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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICKl, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, October 14, 1937 MESSENGER ( Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 I EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner TODAY and Entered at the Post Office at Mc- , Cormick, S. C. t as mail matter of > the second class. nCKSCItirriON RATES: One Year $1.00 €»ix Months .75 Three Months .50 State Fair Rally For 4-H Club sters Clemscn, Oct. 9.—The first 4-H state rally ever held in South Car olina will be held at the State Fair in Columbia, Wednesday, Oct. 20. Dr. A. F. Lever, director of the pub lic relations for the Farm Credit Administration and co-author of the Agricultural Extension Act, will be the principal speaker on a pro gram to be held on the grandstand of the racetrack at the Fair. Besides the principal address by Dr. Lever, short talks will be made by President E. W. Sikes of Clemson College, Director D. W. Watkins of the Extension Service, and representatives of the 4-H boys and girls. Music will add zest to the occasion. In addition to this program which will be conducted from 11:15 a. m. to 12:15 p. m., 11 demonstra tion teams will demonstrate at reg ular intervals certain improved farm and home practices. These demonstrations will be given that afternoon at the 4-H corn club and home demonstration booths in the Steel Building, beginning at one o’clock and again twice a day Thursday ^md Friday. Clubsters, their parents, and local leaders from every county in the state have been invited to attend this first 4-H rally, and a large attendance is expected. The boys’ demonstrations will in clude better methods of harvesting, handling, and ginning of cotton; permanent pasture improvement; field-selecting seed com; swine sanitation; dust treatment of cot ton seed; and poultry lice and mite contrpl. The girls’ teams will dem- onstrkte flower arrangement, school lunches, clothing, 4-H books, and eggs for market. xx State Poultrymen Comply With National Plan Clemson, Oct. 9.—J. E. Humphrey, poultry husbandman of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash ington, D. C., was in South Caro lina October 7 and 8 to visit hatch- erymen who are complying with the National Poultry Improvement Plan and flock owners who supply eggs to these hatcherymen, say Ex tension Service officials. The primary purpose of the Na tional Poultry Improvement Plan is to identify, authoritatively, poul try breeding stock, hatching eggs and chicks—with respect to quality —by describing them in terms uni formly accepted in all parts of the country. Protection is thereby af forded producers from unscrupu lous competition, and purchasers are enabled to buy with confidence. South Carolina hatcheries whose managers have said that they will ccmply with the National Plan are: Cheraw Hatchery, Cheraw; Farm ers’ Hatchery, Newberry; Pee Dee Hatchery, Hartsville; Thorn well Orphanage Hatchery, Clinton; Col leton Hatchery; Walterboro; Dun can’s Hatchery, Greenville; Sharon Electric Hatchery, Sharon; and Carolina Poultry Farm, Clio. Casing V ulcanizing I am prepared to do first class vulcanizing cn casings and tubes. All work guaranteed. D. E. McGRATH, McCormick, S. C. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 956 Broad Street Augusta, Ga j SEA melted ice Men have never known much about the bottom of the sea. Per haps science will never find a way to explore the ocean’s floor and map all of its mountains and val leys, but new discoveries are being made all the time. The latest of these is that the bottom of the sea has hundreds of deep canyons, or clefts in the rocks which form the body of the earth, some of them as long and as wide as the Grand Canyon of the Colo rado River. There isn’t any way to account for these ocean valleys ex cept by guesswork. Scientists are trying to make the most plausible guesses. The guess which seems most likely to be true is that almost all the parts of the globe now covered by water were once dry land. The waters were frozen into ice-caps, miles high, over the two poles of the earth. As the sun grew hotter and the ice began to melt, enor mous rivers flowed forth and gouged out deep channels for themselves. But in the course of millions of years so much of the ice turned to water that it filled all the lowlands, creating what is now the ocean, and those old river channels are now just deep gashes m the ocean’s floor. Maybe that’s true. It sounds interesting, any way. * * * AGE of Earth The age of the Earth is one of the questions to which men of sci ence are ceaselessly trying to find the answer. The general belief is that our planet is irom two thou sand to three thousand millions oi years old, and that life has existed on it for more than two million. Half a million years ago there were palm trees growing in north ern Greenland. Then the climata changed and that whole northern nemisphere, down as south as he Ohi_ -.iver, was covered with ice a couple of miles thick. Man and ail other animals had to move toward the Equator as tiie ice ad vanced. Then the ice melted and man moved North again. Three times that has happened. The Third Age nas not yet ended. Every century the earth gets warmer and more of the polar ice melts and the northern regions become more nabitable. A thousand years from now ou. grandchildren of the thirtieth generation may pick oranges in Canada and go to the beaches of Hudson Bay for a warm winter va cation. * * * PICTURES . . easier to take I have been an amateur photo grapher all my life. I made my first camera when I was sixteen. There .sn’t anything much more fun than taking pictures, and it never was so easy for anybody and everybody jO take good pictures as it is today. The latest cameras will take pic tures almost in the dark. Indeed jy the use of the new infra-rea plates, photographs can be mad. vhere there is no light at all, so fa is the unaided eye can determine The new flashlight bulbs make t possible to get pictures at any hour of the day or night. By the use of pictures, news papers and magazines are much more interesting today than they used to be when I was a young man. The old Chinese saying chat one picture is worth ten thousand words may not be literally true, but it is a way of saying that we learn hrough our eyes easier than hrough our ears. I think the young folks of today know a lot more than .d those of my generation, they .ee so many pictures, in newspa pers, magazines and the movies, jhowing them how the world and its people look and act. * * * MEAT .... to stay high Twenty-five years ago I went out into the cattle country of the West to find out why porterhouse steak in New York had gone up to 32 cents a pound. I wrote an article in which I predicted that it would keep on going up. A couple of weeks ago anyone who wanted por terhouse steak in New York had to pay 90 cents a pound for it. The answer to the rising cost of •» vc «... 'J.* •)? ..unnly is at work. The droughts of two and three years _ lj na»e Joeir Sy/MB0L OF SAN' vs-. v.-4*1 .W ■ *'* -ii.Tsy— v. * % \ *. ,*■ : r -'!■&? v. }.* "v rvr >, •—* ’V 3.-T ■ • JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 Main Street We Deliver McCormick, S. C. We have purchased from J. L. Smith his Meat Market on Main Street and are now located at that stand and ready for business. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to be at your service. Fresh Fish and Norfolk Oysters, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. mescapable effect on consumer prices. It takes on the average, three years to grow a beefsteak. There was not enough breeding jtock left in the cattle country, af ter the drought, to produce a nor mal crop of marketable steers for Dhis year. More people want ceef, .here is less beef available; hence the high prices. I don’t believe we will ever see eheap beef again. It takes a lot of capital to raise beef cattle, and a long wait for returns. In the old days of the open range beef was ’.heap. Now the range country has jeen fenced in, and the cost of :attle raising will never go down again. * * * BOOKS . . an author’s gamble I have just finished writing a look. I have done little else for he past five months but work on hat book. It will be published in December and then, if enough oeople buy copies of it, I’ll begin to 5,et my wages for the time I spent on writing it. If a whole lot of oeople like the book well enough to buy it, I may get better than wages for my time. Once in a while someone writes a book which becomes a "best seller,” but only once in a while. For every ‘Gone With the Wind,” which has -arned over half a million dollars for the woman who wrote it, there are hundreds of books published which do not sell enough copies to cover the author’s living costs for the time spent in writing them. It is impossible for anyone to predict that any book will make money for its author. Often the ones which make the big money are books which nobody expected the public to like. That is one of the reasons why the business of writing for a living is so exciting. Has Fine Loft Of Homing Pigeons Moncks Corner, Oct. 1.—Few peo ple know that here in Berkeley county, located in St. Stephen, is a loft of homing pigeons equal to any in America. They are owned by Dr. R. E. Mason, of St. Stephen, who has been a homing pigeon fancier for over forty years. This spring Dr. Mason exchanged a pair of youngsters with a Pitts burgh, Pa., fancier, where over 800 men race pigeons, and where there are some of the best fliers and pig eons irt the United States. A few days ago Dr. Mason received a let ter from this Pittsburgh fancier telling him that in a very hard *ace, in which few of the birds reached home promptly, this fan cier had three birds to reach home the day they were liberated, and two of them were the two pig eons that he had received from Dr. Mason. He stated that there were 290 lofts and 2,015 birds in the race and a bird sent him by Dr. Mason took 29th position with nearly 2,- 000 birds behind it. This is exceed ingly good in any race, and espe cially in Pittsburgh where the pig eons are so well handled. Pigeons that are able to fly 500 miles in a day are good ones, but i Dr. Mason has some pigeons whose; grandparents flew 700 miles in one day, and he has the son of a pig- ' eon which flew 1,834 miles in one race, and the granddaughter of an other which flew, 2,016 1-2 miles, the longest distance pigeons have ever raced. Pedigreed homing pigeons often sell for a big price. The highest price ever paid for one pigeon was $1,080. The four grandparents of one of Dr. Mason’s birds sold for $3,116.50. SPECIAL \6 Hot Oil Treatments for $5.00. Regular price $1.50 each. Call 67 for appointments. BROCKMAN’S BEAUTY SHOPPE, McCOEMICK, S. C. FALL SALE Continues At BROWNS’ Inc. Main Street McCormick. S. C. Riirkt now. when demands are greatest, our stock is most complete and ready. Special Values in all lines of Merchandise. Visit our store before buying and sec the many values we are offering. jerieiice 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 Nf> HINDRANCE TO OUR SERYICB and there is no additional charge for service ont of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, C.