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/ f Cl TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirtieth Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, October 15, 1931 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 20 Cotton Report As Of October 1,1931 The SOUTH CAROLINA cotton estimate for October 1 at 929,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight is the same as a month earlier and dom pares with the 1930 total crop of 1,001,000 bales and a five-year average production, 1925-1929, of 836,000 bales. This is the second largest crop since 1920, the crops of 1926 and 1930 being 8.5 per cent and 7.8 per cent, respectively, above the present estimate. The pros pective yield of lint at 230 pounds f >er acre compares with 220 pounds ast year and is the highest since the 275 pounds per acre in 1920. The State’s record yield of 280 pounds was made in 1911. The past September was the dry- est on record, and unusually hot, but deterioration from this cause was about offset by less than usual weevil damage. The October 1 condition of 68 ;r cent is the highest of«the nast ;en years and compares with 65 per cent last year and an average of 48 per cent for the ten years 1920-1929. The estimate of 1,930,000 acres to be picked this fall is 11 per cent below that harvested last year and 1 per cent less than the 1,950,000 acres planted this spring. The Census report shows 371,000 running bales ginned in South Carolina prior to October 1, which compares with 378,000 ginned to this date last year; 163,000 in 1929; 121,000 in 1928; 334,000 in 1927; 359,000 in 1926: and 537.000 in 1925. The UNITED STATES cotton crop is forecast at 16,284,000 bales bv the United States Department of Agriculture, based upon condit ions as of October 1. This is an increase of 599,000 bales of 3.8 per cent above the September 1 fore cast. The indicated crop is 2,- 352,000 bales greater than the crop ginned in 1930 and 1.016,000 bales or 6.7 per cent above the 1925-1929 average of 15,268,000 bales. Since September 1 cotton crop prospects have improved^ greatly In Arkansas and Mississippi and to a smaller extent in Alabama, Geor gia, Tennessee and Missouri due to Iwt dry weather which was excep- tiuna^y luvoiaoie lor maturing tne crop. On the other hand, the hot dry weather in parts of the Belt, particularly in Oklahoma, caused S remature opening of the late bolls. a the northern portions of the Belt, cotton this year is not subject to the usual hazard from frost since a larger proportion of the crop than usual was open by Oc tober 1. Because of the rapid open ing of the crop during the latter part of the month, field loss of seed cotton is expected to be somewhat greater than usual and the possibility of loss from wind and rain is greater than usual. In the forecast some allowance was made for greater than average pot ential loss of open cotton, since the forecast relates to probable gin- nings. Condition oh October 1 was re ported at 69.3 per cent of normal, compared with 53.5 per cent on Oc tober 1, 1930 and a 10-year average of 53.3 per cent. Yield per acre is forecast at 190.5 pounds per acre, compared with 147.7 pounds in 1930 and a 10-year average of 154.4^00 ijnds. •Ginnings prior to October 1 are reppriefl by the Bureau of the Census at 5.408.000 running bales compared with 6,304,000 to October 1 last year. The figures, in thousands of bales, by States fol low: Virginia 6; North Carolina, 216; South Carolina, 371; Georgia, 650; Florida, 33: Missouri. 33: Ten nessee, 48; Alabama, 529; Missis sippi ,359: Louisiana. 300: Texas, 2,269; Oklahoma, 281; Arkansas, 269; New Mexico, 6; Arizona, 12; and California, 28. FRANK O. BLACK. Agricultural Statistician. Columbia, S. C. Oct. 9, 1931. X Utah Star Hurtles Over Opponents for Touchdown was woIl ,n 7 S -fi SC hL e ^I h L 0n,y * ouc 5, d t ° wn for his team against Washington in the game at Seattle, which ’ ’ . y e home side. The camera man caught a splendid close-up of the interference that made the score possible. State Fair Next Week Promises Many Splendid Attractions FRIDAY DAY FOR ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ATTEND FREE Cup Challenger Dies Sir Thomas J. Lipton will never contest again for the America Cup. The famed Irish yachtsman, who apent^J^ars in the U. S., failed-to rally from a cold. He was past 81. -XXX- Gtood wheat screenings, fed with clover or alfalfa hay, are wort! nearly ias much as good wheat a; feed for livestock. Grind screen ings before feeding to prevent tht Spread >ctf weed se^ds. . > COLUMBIA, Oct. 14.—Officials of the South Carolina State Fair, which will be given in Columbia, October 19-24, believe that the Fair is the place, this year, for peo ple to forget their troubles, and at the same time learn things to their advantage. They believe that their amusements are unexcelled among fairs, and that their exhib its are interesting and educational. • “We want the people of the State to pack up their troubles in their old suit case, so to speak. “Mr. Moore said” and come to the State Fair in great numbers this year. We have built the fair with a lavish hand and we know that those who don’t attend will be sor ry. The Fair wii! be this year, as heretofore, the meeting place of South Carolina, the same happy reunion grounds, with added at tractions. We believe people should go to extra effort this year to at tend the fair, for we believe that they will go away with a brighter view of South Carolina, with worthwhile object lessons, and with the joy that comes from moments spent in pleasant relationships, with troubles relegated to the back ground. We earnestly believe that the Fair h<is a big resoonsibilitv this year, and that we will meet it most successfully. We hope that many will make arrangements to stay over night and see “Sensations of 1931,” a great big rolicking beautiful ela borate musical revue that will be staged each night in front of the grandstand, a thing that pdople will not forget. This alone will be worth your trip to Columbia. We wish to emphasize the greatest midway attractions ever offered in the South, not to speak of the Vaudeville Acts each afternoon in front of the Grandstand and The Madison Square Garden Band. The Clemson-Carolina Game and other wonderful features. We want the people to stop and see the great exhibits—examples of what can be done in South Caro lina and by South Carolinians. We wish to call special attention to Friday, which is* School Day. All public school children and teach ers will be admitted free. No tickets needed, the honor system in vogue. The children and teachers simn 1 * 7 say, “We are from— School” and that does the work. so we hope the people will attend the State Fair as never before and will reap the benefits which we are sure await them.” Monday night, October 19, the opening of the State Fair, has been designated as COURTESY NIGHT by the Management, and no charge will be made for en trance to the grounds after 6:00 p. m. that day. The State Fair is confident that this will be the greatest fair ever offered in this section of the coun try, and every effort having been made to improve every depart ment, although some of the de partments had .already been re garded as the best in the South. *ne amusements, the exhibits, the music, the educational features have all been revised for this year, with the result that the 1931 Fair will eclipse all its worthy predecessors. “Never before, “according to Sec retary Moore, have we had so Joe Dukes Now President Of The Citadel Y. M. C. A. Joe S. Dukes, who returned this fall to the Citadel as a member of the senior class, is president of the Citadel Y. M. C. A. The “Y” is in many ways an outstanding or ganization at the Citadel and to be elected president is a signal honor. Dukes has been active in “Y” work since his freshman year and the promotion was well deserved. X Bethany TH. D. Club Meets Quarter trillion In Revenue From Gas Taxes For 6 Months The Bethany H. D. Club met Tuesday afternoon, October 6, and carried out the following pro gram: Song—America. Lord’s Prayer in concert. Some reading on Health—By Mrs. James Seigler. Mrs. R. H. Quarles and Miss Hazel Dunlap. Roll Call—Each member answer ed with some convenience we had in our kitchen or wanted to fix. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved. The club decided to try to fix a way for the school children to wash their hands, also to fix a way to prepare warm lunch for the school children during the winter months. The topic for our next meeting will be “renovating old Clothes.” X This Negro Farmer Never Runs Behind In 1901 Henry Tinsley, who then owned a mule and had a hundred or two dollars he had saved, bought a small farm in Union County and began operating on his own. Al though cotton then sold for only 6 to 8 cents a pound he finished pay ing for the place in 1904. He has been on the farm 29 years and has never run behind. “And I am not going to run be hind now or in future,” he declares. He pays little attention to prices in planning his crops, giving first thought to his home needs. But he grows about as much cotton as ever and stills treats it as nure sur- nlus. Three acres of orchard re turns his onerating cash while he is making his crop: he is one of the br- A erowprs in this section. “This depression don’t scare me a bit,” he says. x Many people have the polish and refinement of a good education without the good education. x When you burn your hand, put a little soda on the burn. Nothing however, helps sideburns. Gasoline taxes provided, in the first six months of 1931, a net revenue of $246,373,000 which is to be used principally for road pur poses according to information col lected from State authorities by the Bureau of Public Roads of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Nearly 7,118,000,000 gallons were taxed, an increase of 4 1-2 per cent over the same period last year. Consumption of gasoline increas ed in 36 States and decreased in 12 States. On the basis of the fig ures for the half year it is esti mated that the gasoline tax will yield a revenue exceeding a half billon dollars for the full year. The tax is now imposed in every Statq... Only 8 States increased the rate of tax within the six- months period. Two others made increases effective in July and Au gust. The total revenue derived was allocated as follows: Construction and maintenance of State high ways, $158,332,000 or.;64 per cent; for local roads, $48,417,000 or 20 per cent; State and county bond payments, $18,860,000 or 7 1-2 per cent; city streets, $10,157,000 or 4 per cent and the remainder of $10,- 607,000 or 4 1-2 per cent for collec tion costs and miscellaneous items. X Banker And 130 Cows About a year ago, Peter G. Gourdin, vice-president of the People’s State Bank and manager of its Kingstree branch, took a leading part in the bringing of 130 good grade dairy cows from Miss issippi into this section. The cows were bought in a drought-beset lo cality at low prices and were resold to farmers at cost. Most of the sales were on credit, with the cows and such scrubstock that the buy ers possessed as security. “The operation, including the financing, has been a success,” says Mr. Gourdin. “Every buyer is pleased with his purchase and the 130 cows have grown, by natural increase, to 160 head. The ex perience with them convinces me that the financing of livestock farming can be, if done carefully, a safe ari<| sound banking opera-- tion in South Carolina.” Out of the experience has come the Coastal Livestock Loan Asso ciation, which thas, or expects to have, credit resources of $100,000 at the start. These resources will be available for enabling farmers to get going with or to expand real livestock farming in the coastal area. The greater part of the $25,- 000 capital of the association is son the gate is being thrown op- free Monday Night is to give the Fair opportunity to show many people what a truly magnificent production this show is. The free acts, heretofore a popular feature, will be given as usual in the af ternoon, and will go into the revue ■ , , .. „ . _. as specialties. Then the Carolina j supplied by the Federal Govern- -Clemson game seems to attract ment, and that amount of capital more interest than ever before, and will make it possible for notes of should be a knock-out. In addi- members of the association to be tion, but far from the least, will be discounted at the Intermediate . -- the Model Shows of America—the V*rpHit Bank for an aggregate many fine exhibits, and they con- biggest Midway ever taken on tour . f d. inn nnn w i tinu^ to enter every day. Any far- —which were assembled esneciallv amount of $100,000. w. J. Spivey mer, looking to new ways for his for the Great Toronto Fair, and of Cades is president of the asso- farm can learn a lesson of great will be brought in tact to Columbia. r i a tion vaiue by coming to the Fair and D. D. Witcover, President of the ' ^ w J ^ studying these exhibits—(.an make Fair, is just as enthusiastic as Mr. “I believe that by adequate fin- his trip pay for itself many fold. Moore over the prospects. ancing livestock, particularly cat- And as for amusements, they will This is one event, of the year ,. hp made a maior resource be the finest any fair could hope that South Carolinians can’t a.f- can . . . ^ to -have. Sensations of 1931,” ford to miss—depression or no de- for putting agriculture back on a which will be presented before the pression—and we expect the at- hiehlv prosperous basis in our P„ a ?^„ n l e y ri :, nlght ' a ver y I tendance to .set up a new high * „ says Mr . Gourdin. ' i — 1 expensive production and one rea- j mark—Mr. Witcover eaidj WASHINCTON BY RADFORD MOBLEY (Special to The Messenger) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 13— Evidence is growing that next year’s presidential campaign will be fought out by Hoover and Roose velt as the candidates of the two major parties. The whispering campaign against the President, which had been getting out of hand in recent weeks, received a severe setback at the hands of for mer President Coolidge, whose op en appeal to all members of the G. O. P. to follow precedent and back Mr. Hoover in his desire for a second term startled the country. Mr. Coolidge applied no mean axe to the roots of the boom that his former supporters had started in his favor. His renunciation of the proffered candidacy was com plete. It lacked any of the un certainty of his famous “I do not choose to run” of four years ago. Without naming Mr. Hoover, he clearly indicated he considered him the only logical candidate for the Republicans in next year’s cam paign. He added that it did not appear common sense that he should now seek an office he could have run for four years ago with every prospect of winning. His nublic announcement has clarified the air regarding the Republican candidate while equally emphatic appears to be the demand by Dem ocrats that Governor Roosevelt of New York run on their ticket. Roosevelt’s recent visit to Geor gia, right into the heart of states that refused to support Alfred E. Smith in 1928, showed that their defection from the Democratic Par ty was not through their conver sion to Republican principles but to a dislike for the candidate. Roosevelt is personally popular and is considered strong enough to un ite the solid South and win enough Democratic supoort, besides New York State, in the? North to make his nomination certain. There is, in addition, the off chance that the Progressives may enter the field and name a third ticket, such men as Senator Borah, Governor Pinchot, Senator La Fol- lette and others being mentioned as possibilities, although none of the men named has done more than show himself in a receptive mood if the party proved strong enough to indicate it has more than a hope it can elect its stand ard bearer. Lately the third narty move ment is beginning to crystallize around a bimetallism platform, similar to the one Bryan ran on thirty-five years ago. This time the ratio most often spoken of is 14 to 1 instead of the famous 16 to 1 of Bryan. Silver advocates point to the fact that 800,000,000 people are now living under a silver stand ard and that the United States would be able to export to those countries on even terms with Eng land and the other countries who have recently left the gold stand ard, or who have never adopted it. Any silver platform will not lack for financial support from the larger mines, particularly in Nev ada. while Western farmers and stockmen generally believe that high prices for silver will release an enormous buying power for their products and restore pros perity to them and the rest of the country. Washington politicians are watching the silver question closely and some of them are pre dicting that one of the major par ties may come out openly for bi metallism. The imnending visit of Premier Laval of France for the plain pur pose of discussing the world de pression with the President, is ex citing much interest and specula tion here. Laval has held similar conferences with the premiers of England and Germany and he will be able to inform Mr. Hoover ex act! v what is being thought and done bv the Governments nf the other three leading nations in the world. England’s departure from gold will probably be one of the main topics, as it is a plain bid for markets that cannot be entered by us, except at a financial sacrifice as long as the United States remains on the gold standard. The election of a Democrat as Representative from the Seventh Missouri District has tied the two maior parties, numericallv. in f he Lower House at 214 Six other elections are to be held before Con gress meets—four of them being for seats normallv Republican and two Democratic. One of these seats is that of Nicholas Longworth, and the Democrats are bending everv energy to defeat the Republican nominee. As the Cincinnati vot ers are of German extraction and like their beer, the Democrats fig ure they have a chance to tie the House and possibly obtain a ma jority. in which case Representa tive Garner of Texas will speaker. In case of a final tie. Representa tive Kvale of Minnesota, the Far- Pro. Committee Of ! Edgefield Ass’n. M^ets Monday The promotion committee of the Edgefield association will meet Monday, October 19, with the Trenton Baptist church, at 11:00 o’clock a. m. All members of the committee are urged to be present, as business of great importance will be discussed at this meeting. Fraternally, G. W. GURLEY, Secretary. 1 jxt Post Office De partment Will Use Domestic Cotton WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Secre tary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde today cited the action of the Post Office Department in substituting cotton for jute in its specifications for large purchases of twine as an example of how government de partments are co-operating to aid in the present emergency. For the purpose of tying pack ages of letters the Post Office De partment utilizes about 80 carloads or close to 3,000,000 pounds of twine a vear. For many years the postal serv-r ice has been using jute twine. Jute is not a domestic product but is imported from India. At the request of the Depart ment of Agriculture the Post Of fice Department will specify cotton twine for use in the postal service, and an advertisement is about to be issued calling for bids for 1,300,- 000 pounds, covering the needs of the service for a six-months period beginning January 1, 1932. The cotton industry is co-operating also to overcome the higher price of cotton twine which has heretofore prevailed. The cotton industry has indicated that it is possible to manufacture a special cotton twine that will compete favorably with the jute as to price, quality, and usefulness. With the aid of the Bureau of Standards new specifications for cotton twine have been formulated and the Post Office Department be lieves that cotton twine furnished under these specifications will prove very satisfactory not only as to auaHtv and usefulness, but also as to price. —x Big-Scale Farmer Sure Of Land Worth “Anyone with sense enough to buy good land in either of the Carolinas and will power enough to hold on to it can lay the founda tion of riches right now,” says Capt. Nathan O’Berry, State Treas urer of North Carolina and one of the biggest farmers in the Eastern section of his State. “I own four to five thousand acres of farm land and am not worrying a bit about it,” he de clares. Captain O’Berry has long been an outstanding business man as well as farmer. “At 15x years old I went to work for a railroad in the panic year of 1873,” says he. “I’ve seen the economic pendulum swing back and forth extremely a half dozen times. There is no question that it will swing forth again. Remem ber how we made darn fools of our selves in 1921, when anybody could have got rich by going out and buying almost anything and hold ing on to it. Farm land is about the best of all buys now.” 1 XT If a widower spruces up, all the neighbor women wonder who she' is. ^ Hindenburg Reaches 84 Gcrmath , ’s aged president and former commander of its imperial armies is still active in spite of his years. gressional perquisites from one of become the parties in return for his sup port. It is not unlikely that Rep- ntative Kvale will be more in the limelight in the coming session mer-Laborite. will cast the decid- of ^. 0 ^f^ s 1 .yif 1 n t ^p y Tower r House i«or vr»to orw-i win likpiv ept a now- or at least until the Lower House ing vote and will likely get a pow . ihairsiaiiship. and ether fion effects permanent organization.