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/ V A V Thursday, February 11, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR McCORMICK MESSENGER Printshop Fables Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 i edmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 HEALTH IS WEALTH Health is wealth, someone has said. It is also happiness, because to be unhealthful is to be unhappy. That happiness means health has a scientific basis, according to a noted scientist, who has * experi mented with rats. Those that have been tamed so that they could be handled in the hand do not suffer the ill effects from experiments as do those that are wild and afraid during the ex periment. This is directly due to properties of several glands of internal secre tions in the human, this scientist says. Since fear affects health, and therefore, happiness, wise people will avoid fear. To be healthy and fearless then, is to be happy, which is the goal of every human being. PROBLEM REMAINS SERIOUS Here’s a newspaper classic going the rounds which points the evil of attempting to get something for nothing when it comes to reading some one else’s paper, without sub scribing to it yourself, says The Spartanburg Journal, i Once upon a time a nickel-nurser sent his kid to borrow the neigh bor’s paper, and the kid upset a hive of bees and soon was covered with bumps. His father ran to help him and caught his chin on a clothes line and sprained his back and fell and broke a $25 watch. The clothes pole fell over the car and , smashed the windshield, and mo ther rushing out to see what oc casioned all the excitement, upset a five-gallon churn of cream into a basket of kittens, drowning all of them. The electric flatiron burned through the ironing board, setting fire to the house, and the firemen broke all the windows and chopped a hole in the roof. Moral— Sub scribe to your home paper. Don’t borrow it! The Opening Of The Bicentennial Celebration WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL NEWS -1X1- Just how great the problem of tuberculosis prevention in the United Sftites really is was indicat ed when Miss Jessamine S. Whit ney, statistician of the National Tuberculosis Association, made public an estimate that there are 2704)00 active but unknown and undiagnosed cases of tuberculosis In this country^ “The total number of active cases both known and unknown,” stated Miss Whitney, “are believed to number about 810,000. This figure is arrived at by multiplying by nine the last, official recorded number of annual deaths. Experi ence acquired during intensive cases-finding surveys shows that the total number of active cases whifch can be unearthed in a com munity, bears a constant relation to the number of annual deaths. This is as nine to one. Two-thirds of these, or 540,000 are known cases most of them under treatment. One-third, or 270,000 are unknown to themselves, their doctors and the public.” . ^ i “The problem of finding these 270,000 persons is now engaging the activities of 1400 tuberculosis as sociations throughout the country who are entering on an “early diagnosis campaign.” It is finan ced by funds raised on the Christ mas Seal Sale conducted each year during the hdliday season. — x WE MUST KNOW OUR COMMUNITY Newspaper Ad vertising Value An Iowa newspaper says: “News paper advertising is the life insur ance of any community. Take that influence out of any town or city and “the mourners move about Uie streets; the merchant weeps for his customers and refuses to be comforted, because they are not.” Newspaper advertising has become such a fixed part of the intricate mechanism of retail commerce that the wheels refuse to go around without the advertising grease. It is not the mission of newspaper ad vertising to tell che customer where . to buy something that he doesn’t need. It is the mission of news paper advertising to help a custom- ed supply his needs satisfactorily, promptly, ^nd at a reasonable j price. The columns of newspaper 1 advertising in your home paper is a ‘directory’ to which you can refer with the assurance that in so doing you will receive instructions that will expedite your shopping expedi tion; tell you where to go, when and what you can do when you get 1 there. There will be no bewilder ment, no doubt, no confusion. They direct you in a manner that re- , quires the least possible physical and mental effort and in that function minimize interference with your favorite phantom.’ ” TXI Cotton Growing -L In Russia Where ydur heart is, there are your thoughts also. Where your heart is, your pocket- book may generally be found open. Where your heart is, you have nothing but an optimistic view point. The plain course for every loyal citizen, then is to place his heart in his home community And work for it and boost for it with all of his energy and ability. You can’t be loyal to home and still think that some other place is a better place to live. You can’t be loyal to the interests of this community and have your heart elsewhere. You must be convinced in your own mind that the place where you live is the best place on earth to live else you will never be able to convince anyone else of the fact. To be convinced of the superior ity of the place you call home, you must know all of its good points and all of its advantages. Only well informed citizens are good citizens and you can’t honest ly place yourself in that class un til you get all.of the knowledge that It is possible to acquire about your community. First get the facts. Then go out and tell others. tXI An Indian rule for planting corn was to wait until the leaves on the oak trees were the size of . a squir rel’s ear. (The Charlotte Observer.) Another circumstance to be tak en into consideration in the now generally accepted policy of acre age reduction in the South by voluntary process, is the rapidly in creasing production of cotton in Russia. First direct information as to what is going on over there in the way of cotton cultivation comes through a Paris distf»£itch to The Wall Street Journal, and it is of a character to hold the attention of the Southern planters. The Paris bureau of The Journal makes re port that the cotton fields in the Soviet union covered 3,375,000 acres in 1931 or nearly double the 2,- 000,000 acres cultivated in cotton during the years preceding the World War. This estimate is made in the French cotton trade by in terests familiar with conditions in Russia who have been following Russian developments concerning cotton continues to be grown in the irrigated plains of Central Asia and only a minor quantity in Trans caucasia. According to the Soviet plan a further increase in cotton-field acreage of 375,000 acres is called for in 1932, and the goal is set for 4,- 500,000 acres under cultivation by 1937. In general, wheat and rice lands have been turned over for cotton-growing rather than land which has not previously been cul tivated. Until very recently Russia had been an importer of cotton, parti cularly of American staples, but with the rapid increase in native output the immediate needs of the Russian mills have been met, and a few sales of the Soviet product have been reported recently in the Liverpool market. America, there fore, seems not only to have lost a customer but to be threatened with some competition from Russia. t That is not a very pleasant pros pect, but it is one that is likely to develop and is all the more reason why the Southern farmers should have a caution against over-plant ing this season. President Hoover will officially open the nine-months, nation wide George Washington Bicen tennial celebration at noon (East ern standard time) February 22, when he will deliver his George Washington address before a joint meeting of Congress, assem bled in the House of Representa tives in the Capitol. The Judges of the Supreme Court, members of the Cabinet, foreign diplomats and many other distinguished jvisi- tors also will be present, and the address will be carried to every comer of America over a nation wide hook-up. Following his address, President Hoover will be escorted to the East steps of the Capitol, and will give the signal for the singing of “Am erica” by a chorus of ten thousand voices. It is expected that millions of people will join in this “sing” as it comes over the air. The great chorus gathered at the Capitol will be conducted by Walter ; Damrosch and will be accompanied by the United States Army, Navy and Marine bands which will play as a unit under the direction of John Philip Sousa. An “inaugural” crowd is expected to be on hand for these ceremonies. After luncheon. President Hoov er, accompanied by the members of the Unied States George Washing ton Bicentennial Commission and the District of Columbia George Washington Bicentennial Commis sion will go to Mount Vernon to lay a wreath on the tomb of the Father of His Country in the name of a united nation. At 3 p.-m. there will be exercises at the Washington Monument un der the auspices of the various’pat riotic societies in the District of Columbia. In the evening the George Wash ington Colonial Costume 3all will be held at the Mayflower Hotel un- ucr me auspices of che United States George Washington Bicen tennial Commission and the Dis trict. of Columbia Bicentennial Commission. No effort is oeing spared to reproduce the Colonial atmosphere for this occasion. The affair is being managed by experts and every State will* oe represented by specially invited guests. While the celebration officially opens on February 22, Sunday Feb ruary 21, will be an active Jay in the District of Columbia as well as in every city in America. The Unit ed States George Washington Bi centennial Commission has sug gested special religious services ior George Washington to .be held wherever people gather to worship. Response from the various church organizations to this project has been remarkable. It is probable that practically all of the 232,000 churches will hold special services honoring the First President on this day. A folk-masque written especially for the United States George Wash ington Bicentennial Commission by Percy MacKaye will be presented at Constitution Hall, Washisgton, D. C., on the evening of February 21. This masque is being produced un der the auspices of the United States George Washington Bicen tennial Commission and the Dis trict of Columbia George Wash ington Bicentennial Commission. The masque is entitled “Wake field,” named after the birthplace of George Washington, and port rays in symbolic form the story of George Washington. Five hundred adults and children are being re hearsed for this production and the music will be furnished by the United States Marine Band. The folk-masque is being printed by the United States George Washing ton Bicentennial Commission for use in other cities. It is expected that this masque will be produced in all the large cities of the Unit ed States during the Bicentennial Celebraiton. During the week of February 22, motion pictures depiciting princi pal events in the life of George Washington entitled “Washington the Man and the Capitol” and pro duced by Warner Bros., will be shown in the Theatres of America as a feature of the Bicentennial Celebration. Hundreds of theatres have already arranged for such a showing, and, undoubtedly, practi cally every motion picture theatre in America will be booked to show the life of George Washington on the screen. -X Brightly colored dyes that are not poisonous to cut flowers have beiin perfected by a Minnesota scientist. Mid-term examinations are over and we are beginning the last stretch of our school year" There seem to have been fewer failures this time than usual, due possibly to the fact that pupils put out more effort than usual. Washington boys went to Green wood Thursday to take part in the basketball tournament. Although the boys did not win we were^proud of the fight they put up. Washing ton girls did not enter the tourna ment. | The honor roll for the past sem ester is as follows: FIRST GRADE— Charles Stone Vera Middleton Fred Morgan SECOND GRADE— Earl Bridges Nettie Louise Morgan Rose Reese Kenneth Warren THIRD GRADE— Elizabeth Self Frances Robertson Hazel Dukes Annyelle Drennan Hortense Cartledge FOURTH GRADE— Pamelia Edmunds Willie Reed Fowler Louise Rich Henry Jennings Bussey FIFTH GRADE— Edna Cartledge Emily Dukes Edith Robertson SIXTH GRADE— Mildred Gilchrist Mary Louise Dorn Annie Laurie Wood Nina Bussey SEVENTH GRADE— Margie Bussey Mildred Blackwell Carolyn Dukes - Myrtle McDaniel T. !R. Cartledge EIGHTH GRADE— . Evelyn Blackwell Mary Neoma Eckard Dorothy Warren NINTH GRADE— John Price Harold Bussey Fioyd Drennan Viola Wilkie TENTH GRADE— Frances Wells Josephine Parks Lucyle Parks ELEVENTH GRADE— Marie Gilchrist Joyce Bridges Mary Frances Drennan Anel Edmunds Annie Martha Ryan Julia Bush Alice Bunch Alice Brown 1X t WHAT WILL YOU Serve TONIGHT?, vtr; fO matter what’s on the menu, no real Southern dinner is complete without light, flaky, steaming biscuits. For better biscuits use CADICK’S GOLD DUST, CA-MI-CO or CADICK’S CAKE & BISCUIT flour. We guarantee satisfaction. DE LA HOWE NEWS Miss Estelle Powell spent the week end in Hephzlbah, Ga. Mrs. Fannie Smith, Miss Thelma Alexander and Miss Dewitt were visitors in Augusta, Ga., Saturday. Miss Bessie Peatrass spent Satur day in Greenwood., Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rheney of McCormick were visitors here at the school Sunday afternoon. Mr. Gettys took the eighth and eleventh grades on a straw ride Saturday afternoon. They wen: around by Calhoun Falls and Abbe ville. Mr. Gettys set them up to hot dogs, drinks, candy and fruit at the Welcome Cafe in Calhoun Pails. ! Rev. Mr. Stewart, pastor of the Episcopal church at Willington, conducted the afternoon services j here Sunday afternoon. After the services, Anderson Cade and wife, Geo. Drayton, Will Smith and Cuff Rollison, rendered a very enjoyable musical program. Miss Alberta James was a visi tor in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday. Miss Telia Shuman and Mrs. T. S. Thompson made a business trip to Anderson, Tuesday. railHUSUHARRI Main Street McCormick, S. 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General Agent For Consumers Medicated Stock Salt MODOC NEWS Miss Bernice Moore, who has been spending several weeks here among friends and relatives, has returned to her home at McCormick. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews from Au gusta made a short visit here Sun day evening to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Douglas. Mr. -Albert Howie was the guest ! to his cousins. Masters Ben and (James Bussey, Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Barrette Edmonds of Augusta made the latter’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. McDaniel, a short visit Sunday evening. Master Ben. L. Bussey was the guest Tuesday night to Masters James and W. P. McDaniel. Mrs. E. F. Bussey* Misses Lucy, Mamie Rena and Nettie Thelma Bussey, Maggie Nash and Fannie Kate Key were callers Sunday ev ening to Mr. and Mrs. W. McDaniel, Jr. Misses Lela and Geneva Stone from Clinton were visitors here Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Dukes and the latter’s brother, Mr. Fred Bussey, made a short shopping visit to Au gusta Saturday evening. 1 Mr. Roy Bailey spent the past week end here with his brother, Mr. Henry W. Bailey. 1 Master James McDaniel was din ner guest last Sunday to Masters Ben and James Bussey. | Messrs. B. M. Bussey, H. J. and Charley Bussey and L. R. Seigler were business visitors to Augusta on Monday of this week. Mrs. B. M. Bussey was the guest Sunday evening to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harvely. I Mr. G. E. Dukes spent the past week end with homefolks here af ter a month’s stay in Florida the capital city. ( New York’s annual foreign trade has risen from $55,000,000 to more than $4,000,000,000 in the last cen tury. Only seventeen of the forty-eight states have passed laws requiring drivers of motor cars to obtain a : license. Government tree experts say that a transplanted tree usually neecs to be watered during dry. sea sons for at least two or three years A baby monkey clings to the hair of its mother’s body by its fingers ! and toes. An old belief was that ringing of church bells would dispel a threat- ! ening storm. Lead mines of Spain and Britain weie worked more than 1,000 years before Christ. * -txt- THINGS WORTH KNOWING An “imclligent” perfume Tilling apparatus nas been devised, which) refuses to drop any liquid into a-* bottle that happens to oe imper- iect. With toe area in the Richmond, Ai ’i lane engines are less durab o (Va.) district developing along in- | than automobile engines chiefly jdur.uial lires, ocean-going . steam- because the airplane motor is raced ers now arc plying up and down the more of tne time when it is in 'James river between Norfolk and fight.