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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICEL, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, February 24, 1938
fccCORMICK MESSENGER
Published Every Thursday
Established June 5, 1902
EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
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The Super-Highway
Project
A bill is being discussed in Wash
ington, with the approval of the
President, for the construction of
a system of super-highways criss
crossing the whole United States
his home town? It was an appeal
for international brotherhood.
What is the teaching of the sub
lime parable of the prodigal son?
It brings God to our attention,
surely. But it stresses man
quite as much. What was the
Master’s answer to the lawyer’s
query, “Who is my neighbor?” The
•memorable story of the Good Sa
maritan.'
But Jesus’ faith in man is fur
ther confirmed by his ministry of
healing and of comfort. Here is a
widow mourning the loss of her
only son; here are parents stricken
with grief because of the death of
their little daughter; here are sis
ters lonely because their brother
has passed into the great silence.
To all did the Son of Man come
with a sympathy born of faith.
Is man of more value than a
sheep? Christians know that he is.
For God can be in him, and Christ.
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U. S. Income
ly standard of value is usefulness,
a pound of gold is worth less than
a knife, a cow or gun. Things they
can use are the only real wealth
which a larger part of the world’s
people understand.
LAND . . . source of wealth
All wealth comes from the soil.
It does not become real wealth un
til labor has been applied to it.
The forest is only potential wealth
until the trees have been cut down
and converted into lumber, are-
woed or something else people can
use. Farms cannot produce food
without labor. Iron, copper and
other minerals are valueless unti
labor has been expended „o extract
them from the land. Then norr.
labor is needed to convert them
nto more highly concentrated
forms of wealth, such as automo
biles, w r atches and electric gener
ators.
The more labor is applied to the
products of the soil, the more real
wealth is produced. The. more ma-
Trx Returns chines we use enable eacl1 unit
of labor to produce more wealth,
the greater is labor’s share in the
Federal income tax returns for we alth. Unless we increase
like a gigantic gridiron^ TTipTrinip the calendar year 1937 are re q uired the total wealth by increasing ‘the
^ P 1011011 ' The tnple to be filed by single persons who Dr oduction of each worker the less
purpose would be served of giving v, 0 j _ nnn ^ production 01 eacn worKer, tne less
employment to hundreds of thons ha< * a net income of $ 1 '. 000 or m ore, c h ance there is of any worker get-
empioyment to Hundreds of thous- or a gross incorne of $5 000 or more, 1 tin „ his sharfl of tha wpalfch
°f W ° r erS ’ enablln f motor and married couples who had com- America has become the wealthi-
traffic to move more swiftly from *0 enn ^ America nas oecome tne weaitnx-
one part of the nation to annthpr blRed net mcome of $ 2 - 500 or more, est CO untry in the world’s history
^ P •4. e natl( P to another * or gross income of $5,000 or more. b thp ,, irrDlp me ans of making it
and making it easier for the Army I ^ nprind for inromp tax 1 by the Slinple means ot mafcm g it
to move troons to anv nart nf thP 1 Th p rtod f fil g mcome tax possible for labor to produce more
to move troops to any part of the returns for the calendar year 1937 - . —---
n ation al boundaries. \ j anua ry 1 and ends at mid-
The scheme is for a system of night March 15, 1938. All income
to H . r . oads ’ ^ cost an estimated tax returns must be in the office
eight billion dollars. Interest and of the Col i e ctor of Internal Rev-
amortization of this huge sum enue Columbia, S. C., or in the
^°!!. C L.t a ^ f ^. aPOat $ T 320 ; 000 ; ( ^ )0 a hands of a deputy collector, before
midnight of March 15, 1938, in or
der to avoid liability for penalties.
Deputy Collectors of Internal
Revenue will visit the towns listed
below on the dates shown and at
the places indicated for the pur-
pose of assisting taxpayers with
the preparation of their income tax
returns. Should any information
or assistance be needed taxpayers
are requested to get in touch with
year, which would be obtained from
tolls charged for the use of the
super-highways. The tolls would be
high enough to provide for main
tenance, policing and upkeep as
■well. Any passenger car using any
part of one of the new roads would
pay 25 cents plus a cent and a half
every ten miles; trucks would pay
a higher rate. The estimated tolls
between New York and Washington
would be 4° cents for a passenger . deputy collectors on the dates the
car and $2.25 for a ten-ton truck
For that the motorist would get
a perfect road built on a 300-foot
right-of-way, passing around towns
instead of through them, with sep
arate lanes for traffic in each di
rection, special pavements for
trucks, and all crossings of high
ways or railroads wither above or
below the grade of the main road.
The plans call for three such super
highways from the Atlantic to the.
Pacific and six running from the
Canadian border to the Gulf of
Mexico or points on' the Mexican
border.
Senator Bulkley of Ohio, sponsor
of the project, proposes a Federal
Highway Corporation to do the job
in three years. He believes that if
ten percent of the nation’s cars use
the new roads the income would GEMS,
be at least $25,000,000 more than
the sum needed to pay for it over
a period of years.
It is a gigantic project. On the
face of it, it seems feasible. It has
the advantage over many other
Federal projects that it would pay
for itself and cost the taxpayers
nothing. ■
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deputies visit their nearest towns.
Abbeville, P. O. Building, March 2.
Anderson, Plaza Hotel, March 8
to 15.
Edgefield, County Court House,
March 1.
Greenwood, P. O. Building, March
1 to 15.
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wealth per worker, and giving the
workers an increasing share of the
wealth produced. Any artificial re
straint of any kind upon our pro
duction of wealth tends to make
us poorer, not richer.
TODAY and
TOM
FRANK PARKER
STOCKBRID6E
.genuine man-made
Sunday School Lesson
BY REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
Measuring a Man's Worth.
Lesson for Today. Mark 5:1-17.
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Golden Text: Matt. 12:12.
A process for manufacturing dia
monds from pure carbon has been
patented by an American inventor.
Small diamonds have actually been
made in experimental laboratories,
but at greater cost than the natur
al gems. Whether it will ever be
cheaper to make diamonds than to
dig them out of the ground#nobody
can predict.
In the American Museums of Na
tural History are two specimens of
artificial emeralds. One is so per
fect that experts pronounce it a
genuine emerald. Nobody knows
yet what these new synthetic emer
alds will cost.
One thing is certain. If it proves
to be possible to manufacture gems
more cheaply than natural ones
can be mined, most of the jewels
now in existence will lose most of
LABOR .... should share
I have never been able to see any
fairer basis of payment for labor
employed in the production of
wealth than to give each worker an
agreed-on, pre-determined share of
the wealth produced—that is, of its
value measured in money.
The piece-work system was in
general use in my youth. The rise
of labor unions has. almost entirely
done away with it. Substitution of
payment by the hour or day for
payment by the amount of work
done has taken much of the incen
tive to work from millions of work
ers. It puts the less skilful on an
equal level with the more skilful,
and makes it possible for‘the lazy
slacker to earn as much as the
more industrious.
I know the stock argument
against piece-work is that greedy
employers “chisel’ the rates down
and step up the daily required out
put. But it surely should be as easy
to regulate piece-work compensa
tion by law as to fix a minimum
hourly wage by law, and fairer to
employer and worker alike.
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EQUALITY . . . for women
• Having won many battles for
special privileges denied to men. a
considerable number of American
women do not want those privi
leges taken away from them bv the
proposed “Equal rights” amend
ment to the Constitution. Most of
us thought that when woman suf
frage was voted into the Constitu
tion, that ended the war between
the sexes, but not so.
A woman factory worker cold a
Congressional committee the other
day that strict legal equality be
tween the sexes would make it pos
sible for men to claim alimony
from women in case of divorce, for
men to demand that their wives
support them, as women can do
now, and do away with laws limit
ing the hours in which women may
be required to work. Those are on
ly a few of the advantages present
laws in most states give women
over men.
I have been observing the pro
gress of women for a good many
McGrath motor co
McCORMICK, S. C.
Brothers’ 9 Jerseys, Saluda, averag
ing 54.28 pounds of butterfat per
cow; second, 19 Guernseys owned
by J. B. Roddy, Columbia, averag
ing 53.45 pounds; third, 5 Guern
seys owned by W. B. Stringfellow,
Chester, 52.97 pounds per cow.
For fourth place in January (af
ter sixth in December) Dr. D. E.
Peek’s herd of 12 Jerseys and
Guernseys, Six Mile, averaged 52.18
pounds. Coming up to' fifth place
in January from ninth in Decem
ber were the 20 Guernseys of Ware
Shoals Mfg. Co., Ware Shoals, with
51.03 pounds per cow. Sixth place
was won by 16 Guernseys of J. B.
Guess, Jr., Denmark, averaging
50.36 pounds. This herd placed
seventh in December.
Others among the 10 highest herd
averages were: seventh, 20 Guern
seys owned by Pedigreed Seed Co., I
Hartsville, 49.62 pounds; eighth, 16
Guernseys owned by W. C. King,
Bishopville, 47.79 pounds; ninth, i
nine Guernseys owned by L. W. |
Stroud, Great Falls, 44.47 pounds; i
tenth, 33 Guernseys owned by N. G.
Roosevelt, Monks Comer, 43.86
pounds.
A tabulation of the 10 highest
individual producers shows that all
were from these 10 highest herds,
, their value. As they become com-
,r How much then-is a man better moner it will no longer be possible
than a sheep?” inquires our Golden to exchange them for real wealth.
Text. It all depends upon one’s The same would be true of gold if
point of view. Suppose that .one anyone found a cheap way to make years. In political affairs it would
is a convinced materialist, believing it. not surprise me to see women com-
that life ^3 essentially purposeless, pletely dominating government—
a mere cog in a ruthless machine. WEALTH . . . .not monev an d making a good job of it. But
If this be our creed then man is a We are accustomed to thinking i n most matters I’m old-fashioned
little better than a sheep, but not of gold and jewels as wealth. They enough to feel that women who de- except the first which was a Hol-
v-’ry much better. Or suppose we are not wealth, but merely symbols mand equality with men are sacri- j stein, Fobes O. H. L. Honey, owned
strive to answer Tesu-’ '•uestion or evidences of wealth. Real wealth ficing the superiority which every! by Clemson College, with 34.12
from the standpoint of money val- consists in things which people can | smart woman has naturally. pounds. Other individual places
were taken as follows: second and
fourth respectively by two of Dr.
Peek’s Jerseys, Dave with 78.44
pounds, and Raleigh’s Dream Girl,
75.70 pounds; third and fifth by
Wheeler Jerseys, Standard Treva,
78.12 pounds, and Standard Boutil-
liere Alice, 75.10 pounds; sixth and
Clemson, Feb. 14.—The first ninth by Guernseys in the Roddey
three places in dairy herd pro- herd. May Daisy of Orangeburg
Test Maintain
High Records
ue. In actual dollars and cents, is use, and in nothing else. Food, | x
a man worth more than a sheep? clothing, houses, machines, tools, Ty • - XT rl - O
Not if you consider simply the everything which meets a human tJair\ rlCrdS v/11
value of the chemical ingredients need is wealth. Money is simply
in his body. For it has been care- whatever is accepted everywhere as
fully calculated that these are a token which can be exchanged
worth, on the average, only 98c. for wealth at will.
But let us now consider the Money has been described as the
answer to the Master’s question most convenient device for trans-
from the standpoint of Jesus him- porting values through time and
self. At once we are struck by his space. It is a carrier of values, with
altogether astonishing faith in no value in itself, because it serves
man. His faith in God is wonder- no other purpose,
ful, so clear, persuasive, and tri- The scarcer the accepted tokens
umphant. But equally marvelous of wealth, such as gold, silver and
Ik his - trust in his fellows. What gems, the larger the values which
was the burden of the first sermon they can carry from one place ts
that Jesus preached .n Nazareth, another. Among savages whose on-
WHEN you CO BY GRiYHOUW
^ ’WEQUALS $ &
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duction averages for January were
taken by the same herds winning
these honors in December, ac
cording to records of R. L. Steer,
in charge of Advanced Registry
testing for the South Carolina
Experiment Station.
These were: first place, Wheeler
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73.10 pounds, and Gold Branch D.
Betty Rachel, 72.06 pounds; seventh
and eighth by Guess Guernseys,
Baron’s Jubilee, 73.09 pounds, and
Jane’s Star Jewel, 72.36 pounds;
tenth, a Guernsey in the King
herd, Rivelon Royal Flash, 71.91
pounds.