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THE WATKKEE "MESSENGER Published Every Teusday by CHAS. \V. B1RCHMOBE, Prop. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance . Tuesday, August 24, 1926 . i.tered as Second Class Matter at Hie I'ostoffiee at Camden, S. C. s OL'R EXCEPTION A L OPPORTUNI TIES I'he/e is something inspiring about a man who is ever looking on the bright side, and we thought especial ly of this' a few day ago when we met one of Camden's good citizens, and asked him what he knew. His reply was that the outluok is good for Camden at this time; that he believed lhat business was going to be good and that building activities would move up along with other lines. Well, why shouldn't business be good? And why shouldn't more buildings be e rected? The opportunities are right heie in our home town and county. You ask what are some of the oppor tnnities ? You want to get acquaint ed with them. Well, a county that can furnish pasture for cattle around .ten months each year with refreshing st. earns of water, would suggest the opportunities for dairying. This is being done now by some intelligent men, notably anions them are the Messrs. Gettys, of West Wateree. There is room here for expansion. While the politicians are discussing the tax on soft drinks, and the bottlers are getting all '"hot up" over this, why not let some good horse sense have a show and somebody get the people started on the road to health by drinking more milk, and other folk get to pushing the dairy business? 1 his is one of the big opportunities you have. Is that all? No, there aie yet others. How about giving more attention to live stock raising? Our' climate is fine for this, and hert' the pasture lands spread out in vast areas. Pork retailing at a round thirty-five cents a pound, sliced ham at forty-five and fifty cents, beef and mutton bring ^good prices,' and a lot of all this must be shipped here. You can produce live stock a* good profit, and the time is ripe for it. Nothing big being done along this line just now in this county. Clemson College feeds you up on good suggestions and its agents are ready to help you, and never forget to tell you to get rid of scrub sires and get pure bred animals. A great opportu nity looks up right here. Run out of suggestions? No, an other industry that can be embarked in, perhaips by a far larger number than can either of the others mention ed above, is the poultry industry. We ''aw ??me nice frying size chickens on the streets a few days ago and ven tured to ask the price. Fifty-fiv^ cents only! You can plant rye and other grain for the chickens, furnish ing them with something green to eat every month in the year, and they will do the harvesting and you can sell the eggs at from thirtv cents the dozen to fifty and sixty cents. A great oppor tunjty for our boys ? and girls and farm women. We once in a while read accounts of the wonderful sue cess made in poultry raising by some of the women on the farms who give some attention to it. The opportunity is open to an unlimited number righ* here in the grand old icounty of Ker shaw. If these suggestions do not inter ?et you, how about diversified farm ing? Juflt think ^hat delicious fruit has been on this market recently.. (And a good portion of it came here from Adjoining cotmties.) Our coun ty can and does produce as fine fruit any, county in tho state. Fruit and vegetables along with cotton, and corn, oats nnd wheat, and why not tobacco to firing In money early in August before th? 'cotton crop ? ready for market ?f ' ? "A- ? I lenty of sites for manufacturing plants, and the matiufaeturing plants we already have doSng fine, and their operatives thoroughly reliable, and all round good citizens, fine railroad acllitiea, . good bus service, electric F.ower available for All needed pur poses, good schools, g?od churches Rood dirt roads and p.-.ved roads com ng noon, and a citizenship equal t'. any on tho globe, capable and oblig ing public officials, and Just lots and cords of other good reasons for wear ng smiles and peeping your hand ex tended to new comers. Just think of 4 many well-to-do families |n our county. They became well-to-do by ufting their opportunities. Much of their prosperity oam? by not b(?. Indifferent to their opportunities. Perhaps we will ?Iways hav* some in different ones, hut their numbm- wfl1 jrrow less If we will drill through the hard soil of indifference and adver tise this town and county, and let People know what we ha^-the big opportunities hero what we are and | i what we propose to *o. This county must be represented on that advertis ing and acquaintance tour scheduled to start about the 4th of October. We just started out to say a word about opportunities, and we did not realize that there were so many of them until they came crowding into our mind as we presented one after another, and the half has not been told. If you want the other half ? or the biggest half as Pat would &aj ? call on the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce. Sec retary Sanders will be home in a cou ple of weeks and will be brim full of good news to tell us. NOT WORKING WITHOUT PAY. South Carolina is too big a State to desire to have any of its public offi cials to work without pay, but when the legislature provided for a State Highway Commissioner and fixed the salary at $0,000 ? e r annum, the bues tion next to be settled was to select a capable man for this post. A num ber were spoken cf and after survey ing the field it was decided to offer it to Rear Admiral McGowan. When approached about this Mr. McGowan consented to serve provided he could do so without pay. Then his patriot ism was extensively commented upon But this arrangement came to an ab rupt ending last week when the State Highway Commission met and sol emnly protested against Mr. McGow an working without pay ? his own proposition ? and vouchers were is sued to hnn for something over $7,000 up to July 1st. and Mr. Mc Gowan says he will not displease the board by not receiving pay. So there you are. growing oi.ix It is a very natural thing to do to grow old. In fact we cannot stop the progress of time, but with the in creasing years if there is that con sciousness of having worked for tho betterment of mankind, there is an idded charm in growing old. Out neighbor, The Kershaw Era, last week slipped a cog and jumped from Volume XXXVII to Volume XXXVII,, ind this statement is made by Edito' Hamel: "Thirty-five full years the present editor and publisher has guid ed the destir.-ies of the paper in the ndeavor to use it constructively in he interest of those who dwell in the field it serves." For all these years ?ve have known Editor Hamel well md intimately, and if there has been my changes in him it is that with ach passing year it has been to leave still closer and yet closer to hat pathway which has for its ob ject the uplift and betterment of those vith whom he came in contact. Ho ias spent nearly two score years on he Era, and his paper enjoys the full st degree of confidonse of its read rs and is regarded as one of the most onservative and best edited weekly apers in the State. He ? is hones' nd purposeful in what he writes, and hat he writes is well worth ponder ng. We congratulate our friend up n what he has already accomplished ;ir oclean journalism in South Caro na, and wish for him many mon years in the profession he so sincere ly loves. ( The 'ast issue of his paper container ?ie following reference to his passing another mile post in the field o1 ewspaper endeavor: VOLUME XXXVIII, NO. 1. Without the slightest jar to th arth, or setting in motion a rippl ? pon the bosom of its placid water* no Era slips a cog and jumps Iron /olume XXXVII, No. 52, to Volum vXXVIII, No. 1. Thirty-five full years the presen ditor ,md publisher has guided th lestinies of the paper in the endeav >r to use it constructively in interes ?f those who dwell in the field ; serves. ffrst of all, the endeavor has be, to keep its columns clean and moral! pure, in order to bring no taint to th, Vounger minds and no blush to th cheek of the maturer of its readers. Next it has sought to initiate at "peak in advocacy of such agencies a woMld, in its judgment, buihf up it readers on a sound basis, and pro moto the growth of the material sld. of the territory in which it circulate in the largest and r,,ost substa??jn manner;- - \ Also It has strive,, to be fair to *1 I he Era abhors unfair discrimination nnd if it has at any tin,e and in an? manner unconsciously erred i? this particular, it |? heartily sorry there for and stands ready, eve:, ,1 thi< 'ate hour, to rectify if , ?ssi',le it, unintentional mistake, that may have brought a pang of hurt or disappoint ment to any one. The paper has coveted keenly the friendship and good will of 0/ery one of its patrons, and all ot'er citizens ft* well. Not. enough, however, to fawn or dishonestly dissemble in or dQT to gain a doubtful good will from ?ny one. the public i? too discerning not to bo able to penetrate a thin veneering of duplicity. We prefer to have approval o 1 honesty of purpose to, be followed in due time by mental commendation at least, than to chime in with questionable mutters that would lose us the respect for sincerity from those who felt that we could be nsed whenever occasion offered or up on demand. So long as we may be spared to di rect and confrol this publication its patrons and readers may rest in the assurance that their every good is re ceiving oi^r nonest consideration, and wo shall follow the guidings of our thoughtful judgment in their interest. We trust that we may cont.nue to have their good will and helpfulness in the task. A RELIC OF BARBARISM Conviction is gowing that the stride has become an outworn weapon. The failure of the New York subway strike, following closely upon the col lapse of the spectacular general strike in Great Britian, and the recent un successful coal strike in our own country, is evidence of a new indus trial era. Such good as it was able to accom plish has been secured, and the world is moving on. The strike is a relic of the time when men used violence as a substi tute for intelligence. Laboring men realize that there must be a better way, and the leaders of both labor and industry who fall back upon such ob iolete methods as the strike and the lockout, do not show sufficient intel ligence to lead. OUR INTEREST IN "THE OTHER fellow No one man ever made a baseball .earn, and no one man ever carried on i successful business by himself. City workmen may think that they have little interest in the farmer. The man handling freight on a city lelivery truck or the timekeeper pay ing off a bunch of stevedores on a seaport dock, may say: "What do we :are about the farmer's problems?" But the majority of them se :ure employment from individuals or :orporations, who, in turn, are de indent for the business they do, up >n the sale or manufacture of pro lucts derived from some farm crop. I large part of the business of the ?ity drayman and the waterfront tevedore, will be handling farm rops, either in their fresh state, can ied,'or in the shape of sugar, flour, ured meats, etc. The man who say? ie is not interested in agriculture, icks good sense. Lack of tariff protection on cropi* /here it is necessary, simply cuts off he jobs of thousands of workmen in ther lines of industry besides farm ig. What good does it do the labor ig man if he can buy butter, eggs r sugar for a few cents less each tonth, if unrestrcted foreign compe tion causes him to lose his job? Tho >oner we all learn that we have an terest in each other's problems, the >oner will industrial and agricultur stability be assured. Headache dizziness "T HAVE headache one? in a while, usually coming from constipation or torpid liver," says Mr. L. A. Morphis, of Pottsville, Ark., "and the very best remedy I have found to correct this condi tion is Thedford's Black-Draught. It acts quickly and easily, and it just can't be beat. "Blf ck-Draught is the very best laxative I have found. I always feel so much better after taking it. "My wife takes Black-Draught, too. For dizziness, costiveneBS and any little stoitiach disorder, we find it mont sat isfacrtory, and consider B*lack-Draught a family medicine." Constipation, with an inactive liver, locks up poisons 'in the body aod allows them to ao their dangerous work. Being purely vegetable and containing no harmful druas, Black-Draught acts gently, "help ing the system get rid of impuri ties and preventing serious sick ness. Get a package today. Sold everywhere. 26 cents. 6 6 6 ^ in n prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever Dengue or Bilious Fever. It Wills th? germ* Improved Uniform International SundaySchool ' Lesson ' (?r **V. P. B. FITZ WATER, D.D., Deal of Day and lCv?nluc ttohools. Moody Bik1? Institute of Chicago.) (?. !#>?. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for August 29 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? \ DUTIES TO MAN LESSON TEXT? Exodus 20:12-J1. OOLDKN TEXT? Thou shalt love thj neighbor as thyself. PRIMARY TOPIO? The Command, mentn About Men. JUNIOR TOPIC? How to Serve Men INTERMEDIATE AND. SENIOR TOP IC ? Ix>ving and Helping Others. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC ? Ideal Human Rtlatlonshipa. I. The Fifth Commandment (v. 12). 1. How this commandment may be broken. (1) By showing disrespect to parents. Disrespect Is shown to parents ? (a) By speaking of them as "the old man" and "the old woman." (b) By being ashamed to be seen lu their company. (2) By disobedience. (8) By not supporting them in their old age. 2. Promises annexed to this com mandment. (1) "Thai It may be well with thee" (Eph. 0:3). (2) 'J liui i liuu mayest live long upon the earth. II. The Sixth Commandment (v. 13). This Is a bulwark thrown around human life. Man was created In God's Image. Kvery attempt to take human life is a thrust at God. Th a commandment may be broken : 1. By sinful anger (Matt. 5:22). 2. By hatred (1 Jno. 3:15). 8. By Immoderate recreation, 4. By employers having unsafe sur roundings, thereby causing the death of their employees. 5. By sending children to toll In shops and factories before maturity. 6. By suicide. 7. By Infanticide. 5. By ware. III. The Seventh Commandment (?. 14). This is a bulwark thrown around the home. This commandment mny be broken : 1. By unclean thoughts, affections, purposes and Imaginations (Matt. 5:27 28; 16:19). 2. By unchaste conversation. 8. By wanton looks (Isa. 3:10; II Peter 2:14). 4 By Immodest apparel. 6. By act mi I adultery. 6. By. dl vorce. IV. The Eighth Commandment (?. 15). This commandment strikes nt the iln t>f_*?heft. This commandment may be broken : 1. By taking that which nctually belongs to another. 2. By false weights and measures. 8. By extortion. 4. By employers defrauding em ployees and the employee falling to do. honest work or put In full time 5. By borrowing and not returning 0. By going Into debt, knowing tlnii payment Is Impossible. 7. By usury. 8. By graft. 9. By lying advertisements. 11. By making assignments to es cape payment of debts. 11. By strong nations oppressing the weaker ones. V. The Ninth Commandment (v. 10). The sin aimed at by this command Is a most deadly one ? that of lying. This commandment may be broken : 1. By actual open lying. 2. By perjury? swearing to false hoods by the name of God. 3. By slander. 4. By talebearing (Lev. 10:10). This Is commonly done by repenting n report without investigating its truth fulness. % 5. Hy creating a false impression (Kx. 23:1). 0. By a breach of promise. 7. By withholding the truth. R. By exaggeration. 9. By flattery. By recommending a man for a position of honor and trust who Is Unfitted for It. VI. The Tenth Commandment ( v 17). This commandment strikes at tho desire for that which Is unlawful for one to have. The sin does not lie In the desire to possess things, hut In the desire to posses# that which he longs lo another. It Is not 'wrong to have lands and personal properly which one may have acquired honest ly, but It Is wrong to have the lands which belong to another. It Is right lor a man to have a wife, but It Is sinful to have another's wifo This commandment goes hack of all tho rest. It deals not only with the open violation, but with the Inner desires and motions. It strikes at the very purposes of tile heart. Nowhere Else to Go I have boon driven many llmeq to my kneea by the overwhelming run vlctlon t ti n t I had nowhere elue fo go. My mvn wisdom nnd lloil of till :ibotfl me seemed Insufficient for that day.? Abraham Lincoln. Cur? for Deprennion Tbn beat cure for depreKMlon 1a to look around and wee what Is happen Ing fo other people. You are not hearing all the uilnforl inies of the world Fellow Townsmen Give Reasons Why DHL Should Be Elected to U. S. Senate Dial ? <%0n the Watch for You " C.ORKECT PvKI.l \W\.\: TIE HAS BRAINS AND ENERGY. Look at his past an'om plishments, private and public. lie can and will accomplish something for his country it' elected. ITE IS HONEST AND FAIR. lie docs not make unreason able promises for the purpose of influencing votes. Beware of promises made on the stump! There nr.e iiiniicrnus ones now past due. Dial has no unfilled promises. HE IS RELIABLE AND CAN ALWAYS 1 >E DEPENDED I "PON. Lobbyists have no influence over him. He fearlessly stands by what he thinks is right. IIE IS A TRAINED BUSINESS MAN. The Senate of the 1", S. is a ?rreat. big business organization where Dial's common sense and experience are needed. IIE IS A TIRELESS WORK ER. When in'ilw Senate ho was often referred to as the "working Senator from South Car olina." I lis practical ideas and his knowledge of the needs of all South Carolinians enable him to serve us. HE IS ALWAYS ON THE .TOP.. If elected he will he found, at his post of duty in the Senate, where the l)ial service was often referred to in this manner: "lie attinds to all business that comes to him the same day it is presented if possible." IIE IS THRIFTY AND ECONOMICAL. During the last half of his term in office he saved the taxpayer more than any man in Congress. HE HAS ALREADY MADE GOOD AS A SENATOR. With his Senatorial experience backed by his energy and ability, he will make a Senator tl/at net ? .1 1 South Carolina will point to with pride, but the^A'ation as \...!. / LET'S GET TOGETHER and ELECT DIAL! South Carolina Needs Just His Kind of Man. OIALi CLUB, aureus, S. C NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC PRIM ARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a prim ary election lor the nomination of Democratic candidates for United ..States Senator, Congressman, State Officers and County officers for Ker shaw County will be ludd .at the re spective voting places in Kershaw County on Tuesday, August 31, 11)20. The polls will be open from Eig4)t o'clock in the morning until Four o'clock in the afternoon. No person %will be allowed to vote save those who are duly Qualified, un der the rules and regulations gov erning the Democratic primaries and whose names appear upon the club roll of the precinct at which they pre sent themselves for voting. The polling places have been desig nated and the managers appointed by the County Executive Committee and they appear below: Abney ? L.. k. McCaskill, I,. S. Williams, W. C. Gandy, Cleatus Tay lor. Vote at Kirkley's Mill. Antioch- ? D. K. Stokes, Koykin Mc Caskill, C. W. Shiver, L. A. Shiver, vote at Antioch School House. Bethune? K. T. Estridge, Frank Lee, M. M. Baker, Baron Lee. Vote a. I'own Hall. Blaney ? S. E. Ross, F. A. Nelson, J. G. Kelly, Mrs. A. T. Simpson. Vot at A. K. Rose's Store. Buffalo ? B. S. Catoe, R. F. Sowel,, II. T. Catoe, G. A. lohiison. Vote ai Buffaio School House. Cassatt ? T. A. Spears, Sr., II. M. vVaiters, Oscar Gardner, Henry E Gardner. Vote at Henry K. Gn;d ner's Store. Charlotte Thompson E. I). Work man, Eugene Pearee, Charlie Bruce, I. E. Howell. Vote at Charlotte Thomson School House. l>c>Kalk? S. C. Truesdale, .1. J. ()w ? 'us, Nye Workman and J. F. Ilor con. Vote at DeKalb School House. Dobys Mill- ? W. L. Kinard, A. K. :'.own, Ernest Kirkland And George Arledge. Vote at Campbell's Store. Enterprise R. J.. Stokes, L. C. VIrn'shali, Rufus Moseley and ,1. K. Dunn. Vote at the Luther Moseley iMace. Gates Ford. B. A. Brown. S. B. Jforton, Ed. Baxley, L. S. Brown. Vote it School House. Gumberry A. B. Walker, J. M. iluggins, L. T. Bradley and C. .1. | Baker. Vote at. Gumbe. ry School ' House. Hermitage J H. West, J. J. Munn, I G. B. DeBruhl and W. J. II isty. Vo'e at. G. B. DeBruhl Store. Kershaw Marion Jones. .1 A Whitley, I). Y Hough, and Paul Jones. Vote at W. R. Taylor's store. Lockhart J. V. Baker, Jesse Ow ens. Lee Horlon and Wesley Boone. Vote at Jordans Store. > Lugoff - G. ? E. Watts, J. A. Rose borough, Luthe ? Jones and II.* A. Ka bon. Vote at Roseborough Store. Liberty Hill F. B. Floyd. R. ('. Jones, -Jr., W. C. Wrrdlaw and W. C. j Perry. Vote at Mackey-Jones More. ? iNed's Creek ? JOnoch Roberts, i-.a.lo Craiu, S. K. Johnson, \\ . A. JotMisuit. Vole at iScoool House. Oakland. ? 1.. li. AlcLauchlin, G. li. McCoy, J. 11. \S atKins ami Wesk-y outlaw. Y_yte at Oakland School ilouse. i'liie Tree .1. 10. Rrannon, W. \V. 'ilo.ton, Artluir llyatt, H. U. West. IVute at Aljdway School House. 1 Roland ? L. I., liarnes, 1). C. West, j Ousic West, L. S. Spears, Vote at West Mill. Kaley's Mill ? .J. K. Mann'um, .1. 10. Davis, Carson Rodgt t's, Amos West, Vote at Haley's Mill. Rabon's Cross Roads- .1. C. Fur l, lCary Branhani, Latham Getfcys, I)an 1 nie Rabon. Vote At Rabons Store, j Salt Pond ? N. P. Gettys, H. K. 'Moore, W. L. Hianham, 11. R. Hoykin. i Vote at School House. 1 Sandy (^fove? - S. 15. Hall, II. C. Stokes, \\ . 11. Ralciii'fe. Vote at ? andy Grove Church. Shamrock ? 1. 1,. Williams, A. 10 1 - I ott; C. P. Ilia kmor,, 1'. Hake.. Vote at Shamrock School House. Sheperd? (I. S. Rortgers, !?'. J. Tid well, Sidney Moseley, .f. li. hangley. Vote at Pauleys Store. Three C's- Robert McGill. T. II Young, Claude Hell, T. H. Fletcher. Vo'o at :i C's School House. Twenty ("reek A. I). Powey, Will iam Pass, G. S. Rav, P.. T. Rabon. Vote at Unison's store. Wateree- Frank Murphv, W. W. I >avis, l>. T. Davis, i>. I". Harries. Vote aJL Club House. Westville I.. C. ('lyl.irn, W. P. McDowell, |{. Cox, I', li. Y u \y, \'ot ? at Westville School lion c. navlor's Hill? li. I). Hollaiid. K. M. Drakeford, .1. R. llornshy and I;. P. Smyrl. Vote at School House. Swift Creek p. C. Tine-dale, W.I is Hoykin, W. A. Hoykin, !( I). Ho, kin. Vote at Trues. lale's Store. Harmony G. A. Dowev, I-'. M. Mad do:;. .1. 10. Abbott, .) I-. i'ii chal. Vote at School House. Camden W. A. Clfirke, Soi.il lie' skII, lOugene Moseley and M I, Sniil ?, ?r. V >i\ " at. Court House. At. Clubs havinir more tlmn I iff v names the Australian I'.allol system will be observed. The especial alien t ion of the Manager? h called to the rules and regulations cuvcr nintc the conduct of the primary which rules will he found printed on the inside cover page of the enrollment book. At Precincts where {voters from more than one Township cast 'heir ballot the voters will give the mana gers the name of the Town-bio i'i which they reside a 'I the pmnagers will write the name ef such Townshi-f on thff poll list ncy? to the voter' name. One of the Manager* or some mem ^'?r of ea"h club will cnll for the hoyes, ticket ", e'e , wh'ch will be r'"dy on Vnrv'n--. A H (In offices r>f the Chairman. I? It HIT, TON Ch-irmnn. Mendel I,. Smith, Jr. Secretary.