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m ip i I i ■■ IcCO'UHICK BPSENGER Y Patched Evcjqr Thursday p: Established June 5, 19M ^ EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Enter it! -it the Post Office at Mc- Cnu S. C., as mail matter ot • the second class. / SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I One Year $1.00 t Bix Months .75 ’ Three Months .50 RESPECT FOR RACIAL TRADITIONS A phrase that used to be heard more often than it is now is “the melting pot,” which was taken as a symbol of the mingling of peo ples of all races in this country. Unwarranted was the assumption, however, that new racial strains would be assimilated, and in some mystical way transformed into Anglo-Saxons. Governor William H. Vander bilt of Rhode Island, for one, doesn’t think that would be a good thing, anyway. In a recent address, he said: “There is no reason why we should expect every other race and creed living within our borders to give up their culture and adopt ours. We as a nation would lose much if we molded into one uniform pattern all these varied and interesting differences, based as they are on diverse back grounds, and adding so much vitality and color to our national life. “As a matter of fact,” said Gov ernor Vanderbilt, “It is largely be cause of the varied backgrounds from which our people have been drawn that we as a nation have progressed so far in such a com paratively short time.” Prejudices and bad feeling be tween racial groups in various parts of £he country do exist, however, which make for a coun try divided against itself, and which, if allowed to continue, may threaten the very founda tions of the nation. What is needed, Governor Van derbilt thinks, is to encourage each group to cherish its own traditions, but all should be re minded that, no matter what their background, they are Ameri cans—and it is their duty to take their places, not as members of some racial or religious group, but as .Americans. That is sound Americanism. Only when such teachings are followed can we hope to retain the liberty, the freedom and the opportunities which are denied today to so many people through out the world. COMPARE 1933 WITH 1939 The Cotton Manufacturers Asso ciation of South Carolina calls at tention to the fact that leading print cloth and broadcloth con structions were much cheaper in price in October 1939 than they were during the depression of 1933. The Association states that the several grades of goods in 1933 ranged from 6 3-8 cents to 8 3-4 cents and the same goods in 1939 ranged from 5 1-2 cents to 7 1-2 cents per yard. With general costs down and labor costs lower in 1933 than they are in 1939, it would indicate that the textile manufacturers today are producing goods in a manner much more beneficial to the buy ing public than was true in 1933 when there were low costs of production. And yet this lower cost in 1939 may not be as favorable as the prices indicate. If the textile in dustries are producing goods with out a profit or barely keeping out of the red then it is not a whole some proposition. No industry can long succeed or maintain its life with a production cost above its selling price. A certain party recently dis cussing the matter of profits and wages and general costs indicated that from her reasoning it is up to capital to see that it gets along and makes a profit and if it does not do so, then it is just too bad for capital. But this is not sound reasoning. Capital must make a profit on an investment or it will not long con tinue in business. And if it does not continue in business then labor is without opportunity to profitably employ itself. It is not possible for capital to neglect the consideration of labor nor for labor to neglect the consider ation of capital. The one depends upon the other and each must work in harmony with the other in order that prosperity is McCORtalCk MESSENGER, McCOKMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA ‘Thursday; November 30, 1939 possible for all. Prosperity does not mean profit for capital alone. And prosperity does not mean employment at a high wage for labor alone. Pros perity means a reasonable profit for capital, reasonable wages for labor and contentment and hap piness for all involved in our in dustrial life.—Rock Hill Evening Herald, Nov. 14. TODAY «nd conditions at regular intervals, by radio. By charting these reports it has been possible to forecast north east gales, tropical hurricanes and other approaching disturbances carrying danger to small craft, water-front property or inland regions, in time to provide pro tection against them. Now hardly any ship afloat, ex cept those of the United States, dares to report its position for fear of German submarines. So many. neutral ships have been sunk that none feels safe in let ting a possible lurking U-boat know where to find it. Even the few ships flying the American flag will not be able to render the customary weather ser vice if Congress passes the pro posed law to keep our own craft out of the zones of warfare. WALKERS hazard People walking on the highways account for more than 39 per cent of all motor fatalities, the National Safety Council has concluded after three years of study of the facts and figures. Last year 12,500 pedestrians were killed by auto mobiles in the United States. We hear a lot about drunken drivers, but 13 per cent of the road«-walkers killed had beeh drinking, as compared with 9 per cent of the drivers who suffered a similar fate. Children running into the street, and old people who became con fused in traffic, figured largely in the year’s motor deaths. Most of that sort of accidents occur in the cities, where more cars are passing and more people are trying to cross streets. Where the police have adopted effective measures to regulate pedestrains at crossings, as in Washington, the toll of motor deaths drops rapidly. The proposal to place all walkers under the same sort of control as drivers is gaining adherents every where. DUCKS stop Driving down che four-lane Taconic Parkway a few miles north of New York City on a re cent Sunda$\ I saw the car ahead of me come to a sudden stop. The driver signalled, and I drew up alongside of him and stopped, too. At the same instant two cars coming l the opposite direction stopped a few feet ahead of us. In a couple of minutes there were a hundred or so cars lined up, honking their horns impatiently. What had happened? A mother duck had chosen that particular moment to cross the highway with her brood. With a dozen fluffy ducklings trailing in single file be hind her she took her own good time, waddling along with an occasional “quack” to her little ones, completely unconcerned with the fact that she was holding up traffic on one of the busiest roads leading out of New York. The word passed back down the line and scores of people got out of their cars to see the amusing sight of the duck and the duck lings. Everybody was good natured about it all. I have yet to see the motorist who would deliberately run down even such an unim portant and trival creature as a baby duck. DARKNESS toll Most of the animals that are killed on the highways, and a large proportion of the road-walk ers, meet their fate at night. One •?f the best drivers I ever knew was killed one night a mile or so from my place in the country be cause he caught the gleam of some animal’s eye reflected by his headlights and swerved too sharp ly in trying to avoid killing one of God’s lesser creatures. Driving over Stockbridge Moun tain in the early morning I often see the pitiful reminders of the night’s tragedies. More than once, in the dim light just before sun rise, a pheasant has whirred up from the woods beside the road and dashed into my car, once shattering the windshield. Before the town built a bridle path along the road in front of our house, separated from the con crete by a wide grass strip, several children were killed each year by cars, right on the village street. Now the greatest danger is to the bicycle-riding youngsters of high- school age, who prefer the smooth highway and ride in droves in ap parent disregard of the constant flow of motor traffic. WEATHER war One of the perils of war is the danger that our Atlantic coast may be swept by storms of which we have no warning. The Weather Bureau has worked for years to develop a system whereby ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean in both directions report the weather HURRICANES headlines It is unfortunate that the first news of the tropical hurricanes, which are to be expected at this time of year, always comes to the newspapers from the U. S. Weather Bureau station at Jacksonville. Fla. No matter if the storm spends itself a couple of hundred miles off shore, it is headlined: “Another Florida Hurricane.” I have met many people, and have heard of many more, who are afraid to spend their v/inters in Florida for fear of hurricanes. That is as sensible as being afraid to go to Chicago because of the gangsters. Only two hurricanes in a quarter of a century have swept any part of Florida with serious results. Long Island and New England, last Fall, suffered more property damage and loss of lives from the hurricane which de stroyed thousands of homes and levelled millions of acres of forest, than Florida has ever experienced. The “hurricane season” in the Caribbean, where these storms generate, is over by November and does not begin again until July. With the rest of the world barred to Americans seeking peaceful comfort in Winter, the coming season ought to see Florida crowd ed with visitors. There’s no better place I know to go, from Decem ber to May. xx—*-*—— Cotton Quotas Aid In Better Farming Cotton marketing quotas, on which farmers will vote December 9, are an important factor in bringing about better farming methods in South Carolina, boun ty Agent D. Austin Shelley be lieves. “With the assurances given by marketing quotas that the price of his chief cash crop will not be ruined by excessive planting by other growers, the individual cot ton farmer can adjust his plant ings of soil-depleting crops in line with demand and carry-over, and plant more soil-building crops, and grow more food and feed crops”, Mr. Shelley says. “The record of southern farmers under the Agricultural Conserva tion Program bears this out”, the county agent asserts. “In cotton growing areas the land, labor, tools, and cash that formerly went into the production of surplus cotton, wheat, peanuts, tobacco, and rice have been turned to im proving soil fertility, and, on farms where needed, to the pro duction of food and feeds for home consumption. Mr. Shelley explains that the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram encourages practices con tributing to the production of food and feed. He points out that establishment of a pasture is a soil-building practice, and that pastures will furnish feed to help produce an adequate supply of milk, butter, and meat for the home; he also explained that le gumes planted to improve the soil furnished feed for farm livestock. “Another advantage of these better farming practices is shown in the increasing yields of cotton”, he declares. “The national aver age yield of cotton per acre for the 10-year period prior to 1932 was 170 pounds. In the 1933-38 period it was 212 pounds, an aver age increase over the entire belt of 42 pounds to the acre, or 25 per cent.” X This year, the Red Cross trained its one millionth life saver. Since this program was established 25 years ago, thousands of lives have been saved through greater knowledge of water safety and the ability to meet emergencies. Join your Red Cross chapter during Roll Call this year and add your name to the millions of Americans who are combatting human dis tress. ciiuncii OUN McCORMICK PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH SCHEDULE Sunday School pvery Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. Preaching on 2nd Sunday morn ings at 11 o’clock, and on 4th Sundays at 3 o’clock p. m. A cordial welcome to all. Rev. A. C. Argo, Pastor. VVER*. going 10 Save WE’RE GQUj ^*ccnvuie, Sr* * m - S Washington," D.* c.~ ^ *b*XTRA Soylna. Strom’s Drug Store Phone 95 McCormick, S. C. GREYHOUND • • McCORMICK BAPTIST An Open Door—A Hearty Wel come. Church School, J. S. Dukes, Supt., 10:00 A. M. Church Worship — 11:00 A. M. Sermon Subject: Household Gods. Training Union, J. F. Buzhardt, Director, 6:30 P. M. Evening Worship 7:30 P. M. Subject: The Story Of Gideon. BETHANY BAPTIST Meets the Need of a Comrade ship—Human and Divine. Church School, C. H. Drennan. Supt., 2:30 P. M. Church Worship 3:30 P. M. Sermon by the Pastor. A. Thad. Persons, Pastor. PLUM BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCH SCHEDULE PLUM BRANCH—Preaching 1st and 3rd Sundays at 11:30 o’clock a. m. Sunday school every Sun day at 10:30 a. m. B. T. U. every Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. TROY—Preaching 2nd Sunday at 11:00 a. m., and 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school one hour before preaching. BETHLEHEM — Preaching 2nd Sunday at 3 o’clock p. m. Sunday school at 10:30 o’clock a. m., ex cept on preaching day, when at 2 o’clock p. m. PARKSVILLE — Preaching at 11:30 on 4th Sundky morning; Sunday school evefy Sunday . at 10:30 a. m. MODOC — Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. every Sunday. Preach ing at 3:00 o’clock p. m., on the first Sunday. G. P. LANIER, • Pastor. MT. CARMEL A. R. P. CHURCH Preaching, the l^st, 3rd and 5th Sabbaths at 11 a. *m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m.. Miss Lennie Covin, superintendent. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. PRESSLY MEMORIAL A. R. P. CHURCH, McCORMICK. Preaching, the 2nd and 4th Sab baths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m., Marshall Creswell, Supt. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. The Rev. R. E. Craig makes the following announcements concern ing the services at the churches in his charge: TROY A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 11 o’clock. Afternoon service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at Q QH nVOnplf Sabbath School on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 10 o’clock and on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 2:30 o’clock. Y. P. C. U. on first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 7 o’clock. CEDAR SPRINGS A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:15 o’clock. Sabbath School on 'the second and fourth Sabbaths at 10:30 o’clock. BRADLEY A. R. P. CHURCH Afternoon service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:45 p. m. Sabbath School on first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:00 o’clock. You are invited to worship with us. Rev. R. E. Craig, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH SCHEDULE McCormick Methodist Church— Sunday School every Sunday at 10:00 a. m.; Preaching at 11:00 a. m, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays, and at 8:00 o’clock every Sunday evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 8:00 o'clock. Intermediate League every Sun day evening at 6:30 o’clock, and Senior League at 7:15. Troy Methodist Church.—Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays: 2nd Sundays at 3:00 p. m.; preaching 2nd Sunday 4:00 p. m.; 4th Sunday 11 a. m. The Epworth League meets 2nd and 4th Sundays at 8 o’clock. Rev. M. E. Derrick, Pastor. LONG CANE A. R. P. CHURCH Services at Long Cane on the First and Third Sabbaths of each month. Sabbath School at 3:00 P. M. Mr. Horace D. Brown, Superinten dent. Sermon by the pastor at 4:00 P. M. The public is cordially invited to these services. W. C. Kerr, Pastor. Georgia-Carolina Hatchery Official Georgia U. S. Approved—Polorum Tested Baby Chicks All Breeds—Hatching Every Monday and Thursday. 1025 Broad Street—Augusta, Ga. • 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 NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town. J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, 3. C. BUCK $1.00 WHY GAMBLE on a watch you never heard ot when you can buy a real tor so little money. The Ingersoli Buck costs only $1.00. Other pocket and wrist models to $3.95. JESTER’S CASH 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 McCormkjk on Greenwood Highway. GOOD SHIPMENT MULES AND MARES I have a good shipment of nice Ten nessee mules and brood mares at my stables here. All guaranteed to give satisfaction. You are invited to come to my stables on Upper Main Street and look them over. J. L. SMITH McCORMICK, S. C.