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*M:ORMIC& MKSSfciNtrL^. ^OL’TH CAROLINA Thursday, March VT. ^38 Insurance Fire Insurance Ami Other Kinds of Insurance (eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. BABY CHICKS Seed, Feed & Poultry Supplies All United States Approved t j Hatchery Thousands hatching weekly. V, ii>e for prices and descriptive literature. Georgia-Carolina Hatchery 1025 Broad St. Augusta Ga. Sunday School Lesson BY REV.-CHARLES E. DUNN Keeping the Body Strong. Lesson for Today: Mark 6:53-56. Golden Text: Judges 13:4. Build Curbs and Gutters and Other 1 Improvements .Your Community Needs 4 "V\7THY not use Federal Relief Funds to replace old, | unsightly curbs and gutters with concrete. Or build needed new concrete curbs, sidewalks, drain age structures, park improvements, swimming pools, and other beneficial, permanent civic improvements. Maximum labor on the job! Something worthwhile to show for the expenditure! Hundreds of other cities are grasping this oppor- tunity to get improvements that would have to be built soon anyway. So can your city. For complete, quick information on any spe cific use of concrete, write or wire PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Hurt Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Anderson’s Department Store Greenwood, S. C. New Spring Merchandise arriving daily : now from the leading manufactures, in : Coats,' Suits, Dresses, Hats, Hosiery, : Blouses, Underwear, Dress Goods. Hundreds of Pairs of New Spring Low ■ cut Shoes and Oxfords. Everything for your Spring Outfit. Lower Prices on New Spring Merehan- t 1 disc. | Use Our Layaway Plan. | _ | Anderson’s Department Store | | GREENWOOD, S. C. | According to a recent govern ment survey the direct annual cost of sickness to the people of our country is $3,647,000,000 a year, or $30 per individual. In addition -t has been found that men lose five to seven days, and women seven to nine days each year by illness. Much of this loss in money and time could be prevented if all of us would resolutely obey the ele mentary laws of health. What are these laws? The first is this: Take the kind of exercise in the fresh air adapted „o your age and strength. You cannot re main physically fit without exer cise. If you do nothing else make it a fixed habit to walk as much as possible. We depend too much on motor cars. If we used, for the ful fillment of our local appointments, the two legs God has given us, our health would improve. And here is the second law: Choose your food not from the standpoint of personal taste but with reference to the real needs of the body. A balanced diet is essen tial and can be arranged with a little study. The third law reads as follows: Resolutely refrain from everything you know to be injurious. Here our Golden Text strikes a wholesome note. “Take care not to drink wine or liquor, nor to eat anything un clean.” Would that all of us would take heed to this warning of the angel to the mother of Samson! It is a pity that the temptation to indulge in strong drink is often so exceedingly hard to combat in this highly intemperate age in which we live. And the cigarette habit is growing alarmingly by leaps and bounds. Few young women who take up smoking real ize what a terrible handicap they thereby place on their future off spring. If the liquor and tobacco habits could be eliminated the gen eral health of our people would show a marked change for the better. xx Chevrolet- ! Endurance Run At | 10.000 Miles Dr. Houston B. Odom Manager Of Green wood Office Of Drs. Odom-Gore And Associates Appointment of Dr. Houston B. Odcm, of Greenville, as manager of the Greenwood office of Drs. Odom-Gore and Associates of Greenville was announced today, nr. Od^m. who assumes his new duties at once, will have offices in ^ buiMing, which has been maintained as a branch office Lor some time. Dr. Cdcm, a native of Alabama and a nephew of Dr. A. A. Odom of Greenville, founder of the or- has been identified with the offices of Greenville since his graduation from the Northern Illincis College of Optometry. He has afso been active in civic and educational undertakings, being a member of the junior Chamber of Corrmerce. of Greenville, and of other organizations. In making the appointment of Dr. Houston Odom as manager of the Greenwood office, which serves the counties of Greenwood, Abbe ville, McCormick, Saluda and near by territory, Dr. A. A. Odom said: “Dr. Houston B. Odom has been selected because of his fitness for the work, his training and his ex perience in the profession. We predict a splendid degree of success for him in his new field”. The appointment was also con sidered in the nature of a promo tion, officials of the firm said. rately, as rapidly or as untiringly as can a machine built for that purpose alone. The machine nevei makes a mistake, if it is sst right to start with. It obeys orders with out thinking about them. Factory labor is becoming more and more a matter of watching machines to see that they stari and stop at the right time. The | b.uins which used to actuate \;hc human workman have been built into the machine. That is why the unskilled laborer who used to gei about $1.50 a day can now earn $E or more a day. With the aid of uhe machine he can turn out more and better work than the skilled worker formerly was able to do by hand. The greatest need of industry now is more trained brains to de sign machines with brains built :n and more skilled hard workers tc build those machines, so that more unskilled men can have jobs run ning them.' TODAY «"<l DIRIGIBLES . . to be developed I am glad that Washington i showing interest again in lighter- than-air navigation. There is pending in Congress a bill appro priating three million dollars to build an experimental dirigible for the Navy, somewhat smaller than the “Macon” and the “Akron” which were wrecked off shore by storms. The world has learned a lot about dirigibles, and the fact that not one except our own has been wrecked by storm, though many have been destroyed by fire, sug gests that we have something to learn about aerial navigation. The loss of the “Hindenberg” by hydrogen gas explosion has not scared the Germans, who are now loading helium gas from American oil wells into German ships for use in their new giant dirigible. With the world’s only commercial supply of that non-inflammable gas, the United States ought to be able to show the world how to build and operate bigger and better air-ships. accidents in the mountains or in remote regions, when it is impossi ble to reach the victims promptly except by parachute. Her idea is co- have ready a staff of competent nurses who can successfully operate a parachute and who will under take to reach those injured and out of reach by ordinary means of travel. Skiing often causes ac cidents, according to her, and so she is preparing her staff to look after those sports enthusiasts who- may come to grief. School Girls Noisier School girls are much noisier to day than they were forty years ago, and they are more like boys, is the opinion of Miss Caroline Ruutzi- Rees, founder of the Rosemary Hall for Girls, Greenwich, Conn. There are other changes, too, according ta her. They cannot be played on emotionally by speakers, they can see through insincerity, they are brave, straight, truth telling, re sponsible, generous, and not so catty as their elders. And the greatest discovery the modern school girl has made is that she can combine beauty with brains*, ocnoiarcmp with cnarm. . SUMMONS. -$ 1.50 - 2.80 - 4.65 - 10.85 9.65 r that Gray bond k only l/3 the coot of Augusta Richmond Abingdon _ Washington Tampa rom’s Drug Store Phone 95 i [cCormick, S. C.J* Bifl EXTRA Savings on Round Trip Tickets GREYHOUND ' MSI 4+ 4 - / tie f Detroit, March 10.—Further im pressive evidence of economy and durability was on record in favor of Chevrolet trucks today, follow ing receipt from Washington of official AAA figures covering the first 10,102 miles of the Chevrolet Long Distance—Safety and De pendability Truck Run which Harry Hartz, well-known former race pilot, is conducting. Hartz left Ottawa, Canada, on Jan. 14, in a stock 1 1-2-ton Chev rolet truck with a “payload” of 4,590 pounds of steel. He was ac companied by Stanley Reed, offic ial AAA observer, whose ce:tifie< reports are the basis of the bulletin just received. After covering the distance to Mexico City in less than 100 hours driving time, the truck turned back into the states, skirted the Gulf to Florida, and went south to the latter’s very tip. The 10,000 mile mark was passed near Miami, aite. 325 hours and 35 minutes of actua. driving time. Daily mileage aver aged 266, and speed averaged 30.72 miles an hour, over the entire uistance. Oil comsumption with the loaded truck, over all kinds of roads and in extremes of weather, averaged less than a quart per 1,000 miles, the summary indicates. Actual oh comsumption from the start oi the run until the oil-change in Kiorida, made just before reaching the 10,000-mile mark, was 9.62 quarts. Total cost of gasoline and oil consumed, and lubrication, was $144.72. Adjustment costing $1.35, brought total cost of the run to $146.07. This amounts to $.01447 per mile, or $.00312 per ton mile, the latter being figured on the gross weight of 9,260 pounds. Highest temperature encountered on the run so far was at Edinburg, Texas, where it was 90, and lowest was at Belleville, Ont., where it was 3 below zero. Maximum variation in a single day was on Feb. 21, when a 40-degree change was en countered. No water was added to the radiator in the first 10,000 miles. ROBOTS . . . one thing well Some years ago a brilliant Euro pean dramatist wrote a play in which the principal characters were machines having the form of men and able to do anything a human being could do except to think. He called these man-like machines “Robots.” They were useful workers in any kind of ser vice until their inventor equipped them with brains. When they be came able to think they revolted and slew their human masters. The play was, of course, a satiri cal comment on the relations of labor to capitalistic employers. But many of the abilities which it at tributed to the Robots have actual ly been built into modern machines. Some of them even seem able to think. Not long ago in Washington I saw a machine in the Coast and Geodetic survey office which the men who run it call “The Great Brass Brain.” Once set in motion it can work out with more than human accuracy the exact time 01 high and low tide for any port in the wond at any future date. But -t canT uu anything else. MACHINES . . lighten labor Engineers can make machines to ..o any kind of useful work bettei .han men and women can do it But no machine can do as :naiij iilheicnt things as people can do and behind each maenine there .nust be a human brain to start i. working and to stop it when ..... work is finished. Some time ago I visited the Mas- .achusetts Institute of Technology „o see the machine invented by _>ean Vannever Bush which solves intricate problems in higher math ematics in a few minutes, where a skilled human mathematician would spend weeks. But the ma chine has to be set by human in to lligence to solve just one problem and no other. As a young man I used to visit a machine-shop owned by my uncle, and marvel at the muscular devel- ( >ment of the workmen. Years laier I visited the same factory and r^.*v some of the same men sitting in chairs watching the machines vnich were doing the hard work 1 eir own muscles used to do. The r. achines had not taken their jobs i.,/ay from them, but had lightened u.eir labor. I UMANS . . versatile machine The human body is the most ver satile piece of mechanism known to science. It can do more differ ent things than any machine that ever was built. But it can’t do any j one useful piece of work as accu- j ROADS . . for the farmer The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. Ed ward A. O’Neal, points out that the rural districts of the United States, as a whole, are still inade quately supplied with good roads. The greater number of farmers still live, he says, on dirt roads which fall far short of the ideal “all weather” conditions. Mr. O’Neal makes a plea for larger road-building units, and the diversion of a larger proportion of the gasoline tax into secondary road construction and mainte nance. The county, rather than the township, should build and maintain such roads. Back in 1912 I had a good deal to do with getting the first Federal Aid road bill through Congress. The big idea then was the benefit to the farmers. It looks now as if that aim has been overlooked in favor of the long-distance motorist, the freight trucker and the bus lines. APDfRN L,;u.£Ke White of The Na- tiou&l Federation of Busi> cess and Professional Wotne.iV Clubs, Inc. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. In The Probate Court. EX PARTE: J. A. Talbert, Administrator, IN RE: The Estate of Wilson Warren Fowler, deceased. , The Administrator of the above estate having petitioned this Court for an order to sell certain real property belonging to said estate in aid of assets, all creditors, heirs, or other persons interested in said- estate are hereby summoned to appear before me at my office at McCormick, South Carolina, at 10 o’clock, a. m. on the 4th day of April, 1938, to show cause why said Order should not be passed. J. FRANK MATTTSON, Judge of Probate, McCormick County, S. C. March 15, 1938.—3t. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of an execution to me directed in the case of The Peoples Bank of McCormick, S. C., Plain tiff, against C. A. Stuart, Defen dant, I have levied upon and will sell at public auction in front of the Court House door at McCor mick, S. C., on the 4th day of April, 1938, during the legal hours of sale, to the last and highest bidder for cash to satisfy said execution the following real estate, to-wit: All of the undivided interest of said C. A. Stuart in and to All and singular that certain piece, parcel or tract of land with the improve ments thereon, situate, lyihg~ and being in the Town and County of McCormick, S. C., measuring and containing Fifteen (15) Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of M. G. & J. J. Dorn. Inc., C. K. Epting. Brown, J. P. Holloway, F. C. Robinson, Chamberlain Ferry Road and perhaps by lands of other parties and being the undi vided interest of the said C. A. Stuart in and to that certain tract or parcel of land owned and pos sessed by the late A. A. Stuart at the time of his death and known as the home place of the'said A. A. Stuart, deceased. W. T. STROM, Sheriff McCormick County, S. C. McCormick, S. C., March 16, 1938.—3t. WANT ADV. . A Ten Year Job Ten years’ work on a crocheted bedspread were worth all the time and patience Mrs. Frank E. Hay ward of Seattle devoted to this piece of handiwork, because with it she has captured the title pf na tional crochet champion. When she was told of her good luck she left her Pacific Coast home and travel ed to New York, to receive from Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, repre senting the American Woman’t Association, the reward which in cluded a cash prize of $250. The bedspread is made of more tha: six thousand crocheted square and it took 101 spools of cotton. Woman's Parachute Corps Two hundred women have en rolled in the Parachute Nursing Corps formed in Paris by Suzette O’Nil, a former stage favorite who was the first French woman to ob tain a government license to use a parachute. Miss O’Nil, who was married to an American war corre spondent by the name of O’Niel and who changed the spelling of her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce, says that there are many occasions, such as FOR SALE—One 5 year old man mule, good condition, work any vhere, sound and ail right, fo: a!e. cash. $100.00. See Jeste Brothers, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE—Cotton' seed, Coker No. 100; one year from breeder, ^rice $1.50 per bushel; Coker No. > - 7 strain; Price $1.00 per bushel. ^. d ginned clean and tested for germination, f. o. b. McConptiick, T. L. Strother. FOR SALE: Cabbage, Onion and Collard Plants, all Assorted. 500 Plants, .50c; 1000 Plants, .75c. Sweet Potato and Tomato Plants, 500 Plants, .73*r, 1000 $1.25". Strawberry, Pepper and Egg Plants, $2.00 per 1000. Dorris Plant Go>,. Valdosta, Ga. Complete stock of Roysters, Reads and International Fertiliier;, Acid Phosphate, Nitrate of Sodk* Cottonseed Meal, 50 per cent; Muriate of Potash and 20 per cent, r-init on hand. J. L. Bracknell,. F m Branch, S; C. LOST—Between upper block o i : lin street and the post office a large silver ring with fratemit; seal on top. Reward if returned t Messenger Office.