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AfoCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 1, 1937 McCORMICK, S. C • v. Swift’s Jewel Lard 8 Lb. Carton 4 Lb. Carton SUGAR, 10 Lb. Sack 25 Lb. Sack CHEESE Pound -- 21c PINK SALMON Can 10c ARGO PEAS, Small size No. 2 Can 15c Cresent Salad Dressing Quart Jar Evaporated Peaches 2 Pounds Pineapple, Crushed or Sliced, 3 No. 1 Cans _ _ Bananas 4 Lbs. _ _ 19c DORN’S CASH STORE T. M. DORN, Prop., Phone No. 61 Augusta Street. McCORMICK, S. C. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Ice Cream and Cold Drinks. We deliver anywhere in town. Openings In Army A ( ° MULES AND MARES Have just received another shipment of good, young, sound Tennessee mules and brood mares this week. You are invited to come to my stables on upper Main Street and look them over. J. L. SMITH McCORMICK, S. C. C-fP° r al CV'X”' ley, Ccmmanding General, Fourth Corps Area, announces that wniie approximately 4500 Southern boys have joined the Army since last October, there are still Severn, 1 , openings for qualified young men. Enlistments are authorized for Service in Panama and the New England States for those who wish to serve the Army away from home, and to those wishing to remain i Dixie there are vacancies in th< Air Corps at Barksdale Field Louisiana and in all the combatant, branches at all other Army Post: in this Corps .Area. Young men should contact the Recruiting Officer nearest their homes or communicate with the Corps Area Recruiting Office, 524 \ Post Office Building, Atlanta, Georgia, for detailed information. XXI Federal Land Bank Of Columbia Celebrates 20th Anniversary the Saxc-Gotha and the first cer tificate of stock was issued by tha association to V. A. Calk, of Lex ington. “I have been a director of thr bank since its organization”, sai: Mr. Guion. ‘‘I have seen in tha-. time agriculture climo t : ^ew high and fall to new lows. As a director I have had to listen to stories c ( success and to stories of failure i My experience of twenty years oi this board has convinced me that the rugged honesty of the farn r makes him a good credit risk and that he is going to pay his debts to the full measure of his ability.” A radio broadcast, a birthday dinner and a dance were on the program for the celebration. More Books And Better Ones IEADERSHIP 7X (By Robert M. Hutchins) (Taken from an address in honor of Carl B. Roden on his completion cf fifty years in the Chicago Pub lic Library. Bulletin of the Ameri can Library Association, Jan. 1937.) To supply the service the coun try needs libraries will have to have more books and better ones. To do this without bankrupting the Columbia, S. C., March 24, 1937.— The Federal Land Bank of Colum bia, the first of the twelve Federal Land Banks of the United States countr y. the organization of pub- to be organized, today celebrated libraries may have to be radi- through the war and the depres- state. BUILD BRIDGES; FOR 98 YEARS F8PR EMERCY NAS COME FROM QanSScnS BREAD Roar oi steam ... clang of steel... hundreds oi men moulding wood and concrete, iron and steel IT TAKES ENEBGY TO BUILD BRIDGES! For 96 years—since 1M2—2oa» generations of boy* and' men and women; hare on Claussen's Bread far energy! Today, bakeef *! finest Ingredients - . . TIONED CLAUSSEW'S always fresh! Order B. ClanSSenS O' M-COIMOI® RAPPER ^mtmesk its twentieth anniversary and re ceived congratulations on the serv ice which it has rendered to ag riculture from farm leaders, bank ers, editors and others. ft cally revised. Through cooperation fion. He replied without hesitation j Third certification with one another, with other ( that the reason lies in the high de-- librarians agencies of adult education, with gree of education that all the peo- schools, colleges, and universities; ' pie enjoy. He pointed out in par- through specialization and coordi- | ticular that there is no good book Julian H. Scarborough, president nation, libraries may without great that is not available without cost of the bank, speaking at a cele- enlargement of plant and staff to anybody who wants to read it. bration of the anniversary, said make their service more effective. What can we expect of democ- that in the twenty years since its | If . for example, the Chicago Pub- racy in a world like this unless we organization, the bank itself has lie Library could become a dis- are prepared to face the task of made 56,199 loans in the states of tributing center for the middle educating all the people in these North Carolina, South Carolina, west, the whole group of libraries terms? You can imagine an autoc- Georgia and Florida for a total of j in the area could multiply their racy without books—except those effectiveness without a proportion- the dictator has read for him— ate increase V their overhead, ‘me National Central Library in Eng land has shown us how this can be done . . . Even with the most for sc&ooX m v u $131,880,315 and in addition, act ing as agent for the Land Bank Commissioner, has made 43,631 Commissioner loans for a total of $57,630,728, thus making a grand total of $189,511,043 which has been leaned to the farmers of this dis trict through the instrumentality of the bank since its organization. Referring to the part that the bank has played “in assisting agri culture to overcome the effects of the worst financial depression in our history and from which agri culture was the greatest sufferer”, Mr. Scarborough said that since May, 1933, the bank, acting for it self and as agent of the Land Bank ,Ccmmissioner, has made 59,799 loans for a total of $99,235,731. “This dees not mean”, said Mr Scarborough, “that the indebted ness of the farmers in this district has been increased that much. Over 80 per cent cf this money went to refinance old indebtedness at lower rates of interest and more convenient terms of repayment Over 6 per cent of it went to pur chase farm lands and for redemp tion from foreclosure while 10 per cent of it was used for general ag ricultural purposes including the erection of necessary farm build ings and improvement of old build ings.” Mr. Scarborough said that in the four states $25,596,290 of the .none; borrowed by farmers went to pay their debts to banks; $5,878,003 ic jay their debts to life insurance companies and $5,319,500 to pa; heir state and county taxes, an: added that “almost every phase sf our commercial life was Dene litcd.” “By refinancing their old debt: at lower rates of interest”, saic Mr. Scarborough “farmers of thi? district effected an annual interest saving of $2,750,000. In addition a further saving by reason of the temporary statutory reduction oi interest an additional saving of $1,- 382,000 was made to land bank borrowers in the four states las year, this making a grand total o' $4,132,000 in interest saved by the farmers of the district last year.” L. I. Guion, of Lugoff, S. C., member of the board of directors of the bank since its organization, reviewed the organization of the bank. The first directors of the institution were F. J. H. von Engel- kin, of East Palatka, Fla.; Howard C. Arnold, of Greenville, Ga.; D. A. Houston, of Monroe, N. C.; L. I. Guion, of Lugoff, S. C. and S. C. Warner, of Palatka, Fla. Mr. von Engelkin was elected as the first president; Mr. Guion vice presi dent, and Mr. Arnold secretary, at the organization meeting held on Feb. 21, 1917. The bank secured its charter on March 16, 1917 and was formally opened for business on March 24. According to Mr. Guion the first national farm loan association in the district to be chartered was economic but a democracy rests on the no tion that citizens will be intelligent. Neither the movies nor the radio has yet reached the point where they can be relied on to make the organization, the library service people wise. We must hope that ttv v/hich the country needs cannot | diffusion of books will be helpful, be supplied at the expense of the but 45,000,000 of us are without local communities. They have not them, and where there are libra- the money. In the case of public ries, much remains to be done to schools, the states have had to effect a correlation between their come to the rescue. Almost all existence and the development of states make some contribution and popular intelligence, some bear the primary responsibili- We should not think too much cf ty for the schools. If the library is the long and arduous road that an important agency of popular lies before the library in the at- education, the states must follow tainment of its ideals. We should the same course with it and for ; fix our eyes instead on the dazzxing vision cf a nation informed, in telligent, ard wise, that vision be held since earliest antiquity by those who have understood that it is the excellence of the individual upon which the excellence cf the state depends. Fourth, required courses ia the use of the library, elemcots of re search, and book usage in jdT schools, and the integration -oF these with the regular work cf fihe school. Fifth, required and zeksepsate courses in children’s literature far all grades in all teacher-training institutions. Sixth, a plan for adeqesacCe tax support of the above. txt Close Rivalry In Feb. Dairy Tests the same reasons. The accident of being born in a poor section of the state cannot debar a citizen from e- qual educational opportunity. I have no doubt that eventually the federal government will be compelled to equalize educational opportunity throughout the nation. It is doing 50 already, to some extent, through the National Youth Administration and through its contributions \.o vocational education. I appreciate the unpopularity of this theme. I know that Walter Lippmann and lots of other people think it is too bad that everybody is looking to Washington these days. I share this feeling when the object of an application to the fed eral government is to advance the selfish interests of some group. I .lo not share it when the issue in 1 II ANNOUNCEMENTS— I—Please announce to the minis ters oi your county by letter, per sonal contact, or newspaper item: The School of Religion Library of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, has inaugurated a li brary extension service—through a grant from the Carnegie Cor- oeratic n—for which any minister ir the south who signs an appli cation card is eligible, according word received recently at head- group. I q Uar t ers f r0 m Tula B. Pellettieri . . , SSU !l V the librarian, whether the American people shah Annotated book lists are - nalle , i v* r r> i crc' w r •»-» . r F)-% ^ : :e intelligent or not. The educa- acn of all the people is in the in crest cf all the people. In Arkansas. tnd Mississippi the per capita ex penditure or public libraries is 2 •. . . . , T ,, . ,, ,. * borrowers is the return postage, ents a year. In Massacnusetts tne | regularly to all ministers who are active borrowers and lists on spe cial subjects are compiled upen re- nueet. The only expense to book expenditure is $1.03, and in the , xverage state 37 cents. It is naive i o assume that the ignorance of 1 Mississippi, Arkansas, or Louisiana .s nothing to us. Through their /ote at national elections, through their service cn federal juries, and through their representatives in the United States Senate—not to mention innumerable less obvious ways—the people of these states can and do affect the lives of all of us. We must preserve the bene- Ks of local initiative, and, inso far as we can, of local control; but if we mean to be a nation we must . tgard education, including educa- on through the library, as a na- : Southern librarians are invited to refer ministers to this library f n I material which local libraries are ; unable to supply, j 2—Please notify garden clubs: The February issue of House and Garden carries a list of 2G0 pam phlets on gardening compiled by- Gladys Scgar of the Montclair (N J.) Public Library. Ill CLUB ACTIVITIES— Ask the Parent Teacher Associa tions to discuss at their next meet ing the “Six-Point Program” adopted at the Milwaukee Conven tion of the Congress of Parent and Teachers. SIX-POINT PROGRAM For the development cf scho" nal problem. In 1877 Dr. Melvin Dewey said ! library service it the library movement was of j First, a unified state oia^. agr^' interest to those concerned with to by educators and librarians, fo’ upular education, with the prog- the equalization of book opportun- ress of their fellow men, and with 1 ities for all school chiMren in the the safety of their country. He said, 1 state. “This may seem a large phrase; yet i Second, a state school library if there is any truth settled in po- supervisor in the department of ed- litical science it is that where suf- ucation who would combine pro- frage is universal, ignorance must fessional library training with edu- not be general.” I asked a Danish cational training or experience, professor the other day (he is an and work with educators and libra- astronomer) how it is that Den- rians to promote: school library mark has been able to maintain service in all elementary and itself with dignity and prosperity secondary schools-Uixoughout the C?cm p 'm. Mrrch 13—Le.zcBng sJi dairy herds on test in FetorvaTy wer*' the nin^ Gnerrsevg owned by J. B. Guess, Jr., Denmark, wdCfi an average of 48.72 pound's- of twtler- fat, and one of these Queen of Edisto Farms, made the eagyrth highest individual productfoee rec ord for the month witia &».33 pounds. These records were asm- piled by C. C. Brannon*, aa of Advanced Registry tasting for the Experiment Station, x&iase February report show’s 3GS cons 3»> cst, the largest number to d&fce n one m r nth. Nine other herds foirowed rTacfa ->ther closely with good awnsages; showing difference cf only & frac tion of a p*-und of butterfaar*. 'TSaesc' were: Twelve Guernseys owserd by W. C. King, Bishopvifle, acoondU 44.94 pounds; five HolstettiK. Estate- of V. M. Montgomery, Sprrtan- burg. third, 44.77 pcrjcaicis; five Guernseys, H. H. Browuie, Stsvjtfier, fourth, 44.72 pounds; 13 Gfesrsaseys,. Geo. B. Salley, Orangeburg, fifth, 44.34 pounds; eight KoKSeins, Clemson Agricultural College, sixth, 43.95 pounds; 29 Guernsey,?. Pedi greed Seed Co., Hartsville, seventh, 43.44 pounds; six Guernseys, R. B. Caldwell, Chester, eighth. 4S.JO pounds; 13 Jerseys, Wheeler* Kras., Saluda, ninth. 42.64 pounds; •sewen Guernseys, Clemson AgncuKurul College, tenth, 42.54 pounds. Others among the ten highest individual butterfat producers were: first. Beast Ormsby Artis Maid, Holstein, S. C. State Kar- pital, Columbia, 84.77 pouudks: sec ond, Frances of Orarigshurg, Guernsey, W. E. Vertfery Son, Orangeburg, 75.35 pounds; third, Edith of Sunshine, Guomaey, L.* E. Stroud, Great FYJSs, 74.07 pounds; fourth, Watersheds Prin cess, W. C. King, 73.45 {Bounds; fifth, Thornton’s Rosewood. Guern sey, Ware Shoals Mfg. C«t, ITscne Shoals, 68.47 pounds; sixth, seventh, and tenth, resprvswcly, Coker Proud Oar natron, 67 JDS pounds; Cavalier's Fancy.. 68.40 pounds, and Coker GavafJcr 1 3«!en k 63.16 pounds, all three awraed Toy Pedigreed Seed Oo.; ninth, Bana Ada Pie be, EstatCc V. M. Merit- gomery, 64.51 pounds. ■1-.' ■'..■ ». DR. HENRY J. COD3.X Sigh? 7i Eyes Spectacles And Eye Professionally^, Fitted. 956; BroarliStreet