McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 11, 1932, Image 2
Thursday, August 11,1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Engineer Retires
Kg*.
on those showing a loss, we are
farming on a much safer basis.
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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.
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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..