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THE WATKREE MES8KNGER ;:w. bibchmokb, ed ? Second Clae. 'tatter at ? P-"*-'" at Camden, 8. C. iptfonH.50 A Year in Advance g: ? ' Tuesday, October 27, 1931 ECONOMY necessary With business conditions such -as we have been passing through for the ' pa?t two years, economy is absolutely necessary. Those conditions are re* sponsible for the organization of the Farmers and Taxpayers league. Members of this organization are tax Vttayeritv' |Uid they have been .feeling ? the heavy burden with business down liiSfc low ebb. A realization of the ^necessity of a cutting down ofc taxes |?ave birth to this patriotic organi sation, and they are moving in an in \ telligent way. . At the last session ol :> the legislature they were not given any consideration by some of the mera bers while others realized that they j- came to them with a just cause. The forty-six counties may be without de* \ ficits if the taxes could all be collect i. ed, but there is the rub. We have heard ! a number of taxpayers lamenting thq. -vfact that they were unable to meet this obligation. The officers charged ?>- with collecting the taxes know the situation and have been as lenient as , ? the^ possibly could be. When the j Farmers and Taxpayers League made ft request to be allowed to have a mem tber. of their organization'sit with the ^state budget commission, this request was refused. The request has been renewed and h*s finally been granted. There is a need of co-operation, and i* ^Js to be regretted that their first re quest was refused, but that it has t>een j finally granted, no doubt the budget commission as well as the taxpayei a : will profit by it. Useless offices and commissions should bo cut out. Many j salaries could b& reduced. The state will have to follow the example of a number of municipalities in thiB re inject.' For instance, Sumter has cut Salaries to the extent of saving somo1 K&ousands Of dollars. Anderson has ^inaugurated a program of economy by |;jn*ldn{3 a cut of ten per cent, in sal paries, thus saving moie than ten thou< sand dollars. Other towns have al v.'Veady inaugurated an economy pro ? gram in order that their budgets may ? be met. A number of county govern libfe" ^av? out 8ome ?xpen8es' i our own ctfui\ty ameng them. The 1; state government should do the same thinft 1*h? people are n^t unwilling to pay taxes, for the governments mus*. fju&tfon, but economy should be prac W&4' in m;'kinS UP budgets and wild V sflpkpropx'l.'x^.ons should be halted, and ^e are of tho opinion that the farm i; >^>nd Taxpayers league is going) to f stabalize the assessments put on | ^property. A number of counties are ^Uhible to pay the salaries of teachers. |fhere arre some' in this county who Isknnqt collect their salaries at pre-| &nt. A teacher who was formerly Spfoplcyed in the schools of tnis county | ;vjtout iu now a teacher in Richland f:, county tolcl us a few days ago that jjpfcjlY was unable to collect her salary.] ?;If taf.CJ cannot be collected, it will be r-^an .amount to a deficit in the count |pft, and tho state has a deficit of over o millions of dollars. The brakes j ^ inust be applied or disaster will follow. , Farmers and Taxpayers League ] Ijkre giving the danger signal. Politl cliques and rings had better heed Hp,,r ? " ' THE BETTER WAY If is better to prevent a crime than tO punish someone for having com* lifted it.' And on the same principle, |i|: better to enforce a few basic laws I' than to pasB new and restrictive lawB which a^ ulienforcible, and serve only ? to Malte taw-breakers of otherwise ^|taw-?biding citizens. Tfals is a fact of which we seem to have lost sight in our passion for pacing laws.* Probably no other cl people are bound by so many restrictions is we are? and it Is in that no other civilised people by 46 much crln^, - ot 1 lt?>y tolled In'.jprite icting ' criminals, legislators lind account when r consideration of new laws BBgg kTJON AT ALL TIMES itinj t to note that of all that have* been suggested the farmer, only one has been given anything like unanimous ap experts? the farm coopera ' ;<v , ' itloon, both In producing and rkettng, must be the dominant fac in any jwogram designed to re ity to agriculture. ' It Is ftomic principled fact been proven by & American Industries, as, ?? ' farm coojier miiimtimii i mmmti ?urmer, whett he icis, is at an In* goes to escapablo dia advantage. He must ! take what is offered or fail to ?eU; But when he bands together with ten or fifty or a hundred thousand other farmers, the 8hoe is on the other foot. He has become "bif? business"' himself and he can bargain and . make fair terms. J ? It is said That one barrier in the way of successful cooperatives, in tha past; has been the virtual refusal of many farmets to cooperate when times are comparatively good. Then, when bad times come along, they are without the organization and machin ery for taking decisive action. If the. present severe agricultural depress ion has taught farmers that they must cooperate all the time and under all circumstances if they are to prosper, it will have done a great deal for the American farming industry. OUR COUNTY FAIR Our annual county fair held last week, sponsored by the Shrine Club and the American Legion, was a suc cess. The exhibits in every depart ment were good. Some of the finest poultry to be found anywhere is right here in Kershaw county. No section in or out of the state could show finer hogs than were at the county fair. The cattle, too, was something to feel proud of. The community booths re flected great credit upon those com munities that planned them and set, them up. We strolled through the fair looking at the exhibits made by vocational agricultural classes, the Future Palmetto Farmers, and their motto, "Learn by Doing." There is a fine thought in that they are learning 'and doing all rlfht. We congratulate them upon ther splendid exhibit. Then 'there was another feature that great ly impressed us and that was the ex hibits of the 4-H members. Their contribution to the success of the fair was no small matter. - If the exhibits of the vocational classes and the 4-H members had been left out the fair would not have elicited the praise that it did. These boys and , girls are being trained to be successful farmers and home-makers, and they are a great asset to our county. There was a large number of. val uable prizes awarded, and we will be pleased to publish a complete list if those having them in charge will kind ly furnish us with a list of them. DOMESTIC USE OF POWER INCREASES A steady increase in use of electrlc has in a large degree helped to offset las ir a large dgree helped- to offset .he decline in commercial demands. Furthermore, decreases in the cost of domestic electric. service have sav ?d the industry's customer $430,000, )00 in the last decade. In the six months' period preceding August, domestic consumers increased by 300,000 bringing the total to 20, 400,000. About 70 per cent of all American homes are electrified. The average domestic consumer increased his use of power 9.6 per cent in 1930, while his average rate went down 4.8 iper cent. UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL (The automobile accident problem should be approached from the stand point that it is the individual driver's problem. m All encouragement should be given to moves to modernize traffic codes and to pass laws requiring the exam ination of vehicles and drivers. These steps can save many lives, to say nothing of thousands of dollars worth of property. But at the Bame ttme wo must do our utmost to drive homo to the individual the responsibility that is his when he takes the wheel of a car and ombarks upon the public streets and highways. It^has been suggested that an honor code be created for drivors. If all drivers would seriously subscribe to it the ghastly toll of deaths would drop over night. ^Jot one fatal accident in ten is strictly unavoidable. In nine cases someone, through recklessnees, carelessness or incompetence, has err ed. A life snuffed out is the result. * A ton or two of metal? /noving at high speed, represoiUs a tremendous desrtuctive force if it is mishandled. None of us wduld take a chance on putting a stick of dynamite in a fire or lodking down the muzzle of a gun and playing with the trigger. Yet hundreds of thousands of drivers do the motoring equivalents of these acts ? b$ going at excessive speeds on nar row or rouph roads, by passing on curves, by cutting in and out in the face of Oncoming traffic, by driving Ottlhe wrong side 6f the highway. Public opinion must *be directed, Vtfth all its fo<rce, toward making the individual conscious of his duty, if the accident toll is to be materially check 04* , f*. * ? r . ?, p K " -. ' * '?? v ' ? RAMBLING THOUGHTS ? < . By H. C- H. . ? ? f fuv > ?' ? ? V- mt * - ' '? ? ' V ? 4 . ? " The sOld Court-house ^ '7 A court-house faces busy street 'Mid traffic rush and roar, Withstanding ravages of time A hundred years or more. Abandoned many years ago, As being ou? of date, The buildinp, grounds, and around > , Have met the usual fate. At "Sessions" t\me ? both spring and fall? A little past midnight) 'Tis said that shadows flit about, And sometimes there's a light. Before then, silence reigns supreme, Save when the wind is high, When moaning sounds are heard within That frighten passers by. Some say, that on the stroke of twelve If your eyes are very keen ? Approaching from the judge's room, A man's form may be seen. Clothed in. the garb of other times, With beard and snow white hair, He enters room, ascends the steps, Stops by the judge's chair. He pauses just a moment there, Then bows and takes his seat; While through the empty room is heard The sound of scraping feet. (Some claim the noise is made by rats, Scurryin" to and fro; But rats have not the shape of men, That seem to come and go.) The clerk and lawyers all are there, The prisoner in his place, While in the jury-box are seen The jurors he must face. The State's attorney reads the charge, Puts witness on the stand, Who takes the usual form of oath, With Bible in one hand. ? In silence then, the case proceeds, Much as it does. to day; Each lawyer; trying hard to win, Brings all his skill in play. The jurors hear the arguments, The judge charges the law;. In which defendant's lawyer hopes To find some kind of flaw. 1 '4 -<.L Tis then the crowing of a cock Gives warning, dawn is near; The judge retires from the bench; The shadows disappear. If, when the morning sun appears, You open wide the door, You'll find thick dust on judge's * bench, And dust upon the floor. H. C. Hardy. Sometimes these here linotype o perators make errors that makes a sentence come mighty near telling a ptreat truth, nothwithstanding the er ror. -Last week I wrote ? referring to Tammany Hall ? "the chiefs of the or ganization ruje." This is the way the Lanotypist made it read: "the jhiefs of the organization reels.'* Yeah, I expect they do. Mr. Laval, Premier of France, paid President Hoover a visit; they talked x long time, but neither said anything. . Senator Borah told1 the Premier just what would have to be done about ^ebt cancellation, revising treaties, etc Being President, Mr. Hoover's hands were tied; not to mention ^his tongue; out Senator Borah's were all loose; he aould, and did give the Frenchman the dope on all of it. Diplomacy is a fun ny critter. The hunting season for game of ali Kind is fairly well observed, with the exception- of us humans; there is no clrsed season observance in our case; vVp are all fair game for any he gun totin' mar. -who imagines that he has any kind of pjrieVance against any of jr. For ordinary violations of the iaw? the sentence is anything from a xine of 515 dollars and upwards, oi irom 30 days in jail upward; but for an assault with a deadly weapon, the punishment is very apt to be a ten dollar fine; and for "murder, you got a parole. My own opinion is about the situa tion is this: Whenever any man de velops the killer complex, he should be promptly and permanently remov ed to a jplace where he will remain harmless. That la where "birth con trol" could do worlds of gdod. The man who cannot fight without grab bing some deadly weapon, should re ceive a sentence heavy enough to shock some sense into him. ' Must be something wrong ov*f "in Italy; the Pope and Mussolini have not ' . J fence had a row in nearly a month. . - The same can be eaid of Jerusalem; the Jews ahd Arabs have dona no throat cutting at the "Wailing Wall' for at least three weeks. it But the tJ. S. Supreme Court has 1 done the most surprising thing o t all. It has actually, caught up with its work. ; That sets a bad example for State Supreme Courts; some- one may be wanting* to know- why they can't catch* up with their work also; a lot of lawyers are Aot going to like it either, pot to mention their clients. And what of the poor "wets*'? What wiiJ -become of their pet argument about congestion of* the Court dockets, caue^ ed by the 18th Amendment ? It's un thinkable! It might reach the point vhere criminal lawyers would have to - ell their clients that an appeal to the supreme court would be only a 60 day Jelay instead of two years. Yeah, they'll blame "it on Hoover. The "Fountain of Youth" cannot bo found in a whiskey bottle. The real trouble with capital and labor is, there is too much hog in both of 'em;- whichever side gains the as cendancy over the other, goes 'to ex tremes in their demands on the other. President Hoover seems to have more political enemies than any living being. ?He can't ptit the cat out at night without stepping on the toes of some politician, or someone with an axe to grind. Because the President interfered in the China-Jap quarrell, Senator Hiram Johnson calls on the people to repud iate him at the polls. Hiram has presidential aspirations every four years; the disease attacks politicians, like hay fever attacks some folks; and just as regular. None of the ^randies ever suggest a sensible plan for handling any sit uation, nor say just what steps the President should have taken in hand ling a given problem. I Like woodpeckers drumming on a dead limb, they try to attract attent ion to themselves by knocking. If politicians were business men, they would not be politicians. Which explains, in a large measure, why things are like they are. Tammany is looking for a more suitable candidate for president, than the Esteemed Mr. Roosevelt. Objectives For The Mt. I'isgah F. P. F ^Chapter The following objectives were set up by the Mt. Pisgah Chapter of the Fut ure Palmetto Farmers. Only the pu pils who are studying Vocational A gri<yilture are allowed t obe members f this organisation. 1. Each pupil sutdying vocational agriculture to have at least 3 acres in crops, 1 pig, 50 chickens and 1 dairy cow if possible. 2. Have a two or three day outing during the yera. 3. Build F. P. F. camp and cabin. 4. Visit other F. P. F. Chapters. 5. Take at least 3 educational tours 6. (Have a Father and San Banquet 7. Organize Thrift Club and save systematically. 8. Send a judging team to the Dis trict Judging Contest. 9. Send a presentative to the Stat. Fair School. 10. Each member purchase a I'u- ! ture Palmetto Farmer uniform. 11. To have a Future Palmetto Farmer exhibit at the Community Fair and at the County Fair. 12. Attend the F. P. F. Camp at 'Tamassee. y 13. To improve the agricultural 1. brary. 14. To have some kind of soci.il at least once each month. ?15. Conduct, Home Inrwprovement Contest. 16. Develop leadership through ac tivities. MEN WANTED for Rawleigh Routes of 800 Consumers in parts of Ker shaw, Fairfield, Richland, Lee Coun ties. Reliable hustler can start earning $35 weekly and increase every month. Write immediately. Rawleigh Co., Dept. SC-AB-23-S, Richmond, Va. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on the^lst d:iy of December, 1981, at 11 o'clock A. M. I will make to the Probate Cj>urt of Kershaw County my final re'tirn as Administratrix of the estate of Mitch ell Jackson, deceased, and on t'.ie same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Adminlstra. trix. '? * NORA JACKSON, Administratrix Estate Mitchell Jackson. Camden, 8. G\, OCtober 80th, 1931. Indioit, - , '/here are bplweon 45 ami 50 Tnltnu IngulHtlc stocks >:nd some of IfiO <lla oets. Tlie-r^ Is no dictionary under /no cover Including tbette stock Inn tlio^en and (Unlets. 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