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4 K t / \ V Thursday, D^ember 17, 1931 /' McCOKMICK MESSENGERv McCUKdlCK, SOUTi* CAKOLIINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT OPERA HOUSE — ABBEVILLE,’ S. C. M Thursday, December 17th LUyan Tashman and Buddy Rogers in “ROAD TO RENO” From 7:00 to 7:30 Adults 25c Friday, December 18th Helen Hayes and Lewis Stone in “THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET” Saturday, December 1J Bill Codv and Andy Shi in “OKLAHOMA JIM”. Mon.-Tues. Dec. 21st-22ndT James Dunn and Linda Watkins in “SOB SISTER” Wed.-Thurs. Dec. 23rd-24th Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March in “MY SIN” Shows: 3:15—7:15—9:00 Daily V W-i ? ■ P KANT ADVS. FARM BARGAINS.—Write Y. May, Greenwood, S. C. / 4tpo. fe.- jibos* f - aKar^ FOR SALE—One Milch Cow with a calf three weeks old. T. J. Stone, Modoc, S. C. It. gH*i WANT TO RENT—Hay Press, Horse Power, for about two weeks’ work. State where located. Ad- ' dress /“Hay Press,” Care McCor mick Messenger. < It. Defeats Republican V. SAKTA CLAUS IFTIIS McCormick, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: How are you this Christmas? Fine I hope. Santa,, I am a little girl two and a half years old. I lave tried to be a good little girl. Amf now, Santa, I want you "to ple&e bring me a doll and a little case to carry my little doll clothes in and fruit, nuts and sandy. And please don’t forget grandpa Weeks. Bring him some thing nice. Well, good-bye. Santa,- I will be looking f'or you Thursday# night. My box will be on the dresser in mother’s room. Your little girl, HELEN REBECCA WHITE. Plum Branch, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: We are two little boys, four and two years old. We both want a tricycle, some fruits, nuts and candy. I want you to bring me some caps for my pistol. Please bring me some fireworks too. Don’t forget all of our little friends; visit them all. Lots of love, . THOMAS CULBREATH. RICHARD CULBREATH. GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY and FRIDAY December 17th-18th Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March in “MY SIN” SATURDAY, December 19th Bill Cody . in “MONTANA KID” MONDAY and TUESDAY December 21st-22nd Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in “POSSESSED” WEDNESDAY, December 23rd Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in “THE GUARDS MAN” THURSDAY, December 24th Kay Francis Lillyan Tashman Joel McCrea in “GIRLS ABOUT TOWN” .-l 'mm ir ritate'Officials Off To New York BEATTIE' AND SCARBOROUGH GO TOnMETROPOLIS Buffalo Honor Roll FRANK PARKER Clarks Hill, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 7 years old and go to school. Santa, I have tried to be good, but you know I am only a boy. Please bring me a wagon, air rifle and shots, drum, knife and cap pistol, also fruits, nuts and candy. Don’t forget mo ther and daddy, also my teacher, Miss McKinney. Please bring her some thing nice too. Your little boy, G. C. SANDERS. Lane Would Stop Issue Of Bonds \ McCormick, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 4 years old. Please bring me a pair of overalls, a big rubber ball and a watch and anything else that you think I would like. Also bring me fruits, nuts, and candy. Your little friend, BILLIE McNEILL. Percy H. Stewart, Democrat, de feated his Republican opponent in the race for Representative of the Fifth District of New Jersey. His victory gives the Democrats a ma jority of two in the Lower House anil was achieved in a district that , has returned Republicans to Con- I gress for many years. ! McCormick, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Sapta Claus: I am a little girl 16 months old. I want you to please remember me and bring me a pretty doll, as I have broken the one you left for me in Florida last Christmas. Now, Santa Claus, don’t forget my little brothers; bring them lots of toys and fruits, nuts and candy and just a few fireworks. Don’t forget all little girls and boys. Your little friend, . ANNIE LOUISE DORN. A Romance That Will Grip You! WfeY Tl To her mother and the gay • social world she was Harlowe, wealthy de engaged to marry Felix Rent, powerful Wall Street million aire. But to her father, poor and cynical, she was .Lynda Sandal, who longed to know the whole of life and who falls in love with his young friend, Jock Ayleward. The dual personality of Jocelyn-Lynda leads her. into many strange adventures, complicated by the rivalry of two men who wish to marry her. - Here is a love story that is different and strangelv grip ping. Katharine Newlin Burt widely known writer for lead ing piagazines, has given us her best in RAPTURE BEYOND the new serial that starts in The Messenger at an early date Watch your paper and start S reading this splendid story i* when the first instalment is \ published and then keep up v with it from week to week. McCormick, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl eight years old. I am in the 4th grade. I like my teacher just fine. Her name is Miss Burgess. Please bring me a raincoat, gol oshes, fruit, nuts and candy. Don’t forget my little brother, Billie. Bring him -an aviation cap, fire works and fruits. Your little friend, MARY CORNELIA JENNINGS. Pleasant Lane, S. C., Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 2 years old and I have been mighty good since last Christmas. I want you to bring me a train on a track, a car that will run, also an airplane, a foot ball, and just anything else you think I would like, and please don’t forget my sweetheart, Alma, she wants a compact so she can keep herself pretty; also remember mo ther and daddy. Give my love to Mrs. Santa. Your little friend, S. B. CAMPBELL. X Joel y A cup of water placed in the oven when a fruit cake is baking helps to keep the right amount of mois ture in the air and to prevent the cake from drying out. XXI If building or remodeling a kitchen, make it oblong rather than square, to save steps in doing the work and to distribute the luipment most advantageously. I TlNKLEPAUeHS 'GOT A SCHEME To REDUCE THE vNHEAT SURPLUS BY THROW IN' WHEAT AT BRlRES INSTEAD oF RICE. COLUMBIA, Dec. 12.—Richard I. Lane, executive committeeman of the Richland county unit of the Farmers and ^Taxpayers’ league, has recommended that the general office of the league seek legal means to prevent the sale of any more bonds or notes of the state before the meeting of the general assembly. Mr. Lane says that most of the main arteries of communication have already been paved. Mr. L£hie said that by taking one cent on each gallon of gasoline sold in the state and adding it to the cent already allowed for such purpose each county would haye sufficient funds to take bare of all its -roads, under direction of the organization already maintained in each county by the state high way commission, thereby saving to the counties themselves one of the heaviest burdens they now have to bear. Mr. Lane declared he would propose this to the executive com mittee of the Farmers and Tax payers’ league. Furthermore, Mr. Lane declared that in his judg ment the state highway commission should be investigated beginning with the first dollar that has been spent to determine whether or not the state has received value com mensurate with the amount ex pended, or has merely been dazzled by the millions of dollars expend ed. Such an investigation, said Mr. Lane, should include a definite study of the number and character of the personnel of the highway department in order “to prove or disprove the general idea of top- heavy and extravagant adminis tration said to characterize that department of the state.” i-x / Highway Accidents Cost Many Lives COLUMBIA, Dec. 12.—Deaths in South Carolina highways numbered 27 during the month of November, bringing the total casualties for the first eleven months of 1931 to 220. This is an increase of 30 over the same period of 1930, according to the report of the state highway department made yesterday. Seventeen persons were seriously injured last month and 109 slight ly hurt. Six of those killed were pedestrians. Poor visibility is given as the cause for the greatest number of accidents. Forest fires during the first part of November and heavy fogs during the latter part were general over the state. Other leading tauses for acci dents are given hs careless driving, reckless driving, speeding, defect of motor vehicles and carelessness of pedestrians. The total number of accidents during the month was 154. txt The Department of Agriculture has planted in this country more than 200,000 Japanese chestnut trees, which promise to be resistant to the American chestnut blight. CANADA— Canada’s census of 1931 has just been completed and it shows the total population of the Dominion to be almost exactly ten million per sons. That is an increase of about * fourteen per cent in ten years, which is a fairly rapid rate of growth—a faster rate, in fact, than the United States showed between 1920 and 1930. It is not very many people, however, to populate Can ada’s enormous area. The Dom inion has 3,690,000 square miles, which is 660,000 square miles larger than the United States. Our pop ulation is about thirty-eight per sons to the square mile, and Can ada’s is fewer than three persons to the square mile. This vast and largely undevelop ed area to the north of us still holds immense possibilities for the pioneer and the explorer. VITAMINES— We hear a lot about vitamines and the necessity of eating foods containing them, but few people are able to keep the list in mind Here is a simple, concise list of the common foods which contain the vitamines essential to health: Vitamine A—milk, butter, fresh cheese, eggs, green vegetables (spinach, lettuce, etc.), yellow vegetables (carrots, yellow corn). Vitamine p—Germs of cereals, liver, yeast, lettuce, raw peanuts Vitamine C—Lemons, organes, grapefruit, raw cabbage and sauer kraut, sprouted grain or peas, to matoes,' lettuce, watercress, raw spinach, turnips or green peppers. Vitamine D—Liver and cod liver oil, egg yolk, snails, sunshipe (that is, sunshine on the body actually causes vitamine D to appear in the body, which aids bone growth, pre vents rickets, prevents tooth de cay). Vitamine E—Germ oil of wheat or other grain, other vege table oils, fresh meat and animal fat, fresh lettuce.. Vitamine F— Same foods as vitamine B. Vita mine <jr—Fresh or evaporated milk, liver, green vegetables, fresh or canned, bananas and yeast. GAS— Enough natural gas is being pro duced in the United Stjates ' today to provide six times as much en ergy as all of the electric power stations put together. New natural gas fields of enor mous volume have been discovered and developed in the past two years in southern New York and north ern Pennsylvania, and in many other sections of the United States. I know some counties in which al- v most every farmer has his own gas well. Probably enough natural gas has been allowed to go to waste in the past fifty years to supply the whole nation with fuel for a hundred 'years. A great many gas fields “petered” out, but new ones are constantly being brought in. Event ually natural gas seems likely to be our chief source of power. INSURANCE— The life insurance companies of the United States paid more than two thousand million dollars to their policy holders and benefici aries last year. There is about three times as much life insurance in force today as there was ten years ago. There are literally mill ions of men who are providing es tates for their dependents after they die, and comfort for them selves in old age, by no other means than setting aside a fixed percentage of their incomes for life insurance premiums. A good rule for anybody buying life insurance is to take as large a policy as can be paid for out of ten per cent of the individual’s fix ed annual income, and increase the insurance as the income increases. JOUS— The hardest problem that com- mr iity committees on unemploy ment have to face in using the funds raised for unemployment re lief is finding or making jobs for the class often called “white collar workers.” It is comparatively easy to make work for the manual laborer. New York is doing this by all sorts of street, park and waterfront im provements. A good many white collar workers are being "provided work in collecting information The State of Sunday says: A. J. Beattie, comptroller general of South Carolina, and Julian H. Scar borough, state treasurer, left Co lumbia yesterday afternoon for New York, where it is understood they will hold conferences with financial houses relative to state finances. In January, 1932, the public schools will have to be financed in the amount of $1,750,000, this being for state aid, according to a state ment made by Mr. Scarborough some days ago. The usual custom is for this money to be borrowed. In March, 1932, the state will have to refinance the $5,000,000 deficit, accumulated during past administrations and in May furth er financial arrangements may have to be made for the 6-0-1 school law and for current expens es. The trip is not thought to have any connection with the proposed sale of $10,000,000 of state securi ties bids for which are to be re ceived December 23, this money to be used in highway construction. Last week Governor Blackwood and Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway commissioner went to New York for the purpose of getting informa tion from bonding houses relative to the sale of. highway bonds or short term notes, and while they were in New York, authority was given for the advertisement of the sale of,state securities in the sum of $10,000,000. txt Young Newberry Farmers Get Worth while Results NEWBERRY, Dec. 14.—The an nual 4-H Achievement Day fer Newberry county’s agricultural club members brought out some striking illustrations of the success and the benefits financially and otherwise of 4-H club work, the winning of $642.49 in prizes at county and state fairs by Newberry club boys being not only a noteworthy achievement but' a fine and con vincing proof that 4-H club work leads clubsters into farming prin ciples and practices that result in better outturn of superior products. Prizes awarded at the annual gatherings of these junior farmers amounted to $135.60 for corn club sters, $143.00 for pig clubsters, and $363.89 for calf clubsters, according to figures from P. B. Ezell, cotmty farm agent, and T. F. Oooley, as sistant; and the announcement of these and other results were basis of high praise and endorsement of 4-H club work from Congress man Fred H. Dominick and State Senator Tabor L. Hill who spoke on the Achievement Day program. A few instances of outstanding achievement by 4-H club boys who are learning while earning include the following: Dan Buckley exhibited the sweep- stakes ten ears of corn at the State Fair, winning over the open field of competition, this being the sec ond time he has taken this* honor in recent years. Raymond Mayer grew 88.77 bush els of corn per acre on his five- acre corn contest demonstration. L. S. Shealy, Jr., woh the follow ing places on his gilt at the New berry county fair: first in 4-H club class; first, junior, and grand champion in open classes. Vernon Epting sold 12 clUb pigs and a brood sow during and since the Newberry county fair, showing that the advertisement he got at the State and county fairs wds worth his trouble and expense even if he had not won the $106.00 in nremiums. i^IRST GRADE— Evelyn Brock John Wise SECOND GRADE— Elizabeth Brock Audrey Loveless THIRD GRADE— Elvin Brock Samuel Link FOURTH GRADE— Lawrence Loveless Thomas McCombs S.‘XTH GRADE— Robert Link Louise Loveless SEVENTH GRADE— Sara Franklkin. x— ^lOOKS At BY "OBSfRVfR which various public and semi public institutions need but in ord inary times have felt they could not afford to collect. One New York business house suggested ^ house-to-house canvass of the city to finc^ out how many domestic electrical appliances of all kinds were in use, and on condition that this information should be avail able to every distributor of electric appliances, one of the unemploy ment relief agencies put a thous and men and women at work on salary, ringing doorbells and gath ering these statistics. There is no community so small that some work of that general nature cannot be found for unem ployed who are not able to do manual labor, and who are unwill ing to take charity. New York’s Garages— A recent survey in this city un covered the fact that 123,000 pri vate automobiles are parked all night on the street instead of be ing run into a garage. Steps are be ing taken to force their owners to rent garage space but this is easier planned than done. To add to the. infraction of -law, more than 102,- 000 of these cars failed to have their tail-lights burning, making them an additional menace to traf fic. The survey was made, by thirty college students who worked three months on it, checking over each car early at night and then toward dawn to show that they were being left out all night. The figure at tained is the average of this three months’ work. New York is prob ably the worst city in the wofld from the standpoint of lacking proper garage space. An Alleyless City— / Most cities in the United States have a system of alleys paralleling the streets, but New York' blocks are built like a barracks. All four sides are closed in and the back yards are good for nothing but ex ercising cats. This condition prevents the erec tion of private garages, except in specially built structures. The aver age car owner has to walk several blocks to the nearest available garage and this tempts most driv ers to leave their cars out in front of their houses all night. It not only saves them trouble but garage rent, which runs from $20 to $25 a month for just plain storage. Owning a pleasure car in New York is by no means as much pleasure as might be imagined, al though once one is free of the cityi there are many wonderful drives in beautiful country. Enginejujjpg Accuracy— Ther^ike always at least two or three tunnels under active con struction in this city, ranging from four to five miles long. They fire used as water and passenger tun nels and are the one thing that, makes it possible for so many peo ple to.live in such a confined area. The engineers who build these tunnels are rated highly by all pro fessional •men. Working blindly, they have to start their tunnels in from two to a dozen different spots, depending on the length of the bore, and the two crews must meet exactly when the ends are con- :iected. The other day a five-mile long tunnel in Brooklyn was finished and the engineers in charge found they had made a mistake of exact ly one-eighth of an inch in sixteen feet—the diameter of the bore. TXt— When a recipe calls for browned buttered bread crumbs on top of any dish, melt the butter in a nan and mix the crumbs with it before spreading them on the *food to be- cooked. In stuffines, puddings, and other recipes calling for but tered crumbs, this method gives tastier results than placing dots of butter here and there on the dish. —r xi Economists estimate that one- fifth of the cattle and calves com ing to central livestock markets are sent back to the country for fur ther feeding. TXT A total of 5.500 grade crossings have been eliminated on Federal aid roads since 1917, says the Bu reau of Public Roads. txt Iowa, famous for its tall corn, is also the leading producer of nop co rv \ Its average acreage in bop corn from 1921 to 1930 was 25,884. TXt 0 me countries grow “Ceremonial ” These teas are usually grown te; unr r shade and prepared under rituals for ceremonial purposes. ‘Some of them 1 cost as much as $100, a pound.