McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, October 14, 1937, Image 4
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.
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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
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is at work. The
droughts of two and three years
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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.
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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.