McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 21, 1932, Image 2
Thursday, April 21, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
liquid metal, heavier than lead, was
regarded as “live silver.”
Man has used mercury for cen
turies for the backs of mirrors, a
shorter time for the “stuffing” of
thermometers and barometers, for
recovering gold from its ore and for
“silver” fillings in teeth. Its new
est use, instead of water in steam
boilers, promises to create an un
heard-of demand for mercury.
Experiments with a 6,000-horse-
! power mercury vapor boiler and
turbine made by W. L. R. Emmett
demonstrated a saving of about
$1,000 a day over the use of water.
Now. a plant twice as large is being
built, in which 125 tons of mercury
will be vaporized to produce
MINING—
There is still money in mining,
lor the man who has the knowl
edge, the strength and the Courage “steam,” then condensed and used
to tackle it single-handed. For j over and over again,
that matter, there has always been | one result has been to raise the
money in mining and always will price of mercury from $1 a pound
toe whenever the cost of labor and
supplies is less than the value of
the ore.
Loeffler Palmer is running the
■“Rube” gold mine single-handed in
Utah. He bought £ compressor, a
to $2; another, to start a “mercury
rush” in Arkansas, where beds of
cinnabar, the ore from which mer
cury is refined, have been discover
ed. There may not be enough
mercury in the world to enable ev-
tractor to run it, and some com- erybody who wants to use it in
pressed air drills and started alone
to operate this abandoned working.
From a depth of 180 feet he got out
three cars of ore in four months
last year and shipped them to the
engines to do so. The largest pro
duction in a single year in the
whole world was in 1929 when less
than 6,000 tons were extracted.
Here’s a chance for adventure
smelter, netting him $13,431.29 for and wealth . Hustle around the odd
his work. ; corners of the world and find a
cinnabar mine!
There are plenty of other one-
man mines in the West, too small
for the big companies to bother
with, but capable of earning good
pay for the men who work them.
“Big Business” hasn't gobbled all
the opportunities yet!
QUICKSILVER—
The metal which everybody now
rails mercury was generally spoken
of in my boyhood as “quicksilver.”
Remembering that “quick” in old-
fashioned English meant “alive”
and not, as It means now, “speedy,”
it is easy to see how this mysterious
MOVIES—
“Thrillers,” mystery plays, news
reels, travel films, slapstick com
edies and animated cartoons are
preferred by the majority of a
group of prominent people recently
asked to express their motion pic
ture preferences. College profes
sors, bank presidents, editors, mer
chants, authors and scientists were
among those who expressed them
selves.
There aren’t enough of that sort
of minds, however, to provide the
audiences necessary to the sources
of the motion picture industry. Dr.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon put his
finger on the spot when he wrote:
“Ninety per cent of all people ev
erywhere and at all times will never
grow older, mentally speaking, than
twelve years, and will never be
able to appreciate what the other
ten per cent will like.”
It’s the child-minded ninety per
cent for whom most of the world’s
commodities, as well as its enter
tainment, are produced, after all.
SUGAR—
If you want to lay up your
foundations, walls and ,chimneys
in a mortar that will stand forever
and get stronger with age, mix a
little sugar with the lime and
sand. That’s what Dr. Gerald J.
Cox of the Mellon Institute of In
dustrial Research told the Ameri
can Chemical Society the other
day.
The secret of the durability of
the old Roman walls and aqueducts,
which have stood for more than
two thousand years, is that they
put sugar into their sand-lime
mortar, making it 60 per cent
stronger than “unsweetened” mor
tar, becoming harder with time.
Five or six pounds of granulated
cane sugar to 100 pounds of lime
does the trick, and the result is a
mortar that is easier to work than
cement or gypsum plaster and
stronger than either.
SUICIDE—
Within the past few weeks the
world has been shocked by the
suicides of two outstanding figures,
George Eastman and Ivor Kruger.
Only two or three years ago Al
fred Lowenstein, another great
financier, jumped out of his air
plane as it was crossing the Brit
ish Channel.
Literally thousands of other men
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who had been more or less prom
inent in business and industrial af
fairs have killed themselves in the
past few years because they were
not equipped with the resources
within themselves to enable them
to face the world without money.
They knew no other way of life ex
cept by buying whatever they
thought might contribute to tlici*
happiness.
In Mr. Eastman’s case it was not
lack of money but the feeling that
he had finished his life’s work and
would be happier dead than ill, but
in almost every other recent suicide
the reason has been fear of pov
erty.
The world has largely discarded
the belief in any form of punish
ment beyond the grave. Fear of
eternal damnation has undoubtedly
been a deterrent of suicide in the
past. Fear of the world’s opinion
has become a stimulus tp suicide.
The happiest man is the one who
lives so chat he does not care what
other people think about him.
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Pork Production Facts
Given New Bulletin
m H EADACH E S
COLDS AND SORE THROAT
NEURITIS, NEURALGIA.
Don’t be a chronic sufTcrer from
headaches, or any other pain. There
is hardly an ache or pain Bayer
Aspirin tablets can’t relieve; they
are a great comfort to women who
, suffer periodically. They are always
to be relied on for breaking up colds.
It may be only a simple head
ache, or it may be neuralgia or
neuritis; rheumatism. Bayer Aspirin,
is still the. sensible thing to take.
Just be certain it’s Bayer you’re
taking; it does not hurt the heart.
Get the genuine tablets, in this
familiar package for the pocket.
CELMSON COLLEGE, April 9.—
Pork Production in South Caro
lina is becoming more profitable
because of (1) the increase in corn
production, (2) the practicability of
producing forage crops the year
round, (3) the fact that such pro
tein supplements as cottonseed
meal and fish meal are produced in
the state, and (4) prices received
for South Carolina hogs are as good m
as Chicago prices or better.
So states Prof. L. V. Starkey,
chief of the Animal Husbandry Di
vision of Clemson College, who be
lieves that there is no class of live
stock better adapted to the diversi
fied farming now imperative than
is the hog. It has been thorough
ly proven by experiments as well as
demonstrated by actual farm
practice, he reminds us, that hogs
will market corn and forage crops
for considerably more than the
market price of those products;
and, moreover, soil fertility is con
served thereby.
To furnish proper information
and guidance for farmers in the
economic production of pork Prof.
Starkey has prepared Extension
Bulletin 91, Hogs for South Caro
lina, a well illustrated booklet cov
ering many phases of hog produc
tion including feeding and manage
ment of sows and growing stock,
protein supplements to com, forage
crops, hog equipment, sanitation
and diseases, and marketing. The
publication, which is for free dis
tribution, may be had from coun
ty farm agents or from the Publica
tions Division, Clemson College.
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Brainerd Is Promising
Blackberry Variety
The Brainerd, a new blackberry
developed by the United States De
partment of Agriculture, gives
promise of becoming an important
commercial variety. It is the re
sult of a cross of the Himalaya and
an eastern erect-growing variety,
thought to be the Georgia Mam
moth. It has been tried success
fully in Oregon, Washington, Cali
fornia, North Carolina, and Mary
land.
The advantages of the Brainerd
over other varieties are its ex
treme vigor, its productivity, hard
iness, large size, high dessert qual
ity, and the fact that it is suitable
for canning and frozen-pack pre
serving. Its weaknesses are its
large prickles which are similar U)
chose of the Himalaya, a peculiar
condition of its leaves at certain
seasons in which parts of the leaf
are lighter in color, the fact that
it lacks quality until fully ripe and
that it is slightly susceptible to or
ange-rust disease in the East and
co the double-blossom disease in the
Southeastern States.
The Brainerd has berries 30 to GO
per cent larger than the Himalaya
_d its seeds are smaller. The
..riety was named for Ezra Brain-
.J, former president of Middle-
..ry College of Vermont. ,
The United States Department of
riculture has no plants of the
_ainerd blackberry for distribu-
jn, but they may be bought from
w j-operating nurseries in North
_arolina, Ohio, and California.
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The colors in the walls of the
Grand canyon are due chiefly to
l lie oxides of various minerals, such
as the red color of iron.
JXI —
Mildew, which at first shows it
self merely on the surface of a cot
ton or woolen article, will destroy
the fiber if not checked. ^
BEWARE OF
IMITATIONS
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MAIN STREET
McCORMICK, S. C.
SAVE AND BE HAPPY
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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
life as you will realize before
many months pass.
THE PEOPLES BANK
McCORMICK, S. C.
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TO AID YOU WITH SPRING
HOUSE CLEANING
At this drug store you will find many needed supplies
to help you with your spring house cleaning and renovat
ing.
Just take note of the things you need and then pay
us a visit. You are almost certain to find just what you
need here. It will be the best quality, too, for we handle
only good merchandise.
We have Sponges, Stove Polish, Window Cleaners, Rub
ber Gloves, Chamois, Lacquer, Metal Polish, Paint Brushes,
Naptha, etc.
Prescriptions accurately filled day or night from purest
drugs at moderate prices.
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
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