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Thursday, July 20,1933 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO McCORMICK MESSENG1 Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1962 D 1 country with scattered populaticr , nd laree wooded ''r^os containing many tangled thickets, which give he managed EDMOND J. MeCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. as mail matter of the second class. EDITORIAL CHANGE After seven years of excellent service as editor of the Southern Says Make Hay Of Plowed-Up Cotton dant. Other stores have preserved and increased their game by this prin ciple—the sanctuary—a place where game is unmolested and left to increase and furnish breeding SUBSCRIPTION RATES: «— Strictly Cash In Advance "One Year $100 Six Months — .75 Three Months .50 New Publications On Farm Economies far better and is still fairly abun- Christian Advocate, Dr. E. O. Wat- Clemson College, July 17.— Since son has tendered his resignation to the cotton reduction campaign has take effect in November of this been successful and a large acre- year. He plans to return to the age of cotton is to be destroyed pastorate. soon, it seems wise to consider thr The board of managers of the possibilities of* using the cotto^ Advocate have made a very wise plants to be destroyed as feed for stock for the surrounding terri- and commendable choice of a sue- livestock, says Prof, J. P. LaMas- tory. And it is this principle, to- cessor in electing Dr. R. O. Law- ter, Chief of the dairy department, gether with a comprehensive game ton ’ of the faculty of Columbia who suggests making hay out of policy and program, that must be College, to this place. Dr . Lawton the cotton plants to be plowed up. used to build back the diminishing is no where better known or more since there has never been an sincerely loved than in Greenwood, occasion before when cotton was A host of friends here in all de- available as it is under our present j nominations wish him mighty well circumstances, no experimental i and are sure of his success. 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. game of South Carolina X The State Points Out Need Of Road feeding trials have been reported Oi" T/IOUS Dr. Watson is recognized as cne for hay made ^ ^ V^UIiVCiillUII KJL ijiuxis NOTICE OF TAX SALE Clemson College, July 15.—Farm prices of cotton and farm real es tate values are discussed in two new publications just issued from "the Agricultural Economics De partment of the South Experiment Station. These are Sta- from the cotton of the strong men of the two plant. However, Prof. LaMaster ———— Methodist Conferences of South states, feed analyses have been re- COLUMBIA PAPER SAYS SAVAN- Carolina. He is a virile and im- ported on the mature cotton plants NAH VALLEY AREA IN S. C. | pressive speaker and writer. He f ro m. samples taken in early Octo- has made the Advocate always in- ber. The analysis of the plant at NEGLECTED. Clubs CI0S6S At Under and by virtue of a war- T Izltli iailt 158116(1 to me b y the County Ol. IjOUIS IJIl 14!Ill Treasurer of McCormick County, I have seized the following des- The closing ! teresting and worth careful read- this stage of maturity shows it to Convention ig of the International crifced property to satisfy the taxes of Lions Clubs at St. due the*State of South Carolina. __ The followin S edl torial is taken ing. Friends all over the state ex- be almost identical with cowpea Louis, Mo., on July 14 marked the and the County of McCormick and Carolina fr0I £ 1;lle (Columbia) State. tend him every good wish in all his hay when cut at a ripe stage. Al- end of the seventeenth year in the: the same will be sold to the hishes 1- The State does not know of an future undertakings.—Greenwood though the stage at which the cot- life of the progressive young Ser-| bidder for cash on salesday in Ac tion Bulletin 290, Farm Prices of area in South Carolina comparable Index-Journal. Cotton Related to Its Grade and Staple Length; and Station Circu lar 50, An Investigation of Farm Real Estate Values in Anderson County, South Carolina. Bulletin 209, prepared by John S. Burgess, Jr., of V.ie U. S. D. A. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and Marvin „Guin, of the local staff, points out that prices paid to growers in South Carolina do in extent and importance, which has been more neglected, as far as improvement of highways is con cerned, than the South Carolina side of the Savannah valley be tween Anderson and McCormick, i A stub end of hard surfaced road from Anderson, at the upper end ! of the valley, terminates at Iva, 10 ! miles south; from there, for 35 miles, no all-weather road exists, A FLOOD OF CASH not accurately reflect the differ- i UI }^ 1 one reac b es tbe de la Howe Cnees in ihe spinning value of th different grades and staple lengths. It discusses the needed adjustments and suggests how marketing prac tices may be improved. In Circular 50, B. A. Russell, as sistant agricultural economist, dis cusses the economic value of farm lands as determined by earning capacity and other influences and shows that there is a direct rela tionship between the value of cot ton and the value of land in the area studied. These new publications may be bad free from the Division of Pub lications at Clemson College. TXT Our Neglected Assets DESTRUCTION OF GAME (By Harry R. E. Hampton, Secretary-Treasurer South Car olina Game and Fish Associa tion.) school, a little way above McCor- ’"’**’* A~d the soil types are such, in this 35 mile stretch that for weeks in winter the earth roads be come all but impassable; especially in the section which from the ear liest settlement has been locally known as the Flat Woods. And citizens in this 35 mile stretch of rich valley are peculiar ly dependent Upon highways for transport, since train service upon their one and only railway, the Savannah Valley branch of the Charleston and Western Carolina, has been severely curtailed; has, indeed'been all but; discontinued. Not only must their mail service be rendered by road, but the buses conveying the pupils to and from high schools at Iva, Lowndesville and Calhoun Falls must also tra-, . . .. . . . .. verse hi^b^ays, which in their; . ...... Spartanburg Herald. During the next six weeks $100,- 000,000 will be distributed to cotton farmers in 16 states who have sign ed pledges to sacrifice part of their cotton crop. Never before was a government project of such magni tude, the success of which depend ed on the decision of hundreds of thousands of men widely scattered throughout so great a territory, at tempted. * The successful termina tion stands unchallenged as a unique accomplishment. What the distribution of this great sum of money will mean to uie farmers and to general busi- Iness in the South remains to be I seen. Coming, as it does, shortly 1 after the adoption of the textile code which established a minimum ; wage of $12 a week in cottc.i mills of the South, our prediction is that the farms and the mercantile es tablishments will receive the most powerful stimulant they have ever known. The cotton farmers have rid themselves of a libility in every acre of cotton they agreed to plow up and, in its stead, are to receive ton will be cut now would likely vice Club. Among the many thous- | gust 1933, during the legal hours of show a different composition from ands who attended were delegates sale at De la Howe Spur Track o i representing the five countries of the world in which Lionism flour ishes. The first official session was held on the preceding Tuesday af ternoon, with addresses of welcome by Hon/Guy B. Park, Governor of sometimes im- i advance in the price of cotton. Unless all signs fail merchants, farmers and business men in all The very abundance of our great heritage of game species in South Carolina was one of the effectively its claims by the fact present state are passable for days. Surely, under the windfall of new , . ... . . . funds lately placed at the state’s “ nes 1 » re acl £? “ ' aU “ d wmte f disposal, some rehef can be spared ;‘ hellke ° ,whlc V he y £ ave n f to tois area, which has probably known for ^ year f' * nor : b-.cn disadvantaged, In presenting ’ mous sums of money to be P laced chief contributors to its ' destruc tion. There seemed to be such a vast quantity men thought it could never be diminished. ■ Until comparatively recently there were no game laws in Amer ica. The species that are now ex tinct could all have been saved by a li f tle foresighted legislation with in the last 100 years or less. The larger game animals of that it lies within three counties— Anderson, Abbeville and McCor mick. / x 1932 MARRIAGES STRIKE NEW LOW Washington, July 7.—The year 1932, because of the depression, re sulted in an all-time low-water tin circulation in the cotton belt i promise good times instead of the depression of the last four years. Now it remains for industry as a whole to follow the example of tex tile manufacturers by presenting their codes to the government and joining in the forward movement. D-X MAKE ROADS BEAUTIFUL , mark for the number of marriages South Carolina such as the bison • perfonned in this country ^ ra _ and elk were killed or driven out as the country was settled. The birds and other game held on long- coming of man, as we are told by Elliott and other writers of a cen- t’irv ago. The clearing of the fields and planting of grain gave him ideal feeding grounds—up to a certain point. Until after the Confederate war, this bird was plentiful in all parts Washington, July 2._-Columbus will have to look to his laurels, foi 1492 no longer is the earliest date in American history. Future senoo) boys can start with 790 A. D. The “dated” history of the Unit ed States was pushed back to the year 790 today with announce ment by the Smithsonian Institute that a house, identified as having been built that year, has been found by an archaeological expe dition near the Puerce River in Eastern Arizona. This “dated” house, built when Charlemagne was growing up to be emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and when the Danes were invading England, will take a lot of guesswork out of America’s an cient history. It reveals as definite ly as a history book when its builders, the early Pueblo Indians were flourishing in the Southwest. The tree growth rings in the roof timbers made it possible to “date” the house as surely as though “790 A. D.” had been car ved on the cornerstone, said Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., leader of zle-loaders. Few persons were i preceding year, the preliminary fig- If Orongeburg County would ^ 1;l18 ex ^ e(llllon ' . nancially able to shoot. The coun- lire s show. ^ beautify one road across each year* This was don9 by com P arin g th:j Senater Hammond of Richland Countv, says there is no reason tio was 7.9 per thousand of popula- “why South Carolina should not be tion, as compared with 8.5 for 1931. 1 a network of beautiful drives at- The figure for 1932 was based by tractive at once to the visitor and er. The Bob White, partridge or census bureau on a population stimulating to the pride of the quail, even seemed to thrive on^ the estimated at 124,822,000, as of July landowner.” 1, while that for the preceding year There is no reason why the was on a population estimate of roads and highways of the state 124,070,000. could not be made beautiful and Prior to 1931, the lowest marriage attractive by a little attention giv- rnte since 1867 occurred in 1917 en to this detail. There are any when large numbers of the male number of native trees and shrubs population were in war service. which would be used to beautify Marriages performed throughout these arteries of traffic, as the dog of the state. Up to this time guns ( t] ie United States in 1932 numbered wood, the crepe myrtle, the holly, were expensive and all were muz- 081,759, or 79,032 fewer than for the oleander, and many more. that which would exist in October, it is reasonable to expect that it would compare favorable with cow- peas when cut in bloom and early pod stage. By cutting the cotton plants and curing them for hay in the similar Missouri, Hon. Bernard F. Dick- manner to which cowpea hay is man. Mayor of St. Louis, various made the farmer would be able to I District Governors of the Asso- ; as follows at the same time have th*s oppor tunity to produce considerable hay of good feed value as a by-product of the cotton acreage reduction program. the C. & W. C. Railway in McCor mick County, S. C., and the pro ceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of Burton Pitts Lumber Company, and is described clear the land of cotton stalks and ciation, and Pres. Clyde R. Welman Fi Ve stacks of lumber consisting — ' of the Downtown St. Louis Club. ■ of boards 1 inch thick and from. The response was made by Judge six to twelve inches wide and con- G. H. Hastings of Winston-Salem, | taining approximately 35,000 feet. N - C. t Said lumber will be sold by the- The report of Secretary-General stack and when SU ffi cient funds The yields of hay per acre will, Melvin Jones of Chicago was easily have been obtained to pay the sai£ of course, vary with the age, the the high note of the convention, taxes, costs and penalties, no fur- He reported a total of 2665 Clubs t ber stacks of said lumber will be- variety of seed used, the quality of land, the fertilizer treatment, and the rainfall for a given section of the state, it is reasonable to ex pect, however, that from 500 to 2,000 pounds of hay may be made per acre. Although there is little or no scientific data on which to make recommendations for feeding cottr.i plant hay, a few farmers in South Carolina have reported us ing it with very satisfactory re sults. The Chemistry department of Clemson College is analyzing sam ples of cotton plants and the ana lyses should be available within a week . ♦XT AMERICA INHABITED EARLY AS 790 A. D. t~v was sparsely settled and game | as of June 30, and said the Asso ciation was greater in 28 States and the District of Columbia than any other Service Club. He said the Clubs had sponsored and success fully consumated 19,302 activities during the year, and the note of optimism running throughout the entire report was extremely heart ening. , Hon. Frederick Landis, Logans- port, Ind^ widely known over the radio as “The Hoosier Editor”, was the principal speaker on the Tues day program. His subject was “Things in General.” On Wednes day the main address was by Mr. Lorado Taft of Chicago, America’s most famous sculptor, who spoke on “Beauty in American Life.” Hon. Lie. Horatio Casacus, Vice President of the Lions Club of Mex ico City, Mexico, was the first spea ker on Thursday forenoon, and his subject was “International Rela tions.” Prof. Irving Fisher, inter nationally known economist, of Yale University, spoke on “Depress ion, Inflation, and Deflation” to close the morning session. Mr. Louis Blake Duff, Welland, Ont., :he “Mark Twain of Canada”, was the only speaker on Friday. He spoke for the Lions of Canada, and his topic was “Good Neighborhood.’ The Lions of St. Louis had pro vided an elaborate and varied pro gram of entertainment for the dele gates and their guests. There were light-seeing tours and pleasure trips, card parties and dancing, bands and more bands, many quar tettes. a splendid 60-piece drum and bugle corps of elegantly at- ired young ladies, etc., etc. The re gular business of the convention was interspersed with vocal and in strumental music and community singing. Following the report of the E- lections Committee on Friday, in which Roderick Beddow of Bir mingham, Alabama, was chosen International President, everybody sold. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector, McCormick County. McCormick, S. C. July 19, 1933.—3t. Notice Of Special Municipal Election Pursuant to the Statutes in sticb cases made and provided, a special election will be held, at the usual voting places, in the Town of Mc Cormick, on Tuesday, July 25th, A. D., 1933, for the purpose of electing two Aldermen, to fill and serve out the unexpired* terms of J. W. Cor ley and J. L. Jennings, respectively, resigned Aldermen of the present Town Council of sa|d Town of Mc Cormick. The said special election win be held by J. P. Deason, D. A. Bell and f. W. Wilkins, £S managers thereof r and said special election will ba held and conducted under the same law, rules and regulations as gen eral elections in said Town of Mc Cormick are held and conducted. C. K. EPTING, Mayor. C. R. STROM, C. H. HUGULEY, L. N. BROWN, Town Council of Town of McCor mick, S. C. CONTRASTING THUNDER STORMS growth rings with the famous had ample hiding places in time of reduced the marriages by 7 1-2 "per sands"of""toui : ists"°and””visitOTS “ tree *** calendar” invented by' Chicago to assist in d — vdtb little persecution. cent in 1932, the toU on divorce was would come out of their way to Dr - A - E - Do 'i g ‘ as 01 th e Uulversity ‘ celebraUon of Li ons Day at the About 1870, the breech loading even more noticeable. Divorces fell pass through such an avenue. The ° f Arizona - The „ calendar . shows the celebraUon MLio Day at gun came along. Guns repidly be- , by 12.7 per cent under 1931, when cost would not be exorbitant it ef- how tre9 rmgs have varled ln i V K . xt _ “ ‘ * ‘ thickness each year for many cen- turies past. Finding a series of State FmailCeS came cheaper. Hunting became they numbered 183,664, to 160.3^9 forts were made to use indigenous mo-'e and more popular, not only j This compared with a reduction trees and shrubs.- Orangeburg with the educated but with ignor- of 4.1 per cent in the number Times and Democrat. ant people who did not know or granted from 1930 to 1931, while care anything about preserving the the 3,900 marriages annulled dur- species. The country became more ing 1932 compared with 4,339 for thickly settled and the forests were the preceding year. ■■ cut away. I The number of marriages for ev- Tampa Times Dr Earl M. Bilger of the Univer- PINEAPPLES FOR GOITRE Some thunderstorms are wind hatched; others are calm brooded. Humidity of the air decreases dur ing storms of the first type and increases during those of the sec ond type, according to a recent study by Dr. W. J. Humphreys, of the United States Weather Bureau. Wind-hatched storms, also known as “cold front” and “squall line” thunderstorms, are caused by cool ing from above, usually the result of the importation of cold air. Wind is necessary for the creation of such storms. Calm-brooded, or heat, thunder storms are caused by warming be- ^ ilow from exposure to the sun. Columbia, July 16.—The current j These s t 0 rms grow from small to large circular flows of warm air Are Fairly Good .. As cities sprang up the great and cry divorce ranged from 14.5 in linforgivable crime against our West Virginia to 1.8 in Nevada. For sit y Hawaii in Honolulu reports troyed the house. The roof col- day, as he spoke of tax collections game was started all over the the United States as a whole there that pineapples are being drafted lapsed, preserving a complete sea and disbursements for the year, country—market hunting. The re- were 6.1 marriages for each divorce. b y tlie armies of science to fight of house furnishings of the style u No money has been borrowed in cords of this era are sickening, i “While the net increase in the goitre, which now affects fifty per 790 A. D. The house itself was lit- 1933 and prospects are that fin- Barrels of birds rotted in the mar- number of marriages performed in cen t of the school children in some tie more than a shallow pit roofed ances will further inprove during ket places or at railway stations, the country as a whole was 7.5 per parts of the United States, while over with poles, brush and plaster, the year. killed uselessly in every way ima- cent,” said the bureau, “the relative in certain areas in Canada prac- Knowing the date of the hous^ The comptroller general spoke finable. Market hunters were not change in the different states rang- tically 100 per cent of the women is important, said Smithsonian of the criticism made of the action malicious. They did not deliber- ed from a decrease of 43.5 per cent and children have goitre. archaeologists, because it was built of the legislature in requiring tea- j g reater 1 an was e ore tne ' ately wipe out game. They, and in Iowa to an increase of 6.6 per According to Dr. Bilger, pineap- almost at the beginning of the rise chers salaries to be paid in notes, • s ' ;orm - nearly everyone else, thought the cent in Nebraska.” 1 pics contain more iodine than any of the pueblo “civilization,” one o’ while other employees of the J The distribution of the absolute I Only ten states reported slight other fruit or vegetable grown in the most remarkable in the new state were paid in cash. He said humidity about the cold-front rings in the calendar that matches the rings in a tree, shows when the tree grew. The timbers, with their rings, had been preserved through eleven finances of South Carolina are in centuries because they were char- fairly good condition, A. J. Beattie, I straight up _ from the "earth*s~ sur- red by a fire that partially des- comptroller general, said yester- i face These chimney i lke storms arise only when there is no wind. As the absolute humidity of the air on all sides of a heat thunder storm is about the same, the eva poration of the falling rain in creases the density of the atmos pheric vapor, making the humidity supply unlimited. _ _ 1 In the up-country> of the state, increases. They were Missouri, the United States of which there is world before the coming oi frith towns close, country popula- Dakota, Nebraska, West Virginia, a record and is important in the whites. The tree ring method the that the figures showed that more al- than 60 per cent of all the money storm, however is unequal. It is much greater in the warm air in tion rather dense, no game laws Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, diet because it is a constituent of ready has been used in dating going into the state treasury for; front of the storm than it is in the for self- New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. ja secretion called thyroxin, the some of tli3-la:3r pueblo dwelling the first six months of 1933 had cold air to the rear. The absolute and no adequate cqver protection, the Bob White has been All adjoin states with strict mar- practically wiped out. In the low riage laws. lack of which causes other ailments. goitre and built in the “apartment • sty'.e. house” been used in settling incurred for teachers’ obligations salaries. humidity, therefore, decreases the storm passes over. as