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Thursday, December 3, 1931 JMcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, • Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Ottice at Mc Cormick, S.~ C., as mail matter of the second class. x SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance One Year ____$1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months. I .50 Cotton Delegates Adopt Texas Plan the cotton growing states and the press. Executive Committee Named To carry on the work of the con ference an Executive Committee was named, consisting of Dr. Tait Butler of Memphis, editor of tjie Progressive Farmer, chairman, and Harry D. Wilson, Commissioner of Agriculture of Louisiana, J. E. Mc Donald, Commissioner of Agricul ture of Texas, E. F. Creekmore, general manager of the American Cotton Co-operative Association, and W. H. Hodges, chairman of the Louisiana Relief Committee. 'The committee was directed to follow up actively the work of the Con ference. ixt \ Purpose Of League Outlined By Mazyck Southwide Conference at Jackson MAKES CONCISE STATEMENT Quickly Agrees on 50 Per Cent Cut. No Dissenting Votes. Dr. Tait Butler, Memphis, Nam ed Chairman of Executive Committee to Carry Mes sage to All Cotton Belt Governors OF OBJECTS OF FARMERS’ TAXPAYERS’ LEAGUE emments or whether they receive Financial Statistics Of SSt their living directly from private sources, share alike in the common XllC State CxOVeniment ! The plan of the League, then is Of South Car. For 1930 to organize this general and deep l -—^ sentiment throughout the State in i WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— invincible form in order that the The Bureau of the Census an- General Assembly may know what nounces a summary of the finan- it is that the people demand. For cial statistics of the State of South j this reason it is essential that all! Carolina for the fiscal year ending j of those who think taxes are too December 31, 1930. The per capita! high should join the League, sign figures for 1930 are based on an the pledge card, and make their estimated population of 1,740,000. influence count for reduction. If These statistics were compiled by a man does not join the League he Mr. E. C. Rhodes, is merely like a stranger howling Expenditures in the wilderness and he will have The payments for operation and no effect whatever. We shall ac- maintenance of the general de- j complish our purpose through un- partments of South Carolina 1 ited effort, a bringing together all amounted to $14,211,250, or $8.17 those who wish their taxes reduced, per capita. This includes $3,857,284 That is the immediate program of apportionments for education to the League and that is the program the minor civil divisions of the that the League expects to put state. In 1929 the per capita for through at the coming session of operation and maintenance of the General Assembly. txi The Messenger has received from Mr. Pierre Mazyck, Publicity Secretary of the Farmers’ and Taxpayers’ League, a statement of the purpose and program of the Without a dissenting vote among League so that those readers of the eighty accredited delegates at the paper who have not kept up with Governors’ South-wide Cotton Con- the operations of the League up to ference at Jackson, Mississippi, No vember 23rd, seeking uniform leg islation on acreage reduction, an acreage control law similar in ef feet to the* law now in force in the f statements issued by Mr. J. K State of Texas, was chosen as the this time may inform themselves readily as to the plan of the Far mers’ and Taxpayers’ League. Mr. Mazyck rearranged several Breedin, General Director of or- legislative star to which the cot- ganization and acting Treasurer of ton growers should hitch their the League and submitted them as hopes for better days. Active in the calling of the con ference and present taking part in its proceedings were Governors Parnell of Arkansas, Bilbo of Mis sissippi, Blackwood of South Caro lina, and Russell of Georgia. Gov ernors of other states sent special ly appointed and personal repre- centatives. « The states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklaho ma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas were represented in the con ference, while messages of co-oper ation came from the governors of Arizona, Florida and New. Mexico. Resolution Unanimously Adopted a concise statement of the objects of the League. “During the war and immediate ly afterwards prices were high and money was plentiful and both public and private expenditures were on a very liberal, if not ex travagant scale. Shortly after the war came the period of deflation and from then until now our State has suffered gradually until it not only is not making any net revenue but has virtually lost the reserves laid up through the thrift of other years. That is why such a year as this is such a calamity. The people have nothing laid by in store with which to pay debts or to ward off the difficulties which fol- WHEREAS, the conservation of , ow thelr present condition. Men soil fertility, • the elimination of plant disease and the prevention of insect damagfe, as well , as the pros perity and happiness of the people of the Southern States* demand a reduction "'of the acreage now Have been compelled to practice various economies. Singularly enough the Governmental agencies have not been touched, apparent ly, by the deflation, but have con tinued with constantly increasing planted to cotton and other soil expenditures, as though there were exhausting plants; and no limit to the ability of the peo- . WHEREAS, the only method of pj e £ 0 p a y p or eX ample, the sal- securing such reduced acreage now aries and general expenses of the being generally considered, is by j Government are a 100 per cent state laws of cotton producing higher today than they were when states bearing equally upon all cot ton producers; and WHEREAS, it is imperative, that such laws, if adopted, shall be uni form in effect and adopted in states producing not less than 75 per cent of the cotton crop of the entire South; therefore BE IT RESOLVED, by the Con ference of Governors and Meipbers of the Legislature, and other rep resentatives of the Southern States held in Jackson, Mississippi, on No vember 23rd, 1931, as follows: SECTION 1. We recommend that an acreage control law similar in effect to the law now In force in the State of Texas be adopted by all cotton producing states, with such modifications of administra tive features as will prevent grave injustice to citizens of sections of such states, and we further rec ommend that the independence and sovereignty of other states in adopting laws securing, at least a fifty per cent reduction of cotton acreage, be respected. SECTION 2. We recommend that cotton producing states adopting laws securing a reduction of at least fifty per cent in cotton acre age during the years 1932 and 1933 cotton was selling at 45 cents a pound. Nothing illustrates the want of harmony between private and public expenditures as that. With cotton at 6 1-2 cents and corn a’t 35 cents and top hogs at 4 3-4 cents the State and County expenditures are twicp as much as they were when cotton was selling at 40 cents and corn was selling at $1.00 and hogs were selling at 12 cents a pound. “It is apparent that something must be done. Just as a prudent man has to plan his own affairs so as to live within his probable in come, so should the State arfd the Counties re-shape their programs and curtail their expenditures so as to bring the cost of State and County government somewhere near the ability of the people to pay from the profits of their year’s work. It is absurd to say that when the people have no profits —when they have spent themselves in toil for a whole year winding up in debt, that the State and County governments may carry out large programs with an utter indiffer ence to the condition of the peo ple. We need to remark that the people themselves are the govern S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of industrial activity lists items showing invest ment of capital, employment of la bor and business activities and op portunities. Information from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be con sidered generally correct. Little River—Carolina Road Sur facing Company submitted low bid of $27,110 for surfacing 1.866 miles Route No. 49 from point near here to North Carolina line. Anderson — Anderson Fair held recently. Belton — Roof of Southern Rail way Station painted. Warehouses of Carolinas Co-op eratives Consolidated at both Flor- and Orangeburg formally opened for purpose of buying pecans from growers. Camden — U. S. Government placed contract for 8,000 mattress es with Cameron Bedding and Manufacturing Co. Columbia — Guy Lumber Com pany, capitalized at $10,000, in corporated. Laurens — L. C. Barksdale, sec retary of Laurens Business League, announced silk mill employing 140 persons, would be established here. Loris — Carolina Road Surfacing Co., submitted low bid of $57,985 on surfacing 5.913 miles Route No. 9 frpm intersection with Route No. 40 to this place. ’ * Greenville — Pioneer Life In surance Co., shows steady increase in business during past four months, according to T. O. Lawton, president. Sumter — Condon’s Bakery for mally opened. Bishopville — DesChamps Bros., Inc., installed battery recharging machine. Hartsville,— Contract let recent ly for paving Fifth Street Home,Avenue to city limits. Surface treating section of Route those general departments was $8.14 and in 1917, $1.82. The payments for operation and maintenance of pub lic service enterprises in 1930 amounted to $1,851; interest on debt, $2,354,867; and outlays for permanent improvements, $13,602,- 972. The total payments, there fore, for operation and mainten ance of general departments and public service enterprises, for in terest and outlays were $30,170,940. The totals include all payments for the year, whether made from current revenues or from the (pro ceeds of bond issues. Of the governmental costs re ported above, $15,578,935 was for highways, $2,226,268 being for maintenance and $13,352,667 for construction. Revenues The total revenue receipts were $21,331,317, or $12.26 per capita. This was $4,763,349 more than the total payments of the year, exclusive of the payments for permanent improvements, but $8,839,623 less than the total pay ments including those for per manent improvements. These pay ments in excess of revenue receipts were met from the proceeds of debt obligations. Property and special taxes represented 26.5 per cent of the total revenue for 1930, 25.2 per cent for 1929, and 64.4 per cent for 1917. The increase in the amount of property and special taxes collected was 177.7 per cent from 1917 to 1930 and 3.5 per cent from 1929 to 1930. The per capita of property and special taxes col lected was $3.25 in 1930, $3.15 in 1929, and $1.24 in 1917. Earnings of general departments, or compensation for services rend ered by State officials, represented 6.5 per cent of the total revenue for 1930, 6.7 per cent for 1929, and 21.7 per cent for 1917. Business and nonbusiness li censes constituted 59.9 per cent of the total revenue for 1930, 59.4 per cent for 1929, and 7.5 per cent for 1917. Receipts from business licenses consist, chiefly of taxes exacted from insurance and other incorpor- from ated companies, tax on soft drinks, 1 and of sales tax on gasoline, while from nonbusiness licenses 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 i McCormick, S. C. ■ No. 49 extending from Myrtle comprise chiefly taxes on motor Beach to Little River, underway, vehicles and amounts paid for Pinewood — Carload of demon-I hunting and fishing privileges. The stration fed hogs shipped here during recent week. from sales tax on gasoline amounted to $6,108,624 in 1930 and $5,227,064 in Walterboro — Hubster’s Bakery, 1929, an increase of 16.9 per cent, installed motor driven moulders. | Indebtedness Aiken — Helen Hazel opened The total funded or fixed debt Aiken Beauty Shop in Hahn build- outstanding December 31, 1930 was ing. $56,859,658. Of this amount $51,- Columbia — W. S. Barstdw & Co., 226,860 wds for highways, submitted low bid of $495,218 for The net indebtedness (funded or erection of Veterans’ Hospital here, fixed debt less sinking fund assets) Work started on Bamberg- was $56,478,741, or $32.46 per capita. Branchville Highway. | i n 1929 the per capita net debt was Yemassee — State Highway De- $23.55 and in 1917, $3.32. Includ- partment plans relocating Coastal ed in the debt shown for highways imm MR PRESCRIPTIONS This drug store makes a specialty of filling prescriptions. We strive to be prompt and accurate and make very reasonable charges. Gome in and investigate our cir- circulating library. ran drug co" A Reliable Drug Store Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. Telephone No. 48. Mary Pipkford Enlists President’s Support Mary Fickford, America’s Sweetheart, presented President Hoover with the first two tickets of the ten million that will be sold by the nation’s movie houses to aid the ucemployed during National Motion Picture Week. * 3S Weather permitting turn heavy soils that have no cover crops. Put cotton under cover to pre vent loss of $5 to $10 per bale. Clean up briars and plum thick ets around edges of field. Horticulture Prune fruit trees and bunch the grapes hard spring and summer rains. This is a good time to build or repair fences if you are to handle livestock/ Store machinery that was used during cultivating season and grease parts that are likely to rust. txi shall repeal such laws unless laws ' ment and when we find that all of similar effect are adopted prior; the taxpayerSi both corporate and to January 20th, 1932, by states individual, have sufficiently vastly producing at least seventy-five per! dep , eted re venues, even losing all cent of the cotton crop of the 1 ne ^ reV enue and sometimes spend- South, as shown by the reports of , ng aU the resources of years of Highway through portion of this are amounts advanced by , ^ , , , Cit o- V -r T w H couhties t0 the state ' or road con - 'and a OTd!”se“ds P be n forf et S eedsmin LiteraiT Society Meets Pickens — T. L. Bivens purchas- struction. Bonds issued for high- | a re out of desirable varieties. ed business lot on corner Main and ways account for the increased per Ann streets. Beaufort — Bids asked for con struction of school building to re- capita net debt shown for 1930. Assessed Valuations and Tax Levies the Federal Census Bureau for the year 1930. SECTION 3. We urge the Gov ernors of those states that have not enacted laws similar in effect to the law recommended herein to im mediately convene their Legisla tures for the purpose of enacting laws as provided for in this resolu tion, to the end that all of the cotton growing states may enact such laws on or before January 20, 1932, RESOLVED, FURTHER: That ,the Secretary of the Mississippi inference furnish a copy of this ihition to ^.the Governors of all saving that the State is in such a condition as to make an immedi ate imperative very sharp cuts in all expenditures and for all pur poses. Not to do so is to set up the theory that there are privileged classes in the State and that those who live on the public are superior to the public. Just as all the tax- paying elements are making com mon cause to bring the full weight of the sentiment for economy to bear on the Legislature as well as on their county delegations, so must all the people of the State, whether they receive their pay from the State and County gov- planting in the South is preferable to early spring planting. Prepare hot-beds for sowing in place one recently destroyed by The assessed valuation of proper-, ^uppe^ng vines to De . lire - jty in South Carolina subject to ad cember 15. Greer — J. V. Waters acquired valorem taxation was $415,390,125 1 Propagate grapes and ornament- .. tings. was $2,803,192; and the per capita injurious Insects and Diseases levy $1 61 In 1929 the per capita ! Burn trash and weeds in gard- i Q „„ ' *.> ^ ini'? fifi l ens and fields to destroy hibernat- levy was $1.63 and in 1917, $l.bb. J ing insects. txt— | Burn orchard prunings to destroy 1 shot-hole borer. Plow under old stalks to destroy insects. Burn twigs severed by girdlers. Apply lime sulphur or oil emul sion dormant sprays after trees are completely dormant. Agricultural Engineering Plan to keep the tractor busy during the winter with belt jobs, If fruit trees have not already been set, do so this month; fall The first meeting of the Literary Societv met Wednesday, management of local Scott’s Five' the amount of State taxes levied ?v l n 2f clduous shrubs from new cut “ and Ten Cent Store. Beaufort — Riverside Candy Kit chen formally opened. X WELSH-BRITT met Wednesday, Novem ber 18th, for the purpose of elect ing officers. The following were elected: president—James Willis, vice-president—John Morrah. Secretary and Treasurer—Betty News has been received here of the marriage of Mr. Arthur Britt and Miss Juanita Welsh, which interesting event took place recently in Paducah, Ky. Mr. Britt Commit- December Suggestions For Field And Garden CLEMSON COLLEGE Nov. 30.— A brief farm calendar of important 'k^, Brlt i ISU ^ eStl ? nS J t0r “.n d hp1Sw fo? r De- curing u,e winter win. nen jc n, as th a „ h ^t?„ f „ re,8 S e 1, a 2?r‘^? ds ? ember attenUon by R W.HamU- sa ^^" 0 “ d «‘“stllks and other in this section. He is succeeding ton agronomist; E H. Bawl norti material Chairman of program tee—Elsie Langley. Reporter—Eugenia Langley. The following program was rend ered by the literary society in chapel Wednesday, November 25; Thanksgiving Song—By all. Scripture and Prayer—James Willis. Thanksgiving Day — Woodson Callison. Thanksgiving Story—Leila Brad ley. Instrumental Solo—Eula Caudle. Thanksgiving Poem — Mildred Britt. Popular Music—A group of girls. in life in his new home and many culturist; Alfred .Lutken^entoma harrow on the land with a disc good wishes are expressed here for,legist and pathologist; and J. the happiness and success of the: McAlister, agricultural engineer, young couple. I Agronomy . Build and repair terraces now so ‘that they may settle before the Of all the books with unhappy endings, the check book takes the biggest prize..