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' The Wateree Messenger ? 1 Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. 1HKCH MOKE, Prop. ? i ' _ ? ' Entered as Second Class Hatter at ' the Postoffice at Camden, S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, September 28, 1932 ? THE COST OF MOTOR ACCIDENTS ' According to B. G Willis, Vies preaident of the Fireman's Fund In demnity Company, the annual eco nomic loss due to automobile acci dents is about $2,600,000,000. Some realization of the magnitude of th-3 waste can be obdainedl (by the know ledge that public school education in the entire country costs only $2,200, 000,000 annually. Practically all of the two and a half billion loss is due to three fac tors ? ignorance, carelessness or in competence. There is no other ma jor cause of automobile accidents. The unavoidable accident is rare in deed. The percentage of aocidents due to mechanical failure of the car in small ? and in the bulk of theso the fault lies with the owner who has not kept his machine in proper condition. The human factor is present in every conceivable mishap. Most of U3 have insufficient un derstanding of the destructive forcc of a moving automobile. A car go ing 50 miles an hour haE the same potentail force as if it were dropped from a height of 101 feet. At 40 miles an hour the car will travel 29 feet before the average fdriver is able to react to danger, and it ther takes 80 feet, with four-wheel brakes, to stop, or a toal of 100 feet. Last year ignorance, carelessness ? or incompetence at the wheel killed 34,400 people and injured almost 1,000,000. During 1932 these factorr will be responsible for another 35, JJfr) deaths ? unless every motoris;' awakena to his responsibility and does his part to reduce the ghastly toll. THE COST OF LIVING The cost of living has been stead ily declinging in the United State, for ten years. Today is nearer to what it was before the war than it has reached since 1913, according to government statistics which have just been issued, ? The war sent the prices of all commodities up until, in 1920, it cost the average city dweller just about twice a3 much in rents, fuel, food clothing and the other essentials of life, to say nothing of luxuries, as it had cost for the same things seven years before. In ten years two thirds of this increased cost has been lopped off, so that today the general average of living costs is only about a third greater than it was in 1913. The period of high costs was, how ever, the period of our highest natio nal prosperity. From 1922 to 1929 prices maintained a fairly even level of about 70 per cent more than in 1913. F,verybody was busy, every body was earning more money than we had ever earned before, more goojfis were being produced and sold at profitable prices than ever before, and the people of the Unietd States were in a happy and contented frame of mind. Then the sudden drop in commodity prices began and we have had hard times, business depresion and unemployment ever since. It seems to us that here is con clusive proorf that properity is de pendest upon high prices. All of the statesmen, economists and financiers of the world agreeci^ that it is true. An intensive and widespread effort is being made to find a way of re storing and increasing commodity prices. An International comaiitt.ee j is to meet shortly in Geneva to pre pare the plans and program for a world-wide conference of govern ments in the wffort to find some way to solve this problem. In the mean time, the upward trend has beguti in many commodity lines, and t<* whole outlook seems to be towarr. better prices, which means, in the long run, the resumption of product ion and th'e restoration of prosperity. HOW TIIK NATIONAL TIMBER SUPPLY PROBLEM MUST BR MET The timber supply problem in primarily ft land problem. Forest land should produce timber crop*, j The United States contain* 470,000 000 acres of land which fore* tern classify as forest land and which will not be needed fof other agricultural purposes. If all this acreage were producing trees at maximum capac ity the United States- would have no porious timber supply problem. Unfortunately, at least 80,000,000 acres out of the 4^70,000,000 is In 8 nonproductive condition. Iff fact, much of this idle forest land must be artifioailly planted if It is ever to grow treW again. To put all of the - On? of New York's milk companies distributes two per cent of the coun try's entire liquid milk supply. It has 7*60,000 customers and 1 delivers to them in a year 630,000,000 quarts of milk. ? ? ? When stock market prices go up in New York the daily number of sui cides decreases. ? ? ? Thero were 13,031 false fire alarm in New York last year. ? ? * At 653 Eleventh Avenue, New York, a candy business is done by Yum Tummy Yum, Inc. * ? ? The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals points out that you rarely see a do& in the city witV a tin can tied to its tail. ? * * Directors of the same society one proposed that the New York Stat Assembly pass a law prohibiting tlv use of sticky flypaper. ? ? * There is a department store in New York which sella 1,000 canaries i week during the holiday season. + * + It is said that the average physi cian in New York earns less thar, $3,000 a year. * * * Twenty-three thousand families in New York live in cellars. * * ? The average New Yorker spend? $13. a year for jewelry. + ? * There are apartments in New York which rent for as much as $40,000 i year. ? ? * Prohibition has doubled the pretzel business in New York. ? * ? Thirty-nine per cent of New York'3 city streets are unpaved. * * * A New York department store re ports that most of their customers buy six months sujpply of soap at a time. * * * Two New Yorkers were walking down Fifth Avenue. One said to th0 other: "I'll give you a dollar if you see a man wearing a stick pin." They walked together three blacks and no* a cent was exchanged. SPECIALS AT CLUB MARKET SATURDAY The members of the Club Market Association invite the ladies of Cam den to visit the Club Market next Saturday for fresh eggs, dressed chickens, green beans, boiled peanut*, cakes and barbecue. A ticket will be given for each 25( purchase. This will (be drawn at th? close of the market hour, and a priz^ will be given to the holder of the lucky number. Conscience The great theater of virtue la con science ? Cicero. country's forest land at work produc ing timber requires, for one thing, adequate public systems of protection from forest fires. It requires alac the adjustment of taxation values so that private landowners' can afford to grow tim/ber for a number of years during which no revenue can be expected. Most of all it depends on stabilizing the ownership of for est land, particularly through the ?|?taib) .^hmenti oif more Stpfce aend' municipal forests under forest man agement and the adoption by move private timberland owners of a policy of permanent retention of the land with consequent consideration of forest management as a form of land use. Kershaw County Forestry A^*'n. A BAM DW AGON IS all right {JeTTlM* ABoA*t> bot a lotto FELLERS ARE ON TM6 TRAILER AMP DOHT know It. There's A Big Reward For The Rescue By Albert t. Rcid BftUCtttAftTON ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? M ?"*J V4? ? i ? ? ? ? mmmmm ? n ? ? *u)rites of THJEr4^ ASTER EXECUTIVE Supplying a week-to-Wedc Impimtion for tb? heavy burdened who will hnd eveqr human trul paralleled iiftbe experience* of *The Man Nqbod^ Knows." the ouTDoor: man The air was filthy with the smeli of animals and human beings herde! together. Men and women trampled one another, crying aloud their im precations. At one side of the court were the pens of the cattle; th? dove cages at the other. In the fore ground, hard-faced priests and money changers sat behind long tables ex acting the utmost farthing froir those who came to buy. One woulc never imagine that this was a placc of worship. Yet it was the Temple ? the center of the religrious life of the nation. And to the crowtfs who jammed its courts, the spectacle seemed perfectly normal. That war the tragedy of it. Standing a little apart from the rest, Jesus, the young man from Nazareth watched an amazement which deepened gradually into anger. It yras no familiar sight to him. He had not been an the Temple since his twelfth year, when Joseph and Mary took him up to 'be legally en rolled as a sim of the law. His chief memory of that previous visit was of long conversation with certain old men in a quiet room. Ho had not witnessed the turmoil in the outer courts, or, if he had, it madte small impression on his youthful mind. But this day was different For weeks he had looked forward to the visit to the Temple. To be sure some of the oldes ones muttered about the extortions of the m o rvey-ch a ngers at the Temple. A woman told how the lamb which she had raised with so much devotion the pervious year, had been scornfully rejected by the priests, who directed her to buy from the dealers. An old man related his experience. Today Je3us faced the sordid real ity, hi$ cheieks flushed. A woman's shrill tones pierced his revery like a knife; he turned to see a peasant mo ther protesting vainly against a ruth less exaction. And suddenly, without a word of warning, he strode to the table where the fat money-changer sat, and hurl ed it violently across the court. The Btartleti robber lurched forward, grassping at his gains, lost his bal ance and fell sprawling on the ground. Another step and a second table was over-turned, and another, and another. The crowd which had melted back at the start began to catch a glimmering of what was up, and surged forward around the) young man. He strodte on, looking neither to right nor left. He reached the counters where the dove cages stood; with quick sure movements the cages were opened and the occupants re leased. Brushing aside the group of dealers who had taken their stand in front of the cattle pens, he threw down the bars' and db-ove the bellow ing animals out through the crowd and into the streefta. The whole thing happened so quick ly that the priests were swept off their feet. Now, however, they col lected themselves and bore down upon hini in a body. Who was he that he dared this act of defiance? Where had he come from ? Ry ,what authority did he presume to inter rupt their business? "This is my authority," he cried. 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