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November 5, 1931 (iER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN TASK al MNhi :!3 MET BY BED CBOSS relief Given to Distressed Helps in Meeting Serious Situation, Chairman Payne Says. AFTER 40 bowel trouble Constipation may very easily become chronic after forty. And any continued constipation at that time of life may bring attacks of piles and a host of other unpleasant disorders. Watch your bowels at any age. Guard them with particular care after forty. Whenever they need iny help, remember a doctor should know what is best for them. • “Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin” is a doctor's prescription for the bowels. Tested by 47 years’ practice, it has been found thoroughly effective in relieving consti pation and its ills for men, women and children of all ages. It has proven perfectly safe even for -babies. Made trom fresh laxative herbs, pure pepsin and other harmless ingredients, it cannot gripe; will not sicken you or weaken you; can be used without harm as often as your breath is bad, or when your tongue is coated; whenever a headachy, bilious, gassy'condition warns of constipation. Dr. W. B Caldwell’s SYRUP PEPSIN : A Doctor's Family Laxative t TREASURER’S NOTICE* The County Treasurer’s Office will be open for the purpose of re ceiving taxes from the 1st day of October, 1931, to the 15th day of March, 1932. All taxes shall be due and pay able between the 1st day of (Octo ber, 1931 and December 31, 1931. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31, 1931. the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not f »aid on or before February 1, 1932, he County Auditor will proceed to add Two Per Cent and Five Per Cent from the 1st of March to the 15th o^ March, after which time unpaid taxes will be collected by the Tax Collector. < The tax levies for the year 1931 are as follows: For State Purposes 5 mills For County Purposes 14 mills For Bonds i 10 mills Constitutional School Tax 3 mills 6-0-1 Law 4 mills Mt. Carmel School District No. 1 2 mills Willington S. D. No. 2 ___ 5 mills • Bordeaux S. D. No. 3 2 mills McCormick S. D. No. 4 and Bonds 24 mills Buffalo S.D. No. 5 10 mills Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mills S. D. No. 7 00 mills Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 __ 10 mills Young’s S. D. No. 10 2 mills Wideman’s S. D. No. 11 2 mills Milway S. D. No. 13 ' 8 mills Robinson S. ,D. No. 14 10 mills Domville S. D. No. 15 8 mills Liberty Hill S. D. No. 16 8 mills Lyon’s S. D. No. 17 8 mills Hibler S. D. No. 18 8 mills Vernon S. D. No. 21 4 mills Plum Branch S. D. No. 24 . and Bonds 24 mills Consolidated S. D. No. 1, Parksville, Modoc and Clarks Hill, and Bonds __17 mills All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except those exempt by law, are liable to a noil tax of $1.00 each. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 55 years must pay $2.00 commuta tion tax or work six days on the ; public ^roads. Commutation tax is included in property tatf receipt. T. J. PRICE, Treasurer, McCormick County. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE On the 20th day of ’November, 1931. I will make a final settlement in the office of the Judge of Pro bate at McCormick as administra tor of the estate of Samuel Minor, deceased, and ask for a discharge. All persons holding claims should present them before that date, properly attested. SAMUEL MTNOF. JR.. , Administrator. October 20, 1931.—4t. “The year of the great drought,” as those past twelve or more months v/ill be known to future generations, wrought great damage to millions. Not alone did the crops, which were burned in the fields in twenty-throe states, in the summer of 1930, deprive several million persons of food, but the drought disaster continued in the summer of 1S31 in the northwestern states, and also brought gther minor catastrophes in its wake, such as for est fires, and the grasshopper plague. More than a year has elapsed since the American Red Cross launched, in August, 1930, its first moves for relief of the drought-stricken farmers, and in that time more than 2,750,000 per sons were given food, clothing, med ical aid, shelter or other type of as sistance. At no period during this year were there fewer than 70,000 persons being aided and at the peak of the relief work on March 1, last, more than 2,000,000 persons were be ing helped. Today, still- a$ a result of the drought, the Red Cross is giving ex tended relief in parts of North Dakota. Washington and Montana, where re sources of hundreds of families were wiped out this past summer, when a second and more severe spell of dry weather was prolonged in that region. This drought relief presented the greatest task that has ever been un dertaken by the Red Cross as a peace time activity. The Mississippi Valley flood of 1927, while more spectacular, agd calling;for relief of a costlier type,, because homes and possessions were swept away, affected hardly one-fourth the number of people who suffered be cause of the drought. In addition to the broad program of drought relief still being carried on, John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, has given the following suggestion to Chapter chairmen, in regard to unemployment relief: “Where there is suffering and want from any cause and the funda mental local ne£ds*are not being met. Chanters may participate in the com munity plans', for meeting the nee*d.” Some type cf general family relief, whether for the drought victims, the unemployed or the war veteran and his family, were carried on by more than 3,000 Red Cross Chapters last year. Judge Payne said. “The drought relief work cf 1030- 31,” he added, “the relfef now being extended following last summer’s drought, principally in Montana and North Dakota; the assistance which is being given to ex-service men and their families; and the part which several hundred Chapters arb taking locally in their communities’ relief measures are activities of the Red Cross, national and local, which hav* met and are meeting some of the seri ous needs of the present situation RED GROSS RELIEF IN 79 DISASTERS IN YEAR Forest Fires, Plagues, Storms, Earthquakes, as Well as Drought, Call for Help. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE- « MENT AND DISCHARGE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Countv of McCormick. In the Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given that Edgar R. Price, administrator of the Es tate of James W. Price, has this day made application unto me for a final accounting and discharge as administrator of the Estate of James W. Price, and that on Sat urday, the 21st day of November, 1931, at eleven o’clock, has been fixed for the hearing of the said petition. All persons holding claims against said Estate are hereby noti fied to present same, properly at tested, on or by the above date. L. G. BELL, Judge of Probate for McCormick County. v October 28th, 1931.—4t. An amplifier to increase the Volume of tone from a violin or cello has been tested and found satisfactory in Paris- <'» The forest fires which have raged in Idaho and other western sections this year have presented a serious dis aster—one of a number, in addition in the enormous drought relief problem, which have been met by the American Red Cross relief forces. Suffering, faith and courage art contained in a story coming from the Priest River section in Idaho, told by a volunteer Red Cross worker as fol lows: “Picture a happy little homestead near the banks of Priest river in northern Idaho. While father, with s little son tagging at his heels, is out tending crops and adding to the clear ing, mother is at home making prepa rations for another arrival. Then comes the fire demon, sweeping all in its path. While father fights to pro tect his little home, the stork an nounces its arrival. “Mother and baby are bundled in a quilt and loaded on a truck for the race through the flaming forest. Father drives the truck and the little boy sits at his mother’s side, brushing away the sparks which fall like raii^ upon the improvised litter.” To the Red Cross worker, the mother expressed her anxiety to return to the hills to rehabilitate the little homo stead. All they possessed was lost in the forest fires. The Red Cross aided all of the families and is working to help them rebuild their homes. Altogether seventy-nine disasters called for Red Cross help and money during the year just closed. Aside from the drought, which required ser vices of volunteer workers numbering more than 60,000, and a drought relief fu~d of more than $15,000,000 of which $5,000,000 came from the national Red Cross treasury, help was given in 2" fires, 13 torpedoes, eight storms and eight floods, six forest fires, four earthquakes and four mine explosioiir three typhoons and three epidemlci- two cloudbursts, and one each hum cane, mine cave-in and railroad acci dent. Aside from a major catLBtrophe such as the drought, when the whoU ULTIMATE CONSUMER HE WILL LIVE FOREVER This baby in a drought stricken section cf \A/est Virginia was one of the ultimate consumers of the foodstuffs given by the American Red Cross .in the past year. More than 2,750,000 persons were fed by the organization. public was asked to contribute funds for relief. Red Cross relief in these disasters was met from the organiza tion’s funds and from special local con tributions. Part of each membership, subscribed to Red Cross Chapters at the roll call period from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day, goes toward this important work. Aid for War Veterans More than 430,000 ex-service men and their families were aided through 3,008 Red Cross Chapters and the na tional organization during the year ending June 30, 1931. Dependent families were cared for, veterans’ claims were filed, hospitalization ob tained and many other services given. Part of each contribution during the American Red Cross annual roll call. Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day, goes toward supporting this vital work for veterans of the World War and other wars in which the United States has engaged. Books for the Blind Through American Red Cross Chap ters, 3,827 volumes of novels, class I books and others, transcribed into braille for blind readers, have been added to libraries, in the past year. These books are to be obtained through the Library of Congress and city libra ries. This activity, carried on by a great number of devoted women volunteers in Red Cross Chapters, had its incep tion in preparing books for war blinded. Chief Justice Hughes In Tribute to Red Crocs One of the finest tributes ever paid the American Red Cross and its membership was that by Chief Jus tice Charles Evans Hughes, of the United States Supreine Court, on the occasion pit the fiftieth birthday anniversary cj^Ehe organization on May21of tMyfc&kr. Mr.Hughes said: “The American Red Cross repre sents the united voluntary effort of the 'American people in the minis try of mercy. It is the finest and most effective expression of the American heart. It knows no par tisanship. In the perfection of its cooperation, there is no blemish of distinctions by reason of race or creed or political philosophy. “However we may differ in all things else, in the activities of the Red Cross we are a united people. None of our boasted industrial en terprises surpasses it in efficiency, . .. It moves with the precision and the discipline of an army to achieve the noblest of human aims.* “The American Red Cross is not only first in war but first in peace. The American people rely upon its ministrations in every great catas trophe. It has given its aid in over one thousand disasters. When, as we hope, war will be no more, still the Red Cross, in the countless ac tivities of relief and rehabilitation, will continue to function as the or ganized compassion of our country.” It has been given to few men to completely revolutionize the world’s way of living and its habits of thought. Fewer still have lived to see the full fruition of their ! achievements. Thomas Alva Edi son, in the course of his own life time, almost literally turned the world upside down. If Edison had done nothing but to invent the multiplex tele graph and the telephone transmit ter which made Bell’s invention practical, his fame would have been world wide. In speeding up communications he speeded up the tempo of all human life. If he had invented nothing more than the phonograph, he would still oe rated among the great inventors of all times. The phonograph brought good music for the first time to the ears of hundreds of millions all over the world, and has unquestionally been the greatest stimulus to musi cal development and musical taste in all history. If his only inven tion had been the incandescent electric light, his name would be hailed everywhere as the world’s greatest benefactor. This invention alone has lengthened the human day in every corner of the civilized world, has changed all the world’s ideas of entertainment, of lousing, our whole manner of living and consequently our manner of think ing. If Edison’s sole achieve ment had been the motion picture, on what a pedestal for that alonje we would hold his memory. He gave the world a marvelous new means of looking at itself, brought to the remotest hamlet, even be yond the frontiers of civilization, not merely a new form of enter tainment, but the most powerful organ of education in its broad sense that has yet been devised. Yet so marvelously active was this man’s mind, so resourceful and ingenious, that even that list of great accomplishments does not begin to cover all that he did. lie took the first crude typewriter and made it work. He invented the mimeograph. He invented ^the megaphone. ‘ He invented the machinery on which the whole great Portland cement‘ industry is based. It was the so-called “Edison effect,” a new scientific principle which he discovered while experimenting with the electric light that gave Marconi the clue on which to develop wireless teleg raphy and so, in a very direct way, Edison was the father of radio broadcasting. He was one of the few inventors who was practical enough to devel op his own inventions commercial ly and make money from them. Yet throughout his life he retained the boyish curiosity, the youthful eagerness to learn that had pos sessed him as a school boy. Be cause he was so eminently practi cal in the application of his inven tions, and because his formal schooling had been so brief, he had the popular reputation of being an unscientific, rule-of-thumb inven tor. As a matter of fact, he had probably the broadest and deepest knowledge and understanding of the physical and chemical sciences that any one brain ever possessed. Edison’s life completely filled Dean Swift’s description of a bene factor of humanity as being a man who made two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before. “He was a man. Take him for all in all. We shall not look upon his 4ike again.” 1X1 the production organization num bers twenty domestic plants whicls produced a four-year average d* more than a million cars a year. Although operations were started, in Detroit, the small shop where the first car was built soon yielded to a larger plant, also in the Motor City. Here the company remained until 1913, and then transferred op erations to Flint, Mich., although New York City and Tarrytown, N> Y., also occupied prominent piacer- in the early years. As long ago as 1915 the companj entered the volume field with tli/ introduction of the once-famonx “490” model, named for its price- This was the lowest price at which a Chevrolet was ever sold until the base price on the 4931 series wa* reduced, upon the introduction -cf this line last fall, to $475. Production of “490’s” the firsl year was 70,000 cars, many timet that of any previous year’s output. The company was thus definitely launched in the volume field, ih which it later was to assume lead ership. Since that early time the history of the company reads like a Horatic Alger romance of industry. The story is one of almost constant growth and expansion. One of the dates most prominent in the de velopment of that story is May 2. 1918, when General Motors tqdk over the company. Extensive changes in personnel and method* followed in the succeeding years. Under the stimulus of new blood and new policies, production i* 1925, went over the half-millio® mark fbr the first time. Two yean later it exceeded a million cars. Up to this time the output eF the company for many years wa* exclusively four cylinder cars. O® November, 18, 1928, the company announced its abandonment of th* four cylinder field, where it ha£ won pre-eminence, and brought oni a six. In the very first year tht new type exceeded all previous rec- ordd qf the smaller four, and today the company is leading the indus try in sales. The present executive personnel comprises. W. S. Knudsen, presides! and general manager; H. J. Kling- ler, vice-president and general, sales manager; M. E. Coyle, vice- president and general auditor; C. 3L Wetherald, General Manufacturing- manager, and J. M. Crawford, Chie? Engineer. TH1NGSW ORTH KNOWING The world’s tallest people arc the Polynesians, who average five feet eight in height. Wooden wheels for subway cars are being tried in London 1m see whether they will materiaHy lessen noise and prove durable. Chevrolet Company Started In 1911 Once having a population cf 5,000 when it was a flourishing; mining camp, Atlanta, in Elsnune county, Idaho, has j dined flic ranks of ghost cities of-the -nesfc and now has a population of foifer seven. The Doeing system has complel- ed 10,000,000 miles of flight wztte. air mail. New York claims the lowest deatSt rate for large cities—11.2 a 1,000— over a three-year period. AND HAS MADE VERY REMARK ABLE GROWTH DURING THE 20 YEAR PERIOD Madame Chiang Kai-shek, ttie “first lady of China,” has taken the lead in an attempt to encour age women to use only Chinese grown products. A push button on a lamp pos& at a busy intersection in Paris al lows pedestrians to halt motor traf fic for fifteen seconds. Turtles are found throughodl the world, except in the very coM regions. Dr. W. B. Everett is both pastor and physician in Sterling Cl&jt Texas. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 3.—Twenty years ago this past week an infant company destined for a hardy growth entered the family of auto motive manufacturers, with the in corporation, on November 3, 1911, of the Chevrolet Motor Company of Michigan, acocrdin g to announce ment from Chevrolet headquarters. That span of two decades covers tural statistics. probably the most remarkable growth in this most remarkable of Urban sportsmen of California all industries. During the twenty fly 600 miles to Sierra Nevada years following the completion of mountain fishing spots, the first Chevrolet, nearly 8,000,000 Michigan State College was t&e first to offer a course in agricuft- units had been built—a record un equalled by any other automotive manufacturer in the world. Twenty years ago the cradle of the infant company was a small workshop on Grand River Avenue, The “Ole Bell” inn, at Pinners Green, England, a favorite haont of Dick Turpin some 300 years is to be demolished. A sixteen-year-old automobile^ Detroit, where Louis Chevrolet built | which has traveled 145,000 mile*, experimental cars, not more than has been added to Henry Foitfk: four or five that first year. Today museum. ./I f r f /, J V. v a*