Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ m M Thursday, December 3, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA TWO DSlV-t • ly ■ Wf: K2T> 1 'f 9 HAPPYLAND— If I were asked to name the spot in the United States where the general industrial and business de pression has been felt least, I would say, at a guess, that it is Leonard- town, Maryland. There may be, and probably are, other communi ties as happily situated but I don’t know their names. A young man who has been working in New York, and conse quently has his head full of no thing but hard times talk, visited his old home in Leonardtown re cently. He asked folks there how ^severely the depression had hit them and the unanimous response was “what depression?” They had not heard about it in Leonard town. When I knew Leonardtown as a boy, there wasn’t any railroad, and there isn’t now. But there were a lot of contented farmers, raising watermelons and oysters and to bacco. Everybody had enough to eat and to wear, and most had a surplus besides, and my young friend tells me that that is exactly the situa tion of Leonardtown today. These Maryland country people never bothered about industries, never tried to make their county seat a second Baltimore or Phila delphia, never got the idea that money brings happiness. I think they are pretty sensible people, j GAME— In a good many parts of the country the effort to restock fields and forests with game birds and animals in order to provide sport for hunters is meeting with con siderable success. It has been go ing on for a long time. I saw the other day a letter written in 1820, from a town in Vermont, saying that red foxes were beginning to be Sfeen in that territory. All the red foxes in America originated with a few that were brought from England late in the 1700’s and turned loose on Long Island to furnish sport for huntsmen. Today the red fox outnumbers the native American gray fox in most of the Atlantic Coast states. Sentimental people look upon hunting as a cruel form of sport. Their imaginations endow animals with the same emotional and rea soning qualities as human beings. Those who know most about wild life say that animals have no fear of death because they are unable to imagine it, that they run when pursued purely from instinct. RELIEF— The most amazing results of the nation-wide effort to take care of the unemployed is not the dis closure of large numbers of people who would rather beg than work, although that is surprising enough, but the revelation of human greed furnished by the spectacle of folks who are very far from being pov erty stricken, but who unblushing- ly call upon the relief agencies for money. I saw a paragraph the other day in the Wayne (Neb.) Herald saying that the county commissioners had adopted a resolution that no coun ty aid should be given to paupers who own automobiles or radios, smoke cigars or loaf in poolrooms. In New York City it has been dis closed that hundreds of men hold ing steady jobs have been drawing regular incomes in addition from the unemployment relief funds, through the connivance of poli- Will One of These Men Be the Democratic Nominee for President? JAMES A J.W. L&Wl$ {1 OWEN D. iYOUNG H.F. BYRD MELVIN A. TRAYLOR. . ALFRED E SMITH NEWTON D. BAKER From present indications, one of the above nine men will be selected to oppose President Hoover, when .the Democrats, hold their national convention ftext summer. New Women Members of British House of Commons Copeland^Lady A^X s! “ ward. Mias WrsbSrgh. the Ho. Mary Pickford. the Duchess of Athole and Mrs. Runge. A SWEU Do6 BOO, WH ATS H\s NAME? | CALI HIM ; l WSU,bOOKAl iit' we Got 6YPPEP ' WE Bough? ttIM lES HARDLY GOT LEGS' WHEN we asked AMD FoB A OoG THFY GAVe US THAT I WOMEN: watch your BOWELS What should women dc to keep their bowels moving freely? A doctor should know the answer. That is why pure Syrup Pepsin is so good for women. It just suits their delicate organism. It is the prescription of an old family doctor who has treated thousands of women patients, and wht made a special study of bowel troubles. It is fine for children, too. They love its taste. Let them have it every time their tongues are coated or their skin is sallow. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is made from fresh laxative herbs, pure pepsin and other harmless ingredients. When you’ve a sick headache, can’t eat, are bilious or sluggish; and at the times wheh you are most apt to be constipated, take a little of this famous prescription (all drug stores keep it ready in big bottles), and you’ll know why Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is the favorite laxative of over a million women 1 Dr. W. B. Caldwell’s SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor's Family Laxative ticians. We have got to change a good many of our assumptions as a re sult of the unemployment investi gations. One of those assumptions is that everybody would rather earn money than take charity. And another apparently false assump tion is the old belief that graft is confined to politicians. COMMUNISM— Beyond doubt one of the power ful reasons behind the reluctance of capital to embark in new en terprises or furnish additional money for established industries in the past two years has been the fear of Communism. I am convinced that the over whelming overthrow of the Labor Party in England, and the recent revelations from Russia of the failure of the Soviet program at a dozen different points, have had more to do with restoring confid ence among capitalists and indus trial leaders than almost anything else which has happened. No intelligent person will con tend that our capitalist system of government and industry is perfect but no intelligent person can deny that it works better than any other system which has ever been tried on a large scale. AMBITION— I haven’t any way of proving it, but I have a notion that a lot of the unemployment and consequent distress, especially among the so- called white-collar workers, is due to the fact that their parents had the idea that there was something degrading in manual work, and brought up their children to be bookkeepers, stenographers and office workers generally, instead of being miners, carpenters or fac tory workers like themselves. It is human nature to think that the other fellow’s job is better than your own. It is also a praise worthy spirit that makes parents ambitious to have their children occupy a better social and economic position than their own. But when hkrd times come the white- collar workers are the ones who feel the effects first and hardest. X The adult clothes moth does not grow in size and does not eat at all during its brief lifetime. The fe male usually lives about 12 days. When she has ceased laying eggs she dies within a day or two. The moth larva, or worm, is the one that eats your winter clothes. t Xt Gasoline taxes brought in a net revenue of $246,373,000 in the first six months of 1931, according to re- povts to the Bureau of Public Roads. The money will be used chiefly for road building. Nearly 7,1 1 3,000,000 gallons were taxed, or 4 1-2 per cent more than in the same period last year. I X V/ork shoes for wear in winter or in wet weather last longer protect the feet better if they are water proofed. A mixture of 8 ounces of neutral wool grease, 4 ounces of petroleum, and 4 ounces of paraf fin wax, or one made of 16 ounces of petroleum and 2 ounces of bees wax, is good for waterproofing shoes. : . Experience Ser\ * i n ; u Those are the important thing.- i measu v<>nn of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose om DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street 1 McCormick. S. C. BE WE FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTION You .can depend on us when you have a prescription to fill for we are qualified to fill it correctly. We have the very freshest and purest of drugs, araf exercise particular care to be absolutely accurate. And the cost will be very moderate. ' ALL SUPPLIES FOR THE SICK ROOM We also have a complete stock of sick room supplies to fill your needs in case of accident or sickness. Every article is fresh and of the very best quality to be had. Our stock includes: Bandages, Hot Water Bottles, Adhesive Tape, Bed Pans, Antiseptic, Syringes, Healihg Powder, Ice Caps, etc. STROMS’ DRUG STORE. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. Above is a photograph of the new Woodmen of the World Chapel at San Antonio, Texas. Inset is W. A. Fraser, president, for whom the chaue! was named. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 22. —By auto, train, airplane and foot came thousands of members of the Woodmen of the World Life In surance association from nearly every state in the Union to help celebrate the dedication of the William Alexander Fraser chapel and bird sanctuary this afternoon. The beautiful chapel is on the grounds of the W. O. W. War Me morial hospital a short distance from San Antonio. From early morning until late In the evening, the exceptionally large number of W. O. W. pilgrims inspected the chapel and bird sanctuary, as well as the hospital and its spacious grounds. They were thrilled by the mas terful oration of U. S. Senator Morris Sheppard, national treas urer of W. O. W., who made the principal address. National officers of the associa tion took part in the formal dsdi- cation of the building, as well as ministers of the Protestant, Catho lic and Jewish faiths. The Ninth Infantry band from Fort Sam Houston played. ' An elaborate program of music Included a recital by St. Mark’s Church choir, a number by the San Antonio Liederkranz, a feature by. the Beethoven Maennerchor antf organ recitals by Ben Stanley of Omaha, Nebraska, Walter Dunham and John M. Steinfeldt. The beautiful chimes of the' Chapel lent much atmosphere to the impressive occasion. Thousands were guests of W. 0«i W. at a huge barbecue of products- from the farm of the W. O. W.. hospital. Many members of the: association came as guests of W.' O. W., having won their expenses; to the dedication by special per-* formance in a large membership campaign. The chapel was named for Wil-, liam Alexander Fraser, president of W. O. W., because of his per-, sonal enthusiasm and long devotion' to the building of a great W. O. W. center at San Antonio. Mr. Fraser began the task of raising funds to purchase the hospital grounds twenty-five years ago. Everyone in attendance agreed that Woodmen of the World has contributed much to the wonders of Texas by the unusual architec tural design and the solemn physi cal beauty of the new building. / THOUSANDS OF W. 0. W. PILGRIMS ATTEND > - IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES AT NEW CHAPEE The state committee for the 25th annual Christmas seal sale—the silver anniversary of the inauguration of these mes sengers of health—is headed by Gov. Ibra C. Blackwood. His appointment and acceptance were announced recently. Now the other members of the committee are made known: David R. Coker, Hartsville: Dr. E. A. Hines, Seneca; Mrs. E. D. Sallen- ger, Florence; Mrs. John Wilson, Sumter; Harry M. Arthur, Un ion; Mrs. Louis A. Bikle, Charleston; a. C. Flora, Columbia; and L. E. Brookshire, Greenville. This committee is not only rep -^sentative of the citizenship of the state, but of the social and civic organizations and of the various sections of South Carolina. The members come from the mountains to the seashore, with widely scattered interests. The seal sale opened the day after Thanksgiving and will continue through Christmas. Not less than 4,000,000. seals must be distributed in Squtlii Carolina this