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Thursday, August 11,1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO I 1 ' f SR. f r ■ m - the sun. Outside of the black disk of the moon's shadow which obscures the sun’s face in a total eclipse, huge flames shoot out, sometimes as far leader, who weighed more than 30t pounds. I dined with the “Jazz King” the other night, the first time I had seen him for several years, and was amazed to find him as 100,000 miles, from the body of weighing less than 200. the sun. These are burning gases 1 “1 eat just as much as I ever did.’ the colors of which, as seen through he said, “but I divide up my meals the spectroscope, tell what they are differently. On the day when I eat composed of. It is known that a starches, for example, I don’t eat large part of this flaming mass 1 meat or fruit. One day I’ll eat only which we call the sun is iron, heat- fruit, another day only meat. It's ed to a point where it vaporizes. Al- the mixing of all kinds of food in any soil at all. There are still millions of square miles of forests which have never been explored, and the men who can discover in them new sources of fine woods can name their own price, almost, for their finds. SOIL . . . and soilless crops— They’ve been experimenting with “soilless” farming at the Univ^rsitv of California, and have proved, pretty conclusively it seems, Count Your Change There’s no argument in this edi torial. It’s merely a collection of facts, incontrovertible, eloquent facts that confound those who pro fess to see America slipping down into a state of effortless despair. . . . Total bank savings today exceed that $29,000,000,000, equal to more than most crops can be grown without $1,000 for every family in the land! All that is needed Savings depositors number 52,000,- ECLIPSE . . . long one due— The next total eclipse of the sun will be visible in most parts of New most every other mineral found on the stomach at one time which earth has also been detected in makes fat.” these sun gases, but science is still Maybe it won’t work for every- trying to learn. body, but the diet system that the Whether the sun is getting hotter present Mrs. Whiteman worked out or cooler is d matter of great im- —and made Paul adopt before she portance to all mankind. A drop would marry him, by the way—cer- is water and fertilizer. All mat make one soil different from another is the kind and quan tity of plant food—nitrogen, phos phoric acid and potash—that each contains. Immense, crops of celery, Save Good Brood Sows STARKEY WARNS NOT LET SHORTAGE OF CORN SPELL SHORTAGE OF PIGS CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 1.— It is bad policy to sell off young, productive brood sows when there is a feed shortage, says Prof. L. V.. Starkey, chief animal nusbandman warning that if because of the short corn crop good sows are sac rificed now, there will be a tre mendous shortage of South Caro- England on ' August 31 this year. The moon’s shadow will pass across of a few degrees in the average heat tainly has had a great effect in his the face of the sun in the afternoon received by the earth from the sun case. about 3:28 o’clock standard time, j would mean a return of the Ice WOOD . . . worth fortunes— and the total eclipse will last for Age, when glaciers a mile thick almost three minutes. Most total eclipses last only a few seconds, so astronomers are looking forward to this one and hoping for clear weather, in the expectation that their photographic instruments will reveal more than is yet known formed as far south as Kentucky; an increase of a degree or so in sun heat would start palm trees and sugar cane growing in Labrador. FAT . . . jazz king loses— Ever hear of Andiroba? Or Castanheira? Those are the names of some of the new kind of lumber that have been cut on Henry Ford’s Brazilian rubber plantation, and which have been brought to the about the elements which exist in; Whiteman, the famous A couple of years ago the fattest united States for use in cabinet man in the public eye was Paul making. Other rare and new var 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. orchestra ieties of tropical woods which may r be expected to come into use for making fine furniture because of their beauty of color and grain, and their hardness, are Muiracoatiara, Abiu Branco, Massaranduba, Am-, argaso, Angelim Pedra, Sucupira Amarella, Pau d’Arco, Jutahy, Uxy, Tatajuba and Itauba. The pursuit of new and rare var ieties of wood fit for the use of the cabinetmaker is one of the most interesting fields of adventure, in which hundreds of men are engag ed. , A single log which can be cut for veneers may be worth thou sands of dollars; a shipload of cer tain South American woods would be worth a comfortable fortune. more 11 111. Ol LLlL,LJ 1 no i • * ■ 1 - \ ■ L>y siioGri i. nem 'c- ' 4 ^ 'v.. vsi :h 11 potatoes, berries, tomates and oth-, end of the boom year had 7,675,143 er vegetables are grown in some stockholders at the beginning of parts of Florida where the sandy , year. soil contains naturally almost no i O n e company alone today has ov- plant food. Fertilizers—do the er 665,000 stockholders, a gain of work. more than 195,000 since the boom. It is hardly likely that the staple i This company has assets exceeding crops, wheat, cotton, corn and the $3,200,000,000 . . . like, will ever be grown commercial- | Our total stock of gold is $4,000,- ly except on soils adapted, to them 000,000. No other country but it is entirely possible that most possessed so much. Britain, for of the vegetable and small-fruit, example, has only $588,000,000. Cur- crops of the future will be grown in rency in circulation aggregates $5,- wire baskets suspended in water, in which the essential plant foods in their proper proportions have been dissolved. “IKE” . . . with a double-O”— Up ’till 1929, for thirty-five years or so, any letter addressed to “Mr Hoover, The White House, Wash ington,” would have been delivered to “Ike” Hoover, who has been the major-domo of the Executive Man sion since the days of President Mc Kinley. Few people outside of Washington realize that there are two Mr. Hoovers in the White House for Ike is still on the job, and the next tenant of the White House will probably keep him there. He manages the President’s , domestic arrangements, bosses the cooks, chauffeurs and servants generally, and his official title is “steward of the White House.” Somebody asked Ike Hoover the other day who h$ thought would be his next boss. He replied: “I don’t know who it is going to be, but he will have a doube ‘o’ in his name, the same as mine.” $X$—— 000, nearly two per family. The number of Americans own ing stock has increased almost 40 per cent since 1929. A group of 102 companies which lina P^ 8 next y ear and loss of much - had 5,539,036 stockholders at the | of the 33 6 P er cent ^crease in piga farrowed the past two years. It is wise, he adds, to cull the unproduc tive sows, saving only those whichi raise litters of not less than seven pigs. Alternates suggested are: 1. Sell a few of the feeder hogs or feeder pigs to a neighbor who is so fortunate as to have feed ever ’ enough for more hogs than he nas. 1 2. Sell the porkers a bit lighter this fall than usual—from 175 to 1 200 pounds instead of the usual 'spread of l^a to 225 pounds, feed- j mg out to 200 pounds if there is feed. | This may be a good time for far mers who have extra feed to pur chase a few young sows to produce 464,000,000, or $700,000,000 than in the boom. Last year $16,500,000,000 worth of new life insurance was written. Total insurance now carried is es timated at $109,000,000,000, or not far short of $1,000 for every man, P^S s next year when there may oe woman and child in the United a Pte shortage. In this connection. States. Policies in force total 127,- one should not fail to take into con- 800,000. . . j sideration the fact that the land on Such safeguard ... is enjoyed j which hogs are raised will have a by the people of no other nation in tendency to accumulate organic the world. r ° fo,ir “ Our total national wealth, esti mated at $329,700,000,000, is great er than that of a dozen Continen tal European countries combined. The income of the American peo ple comfortably exceeds $1,000,000,- 000 a week. The per capita income here is far greater than in any other land. There are still six or seven per- matter so that in a few years a. drought such as we have just had will not prove so’ disastrous to the crops. It is very important, Prof. Star- key concludes, that we maintain the increase which we have shown in pork production for the past two years, for our hogs have been more profitable than the average farm enterprise^ and if we enlarge on the sons gainfully employed for every profitable enterprises and cut down HOvJ *AUCH DID Ufc PAY PER MYflOME YOURS wyBERTHAfDSON LAY If you wish to use the empty flour sacks and any number of housekeepers do, for household uses, and do not want the colored letters left on, wet the bag with kerosene, roll up snugly and put aside over night. In the morning wash with hot suds and dry in the sunshine. If your kitchen is not very light, and you cannot put in more win dows, try making it light with col or. Buff, that soft warm yellow, works wonders. Make the walls buff, the ceiling a lighter tone, use buff and blue on the floor if lin oleum is the selection; if not, paint the floor with a matching yellow floor paint. Put the thinnest of yellow curtains at the windows, be ing sure that the curtains do not extend over the windows, but frame them instead. The amount of sunshine which can be lured into the room in this way is quite unbelieveable. Try polishing mirrors, windows and picture glass with a home made polishing bag. Purchase whit ing and fill small muslin bags with it. Dampen the bag, and rub over the glass. Polish with crumpled newspaper. If you find it very tedious scrap ing carrots before cooking, try washing and boiling for ten min utes. Take from the water, dip in cold water and remove the skins, return to the fire and finish cook ing. X Engineer Retires Kg*. on those showing a loss, we are farming on a much safer basis. x Huire Plow In Operation Wm. B. Mayo, for a quarter cen tury power engineer with Henry Ford, announces his retirement from the company,-effective September 1 He is '66 yeacs oUL person idle. No fewer than 25,800,000 automo biles are owned by Americans. . . . This total is almost three times the number owned by all the rest or the world. y Americans' possess far more telephones (19,500,000) . than all other countries . . . Radios . . . mul tiply . . . over 16.545,000 . . . unap proached by any other people. How many new domestic mech anical refrigerators have been bought, would you guess? A grand total of fully 3,750,000, at an esti mated expenditure approaching $2,- 000,000,000 ... In no other part of the globe do half as many homes enjoy such a luxury—Americans are rapidly coming to regard it as a ne cessity. A recent survey of 29 typical small towns revealed that 71 per cent of the inhabitants owned homes, that 88 per cent had electric light, 72 per cent had baths, 51 per cent had electric washers, 55 per cent had radios, 41 per cent had vacuum cleaners. There are more families in Am erica than in any other land that can afford to and do send their children to high school and college. In no other land do so many aver age families have the means to en joy foreign travel . . . . . . The movie still attracts a weekly average attendance of 75,- 000,000 . . . The percentage of our agricultur al population who, despite defla tion, are acquiring domestic com forts, conveniences, labor-saving devices, improved machinery, the use of better roads, is constantly increasing. Today more than 700,000 farms are electrified, representing an in crease of 400 per cent in eight years, and the total is being swelled rapidly. In industrial communities hard manual toil is being steadily abol ished by the introduction of ma chinery. Each American worker now has at his command , five- horsepower, a record not even re motely approached outside our boundaries. The average working-day a gen eration ago was ten to twelve hours. The standard in this generation is eight hours . . . The work-week used to consist of six . . . days. Now it is five and one-half days, with the five-day week coming into vogue. Never in the past was America, so well equipped as it is today to resume an epochal forward march. Not only have we changed fromi a debtor nation to the greatest credi tor nation on earth, not only have and oil resources, richer in trans- we vaster national wealth, not only portation facilities; .. . richer in ev- What is said to be the largest plow in the world has been operat ing in Orange County, Calif., and is described by A. A. Young, assist ant irrigation engineer, of the United States Department of Agri culture, stationed at Santa Ana. It is the only plow of its kind and was designed and built to meet an unusual condition existing in the lower Santa Ana River Valley ad joining the seacoast. Originally this area was fertile land, but overflows from the Santa Ana River during floods deposited 1 to 2 feet of sand upon the rich soil and made it useless for crop pro duction. Later this sand deposit- was covered by a growth of Ber muda grass. The plow is intended to turn the sand under and bring the rich soil to the top. It has two shares. The; smaller one, which is of good size, is set. forward and higher than the larger share which is able to plow a furrow 36 to 42 inches in depth and 3 feet in width. The forward share turns the surface sand and Bermuda grass into the deep furrow where it is covered by the fertile soil turned up by the larger share. The plow is 4 feet high and 22: feet long. At turns, it is raised and lowered by a hydraulic lift. It is reported to weigh about 1 ton and to have cost $2,000. It is drawn by three heavy tractors running low gear and is reported to be capable of plowing 5 acres a day. jxi Protect Livestock The grounding of wire fences at intervals of about 150 feet will save livestock in the field from possible death by lightning, according to specialists of the United States Weather Bureau. Both galvanized iron pipe and steel angle are good' for this purpose. Galvanized iron' pipe should be cut in pieces about 5 feet longer than the wooden' fence posts, driven into the ground close to and level with the posts, and fastened to them with plumb ers’ clips. If steel angle is used, substitute a metal post for a wood en post about every 150 feet. Drive the metal posts well into the ground. have we an unprecedented supply of gold, but we are richer in experi ence, richer in inventive brains, richer in scientific knowledge, rich er in machinery, richer in produc tive facilities, richer in managerial skill, richer in discovered mineral cry material wealth-creating pro duct and process, richer in crafts manship, richer in everything. The country is all right. What we need is less hysteria and more confidence and courage.—Collier’s,. The National Weekly..