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I / / Thursday, May 26, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA M Mori; TWO Scenes and Personages in the Lindbergh Tragedy * LI |y| DBEPQ H MOM SOU RLANl t MTS. '-SL ^ A ' -- • vs<:. - v«> 'V/M?' IgEADlNGgJ?. ISIDUTSeu^GJ ^-BLUE^ MOUMr BOSE' hole T BED HOLE Map shows where the body of little Charlie Lindbergh was found, by William Allen, a Negro, five miles from his home. The circle device was signed to the ransom note left by the kidnappers, who said the money should be given to whoever showed that. Dr. J. F. Condon gave $50,000 to a man who produced the baby’s sleeping suit, but the baby had been killed before that. The pictures of “Lmdy” and “Anne” are the last ones made before the kidnapping. In Memoriam,— May 30 By Albert T. Reid * 31 * Z'- ** NOPE -LOOKsIf LIKE WE GOT TOO BIG A BENT TO WHAT WOULD IT ^ Be if yer. pa paid the beht? : ■ ' / 48^ LAND— The movement to tie industrial workers to the land ,is spreading. Mr. Ford announces that 20,000 acres in and around Dearborn is under cultivation by men who work for him. The International Har vester Company has begun to pro vide “miniature” farms for its em ployees who have been laid off on account of the depression. I heard again from one of my correspondents in Czecho-Slovakia, who write me that the government program of requiring every indus trial worker to live on enough land to support his family in case of a chut-down is vorking out well. In the old days in England it was an expression of the deepest con tempt to refer to anyone as a “landless man.” The man who held no land, by ownership or lease, was a drag on society. That is still measurably true. The huge sums that are being raised for un employment relief are not going to men who hold land. The time will come when every body will realize the folly of trying to separate human activity from the soil. MUSKRATS— Somebody had the bright idea a few years ago of introducing the American muskrat into England. They were intended to be br§d in captivity for their furs, but as any one who knows anything about muskrats might have anticipated, some of them got away. * Now the muskrat has become a national pest. Most of England is none too high above sea level, and for a couple of thousand years its people have been building dams and dikes to keep the surface water under control. The muskrats are playing hob with these embank ments and great farm areas have been flooded. Parliament has pass ed a law making muskrats outlaws, to be shot on sight, but who ever saw a muskrat in the daytime with in rifle range? Some day we’ll learn the foolish ness of moving animals from their native lands. The English sparrow and the starling have become pests in Eastern North America. The water hyacinth, imported from Australia, blocks navigation in our southern rivers. And in Australia the English rabbit years ago be came the most pestiferous and pro lific of vermin. CANDLES— Arabella Bridgeman died the oth er ddy in England at the age of 106. She had lived her last 100 years in one house, in which there was neither gas nor electricity. Candles alone served her need of light. Sometimes I think most of us would be better off if we left the bright lights for the playhouses and public places and contented our selves in the home with candles and lamps. There wouldn’t be so much temptation to sit up late, for one thing. We might not do as much reading, but we might live longer. VETERAN— William Creamer the other day celebrated the seventieth annivers ary of his service in the employ of a single New York store. He is near ly 81, and he went to work for Arnold, Constable & Co., when he was ten, and is still working there. Famous men and women of what seems a distant past were among the customers whom this veteran of commerce has served. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. Cleveland are among the Irdies who bought things at his counter; he remembers a lady nam- r l Roosevelt who had her son, a chubby little boy, with her when r he came to shop, and the store c’rrk has lived a dozen years and r* ore since that little boy passed o:i after having been President of the United States. I often envy the man who has the patience to stick to one job, to live s.mply and within his means and take life as it comes, but I have al ways commiserated them because their lives seemed to me to lack the essential elements of romance and adventure. But William Creamer seems to be one of those rare souls who can find romance wherever he may be, and in his memories of the (QicleDri Don’t give the weevils a chance ALL a»y weevil asks is a chance—one chance. Once he gets busy with a square, the boll is gone. Reports indicate enough weevils this year to ruin the crop, if they get a chance. Whether they get it or not, depends pretty much on you. • \ Weevils can’t hurt a crop much, once the bolls are set. Because of the heavy infestation this year, set your crop as early as you can. Nothing takes the place of a Chilean Nitrate side-dressing for making an early crop. There is no way a little money could be better invested now than for 100 pounds (200 pounds would be better) of Chilean Nitrate to side-dress each acre of your cotton. Don’t fail to specify Chilean Nitrate when you see your dealer. That is just as important as side-dressing itself. Get busy! The weevils v/ill be plenty busy soon. TWO K/NDS Both ari natural 100 LB. BAGS AND 200 LB. BAGS CHILEAN NITHATE EDUCATIONAL Columbia, BUREAU, INC, South Carolina 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 OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. famous folk of old days he has something to enjoy in his old ago that is more precious than any thing money could buy. UTILITY— I take my hat off to the Hart ford Electric Light Company. This Connecticut concern has the right idea of what a public utility could and ought to be. It has never merged or sold control to any pow er combination or holding com pany. It has stuck to its business for which it was chartered, that of supplying electric light and power to the people of Hartford. It has earned good profits and paid good dividends, but it hasn’t had to pay interest on inflated capitalization. So when the hard time hit Hart- ; ford, the company was able to say to its customers: “You’re having trouble meeting your bills; we’ll give you three months credit if you need it.” If every local lighting company were as independent as that one, nobody would be shouting now about the “power trust.” txi MYHOMfi ^ YOURS ^yBERTHAfDSON LAY Little Roast “Pigs” This will delight the children old enough to be allowed sausage. Sel ect as many baking potatoes as there are persons to serve, and an equal number of pork sausages of the larger size. With an apple corer make a hole through the cen ter of each potato, making the op ening large enough to put a sau sage through. Bake the potatoes the usual fifty minutes, if large, a shorter time, if smaller. This is an ex cellent luncheon dish. costing a little more than the nat ural color. These curtains may be “drawn” easily »and hemstitched, and as they launder beautifully and may be used over and over again, they are the very cheapest material I know. Moreover, they look well enough for any room in the house. As spring approaches remember that moths love a soiled or dirty spot. Clean all blankets and: wool en clothes before packing away for the summer. It costs no more to have these things cleaned in the spring than in the fall, and more over there will not be the scramble to get them ready when the first cold snap makes its unheralded ap- oearance. If the housekeeper is planning to have pie as the dinner dessert to day, why not make just a little more pasfry, roll up and put in a covered dish in the refrigerator, to use two days hence? Or why not plan to use the pastry to make home-made patty shells? Roll the crust out rather thick, cut with a large biscuit cutter, then, cut a. small piece out of the center with a small cutter, bake both until done. Put in a paper box and store in the cake box until time for lunch the next day. Reheat and fill with any creamed meat or vegetable one likes. Left over chicken, veal, or one or two vege tables to which cooked mushrooms have been added is good. My fam ily like these home made shells much better than bought ones.. X Joe Gish ■>« air. - Will you need new curtains this spring, and * does it seem utterly impossible to buy them? Have you ever used the material known as “theatrical gauze”? It is quite in expensive. May be had in colors, or natural shades. The colors [HAT WOBCIED LOOK AAAMY 4POLKS HAVE THESE DAYS IS FB.OM TQ.YIU6 TO e,EAAEMBER.' WHO Bo££oWLl> THE LAWM - MoWEB. LAST