McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, November 26, 1931, Image 4
Thursday, November 26, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER FOUR
y ears ” “When are we going to
^oney again?” Such are
samples of their expression^. The
Supervisor’s Monthly Report of Expenditures 5 E
iblisbed Every Thursday
eiblished June 5, 1902
EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
at the Post Office at Mc-
S. as mail matter of
second class.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
— Strictly Cash In Advance —
One Year $100
Months "S
Three Months 50
most doleful wails I heard were on
the score of money that had been
made in farming and lost in
spheres other than farming.
Supplies for Creature Needs
There is no ignoring the fact
that farmers, like everybody else,
must have money and that many
of them, like millions of others, are
having a hard time getting the
money *they need. But I haven’t
heard of any campaigns like ones
earned on in the cities, for funds
to relieve creature distress in
farming communities in the Caro-
linas. In every farming commun-
ity where I thought to make in-
EROSION CONTROL IS PROBLEM quiry about it, I was told that there
J were adequate local supplies to
The loss in soil fertility, caused' pvpt-v♦creature in the » com-
from erosion, is considered one of carr y ever y creature in xne com
the biggest financial losses annual- ; munity through the winter.
ly, that can come to farmers I “j was chairman of the Red
throughout the country, according „ oou-f r'nmrmtte^ for this
to soil experts of the government. : Cross Rslief Committee for tnis
This vast loss is estimated to be ! county last winter, said a pronnn-
more than a billion dollars each en t; man i n one of the worst “hit”
^on n aV m o“ ‘arming communities in the Caro-
that confront the department. linas. ‘ There was practically no-
It takes 10,000 years for nature thing for me to do. There were a
to form a foot of fertile soil from - - ■ •
LIST OF CLAIMS PAID BY THE SUPERVISOR OF McCORMICK
COUNTY, AUGUST 1, 1931
the rocks of the earth’s crust;
therefore erosion control must be , they were taken care of by neigh-
practiced to prevent loss of rich ! tj 0rs 0 f the persons. I’ll have less
pa.-th TOhirh has hPPn fnrminer for to do x am re iief chairman this
winter, because there are more
few case of creature distress, but
earth which has been forming for
generation upon generation.
Farming today is altogether too
much like hydrauha mining. The
growth of agricultural science
points the finger of scorn at the
one-crop farmer, the soil robber,
the fertility miner who grows con
stantly decreasing crops of the
same variety and returns nothing
to the soil in the way of manure,
leguminous green manure or fert
ilizer.
A soil expert has commented up
on it ks follows:
“Conservation is this most im
portant fundamental and import
ant of all resources is seldom seri
ously considered by anyone asso
ciated with a farm. Erosion is a
food and feedstuffs on the farms.”
No Place for “Money Madness”
The fact that economic depres
sion does not necessarily portend
creature distress in farming com
munities, as it does in cities, gives
inverse illustration of the out-of-
placeness of ‘‘money madness”
among farmers.
Of course money madness is not
indigenous to farming circles,
which, after all, probably have
been less affected by it than urban
64
Money Madness’
Muddles Farming
Problem Still
^ifW^er^^rVt ’ communities have been. But, be
alone.” - ing more out of place there, it may
be more productive of lasting harm
in farming than in other circles.
Fanners are not especially blam
ed for becoming infected with the
“money making” fever, which,
however, has put upon farming a
load of burdens that probably con
stitute the most difficult obstacle
to complete recovery of American
agriculture.
A good deal of the actual fever
still prevails. I ran into symptoms
of it everywhere I went. Many so-
called farm relief proposals and
measures tend to stimulate it.
Eliminate the burdens that were
incurred out of money madness
that was made epidemic by the
skyrocketing of prices during the
war period with all the remaining
fever for merq “money making,”
and farming in most of the South,
and particularly in the Carolinas,
will be on a good footing,-es
pecially so in comparison with
farming in other big areas of staple
crops and, now, with urban busi
ness and industry in general.
X
The author of this article
was reared on a cotton farm
and has worked on newspapers
in Georgia, South Carolina,
New Jersey and New York. In
recent years he has engaged
mostly in investigating and
writing about economic sub
jects, including agriculture. In
the laft four months he visited
•several hundred farms in the
Carolinas and talked with
many kinds of farmers in all
parts of the two States.
BY A. H. ULM
“While I believe they are better
-off than they think they are, far
mers around here are in a terribly
depressed state of mind,” said an
editor of a newspaper in the east
ern section of North Carolina.
-Statements like that had been
made to me almost everywhere and
most emphatically, as to the de
pressed state of mind part, by far
mers themselves. This editor’s
locality was a good background for
a querry I often had wanted to
propound.
"I’ve seen a good deal of farm-
Claim No. Payee Purpose
10975 County Pension Fund, Support of the Poor:
—WHITE—
Mrs. Mary Carroll
Mrs. Mary Ferqueron
Mrs. Julia Davis
Mrs. Martha Turnage
Miss Sally Wideman
Miss Emily Wideman
. Miss Miranda Holsenback
Miss Lou White
Miss Carrie Freeland
Mrs. Ella Stroud
Mrs. Fannie Scott
O. D. White
Jno. P. Wideman
William Tramel
Amount
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
Total
—NEGROES—
Victoria Tolbert
Delsie Goode
Miller Harmon
Milton Garrett
Herbert Williams
Jack Bradley
Caroline Green
Tildy Sheppard
Ann Marshall
Moriah Bussey \-
Jim Anderson
Amy Edmunds
Polly Elmore
Alex Calhoun
Pomp Matthews
Lucy Martin
John Moore
Anna Collier
Georgia Callahan
Will Holloway
Lee Tolbert
Jane Yeldeil
Geo. Zimmerman
Walker Callahan
Steve and Rosa Pullian
Sd and Ella Rayford
Jake Smith
Virge Morton __1
Sophia Cullem
F
56.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
5.00
5.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
Automobiles Cause
<. Long Drouth
(M*. L. St. John in Athens, Ga.,
Banner-Herald)
10976
10977
10978
10979
10980
10981
10982
10983
10984
10985
10986
10987
10988
10989
10990
10091
10992
10993
10994
10995
10996
10997
10998
10999
11000
11001
11002
11003
11004
11005
11006
11007
11008
11009
11010
11011
11012
11013
11014
11015
11016
11017
11018
11019
11020
11021
11022
11023
11024
11025
11026
Total 67.00 $ 123.00
J. O. Patterson, Clerk,- Postage for Co. Officers 15.00
W. O. Graves, Salary 100.00
W. T. Strom, Salary 100.00
J. T. Fooshe. Salary 100.00
T. J. Price, Salary 52.22
C. W. Pennal, Salary 52.22
W. L. Brown, Salary 83.33
L. G. Bell, Salary 70.83
J. A. Talbert, Salary 41.67
J. O. Patterson, Salary 35.00
M. L. B. Sturkey, Salary 8.33
Joseph Murray, Salary 16.68
W. H. Parks, Salary 70.83
H. C. Walker, Salary 33.34
Jess Remsen, Salary 25.00
Geo. P. Watkins. Salary 1 80.00
John C res well. Salary 65.00
Mrs. Nell Stallworth, Yeast for County Poor 9.50
C. C. Morgan, Salary — 12.50
R. N. Edmunds, Salary 12.50
R. A. Price, Operation of Ferry 12.00
Garfield Bowick, Top Soil 1— 2.50
O. G. Calhoun, Payment on Note 300.00
J. S. Strom, Taking Mr. Jim Turnage to Columbia __ 15.00
Com. of Public Works, Light and Water 2 Months __ 46.14
Stantex Service Station. Supolies 7.40
Mrs. W. N. Edmunds, Supplies 3.60
Mrs. R. A. Price, Supplies 6.35
J. C. Talbert, Supplies 4.00
M. M. Wall, Supplies 1 3.85
T. L. Britt, Wood 28.31
Gulf Service Station, Supplies 38.65
Gulf Refining Co., Gas and Oil —* 47.93
W. T. Strom, Jail Expense 48.00
H. Drucker, Supplies 5.95
McCormick Service Station, Payment on Account __ 40.00
Patterson Clothing Co., Supplies 26.60
W. L. Brown, Expense Account 12.50
W. T. Strom, Expense • 12.50
White Hardware, Supplies 19.95
J. L. Smith. Supplies 45.94
W. G. Huguley, Supplies 41.53
Oscar McClain, Shoo Work 4.75
P. J. Robinson. Premium on Officers Bonds IOOlOO
Gambrell Hardware. Nails 6 00
Mose Wideman, Supplies 12.57
J. T. Fooshe. Equipment for Tax Collector’s Office __ 267.28
Dr. W. G. Blackwell, Prof. Service 22.25
H. E. Jones. Supplies 3.50
S. C. Con. Telephone Co., Rents 19.75
H. J. Bussey, Work on Mars Bridge 20.00
TOTAL i $ 2,331.75
“I wouldn’t go to college if I had
my life to live over.”
_ , A man who holds three college
ing in this and a little in other degrees and for years wrote the
a. T t T , pvpr names of graduates on their cqvet-
countnes, said^I. B^ * n ed sheep-skins spoke the above
have viewed a farming community W ords.
that appeared to the eye better off “I believe in a good common
than vours seems to be right now school education—one that will xit
than yours seems to oe .ignt now. a man for ^5^0^ as quickly as
Your farmers have made record possible,” declares Henry B. Mit-
crops this year; their storehouses chel, one of Athens’ best known
vmicHncr with fnnH and feed- citizens. “Higher mathematics and
are bulging with food a d foreign languages, dead and living
stuffs as never before. They un- are no tvworth studying unless one
<ioubtedly have more of everything, intends to teach. Instead of train-
4»vrent nerhans monev than thev in S the mind, as educators claim,
except perhaps money, xnan iney these subjects tax the braln And
ever before possessed. Why, this W hen one begins the attempt to
depressed state of mind?” practice his profession, he finds
—Money Madness” vs Bulging Cribs
“Money madness,” the editor re- H Mr Mitchell took an A. B. de-
plied. Continuing, he said: “In the gree in 1875, an engineering de-
war days of rising prices, farmers f ifthe^nivelsi^ of olor-
around here made greater profits gia He is a son of a graduate,
than they ever had dreamed pos- former tutor, and former trustee of
sible. Land values rose but not t ^| daat i e d r fn t ^825 HiS father waS
disastrously. But most of the far- ® Although he took law to please
mers turned plungers. They oper- his father, who had three sons and
ated as if high prices and big pro- aaon-in-law who were doctors, Mr.
Mitchell’s ambition was to become
fits would continue indefinitely. a doc i; 0r
Then came the period of falling The cause of cancer, which, if
prices and the plungers got caught, published, wquld reduce this dis-
OT .. ease to a minimum is known by Mr.
Most of those in real difficulty are Mitchell he claims. He believes that
burdened with debts incurred in the cause of cancer is also respon-
the hope of making lots of money, sible for other mysterious diseases
ie +v, 0 of humanity—such as infantile pa-
Money madness is the main ra iy S j s> diseases of the spleen, of
trouble.” the brain, of the heart, appendix.
What he said reminded me that etc. A ^ ^ _ .. ...
. . .. He has contented himself with
not one of the several hundred ^ be ^ bree “Reading Ritin,’ and
farmers I had talked with in all Rusticating,” since becoming too
parts of the Carolinas had evinced old in medical experiments He says
tV , . . he discovered the cause of cancer
the least fear of distress fof lack j n an eX p e riment twenty years ago.
of means to meet ceature needs. since graduating from college,
Everyone that talked dolefully,—as Mr. Mitchell has lived for about a
who wpt-p half century on a farm near Athens
■did even most of those who were Qn ^. be £) an i e i SV iii e road. In build
getting pipng all right,—spoke of j n g {he home, he decided to manu-
distress in tenuis of money only. “I faptue the brick himself and save
won t make any money .his year. gesn a brick made, Mr. Mitchell was
~I have lost money now for two quite successful, selling the surplus
McCormick Grammar
And High Schools
SECOND SCHOOL MONTH
Ke t0 P HL f0 fam h e e S ng andh? Honor StlldlltS FrOlll
was employed to build the Tal-
madge and Hodgson warehouse on
Broad. Clayton and Hull streets.
At the close of the Civil war the
state gave the veterans a free edu- ’
cation at the University high
school, then at old Rock college,
now knowm as the Georgia State
Teacher’s college. Here Mr. Mit
chell first attended school. He was
9 years of age, and was going to
class with grown men. manv of
whom were over 50 years old.
The manner of professional roll-
calling impressed him so that even
now years later, he can recall sur
names of the members of his class. s
Automobiles have caused the
drought in the world today, Mr. I
Mitchell claims. Next year will be
drier than this year, he predicts.
FIRST GRADE—
Jamie Sanders
Nona Boswell
Mary Sue Furqueron
Herbert Caudle
Graydon Dukes
John McCracken
Dorothy Smith.
SECOND GRADE—
Vivian Chiles
Mildred Creighton
Virginia Fooshe
“Water and air are composed adf'— y
similarly. If a person throws a peb- 1
ble in a pond, every droo of water | f^^ ^pplancf
contained therein will be shaken. norBradley
Likewise, if one makes a noise of rahf y
any kind, it affects every particle FO A Y,?3H £^Tp
of air in the world. With a 26 mill- I
ion cars, thousands of radios and 1
hundreds of airolanes, the at-!
mosphere is kept in a perpetual
stir. This incessant agitation of the
Aurelia Caudle
Jim Bradley Chiles
Maggie Franklin
Imogene Sanders
Lawrence Strom
air prevents electric clouds from
forming, and as there can be no
rain of consequence during the
summer without electricity, a
drought is the result.
“Any casual observer has doubt
less noticed the lessening of thun-
Herbert Sturkey
Charles Henry Williams
SIXTH GRADE—
NONE.
SEVENTH GRADE—
Rebecca Drucker
der during the past few years. Fifty I SfHahSii^Harrls
years ago, the thunderstorms were ' oi^DE-- •
frightful in their intensity—the LjIGHTH -
rains accompanying them falling in
torrents. Now, the thuder is very
light, with scarcely any rain. In
the winter, no electricity being
necessary as the rain forms by con
densation. we get plenty of rain.”
Mr. Mitchell has been on the
Board of Tax Equalizers of Clarke
county for several years.
-txt-
Science has brought in a report
that smoking is harmful and that
smoking is beneficial, and you may
take your choice, depending upon
whether you are a smoker or a non
smoker.
_JIGHTH
Connie lee Brown
Marie Reames
Martha Sigler
Rebecca Smith
Annie Laurie Sturkey
Maggie Mae Holloman
NINTH GRADE—
John BUI Bradley
TENTH GRADE—
Lorenzo Sturkey
ELEVENTH GRADE—
NONE.
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You’ll appreciate your home
community more if you give your
self the chance to compare it with
others occasionally.
COLD HEATHER IS GOMil
Let us protect your car against cold
weather with Anti-Freeze. The cost
is small and the benefit great. Pre-
pared to test it free every week.
WILLIAMS’ SERVICE STATION
J. O. WILLIAMS, Prop.
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS
Call on us for your Thanksgiving requirements
in the way of live and dressed poultry of all
kinds. We buy and sell.
Also all kinds of fresh home-killed meats any
cut desired of beef, pork, mutton, etc.
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS AT ALL TIMES
Don’t fail to try our old fashioned home made
sausage—pure pork, mixed, hamburger and
veal loaf.
We also specialize in grinding and seasoning
sausage for the public.
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We also carry a fresh line of groceries, vege
tables and fruits.
Prompt delivery made at all times. Our prices
are reasonable. Call ’phone No. 18 or come
around to see us. We appreciate your
patronage.
--CITY MARKET-:-
G. B. SMITH, Prop.
Phbne 18—. Augusta St McCormick, S. C.
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of filling prescriptions. We strive
to be prompt and accurate and make
yery reasonable charges.
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