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MeCORMICK MESSENGER MgCOKMH K. SOUTH CAltuiJ v Thursday, March 4, 1937
VcCOKMlCK MESSENGER
j 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.
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Advises Germination
Test For Cotton Seed
The Citizens
Library Movement
(By M. A. WRIGHT, Attorney, And
Chairman of the State Library
Board Of South Carolina.)
According to records in the
County Agent’s office, the average
germination of cotton seed from
McCormick County is between 50
and 60 per cent. We urge every
farmer who plans to plant this
year’s crop from seed grown on
his farm last year to have a ger
mination test made. The County
Agent will gladly assist in sending
these seed samples to the proper
authorities for this test. Seed re
quired will be only a few handfulls
taken from several parts of the
pile of seed. There will be no
charge to the farmer for this test.
R. D. Suber,
County Agent.
McCormick. S. C.
FINAL SETTLEMENT
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick.
In the Court of Probate.
Notice is hereby given that W.
H. Gable and Mae Belle Gable,
Executor and Executrix, of the es
tate of Joseph Monroe Gable, de
ceased, have this day made appli
cation unto me for a final account
ing and discharge as Executor and
Executrix of the estate of Joseph
Monroe Gable and the 9th day of
March, 1937, at 10 o’clock has been
fixed for the hearing of said pe
tition.
All persons holding claims
against said estate are hereby noti
fied to present same on or by above
date.
J. FRANK MATTISON,
Judge of Probate, McCormick
County, S. C.
February 8th, 1937.
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FINAL SETTLEMENT %
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick. . '
In the Court of Probate.
Notice is hereby given that W.
D. Morrah, Executor of the Estate
of Miss Mary Morrah and Miss
Ellen Morrah, deceased, has this
day made application unto me for
a final accounting and discharge
as Executor of the Estate of Miss
Mary Morrah and Miss Ellen Mor
rah and the 11th day of March.
1937, at 10 o’clock has been fixed
for the hearing of said petition.
All persons holding claims
against the Estate of said persons
are hereby notified to present same
on or by above date.
J. FRANK MATTISON,
Judge of Probate, McCormick
County, S. C.
February 9th, 1937.
4t.
Libraries exist for the use and
benefit of the average man. He
pays the freight, and, in the last
analysis, he controls their destinies.
Libraries may tend to recreate the
average man, but, first of all, he
creates or destroys them as his
pleasure may dictate. There can be
ro permanent establishment and
support of public libraries except
as they spring from public demand
and have behind them public sanc
tion.
It is not merely the necessity but
the peculiar obligation of leader
ship to inform the rank and fils
It is necessary to the success o
the movement^ which the leader
advocates. The obligation arises
from the duty which rests upon
everyone to share with others such
truth as he may have, particular
ly when such others will be asked
to bear the the burden of support
for the cause which the leader rep
resents.
From such principles the Citizen
Library Movement has had its
genesis in various states. Those re
sponsible for such a movement
have realized, in the language of
Woodrow Wilson, that freedom is
never handed down as a gift from
above, but is achieved from below
and that intellectual emancipation
will come only when it is earnest
ly sought and desired by those
willing to make sacrifices for it
Only when the people come to
realize that public libraries are the
proper and legitimate objects of
public interest and support will
libraries be generally established
and adequately maintained.
Now, what factual material is
there for use in presenting the
truth to the public?
The people may be told that in
Arkansas and Mississippi, for -ex
ample, there are 20 volumes in the
public libraries for each thousand
inhabitants, whereas in New
Hampshire there are 3,570 volumes
per thousand inhabitants, and that
the average for the country is 820
volumes.
The people may be told that in
Mississippi the annual circulation
of volumes from public libraries
is 260 per thousand inhabitants
and 290 for Arkansas, whereas the
average circulation per thousand
nhabitants for New Hampshire is
7,210 and the average for the coun
try is 3,670.
The people may be told that
Arkansas and Mississippi annually
spend two cents per capita fo.
maintenance of public libraries,
whereas Massachusetts spends
$1.08 and the average American
state, 37 cents.
The people may further be in
formed of those facts and figures
which reflect the prosperity, com
fort, and well-being of the average
citizen of all of the American states,
from the consideration of which
there emerges the profound con
viction that access to books and
he habit of general reading tend
irresistibly toward the elevation of
a people in the scale' and standards
jf their living. That fact is capable
cf statistical demonstration.
I mention now a matter which
may not be caoable of st^t’^eol
■’emonstration but it is, I believe,
a fdet and a fact which may be
tcld—if one is reasonably discreet
in the telling. That is, the nature
of the political institutions under
which we live, the system of gov
ernment which controls our lives,
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pend, in large part, upon the de
gree to which the public has access
to sources of general information.
Ignorance A Breeding Ground For
Demagogy
I shall not call the names of any
states or mention the names of
any politicians—though the temp
tation is strong to do so—but, as
a southerne*. I will admit that the
mountebanks and buffoons of
politics have flourished more ex
tensively and have attained a
ranker perfection of technique in
the south than in any other por
tion of the United States. Men
have been sent to Congress and
have been exalted to the governor’s
chair in many southern states
who brought not merely amuse
ment to the rest of the country
but a sense of shame to the in
telligent minority of their con
stituents. Ignorance is the fertile
breeding ground for demagogy. One
enters upon a controversial field
when he attempts to say what is
cause and what effect. But T do
point out that, by and large, and
with happy exceptions here and
there, library facilities are far more
inadequate in the south than in
any other section of the country
and that those who do not read
are the same people who exalt
demagogues into high station.
The reasons why this is true are
obvious. One cannot pass an in
telligent judgment on any proposed
change in the government under
which he lives without knowing the
history of that government and
with what success the proposed
change has operated elsewhere.
Reading is essential for that knowl
edge. And, merely in a choice be
tween men who present themselves
for his suffrage, an historical
background is requisite. One who
has read widely and deeply is in
far better position by reason of
I that fact to puncture the preten
sions of the demagogue. When a
candidate, for instance, blows upon
the emb&*s of an ancient prejudice,
the well-read man does not throw
his hat into the air, but smiles
contemptuously and remarks to
himself that the device ... is shab
by and threadbare with age. One
who is familiar with the dema
gogues of Greece and Rome may
not be expected to be swept off
his feet by the comparatively in
artistic performance of our local
talent.
The people may be told, with
such force as we may command,
that one of the chief responsibilites
of the state is to enforce its laws
and to administer justice as be
tween citizens. The pivotal factor
in the administration of justice is
the jury.
It will hardly be disputed that
the decision of every juror is great
ly influenced by his background.
That is, he proceeds to the decis
ion of the issue in the light of his
own experience, observations, and
fund of general information. The
more narrow and restricted his
intellectual horizon, the easier it
is for him to be led to a conclu
sion by the power of subtle sug
gestions and by appeals to his
deeper emotions.
A very sinister phrase has be
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I “a good jury lawyer”. What is con
noted by the phrase is that one
may be so versed, not in the prin
ciples of the law, but in human
nature; so skilled in arousing emo
tions, in touching deep prejudices; |
so adroit in the use of the power
i of suggestion, that the jury is led j
away from the disagreeable facts
of the case into writing a favor
able, but improper, verdict. The
average man’s use of the phrase
is an indication of his recognition
of the fact that the twelve men
who sit upon a jury, however dis
interested their motives, in a tragic |
number of instances do not bring
to the performance of their duties i
the proper background of training
and reading to guarantee that
their verdict shall sneak the truth.
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Is this remote from the matter
of libraries? I think net. Books are
a substantial part of the material
on which minds may be fed. It is
: easier to produce figs from thistles
than to produce rational and in
telligent opinions from minds
which have been deprived of such .
nourishment as books afford. ,
In referring to voting and jury |
service I have mentioned two of
the most elementary and primary
duties of the citizen. I have as- j
sumed, as I must assume, that deep :
down in the heart of the average
man there lies a desire to be a - — —i ■ --i: _ .— —
good citizen, I believe that to this Carolina dates from that cam-
desire an intelligent appeal for paign. Other states have fallen in
libraries may be addressed. And I to line. I may, with some pride,
believe that when it is made plain say that my own state of South
to the average man that the pub- Carolina some two years ago at a
lie library within his reach will meeting at Clemson College, call-
appreciably increase his capacity ed by President Sikes, began a
to discharge these primary duties, similar movement and that here
he will respond to that appeal. ; and there throughout the state
There is ground for the faith within a P eriod of two y ears Kbrar-
that the people will respond to * es ^ ave sprung into being as a
an appeal for public libraries when resu ^ °* influences set in mo-
that appeal is intelligently pre- ^ on at that mee ting.
sented. In the year 1927 the State The underlying philosophy of
of North Carolina took the lead the Citizens Library Movement is
in the organization of a Citizens the underlying philosophy of every
Library Movement. Hundreds of civ i c movement in a democracy,
patriotic men and women gave ^ i* permanent growth and
freely of their time and means in improvement must grow out of an
order to present to the citizens of informed public opinion, and that,
North Carolina their obligation to the dut y is upon those assuming j
place books within the reach of leadership to create such informed ers in the library cause—the plac-
every man, woman, and child of public opinion. Where this course ing of books and ever more books
that state. The response was elec- j is followed, a proper basis is laid in the hands of every man, woman*
trie. The library progress of North' for achieving the goal of all work- and child who wishes to read.
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