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' HcCORMICK MESSENGER, MeCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 28, 1938
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For The Land’s Sake
Dust Cotton Sparingly
Clemson, July 25.—With the pres
ent weather favorable for ' rapid
weevil increase and with weevils
numerous on unpoisoned cotton
fields, some interest is being
manifested in dusting, says W. C
Nettles, . extension entomologist.
Hfs advice for those interested is
as follows:
"For the land’s sake, dust cotton
sparingly, if you dust at all, and
thus damage soil conditions as
little as possible.
“With numerous fields in the
Coastal Plains section blooming in
the top, it is felt that consider
able weevil migration will .soon
occur. In the Piedmont section
some dust is being applied mainly
on the worst infested spots.
“Generally, few weevils are
present where early poison was
properly applied and fallen squares
were picked up with regularity.
These fields will, however, soon
be dealt a blow by the migrating
weevils.”
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oyment Office
Changes Schedule
Columbia, July 21.—^Announce
ment was made today by officials
of the South Carolina unemploy
ment compensation commission’s
employment service division that
the part-time state employment
office at McCormick would be
open in the future on Thursdays.
Heretofore the local office has
been open on Fridays.
The local employment office
assists jobless persons in finding
work. Unemployed persons who
have worked for employers who
contributed to the unemployment
compensation fund in their be
half may also apply for out-of-
work benefits and weekly pay-,
ments will be made to them for
a limited time if they qualify.
Generally speaking payments
are equal, to 50 per cent of the
jobless worker’s computed ' full
time wages in past covered em
ployment, but no weekly pay
ments are over $15. Benefit
checks will be mailed to eligible
unemployed wage-earners until
their rights are exhausted, or un
til they find jobs, whichever is
first.
A change in the schedule for
the Abbeville and Hampton of-.
fices has also been announced.
The Abbeville office will be open
in the future on Tuesdays and
the Hampton office on Thursdays.
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July Beautification
Letter
Luxuriant growth marks July in
spite of hot sun and dry weather.
Everything should be done to see
that plant growth is not checked.
Spring planted shrubs and trees
face the double task of rees
tablishing their root system and
making top growth at the same
time. We are wise if we have kept
them well soaked with water, and
we will be wiser still if we keep
right on soaking them at least
once a week all summer, unless
a real rainy spell should occur.
July is really the warmest
month of the year and anything
conducive to coolness is welcome,
whether fruit juice beverages or
visits to the old swimming pool.
Aphids or plant lice are likely
to appear during this month.
They attack the new soft growth
on the shrubs, or a wide variety
of the perennial flowers, sucking
out the juice from the stems and
leaf veins in a serious, if not ac
tually fatal, degree. We do well if
ipraying with a good nicotine
ilxture, repeating the treatment
ten days latef to catch the second
brood.
Red spiders are often a serious
>est this month, attacking roses
and small foliage of evergreens.
They are very, minute, yellowish to
reddish mites, almost invisible to
the naked eye, and their presence
is rarely noticed until the leaves
begin to turn brown and die for
no apparent reason. Dry sulphur
nay be blown in among the foli
age or a sulphur spray may be
Iriven with force and is more
practical. Sometimes water
sprayed on the plants forcefully
vith the hose is effective as a
remedy.
New shoots on the climbing
roses are putting in their appear
ance now and need attention
from the time they are a foot
long, to save them from injury for
one thing and to start training
them in the right direction, while
they are soft and pliant rendering
them readily trailed.
Use care in bending them
$16.69.
The wearing apparel textile in
dustry followed this average very
closely, paying an average hourly
wage of 52.1 cents. The workers
in the industry were employed an
average of 31.2 hours a week, and
received an average weekly salary
of $16.69.
Above Minimum
All branches of the textile in
dustry paid average weekly wages
well over the $11 minimum which
goes into effect in October. Dur
ing the seven years that is re
quired for the law to become fully
operative, however, a slight read
justment will have to be made in
order to meet the $16.00 weekly
minimum wage which is the ulti
mate goal of the law.
The new act becomes effective
on October 26, and it is expected
that industry committees will be
appointed as promptly as possible
thereafter to make surveys to de
termine as to whether individual
industries can afford to pay em
ployes more than the minimum
of 25 cents an hour which the
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IT BELONGS IN
YOUR ICEBOX
AT HOME
«sii
You enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola every place
else; why not at home, too. The' whole
family will welcome its pure refreshment.
Get a few bottles or a case (24 bottles) from
your favorite dealer.
GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
Greenwood, S. C.
Delicious and !
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though, for they are qitfte easily law sets up for the first year
broken at this stage. These newj (Taken from “The Greenville
shoots arte used to replace old Piedmont” July 19, 1938).
wood that has become scraggly or
overgrown and need to be cut out
at the ground level and entirely
removed from the scene.
What a reprieve we- have now,
during the long, hot days of July,
in enjoying even excessively our
lovely out door living rooms,
where we so happily mix our flow
ers and fun. That’s exactly what
can be easily done, if we provided
our out door living rooms, growing
flowers, shrubbery and trees all
around and ample room besides
for chairs, tables and refresh
ments to be served, adding such a
delightful, distinctive touch to our
entertaining these days.
Besides these out of door living
rooms are such wonderful places
to lounge around in, as we know
there is health in sunshine and
fresh air for all of us.
“Humming birds hover and buzz
in a bevy,
Where blooms on the boughs
hang heavy,
The butterflies blunder by
And this is July.”
MatUda Bell,
Co. Home Dem. Agent.
Wage-Hour Law Will
Require Little Or No
Readjustment In :
Cotton Textile
Industry
Washington, July 19.—The new
wage-hour law, with its minimum
wage of 25 cents an hour and
maximum work week of 44 hours,
will require little or no readjust
ment in the cotton textile indus
try, a preliminary study made by
the Federal Bureau of Labor
Statistics, revealed today.
The study is by no means com
plete, but will be used as a work-
ng basis when administrator
Elmer F. Andrews takes charge.
Even when the law becomes
fully effective seven years hence
with a minimum wage of 40 cents
an hour most of the textile indus
try will not be effected, the pre-
iminary reports indicate, since
most branches of the industry
now pay wages which average well
over this amount.
And in the matter of hours, few
branches of the industry will
find it necessary to scale down
the work week to 42 hours next
year and to 40 hours in the third
year of operation.
Figures compiled by the Bureau
of Labor Statistips show the av
erage wage paid in the entire
textile industry ending April, 1938,
the last month for which a com
pilation has been published, was
49.5 cents an hour, far above even
the highest minimum proposed in
the new fair labor standards act.
The average number of hours
worked during April was 31.6, and
the average weekly wage was
$15.60.
Breaking the industry down
into its various divisions it was
found that in the cotton goods
industry the average hourly earn
ings of the workers was 41.1 cents
an hour, that the average number
of hours worked per week was 31.1,
and the average weekly wages
were $12.78.
“ In the cotton small wares in
dustry the average wage the hour
we keep a sharp look-out for
these pests and dispatch them as was found to be 48.2 cents, the
promptly as they appear. The ' workweek was 34.6 hours long, and
average
County Map Is
Being Prepared
Columbia, July 18.—Field parties
have been sent out from the
Highway Planning Survey office
in Columbia to check information
which is being used to prepare
the complete set of South Caro
lina county maps. One of these
parties was located in McCormick
county several months ago.
This party corrected all errors
which were made in data gather
ed by the road inventory party
last year and secured information
which was unobtainable at that
time.
All of this care is taken to in
sure the accuracy of each county
map. The map of McCormick
county, which is as yet unfinished,
will be changed in accordance
with the findings of the field
party.
Since the Highway Planning
Survey is jointly supervised by the
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
in Washington and the State
Highway Department in Columbia,
it will be necessary for both of
these offices to approve maps of
all counties before any of them
can be distributed.
Consequently, it will be at least
six months before these maps will
be available, but as soon as they
are, the public will be notified.
Because a large sum of money is
being spent to compile these maps
accurately, a nominal charge will
be made for them.
A complete base map will be
drawn up, which will include all
lakes, rivers, and other natural
features; all boundaries; and all
roads, railroads, bridges, etc. On
this map will be placed all cul
tural features of McCormick
county, such as private dwellings,
schools, churches, etc.
Several other maps will be
made from this base map—one
showing the types of road and
transportation facilities; another
designating highways used by bus
and truck lines; another outlining
school bus routes; and another
tracing out mail routes.
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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 serrlce oat of town
J. S. STROM
Main Street ± McCormick, 3. C.
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SINCE HE DISCOVERED
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AMERICANS devotion
I was one of the 150,000 who
went to Gettysburg for the great
reunion encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic and the
United Confederate Veterans.
Eighteen hundred old men—their
average age was 94 and many
were centenarians—met in the
tented city on the spot where the
decisive battle which turned the
tide of the War Between the
States was fought in the first
three days of July, 1863.
Ancient enmites were forgotten,
old hatreds buried, as the foes of
75 years ago fraternized in each
other’s tents and swapped tall
stories, magnified by time, of their
youthful experience in war. As I
mingled with them and listened to
them the one thing that struck
me most forcibly was that these
standard remedy is a thorough ^ the
former foes were all Americans,
weekly earnings, j Americans fought Americans 75 (
years ago. Looking back over his
tory, it is clear to me that Blue
and Grey alike were fighting for
America. They differed in their
concepts of the American ideal of
Liberty, but were alike in their
fierce devotion to the American
spirit. They were willing to lay
down their lives for a spiritual
cause. So long as Americans
cherish the spirit of Liberty as
these men did, our democracy is
safe. If that spiritual devotion
dies out in the youth of America,
we are a lost nation.
* * *
HEROISM fighters
• On the battlefield of Gettysburg
aVe hundreds of statues, monu
ments and memorial tablets. The
one which impressed me most
with the heroism of the Americans
who fought each other there is a
bronze figure of a soldier bran
dishing his clubbed musket like a
flail. War was waged at close
quarters in •the days of short-
range muzzle-loading muskets. To
fire his single shot effectively a
soldier had to expose himself to
the enemy’s fire, then fall bacK
and reload.
And when there was no time to
reload, it was hand-to-hand fight
ing with clubbed muskets.
Pickett’s gallant charge on the
Union breastworks at Gettysburg
was fought in that way. Nine-
tenths of his 4,000 brave boys in
Gray were left dead or dying on
the slopes of the narrow valley.
In modern warfare most of the
fighting is between opponents who
hardly see each other. It took
heroes to fight a war in 1863.
* * *
LEE leadership
The outstanding figure among
the monuments on Gettysburg
battlefield is the bronze statue of
General Robert E. Lee, astride of ‘
his famous war-horse, “Traveler.”
And in the hearts of both Blue
and Grey, as I listened to the
ancient foes talking over the great
figures and episodes of Civil War
days, Lee seemed to stand first
in the admiration of both sides,
as a soldier and as a man.
“If Lee had accepted Lincoln’s
offer of command of the Union
armies, the war wouldn’t have
lasted six months,” I heard one
blue-coated veteran say, while the
group around him echoed the
sentiment.
There is more back of the uni
versal tribute paid to General
Lee’s memory on both sides of the
Mason and Dixon line than the
sentimental glamour which always
surrounds the leader of a lost
cause. North and South alike
honor him because, among all the
figures in the great struggle, he
stood out as one who combined
honor with leadership, courage
with character.
* * *
UNION democracy
More years have passed since
the battle of Gettysburg than the
life of the nation under the Con
stitution up to then. President
Lincoln, in his immortal address
four months after the battle,
spoke of the war as a test of the
endurance of a government found
ed in democracy. Democracy has
endured for 75 years since Jie
spoke.
“If Lincoln had lived it would
have been easier for the South,”
said an old Confederate officer in
camp, “but in spite of that, I
think the boys all agree that it is
better for our grandchildren and
their grandchildren that it turned
out as it did. 'yVe’re one nation in
stead of two. We’re all Americans
and we belong together.’*
That is how old men, reflecting
the wisdom that comes with years,
look back on the history they
helped to make.
* * *
TAPS farewell
I left Gettysburg with the
sound in my ears of the most
poignant, soul-stirring music in
the world; the plaintive, long-
drawn notes of a bugle sounding
“Taps” on the hilltop beneath
whose sod lie the bones of thous
ands who perished on the slopes
and in the valley.
Row on row of white stones
mark the graves of men who
were buried where they fell; their
names, their regiments, even the
color of the uniforms they wore
are forever unknown. A week be
fore the reunion workmen un
earthed another skeleton on the
battlefield. All that can ever be
known is that those bones, too,
are an American’s.
I took leave of my century-old
hosts of both armies with a feeling
of sorrow mingled with pride that
I was of their breed, of the line of
those venerable American heroes
over most of whom, before an
other Independence Day rolls
aVound, the bugles will be sound
ing “taps,” the soldier’s last fare
well.
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