Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, April 14, 1932 McCORMtCK ->.< Oi< (,l. 1EK TWO spu>' * / fe.H-' © iM \ 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. Walterboro — Work practically completed on Walterboro Country Club golf course. Columbia — Pacific Mills to re move 80 looms from Lawrence, Mass., to plant in this city. Newberry — 300 gallon pasteur izer installed in Newberry Cream ery. N Camden — Boston Store, dry goods and clothing establishment, opened for business in Mimnaugh building, Broad and Rutledge sts. Abbeville — 15 mile stretch of pavement opened to traffic from here to Calhoun Falls. Btidton — L. J. Knox purchased Clem’s Lunch from C. J. Carter. Ware Shoals — Construction nearing completion on new refilt ering plant and six-story print plant for Ware Shoals Manufac turing Co., costing total of about $220,000. Fairfax — State Highway No. 33 being paved from here to Hardee- ville. Belton — Cox Furniture Co., add ed new one and one-half ton Chev rolet truck to its equipment. Union -- R. C. Watkins opened Fair Forest Dairy* recently. Belton — Tollison Electric Shop .moved to new location on O’Neal Street. Allendale — Peoples Water Serv ice Co., of South Carolina mo^ed to Citizen’s Bank building on Main Street. Georgetown — Front of J. G. Mc- Crory 5 and 10 Cent Store repaint ed. Allendale — Construction under way on new service station on Main Street .by Gulf Oil Co. Georgetown — Telephone cut-ins, extending from telephone exchange across Screven St. being put under ground in cables. Allendale — Plans being made lor erection, of rectory in lot ad joining Holy Communion Church building. Ware Shoals — Approaches to bridge over Saluda River at this place to be paved soon. . Union — Spot Cash Fuel Co., new * firm organized to sell coal, wood and ice. Newberry —Rogers Grocery Store opened for busness in new location. Laurens — Paving nearing com pletion on road to this place. Marion — New Bank opened for .* business here. Dillon — M. S. Goldstein opened ladies’ ready-to-wear store. Belton — Cox’s Lake to open to public about June 1. Barnwell —* New bank opened, for business. Newberry — Improvements made to grounds of Boundary Street SchooJ. Kingstree — Daniel Blake Co., established Stave Mill about one mile below this city on Atlantic Coastal Highway. Walterboro — Route known as LaFayette Highway from here to Raleigh included in Atlantic Coast al Highway Association’s system. t Bamberg — Interior of old Brown Furniture Store in old Wichman block near Farmers and Merchants Bank being repaired. Rich goldK>re discovered in Rog ers gold mine near Lancaster Coun ty line adjacent to farm of Daniel Wilson.—^Lancaster News. * Bamberg — Young Construction Co., resumed wprk on Bamberg- Brancheville Highway, Route No. 78. * Georgetown — Many improve ments being made to building own- * ed by Home Telephone Co. 7* Fairfax — Knopf’s Garage and Service Station opened for business on highway on edge of town. Allendale — Shipments of as paragus resumed from here, k Vorhees — Dedicatory exercises lield recently for Massachusetts J^Jlall at Vorhees N & I* School.. Georgetown — P. C. McClary & % *€Sons, Inc., filed papers of incor poration' to operate one or more merchantile stores. Greer — M. C. Davenport and John Ratterree purchased Peoples * Turst Co., Insurance. ► Chesterfield — J. A. Welsh pur- -jfcbased Chesterfield Auto Co., Inc. IFPANK PARKE] srocKSRiDfil JOBS— How many wage earners or sal aried employees in this country have stayed on one job as long as twenty years? Probably more than most people realize, but very few equal the record of three em ployees of a New York lead pencil manufacturing concern. One of them, the credit manager, has worked for the same company for fifty-four years, one of their sales men has been with them fifty years and one of the factory men fifty- iive years. All three are in good health and still in active service. In this same company the average :cngth of service of the traveling sales force is over twenty years. Twelve salesmen, still active, have a total of four hundred and eight years of service, an average of u hirty-four years each! Examples like that help correct our idea that we are essentially a restless people, constantly jumping from job to job. These folks who 3tay on one job continuously may. not get so much excitement out of life, but they certainly get more solid satisfaction and security, and if they are thrifty they are very likely to leave larger estates to their heirs than any of the job- jumpers. JEWS— It is difficult for Americans to grasp the full extent of the anti- Jewish prejudice which exists in many parts of Europe. In Germany the Facist movement led by Adolph Hitler has as a part of its revolu tionary program the expulsion of all Jews from Germany, and Hitler showed enough strength at the re cent election to cause -great alarm among the Jewish population. I have a Jewish friend whose daughter not long ago married a young Jewish banker of Berlin. She wrote home the other day that her husband was closing up his busi ness in Berlin and they were mov ing -to Amsterdam in Holland, and many of the other important Jew ish business men and bankers of Germany were looking for more friendly countries to move to. When we consider the position occupied by Jewish merchants and bankers in America, the honor paid to two great Jews, Cardozo and Brandeis, who are justices of our Supreme Court, the respect in which Jews like Edward Filene of Boston and the late Julius Rosen- wald of Chicago, are held, any such program as Hitler’s seems incom prehensible to us. RICHES— Henry Ford once told me the secret of making money. It is to manufacture something which ev erybody wants, make it cheaper than anybody else can make it, keep oi^ improving the product and reducing the cost of making it, and cut down the retail price every time the cost is cut.‘ . That is a rule that has never failed to work, whether the pro duct be automobiles, or newspapers, or bread. The lower the price, the wider the market. I was reminded of this the other day when I saw a notice that the company manufacturing the high est priced automobile in the world has closed its American factory and stopped trying to do business in this country, while Mr. Ford is an nouncing a new car which will be cheaper than anything he has yet put out. The old idea that money can be made only by selling high-priced commodities to the wealthy is res ponsible for a great deal of our present economic difficulty. GREED— I am inclined to agree with Prof, clenry G. Russell, of one of the Hartford high schools, who told the Eastern Commercial Teachers’ As sociation the other day that the principal thing the matter with our social and economic order today is in excess of greed. Dr. Russell warned the Teachers’ Convention .hat young people must be taught the dangers of avarice. “Get the money” without regard to how it is got, seems to be the motto of an increasingly large number of young men and women. It is this idea, fostered by “suc cess” stories, in print and to a very large extent in the movies, that is at the bottom of the whole system of racketeering. Organized crime is simply organized greed. It is still true, as Saint Paul wrote nearly two thousand years ago, that the love of money is the root of all evil. Not money itself, but the love of money. And the only possible corrective to the tendency to put money above ev erything else is to change our whole method of teaching the young, so that they will learn that it is possible to live happily with out much money—even more hap pily, for most people, than if they had money. LEADERSHIP— The type of normal human be ings whose health is always per fect and whose nerves are always calm seldom or never develops leaders or men of genius, according to a report of the University of Illinois Research Laboratories, where scientists have been study ing human types for several years. It is the people who are nervous, uneasy and always looking for something to do who take the lead in new business enterprises and be come the geniuses of art and litera ture, this report suggests. Tall men are much more likely to be of that type than the short, stocky ones. The difference arises large ly from physical causes. The in ternal chemistry of one type is much more variable than of the other. And this leadership type is much more subject to illnesses which have their Origin in nervous instability and blood changes, than are the more placid people. Perhaps the quiet folks who nev er do anything except follow the normal routine of life are more contented than the other kind, but they don’t have half as much fun! 1X1 Joseph Hewes Memorial \ When the monument to Joseph Hewes, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is unveiled at Ed- enton, North Carolina, on April 28, it will be one of the outstanding features of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration in the Old North State and the entire country. ^The memorial, erected by Congres sional appropriation, will overlook beautiful Edenton Bay from, the foot of the famous courthouse green. An elaborate program for the dedication has been planned by the committee in charge, the United States George Washington Bicen tennial Commission has been ad vised, and men of national repute will participate as speakers for the occasion. The principal speaker will be Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy. He will be intro duced by Josephus Daniels of Ral eigh, North Carolina, war-time Sec retary of the Navy in President Wilson’s cabinet. Congressman Sol Bloom of New York, associate director of the Un ited” States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, will res pond to the address of welcome by J. L. Higgins, mayor of Edenton. The presentation of the monument will be made by Brigadier General Louis H. Bash, Assistant Quarter master General of the United States Army; it will be accepted oy Governor O. Max Gardner. The introductory remarks to the celebration will be made by Judge Francis D. Winston, Chairman of the North Carolina George Wash ington Bicentennial Commission. Congressman Lindsay Carter War ren will preside as master of cere monies. A pageant harking back to Rev olutionary War days will be the feature for the afternoon. Actors and actresses will be garbed in au thentic Colonial costumes. Edenton is now making arrange ments to play host to the thou sands of visitors from all over the country who are expected to attend the ceremonies. The dedication of this memorial to Joseph Hewes comes at a most appropriate time and is fittingly associated with the Bicentennial Celebration of George Washington’s birth. Hewes rendered conspicuous service to his country during the Revolutionary War and was known as a friend of Washington’s. He died in 1779 in Philadelphia, his death being directly due to over work occasioned by his activities in Congress. Born in Kingston, New Jersey, in 1730, Hewes moved to Philadelphia where he acquired a comfortable fortune as a merchant. He went to Edenton sometime between 1756 and 1763. Here he was “a particu lar favorite with ^ was generally regard a as “one of the best and most agreeable men in the world,” “the pr. on and greatest honor of the town.” As a delegate from North Caro lina to the Continental Congress, Hewes at first opposed absolute in dependence. He nov-itheless, strongly supported th aolic of nonimportation to nro; „st rdi taxation of the colon! ,, a. . ,li he knew his private business w juld suffer considerably thereby. Later he overcame his own objecti; separation from England and sign ed the Declaration of Independence in accordance with the whishes of the people of North Carolina. He was the real head of the com mittee to fit out and arm vessels; and, as chairman of the committee of marine, was in actual fact the first executive head of the United States Navy. His best service was perhaps as a member of the secret committee on supplies from abroad. His business training and ability and his experience as ship owner stood him in good stead. He is said to have used his own fleet of ships to bring supplies to this coun try at his own expense. It was Hewes who procurred a commission for John Paul Jones as an officer in the navy, and it was he who gave the now immortal sea-fighter his start toward fame by finding him a ship to command. The city of Edenton enjoys the added distinction of having been the home of James Iredell, famous lawyer, legislator and jqstice of the United States Supreme Court. It is also justly famed as the scene of the “Edenton Tea Party,” held in 1774. Edenton was settled about 1658. It served as the capital for the col ony of North Carolina from 1722 to 1766. It now contains many his torical structures and items of in- erest. . rxr ' Spring’s Here I 11 YiViVr • •'•'miti f mViTii i Sultana:, the polar bear of .ne Mil waukee Zoo, proudly brings ner buoy out for folks to see. Killed by Radium; * -''M Eben B. ‘Byers, wealthy manufac turer and famous sportsman, took “radium water” as a tonic and died of the effects. Hundreds of others are j expected to die from the same 1 ■ 1 ' ^ ' aV A wide rubber band fastened to the side of an automobile is a novel luggage carrier which holds various sized packages firm. ixi Conceited men are unsafe auto mobile drivers, is the conclusion of an Illinois state criminologist. * i m tfV REM ON $ Thursday, Fridav 'Hid Saturday On Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week this sale is on at our drug store. For the three days you add one cent to the price of an article and get two, that is, if an article sells for 50 cents, you get two for 51 cents, or if one be $1.00 you get two for $1.01. They are the genuine Rexall goods and all of the standard high quality. No limit, buy as much as you please. Prescriptions carefully compounded day or night from purest drugs at moderate prices. STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET M.CORMICK. S. C. 3E sL<w>*c MVE AND BE HAPPY To be carefree and really hap py a man must have surplus money to assure against hardship if adversity should come his way. He must be able to enjoy the good things of life—that is, a good home and all the things that go to give physical comfort. The only way this goal can be achieved is through saving and it CAN BE ACHIEVED. Don’t squander your money away. Save, and save system atically. It will be the greatest thing you have ever done in your % f \ life as you will realize before many months pass. THE PEOPLES BANK McCORMICK, S. C. SitiHfoy Schootlessm S3" TCES International Sunday School Lesson for April 17th THE CALL OF ABRAM Genesis 12:1-9 Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D. Since much of the record is omitted necessarily in this course, yoir should read the intervening Scripture. For example, the Flood and the Ark of Noah figure in the interim and again the earth is widely peopled. From the sin of Adam and Eve God, in His love, laid out a plan of re demption and now the time had arrived to begin to develop it. The aftermath of the flood showed that such a punishment would not turn people from their sins. God now purposes to provide a Redeemer in time from among a race that He would especially choose and bless. The beginning of the Hebrew nation started with this call of Abram. Ire fact it began when Terah, the father, was called from Ur of the Chal dees, but the caval-cade stopped in Mesopotamia and no further pro gress was made until Abram was directed to take his immediate family,, his nephew Lot, and their possessions, and proceed to Canaan. Here was an adventure in faith that is to be classed with the great est expeditions in all history. It was a trek of at least 300 miles un der most adverse conditions. Full encouragement was given, however* in the vision with its attendant promises. Places in Palestine that are familiar to every student now are nam ed. One camping place was at She^chem, where the modern traveler can still have a drink from the well of \braham. This was the writer’s privilege in 1924. Bethel is also named, and we come to it again in this quarter when we journey to Haran \ th Jacob. At both stopping places Abraham established an altar ~nd worshipped God. He had found that Jehovah was just as much here as in the countries whence he came. And here the covenant was renewed, with the former in junction, recorded in the Golden: Text, “Be thou a blessing,” Genesis 12:2.