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SORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCk, SOtlTH CAROLINA
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WHO ARE THEY?'
A man stopped me on the street to say that he had some important
Information. "They are going to put the market up in the next few
weeks," he said.
"Who are they?" I asked him.
He looked at me scornfully, as though I ought to be ashamed to confess
such ignorance. “Why they,” he answered, "are the big shots, the
insiders, the international bankers, the Interests.”
"Oh,” I said, and thanked him and went on my way.
When I graduated from college I had a great deal of awe of the In
terests, and at that period they were indeed pretty powerful. Im
portant corporations were comparatively few, and those few were
small in comparison with today.
Their stock was controlled by a compact group of men who, by act
ing together, could often make or break the market. Morgan could
get them all in a room and tell them what to do.
But times have changed. Corporations are enormous; shares are
scattered among millions. They, the interests, are not what they used
to be. f
One time I served on a civici 'committee, most of whose members were
bankers. The executive secretary was a bright young college gradu
ate. He said to me: "I don’t have to worry; when this job is over
these big bankers will take care of me."
Well, the job,, was over, and I told him: "You are going to have a
great shock as to the power of the International Bankers. They may
control millions, but one thing they can’t do is to get you a job. They
may send .you to the heads of certain corporations with letters of intro
duction, but they can’t insist that you be hired. Those corporation
managers will reply to the bankers, ‘You hold us responsible; you
must let us alone.’ ”
It turned out as I predicted. The young man finally secured a job,
but not by any help of the Interests.
I have seen, several national elections, but never one in which the
partners of any of the big international banking houses were agreed
upon a candidate.
Two. partners, sitting side by side, would offset each other’s votes.
In the last analysis, who are they?
ril tell you. You and I are they. We run things. A business may
have millions, of capital, big plants, and huge sales forces. But if
you and I dp. not like its product, all these huge assets are merely liabil
ities.
Talleyrand said a shrewd thing when he remarked, "There is one per
son wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.” ( You and I are every
body, and we decide. .
i Mr. Morgan does not awe me. Even the editor of this paper, who is
my boss, does not fill me with any great alarm. But believe me, I care
about you, gentle reader. .
When you turn your thumbs down I’m through. ‘ » ■
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custopier personal co-operation. No
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ready to serve you to the best advant
age.
WE; INVITE YOUR BUSINESS
T$e are really interested in serving
you and extend the full facilities of
this bank to help you in whatever way
we cam
Establish your account here now
and rook* to us as your friend and busi
ness counselor.
ieudplesRI
McCORMICK, S. C.
Experience Service Facilities
Those are the important things In measuring the worth
of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when
/ you have occasion to choose one
DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OCR SERVICE
and there is no additional charge for service out of town
J. S. STROM
TOMATOES— >,
When I was a boy my grand
mother told me that in her girl
hood, in the 1820’s, people grew to
matoes in their flower gardens for
their beauty. They called them
“love apples” and thought they
were poisonous. To the end of her
days—and she lived to be over
ninety—grandmother was always a
little suspicious of tomatoes.
Now we eat tomatoes in every
thing, even in clam chowder, where
they have no business to be.
I saw some figures the other day
about the latest development of
the tomato business, the canned
and bottled tomato juice. More
than 700,000 cans and nearly half
a million bottles were sold last
year. People drink tomato juice
because they think it is good for
them.
The world has changed a lot in a
hundred years.
BUYING—'
Everybody isn’t broke, and not all
industries are on the verge or bank
ruptcy. I talked the other night
with the New York distributor of
one of the popular makes of. elec
tric refrigerators. He told me that
his company had just completed a
nation wide selling competition, in
which every distributor was given a
certain quota of sales as the goal
to aim at, and that every one of
them had sold more refrigerators
than he had been asked to sell. My
New York friend’s organization dis
posed of more than twenty thous
and refrigerators in twenty-one
days.
Since the cheapest of these re
frigerators sells for $250, and the
average is about $350, that means
that the people of this one locality
spent around $7,000,000 for refrig
erators in these so-called hard
times. >
The truth seems to be that peo
ple are buying things that they
really feel the need of, when they
can get them at a fair price and
on easy terms.
WOOLLEY—
In appointing Miss Mary Emma
Woolley, President of Wellesley
College, as pne of thei American
delegates to the International Dis-
armament Conference, Mr. Hoover
has not only recognized that wo
men have a very vital interest in
the subject of war and its preven
tion, but he has paid a merited
compliment to a great teacher and
a life long worker in the cause of
peace. v>
Miss Woolley will be the first
woman in history to be an official
representative of a government in
an international conference. Ev
eryone who knows her, or who
knows anything about her thirty
years career as President of Welles
ley, will agree that her part in the
conference will be an active one
and that whatever she has to say
there will be listened to with res
pect.
ECKER—
Frederick Ecker, President of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, gave a Senate Committee
some interesting facts. His com
pany is perhaps the largest finan
cial institution in the world.
Mr. Eker said that he thought
that we are now very close to the
condition of business and indus
try which we must for a long time
to come regard as normal. He
thinks it is foolish to look for a re
turn of the boom times we had in
1924 to 1928. And at. the very
height of the boom, he pointed out,
there were a million and a half
unemployed.
X
Hog cholera is often mistaken
for influenza, pneumonia, parasites
in pigs, tuberculosis, and swine
plague, says the Bureau of Animal
Industry. Even a veterinarian may
be unable to diagnose hog cholera
until he makes a post-mortem ex
amination. The farmer who sus
pects hog cholera in his herd
should call in a trained veterinar
ian.
Main Street
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DE LA HOWE NEWS
Two new hot-blast mechanical
seed-cotton driers have been de
veloped by the Bureau of Agricul
tural Engineering oL the y. S. Dte-
partment of Agriculture. It does
not cost much to build these driers,
which can be madq by the' usual
cotton gin or plantg^ion, laborer*,
(Too Late For Last Week)
Mr. Keith Hinds has returned to
the University of Alabama after
spending the Christmas -holidays
with his mother, Mrs. M. A. Hinds.
Tuesday morning Misses Eliza
beth and Olive Branch returned
to Converse College at Spartan
burg.
Misses Lula and Clara Alexander
of Commerce, Ga., were the guests
of Miss Thelma Alexander for a
few days.
Mrs. Nell Stallworth was out to
school Wednesday afternoon. She
taught a number of games to a
large group of girls and boys in the
school auditorium.
Little Charlie Lane, age 8, has
been sent to the Shriners’ Hospital
in Greenville to receive treatment
for a bone infection.
The honored guests at the school
last Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs.
Blakely and Miss Marshall. Mr.
Blakely was superintendent of De
la Howe when the state took con
trol in 1918. He was superintend
ent seven years and Mr. Branch
succeeded him. Miss Marshall is
connected with the Women’s Col
lege at Due West.
Miss Alberta James has returned
after spending the Christmas holi
days in Eastover.
Monday a group of boys and
girls attended the picture show in
Abbeville.
Mrs. Juli£. Clary spent the week
end itt~Atlknta, Ga.
Mrs. Fanbie Smith has returned
after spending the Christmas holi
days with ifcr daughter, Mrs. Mary
Ann Davis in Washington, D. C.
The afternoon classes started
back to school Monday afternoon,
the morning classes Tuesday morn
ing. Everything seems to be mov
ing along smoothly at the begin
ning of a new year.
Mrs. G. C. Roper spent the
Christmas holidays in Kingstree,
with relatives.
Other visitors to the school dur
ing the week were: Mrs. Janie But
ler and Fuller Wiley of Troy, Mrs.
Leita Dominick and little Nancy
Dominick of Greenwood, Mr.
Claude Metz of Pheonix, Mr. G. A.
Dominick and sons, Henry and
George, Jr., of Spartanburg, Mr. W.
D. Craig, Mr. W. D. Craig, Jr., and
Mr. A. D. Poar of Lancaster, Misses
Ruth and Margaret McCain and C.
H. Chumley of Spartanburg.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McCormac of
Calhoun Falls haved moved to De
la Howe. Mr. McCormac will take
up the position as agricultural
teacher. He will organize classes
this week. /
IXt
Two firms who tried to smuggle
Dutch bulbs across the Canadian
border were detected by plant quar
antine inspectors and paid $5,000
fines.
WOMEN-, watch your
BOWELS
What should’ woman do to keep their
bowels moving freely? As doctor should
know the answer. That why pure
Syrup Pepsin is so good fbr women. It
lust suits their delicate organism. It i*
the prescription of an old' fhmily doctor
who has treated thousands of women
patients, and whe rnada a. special study
of boweh troubles. ,
i m 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. De. Caldwellfs Syrup Pepsin
is made from fresh laxative herbs, pure-
pepsin and other harmless ingredients.
1 When you’ve a sick headacne, can’t
eat, are bilious or sluggish; and at the
times when you are most apt to be
constipated, take a little of this famous
favorite laxative of over a million
women!
Dr. W. B. Caldwell's
SYRUP PEPSIN
A Doctor's Family Laxative
Fry sausage cakes and canned
pineapple, and serve them one on
top of the other. The tartness of
the pineapple offsets the rich flav
or of the sausage.
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There is no reason why fresh or
properly preserved fish should not Turkey growers usually hold ba<
be eaten at the same meal with from the holiday markets abo
milk. Fish and milk are often ^.o^.Ouu birds to use as breede
cooked together in the form of milk for the next crop of 20,000 000 <
chowders or creamed dishes, I more turkeys, . ’