McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, November 05, 1931, Image 7
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
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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-
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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.
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