Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f*age Four McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 18, 1935 I THE AUGUSTA CHRUNICLE Serves all subscribers the same morn ing of publication and serves them its City (Final) edition. SUBSCRIPTION 'PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. Greatly improved State News Page. Correspondents in every County. Subscribe to The Augusta Chronicle and get the latest hews, best comics, best features, and the best service. ^ Subscription prices and sample copies on request., THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE The South’s Oldest Newspaper Augusta, Georgia Retired Colonel Of Marines Will Seek Jim Byrnes’ Post Vy CL Arias £. DAVID Lesson for July 21st. 1 Samuel 26:5-12. Golden Text: PhiL 2:4. We are impressed by the extra ordinary versatility of David. “In Mr own person,” writes Wm. Lyon Phelps, ‘‘he represents the athlete, the shepherd, the poet, the musi cian, the mystic, the man-of-war, the father, the friend, and the statesman.” ■ David is perhaps best known as the resourceful, courageous athlete who dramatically defeated Goliath, the heavyweight champion of the Philistines. This famous tale vin dicates the value of long training. The young lad had become so skil ful with the sling, through inces sant practice, that he was able to fell the giant with but a single shot. The story also illustrates the peril of pride. The bully Goliath was a magnificent embodiment of this distressing vice. We also ob serve here the truth that great re sults follow from small forces. David’s five stones represent the in significant but vital weapons placed by God in faithful hands to slay the giants of evil. But the finest lesson of this historic combat is the priceless value of self-reliance. “Trust thyself,” wrote Emerson, “every heart vibrates to that iron string.” The friendship of David for Jona than, the crown prince, his rival for the throne, is exceedingly beauti ful. Both men exhibited a fidelity, a loyalty, a devotion beyond all praise. It is pleasant to recall David’s gracious kindness to Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son, who had been crippled for life by the carelessness of his nurse. When called before the king the lame young man ap peared with fear. But his anxiety was soon dissipated when he learn ed that he would receive back his property, and that David would care for him for life by making him a perpetual guest at the royal table. Here we see the humanity of David at its best. DILLON. July 10.—An old marine campaign hat today was the first to be thrown into the ring in the race of the United States senate in 1936. It came figuratively from the head of William C. Harllee. recent- Iv retired “fighting colonel” of the United States marine corps, who announced he expected to run as a “straight out, old line democrat.” Harllee said he would oppose United States Senator James F. Byrnes, an administration aide, as a state rights democrat ready to co operate with Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina. Byrnes has made no announce ment of his intentions but was ex- 'pected at present to seek re-elec tion. Others mentioned as possible candidates included Thomas P. Stoney, former mayor of Charles ton; C. T. Graydon, prominent Co lumbia attorney; and the veteran Cole L. Blease, one time senator and governor. Harllee announced his first poli tical candidacy after 38 years of military service including duty in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines. • “I am just a straight-out demo crat like our people were in 1876,” he said, “when they threw out a crew of exploiters of the kind we will have if what they now call ‘the old order’ is changed again by those who propose to change our constitution so that local govern ment will become but a tradition of the past.” He said he favored one consti tutional change to aid agriculture by “the same feature which was in cluded in the constitution of the Confederate states, forbidding bar riers to trade by import taxes.” In addition to tariff revision, he advocated an end to “prolific spending cf public money,” federal nuisance taxes, widespread patron age, and government experiments; taxation of “vast fortunes”; and sympathetic handling of labor problems. Born at Manatee, Fla., 58 years ago, Colonel Harllee returned to his boyhood home at Dillon after his retirement July 1 at New Orleans. ‘there has been little movement from South Carolina as yet to for eign countries.” He termed the mi gration of industry to Brazil, prin cipally from the east, “relatively a new development” but predicted “It Lasting Improvement Goal Of Cotton Plan ‘A stabilized and established ag- will undoubtedly increase during ricultural industry paying to pro- Jacobs Sees Danger Ahead Of Losing Local Industrie; 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. CLINTON, July 8.—W. P. Jacobs, secretary and treasurer of the South Carolina Cotton Manufac turers association, says unless peo ple of the state are “Wide awake tc their responsibilities and opportun ities, inevitably quite a large per centage of our local industry wil' in time be moved to other and more favorable countries.” He said that whether the exodus from the South to Brazil and other foreign countries has yet begun, it was inevitable “because of the contributing factors which will, un less solved, force industry away from this section.” These factors he designated as government regulation of and "competition, in business; high freight and power rates and “other elements of high cost which seem to develop with industry;” absence of a “compensating tax on competi tive materials;” and the processing tax. They are resulting, he added, in dwindling exports, increases in competitive imports and injury to industry, commerce and agricul ture. “As a matter of fact,” he said. ihe next twe or three years. “One of our factory units !n 3outh Carolina was ordered to be moved to Argentina,” he said, “and :hcn the order was rescinded as the :ax authorities in South Carolina ?ave them relief as an incentive to hold the plant in this country. “A noted textile engineer told me about 63 days ago that the textile ndustry is facing a shrinkage of at least 20 to 25 per cent in spin dles during the next several years. This being the case, it is inevitable that there will be a certain move ment in the direction of foreign countries.” The extent of the movement, however, remains to be seen, Jac obs said, “as it will be gauged by the ability of the South Carolina authorities to profit by the expe rience of the past and take such steps as to encourage and hold in dustry in the state. “Fortunately, there is a tendency in that direction already showing.” Jacobs said the state tax com mission and tax board of review had “shown a tendency to want to grant some relief to the textile in dustry in the matter of taxation” and that power rate reduction had been obtained. “It is my judgment,” he said, “that several favorable contributing factors may retard the removal of industry elsewhere, and we all hope that they will. However, it is fun damental that industry will move from an adverse location to a fav orable one. It always has and al ways will; and unless the people of South Carolina are wide awake to their responsibilities and oppor tunities, inevitably quite a large percentage of our local industry will in time be moved to other and more favorable countries.” State Closes 1934-35 Year With Surplus NEW FISCAL PERIOD BEGUN ON CASH BASIS, COMPTROLLER ANNOUNCES; COLLECTS TAX COLUMBIA, July 13.—A state ment issued today by Comptroller General A. J. Beattie said South Carolina closed the 1934-35 fiscal vear June 30 with “an operating surplus of $116,512.” A portion of the surplus, Beattie tdded, is represented by cash in the treasury. Has Cash Balance “In other words,” the state ment said, “the general fund of the state could pay out today ev ery dollar cf its outstanding in debtedness against the general fund and have remaining a cash balance of $44,086.” The statement set forth that the surplus resulting from the year’s operations “added to the surplus on hand of $455,534 on July 1, 1934, gives a total surplus in the general fund of $526,046 and this is represented by outstanding taxes still due the state after charging off $459,112 for antici pated losses.” Total revenue collected for the fiscal year was given as $8,708,- 222, of which $7,625,343 was in direct revenue. The statement said the two and one-half mill property tax yielded $972,196 and $110,682 was collected for support of the public service commission. In addition, it explained, $1.- 341,617 was collected for the state aid school fund, making total col lections of $10,050,839 for the gen eral fund and school purposes dur ing the year. “Contrary to belief in some quarters,” Beattie’s statement said, “there is comparatively little ’oss in the collection of property taxes.” It said the state’s loss on the annual five-mill property levy over a five-year period ending June 30 was only three per cent. The comptroller general said payments were being made from time to time as they fall due from an unexpended balance of $10,- 4 , ' 1 7,550 in the treasury June 30. T iese included one of $4,657,885 to rr^et four per cent refunding bonds called for payment July I. A major item in the balance was $2,318,922 in the state highway fund. Expenditure of $3,593,392 for j ——— state school aid during the year ’ BRIEF NOTES OF AAA ACTIVI- and payment of teachers’ notes | TIES TOWARD BETTER FARM- amounting to $1,151,000 with in- j ING CONDITIONS terest of $35,097 were listed. “The old state deficit of $5,000.- | Nearly complete returns from the 000 has now been reduced to $3,- referendum conducted in June to 630,000 and we have cash in the determine whether flue-cured to- treasury applicable to that fund of bacco growers desire an adjustment $410,480,” the statement concluded, program to follow the one which ducers a fair return comparable to returns received by manufacturing a-i business”,—this briefly is the aim of the cotton adjustment pro gram, according to Cully A. Cobb, director of the Cotton Division of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration. “The objectives”, says Mr. Cobb, “include the following basic points: (1) To adjust supplies of American cotton to the demand at a fair price to the producer, and to maintain a proper balance between supply and demand. (2) To increase the cot ton producer’s annual income to a level which will enable him to maintain a standard of living equal to that maintained by peo ple in other occupations. (3) To enable cotton producers individual ly to organize their farming opera tions for the best possible use of land and labor. (4) To free women and children from labor in the cot ton fields. “Great strides have been made toward the realization of the first two objectives. The world carry over of American cotton was ap proximately 12,900,000 bales at the beginning of the 1932-33 season, at the beginning of the 1934-35 season it was down to 10,600,000 bales, and it is now estimated that on August 1, it will have been reduced to 8,- 500,000 or 9,000,000 bales. “The effective reduction of the cotton surplus, the stabilizing ef fect of the cotton loan policy, and the adjustment program with its rental and benefit payments, have accomplished much toward bring ing the cotton producers’ income to a point of equality with the earn ings of workers in industry and commerce. “Much remains to be accomplish ed toward the other two objectives, which are social in their nature, but they will receive their share of attention in the long-time plan of improving the conditions of the cotton producer* x Cotton Acreage As Of July 1, 1935 The acreage of cotton in cultiva tion on July 1 in South Carolina is estimated at 1,420,000 acres by the Crop Reporting Board of the Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture, F. O. Black, statistician, Co lumbia, announced July 10th. This is 8 per cent more than was in cul tivation a year ago but is 22 per cent less than that of July 1, 1933, and 23 per cent below the average acreage for the five years 1929- 1933. With the exception of last year’s 1,315,000 planted acreage, the 1,420,000 acreage of this year is the State’s smallest since 1879, when 1,365,000 acres were harvested. The acreage of cotton in cultiva tion in the United States on July 1 is estimated by the Crop Report ing Board to be 29,166,000 acres, which is 4.6 per cent more than the acreage on July 1, 1934, but 28.6 per cent less than the average acreage for the 5-year period 1929- 1933. In spite of the increase over the 1934 acreage, with the excep tion of last year’s acreage it is the smallest since 1905. Increases are shown for all major States except Oklahoma, ranging from 4 per cent in North Carolina to 10 per cent in Louisiana. A de crease of 7 per cent is estimated for Olahoma, due partly to unfav orable weather conditions for planting and partly to a relatively high percentage of acreage under contract with the Agricultural Ad justment Administration for the first time. In all States increases permitted producers who signed two-yehr acreage reduction con tracts last year are partly offset by reductions made by producers off ering contracts this year for che first time. The acreage of Pima Egyptian long-staple cotton in Arizona is estimated at 33,000 acres, compared with 28,000 acres in 1934. No report on probable production of lint will be made by the Board until August 8. expires with the current season show that of the 83.3 per cent of the eligible voters voting, 98.2 per lent voted in favor of an extension of the program. Flue-cured is pro duced chiefly in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. In South Carolina 25,845 growers were eligible to vote, and 18,504 voted, 18,106 (or 98 per sent) voting for the program. Actual distribution of the first 1935 corn-hog payments probably will begin sometime this month. Boards of review In all states have; been directed to transmit to Wash ington all contracts as soon as coim- pleted and approved by local and * 1 state corn-hog officials. With less than 1 per cent of the second pay ments and less than 3 per cent of the final payments under last, year’s program yet unpaid, the Ad ministration is ready to begiir dis tribution of the 1935 payments. The; remaining unpaid contracts- under the 1934 program can be handled* along with the new contracts. Farm Adjustment News Terms for making mortgage loans to part-time farmers and owners or small suburban farms were an nounced July 12 by W;. Il Myers;, Governor of the Farm Credit Ad ministration. Authority to value* such properties at an amount rep resenting a “prudent investment’*' was provided in an act of; Congress approved May 28, 1935:. Cotton farmers of the lower Mississippi Valley whose lands have been flooded will, receive the same rental payments and parity pay ments which! would have been made if their crops; had not been • dam aged, the AAA has announced. State Leads^I’n Savings Increase Columbia, juiy is:—chier Bank Examiner, Thomas H: Daniel, has made public a report of the savings division of the American Bankers association which said South Carolina led the southern states in per capita increase in savings in 1934 over 1933 and was third in the nation. The rate of increase for the state was given as 2? per cent with Ten nessee second with 21.6 per cent. The rate for the entire group clas sified as the southern' states was: 5.7 per cent and the entire nation, 3 per cent. Two states, Michigan with 64.8 per cent and New Mexico with; 30.8 per cent, were listed as having greater increases during the year than South Carolina. North Carolina was credited with a 17 per cent gain. “The increase of 25'per cent in South <par6lina,” Daniel said, “is all the motifc pronouncedr' when com pared to a loss of 40 per cent shown for the previous year according to the report.” He added that “a less favorable side of the picture, however, is that total per capita savings in South Carolina are $15, the lowest of any state in the union. North Carolina is third from.the bottom, with $20, while Massachusetts heads the list with $575.” WANT ADV. IF YOU ARE AMBITIOUS you can make good money with a Raw- leigh Route. We help you get started. No. capital or experi-r ence needed. Steady work for right man. Write Rawleigh’s, Box SCG-77-2, Richmond, Va. FOR SALE—Poland; China and Essex Pigs, all sizes. City Market, McCormick, S. C. MILCH' COWS^-For sale or ttadp for beef cattle. Jamie L. Smith, McCormick^ S? G; ictaL; rBILIOUSNESS THINGS WORTH KNOWING * Haifa, though most profitable h"*’ crop for Illinois farmers, yields a" 1 average of only 2.3 tons an acre. 1 The electric light and power in^- dustry in the United States nor mally uses over 35,000.000 short tons of coal and 7,700,000 barrels of oil annually.