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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Entered u Second Clue Matter at the Pootofflee at Camden, 8* C. Subscription $1^0 A Teu in Advance Wednesday, December 14, 1982 European prayer: Forgive us our debts as we forgive our creditors. Facts are easily accepted if they do not conflict with our precon ceived notions. The words "Find check enclosed" are entirely superflous if the check is really in there. Now a lot of fellows who tore their shirts for their favorite candi dates will be "forgotten men." If diminutive automobiles become popular, drivers of 10-ton trucks will be more arrogant than ever. It is said that all radio announcers are college graduates. Is this an argument for or against higher edu cation ? If the big bankers don't loosen up some gold pretty Boon, a lot of us may have to go back to the wampum standard. Some ancient seals portray man headed bulls and bull-headed men We still have the latter with us in real life. Our joy over relief from campaign oratory is somewhat abated by the thought that Congress must meet next month. The best Ford joke is told on Uncle Henry himself. After advis ing everybody to vote for Hoover, he failed to qualify. Four per cent of vessels are ship wrecked each year. The percentage of matrimonial barks which hit the rocks is probably higher. THINK THIS OVER Congress is now in session. There will be a hundred and one suggestions for farm relief, unemployment relief, etc. Most of the suggestions will be at the expense of the taxpayer, who, in turn, needs relief unless the sources of taxation are to be dried up. Suppose that instead of new schemes to soak the taxpayer, Con gress would urge that five million individuals well able to do so ? one twenty-fifth of the population of the United States ? should spend in the next thirty days, an average of $200 each for needed improvements to their homes or places of business. This would put one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) into immediate cir culation, would create new taxable in- 1 come and property, and start an end less chain of buying and product ion. The public should recognize that re lief for itself can come only from it- 1 self. Congress can give no relief ex cept as it takes from one person and gives to another. Instead of having | our money taken from us and getting only a tax receipt in return, why not spend it wisely so as to get value re ceived and at the same time start | business going, which, in turn, will return our expenditures through in creasing the business of each of us Instead of killing it by exorbitant] taxation. PEDESTRIAN PERILS Automobiles coBt the pedestrian the heaviest toll of life and limb of any class of persons involved In automo bile accidents. Out of nearly 84,000 persons killed last year, according to statistics of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, 14,600 were pedestrians. In most of these cases, contrary to popular opin ion, the pedestrian was wholly or in groat part at fault. There are four chief spots of dan ger for the individual on foot. These are: Crossing between intersections; coining from behind parked cars; walking on or along a rural highway and playing in tho street- 1,71 0 young ?tors Jhaving loot their livos in street play last year. Tho most dangorov is pedestrian ac ta Crossing between intersections ro 8,020 wore killed last year, should adhere rigidly to the prac at intersections, d remember that every street or highway big fn man or child is n ifS',1 ? ? ' '< V: danger sign. [ Darting oat from behind parked cars cost 1,680 persons their lives last year. Rural highways , apparently are death traps for walkers, 2,880 persons being killed on them las^year. The man who sets out for T^^alk ylong a country road should walk on the left side facinf oncoming traffic so as to be ready f6r any emergency. Albert W. Whitney, Associate Gen eral Maipger of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwrit ers, says: "As every motorist should obey the fundamental rule of safe driving, sc every pedestrian should obey the code of safe walking. His cooperation is absolutely assential in reducing the tremendous annual loss of life and limb which is so darkly reflected in the cost of casualty insurance, eco nomic waste and untold human misery." STRAY CATS AND DOGS The zeal of those who stress the importance of kindness to animals may sometimes appear to be a mani festation of sentimentality, yet there is generally behind it a sincere and laudable impulse. While it may be argued that the sympathy and effort expended on un fortunate animals might better be exerted in behalf of human beings the fact is that those who treat horses, cats and dogs with humane consideration are more likely to ex hibit a similar attitude toward theii fellowmen. A New York women's organiza tion reports that during a single yeai it found homes for 667 homeles? dogs and 549 stray cats, while 68 dogs and 10 cats were returned to their owners through identifying tags on collars. Bronze medals were pre sented to two men who saved a dog at considerable risk to themselves. An important work of such an or ganization is the humane education of children, many if not most of whom have an apparent tendency to makr life miserable for helpless animals particularly those not their own. Ir some cases the mistreatment of ani mals is merely the result of thought lessness and may be checked by kind ly admonition, in others there appears to be a tendency toward wanton cru elty, which sterner measures are nec essary to repress. The teaching of kindness to ani mals should have a place in the train ing of every child and it can be taught better by personal example than in any other way. To befriend a stray cat or dog is to teach a les son in humaneness to all who observe the act. And such lessons are worth while. A LONG WAIT My grandpa notes (he world's worn cogs and says we're going to the dogs. His grand-dad in his house of logs, swore things were going to the dogs. His dad among the Flemish bogs, vowed things were going to the doga. The caveman in hi8 queer skin togs said things were going to the dogs. But this is what I wish to state: The dogs have had an awful wait. Pacific Cooperative Wool Grower. WORDS OP HOPB By Rev. J. Keels, Pastor Presbyterian Church, Bethune, 8. C. 41 Be of good courage and-he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord." (Psa. 81:24). "In thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, 0 Lord my God." (Psa. 38:16). "Thou art my hope, O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth.' (Psa. 71:6). "Blessed is the man that trustet) in the Lord, and whose hope the Lon' is." (Jer. 17:7). "We are saved by hope." (Rom 8:24). "Blessed be the God and Father o our Lord Jesus Christ! By His grea mercy we have been born anew to i life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, bon to an unscathed, inviolate, unfadinr inheritance; it is kept in heaven fo you, and the power of God protect you by faith till you do inherit thr salvation which is all ready to be re vealed at the last hour." (1 Petei 1:3). Your faith means in God and Hi.r Son, Jesus Christ. Christ is, our onl: hope. "Neither Is there salvation lr any other:' for there is none othei name lender heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." (Actr 4:12). In Christ we have hope. IN SOUTH CAROLINA Went to the Home Store And this is what I saw Pork loins from Greenville And beans from near Cheraw There was Newberry butter And Beaufort lettuce, too Also Charleston oysters To make some good hot Btew There were peas in cans Packed down at Fairfax And Lexington corn meal Tied up in little sacks Fine turkeys from Saluda New pecans from Orangeburg Bottle of fresh milk From Columbia Dairies' herd Fresh mutton from Fairfield Big red apples from Oconee Fine potatoes and tobacco Grown in the fertile Pee Dee Asparagus from Barnwell And fish from the Edisto ; Sausages made in Columbia Did I mention that before? Nice eggs from McCormick Rich cheese from Greenwood If you dont buy products Grown in Carolina you should Tomatoes packed in Sumter Kershaw's juicy peaches, too Strawberry jam from Horr/ Do I like it? You bet I do I haven't named all counties ? And the hour is growing late But here is to every county In the Iodine Products State. ? Ben jamin Elliott in Carolina Free Press. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WATER El MESSENGER. Facts A bout Foods THRRFJ are ntlll a few tin modern people who fear to leave canned food In the can after It la opened. Mont people know that there can be no safer container but, for the benefit of those unmodern few, wo are quot ing the positive statement on this subject which F5. V. McCollum, Ph.D., Sc.!)., of Johns Hopkins University, made not long since In an article In McOall's MaRa xlni. "In general," he wrote, "foods remain In better condition until 3aten if the unused portion Is kept in fhe can. spoilage results from exposure to dust, air and insects, and to the bacteria with which any dish may he covered. There is nothing about the <ian which will contribute to the ? spoilage of food." t If any other evidence than this statement by such an eminent food authority were needed, there is that of frr. J. O. Gelger, for merly epidemiologist of the Uni ted States Public Health Service, and later Assistant Commissioner of Hoalth In Chicago, now Di rector of Public Health of Baa Francisco. An Unfounded Pear "It must be remembered," he said, "that the Inside of the con tainer has been sterilised at the same time as the food It contains and that the dish into which th6 food Is poured Is frequently not so sterile as the can Itself. If the fear Is founded on the pellet that the tin lining of the can be comes corroded and yields poisons which may attack the system, II ie a fear that la without aubatan* tlatlon by any aclentlfio evi dence."* BOYS OFFERED BEST STORIES - -J ? ? C7* > ' '* K. Bad times are good times for mag azine readers, according to the oditoi of youth's favorite magazine, THE AMERICAN BOY-YOUTH'S COM-/ PANION. 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