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te wateree Messenger blished Every Wednesday by AS. W. BIHCHMORE, Prop. ed a a Second Clafee Matter at Postoffice at Caaaden, 8. C. Wednesday, February 22, 1988 It takes a high-salaried radio co median to make an old joktf sound Mr.''' After March 4 every disappointed . office seeker will think he is that famed Forgotten Men. V- " " |;v Hitler is now at bat in Germany, and the world 4 is watching to see whether he can really hit. , No doubt a good many post-mas ters -to-be have already performed their most important duties. ' $?: < ? A bishop declares that modern girls are not indiscreet. Anyway, not in the presence of a bishop. Having found a way to escape from a submarine, inventors may yet devise a safe means of exit from s subway. Sergeant-at-ahns Barry affordp another illustration of what some times happens when novioes rush in to print. A professor says all bridge fiends have a* inferiority complex. It'p safe to bet he doesn't play with his wife as partner. The economic value of a boy of 18 is $28,654, according to a life insu rance bulletin, but we know of no onr in the market for any at that price. Considering that Congress and forty-odd btate legislatures are in session, all trying to increase taxes we are perhaps lucky to have any business at all. \ That-Nebraska man who confessed to stealing a piano "in a moment of weakness" might have carried away the house if he had been feeling right s'trong. A scientist says movements of the big toe indicate how one's mind ip working. Thus a young fellow some times finds out how his sweetie'? papa's mind runs. We read that the British cabinet has recently adopted a policy of "golden silence" with respect to war debts. Most debtors are strangely silent just now, but their silence ip not exactly golden. f ? .GEORGE WASHINGTON In a month replete with notable birthdays and anniversaries, Feb ruary 22 stands out in the minds Americans as the date of greatest significance, the birthday of George Washington. As a national holiday it is perhaps second only to the Fourth of July while as a matter of fact it is proba bly an anniversary of even higher importance, because without a Wash ington tho struggling colonies might not have made thqi Declaration of In dependence effective Although much that Ifl legendary has been associated with the life of Washington, due principally to the seal of Parson Weems, his early bi ographer, the main facts of his in estimable Service stand unimpeached and his fame takes on added luster with the fears. Leading a poorly trained, ill-equip ped and somtimes 'mutinous army Washington aflame the fires of patriotism when a less determined and less capable commander miokt have given up In despair. While aid from France finally turned the scale in favor of the colonies, Without Washington s genius and heroic per sistence the Continental Army would have been crushed Into submission before that aid arrived. It fa well that we should honor his memory on his birthday and on all other days, but nothing wr? may say or do oan add to or subtract from the priceless heritage epitomised in th< deathless name of Washington. g B? Vm PARSING VETERANS According to the adjutant-gen eral's office in Washington, 2,128,948 Union soldiers verved in the Civil Wat> while the best estimate# piece the number of Confederates At be tween 800,000 end 900,000, no giccu irete record belli# available. The government pension rblt shown only 27,078 Union veterans, while V recent survey places the mimber of living Confederates at no more than 10,406. Ttob It *W H a fairly equal percentage of survi vors of the two armies. Considering that it will be 68 years on April 9 since Lee's surrender, it seems remarkable that even the numbers mentioned are stilt alive,' ar one who was a boy soldier only Ifc years old at the close of the war would now be 88. However, when it is remembered that the last survivor of the Mexican War lived more than 80 years after the end of that strug gle, it may be expected that a good many Civil War veterans have sev eral more years ahead of them. SENATORS IMMUNE In a Washington news letter a cor respondent comments on the violence with- which presidential nominees for appointive offices are frequently at tacked by Senators who oppose theli confiration, and says: "Senators are immune from civil damages for their comments in the Senate regardlesp of how far it approaches blackguard ism." In other words a Senator may make the most reckless and untruthful statements concerning anyone with out being held to account, no matter how much these utterances may un justly reflect upon and injure the persons so attacked. Scarcely a day passes while Con gress is in session that some member does not indulge in unrestrained and unwarranted attacks on citizen? against whom he holds enmity. These remarks are broadcast to the country through the Congressional Record and by sensational newspapers, and the victims are powerless to protect themselves. ? Whit? members of Congress should have reasonable latitude in criticising persons or policies which they oppose the wholesale immunity which legis lators enjoy works a grave injustice to many honorable citizens. And unfortunately, it appears that somr Senators who make a specialty of reckless talk find no difficiilty in se curing re-election. UNFAIR COMPETITION, In a recent address Representative Joseph B. Shannon of Missouri, chair man of the House committee to in vestigate governmental competition with private enterprise, declared: "The government, which pays no taxes, no insurance, and which takes no account of man 3' other items of undispensable overhead which pri vate enterprise must pay, is able un fairly to undersell the enterprises of its taxpaying citizens. This, the committee held, constitutes unfair competition." Mr. Shannon oit?d many specific instances of war-time bureaus which still exist, although the war has been over for 14 yeats. He charged that In many cases the chief activities of these agencies were in connection with the operation of business enter-, prises in competition with local mer chants and others. This condition exists especially at Army and Navy posts, where gov ernment stores and restaurants not only serve persons in the military service, but through the abuse of lawful privileges serve a large por tion of the general public to the detriment of taxpaying business men "The conditions which have been revealed to this committee of the House of Representatives of which I anl chairman are almost unbeliev able," said Mr. Shannon. It is an undisputable fact that the gradual encroachments of the gov ernment in the field of business haVe made conditions more difficult for thousands of small .merchants whc pay taxes and otherwise contribute to the support of civic enterprises. The finding of Mr. Shannon's com mittee should lay the foundation for action to abolish these abuses. While dcathn from automobile ac cidents in the United Stated were a* bout 18 per ceat leas laut year than in 1981, the total was more than 29, 000. A total of more than 900,000 were injured. THE ANNUAL TOLL ' Several factors contributed to the lower casuality rate last year, but to what extent each factor figured can not be determined. Car registration were about ft per cent less and gaso line consumption was off about 7 per cent, indicating that less miles were traveled in 1981. ' ' v But, owing to fewer replacements of old cars by new ones, it is believed that more accidents may have result* from mechanical defects. It seems then, that the safety warnings and the campaign of education which has been carried on by newspapers and safety councils have had * consid erably effect A marked reduction In the* number of children under 16 years old who were ran down In the streets Is encouraging. Statistics show that the moat daft' gerous driver* are those between the aged of 20 and 24, thouaands of whom paid with their Uvea for the!* foolish speeding and general reck lessnesa. N More Americana have . been killed in automobile accidents in the last 15 years than were killed in all the wars in the history of the United States, the .total being around 325, 000, while the war toll was only a bout 800,000 dead. , The deplorable thing about all this is that at least 90 per cent of all au tomobile accidents might be prevent ed by the exercise of ordinary cau tion and common sense on the part of the drivers and pedestrians. FLIRTING WITH DEATH It is an amazing fact that the ap palling number of deaths which re sult from sheer carelessness make no greater impression upon the aver age person. This is especially trur with respect to drivers of automo biles. Persons who are ordinaryily care ful in protecting their health and property often throw discretion to the winds the moment they grasr the wheel of a motor car, and flir* with death through failing to ob serve the most elementary principle? of safety. ( They will take a chance at a grade j crossing, speed while rounding r blind curve, pass other cars under dangerous conditions, and do other foolish things which menace life and limb ? seemingly oblivious of the fact that one slight mistake of judgment may prove fatal to them or to thoaf who happen to be passengers in their cars. The jaywalker is equally reckless taking the chance of being run down for the sake of saving a few steps or a moment's time. In fact, many pedestrians are even more careless than the average motorist. Safety education has been thf means of reducing accidents to some extent, but the lamentable fact remains that no amount of warning has any appreciable effect upon the majority of people. The result is that 80,000 or more persons are killed and about 750, 000 are injured in automobile acci dents in the United States every year, while at least 90 per cent of these casualties might be averted by I the use of ordinary common, sense. . WHITE LIES The old question e/t -whether e falsehood Is ever justified is brought to mind by the death of MrB. Minna PreiskeL in_Xo^i, N. J., at the age of 72. A series v of falsehoods had cheered her old age for years. Mrs. Preiskel * was critically 111 when her son, Robert, was killed, in action in France on March 26, 1918 Doctors warned that if she were told the sad news it would kill her. i She was never told. ' Her family caused a letter to be sent to her, supposedly from her son telling her that he was employed in Prance. Each week a letter written in the United States and sent to Prance to be remailed to the mother was received and read to her, telltng of her body's imagined doings abroad In all 520 of these spurious letters were received by the waiting invalid who until the last had hopes of see ing her son again. Similar "white lies" have plrevent ed mental anguish in thousands of cases the world over. Who can say with assurance that it was wrong to tell them? Think A Bit By R. E. C. PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS "But pleasures are like popples spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white ? then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race f . r 'fhat flit ere you c*n point >. their place; Or like the rainbows lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." f What a sad thought to be so beau tifully expressed by Bums in "Tam O' Shanterf Yet* this is only half true. His lines describe false pleas ures without explaining that they do live on ? in remorse for our rashness* Many of those things which seemed so valuable In youth are recognised in the sAner light of maturer age as having been totally worthless. The coquettes very soul dies with ibex youthful beauty arid popularity I Pwh quant suicides mark the tragie arid off lives which, selected a fading; faW happlnan* (n place of the gomdhfrj Their selected pleasures proved Cdo small an anchor to staythe ship of life from the destructive storm of life's despairs. He who ,:{ lives oftl* \ li . > . >. . "y.'A " , AK ? ? for today will do well to die before tomorrow unless be can bear the ag onizing anguish which is sure to be the culmination of yesterday's folly. Yet, "While there's life there's hope," and the bitter school of experience may succeed in training one to build a beautiful and durable mansion ou' of the sad ruins of fragile former dwellings. ' ' . The desire for real happiness, of the other hand, is one of man's great est blessings. It is' his stimulus, hir | inspiration from day to day. It ir the one thing that makes life wortV living. ' In a single the lowly is lef' behind and the divine reached for. The help one rendera others, th kindness one shows the undertrodden the cheerfulness dispersed among th? gloomy, the dozens of other thing we can do to help the less fortunatf ? are not these attributes of true an<? 1 true and lasting happiness? And ar< they not. also the things which cause our conscience to whisper to us "wel' done!", allowing us to finally to com' before the grave with a minimum of nnd trembling? < Woman Loft 20 _ Pounds in 4 Weeks Mrs. Mae West "of St. Louis, Mo. writes: "I'm only 28 yrs. old an^ weighed 170 lbs. until taking one box of your Kruschen P;\lts just 4 weeks ago. I now weigh 160 lbs. I also have more energy and furthermore I've never had a hungry moment." 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