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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter a! the Postoffice at Camden* 8. C. Subscription $1.50 A Tear In Advance Wednesday, April 12, 1933 One trouble is we do too much thinking about unthinkable wars. It looks as if a good many veteranr may soon think the New Deal is a misdeal. We hope to see no more bank holi days except on days when our note? are due. If the new farm relief bill really helps the farmer it will have p unique distinction. Poor old Hindenburg! Who coul?' have thought he would ever beconru a Nazi rubber stamp? How the mighty have fallen! It two years Babe Ruth was cut froir $80,000 to "$52,000 a year. Judging from the number of it; citizens who hold the title of Sir England is the most beknighted na tion. Americanism: Worrying about one's health one minute and passing another car on a curve at 60 thr next. II ?fflTJT Japan wants Uncle Same to take his fleet out of the Pacific, am' would doubtless appreciate his blow ing it up also. The advent of 3.2 per cent bee may be pleasing to many, but it wil' hardly satisfy those who have ac quired at taste for 15 per cent homr brew at less cost. Chancellor Chamberlain says Bri tain's credit is now so good as to b< "almost embarassing." Well, thr way some of us used our credit in th? past is embarassing us now. SAFETY SUGGESTIONS Motorists are given some sound advice ia recent bulletins Issued tr the National Safety Qotincil. Amonp the admonitions areVtfhese: Beware of carbon monoxide gas by keeping the garage open when yov start your car. The gas is deadly, but you can neither see, smell nor tastf it. Have brakes tested frequently When road is slippery don't apply brakes or step on the gas too sud denly. Take curves slowly. Watc) out for car tracks. Be extremely cautious when passing schools, play grounds and other places where children are running about. In short, use head, hands and fe?t to prevent acidents. HEADLINE ENGLISH Professors of English held a con vention in Kansas City some timr ago, and among other things discuss ed the influence of newspapers ir modifying the speech of the people As might have been expected, somr felt that this influence w~s good while others thought it terrible. In their search for short words which will fit in the limited spatr available to them, writers of news paper headlines have developed a pe culiarly effective, though sometime? inelegant form of expression. In the headlines, an investigatior of which there are many, is called r "probo," because five letters ar# earier to handle than 13. Similarly a collision is a "crash;" and agree ment is a "pact," to denounce is to "flay." An explosion is a "blast," an athletic contest is a "tilt," and so on. On the sport page "journalese" does its worst. Deploring what he considers th;> evil efects of newspaper English, Dr Hopkins of the University of Kan sas said that teachers wor? duty bound to take a stand against it, hut significantly added: "In theory thai is our stand, but it does us little good to take that stand. We might <hn well quit and let the language go its way. It will anyway " And that probably covers all that is to be said on the subject. A new two-motor transport i. ,po plane designed to cut travel time be tween Seattle and New York to IP hours was announced recently by ar airplane company. A. If. Blair, of Westcllffe, Eng. has devilled an ingenious stacking method which enables him to holdi 27 golf balls in. one hand. I SELLING BAD STOCKS With utter disregard for blue sky laws, one citizen of New York is sell ing worthless stock with impunity and has made a fortune doing it. But this vendor of bad securitier is different from many others. He guarantees that the stocks he sellr I are absolutely without value, after buying them with the same under standing. This odd broker, R. M. Smythe now 72 years old, has long been an authority on stocks, and has the his tory of about 800,000 dead corpora tions. For 45 years he has beer consulted by persons holding securi ties and when he convinces them that their handsome stock certifi cates have no value, he sometimer buys them at a nominal figure. Then he sells them to bankers for window displays, to colleges fo^ study, or to faddists who use them to paper their rooms. But always hr gives his guarantee that they are nc good from a financial standpoint. NEWSPAPER FACTS Some interesting facts concerning newspapers and advertising are con tained in a new book by Fred J. Has kin, veteran syndicator of informa tion, from which the following ar* condensed. Egyptians used advertising 4,000 years ago. Most early advertising was pictorial in character. The first newspaper advertising is said to have appeared in Germany in 1591. It is estimated that about a billion and a half dollars are spent annually for all kinds of advertising in the United States. More than 360 Amer ican daily newspapers are equipped to print advertisements in color. The fastest modern newspaper presses can turn out about 34,000 24-page papers an hour, and a some what larger number of 12-page or 16 page papers. The first news agency in the mod em sense is believed to have been that organized by Charles Havas of Paris in 1835. In 1840 he established a news service between Paris, Lon don and Brussels, using carrier pig eons. James Gordon Bennett began the publication of the first review of fi nancial news in the New York Her aid in 1835. Am6rica's two most famous pub lishers are getting along in years Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times was 75 on March 12, and William* Randolph Hearst will be 70 on April 29. Newspaper editorials were origina ted by John Dillingham, an English journalist and one of them got him in jail in 1645. Sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly, other editors have met a similar fate many times since. CHEMICALS IN WAR The next war, if one should un happily involve the great nations will be fought largely with chemicals according to many who have given study to the development of deadly gases which would be available foi military purposes. A recent publication- said to be of authoritative authorship declare* that while 30 asphyxiating gasep were known at the beginning of the World War, there are now more than 1,000, including many varieties of "blistering gases, coughing gases sne?zing gases, choking gases, vom iting gases, tear gases and suffocat ing smoke." Fumes heavier than air might be spread over wide areas, where they would linger for days, killing every thing within their deadly embrace By means of such gases dropped from airplanes whole cities might be wiped out in short order. A recent writer sees in these hor rible possibilities a hope for peace on the theory that in future states men who consider resorting to -war brought into play, to destroy womer an/1 children as well as fighting men will be restrained from doing so by the certain knowledge that these aw ful moans of destruction would be brought into play, to destroy women and children as well as fighting men. I That these means would be used in spite of all the treaties that, might be made, can not be doubted "Necessity has no law," and this is ?specially true of necessity in time of war. Therefore, a great nation which goes to war in future must be willing to subject its entire popula tlon to the risk of wholesale slaugh ter, if not extermination. Judjfo Joseph Sabath, of Chicago celebrated his 68rd birthday by issu ing a sort of emancipation proclama tlon. ITe announced that in future ho would not send husbands to jai1 for failure to pay alimony, if they were unable to pay, but instead would try to help them Ret job*. Those who can pay and wont will fcot the rap an heretofore. Sidelights A writer declares that Mr. Douglar of Arizona, the new director of the budget, is of Scotch descent. This information, if true, should be re assuring to the taxpayers. It may also cause justifiable alarm among a good many superfluous employees on the Federal payroll. Of all the emergency legislation sponsored by President Roosevelt i' appears that the new farm relief bill has caused the greatest misgiv ings as to its ultimate results. Ever the President has frankly stated tha4 it is only an experiment. Othe' 'ers have signally failed, but there I ers havesignally failed, but there ir an insistent demand for further leg islation in his behalf. Reports of persecutions of Jews by the new Hitler government of Germany have been most conflicting The truth seems to be that ther^ have been persecutions, but that the' have been greatly exagerated. What ever the ? extent to which the Jew have been harassed may be, it ho served to bring world-wide criticisr upon the Nazi regime, and Hitle^ can't afford too much of that jus4 now. I Yale students to the number o f about 200, styling themselves "pL rates," swarmed uninvited into r fashionable "shipwreck" party ir New Haven a few evenings ago and proceeded to make a sure-enough wreck of the place. Windows and furniture were broken, among other acts of rowdyism, and one policemar was knocked out. Two students werr J fined $5 each and the rest went free | Which was a cheap price for thr fun? if one calls it fun. J American soldiers and sailors may I buy their 3.2 per cent beer on mil? j tary reservations, regardless of statr | prohibition laws. First official per | mission for opening an old-fashioned j army canteen was given the com manding officer at Fort Leaven worth, in supposedly bone- dry Kan sas, by Major General Hagood, com manding the Seventh Army Corps Area, with headquarters in Omaha This is in accordance with the prac tice in effect before national prohi ,'cion. In contrast with religious persecu tion in Germany and "Isewhere, many instances of unusual cooperation among leaders of various faiths have occurred in America of late. A nota ble one was the maeting in New York on April 2, in which Protestants and ews r joined with Catholics in celebrating the beginning of the Ho ly Year decreed by Pope Pius XI the program being given a world wide radio broadcast. I I EASTER By Ermine R. Maddox Have you given much thought to the resurrection this Easter, To just how much the event cost our Master? Of the agony suffered alone in thr garden, And the decision there to purchase our pardon. The disciples were asked to wait, but instead slept While our Savior earnestly prayed and bitterly wept. Then he suffered, bled and died on thr cross So that neither you nor T needs bp lost. He was pla ed in a tomb which war closed with a seal And the broken-hearted Marys went there to kneel. 1 The place was protected by Roman Guards, Who thought they could subdue the the heavenly God. But their minds were changed err very long, For Tie arose the third day, just at dawn. Th? fcrave wan found ompty ami rob bnd of its victim, And its captivft has bocomo forever its Captain. 'Fho eaat tflowed with th? Morninfc'R bripfhtnftHR Whilo on hin fare won written for Kivon^HH. And flince over doath H? humbly woara a crown, Tho nun of our rouIr ahall never j?c down. Japanon conwtltuta 48 per cont or' tho population of the Hawaiian In lands. FRONT PAGE NEWS! A Real Remington for $ Think of it! Now you can buy a real typewriter and get change 19 7 5 DftCK trom a twenty dollar bill I Remington's new low-priced Remie Scout is sturdily built, with unusually legible and long-wearing type. A thoroughly practical type writer ? yet it costs only $19.75. Dad, Mother, and the youngsters, all will find a portable typewriter the handiest sort of help with daily correspondence and other writing. Just ask them. Then, come in and try a Remie Scout for yourself. See the other popular Remie $ ^ ? Scout, too. Writes both small ' and capital letters ? costs only The Messenger Book Store (Continued from page 5) business or occupation not named in the foregoing schedule sbwll be ' fixed by the Mayor and Clerk. Section VII. Wherever in this or dinance the terms, "persons, firm, company, corporation or party" are used, the same s'hnll include not only the principals, but in their absence sfiall include any agent, clerk or em ployee 'having charge, management or control of the business, calling, oc cupation or profession referred to, and such ngent, clerk or employee shall be subject to the penalties here in imposed for failure to comply with the terms and requirements of this ordinance, in the same manner as if he, she or they were principals or proprietors. Section IX. This ordinance shall go into effect on and from the first day of May A. D. 1933, and ali or dinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Done and .ratified in Council as sembled, under the corporate seal of the City of Camden, S. C., this the 3rd day of April, 1933. R. M. KENNEDY, JR., Mayor J. C. ?OYKIN, City Clerk. Regular communication of this lodge Is held on the first Tuesday in each month it h p. m. Visiting Brethren arc welcomed. W. R. CLYBURN, . E. ROSS, Worshipful Magtex Secretary. Black-Draught Clears Up Sluggish Feeling "I have used Thedford'a Black Draught for constipation for a long time," writes Mrs. Frank Cham pion, of Wynne, Ark. "If I get up in the morning feeling dull and sluggish, a dose of Black Draught taken three times a day will cause the feeling to pass away, and In a day or two I reel like a new person. After many years of use we would not exchange Black-Draught for any medicine." P. B. ? If i/ou have Chii.drkn, pivt them the new, pleasant -tasting BYRUP of Thed ford's Blaok-Draught. Cuba is making pains for four new gunboats, to be built in Spam Evidently the Machado government has forgotten or fails to appreciat* certain little incidents of 35 year: ago. WANTS KISSING TAUGHT As it is more or less generally known, kissing has never been de veloped to any great extent, either as a science or as an art, among the .Japanese. Some time ago, Judd Mortimer I^ew is, famous columnist of the Hopston Post-Dispatch, visited the flowery kingdom, and noting the neglect of this delectable practice, humorously suggested the establishment of a chair of oscvulatlon at a Japanese university, going so far as to offer his services as instructor. A forward looking native, who per haps had visited the Occident, eager ly expressed aproval of the idea, in the following letter to Mr. Lewis: "I am the only investigator on kissing in Japan. Kissing must be known of the Japanese, but they does not care of It. The Japanese govern ment does not permit to teach them openly, even If it so important r thing in social etiquette. I wrote five times an essay on kissing, but the Japanese metropolitan police look them as the demorillzation. You say you will he able to bo the lecturer on kissing. The flay will come, I am wishing, T myself will teach. The Japanese government are cutting the scene of kissing in the film without the knowledge of It." During 1082 American manufn turd's exported 24,045 radio receiv ing sets to Belgium. $6 ' Washington - $6 AND RETURN From COLUMBIA, KOLLOCKS & INTERMEDIATE STATIONS SATURDAYS APRIL 1st AND 8th Limit 2nd and 9th Tickets cand be extended 1 to 5 days upon payment of $1. per day REDUCED PULLMAN FARES account Cherry Blossoms Spend the Day in National Capital Sight-seeing Leave Columbia No. 192 3:12 P. M. 1st or 8th Leave CAMDEN No. 15)2 4:03 P. M. 1st or 8th Leave McBee No. 192 4:12 P. M. 1st or 8th Leave Cheraw No. 192 5:24 P. M. 1st or 8th Leave Washington No. 191 11:59 P. M. 2nd or 9th Seaboard Air Line Railway J. L. CARTER, T. P. A., Columbia, S. C. 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