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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by ' CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Altered as Second Qaaa Matter Ml the Poatofflce at Camden, S. C. Snbacription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, December 28, 1982 I ^ ? Our war debtors, too, want to get in on the promised new deal. One may make his own character, but his reputation is. at the mercy of the' gossips. As if We haven't enough troubles already, the legislatures of 48 states will meet in January. ?A dentist may not be exactly an artist, but he does quite a bit of drawing from real life. We read that "the first method of spreading news was by word of mouth." It is also the last. 0. K. Lamb of Alabama is studying for the ministry and hopes to be come the shepherd of a flock. It is suspected that the ultimate assets of some of these self-liquidat ing projects will turn out to be most ly water. Speaker Garner's exhibit of pe cans won first prize at a Texas fair. Now somebody will be calling him a pecan politician. Kissing is practically unknown among savages. But our own younger generation is becoming more civilized every day. An A. P. writer says President elect Roosevelt is a good poker play er. Hell need all his skill when he sits in with that European bunch. As a step toward getting the gov ernment out of business a new con tract has been made for about 12 million dollars worth of envelopes to be sold through the postoffices. f * c NEW YEAR'S DAY. January 1, marking the beginning of the year, has been observed as e public holiday for many centuries, certainly in Rome dkice the reforma tion of the calendar by Julius Caesar in the century before Christ. Owing to the confusion in dates which has resulted from the imper fections of various calendars, whiflfr caused skipping of dates at various times, New Year's Day may be said i to be merely an arbitrary designa tion. As late as 1752 the adoption of the Gregorian calendar by Eng land and the American colonies caus ed a skip of 11 days. However, regardless of the day designated as New Year's at various times and in various countries, it has been generally observed as a holiday. y (The Romans celebrated it with .. processions, abandonment of litiga tion and strife, exchanging of visits and of gifts, feasting and merry making. Early fathers of the Chris tian church did not approve of these ^estffvitjiea, J>ut recommended that the day be devoted to meditation, scripture reading and works of char ity. But about the fourth century, when December 25 had been agree<f upon for the observance of Christ's nativity, New Year's Day, falling one week later, began to assume a sacred character as the anniversary of the circumcision, and as such it still fig ures in the calendars of certain branches of the church. Other religious faiths, such an the Mohammedan and Jewish, have their own calendars, with distinctive holi days and festivals, in which their New "dear's Day has a corresponding Significance to that of Christendom. Among all it is considered an ap propriate day for reviewing the events of the previous year, the mak ing of new resolves and the adoption of plans for the future. It is also the occasion for the expression o) good wishes. We join in the spirit of the day in wishing -all a Happy Thomas K. Hill, 108, of Mance* lona, .Mich., whose family told him 88 year* Ago he Was too old to drive Oft automoblla, has panned Ma exam {nation and received his new driver's license. Burglars took a lar*e safe from f cleaner's plant in Royal Oak, Hieh. trucked It to A woods at th? tint* skirts of tha dty, where they open ad it to diaom 80 ateta. FALSE ECONOMY * "? V> ?? i 'r .fl - -a ??. _ iu ' , . <1. True economy is entirely praise worthy, particularly for those who have difficulty in making ends meet but there is a petty sort of skimping which is not economy, and which is really wasteful in the long run. \ Time and effort expended to ef fect the saving of a penny here and fi. nickel there often is a source of loss instead of gain. Shopping a round for an hour in the hope of sav ing a few cents on a trivail purchase is one example of this. Another is to buy an inferior article when a good one would cost but a little more. The same principle applies in busi ness management. To deny oneself the use of a reasonable amount of up-to-date equipment in an effort tc curtail expenditures is not economy because nuch equipment will usually pay for itself many times over in time and labor saving. Spending money wisely is one of the surest means of making more money. Skimping is not alwayp economy, and stinginess is not al ways thrift. Too many of us are "penny wise and pound foolish". THE RACKETEER KING One of the most pointed articles on the subject of governmental waste to come to our attention lately is from the Public Service News of Kan sas City, which declares that the high cost of government has now become our greatest racketeer, which makes A1 Capone and others of his ilk look like pikers. It declares that 20 per cent of the annual national income is required to satisfy the demands of this super racketeer. In other words, one dol lar out of every five earned by the American people goes to pay for the wild extravagances of government, as compared with one dollar out . of every $30 fifteen years ago. Four teen billion (not million) dollars is government's annual toll. This staggering burden is not borne by any particular class. Every man woman and child in the nation must pay a share of tribute to the ogre of governmental waste. This 14 billion dollars comes out of capital, saving? and payrolls. It results in decreas ed earnings and increased cost of liv ing for each of us, not matter how rich or poor. It is one of the prin cipal reasons why business and em ployment do not improve. An aroused public finally put A1 Capone away. Whenever the peopl< get sufficiently exasperated with that greatest of all public enemies ? the high cost of government ? it, too can be suppressed. All over this country the voters and taxpayers are organizing to put a stop to the encroachments of this king of racketeers. Public officials who fail to heed the growing demand for economy in government are on the road to oblivion. QUEER SUPERSTITIONS Superstitions regarding the pre vention and cure of disease have per sisted from time immemorial, many of them being still prevalent in the more backward sections of the coun try. A few were called to mind by a recent writer, in noting the death of an aged Kentuckian who continu ed to wear ear rings to the last, in the belief that they were good for his eyesight. Another old-time notion was that wearing a mustache was beneficial | to weak eyes, just as it was thought I that carrying a buckeye or a potato in the pocket would prevent or cure rheumatism. One doesn't have to be so very olc' to remember when children were caused to wear a little bag of asafe tida strung around the neck as a pro tection against "catching" diseases , and when in many homes bunches of various dried herbs were hung about for the same purpose. Some believ i ed that keeping a goat flround the house was a prime health measure. These superstitions, like the belief that a horsehair placed in a rain bar rel would turn into a snake, are grad ually dying out ? but many presum ably intelligent persons to this day will refuse to take the third ligh4 from a match or walk under a ladder for fear of dire consequences. The HCjuealing of pipfn so frighten ed Mrs. Addle Maker of Straaburtf O., that ftho Buffered a heart attack and died. A mouste reflembling a kantfaroo with A pouch in which were nev?n lit tle mice, was found in a bunch of banana* in Linbon, La. ' L. M. Applegate of Grant'* Pafl? Ore., believes the Bible he proudly display* to be more than 150 . yoarp ?ldL I NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE PEDESTRIAN , y}.\ \ While this is a good season for the motorist to determine that he will drive more carefully during 1988, it is also a proper time for the pedes trian to resolve that he will avoid those errors which in 1981 killed 14, 500 walkers and injured nearly 800 000. Maxwell Halsey, Traffic Engineer of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, has drawn up a set of resolutions for the man-a foot. They are: CITY I will not cross a street when traf fic lights are against me, nor will I cross diagonally or between inter sections. I will not cross at intersectionr where there are no signals without looking to traffic. I will not come from behind park ed cars without observing what if before me. I will not get on or off a street car without satisfying myself thaf my way is clear and I will not take it for granted that all motorists al ways obey all rules. I will not take a chance any placr against a dangerous driver. COUNTRY I will not forget to walk on left side of road bo that I can fac? on coming cars. I will not cross at a sharp curve or just at the brow of a steep hill where I cannot see what is coming. I will not forget to allow for r swerve of a car on rough roads, giv ing all vehicles plenty of room. I will not forget when I drive how I feel when I am walking. Follow these instructions and be a "safe-walker". SNAPPY STUFF Mary J. Gourley of St. Louis, who said she "never had a home," was fined when arraigned for the 268th time for drunkeness. Joseph Wilson of Chicago, was or dered by court to pay his wife's in come tax despite, his plea that she would never tell him what she earned. August Mersch of Montclair, N. J., narrowly escaped death as the result of a sponge left in his body after an operation. Not only did two men take hiB coat, vest and $1.76 in cash from E. L. Bryant of El Paso, Tex., but they also made him take out his false teeth and hand them over. When Henry Jenkins of Millwood Va., yawned his mouth opened so widely he could not close his jaws. Charles Ash of Los Angeles, charg ed in his divorce suit that his wife poured hot grease from a frying pan over his body and she charged he drenched her with buckets of cold water as she lay in bed. Joseph A. Money of Philadelphia had his daughter arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct because she smoked. Once a year on the anniversary of the founding of the firm, the Ansin Shoe Company of Athol, Mass., pays its employes with silver dollars. George Voight, store manager oi Valparaiso, Ind., has received lb' cents through the mail from a mar who says he helped himself to cook ies when no one was looking. Bertha Liebhafsky, Austrian-bom sophomore at the Texas State Col lege for Women, has attended Sun day school for 15 years without miss ing a Sunday. The "meanest thief" la reported tc have entered the MoflBhurj? Ceme tery toolhouae In Blufton, Ind., and taken every article of value, Includ ing lawn mowern, apaden, nhovela and raken. Nine of the Bfi children attending the Martun School, near Lapeer Mich., are Bona and daughter* of thr school director, John Swolahe. Miss Margaret C. Moore, Tulene .university RraduAte student, played nursemaid to 60 rats for four months to prove thAt shrimps contains vita min D. Mrs. Helen Poole of ChlcARO oh Ar fe ed in her divorce su'it that her hus? band heat her whenever she forgot herself in the presence of friends and disclosed that she was his wife. Mrs. Harriet Crouch of Chelms ford, England, killed all member* of the jury that acquitted her of mur dering hw NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT TREB SEEDLINGS ? >'?* ? Farm land in Kershaw County that is unfit for cultivation but too bare of seed trees to reforest naturally makes the farmer little return. So long as it remains idle such land is a liability, slowly eating itself up in taxes. Planted with little trees it becomes an asset, steadily increasing in value, and eventually yielding a handsome return. All of our southern pines grow rapidly. At an early age they yield pulp wood, saw logs, and other valu able products. Furthermore, these young "second growth" woodlands yield timber for which there is p constantly increasing demand. A stand of young pines is an excellent investment for the farmer as it is fo the lumber company that plans con tinous operation of its mill or ever the sale of its cut-over lands. It is not difficult to convert thi^ waste land into forest land even though it gives no promise of re foresting itself from near-by seed trees. Reforestation by planting if comparatively easy and frequently I total costs are held down to $4 or ?5 i an acre. Pine seedlings are now available for distribution to the farmers and timberland owners at the State For est Tree Nursery, Camden, S. C. All orders for seedlings should be ad dressed to the district forester Florence, S. C. A number of valuable bulletins on how to plant tree seed'.inga can be secured free of charge by writing the County Forester, Camden, 3. C. Pounding an anvil for 77 eyars has become a habit with Peter Haup ers of St. Paul, Minn., and he sees no reason for changing to lighter ' work just because he happens to be 95 years old. Most for Your Money In a Good Laxative Thedford's BLACK-DRAUGHT has been highly regarded for a long, Ions time, but it Is better appre ciated now than ever before. Peo ple are buyin* everything more care fully today. In buy Ins: Black-Draught, they get the most for their money, in a food, effective laxative, depend able for the relief of ordinary consti pation troubles. 25 or more doses of Thedford's Black-Draught In a 25 -cent package For Children, ~ g*t p leoaant-taating 8YRUP of Thedford'e B lack- Draught. Tax Notice Notice is hereby given, that after the 31st day oi December, 1932, no discount will be allowed on the payment of City taxes for the yerfr 1932. All City taxc- paid between now and December 31st, 1932, will be subject to a one (1%) per cent discount. J. C. BOYKIN, Clerk and Treasurer. Camden, S. C., November 25, 1932. Subscribe to The Messenger Kershaw County's Oldest Newspaper Leaks Guaranteed Stopped When others fail then call M. E. Forte and have that leak stopped. Talk Is Cheap but it pays to stop a leak. Leave word at the Messenger office. 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 ? Florida 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. Get Our Prices On Job Printing And Save Money BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR OK DER FOR YOUR PRINTING GK'I THE MESSENGERS PRICES. YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SAVE CON SIDERABLY MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED ON YOUR WORK. WHY NOT CHECK OVER YOUR SUPPLY ANI) LET US HAVE COPY OF THE FORMS YOU NEKU 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 Wfi CAN MAKE DELIVERY WITHIJf TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. We Are Prepared to Do Any Form of Job Printing Letter Heads Envelopes Cards Circulars Office Foims Church Forms Placards Statements Pamphlets Programs Menus Invitations f for J|*f rr*r j^rsseuflpr Camden, S. C.