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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIKCHMORB. Prop. filtered M Second Class Matter at the Postofflce at Camden, 8. C. 1 , ' Subscription $1.50 A Tear In Advance Wednesday, February 8; 1988 ? ?. ? ? Some who are strong for putting on style are also strong for putting off creditors. i> ' , It is said that opposites should marry. How about a rich guy and a gold idigger? Whatever else 1988 brings forth it is giving us the last and worst lame duck Congress. . President Hoover may also feel like singing "Happy Days Are Here Again" after March 4. The Legislature in their salary cut proposals shouldn't overlook themselves. What's fair for one if fair for another. That's straight thinking. If folks were compelled to prac tice what they preach there would be noticeably less preaching. A wet declares that Volstead has made more lawbreakers than any other man in history except Mosetf. It would be interesting to com pare some tombstone inscription? with the recording angel's notebook. With many the making up of in come tax returns this year will be merely a little problem in low ma thematics. We read of a plant that can scrap an automobile in six miiiute. That's nothing with suitable cooperation a telephone pole can beat that easily. Perhaps those South American re public are cutting up because they don't want to see Japan and Chinn get all the publicity. H. Kemper Cooke, Senator from Horry, is quoted as saying in dis cussing teachers' salaries that It doesn't do to give a hog too much, for if you do he won't come when you call him but just grunt and run away. Seems to us that it would be more appropriate if that were ap plied to qome other group of salaried people. LIGHTING AND SAFETY According to the National Safety Council, which recntly conducted a survey of four states, about 36 per cent of all night automobile acci dents are due to Insufficient street and highway lighting. That this is a conservative stato ment is indicated by the experience of Detroit last year, when the need for municipal economy caused a drastic curtailment of street illumi nation. The result as stated by Superintendent Schrenk of the light ing department was that while fatal accidents in daytime decreased 22 per cent, night fatalities increased 23 per cent during a period of 10 months. . Aside from the loss of life and limb involved in the additionl acci dents, it was found that handling these extra emergency cases cost the city more than the saving in its light bill so the former lighting was re stored to virtually its former level. This Illustrates that economy mean urea, which are. being demanded practically everywhere just now> may sometimep be costly, if added dan gers to the public are created there* by. This la especially true with re spect to matters affecting traffic safety, fire protection and the pub lie health. It is estimated that trjrffic accidents alone now cost the American people about two and r half billion dollars every year. BABY FOll THE QUACKS , ' 'r*1 ' ' The ease with which charlatans of nil kinds, particularly medical quacks, defraud the public would b? incredible where H net for the evi ' dances to be seen on evry hand. A few of the schemes whereby- the gullible and superstitious have been separated from their money by the** swindlers are mentioned in an article < ; by Or. Morris Fishbein. v , Soon after FrahkHn made his fam ous kite demonstration in electricity everyone was discussing the wonder ful new foifee. A doctor named El (aha Perkins manufactured a lot of abort metal rods, which he elaimel were charged with elctridty and therefore capable of drawing disease from the human body. Be aold many of the ; ' rods? one pair tc George Washington. Electric belts and similar appli ance* have been sold by. the millions not one of which, of course, had any curative value whatever. A few years ago a widely advertised pro duct called Sanatogeiv had an enor mous sale, and testimonials were ob tained from many persons of prom- : inence. The stuff was composed of 95 per cent cottage cheese aqd the remainder of glycerine phosphates^ neither of any medical value. One promoter acknowledged mak ing $46,600 profit in a year from the sale of a "chemical ring" sup posed to cure diseases of the bl jod but in reality no more afficacious than' a twine string tied around one's finger. But we can hardly wonder at the success of quackery in a state of civ ilization which still accepts a masp of medical superstition as gospel truth. SENSE AND SPEED It has been rather well established ed that laws which arbitrarily fix speed limits for automobiles aire lit tle protection against accidents. The speed at which one may safely drive depends upon the road and traffic conditions. A high executive of one of the leading automobile manufacturing companies, who has made a closr study of speed in its relation to ac cidents, declares that 50 or even 60 miles an hour over good open roadf in the eountry may be safer than 15 miles an hour in cutting corners ir town. /The safe driver is mot necessarily the slow driver, but one who user common sense whether driving fast or slow. Careless driving while turning comers, passing pedestrian? or other cars, crossing railroad tracks and maneuvering in congested traffic is the greatest menace to life and limb. Sense, not speed, is the important factor in determining whether r driver is safe or unsafe. HENRY GRADY'S ADVICE Henry W. Grady, the great South ern editor and orator, died 43 year? ago, but the advice he gave to the farmers of his native Georgia and the South many years ago is as sound today as it was when it was uttered. One particular gem of his whicfr has been often republished, is of par ticular significance just now. It ap plies equally to North or South, pro vided the principal money crop of any patricular section be substituted for "cotton", where it occurs in the original. Grady said: "Wl>en every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from Ms own pastures, and disturbed by no creditors and enslaved by no debt, shall sit among his teem ing gardens and orchards and vineyards and dairies and barn yards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom and growing them in independence, making cotton his clean surplus and selling it in his own time and in his chosen market and not at a master's bidding ? getting his pay in cash and not in a re ceipted mortgage that dis charges hip debt but does not restore his freedom ? then shall be breaking the fullness of our day." CANADIAN GIRL PIONEER In these days, when apparently no limit is set on the ambitionq of wo men looking for a "career", it not surprising to find them engaged in unusual activities in unusual places. Among those who have left the beat en path seeking adventure and for tune, few have displayed greater pluck .an denthusiasm than Miss Kathleen Rice, a native of St. Mary's Ontario. Mian Rice, an honor graduate of Toronto University, found school teaching too prosAic and about four year*, ago net out for northern Man itoba, 400 miles riorth of Winnipeg where she homesteaded a quarter*, section farm, Reared land and built her own cottage. Later she took to prospecting for minerals and has staked out a num ber of promising claims, with* appar ently great potential wealth in gold, copper, nickel/ sine and vanadium. She now Mves on an island In Herb Lake, seven miles from the nearest community, where she traps and hunts hi wfatet add prospect* , in summer. No phase of pioneering is foreign to her experience. ? ff Miss Rice's object was to get away from the monotony of being comfortable she has certainly accom plished her Think A Bit By B. B. C. (Note: The following is the first of a series of articles by one of our readers. The author* invites com ment* ? favorable or adverse. ? Ed.) ' ' . Worthy Use of Leisure Many of us are prone to scorn the story of the Roman emperor Nero how he fiddled from the roof of his. palace as he observed the majestic destruction of Rome by a fire he himself is credited with having start ed. Yet, the majority of us are guilty of a much more heinous crime and fail to censure ourselves for, it either because we are not thought ful enough to see, or are too thought less to mark the consequences of what we see. ^ Similar to Nero, wr not only fiddle, but dance ecstatically to the music of our own fiddling while in so doing we are subjecting ourselves to a fire of neglect which crackles away in its burning of out good intentions, our conscience, an^ our< various-talented genius. Yet unlike Nero we do not have the en joyment of a majestic, picturesque conflagration whose beauty is cap able of inspiring us into the creatior of a work of art. Neither can we re place the brick of former edificer with more beautiful and costly mar ble. Alas! when the music is ove* and the dancing has ceased, we re cognize and bemoan the fact that the mansions? of eur former intentions and talents are converted into ir remediable ashes which the chil1 wind of approaching death is soon to scatter in derision over the four corners of the earth. Senility claims its own and in the last conscioup moment of life we can not, like Nero exclaim \ "What a pity for such ar artist to die!" Though each of us may be con fronted by the necessity of much work to sustain life, yet to each of us comes hours of leisure which we should use to improve our minds and outline for ourselves the means of r more useful and beautiful life. Ir we fail in this, do we not degenerate into a baser animal which can only be said to sacrilege the image of God in which it was made? Yes the worthy use of leisure is the greatest difference between the or dinary person and the accomplish ed one. To all of us able to read there if open a friendship and close compan ionship with all great masters who left in book form their thoughts for the thoughtful. Perusal of these J will burnish our talents and so lay j a foundation on which we may be able to build constructively. Re member the words of Wordsworth? "Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, are a substant ial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong a r flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness wiV cling." In this sense we are able to extri cate ourselves from the boring mon otony of life which circumscribes uf in most of our daily routine, and/ rest for a while iri the pleasant mountain valleys of mental satisfaction. Here we may rest and dress the woundr we sustained in the battle of life and so return to our duties soothed and comforted. But, as a balanced diet is essential to our physical existence, so is va riety necessary to our mental devel opment. Recreation of other sprtr should be blended with our literary relaxation. Yet, through it all "Worthy Use of Leisure" should be the theme song for our actions. Lighter pleasures ' must, and should appear. Then one should not overlook the all-important thing of medttatioif. A few minutes a day, when one playp the part of host to one*s thoughts is a prerequisite to a worthy life. Great thoughts are timid things which es chew noisy company and riotous liv ing. Almost without exception they appear in consciousness only wh?*> invited by the proper atmosDhero of nilonce and thoughtfuhtess. Nc prront Inspiration in likely to be bom while one subjects himself to bar barous contortions which are popu larly expected to accompany the savage strains of a modern jazs or chestra. HYNOPfflZING BOOZERS Another solution of the liquor pro* blem hoe been advanced by Profess* or Pechteriey, a Russian paychiatrlst woo ctaims that he Has cured many drunkards through the employment of hynoptism. ' His method* as reported in the Paris Times/ is to take his patients in groups, lecture them on the evils of strong drink, then hynoptise them while continuing his admonitions. When they awake he gives them cer tain auto-suggestive phrases to be repeated by them several times daily for a month, at the end of whidh time he says they are cured of the desire lor liquor* That would seem to be a fine ays tem if it would really work. But in this country it might have a ten dency to aggravate the unemploy ment situation. Both bootleggerr and reformers would And themselve without jobs. THE DENOMINATIONAL FEA TURE * When Franklin D. Roosevelt take' "he oath of office as president of the United States next March, he will bo the ninth Episcopalian to hold that office. The other Episcopalian churchmen who have been president? were Washington, Madison, Monroe W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce and Arthur. No other religious body can number so mpny chief ex ecutives among its membership There have been six Presbyterians four Unitarians, three Methodists 'wo Dutch Reformed, and qne each of the following: Quaker, Baptist. Disciple and Congregationalist. Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt will al so be the fourth Harvard graduate ^o become president. Princeton and William and Mary have each had two graduates in the White House but no other college or university have had more than one. ? The Living Age. HablU of Boll Weevil The boll weevil Is entirely help lest and without power of locomotion In Its larva stage, when It Infests the scales apd bolls of cotton plants. In Its adult stage it moves from pluce to place by flight and flies at night as well as In the daytime. However, the boll weevil, unlike other weevils of the same group of Insects. Is not nt traded by light and consequently enn not be snared In this mnnnpr DISTRESS AFTER HEALS Relieved By Black-Draught '1 had ?our stomach and gas," writes Mr. Joss Hlgglns, of Daw* BonrtHs, Oa., "and often I would hars bilious spells. I read about Thedford's Black-Draught and be gan to take it It relieved me of this trouble. I k?p It all the time now. X consider It a tine medlolne. I take a plnoh ot Black-Drausht after meals When X need it. It helpis to prevent ilck headache and to keep the system in good order." Get a package at the store. Try it! Ho* you dan 09% Blaok-Draught <? th * form of a BYRUP, for Childksm. . ? ; , a Tablets. Pencils, Crayons, Note Books, Note Book Paper, Loose Leaf Binders "s ' School Books FOR SALE AT THE WATEREE MESSENGER BOOK STORE A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a tiz weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published by Thj Christian 8citnci Publishino Society Boston, Massachusetts, U. 8. A. 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