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/ ^Thursday, November 19, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA i'AGE (MEMBER TWO i®'? 1- im-.' 5be«.‘4/ •ff-fiADlffVrV MFCCUMriTP i thinking of your hard luck and try nCLUtillllLIV lUEjOoEiilUElV I for one day to think of all the g00d Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 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 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 CHILDREN ON WHEELS The chance of an automobile ac cident is much greater if the driver is under twenty than when he or she is over thirty, according to sta tistics compiled by one of the large accident insurance companies. The records of some four million licen sed automobile drivers were exam ined and it was found that by far the highest percentage of accidents occurred when children under age were driving a car. There are still a good many states and communties where very little or no inquiry is made into the qualifications of anyone who wants to drive a car. In the majority of the states today licenses are re quired, but the examinations and driving tests vary. And there are still a great many places in which any child who is physically able to hafig on to the steering wheel and reach the pedals is allowed to drive. Of course, the earlier in life one learns to drive, the more confid ence the motorist acquires and the better he or she is likely to be as time goes on. But we think there is a great deal of wisdom in the law which obtains in some states, tinder which no one under eighteen may be licensed to drive, and then only after a severe road test of ability. In order to learn to drive before applying for a license, young people in states where this law ob tains must always have with them on /the front seat an experienced licensed driver. There will always be parents who will let their children talk them into taking out the car, whether really fit to drive it or not, and children will always want to get out on the road and “step on it.” That is human nature, and it would not be anybody else’s concern if people driving cars were not a men ace to other motorists and pedes- .trians. ' -X things that have come your way, since last Thanksgiving. There is, perhaps, spiall consola tion in that for people who have lost their faith in spiritual things. But we believe that the great ma jority of Americans, by whatever name they may call their religious creeds, still believe that there is a Divine Providence which has guid ed and still will guide our nation, and when we consider the state of most of the people of the rest of the world, we feel that there is ample ground for a National Thanksgiving Day. • rxr WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH . AMERICA? THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving Day has become such a universally observed nation- al holiday that few people realize that its general observance on the last Thursday in November is quite a recent development. All of the states of New England and some of the other northern states,, had an annual day of thanksgiving by the proclamation of the Governor, but while this custom came from the earliest colonial times, it seldom happened that more than two or three states picked the same day. The real “mother of Thanksgiv ing Day” was Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale, who was the editor of the first magazine published Especially for women, Godey’s Lady’s Book. Mrs. Hale, before 1850, tried to get the President of the United States to issue si proclamation for a na tional Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. Ruth E. Finley, in her new book, “The Lady of Godey’s,” tells how she bombarded president after president with her demand until, in 1863, President Lincoln issued the first national thanskiving proclamation, naming the last Thursday in November as its date. From that time on every President has , issued such a proclamation, and since the 1870’s the Governor of every state has also proclaimed the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. Since there has We have not seen any more in telligent or biting explanation of the economic depression from which the country seems now to be beginning to emerge than that which was written a little while ago by Miss Emily Woodward, pdi- tor of the Vienna (Ga.) News. This is what Miss Woodward said about it: A people, for the most part ac customed to living moderately and even frugally prior to the war, we launched into an orgy of spending such as has never been known in the history of man. Although en dowed with a modicum of reason ing power, we have deliberately thrown discretion to the winds changing our standards of living from quiet simplicity to frenzied luxury. Equipped with sufficient mathematical knowledge to know that four from two leaves minus two, men and women with incomes of $200.00 a month have spent at the rate of $400.00. This has ap plied quite generally whether the income has been $25,00 or $2500.00. Farming and other businesses are more or less demoralized, but it is not due altogether to 5 cent cotton and the tariff. It is due in part to our waste, abuse of credit, poor business management and laziness. Before we see the end of this many of us who are now riding may be walking, but that probably would be as it should be. The men and women who honestly work their ways out of the present economic labyrinth will be those possessed of the proper intestinal stamina. For some time now, we have needed something to divide the sheep from the goats. Crooks and deadbeats have been sailing along in the vanguard of society and the church, enjoying all the privileges and often more than those who make up the ranks of honest citizenry. If the present crisis serves as a leveler in the business and social realms, much will be gained. The seeming suc cess of the dishonest during the reign of extravagance through which we have just passed, has had a baneful effect, serving to give sanction to the theory that the way to win is through shady paths. night” by the students, a young pQ^toil Ginned people’s meeting, largely put on by the students, is held in each one of the churches. Each Sunday School has special classes for students, or ganized and controlled by the stu dents themselves. The purposive endeavors of the church members and the entire atmosphere of the churches have especially adapted them to the needs of the students. Clemson College offers voluntary Shortened Season By S. C. Counties On Waterfowl Opened Noon November \( COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO NO VEMBER 1 IN SOUTH CARO LINA: CROPS OF 1931-1930 The Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of the Census, elective courses in Religion taught announces the preliminary report by the local ministers. Altho this work is not, financed by the Col lege, the ministers are requested by the college authorities to under- on cotton ginned prior to Novem ber 1, by counties, in South Caro lina, for the crops of 1931 and 1930. The total for the st^te was take this instruction only when ma de public Monday, November 9. they meet the regular require-, (Quantities are in running ments of the Southern Association bales. Linters are not included.) Religious Influences Of Clemson College “Why is it that we get such ex ceptional co-operation in our church work from Clemson men?”, is a question put recently to Dr. E. W. Sikes, President of Clemson College, by a group of prominent ministers. “Why, in my church,” exclaimed one, of the preachers, “some of the best help I get comes from Clemson men.” In many churches of the State, it is the Clemson men who may be counted on to take up collection, sing in the choir, become crfurch officials, or take active leadership in churcl^ affairs. On a number of occas^ 1 ions Dr. Sikes has been asked the reason for this. His answers dis close a situation at Clemson in some ways quite unique. Four local churches, Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, and Presby terian, .are almost on the campus. Students are on their honor to at- never been an act of Congress on tend a church of their choice at the subject, Thanksgiving Day is the Sunday morning worship serv- not technically a national holiday, ice. All other religious activity but it v/ould be difficult to keep the is ourely voluntary, people of any state from observing J The religious leaders and church it, even if the Governor forgot to workers of the community strive issue his proclamation. definitely to make the work of In recent years there has been a these four churches of greatest tendency to take Thanksgiving Day possible interest and benefit to lightly. We are all too much in- Clemson students, who form a large dined, in good times, to take credit part of their congregations. Their to ourselves for our blessings, what- choirs are composed mostly of ever they may be, while in times of students. The collections are tak- distress it is a very human inclina- en up by them in at least three of tion to ask “what have I got to be the churches. They are urged and thankful for?” We hear lots of encouraged to take an active part people asking that question this in the social activities and in the year, but in our opinion one of the regular work'of the church. Every iest cures for pessimism is to stop Wednesday evening, called “Church elective courses. Interest in tk classes 5s keen. A great part of the religious, the recreational, and the social life of the college and of the community is centered in the Clemson College Y. M. C. A. The “Y”, housed in its own building, has become the chief social gathering place and about it is focused much of the voluntary religious activity. Controlled and carried on to a great extent by the students, bhe religious programs and work are so conducted as to produce many opportunities for training in religious leadership. Over six hundred students last year were members of voluntary Bible Study groups, organized on the different Company halls in Barracks. Evening Watch groups, similarly organized, meet every night after call to quarters for a few minutes of daily Bible reading and bjrief sentence prayers. Re cently B Company had an average weekly attendance of 51 and A Company of 41. A “Gospel Team” has already during the present session gone to a number of col leges and to nearby towns to put on religious programs, furnishing stu dent speakers and special music. A special committee of upper class- men receive and aid the Freshmen on their arrival. Class Councils are similar to Freshman councils in other colleges, but have been car ried into all the upper classes at Clemson. The Senior Class has over tfiirty men engaged in this form of active religious work at present. Sunday night Vesper Services, including devotional ex ercises, music, and travel reels showing the life and customs of the different peoples of tl^e earth, are attended every Sunday night by from two hundred to four hundred students. These and other activi ties affording training and experi ence in religious leadership are carried on by the “Y” Cabinet and its various cbrhmittees, with the counsel and aid of two trained sec retaries and df faculty rtiembers invited by the students to assist. The Work of the Churches, the in cluding of Bible study in the cur riculum, the activities of the “Y”, and the general activities of the College, affokd not ojcily religious instruction arid training in leader ship, 1 but seem’ to be quite effec tive also in producing a will to do —a spirit * of oo-opetation. Perhaps’ the most unique char- acterstic of the religious programs of Clemson College is the vital and leading part taken by the students. The activities come up from the students ' rather than ‘ being brought down from the officials either in the form of compulsion or of “things expected” of the stu dents. “Y” leaders point to the fact that the men who give a good deal of time to these activities are being constantly called on for lead ership in almost every student ac tivity. The voluntary character of the whole religious program has proved its value in the activities of Clemson men after they have left their Alma Mater. County 1931 1930 The State 829,898 814,105 Abbeville _ __ — 16,600 13,064 Aiken — 27,458 25,064 Allendale _ — - 6,191 6,830 Anderson —_ 58,843 51,038 Bamberg _ _ _ — 13,571 14,799 Barnwell _ — 17,632 18,870 Berkeley __ __ — 2,122 3,150 Calhoun - 15,076 14,856 Charleston 446 1,240 Cherokee — 15,723 16,313 Chester 19,301 17,809 Chesterfield _ — 28,650 25,790 Clarendon __ _ — 16,323 18,485 Colleton — 8,838 10,053 Darlington _ __ — *18,322 16,051 Dillon — _ __ — 21,456 21,642 Dorchester __ _ 6.913 6,344 Edgefield __ _ . — 17,899 16,364 Fairfield _ _ 9,690 8,791 Florence — 15,531 15,489 Greenville __ 40,664 42,867 Greenwood _ . _ 14,857 13,943 Hampton _ _ — 6,381 7,021 Horry _ 697 1,608 Jasper _ _ _ 1,517 1,827 Kershaw _ 18,892 17,977 Lancaster _ — 13,520 11,213 Laurens __ 30,219 26,255 Lee __ 26,186 23,958 Lexington 14,425 14,603 McCormick __ 6,326 6,057 Marion _ 6,722 7,618 Marlboro _ _ 35,789 35,214 Newberry __ 20,705 17,272 Ocoilee 14,656 15,829 Orangeburg . _ 56,503 57,961 Pickens _ __ _ __ __ 18,171 19,738 Richland __ 7,016 7,579 Saluda __ _ ._ 11,464 9,712 Spartanburg __ 61,430 68,207 Sumter _ 29,009 28,415 Union __ 15,167 14,364 Williamsburg __ 13,917 14,548 York _ _ _ __ 27,585 26,297 All other __ _ 1,495 1,980 CHILDREN CRY FOR IT— /CHILDREN hate to take medicine as a rule, but every child loves the The season for hunting wild ducks, geese, brant, and coot open ed at noon on November 16 in that part of New York known as Long Is’and and in New Jersey, Dela ware, Maryland, the District of Co lumbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Cali fornia, Oregon, and Washington. The season in these States will close at sunset on December 15. I taste of Castoria. Thii pure viable In Florida the season for the same preparation is just as good as it tastes; birds opens at noon on November just as bland and just as harmless as the 20 and closes at sunset on Decern- recipe reads. be i’ ^ When Baby’s cry warns of colic, a. Persons are cautioned against few drops of Castoria have him soothed,, hunting wild ducks, geese, brant, Uleep again in a jiffy. Nothing is more- and coots in the States mentioned valuable in diarrhea. When coated, prior to noon of the opening date tongue or bad breath tell of constipation, or after sunset of the closing date, invoke its gentle aid to cleanse and! under penalty of prosecution in regulate a child’s bowels. In colds or Federal court. This statement was children’s diseases, you should use it. issued by the Biological Survey of keep the system from clogging. the U. S. Department of Agricul- Castoria is sold in every drug storer ture, which has charge of enforce- the genuine always bears Chas. h!. ment of the Migratory Bird Treaty j Fletcher’s signature. Act and the regulations thereun der. -txt- CASTG.RI A Pickens Clubster Winsj In Livestock Judging PIEDMONT DISTRICT TEAM IS Seek Changes In FIRST; MANY CLUBSTERS EN- O joy benefits I o. C. Government PICKENS, Nov. 14. — Furm an SIX SUGGESTIONS UN Hunter, 18, Pickens county, who Rev. J. F. Anderson ' Taken By Death Aroused President’s Ire WILLIAMSTON, Nov. 8.—The Rev. John Fletcher Anderson, well- known Methodist minister, died at his Main Street home here Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The Rev. Mr. Anderson was a na tive of Anderson county and was 80 years old, his death following an illness of several years. '' He at tended private schools in Anderson county and in 1884 was licensed to preach by the Rev. T. G. Herbert. He had been a member of the Up per South Carolina Methodist con ference since that time and had served various pastorates through out the state. In 1919 Mr. Ander son retired after 35 years of active ministry. In 1876 the Rev. Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Katherine Sul livan Richter, of Edgefield county, and in 1926 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. He had lived in Williamston for 15 years. Besides his widow, the Rev. Mr. Anderson is survived by one son, J. Courtenay Anderson, of Woodstock, N. Y., and four daughters, Mrs. W. J. Nichols, Orangeburg; Mrs. C. S. Link, Jr., “Laurens and the Misses Kathleen and Corinne Anderson, of Williamston. Funeral services for the Rev. Mr. Anderson were held at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon at Grace Metho dist church in Williamston. The services were conducted by the Rev. F. E. Dibble, presiding elder, as- sir .d by the Rev. J. E. Mason, pas tor jf Grace Methodist church and th' Rev. J. A. Cave. r _ Ae following were the active won first honors in the 4-H live stock judging contest at the recent State Fair, won for himself and for bis county agent, T. A. Bowen, a trip to the National 4-H Club Con gress which will be held in Chicago, November 27 to December 4. According to the records in the boys’ club work office at Clemson College, Furman is not only an ex cellent judge of livestock but is a wide-awake all-round clubster. He is president of the Pickens High 4-H Club which has 25 active mem bers, and has been in club work for four years, doing most of his work with poultry and cotton. Jack Funderburk, Uhesterfield, and Burton Sease, Newberry, were the other members of the winning Piedmont district team, which stood first among the three dis trict teams. The Savannah Valley district team, which won second place, con sisted of Kempton DeLoach and Billy Coleman, Saluda, and Thomas Edwards, Calhoun; the Pee Dee district team consistirig of Harris Beach, Colleton, Ronald Jones, Florence, Dick Moorer, Dorchester. These nine clubsters won first through county and then district contests in which altogether a large number of clubsters received valuable instruction and experi ence in judging livestock. X SI DERATION BY STATE BUD GET COMMISSION Churning COLUMBIA, Nov. 13.—Neville Bennett, chairman of the House ways and means committee, dis closed today that six suggestions for wide-spread changes in state government are under considera tion by the budget commission. 1 The proposals were advanced by Mr. Bennett, who with Governor Blackwood, ex-officio chairman, and S. M. Ward, chairman of the Senate finance committee, compose the budget commission. i County Budgets They include suggested state control of county budgets and bond, issues, creation of a central state purchasing agency and an execu tive budget bureau, and statutory^ consolidation of certain governv ment functions. Changes in the designation of the fiscal year to make it uniform^ for all divisions of the state gov ernment and provisions for hand ling local legislation “at home” to* relieve the congestion in the Gen eral Assembly also were proposed.’, by Mr. Bennett. He said the suggested changes, at least one of which already has come before the Legislature, would be taken up by the budget com mission at executive session. The commission makes recommenda tions for the drawing of the annual appropriations bill, and it was pre- Temperatures sumed that the question of making 2 I a- recommendation on Mr. Ben nett’s proposed government changes will be considered. Result From Study Mr. Bennett said his proposals One reason why butter fails to come after the usual amount of churning is too low or too high a churning temperature. Usually 1 res| ]i te d' trom a study o'f South Carolina state government in con- temperatures of from 52 degrees to 60 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and 58 degrees to 66 degrees Fah- nection with other states. The .... . . ^ study, he explained, led him to the renheit In winter are the best, but ^ that .. judlciary instituted it is occasionally necessary to warm the cream as high as 65 degrees to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. In very ( warm weather the best churning temperature is usually below 60 de- ! grees. Too thin or tod rich cream will not churn easily; the cream economies” could be applied in South Carolina. A bill to create “an executive budget and to prescribe the powers and duties of the budget bureau,” one of his proposals was approved ... . . . . ^ by the House of the last General should contain about 30 per cent . . - ,Ko, Assembly under the sponsorship of the ways and means committee. It is on the calendar of the Senate foi\ the 1932 session. Mr. Bennett said the full details of the other proposals had not been worked out but he believed butterfat. Cream that is ripened slightly churns more easily than sweet cream. Do not have the churn more than two-thirds full. If too full, the Churning period is longer, and if the cream foams it fills up the churn and prevents x. « x picvciiLs, the suggestions, if put into effect cn was : ai :ton. concussion. Ropy fermentation of the cream also orevents concussion. jor.rers; Dr. W.'Frank Lander. This ™ ay . be Panted by sterlllz- ,: 0 GcodRion, T. M. Mahon. G. m « the “ tcns,ls and blueing the Aildep, W. #. Sullivan and Al-i mlU L and under sanitary * , . j conditions. Other reasons for dif- flrderson ' * ureters who attended formed!?™ 11 ch « rnin S ^ cows or the The interm- i feed ’ A cow Wlth some indi vidual peculiarity or one far advanced : n the lacation period may give cream that is hard to churn. Feeds that escort. in the cemetery at Will- would be of great value to the state. State control of county budgets and bond issues, he said, would prove valuable in establishing a state-wide credit on a sound basis. A central purchasing agency', he continued, should result in large savings through bulk buying for all str c departments and institutions. gular dividends every three William Howard Gardiner’s criti cisms of Mr. Hoover’s naval re trenchment program have led to a public airing of his charges. produce hard fat—such as cotton- ! You may buy Telephone Bond seed meal and timothy hay may 'and Share First Preferred on the result in cream that is hard to mc 'ths. 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