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Thursday, May 26, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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Scenes and Personages in the Lindbergh Tragedy
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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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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..
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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
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