McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 12, 1932, Image 1
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TRUK TO OURSELfaS, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
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Thirtieth Year
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Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, May 12, 1932 8 Pages — All Home Print
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CliUd Health Contest 1 Resolution Adopted
Here Well Attended By County Convention
Here’s a Fine String of Fish for Mr. Hoover
SEVENTY-ONE CHILDREN WERE
ENTERED THE CONTEST
'Seventy-one children up to sy£
years of age entered thu Child
Health Contest at the high school
building here Friday, Vlay 6th.
This county-wid3 project was
under the ablo direction of Mrs.
Nell A. Stallworth, County May Day
Chairman, and she was assisted by
Mrs. C. H. Huguley, Chairman of
fchild Welfare Work of the .Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary.
After the physical examinations
were made the grammar school
teachers presented their pupils in a
splendid playlet entitled “Health
Fairies at School.”
Miss Nellie C. Cunningham. Di
rector of Bureau of Child Hygiene
of the State Board of Health, gave
a most helpful and interesting
talk on “Child Care.”
Mrs. Stallworth then announced
the following prize winners:
First group—to 18 months—
First prize—Albert Monroe Camp
bell.
First prize—Eugenia Ann Rush.
Second prize—Hugh White/
Second prize—Lena Kathryn
Lindley.
Second group—18 months to 3 years
First prize—Theresa Earnhardt.
First prize—Tom Fuller.
Second prize—Bobby Jean Young.
Second prize—James Miner.
Third -Croup—
First prize—Belton Harmon.
First prize—Lillie Bell Rogers.
Second prize—Dumont Holiday.
Second prize—Martha Jean Cov
in.
People over the county are in
deed grateful to the following ones
who made the contest possible:
Dr. Brodie of the Health Unit in
Greenwood; Dr. C. H. Workman and
Dr. Garnett Tuten, Ipcal physici-
qyns; Miss Ethel Rogers, Health
Nurse of Greenwood; Miss Alice
Shuman, Nurse at De la Howe State
School; Miss Kathleen Abercrom
bie, Mrs. J. F. Mattison and Miss
Ruth Williams, local nurses.
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Bethany H. D. Club
Holds Meeting
Bethany H. D. Club held its regu
lar meeting on May 3rd. There
were thirteen present, including
visitors.
The following program was car
ried out:
Lord’s Prayer in unison.
Song—“Old Folks at Home.”
Health article—“The Health of
the School Child.”
Roll call and reading of minutes',
one answered roll can with
her favorite piece of music.
Mrs. Stallworth told us about the
reports to be made on “Achieve
ment Day” and the entertainmeht
to be given in the afternoon. She
also urged the mothers to enter
their children in the “Health Con
test.”
After the records on “The Life
Saving Kitchen” were completed
the remainder of time was spent in
the study of music, the beginning
of the “music * memory contest.”
This was followed by several games
and »round songs.
Before leaving we drew our
•'Capsule Sister’s” name for the
hext month.
The resolution offered by Mr.
Thomas Meriwether and adopted
by the County Democratic Conven
tion here on May 2nd, follows:
“The state should not take on
new activities until its farmers and
others'reach an American standard
of living. It is a time for economy
in state and county government,
and consolidations, eliminations
and changed methods can bring
economy. We are ready for sweep
ing changes, and fundamental
consolidations of our departments,
bureaus and commissicns.
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“We declare for democracy as
opposed to buroauracy as the con
trolling force of our government.
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“We urge the enactment of a
most stringent anti-lobbying act, as
lobbying about the state capital
has become a public disgrace.”
We re-affirm that declaration'
and call on this Convention of the
Democratic Party of McCormick
County to adopt it as an expres
sion of policy.
The economic condition of the
State increasingly reflects the eco
nomic paralysis of the Nation;
business has become steadily worse;
all efforts bf the government io
ameliorate or even alleviate the
general conditibn have signally
failed. Our people arc losing
their investments; our merchants
are struggling against the greatest
adversity; our industries of all
classes are laboring under the sev
erest handicaps; our tov/n and
country citizens are losing their
homes. Every consideration of
common sense argues for the low
ering of all overhead charges so
that we may produce crops and do
business on a lower level of prices;
but despite the plain revelation of
this fundamental necessity, the tax
burden which rests on all business,
enterprise, and on all homes con
tinues with very small abatement.
In spite of every desire to be pro
gressive and to sustain our institu
tions on high levels, the compul
sion of the moment leaves no al
ternative but the sharpest and
deepest curtailment of all public
programs and the sternest re
trenchment in every class of pub
lic expenditure. This is no time
to consider what public institutions
and public services require, under
normal conditions, or what they
regard «.s desirable; our resources
are so depleted, that the first con
sideration must be the economic
condition of the citizenship and in
dustries of the State for they must
provide the taxes qn which all pub
lic service subsists.' In view of the
calamitous condition prevailing, we
declare for a vigorous attitude for
retrenchment and curtailment, and
declare it to be the sense o‘f this
Convention that the Legislature of
South Carolina proceed at its next
session to take all necessary steps
to effect such consolidations of of
fices, curtailments of programs and
elimination of unnecessary services,
both for the State itself and for
the Counties as shall effect a not-
xblc reduction in all oaxes, both
direct and indirect, and that all
eandidates for public office—Fed
eral, State end County—be asked
o declare t3ieir unreserved ad-
lecion to this program.
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SPRING
I Kdwin Markham, famous poet,
'e/-l*-brated his eightieth birthday re-
<rnily by reading from his poems be-
. lor*- an audience which packed New
f«Vork’s largest concert halL y
Spring! I love it. Don’t you
T eve the cloudless sky so blue.
Love the meadow blossom-decked
With white daises, duly specked?
Spring! I love it. Don’t you
Love the bluebird’s coat of blue,
Love the singing of his song
As he sings the whole day long.
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Spring! I love it. Don’t you
Love the way that lovers do,
Love their planning and their
schemes
With their laughter and their
dreams.
—SHIRLEY -LOUISE DOMINICK,
De la Howe State School,
Willington, S. C.
News Items From
The Citadel
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Miss Vesta Steven of Cape May, N J.. with the first catch of mackerel,
which were sent to the President as a gift from Jersey fishermen.
Plans Made For ' | Three Clinics Set
“Tag Day”
WAS
INAUGURATED AND
FOR MAY 14TH
SET THIS YEAR WILL BE HELD
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
OF THE STATE
CHARLESTON, May. 9.—General
Charles P. Summerall, president of
The Citadel, has been named a
member of the board of judges for
awarding the William Randolph
Hearst prizes for test essays on
Washington’s “farewell Address.”
Gov. Ibra C. Blackwood is chair
man of the board which includes
J. H. Hope, state Superintendent
of Education, and other leading
school heads.
A review was given Friday May 6
at The Citadel in honor cf Admiral
J. J. Raby, Commandant cf the
Charleston Naval District. When
Admiral Raby entered the Citadel
grounds, a salute of thirteen guns
was fired and he was met by
Company “H” as escort of honor,
and by the forty piece cadet band.
After the review in his honor, he
witnessed the regular Friday dress
parade. The cadets appeared in
their summer uniforms of white
duck trousers and grey full dress
blouses for the first time this sea-
( son. Admiral Raby is a licensed
For May 26th air pilot and is well known in nav-
^ j al circles.
Pass-in-Review, the annual
$32,102.63 Total Of
1931 Christmas Seal
Sales In The State
McCORMICK COUNTY’S FIGURES
WERE $71.57
At a meeting of the State Vic
tory Campaign Ccmmittee some
v/eeks ago "Tag Day” was inau
gurated and set for May 14th. The
purpose of this campaign, which
will be held in every county in the
State on this same date, is to se
cure South Carolina’s quota for
The tuberculosis institute for
doctors, held at the state sana
torium for the last two years un
der the auspices cf the public
health committee of the state med
ical association and the medical
committee of the South Carolina
defraying the expenses of electing i tuberculosis association, has been
a Democratic President of the Unit
ed States—part of which goes to
the State, the balance to Demo
cratic National Headquarters, but
none of which is to be applied to
past indebtedness/
Mrs. C. H. Huguley is chairman of
this campaign in McCormick Coun
ty and she has appointed the fol
lowing sub-chairmen ,over the
county:
Mrs. E. C. Rice, Plum Branch.
Mrs. Lewis C. Rich Clarks Hill.
Mrs. L. V. Mayer, Parksville.
Mrs. D. J. McAllister, Mt. Carmel.
Mrs. James Gibert, Willington.
Mrs. C. K. Epting, McCormick
These ladies will be glad to re
ceive your free will offering Satur
day, in exchange for which they
will give you a tag or button. Be
a true patriot! Wear a cag!
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Appl
es Can Be Used
Replace Vegetables
Apples may be used occasionally
fn place of green vegetables served
with meat, food specialists of 'the
United States Department of Agri
culture suggest. Many of the usual
spring vegetables are late and
scarce because of the spring freeze
in the Southern States.* While
waiting for a later crop the house
wife may very well curn co apples
to give variety and to k:ep the diet
balanced.
There arc plenty ef apples of
good quality in storage now to sup
ply everybody for the rest of the
season, according to Wells A. Sher
man, of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. His information is
supplemented by the Bureau of
Home Economics, which explain
how to use the apples appropriate
ly with the neat course.
“Hot baked apples, slightly
sweetened, go well with almost any
kind of meat,” says the bureau.
“Scalloped apples served hot in a
baking dish are also delicious and
easy to prepare. Pare and slice
the apples as for pie, arrange them
in alternate layers with buttered
crumbs in a deep dish, sprinkle the
apples lightly with sugar, and bake
until the apples are tender and the
crumbs on top are brown and crisp.
Slices or halves of apples simmered
in thin sirup until tender and clear
are also attractive in the main
course of a meal. Slices of apples
and cooked sweet potatoes are ex
cellent baked together with a little
butter and sugar or sirup for sea
soning, and tart raw apples may
well take the place of a vegetable
in many salad combinations.”
expanded this year into three clin
ics to be held on May 26th in dif
ferent sections of the state. The
growth in attendance and interest
caused the committees in charge
.to decide upon separate, territorial
groups for the convenience of clinic
instructors and of busy physicians
who can, by this arrangement, at
tend the entire session. The state
sanatorium staff is expecting as
large an attendance as hitherto,
while the other two sanatoria, at
Greenville and Charleston, are
counting upon the same attendance
as that at State Park. x
The institute at the sanatorium
will be conducted by Dr. J. W.
Dickie, Pine Crest santorium.
Southern Pines, in co-operation
with Dr. Ernest Cooper and staff.
The Greenville institute will be in
charge of Dr. S. E. Lee, superin
tendent of the Greenville sanator
ium and of Dr. J. F. Busch, medical
director of th# Spartanburg Sana
torium. At Pinehaven sanatorium.
Charleston, Dr. W. Atmar Smith
will direct the clinics with the
assistance of Drs. Robert Wilson,
J. I. Waring, W. H. Prioleau, Hilyer
Rudisell, Marshall and Hook. The
Charleston schedule, already for
mally* arranged, included dem
onstrations and clinics on methods
of exmaination, cases, of childhood
tuberculosis, the clinical and" epid
emiological value of tuberculin, the
interpretation of X-ray films, and
modern methods of treatment, in
cluding the induction of artificial
pneumothorax, and an operation,
phrenic neurectomy.
Visiting physicians will be the
guests of the three santoria for
lunch as sessions will run from 10
a. m. until 4 p. m.
The promoters of the institutes
are Dr. G. T. Tyler, Jr., Greenville,
chairman of the committees names
above and Dr. E. A. Hines, Seneca,
chairman of the early diagnosis
campaign.
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IN
minstrel show of the Citadel cadet
corps, will be presented in Charles
ton Friday night, May 13, at the
Victory Theatre. Cadet Captain
Caswell O. Hobbs, of Spartanburg,
is interlocutor for the shew which
is under the direction of Captain
C. F. Myers cf the college faculty.
The Reverend Eben Taylor, pas
tor of the Rutledge Methodist
Church of Charleston, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon at The
Citadel at 11:00 a. m. May 29. Rev.
Taylor is a graduate of The Citadel.
The Field Day held at The Cita
del Saturday, April 30, the first to
be held in which the whole cadet
regiment participated, was mark
edly successful. Company “G”, of
the Artillery Unit, commanded by
Cadet Captain Charles R. Willard
of Spartanburg, won first place.
Olin Dorn Gets
Free Trip To Short
Course At Clemson
FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKING
103 3-4 BUSHELS OF CORN ON
ACRE PLOT LAST YEAR
SUMTER, May 9.—Olin Dom, a
4-H Club boy of Oswego, Sumter
County, will get a free trip to the
short , course at Clemson College
this summer for his achievement
in making 103 3-4 bushels of corn
on his acre plot last year. The to
tal cost of the demonstration was
$32.57.
For his demonstration, young
Dom selected an acre plot on which
cotton had been grown the prev
ious year. The width of his rows
was 47 inches and the corn was
spaced 9 inches apart in the drill. | dewberry
The 1931 Christmas seal sale re
turns for the state amounted to
$32,102.63 according to the final re
port of the South Carolina Tuber
culosis association. The success of
the sale in spite of the depression,
indicates that the people of the
state are determined that the or*
ganized fight against tuberculosis
must be supported to prevent any
increase of the disease during times
of economic stress. Although over
one third of the funds reported are
tied up in closed banks over ‘Joe
state, the state and county associa
tions are reorganizing their work so
that their programs will be cur
tailed as little as possible.
The amount raised was due to fca
divided as follows: 5 per cent for
the national program; 37 per cent
for the state association’s work;
and 58 per cent for county associa
tions. Counties making the high
est per capita sales were: Char
leston, .065: Georgetown, .042;
Richland, .041; and Darlington, .04.
In charge of the state sale were
Governor Blackwood, Honorary
Chairman. Reed Smith, chairman
of the seal sale committee of the
South Carolina Tuberculosis Asso
ciation and Mrs. D. McL. McDon
ald, campaign manager.
Totals by counties, including*
sales by White and Negro Chair
men, were a§ follows:
Abbeville $ 154.46
Aiken ^ 526.32
Allendale 94J5
Anderson 819.81
Bamberg 190.16
Barnwell 181.63
Beaufort i 22357
Berkeley 297.17
Calhoun 235.33
Charleston 6,620.84
Cherokee «. 400.30
Chester 914.0$
Chesterfield J < 306.03
Clarendon 42.77
Colleton 271.36
Darlington 1,675.86
Dillon 275.79
Dorchester 550.75
Edgefield 144.89
Fairfield 174.00
Florence 1,537.94
Georgetown 924.21
Greenville 1,727.06
Greenwood 396.41
Hampton 218.61
Horry 263.81
Jasper 157.70
Kershaw 237.02
Lancsater 588.34
Laurens 420.17
Lee 126.87
Lexington 484.06
McCormick , 71.57
Marion 354.42
Marlboro 237.07
589.81
The corn was painted on March ' nf>nnpp 999 ^
27th and Douthit’s prolific variety j Qrangebur
of seed were used. He used 600!
pounds of mixed fertilizer, part put
down on May 15 and part on June
2. He side-dressed with 525 pounds
of Chilean nitrate of soda, put
down in three applications of 175
pounds each.
The demonstration was conduct
ed under the supervision of County
Agent, J. M. Eleazer.
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Fidelis Class Meets
With Miss Dowtin
Road May Abandon
Lowndesville Offiee
970.31
Pickens 241.14
Richland 3,802.36
Saluda 112.42
Spartanburg 2,100.00
Sumter
Union
Williamsburg
York
373.60
357.07
428.06
813.93
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May Rule Britain
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The Fidelis Class held its month
ly meeting Tuesday night at the
home of Miss Lillie Dowtin.
The devotional was conducted by
Miss Mary Key. after which an in-
ANDERSON, May 7.—The railway ! teresting Mother’s Day program
agency at Lowndesville will be dis- | was carried out.
continued by the C. & W. C. rail- I After an enjoyable social hour, a
way in the near future if the ap- delicious salad course was served,
plication filed with the railway i Reporter.
Commission is granted. ‘-X
A public hearing has been set True hail rarely occurs in win-
for 10:30 May 18, at Columbia. ter, says the United States Weath-,
Lowndesville is in Abbeville er Bureau. What many persons call
county and is one of the stations hail in winter is sleet and consists
on the Anderson-McCormick of frozen raindrops. Real hail is a
branch of the Charleston & West- hot-weather phenomenon and falls
ern Carolina railway. only during thunderstorms. i
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Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the
Duke of York and granddaughter of
King George V., celebrated her sixth
birthday recently. Unless a son is
horn in the royal line Elizabeth may
.become Queen of England.
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