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m > irici^MICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTil CAROLINA Thursday, Mard A V Farmers Meetings Planned is 2.7 per cent. Collections to date total $4,813,832.42. The commissioners, A. Malcolm Scarborough, A. J. Hatfield, and Dr. E. C. Lewis, explained in their statement that funds collected under u he unemployment compen- we know as The Bible. Three hun- | dred and twenty-seven years ago i the committee of scholars appoint- \ ed by King James I cf England to! revise the earlier translations of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Scriptures produced a literary Used Car Business in ^he masterpiece, although that was not tfrie County Agent is b'> 1 d’Tr T a -series of meetings this week in the County explaining the 1933 Farm j £ati ' on are deposited Program. The schedule follows. ^ate treasury and transferred from their purpose. They sought only to Plum Branch, 7:45 p. m., e unemployment ^rust make the Bible readable to every nesday, March 9th. • fund in Washington where they are Englishman who could read. Willington, 10:00 a. m., Thur ay, j nve3 ^ ec j in interest bearing govern- Their work still stands as the nent bends until needed :n Jne greatest book in the English lan- (By W. E. Holler, General Sales Manager, Chevrolet Motor Division.) March 10th Dowtin’s School, 7:30 Thursday, March 10th. Clarks Hill, 10:00 a. m March 11th. R. D. Suber, ». County Agent. m., Friday, Collections Gain Seventeen Per Cent payment of benefits. ui this state no claims for bene fits will be received until July. xx T01&&Y and guage. Many attempts have been made to revise and “modernize” The Used Car business in this country is a 2 Billion dollar indus try. In 1935 and last year it aver aged nearly 7,000,000 cars. The annual dollar turn-over in the Used Car business is greater than the text, but none of these efforts has the literary quality of the King James version. The best attempt to make the ^ host of comparisons may be that of food, clothing or the com bined jewelry and furniture ousi- ness. Columbia, March 10^—Collection •of employer-contributions by the South Carolina unemployment compensation commission during February totaled $324,128.28, a gain of approximately 17 per cent over collections of February 1937, when the total was $279,787.27, a state ment issued by the commission wO- day revealed. The contribution rate in 1937 was 1.8 per cent and in 1938, to 1941, it FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE BIBLE . . literary masterpiece The book which has been the greatest influence in shaping the English language into its present form, both in the common speech of every day and in written litera ture, is the “King James” transla tion cf the Holy Scriptures, which Eifcie more readable to the present generation is a new edition which I have recently seeh in which the old text is retained, but is printed in modern style so that «he chap ters and verses look like the pages of a modern book. I am told ohat made with this recent giant n commercial circles but they wouldn’t make it any smaller. The Used Car business is truly a giant. It has not been appreciated :n its size until recently. When there was much national this book: “The Bible designed co concern, during the early winter, oe read as living literature” :.s cell- J about the slowing down of the JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 We Deliver Main Street McCormick, S. C. Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. When you are in town be sure and come by our market and let us suggest your meat needs for you. We will give you your choice of meats. Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best. 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. mu mm rAS son! DATS DB STUFF— NATCHEl SODY <v ,* ,,r -j v, V "Natchel Sody”—that’s Uncle Natchel’s standby, and it’s been the standby of farmers for better than 100 years. Nothing takes the place of a good side dressing with Natural Chilean Nitrate. It's the ideal food for plants just as milk’s the ideal food for your children. Milk and Chilean Nitrate are both natural foods. Chilean Nitrate contains practically all the vital elements of milk, plus a lot more. And, as in milk, these vital elements are in Chilean Nitrate in Natural balance and blend. "Dot’* d« secrut, folks — NotcHol balance an* blend" Uncle Natchel BOTH guaranteed 16% HITBOBmT TNI NATURAL SIDE DRESSER NATURAL CHILEAN WRATScr SODA ***"*lT25s» * saw AN YOUR Enjoy the Unde Natchel program every Satur ^X vra i WSR aKd W SM and every Sunday afternoon on WIS, WFIT, RADIO I WBT, KWKH, WJDX, WRVA, and WMC ng faster than most popular nov els. It ought to. It will outlive all of them. INCH . . . • . getting shorter How long is an inch? That de pends on whether one is talking about an American inch or an Eng lish inch, for the English inch is shorter than the American inch by about one half-millionth of its own length. Nobody knows how the variation occurred, and it doesn’t make much difference anyway, but for the sake of conformity to inter national standards the U. S. Bu reau of Standards has asked Con gress to enact a law making the legal inch an infinitesimal fraction shorter than it now is. automobile factories with conse quent unemployment ripples that swept over most of the business surface of the country, mention was made that Used Cars were re sponsible. There was a* jam in the sale of Usea Cars, it was said, and that stalled the new car market. The resulting unemployment, from the automobile and supply facto ries shutting down or curtailing their work, still further jammed the Used Car market. Many have asked, Are Used Cars that important in our industrial :ife? They are, I can answer whole heartedly. The automobile indus try is based upon Used Cars. They The effect of the proposed law are a by-product of the automobile would be to make a difference of about an eighth of an inch in the length of a mile. The advantage would be that microscopic meas urements calculated in fractions of an inch would be the same in America as in all the other Eng- ! lish-speaking countries. Only in English-language coun tries is the inch used as a unit of measurement, anyway. Most of the rest of the world uses the metric system, reckoning in millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters .\nd kilometers. The inch now is 25.- 40005 milimeters; under the new law it will be 25.39996 millimeters. And that would make a thousand yards of muslin about a sixteenth of an inch shorter than it is now. JOBS too insecure The hitch in the plan to revive the building industry by making it easier for ordinary folks cO build or buy new homes is that so many of the people who would like to take advantage of the easy terms offered under the new F. H. A. amendments don’t feel sure enough of their jobs to warrant commit ting themselves to making pay ments on a home over a period of twenty years or more. I have talked lately with several men, and have heard cf several more, who are holding back until they see some better evidence of general economic recovery than is now in sight. They want to know whether their employers are going to continue in business, or whether there will be some nore dismissal: of employees which might include themselves. A new building boom would start a real recovery, create jobs for nil- lions and make the jobs of tho.-i who now have them nore sc ear: But it hasn’t started yet, and won’ until a hundred thousand or :n‘or< people are willing to take a chance PRICES .... and wage On one page of my morning newspaper the other day £ sa\ three items of news all having tc do with prices. ’I he President sa.v that farm prices ought 1,0 go u but that manufactured product ought to come down. A spokesn.an for Labor said that industria wages should go up. The chainna of the Maritime Commission the President that the prices aske by ship-builders were so high „hr nobody could afford to run shin which cost so much, and pay ih; wages to seamen fixed by Americai laws. The first of those statements points toward higher prices for foodstuffs and textiles—an increase in the cost of living. The second is another signal of the unceasing ef fort of organized Labor to get more pay, regardless of the effect on anyone else. And che prohibitive cost of ship-building is, in lartro measure, the outcome of „he other trends. Some day, maybe, we Americans will approach the problem of costs industry. Whereas the new cars are manufactured or fabricated in a plant, the used cars are manu factured by nearly 29 Million motor vehicle owners. Of the 29 Million owners :.n this country, it is approximated by the Petroleum Institute that 10,000,003 of those owners have never owned a new car. That means there is a very large market for Used Cars in this coun try. It also means that such a large group cannot escape the eco nomic currents that sweep the na tion from time to time. It is the size of the Used Car market, coupled with 'the extensive ramifications of the customers who compose it into all lines of business, 'hat make it difficult to gauge, or to handle easily. The brief picture of the Used Car business foundation in this: You trade in your present car to a dealer who allows you so much money value on the new car that you wish to buy. You drive away in the new car and forget the car that was left in trade. The dealer must resell that car you left in trade. It is a Used Car. The dealer has an investment in that Used ^ar nf what dollar value he allowed you for it. The dealer must sell it for an approximation of that price, plus whatever service and repairs he puts into it for reconditioning. He often has to take another Used Car in trade to sell th? Number 1 Used Car and then mus: sell the Number 2 Used Car oefor,' he can say whether he has made a profit, broken even or lost money on the three transactions tha started v/hen you entered his stor: to buy the new car. If the dealer gets too many Jsec Cars on hand, his liquid capital i~ exhausted and he has to curtail xny more selling of new cars that necessitate a Used Car trade-in. This procedure illustrates that the Used Car business is an Indus '.ry located in the stores of auto- ■''hfie d°f»lers. There are more than 60,000 dealerships in thi; country. It is conservative to make an average allowance of five men to eech dealership who make the ma- ir’ity of their wages from the Used Co r business—mechanics and sr'esir.en and managers and book- l-'-opers. These 300,000 people, with r 'i dealers, run the Used Car bus iness of this country. They have made great strides in the last few years in reconditioning and merchandising Used Cars. The ccnfidence of the buying public has t' en increased in Used Cars bought from dependable dealers because of fair treatment and honest value. These basic things have, done more to build the gigantic Used The Story of Doctor Stork When Dr. S. T. Shelly entered Mulvane, Kansas, astride the deck of a hay-burning automobile, otherwise known as a horse, in 1880, fresh from medical school, he had no idea that fifty-five year: later he would be the center of one of the most enthusiastic and dif ferent celebrations ever extended anyone by a community. During the years that he engaged in practice in that little town and the surrounding country he had ushered 4,500 children into the world, so the parents of these chil dren, the children themselves, de clared a three day festival, in which “Doctor Stock” as he was affectionately known to all, was featured, toasted, congratulated and presented with a document ex pressing the sentiments of his neighbors and patients. Started With $2.40 In talking with the good Doctor, he told me he arrived in town on a pony that he bought for $15.00 and opened an office with only $2.40 in real money in his pocket. He was 23 years of age then and faced the future with a heart full of confidence and good will toward men. While he was hanging up his sign a man hastened to him and asked “Are you the doctor?” Reply ing in the affirmative, the man grabbed him by the arm and said: “Come with me immediately.” With his brand new medical kit in his hand he hurried to a house and shortly the population of Mulvane was increased by one fine boy. From that time on, rain or shine, hot or cold, night or day, Dr. Shelly ministered to the sick. Wet or Dry, Duty Ca ls “What was your most unusual experience, doctor?” I queried. “Well,” he answered, “one pitch dark night, when it was raining cats and dogs, I went into ohe country to usher another little one into this world of trouble. When we came to Cowskin Creek, the ford was high with water, and :ny herse and I were both swept in turning over and over and finally landing a mile down stream, more dead than alive. But I got to ohe home in time and attended my pa tient in my wet clothes. There was no time to waste.” And the people in Mulvane say he has never lost a mother and child. Auditor’s Notice FOR THE YEAR 1938 I will be at the different places □n dates given below for the pur pose of taking tax returns, on Real Estate and Personal property, ex cept the kind that is returned to the Tax Commission. All owners, agents, guardians, administrators* attorneys, etc., please take notice, and make returns. 1 Office, Jan. 1st through the 15thi. Mt. Carmel, Jan. 17th, 10 a. m to 1 p. m. Willington, Jan. 17th, 2 p. m. to. 5 p. TA. Bordeaux, Jan. 18th, 10 a. m. to- 12 noon. Joe J. Link’s, Jan. 19th, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Young’s School House, Jan. 20th,. 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Vernon School House, Jan. 21st„ 10 a. m. to 12 noon. R. T. Mayson’s, Jan. 21st, 2 p. m*. to 4 p. m. Mrs. Mattie Hollingsworth’s Storey Jan. 24th, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. E. M. Morgan’s Store, Jan. 25th*. 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Plum Branch, Jan. 25th, 2 p. mi to 5 p. m. J. O. Marshall’s Store, Jan. 26th} 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Bennett Mej. Co., Jan. 26th, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m.\ Parksville, Jan. 27th, 9 a. m. tw 12 noon. , Modoc, Jan. 27th, 2 p. m. to 4i p. m. Office, Jan. 28th through Feb- 28th. After Feb. 28th 10% penalty on. all who failed or refused to make* returns. All male persons between. 21 and 60 years are liable for polL tax. 21 to 55 years are liable for road tax or street tax. C. W. PENNAL, Auditor. Treasurer’s Notice WANT_ADV. FOR SALE—One pair of com puting scales and one heater, cheap for cash. See E. F. Bussey, Modoc, S. C. FOR SALE—Cotton seed. Coker No. 13C; one year from breeder Price $1.50 per bushel; Coker No. 5-7 strain; Price $1.00 per bushel. Seed ginned clean and tested for germination, f. o. b. McCormick, J. L. Strother. FOR SALE: Cabbage, Onion and Collard Plants, all Assorted, 539 Plants, .50c; 1009 Plants, .75c. Sweet Potato and Tomato Plants, 500 Plants, .75c; 1000 $1.25. Strawberry, Pepper and Egg Plants, $2.00 per 1000. Dorris Plant Co., Valdosta, Ga. FOR SALE—Two plug mules, also three or four good ones. J. L. Bracknell, Plum Branch, S. C. Complete stock of Roysters, Reads and International Fertilizer,, Acid Phosphate, Nitrate of Soda, Cottonseed Meal, 50 per cent Muriate of Potash and 20 per cent Kainit on hand. J. L. Bracknell, Plum Branch, S. C. from a realistic point of view, and will stop trying to appeal the law Car business in the last few years i of supply and demand by statute, j than any other factors. BABY CHICKS Seed, Feed & Poultry Supplies United States Approved Hatchery Thousands hatching weekly. Write for prices and descriptive literature. Georgia-Carolina Hatchery 1025 Broad St. Augusta Ga. J 1 The County Treasurer’s Office* will be open for the purpose of re ceiving taxes from the 15th d&y or September, 1937, to the 15th day of April, 1938. All taxes shall be due and pay able between the 15th day of Sep tember, 1937, and December 31, 1937. That when taxes charged shallt not be paid by December 31, 1937, the County Auditor shall proceed* to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not paid' on or before February 1, 1938i the County Auditor will proceed to- add Two Per Cent for February, and if taxes are not paid on or be* fore March 1, 1938, the County Au ditor shall proceed to add 3 per cent for March, and if taxes are* not paid on or before April 1, 1938; the County Auditor shall proceed! to add 4 per cent up to the 15th of April, 1938, after which time the* County Treasurer shall issue exe cutions for all unpaid taxes, plus 7 per cent penalty. The tax levies for the year 1937' are as follows: For State Purposes 5 mills For County Purposes 8 mills For Bonds ll4 mills Constitutional School Tax_ 3 mills Mt. Carmel School District No. 1 2 mills Willington S. D. No. 2 5 mills Bordeaux S. D. No. 3 2 mills McCormick S. D. No. 4 and Bonds 14 mills Buffalo S. D. No. 5 4 mills Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mills 3. D. No. 7 00 mills Bethia S. D: No. 8 8 mills Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 __10 mills Young’s S. D. No. 10 00 mills Wideman’s S! D. No. 11' 2 mills Milway S. D. No. IS - 2 mills- Robinson S. D. No. 14 6 mills Dornville S. D. No. 15 2'mills- Bethany S: D: No. 16 8 mills Lyon’s S. D: No. 17 8 mills Hibler s: D. No, 18 6 mills Vernon S. D. No. 19 4 mills Plum Branch S. D. No. 24 and Bonds 20 mills Consolidated'S. D. NO. l; Parksville, Modoe- and’ Clarks Hill, and Bonds. 18 mills All male citizens between^ ther ages of 21 and 60 years, except, those exempt by law, are liable- toi a poll tax of $1.00 each: The law prescribes that all maio* c' izens between the ages of 21 and r years must* pay $2:00 commuta- t*. n tax or work six days on the- p blic roads. Commutation tax is included in, property tax receipt. RUTH P. DUNCAN, Treasurer, McCormick: County* .>