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J ? M A ■ mf •OH McCOHMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 5, 1937 JESTER’S CASH MARKET PL r-Tu* i m i. fH- m-i \ Phone No. 25 Main Street We Deliver » McCormick, S. C. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all limes and are always ready to be at your service. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. Nation-Wide Drive Is I Misunderstanding As Launched Against “Fake” Organizations WANTED SAP CROSSTIES W r ill purchase Sap Pine Crossties to run 50% Dense Grain or more, at loading points outlined. C. & W. €. R. R. from Georgia line to Green wood, S. C. C. & W. C. R. R. from McCormick, S. C., to An derson, S. C. G. & F. R. R. from Edgefield, S. C., to Green wood, S. C. r , x9”-_8%’ 60c 7”x8”_8l / 6’ 45c 6”x8”__8%’ — 35c All ties 81,4 ft. long. Payment will be made at time of inspection. 'Wagon loads will be purchased at points where yards are operated. • For further information see or write, J. c. WINN, PLUM BRANCH, S. C. ESi 33 Make f| LUNCH TIME 1 Refreshment Time II When your family is hungry, they are thirsty, too. Ice-cold Coca-Cola adds a taste thrill to food. It’s easy to buy a few bottles or a case from your dealer. - - - SB-150-83 GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenwood, S. C 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 HINDU ANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there Is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Mr«et McCormick, 3. C. Postmaster General James A. Farley has announced that the Postal Inspection Service ha^ launched a nation-wide drive against the operators of “fake” mutual benefit life protection or ganizations which have been con- iuetiro' their fraudulent schemes through the mails. Complaints reaching the Pos^ Office Department indicate that ‘•here are apnroximately one hun dred such fraudulent enterprises now being operated in various sec tions of the country, which are costing the American public hun dreds of thousands of dollars an nually. Added impetus has been given the drive by the eight-year Fed eral penitentiary sentence meted out to Angus C. Littlejohn of Springfield, Illinois, and the three- year sentence to Charles E. Hill of Lake Charles, Louisiana, both of whom were convicted for using the mails to defraud in connection with these spurious life protection organizations. The promoters of these so-called not for profit” mutual benefit societies, associations and clubs, 'n order to circumvent existing state laws, avoid the use of the word insurance” and call it “protec tion.” Instead of “policy” they use the word “certificate” and rather than referring to a “premium” they call it “voluntary contribu tion.” They further mislead their victims by selecting confidence in spiring names such as “National Aid Society” and “Southern Life Club of Physicians’ Guaranty Union” or other names similar to well known legitimate life insur ance companies. The promoters take advantage of the fact that very few people read their certificates, particularly the fine print on the inside con taining many exceptions and limi tations. Members are not informed, but beneficiaries soon ifind out, when the members die, that the exceptions in the fine print wholly nullify any liability of the society. The promoters accept persons in discriminately up to the age of, eighty-five years, yet they claim the strength of the society lies in the membership because it is “so carefully selected.” They stress the point that no medical examination is required, and especially appeal to “those persons who, because of advanced age or physical infirmi ties, can not obtain any form of life protection.” Literature of these concerns contains many false rep resentations, including statements of fraternal and benevolent fea-. tures; and the claim that they are operated on the same basis and plans of the old insurance societies which have been successfully op erated in Europe sin.ee the year 1168. People of sixty to eighty-five years of age, many of whom are suffering from some chronic ail ment unknown to them, are led to believe that, for a monthly con tribution of one dollar to one dollar and a half, their beneficiaries will receive sums ranging from one thousand to five thousand dollars. When the member dies, any pay ment under the policy depends upon a “postmortem” investigation. The promoters make every effort to show he was suffering from some chronic disease at the time the certifciate was issued, and they usually find some pretense on which to deny the claim. Consequently, no payment is made to the beneficiary, or the claim is settled for a nominal sum of from one dollar to fifteen dol lars. It is difficult to estimate the total amount filched from the pub lic each year by this class of pro moters, but the National Aid So ciety alone cost the public upwards of two million dollars in four years, of which only twenty per cent .vas paid back in the form of ben ?- fits, the rest of that huge sum hav ing been used for salaries and ex penses. It is, therefore, obvious that the amount taken from the public by the hundred other sim ilar societies now in operation reaches a staggering sum annually.! The usual procedure of the op- i erators of these schemes is to in sert advertisements in various newspapers for agents who operate wherever they desire and many complaints have been received from persons in rural communities and small towns as well as in large cities. The Associations also secure memberships by mail as well as personal solicitation by agents and many persons are solicited for membership through persons al ready members by literature sent through the mails. To Old-Age Pension Inquiries received daily at the of fice of the State Department of Public Welfare indicate wide spread misunderstanding ss to the type of assistance provided for in the so-called “social security pro gram” authorized by the recent act of the General Assembly. The law does not provide for cld-age pensions. It provides for “assistance to aged persons :'n need,” and very definitely sets out just who is eligible to receive as sistance. Broadly speaking, only those over 65 who are without in come, or who have incomes so small that, when added to contributions from relatives or from any other source, the total is inadequate go provide a reasonable subsistence, may receive assistance. Aid to dependent children wl*o are without parental support or care, and who are living with cer tain specified near relatives in their own homes, is available where such children are likely to bepome public charges or to be otherwise deprived of proper support, care or training. Assistance for the needy blind is provided, where such persons have insufficient means of support and have no relative or other per son able to provide and legally re sponsible for their support and willing to provide therefor. Applications for aid under the law must be filed with the county welfare department of the county in which the applicant resides. The application must be in writing, on forms which will be supplied to county welfare offices. The appli cant must sign a statement of any property, real and personal, in which he has any interest.- Any false statement knowingly made to secure benefits under the act is punishable by a $500.00 fine or a year in prison, or both. Any per son who, directly or indirectly, dis poses of any property for the pur pose of qualifying for benefits is not eligible. Upon, the death of any person receiving aid under the law, the total amount received becomes a debt due the State against the estate of such person. There seems to be considerable confusion in the public mind as between the functions of the State Department oi Public Welfare and those of the Bureau of Federal Old Age Benefits of the Federal Social Security Board, which has offices in Columbia, Greenville, Spartan burg, Rock Hill, ^nd Charleston. That agency provides old age bene fits for persons now working in certain specified fields of employ ment, the benefits to become avail able upon the employee’s retire ment at 65. Deductions are made from the wages of such employees, through the internal revenue of fice of the United States govern ment. The State Department of Public Welfare has no connection with the administration of old age benefits under this Federal agency. It is necessary for the State De partment of Public Welfare to have its plan of operation approved by the Social Security Board in Wash ington before the Government’s ccnuib&tion to the State depart ment’s fund can be secured. It is probable that this can be accom plished without serious delay, but it is estimated that it will be at leat two weeks before it can be completed. Application forms will be fur nished county departments of pub lic welfare as soon as possible. All applications must be thoroughly investigated, which will require considerable time, before any pay ments can be made. WANTED SCRAP-IRON I will pay 20 cents a hundred for all scrap-iron de livered in large quantities and 15 cents for small quantities at my scales in McCormick. D. C. TALBERT McCormick, S. C. xx- HAS TIMED ISO MILLION LIVES Farm News Briefs Little Stories Oi Good Farminir From Many Parts Of The State Navy Recruiting During the month of August, -nventy younc men from the states cf North and South Carolina are ' be enlisted in the United States '-vvy as apprentice seamen. Im mediately after enlistment these ♦Ntg men will be sent to the U. * Naval Training Station. Norfolk. * 1., where they will receive twelve "eeks instruction in Naval Life d routine, before being assigned ' > one of the ships of the U. S. : ieet for duty. W. A. shriver, chief electrician’s mate, U. S. Navy, recruiter in charge of the U. S. Navy Recruit- i ^g Station, U. S. Court House Luilding, Columbia, S. C., has an nounced that applications for en listment in the U. S. Navy are be ing accepted every week day be tween the hours of 9:00 a. m. and 4:30 p. m., excepting Saturday when the liours are from 9:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m. . Tf - hp^n clcarlv demonstrated this year that apple sprays must b° applied at exactly the correct time, and I am sure that this ex perience will aid us in the futureA- W. H. Stallworth, Spartanburg. Weekly shipments are being maintained on our F. O. B. hog market. On our last sale 29 farm ers shipped 118 hogs that brought $2,143.26. Tops were 11 cents net.—^ J. M. Eleazer, Sumter. The grain crop was the best the county has produced in several years. The extension teachings about seed treatment and smut- resistant varieties have gotten re sults.—T. B. Lee, Union. The 4-H corn club boys have ex cellent crops. They are planning to feed this corn to pigs this fall and to have a large exhibit at the Williamsburg County Fair.—R. A. Jackson, Williamsburg. About 537 acres were terraced in June. There is enough land con tracted ahead to keep us busy this summer with the three machines operated by the Soil Conservation Association.—L. W. Johnson, York. Returns to growers were good where cucumbers were produced on the right kind of soil with good seed and larger amounts of fer tilizer which included lime and an increase in potash.—H. G. Boylston, Barnwell. Several of our corn demonstra tors are using 200 pounds of lime, 200 pounds of acid phosphate, and 50 pounds of muriate of potash at planting time, as recommended by R. W. Hamilton, extension agron omist, and all are getting remark able results.—F. M. Rast, Claren don. Even though this year has been an unusual one for atiaining great size of peaches, the combination of heavy pruning and thinning has given the greatest returns.—D. A. Shelley, assistant, Edgefield. Farmers in Florence county have found out through records that they hqve a reasonable right to expect above the market price for their corn if fed to hogs.—J. W. McLendon, Florence. A canning plant has been estab lished to take care of tomatoes when prices are low. The outlook now is that the crop in cases of normal yields will be profitable.— J. P. Graham, Jasper. ' Furman McLellan planted 1 1-2 acres of full-grain oat seed and thrashed 131 bushels. In the ad joining field, he had two acres of wheat that thrashed 33 bushels per acre.—W. R. Wells, Jr., Marion. We are greatly in need of pota toes of superior quality in New berry county and we are glad our farmers took such interest in se curing improved plants of the Louisiana type.—P. B. Ezell, New berry. cooperating agencies, will aid in- preventing the spread of small: parasites known as trichinae, say J. R. Hawkins and A. L. DuRant,, extension livestock specialists.. These parasites when present in> hogs, they explain, causing a dis ease called trichinosis may affect, consumers of pork that is not thoroughly cooked. This is an ad ditional reason why farmers should, follow the sanitation plan, in pro ducing hogs. Inasmuch as investigations con ducted in the Bureau have shown, that tiichinae are much more com mon in garbage-fed hogs than that in hogs not fed on garbage, it is essential to stress that the feeding of raw garbage tends to spread trichinosis among swine.. Other sources of trichinosis in swine are: (1) The feeding of offal from slaughterhouses; (2) the feeding of the contents of scrap barrels; (3) the failure to bury, burn, or other wise dispose of animals which die on lots and pastures and which, may be eaten by hogs. The sanitation system precludes the feeding of garbage, offal,, kitchen scraps, and other feed containing scraps of raw pork, and. involves the use of clean pastures and sanitary housing. This system decreases the cost of swine produc tion, favors the growth and de velopment of pigs, and finishes pigs for market at G to 7 months of age. The system, if carried out as recommended, will reduce, if not. eliminate altogether, trichinosis in. swine, sincte it removes most of the known sources of trichinae. -xx- Civil Service Exami nations Announced Hog Sanitation Plan Wards Off Trichinae Clemson, July 31.—A strict ad herence to the swine sanitation program, as developed by the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry and now being promoted in South Car olina by the Extension Service and The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for the following positions: Associate naval architect, $3,200 a,year; assistant naval architect,' $2,600 a year. Dental laboratory mechanic, $2;- 000 a year; assistant dental labora tory mechanic, $1,440 a year; den tal hygienist, $1,620 a year; Public Health Service, Treasury Depart ment, and Veterans’ Administra^- tion. Full information may be obtain ed from the Secretary of the Unit ed States Civil Service Board of Ex aminers at the post office or cus tomhouse in any city which has a. post office of the first or second, class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Wash.- ington, D. C. xx German Names for Months The ancient German names for the 12 months were: January, Har- tung; February, Hornung; Marche Lenzing; April, Ostermond; May, Maien; June, Brachet; July, Heu- ert; August, Ernting; September^ Scheiding; October, Gilbhart; No vember, Neblung; December, JuL mond. tlX — Piqua, Ohio Piqua, Ohio, was first called Washington when it was platted in ]o09, but the town was later named j fter the Shawnee town of Piqua, i. that vicinity, which was wiped r.,t by George Rorers Clark in 1782. President Pierce's Cabinet The cabinet of President Franklin Pierce was the only one which? served throughout an administra- * ion without a change in personnels