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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CUAS. W. B1RCIIMORB, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Camden, S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, October 12. 1932 VOL. FORTY-NINE: NO. 1 OUR AFFAIRS AND EUROPE'S] II wo could build a wall a mile ' high around the United States of America and put a roof over it so no body could come in or go out of it by air, the people of this country could probably get along very w>ell with out any contacts of any kind with the redt of the world. Wo would miss our tea and coffee, which wo haven't succeeded yet in growing in the United States. We would have to get along without any silk. We would have to give up choc olates and cocoa. UnlesB we found some way to make rubber out of ?iwdu?t of something el e, we would have to run our automobiles without any tires. We would have to be pretty economical about shoos, since we depend very largely upon other countries for hide? and leather. We wouldn't have very many fur coats. We would have to get along, in short without a lot of things we are ac customed to. But on the whole, we j probably could manage to be com- 1 fortable and reasonably prosperous j if wo didn't import a single commo dity from any other part of the ?world. Of course, we would have to cut ?'wn on t great deal of our farm production. We raise more wheat, more corn, more cotton, more tobacco nvoi\? of a number of other farm pro ducts than we in the United States' can consume. We mine more cop per, more iron, more of .several other metal than our domestic needs call for. V/e would Vhave to shut down a lot of mines and abandon a lot of far-na and find some other occupation for the miners and farmers thus thrown out of work. We produce wore oil than we can use, ^iO we would "have to cap a lot of oil wells and n bandon a lot of pipe line3. We make more automobiles, more electrical e quipement, more sewing machines, more typewriters, more fertilizers, more cameras, pianos and other man ufactured products than we can use, and so a lot of the factories would have to shut down or curtail product ion. But, on the whole, perhaps we could get along if we did noj business with the rest of the world. We wouldn't have to bother building any Bhips, but, of course w>e could find something else for the shipbuilders to do. , Tt seems to us that the complete answer to the people who think we ought not to have anything to do with Europe lies in those facts. Until and unless the economic prosperity of the rest of the world is restored to the point where foreign nations can buy our surplus products again, w* cannot look for a great or perma nent revival of our own prosperity. And sinco tho rest of the world can not buy our goods unless we buy theirs, the problem of world pro= r-arity depends for its solution large ly upon the restoration ' of our own prosperity. 1 There is no escaping tho conclusio ' that neither our nation nor any other can stand alone. APPLE TIME Tho applo picking season has ar ri\ h|. All over tho United State tho annual crop of this mosit widely dis trihuted and most generally popular I of all fruits has begun. In most sections, we understand. this is * nrHty good npplv year. The yield Is larger than usual but, like every thing else, prices are down. The apple has become such a dis tinctively American product that most people do not realize that, liko "wheat, rice, cotton, oranges and many of our other fruits and crops the np ple was imported from Europe. In deed, about the only farm product which America has given to the rest of the world are tobacco, potatoes, corn and turkeys. In thirty-six out of the forty-eight state*, the annual apple crop is largo end 'mportant enough to figure, in the government reports. Washington crows tho most applet ? more than thirty-seven million bushels a year. "New York State is second, producing 'more htan twenty-sevon million bu ahels. In the whole United F/tates th-p Annual crop of ripple* shipped to market averages above one hundred and fifty million bushels. Few fruits can bo used in so many different ways, all good. Apples are good eating, whether raw or baked ' or madw into apple sauce. They are In the estimation of epicures, the moifc aatisfactory of all vpie fillings. "W? d<m't Tcmw of anything better ?v->n a jdice of apple pie, oxcepjt an> iDtW ' - Th? apple, too, in the raw material * .? . ih&i i^vv . '' . ? from which is produced one drink which is specifically exempt under the prohibition law. The cider milta all over the country have been busier than (Wer the past few yeans*. Nobody can take any exception to "sweet cider in any quainty, and even Congress has not found a way to repeal the natural, law of fermentation which will change sweet cider into hard ci der if you don't watch out! TWICE HORN MEN Kt'v. J. Keels, Bethune, S C ! We have been born into a world of ' suffering, selfishness, sin. Have we been born again? I "Ye must be born again," Je3us | told Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. I (See Jno. 3:7). I What did Jesus mean by this new | birth? We mu3t liv*> a new life. To j be born again is to begin anew. Isn't j it wonderful that we can be$*in life I apain ? start all over anew? We must haw a new nature ? new aims, new principles, new affections. This new birth is a change wrought in the i heart by God in connection with the use of the truth of His Word. God's I work of cleansing the heart is called I regeneration or the new birth. Man's I part is to believe on Christ. Viewed from the human side this change is called conversion. Men have been born again. Twice born men have left their impress up :>n the history of the world. The most notable instance that we know anything about is Saul of Tarsus who became Paul the Apostle. Harold Begbie, a student of Wil liam James, wrote a book, 'Twice Born Men', in which he showed that conversion is the only means by which a radically bad person can be changed into a radically good per son. He tells of the conversion of :i number of men including one called Jld Born Drunk. Maybe none of us are in the con dition of Old Born Drunk*. But what did Jesus tell Nicodemus, a teacher of the Jews? Jesus told him, '"Ye must be born again." A man said the other day, "Don't you thin1< that there are many moral men and women in the church who are not real Christians?" Is this .rue? It is not enough to be moral. Nicodemus, no doubt, was a moral man. | "Ye must be born again." Our family connections will not save us. Our Church connections will not save us. We must be born again. A church of twice born men would put the forces of darkness to route and with a passion for souls tell the world of Christ. Now York's subways ar? the sa fest railroads in "the world and trans port more than 5,500,000 p-ersonr oach day. * * * There ar? two one cent restau rants in New York. Or.e is located on 13rd Street, off Sixth Avenue, ?and the other is at 51.1 Thirt"1, Avenuf All soups sell for one cent. Fr? V 'meat cakes sell two for fiive cents. Vegetable stew two cents. ? * ? Tickets to the Metropolitan Opera House will be tax-free because the opera company now ranks as a non profit-making organization. * ? * Among the documents ju?t placed in the cornerstone of the Union Club's new building- is a wine list of 1920. * * * A total of 22,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock were excavated dur itr the building of New York's new Eighth Avenue subway. ? ? ? A huge bronze-colored frog that does not croak but sings jazz in the best Broadway manner, a blue-faced katydid that trails like an opera linger, a poisonous spiier so large it Jines on birds ? these are among the now arrivals at the Bronx Zoo. * * * New York's famous Bowery was ince a fashionable part of old N York but is now inhabited almost ex clusively by immigrants. ? ? * There is a small green area at t' foot of Broadway known as Bowling jreen. It is the oldest park in the :ity and was once u;cd as a market ?place by tho Dutch settlers. * * * Some women in New York are wearing tiny watches which clip on .o the sleeve cuff. * ? ? A great ice company which has ?een its business here dwiindlo be ?ause of elcctric refrigerators, has ?one into the laundry business ?.hrough a subsidiary. * * * A New York "institute of dancing" is advertising courses for "adult girls." * * * Now York has l,100,000t boys and girls in its public schools. BftUCr BARTON Supplying a week-to-week Inspiration (or the heary- burdened who will hnd every human tnaj paralleled itftht experience* o> The Man Nqfrgd^Koowt.' n A C A RUHR OPENS UP Ib /it not high time for a larger reverence to be given to that quiet unassuming Joseph tho Father of Jesus? To Mary, his wife, the church has assigned a place of eter nal glory; and no thoughtful man ?an fail to be thankful for it But with the glorification of Mary, there has been an almost complete neglect of Joseiph. This is partly because Mary lived to be known and remem bered by the disciples, while nobody remembered Joseph. Was he just nn untutored peasant, married to a superior woman, and lmffed by the genius of a son whom lit? could never understand? Or was 'there, underneath h i -= selfeffacenrent, a vigor and faith that moulded the boy's plastic years? Was ho a hap py companion to the youngsters? Did he carry the youngest, laughing and crowing on his shoulders from the shop To those questions the narrative gives no answer. And since this is so? we have a right to form ( o'\r own conception of the character of this vastly significant and' wholly unknown man, and to be guided by the one momentous fact which we do know. It is this. He must have been j friendly and patient and fine; he > riiust have seemed to his children to be an almost ideal parent for when J-esus sought to give mankind; a new oonception of the character of (iod, 1 he could find no more exalted term ' for his mean'ng than the one word | "Father." I Thirty years went by. Jesus had discharged his duty; the younger children wero big enough for self suppor.t. The strange stirrings that had gorio on inside him for yearn were crystallized by the reportr* ? John's success. The hour of the great decision arrived}' he hung up hi* tools and walked out of town. What sort of , looking man was he that day when he appeared on the bank of the Jordan and applied John for baptism? Unfortunately ? the Gospel na.r native* supply no da' I Infylng answer to Ihoae qii<>*tions; ' and the only passage in ancient lit erature which purports to be a des cription of him has been proved a forgery. Nevertheless, it requires only a little reading between the lines to be sure that almost all the painters have misled us. They have shown us a frail man, under-mu*cled, with a soft face ? a woman's face covered by board ? and a benign Y baffled look, as though the problems of living were so grievous that death would l>e a welcome release. This is nob the Jesus at wTiose word the disciples left their business to enlist in an unknown cause. And for proof of that assertion consider only four aspects of his ex perience: the health that flowed out of him to create health in others; the appeal of his personality to women ? weakness does not appeal to th< m his lifetime of outdoor living; an 1 the steel-like hardness of his nerve;. COUNTY COUNCIL OF FARM WOMEN TO MEET The fall meeting of the Kershaw County Council of Farm Wonrvnn will bo held in the Camion High School auditorium next PViday evening at R o'clock. Every citizen in Kershaw (bounty is inv'ted and urged to at tend thia meeting. 'Mr. A A Mc Keown, District Agent will Rpeak on Taxation. The various county chair men will ?ivo '"he goal set for next yvar ir> their depart menta-. The pro gram will ho .intorperRed with mua'r and refreshments will be served s? the cIorp" of the meeting- A prize will be given the club having the largest attendance. Throe C'a club won the prize at the Spring nreeting. Respectfully, SADIE R. OR A 10, County Home Demonstration Agent. pMilt M*at?rpl*?<M In tho translation of the "Odynaey" by Alexander Pope. tbere are 081 linen. "Reowulf" hnn ovor B.000 linos. According to the former method of print ir ' < poem. It ban about i' : w. lUor In lutlf liiij'*. Still A Lover of Horse Flesh By Albert T. Held AHORSE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Reports. 16,2oo,ooo HORSES IN THE 'JN1TED SWES A GAIN OVER. LAST Year Regular communication oL this lodge is held on the first Tuesday in i-ach montl | it 8 p. m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. W. R. CLYBURN, j . E. ROSS, Worshipful Mattel Secretary. DeKALR COUNCIL NO. 88, JR. O. U. A. meets in regular council the 2nd and 4th Mondaj, of each month, at ?> fcloclc. Visiting members welcome J. W. THOMPSON, Councilor U H. JONES, Rec. Sec. Not Liltencta of Harvard The Rtntue of John Harvard, on the Harvard campus, Is not a likeness of the orljilnn! John Harvard, the found er of Harvard college. It was posed for by a Harvard undergraduate. 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