McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 16, 1931, Image 1
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TBUB TO OUBSELVXS. OUR NEIGHBORS. OUB COUNTRY AND OUB GOD.
Thirtieth Year
Established June 5, 1902 f McCORMICK, S. C.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. /