Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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M.CORM1CK. MESSENGER. McrORMICK. SOUTH CAKOUiVA Thurs-day, April 28, 1938 ^National Employment Campaign Advocated Columbia,- April 25.—A nation wide two-weeks employment cam paign, in which every person al ready in gainful employment would be asked to give a job to some person out of work, was ad vocated today by Dr. E. C. Lewis, member of the South Carolina unemployment compensation com mission. “I feel that the people of the nation will enter into the move ment with a spirit of helpfulness and that it will be highly success ful”, the commissioner declared. “Our most recent national sur vey of unemployment showed there were upward to 10,800,000 unemployed persons in the United States.^ Due to curtailment of production in many industrial plants, and subsequent reductions in operating personnel, this figure is probably even larger today. “The survey showed that in South Carolina alone 73,227 per sons were out of work and that another 29,402 persons were em ployed on emergency projects. In other words, at that time 4.2 per cent of our total South Carolina population was unemployed. “Give each of those 73,227- per sons unemployed in this State a job at $1.50 a day and the pur chasing power of our working people has immediately increased by $109,840 a day, or $1,318,080 for 12 working days. In the nation as a whole the purchasing power would be increased by $16,200,000 a day or a total of $194,400,000 for 12 days. The benefits certainly should not be measured in terms of money alone, however. Count in other millions for betterments to morals, health and happiness. “Practically all of those employ ed duriqg the campaign would spend the money earned imme diately and the cash thus circu lated through commercial chan- rJxperience 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 to no additional charge for service oat of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, d. C. FOR PROMPT, DEPENDABLE DRY CLEANING AND PRESS ING SER VICE, SEND YOUR CLOTHES TO Greenwood Dry Cleaning Co. SPENCER GLASGOW, Representative jKY B^ONG TfCTH and ji(M BONtS- ClanSSeriS / MMFMt AOmLTX. TWO. Juki* ocLfctovs tuamt Mothers! You con assist Tour chUdren along the road to perfect health . . * you can help them build strong bones, sound teeth, you can make It easier tor them to possess sparkling, vital energy— by adding CLAUSSEN S CHILD REN'S BREAD to their diet. J&ol foi the hieM Wiappe'l — AT VOVA SA0CIR* / d *>gwiG — and iho biggest bargain in travel■•'tha GREYHOUND SUPER-COACH Greenville __$1.50 A-1 ev |l*» 2.H i towi!?#* __ 4 65 York __ 10.8» Big EXTP4 Saving* on Round Trip Ticfcots Strom’s Drug Store Phone 95 McCormick, S. C. nels would do much to improve business conditions in general”. Commissioner Lewis declared he believed many persons would find the services of those they employ ed temporarily so useful that a large percentage of the unemploy ed of the nation would be given permanent jobs. “Nearly every household could profitably use the services of some unemployed person for two weeks, or longer. The work might consist of painting, house cleaning, cook ing, gardening, fence repairing, or any one or more of numerous jobs about a home. Then, there are millions of employers who could profitably use one or more persons on their pay rolls, at least for the two weeks period to “start the ball rolling”. Business would so improve that many of those persons employed under temporary arrangements would be given per manent jobs. The commissioner declared he felt the public would gladly get behind the movement because no one would lose in the long run. Answering a query, “how am I to find the right man or woman for the job to be done?”, the com missioner said there were thous ands of unemployed persons reg istered at the free public employ ment offices over the nation— including offices in nearly every part of South Carolina—and that a telephone call to the manager of any one of those offices would bring quick results. The employment offices attempt to place an unemployed person on a job he is- fitted to do and not on just any job. The work- history of each unemployed per son registered, and much other pertinent information, is given on his registration card. The employment offices in South Carolina are operated under the employment service division of the unemployment compensa tion commission. looks easier than Toscanini con ducting a symphony orchestra, but he gets $40,000 a year because there are few men who can do ii at all and none as well. RUSSIA still “purging” The news coming out of Russia of the “purge” of the Communist party by the execution of some of the men who have been leader^ in governmental activities because they are alleged to have been un faithful to party principles ough’o to make a lot of young Americans stop and think. What happens whenever a single group tries vO control the thoughts and action, of a whole people is that every so often a lot of people whose thoughts and acts might threaten the control of the group in power have to be killed off. There is no means short of phy sical force to make people coniorm to regulations which run contrary to their beliefs, traditions and • customs. All “authoritarian” gov ernments use similar methods. S. C. Christmas Seal Sale Reported Total $59,166.38 A tot'*! of $59,165.38 was raised in the 1937 Christmas Seal Sale of the South Carolina tuberculosis e'-'-^ciation and its affiliated county associations according to the report of Dr. Shelton Phelps, Honorary State Chairman of the campaign. Of the total sale $5,- 847.34 was made by the ' Ne^o Committees. Five* percent of the funds will be spent on the nation al program. The budget for the state association’s work including tuberculosis nursing and health education services in unorganized counties is $16,665.80 and for county associations $39,380.16. The returns by counties are as follows: Abbeville $259.81; Aiken $1,343.44; Allendale $279.30; Ander son $1,640; Bamberg $498.02; Barnwell $430.10; BeaufoH $325.01; In Italy, Mussolini uses castor i ®f rk ? le ? $561 '1 4 ’ Calhoun $468.59; oil in huge doses instead of bul- Charleston $8,943.83, Cherokee $741.40; Chester $1,231.48; Chester field $830.46; Clarendon $399.05; lets. To insure his control of vhe government, voters are given bal- _ „ . lots containing only one name for ° , each office. To insure a unani-1 mous vote, posters are put up de claring that “anyone who does not vote is sick. Anyone who is sick needs castor oil.” That 742.66; Dillon $774; Dorchester $806.51; Edgefield $277.59; Fair- field $721.31; Florence $3,520.15; Georgetown $1,439.82; Greenville $3,456.04; Greenwood $708.54; method is effective in' keeping Hampton $3«.92; Horry $854.30; H 6 Jasper $239.25; Kershaw $1,307.54; Fascism in power vote! by “popular’ —x- Sandy Branch H. D. Club Meets The Sandy Branch H. D. Club was entertained on Thursday, April 21, by Mrs. Frank Holloway. Mrs. B. C. Owings conducted the devotional. i Roll call and reading of the minutes followed. i During the business period sev eral paid Marie Cromer scholar ship dues and their pledge to 1 health office. Our picture study for this month was, “Mother of the Artist,” by James Whistler, an American artist. This is one of the greatest pictures ever painted; The origi nal hangs in the Luxembrong Gallery in Paris. Subject of the lesson, “Pictures in the Home.” Miss Bell gave the lesson in an interesting way, showing how to choose pictures suitable for each room, also how to choose suitable frames for our pictures and to hang them proper- iy- The hostess served sandwiches and iced tea. After a very pleasant social hour the meeting adjourned. Reporter. OYSTERS where best One reason I am always glad to have the opportunity to visit Washington is that I can be sure of getting the best oysters that ^ can be had anywhere to my I knowledge. To my mind, there is nothing quite so delicious as a big, fat Chesapeake Bay oyster, fresh out of the water as you can gei, them only in Baltimore, Norfolk and Washington. These succulent bivalves are most delicious served raw on the half-shell with a sauce made of a mixture of tomato ketchup and graded horse-radish with just a drop or two of tabasco. I have eaten oysters on the Pa cific coast, in Florida and in Eu- Lancaster $1,603.25; Laurens $1,- 004.36; Lee $369.40; Lexington $724.73; McCormick $214.75; Marion $1,403.41; Marlboro $631.- 82; Newberry $699.93; Oconee $620.78; Orangeburg $1,928.40; Pickens $392.01; Richland $5,119.- 22; Saluda $299.85; Spartanburg $2,459.17; Sumter $1,506.06; Union $506.68; Williamsburg $787; East ern York $1,504.89; Western York $430.61. ! The month of April sees the eleventh Early Diagnosis Cam paign of the National, state and local tuberculosis associations as part of a concerted nation-wide effort to get rid of tuberculosis in America. With Dr. Douglas Jen nings, President of the Marlboro j County Tuberculosis Association as Honorary Chairman of the campaign in South Carolina, rope. There is no oyster grown to equal those Jrom the waters of the! —“™" th northern Atlantic coast The oy-, arc lEnn , ^ dlstribute ovcr ster beds of Long Island Sound 100 of lite . ature and produce fine ones but the Chesa- to schedule talks and peake Bay product surpasses them fUms and t0 0rgani2e specla , fleld a ' ■ tuberculin testing and X-rav Someone has said that the first man to ever eat an oyster had something heroic in- his make-up. You have to be “raised” on oysters to really like them. But for those who do like them there are few foods more delicious. xx- TODAY and Augusta S .90 Richmond __ 6.90 ^HinedoM __ 5.25 Washington 7 9f» Tamm 7.85 AMATEURS .... lose shirts The ablest and shrewdest finan cier I know is Bernard M. Baruch. He has made more millions than most men of our time by buying and selling securities in Wall Street. For years he made that sort of trading his whole business, devoting all of his thought and effort to it. Once he was asked to tell how an ordinary person could make money in stock specu lation. "You can’t,” he said, “No amateur can. You’ll lose your shirt if you try.” The other day Mr. Baruch told a Congressional Committee “the public is always wrong in trying to speculate successfully in the stock market. The public buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time.” I think that is true of most people who try to make money in niito m wnich they have little training or experience. It looks easy to an outsider to run a gro cery store, but 95 per cent of the people who try’ it fail. Nothing clinics in communities that have no permanent clinic services. Due to the fact that eighty per cent of the people who enter tu berculosis sanatoria are in ad vanced stages of the disease, leaders in the tuberculosis fight ■; are stressing, through the Early since 1921 Diagnosis campaign the need for] with tuberculin RADIO I have my first radio broadcast' an examination in 1921, less than 17 years ago. Nobody else had heard a radio broadcast much before then. There were three radio broad casting stations in the United States at that time and none any where else in the world. The re ceiving sets were primitive con traptions in which a small wire, known as a “cat’s whisker” had to be adjusted to touch a piece of rock crystal at a particular point. The other day I saw a statement issued by the International Broad casting office in Geneva stating that there are 69,700,000 receiving sets in use throughout the world In America there are more than J00 broadcasting stations. Therein is a conclusive answer o the pessimists who are always :ewailing that progress has stop ped and opportunity with it. An entire great new world-wide 5n- dustry has been created in less than 18 years with nothing but an invention to start with. Billions of capital have found profitable investment, millions of men and women given employment. At this moment there are hundreds of new inventions under develop ment, any one of which may hold the same sort of opportunity. test and X-ray for every person who is known to have lived in contact with a case of tuberculosis. Literature and further informa tion may be secured from the South Carolina tuberculosis asso- in Columbia, S. C. Watch And Clock Repairing. I - i Prompt Service, Reasonable Prices. FRED C. McCAIN, Augusta Street. McCormick, S. C. II :AT electrically i talked not long ago with a gieat electrical engineer. He told me a new method of using electri cal energy to produce heat which is still in the experimental stage. Laboratory tests, my friend said .ndicate that the time is close . on heating buildings by electric -• -rent will cost only a quarter as nr:ch as coal or oil. A new and far more economical way of carrying electricity over uals, or even its mother, until that long distances was announced the old. THE HUMAN EYE The eyes are the sentinels of the human body. There are running eyes, roving eyes, leaping oyes bold eyes, asking eyes, asserting eyes, eyes full of fate, eyes of good and bad omen. Eyes converse more than the tongues of men. Infants are bom mentally blind, despite what doting mothers may think. To the newly born the world is a hazy blur and they can not coordinate or appreciate what they see until mental vision developed, which is usually about three months after birth. By that I mean to say that the child does not recognize objects or individ- tion of mental images to the out- siae wond. n the faculty of seeing with both eyes is not developed, after three months, children us ually squint and ultimately may lose the sight of the crooked eye.. The ability to see accurately with each eye is acquired early inr life and the ability to see with both eyes together, later in Hfe. Formerly it was the popular be lief that if a child squinted or had eye trouble the thing to do was to wait until about the fourteenth year when the occulist should be consulted. Unfortunately these children do not grow out of this condition, but it becomes more fixed. Cross eyes have done much to ruin the future of untold thousands of persons. Correcting Crossed Eyes The right thing to do with the cross-eyed child is take him to a physician who specializes in dis eases of the eye. Under proper, scientific care fully 70 per cent of cross-eyed children can be certain that their eyes will be straighten ed, by the use of proper glasses and appropriate exercises. No- qualified doctor •will operate until uuier metnods of treatment nave been tried. Remember that the correct thing for the parent to do is to bring the child to a doctor as soon as a squint is observed, even- if the child is only three months of age. A'PDfRM WpMfJv) White Pteridsat of The No- tional Federation of BtM« ness and lYnfcaiional Women's Quba, Inc. Probe Legal Status of Women Word comes from Geneva,. Switzerland, - that another woman has been appointed to an impor tant committee. Miss Dorothy Kenyon will be a member of a, fact-finding group of eight per sons to report on the legal status of women .in various countries. This question of where we stand, in the eyes of the law, is one which concerns us all and it will be in teresting to learn how other coun tries, some of which we may not know a great deal about, compare with ours in their legal recognition, of women. Miss Kenyon is one of the well known lawyers in New York and her professional reputa tion is by no means confined tty the east. Last fall she was elected. to the New York City Bar Associa tion and is one of the first twelve women to be admitted to this or ganization. She is in the field of general law practice and is much sought after as a public speaker. 5^* * • « Employed Widows Some interesting facts about wi dows who are employed have been brought out in a study just made by the National Federation of Bus iness and Professional Women’s Clubs at the request of the Inter national Labor Office for the League Of Nations. The League is trying to get some light on the political, civil, and economic status of women in various countries and asked several organizations to assist in this work. trp r^in 12,000 of our mem bers answered our questionnaire from which we learn that widows, who work either in business or the professions, have a higher median earning than married women, by grouping them according to their "ip status. This figure is $1,450 as compared with the mar ried women whose median earn ings are $1,235. Forty-three and one-half per cent of all the widows answering the questionnaire have otv' dependent. The dependents of' widows, we find, belong to the future generation while those of the single women arc of the past veneration, and of the married women, the present. other day. When such new in ventions become commercially available, what a revolution will come about in our methods of building and living! How Seeing Develops Both eyes are not used simul taneously until this age when co- ordiantion of accommodation and convergence occurs with eorrelar Women in Politics , C q,ys Mrs. Ellsworth- Richardson of Ottumwa, Iowa, “have a definite place in politics,^ so she has decided to run for T Stg tes Senator on a pro gram advocating world peace, free dom, happiness and security. Mrs. F '-hardson was the first woman* to' receive the American Farm* F reau’s distinguished medal for r'^ritorious service to agriculture iii 1930. She is fifty-nine years old’ and has campaigned repeatedly for- Ci,.ortomic and social: reform for i^.iculture. She is the first wo- i.—n in Iowa to seek Congressional' cILcc since suffrage was adopted..