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0 / Thursday, December 24, 1931 .< ;UhulICK MtsbKNGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN V WeVe Found THE Way Out! JVhile the whole world is searching for a way to economic stability^ South Carolina faces the future with a high hope based on scien* tific fact. 9 Men and women of SoutK Carolina! We realize that there is heed Ifcoday, for united, concerted action. Unquestionably, we have here op portunity for making South Carolina permanently prosperous. The foundation has been laid upon a sound scientific basis. We have a vir tual monopoly in the high iodine content of our vegetation. We face jthe future with a high hope based on a scientific fact. Our food product is an absolute necessity and South Carolina has a virtual monopoly. Thefe are so many ways by which development will take place as a result of discoveries already made that if we but grasp our opportuni ties we may, without exaggeration, visualize a South Carolina with the burdens of adversity lifted, and a prosperous and happy citizenship in this State. Authorities All Agree The claims for South Carolina foods have been substantiated by leading scientists throughout the world and their statements printed in the foremost scientific journals. « The virtual monopoly, however, which we possess in our products grown here for human and animal foods will make it possible to diver* gjify our crops and bring us prosperity. Co-operation Necessary We are, today, faced with competition from strongly organized states And sections v which are deeply entrenched. We cannot hope to meet their competition unless we too unite and as a single aggressive unit go forth to take our place in the markets of the world. With our advantage of a virtual monopoly we have the powerful weapon with which to drive the great food and dairying companies into our state, to'buy our vegetables, animal feeds and milk, that they may save their very economic existence. No other state in the Nation pos sesses such an advantage. It will be of value to ns only in proportion to our ability to organize our resources, our talents, and our money, for the common good. It is of the greatest significance that Meadb Johnson Company, largest manufacturer of infant foods, has just announced their intention of es tablishing a plant in South Carolina. The Borden Company, the great est purveyor of milk products in the United States, has decided to establish a milk drying plant in Newberry, South Carolina. Samples of milk will be collected there from various sections of the state. Each sample will be dried and sent every other day for analysis to the South Carolina Pood Research Laboratory, located in Charleston, S. C., and the Borden Laboratory at Bainbridge, New York. From this investiga tion will be determined the most suitable situations for the building of plants, i • 0 < , Fruits, Vegetables and Milk Coincident with this work upon milk and foods required by the Borden and Johnson Cos., there will be conducted at the laboratory a careful investigation of vegetables grown in the several sections of the State, and this study will extend throughout the year in order to ascertain if seasonal variations occur in their iodine content. This work will be? undertaken at the request of some of the other important vegetable com-* panics that contemplate moving into Sodth Carolina. The problem of marketing our wares is paramount. Primarily, we must create a consumer’s demand for our products. Next, packers, can- ners, dairymen and purveyors of milk must be informed of our products. Once a demand is established markets will follow. y The Progress Movement Therefore, we believe that now is the time for citizens of SoutE Carolina to unite in a great Progress Movement whose object will be to> furnish the money and manpower necessary to create a national de mand for South Carolina grown products and to carry forward, for all our people, the discoveries made by the South Carolina Food Research Commission., Be A Believer In South Carolina—Demand Home Grown Foods— For the Sake of Your Own Health and Prosperity! We conceived the following to "be the prime objects of the South rjornMna. Progress Movement of the South Carolina Progress As sociation: First: To create a vast organization of rep* resentative citizens to serve with the highest efficiency in exploiting South Carolina’s natural resources^ Second: To provide the South Carolina Food Research Laboratory, located at Charleston, S. C., with additional equipment 9 necessary to the experimentation requested by large dairying and food processing com* ponies who, at the present time, contemplate moving here* Third: To provide additional personnel from the ranks of scientists throughout the, country and to coordinate scientific effort in order, that foods containing a sufficient amount of iodine and other chemical ele* menu necessary to meet the requirements of nutrition, may be available and utilize pur vegetables, fruits and milk* FoutiK: To disseminate scientific informs* tion to over three hundred thousand mem bers of the American Medical Association, Child Welfare Workers, dieticians, and do* mestic science teachers, and others who con* trol diets, to tell them of the iodine and 'Other high mineral contents of South Caro lina grown foodstuffs. Fifth: To acquaint national purveyors of food and milk with the information already available and the, results of future expert mentation. % 4 Sixth: To launch an aggressive campaign of education to “sell” South Carolinians on the merits and possibilities for home consump* «* lion of South Carolina grown products. Seventh: To secure the cooperation of sci entific and popular magazines, newspapers, trade magazines of food and dairy purvey* 'ors, arid many other publications to com stantly print articles written by competent authorities in order that the information 'Concerning our food products may become , - ” 4 * l ■ ' » generally kiiown^ Eighth: To use paid advertising and exhib its in medical journals and at national medU cal meetings, publicizing South Carolina products. Ninth : To create an organization of forward looking citizens to compile, and print, facts Concerning the various sections, communi ties, and cities of South Carolina and con cerning all of our natural resources. To carry out this program there should be launched at once the Progress Movement of the South Carolina Progress Association to, recruit manpower and to raise funds of a&. least ninety-eight thousand dollars.. This manpower and money should be made avail able for the use of The Natural Resources ^Commission and the Food Research Com mission through the Executive Committee? of The South Carolina Progress Association. $98,000 Needed Immediately to meet the Challenge of This Hour’s Golden Opportunity! LY. FRANK WATKINS '(fSeneral Chairman Progress Asso ciation, Anderson, S. C. SENATOR FRED D. WEST Chairman Progress Movement, Abbeville, S, C. ROGER PEACE Chairmy All Educational Committals, Greenville, S. C. Other Members of Executive Committee B. W. BARNWELL, Charleston, S. C. CHRISTIE BENET, Columbia, a C. W. A. COLEMAN, Hyman, 8. 0. B. M. EDWARDS, Columbia, 8. C. W. FRANK HIPP, Greenville, 8. 0. A. L M. WIGGINS Vice Chairman BartsviUe, S. C. HON. IBRA C BLACKWOOD Governor Columbia, S. C. DR. WILLIAM WESTON i Chairman South Carolina Food Research Commission CHAS. D. GORDON Vice Chairman Columbia, S. 0. DR. FRANK H. McLEOD President Progress Association, Florence, S. C. L H. HUNT Secretary Progress Association, Newberry, 8. C. JOHN E. CECIL Executive Director, Columbia, 8. C. JOHN M. KINARD, Newberry, S. C. T. M. MARCHANT, Greenville, S. C. / ]W. J- MURRAY, Columbia, S. C. J. C. SELF, Greenwood, 8. C. JOHN T. STEVENS, Kershaw, 8. C. E. P. VANDIVER, (Anderson, 8. C. JOSEPH WALKER Columbia, 8. C. T. C. WILLIAMS, Columbia, S. C. ]W. L. GLOVER, (Orangeburg, 8. C« V. C. BADHAM, Radbam, S. C. ^ / SENATOR R. M. COOPER, JR. Wi&acky, 8. C. SENATOR F. A. DesPORTES, Wixmsboro, 8. C. C. W. COKER, Hartsville, S. C. JAMES B. MURPHY, Columbia, 8. C. HON. ARTHUR L. GASTON, Chester, S. C. W. P. JACOBS, Clinton, 8. C. DR. E. C. DOYLE, Seneca, S. C. GEORGE B. TIMMERMAN, Lexington, S. C. A. F. McKISSICK, Greenville, 8. C. A. W. HUCKLE, Chairman Newspaper Commis- fsion, Rock Hill, S. C. JOHN VAN CRONKHTTE, * Chairman Radio Commission, I Columbia, S. C. DR. D. W. DANIEL, Clemson College, S. C. DR. JAS/McLEOD, Chairman Speakers Bureau, Florence,; 8. C. * PAUL BENSON, Chairman Poster Board Com mission, Anderson, 8. G. Eye* examin ed. Spectacle*, Eye Glasses, and Artificial ifiyes fitted without Brags, Drops or Danger. • | ^ DR. HENRY J. GODIN |FF’ r Optometrist* FH JPfead Street AifUta, g* Professional Card W. K. CHARLES Attorney-At-Law office, Farmers Bank Building Days at McCormick WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS HUMORETTES “She says she thinks she could learn to love me.” “Yet you do not look happy.” “It is going to be expensive. Had her to the theatre last night, with a little supper afterward. The first lesson cost me $25.” Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement report on the prohibition situation in this coun try? Wetmore—That the law wasn’t being observed and that it should be enforced. ly what she will be doing until I get back.” “What?” ‘h! “Nothing.” “I can leave my maid alone in Dresden—What did the National the house all day and know exact- “Why didn’t you send up a man to mend our electric door bell?” “He did go, madam, but as he rang twice and got no answer he concluded that there was no one at home.” f Teacher—Fred, if I said “I ami beautiful,” what tense would it be?. Fred—Past. x Out cf every 100 buildings struck by lightning only 2 are protected by lightning rods. Lightning caw an annual loss of $12,000,000.