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Thursday, July 23, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA
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MESSENGER
ruolmi*** 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.
FURSCRIPTION RATES:
— Strictly Cash In Advance —
One Year $1.00
Six Months — .75
V, ^ * r\Y> *'■* 9 ,50
BETlEIv Bi: SAFE THAN SORRY
rirov;r?in^ season is now in
-win'y From now until school
basins again thousands of boys—
; ,, too, these days—will take
unnecessary chances in the water
and lose their lives in consequence.
That has always been true, and it
v u always be true. Youth will al
ways take chances, and never list
en to advice.
Nevertheless, we offer some ad
vice to those who would go swim-
ning.
Don’t stay in too long. Half an
hour is enough at a stretch.
Don’t,go into the water immed
iately after a heavy meal.
Don’t keep on swimming after
you are tired. '
Never go swimming alone.
Don’t try to “find bottom.”
Don’t get into a canoe unless you
can swim. ,
Most of the drowning accidents
^ come from disregard of those sim
ple precautions. If everybody would
follow them there would be fewer
young lives lost.
X
TYING THE NATION TOGETHER
This Week
h Arthur Brisbanb
Just a Little Better
An Old Man Goss Alsne
A Time to Hold On
Harvard's Teaching Plan
Everybody just a little bit happier.
Stocks a. Httle better here, German
bonds were stronger. You could bor
row money for speculating in Walt
Street at IVL per cent a year.
WASHINCTON
BY RADFORD MOBLEY
(Special to The Messenger)
In a jail at Santa Fe, N. M., a cell
is prepared for Albert B. Fall, once
senator from New Mexico, later in
President Harding's cabinet. The
courts accepted as proved that oil re
serves of the United States were
bought and sold criminally, so an old
man, broken in health, not far from
the grave, convicted of selling, must
go to prison. He goes alone.
What of those that did the buying?
The man who has made a wise In
vestment is foolish if he lets It go at
this time. If he has the power to
hold it.
, The wise will remember that every
thing comes back. What goes up
comes down, and vice versa. This
country hasn't lost anything except a
few billions of dollars, nothing like
half as much as one year's United
States payroll. And what we have
lost is nothing compared with what
we made in the war.
It is a good time to remember
Goethe's "Money ' lost, something
lost . . . honor lost, much lost , . .
courage lost, everything lost,”
The process of tying every part
of the United States to every other
part of the United States by means
of modern, hard-surfaced highways
is going on more rapidly than ever
before. It is a big program, for
this is a big country.® But we only
have to look back a few years, to
the days before the automobile, to
realize what tremendous progress
has been made.
One would have to go a long way
into the back country these days to
]. find a main-travelled road as bad
as even the average highway was
twenty years ago. Where today is
there a main road that is not pass
able for teams in any weather?
There used to be thousands of
them in which wagons would be
mired hub-deep in the spring and
defy all efforts of horses, mules
and oxen to move them.
• It has cost us something to build
our national system of highways,
but the result has been worth the
cost. Some states have built more
roads than others, but every state
is doing its share. This year the
greatest increase in highway ex
penditure is being made by Louis
iana, with a $71,950,000 road budget
for 1931 compared with about half
as much last year. All told, states,
counties and the Federal govern
ment are spending $259,897,000 on
roads this year. That is only $15,-
800,000 or so more than last year.
New York, naturally, is spending
the most, a hundred and fifty-
three millions, with Pennsylvania,
second. Sixteen states are spend
ing less on roads this year than
last. 32 of them more.
One noticeable result is the i
greatly increased freedom of in
tercourse between all parts of the
nation. The people of one section
no longer regard those of others
with suspicion, as strangers. It is
probably true that the majority of,
Americans have travelled farther
from their home communities, ‘
seen more of the rest of the world
ontside their local boundaries,
than have any appreciable propor
tion of the people of any other
, country. That alone will, in time
rroke us a broader-minded, more
cultured people than is to be
Deen Hanford of Harvard univer
sity says students are "not spoon
fed.” They are expected to be re
sponsible for their own education
ami, to a great degree; eduoate them
selves. Truly Dean Hanford says:
"The most important type of educa
tion is self-education. The student
grasps, retains and roasters what he
works out f^r himself.”
To educate means "to lead out,”
from e, out. and duco. to lead. All
that you can do for a boy is to bring
out of him. to "lead out.” that which
is in him. Stuffing him with ready
made information does little good.
Id Buckingham palace good Queen
Mary had a grand ball, first in that
palace since 1924.
Two thousand young men. "that
have net haifrlnuch amusement lately,”
went to the party.
The music, chosen by Qu^en Mary,
according to custom, with some advice
from her son, the prince of Wales,
had a United States flavor. Titles of
the dan—' music included: "I'm Alone
Because 1 I^ove You,” "Girl of a Mil
lion Dreams,” “Hawaiian Stars Are
Glenmipg,” and "Peanut Vendor,” all
n long way from the “Blue Danube.”
President Hoover said America
must go to the rescue of Germany
and Austria, and stocks went bound
ing upward. That happened in spite
of the fact that the President's mes
sage meant that many of our Euro
pean customers were close to bank
ruptcy, and many of our billions, cent
abroad, mi£ht never come back*.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29.—
(Autocaster) —President Hoover’s
statesmanlike handling of the debt
holiday, which was entirely his own
brain-child, has had the unexpect
ed effect of starting up the anti-
Hoover campaign which had not
been expected before the coming
winter. Instead, when his oppon
ents found he had re-estabhshed
himself in the favor of a majority
of the voters by his position on
reparations, they decided to open
the attack immediately.
As a consequence the country is
being treated to virulent attacks
on the President. Most of Jiem
date back to happenings severa 1
years ago. One of them, which was
featured in one of the most pow
erful Democratic papers in the
country, * harks back to the story
that Mr. Hoover had practically
decided to run for President on the
Democratic ticket when Henry
Cabot Lodge got to-him and turned
him into a Republican.
The story does not lack for con
vincing details, which tells of the
intimacy that existed between him
and Gov. * Fjanklin D. Roosevelt,
then Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, and Franklin D. Lane. It
adds a deft touch by telling how
Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt
used to prepare their modest Sun
day suppers with their own hands
while their husbands chatted. It
then tells how Lodge converted
him and Mr. Hoover “became a Re
publican, at least in name.”
Another paper, also unfriendly to
the Hoover policies, goes on to re
late that President Coolidge prac
tically paved the way for his suc
cessor by his famous hestitation,
when asked to'run again, and al
lowed it to be inferred that he
might stand for being drafted.
Meanwhile, the gossip runs, Mr.
Coolidge secretly told Mr. Hoover
that he would not run and the
latter then laid his plans for the
nomination. By this inside infor
mation, Mr. Hoover was the only
candidate ready when the “I do
not choose to run” statement was
issued. It gave him a walkover,
the article says. And it adds, not
• thick can be mailed in zones four
■ i^ht, or vithin 290 miles. The
additional mail that will be created
is expected to add $5,000,090 to
postal revenues, besides * creating
cheap express rates for larger
packages than have been mailable
up to now. More direct selling
from farm to consumer may result.
Selling by mail is steadily becom
ing an increasing factor in small
communities and many of the big
city newspapers are carrying a
separate classification under “oar-
cel post” in which farmers offer
eggs and fresh poultry direct to
city homes. One New Tersev vo-
man is finding it profitable, appar
ently, to advertise/“fresh, home-
cooked meals” to Detroit consum
ers by mail.
Among the items recently noted
bv Jess C. Harraman, of the Post
Office Department, as being offer
ed by mail are honey, sorghum,
hams, bacon, maple syrup, pre
serves, jellies, broilers and squabs
Fishermen are also selling huge
quantities cf fish, lobsters and
other ocean products by parcel
post. Many farmers are becoming
prosperous through this method, it
is pointed out in the report.
The President’s Emergency Em
ployment Committee has released a
report made to it by forty-nine of
the leading soap makers in the
country which shows how that in
dustry has stabilized labor condit
ions. It says that only four of the
reporting companies have shown a
drop in the number of employees
while thirteen have shown an in
crease. While the manufacture of
soap lends itself better than most
lines to stabilization, yet, the re
port points out, careful planning is
possible in nearly every line, yield
ing higher returns in profits to the
manufacturers and better income
to the workers.
X
ir:
. Strom Families
On Wednesday, July 15, the chil
dren and grandchildren of Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. Strom, Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Strom, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. C.
Strom gathered at* Rehoboth
church to hold their second family
reunion. There were some fifty or
sixty relatives and a few friends
were honored with an invitation
to celebrate with the family.
The dear old church ground was
a very fitting place to celebrate
without a touch of malice, that Mr the reunion, so near the last rest-
Coolidge actually did not like Mr. ing places of their departed loved
Hoover, backing it up with some
corroboration.
Hold Reunion
Bank your last dollar
on this:
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The tires which the largest single group of
car-owners in the world are buying, year
after year, are giving the best value and
the most satisfaction.
If that isn’t reason enough to put on
Goodyears, THE leading make, come in
and we’ll show you tzvo more reasons!
it
the smartest
thing in rubber”
New 1931
GOODYEAR
STANDARD
ALL-WEATHER
GULF SERVICE STATION
Near Dorns’ Ginnery
Phone 40
J. T. FAULKNER, Prop.
McCormick, S. C.
RELATIVES AND FRIENDS ENJOY.
GATHERING AT REHOBOTH
LAST WEDNESDAY
ffrBUOAPMfflr
By ERNEST -CAMP JB
Long Taxi Ride
i boat, fis it steamed down to the
i battery.
He gave up in disgust when the
“Macom” passed the “Aquitania.”
The big liner let go with its own
big whistle and it drowned out all
other sounds for a minute. The
two flyers mads a big hit with
everybody, except when it came to
speeches. Neither one of them is
an orator.
A hiise whale plows the northern
seas, swallowing millions of tiny ma
rine creatures, on which he lives,
knowing nothing of his past. Little
does i:e dream that his ameestor was
& little creature, the “tree shrew,” that
yon could carry in yoor vest pocket.
Still Ie.>*s can he imagine Ids future,
or krow that his body will be boiled
down, and the oil sprayed on park
trees to kill an epidemic of plant lice.
From free shrew to whale ninety
feet long, and from giant whale to
plant lice destroyer, is a considerable
change.
We human beings know about our
past and future as little as the whale
knows nlx>ut hjs.
A Nyack woman—Nyack i3 just j Few Fireworks
outside of the city-^ired a taxi to New York is n^t a noisy city on
take her t6' her mail order suitor, the Fourth of Ju^v any more. Time
who lived in Walkerton, Ind. r the used to be when the papers always
other day. When she got to Indi- j carried a long list of dead and in-
ana she changed her mind and jjured the day after the celebration
drove back in the same cab. but those times have passed. Now
A New York woman, who is 55, the youngsters have to get outside
had corresponded with the man in of the city limits to buy Chinese
the case for years. She finally de- i firecrackers and other noise-mak-
cided to go to him and shipped her! ers, and then take a chance some
furniture. Then she loaded the cat cop isn’t around when he sets them
and canary in a fine taxi cab off. .
and traveled 889 miles in thirty It certainly is an improvement
! lours. over the old days—except that we
She called it off when she found feel sorry for the kids who are
her intended husband was only 35 stopped from celebrating. Every*
years old and sickly. It cost her body agrees, however, that a good
exactly $400 for taxi fare, both rule was passed when v the sale of
fireworks was stopped. It cost too
small
Professor Frost, director of the
Yerkes observatory, finds indications
that there exists h “mind” in the
universe. He is Dot like the French
scientist who replied to* Napoleon’s
question concerning God: “I have no
need of that hypothesis.”
If a cockroach in a skyscraper
could talk and say: “I Iwdieve there
is somebody running this skyscraper,”
you would be amused.
Somebody, somewhere in creation,
is amused when one of the little
germs on this earth grain of dust dis
covers indications of a guiding intelli
gence in the universe.
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^OMf -FOLKS eivt
GOOD ADVICE £ECA>JSt
THEY&.E loo OLD To
StjT 4$ADf.XAMHfc. >
What are vitamins? We know that
we can't live without them, that they
cure rickets in children, what food
stuffs contain the various vitamins,
and scientists have just discovered
that two of them, vitamins A and I*,
give off some kind of strange radia
tion.
Rats deprived of certain necessary
vitamins have no children. Deprived
of other vitamins, they starve to
death, although supplied with abun
dance of food.
Three important things we possess
without knowing what they are. elec
tricity, vitamins and the soul of man.
ones who loved the dear old church
and were regular attendants at
The President’s advisers look on church in years gone by.
the campaign none too seriously | A bountiful and delicious lunch ’ wa y S>
and apparemtly have warned Mr. was served on the table under the | T h e incident shows how used to much suffering for the
Hoover that any reply would be 1 stately oaks that have shaded the taxicabs New Yorkers have become, amount of pleasure gained.
bad politics. The only reaction to lunch for many protracted meet- | i_v
the campaign, if it can be called ings. The lunch contained all Courtesy Cops OnfllTllSm For
such, was President Hoover’s at- kinds of good, eats and tempted New York has had so many com- Jr •
tack on short sellers of wheat, any appetite—fried chicken and piiments paid it on her fine police- The Railroads
whom he characterized, by infer- sandwiches, cakes of many kinds, men that Commissioner Mulrooney
ence, as unpatriotic and unjustifi- and iced tea that was so refreshing, I decided the other day to go a step in a recent address, Carl R.
ably selfish. He eliminates from most especially on a hot day. 1 farther. Gray, President of the Union
his condemnation those men, like Mrs. Margaret Doolittle is the He selected eighty-four of the pacific Railroad, sounded an op-
farmers and legitimate dealers, only surviving member of the handsomest and best appearing timistic note concerning the future
who are actually the owners of Strom family. She thoroughly en- policemen on the force and detail- 0 f his industry,
wheat and who sell short in order joyed the day and requested chat e d them to Times Square and other "There seems to be a feeling
to hedge. The step was taken be- some old familiar songs be sung, busy corners where visitors are more or less prevalent,” said Mr.
yond question in an effort to curry Mrs. R. M. Hitt played several thickest, with instructions to con- Gray, “that the steam railways
favor with the farmers. songs and joined with the others sider themselves as a welcoming which have been the fundamental
Kansas’ bumper crop, which iz in singing. These dear old songs committee. transportation in America for a
again beyond any expectations, brought back sad memories of the Mulrooney claims they form s a century, are seriously threatened
has had an immediate effect in days when the departed ones join- finer body of men than the famous with decadence. And to this I take
sending the price of wheat dowi. ed in singing them. There really Goldstream Guards or Royal Korse exception.
still more, until the old fetish of seemed unseen presence lingering Troop are to London. The short- "The growth of America has
dollar wheat has been lost sigh„ o. near to our dumb ears. A heavenly es t man 0 n the new detail is only been measured by and has been
in the fact that almost four bush choir might have joined in the one i nc h short of six feet. responsive chiefly to its transpor-
els can be bought for that figure, songs. The song service would tation capacities. No one agency
The Department of Agriculture have been longer, but a cloud was h. R. H. A1 Smith other than the railroads can more
which urged lessened production a making up and the crowd hastily The King of Siam was taken to than partially supply this need
the start of this year, only to hav. hurried homeward long before the the top of the Empire State build- an( j that only in a desultory and
its admonition go unheeded, no. day was spent. ing the other day by Al^Smith, and widely separated way.
says that wheat will go still lowe The reunion was hurriedly got- shown what New York looks like “a great many people wholly
next; year unless a thirty per cen ten up and there was no time to to a bird. The two had an enjoy- mistake the railroad situation. The
reduction is planted. notify relatives from a distance. It a bie visit and the King’s eyes did railroads in and of themselves do
Political observers here assor was in honor of Mrs. S. J. Chandler not bother him in the least, scor- no t produce or create. They are,
wheat has ceased to be a conceri: and children from Min turn, S. C., mg one more bull’s-eye for Ameri- 0 n the contrary, a result. They
for politic!ms a'nd has moved r/e and Mrs. R. M. Hitt and two C an surgery. are the reflex of business condit-
to the field of economics. Unles: charming daughters from Bam- a funny thing about the visit is ions in this country, and probably
farmers cut down their acrea- berg, who were guests to relatives that it has hung a new title on the the most faithful reflex. When
next year they will hardly ge here and in McCormick. man who came close to the Presi- business is depressed, they are de
enough cut of their 1932 crop vj Those present were Mrs. Mar- dency. His intimates now refer to pressed; and when business comes
pay for their seed. Already cher^ garet Doolittle, Mrs. W. P. Cul- him as “His Royal Highness” the back, they come back. It is as
are signs that Kansas will go ii breath and family, Mr. and Mrs. B. title used by royal heirs. That’s impossible in the last analysis for
more heavily for cattle, pigs and S. Culbreath and family, Mrs. S. J. w hat he gets for being boss of chi the railroads to be kept from par-
poultry next year and declare a Chandler and three children, Mrs. world’s tallest building!
“wheat moratorium” in order to R. M. Hitt and two daughters,
i
• Sfliuebodjr stole twenty-eight canary
birds as they sat in their cages sing
ing sweetly. And, having stolen them,
turned them loose in the park.
It was a mistaken kindness. You
might as welt take twenty-eight sons
of very rick men from their yachts,
auto mob tyea or j^olo ponies, and turn
them teeee in the straggle fer exist
ence. , • ’
They tfliMUtet thank jreu.
allow demand to catch up with Misses Dorothy and Carolyn, Misses FI- -rs Got Works
gupply, Nylefla and Sara Louise Strom, WT.ey Post and Harold Gat’ey g:
One measure disigned to afford Mrs. W. T. Strom and children, Mr. ■> full jo^t cf New York’.o v/clcom
relief to people living outside of J. E. Strom and two children, Miss /ne other day when + h?y ml-
the great cities has been adopted Mabel and Mr. Edward Strom, Mr._ ^eir globe-circling trip. It w~
by the Interstate Commerce Com- and Mrs. J. S. Strom, Dr. C. R. *o strenuous that tA'w vnoi-te^ 1
mission; which has authorized the Strom and family and Mr. Walker, *w the -rest - e —-
Post Office Department to accept Mr. W. A. Winn and family, Mr. "o^lc two. ■ th^y erroyed ov~ recover; and this doubt you and I
parcels up to one hundred inches and Mrs. J. P. Talbert and family, rainut'* ?* it, ->a 7'''u 1 '*'*'’• qo not for one minute share.”
inohetgtot and*girth. This means, also a few invited guests in neigh- toisp. "yt ^ 1 ^ . . .
roughly, that parcels three feet by borhood. by Vutuit onto tv "h!i k !e a poor oarsman Should stay out
three feet and more than two feet . v > ~ . A °' ies ^ ‘°- “Maoom.” ; city u —ar-of deep water.
ticipating in the nation’s prosper
ity as it is for them to avoid par
ticipation in its vicissitudes.
“The railroads are now sharing
the depression from which all busi
ness is suffering. To entertain any
doubt that the railroads will come
back is to entertain an equal
doubt that American business wUl