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The Wateree Messenger I'; Published Every Tuesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Camden, S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Tuesday, April 12, 1932 SESSION SUM MARIED With the exception ot the passage of three or four county supply bills, the work of the General Assembly for the 1U32 session is a thing of the past. The main business transacted was the* passage of the state's appro priation bill totaling nine and a quar ter million dol'ars? just about two or one and a half millions more than it should have been. There is keen dis appointment that the legislators did not exercise economy in a more dras tic form. The appropriation bill en acted is practically one million dol lars less than that of 1931. If the lawmaking body will keep up that ratio with regularity in the ensuing half dozen years, maybe a measure in time will be passed more in keep-, ing with the ability of the state's taxpayers to meet. In addition to the appropriations measure following are the major achievements of the session, as recounted in the news col umns of The State: Providing for retirement of the state's $5,000,000 deficit by pledging two and one-half mill property laws. An act providing for retirement of past and prospective deficits in ap propriations for schools, amounting to almost $900,000. Adoption of plan for red istric ting the state, reducing congressional dis tricts from seven to six. Measure providing for the regula tion of power companies and placing them under supervision of the state railroad commission. Adoption of plan for establishment of sunall banks by reducing the cap ital stock requirements. Bill permitting establishment of cash depositories. Permitting the highway department to issue one-year notes to contractors for unpaid obligations. ? The Spar tanburg Journal. TRANSPORT FOR THE FARMER. PerliapS' the most pronounced pro gress of our time has been made in the direction of improved transporta tion. Good roads and better and cheaper cars to use them, have caused miraculous changes in the business and social lives of the American people. Of all classes of citizens, the farm er has been the least benefitted in this. Most farmers have cars, and trucks. But few farmers have ac cess to roads that are usable at all times of the year, or that permit the greates/t possible efficiency in transport at any season. The rough road., the road that becomes one long series of mud-holes in winter, the road that goes to pieces under snow or a good hard rain ? these are still characteristic, speaking p?norally, of rural Amerioa. A few states ? New York, Californ ia and others- ? have done fine work in building good farm-to-market roads. They have realized that the best main highway in the world is of no use to the farmer if his home is five or tei\ miles away on an impassable dirt road. They have, consequently, done much in recent years to provide se condary roads, suitable for all types of travel, and passable at all times, which connect the small village and the farm with the outside world. These roads cost little, in compari son to the cost of high-type highways. Five thousand dollars a mile or less will provide asphaltic type stirfaces which will withstand all but the heav iest traffic. A few hundred dollars a year will ordinarily keep therm in first-class condition. The benefits they bring farmers and small town business men are inestimably greater than their cost. No state can afford to let its farmers languish in the mud nowadays ? every state can., by care ful road planning, build good second ary arteries without inflating the tax bill. NOT TO OFFER FOR RE ELECTION In the Senate hall last week sever al senators announced that they would out offer f>?r re-election this summer and would therefore be un able to meet their collearjues next session of the General Assembly. If our guess Ls not wrong many others will not be there either even though they may offer and not senators alone either. The next General As sembly shall see many new members with ideas of their own for at least a few weeks ? after that, their minds will belong to those who have "learn ed the ropes" and will be changed ? not by their wives, etiher. ? Bamberg County Times. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE INCREASES j School attendance in the United States has increased approximately 18 per cent since. 1918, according to , figures given in the annual report of i the personnel bureau of the Univer sity of South Carolina. Approximately two per cent of the total school population in 1918 was in I the institutions of higher learning. Of | the 26,665,007 pupils and students in attendance upon our schools today, 1,099,468, or approximately four per cent of them are in our institutions of higher learning. The percentage of increase in college population from 191S to 1931 was 64. The bureau, which is promoting a program of vocational guidance, esti mates in its report that before 1920 the schools were dumping more than I 1,000,000 adolescent boys and pyrls yearly upon the work-u-day world without any vocational training. This large group has b:>en decreased to a great extent by the comparatively re cent introduction of personnel work into our colleges 'and secondary schools. I A man's prosperity causes many traitors to assemble artfund him. He who is prosperous proves him self a master or is proved a slave. Prosperous men are enjoy's favorite topics. He is often lonely who is r rospe rous. ? i j When you are praised most deter mine to improve. APRIL 14, 1891. At a mooting of tax>p?iyers hold al the Opera House last Friday a reso lution was unanimously adopted that a special levy of 3 mills should be made in school district No. 1 for the Graded School. Mr. J<ihn J. Ooodale has leased the Opera House for one year wi'li the privilege of three. The Internal Revenue Department calls particular attention to l<he new law which goes into effect on May Int. On and after that date the spec ial tax of $2.40 per ye-ar for the right to sell manufactured tobacco and cigars, is abolished and everylxxly can sell the. commodities without tihe cus tomary special license. I)r. I. II. Alexander will represent DeKnlb I<odge? No. 1242, K. of 1'. at the meetng of the Grand fxvlge which convener in Columbia to-morrow. He expects to return en Thursday. State Superintendent of Education Mayfield was in Camden iast week. On the 2nd inst., Mr. II. B. Stokes ami Mien C. I/. Ratcliffe were mar ried. Rev. R. HradJey officiated. Both of KernHaw county. APRIL 9, ]<)! 2. Good middling cotton is quoted in Camden at 1 1c. A number of now cottages have been completed at the Hermitage Mill. Caipt. M. L. Smith makes (.he clos ing address at Sarifl Hill School near Kershaw. (ieneral election for Mayor and Al dermen resulted in only 30 votes l>e ing east in the city. A minstrel show for the benefit, of the (Hmden Hospital to l>e given at the Opera House. Mr. Luther Sowell who recently rvaduated in Pharmacy in Atlanta is spen<ling some time at home. I The law firm of Shannon and Mills I will be disvo'ived on the first of May. Caspt. .1, N. Nicholson, of Rethune, father of Mr. J. C. Nicholson, died at his home Saturday. Michigan can no longer supply its own lumber needa. Chicago i? the loading meat mar ket. Drifting Thoughts Flattery is always a request for a favor. They flatter who like to be flatter ed. He who flatters knows he Is speak ing falsely. When one flatters you he is calling you a fool. If you listen to him he will make a fool of you. A flatterer makes an excellent traitor. Meet a flatterer wifth a frown and you conquer. When one flatters to-day . fear him to-morrow. Esteem your enemy; he keeps you on your guard. Do not try to crush one who has done you an injury. How do you know that it is an in jury he has done? You think so, merely. It might be the greatest fa vor he could have done for you. Sometimes our best helpers are those who, seeking to avenge them selves, do us temporary damage. A great enemy is a great oppor tunity. From nothing expect nothing. Look not for decency among the vulvar. When one has much he gives much or deprives much. Vulgar language is the utterance of impure hearts. Look not to be respected by one who does not respect himself. What a man is cannot be hidden be hind false appearance. Goodness shines; badness stains. Pray most when you are praised most. Praise is of^en ridicule dressed in her best clothes. Not infrequently does praise insin uate an immediate purpose. Praise is sometimes the shout of ig norance. He is lea?t praised who brings most reformation. They who seek praise know they do not warrant it. STATEMENT Of the ownership, management, etc., required by the Act of Con^re^s of August 24, 1912, of The Wateree Messenger, published weekly at 1 Camden, .S. C., for. April 1, 1932. j Ptate of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Before me a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared C. W. Birch more, who having been duly sworn ac cording to law, deposes and says that he is the publisher of Thi Water ee Messenger, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the owner ship, management, etc., of the afore said publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of Aupmst 24, 1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regula tions. 1. That the names and addresses of the publishers, editors ami busi ness managers are: Publisher ? C. W. 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