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Thursday, August 27, 1931 -V - I . ; V'—• •*.* - — ‘ • •» # *f , » Mcf .UKMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA jr/rvxJD ii uiTioCiix rvsuxi odly sitting around while abun- number of tons of revenue freight ion of J. S. McGregor, in the vic- dant Nature grew all their food handled by the lines last year de- .nity of Ruby, Chesterfield county, with the slightest possible effort creased almost 400,000,000. Freight this year. On all the McGregor on their part. revenue went down $742,000,000, farms about 50 plows are op2rat3d, “If you had a plow and a har- and passenger revenue, $144,000,- 12 of them by wage labor ani 33 row you could grow more food,” 000. Car loadings were lower than by tenants. In addition to arge said the salesman. in an y y ear since 1922, number of grain acreages, there were planted “And then ?” asked the native, passengers carried the least since on those farms this year about 50 “Then you could get money for 1903, and operating revenue the acres cf tomatoes, 5j of beans, '30 it and buy more land.” lowest since 1919. of Irish potatoes. 109 of hay orops “And then ?” I The num ber of railway employes and 40 of cabbages. “Why, then you could buy more declined from 1,661,000 to 1,483,900. “We used to advance $150 to >200 machinery and grow still more Total purchases for materials and a year per cropper to share *en- food and get more money.” supplies were $291,000,000 below ants,” says Mr. McGregor. “The “And then ?” 1929. Taxes were $48,000,000 un- total of advances to 38 tenants Jiis “Why, then, after a while you der that year, due to lower earn- year was between $500 and $1.)00, would have so much money you ings and the consequent decrease and about one-half of them paid wouldn’t need to work.” in income taxes. However, ^aru- out, with crops already marketed, “But I would be no better off, ings declined relatively more than before mid-summer. All will iavj Senor. I don’t work now!” taxes, so that the percentage oi enough corn and meat *o do m-n To those who hold to the ?uri- revenue consumed by the tax col- All have poultry and maintain a 1- Itan doctrine that work Is a virtue lector was the highest in history, year gardens and most .f dun Elsewhere in this paper are art- ^ jt se lf and that he who does : lot The only bright spots are in the have milk cows.” ic'es showing that the governor of wor jj i S a sinner, the spectacle of continued increase in operating The new kind of farming has Houth Carolina rjs seriously consid- ! an yk 0( iy getting a living without efficiency. Several new speed proved profitable for him and :hose c-rmg the calling of a special ses- wor ki n g i s abhorrent. But when and economy records were estab- he represents as well as for ten sion of the legislature at an early y 0U consider that in most religions lished and further progress was ants, declares Mr. McGrego;. Pro date for the purpose cf putting i^ ea i 0 f Heaven is the name— made in safety, both for passeng- fits have not been large . ince th the ban on cotton growing in this a pi ace where nobody has to work ers and employes. price collapse, says he. but th'"* State in 1932. This would be with ^ raises the question whether In the interest of American pro- has been no falling behind. The the proviso that all, or so many, p 0 i n t of view is entirely sound, gress and prosperity a way must be farms arc not near ready murkc; cf the cotton growing States would There is no doubt that the habit found to increase railroad revenue for the perishable stuff now take similar action. Now the gov- c f work builds character, even and thereby speed up activity of duced on them in -lie main. Th emor says he would be guided by though the work itself may not be one of our greatest industrial em- situation was met by the retting .in public sentiment, and he no doubt congenial. The happiest men and ployers and purchasers of supplies, of a cannery which absorbs : \oz JkCORKICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: —— Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 ^ f V} .50 jr.’ ^ On Banning Cotton routs the gangs and triumphs. Torchlight processions, joatieal rallies, -he political machinations of the underworld and other vivid details embellish the picture. There is a tense little drama, too, so that Miss Dressier has a chance for some of the character work that endeared her in “Min and Bill” and “Anna Christie.” Charles F. Riesner, who filmed “Caught Short” and “Reducing,” j directed “Politics.” The juvenile leads are played by William Bakewell, of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and Karen Morley, who recently appeared in “Never the Twain Shall Meet.” John Miljan, recently seen in “Son of India,” plays the gang ruler and Tom McGuire the crooked mayor. Rosco Ates, stuttering comedian o£ “The Big. House,” is Polly’s hus band. You 11 readily agree when you try our good m e ats. And always good, too, not iust occasionally as is often times the case. All we ask is that you try us once and be convinced that we are telling you right. will have a hard time making cal- woinen a re those who ioave found culations of the number favor- work w bi C h interests them so much ing. his plan and those opposing that they p re fer ?.t uo anything i it. Newspapers carry articles every else But work merely for th? | Newspapers carry articles every sake of ma king enough money no day, column after column, from you won > t hav9 to wor k ; 3 r,ome- I men of practically every walk of thing else aga in. life offering plans to work out of Perhaps a lot of us are as foolish ' the perplexing situation, but after as that na tive thought he would be ' all is done and said and the smoke if he spsnt a i ot c f time and ef- has cleared away, there still will be ; ort merely to avoid working. -t Al- S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW of the produce as well as a grea deal that is bought from farmerr not on Mr. McGregor’s places. A million cans of vegetables were shipped from Ruby last ; ? ea. and about $100,000 will be receiv ed there for products thus dispos ed of this year. ‘Anybody can live well and be- that age-old law of supply and de mand which now seems to be the rock on which the ship has struck and is resting fast. Suppose only the cotton growing j states of America were to outlaw cotton in 1932 and some leasable plan wnrked out to take care of the cotton farmers while they are not making cotton, would not th2 other cotton growing countries plant every row they could work and the world still have a surplus of cotton? How can -heir aid be obtained in such a situation^ and would this not be a big and costly undertaking? The wheat farmers, corn farm ers, tobacco growers, and nearly all o.thers engaged in any kind of farming, are in nearly as bad fix as are the cotton farmers today, txi- PUTTING AMERICANS ON THE JOB The following record of industrial come independent by farming in activity lists items showing invest- telligently under even present oon- ment of capital, employment of la- ditions in South Carolina,” says bor and business activities and op- Mr. McGregor. ' “But it can’t be portunities. Information from done with a single product for a ! Which the paragraphs are prepared money crop. With land as cheap rru Ac i3 from lccal ‘papers, usually of as it is now diversification is easy.” Thera 4s food for taought for all towns mentionedj and ba con _, state governments in a recent ac- sldered generaUy correct tion by the Federal government, ( taken at the instance of the State; Pavln , cf 31 ^jieg C f Route No. i Last winter, S. B. Knotts, an on- ef Massachusetts. Briefly, Mass - 21 pags{ng trough Ruffin and ex- terprising farmer near North, S. chusetts asked the ^eds.al Com- tending towards smoaks, complet-.c., fed 48 steers which had been missioner cf Labor to stop issuing . ....... _ . , , _ . ' _ ea. shipped to urn :?:om Tennessee. abor permits to Frenea-Canad Bamberg — Rogers Store leased on delivery the steers averaged larger quarters in .founding former- ioid pounds each. When he r.hip- ly occupied by Faulkner-Kearse pod them away, 120 davs 'ater, -hev Furniture Co. averaged 237 pounds heavier. H' Columbia — Highway and bridge g 0 t them for 6 cents a pound and construction contracts let under sold them for 3 cents a pound, and State highway bond program since made a profit of $7 a head over May, 1930, total approximately an d %bove a return for the feed LOW PRICES_0ur prices are always the very lowest on everything in the shop. You can enjoy our good meat and yet be just as economical as pos sible. We maintain delivery service for your con venience. Just phone 18. Our market is run strictly sanitary and the same good service :nd high quality products are for all men, women and children. We invite yon all to visit our market and make a thorough inspection. --CITY MARKET-- G. B. SMITH, Prop. McCormick, S. C. Phone 18 .Augusta St.. MAKES MONEY ON CATTLE FEEDING. Last winter, S. *3. Knotts, an Washington thereupon cancelled all existing permits and issued an oi ler to refrain from granting any more for a time. As a result hun dreds of American workingmen are back or. -he pay-roll. The situation arose from the closing down of many newsprint $33,000,000. Cheraw — Celebration 1 given them. In addition there — — — — ... . , . . , to be were 600 loa.ds of compost, vliich and it is hardly to be exoected mi ^ na a, w ere paper io* . n c .^ y on September 17th alone, says ftfr. Knotts, would have most of the newspapers in the tQ comp , ete pavlng of y. iT made the op8ration profitable. Mr that they will sit idly by and see the cotton farmer get aid they are not getting without raising a big fuss m United States is nrfade. This action threw hundreds of French-Canad- Highway No. 1. Camden — Brick warehouse near Knotts has thus disposed of feed nearly every year luring a decal" ian woodohv.ppv.rs out of-vork and southern passenger station, owned a nd always has found the opera- Cotton is a crop that farmers flocked across the border in- ^ h. L. Schlosburg, purchased by, tion profitable. He has can depend upon as a money crop, c ' n _ rea ^ cu Thomas & Howard wholesale gro- be the price 6 cents or 20. and Ung timbe 1 r for P ul P wood encan muls. about the only hope this paper can see is a re-adjustment of prices all along the line to the extent that a pound of cotton w buy its rightful proportion of commodities. You may say this cers. „ , ^ ^ . Georgetown — D. C. Simpkins . e " ; ! n i anS _ ; e . a .: SpeC ‘ a building addition to rear of Elite Sweet Shop to house kitchen for apiitude for chopping down -rees. dll still l 1 take3 a s P ecial knack to fell a i unc h shop to be operated jf other tree 80 t , hat 11 wlU not ln J ure 3tand - in connection with confectionery. ing timber in its fall, and this is an art that has long been mastered Lake City — Plaza Cafe opened for business in renovated building would work hardships on too many , ~ ^ ~ classes, and that may be true, but i by fce ^ ' vo f t ksrs * T ^ iey are nu ch under new man agemcnt of James we are all in the middle of a bad sought after by all companies who . fix and that may be the best and ^ are :;eillng ::orests ' oeen equally successful with hogs, hav ing marketed as many as 450 in a year. He still grows cotton and is going in for asparagus. “If we will adapt our habits and our labor to it, cattle feeding is capable of rev olutionizing farming in this sec tion,” Mr. Knotts declares. RANGED DAIRY COWS PAY. While having a fenced pasture I Georgetown — Celebration to pe 0 n their 590-acre place, Laurie C. cotton! In fo:mer y ear f man y 01 these held here September 17th for ded- ! a nd J. C. Fowke, son and father. only way out. If more . could be manufactured and used, ‘ me ^ 1 emigra e 0 ; England j ca ti n g and opening of 100 miles find it well to range their dairy that would be another step toward e f ame na t U 1 ra lzed, pursuing i p avemen f 0 n Route 40 between cows in the Western manner mueii relieving the situation, but then the L e r ° r °?. er ? a 1 ^ g '. Recent ^’ Charleston and Conway. of the time. They aave a big question bobs up as to where the; 0 ^ ev f r ’ s ^ ack |. Woodruff — Local branch of herd of mostly pure-bred Jerseys money is coming from to buy the • fL 11 f 0C ^ by tbe hundreds ^ Brandon Corporation, textile or- an d do no farming that doesn’t tie cotton goods here in the cotton,. 08 n an ^. 0 c er Yan kee 30as Mg an ization, to resume night work. i n with dairying, which they turn- towns, waiting for hard cimes to growing States. Farmers got along on 3 cents cotton about 35 years ago, and they may have it to do again. At that,. . „ we beiieve most cf them would be 1 ^ nen ' an ellow-workei-s were idle. better off with the cotton than t 0l Thls has a!1 been chan-ed by ac quit raising it a year. Suppose the ' ld ?" rom * Vashin 8 tcn - Other states might profit by fol lowing Massachusetts’ example, ‘.it might pay Florida to investigate how many Cuban cigar-makers are working in Tampa; Texas Belton — Homer Clement opened e d to gradually. By ranging them. end. Meanwhile hundreds of pool room in building vacated oy their cows get much grazing off r rench-Canadians have oeen work- ‘ ing in the Maine woods while their TYt- 44 POLITICS •>1 whole world quit for one year and the boll weevils completely died out, would not the next year’s crop under favorable conditions yield a big over-production and bring back a situation similar to the might study >iow many Mexicans present one—if not worse? are r khng nerd .vhile American Gov. Blackwood has issued a ^ ow ^°y s are whittling; Kansas may call to the farmers co meet at their i be em P lo y in S many Canadian har- county court house on next Sat-; vest hands » and so on. urday morning at 11 o’clock and Tk ere is hardly a state in the express their opinion cf his plan. i^ n * on not be able to Farmers should attend these meet- I return many of its taxpayers and ings all over the State and make j citizens *o work by uncovering a their views known at this time. | Slmiiar situation to that of the It’s a long time yet until cotton alien wood-choppers in the Maine planting time again, and we hope , ^' cods and following the lead set any plan and all plans suggested, Dy Massachusetts. will get due consideration before a; x- . hilarious blend in “°olitics step is taken to put “Old King Cot-! The Railroads 111 1930 for handling SincIair 0iI P roducts , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s new com- Alford & Johnson. idle land adjacent their own. Pageland — Ruby Canning Co. | The Fowkes operate on an old purchasing tomatoes from this sec- cotton farm about 13 miles from lion. * Allendale and 10 miles from 3am- Dillon — Mail service improved well. They sell milk in both places, at local post office. Their place is off main roads. Conway — Conway Tobacco Mar- | Milking 25 to 39 cows and growing ket opened for sales. about half the feed given them, Belton — Cox Furniture Co. will their earnings above operating occupy room vacated by Peoples costs average around $165 a month, Mercantile Co., adjoining present they state, location. Ware Shoals — Ware Shoals Manufacturing Co., contracted to manufacture shirts for Cluett, Pea body and Co. cf Troy, N. Y. New equipment now being installed. Kingstree — Lewis Re-Drying Tobacco plant completely renovat ed and remodeled this season oO take care of greater quantity of tobacco. Presents Marie Dressier ami Polly Moran in Their Latest Adventure at The Abbeville Opera House Monday and Tuesday, August 31st—September 1st Politics and reform, the women’s Belton — Central Filling Station . . f vote and crooked officials, mingle Tinstalling pumps and equipment ^ n hI _ H „ ton” on the shelf for a spell. The safest plan now is “To make haste slowly,” and take a good long look!, * before making a leap in any direc- 8n f an radroads during tion. The complete operating statistics -tTt- “AND THEN?” 1930 have just been issued. To even the casual reader, they vividly illustrate the plight in which our principal transport medium finds itself as the result of high taxes, A salesman sent into the tropics unregulated competition and busi- to sell agricultural machinery, ness conditions, says The Manu- came * back with a story which facturer and Industrial News Bu- illustrates a number of things. reau. He found the natives content-1 As compared with 1929, the in future. -X Other Lines Prove Beneficial Farmers (By Henry S. Johnson, Sec. S. C. Bankers’ Association.) edy-drama in which Marie Dressier makes her first bow as a full- fledged screen star at the Abbe ville Opera House, Monday and Tuesday, August 31st and Septem ber 1st. Marie and the redoubtable Polly Moran go into politics to clean up the town, organize the women and get them to go on strike until their RUBY FARMER MAKES GOOD. Only about 200 acres of land were ( husbands capitulate to their politi- planted in cotton on the farms op-' cal ideals. Marie sweeps into of- erated by and un< ig£ stipends- fice, cleans out the crooked mayor, YES! Mr. Ford A. Owner we have GOODYEAR TIRES for $569 4.50-21 $ ^65 4.75-19 in the famous Pathfinder —and in the New All-Weather: $T85 4.50-21 4.75-19 More Ford owners ride on Goodyear Tires than on any other kind. When one make of tire leads all others in sales for 16 years, there must be good reasons why. There are —come in and let us show you. History’s lowest prices on tires for all -n- 1 — «nf ?-*r3 Near Dorns’ Ginnery Phone 40 J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. McCormick, S. C. The Augusta market offers a ready cash sale for your cotton immediately upon telephone or telegraphic advices from you. A great many of the railroads have reduced their rates into Augusta. In the event that you cannot secure these cheap rates, send your cotton to us by trucks. All cotton shipped to us on trucks is covered by fire insurance at our expense. Realizing that the price is exceedingly low, whv sacrifice your product ? bend it to us and we will place same in Bonded Warehouses and advance you 80 per cent of the value. Our rates for storage and insurance are very cheap and will he furnished upon request. PHINIZY & PHIMZY Cotton Factors AUGUSTA, GEORGIA frt* '