The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, November 30, 1932, Image 4
The Wateree Messenger
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Published Every Wednesday by
CHAS. W. BIKCHMORE, Prop. .
/ktiw4 m Second CU?t MatUr ?|
the Postoffice it Camden, 8. C. .
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Subscription $1.50 ? Year in Advance
/' Wednesday, November 80, 1982
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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.
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ECONOMIC SELF
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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.
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FARM INCOME FOR X 9 S 2 .
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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.
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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!
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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'
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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
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