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/ Tliursday, September 3, 1931 •-» <-y- m • ■» «•* “ »•'***' ■' • " ' McCormick messenger Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR 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 Sis Months 75 vor* 50 JVyJ? FRANK PARKER 1>r J1 ’1> "f * - SCHOOL DAI!: 000 all cf which came to Nellie I U. D. C. MEETING TODAY Gray. And the very first thins .-h3! The Ann Carter Chapter, J. 3. (did with her inheritance was to of-| c„ will meet Thursday afternoon, fer $5,000 to the Town, to help pay September 3rd, 4:30 o’clock at the for the new $14,000 bridge over .he home of Mrs. W. J. Talbert. Williams River. ‘T’m going to fix up the old Gray homestead,” Miss Nellie says, “and live there the rest of my life. But first I had to fix up the town that has taken care of me so generous ly. Everybody has been .vonderful to me, but you can’t believe how happy I am not to be the town pauper any more.” CUBA We have learned a few S.C WEEKLY LNDUSTKIAL REVIEW The following record of industrial activity lists items showing invest- SURPLUS ment of capital, employment of 1 a- The Federal Farm Board has too’ We have iEamed a few things bor and business activities and op- much wheat and cotton on hand. about Cuba and the Cubaa f°P^; portunities. Information from The Brazilian government nas too “; nce we wen ‘ t0 ' var , *' 1 ; h ijpa ; n ' which the paragraphs are prepared mu~h coffee on hand. We want cof- 33 years ag0 ' t0 set Cuba frae - Th; is from local papers, usually of It won’t be long now before va- c '-on is over and school will be- j-• Then the young ones will get back into their own world, f ir in the life of .he child the real v o’ld is that in which he mixes on ecual terms with others cf his own cge. We older folk are too absorb ed with the affairs of grown-ups to understand what the young ones are thinking about. We are prone to think, as we grew older, tl*at what we had in fee Brazil wants wheat, so an in. C " ban J pecpl ® are about as oad , 1 , y towns mentioned, and may be con- ^off under self-government, so-call- sidered generally correct. ed, as they were under Weyler. j ra ]l" ed ' . fT- When sugar and tobacco ,isll at Lake City — H. L. Poston The Chinese are suffermg to- tematicnal “swap” has been of food Th» Wanting govemmenl hi « h P rices they are ha PP y ; when Cades °P ened ldncb r “ omdt CadeS n-o-t they have been for some years. Newberry - Oryco Milk Co. dis- 5,000,000 bushels of - _ ; there is revolution. We gave them cuss plans for establishing Borden for six -nonths, on longtime • “ dl j polltical treedom but we lid noS experimental plant here. may a v ry . give them the more important Greenville — Relocation of 3par- tanburg highway entrance to city seems to me worth doing. It benefit millions and harm nobody. It will relieve this country of nuch of its wheat surplus, save storag3 charges and save human lives. economic freedom. Nobody today wants to annex this year planned. Cuba to the United States, least of Bids opened for paving 13.733 all the American speculators who miles cf Route No. 73 from Route school is good enough for our chil- ^ rmthine in arv have built race-tracks, hotels and No. 21 in Branchville to Bamberg dren. That would be true if the ]aws ^ p revent it being ;ion3 . * gambling houses there to attract Abbeville — Land belonging tc world stood still, but it doesn’t.. jj ow a u 0 f cotton .states In a changing world, the best edu- I ^ join in ^ aking it megal to cation is that which makes the grQW ^ cotton at ^ ^ 1932 , hat surplus will be wiped out and fair PUCES FRESH MEATS J. B. Smitli s Meat Market, the oldest meat mar ket in town, has again reduced prices on fresh meats so that the man of ordinary means, as well as any one else, can get the choicest meats at prices he can afford -o pay. Choice Steak, pound Choice Roast pound Choice Stew pound j.> .Ci, 12‘-c Mixed Sau- sage, 2 pounds This market handles only the very best grades of meats to he found anywhere, and when you once get a taste of it, you’ll come hack for more. Fish on sale every Friday and Saturday. Everything sani tary and at low prices. j! B. SMITH’S MEAT MARKET Corner \ugusta and Pine Streets, McCORMICK. S. C. / child alive to the changes, which prices market. brings him most closely in touch with the new things that we didn’t know anything about when we were yaCATION young. Everything is different to day from yesterday; !omcrrow ev- Win return in the cotton 5tart another revolution. (CE to Americans who want to carouse C. B. Evans leased for golf course, and waste their money. Under Route No. 9 to be paved for 6.523 American rule Cuba would have to miles from Richburg to Fort Lawn., be officially “dry,” and that would. Abbeville — Contract let for re-j modeling Abbeville County Mem- j orial Hospital here and for erection ! scientific of nurses home. 'itotesnr Willis A. Sutton, hsad explorers tell us, te a great bowl o£ Bids asked lor painng 14 1-2, fHo who lce several thousand feet deep, sur- mnes of Calhoun nghway f.om j crything of today will be out of jusfc retlr J[ as president''of the funded by high mountains. This Abbeville to Calhoun Falls, rate. The boy or girl who gains Nati o nal Education Association. ica aas oeen gradually melting Newberry - Workmen c from his school work the sense of j ^ lono . g ummer vaca- 6ince ths last Ice A S e * some 20,000 mg part of each literary soc.ety change, of constant forward move- t . on * witbcm ^ responsibility does y ears a SO. As it melts, the land hall into classroom at Newberry Greenland the latest mnvert- 'c-tt steadily going # cn, has the best foundation for success in life. txt THE TURNING TIDE The public is beginning to buy again. Money is coming back Into circulation more freely than for a year and more past. 'The tex tile mills are coming back toward r.oimal production. The leather in dustry is showing a decided im provement. Sales of electric and children more harm than good and balow “ wil1 rise and tha tro P‘ ca !, Co ‘ Iege - puts too much of a burden on.ihcir vegetation which once flourished Greer aocal McHugh Store j?- parents. Dr. Sutton’s remedy, so far as city schools are concerned, is to give pupils summer work to do which will take them out of doors but still occupy time which other wise would be spent :.n aimless play. There is such sound sense in near the North Pole, and of which ing remodeled. traces are still found, will grow' there again. By that time all of the white Darlington — Bids opened for paving 14.611 miles of .ioute No. 631 from here north to Route No. races of man will have moved much ; 33. farther North than they live now. j Laurens — Contract to be let by Then will come another Ice Age State Highway Department for and population will be driven back paving 15.177 miles of Routes No. toward the EHuatorv^That is whas’lO and No. 72 frem city limits to what Dr. Sutton says that it will has happened at least three times Route No 7 near Saluda River^ . . not surprise me if a complete rev- “> the earth s recent history and | Abbeville - Abbeville Oo.t gas refrigerators are increasing m . there is no reason t0 doubt it will i Course opened for o.ay. almost every part of the country. m it 1 \^ OTe vacations and ha PP 2n again. Explorers from the Union — State Highway No. 215 Many of the smaUer industrial short , r c \ ies are better for children universities of Nova Zembla and opened with celebrations near plants are now running on full ^ ' for ' ;heir famiUes than ‘ the Spitsbergen wUl find traces of au- here, time and the larger Industries, or. , on „ irres 0n3ible OTmmeE: man handicraft in the tropical tun- Qe many of them, are putting on more j idleness ! gle S rowin S where Chicago now help. The steel industry and building construction are still at| lew ebb and the railroads are not carrying their normal volume of freight and passengers, but those are conditions which a general revival in other lines will remedy. The country is still suffering frem overproduction of wheat, cot ton and cil, among other things. It £ a £ms to us wrong and wasteful, however, to destroy what has al ready been produced, as is being advocated in some quarters. iz also seems to us unnecessary to resort to anything like the “dole” system. Nobody in the Unit ed States has approached starva- l.on in this crisis except in the logic ns where the drought of 1930 v. as at its worst and in one or two “core spots” in the bituminous coal districts. There may be mere who will need help the coming Winter because their reserves are exhaust ed, but there will be more people in a position to give help, we be lieve. And there will be more and more jobs for those who really want to work. Hew fast the tide of good times will vcome in nobody can predict. The country has been suffering al most as much from overprediction as from over-production, and we are not gifted with the powBr of prophecy. But we have history to back our belief that the United States of America will come cut of STARS stands, and will wonder what gods ■■niirtv-eight years ago a ray of' these P r ™ mve P e °P l8 "orehipped. light left the star Arcturus and 4GE started toward the earth. It takes I got a bill the other day from 0 ^ 'ieht. travell'mg at the rate of 133,-_ the Commonwealth of MassEichu- ; 000 miles a second, forty years ;o setts, where I vote, for $1, with the get. from Arcturus to the earth. The ray which started in 1903, the year of the great World's Columbian Ex position in Chicago, will reach .he earth in 1933, when Chicago in tends to stage another World’s Fair. At the Yerkes Observatory at Geneva, Wisconsin, the great tele scope will be focussed on Arcturus in the spring of 1933. The ray of light which will have been forty years on its travels will be reflected into a photosensitive cell, which will convert :it into electric energy. This energy will throw a switch which will turn on the lights of che new World’s Fair and officially op en the Exposition. Nothing could be more fitting to information that this was my annual “Old Age Assistance” tax. It seems to me like a good way of creating a fund for the care of aged persons. The direct tax which every individual has to pay has th: Georgetown — Property at cor ner of Highmarket and Fraser streets purchased by F. S. Collins and Dr. O. L. Bruorton, for con struction of filling station. , Pavement between Charleston ts traffic. Bids opened for paving 15.012 miles of Route No. 176 from inter section with Rout/. No. 2 near Newberry to Whitmire. Bamberg — Cedar Springs, lo cated near here, improved. Number of branch classing of- What? Me ruin a good suit for the price of a tire? If yoil feel this way about old tires, as soon as any tire reaches the troublesome age, chuck it I That’s sensible, when prices are so low. The greatest Goodyears ever built for so little money: GOODYEAR PATHFINDER 4.40-21 4.50-21 effect of bringing government and wU1 be established -his season its activities more closely to the I by South Carolina Cotton Growers’ attention of everybody who pays Co-operative Association for receiv- , .. , „ incr anH .•'Inssifinat.inn nf "npmrMvrs’ it. Massachusetts voters are ;o- By ths pair, $9.:3 By tha pair, $11.10 All sizes equally ~ - on tubes, too. GULF SERVICE Near Dorn?’ Ginnery Phone 40 J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. McCormick, S. C. ing to watch the Old Age Assist- losely than general manager of association— ing and classification of members’ j-* . cotton, according to J. S. Hathcock, Dcipt IStS Support De- Chevrolet illustrate the progress of science in lethargy of the brain worker.” I the past forty years. The exhibi- bave never known a great athlete tion which is to be opened by light | wbo W as at the same time a great ance program more c „ ^ ^ ... they would if it were merely a mat- , Surntsr :)ail y ter of paying for this sort of re- | Camden — Camden lief out of the general funds. BRAINS Reading Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart s fascinating autobiogra- present pavement north of phy, “My Story,” I was struck by ^ to North Carolina state Une one phrase she uses, the physical, Walterboro _ orange Crush Bot- nominational Causes, Co. opened for business here. Spartanburg - State Highway , GREAT CANVASS WILL BE MADE Department opened bids of 20.555 miles paving on Route No. 176 from from a star will contain the great est collection of scientific marvels ever brought together. What me mind of man has achieved in the conquest .of nature since the last Chicago World’s Fair is almost unbelieveable. GRATITUDE I want to pay my respects to my thinker, nor a person with a crea tive mind who excelled in any form of sport. The two attributes do not go together. tling plant recently purchased by B. G. Weeks, now operating. Pickens — Bigby Chevrolet Co. :stablishing business in Carey building on Main St. Dillon — Bids opened for surfac ing with gravel in preparation for WEEK BEGINNING NOVEM BER 28TH I . effort to give every church mem ber a worthy part in the support cf the Kingdom work. South Carolina has its state or ganization already set up, and Rev. W. S. Brooke, the organizer for South Carolina, already busy or ganizing the associations. The state organizaztion is as follows: Dr. C. A. Jones, Columbia, One of the most significant State Chairman; Rev. W. S. Brooke, movements in the history of the Columbia, State Organizer; J. L. Baptist denomination in America Corzine, Columbia, State Publicity is being planned for the immediate Director; Mrs. J. B. Boatwright, future Mullins, President of State W. M: The 25,705 Southern Baptist churches are uniting their efforts U.; Miss Vonnie Lance, Columbia, State W. M. U. Secretary; Dr. W. L. this fall to reach the 3,770,645; Ball, Spartanburg, President of Charles P. Steinmetz, perhaps the viard-surface of 7.653 miles of Southern Baptists in support of all Baptist State Convention, Rev. J. this depression, as it has ccme out • neighbor. Miss Nellie Gray of Wes of every preceding depression, stronger and more prosperous than ever. 1X1 Deaths Among The Colored People Stockbridge, Mass., who has done something the like of which I nev er heard of. She has given the Town of West greatest scientific mind we have R 0U t e No. 9 from end of present ever known in America, was a tu- pavement east of town to Lake bercular hunchback. Einstein gets yj ew his exercise by playing the violin! . — local and denominational causes. IS. Corponing, Lancaster, Mr. C. O. A -reat simultaneous canvass Milford, Greenville, President of will be made in all the churches Baptist Brotherhood of South Car- the week beginning November 28. olina, Mr. J. J. Lawton, Hartsville, Edison, mentally keen at 34, neve. | nteres t j n subject of taxation. The object will be to enlist every Mr - p - Coates, Columbia, p resi- took any form of exercise in nis Two ma j or proposals are being Baptist in the South in systematic dent State Baptist Sunday School tife. Charles Dickens died com- s ^ ron giy advocated. One is an in- and proportionate giving. Pledges Convention, Mr. B. R. Clardy, Mull- paratively young because cn .ab crease in inheritance taxes, the | will be taken for one year’s sup- j ^ 1S » President of State B. Y. P. U. notion that he could keep hb brain otber a g enera i sales tax. We have port of all local and denomina- convention WILLIE TALBERT Wj(]je Talbert, aged 18 years, died sbe was ^ en months old. Her gentb lumbia on August 24th, following a face m lier w Leel chair is familiar long illness. Funeral services were to everybody in the town. Up to held at Tranquill Church in McCor- 25 years ago a sister supported her, ' after the death of ^eir parents, sister’s death there Stockbridge $5,000 as recompense | in condition oy vigoiou^ daily sa j es ^xes now, Federal and State, tional causes. The combined goalj Plans call for the completion of for the 25 years -during which the physical exertion. Person* of a.- 0 n automobile sales, on gasoline, on for all local church purposes will.all organizations in state, associa- town supported her. That’s grati tude. Nellie Gray is 72 years old and has been a helpless cripple since o’clock p. m. and interment made , . .. in the church cemetery. J. S. bu t on the • Strom’s service in charge. MARTHA COVINGTON seemed to be no one to help, so the Select men have provided her a meager living out of the town funds every year since. There was a brother, but he had Martha Covington, aged 42 years, died at her home near McCormick on August 27th, after a long ill ness. Funeral services were con- left home and nobody knew where ducted at Tranquill Church on he was. Not long ago he was killed £i Ug the church" cemetery ent by “ ad t°mobUe. and it was dis Strom’s service in charge. I covered that he was worth $70,- erage ability can combine physical theatre tickets above a certain be $31,090,000.00 while the amount tions and local churches by October development with enough mental p r t ce> on stocks, on cosmetics, cig- sought for missions and benevol- 1. Over 5,000 persons will be en- development to get by in theat ars anc j cigarettes and many other ences will be $9,000,000.00, a com- , listed to complete these organiza-. jobs. But the person who would commo( jities. Why not extend the bined amount of $40,000,000.00. This tiens. October will be given ttK excel in either field must concen- . p r j nc ipi e to everything anybody amount is a worthy increase over i the training of those 5,000 persons trate solely on the one or the oth- bU y S 9 inheritance taxes are low, S Perhaps the best meihod i> esoeC i a iiy on large estates. Inherit- rs. Rinehart’s own. She drops all ance is a privilege bestowed by law, mental work for long vacations on not an i nberen t human right. Who her western ranch, living and rid- wou j ( j be i n j ure d by a law which ing in the open until her^ bodil> p r0 vided that nobody might inherit vigor is restored, then returning more than a million dollars, or to her writing. | enoU g b to care for a dependent TAXES I widow and children comfortably? 'the amounts contributed for these and November will be information causes last year. The increased month. The November work calls amounts, it is expected, will come for the reaching of every single largely from those who are not at Baptist, (there are 225,000 in South present enlisted in the support of Carolina), with information about the needs of the local church and the denomination at large. Many the churches. Organization Now Developing An organization reaching from , call this the largest movement ever each local church through the dis- ! launched by Southern Baptists, The Government deficit and the I I fully expect to see much high- trict associations and State con- , and state workers are already question of how we are to pay for er inheritance taxes and a more ventions will extend over the the great public works program in- | widely spread system of sales taxes ( whole Southern Baptist Conven- augurated largely to provide em- generally adopted before many | tion territory. No church or terri- ployment, have combined uo revive years. tory is to be left out cf this great highly pleased with the response of the churches and are expecting a great victory the week of Novem ber 28.