Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fS*ge Two McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 1, 1935 VcGORMCK MESSENGER PtUOIshed Every Thursday established June 5, 1902 WHOLE-GRAIN STELE CORN EASIER TO CAN AT HOME CDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C* as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year * $1.00 fix Months ... .75 Three Months .50 “If you are canning sweet com from your home patch, da it whole- grain style rather than cream style”, says the Bureau of Home Economics. The cream-style corn obtained by slicing off the tops of the grains and then scraping the cobs, is such a thick, pasty mass that the heat of canning penetrates it very slow ly. The result, is that during pro cessing, the com at the center of the can does f not become hot enough—for a long enough time— to kill bacteria. Later these bac- > ; •; ’ r; CLwrlcs E. Di JOSIAH Lesson for August 4th. 2 Kings 22 and 23 Golden Text: Matthew 4:10. Josiah, who was proclaimed king of Judah when he was but a little lad 8 years old, is one of the most attractive figures in the sacred rec ord. “Like unto him,” says tfie Bible historian, “was there no king before him; neither after him arose there any like him.” He reminds us of his great-grandfather, the upright Hezefciah. Indeed he can stand comparison with the mighty pavid. Josiah is one of the great re formers of history. Under, his grandfather Manasseh, an unprin- ’•tipied rascal,** who misruled the people for 5S16ng years, the moral and religious zeal of ^ Judah had sunk to a very low ebb. His father Amon was equdlly bad, and lasted only two years, coming to an ig noble end through the hand of an assassin. The task facing the new young king was tremendous, but into it he put the energy of ten men. He knew that the nation was in a most critical condition. The thorough-going reformation of Josiah was inspired by the dis covery by Hilkiah, the High Priest, of thfe Book of. Instruction, or Deuteronomy, in the temple where it had long gathered dust, its warnings neglected, its laws allow ed to become obsolete. The king was so disturbed by the coil tents of this forgotten volume that he read it publicly to a great assembly, fol lowing which both king and people entered into a solemn covenant to act in accord with its provisions. Pagan altars were removed, fakirs were barred; lewd practices stamp ed out; the Mosaic Law restored. Unfortunately Josiah was slain in an ill-advised battle. With high hopes he went out to meet the pow erful Necho, king of Egypt, near Megiddo, and there he fell. But this premature death spared him the pain of watching his beloved country sink into its tragic doom. good cigarette, too needs jBa/ance And that’s why the tobaccos in Chesterfield are carefully balanced one against the other . . . not too much of one — not too little of another. , y ■ ■ We take the right amounts of the right kinds of four types of tobacco — Bright, Burley, Mary land and Turkish. It is this balancing of tobaccos that makes Chesterfields milder and makes them taste better. © 1933. Liggett 5c Myers Tobacco Co. Chesterfield ...the cigarette that’s MILDER Chesterfield... the cigarette that TASTES BETTER 7 mm THE SEED FROM WHICH GREW tion to the United States as a na- THE CONSTITUTION tfon. In 1784 the States claiming teria grow and the com spoils. Sometimes they even develop a type of spoilage dangerous to health. The Bureau makes these sugges tions: Gather corn from the field early In the morning and can it at once before the sugar has time to change to starch. Shuck and silk the ears. Drop them into boiling water and simmer for about 5 minutes. production credit, simplify proced- j “planking”, cement plaster, or con- ure, thus expediting the closing of j crete walls. In stiff clay soils, when loans, and enable production credit; construction is otherwise proper, associations and other reasonable- cost lending institutions to reach a class of farmers who for one reason or another could not be soundly financed under previous state laws.” the walls need no reinforcement. The trench, silo should never be constructed where the slope of the land will not permit easy surface the County of McCormick, for the NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a War rant issued to me by the County Treasurer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described property to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina arid -t xt- ten HOT WEATHER RULES Cut the kernels from the cob as deeply as possible without getting Ten excellent hot weather rules objectionable hulls. Do not scrape :are contributed by Gladys J. Ward, the cobs. Weigh the corn and add home management specialist of half as much boiling water as corn. Season with sugar and salt. Pack the corn boiling hot into glass jars Somehow the states struggled western lands, ceded 430,000 square through the five years of the miles, lying north of the Ohio or tin cans and process at once in Revolution under their loose and River> ^ the congress. (This ineffective alliance, centering in: Northwest Territory later became the Continental Congress. In the th e states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, meantime, plans for a permanent government were being debated. Such a plan had been drawn up in 1778, immediately after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This plan was embodied in the Ar ticles of Confederation. # The Articles , of Confederation were ratified by the thirteen states in 1781. The smaller states, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, had held back, fearing that the other states, all of whom claimed territorial rights extending west ward to the Missssippi River, would ■dominate by their mere size. Massa- chuchusetts, Connecticut, . New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, both cf the Carolinas and Georgia, at last agreed to let their westward lands be carved up into new states. The others then ratified the Ar ticles of Confederation. Under this new form of govern- Michigan and Wisconsin.) In the meantime, however, the govern ment under the Articles of Con federation had practically collap sed. The Congress in 1786 reported the Federation “broke,” with a debt of $42,000,000 and no credit. The States had to work out their own problems. Since there was no Federal regulation of commerce be tween the States, each began to set up protective restrictions against goods coming in from other states. This confused inter-state commerce situation was the seed from which grew the Constitution and our Fed eral Government. In 1785 the States of Maryland and Virginia appointed delegates to work out a plan of regulating com merce on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. The delegates met at the home of General George Washington at Mount Vernon, Vir- the steam-pressure canner. Pint glass jars of whole-grain style corn need 60 minutes under 10 pounds of steam pressure (240 degrees Fahrenheit). Quart glass jars need 70 minutes at this temperature. On request the Bureau of Home Economics sends home canners full directions for canning corn or oth er garden vegetables and fruits. New Statfe Laws Help Farmers Get Low Cost Credit Including states which made re visions last year, a total of 34 have now reduced chattel mortgage fees or made other changes to enable a larger number of farmers who use credit to finance their production needs through production credit associations or other reasonable- cost lending institutions. South Carolina is one of 11 states which ment each State remained com- Sinia. They came to a satisfactory pjetely independent. Congress could agreement, and proposed a meeting' made revisions last year. act only on: of commissioners from all the 1. Declaring war or peace, and States, to work out a system of superintending; the conduct of war. regulating commerce between all of 2. Building a navy. .them. 3. Controlling diplomatic rela- | A convention was called to meet tion*. in 1786 at Annapolis. Only five 4. Coining money and emitting states sent commissioners. The bills of credit. | Annapolis convention asked the 5. Establishing Post Offices. Congress to call on all of the 8. Regulating trade with the In- States to send commissioners to a dians. convention in Philadelphia the fol- 7. Adjusting boundary disputes lowing Spring, “for the sole and between the States. i express purpose of revising the Ar- Tfcere was no executive author- tteies of Confederation.” By, no Federal judicial system. The Congress could, if It desired to, set ap a court of appeal. No vote could be carried in the Congress with- <rat the assent of a majority of state delegations. Oh all important measures the votes of nine states were required. * e*. . t . >*- A • r - * ,T *r* -h i ' ** » This plan did-not bring about na tional unity. When the War of the Revolution ended, in 1783, the State of Great. Britain signed a treaty recognizing, each, of her former American Colonies, as an ‘ Inde pendent State, but gave no recogni- The call was made, and on May 25, 1787, fifty-five delegates, repre senting all the thirteen States, met in the hall, under the shadow of the Liberty Bell, in which the Dec laration of Independence had been signed eleven years earlier, and drew up the document upon which our Federal Government rests and from which It derives its powers, the Constitution of the United States of America. Next Week: The Constitution Drafted in Secret Convention. Commenting on the new state legislation, W. I. Myers, Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, said thousands of farmers who previously were charged excessive chattel mortgage recording fees are now paying fees as low as 25 to 50 cents. In some states where the single item of “recording” a chattel mortgage ran as high as $5, new laws have substituted the simpler “filing” for a nominal fee. “More serviceable chattel mort gage legislation in almost three- fourths of the states is another benefit to farmers made possible by co-operation in agricultural credit”, Mr. Myers said. “The co-operative institutions under supervision of the Farm Credit Ad ministration have actively support ed these laws which will not only benefit farmer-borrowers from production credit associations but in many states will also reduce the net cost of production credit from private sources. - “The new laws vary somewhat among the states, but In general they reduce the cost of obtaining Illinois Agricultural College, to th.3 current issue of The Progressive Farmer:— Eat moderately and use as many vegetables and fruits in the diet as possible. 2. Beware of drinking too much cold water when exceedingly warm as this may be injurious. , 3. Get plenty of sleep. 4. Rest and relax at least 15 to 30 minutes at noontime each day. 5. Keep the pores of the skin open by frequent bathing and drink enough water to replace that lost rhrough perspiration. 6. Do as much of your work in a cool, shady place as possible. When ouc in the hot sun exercise mod erately. 7. Close the windows nearly shat and draw the blinds in the eaily morning. Air the house well dur ing the evening and night. 8. Don’t worry. It never gets anybody any place and it keey^ the nervous system depressed and irritated. 9. Do not refer to the tnermom- eter too frequently. Don't talk about the weather. Thins of cool, pleasant things. The effects of heat are both physiological and psychological. 10. Keep “mentally” cool, if you can. If you cannot, do noc make things worse by getting someone else “all het up” in an argument;. x Trench Silo Success water drainage. The area imme diately adjacent to the trench silo should be so terraced that the sur face water will be kept back at least eight to ten feet from the sides of the silo. Every trench silo should be pro vided with a roof. A trench silo in any type of soil will soon be come nothing but a gully if it is left exposed to the sun and rain when empty. The run-off water from the rcof should be carried away by means of a V-shaped gut ter at the eaves constructed of one by four boards. No trench silo should be con structed in a soil where the nat ural water table will rise to the depth of the silo itself. Those farm ers who contemplate the construc tion of a trench silo should write the Publications Department, Clemson, S. C., for Extension Cir cular 121, The Trench Silo, which gives complete directions and drawings for trench silo construc tion under all soil conditions of the state. 1 Chevrolet Car Buyers Prefer Knee-Action Conclusive proof of the motoring public’s demand for knee-action, demonstrating that buyers not only want it but are willing to pay the small extra charge for it, is pre sented in the Chevrolet Motor Com pany’s announcement that only three per cent of the purchasers of its Master de luxe models, which may be had either with knees or with a conventional front axle, order the conventional type sus pension. William E. Holler, vice president and general sales manager, who an years 1932, 1933 and 1934, and the same will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on salesday in August, 1935, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Carolina, and the proceeds 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 Mrs. V. D. Lee, and is described as follows: One Hundred (100) Acres of land, more or less, situated, lying and being in School District No. 8, McCormick County, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by land of W. O. Brown; east by Long Cane Creek; south by land of J. S. McClinton; west by lands of Miss Jane Shanks and J. H. McClinton, and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector, McCormick County. McCormick, S. C. t July 16, 1935.—3t. , -rwr/’l | * 1 x. , gCIlCiai OO.iCi> illCLUdgCi, W*1U dll” W Il0n x ropcrly OUllt nounced the comparative figures, : declares that the proof of the knee CLEMSON, July 27.—The trench action acceptance is all the more principle of low cost silo construe- | positive because knee action re- tion has been widely accepted in South Carolina, because of its uni versal success, says C. G. Cushman, .extension dairy specialist. Faults become evident, not because of spoilage of silage but from very rapid depreciation or “caving” of the trench itself. These are not faults of the principle but faults of construction, he states. With the season at hand for trench silo construction, Mr. Cush man reviews the principles and common faults of trench silo con struction. Trench alios constructed in light sandy soils will not stand unless quires an outlay of $20 additional. “When we announced, last Janu ary,” said Mr. Holler, “that knee- action would be optional equip ment at a small extra charge, I un derestimated the hold that the im proved suspension had already tak en on the motoring public. I gave out a statement estimating that 90 per cent of the purchasers of the Master de luxe models would order knee action. Instead, it is 97 per cent. “This percentage is based on figures for sales beginning with March.. Before that, we were not in heavy production on convention- the walls are re-enforced bylal axle Master models. In March, NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a warrant issued to me by the Countv Treas urer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described prop erty to satisfy the taxes due tne State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934, and the same will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on salesday in August, 1935, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Caro lina, and the proceeds 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 the Estate of Mrs. J. S. Britt, and is described as follows: One Hundred Thirty-Four (134) Acres of land, more or less, situ ated, lying and being in School District No. 6, McCormick County, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by land of A. K. Britt; east by land of C. J. Britt; south by land of Mrs. Minie Britt; west by land of Mrs. Mattie Watson, and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector, McCormick County. McCormick, S. C., July 16, 1935.—3t. 97.2 per cent of our orders were for knee action cars; in April, 96.3 per cent; in May, 98.7 per cent; and in June, 97.5 per cent. “Knee action got off to a great start in 1934, its first year. More than half of all the cars registered in the United States last year had some form of knee action. Until this year, however, we could not tell whether people were buying cars with knee action because they pre ferred them to conventional axles, since no make of car gave buyers their choice of either form of sus pension. This year, Chevrolet, by making knee action optional, has given the public its chance to reg ister its preference, and knee action has won overwhelmingly.”