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THE WATER EE MESSENGER, ' Published Every Tuesday by CH AS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. * 1 , $1^0 A Year ia Advance ? :r ? '? Entered aa Second Class Matter at the | Poetoffice at Camden. 8. C. ? . Tueeday, February 14, 1928 FOR BETTER RETURNS , farmers last year actually' money on their cotton crop. This especially true where the boll weevil appeared in unusually large numbers. It will not do to trust to the recent ' cold snap aa having de stroyed the boll weevil. If the com 3 ? season is favorable to the pest, there is but little doubt but that the farmers will be confronted with a ?4- similar condition to last year. The it; question naturally arises as to what ' to do. One thing which we pointed ;i' out last week, is that South Caro i^ Hna farmers are sending out of the , state seven to ten millions of dollars for corn whioh they might raise right here at home. We have no figures as fc to the amount being sent out of the state for bacon, beef, butter, eggs and ^ i-. many other articles that can be pro yb dueed here at home. Last summer farmers in this section read of the i'^fine returns from the tobacco crop in ; those counties planting tobacco. In jjiV/a pleasant conversation a few days Jijago with Mr. H. G. Carrison, Sr., he restated to us that he was going to -. ' plant forty aores in tobacco ? twenty acres on each of his farms near Cam ?den, This we believe is a step in the y right direction. Now if a number of \>; our farmers would plant from say ^ - five to twenty acre* in tobacco, and raise a sufficinet amount to warrant the building of a tobacco warehouse .he.re. find, jwake J3amden a real tobacco ipv market with a regular buyer or buy Ijl'orS it would be well. Then a great r ij deal more attention could be given Igto trucking and poultry raising. There is a way out of the woods if we will look for it and adopt new me |:?:thdde. The need confronts us; why V:>not go to it? $ BELIEF IN CONTINUED PROS PER1TY JUSTIFIED Hubert Hoover, in his report for & fiscal year 1927, declares that the |Jgfcte of real wages in the United pStat?? during that period "remained than anywhere else in the or in any other time in world hi?tory.n + ; He declares that this high level of prosperity was the result of a gener ppf *nd permanent progress, based on *urw^?rnentaJ8. jgiving reason belief that satisfactory con ' s; dttions will continue. jjy Industry has made great strides in ^-efficiency, accompanied by the main ; .v^mnce of high wage levels without (rise in price levels. There has bee<n I dev?loPment in transportation ^?^^^^ies, -have 'maintained Kf commanding position in foreign P trade, while financial structure of the tyjfpmtvy ia in a sound condition, g# / Altogether, Secretary Hoover's ^report sohwa that the country is in a |W: satisfactory condition. On the other ij'^fcand, it points out sufficient "low spote" so that we should not become ?:CAre!ess through overconfidence. feThe fisherman who keeps right on ^ fishing and who doesn't rock the boat, the fellow who brings in the good tj catches. As a nation, we should fol low this plan. fljtf ** looks very much like the inde xv<; terminate sentence act is going to he repealed. This was recommended to the legislature by Gov. Richamds, and inclined to think that it would |gH Well to repeal it. for we hardly be g lteve that H worked the reforms that designed to do, and then it jttakes the pardbn record look much ^ rea,,y A prisoner ,!? ??ffen a sentence of from two to four yCMrs, after having served two years Cah get up the required application showing that he has made a good prisoner and has employment wait , for him, and in such cases there is nothinp: to do but to turn him out. Willi this act repealed the judges will straight sentences which thoy expected to sorve unless some reasons are shown for clemency. Hi NEWS FOR THE FARMER pi. Wilson, agricultural econo of the Montana experimental n, quoted in a news item, states two -thirds of Montana's 1927 1 Wheat crop was raised on tractor farms, of which there are now 7,000 I in the stat^. Speaking of the im provement tn the efficiency through U*e Of the tractor he says: "Three years ago there were few farmers anywhere in the world who produced wheat with less than eight howrs of mm labor to the acre. Today many well-organised, efficiently operated tractor wheat farmg raise their crops with only two hows of man labor per ve." H?re is valuable data for the wise farmer. DISCARD SHIFTY POLITICS AND RED TAPE The American citizen is one of the most heavily taxed in the world. Hds home and property are taxed, if he buys a theater ticket he is taxed; everything he eats, drinks or does is taxed. Worse yet, if he owns a share of stock he knows that for ev ery dollar he receives as a dividcjxl probably more than a dollar has been paid out in taxes. And so it goes. -There is obviously a cure far the tax evil; and it is up to the taxpayer j :o correct it Our national govern ment as conducted with a fair degree of economy ? but as much cannot- be ?aid for state and municipal govern ments. Thousands of the citizen?', dollars are wasted daily, when, legis latures arc in session, by debating absurd and unwanted laws Thous ands more are expended in trying to put these laws in the al^pady bulg ng statute books. Bond issues are proposed disastrous experiments in municipal ownership are tried; and he result is ? a few more millions on khe tax bill. A good, well-balanced, municipal and state government, doing away with shifty politics and "rod tape," ?ombine>d with common sense, will ;ome nearer than anything else to ef | fecting tax redi^jon. H?CKMAN FACES TtfE GALLOWS William Edward Hickman, the slayer of the 12 year old Parker girl in Ix>s Angeles last December, has been found sane by the jury of eight Tien and four women who heard the case. Those who followed this long tirawn out case evidently were im pressed' tihat Jthe preponderance of '.estimony went to show that Hick man was sane when he committed this terrible crime and that* he is lane now. His plea of insanity was to try to escape the ropo going a round his neck. His brilliant young attorney, Jerome Walsh, doubtless be lieved his client insane and he mad? a wonderful fight to save him. He has attracted the admiration of thousands of people everywhere, but the odds were against him. But his attorney has not given up yet. An appeal will bo made, and there is no tolling just when the curtain will fall on the last act. "The Fox", as he is solf-styled, seemed not to be worried over the verdict but appeared jaunty and in good humor. The Judge hctar i ing this case took not over twenty minutes in his charge to the jury, and he seemed to be absolutely fair. He told the jury that "a slight pre ponderance of evidence is sufficient to render the defendant a verdict of acquittal." 4<If you find him to have been temporarily insane at the time of the crime, you must acquit him of the act." It did not take the jury very long, however, to find him sane. The boy's shattered home life along with other causes doubtless had "its effect upon him, but these would not justify thQ) slaying of the little girl, and his plea of insanity was a weak one. ON THE RIGHT LINE Representative Duffie, of Sumter county, is trying to get through a bill to require at least 25 per cent, of the [voters to vote in a bond election be fore the bond can be valid. He point ed opt that Georgia requires that at least 51 per cent, of the voters must participate in the election before the bonds can be issued, Mr. Duffie calls attention to the many millions of bonds issued in South Carolina, and cites an instance whore $75,000 of bonds were voted in which there we're only a dozen votes, nine for and three against. Many who do not favor a bond issue, conclude that it will be carried any way and do not trouble themselves to go to the1 polls and vote. Then when the bonds are is sued taxes must be raised to meet the interest. Bonds were voted here in Camden recently by possibly less than a dozen voters. We think Represen tative Duffie very jponservative in fixing 25 per cent, of the voters as being required before bonds can be legally issued, and his bill should be come a law. FARM GOSSIP I/Ook at good implements before you leap at cheap ones. Frank Farmer says: "The differ ence botween purebred seed and ordi nary seed is all to the goods". Shakespeare's remark, "His reas ons are as two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff," hits off the one-crop noil-robbing farmer. A lesson for farmers: One man with a steam shovel <loes as much work as 150 mon with picks and shov els. ? A warning from Proverbs to farm er? who defend on politicians for form relief: "He ttoat tllteth his land shall have plenty of bread, but he that follweth afetr vain persons shall have poverty/' , '' A . * L? ertillzer Association Ready to Coop. ? . erate Wholeheartedly Washington, Feb. 10. ? An offer to cooperate wholeheartedly 'In jnaking the investigation of fertilizer Xfrpceis in South Carolina, recently rtXjueet od by the General Assembly, was p.uade to AttqTnby general John M. ( j Daniel in a /letter tfom- Char lee J. Srand, Wq$hing^n; D. C., upon be half of thdroational Fertilizer Asso ciation, of which he is executive sec retary. Brand 'pointed out that last year >.he fertilizer companies operating: in South Carolina* lost around $2,500,000 n furnlshig fertilizer to the farmers ^nd that throughout the country the industry lost $22,000,000. During the nast seven years the total losses of 'he industry, Brand stated, amounted to $225,000,000. "We believe that when the true situation is brought out in the inves tigation," Brand declared, , "the At torney General, the General Assembly ind the public will understand that the industry is rendering a great wealth-producing service to South Carolina and to the Nation, and at a very reasonable p<rice. "For this reason, and despite the fact that we regard; the resolution limply as political sniping to bag campaign thunder, the industry wel ?omes the investigation, and through its national association (jyilli \assist i? much as possible in ascertaining the facts of the situation." Brand stated tohat the extrem'lv low price of cotton in 192(3 so orip oled tho farmer's buying power that n the spring of 1927 demand for fer tilizer was at a low ebb, resulting in j per cent lwa fertilizer being sold n the South. This, he explained, "orccd the companies to cut their )rices until farmers got their fer tilizer last year at prices avrnfein" a ton less than the actual cost of production and distribution. This vas the disastrous result, Brand vrote, of the cotton farmer receiv ng only 8 to 12 cents for his 192G M-op. The bulk of the 1927 crop, towever, brought the farmer 18 to '.1 cents and consequently he is in a nueh better financial position. "This year, the fertilizer companies icting legally and with proper self interest, are endeavoring to got their ':oat of production plus a reasonable profit? and no industry can continue At function for the best interes of ts customers unless it obtains a fair profit. Executives of fertilizer com oanies would be delighted if they ?ould make a profit of 6 per cent on ? beir investment^* Brand quoted figures from the Fed ? >ral Bureau of Labor Statistics which *how that the price of fertilizer is relatively much lower than the price if cotton. He stated that at pres ent *prices a bale of cotton will buy a fifth more 8-3-3, the analysis most extonsiveJy us?d on cotton, than it would baok in pre-war days. "The present prices of leading an alyses of mixed fertilizers are leo than 12 per cent above tho 1923 level," ie explained', "but the price of cotton and cottonseed combined is 53 pea cent higher than in 1913. The price of non-agricultural commodities av erages over 50 per cent, higher atv1 products of the farm 37 per cent higher than pre-war. Thuo the fig ures of the U. S. Department of Agri :ulture prove the relative cheapness af fertilizers." Multiple Trip Tickets Offered by Southern Atlanta, Ga., February 10. ? Mul tiple trip tickets, marking an Inno vation in arrangements for passenger travel by rail, have been announced by the Southern Railway System, ef fective February 15thA and will be on sale ?t all ticket oWces, good be tween all points up to two hundred miles. These tickets will be sold in books good for 10, 20 or 30 rides. Where the one-way faro is $1.00, the 10-rlde ticket will be sold for $7.35, the 20 ride ticket for $11.55, and the 30-ride ticket for $15.75. A similar reduc tion is made for all points between which these tickets will apply. The multiple trip tickets are for, use in day coaches and will not be good in sleeping or parlor cars. VULCANIZING AND HAJTERY SERVICE Prompt and Satisfactory Attention Given to all orders GOODYEAR TIRES and WILLARD HATTERIES Greasing and Car Washing Call npon us when we can he of service to you. Prices reas onable. MYERS SERVICE STATION Phone 8R Cor. DeRalh A Fair A February nunftet with rich crim son horizon^ seen through a delicate filigree of hare trees, makes up for even tho most trying day. HONOR ROLL OF THE BETHUNE SCHOOLS - . Third Six-Week Period First Grade ? Distinguished: Bob bie Grtff in, 'Helen, Stogner. Profi cient: Katharine Foster, Iria McCaa kiil, Johns Den McLaurin, John Cope lond, Morris Hyatt, Margaret Mc Laurin, Gerry Davis, Rowena Holland, Margie Jones, Crawford Thompson, A. W. Hunter, Dot Haaty, . Johnnie Moseley, Dorothy Horton, Catherine Taylor. . -? > Second Grade ? Distinguished: Cie Jlia Derrick, Esther Love Hillhouse, L-.ivcrn Jones, liobbie Newton Marion, Iiu'nita Pate, Ava Shaw, Bryce Joy ncr. Proficient: Ila< - B. Mongum, CI o Ell'ott, Lewia Lee Neal, Ailleen Hilton, Margaret Hasty, Beulah Mae Dixon, Jack Gardner, Louise Man ?um, Ellis Padgett, Thelma Wages, Herbert Hesrter, Robert King, Bud Helms. Third Grade ? Distinguished: Demp ?oy Stogner, Elizabeth Brannon,' Jprr Gardner, Ray Gardner, Sarah Vrrott, Proficient: Marguerite Tc-nes, -Bethune McLaurin, Richard \!-Luurm, T. R. Copeland, Henry Th 'rrell, Grace Horton, Johnnie Hun er, Pete Mangum, Erne3t Moseley. Fourth Grade ? Distinguished? "iarence Heustiss, Nancy Tompkins, '^uby Davis, Arlene Wagers, Profi cient: Ruby Campbell, Johnnie Brown, Virgina Derrick, Hoy ward Davis, 'vice Baker, Evelyn Elliott, Fifth Grade ? Distinguished: Mary VI 'en McLaurin, Sarah Ruth McKin jcn. Proficient: Keith Gordon: Law ion Brannon, Dalton McLeod, Thelma Raley, Frances Gaixlner, Alta Tol '?): rt, Dorh Shaw, Lillie Mae Hilton. Yyrtle Horton, Hattic Mae Mangum, Ruth Raley, Ira Blackmon, Grace Hasty. Sixth Grade-? Distinguished: Thel ma Davis, Elsie Mae llammnnd, Ida Outlaw, {Lottie Outlaw. Proficient: Mary Baker, Laurenee McLaurin, Tressa Mae Hyatt, Gracie Mangum, Gladys Joyner, Marguerite Foster, Louise Ellis. Seventh Grade ? Distinguished: Mary B. 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Limit five days from date hale ; one and a half fare round trip, only 2.7 cents a mile- applying within a radius of 150 miles. A^or further information see any Southern Railway System TLket Agent or write W. E. McGEE, Division Passenger Agent, Columbia, S. C. Southern Railway System Desk able Loans Wanted If yju need funds for remodeling your home, or lor buying or building a home, see us. Usually we are in position to make loans in reasonable amount on desirable residence property in Camden If you have surplus or idle funds you wish to loan see us- At times we require considerable funds and can arrange time of payment to suit your con venience Wateree Building &,Loan Association By John T. Mackey, Treasurer. WILSE W. MARTIN HARNESS and SADDLE MAKER Wholesale l eather and Shoe Findings Auto To? Maker and Repairer illl/iS DEALER 1114-16-1& Hampton St. Phone 6821 COLUMBIA. S. C MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS MONUMENTS I solicit your orders for MONUMENTS and MEMORIALS All work Kuaranteed and prices 1 reasonable Camden will hereafter be includ- ? ed in my territory LANCASTER MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Lancaster, S. C. M. II. McNINCH, Proprietor ? If interested drop us a line and representative will call upon you. 1 FOR SALE*~-No. 6 Clevolantl cotton seed. First year firom , breeder. 1 1-10 staple high producer. These seed havo been carefully selected and ginned on private gin to keep pure. Secure your seed awl you will bo pleased with results. W. A. EDWARDS. Kt. I. Westville, S .C. DUCK PRESERVE? Most accessible duck preserve in Stato, killed my limit this preserve this month, pic tures as proof. I also offer for salo other properties good for duck, deer, quail, other game. For de tails address LAWSON OLIVER, Hox 806, Georgetown, S. C. WANTED? To buy Native Corn in big lots Iti 2 or 3 oushel bags. If you have any for sale, leave price and amount at the Messenger ofiico. 6 6 6 Ih r prescription for Colds, Grippe, Hu, Dengue Millions JK'vtr and Malaria it kills Iho ?orinH MONKY TO LOAN On improved city real estate ul per Cfnt int-re&t. Apply to HF2NKY SAVA(iK, JR., Attorney Crocker Building. ?Office i'hone Ken. riimhnll Hotifle ' Wal. H498 Ivy 7700 < ? PRACTICE IN STATE ANI) < ? U. S. COURTS - If AYNE M. MATIIKSON 1 Attorney and Counselor at Law 1 Bulte 512 I'etern Building ' ATLANTA, GA. * NOTICE Any one wishing curtains stretched apply to 904 Campbell Ave I'rVces reasonable. ?*> WANTED ? Position as truck driver. Have had experience"; careful and attentive. Absolutely no reck lessness. Apply to P. O. Box, 27, Camden, 8. C. 2t.