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• TBUB TO OUBSELVXS. OUR NEIGHBORS. OUB COUNTRY AND OUB GOD. Thirtieth Year Established June 5, 1902 f McCORMICK, S. C. • Thursday, July 16, 1931 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 7 Modem Ginnery Being Installed By M,essrs. Dorn $20,000.00 BUILDING AND PLANT BEING ERECTED ON OLD GINNERY SITE Messrs. M. G. & J. J. Dorn, Inc., are having erected on the site of their old ginnery near the upper end of Main Street a one story brick building 50x60 feet to house one of the most modern ginneries in this section of the State, and at the rate the work :s being done the building should* be completed within two weeks and ready for the installation of the machinery. The building is to have capacity for eight gins, however, only :?our will be put in at present, the other four to be installed when the de mand warrants it. The gins and the press are all steel, and the press is of the down oacking type. They wene manufactured by The Lumus Gin Company of Americus, a., and are said to be the latest thing of their kind on the market today. The four gins have a cap acity of five bales per hour. Power to operate the plant will be furn ished from the engine room that furnishes the com mill and which supplied the old ginnery that was destroyed by fire late last year. The outfit will be ready for use when the season opens. The build ing and plant together will cost approximately $20,000.00. V The Marie Cromer Scholarship The McCormick County Council of Farm Women offers a Loan Fund-Scholarship to a McCormick County Girl of $75.00 per year, subject to following conditions: The loan to be repaid without in terest in four years ffom date of leaving college. After four years legal rate of interest will be charg ed. * First—Applicant must be a resi dent of McCormick County. Second—Must be able to enter Freshman Class, College of her choice. Third—Must submit affidavit that she is unable to obtain Col lege education without aid. Fourth—Must have been a mem ber in good standing of Junior Cpuncil of 4-H Clubs. Fifth—Must have a written rec ommendation from the last teach er of rural school, also from Prin cipal of High School ( if she has at tended High School since leaving rural school.) Sixth—Applicant must submit application in own hand writing. Application must be sent to Mrs. G. W. Cade, Willington, S. C.. County Chairman of Education, by August 1st. y Cigarette Tobacco Yield Doubled In U. S. Since 1921 World's Flyers Witbibci-Wives, Backer and WASHINCTON BY RADFORD. MOBLEY (Special to McCormick Messenger) 'Th‘ world’s latest heroes were caught the morning after they finisheo ci.cilr.g the glebe in eight and ^ third davs Left to right are Harold Gatty and his wife, and Mrs. Wiley Pcsi and her famous hua- band Xf too are shown Florence C. Hall, backer of the Bight, and the Winnie Mae. Boll Weevil Count Lower NO ASSURANCE OF RELIEF: EM ERGING YOUNG WEEVILS MAY INCREASE INFESTATION CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 14.— An average square infestation of 8.4 per cent is reported for the week ending July 11, ranging from 4.3 per cent in Florence and 5.2 per cent in Darlington to 12 per cent in Aiken, Greenwood, Union, and Orangeburg to 22.5 per cent in Bamberg. This average of 8.4 per cent is based upon a survey made by South Carolina Experiment Sta tion workers in ninety fields in nine counties and is comparable with 11.7 per cent one week ago. Farmers should not be misled by this drop in the average per cent of infested squares over the area, advises Director H. W. Barre of the Station, who says that this is an annual occurence due largely to the fact that cotton is fruiting more rapidly than weevil population in creases, and it is not to be looked upon as assurance of continued re lief from injury. In fact, he says, as the young weevils continue to emerge fbom the squares the infes tation will probably increase. X Short Course At Lander College 22 to 24 Rev. J. B. Branch Buried Near De la Howe State School IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES HELD FRIDAY AFTERNOON ATTEND ED BY LARGE CROWD July 4-H CLUB GIRLS OF COUNTY GETTING READY TO ATTEND Production of flue-cured tobacco in the United States more than doubled since 1921, according to government estimates. Flue-cured tobacco is used chiefly in the man ufacture of cigarettes and the gain in production of this type of to bacco is the result of the increas ing numbers of men and women who are reaching for cigarettes. The ever-growing popularity of the cigarette is attributed by authori ties iri the industry to the fact that people are paying more attention to their Adam’s apples and are using cigarettes from which certain harsh irritants present in all to baccos have been removed by mod em methods of manufacture such as the toasting process including the use of ultra violet rays. Ac-1 cording to government records, production of flue-cured tobacco last year amounted to more than 870,000,000 pounds as compared, with only 372,000,000 pounds in 1921. Production in 1930 set a new record for flue-cured tobacco, the next largest being about 750,000,000 ^pounds in 1929. J The time for the annual County Short Course for.4-H club girls has come again and everything is being nut in readiness for the occasion The short course will again be held at Lander College, Greenwood, on July 22, 23, 24. A good program consisting of lectures, recreation, music, hand work and moving pic tures is being arranged. Each lav there will be a girls club hour which will be conducted entirely by 4-H club girls, and one evening the girls hike to the power house where a picnic supper will be serv ed and an open air program put on. Mrs. Harriett Johnson, State leader of 4-H club work, and Miss Louise Flemming, home agent of Greenwood County, will assist with the short course. Members of the McCormick County Council of Farm Women will also assist with the activities of the camp. School buses will convey the girls to and from camp. This year each girl who goes on a bus will be ask ed to pay only 25 cents round trip to help defray the cost of gas and oil used. Buses will leave Parksville and Plum Branch at 8:00 o’clock and McCormick at 8:30 o’clock. Every girl who wishes to go on one of these buses must be at the ap pointed places on time. Each girl who attends the short course is expected to pay a fee of 50 cents to help take care of the expenses of the camp. This is in addition to the food which she brings with her. There are no appropriations for a short course in this county, so all expens es will be met in this way or through gifts to the short course. Prominent ministers and educa tors of South Carolina and resi dents of Abbeville County joined Friday afternoon in paying an im pressive last tribute to Rev. James Bennett Branch, whose work as head of the De la Hcwe State school near McCormick during the last twelve years had won a high place in southern educational achievements. The Rev. Mr. Branch, a noted minister as well as educator, and brother of Harllee Branch, of The Atlanta Journal staff, died late Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 49. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the chap el of the school, itself a monument to him as it was one of a number of buildings erected since he took over management of the school. The services were in charge of Dr. C. E. Sullivan, pastor of the Willington Presbyterian Church, assisted by Dr. W. H. K. Pendleton, of the Episcopal Church of the Ad vent, in Spartanburg, and Rev. C. T. Squires, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, of Greenville, both the latter rendering short tributes to Rev. Mr. Branch as a friend of many years standing. Educators Pallbearers Active pallbearers included six of the foremen at the school who had long records of service. The honorary pallbearers included members of the board of trustees of the school, among them J. M. Nickles, of Abbeville, chairman of the board; A. L. A. Perritt, of Lanier; M. A. Moseley of Cowpens; G. P. Browne, of Anderson; Dr. L. Ross Lynn, president of the Thorn- well Orphanage; Judge L. G. Bell, of McCormick; James Hemminger. Willington; Albert Gibert, Willing ton; Maurice White, McCormick; Dr. T. E. Simpson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of Dar lington; Charles C. Morgan, Mc Cormick; Wilson Harris, editor of the Clinton Chronicle, and G. W. Cade, Willington. Interment was in the cemetery of the school located on a knoll crowned by the tomb of Dr. John De la Howe, original donor of the estate that formed the basis of the school and founder of the institu tion. The interment in this location signalizes by the proximity of the two tombs the honor in which the two men are held—Dr. De la Howe, who died, about a century ago, as founder, and Rev. Branch, as the man who, taking over the institu tion as a small local school, made it one of the finest schools of its sort in the country. Saw S chool Grow It is pointed out that when he came to be head of the school Mr. Branch found it housed in one building with less than a score of students. As he leaves it, it con sists of a number of modern build ings with a student body of 200 and many departments, such as agricultural, technical, dairying, Milk Plant For Upstate Likely GREENVILLE, GREENWOOD, OR NEWBERRY SECTIONS FAVOR ED FOR BORDEN INDUSTRY COLUMBIA, July 11.—The Bor- den company will erect a large plant somewhere in South Caro lina at an early date to manufac ture powdered milk, Dr. William Weston ,Sr., director of the South Carolina Natural Resources com mission announced late today. Probability that the proposed Borden’s milk plant will be locat ed somewhere about Newberry, Greenwood or Greenville appears in data on the quality and supply of milk in South Carolina col lected by Dr. Weston, and from areas investigated by milk corpor ation representatives. Quantities of milk sufficiently large to justify the location of the dehydrating plant are found principally through the area bounded by the three cities, ac cording to a previous statement of Dr. Weston. Chemists who analyzed the con tent of milk produced in various sections of the state reported to the natural resources commission that milk in this area contained the highest general properties of nu trition including iodine. With this information available in their unheralded inspection trips, Chief Engineer H. D. Fell of the Borden company and others who visited the state in the inter est of milk plants concentrated their attention up-state. Final choice of site will rest largely with Engineer Fell, and the Borden board of trustees, Dr. West- qn indicated this afternoon. etc. The original plan was begun with the bequest of 2,000 acres by Dr. De la Howe, Huguenot philan- hropist, but for many years the school made little progress, tho it held the honor of being the first : nstitution of its kind in the coun try. When Mr. Branch was called to the chair of vice-president the state of South Carolina took it over and aided him in reviving it. Mr. Branch was 49 years of age, born in Polkton, N. C. He was a graduate of the Presbyterian Col lege of South Carolina, the Colum bia Theological Seminary and the graduate school of Princeton Uni versity. During his active ministry he served various charges in the Caro- linas and served for many years as president of the Thomwell Or phanage at Clinton. Mr. Branch was noted as a stu dent of languages, * particularly Hebrew, Arabic and Greek in which he specialized during his course at Princeton. During the World War he was a field secretary of the Am erican Red Cross, serving in many cantonments throughout the coun try. He lectured on several oc casions in Hebrew at the Colum bia Theological Seminary while that institution was in Columbia. Besides his brother, Mr. Branch is survived by his wife, Nora Pryse Branch; two daughters, Elizabeth and Olive Harllee Branch, and son, James B. Branch, Jr. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.— (Autocaster)—One fallacy that dates back to the founding of the Republic has been exploded—the idea that American diplomats are no match for European ‘states men. The world has been treated to the spectacle of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, a Pittsburgh banker and iron magnate, hand ling, cn more than even terms, the delicate negotiations involved in the debt holiday. Practically every other country but France was won over to the plan before Mellon left this coun try. F’rance alone proved obdur ate end entrenched itself behind its Chamber of Deputies, which Premier Laval asserted, had au thorized him to agree only within certain limitations. Mellon’s suc cess in threading his way past these defences has strengthened the Administration’s hold, political ly, as it is known that he was guid ed throughout by President Hoov er’s personal advice. The negotia tions have been conducted more skilfully, perhaps, than any deal made with a foreign, government since the days when Benjamin Franklin was Minister to the Court of France and enlisted its aid for the American colonies. Led by Vice-president Curtis and Senator Capper, the two lead ing politicians from the wheat belt, an attack is being made on the Federal Farm Board’s announced policy cf unloading its wheat at the rate of five million bushels a month, if found practicable with out breaking the p-rice. Many ob servers here see in their activity only a political gesture, designed to bring the two men more into •jhe limelight. These critics point out that the Farm Board is committed against any action that would result in materially lowering the price of wheat. It has the problem of sell ing its holdings at an average price of 92 cents and the present price is less than half that on the Chicago Board of Trade. The effect of an appeal to Mr. Hoover to stop the Beard from unloading its hold ings cannot amount to much, it is said here, as wheat will have to approximate $1 a bushel before the Government can start selling The F'arm Board’s selling cam paign is definitely hooked up with a plan to purchase fresh wheat tc the amount of its sales. All trans actions will be handled so as no" to depress the market price unless he world price should rise, and none will be made without consult ing representatives of the farmers It is generally conceded here tha* the Beard’s statement is an ultima tum to all wheat farmers, warning them the Government cannot aid them unless they reduce then wheat acreage. It is also taken a a warning to private grain trader: that the Board will not allow it self to be “smoked out” into a def inite announcement regardin' prices, which would permit trader to jockey the market for their owr selfish purposes. Tammany may be condemned fo’ a thousand sins but it never ha been accused of pussy-footing. Re publican politicians here are try ing to puzzle out whether Claude G Bowers, the keynote orator at the Democratic National Conven tion in 1928, has not again sounded the call to battle in his Fourth of July speech at the Tammany Wig wam in New York City. That his speech actually represented the best thought of his party is being considered here as more than like ly. It is tc be noted that Gov. Frank lin D. Roosevelt, now the most likely candidate against Mr. Hoov er, studiously refrained from at tending the rally. His action leaves him free to accept or reject or ac- Cream Station Sells To Elberton Creamery RECEIVING 3 TO 4 CENTS MORE FOR BUTTER FAT THAN FORMERLY The local cream station is now selling cream to the Elberton. Creamery at Elberton, Ga., and re ceiving 3 to 4 cents per pound but ter fat more than was realized from the former buyer. Cream Station patrons are paid cash as heretofore, as the creamery keeps a cash balance in our local Bank. A few farmers have remarked that it would be just as well to feed the whole milk to calves, chickens and hogs as to sell cream at a low price. That is a mistake, because the fat in the milk is worth very little as a livestock feed and can be supplied by other materials much cheaper than cream at most any price. The main feed value* derived from milk is in the solids other than fat found in skim-milk or butter milk. The bulk of milk produced now is grass milk and it is a mistake not to market the surplus as either cream, and feed the skim-milk to livestock, or market whole milk. Which of these two markets is best depends upon the price received for cream or whole milk and the use that can be made of the skirn- milk. E. L. ROGERS, County Agent. X Special Services At M. E. Church Next Sunday Night There will be special services^at the Methodist Church next Sunday night, at which time Rev. George T. Harmon, from Sumter, will preach a special sermon on church brotherhood and Masonry. Mr. Harmon comes at the solicitation of the local Masonic lodge and Methodist pastor. Everybody is cordially invited to the service, which will start at 8:30 o’clock. Sunday night, July 19th. cept Bowers’ dictum, which is that the coming campaign will be fought out strictly on the tariff issue. Ever since this country became a great manufacturing nation, some 75 years ago, the tariff question has dominated the platform in a ma jority of presidential campaigns. The free silver issue and Wilson's war stand alone put it into the background. The last really sharp tariff battle was in Cleveland’s victory in 1892, which was followed by some lean years. Bowers chose as his text the claims put out by the Hoover man agers in 1928 that a high tariff meant prosperity. He said that voters had enjoyed plenty of time— between customers—since then to* meditate upon the success of the tariff, charging that the high tariff has put a Chinese Wall around the country right at a time when it desperately needed foreign mar kets. Not a word was said about the Prohibition issue or superpower. If Powers’ speech is accetped by the Democratic Party as a competent expression of its aims it means that the farmers of the country are to be asked to vote for the Demo cratic ticket on the appeal that the high tariff ha» raised the price of everything they buy while it ha* not added a cent to his purchas ing power. ♦ Russian wheat and cotton are 4 selling below the price American, farmers can raise them and the' Democrats are expected to make this point their main bid for vote* when the campaign starts. Boweitf' speech before the Texas convention, three years ago is still remembered as one of the greatest keynote ora tions ever made, rivaling in its dramatic power Bryan’s “cross Of gold and crown of thorns” speech, at Chicago in 1896. Unless his re cent speech had been approved bv Democratic leaders before it was given, it would never have been made. /