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MeCORMICK BfESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROUTNa Thursday, April 1, 1937 licCUKMiCH MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 ■DMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of • <he second class. < SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 e. ■ i l , , - ^ - — . » Williamsburg Farmers Leading In Hog Sales Kingstree, March 15—Records of hog shipments in 1936 made through the office of R. A. Jackson, county agent, show that 594 Will iamsburg county shipments mov ed 5707 hogs which netted approx imately $100,000. In addition, a good many hcgs were sold from farms to truck buyers, and these wer3 not recorded by the county a?ent. Williamsburg being the largest ho^-producing county in the state, with its shipments increasing every yeaj, it is believed that the recent ly formed Williamsburg Livestock Association—the first of its kind in the state—will prove of great benefit to hog growers. Cooperative carlot and truck shipments of hogs were considered by the Extension Service to be one of the most important pieces of work done by the county agent during the past year. In 1936 accurate feeding records were kept on six lots of hogs by Williamsburg county farmers. Ninety-four hogs fed in these lots gained a total of 11,149 pounds at an average cost of $4.71 per 100. Particular attention was given by several Williamsburg county farm ers to purebred stock, the county agent assisting them in the pur chase of both boars and gilts. The new livestock association, which will handle hogs for a num ber of Williamsburg county grow ers, w T as organized on February 24 to sell hogs cooperatively and F. O. E. The past pwfctice of shipping cooperatively will be continued, but only those farmers belonging to the association will derive the benefit from F. O. B. shipments. Cotton After Korean Shows Legume Value Sweet Potatoes As A Cash Crop 7. SOME MARKETING OPPOR TUNITIES By A. E. Schilletter. Extension Horticulturist) Ir concluding this series of ar- "icles on sweet potato growing in "’outh Carolina, I should like to 'ov that South Carolina can com- oete with other successful swreet not a to growing states if proper methods are employed. The first step in promoting the "or sumption of sweet potatoes should be to create a market "'.mong our local buyers. This can >e done by supplying them with luality potatoes. Recently George E. Prince of the Extension Service Division of Markets made a sur vey among grocery stores in South Carolina, only to find that they were selling very few sweet po tatoes. These grocprs stated that because of the poor quality of the stock housewives would not use them. A few of the stores, at Mr. Prince’s suggestion, bought some high quality sweet potatoes and the results they secured were re markable. Since they had to pay a higher price for the good stock, they naturally had to increase the price to consumers slightly. But, even at the higher retail price, some of the stores increased their sales as much as 500 -per cent. These grocers further reported that their profits increased because there was no loss from shrinkage and rot. In order to further promote the sweet potato industry in South Carolina and to create a demand for a high quality product, the Ex tension Service has copyrighted an attractive label to be used. This label will be furnished only to growers who put up a pack of su- nerior quality which has been ap proved after inspection. Many sweet potato growers in the state are joining the ranks of the quality producer and have adopted the slogan “High Quality Sweet Potatoes Graded and Packed l Correctly”. (This is the last in a series of six articles on Sweet Potato Growing in South Carolina.) xxt Erosion Control Work Shows Up Effectively During Spring Season Laurens, March 27.—A. J. Hughes, Fountain Inn farmer, finds les- pedeza a profitable soil builder for cotton production, according to records in the office of C. B. Can non, county farm agent. Mr. Hughes had 25 acres seeded to Korean lespedeza in 1934 and 1935 and harvested for seed, with stubbie left on the land. The land was turned and planted in 1936 with Coker’s Farm Relief cotton in 30-inch rows, fertilized with 500 pounds of 7-5-6 fertilizer on 15 acres and 500 pounds of 7-3-5 fer tilizer per acre on the other ten acres. On the 25 acres Mr. Hughes produced 12,500 pounds of lint, or 500 pounds per acre. A 10-acre field just across the road, where no cov er crop was used, although the same type of land and same kind •f preparation, Mr. Hughes fer tilised with 800 pounds of 7-5-6 fert;iU?er per acre and produced 4,000 pounds of lint, or 400 pounds Hut per acre. Itjm the above results it is ap parent that the lespedeza stubble was worth ICO pounds of lint cot ton per acre plus the value of 300 pounds of 7-5-6 fertilizer per acre. Also to be considered is the crop of lespedeza seed that was harvest ed from the 25 acres. “At first it looked as if the clean fc- ■' i would out-produce the land v irli le.op deza”, says County Agent 0*" “bn* when late summer and dry weather came, the clean- WAS % ’ » the lespxio-a-land h la ils own through the growring I '• d and when picking time ccmo, all saw the value of the les- p ” FEVER Liquid, Tablets * ^ Salve, Nose Drops first day Headache, 30 minutes Try “Rub-My-Tism” World’s Best Liniment Spring planting and the de velopment cf vegetative growth are making erosion-control methods stand out in bold relief at this season on farms of cooperators both in the Soil Conservation Serv ice demonstrations and the county soil conservation associations in South Carolina, says County Agent R. D. Suber. Now is an excellent time, he suggests, for farmers or farm groups to visit the nearest demonstrations to see what is be ing done to protect the soil. These demonstrations have been set up not only to control erosion within the specified areas, but also to serve as demonstrations of the best known methods of erosion control in operation under actual farming conditions. Strip cropping, with bands of grain growing between clean cul tivated areas, shows up especially well at this season, making it easy to see how strip cropping fits in with the rotations. Waterways, constructed to carry off excess water from terraced fields with the least possible dam age to the soil, are clearly outlin ed in the fields by the green close growing crops seeded to protect the waterways and slow up run-off water. Terraces, which have stood up under the heavy rains of winter, properly plowed and maintained and draining into these and other treated waterways may be seen on oe^an to deteriorate various demonstrations in practi- cotton cally every county in the Piedmont. WANT ADV. FOR SALE—Coker No. 7 Cotton Seed, Tested 95% germination. $1.00 per bushel. J. L. Strother, Mc Cormick, S. C. FREE! If excess acid causes you Stomach Ulcers, Gas Pains, In digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, get free sample doctor's prescription, Udga, at Strom’s Drug Store. !—’'""’"IMPROVED ~""‘~ ! UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson I By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. » Lesson for April 4 GOD THE CREATOR LESSON TEXT—Genesis 1:1-5, 2G-31. GOLDEN TEXT—In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1. PRIMARY TOPIC—When God Made the World. JUNIOR TOPIC—In the Beginning—God. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— God the Maker of All. — YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— God in Creation. From the completion of the great Gospel of John, which took us back to that time “in the beginning’’ when the Living Word “was” and “was with God and was God,’’ we turn to the first book of the Bible, which is, as indicated by its title, a book of “beginnings.” We find in it not only the record of the creation of the heavens and earth, but of man, and the beginnings of his history, the entrance of sin into the world, the beginning of God’s revelation of redemption. It is in deed a most important book, funda mental to an understanding of the rest of the Bible. Genesis has been the special ob ject of attack on the part of crit ics, and especially by those who saw in its account of the creation statements which apparently did not square with the announced find ings of science. Fortunately, as men make advances in scientific discov ery, as well as in the understand ing of Gqd’s Word, they are begin ning to realize that there is no real conflict between the established facts of science and a proper inter pretation of Scripture. When there is an apparent clash it will be found that either the Bible has been misin terpreted by men or they have mis taken a hypothesis of science for a fact. We are in error when we talk about the Bible’s being confirmed by archaeology or by science. If the United States naval observatory should find that its master clock does not agree with the observa tion of the stars, it would not as sume that the .universe had gotten out of order. It would know that the clock is wrong, and would make correction. Science does not confirm the Bible; the Bible confirms true science. The account of creation may be considered in tw*o great divisions. I. The Creation of Heaven and Earth (1:1-5). “In the beginning God”—what awe-inspiring v/ords! How fully and satisfactorily they state the origin of all things. Men ask us to believe their theories, but there is no cosmogony offered which does not call for a measure of credulity. Man cannot explain the origin cf matter, the ori gin of life, the origin of rational life. These three great gaps and many smaller ones his theories can not bridge. Man asks us to take his word for them. But we prefer to take God’s Word. Study the entire account of crea tion. Space here forbids more than the briefest reference to its perfect order and symmetry, its complete ness,’the self-evident fact that it is a true account of the working of God. It is so received by thoughtful men and women of our day. Even scoffers have long since ceased to speak foolish words about “the mis takes of Moses.” II. The Creation of Man (vv. 16-23). “Let us” is an indication that the Holy Trinity was active in crea tion. God the Father is mentioned (v. 1), the Holy Spirit (v. 2), and without the Son was nothing made (John 1:3). Man was created in “the likeness and image of God.” This undoubt edly refers to a moral and spirit ual likeness. Man is a moral being, possessed of all the characteristics of true personality. He is a living spirit, with intelligence, feeling, will power. This image, no matter how it may have been defaced by sin, is that in man which makes it pos sible for us to seek him in his sin and beseech him “to be reconciled to God.” “Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, feelings lie buried that grace can restore.” Notice that God gave man “a helpmeet unto him,” that he es tablished the family as the center of life on this earth. He gave man dominion over the entire creation, and his restless pioneering spirit still carries him on to the complete realization of that promise. He pro vided not only for man’s spiritual and social needs, but also for his every physical need. Surely we may say with Moses that “everything that he (God) had made . . . was very good” (v. 31). A Man of Sorrow One reason why Jesus was a man of sorrow was that He saw as none other the pain and sin and woe of the world. A Hard Road The hard road of sin is always so crowded that it gives little room for turning around and going back. Determination He only is a well-made man-who has a good determination.—Emer son. Formal Exercises Mark Inauguration Of President McKissiok At U. S. C. * Indicates Seeds in Bulk MeCORMICK Kash & Kr.rry Grocery D. C. Talbert Smith’s 5c & 10c Store White Hardware Co. PLUM BRANCH * J. L. Bracknell ‘WHATS NEWH-BEST Wrii* lor a FREE copy oi Wood * NEW Catalog of Gordon. Flowor and Fl.ld Soodo. A pool cord to T. W. Wood & Sons. Soodsmon. Richmond. Va. brings it Insurance Fire Insurance And All Columbia, S. C.. March 29.—For mal exercises will mark the in auguration of J. Rion McKissick as twenty-second president of the University of South Carolina here April 6. More than 3,090 visitors and guests are expected for the oc casion. President McKissick was elected to office in December, 1935, suc ceeding Dr. Leonard T. Baker. He assumed his duties as president of the University July 1, 1936. Action on the part of the board of trus tees set the formal inauguration April 6. 1937. Educator and newspaper man. President - McKissick attended the University of South Carolina, class of 1905, Harvard Law School and the University of Wisconsin. As a journalist, he was assistant editor and chief editorial writer of the Richmond Times-Dispatch (1911- 1914), editor of the Greenville (S. C.) News < 1916-19 >, and editor of the Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont (1919-1926). Before coming to the University of South Carolina in 1927 as dean of the school of journalism, Presi dent McKissick was for a short time lecturer in South Carolina history at Furman University. The degree LL. D. was conferred upon him by Furman in 193S. Governor Olin D. Johnston, alumnus of the University, will preside at the inaugural exercises, to begin at 10:30 in the University Field House. President McKissick will be introduced by the Hon. David R. Coker, chairman of the board of trustees, and Chief Jus tice John G. Stabler of the South Carolina Supreme Court will ad minister the oath. Greetings from the church colleges and universities of the state will be extended by Dr. Bennette E. Geer, president of Furman University; from state 'col leges of South Carolina by Dr. Shelton J. Phelps, president of Winthrop College. Delegates from 150 colleges, uni versities and academic associations will march in the academic pro cession immediately prior to the inaugural exercises. University students will lead the eighteen groups making up the procession, followed by the rostrum group, academic delegates, the faculty, visiting faculties, the clergy, judi ciary, the state senate, house of representatives, state officials, county officials, city officials, Pres ident McKissick’s class mates, alumni and alumnae representa tives and organization represen tatives. Fifteen hundred guests are ex pected for the inaugural luncheon at 1:45 in the Columbia Township auditorium. Marion A. Wright, Conway, president of the alumni association, will preside. Transpor tation to the luncheon will be fur nished delegates and visitors by a student body motor corps. A “Carolina Rally” for friends and patrons, former students and alumni of the University will be held in the Jefferson Hotel at 5 o’clock. Earlier in the afternoon student guides wall be furnished i inaugural visitors for sight-seeing in Columbia. An informal stag dinner at 7:30 in the Jefferson Hotel, honoring s President McKissick and the South Carolina general assembly, will conclude the inauguration day pro gram. Invited guests will be mem bers of the faculty, members of the board of trustees and members of the legislature. Among the prominent visitors expected for the inauguration are: J. M. Johnson, Washington. D. C., assistant secretary of com merce; Dr. F. B. Robinson, presi dent of the City College of New Yoik; Dr. Theodore Jack, president of the Randolph-Macon Women’s college, Lynchburg, Virginia; Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the Oregon state system of higher education; Dr. A. F. Harman, pres ident of Alabama college; Dr. John M. McBryde, dean of the graduate school, Tulane University; and Miss Minnie Clar6 Yarborough, professor of English at Hunter college. New York. James Rion McKissick w'as born 9t Union. S. C., October 13, 1884, the son of Colonel Isaac Going and Sarah. Foster McKissick. Doctor McKissick was educated at the University of South Caro lina, at Harvard University, and | at the University of Wisconsin. As a newspaperman President Mc Kissick was assistant editor and later chief editorial writer of the Richmond Times-Dispatch (1911- 1914), editor of the Greenville New’s (1916-1919), and editor of the Greenville Piedmont (1919-1926). His journalistic work intensified a life-long enthusiam for the study of history. As a result oi many years of research work in South Carolina history, Doctor Mc Kissick became a lecturer in this field at Furman University in 1926. The next year he came to the Uni versity of South Carolina as Dean of the School of Journalism (1927- 1936). He lectured with great dis tinction and success on historical subjects throughout the state. De cember 1935 he was elected presi dent of the University. In 1927 President McKissick mar ried Caroline Virginia Dick of Sum ter. Since that time they have made their home on the University campus. President McKissick was a mem ber of the staff of Governor Rich ard I. Manning. He w’as code com missioner of the General Assembly of South Carolina (1916-1918), a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee (1920-1929*, and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention <1924*. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greenville Women’s CoUege (1923-1932) and Other Kinds of Insurance Ex cept Life. HUGH C. BROWN, MeCORMICK. S. C. FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. In the Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Selic Deason and Sam Weeks, Ex ecutrix and Executor, of the Es tate of T. E. Deason, deceased, has tnis day made application unto me for a final accounting and dis charge as Executrix and Executor of the Estate of T. E. Deason and the 14th day of April, 1937, at 10 o’clock has been fixed for the hear ing of said petition. All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby no tified to present same on or by above date. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick County, S. C. March 11th, 1937. 4t. FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. In the Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given that M. Morgan, Administrator of the estate of Miss Annie Lou Morgan, deceased, has this day made ap plication unto me for a final ac counting and discharge as Admint- istrator of the estate of Miss An nie Lob Morgan and the 8th day of April, 1937, at 10 o’clock has been fixed for hearing of said pe tition. . All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present same on or by above date. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick County, S. C. March 3th, 1937. 4t. of the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina (1924- 1927). Furman University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1936. He is a member of the South Carolina Historical Association and the South Carolina Historical So ciety; past president of the South Carolina Press Association, the University of South Carolina Alumni Association, and the Citi zens Educational Association. President McKissick is a member of the American Association of University Professors, the Ameri can Association of Teachers of Journalism, and the South Caro lina Teachers Association. His fra ternal affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Alpha, Tau Kappa Alpha, Sigma Epsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Sigma Delta Chi. His club is the Kosmos. Dr. McKissick is a member of thfr Baptist church* i