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HeCORMICK MESSENGER, MeCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA sHaj*, Janaary 19, 1939 VcCOKMlCK MESSENGER Chevrolet— Salesmanship Every Thursday Established lone i. EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Edlter and Owner at the Post Office at Mc- Cormick, S. as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 St* Months .75 Three Months .50 Some Cheering Statistics Interview We’re getting richer. That is the gist of the report recently issued by the Department of Commerce on the incomes of the American peo ple. We haven’t got back to where we were in 1929, when the average income of every American, man, woman and child, was $668, but for the year 1937 the average in come was $540, which is a good deal better than the $494 of 1936. Statistics are boring, and often misleading, but it is interesting to learn that the total national in come for 1937 was more than 63 billion dollars, ten percent higher than in 1936, but still a long way below the 1929 record of over 81 billions. A billion is such a big figure that it doesn’t mean much to most folks. It is easier to understand if you think of a thousand towns with a thousand people in each town and every one of them hav ing a thousand chickens. That would make a billion chickens. One of the heartening things about the Department of Com merce report on incomes is that in 1937 the people of this country earned more than they spent. Not the government, but the peo ple themselves. We accumulated a surplus in the shape of savings bank deposits and business reserves. Another interesting fact hidden in the long string of figures is that more than two-thirds of all the money spent by everybody in the whole nation in 1937 went for salaries and wages, which is an increase over previous years. There is so much talk on all sides about the trouble so many folks have in making both ends meet that many of us seem to have been bitten by the “poverty bug.” Such figures as those cited should make us all feel more cheerful. America is far from broke. Have Your Winter Clothes Cleaned Now. WE RENDER SERVICE TO MeCORMICK AND VICINITY. WATCH FOR OUR TRUCK. Greenwood Dry Cleaning Co. ‘Dependable Cleaners' J. C. Dalton, Mgr. =y Detroit, Jan. 14.—The time is fast approaching when salesman ship will be generally recognized not simply as a major cog, but as the very power plant, of the eco- nomic machine. This is the conviction of W. E. Holler, general sales manager of Chevrolet. In an interview here this week, the man whose organ ization has sold nearly 12,000,000 new and used cars in the past five years declared that Without volume selling, volume production whose benefits are so universally recognized today, would be un known. Mr. Holler characterized the salesman’s profession as among the most worth-while of all, judged from the standpoint of its benefits to mankind at large. “In furthering the distribution of goods to men and women whom they will benefit, the salesman is performing a job for which the world has real need,” he said. “He is rendering a legitimate service, of which he has every right to be proud. And this con ception of selling is coming to be more and more general as time goes on.” Mr. Holler explained that by “selling” he did not refer to hit- or-miss operation nor to trick ex pedients whose long-haul worth is open to serious doubt. “By ‘sell ing,’ ” he said, “I mean up-to-date, scientific salesmanship, the type which should properly be classi fied as a profession, since its suc cessful conduct requires not only natural aptitude but long and serious study as well. “Scientific selling involves thorough knowledge of human nature, careful planning based on that knowledge, and persistence of a rare kind. In fact, the re quisites are so strict that sales manship, in my opinion, becomes one of the most exacting of all occupations today. “Th§ engineer, the production man, the doctor, the dentist, the lawyer, all have fairly clear sail ing as compared with the sales man. Th® trail has been well blazed in each of those fields. The scientific approach has been ap plied to selling only within recent years, and the individual entering this field today finds his course far more uncharted than do men in most other fields. “To the man naturally equipped for selling, its numerous obstacles will appear, not as excuses for letting down, but as challenges to greater effort. And the man who sticks to selling, with that attitude of mind, will make a real contri bution to the economic well-being, not only of himself, but of the nation at large.” , -ixt DOWN TMY GO! GREYHOUND FARES ‘ REDUCED! To Hundreds of Cities Outside south Carolina Nothing’s cut but the cost—you still enjoy the same extra comfort and convenience of Super-Coach travaL Sample Reduced One-Way Fare* Augusta $ .90 Jacksonville 5.35 Roanoke 5.85 Lexington, Va.__ 6.75 Washington, D.C.7.90 Charleston, W.Va.9.10 Charlotte 2.75 Winston Salem. 4.10 Miami 9.65 Tampa 7 - 85 Big EXTRA Savings on Round Trips Strom’s Drug Store, Phone 95, iVAct^orm.cK, S. C. Report of Condition of THE DORN BANKING COMPANY of McCormick, in the State of South Carolina, at the close of business on December 31, 1938. 1. 2. 3. 6. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 18. 19. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. ASSETS Loans and discounts (including $ None overdrafts) $ 25,730.65 United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 2,000.00 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 93,072.00 Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve bal ances, and cash items in process of collection 119,787.10 Other assets 25.36 TOTAL ASSETS $240,615.11 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations $132,138.19 Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and cor porations 9,312.32 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 51,884.06 Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.) 624.09 TOTAL DEPOSITS $193,958.66 Other liabilities 78.34 TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including obligations shown in item 33) $194,037.00 CAPITAL ACCOUNT Capital * $ 25,000.00 Surplus 10,000.00 Undivided profits 11,578.11 29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNT 46,578.11 30. EE- m JESTER’S CASH SERVICE STATION You can get service night and day. Stop by and give us a trial. We carry a full line of Groceries and Fresh Meats. Hot Lunches and Cold Drinks. Sanitary, and a good place to stop. Located 2 miles form McCormick on Greenwood Highway. culture in many sections. Probably Mr. Hastings’ greatest single contribution to better farming in the South was the introduction in 1905 of his now famous Hastings’ Prolific Com, enabling the Southern farmer to grow not only two, but three* and four ears of com where only one was grown before. However, his 15 richest agricultural states farmers received $180 from live stock for every $100 from crops, while in 15 poorest states farmers received only $30 from livestock for every $100 from crops. Director' D. W. Watkins of the Clemscn Extension Service, speak ing at the same meeting, sup ported Dr. Poe’s appeal for more 31. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNT $240,615.11 * This bank’s capital consists of $ None of capital notes and debentures; first preferred stock with total par value of $ None, retirable at $ None; second preferred stock with total par value of $ None, retirable at $ None; and common stock with total par value of $25,000.00. „ MEMORANDA Pledged assets (and securities loaned) (book value); (a) U. S. Government obligations, direct and guaranteed, pledged to secure deposits and other liabilities None (b) Other assets pledged to secure deposits and other liabilities (including notes and bills rediscounted and securities sold under repurchase agreement) $ 12,000.00 (c) Assets pledged to qualify for exercise of fiduciary or corporate powers, and for purposes other than to secure liabilities i None (d) Securities loaned None 32. (e) TOTAL $ 12,000.00 Secured and preferred liabilities: (a) Deposits secured by pledged assets pursuant to re quirements of law $ 12,000.00 (b) Borrowings secured by pledged assets (including re discounts and repurchase agreements) None (c) Other liabilities secured by pledged assets None (d) Deposits preferred under provisions of law but not secured by pledge of assets — None Hastings Celebrates 50 Years’ Service To Southern Agriculture H. G. Hastings, prominent seedsman of Atlanta, is celebrating his fiftieth year of service to the needs of Southern gardens and farms. Mr. Hastings was instrumental in the promotion of the Boys’ Com Clubs in many Southern states, from which has followed Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs throughout the land, building prosperous ag riculture among the farm men and women of 1 tomorrow. And later as president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and of the Southeastern Fair Association he advocated and publicized the fa- Imous “Cow-Hog-Hen” program of All Kinds Of Welding. John diversified farming that introductions of other field and livestock and stressed the need of garden seeds are numbered by the score and are considered indis pensable for the greatest South ern farm and garden success. Still actively interested in the permanent prosperity of the Southern farmer and gardener, his advice and suggestions play a prominent part in councils con cerned with their welfare. 1x1 More Livestock Urged By Dr. Poe And Others Columbia, Jan. 14.—Contrasting the dark outlook for cotton and most other cash crops during the next five years with the brighter outlook for livestock and poultry. Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, urged South Carolina farmers to adopt animal production as the other arm of good farming to balance crop pro duction, speaking here Wednesday meant; morning, January 11, to 250 farm a statewide —tut r 1 • 1 discarding the shackles of “one people attending Thomas McGrath, McCormick, crop „ {armlng that had practl _ poultry meetlng . § # C. cally bankrupted Southern agri- Dr. Poe pointed out that in the liming South Carolina soils for better production of a diversity of crops needed in connection with livestock. Other speakers at the meeting included J. D. Sykes of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; J. C. Harrell, Spartanburg, president of the South Carolina Poultry Coun cil; and J G. Wofford, Hartsville, president of the South Carolina Poultry Improvement Association. In the afternoon the Improve ment Association and the Poultry Council met separately. During these meetings officers were re elected as follows: South Carolina Poultry Im provement Association—J. G. Wof ford, president; Y. T. Dickert. Newberry, vice-president; P. H jroeding, Clemson, secretary; Dr. 3“A. Mays, Columbia, C. L. Mor-' ?an, Clcmscn, W. H. Boulware Lexington, and D. B. Jones, Char leston, members of the executive board. South Carolina Poultry Counci? —J. C. Harrell, president; W. F Harrell, Lancaster, vice-president: P. H. Gooding, secretary. (e) TOTAL $ 12,000.00 33. (a) Unpaid dividends cn preferred stock’ and unpaid interest on capital notes and debentures, accrued to end of last dividend or interest period, not included in lia bilities or reserves above None (b) Other obligations not included in item 24 which are subordinated to claims of depositors and other creditors None 34. (a) On date of report the required legal reserve against deposits of this bank was $ 12,964.50 (b) Assets reported above which were eligible as legal reserve amounted to $119,787.10 . I, P. J. Robinson, Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, and that it fully and correctly represents the true state of the several matters herein contained and jet forth, to the best of my knowledge and belief. P. J. ROBINSON, Cashier. Correct.—Attest: M. G. Dorn, G. J. Sanders, Jr., Hanora C. Dorn, Directors. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of January, 1939, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this hank. Robt. L. Dendy, Notary Public. My commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. 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 HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there Is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, 6. C. THE HOUSE OF HAZARDS —by Mac Arthur 50 YOU PREPARE YOOR OWM BREAKFAST, EH? BAY, IF MY WIFE WDHTJ MAKE WCY BREAKFAST | WOUIDNT GO TO YfORKj , hazard/. PERHAPS BOB’S RIGHT, MAYBE I SHOULD INSIST ON THE WIFE COOKING MY BREAKFAST— I WILL \HS\Sl BY GOLLY * ^SO-STARTING OH, SO I DON’T DO TOMORROW ENOUGH AROUND HERE MORNING-MTYOU BEGRUDGE ME A DEMAND LITTLE REST IN THE THAT— J7 MORNINGS-ALRIGHT, 1 ILL GET UP- I LL GET UP/ WHY WD YOU UPSET MOTHER LIKE THAT? NOW, SHE WONT ALLOW ME TO GO TO THE DANCE/