Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCORMlCK MESbL^<l»ER. McCORMiCK, SOGTH CAROLINA Tuurstfay, January 27, 1933 TOMY and FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDOEl *MAN . 2,000,000 years old “How old is man?” That is a question which has been puzzling men of science and religious teach ers from the beginning of human thought. A hundred years ago Bishop Usher calculated, from the Bible story, that Man was created 4,004 years before the birth of Christ, • and that is the figure which literal believers in the Bible /still hold to. * Ccientific research, however, in dicates that Man is a product of "■•i'hons of years of evolution. The Biblical account of the Creation is true, scientists hold, only in the -iGcid sense that events happened in the order named in Genesis, with Man as the last finished product. But instead of occurring ill seven days, the accepted belief of science is that it took nearer seven thousand million years to create the Earth and make it ready | for Mankind’s occupancy. The latest conclusion of science, j reported to tne American Archeo- | logical Association by Dr. N. C. : Neison of the American Museum of | Natural History, is that Man, as a thinking, tool-using animal, has been on earth for about two million years. , * * * AIR .. . . . its composition i “What is air?” That is another | scientific question which ccncerns - NATCm,SONNY, NATCHEL! Ml mm •v.v X: dX'Mvvi A mib. From the new 1938 Natural Chilean Calendar Natural balance! That’s the secret. Uncle Natchel says that’s everything in Sonny’s learning to ride his mule. And be sure of natural balance in your nitrate, too! Chilean Nitrate of Soda is natural —the only natural nitrate. For over 100 years it’s been a dependable source of nitrogen for nearly every crop that’s grown. Now we’re learning the importance of its other vital elements, such as iodine, boron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, potash, zinc. Iron* copper and many others. Chilean Nitrate of Soda carries these vital elements in Nature's balance and blend. "Folks," soys Uncle Natchel, "dot's de secret, Natchel balance an’ blend—dot's whut counts." Si NATURAL CHILEAN NITRATE m SODA THE NATURAL SIDE DRESSER « w -avi V. c ““ rJ. HATURM- k ^ v , ON YOUR £n i°y tb 6 Uncle Natchel program every Saturday night on a A n i ^ i WSB and WSM and every Sunday afternoon on WIS, WPTF, { * A D I O ! WET, KWKH, WJDX, WRVA, and WMC. fUtde a ttw* GBSW 0 ®!"?. driving COST \ B REAK winter’s spell with an invigorating trip— in real comfort. The cost is absolutely minimum, with fares 25% to 65% lower than other travel ways. Round Trip Faros Greenville $ 2.70 Auerusta S 1.65 Asheville 5.05 Richmond _ 12.45 Knoxville 8.40 Abinedon — 9.45 New York __ 19.55 Washington 14.25 Miami 17.40 Tampa 14.15 STROM’S DRUG STORE Phone 95, McCormick, 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 HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there Is no additional charge for service ont of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. all of us. Man can li^c onlv ^ ar atmosphere adapted to breathing. Science puts it another way. Man is what he is because he is an a-h- mal which developed after tne r%n tents of the earth’s atmosphere be came finally settled. | Air is primarily oxygen, diluted with five times its buik or nitrogen. That has been known for bundled of years. But research has found small quantities of many otue gases in the air, all of which arc necessary to the maintenance cl life. Helium, neon and argon are the best known of these. They can be extracted from air and used ior commercial purposes. The latest discovery about the air is that it contains a complex gas which scientists call nitrogen pen- toxide. The function of this ga.. seems to be to filter the dan^erou- ultra-violet rays of the sun, which would make life impossible if they were not toned down. * * * BRIDGE . . . Bering Straits “Where did Man first live,” is an other question on which a great amount of scientific research has been done. The general agreement among scientists is that Man first appeared in Central or Western Asia, in the general region where the Biblical Garden of Eden Was located. It now seems probable that not only Man but all other forms oi animal lire started in Asia, and spread ever the rest of the world by routes which were afterwards closed. Dr. Ralph W. Cheney of the Carnegie Institution of Washing ton working with Hser^-Hsu Hu, a Chinese scientist, has found evi dence that up to about 15 million years ago the continents of Asia and America were connected by a strip of land, so that migration from one side of the globe to the other was easy. Aleutian Islands are the mountain-tops of the an cient bridge across Bering Strait. After the bridge disappeared. <> animal life developed in America along different lines from whe rest of the world. * * * FAMILIES . . . better grade I The problem of improving the human stock has been getting a great deal of attention from scien tists lately. The first direct appli cation of science to Man has enor mously diminished human suffer ing and waste of human resources, and science is now beginning to work on the problem of changing human qualities and improving hu man enviroment. “A gradually improving stock is necessary if we are to take full ad vantage of the possibilities of a gradually improving enviroment,” Frederick Osborn told the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science the other day. Mr. Osborn pointed out that the first step would be to discover why ! some people have large families and others small families, and changing social conditions to en courage larger families among the higher grades of human beings. That would be another step toward the perfect world. ♦ * * WAR and youth A couple of years ago a group o: students at Oxford University, England, met and issued a proc.a .nation declaring that none of them would ever go to war, no mat ter what danger threatened their country. Nobody in England toon their declaration seriously. Eng lishmen are accustomed to the antics of Oxford undergraduates, and these represented only a very small minority of the student oody. Some American university stu- ients, however, picked up the idea, and the American Students’ Union adopted a formal resolution that they would never fight for their country under any provocation. Many people took that seriously. The Students’ Union, however, at its convention in the last Christ- nas holidays, rescinded the resolu tion. The boys explained that they never meant to be caken seriously, and that they were still patriotic .Vhich is what I would have ex pected of them, anyway. FORD OFFERS TWO NEW (ARS and keeps their PRICES LOW /tight — tb* Standard Tudor Sedan 60 or 85 horsepower Below — the De Lnxe Fordor Sedan 85 horsepower Met , > ' c-v < / l - T here are two new Ford cars for 1938 — the De Luxe and the Standard—differing in appearance, appointments and price — but built on the same dependable Ford chassis. Both bring you the basic advantages of a V-type 8-cylinder power-plant — smooth performance and compact de sign. The De Luxe Ford has the 85-horse- power engine. The Standard Ford pro vides a choice of 85 or 60 horsepower. Both new cars are economical to oper ate. The Standard, with thrifty “60 engine, costs less to run than any other Ford car ever built. And both new cars are priced low. Low price, like economy, is a Ford tra dition. Ford founded the low-price field 30 years ago and keeps Ford prices low. The De Luxe Ford costs slightly more than the Standard Ford, but provides more style with extra room in the closed sedans. Both cars, in proportion to price, represent unusual values. Both are built to the same high standard of mechanical excellence. There’s a dealer near you. XX- Points Out Advantages Growin g Longer Cotton Jpn. °—A considerable shortage in the 1937 crop of staple cotton lengths 1 i-16-lnch or long er Is indicated by the December rrnort on grade and staple of the 1937 cotton crop issued by the United States Department of Ag riculture, says R. W. Hamilton, ex tension agronomist. The report covers 16,165,000 bales of the 1937 crop. Of this total only 2,185,000 bales are 1 1-16-inch or longer, which is only 13.6 per cent of the total crop. In 1936 a similar report covering 11,482,000 bales showed 2,336,000 bales of 1 1-16-inch or longer, or 20.4 per cent of the total. Despite the much larger total crop in 1937, the production of the longer lengths of cotton is much lower in 1937 than in 1936. Regarding this situation Mr. Hamilton quotes D. R. Coker, the leading cotton authority of the South, as stating that last year the supply of 1 1-16 to 1 5-32- inch was exhausted almost to a bale, and that the tendency with American mills is towards the consumption of longer lengths of staple away from the 7-8 to on.? inch cotton. “At pres ent”, says Mr. Coker, “1 1-8-inch cotton can bo sold without diffi culty at premiums, landed at mills, of 250 to 350 points.” “With an indicated shortage of the extra lengths of staple for the 1933-39 cotton year, it would seem highly profitable in large differen- nais if South Carolina farmers ..ould plant seed bred to produce {aple lengths of 1 1-13-inch or better”, says Mr. Hamilton. “Because of the adverse weather :onditions during the picking sea- n, all farmers should have germi nation tests made on all plant ng seed for 1938 and should try to ob tain the very highest quality seed.” sociation in December for the pur pose of giving assistance to the members in the sale of seed and hay. County Agent W. H. Stall- worth reports that the farmers have approximately 50,000 pounds of scarified sericea lespedeza seed which will bring quite a good in come to those involved. In coopera tion with the association, most of these growers are offering their seed to the government to be used by the Soil Conservation Service in their projects. * * * York, Jan. 22.—Our large les pedeza seed production demonstra- uon witn iViC. Dave Cameron nas atti acted lot of attention and num bers of inquiries about seed, says L. W. Johnson, county agent. About 25 tons of seed have been reclean ed and prepared for market and the county agent is having these seed t-tlcd ior purity and germi nation. On 65 acres that have had les- peaeza turned two years Mr. Cameicn made ever Kiu bales of cotton in 1937. lie says that ns can make move money growing les- veaeza seed or hay, improving die land, and planting a smaller acre age of cotton. He expects to sow perhaps 50 acres more of ie.p-dc— this spring. /vpDfRN WpMfKl LsutNE White PTssidaat of The Na tional Federation of Busi ness and Professional Clubs, Inc. It is a fine tribute to the courage and adventurous spirit of the late Amelia Earhart that a memorial beacon is to be established in her honor at Howland Island by the Department of the Interior. While even at this date some people believe that she may still be alive in seme inaccessible spot in the Facifi2 where her airplane came down, a memorial light will not only commemorate her attempted round-the-world flight, but will bo helpful to other navigators. The light v/ill be approximately twenty feet from base to top and will be of special assistance to coast guard vessels. Similar lights will bo placed on Jarvis and Baker Islands. -xx- -xx- Farm News Bright Spots ~ , '>rcr.'''\ Jan. 22.—Rufus Wiggins - Gerald Langston of the Glen- ~d 4-H club did well with their be s last year. Both came back r- h prize money from the State ~ > but 'hey were not satisfied t? stop there. They have both pur- ' ‘'^'d a registered gilt from Fox T'zdal of Pinewood. They hope to bring the honor of the state live stock championship to Glenwood ’ h again as Billy Jones did in 1937, says J. W. McLendon, county farm agent. # * * Spartanburg, Jan. 22.—The les pedeza growers of Spartanburg county were organized into an as- Non-Cooperativcs Should File Work-Sheet Now Farm operators of non-cooperat ing farms in 1937 should file work-sheets within the next few days in order for the County to receive full credit for its acreages in crops under the 1938 Farm Pro gram. The information obtained on these non-cooperating farms will be used in setting up goals for said farms under the 1938 Farm Pro gram making the 3 cents subsidy payment on cotton. Community Committeemen are available in each community to assist the non cooperating farmers in filling out this form. Everyone in this group is urged to file this work-sheet at once, thereby placing his farm in line for the 1938 Farm Program. R. D. Suber, County Agent. It was fitting that our “Ambassa dor of Friendship,” as Mrs. Henry W. Peabcdy of Massachusetts has been named, should sail from this country to the Orient on Armistice Day. She will attend in India the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Women’s Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India, where Indian women physicians are train ed. Her appointment was made jointly by the directors of the American Section of Vellore Col lege and the directors of Madras Christian College for Women at Madras, India. Mrs. Peabody has a winter home in Florida. Tim. Esma Nayman, who is a Tv: kish deputy for the constituen cy of Seyhan, is an outstanding r Viority on political and social a:' airs. There are seventeen women ii. the Great National Assembly v. ich numbers 300* and women are n ,v administering civil and crim inal justice in several of the prc\ luces.