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The Wateree Messenger ? ? . ? Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIKCHMORE, Prop. . /ktiw4 m Second CU?t MatUr ?| the Postoffice it Camden, 8. C. . ?" - Subscription $1.50 ? Year in Advance /' Wednesday, November 80, 1982 ? 'v : 1 " !-v~ . V - V 1; v ? " " " "? ? ' 1 ? ' I ,, '? ? '*;? . ? ?>' . AUTO DRIVER ? LOOK AT YOUR SELF. It is time the automobile driver' took a good look at himself. Personal traits and characteristics are as much to blame for our appall ing highway death rate as are incom petence and ignorance. The driver who passes on hills and curves, who operates his car at excessive speeds, who hogs the road and drives on thfe wrong side of the highway, who "weaves" and cuts in and out, is the driver who, no matter how great his. skill, causes a large share of the ^>, 000 deaths each year. The most encouraging sign at pre sent is the wide public interest in highway safety ? an interest which fi&a grown amazingly the last year or two. Traffic laws are being studied. Purveys of accident statistics are be ing made. There is less theorizing and more dealing with honest facts. Every state should have laws in accord with modem conditions. . One of the most necessary steps is more drastic supervision of youthful driv ers ? it has been found that drivers under 20 have a 39 per cent worse re cord than the average, while those between 40 and 60 have a record 29 per cent better than the average. ?Automobiles should be periodically inspected in the matter of brakes, steering, lights, etc, Examinations of applicants for drivers' licenses should be conducted with extreme care. The automobile death rate can and must be lowered. There is no place for the reckless, the incompetent, and the mentally or physically defective on our streets and highways. Sixty five thousand deaths in two years is mute testimony to the need for quick and decisive action. MUST FORCE TAX REDUCTION One of the most encouraging phases of the late campaign was the attitude taken by the majority of candidates for public office toward the cost of government and the need for tax re duction. President-elect Roosevelt has stated x that a 25 per cent cut is essential and has pledged his efforts toward achieveing that. Those elect ed with him have echoed his views. If such a reduction made it will have an amazingly fine effect on the country ? not only in the money that will be saved, but in psychological re sult. There is no question but what the specter of still higher taxes frightens thousands of investors and shoves money into safe-deposit vaults and tea pots; that it prevents busi ness from going ahead and expand ing; that it discourages home build and savings; that, in this time of unemployment, it creates more unem ployment, more hardship, more dis tress. Every citizen should demand a sound program to lower taxes. We can do this by not asking for expen ditures that touch only a small part of the country at the expense of the whole; by taking the broad, rather than the local, view. We can follow up federal reductions by forcing state county and municipal governments ? which are the most expensive of all ? and public officials, to observe the example. In short, the time and the opportunity for tax reduction are here ? and it must bo had. RADIO IN PROPHECY This is to be the subject of the lec ure delivered by Dr. C. F. Wimborly, at the Baptist church, Wednesday night, 80th. This invitation comes treat Rev. J. B. Caston, the pastor. Dr. Wimberly has been a close stu dent of prophecy for many years, and has written two or three books on prophetic themes, and has gone into this newest and most wonderful | of all modern discoveries, and sees in it, the marvelous development to a great climax, and the public is most cordially urged to heat this address, which has been give in more thafi a doxen states of tire Union. Alt de nomination* are invited to join with fRev, Mr. Caston and his people for] this new and unusual lactate. Remember the date, Wednesday Dac. 7, at 7i80. Uk. rw, W.m- F.I AH aatlva women in North Africa their hnnbttids ' ' their weight pounds. ECONOMIC SELF i.: - 1 So far as the farmer is ..concerned, cooperation is simply another, name for economic self-preservation. For more years than one cares to count the average farmer was vitnally at the mercy of the buyer. He taak Whatever price was offered him for his produce, or lost a sale Then came the beginning of the cooperative movement. Thousands Of farmers joined together and cre ated selling organizations as large and as powerful as the buying or ganisations. The middleman was no longer talking to a single farmer ? he was talking to the authorized re presentative of a multitude. They met on equal terms. All over the county cooperative organizations have been making good progress in time of depression. More and more farmers have discovered .that cooperation is the eventual so lution for suicidal price and chaotic agricultural conditions. As a result the cooperatives are on a firmer foundation today than ever before, and their chances for complete suc cess in the future are better. But ? every farmer should think of this ? the more unorganized farmers there are, the longer that success will be in coming. COMPETING WITH TAXPAYERS Why should Uncle Sam sell a com modity or service such as printing in competition with local, privately own ed, tax-paying printing plants? Why should 15,000 post offices be used as order takers for a service that is not an essential function of the Post Office department or a nec essary service in handling the mails? The reason for raising these ques tions is that Uncle Sam offers to print return cards on stamped enve lopes. With a "local dealer," or sales agency in the United States post of fice located in every center of popu lation in the land Uncle Sam does a volume of printing business that en ables him to offer customers a ridic ulously low price. The orders for printed stamped envelopes total a billion and a half a year ? over 4,000 000 for each of the 365 days in the year! The purchasers of this service of fered by Uncle Sam are not the "com mon people," some of whom address letters improperly and thereby con tribute to the cost of maintaining the dead letter office. Banks, retail merchants, professional men manu facturers, the public schools, .colleges, fraternal organizations ? all depen dent upon prosperous towns, home trade, local pay rolls, taxpayers able to pay tHeir taxes ? these constitute the customers who take advantage of Uncle Sam's bargain price on print ed envelopes. If it's O. K. for Uncle Sam to sell printing, why not extend a good thing and insist that he add to his line and thus serve a much larger number of post office patrons? Why not add a grocer's apron to the print er's apron Uncle Sam now wears? Why not sell breakfast food, evapo rated milk, butter, shoes, drugs, dry goods, clothing, etcetera, over the post office counter? Unless Uncle Sam quits the print ing business, printers should obtain signatures from post office patrons to a petition demanding that the Post Office department sell not only print ing ? that accommodates only a limit ed number of customers ? but other products. Think of the saving in price that would be possible through enormous volume and frequent turn overs! And Uncle Sam is lucky; he doesn't have to pay taxes. ? Magda lena (N. M.) News. MUG-BOOK SCHEMES One amusing observation easily made in any community is the way men fall for schemes. Take advertising. Some business mon, while they ignore the well es tablished local paper, bite for any dangling bait that puts the promise of their names in print. Mug-books, that print men's pic tures and biographies ? programs, that are charity ? directories, that are never consulted ? coupon books, that tempt with profits? all in the name of advertising. Only when local business men have first exhausted legistimate advertis ing media are they justified in pitch* ! ing dollars into the sea.? Claytort Rarid, publisher, Gulfport (Miss.) Guide. Lea* H?M la Ktfeem A Portuguese writer has said about the lychee, It ts the most beautiful fruit that God has created la the uni< verse." No fruit, in fact, hsi Inspired teore poets and artists than the tychee. Literary references hate been traced back years and years, even before the time of Christ. ;v ?-* ? ? 1 ' r _ ^ 'V <V 'ii FARM INCOME FOR X 9 S 2 . ' 1 ? What can be done to stimulate agriculture that great industry and insure the producer some margin of profit from the sweat of his brow, as well as peace of mind that his land will not be seized and he dispossed; that he can look orward to a better day when the life of slavish toil and debt and destitution will give way to a chance to make a real living is keeping with reasonable American standards ? that is one of the biggest of all problems waiting solution. That fact is recognized by the thinkers and students of today. Special articles ^>y authorities and experts are given liberal space in flhe country's most widely circulated periodicals and pa pers bearing on the subject. The theories and relief measures advanced are different and divergent, these specialists are of no more accord vhan a group of doctors in the diag nosis of a noted case. One gets a glimpse, however, of just what con lition agriculture is in by the statis ts of the Federal Department of Agriculture, which show that the t^ross income from farm productior in the United States for 1932 is es timated at $5,240,000,000 ? a reduct ion of $1,716,000,000 for last year $4,163,000,000 under 1930, and $6, 710,000,000 less than for 1929. . The largest reduction this year was in the livestock industry, which was placed at $2,968,000,000, compared witV $4,191,000,000 in 1931. Among th< crops cotton and the cottonseed in dustry showed the largest reduction The gross income from cotton and cottonseed is estimated at $397,000, 000 for 1932 as contrasted with $529, 000,000 for 1931. There were reduc tions in all lines and they are ascrib ed largely to national and world-wide changes in financial and economic conditions, which have shrunk de mand, vanished purchasing powe: and brought about lower price levels curtailing demand for what the farm er produces in both the domestic and foreign markets. The department estimates that incomes from farm? for 1932 were about 42 per cent ol those for 1929. The shrinkage har been far greater from major crop? than has the income from minoi crops. It is obvious that something should be done to rehabilitate the nation's basic industry. ? Spartanburg Journal. LIVES 100 YEARS ON SNAILS Intra, Italy. ? Snails washed down by generous potions of white wine is Giovannia Tonetti's recipe for longevity. He ought to know what he is talking about, for he has jus* reached the ripe old age of 100 years. "I never ate anything else but snails in all my life," Tonetti told his interviewers on his hundreth birthday. "And once a week, with my Sunday dinner of 'escargots a la Bourgogne' I get what you Americans call 'zig-zag'." RAIN DROP PROVES FATAL Paris ? A single rain drop here was responsible for the loss of one life and injuries to several persons. It all happened when it splashed straight down upon the nose of a snoozing and well oiled patron at a sidewalk cafe. Jumping up as if socked by a fistic artist, he ^nocked down a table, which rolled out on the street straight in the path of an au tomobile. The latter swerved, and crashed into a street car, turned tur tle, causing the fatality and injuries. The HesBians who were paid by the British to oppose the American army in the Revolutionary War had great regard for General Washington, according to "Progress", which quotes old letters and diaries which have re cently ?ome to light, judiced light on the activities of the times. Accord ing to one such letter the war wap caused by "English carelessness and American arrogance and stupidity," qualities which, we might add, have been the basis of more than one war. Spartan Lives to he 102 in Atlsntr Home A member of one of the first Gen try families in Spartanburg County Thursday had something to be Thank ful for. That was excellent health which had enabled him to live to be 102 years old. The Gentry being referred to is Mack Gentry, now living in Atlanta, who was born in Spartanburg County November 24, 1880. He moved to Georgia during the Civil War and served in the 14th Georgia Regiment. The aged man said today in Atlanta that he hopes to live to be 110 years of age. His constant companion is an old briar pipe. ? Spartanburg Journal. SUBSCRIBE TO TAB MESSENGER. WATERED CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open com petitive examinations as follows: . Senior Bricklayer, $ 1,860 a year, Bricklayer, $1,680 a year, Senior Stoncpiason, $1,860 a year, Stonemas on, $1,680 a year, less a furlough de duction of 8 1-8 per cent and retire ment deduction of 8 1-2 per cent; De partmental Service, Washington, D. C. Principal Architect, (Hospital), $5,600 a year, less a furlough deduct ion of 8 1-8 per cent and retirement deduction of 8 1-2 per cent; for inter mittent service only, Freedmen'r Hospital, Department of the Interior Washington, D. C. Statistician (Medical - Social Ser vice), $2,600 a year, less a furlough deduction of 8 1-8 per cent and re tirement deduction of 8 1-2 per cent; Veterans' Administration, Hines, 111. Associate Physical Metallurgist (Welding), $8,600 a year, less a fur lough deduction of 8 1-8 per cent and retirement deduction of 8 1-2 pes ?ent; temporary .employment, Ord nance Department at large, Water town Arsenal, Mass. All states except Delaware, Iowa. Vermont, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia have receiv ed less than their share of appoint ments in the apportioned department al service at Washolngton, D. C. Full information may be obtained from M. H. Moore, Secretary of thr United States Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office in thif J city. T. J. GREGORY DOING WELL FOLLOWING LEG AMPUTATION The Era last week mentioned that T. J. Gregory, manager of the Ker shaw Mercantile & Banking Com onny's store, had gone to the Baptist Hospital in Columbia for treatment )f an affected foot. Upon thorough examination by the hospital physi cians it was decided that infection had made such headway as to reiy der amputation necessary, and the lower part of the limb was taken off about halfway between the ankle and knee. The many friends of Mr. Gre gory, while greatly regretting that amputation was necessary, will be more than pleased to learn that he stood the operation well and is do ing just as well as could be expected, and they hope for him a speedy and thorough recovery. ? Kershaw Era. STOP! LOOK! NOTICE! s . * ? t* . ' ? ? All School Children Patronize DePASS* DRUG STORE Phone 10 Main Street and get your Cut Rate School Tickets to Afternoon performance of Barnett Brothers Circus Camden, Friday, December 2nd SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Schedules from and to Camden, S. C. Corrected to November 6, 1932 Arrive Between Depart. 11:27 A. M. Eastern Cities -j-FI or ida 11:27 A. M. 10:17 P. M. Eastern Cities ? Florida 10:17 P. M. 4:03 P. M. Florida ? Eastern Cities 4:03 P. M. 7:24 P. M. Florida ? Eastern Cities 7:24 P. M. PULLMANS? COA CHES? DINERS. For further information, tickets and reservations call on Ticket Agent. The Majestic Theatre Wednesday & Thursday, Nov. 30th-l)ec. 1st Here's the biggest comedy-romance extravaganza of the picture world ? "THE BIG BROADCAST" With Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, Kate Smith, Leila Hyams, Mills Bros., Boswell Sisters, Cab Calloway, Vincent Lopez, Arthur Tracy, Sharon Lynn, and dozens of the most popular radio entertainers on the air. Friday (Turkey Night) Dec. 2nd SALLY EILERS with BEN LYON in A smash picture ? A depression Chaser ? "THE HAT CHECK GIRL" A picture jam-packed to the final frame with romance and thrills. Free Christmas Turkey to Holder of Lucky Number. Saturday, Dec. 3rd Straight from the land of sage brush and cactus comes this thrilling Western adventure picture "BEYOND THE ROCKIES" With Tom Keene, Ace of Western Stars. Also "Heroes of West" and Comics. COMING: "GRAND HOTEL" and "RED DUST' Get Our Prices On Printing And Save Money BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUK OKDER FOR YOUR PRINTING Gfcl THE MESSENGER'S PRICES. YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SAVE CON SIDERABLY MORE THAN YOU * XPECTED ON YOUR WORK. WHY NOT CHECK OYER YOUR SUPPLY AND LET US HAVE COPY OF THE FORMS YOU NEEL VERY SOON. WE LL GLADLY GIVE YOU AN ESTIMATE OF THE COST, AND IF YOU ARE READY TO PLACE YOUR ORDER, WE CAN RENDER PROMPT SERVICE. IN FACT ON MANY JOBS WE CAN MAKE DELIVERY WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. We Are Prepared to Do Any Form of Job Printing Letter Heads Envelopes Cards Circulars Office Fotms Church Forms Placards Statements Pamphlets Programs Menus Invitations Camden, S. C.