The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, October 11, 1927, Image 2
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Tuesday, October 11, 1927
TRAVELING ON
With us it is quite a long glanr
back to the time when we launchc
The Wateree Messenger upon the s<
of journalism. With this issue w
be jfin Volume 1, No. 44. The first i
sue of The Messenger appeared Oct j
ber 7th, 1884. We are traveling o> i
These forty-three years of The Me:
sender's life have not all been eas >
sailing, there have been difficultio '
tq overcome; there have boor; period
of depression; at time we have sn
under the "juniper tree" of disai
pointment and like one of the pr?
phets of old, may have made the mi
take of feeling "it was enough", bi
letter thoughts came to our reset*
and we travelled on determined to <'
our best. We feel as we write the
lir.es that every bit of vitality in i
bus been used for the advancement <
the people whom we have served. W
are not conscious of an utikii
thought to a living soul. We have a'
ways felt that an honest" newspape
striving for the good of the public
could accomplish something wort
while. Our heart throbs with li>\
for our fellow/man and the kind I'ro\
idence that has been over' us all <
these years. There has been no sus
pension of the paver during its exist
ence of forty-three years, even for
single week; nor has there been an,
change in ownership and management
We have been at the helm for al
these years. As we take a back war
glance, there comes teeming into ou
memory many experiences througl
which we have passed, and we in
sincerely proud of the friends we haw
made. They have been an anchoi t
u:i in times of stbrm, when the cloud,
hung heavy, when feelings of doub
and discouragement would come, whet
seme whose praises it had been oui
delight to sing appeared not appre
ciative, yet we have been encourage;'
b> the many kindnesses shown us.
which far outweighed all the slights
shown us, and we are determined,
with the help of thtf kind Providence
that has been over us all of these
years to continue to give the best in
uu for the advancement of our town
and county, for our state ? for all that
i.? right and worth while in life. We
only ask a fair field. As to whether
or not we have accomplished any
thing worth while we leave that to
those whom we have served to say.
Life at most is too short for selfish
ness and hatreds, and we begin an
other year of our newspaper experi
ei,ce free from any desire to "get ev
en" with anyone, and from a con
sciousness of scores of warm friends
who wish us well, we take courage
and strive on, trusting that our short
comings in the past may be avoided
in the future, and that we may con
tinue to serve our patrons with a
newspaper that will be a welcome
visitor in their homes and by their
firesides. We shall keep its columns
clean; they shall be reliable and
trustworthy.
We have responded to every re
quest for cooperation whenever it
was possible, and the columns of our
paper have at all times been open to
serve the public and to promote any
worthy enterprise and the bringing
together of our people in any under
taking when called upon to do. We
?have not, however, been willing to set
our sails to catch the popular breeze,
but have always been actuated by hon
est motives and a free and independ
ent spirit.
Thort* are a number of good friends
yet on our mailing list who have been
subscribers to The Messenger from
itH first issue. What an inspiration
they have been to us they will never
be able to fully realize, and the s-ores
of others who hav^e become regular
(reader* of our [vaj>er have not been
without a stimulating effort to bring
out of us our very best efforts.
Our city, our county, our state, our
friends, may heaven smile upon them
and give them the choicest blessings
ot life and prosperity. We are trav
eling on. We look up ami take fresh
courage. |
TIIK AOE OF MAC.IINKRY I
Modern mechanical equipment hap I
made possible unthought-of efficiency.
Whether it be in electric attach
ments for the home, such as washing
machines, percolators and so on, or
labor-saving machines for industry
? and the farmer, rower-driven ma
chinery has done more than any other
Agency to abolish drudgery and time
W Rating.
The modern housewife can do pri"
tkally all of her work by pressing a
button or turning a switch; the fac
tory owner can limit his employes to
well paid experts and still increase
n
his output by using tho latest type of
machines; road builders, lumbermen,
ind construction engineers ? in c
complish tho industrial feats of today
at lower cost with the powerful* "Ca
terpillar" tractors, mammonth shov-*
els, ercavators, graders and uthe/
heavy duty machines.
We are living in what might b<
tiuly called the "Age of Machinery."
#
COTTON IS TOO LOW IN I'KICE
A few years ago before ihe <oming
of the boll weevil and when labor .vas
cheaper than it is no v. otton could
be raised for much less in It -.an be
raised for now. No one can su^ews
Cully deny this. In the race of ih
facts cotton sells at too low a price.
Instead of trying 10 ki ;.> ihe inv-e
down below the cost of roduction,
manufacturer's should remember vh is,
and pay a better price. There should
be some method of standarizing the
price of cotton in order to prevent
positive loss to the producers. Very
few if any of them are getting cost
"or it at this time. We are ouilduig
paved roads, and this takes a lot of
money; we are building large and mo
Idem school houses, spending now f ?r
education in our state of aroun I
thirteen millions of <i<1Tlars for e.luca
jej'tion, and along many other lino
lour expenditures are increasing, and
'how on earth can this keep up vvi-.'l*
j the farmers are trying t<> make <. >.
\ ton and losing money each year >1
] their crop? Unless a fair pr' v i
I paid, we are beaded for financial de
struction. Knock the rop ??ompl.-le
v out from under our farmers and you
will see how fast we will jr.) down
hi!l.t We want good school and p.ived
| mads and many other public improve
ments, and the farmer who enjoy-, tlu
; benefits of these is willing to pay
luxes for them within reason, bu*
there are some no doubt who will no
make enough, in view of the destruct
ion wrought by the boll weevil and
the low price the staple is selling at.
to pay the piper. Speculators or any
other agency employed to keep th ?
?'l ice of cotton below the cost of grow
jing it, is an enemy to his country
??nd we long to see the day when ih<
farmer can be independent of them
'The farmer is entitled to something
j or his labor and the labor of his wife
vr.d children, many of whom work in
I he fields to make the cotton.
TAXES AM) INDUSTRY
Taxes may lie so high, says a prom
inent political economist, that groat
multitudes of people are thrown out
ol work, because industry is rendered
unprofitable.
"A tax," he says, "may take out of
the pockets of the people more than
it brings into the public treasury."
The high tax that drives capital out
of industry is a tax of this sort.
The voice of experience instructs
u.-; as to the harmful and inescapable
results of taxation made so high as
to defeat its own ends and to bring
upon the people unforseen and end
less burdens.
Too much taxation and regulation
of industries prevent development of
Our Country along the payroll and
dinnerpail line.
MINISTER CONVICTED
The Rev. VV. T. Jordan, recently : as
tor of a Methodist church in Colum
bus, Ga., was convicted in Charlotte
last week of bigamy. The evidence
went to show that the minister mar
ried a woman in Charlotte last Aug
ust, while he had a wife from whom
he had not been divorced, residing in
West Virginia, and another one else
where who claimed to have been mar
ried to him. The Rev. Jodran is de
scribed as an old gray-hnired man,
find an alienist testifying for him
stated that he was not responsible for
his actions as he was suffering from
progressive mental disorders. The
jury hearing his case found him guilty
ami recommended him to mercy, lie
received a sentence from two to three
years in the penitentiary at Raleigh.
I An appeal will be taken in the o'd
j man's? case, as it appears he is n >t.
responsible for his acts. His sen
tence has been reduced to eighteen
| months.
THE WAR IS ON
We have read a good deal reoon'iv
about, the efforts being made to i
1 rouse the farmers to do a wort1) whin
work if they expect to make any cot
| ton another year. Last year th? !> >11
weevil did not do so much har>n. nvl
some were r erhaps impressed \'i;h :ho
idea that this pest was leaving v?,
but they were awakened this your ?o
the fact that they were mistaken. rh< j
boll weevil has been unusually do I
st motive to cotton this year. One I
farmer who planted quite extensively I
in cotton this year, stated to us some
time ago that he bad lost at least two '
thousand dollars on his cotton. An- j
other stated to us that where he had !
been averaging a half bale to the 1
acre he had some acres this year that '
he would not pick more than twenty- j
five pounds off of it. Another large ,
planter stated that he whs getting a- I
round two hundred bales off of his |
hundreds of acres whero he should 1
have gotten at least six hundred
bales, and would have done so but
for the boll weevil. Now in the face
of all this, and many other instances
that could be mentioned, what are the
farmers going to do about it? KILL
THE STALKS is the slogan. If they
are killed before the frost comes, the
best authorities tell us that a big crop
of the weevils will be destroyed and
there will not be enough of them left
to prevent the making of a fair crop
of cotton next year. That is where
cotton is planted early, the first crop
of bolls will have time to mature be
fore the weevils come in sufficient
numbers to do a Rreat amount of dam
age. It is up to the farmers to act
a', once. It is up to the farmers 'to act
land the most of it is picked out. Hur
r\ the picking of what is in the fields
i now and join in the war being waged
'against this desrtuctive pest. Delay
lis dangerous. Start at once. If you
I wait until the weevils go into hiber
nation you will lose the fight. Are
?you ready to surrender?
jSAFETY ON HIGHWAYS PERSON
AL MATTER
i For the first seven months of 1927,
111,148 automobile deaths were re
corded in Our Country, a sain of 418
over the same period last year. The
total may reach 2f>,000 before the
year passes.
Stringent licensing of drivers, with
cancellation of driver's permit for
'?areless or dangerous operation of
automobile*, would help greatly in
reducing the number of automobile
accidents and deaths. It would cost
nothing at all, compared with com
Ipulsory automobile liability insurance,
which is being advocated all over the
ration, and would go far toward al
leviating the necessity for such in
surance?if such necessity may be
I sai I to exist at all.
Making it a prison offense to drive
without- a license, or after a license is
revoked, as it is an offense to have
V.urgiar tools or explosives, would no
v hat compulsory automobile liability
insurance could not possibly do? it
j would enforce personal cooperation
j mhI responsibility" without which
there is no safety.
BASEBALL AT NIGHT
Electricity is now scheduled to
bring professional baseball at night.
It has already fooled the hens and
caused them to lay eggs overtime,
raised plants where formerly only
dcrkness prevailed, has furnished
foot! for trout farms by causing bugs
ti, fly low to the water, freezes ice,
curls milady's hair and does so many
other un-heard-of things, that light
ing a baseball diamond at night will
stem tame in comparison.
Y AH E OF NEWSPAPERS RE
COGNIZED
A. A. Anderson, Secretary of the
Pacific Coast Building-Loan Associa
ion, in an address at the Pacific
States savings and loan conference,
recommends newspaper advertsing as
the most effective and economical
means of reaching the public. Fur
'her. he urged that the building-loan
associations throughout the United
States should have a fund of at least
$1,000,000 for such a campaign.
As Mr. Anderson knows, it has
been fully demonstrated that the
newspaper stands by itself as a car
rier of messages to the greatest pos- '
i hie number of people. It is the
->n'y medium that is sure to reach the '
citizens of a community and be read.
This fact is being more fully appre
ciated every day.
The smaller city dailies and country '
weeklies are the great medium for j
reaching the masses of the people who
represent the majority of the reading
and buying power of this nation.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK
Gov. Richards has issued a pro
clamation appointing the days of
'ctolier ninth through the fifteenth
!sis Fire Prevention Week, and com
mending to the people that they and
j their several organizations give par
| ti c* 11 1 n r thought and counsel at this
[time to the duty and means of fire
prevention throughout the coming
year, and that they plan with fixe I
pur ose and careful attention nwr ?
effectively hereafter in their homes
and businesses and in their citizen*
jship influence upon public control t>
[conserve the ere ate I things in >,her
j custody so as to carry forwarel and
ia<ld to the cumulated store of th"
| world's goods, and avoid the sin of
wanton waste and carelessness akiri
| to crime.
, This is well, especially when it is
iremembereel that every year, fire, in
this country, burns property worth
over half a billion dollars, fn aeleli
tion to this direct loss, is the much
greater loss caused indirectly by un j
employment resulting from destruct- I
ion of plants, loss of profits and go' ' I
will which comes from interruption
of business. It. is impossible to com
pute the increasevl loss caused by
these indirect agencies, but it we?uld
be safe to say the total is brought to
well over a billion elollars a year.
Think what this sum of money
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would mean if used for schools, roads,
or, what may be closer to the heart,
if it were used for governmental pUr.
(poses and taxes lowered accordingly.
Instead, it is a great fortune destroy
ed as completely as if so many dol
lars were sunk in the ocean.
SomethiTig must be done! There
has been laudable cooperation among
editors in this country wlu^iave writ
ten voluminously on thl^Brbject, do
ing their bit to stamp it out. But
that is not sufficient, valuable as it
is. There must be the wholesouled
( pposition of the ordinary sensible
c'tizens of every locality. The care
less ami irresponsible must be mad.
lo feel the enmity of public opinion
Fire loss can be checked. The peo
ple, and only the people, can do it.
Governor (Jets Walking Stick .Made
of Red Dahlias
Governor John G. Richards received
walking stick made of red dahlias
on his return Sunday from Liberty
Hill, where he spent the wecls-e;v!
The flowers were a gift of J. ArJ
O'neill of Charleston and were !
to the governor's mansion.- -T.
State.
Rev. E. H. Jenkins Here.
Rev. E. R. Jenkins arrived in Ker-'
shaw last Saturday and is delivering
his lectures at Pleasant Plain church
in accordance with the schedule ub
lished in the Era last week. We learn
[that good audiences are attending the
j lectures, which are interspersed with
J stereoptican pictures. It is probable
that Mr. Jenkins may deliver r.omo
of his lectures in Kershaw after pre
isent engagements are completed. In
ease that he should, advance an
nouncement will be made in the Krn.
Kershaw Era.
Death of J. E. Raker
J. K. Raker, aged I>2 years, died Sat
l urday night at the home of his broth
' er, Hilton Raker, in the Mt. Pisg.ih
section, following an illness of several
months with cancer, and was buried at
Flat Creek church cemetery at 4 o'
clock |>. m., Sunday. The funeral ser
vices were conducted by Rev. M. R.
Gunter, and the interment was with
the ccremoinios# of the Junior Or lc-,
of which "Mr. Rnker was a member.
? Kershaw Era.
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