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Thursday, July 21, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO* Smiths, and in The Bronx, almost entirely populated by Jews, ther e are also more people named Schwartz and Miller. A study of the telephone books and city directories of the whole nation has just b e en made, and shows that the names which ap pear oftenest are, in order of their frequency, Smith, Johnson, Brown, Williams, Jones, Miller, Davis, An derson, Wilson and Moore. Smith is a universal name. It means the worker in m e tals and it is the same whether written Smith, Schmidt or Faber. Johnson is us- NAMES . . . nation-wide study— uall y Scandinavian in this country, What is the commonest name in but ^ 18 also English and Scotch ; America? Right—it’s Smith. But in Brook lyn, N. Y., and the Borough of The The Browns may have started out as Brauns or Le Brun, but are more likely to be of English descent. Bronx there are more Cohens than Williams and Jon e s are straight Welsh, as are the Davises. The Millers are another interna tional family, Mueller and Moul- ineaux being other spellings. The Andersons and Wilsons are Scotch, of course, and who e ver heard of a person named Moore who didn't trace back to the Emerald Isle? STAMPS . . . and their value— Many readers have written me to ask the value of old stamps in their possession sinc e I wrote something about the prices some rare stamps bring. I am not an authority on Harvest Of Results Extension Work CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 16.— “The great dream of agriculture throughout all time has been to de velop a safe, stable, independent, forward-looking rural leadership, J which unhampered by lack of fin ancial support or partisan or sec tional influences should devote it- s e lf to every phase of country life, * , , , . „ .. , .. social, economic, or financial with stamps, but experts tell me that the . „ ’ ... ’ definite, unified programs for the value of any given stamp is what it will bring at auction, where stamp prices are fixed. ,. ..... . , ^ . . . , , , tive fighting force in behalf of its Most stamp dealers ar e honest, . , , ^ future—a leadership capable of organizing agriculture as an effec- 4 _ THE FAMILY ‘ DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M D. ‘HEAT STROKE” * I In all accidents, I have found the ounce of prevention to be worth many pounds of cure; the best time to lock the garage securely is be fore the car is stolen. ~ Heat Stroke—Being overheated until we succumbr—is a most unfor tunate accident. Gf course the results of such a thing, depend on the strength and “resistance’ of the victim, the condition of heart, liver, kidneys and other vital organs, as well as the age of the patient, and the extent or degree of overheating. The accident may occur in the hay-field, at the bench in the shop, or in the canning-factory, in the super-heated retail store,—in fact any where that the heat may be overpowering and the toil too exacting for the.worker. It is only proper here for me to touch the subject in a general, yet practical way. ’ 1 Symptoms—Of course collapse of the bodily energy, s The pupils of the eyes may be dilated, indicating brain-weakness; the pulse rapid, thp breathing deep at first. 'Severer forms soon develop shallow breathing, with irregular and feeble pulse, and the pupils may become contracted, with mental aberration. Involuntary evacuations may oc cur, with muscular twitchings, cold sweat, and even convulsions—de pending on the severity of the heat-stroke. First Aid—Remove itye patient to the coolest place available, where the air circulates freely; open the clothing; give plenty of cool—not iced—water, if the patient will accept it. Notice that, in extreme cases of collapse, the temperature falls below normal, and cold sweat occurs— the appearance of a fatal issue; it then becomes necessary to apply warmth to the body. The attendants should do everything possible to turn matters “about face.” That is safe to do always. Call the Doctor. but one man who sent a very rare stamp to a dealer found himself victimized. The dealer paid him $165 for the stamp, then sold it for $7,500. The original owner su e d the dealer and the courts have ord ered him to pay the difference. The best way to find out whether an old stamp has value is to send a photograph of it to th e Ameri can Philatelic Society, Denver. PAPER . . . from the mills— Within three miles of my home farm stand the ruins of the mill in which the first woodpulp paper ever manufactured was turned out. ideals. “Such leadership we hav e in the army of devoted county and borne agents of the country, under whose wise guidance and steadying influ ences, agriculture today is better organized, better directed, more un ited in thought, and more fixed in fundamental aims and aspirations than at any time in its history.” So spake Honorable A. F. Lever of South Carolina now with the i Federal Farm Board but formerly a Congressman from South Carolina and coauthor of the Smith-Lever Act creating e xtension work, in a recent NBC radio program cele- A FRIEND READY TD HELP This drug store is truly a friend in need in case of sickness or personal injury when minutes and worries count. This drug store is always ready to fill your urgent needs and help you in every way possible. Ours is all that you could ask for a modern drug store to be. There is a registered pharmacist in charge at all times who knows how to take care of your needs properly. You are assured the service is right and the drugs are both high grade and pure. Let your first thought be of this store when sickness or other trouble comes. STROMS’ DRUG STORE MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. ——^ to'' —■ 33 ALWAYS—SOMETHING HAPTENS A man whose son graduated from college In June was asking what I thought about a post graduate course in the Harvard Business School. T don’t assume any school, can teach a boy how to succeed,” he “What I want is to have my son learn something about the his- of business.” He proceeded to illustrate from his own experience. Until 1904 he a newspaper reporter, but that year he took a job with the manu- SHcturing concern of which he is now the head. In 1907, when he was just beginning to get under way, along came * panic. • “We cleared away the wreckage and started again,” he said, “but in 1910 there was a strike which tied up our plants, destroyed part of our property and disrupted our trade. “Suddenly the war, and the slump was transformed into a boom! Ait don’t imagine the boom was any picnic. To be sure, the orders xolled in from every side, but prices of raw material sky-rocketed, our capital was limited, and I wore out my shoes and got grey headed bor- rowing money from one bank to pay back another. “Then the*war ended, and we took an awful beating in our inven tory. Then the'1920-22 depression. Then another boom. “And now this. “It would be advantageous to my boy, I believe, if he were familar with this sequence of events, if he knew the ups and downs not only of modem business but of business through the ages. Maybe he would come into life without the" illusion which has handicapped so many of us—that there is any such thing as ‘normal’ in the sense of perman ently settled conditions and uninterrupted progress.” I thought these were very wise remarks. As far back as I can remember I have been hoping and planning for a time when I should be “comfortably fixed.” At first I thought if I could ever accumulate $20,000 in good safe bonds I’d have an income at $1,000 a year and then I could look out with philosophic cairn upon the foibles of the world. The only progress I have made during the past three years has been in health. I try to ride horseback more, swim more, play more golf, and keep generally tough and supple. I’m quite sure that as long as t live I shall have to keep hustling -that just about the time I get ev erything nicely fixed something will happen. of A young German engineer came in- . to this paper-making region of the bratin S t e annivcrsa y Housatonic Valley in Massachusetts Act - ^ * ^ .. i Discussing the “dividends from about sixty years ago with an idea 1 that revolutionized the newspaper business and immensely cheapen e d Expenditures For School Purposes LIST OF CLAIMS APPROVED BY THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT \ OF EDUCATION FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 1932 all kinds of paper. We still make most of the high- grade writing paper, and all the pa per on which money is printed, in the mills of Berkshire county. Lin en and cotton rags, such as th e clippings from the shirt and col lar factories in Troy, provide much of the base material for writing papers, but most of the paper on which books are printed and all by the Morrill and the Smith-Lever Acts, the Hatch Act, the Rural Credits Act, and the Agricultural Marketing Act. “Th e Smith-Lever Act struck a that is used in newspapers, i made new note in teachln 8 and uncovered something different in the realm of education. President Wilson said of its method: ‘It consti- 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. of wood. Canada makes most of it, because Canada still has gr e at spruce for ests and we have cut most of ours down. But Dr. Charles A. Herty, famous chemist, has found out how to make white paper from southern pine, and the time will come when the big “newsprint” mills will be in Florida and Georgia inst e ad of in Canada. DEATH ... as a penalty— Italy was the first modern na tion to abolish the death penalty for crime, nearly eighty years ago. Under Mussolini the death penalty was re-established for certain crim e s against the government, and two men were executed a few weeks ago, one for trying to kill Mussolini with a bomb. This is sure to stir up discussion again of the effectiveness of cap ital punishment. We have it in al most e very State, but it does not seem to prevent murder. Italy still punishes ordinary mur der with only 21 years of prison, but executes those whose acts threaten the sovereignty of the Stat e . I personally think that if anybody is to be legally killed it would be better to inflict the death penalty on those who murder for their personal gain. The American view is—in theory at least—that the saf e ty of the individual is more important than the safety of the Government. SNAILS . . . what are they?— Many an unsophisticated tourist in France has eaten and enjoyed what the bill-of-fare called “escar gots,” only to learn aft e rwards with disgust that he had eaten snails. This popular French delicacy is un der discussion in Paris, where the officials are trying to decide wheth er they are game, fish, or domestic animals. Th e wild snails of Burgundy are getting scarce, and snail-lovers in voked the game laws to protect them. But, said the logical French functionaries, anything that you pull off a wall with your fingers cannot be “game.” One friend of the snail said they might be classi- fi e d as “homed beasts.” Another said they should be grouped with oysters and other shell-fish. In the meantime, anybody who wants to be sure of getting a dish of snails of the finest, in the best French style of cooking, would bet- t e r make his trip to France soon, lest the edible varieties become ex tinct under the pursuit of ruthless hunters! tXt An omen of good luck is said to result when you walk between two cops—provided of course you are not handcuffed to them. 1 xi Experiments with cobras indicate that when “snake charmers” play to them the shakes do not hear the tutes the kind of work which, ic seems to me, is th e only kind which generates real education.’ “In my report of December 8, 1913, accompanying the Lever Bill, repeated ref e rences are made to the financial aspects and needs of agriculture. Senator Smith of Georgia, co-author, referred :nany times in the same vein. Contemp orary lit e rature shows • clearly we had in mind a system of credits adapted to the particular needs of agriculture—the present system of rural credits. “Again from this same report: ‘The itinerant teacher or demon strator will b e expected to give as much thought to the economic side of agriculture—the marketing, standardizing and grading of farm products—as he gives to the matter of larger acreage yields.’ Note es pecially the word ‘marketing.’ In the Senate debate it is emphasized over and over—forerunner of th e Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 designed to. lend financial aid to co-operatively organized groups of farmers. “To me, a kind of foster father for them, it is gratifying beyond expression to find that county and hom e agents, Smith-Hughes lead ers, in fact all federally aided farm agencies, have thrown a maximum of strength behind the policies pro jected under the authority of this last, cap-sheaf of fundamental ag ricultural legislation—the Agricul tural Mark e ting Act. “In such a union of forces, de voted and militant, for a better civilization through a better agri culture, we challenge the dismal picture of Markham’s The Man with the Hoe.” txi This country manufactured $78,- 000,000 of corsets last year, but how would you ever know it? 1X1 The campaign for shorter and snappier words goes m e rrily on. However, from the viewpoint of the egotist the abridgers haven’t found anything to take the place of WILLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 Claim , No. Payee Purpose Amount 5— 3—330—Janie Mae Galloway, Salary $ 45.00 McCORMICK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4 Claim Datp> No. Payee Purpose Amount 5— 7—331—Commission of Public Works, Water and Lights— $ 5.82. 5— 7—333—T. J. Price, Treas., Payment on Note 1,600.00 6.45- 37.45 agricultural extension work through Date the Smith-Lever Act, Mr. Lever said in part: “Agricultural legislation of this country divides itself into four phas e s, namely: Education, Re search, Finance, and Distribution, and these are covered respectively 15__ 1 4—333—commission of Public Works, Water and Lights __ 5—31—343—J. T. Martin, Equipment BUFFALO SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5 Date Jlaim No. Payee Purpos? 5—10—337—Lottie Mims, Salary 5—31—344—J. C. Talbert, Transportation BELLVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6 Claim Date No. Payee Purpose 5—10—336—T. J. Price, Treas., Payment on Note Claim Date No. 5— 7—334- Claim Date No. TOTAL BOLD BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9 Payee \ Purpose MILWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 13 Payee Purpose HIBLER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 18 ^ Claim Date. No. Payee Purpose 5— 7—334—Mrs. Joe. W. Hipp, Salary PLUM BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 24 Claim Date. No. Payee Purpose 5— 3—327—L. E. Martin, Salary 5— 3—328—J. M. R. Coleman, Salary 5— 7—332—Mrs. M. P. Lankford, Salary WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 25 Claim Date. No. Payee Purpose 5— 3—329—W. McDaniel, Salary 5— 3—339—J. L. Caudle, Repairs 5—21—340—J. L. Caudle, Repairs 5—21—341—L. V. Mayer, Salary 5—21—342—L. V. Mayer, Salary - $ 1,649.72. Amount . $ 54.01 50.00 34.22 ■ $ tsars'. \ Amount. $ 55.83T IE.25 $ 67.08 Amount $ 99.8S Amount • $ 20.00 Amount $ 28.00 Amount $ 55.00 40.00 100.00 $ 195.00 Amount; $ 40.00' 10.66 9.94 10.54 55.56 A French mathematician claims he can squar e a circle. He would be of more service to humanity if he could square some of these et ernal triangles. X Good times are those in which we stretch the cr e dit so sadly needed in bad times. x If a man of 60 has spent three years of his life ti e ing his necktie, as averred, how many deeades does it take to keep the maiden blush on the feminine face? rxt Airplanes may do th e ir tail spins sounds, but they may be affected and their nose dives, but they never by the vibration. — / 1 get caught at grade crossings. TOTAL 1 $ 126.6a STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Personally appeared before me, W. H. Parks; County SUperihtentTent of Education and made oath in due form of law that the above ik a true and correct account of the expenditures of the Superintendent of Etftiv cation’s office to date. W. H. parks; ' County Superintendent of Education.. J. O. PATTERSON, Notary Public, S. C. MEMBERSHIP ENROLLMENT FARMERS AND TAXPAYERS LEAGUE OF SOUTH CAROLINA I hereby enroll as a member of the Farmers and Taxpayers League of South Carolina and pledge my support for the accomplishment of its purpose and objects. Name County Town or City Voting Precinct The Purpose and Objects of the Farmers and Taxpayers League of South Carolina Are: 1. To relieve agriculture, industry, commerce and the individual citizen of too burdensome and excessive taxation. 2. To study and promote economy and efficiency in local, state and national government. 3. To inject for consideration fundamental issues into state and county campaigns. 4. To encourage the election an^ appointment of able dependable legislative, executive and judicial officers. 5. To make effective platform pkriges. « to >-ok e sure C f legislative and executive support of the nppds of the people.