The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, March 15, 1932, Image 2
THE WATEREE MESSENGER
CHARLES W. BlRCHMOR? Proprietor
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Entered as Second Claas Matter ?t the Poetoffice at
Camden* South Carolina
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Taeeday, March 15, 1932
"WHO SINS MOST? MAN OR WOMAN?"
Charlie Garrisom, the affable city editor of The Pied
mont, up Greenville way, recently asked this question in
his "Caught On The Wing" column: 'Who sins most ?
man or woman?" His question was prompted by an in
teresting story written by Mrs# Mildred Whitmire re
garding the Pickens county jail in which it is stated
that men are never looked up during the day, although
women are locked up both night and day. x
But why pick on Pickens in asking such a question ?
Didn't the police officials of the city of Greenville recent
ly arreet a dozen or more women in some of the hotels
there, charging them with vagrancy and misconduct, and
not even a "case" was made against a single man, (or
a married one) who probably participated in said alleg
ed "misconduct". In other words, doesnt it take more
than one to kiss, to fuss to quarrel, to fight, and so on,
ad infinitum? Certainly! Then how can it be possible
that only women are offenders?
The plain truth is: If a man is "prominent" in social
or business life? his actions are condoned, regardless of
how perfidious, faithless, untrue and incapable of resist- ,
ing temptation he may be^ But the woman, NEVER! j
A lot of the male species will walk two or more blocks
out of the way to avoid speaking to a woman of the
streetB in open daylight, but when nightfall comes, they
will crawl a mile or more if necessary in order to enjoy
her "companionship".
Society, of course, has no biblical authority for con
demning only the woman offender, but who in the heck
expects society to be in agreement with the doctrines of
the Bible? The Ten Commandments are merely "scraps
of paper" bo many of us, more especially the Seventh
and the Tenth. Not being satisfied in merely breakin?
the Seventh, we covet our neighbor's house, wife,, maid
servant, ox and ass, and everything.
But getting back to the question "who sins most," a
woman has or should have a greater refinement than
man, and of course it is naturally sadder to see a beauti
ful woman who has fallen than a man. A lilly in the
garfbege can is out of place we are not surprised to
find a rotten cabbage, in fact, we expect it. That's why
we have garbage cans.
YOU HAVE TO BE EDUCATED TO PRACTICE LAW ;
ANY FOOL CAN MAKE 'EM.
A number of years ago the writer served as on? of
the copying clerks in the legislature in an adjoining
?bafce and this experience was very helpful, indeed. For
instance: It proved beyond a eh a do w of a doubt that a
man does not have to be educated (or learned) to be eli
gible for a legislator, and this is probably ontf reason
we have so many fool laws# Any man who is foolish
enough -to want to mix up with the crowd of politicians
who gather at Columbia each year to squander t/he tax
payers' money can do so if he is 21 years of age and has
a knack of vote-getting. Certain it is that he does not
have to stand any sort of an examination and it isn't
even necessary for him to be able to read or write.
On the other hand suppose a man wants to "practice"
law? If he Is able to distinguish between the "practices
of certain lawyers" and the practice of law, his moral
character then is strong enough for him to take the
first step into college life^ After a certain amount of
literary studies, he is then required to take a long and
thorough oourse of study in law, must 3tand an exami
nation to prove that he has really absorbed the funda
mentals of the knowledge he must have before he can be
gin to practice.
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Just as the Roman Catholics believe that the Pope is
infallible, we poor and deluded iprotestant taxpayers
verily believeth that when a man beoomes a "legislator"
that he is "infallible" and automatically clothed in wis
dom from on highl The average legislator fears the
voice of the political siren more than he fears, the Lord.
In every legislative hall, we too often find our truly
educated men in the minority, but are we going to do any
thing about it? NO! NO! NO! We are going to con
tinue to vote for the man who tickles our vanity around
election time, otherwisevwe wouldn't have an opportunity
to 'cuss' about high taxes each year.
Just as like begets lHce, our legislators are no better
and no worse than we are. We voted for them, didn't
we, and furthermore we will probably do it apyiin after
we get through paying last year's taxes^ .Men voters
art just as susceptible to flattery around election time
as an old maid who has never been kisaedt
SHOULD TEACHERS BE PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATORS?
The News and Courier recently printed an article from
a Mr. Burnet of Spartanburg in which he states five
eifthths of the 8,600 wMte persons engaged in the school
room in South Carolina are not professional educators
but young women who will marry and get out of the
schools in a year or trwo, and others are young men Who
intend to be lawyers and doctors. "Inexperienced, with
little practical training, they are drawing a minimum of
nhwfey dollar* a month fixed by law years ago when one
hfclf or one-third as many pounds of cotton had to be
Mid to gat a dollar a? have to be sold now for a dollar,"
says The News and Courier.
To ?ay the least, the child as well as the taxpayer is
confronted with a very serious problem. What's your
aiufflv*?
: Laooon and his two sons who wens caught in the coils
(ft the serpents that came out of the Ma did not struggle
one-tenth as much as the parents are struggling today
to keep their Children in school and at the same time
mails tits schools worthy of attendance
After all, the days of the "blue back *p&11st" is hafd
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HOUSEWIVES SHOULD CALL A STATE- WIDE |
MASS MEETING! ^*$1
Wives, whose husbands are always grumbling about
high electric and gaa rates, should don the breeches and
run the home long enough to demand an adjustment of
.exorbitant charge*. We men seem to be afraid of these
big utility companies, but we want to raise hell with the
wife when the bills come in. Is that fair?
1 The Greenville Observer seems to be about the only
newspaper in this state that is consistently fighting for
fower rates, and frankly, it seem* that the public is slow
to appreciate the sacrifice this splendid paper is making.
We are paying the same rates for gas, light and tele
phones as when men were making much more money
and cotton was 40 cents a pound. Everyone has baen
cut in salary: sales are bad and commissions are cur
tailed We are told that these cuts have extended
to those employed by the gas and light and telephone
1 companies: that raw material is cheaper, yet we are un
able to secure reductions from these utility companies.
Why?
Nothing would help more just now in relieving the
hard living condition^ more than a substantial reduction
in gaa, elecricity and telephone rates in the homes. Since
our state officials and others who have authority for
regulating and making adjustments for the benefit of
? consumers seem to ignore the pleas of the "little man,"
i the housewives should call a state-wide mase meeting of
I women for the purpose of really doing somethinn to re
lieve the situation, Columbia hasn't an auditorium large
enough to seat the crowd of women who would respond
to the call.
It costs almost as much to cook a meal at home with
gas< or electricity a? it does to buy it dow.n town. If
something isn't done, how about inaugurating a 'back-to
kerosene movement?
A FARMER'S PRAYER
"I am thankful that I own no stooks which I had bought
at peak prices. I am grateful for guidance that kept me
out of speculative markets, It is good not to have to
read the stock market quotations each morning to find
out how much poorer I am than I was the day before,
44 1 am glad that I am not a laboring man with no job
or in danger of losing the one I might have. I wear no
man's collar to the office, wondering whether I am to
l remain until night. ? I surely am fortunate that I am not
a coal operator or steeil manufacturer, nor any other of?
? ficial hunting- trade where there is no trade.
"Give 'me my <pig? and chickens and cows, my health
and my strength and my faith. I am not making any
money, but I am not losing so much that I face disaster
and hunger. I still have a place to sleep and. three
square meal* a day. - * J
"Once I looked with envy upon my fellow citizens. I
thought they lived in luxury and peace, This morning
they need comfort and ddvine. grace to face their plight.
"I am grateful for the small blessings and the regular
blessings that fall upon me and mine, and my land, I
hope my sins, hypocrisy and my shortcomings will be
overlooked, and believe me, I am content that I am not
as many others are#" ? Anonymus in St. Pauls Review.
HARD TO GET ANYTHING ON RADIO!
Time is a great healer, though not a good beautifier.
Radio improves with it, but not radio programst Many
programs are not worth listening to, that is probably
why we can "tune out." But what we started to say
was: Three years ago we bought a radio and at that
time we thought it was a good one. We paid, well? we
are ashamed to say how much, anyway, we tried to get
something on it this week and the dealer wouldn't even
offer us $5 in trade, Yes, it is hard to get anything on
the radio.
? 'After all, it is all right for the wife to go alone to
church on Sunday ? you know she could be doing, some
thing worse.
It seems that whenever an idea i? introduced into the
minde of some of our modern writers, it caunes fer
mentation, during which a scum rifies Their heads
aren't large enough to hold amy residue of clear thought
afteT the scum is. removed. Tne acum seems piofitable
however judging from the largo amount sold to publish
If a man takes no thought for tomorrow, should we,
as Christians be required to "give to him that asketh?"
One of our exchanges nay*: "I>e(preesion begins with
the same despondency and discouragement, and pros
perity with the same as pep and -puwh, not to mention
progressivenes*." 1
Governor lilaekwood's mes?afy?s to the legislature
se?m to be about as valueless as a Christmas tree in
February, and the legislature seems to be worth even
less bo the taxpayers.
Judge says: Columbia University has announced that
thU year's senior class will be given a month's vacation
with nothing to do in March, The purpose of the move
is to get the class accustomed to living conditions after
It graduates In June. i
ow He Hates to Pull the Trigger ,
By Albert T. Reid
CHUHCII
Years ago an eminent economist
had an idea.
Selecting one protestant denomina
tion whose records had been kept
carefully, h set down the number of
new members added each year. Op
posite this, in another column., he
classified each year from an econom
ic standpoint as prosperous or bad.
The year 1865 was an inflation
year; nineteen thousand people joined
this particular church. In 186G came
panic, and new members jumped to
thirty thousand.
Then years of "good" times, but
bad times for the church, until the
panic of 1878, when up shot the mem
bership, reaching a "new high" in
1877, when prosperity registered a
"new low".
Panic in 1893 was followed by a
church gain in 1894; the pinch of 1907
by a boost in membership in 1908.
And so on. I
I fancy the same thing is happen
ing today; at least our church haa
been full recently. Last Sunday the
?pastor chose this unusual text: i
"And when David inquired of Je
hovah (as to whether he should at
tack the Philistines) Jehovah /said:
And it shall be when thou hearest the
Bound of marching in the tops of the
mulberry trees that then thou shalt ^
bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah j
gone out before thee."
The preacher said that religion con- j
: s in i> - 1 : : ? ? to i ci'u^uiw the
extraordinary in ihe ordinary things
of life. * ;
I .Many people hear the wind in the
I. .??:???. .say; ' I c i:; ilu* vvind in
i the tioes.". N ow and tn.'n com:1.
one who says: "It. is the footsteps of
Jehovah."
i Many people sec the turmoil of
the present, and say: "It is God re
moulding His word into a new and
better image. Let lis bestir our
selves and go forward."
The sermon 1 i f tod us. It was a
clear prophetic voice announcing
that the Power which made the world
has not deserted it, is still working
in it. It. made us feel that we ought
to lift our eyes and be active, lest
these great and far-reaching changes
come to pass without our recognizing
them.
I advise all preachers these days
to preach a positive truth. To put
aside any sermons that criticize peo
ple or discourage them, and preach
confidence, and courage and hope.
Men need this now. If the church
can provide it, the church will make
nreat gains. Bad times have always
been its bes>t times.
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