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McCOHMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 5, 1937
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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.
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Make
f| LUNCH TIME
1 Refreshment Time
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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