The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, May 03, 1932, Image 2
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Tuesday, . May 8, 1932
SHORT SELLING
There are some people who think
it is a terrible thing to sell some
thing you haven*t got in the hope or
expectation ' that before* you have to]
- deliver it you can buy it at a price
loyrer than you have agreed t<5 sell it |
for. That is what so-called "short!
selling" on the stock market means.
Nobody quarrels' with the man who|
contracts to deliver a hundred head
of cattle, for example, at the present
market price, because he believes that
-- the iprice is going down and that he
will be able to buy them for less and
make a profit.
Congre&a has been investigating
short selling on the Stock Exchanne.
It has not found any evidence that
anybody engaged in short selling op
erations was doing anything more
serious than betting that the prices
of stocks would go down, still farther.
Sometimes they did and sometimes
they didnt.' Several million people
lost a lot of money inl929 by betting
that stocks would go higher. That
is all that most of the transaction^
' on the Stock Exchange mean? let
ting that the mancet will go higher
or lower. Percy A. Rockefeller told
the investigators that he had lost
"many, many millions." betting that
" the market would rise and fiad sue
ceeded in winning only $550,000 of it
' back by betting that the market |
would go down. Miat C. Brush, pro
bably the biggest of air the stock
market operators, frankly admitted
% ihat-the business of Wall Street is
^racket like Al Capones," and he
confirmed what we have long sus
jpeoted, that people who are not pro
ir fessional traders in securities are
simply suckers, when they dabble in |
? stocks and are sure to lose in the
long run, no matter which way the,
market goes. |
We think one of the principal trou
bles of the United States these days
; arise* from the extension to every
oorner of the country of facilitiesi for
Vygti^bling on the stock market. Of
jfyvbrse, there must be an open mar
ket for the 'purchase and sale of stock
S^bonds, and we don't know any
way to stop human beinipyi from
gambling, in one form or another.
W?l? think that it is- jus<t as re
$ j>rJ&nsiMe to tpmpt the unwary intc
speculating on the Stock market, as it
? ft to try to take their money away
'from them by stelling them lottery
$ tick?t*."7 '
f wjb'Ll soon know the worst
are cheered by the news from
. Washington that Congress expects to
work by the early part of
and shut down shop urafcil next
'Jj^tgnber. We have no inside infor-(|
matrtort as to what the ultimate tax
j^pnOgram will be, or how the pro
posed reductions in - government ex
'f penditures- will finally come out. But
have lived in this, world long o
to know that any certainty
' even the worst, is betlter than an un
; frkjitninty. We know and hear of
^kany businesses and industries which
? are marking time, waiting to find out
for sure what OongresS is going) bo do
bbout taxes, before they ?art make
1: their plana intelligently for going a
head. 'It may make all the differ
" ence in the world whether one kind
of a tax or another kind is finally de
cided upon. But American business
men and manufacturers have always
had a hap?py faculty of adjuring
< themselves to conditions as tfhey are,
!? and when they know exactly what the
?- conditions are we believe tha/t there
V^will be a rapid and general revival in<
^ manufacturing and trade.
Before the end of' June tfhe Presi
dential convewtJonis Wili have been
held; and we will know exactly what
eaoh party ^ platform,
y and who it offers as. lbs candidate for
the Presidency. That *U1 remove
another uncerainty. And we can then
enjoy * pleasant etmymer, hoeing
icoi^ And <iiAin? and talking politics.
. with the satisfying knowledge that
there isn't W more ttwb we, as In
dividuals ean do about the situation
until election day. So we might as
. weM tend strictly to our own business
from the fourth of July to the elrfoth
of November.
Nurse? I kwt siglbt of the child,
r>od gracious, why didn't
you speak to a j>olioemant
Nurse ? t was upeaklrtg to one all
OAkoeb-I dreaded la*t night that
borthr on
I#wok? I loolttd to M
J # tomt
?oh?
RHYTHM
Looking back, the record would be
something like this:.
Unbounded optimism; ^lew era";
everything's going to be all right.
Collapse; disillusionment.
Fear.
Fear compels thought. "The fear of
the Lord," says the Bible, "is the be
ginning of Wisdom." Until we are
thoroughly soared Ave do not start to
recover.
Congress was thoroughly scared
when it convened last December, and
it has been the most sensible Cong
ress in a long time. Business has
been thoroughly scared, and more
constructive business thinking has
been done than for many years. Bank
ers foave been thoroughly scared, and
we shall have a^ sounder banking sys
tem.
The greatest impression that this
experience has made on me is a fresh
realization of the rhythm of human
existence. The race does not move
'.n a straight line forward and up,
much as we should like to think so.
It swings.
It swings too far to the right. In
the course of these great swings it
tdges forward.
But most of us fail to sense the
rhythm. We are looking for a fixed
ness, a finality whfch does not exist.
We do not realize that change is the
one unohangin/j fact in the universe;
that because a situation is so today
is the one sure reason why it will net
be so tomorrow. ]
In these depression periods -we
question everything. We probe with
doubts. We react. And the reaction
is beneficent.
For twenty-five years we worship
ped "scientific progress." Now we
wonder whether a lot of this so-called
progress did not conwrst merely of
filling up the world aivs speeding it
up. We begin to wonder whether
less things and more thinking may
not lead to the happier life.
In education we have oeen devoted
to the practical, to training men and
women to do things. W are swinging
back to the old fashioned idea thai
education is an enrichment ot the
spirit and not a filling of the brain.
In government we have multiplied
laws and bureaus and taxes. Now
the worm is turning. The taxpayer
rebels); government must simplify,
deflate.
We had a great period of nvsdi
rected idealism, a passion for educat
ing ?>yerybody, "improving" every
thing, enlightening the world. Now
we are beginning to suspect that the
, older civilizaiQn? have fully as much
to teach us as we have to teach them.
Action and react'on, ebb and flow,
trial and error, change ? this is the
rhythm of. living. Out of our over
confidence, fear; out of our fear,
clearer vision, fresh hojpe. And out
of hope ? pro?res6.
Health *, tu Home
i
c Practical Studies for 'Wives
and esVCothers
By Dr. ERNEST H. LINES
Eminent Authority and Chief Medical Director
New York Life lnmrance Company
BATHS AND CARE OF THE SKIN
A GENERAL bath should be taken daily. The water for this fchould not
be too warm. The temperature of tepid batha should be between 80
degrees and 90 degrees. The temperature for cold baths for adults is usually
about 65 degrees. Warm baths vary from 00 degrees to 100 degrees and it
is well to follow such a bath with a
cold shower.
In addition, the face and handta
should be washed frequently during
tKe day. The hands particularly
should always be washed before meals
and after going to the lavatory. The
use of a nail brush helps to remove
dirt and germs from around the
finger nails.
? The skip needs this daily cleansing
because of its own daily excretion.
Sweating is fping on all the time and
the watery part of perspiration
evaporates, leaving a residue which
decomposes. This causes disagree
able body odors and also weakens the
skin so that it becomes susceptible to
tho development of pimples and boils.
A brisk and thorough cleansing of the
skin with soap and water removes
this waste material and stimulates
the skin to renewed activity, thus
lightening tho locd of the kidneys and
other excretory organs.
T ektii and Gums
The teeth should be brushed mom
ing and evening and after each meal.
Use a vertical up and .down motion,
rather than a side to aide, as this
cross motion does not olean the
spaces between the teeth. Rinsing
the mouth daily with a weak solution
of common salt helps to keep tha
gums hard and firm. A visit to tha
dentist twice a year is as much a'
matter of health insuranoe as is ?
yearly examination by the family
physician. -
QUESTIONS i
AH wives and mothers should
be able to answer these questions:
X. How warm should bath bo?
a. When should faoe and hands
be washed? ?? How should
teeth be brushed and how often
daily?
(Orrrtckt, mi. kt.l.
This is the third of a s*ri*s of 13
articles on Health in the Home, The
fourth uriU be on Bzarcm, Sitep ami
Rett. 0
May 5. 1891
M the meeting of School Exami
ner* held at the School Commission
er's office on the 24th tilt., there were
only three applicants? all colored.
The floral fair of the Camden Hort?
icultural Society, takes' place at the
opera-house th.i? evening, from 0 to
10 o'clock. Admiseiocn 25c; children
10 cents.
The Good Tewrvplars. did not have
their pierce last Friday aa was ex
pected for a while, hut decided to
powtpone that evervt until later m
"he ReoR*;n.
Mr, R. A. McDowell has healed up
the blisters; on the west end of his
house, caused by the burning of Mr.
J. F. Smith's residence, with a gen
erous application of whiite paint.
The following named genfclomen
have been appointed by the Trustee*
of School District No. 1, to visit the
Graded Schools, during the month of
May, 1801: Dr. A. A. Moore, P. H.
Nekton, J. H. Goodale, J. D. Kennedy,
Win, D. Trantham.
School District No. 4 intends call
In* a meeting soon to determine whe
ther not an extra levy will be as
Vwsed for the ^public schools in thai
district. There in practically no op
pos4tton io'the e?tra levy. "
' hr ? * t ? . r'-'v- -- V- ; v = '? ?'
v Douglas Anderson, infant son of
lllfe kk&l ?**:& :<S.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Wdthars/poon died on
April 30th.
Mrs. S. Wolfe died very suddenly
last Sunday morning of apoplexy.
^ Capt. John J. Nelson, prominent
citizen of West Wateree died Thura>
day April 30th after an illness of
several weeks.
Re<v. M. L. Carlisle will deliver the
Memorial Day Address.
MAL 7. 1912.
Camden Oil Mill closfes down its
plant for the summer.
Mayor S. BrawinRiton wan pain
fully injured in a runaway accident
last week.
fV?t*xffice Department announces
that free oliy delivery of mail will be
>7in in Camden on June 20.
-
Miwsi Annie Blake Flateher and Mr.
L. G. Brazil married on April 28th by
Probate Judge McDoVell.
Rev. W. B. Gordon, rector of Grace
Wpiscopal Churrfti, celebrated the 45th
amiiver&ary of h'? ordinartrion and his
78rd birthday anniversary by special
church services May 6.
' ? ??? *
Jenkins. Manning, nenrro, killed in
self defenne, by C. B. Plate, prominent
citizen of the Oakalnd Motion of Ksr-1
flh?w County. i
>
Mother S Dciy * Albert T. Reid
Camden City Ministrels give a per
formance at Lancaster.
Dr. J. H. Harms, president of New
berry College, will make the annual
address -at closing of City Schools
Tuesday mom
/djlpgbAer of Mr. and Mrs,
? , XAod, aged 16 months-, died
la^jj^Tueedtay-jnorning.
W?k.- ?
the world does not suit .you,
-j & new suit for it. No otte is
Insignificant to make a new*wuit
the world if he gets the . ??t?jrtal
recti one from God.' ? > ? "
^forever has loose ?crew? for
jhten, aitd vacant lots for
?to build upon. "" ^ "
fou are one of the engineers of the
Jd, and also one of the oarpenters.
) fining to your view-point, tht
i?V becoming worse, then ppt
wittjj your duties. '
expects each man to rdare
\t obrf^ptclea. He who dares much
mu#
ch mito has some seed of wo
hich if ho finds* and sowe
(?& flower of eminence^
defeats a man. A real
ling other than a man'fi |
i womatn'tsi a great many being*
i
International Sunday School
Lesson. -
International Sunday School Lesson
for May 8.
ESAU SELLS HIS BIRTHRIGHT
Genesis 25:127-34
. Rev. Samuel I>. Price, D. D7~
Here is a fine opportunity for char
acter study as you size up tho.se who
occupy the stage in this lessen study,
j Ehg out all the facts about Isaac, Re
bedcah, Esau and Jacob and you will
' note what a mess can develop in what
sfobuld be a weill regulated fam/'ly.
These boys were twins but they do
not manifest the usual interest
that such brothers have im> each other.
Both the father and mother had their
favorites and this added much to the
home difficulties-. Rebekah thought
more of Jacob and Isaac doted on
Esau, the firs<t born.
As the first born, Esau wou.\d norm
ally come into hi? father's place as
the priestly head in the home and
?would inherit a double portion. Miuch
trouble is occasioned today when a
<F vV? ,1
will is made in which the ch'ldren do
not "share and share alike," to use
a familiar phrase. But Esau did not
look forward to the honor of succeed
ing hl& father as head of the family,
while that was the very thin/? that
Jacob was eagsr for, and nktto.l ac
cordingly.
Esau was a .hunter and came home
one day with no bag but with a tre
mendous hunger. Jacob was making
Rome lentil ytew and Esau pointed to
it'and begged for some of "that red."
Wiley Jacob would not share his food
until he hod exacted a promise to
turn over the birthright privileges.
Later a trick was played on almost
blind Isaac, when he would bless Esau
as> Jacob concocted a stew that would
tas>te like venison, put fur on his
hands to make them fell like hairy
Esau and obtained the blessing This
caused a break between the brothers
and Jacob, with the connivance of hi?
mother had to flee from the wrath
of Esau. They did not meet again
for twenty years.
in one.
She is the punctuation marks of
humanity.
No man has yet wholly understood
i woman.
Good women are the eyes of the
earth. ^ ?
Alter all, men are merely followers
of women.. And women are lifters or
toseera of men.
Every great man is a tribute to
vrtxmanhood.
; t >**V. :?
It is the hand of womanhood which
?holds the star of earth.
If the period is dtark use yourself
in making light. If the time be hard,
&ofiten it with your fai'.h. If much
wickedness appears, seek to p<ee good
ness. Men are creators if they wish
to be.
Baltimore had a farmer's weekly
in 1835.
Fruit farm* have small barns.
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