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Thursday, June. 2, 1932 POLITICAL CARDS McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK. SOUTH CAROLINA For Supervisor I hereby announce my candidacy Sot Supervisor of McCormick County, subject to the rules and .regulations of the Democratic pri mary. I shall highly appreciate your support and influence and premise to faithfully perform the duties of the office if elected. J. P. TALBERT Plum Branch, S. C. P ■■ __ ^ _ ■ ■■■■■ — For Supervisor - I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Supervisor of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. Your support and influence shall be highly appre ciated. I promise, if re-elected, to continue to render honest and efficient service and give due con sideration to the needs and re- quirments of the county. W. O. GRAVES. For Supervisor I hereby announce my candidacy for Supervisor of McCormick Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. I promise, if elected, to render hon est and efficient service and give due consideration to the needs and ^requirements of each section of the county. Your support and influ ence shall be highly appreciated. G. H. McCAIN. For Supervisor I hereby announce my candidacy for Supervisor of McCormick Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. I have had 12 years’ experience in building highways and bridges and feel that I am capable of render ing efficient service in this office. 1 shall greatly appreciate your vote and influence. J. O. WILLIAMS. POLITICAL CARDS For Sheriff I hereby ^announce myself as a candidate for re-election for the office of Sheriff of McCormick County, and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. Your support and in fluence shall be highly appreciated W. T. STROM. POLITICAL CARDS For Supt. Education I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of Sup erintendent of Education of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic parw. I shall highly ap preciate your support and influ ence. W. H. PARKS. For Sheriff I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Sheriff of McCor mick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. I shall highly appreciate your vote and influence. M. R. LeROY. County Commissioner I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of County Commissioner of ?«tcCor- mick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. Your support shall be highly appreciated. R. N. EDMUNDS. 4 For Supt. Education I hereby announce my candidacy for Superintendent of Education for McCormick County. I will abide by rules and laws governing the Democratic primary, and will ap preciate your support and influence in the coming election. THOMAS MERIWETHER. For Game Warden I hereby announce ny candidacy for Game Warden of McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri mary. Your support and Influ ence shall be highly appreciated. J. M. BROWN. SUGAR CROP STARTS FOR DINING TABLE Every Strata of Labor Used in Production. County Commissioner * I hereby announce my candidacy for County Commissionsi; of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. Your support and influence shall be highly appreci ated. T. B. WOOD. Parksville. Gettys Is Head Of De la Howe School County Commissioner I hereby announce my candidacy for County Commissioner of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. Your support and influence shall be highly appreci ated. J. L. JENNINGS- sr For Supervisor House Representatives Mr. E. F. Gettys was elected sup erintendent of the De la Howe State School at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the institu tion this afternoon. Mr. Gettys has been serving as acting superintend ent of the institution since the death of Mr. J. B. Branch several months ago and the announcement of his election meets with the ap proval of the people in this section where he is so well known. Mr. Gettys is well suited to handle the school and his friends in this sec tion offer him their congratulations and wish for him continued suc cess in the operation of the insti tution.—Abbeville Press and Ban ner, of Monday. -X- I hereby announce my candidacy for Supervisor of McCormick Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula- of the Democratic primary, mil highly appreciate your sup port and influence in the coming deetion. DRU M. BI.ACKWELL. Parksville. I hereby announce my candidacy for House of Representatives from McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic party. I shall highly ap preciate the suffrage and influence of the voters in the coming elec tion. T. A. DOWTIN. This Panic Is Not The Worst NOT AS BAD AS DEPRESSIONS OF 1873 AND 1893 RECORDS SHOW For Magistrate House Representatives I hereby announce my candidacy lor magistrate of the McCormick Magisterial District, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic party. I shall highly appre ciate all support and influence I receive in the coming primary. J. B. HOLLOWAY. For Magistrate I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of Mag istrate of the McCormick Magis terial District, subjept to the rules of the Democratic primary, and ahall highly appreciate the support and influence of the voters of this district. H. C. WALKER. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the House of Representatives from * McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri mary. Your support and influ ence shall be greatly appreciated. W. D. MORRAH. For State Senate . At the request of my friends, I hereby announce myself as candid ate for State Sentae from McCor mick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I shall highly appreciate the vote and in fluence of the people in the com ing election. R. G. KILLINGSWORTH. For Magistrate For Senate I announce myself as a candidate for Magistrate of McCormick Mag isterial District, and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regula tions of the Democratic party. I respectfully appeal to the voters for their support and influence and shall highly appreciate the same. E. H. MILLER. For Magistrate I hereby announce my candidacy tor re-election as Magistrate of the Parksville Magisterial District, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I shall highly appreciate your support and influence in the coming election. A. V. MORGAN. '4». • • Apricot kernels taste so nearly •like almonds that they may be in flavoring macaroons. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election* as State Senator from McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. I shall high ly appreciate your vote and influ ence. J. J. DORN. For Clerk Of Court I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Clerk of Court for McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. I appreciate the vote you have here tofore given me and will continue to do my best to serve you faith fully should it still be your desire. J. ARCH TALBERT. Wheat bread has decreased in importance in the American diet since the world war. New York Times. No assertion has been more fa miliar in 1931 than the off-hand statement that “this is the worst of all after-panic depressions.” To test its truth, the record should be examined. The present depression is worse than that of 1921, because there was then no such accumulation of private indebtedness, contracted at inflated prices, here and abroad; in land,. industrial plant and stock speculation. It is worse than that which followed in 1907, because England and France were then lit tle affected, and because the gen eral public in America was in a reasonably strong position. But it has not been as bad as the depression after 1893. The three years following that panic witness ed complete paralysis of American trade; imminent insolvency of the United States government; its res cue, by barely the margin of a day, from lapse to a depreciated silver standard; receiversfeps for one- fourth of the country’s railway mileage; nationwide strikes of em ployes, sometimes amounting to in dustrial resurrection, and almost entire prostration of our banking system. Wall street itself used to say in those days that America “has no financial future.” It has certainly not repeated the aftermath of 1873, when acute de pression lasted four or five years, when it was calculated that one- fifth of the investment in our rail ways represented properties sold in foreclosure, when failures of the largest New York banks were num erous and disastrous, when labor demonstrations reached the stage of bloodshed, and when the real estate industry was a wreck. To extend the comparison to 1857 and 1837, when internal trade in the United States was almost stop- ! ped, would be superfluous. If times have been hard in 1931, there is still some comfort in making com- jparison with those older hardships. Washington.—Cuba’s sugar crop is on its way to the dining table, (bind ing sugar cane began several days ago by decree of the president of the re public. “The progress of sugar from stand ing cane on the vast plantations which belt the world in areas where there are long summers and plenty of mois ture and fertile soil, to the sugar bow! on the dinner table, is a story involv ing nearly every strata of labor from experts in agriculture, sugar refining and distribution, to the lowly laborer of plantation lore,’ ! says a bulletin ITom headquarters of the National Geographic society. “Sugar cane must be mature to give the maximum quantity of sugar. When the stalk is cut and loaded into an ox cart, it lias already survived a major operation by which it lias lost its ap pendages—its blades and the upper part of the stalk which contains al most no sugar. “While automobiles glide through the sugar country today, the oxcart, long a part of the sugar plantation panorama, s!ill_ collects the cut cane and delivers it to the nearest railroad for transport to the crashing machines. In Cuba a railway car transports about “0 tons of cane and each train consists of about ".U cars—(XX) tons of cane in a single trair.load. Ten trainloads must be harvested to keep a crusher in op eration for the 24 working hours in the height of the harvesting season. “Aiier the cane is deposited on the oxcart, human hands seldom touch it until it emerges from a refinery, ready for the dinner table. A derrick lifts the cane from the oxcart, and deposits it on railway ears. At the crusher the ears are pulled, one at a time, onto a cradlelike device. A button is pushed, the car tilts and the cane falls into a deep pit where* an endless conveyor belt delivers it to the crushers. “The crushers send forth a stream of foamy juice and a badly mangled mass of cane fiber. The fiber emerges from the last crusher almost as dry as tinder and is conveyed to the tire box to make steam for the destruction of other stalks. Whitewash Is Purifier. “Meanwhile the cane juice is strained and mixed with whitewash. The mixture is heated to a degree just above the boiling point. The white wash neutralizes the acid in the juice and invites some foreign substances to join it at the bottom of the tank. Oth er impurities take flight in the opposite direction, joining the foam on the sur face so that the liquid in the middle is clean, pure juice which is drawn off through excelsior filters. • “Large evaporators begin the proc ess of transforming cane juice to su gar. Once through the evaporators, where a portion of the liquid has been removed, the sirupy mass is poured into vacuum pans where sugar crys tals show themselves for the first time in the sugar-making process. A man in charge of a vacuum pan is called a sugar master. As the thick sirup slow ly boils and crystalizes, the sugar mas ter adds fresh juice from time to time. The sugar from the fresh juice clings to the crystals already formed. The vacuum pans finally become filled with sugar and mother sirup. Then the su gar is removed to a machine that swirls it sit the rate of from 1,000 to 1.400 revolutions a minute, forcing all the sirup from the crystals. “The sirup again is boiled and pro cessed until it is relieved of nearly ev ery particle of sugar. The remaining liquor Is the ‘blackstrap’ of commerce. Raw sugar is yellow. It is whitened at refineries.” DAD NEEDS MONEY; WOULD PAWN TWINS Gets No Takers, So Flees in Fear of Charity. Hutchinson, Kan.—Sam Harris, thir ty-five, of Hutchinson, had to have an operation on his nose and offered to pawn his twin baby sons for the $200 needed for the operation. Harris was out of a job and fig ured that the only way that lie could obtain money for the operation was to pawn something. He didn’t have much to pawn except the twin babies. $ So Harris informed A. B. Leigh, probation officer, and Mrs. Tack Camp bell, police matron, that he is willing to pawn the twins for $200. The twins’ names are Daniel and Delbert. “I can’t get a job,” he said as he sat with his wife and babies in their one-room tenement home. “I have nothing that I can mortgage and I won't accept charity. “The twins are tiie only security that 1 can offer for a loan,” he said. “If some one will lend me $200, lie can adopt the twins. Later on, when I get steady work, I’ll redeem them.” . . Leigh and Mrs. Campbell recom mended that Harris go to the county doctor for his operation, but he pro tested. saying that he would not ac cept charity. The twins are six months old, and have been described by doctors us be ing in perfect health. A few days after Harris made his offer he fled from Hutchinson, taking w.th him his wife and babies. He had confided in friends that lie had feared that city and county authorities would take action against ^iini, since he had refused to move to the county farm as a charity family. PAGE NUMRER EIGHT FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION Washington, D. C. In compliance with section 6 of the Federal water power act (41 Stat. 1063), notice is hereby given that SavannaJT River I Electric Company, of Atlanta, Georgia, has made application for surrender of license for a proposed power project on the Savannah River near a point known as Clarks Hill in the State of Georgia anH affecting lands in McCormick County, South Carolina, and in Co lumbia, McDuffie, Lincoln, and Wilkes Counties, Georgia, desig nated in the records of the Federal Power Commission as project No 798; the said Savannah River Elec tric Company stating in said ap plication as the reasons for sur render that it is not anticipated: that the market demand for elec trical service in the region of the proposed project will justify its construction within several years; that there is no reasonable pros pect that the needs of the territonr would require a substantial portion of the output of such a project within a reasonable time, and that other companies in the territory have a capacity fifty per cent in excess of present requirements for the territory. Any objection to the> proposed surrender of this license or request for a hearing thereon' together with any briefs, reports, or other data of which consideration, is desired, should be submitted on or before September 7, 1932. to the. Federal Power Commission, Wash ington. D. C. All Adults in Village Are Sentenced to Jail Kovno, Lithuania.—The entire adult population of the village of Xaujami- esta has been sentenced '■to jail and the 400 inhabitants have begun serv ing terms of from two to four weeks in relays of ten persons. The jail ac commodates only ten at a time. The wholesale sentence was the re sult of a forty-two-year court action over the right oT the citizens to gather firewood in a nearby forest, where for generations they had found fuel, al though the government frequently warned them that the property be longed to the state and that trespass ing was forbidden. The town first filed suit against Czarist Russia and later against the republican government of Lithuania, created after the World war. Police served thousands of notices of viola tion of the law, and many fines were assessed, while the suit was being de cided by the courts. The government eventually won the action, but by that time every person in Naujamiesta had been fined once or twice. None would pay a fine and the jailer decided to let them serve jail terms in relays. Meanwhile the population continues to gather firewood from the forest as before. Harris Files Pledge For Senate Race COLUMBIA, May 28.—Leon W. • Harris, Anderson, solicitor of the Tenth judicial circuit, Thursday filed his pledge and paid his fee to enter the race for the United States senate. He is the second to> qualify since the lists were opened. Cole L. Biease of Columbia being, the first. The fee for entering this race is $750. Solicitor Harris was in the race two years ago when the candidates were former Senator Blease and James F. Byrnes, the last named being elected. While United States Senator D. Smith has not yet announced his candidacy for re-election, it is generally believed that he will en ter in a few days and State Sena tor R. M. Jeffries is also expected to enter as are L. G. v Southard of Spartanburg and Ashton fL Wil liams of Florence. Calf Born With Face Like That of Bulldog Sf. Cloud, Minn.—A calf which was born with a face like a bulldog has attracted attention among farmers in Long Prairie township. The animal’s lower jaw protrudes like that of i bulldog, and its nostrils are divided, one appearing on each side of the lower jaw. William Becker, the own er, plans to sell the calf for display purposes. New Gyroplane Devices Developed in Indiana Elkhart, Ind.—New ideas and un- triod devices for gyroplanes are being developed here by George L. Stauffer, regarded as an inventor of the gyro plane. A large Harrick vetoplane, the lype in which an aviator met death at Aile.-*, Mich., recently, is-planned by f.iuffer. It will he a combination of J *• conventional plane and the au to .iro. Bavarian Crown Jewels Sold for 39,300 Pounds London.—The Bavarian crown jew els were auctioned at Christie’s for a total of 39,300 pounds (about $190,900 at par). Considered the most important sale since the auction rooms disposed of part of the Russian crown jewels for more than $400,000, the Bavarian col lection contained the famous Wittles- back blue diamond which was sold for 5,600 pounds. The gem weighs nearly 35 carats and is mounted in a pendant, surrounded by many smaller brilliants. One other piece, a magnificent dia mond tiara surmounted by trellis work from which are suspended 36 bril liants, was sold for 7,000 pounds. Three other large stones were sold for 4,000 pounds each. Youth Plays Hookey So Others Can Have Food Topeka, Kan.—When a truant offi- < :• picks up a fourteen-year-old boy i :* “cutting school” it is not unusual. I at when the hoy’s reason’is “I stayed away so my brother and sister could have my lunch,” it is unusual. Kelsey retro, the truant otlicer, investigated jv:,1 found the hoy's mother and sister :::id brother in need and now he is huniing a job for the hoy. Buck Had Frc^k Horn Tonnpah, New—William Marsh, vet eran rancher, brought down a five- poiat IST-pound buck near hei», with a freak horn in the Renter of his fore head about four inches long. Autos Replace Camels as “Ships of Desert” Detroit.—Automobiles are fast re placing camels as the ships of the des ert, according to H. K. Norman, Lon don, England, on a recent visit here. “Recently I was in Beyrouth,” Nor man said, “and was amazed at the lines of auto transportation that ex tended from that point over various desert routes. One line runs from there to Bagdad. Another extends to Damascus. Still another to Haifa, ‘The reason for the replacement of camels with the modern auto has been largely the demand of tourists for more comfort and speed.” lJ ************************** »c Food Costs Dropped % 16 Per Cent in 1931 * Washington. — The cost of. * food declined 26 per cent last * year, according to compilations * made public by the government bureau of labor statistics. Av- * sjc ‘brage prices of food now. are ap- * * proaching the pre-war levels of * * 1913. The bureau’s index of the ^ ^ cost of tilings to eat, in which * * 1913 prices equal 100, stood at * ^ 114.3 on December 15. A year ^ * previous it was 137:2. During * * December prices decreased on ^ * all but ten of the forty-two food * * items listed by the bureau. L'arg- ^ ^ est decreases were: Pork chops, * * 13 per cent; oranges, 11 per * % cent; lard, 8 per cent. * ************************** Good Hens Make Money CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 28. Highest records among; poultry demonstrations for April were- made by Andy Bauer, Andrews, whose 42 White Rock hens lafrt 23.7 eggs; Mrs. Fred McCown, An derson, whose 170 Rhode Island Red hens laid 24.3 eggs; E. F. Hicks, Belton, whose commercial flock of 501 birds laid 22.3 eggs eacii; and in the calendar flock record ci»iee J. M. Hemminger of Wfllington, whose 264 White Leghorn hens laid 22 eggs each. summary of all the flocks for thr month shows that on the 82 f^rms reporting before May 15, in cluding a total of 11,905 hens, the average egg production was 17 eggs each, says P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman. The hens ate an av erage of 13 cents worth of feed each, and returned a total income of 27 cents each, leaving an inco-w* above feed cost of 14 cents per bint for the month. Deducting from this the average montjily charge If for interest on investment, depre- ** ciation on equipment, and all oth er costs except feed, approximately 6.6 cents per hen, according to rec ords of previous years, the labor income per hen for the month was 7.4 cents. These poultrymen are making a * profit in spite of the low price of [ eggs, Mr. Gooding asserts. Some of ? them are getting an exceptionally f high egg production, and this is I the most important factor in deter- I mining profits, since 70 per cent of I the income from chickens is deriv- 1 ed from the sale of eggs, X [ He Won’t Run I f ■ Owen D Young (thr "D" (Vocsr.’t 'land for anything) refuses to a candidate lor the Presidential nn®»- natH.'ii. hut heads a national conxtvixt.— tec ;o try to help loot.,n bunk CJ