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\ t J Thursday, September 24, 193T McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA S PAGE NUMBER FOUR McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office fit Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months.50 ON TOP OF THE HEAP “It’s an ill wind that blows no good”—is an old axiom, but appar ently as true today as ever. Whoever would have thought we should be rejoicing over any phase of this depression business? Yet, that is exactly what Dr. Harold J. Knapp, Health Commissioner of Cleveland, is doing; because he finds in that city considerable de cline in disease with the' general health of the neople there greatly improved. His theory is that people eat less in times like these, that their diet contains fewer luxuries and *that health is improved by plain food. Carefully planned meals cost less money. The less one spends for food the more important milk be comes. Milk is all food, no waste. The least amounts of food which can be used with safety are—Ev ery Meal: milk for the children, bread and butter for all; Every Day; cereal, potatoes, green or yellow vegetables, fruit, tomatoes or oranges for children; Two to Four Times a Week: Tomatoes for all, dried beans, peas or peanuts, eggs —especially for children—lean meat, fish, poultry, cheese. Amounts to suit the size of family. Simple, plain foods «these—but they offer protection and bring health at a cost in keeping with a decreased food allowance. X HARD TIMES AND MATRIMONY From all over the country we get reports that there are more people getting married than there have been for a long time. Naturally, there are exactly as many women as th^rfe are men going in at this time for this justly famous experi ment. Some of the people who have no ticed the increase in marriage li censes wonder how these young people have the courage to take the jump when jobs are scarce and none too secure. But we think the answer is to be found in the old saying that two can live as cheaply as one. That isn’t literally true, but it certainly is true that if both will do their share two people can live together more economically than the two of them can live sep arately. we nave been told of several cases where the young man lost his job and the girl kept hers. They had been engaged for some time but were waiting to get more of a stake together before hitching up. Perhaps they might have kept on waiting for years had not fate, in the shane of hard times, interven ed. And in a great many cases, we are sure, marriage has been hast-, cned because the young woman is out of work and no longer feels the sense of independence which she had when her pay envelope came along every Saturday. On the whole, we think this get ting married when times are hard is a good thing. We were begin ning to fear th^t matrimonv was going out of fashion. It is a long time since we had heard a man under forty boast that he had no thing byt a fifteen dollar a week job and enough cash for the par son’s fee and the first installment on the furniture when he and the girl teamed up for life. But we know many men cf the older gen eration who give all the credit for their success in life to the fact that thev married young and poor, and had to hold their noses right down tight on the grindstone while they were still young enough to acquire the habit of hard work. For a while it seemed as if work, too, were going out of fashion. There are net sc manv youngsters complaining because they have to do something for their pay as there were a couple of years ago. Work is not something to be ashamed of any more. And we don’t know of anything so well calculated to make a useful working citizen out of a young man—or young woman, either—than to get married at a time when work is scarce and those who want to hold their jobs have to do a lot of it. Y FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW POPULAR negligent motorist holds the finan cial sack, as he should. In all probability it will not be long before an appreciable number of states have similar laws to the benefit of the public at large.—In dustrial News Bureau. XX* The Goose And The Golden Eggs The Blue Ridge railroad has dis continued freight service between Seneca and Walhalja. the county seat of Oconee county. This was done because there was not enough business to pay the expense of operating the train. It had been taken by trucks. If that sort of thing keeps on, it is only a ques tion of time till railroads will be a memory of the past like the stage coach. And the people will have to dig deep to make uo the amount of taxes the railroads are now chinning into the public cof fers. When that freight service , was dicontinued, it moved the editor of the Keowee Courier, the county papSr of Oconee, to go to the treasurer’s office and do a lit tle inquiring. He ascertained that the Southern and Blue Ridge roads paid in taxes in Oconee county last year $86,292.76. That’s a sizable sum. Its loss would be felt, es- necially by taxpayers who wofild have to cough up to make good the deficit. • There is as much chance cf getting that much in taxes from buses and trucks in Oconee county as there is of putting the capitol jr> Columbia in your vest pocket. “You never miss the water until the well goes dry.” When railroads pass out, taxpayers are going to be sorry, very sorry, that they did not keen them in business.—Anderson Independent. * tXl S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record cf industrial activity lists items showing invest ment of capital, employment of la bor and business activities and op portunities. Information from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be con sidered generally correct. LOi PRICES M IHMi J. B. Smith’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 to pay. Choice Steak, pound 20c Choice Stew Beef, pound 12-c Choice Roast pound 15c Mixed Sau sage, 2 pounds 35c This market handles only the very best grades of meats to be 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 Augusta and Pine Streets McCORMICK. S. C. * Specials For Friday and Saturday At Our Store Include: LARD, 8 lb. Bucket 75c 10c 10c V SJ -. : . North Carolina, following the lead of California and other states, has adooted a Financial Respon sibility Law for motorists. • The law, of the familiar pattern, provides that a person failing to satisfy a judgment shall have his license suspended until he gives proof of financial responsibility, 1 either through an insurance policy, 0£- a persona] corporate surety bond. This type cf law is finding in creasing support throughout the nation, and it is noteworthy that demand for unconditional compul sory automobile casualty insurance of the Massachusetts kind, is sel dom heard. The experience of the Bay State, with its congested courts, rising accident record, fak ed claims and increased insurance rates has acted as a warning to other commonwealths. One can find little fault with the Financial Responsibility Law. Its principal virtue is that it puts the responsibility and cost where it belongs—on those who 'Cause ac-; ■cidentsp—and does not penalize the careful, responsible driver. The Yemassee — Stretch of paving on Highway No. 28 between this place and Air^eda completed and opened to traffic. Allendale — M. P. Hazel estab lished c-eam buying station here recently. Lower bridge over Black River on Route No. 26 from Kingstree to An drews. completed. Kingstree — Miss Mary Cather ine Epps opened piano studio in her residence. Belton — Cameo Theatre reopen ed. Star mail route re-established be tween Yemasse and Barnwell via Allendale and Hampton. Walterboro — Interior and front of Piggly Wiggly Store being re modeled. I Spartanburg — Lyman plant of Pacific Mills Corporation to con struct $500,000 addition. Anderson — Route No. 29 south of this city toward Georgia line to be paved. Newberry — Julian Smith open ed lunch stand on lower Main Street. Greer — R. E. Johnson Coal Yard opened for business. Hartsviile — M. R. Mishoe took over management of J. H. Chap man Grocery Store. Columbia — C. M. Guest & Sons received $41,472 contract for con struction of new cell block at State Penitentiary. , Sumter — American Railway Ex press Co., moved offices to Atlantic Coast Line passenger depot. Greer — Home-Ond Store opened on Hill Street. - Belton — Bridge across Saluda River on Belton-Greenville County read completed. Newberry — Poultry * plant may move to this city. X Cotton Convention To Be Postponed COLUMBIA, Sept. 20.—J. S. Wan- namaker, president of the Ameri can Cotton Association, announced today that the southwide conven tion cf cotton farmers and others scheduled to be held in New Or leans October 1-3, has been post poned until November 16-18. ' The convention was called two months ago to complete plans for cotton acreage reduction next year. Mr. Wannamaker said del egates representing farmers, ban kers, merchants and others in terested in cotton had pledged at tendance and support of the cur tailment program. tXx Motor Freight Rate Increase Is Changed From Oct. 1-Nov. 1 LARD, in bulk, Per Pound SALMON, Genuine ^Pink, Can O. K. SOAP, 6 Bars MEAT, good and thick, Pound CORN FLAKES, Kellogg’s, 2 packages FLOUR, 24 pounds We handle the best to be had in Beef, Pork, Sau sage, Veal, Cured and Smoked Meats. We buy and* sell good country produce. In the market at all times for cattle and hogs. 10c 15c ■m- James G. Scripps, <of the Scrjpps-Canfield chain of newspapers, sur prised everybody by his unannounced marriage in Seattle, Wash., to Miss Marion E. Bates, daughter of Dr. U. C. Bates, surgeon, capitalist and aviator They are honeymooning in Honolulu Former Anderson County Treasurer Gets Sentence Estimate Yield Of 956,485 Bales Cotton In State $4,090 FINE ALSO ADDED TO SEN TENCE OF J. R. C. GRIFFIN COLUMBIA Sept. 19.—The ef fective date of the uniform mo tor freight rate was changed from October 1 to November 1, today by the state railroad commission and October 8 was set as the date the commission would hear argu ments on a petition for rehearing filed by a group of motor rate car riers. In an order of September 1 the commission directed the carriers, to put into effect October 1 uniform rates 10 per cent higher than the rates charged by railroads. The Anderson Independent of yesterday says, in part, J JR. C. Griffin who served Anderson coun ty approximately 13 years as coun ty treasurer was yesterday sen tenced to serve four years in the state penitentiary or on the public works of Anderson county and pay a fine of $4,000 as a result of his conviction of embezzlement of An derson county funds by a jury in General Sessions court here last Friday morning. The former treasurer who was convicted after a trial which last ed more than ten days took the sentence calmly and his attorneys immediately served notice before Judge Mendel L. Smith, who pro nounced the sentence, of an appeal to the supreme court for another trial. The former treasurer was re leased yesterday afternoon on a $7,500 bond pending the appeal to the supreme court. Judge Smith wasted little time in overruling the motion for a new trial presented by the defense at torneys, Messrs. Watkins, Hood and Sullivan. The arguments of the three attorneys which were heard immediately after the court con vened following the noon recess, consumed more than half an hour of the time of the court .following which Judge Smith stated that he would have to overrule the motion of the defense attorneys. The rest of his remarks were directed at Mr. Griffin who sat at the table with the defense attorneys. The investigation into the ad ministration of the affairs of Grif fin’s office was started by the An derson county grand jury in 1929 after certain irregularities in the Lebanon school district finances were called to the attention of that body. A resolution nassed by the grand jury at that time re quested a “fair and impartial au dit” of all county offices, by an out-of-state auditing firm, this sti pulation leading to employment of Morton and Co., of Atlanta and Philadelphia. ^ Card Of Thanks ESTIMATE ANNOUNCED FOL LOWING SURVEY MADE BY ROCK HILL BANK, FROM RELIABLE SOURCES A. H. FAULKNER Main Street McCormick, S. C. We wish to express our sincerest appreciation ol the kind assistance, the comforting words of consola tion, and the beautiful floral offer ings during our sad bereavement in the loss of our daughter and little sister, Annette. , „ Mr and Mrs. G. J. Sanders. Jr., and Family. x Card Of Thanks I wish to .thank all -who were so kind to and thoughtful of me dur ing my recent illness. S y MRS. W. S. PIPKIN. ROCK HILL, Sept. 19.—Response to inquiries sent throughout South Carolina by the Peoples National Bank of Rock Hill would indicate a total cotton yield this year for the state of 956,485 bales as against a total yield last year of 1,015,275 bales. The August 1st estimate of the South Carolina crop by the gov ernment announced on August 3th was 826,000 bales. The September 1st estimate of the South Carolina crop announced on September 3th by _the -government _was_ 929,000 bales. The estimate of the Peoples Na tional Bank of Rock Hill was com piled from information received from reliable sources in each coun ty in the state. Recent reports from some sections indicate boil | weevil investigation and also some deterioration in certain sections due to the limited use of fertiliz- , er. The estimate of the Peoples Na tional Bank by counties is as fol lows: County 1931 1930 Est. Yield Yield Abbeville 16,500 17,720 Aiken 31,300 28,931 Allendale 6,500 7,136 Anderson 60,900 65,918 Bamberg 14,864 15,265 Barnwell 15,000 19,637 l Berkeley _ 2.500 3.392 Calhoun _ 16,350 16,925 ' Charlestor 1,150 1,609 Cherokee 19,000 21.276 Chester __ 23,641 23,763 Chesterfie 28,000 34,463 Clarendon 16,000 19,622 Colleton _ 10,500 10,463 Darlingtor 21,500 20,142 Dillon ___ 25,500 28,560 Dorchestei 6,300 6,568 Edgefield 16,000 19.242 Fairfield 10,122 10,793 Florence _ 23,000 20,467 Greenville 55,000 57,749 Greenwoo* 18,000 18,256 Hampton 7,500 7,311 Horry ___ 1,321 2,202 Jasper — 1,500 1,893 Kershaw - 23,450 21,928 Lancaster 16,800 15,905 Laurens _ 32,500 35,044 Lee 28,000 28,266 Lexington 16.600 18,351 McCormic 7,437 7,359 Marion __ 10,500 10,839 Marlboro 40,125 46,160 Newberry 23,000 24,776 Oconee __ 18,500 21,165 Orangebui 62,500 63,222 Pickens _ 23,800 20,106 Richland 8,350 8,780 Saluda __ 14.000 13,059 Spartanbu 80,000 88,213 Sumter __ 31,000 32,415 Union — 17,125 19,226 Williamsbi 15,200 16,398 York. 39,OW» 36,204 All other —— 650 2,054 EVERYBODY / can afford Goodyears now GOODYEAR PATHFINDER $9.60 the pair 29x4.40 (4.40-21) size other sizes equally low Tires are the most inexpensive part of using a car today. You know that as well as we do. So why not ride with pride on THE leading make — Goodyears. It’s one luxury that costs you nothing extra to enjoy. Come in and see how little money it t'* 1 GULF SERVICE STATION Near Dorns’ Ginnery Phone 40 J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. McCormick, S. C. Totals 956,485 1,015,273 SERVICE-- We render prompt and satisfactory service to McCormick and vicinity twice each week. If you are not already patronizing us, we both are missing something. We clean all kinds of wearing apparel, and hats, at very small cost. Every job must be satisfactory, or we won't take your money. GREENWOOD DRY CLEANING CO. “Always Dependable** BOYD DALXON, Solicitor