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1 o Thursday, September 7, 1933 MeCORMICK MESSENGER,,McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR Union Services At Baptist Church Next Sunday Night The regular Union Service of the churches will be held at the Bap tist Church on Sunday evening as a continuation of the special ser vices being held there, and Dr. Ca- «on will occupy the pulpit. . D. W. Keller, Pastor Methodist Church. • — x— ■ Open Books For Wet-Dry Voters Columbia, Sept. 4.—Registration nf voters for the first referendum upon any phase of the liquor ques tion in South Carolina since 1915 was to begin today under an act of the 1933 legislature. The legislature directed county boards of registration in each coun ty to open the books today for a 15 days’ period exclusive of Sun days. The state will go to the polls November 7 to vote on repeal of . the 18th amendment. W. P. Blackwell, secretary of state, whose office has charge of election preparations, said last night that books in every county would open this week according tQ his information. Blackwell said that county boards in most cases would not observfe Labor Day as a holiday. Registration would * continue until September 20 under the act, al though in Charleston county the legislative delegation has approved a $400 expenditure to prolong reg istration period through Septem ber. Laws regulating general elections in South Carolina apply to the re peal referendum by legislative ac tion. To ballot, voters must have registration certificates and poll tax receipts issil&d at least 30 days .prior to the-election. Forty-six nominees to a state convention upon the repeal plat- form and 46 pledged to the anti repeal cause will be listed on a state ticket. Those elected meet in Columbia December 4 to declare the official outcome, in accordance with popular vote. { t Dispensaries were abolished in 1915 in the last direct vote taken In the .state relative to the liquor control question. The„ gallon a -month law, later modified to allow a quart a month, took effect then and 'remains on the statute books ±a^ case of repeal. / —txi eWorld Cotton Supply Less Than Last Year <r- New York, Aug. 30.—Indicated world supply of cotton of all growths this season is 39,407,000 bales which would compare with 40,666,000 bales last season, the New York cotton exchange service reported this week. 4 The indicated supply of Ameri can . cotton,” says the service, “promises to be smaller this sea son than last season, but the sup ply of foreign cottons is expected to be larger. K “The supply of American for this season is put at 24,253,000 bales against 26,184,000 last year. The supply of foreign is estimated at 15,154,000 against 14,482,000 last season. l#SSS JpAft jimiii m ip-** mm mm tffcEftKyf..., mm* ■ ms. eyre Milder and they Taste Better £ 195$, Lkgett a Myim Tobacco Co. » i D<w«* cSckool tji ruembio. Tmi P.A.S. For A PATTERN, mu 6.8.10,12, or 14. und 15 cat, m com, your NAME. AD6RESS, STYLE NUMBER .ml SIZE to Kay Boyd. II SUrbnc Place. Brooklyn, N. Y. Complete and •knplr uwmt chart with each pattern. Your growing daughter will be proud to start to school in a smart cape ensemble like this one, with the cape and skirt made of woolen, with a batiste blouse, or the entire model of cotton. The blouse has a lengthened shoulder, forming a short sleeve, and a boyish collar and tie com plete the neck edge. The skirt, a two piece model, is mads with plates that outline narrow panels a£ the centre of front and back. Designed in five sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14, Size 12 requires 2 3-8 yards of 32 inch material for skirt and cape, and 1 1-8 yards of contrast ing material for the blouse. The- cape alone requires 7-8 yard, the skirt alone f 5-8 yards of 32 inch material. x Increase Relief Funds For State WANT ADV. FOR SALE—Appier Oats at 75 cents per bushel where you furnish the sacks, or 80 cents per bushel .sackedr Beardless Barley at $1.50 per bushel. T. A. Dowtin, R. 1, Troy, S. c. t FOR SALE—A good cow, fresh to the'pail, cheap for cash. E. F. Buseev. Modoc, S. C. REAL ESTATE—Anyone wanting to buy, rent or sell any real estate, «ee me. Have number of prospects for country or city property. M. L B. Sturkey, McCormick, S. C. ' WANTED—White man with fam ily for share cropper for next year. H.,D. Bridges, Callison, S. C., R. 1. • LOST—Somewhere between O. B. Smith’s Market and out of town, one bundle containing one pair of leather leggins, a grey light weight rain coat, a pair of overalls and a shirt. Will pay a liberal reward if returned to the Messenger office or to J. M. Bussey. Sawyer Aniiounces Regulations For Construction Plan Columbia, S. C., Aug. 30.—Regu lations under which thousands of South Carolinians may obtain jobs on the $5,500,000 federal road con struction program in this state were announced today by Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway commission er. Sawyer said labor would be em ployed by contractors directly from ists approved by the federal re employment office in each county. No laborers will be hired by the state highway department. County re-employment directors tecently were appointed in each county by T. K. Johnstone, state re-employment director. They are located at county seats in most in stances. Lists will be made up of unem ployed residents of the counties or municipalities where work is to be performed. World War veterans with dependents have been assured preference in the allotment of jobs. Sawyer said a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour for unskilled labor and 40 cents an hour for skilled workers would apply for South Car olina under federal regulations. • 1X7 COTTON MEETING IN COLUMBIA SEPT. 12 Mrs. C. H. Fboshe will begin her ^ano class Sept. 11th. All farmers are urged to attend a statewide meeting called by Dr. W. W. Long at Columbia Hotel, Colum bia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 10:30 a. m., at which time plans for 1934 and 1935 cotton reduction will be discussed. George N. Peek, Agricul tural Administrator, is expected to be present. E. L. ROGERS, McCormick County Agent. State Grange Speakers Bring Farmers Messages Clemson College, September 2.— L. J. Tabor, National Master of the Grange, in an able address on the Relation of Governmental Policies to Agriculture, at the fourth annual convention of the South Carolina Grange here Aug. 30-Sept. 1, em-' phasized the value of education,' organization, and research as the three great steps already being taken tor agricultural progress, and said that the next big objective to ward which agriculture must move is economic liberty and stability. .Ie pronounced the doom of indi vidualistic farming and said cha we must have a planned agricul ture along with planned industry. He insisted that both agriculture and industry must be planned from the bottom upward and that agri culture must protect its own inter est through organization. The watchword of the hour is group action, he said, and the Grange is for group action and for develop ment of a higher order of citizen ship. Insisting that rugged individual ism is as dead as the Dodo and that collective action is the need of the hour, Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer-Ruralist, said in discussing organization for farmers that they too must resort to collective bargaining for the betterment of agriculture. He urged the Grange as the best farm or ganization because it is the oldest and most stable, is nationwide and growing, takes in the entire family, has the most comprehensive pro gram, and 1$ the only distinctly fraternal farm order. Dr. Wilson Gee, professor of rural econoipics at University of Virginia, said in discussing The Plight of Southern Agriculture that the Southern cotton farmers’ income is lower than that of any other group of farmers in. the United States. This he said is partly be cause farmers not only grow cotton at a loss but buy annually millions’ worth of food and feed of which they might grow economically. Dr. S. J. Derrick, professor of rural economics at the University of South Carolina, who spoke on The Farmer in the New Era, dis cussing the problem of the depres sion and underconsumption with ts resulting oversupply of farm products, said that farmers know how to produce too abundantly and must learn how to distribute, tfThich •mplies attention to ability of the public to buy. Judge Harry Reed, general coun cil of the Columbia Farm Loan Bank, speaking on Farm Credits and Government Farm Planning, discussed capital credit, production credit, and marketing credit, and stressed the fact that the farm loan system is based on organization and cooperation, two fundamental prin ciples of the Grange. — -X Is New Era Coming For Agriculture? Clemson • College, Sept. 4.—If past and present experiences indi cate anything as to the future, farmers, along with the rest of the world are about to witness the be ginning of an era which has been the dream of a few philosophers for a long time, thinks G. H. Aull, agricultural economist of the South Carolina Experiment Station. /‘Recent events suggest something far superior to the direct gains which might result from the de struction of crop surpluses”, says Mr. Aull. “Even the most enthusi astic supporters of the Agricultural Adjustment’ Act do not advocate its methods except in an emergency such as that which confronts us. Farmers who plant and cultivate with a view to destruction at a later date are pursuing a most foolish course and one which would certainly lead to ruin, i “It is possible that out of the sad experiences of the past will come a knowledge that it is more profit able to sow good will than to sow grain, to cultivate confidence rath- !er than cotton, and to breed hap- l piness rather than hogs?, j “At any rate there is no surplus of many things which' farmers can •provide with little effort and less expense, and no government can continue to pay for the destruction of those things which are persis tently produced to excess”, Mr. Aull concludes. “Unless these facts ! are recognized now the farm prob lem is destined to become more rather than less acute.” XXX Grade-Staple Reports Soon For This State Clemson College, Sept. 2.—Much interest is being manifested throughout the South in the cotton grade and staple estimates reports j which are now being issued from the regional offices of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture. Preliminary figures have already been released covering certain areas in the states to the south of Washington, Sept. 2.—An allot ment from “discretionary” funds; of federal unemployment relief money of $150,000 was made to South Carolina yesterday by federal emergency relief Administrator Hopkins. South Carolina’s relief execu tives submitted with Governor Ibra C. Blackwood’s application infor mation that the money available from all sources within the state, including previous grants of feder al relief money, would not be enough to meet the needs of des titute for September. The $150,000 was granted to help meet the needs for that period, and does not have to be matched by the state. Up to now, including today’s grant, South Carolina has received $2,819,655 from the feder al emergency relief administration. us and the first report for South Carolina is‘ scheduled to come from Atlanta at an early date, says G. TL Aull, agricultural economist cf the South Carolina Experiment Station-, who explains that these re ports are issued from information 'umished by representative gin- lers working in cooperation witlr i heir state experiment station and , he United States Department cf Agriculture. 1 H. A. White, a joint employee of the United States Department of Agriculture and the agricultural economics department of the South Carolina Experiment Station, is in. charge of this work in South Caro- Mna. He states that the ginners are cooperating heartily in the under taking and that there is much in terest ib thfip project;. “Early indications are that the joint efforts ofi public and private encies to improve the quality of otton are meeting with success”, Mr. Aull states. “This program has been ib progress in South Carolina for several years, andl nowhere has: the result been more satisfactory than in this state.’” _