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iMrCORMICK MESSKNGfvR. M* cORMICK. OH CAROLINA Tliursday, Mar^h 11, 1937 Beauty Shoppe Opening In McCormick March 16 We will open a Beauty Shoppe upstairs over the store of Browns' Inc. on next Tuesday. March 16th. Experienced operator. Work guaranteed. rjji MRS. J. F. BROCKMAN, Owner, MISS EDNA MAE McKINNEY, Operator. McCormick, S. C. Si i MULES m Special Picture For Farmers At Hollywood Theatre Saturday Have just received another shipment of good, young, sound Tennessee mules and brood mares. All guaranteed to give satisfaction. You are invited to come to my stables on upper Main Street and look them over. J. L. SMITH McCORMICK, S. C. "It's pretty hard to beat MATURE" Mighty Males Hitched to a dynamometer (a strength testing machine) these powerful mules record their strength for the photographer. H ERE is a famous pair of mules — might}’ creatures with the pulling strength of a pair of four-legged giants. At a recent university test, they threatened the world’s pulling record. What makes these mules un usual? Mother Nature gave them something—her own nat ural balance of many elements; strength, staying power, the willingness to work. So in ac tual value, these sturdy mules stand out from ordinary mules —there’s just no comparison. And Nature gave a natural balance to Natural Chilean Ni trate, too—a natural balance of many elements that combine to make this nitrogen fertilizer a reliable food for your crops. Natural Chilean is known for its quick-acting nitrogen, of course. But nitrogen is only one of its vital elements. Because of its natural origin, Chilean Soda also contains, as impurities, such elements as iodine, boron, mag nesium, calcium and some 28 oihers. And always remember that these vital elements are £ resent in Chilean Soda in lother Nature’s own wise bal ance and blend. For better crops Chilean Nitrate. .. Natural Natural Chilean NITRATE of SODA NATURAL AS THE GROUND IT COMES FROM With Vital Elements in Nature’s Balance and Blend RADIO—"UNCLE NATCHEL & SONNY” FAMOUS CHILEAN CALENDAR CHARACTERS See announcements of leading Southern Stations T— 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 SERYICR and there Is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. “Nature’s Masrc’’. a~i f?<'*’ica 4 i~ r ! 1 film, showing the origin, min ing and processing of the ore from nitrate is obtained and featuring “Uncle Natchel and r iy, radio characters, will be shown at the Hollywood Theatre McCormick, S. C., Saturday, March 13. 1937, at 11:00 a. m. by the Chil ean Nitrate Educational Bureau of Columbia and all farmers, ae: ricultural workers, fertilizer deal ers and others interested are in vited to see the picture. The audience will also see cot ton, tobacco, tomato and other plants growing and unfolding be fore their very eyes in another picture which will be shown. This picture winch was taken at the New Jersey Experiment station shows the effect of minor plant food elements on the development and growth of plants. This talking picture is very in teresting and the farmers of this section are cordially invited to see it without charge. iXi The Library As A Social And Democratic Force* (By Frank P. Graham, President, University of North Carolina And Chairman of the National Ad visory Council on Social Se curity.) A library ... is the treasure house of old books and the crea tive center for the making of new ones, out of which have come mod ern science, modem industrialism, modern democracy. We need this creative center today as we see democracy threatened by dictator ships, by demagogues, and by hap hazard social drift—under the im pact of mechanisms and economic forces, with their power to destroy or rebuild the world in which we live and pray for the chance to earn our daily bread. The dema gogue’s power has been stepped up a thousandfold by the mechanisms of our age, and if we do not pro- , vide in all places where dema gogues flourish library centers in which workers and farmers can check the generalizations and pre tensions of these demagogues, de mocracy will be really threatened. | Not long before the great gen eral strike in England there were false prophets who took to soap boxes through the metropolitan areas, but the workers who had used British libraries, through the Workers’ Education Association, checked the mountebank on the soap box or the destructive revo lutionist in Hyde Park with quota tions out of the best books of the best minds of England. And so England is coming through peril ous times, with her great laboring people a buffer group against vio lence, dictatorships, and dema gogues. May I speak for a moment cf our southeastern area here in the United States, with its great need for books and libraries; where there is, in one sense, a race be tween the boll weevil and the li brary, between pellagra and the bal anced diet, between a balanced economy and social deterioration. Mounting figures of farm tenancy in the cotton kingdom and along the tobacco road are a threat to the culture and the civilization cf the south. In those areas are the areas of illiteracy—those areas that look black on any chart of statis tics when we see where libraries are and are not. Where farm ten ancy is worst, libraries are fewest; where the demagogue is most blatant, library service is least. So we of the southeast, as we come face to face with the fact that we are making inferior use of our superior agricultural re sources and need to make more intelligent use of our less develop ed industrial resources, need li braries. We need them now. It is e matter of national concern and responsibility when we realize that in this area more children are born in proportion to the population than in any other part of the na tion, and that superior adults are drained off, just as wealth is, to great centers. The children are here but the books arc tW So I return to this point, that in order to have real democracy in America we must take account of unequal li brary opportunity in the town and on the farm, and the conse- ’’ent need for county-wide library '■rvice. In our American stater likewise there is great disparity be tween this backward county anc hat forward county, between this poor county in the mountain cove^ or the pine barrens and this pros perous rich county cf the great industrial areas. We need wncrMorc not only county-wide library ser" ice for town and country, but also state-aided library service equaliz ing opportunity between rich anc poor county. And not only this. Because of great regional disparities and in equities, we need, in addition to the county-wide and the statc-widf library, a great federal equalizatio: fund for a cooperative federal- state-county library set-up. Chil dren are children wherever the; are born and a true philosophy o r democracy, a real democratic poli cy, would be to tax wealth where it is to furnish books and libraries for children where they are. We will not have democracy in Amer ica until we have some such na tion-wide mutual aid, some such nation-wide cooperation of federal, state, and county governments in this great job, this great demo cratic responsibility of making li braries locally accessible not only to the privileged millions, but to the 45.000,000 mainly on the farm, without local access to a public library. Out of the libraries came those great mechanical devices which mastered the physical earth with their productive power, so that America produced and produced goods in ever mounting millions. Out of the libraries in the twen tieth century must now come those social devices which will make of what is at present a monstrous production, a demoncratic pro duction for the nobler intellectual and spiritual life of all people. ♦Taken from the Bulletin of the American Library Association, De cember, 1936. Announcement: Book lovers who have not already discovered the fact for themselves will be interested in knowing that there is a weekly radio series en titled “Treasures Next Door.” It is on Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock eastern standard time, on a coast- to-coast Columbia Broadcasting System net work, written and pro duced by the Educational Radio Project of the Office of Education. There is a “brief dramatic glimpse of the author himself” and a part of cne of his books in play form. Some twentieth-century writers will probably be featured soon. Publicity Methods: There is a good article on library publicity in the Wilaon Bulletin for January 1937, p. 303-09, 323. The first part is applicable to li braries already set-up with a fairly large stock. The sections on news paper and radio publicity are ap plicable to all libraries and library movements. (Note to county W. P. A. super visors: Please see that the publi cation referred to is in the hands of the publicity chairman with this bulletin, or that a typed copy of the newspaper and radio publi city section of the article is given BALANCED C A li Clau&nf L‘Al LIGHT-MCH • PUKE - GOOD?-’ pi: E—» Lovely, smooth texture. Irresistible, sefo „ icing sprinkled with chopped nuts—SgjkL kidhu. delicious . . . that's a Claussen's Catmmii Jl«a Cake. Everyone likes it! Made of the Snest^igsreflE. ents, blended skillfully, and baked mitib 1 care used in your own kitchen. Order v our tnocift'i ClauSSenS JILVER LABEL CAKEt '111.1. J XX- Sehool System Of County Shows Great Improvement The school system of McCormic’ Tounty shews great improvemenf ccording to tho reoort submitter! "'ecntly to the State Department T Education, bv D. L. Lewis, State 'T.ural School Supervisor, and pub- ished below at the request of J W. Corley, Superintendent of Ed ucation, McCormick County. Supt. James H. Hope, State Department of Education, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: I respectfully submit below report on elementary school conditions in McCormick County as observed by mo on February 17th and 18th. I am also giving on attached sheet remes of schools, with number ol ♦-'-chers, enrollment and atten- hnee in each. Organization Great improvement in the or- r ~ nization of the schools of the County has been made in recent ; ars. This has been accomplished through consolidation into larger s< hools, so that at present there are three high schools and only six elementary schools, each of these elementary schools being of the one-teacher type. As rapidly as feasible, these one- teacher schools should be consoli dated with the nearest high schools. It is impossible for chil dren to be educated in the one- teacher schools; the curriculum of such a school is limited in its of ferings, and the teacher has to rush from subject to subject so rapidly that the teaching degen erates into lesson-hearing. If the pupils are made efficient in their education in any respect, it is in subject matter alone. A well-bal anced curriculum should make pupils efficient physically, academ ically, socially, civically, vocation ally, culturally, and qthically; the one-teacher type of school gives only one phase of education—the academic. The lean curriculum of fering and the unattractiveness of the small school cause pupils to lose interest in education, so that, by the end of the fifth grade, 70% have dropped out. The teachers are not to blame for the unattractiveness of the small school; the organization is to blame. When these teachers are placed in larger schools and given a better teaching chance, they do excellent work. The larger school also is more interesting and at tractive to the pupils, has greater holding power, and the pupils re main in school longer than they do in the small school. The local roads to these small school communities need to be worked so that they will be pass able in all weather, and two or three buses put on to convey the children to the larger schools. Wonderful improvement in the ed ucational opportunities of the children would be almost at once observed, and the County would move to the forefront in the edu cation of its white pupils. There should be a county-wide circulating elementary library con taining an abundant supply of reading materials suited to the in terests, needs, abilities, and ex periences of the children. Children learn to love to read and to form the reading habit only through an abundance of interesting reading The reading habit, once formed makes the rest of their educatior easy. The public spirited citizens anr school people are to be congratu lated for the school progress al ready made; it is hoped that the improvements suggested above w!l be carried out, so that every child in the county may be given the opportunity to obtain a high schoo education. D; L. Levris. makes a good pasture cxrvfomsotiian. with Bermuda grass_ Its habit of close greargh makes it one of the best suronses- teguxnes for erosion controf, asr as fcarttuer proved by the strong rcxrt'hnld it- is gaining on farms in cfejoonstzm- tion areas of the Soil Ot'Er^HKaxatkin. Service in South Carcti'esst. A rotation of small gzsan &n3 lespedeza may be estabTisted and maintained for about years without plowing, provaJcwSf <2ae land is disked in the fall Betf^sce 1 -seeding grain. After the grain hs fwrvested the lespedeza may be' gsyasacL -tXT- -f XT — Lespedeza Ploying Its Several Values Great For Erosion Control As Well As For Soil Building And Feed Clemson. Feb. 27.—For scil sav ing as well as soil building lespe deza is proving its great value, says County Agent R. D. Suber, remind ing farmers that February and March are the best months to plant Common, Tennessee 76, Kobe, and Korean varieties, with practical suggestions for seeding and han dling lespedeza. Lespedeza can be broadcast on top of small grain at the rate of 25 to 50 pounds to the acre, and covered lightly with a drag harrow. Lespedeza will grow on poor, worn- out soil and on soil too sour to grow some other legumes without the use of lime. Being a hot weather plant, it V acancles Inr Arcay Sergeant Clifford C. *0. S. Army Recruiter, Cortnrzfrss:. an nounced Monday that Far foos the following vacancies tc? Uliat during the Month of Mscrctr: Sor the- Panama Canal departfisessf. 7 In fantry; 4 Field Artillery; Coast Artillery; 1 Ordnance Oepozt&icaEt: and 1 Chemical Warfare Service; for the 1st Corps Area, 6T rnt&ffitry; 4 Field Artillery; and” 4 ^asjst Ar tillery; for the 2nd Corps- Jlrts®, 3 Infantry; and 2 Field ArT<ia!taty. FXjt- Fort Screven, Ga., 6 rrxfjartry. The 1st and 2nd Corps Areal’s sradbude New York, New Jersey, and the New England States. Azry yoang men interested ixz ifisr rissfse va cancies are invited to appiy at; the U. S. Army Recruiting ’S&Betxncn, U. S. Court House Building-., CaBsaafeia, S. C. Clubsters Make Good In Beef And Hog: Work Clemson, Feb. 27.—Arr ervccJlmt piece of 4-H club work: an 1835 was the feeding, fitting, showing, and sale of 82 beef calves lay 7B boys from 13 South Careffna ooam- ties. Records in the state off ice show that these amnraSs sold for $4,371.92, with a profit JS9S*.- 83 to the clubsters. These yv-Kmig :ecf producers worked feand in hand with Extension Ani-'cssI Hus sar .'man J. R. Hawkins ioccm nany valuable lessons freara iheir activities in growing out these* ^erri- nals and showing 59 of tfaran at he State Fair and 12 of chesra at he Savannah Fat Stock Sftfflw. This 4-H beef cattle worfe was ta.rtfd in 1934 when ciptii hoys -^nrileted records on eight, arri- nn’s. Then in 1935, 53 betyy: .oam- olcted records on 54 amirmzfsv. /*’"ther fine piece of 4-fT demon stration work was the feeding oat, showing at the State Flair., and selling of 4-H fat hogs oraS*r “the- supervision of Extension Lir-ostodc Specialist A. L. DuRant. These hops sold for $958.56. In this: ooctfcst club boys competed agasasr farm'- ers and won out. “In this work, irr «cfctf£icm to their educational enasiMmce ir competing for judging and ’ showmanshipr ftcxcue? »»- r'ong themselves stncf gainst f aults, the clubsters enjowd r.Er» r- ch fun and pleasure'*, jrrv.'ic fSxn I '"'vis, state boys’ club age it. 1c ing In contests- like r’herr' in beneficial, for such- nre. aside from its educatio«av nalue, develops the spirit of ship,”