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TBUI TO OUB8ELV1CJI, OUB NEIGHBOBS, OUB COUNTRY AND OUB GOD.
Thirty-Eighth Year
June 5,1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939
Number 25
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WMHIIKKHI
Washington, Nov. 20.—The end
of the Christmas holidays will see
the second regular session of the
76th Congress buckling down to
its major Job which, in the final
analysis, will be the election of the
next President of the United
States.
The job of doing whatever could
he done by statutory legislation to
keep the United States out of the
.^European war was finished at the
extra session.
The discussion of the Neutrality
proposals brought out such over
whelming evidence 1 that the peo
ple of the United States are 100
per cent against sending fighting
men and ships to Europe, and at
the same time almost as strongly
in favor of doing everything we
can to help the Allies defeat Hit
lerism short of lending them
money, that only some unforesee
able incident can revive discussion
of American neutrality on any im
portant scale.
There may be, and probably will
be, some talk on the floor of Con
gress about the plan of transfer
ring American ships to foreign
flags in order to evade the re
strictions upon their traffic to
belligerent zones. Probably if the
facts about such transfers, which
are going on all the time and
which are duly reported in the
publications of the Bureau of
Navigation, had been brought out
while the special session was as
sembled, the law as passed might
have included a tightening of re
strictions upon such transfers.
But as there is nothing in the
present laws to prevent any Amer
ican ship owner from selling his
ship to foreigners, even though
those foreigners may be corpora
tions whose stock is owned by
Americans, it is not believed here
that Congress will attempt to re
open the whole Neutrality dispute
for the sake of trying to prevent
American citizens from disposing
of their own property.
Eyes On Election
Therefore, the expectation is
that this coming session will be
focussed upon domestic rather
than international questions, and
that the approach to all of them
will be with one eye upon their
probable effect upon the 1940
Presidential election, not to men
tion the Congressional elections,
which are more important to
many members than the question
of who will be the next President.
There is in prospect, for exam
ple, a great amount of new gov
ernment spending for national de
fense purposes. The outlook is
such that Secretary Morgenthau
of the Treasury has taken oc
casion to warn Congress that if
they spend as much as the Ad
ministration expects to ask for
they will have to raise the debt
limit. Under the present laws,
the United States may not owe
more than 45 billions at any one
time.
The national debt is now close
to 42 billions, and the programs
for increasing the Navy, Army and
Air Force already revealed will eat
up more than three billions. Be
sides that, the regular running
expenses of the Government now
run to pretty nearly six billion
dollars a year, and present cax
laws won’t bring in that much
unless there is a much bigger and
more rapid growth in business in
comes than anybody now expects.
So* Congress faces a big eco
nomic problem, in fact a series of
them. It must find ways to raise
enough money to carry out the
plans for national defense, upon
the necessity of which there is
substantial agreement, to carry on
the regular activities of govern
ment, and at the same time to
pacify the important pressure
blocks which are planning to de
mand more spending for relief
and especially for the aid of agri-
Thanksgiving Service
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Nov. 23, 7:30 A. M.
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Children 12 to 15, 15 cents
The Annual Thanksgiving Serv
ice of the local churches will be
held Thanksgiving morning at 7:30
o’clock at the Methodist Church.
The Rev. A. Thad. Persons of the
McCormick Baptist Church will
preach. An offering will be re
ceived for the orphanages of the
three churches represented.
Let us all come to the house of
the Lord on this Thanksgiving
Day, and give thanks to Him for
His loving kindness and tender
mercy.
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Lander Club
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Organized Here
Completion of the organizing of
a Lander Club in McCormick
County took place in the home of
Miss Ruth Corley, with Mrs. Mel
vin E. Derrick as joint hostess, on
Tuesday, October 17th.
A proposed set of by-laws and
constitution were adopted by the
club. The president, Mrs. W. P.
Parks, Jr., appointed the following
committees:
Program—Mrs. Melvin E. Der
rick, Miss Martha Johnson.
Finance—Miss Virginia Freeland,
Mrs. J. T. Fooshe.
Membership—Miss Ruth Corley,
Miss Lola Stevenson.
Year Book—Miss Mary Fuller,
Miss Glenn Self.
Miss Martha Johnson gave two
delightful readings and the club
joined in singing the Lander Alma
Mater. Mrs. Parks led a lively
questionnaire.
During the social hour the
hostesses served a delicious salad
course with Russian tea and at
tractive favors denoting the Hallo
we'en season.
culture. The pressure to increase
taxes will be heavy, and the pres
sure from other groups to reduce
taxes may be even heavier.
Geographical Considerations
Every move that Congress makes
will have a bearing not only upon
the Presidential election but upon
the re-election of all the Repre
sentatives and a third of the
Senators. Whenever a dollar is to
be spent, the question of where it
is spent looms big with every
member of either House; if it goes
into his own state or district, it
helps his candidacy, but if he
doesn’t get a slice of it his fight
for re-election is that much hard
er. Likewise with taxes; the ques
tion of where they will hit, geo
graphically, is of importance.
The line-up in the 1940 session
will be much the same as it was in
the regular session of 1939. The
truce between warring wings of
the Democratic party ended when
the Neutrality law was signed. The
coalition between Conservative or
anti-New Deal Democrats and Re
publicans may be even closer than
it was last Spring.
Political observers see in the
results of the state elections in
California and Ohio signs of a
popular revulsion against vision
ing schemes such as the excessive
old-age pension plans which were
defeated decisively in those states,
and some are drawing from those
and other signs the conclusion
that the Republican chances for
carrying the national election of
1940 are better than they seemed
to be a few weeks ago.
Third Term Discounted
The belief that Mr. Roosevelt
will seek a third-term nomination
is being discounted. There is a
general impression among those
on the inside of party politics that
Postmaster General Farley, who
has a tighter control of the party
organization than any national
chairman has ever had before, has
set his foot down against a third
term and has the dominant party
leaders with him.
If that is true, observers here
believe, the Republicans have a
fifty-fifty chance or better, pro
vided they don’t make any bad
breaks. 1
Revival Meeting At
Church Of God Here
Starts Nov. 30th
The Rev. Mr. Goff, of Green
wood, pastor of The Church of
God, at McCormick, announces
that a revival meeting will open
at the church in McCormick on
Thursday night, November 30th,
atj 7 o’clock, and will run through
the following Sunday night or
probably longer.
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Clemson Alumni
To Meet Tuesday
MEETING IN EDGEFIELD
The Savannah Valley Clemson
Club will hold its next meeting at
the Edgefield Hotel on Tuesday,
November 28th, at 7:30 P. M.
Dr. D. W. Daniel of Clemson will
make the principal address of the
evening. Coach Jess Neely and
Jake Woodward, Alumni secretary,
will be present. A moving picture
of one of the 1939 football games
will be shown.
' All McCormick County Clemson
men are urged to attend this
meeting and are reminded to
notify D. Austin Shelley by Sun
day, November 26th, if you plan
to attend.
De la Howe Wins
Over Calhoun Falls
The De la Howe blue and white
Flame subdued two fine, hard
fighting, well coached teams from
Calhoun Falls High School last
Friday night, on the De la Howe
court, before a large crowd of
enthusiastic basket ball fans.
This was the first game of the
season for both schools, and
neither De la Howe nor Calhoun
Falls was up to what can be ex
pected of them as the season gets
under way. The score of the
girls’ game, De la Howe, 22; Cal
houn Falls, 12. The boys’ score,
De la Howe 19; Calhoun Falls, 11.
Farming Advances By
' AAA Participation
Cotton farmers have cut their
production costs and are produc
ing more food and feed for home
use on farms where needed by
participating in the Agricultural
Conservation program, County
Agent D. Austin Shelley said this
week in reminding that the refer
endum on marketing quotas for
1940 will be held December 9.
“Encouraged by the program”,
he said, “farmers have carried out
conservation practices which have
improved their soil. The resulting
increased yields have lowered
farmers’ production costs.
“The national average yield of
cotton for the 10-year period end
ing in 1932 was 170 pounds an
acre. For the period 1933-38, when
agricultural conservation programs
were in effect, the average yield
was 212 pounds—an increase of 12
pounds an acre. Some of this
increase came about because of
conservation and soil-building
practices, the use of better land
for cotton, and because of better
seed and better cultivation.”
Since reduction of cotton acre
age had been accompanied by
large increases in the acreage of
soil-conserving crops, correspond
ingly large amounts of food and
feed had been made available for
home use on cotton farms, the
agent pointed out, citing by way
of illustration, the fact that in
1938 the acreage of soil-conserving
crops in the principal cotton
states was roughly five times that
of 1930. In addition, thousands
of acres have been protected by
terracing, strip-cropping, and con
tour ridging.
Plum Branch
Grange News
The Plum Branch Grange was
organized with a membership of
seventeen with the following offi
cers:
Master, E. L. Langley,
Overseer, C. E. Wilkie,
Steward, O. L. Sturkey,
Asst. Steward, J. L. Wells,
Lecturer, Thomas Collier,
Chaplain, W. R. Freeland,
Treasurer, W. E. Crawford,
Secretary, W. M. Freeland,
Insurance Agent and Business
Mgr., H. M. Freeland,
Pomona, Mrs. H. M. Freeland,
Ceres, Mrs. Thomas Collier,
Flora, Mrs. C. E. Wilkie.
Also the following members,
Mr. H. E. Freeland, Mrs. E. L.
Langley and Mrs. E. R. Strother.
Since organizing we have ini
tiated Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Langley,
Miss Margaret Freeland, Mr. J. R.
Wilkie, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Gil
christ and Mr. Richard Collier.
Deputy J. J. White and Mrs.
White of Mt. Carmel have given
us invaluable help in organizing
and getting started in grange
work. Also on one occasion we
have had Mr. and Mrs. Leonard of
Donalds visit us. Mrs. Leonard
talked to us of her work as State
lecturer.
The first project of the grange
is planting fruit trees for a home
orchard. Each member agreed to
plant at least one tree in com
memoration of the year the Plum
Branch grange was organized.
The grange is proving to be a
very valuable aid to members and
our community life and we look
forward to many successful years
of grange work.
Sec.
Farm News
Bright Spots
Sumter, Nov. 18.—Twenty-odd
Sumter county farmers planted
sweet potatoes commercially this
year. Yields of over 200 bushels
of No. 1’s per acre are not rare,
and the quality is excellent. “Last
year we shipped 15 cars; this year
we will likely have 75 cars”, says
County Agent J. M. Eleazer. “One
of our growers has been doing
careful hill selection since he got
his Louisana seed and his potatoes
show it. I assisted one of our
larger growers in making his first
hill selections this month. He is
making 256 bushels of No. 1’s per
acre on a 22-acre field.
Chicken Supper
At Buffalo School
House Nov. 30th
Card Of Thanks
It is with sincere appreciation
that I take this means of thank
ing my friends for the many acts
of kindness shown me during my
recent indisposition.
Mrs J. S. Strom.
The Buffalo-Bellvue Home Dem
onstration Club will serve a
chicken supper at Buffalo school
house on Thursday evening, No
vember 30th, beginning at 6:30
o’clock, which the public is cor
dially invited to attend. The pro
ceeds go to the Buffalo Baptist
Church cemetery fence fund. The
price per plate will be 25 cents.
The menu is given as follows:
Rice, baked chicken, dressing,
gravy, potato salad, macaroni pie,
rolls, cake and coffee.
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Producers May Vote
On Cotton Quota
Columbia, Nov. 18.—All farmers
who produced cotton in 1939 will
be eligible to vote on December 9
on cotton marketing quotas for
the 1940 crop, announces R. W.
Hamilton, state AAA administra
tive officer.
Under the Farm Act, marketing
quotas are applicable to all cotton
except that ■with a staple length
of 1 1-2 inches or more. Each
farmer, whether a landlord, ten
ant, sharecropper, partnership,
corporation, association, or firm
will be entitled to but one vote.
The county AAA committee will
be in charge of all arrangements
for the referendum in the county,
and the voting will be carried out
just like any regular election, Mr.
Hamilton states. The committee
will choose three local farmers to
serve as election officers in each
community. Voting places will be
provided for all communities
where cotton is produced. The
county committee will also desig
nate the voting place in each com
munity and provide a ballot box.
Voting will be by secret ballot,
which means that each farmer
will mark his ballot privately and
cast it in the customary manner
used in secret voting.
“The question to be decided
December 9 is whether marketing
quotas will be used for handling
the 1940 cotton crop”, said Hamil
ton. “If two-thirds of the farmers
voting approve the quotas, they
will be effective in 1940. Quotas,
if approved, will apply to all
states, counties, and communities
where cotton is produced.”
Columbia, Nov. 18. — “Acreage
planted to small grain in Richland
county has been constantly in
creasing each year for the last
five years, and this season will be
no exception to this general ten
dency”, says David R. Hopkins,
Richland county agent. “It is also
significant that wheat will be
planted more generally by a large
number of farmers.” Mr. Hopkins
points out that the steady and
substantial annual increase in
small grain is evidenced by the
fact that there are now 26 com
bines in the county whereas five
years ago there were only five.
McCormick, Nov. 18.—C. E. Wil
kie, McCormick county farmer,
produced 6529 pounds of lint cot
ton this year on five acres. The
total value of the lint and seed
from this plot was $887.10 and
produced m a cost of $203.91, or
3.1 cents per pound of lint. Mr.
Wilkie states that in 1927 when
he bought his farm he made only
200 pounds of lint per acre, but
after sowing a crop of vetch he
averaged 425 pounds; and after
three more crops of vetch, he
made 650 pounds per acre in 1931.
“Continuous improvement of his
land with vetch made it possible
for Mr. Wilkie to produce 836
pounds of lint per acre this year
on his entire crop”, says County
Agent D. Austin Shelley.
Chesterfield, Nov. 18.—On D. L.
White’s farm near McBee two
varieties of crotalaria attracted
attention, namely Giant Striata
and Lanceolatia, Assistant Coqnty
Agent J. M. Jeter reports. The
growth Giant Striata has made on
poor sandy land is amazing. On
a measured plot it produced 16
tons of green matter, equivalent to
approximately 800 pounds of ni
trate of soda besides the large
supply of organic matter it adds
to the soil. Lanceolatia makes a
very dense growth but the stalk
and limbs are small and can be
destroyed without the use of
tractor and heavy equipment. J.
S. McGregor planted Giant Striata
in his orchard, 3 pounds of seed
per acre, and an average plot of
this crotalaria weighed 7 tons of
green matter to the acre. Mr. Mc
Gregor plans to use it extensively
next year as a green manure or
chard crop.
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Poultry Association
Meeting December 8
Hartsville, Nov. 20.—The annual
meeting of the South Carolina
Poultry Improvement Association
will be held in the rathskeller of
the Jefferson Hotel in Columbia,
December 8, according to an
nouncement of J. G. Wofford,
Hartsville, president of the Asso
ciation.
The meeting will begin at 11
o’clock in the morning and run
until about 4 in the afternoon.
President Wofford and P. H.
Gooding, Clemson extension poul-
tryman who is secretary of the
association, announce that the
morning session will be a general
discussion of various problems of
the poultry industry and that the
afternoon program will be devoted
to a business session of the asso
ciation.
These officers state that auyone
interested in any phase o the
poultry industry is invited to at
tend the meeting.