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HeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICC, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, September 22, 1938 K: 1 HeCORMICK MESSENGER Pabllsked Every Thursday [ established June 5, IMS BDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner ntered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, 8. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ' (hie Year $1.00 Six Months .79 Three Months AO School Begins School time is here again. Now er within the next week or two more than thirty million young Americans will begin or resume the pursuit of education. There will be nearly 27 million children between the ages of five and seventeen in the public schools, another three million or so in pri vate schools, and close to a mil lion and a half in colleges and oniversities. To maintain the public grade schools alone the people of the United States spend two billion dollars a year, and employ 900,- 000 teachers, more than three- quarters of them women. Add to that the cost of operating the in stitutions of higher learning, and R is probable that we Americans spend more on the training of our young people in the hope of pro- siding them with a better equip ment for the problems of adult Ife and of making them useful citizens, than we spend for any other one purpose beyond the es sentials of food, shelter and clothing. No matter what the cost, it is money well spent if it results in making those who must carry on, after the older generation of to day has passed on, into happier and more self-reliant men and women than their parents were. For that, after all, is the supreme oblect of life. The test of educa- fion is its results. All the book- fcaming in the world is of no value unless the process of edu cation gives those who pass through it some incentive to use their brains to do their own think ing, instead of letting others do their thinking for them. TOB&Y and TEDDY idol The other day the survivors of •Roosevelt’s Rough Riders” gath ered at Montauk Point, at the east end of Long Island, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the return •f their famous regiment, the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, tram the Spanish-American war. The event took my memory back to “Teddy” Roosevelt and his re markable personality and career, and the political history which he made. When Col. Roosevelt landed at Montauk at the head of his troops iae had the Republican nomina- tion for Governor of New York “in the bag.” He little dreamed that jh three years he would be presi dent of the United States. I was with him throughout his cam paign and during his term as Governor. He got in by the skin of his teeth. It was not a Repub- Rcsn year in New York. If the Democrats had had political sense enough to nominate a war hero to oppose “Teddy” they would have beaten him. As it was, he scraped through by a bare 18,000 plurality. Teddy Roosevelt made enemies of all the machine politicians, but ^ Row the common people of his *§■»*» idolized him! No President before or since ever had such a hold on the public imagination, except perhaps his fifth cousin, Ftanklin. • * * REFORMER showman The people loved Teddy Roose- welt because he was by tempera ment a hater of oppression and in pH his public life an apostle of prtitical reform. The politicians off his own party hated him be cause he was a ’reformer. As a young member of the legis- tature he fought the bosses and put through the first tenement- Chevrolet- August Sales Chevrolet dealers surpassed pro jected sales totals in both new and used cars for August, when 42,606 new cars and 107,593 used cars were sold nationally, accord ing to William E. Holler, general sales manager, as he announced house reform bill. He was a con summate showman, and. could dramatize himself and the causes he advocated in a way which ap pealed to the public heart. He took orders from nobody and was the boss of whatever job he was in. U. S. Civil Service Commis sioner, New York City Police Com missioner and Assistant Secretary of the Navy “Teddy” stole the show and made people like it. When the party bosses dis covered that they couldn’t give orders to the young man they had made Governor of New York they tried to “kick him upstairs” by getting him nominated for Vice- President in 1900. He was elected with McKinley and took office March 4, 1901. Three months later President McKinley had been murdered and Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States. * * * RICHES interest What made “Teddy’s” career so interesting to me is that, although he was the wealthiest man who ever occupied the White House, his interest and sympathies were all on the side of the common people. Rich men mostly hated him, called him a “traitor to his class.” When “Teddy” first ventured into politics at 23, as a candidate for the legislature, his friends and family protested. “You’ll have to rub elbows with crooks, bartend ers and all sorts of disreputable characters,” they told him. “If 'that’s so then they are the gov erning class,” he replied, “and I intend to belong to that class.” So sickly as a boy that his fami ly feared he would never live to grow up; his eyesight so imparied that he had to have constant at tention from oculists, Teddy Roosevelt built himself into an athlete by sheer strength of will. Of all the men I have ever known. I think of none who had such in domitable courage and such per sistence in the face of opposition. * * * » COURAGE boldness I had many opportunities to ob serve Theodore Roosevelt’s courage in standing up for what he be lieved to be the right, no matter how strong the political pressure to do something else might be. He was never a compromiser for the sake of expediency. He went ahead and did what he thought ought to be done* regardless of political consequences. I once heard him say that his conception of the authority of the President was that he could do anything which the Constitution did not prohibit him from doing, whereas his predecessors had the view that the President’s powers were limited to what the Consti tution specifically permitted him to do. It was that quality of boldness and aggressiveness which made “Teddy” the most popular Chief Executive the nation had ever had since Washington, and which made him a menacing figure in the eyes of every pedatory interest which he opposed. / 4 * * * HISTORY influence “Teddy” made world history by one exp'% which he undertook on his own responsibility. That was the. building of the Panama Canal. For the adequate protec tion of both coasts of the United States the canal was essential, tc move the fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific without a 3,000- mile detour around Cape 9 Horn. Without any authority but his own high hand, he encouraged the State of Panama to secede from the Republic of Colombia, set up its own independent nation, and grant a concession for the canal to the United States. Our government later paid $25,- 000,000 to Colombia as balm for our hasty recognition of the new Republic of Panama, but we had the canal. It seems difficult to realize that it is only forty years since “Teddy” came back from the war in Cuba, when one reviews the tremendous changes that have come about since then, and how potent the in fluence of the policies and prin ciples of Theodore Roosevelt still are. con*®* 1 Taisis to#* Strom’s Drue Store Phone 95 McCormick* S. C. . For a super-trip go by Super-Coach— enjoy extra luxuries, see twice as much going one way and returning another, save 2-3 of the cost of driving! ONE-WAY FARES Columbia -- $1.90 f.> w York 10 85 Augusta .90 Knoxville 4.65 Jacksonville _ 5.50 Chicago 11.90 tcaieign 5.35 Los Angeles _ 35.60 Washington, D. C. 7.90 Richmond _ 7.10 Big Extra Savings on Round Trip Tickets Experience 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 HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, d* C. \ the totals Sept. 8. “Market indications for new car sales during August projected ap proximately 38,000” said Mr. Hol ler, “but Chevrolet dealers ex ceeded that mark by nearly 5,000. In July they turned a market trend sharply against its normal course by selling 51,071 when pro jections indicated a possible 40,- 000 new car sftles. The August figures show that they are con tinuing to sell at a higher volume rate than the low-priced market projections, and discovering new car buyers at a rate that is just below the June rate. “Projections for used car sales for August indicated that it might be difficult for the Chevrolet dealers to exceed the 100,000 mark. The month’s total of more than 107,000 keeps unblemished their astounding record, started 42 months ago, of selling more than 100,000 used cars each month. The August used car sales total brings their grand total to 7,083,062 used cars sales since March 1935.” Notwithstanding the record es tablished this summer in new car sales by the dealer organization, used car stocks at the end of August were 17,900 less than at the same time last year, Mr. Hol ler said. -ix*. Traffic Accidents In South Carolina Dur ing First Half Of 1938 Cause $2,532,500 Loss Columbia, Sept. 8.—In addition to the toll in death and suffering, reported traffic accidents in South Carolina cost $2,532,500 during the first six months of 1938. ' At $10,000 each Jthe conserva tive cost safety authorities have estimated for a single fatality), the traffic dead represent a loss of $2,060,000, according to a state ment released by the State High way Department today. Injury accidents cost $412,200, allowing $300 for each personal injury sustained, based on medi cal and hospital costs and loss of wages. Property damage, averaging $100 for each reported accident, amounted to $60,300 for the first six months, according to reports of drivers involved in the wrecks. The average cost per accident for the State as a whole was $1,- 681.60. Accidents on State high ways averaged $1,819.08, due to the greater severity of mishaps occurring in open country. The average cost for accidents occur ring in city streets and on county roads was $1,409.11. Accidents on State highways accounted for 72 per cent of the total economic loss, or $1,820,900. Comparison of the costs of vari ous types of accidents shows that crashes with other motor vehicles proved most expensive, with a total of $725,100 loss incurred. Pedestrian accidents cost $706,000, non-collision accidents $664,100, and collisions with fixed objects represented a loss of $240,200. J. S. Williamson, State Highway Engineer, said that total costs cf traffic mishaps in South Carolina for the first half of 1938 would be somewhat greater than these figures indicate because of the fact that many accidents are un reported, and because minor ac cidents, involving damage of less than $50, do not have to be re ported. “The Highway Department is doing everything that it properly can to make the streets and high ways of the State safe,” Mr. Wil liamson said, “and all drivers are urged to assume their share of the responsibility of reducing ac cidents in South Carolina.” * -xxr- Services At Bordeaux M. E. Church Sunday Night There will be religious services at the Bordeaux Methodist church Sunday night, September 25, at 7:30 o’clock. Foster Speer, Pastor. -XX- Camp Modoc News Camp Modoc, Sept. 17.—Super intendent L. A. Bodie will resume his official duties Monday morn ing after being on annual leave for two weeks. Foreman Arthur L. Grady’s family motored up from James town last week end for a short visit. Mr. Grady’s family seemed well pleased with the camp and also the high country. They re ported a pleasant trip and we are looking forward to seeing them again at an early date. Mr. J. L. Wertz, FRD Road Foreman at F-ll, will be trans ferred to Camp F-7 to construct concrete culverts. Mr. Wertz was in charge of the construction of the Turkey Road Bridge and also several concrete culverts. Four rehabilitation projects have been completed by Camp F-ll. We hope to get a good many more completed before winter sets in. These projects in clude the remodeling, painting, screening and adding new roofs to the house, as well as new barns and other buildings being con structed. A new moving picture outfit’ with a loud speaker attached for playing phonograph records has been received and will be install ed at F-ll. This will afford the men entertainment as well as boosting the educational program. The camp beautification pro gram is in full swing at F-ll. The educational building and wood working shop have been painted, new walk-ways are being con structed and more shrubbery will be planted. These improvements will add much to the appearance of the camp. Turkey road bridge No. 1.05 has, been opened for traffic. This is a; steel span bridge with a ten ton 1 load capacity. Edgefield County in cooperation with the forest | m JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone JNo. 25 Main Street We Deliver McCormick, S. C. 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 he at your service. Special on Armour’s Dexter Sliced Break- OQf* fast Bacon, per pound , iT . fcw Armour’s Best Star Boiled Ham, Special, Jj per pound i ™ ^ Fresh Oysters from now on at all times. Fresh Fish on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. PATRONIZE HOME MERCHANTS What You Can’t Buy at Homs BUY IN AUGUSTA THE FRIENDLY CITY Friday and Saturday, September 23 and 24, are the first of the big DOLLAR SAVING DAYS sponsored by the Augusta Merchants Association. Members of the association have banded together to give you their most outstanding bargains in good merchandise on these two value-packed days. Special Shopping Attractions! •-High Grade Merchandise—Exceptional Values \ | •No Limit to Parking—Ample Free Parking Space • The Hotel Richmond has set aside several rooms— FREE FROM 9 A. M. to 6 P. 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