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fTTiursclay. SeptemKer 15, 1952 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: —- Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Thr^e Months .50 SCHOOL DAYS for half a century or more in what SpiltPlllllPr 1 is now Statuary Hall, which has one of the most famous whispering galleries in the world. There is a certain point at which the visitor can stand on one side of Statuary Hall and speak in a whis per which can be distinctly heard by anyone standing in a corres- Crop Report COLUMBIA, - Sept. 10.—SOUTH CAROLINA: August weather wao generally favorable for growing crops and prospects improved dur- % ; more than one hundred feet away. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 12.— G ““ rded , Vr: ‘ ltsme _”~ With the worst of the hot weather' A ' mo f st ^ Washington visitor over, tourists are beginning to flock wa " ts see the „ pl “ e w 2 lere chly t j. ^ mg the month. Compared with a ponding position, at the other side, ,, ,, ,, c, , . , „ , month ago the outlook on Septem ber 1 was for 2 per cent more cot ton; 4 per cent more tobacco; 5 per cent more corn; 14 per cent more — * make the monev ” Th^ Bureau of P otatoes - and 50 P er cent more hay * into Washington in larger numbers _ y ‘- ... .. The combined production outlook Engraving and Printmg is the largest plant in the world devoted to printing by what is known as the than at any other time since last spring. There have not been so many of them here this past sum- for these five crops is 7 per cent better than on August 1 but still 28 per cent below the 1931 final pro- mer as usual. Fewer people have f eel eI ! gra J ing P rocess ' The P late3 Suction. The tobacco crop is off had the leisure and the money with fr ° m whlch m0 " ay ' P„ 05tage sta, "P? 53 per cent from last year; cotton and government bonds are printed ^ Another school year has begun. More children than ever went to outside visitors to Washington an- which to take vacation trips. But . ^ there are never less than a mUlion f« f^ved on steel, which is then hardened until it cannot be cut even by a diamond, and from these school at one time before, will nu ally and some years the number j t monev i s Dr inted on hand spend the next eight or nine has tun to nearly double that plates money 15 punted on hand months laying the foundations for fi &ure. their independent and individual ——— lives. Some of them will learn 'a ° ne experience which every good deal. Some of them'will not stran S er visiting Washington al- Jeam very much. The one presses, requiring extremely skillful operators. Visitors are admitted to a closely guarded gallery from which they 40 per cent; and corn 22 per cent; although tame hay and sweet pota toes are 13 per cent and 51 per cent respectively, above the 1931 final outturn. Prospective yield per acre for all crops combined improved 2 per cent during August but on September 1! was 11.3 per cent below the aver- OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MARTHA WASHINGTON TEA ROOM Friday, September 16, 1932 • In room opening on Gold Street, in rear of A. H. Faulkner’s Grocery Store. I Light refreshments served free to all visitors be tween 6 p. m. and 10 p. m. on Friday, opening day. Meals and sandwiches at all hours from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. every day at reasonable prices. MRS. A. H. FAULKNER, Prop. m not • rc , . . . .. . , can look through heavy bars and . thing ways enjoys is to go to the top of 8 > age of the years 1919-23. * —I■„ watch the money printers at work. that most children learn in school, the Washington Monument. Five „ sheet of naner has to be ac- and the most imnortant thine that hundred and fifty-five feet from its L e y \ ri '. e 0I , P .^P er , a . S t0 De aC , ana tnc m ost important tning tnat counted for at the begmmng and any of them learn is, after all, not base to lts solld aluminum tip, the dav’s work and the what is in the books but how to Washington Monument is still the e d * yS * „ ’ a d .. what is in the books but how ^ ^ the . city and from employees who actually handle the It has always seemed to us that “the visitor gets a bird’s-eye view Z“V* "f‘ live. the real life of the child is his or her school life. During these formative years the child’s princi pal interest centers about school. It is the one " place where he can mingle on equal terms with all of those around him. For several of the entire District of Columbia and the adjacent hills of Maryland and Virginia. The Monument stands exactly on the meridian of Washington which is exactly 77 degrees, 3 minutes and 57 seconds west of Greenwich, Eng- allowed to wear the same clothes in the workroom that they wear to and from work. 1 Xt Poultry Short Course Was High ly Successful hours a day he works and plays in land » which is the point from which the company of those of his own lo n litude is calculated. It is as age. He learns, through the nec- near> ly as possible the exact geog- essary discipline *of the schoolroom, raphic center of the'tract, ten miles CLEAfSON COLLEGE, Sept. 10.— to restrain such natural impulses s Q uar e, which was laid out as the The third poultry short course held as tend to disorder, but he learns Federal District in George Wash- at Clemson College August 31 from the contacts with other boys ington’s time. A line drawn north through September 2, with 52 peo not only the wisdom of non-inter-! and south through the monument pie from various parts oL che state ference with the rights of others, wouId P ass through the middle of attending, surpassed any of previ- but the importance of standing up the White House, and up Sixteenth ous years, according to the opinion / tor his own rights. In other words, Street, the upper end of which is of poultrymen in attendance who the most valuable function of the known as Meridian Hill. have attended the course in previ- tfchool is to socialize its pupils, to| The monument is no longer the ous years, says P. H. Gooding, ex- - help them to learn how to live in center of the District, however, be- tension poultryman who was in fthe crowd. (cause in the 1840’s the part lying on charge of the course. In the old days of big families the the Virginia sider of the Potomac The most interesting session of • children learned those things from River was given back to that state, the course was led by Prof. C. L. their brothers and sisters. Fam- so that the District of Columbia Morgan, head of the poqltry divi- ! ilies of eight or ten or morkybung- now, instead ,^? containing ; one sion, on “The Importance of Pro cters are not so common in these hundred square miles, is only about teins, Minerals, alid Vitamins in the 'days, and the discipline of the sixty-four square miles in area. Ration.” Prof. Morgan outlined crowd is best enforced and learned That High Water Mark— the functions of the various ingred- m the school atmosphere. And it 1 This monument to George Wash- ients and explained what part they is becoming more and more essen- infeton w^o begun about 1830 by an have in poultry nutrition. He dis- lial that our young folks should association which got contributions cussed the feeds and supplements go out into the world with a better from the public, but ran out of one must use in preparing a bal- undarstanding of their place in it. funds when the structure had anced ration for hens and told how declined 6 per cent and broom corn We think the |)est schools are the reached the height of about 150 the bulk of these may be produced ( 14 per cent as a result of continued ones in which the pupils are re- feet. It stood there unfinished for on the farm. | drought in the Pan Handle area of. ouired to do most for themselves forty years, a blot on the landscape The afternoon sessions were used Texas and portions of nearby and have the least done for them of the capitol city until Congress entirely for practical judging for states. The rice estimates have al- by their teachers and others. All appropriated money for its com- e gg production, and the poultrymen so i, e en reduced 3 1-2 per cent as a that any system of education can pletion. It was finished in 1885. handled the birds and familiarized re sult.of hurricane damage in the do for any child is to stimiAate him with stone from the same quarry themselves with the method of sel- ' wes t gulf area. Pastures continued to use his own native intelligence, from which the lower part had been ecting the best layers. I much below average though better Tree fruits improved somewhat in August but present estimates ire for only about 45 per cent of last year’s combined production of peaches, apples and pears. The pecan crop is forecast a 080,000 pounds, which compares with 950,000 pounds last year and the average production of 320,000 pounds for the years 1924-23. September 1 condition of other crops for 1932 and 1931, respective ly, follows: Alfalfa Hay, 62 and 73; Cowpeas, 71 and 72; Soybeans, 70 and 73; Pasture, 63 and 72; Apples, 36 and 67; Peaches, 36 and 34; Pears, 38 and 80; Grapes, 64 and 31. UNITED STATES: The Septem ber report of the Crop Reporting Board shows that crop prospects improved only slightly during Au gust. The chief changes were a 1 per cent increase in the prospec tive corn crop, due chiefly to ample August rains in the central and up per Mississippi Valley area, and : per cent increases in the estimated oat and hay crops. On the other hand prospects for potatoes declin ed 3 per cent as a result of blight in Maine and drought damage from Eastern ^Colorado in Northwestern Minnesota. Prospects for durum ‘wheat declined 12 per cent and flax 16 per cent, chiefly as a result of further drought damage to late crops in the Dakotas and Montana with also some damage to flax from grasshoppers. Grain sorghums But outside of the curriculum, be yond and above the formal routine of the acquisition of knowledge, far more important is the socializing and civilizing influence of constant association with other young ones of his own age. 1 «s x » Treat Seed Oats For The Smut COUNTY AGENT SAYS DISEASE CAN BE PRACTICALLY PREVENTED At one time or another almost every farmer has had his oat crop severely damaged by smut. This -disease can easily be practically 100 per cent prevented by the prop er treatment of seed before plant ing. The following treatment is not expensive: formaldehyde built. In the meantime, so muclt At the end of the course 10 of the than on the first of September dur-. other stone had been taken out of poultrymen attending passed an ex- j n g the Ihst two years. Crop yields that quarry that the new stone does amination which will qualify them are n0 w expected co average 6.4 not match the old, and the very j a s inspectors for the South Caro- per ce nt below those of last season distinct line, about a third of the ii n a Poultry Improvement Associa- an d 4 5 per cent below the average way up the monument, where the darker stone ends and the lighter stone begins, is a perpetual remind er of the forty years’ delay in its completion. In the spring of 1839 floating ice in the river jammed against the railroad bridge, forming a dam which diverted all of the water of the river into the city and men and boys rowed up and down Pennsyl vania Avenue in boats from the Treasury to the Capitol grounds for two or three days, uon. -txx- Recl Cross Has / during the ten years 1919 to 1928. The corn crop is estimated at 2,- 854,000,000 bushels, an increase of about 1 per cent over the August Load To Carry forecast. Production of corn was - 2,563,000,000 bushels in 1931 and the 5-year average (1924-28) was 2,625,000,000 bushels. Prospects in creased during August in the cen tral corn belt states of Illinois Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and. Southern Minnesota as a result of ample moisture supplies and favor able growing weather. Slight de creases occurred in most other sec tions excepting New York, New England and the Pacific Coast States. The corn crop is maturing at an unusually early date this year with the danger from frost! Farm Holiday Vigilants ‘T-w.-Sfej. njlif ^ is: These three Farm Holiday strikers who were picketing the roads out side Omaha, Neb., to see that no foodstuff reached market in a 30 day strike staged the above hurlesou^. c-”" ’ ‘ -- ,r ’” U Attain Highest SpeedOf All Humans | WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Chair man John Barton Payne of the Red Cross said today the organi zation was facing the busiest win ter since the World War. In charge of federal flour and cotton clothing distribution, as well as its own activities of mak ing seed gifts and direct relief in many channels, the Red Cross is Occasionally, an old Washington ian, when asked by a stranger how recru iting both financial resources to account for the line across the and a large corps of vo i un teer Washington Monument where the workers stone changes color, replies that Npver was u more important, T.” . “V ’thaf i« 1-ha hiffh mark of the flood wever ^ as * .v’ damage correspondingly reduced. Treatment.—Fan that 18 hlgh marK 01 tne Ilooa chairman Payne said, for the peo- the seed to remove light seed and of 1389! foreign material. Mix one pint of | ( Cross roll call membership. It op- lormalin <40 per cent formalde- The Capitol Building— ens Armistice day and closes hyde) with 10 to 30 gallons of wat-! Next to the Washington Monu- Thanksgiving day. er and keep the solution covered ment, the principal point of at- j Payne predicted that with wise until ready to use. This quantity traction for visitors is the Capitol use the present supply of flour sufficient for 50 bushels. The Building. It is possible for those would last the coming winter, amount of water can be varied to who are sufficiently active to climb | Only today, he said, he called for suit the operator, so long as one up a narrow winding iron stairway, the last 5,000,000 bushels of the pint of formalin is applied to 50 concealed between the castiron first 40,000,000 bushels of govern- bushels. dome and the ceiling of the rot- ment-owned wheat voted by con- Major Jimmy Doolittle, left, and Jimmy Haizlip, right, meet at Cleveland air races the day after both had set two new world air marks.. .. Jimmy Doolittle attained a speed of 293 miles per hour, (unofficially) in his Gee-Bee Bumble-Bee plane . . . new world record, while Hatrfrp set a new coast to coast record of 10 hrs., 19 mins., 4-5 sc ds ... thus clipping 57 minutes off Doolittle’s former record. Tobacco prospects improved pie to respond f^^ ua t ^ d slightly during August. Moderate increases occurred in flue-cured and western fire-cured, and slight decreases in burley and Virginia fire-cured. FRANK O. BLACK, Agricultural Statistician. R. C. LIGHT, Jr. Agricultural Statistician. txt Place the grain on a clean, tight unda, and stand at the very foot of gress for feeding the distressed. TVkwHn H D Llllh floor. Apply the solution with a the Statute of Liberty. Most visi- “That leaves us the entire 45,- J-r. sprinkling can while the oats are tors, however, content themselves 000,000 bushels voted in the second shoveled from one pile to another, with remaining on the main floor, wheat bill to take care of the needs or spread in a thin layer, sprinkle, viewing the historical paintings of the coming winter” he said, and shovel until each grain is wet. around the walls and on the great With volunteer women garment Shovel the oats into a pile and ceiling of the circular rotunda, makers reducing the cotton cloth- Holds Meeting; The Dowtin H. D. Club held a business meeting at the Robinson cover with clean canvas, blankets, which is 150 feet across, and stroll- ing distribution costs to the actual School Building on Thursday after- ©r sacks that have been dipped in ing through the wings on either expense of purchasing the yard noon, September 8th. the formaldehyde solution. The pile side to the halls in which the Sen- goods, the Red Cross executive add- The meeting was called to order should be covered two to four ate and the House of Representa- ed, the 500,000 bales of federal-own- by singing Ameiica, The Beauti- hours. - jtives hold their sessions. led cotton would have maximum ef- ful.” When the cover is removed, sow These two wings are much young- feet in meeting the emergency. I The devotional was conducted by ed: President—Mrs. R. L. Dowtin. Vice-President—Mrs. P. J. Dow- tin. Secretary and Treasurer—Miss Annie Chiles. Local Leaders—Mesdames R. L. Dowtin and P. W. Roper. Club chairmen were appointed for the eleven departments. Our representative to the short course at Winthrop gave quite an interesting account of her sojourn while attending the convention and short course. The meeting adjourned to meet with Mrs. R. L. Dowtin, October 13. Reporter. -x— the seed immediately. If sowing is er than the main building. The delayed, spread the seed in a thin Senate, in the early days of the na- Jayer and stir frequently until thor- ( tion used to meet in the compara- ©ughly dried. E. L. ROGERS, County Agent. McCormick, S. C. tively small room in which the Supreme Court has held its sessions In distributing the cotton and the president, flour, he said, the Red Cross would The club was re-organized with use $500,000 of its own funds. 1 seven members. Minutes of the In addition the organization has last meeting were read and approv- given relief, up to the present, to ed. Our state dues were contrib- for the last hundred years, while 90,000 mining families in 143 coun- the House of Representatives sat ties at a total cost of $522,003. uted by the members. | The following officers were elect- S. C. Co-Ops To Handle < lotion HATHCOCK SAYS ARRANGE MENTS COMPLETED TO CARE FOR MEMBERS’ CROPS COLUMBIA. Sept. 10.—The South Carolina Cotton Growers Co-oper ative association announced Friday it had completed arrangements for handling members’ cotton during the 1932-33 season. The announce ment, made by J. S. Hathcock, gen eral manager, said pools for the new year have been determined, finances arranged, warehouse con nections established and field per sonnel, including federal licensed classes, employed. All banks in the state, the an nouncement said, have been re quested to honor members’ annual pool drafts, with bills of lading or warehouse receipts attached, for five cents per pound, and .0 inform the members that as soon as the cotton is classed for grade and staple an additional advance will be made, bringing the total to ap proximately 75 per cent of the value of the cotton. With December futures selling for 8 to 8.50 cents, as was che case Thursday following the government crop report, the Cotal advance on middling 7-8 of an inch cotton would ue 5.75 per pound, and in ad dition, premiums would be allowed for better grades and si:api3s v .Hath cock explained.