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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.
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MRS. J. F. BROCKMAN, Owner,
MISS EDNA MAE McKINNEY, Operator.
McCormick, S. C.
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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
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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
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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,”