink it, or
way to dispose of America’s wheat
surplus but to eat it? That is wha.
we want to find out.”
Mr. Ford emphasizes that his
conjectures are speculative, that
his engineers and chemists as yet
have found only a few industrial
uses for agricultural products—but
he is insistent in the theory that
industry and agriculture must join
hands for their future success.
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KEEPING UP WAGES
CAS T.O R I A
Doctor Kipfor. who went ten miles
i?p into the stratosphere with Pro
fessor Piccard, says fighting in the
future will be done twenty miles up
in t.h#» r.Ir. far beyond the sight of
those on earth, making anti-aircraft
weapons useless. He also suggests
that a fiight to the moon will soon he
possible. Millions will laugh at this,
ns they would have laughed twenty-
five years ago at the suggestion that
men would some day fly the Allantic
and Pacific.
Two Can Live On
35 (ients A Day,
Says Dr. Jaffa
We wj*sh to extend our thanks to
our friends and neighbors for the
many acts of kindness shown us
during the long illness and at the
death of our dear husband and
father, Mr. J. H. Banks. May God’s
richest blessings be bestowed upon
each cf you.
Mrs. 7. H. Banks and Family.
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Card Of Thanks
“Pr.i money In thy purse,*” was good
advice. Money is frozen labor, that
can he released and used as you
choose. Money is power; money, to
a large extent, is government. Money
says “Come.” and they come; “Go,”
and they go.
A new record, made in England, will
interest tailors especially and manu
facturers generally. John Crowther
& Sons of London took the wool from
twelve Southdown sheep, made it into
cloth and made the cloth Into a suit
of clothes; all in 2 hours 0 minutes 40
seconds. That is a world record.
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, brilliant
young president of the University of
Chicago, says “more education” must
supply the way out of our troubles.
“Our own follies and incompetence”
have produced present conditions, and
“if education is supposed to train
intelligence, we must concede that
education has signally failed so far.”
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the many relatives,
f lends/ and acquaintances of ours,
v ho have been ro rympathetic and
k'nd +o ns in our sad bereavement,
m. Hodoway and Family. •
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Crcasfweitf puzzles increase >our
vocabu&ry : of cross words.
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Japan intimates that It will let
Lindbergh fly over Japanese territory,
-with permission to land. Eventually,
for the air-ocean, there will be a
five or ten mile “limit” above the
earth. Over that limit, the air will
be free to everybody.
That an Individual or nation can
own the air 540 nillea up to the top
of the air-ocean la aa preposterous as
the oth«£ odtfon that a man can own
the earth down to tfeo oeoUr. •
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—
Good news for the little brid? ,vh r
worries about the financial futu.T
If she is careful, she can f?e'
her husband and herself cn his in
come.
This news comes from Dr. M.
Jaffa, president emeritus at the
' University of California, who an
nounced after a comprehensive
survey of prevailing food prices,
tha^t a man can be fed three meals
a day for thirty-five cents.
I A budget which proves his con
tention was revealed by him.
Here is his budget in food and
cost in cents:
Breakfast: Coffee, .009; milk
.01; sugar .003; mush or an egg,
.02; bread, 008; butter, .01; fruit,
.01; total. 07.
Lunch: Sugar, .005; salad, 01;
macaroni and cheese, .25; milk,
.01; bread, 01; fruit. 01; butter, .01;
total, 08.
Dinner: Meat or fish, .81; milk,
.01; vegetable, .04; coffee, .009;
bread .03.
This gives three meals a day for
33 cents, but Dr. Jaffa suggests
that sundries such as oils, spices,
etc., would cost another two cents,
bring the total to 35 cents.
, However, he says no persons
should be held down to a minimum
when the appetite and apparent
body-needs seem to cah for more.
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Some men are bom great, some
achieve gpeatnws and others have
it thrust upon them, but most of
Uhem Just imaging they are great.
(The Spartanburg Herald.)
The temptation to use the de
pression as an excuse for lowering
wage scales for unskilled labor has
appeared in all parts of the coun
try, of course, but it should be said
to the credit of contractors of the
higher type engaged in public
works, their influence has been ex-
?rted against such a policy. High
way departments throughout th
country have sought to estaolis :
scales or to maintain them at lev
els standard for the localities in
volved and have been successfu
in the main. The commissioner c
labor for the state of Oklahom
presents the views of his depart
ment in dealing with the labo
scale discussion saying:
“Emergency relief funds appro
priated for use in the variou;
states for road building, construc
tion of other public works and ag
ricultural projects were mad:
available for “relief” and not t:
pay unusual or large profits to the
contractors.
Instead of this idea, however,
some highway contractors in Okla
homa and perhaps in other states,
are psing the excuse of depression
to lower wages of unskilled road
workers and other construction la
borers almost beyond the level of
existence.
Emergency money for the pub
lic good means a living -wage for
!the workers. Each worker who
benefits from expenditure of these
public funds with a living wage is
a better citizen than he would be
if wages v/ere lowered so much he
could hardly provide for himself,
much less provided also for a fam
ily.
Some of these highway contrac
tors declare payment of higher
wages or rather the maintenance
of usual wages will increase the
costs of highway construction and
therefore raise taxes or provide the
public with fe .ver miles of new
highway.
Strictly speaking, this will be
true, but if the public funds appro
priated for public works are not
used to provide labor with living
wages, other public stands to bene
fit by paying the living wage, with
a better standard of citizenship by
the laborer.”
In South Carolina. wage scales
THE BEST PLACE IN DIXIE IS CAROLINA—THE BEST
PLACE TO TRADE IN CAROLINA IS DIXIE STORES
31
Stores
10 Markets
31
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10 Markets
WE GIVE YOU BELOW A LIST OF OUR SPECIALS FOR
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
SUGAR. 10 lb. sack j 5 0c
SYRUP. Flint River, Gal. 5 0c
LEMONS, Large and Juicy, Doz. _ _____ __ 20c
TOMATOES Fancy Ripe, 2 lbs ' 15c
CANTALOUPES, S. C. Grown, 2 for ___ _ 15 r.
IRISH POTATOES, S. C. No. I’s Vj lbs v '~ 19 c
TERTO Hot He
25c
BROOKFIELD BUTTER, Pound 27c
TEA. Orange Peko-Bulk, lb. 50c
PINEAPPLE, Del Monte No. 2 can, sliced or crushed 19c
SUGAR CURED HAMS, Whole or Halves, lb. 25c
POTTED MEATS, 6 cans 25c
BORDEN’S MILK. 6 cans baby 23c
BORDEN’S MILK, 3 cans tall 23c
TEA, Liptons, 3 10c packages 25c
PEAS, Chestnut Hill, No. 2 can ICc
RICE, Fancy Blue Rose, lb. 5c
PURE PORK SAUSAGE, Armours, lb. 20c
MINCED LUNCHEON MEATS, pound 22c
BOILED HAM, sliced, poun^ 38c
BOLOGNA SAUSAGE, pound 15c
BREAKFAST BACON, Dixie Special, pound 29c
PICKLES, 25 oz. a 21c
PEACHES, Del Monte, No. 1 can * 11c
GRAPE JUICE, (Welch) q^art AL- 45c
WATERMELONS —1 30c and 35c
No. 16 DIXIE STORES No. 16
MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C.
STEEL WELDING BY EXPERTS
is what we promise you
if you place your weld
ing orders with this
firm. Long experience,
high technical, skill, and
complete mechanical
equipment enable us to
handle any welding job
successfully and at least
cost to VO”.
SLIGH’S WELDING WORKS
Near Court House Greenwood, S. C.
3S3
When you need a prescription filled bring it to
Pip! vin*s Drug Store you get it done accurately,
promptly and at moderate price?, day or night, and
from the purest of drug?. We are making a specialty
of filling prescriptions, and shall appreciate your
paironage.
We also have a full line of articles to be found in
a first class drug store and first class fountain service.
Let us serve you. Phone No. 42.
PIPKIN’S DKUG STORE
“WE SAVE YOU MONEY”
W. S. PIPKIN, Druggist
Main Street McCormick. S. C.
have been maintained and only re
cently the state highway depart
ment reaffirmed existing wage
scales for those employed on road
maintenance throughout the state.
Funds expended for maintenance
go directly to South Carolinians
living alcng the highways cf the
state, and into the local channels
of business and trade. The de
partment looks upon the personnel
maintenance force as an important
factor, entitled to a living wage
and seeks to stimulate loyalty to
the task by recognition of service
rendered.
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Cook-Tedards
r'arlile Courtenay home in Colum
bia.
Mrs. Tedards is a graduate of
Columbia high school and the Uni
versity of South Carolina. For the
past several years she has taught
In the McCormick school.
M“. Tec’ards Is a native of Green-
woed, but at the present has his
headquarters in Augusta, Ga. Af
ter a wedding trip to Washington
the young couple will be at home
at 909 Fifteenth street, Augusta.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. R. F. Morris, presiding
elder of the Columbia district. The
bride wore a three-piece suit
navy blue flat crepe with a white
blouse and accessories of blue and
white.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. M. Cook an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Margaret, to George
Freeman Tedards. at 10:30 §. m
Tuesday at the home of the bride’s
parents cn ;he campus of Uie
Can your vegetables and fruits
as soon after gathering as possible.
One hour from gafden to can is the