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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CH AS. W. BIRCH MORE, Pro,. ' ) Bfcfesceril .as B*cmmI Out Mitttr aft tit PeatoOlee it Cwdm, a C. M . ?!";* - Xh'k ?/? "S& x?> * K i ' . . ? 1 1 $IM A Tur la Airaan > WNbm^w, January 26, 1089 By this time moet of oa have got ten uaed to writing it 1988. The improved automobile clutch will be appreciated by one-arm driv er*. 'Love4! young dream is great wWle it lasts, but It sometimes ends in a nightmare. If some practical farm relief legis lation is ever enacted it will be real news. Anyway those technocracy fellows succeeded in coining one of the ten ugliest words. Most persons will agree that "it Is more blessed to give than to receive" advice. If those Chinese dont stop grab bing Japanese territory there is like ly to be trouble. *Whlte lies" may sometimes be jus tifiable, but those who tell them are likely to become color blind. Youngsters will gleefully pass ? long the news that a New York father dropped dead while spanking his small m Surely we ought to free the Phil ippines. We have deprived those brown brothers of their revolutions long enough. As an economy measure to save ink and labor, why not cut out the repe titions in Walla-Walla, Sing-Sing, dum-dum and tom-tom? The former Kaiser still insists that he didn't start the World War. Be that aa it may, we will concede that Be didn't finish H. Judge Gemmill of Chicago declares that alimony is America's greatest curse. And to think that a woman Invented It ' Imitating Amos and Andy, some economists are now advocating '"re flation.** But If It will end the "re pression" we are for it. BANK OP KERSHAW With an eye to news and human In terest the Calhoun Times calls atten tion In its news columns to the recoru of a small town bank that is remarka ble indeed ? and the institution does n't happen to be located in Calhoun County. ' ft is the Bank of Kershi^l which weathered all the gales of ad versity and depression that havv swept throughout the state during the pastthree years and more, sweep ing down many "gigantic" financial structures with a crash that stilt ro sounds dptd reverberates. Kershaw is net lacjhudsd in the towns of South Carolina that the last Federal census gives a population of 1,000 er more; It would be modestly styled a ?Mi lage." But as the times comments . "A village that can tain out the Kei shaw Sra and the Bank of Kershaw Is not to be snessed at." Th? 8m Is one of the state's best and cleanest weekly newspapers whose editor Capt. James W. Hamei has directed its des tinies since it was launched upon the treasherous seas of journalism four deoadss back. This Bank of Kershaw has a paid-in capital stock of $100,000. It owns bonds and stocks valued at 8182^20. Cash on hand and due from banks $289,246.18. Real estate slightly less than $21,000. It has a surplus of 878,060, and undivided profits of 8*100. Check deposits $828,890. Time deposits $284470*6. It has redls counted no paper, borrowed nothing, and ewes nothing. ? Tbe Spartanburg Journal. A thief who broke into an eatomo ' bUe owned by Florfan Goick of fit Ms stele Cfcfus burial suits sad ap proximately i dossn shreudk. A former mafer of Paul* ore, K J., John J* Vanneman, has beer i*aTf>dw*tfc itssltug a fcrtwi, go* A 8.1m ? nfj mm ^ J -!,>?. J. |A. I mm XwA joy nes ana WfMHsg itJ m.... iii.idn. I., Batph Metier sfCNelll, Neb., who * has' been hi 888 automobile accidents keeps a record of sM Ids near aed AMfts as will at teal enss. ? , ?' , ' ? B. O. Palmer, fm?a AmW of ts?wls County, Mo., was of #ssHng a 8>8 k** ^ -"Usm 'iwa'il ? PUNISHING THE FEET tat one of his health articles. Dr. Capeland discusses a peculiarity of men and women which it self in the way in which they persist in punishing their feet. While all other articles of wear ing apparel are supposed to fit the wearer, shoes are generally too small ; because no one likes to display big feet. The average person will under go the tortures of corns* bunions and calouses of every description rather than wear shoes of the proper sise and shape. Dr. Copeland declares that many an aching bade and many lame limbs are due to the wearing of wrong shoes and adds: "Your health depends on freedom from unneoessary aches and pains. You can not afford to exhaust your reserve stock of nerve energy. That is what you do when you have badly fitting shoes." A man is proud of the fact if he wears a number seven and a half hat but tries to force his number eleven foot into a number nine shoe. As tc the ladies, it is said that some man ufacturers mark their shoes one num ber smaller than they really are in an effort to encourage the wearing of comfortable footwear, while pleasing the fair customer's vanity. SOME EARLY SCHOOLS One of the first laws passed in America in the interest of education were enacted by Masachusetts . Bay Colony in 1647 and required all towns of 50 or more householders to appoint a teacher to instruct children to read and write. No special qualifications were set for teachers, and the pay was miserably small. Even before this law was passed Dedham, Mass., had a free school supported by taxation, the teacher re ceiving $66.80 a year. In most cases, however, the town paid a portion of the expenses and the pupils made up the remainder through tuition fees The record of one school shows that the tuition charge was 67 cents for three months. Closely following Masschusetts, similar schools were established in the Connecticut colonies, and in 1567 the New Haven colonial Court order ed that each town not already main taining a school should open one and , pay one- third of its expenses, the rest to be paid on a per capita basis by 1 families served. Plymouth Colony later on provided school money by leasing its fisheries on the coast, thus raising about $150 a year. In New Amsterdam, now New York, the first schools were sup ported by the West India Company but controlled by the Dutch Reformed qhjurch. There was also "dame schools," taught by women in their homes, these teacKers receiving as little as 10 shillings, or $1.67 a year. In 1682 the salary of President Rogers of Harvard University was fixed at $616 a year, one-third of which was paid in provisions or other goods. In the early elementary schools on ly reading, writing and the Bible were taught, those who desired to learn arithmetic being obliged to re sort to a special "ciphering master." TOUGH ON MASHERS Those who would "ply the avoca tion of a flirt or masher" find little opportunity for that sideline of Activity in the town of Abilene, Tex., if an ordinance passed by the muni cipal authorities is strictly enforced. Quite a number of such regulations havu been made in various cities and towns, but it appears that the Abi lene fathers have tried hard to con struct a model ordinance covering the offenses sought to be suppressed. How well they have succeeded may be judged by the following extracts from the law: "It shall be unlawful for any per son to idle and loiter on any street or thoroughfare, sidewalk, or alley, or tn any store, theater, motor ear, motion picture show business house or in the entrance or doorway of any place within the corporate limits of the dty of Abilene for the purpose of plying the avocation of a flirt or masher. . "It shall be unlawful for any -nan la the city of Abilene to stare at or to make googoo eye- ? fc, or in any <*fcer manner look ui or make ro-| marks to or concerning, or cough or wfcUftle at, or do any other act to at tract the attention of any woman up on or traveling along any of the sida watks, streets, or public ways of the city of Abilene with an intent or In a manner calculated to annoy such wo man." Christ Nelsdn of Minneapolis took six silver dollars, pasted a stamp or one side of each and matted them to his six grandchildren ia Detroit and York* and all uM safety. GAS WAR OF THE FUTURE It is evident that chemistry will play an important part in any future war. Any program of national pre paredness which does not pro vide adequate means for meeting gas attacks and other forms of chemical warfare is sadly deficient in a branch of military activity which may prove of vital importance. , And inasmuch as the best defense is a vigorous offensive, our forces, should be prepared to carry the fight ! into the enemy's camp. While the use of poisonous gases is banned by the nations which were parties to the arms reduction con ference held in 1922, similar agree ments were in effect before the World War, yet that did not prevent thf employment of these destructive ager cies when the urge of necessity came As a matter of fact, all the leading nations of today are busy with th< development of chemical war equip ment, regardless of their pledges not to use it. Dr. James F. Norris, former presi dent of the American Chemical So ciety, sounded a note of warning or this subject when he paid: "When the final pressure comes a nation will use any means available to save its life He urged that our Army continue to study and develop the means of chem ical warfare, with adequate appropri ations for the purpose, as other ar mies are doing. Of course we do not want war. We did not want the last one. But another war may come ? is almost certain to come sooner or later. We should make reasonable preparations to meet any emergency by developing every branch of modern warfare. To fail in this would be to invite disaster, should war unhappily be forced upon us. A HUNDRED BILLIONS Modern business figures have rea ched such large proportions that the human mind can not begin to grasp them. Who, for example, can form an intelligent idea of what 100 bil lion dollars really means? Yet, that is the amount of life insurance now in force in the United States. The growth of life insurance in this country since the war has been one of the outstanding business phenom ena of the period. When the govern ment provided war risk insurance for Its soldiers and sailors during tht war, some believed that the private companies might be injured, but it appears that the reverse has been the ease. In any event, the figures speak for themselves. The amount of life insurance in force in 1916 was about 25 billion. By 1922 it had reached 50 billion. The 100 billion now in force represents therefore an increase of 800 per cent in 16 years. Even this staggering total repre sents only an average of about $800 for every person in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of families are still without insurance, and the neglect of this important matter is the cause of much suffering on the part of widows and orphans who are left unprotected. Every man owes it to his family to carry a reasonable amount of life insurance. FAILINGS OF THE GREAT It has become quite common of late for authors and critics to dig into the private lives of great men, with a view to exposing their human frail ties. There can be no particular ob jection to this, so long as it is not at tempted to belittle the service these men have rendered to mankind. Every man and woman have certain defects of character and this han al waya been so. It is a further fact that some of those who have contri buted most to civilization have been guilty of moral offenses which would be sternly condemned today. As a matter of history, many of the world's greatest leaders have led re prehensible private lives, as measur ed by commonly accepted standards. It even may be asserted that in the case of the very highest types of gen ius this has beeri the rule rather than i the exception. Rut in estimating the permanent place which should be accorded these men in the esteem of the world, only the service which they rendered to humanity should be considered. A recent writer well expresses this idea thus: "Every leader must be tested not by his private conduct, but by his public behavior. Did he serve well his day and generation? If he did. all else will be forgiven snd forgot ten." A me Ibsen ' of Pontfac, Mich., charged in Us divorce suit that he re turned home one night to find his wife shooting craps with two pfamb* ers in their heme, and the game ooet her $80. FIRST AID FALLACIES How some traditional first aid rem edies may do great harm to victims of accidents is explained in a recent Red Cross publication. A few exam ples may be mentioned. Rolling a person apparently drown ed over a barrel only forces water out of the stomach, where it does no harm. But laying the patient face down and alternately applying and releasing pressure at the small of the back often induces respiration and re | covery. Rubbing frost-bitten parts with snow is also a bad practice. Let the frozen tissues thaw out gradually ir a temerature a little above the freez ing point. Some persons put spider webs, cudi? of tobacco, soot, salt pork and the like on cuts or infected wounds, "to draw the poison out." These sub stances only increase the danger of infection. Whisky, ammonia, permanganate of potash or the application of a fresh ly killed chicken to a wound caused by snake-bite are all old-time reme dies of no value. The modern course is to tie a bandage between the wound 1 and the heart, cut a gash across the fang marks and suck out the blood and poison as quickly as possible. The venom of a rattlesnake taken into the mouth is harmless, even if it is swallowed. Many other fallacies are enumerat ed and warned against in publica tions of the Red Cross and medical societies. Every perjun should have some knowledge of whrxt to do and what not to do in emergencies. A more widespread diffusion of puch knowledge would no doubt be the means of saving many lives, through' giving proper first aid until a phy sician can be called. Malaria takes more than 2,000,000 lives throughout the world annually. A Laxative that costs only 1 $ or less a dose NEXT TIME you need medicine to a ct on the bowels, try Thed ford's Black-Draught It bring* quick relief and Is priced within reach of all. Black-Draught Is one of the least expensive laxa tives that you can find. A 26-cent package contains 25 or more doses. 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