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**■ McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 15, 1939 McCORMICK MESSENGER E S r r~ Published Every Thursday established June 5, IMS KDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner uttered at the Post Office at Me* Gormlck, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 Market Improvements In Philadelphia Aid To Carolina Growers TODAYand KM Columbia, June 3.—Opening of a new terminal in the Philadel phia wholesale produce market was hailed today by George E. Prince, chief of the Division of Markets, Clemson College Exten sion Service, as “a move which holds possibilities of great benefit to South Carolina growers". Mr. Prince said the establish ment last week of a new market for the receipt and sale of truck- shipped, fresh fruits and vege tables "is the best news that has come out of Philadelphia in many a day”. “For too many years”, he said, "shipments by truck from this state have been sold at a disad vantage to our growers because of the extreme congestion and other unsatisfactory conditions in the Dock Street and Collowhill Street markets, principal receiving points for truck-shipped supplies. “In 1938”, he pointed out, “South Carolina moved 724 car loads of produce to the Quaker City by truck. This is a substan tial volume, and we know from studies made by the Federal Bu reau of Agricultural Economics and state marketing authorities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that Philadelphia’s unsatisfactory mar keting facilities have boosted the cost of distributing our produce there.” As a direct outcome of a de mand for improvement in con ditions, a group of leading pro duce dealers in the Dock Street Market organized the Philadelphia Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Term inals, Inc., operator of the new market for truck-shipped produce. Results of the first week's op erations, according to Leon M. Van Hekle, manager of the Terminals Company, “proved that this new market is doing every thing we expected it to do”. Protect your win ter clothes from moths by letting us clean and put them in our moth proof bags. Greenwood Dry Cleaning Co. “Dependable Cleaners” J. C. Dalton, Mgr. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. i56 Broad Street Augusta. Ga HOOVER influence When I saw the former Presi dent, Herbert Hoover, a few weeks ago in New York, he seemed more interested in the fishing trip in Maine which he was planning than in anything else. I was glad to see by the press reports that he had good luck, catching the legal limit of trout, big ones, on his first day out. I was also interested to note a few days ago that the new official map of the United States gives the great dam across the Colorado River, at Boulder, its correct name. It has been legally and still is the Hoover Dam. It was pretty small politics which was back of the movement to change its name to Boulder Dam, because a different party from that to which Mr. Hoover belongs came into power. There isn’t a chance that Mr. Hoover expects or desires to be President again. He removed | Christians himself from consideration in a public announcement a few days after I saw him. But I think he will have a greater influence in the coming Presidential campaign than he has ever had before. As the only living ex-President, whatever he says is listened to with attention. No other member of his party can be sure of getting on the front page whenever he makes a speech. Fair was from wool clipped from a sheep on a farm on the Fair grounds. It was processed, spun, woven and dyed on the Fair grounds and there made into a suit of clothes for the Director, Mr. Grover Whalen. With all of the inventions of new fabrics to take the place of old ones, nobody has yet been able to make artificial wool which will serve the purposes of the natural fiber grown by the sheep. I saw some men’s garments in Italy, a few years ago, made from a synthetic fiber, but they turned out not to have the wearing qual ities of real wool. We don’t wear as much wool as | we used to because our homes and working places are better heated. But sailors, soldiers, cow boys and others whose work keeps them out of doors know that even in hot weather wool is a better protection than cotton or silk. 666 Liquid, Tablets Salve, Nose Drops checks MALARIA in 7 days and relieves COLDS symptoms first day Try “Rub-My-Tism” a Wonderful Liniment For Best Prices on Cattle, Hogs, ami Calves, see J. L. Smith, McCormick, S. C. LUMBER increase Americans have used wood for house building from the earliest Colonial days. There was plenty of wood, it was the easiest ma terial to handle, and a well- built wooden house was, and is, as comfortable and durable as one of brick or stone. The very finest examples of early American architecture are the old wooden houses of New England and Virginia. Pennsyl vania pioneers used stone because there was no pine or other soft wood available and plenty of good stone right under the surface. One of the oldest houses in America is the central part of the Stockbridge house in Scituate, Mass., built by my first American ancestor about the year 1640, per haps a little earlier. Many other frame houses along the Atlantic Coast date back into the 1600’s and are still beautiful and com- ortable. The great building boom which is now getting well under way will call for more lumber than for any other building material. Ameri cans still like frame houses, and ,he Untied States Forest Service and the National Lumber Manu facturers Association join in pre dicting the use of twice as much umber in the next ten years as in the past decade. EPITHETS punishment It is human nature to call peo ple names, especially if they hold different political beliefs from your own. I don’t remember any body in my time who has been called so many hard names as Hitler and Mussolini are being called now, unless it was the Kaiser during the World War. People’s expressions change, However, when they think there is a chance the object of their abuse may be able to punish them. When Napoleon was sent his first exile on the Island of Elba no epithet was too violent to je used against him. When he escaped in March, 1815, and started his return to Paris, his daily progress was reported in the Paris papers thus: “The Tiger has escaped.” “The Monster has been three days at sea.” “The Wretch has landed at Frejus.” “The Brigand has ar rived at Antibes.” “The Invader has reached Grenoble.” “The General has entered Lyons.” “Napolean slept last night at Fontainbleau.” “The Emperor proceeds to the Tuileries today.” “His Imperial Magesty will ad dress his loyal subjects tomor row.” WOOL protection Millions of city people and others from regions where sheep are not generally raised are get ting a glimpse at the New York World’s Fair of the material of which their clothes, or many of them, are made, and how wool is converted into cloth. The first cloth woven at the CHURCHES mergers I have long felt, and have found most of my thoughtful friends agreeing with me, that the cause of true religion has been hamper ed rather than helped by the multiplicity of sects and denomi nations. The recent merger of the three American branches of the Metho dist church into one great body of is a forward step to ward a genuine revival of the spifit of Christianity. So, too, will be the proposed union of the Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches, which now seems to be close to achievement. When good people Stop dis agreeing about non-essential forms and doctrines and concen trate on the few fundamental principles of religion, to which all honest people can subscribe, though some of us find them hard to live up to, this will be a much better world to live in. X — Report Cotton Grown By S. C. Counties In 1938 EXCLUSIVE VACUUM GEARSHIFT Vacaaa ■anttr Supplts U% si tin SWftiat EVart Chevrolet for 1939 is the first car of the land! First in sales by a wide margin—650,000 already sold, and the demand increasing. First in styling, first in acceleration, first in hill-climbing, first in all-round performance with economy, among all cars in its price range! See your Chevrolet dealer today and buy the car that outsells because it out-values all others in the field—Buy a new 1939 Chevrolet! | Every 40 seconds of every day,^j | Somebody buys a now ChovroloH | IN SALES! IN VALUE plus all these other famous features N*w Longar Rldin^aaM • Tumi Top • Front-End Stabilizor • No Draft Vsnti lotion • Syncro- AAoth Trantmittion • TIpfoo-MoNe Clutch • Exclusive Sox - Girder Chassis Frame McCRATH MOTOR COMPANY, INC. McCORMICK. S. C. Cotton Ginned And Total Grown, By Counties, In South Carolina For The Crop Of 1938. The Bureau of the Census an nounces the preliminary report of COTTON GROWN BY COUNTIES in the State of South Carolina for the crop of 1938. These statistics were compiled in compliance with an enactment approved June 14, 1938, designed to make available information of the actual pro duction of cotton for each county. Each individual ginner reported the number of bales, if any, grown in each of other counties and ginned by him. The “total grown” for any county was computed by subtracting from its “total gin- nings” the number of bales grown in other counties and brought in for ginning, and adding the num ber grown in the county, but gin ned in others. (Quantities are in running bales. Linters are not included.) County Total Total Ginned Grown The State 641,679 640,343 Abbeville 11,680 11,393 Aiken __ 18,597 20,094 Allendale 7,307 7,997 Anderson 43,698 44,536 Bamberg 8,804 9,255 Barnwell 14,596 14,671 Berkeley 2,902 4,803 Calhoun __ - 13,898 14,354 Charleston __ __ 345 605 Cherokee 11,953 16,199 Chester 13,440 14,745 Chesterfield __ _ 20,860 18,896 Clarendon — 15,446 17,128 Colleton 7,476 7,020 Darlington __ __ 14,654 14,370 Dillon 15,191 13,725 Dorchester __ __ 5,598 6,011 Edgefield 12,785 11,903 Fairfield 7,829 7,943 Florence 14,756 12,724 Greenville __ __ 32,685 32,445 Greenwood __ __ 8,207 7,881 Hampton — 7,140 6,849 Jasper _ 631 888 Kershaw 10,711 12,957 Lancaster — — 10,757 10,166 Laurens 21,709 24,017 Lee _ _ - 19,792 20,375 Lexington __ 12,152 10,949 McCormick 3,764 4,055 Marion -- 4,998 5,255 Marlboro __ 21,000 22,381 Newberry __ — 16,411 13,796 Oconee __ 12,981 13,568 Orangeburg __ _ 52,843 48,799 Pickens __ __— 15,937 12,809 Richland __ — 4,883 5,789 Saluda 7,672 10,105 Spartanburg — 48,440 43,781 Sumter __ 22,016 20,023 Union 8,633 8,919 Williamsburg . _ 15,306 15,463 York — 19,535 18,411 All other,. __ - 1,661 2,284 cotton on a net weight basis”, says Director D. W, Watkins of the Extension Service of Clemson Col lege. “This has been long advo cated by many students of the cotton problem as a means of im proving the competitive position of the southern cotton grower.” Director Watkins calls attention to an amendment which has been put into effect for this year in connection with the sale of cotton bagging, which makes it possible for any ginner in the* United States to purchase and use the cotton bagging material which late last year was authorized to be manufactured. The purpose is to stimulate the consumption of mere cotton by encouraging new uses. The cost of this bagging is 45 cents per pattern, f. o. b. New Orleans, at any time up to and including June 30, 1939. De liveries will be made through Sep tember 30, 1939, or special ar rangements may be made for de livery for use at any time during 1939 season. A sufficient quantity of cotton bagging is available to cover approximately 900,000 bales. Last year only 50,000 such cover ings were used. Some cotton merchants and spinners have agreed to make al lowance in purchasing cotton on account of the lighter tare weight. Among the mills which had agreed prior to September 8, 1938, to make such allowance in purchas ing cotton wrapped in cotton v 46 North Carolina mills and South Carolina Mills. “Making such allowances, of course, does not increase the cost of the lint cotton purchased but prevents loss in total value to the owner of the bale so covered”, Director Watkins explains. A communication from Mr. Lawrence Myers, chief of the Marketing Section of the Agricul tural Adjustment Administration, Washington, D. C., gives this statement and illustration of the JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 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 be at your service. Best Steak Per pound Chuck Steak Per pound Best Veal Steak Per pound Beef Boast Per pound Special prices on Pure Pork Sausage, per pound (Money Back Guarantee) Special prices on Mixed Sausage, per pound (Money Back Guarantee) Special on Armour’s Dexter Sliced Break fast Bacon, per pound Armour’s Best Star Boiled Ham, Special, per pound 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. “Mills having million spindles -TXl- Covering Cotton Bales With Cotton Bagging Clemson, June 10.—“If the steps now being taken to establish the approximately 10 have agreed to purchase cotton wrapped in cot ton on a fair basis, by allowing for the additional 7 1-2 pounds of lint cotton in bales wrapped in cotton. That is, the six yards of ordinary two-pound bagging placed on a bale of cotton weighs 12 pounds, vfiereas the six yards of 12-ounce cotton bagging weighs only 4 1-2 pounds. If, therefore, two bales have the identical gross weight and one is wrapped in cot- use of cotton bagging succeed, ton covering weighing 4 1-2 this will lead not only to the use pounds, then the bale wrapped in of more manufactured cotton in cotton will have 7 1-2 pounds this country for a new use but more lint cotton in it than the logically to a system of marketing other bale has.” JESTER’S GASH SERVICE STATION You can get service night and day. Stop by and give us a trial. We carry a full line of Groceries and Fresh Meats. Hot Lunches and Cold Drinks. Sanitary, and a good place to stop. Located 2 miles from McCormick on Greenwood Highway. J