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The Wateree Messenger . Published Every Wednesday by CHA8. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter al the podtef^ice at Camden, S. C. : Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Tuesday, May 10, 1933 The quickest ways to make some thing popular is to pass a law against it. Some live to a ripe old age, while others remain green or become rot ten. If everything else fails, why not try a return to the wampum stan dard ? / * Having the right of way doesn't help much when an idiot is driving the other car. A human skull with horns was found in Oregon. Maybe Old Nick is dead at last. It's best* to begin at the bottom, unless one happens to be a well dig ger or a diver. One who is able to score high in an intelligent test is probably too intel ligent to waste time doing it. It is estimated that Americans drink 75,000 cups of coffee every second. And no telling how many saucers. Some debtors consider it against their principle to pay the interest and against their interest to pay the principal. "Women are not dumb," declares a feminist speaker, and married men will not be inclined to dispute her statement. Under present conditions those reforestation recruits are not the only ones who feel the urge to "take to the woods." This is the season when father takes a few furtive glances at the clothing store windows and then getp his old Palm Beach suit pressed. ; '' >'.h \ i "? That even p former vice-president may com eback Is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Curtis has been admit ted to practice law before the Inter state Commerce Commission. MOTHER'S DAY Mother's Day, which is the second Sunday in May, falls on May 14 this year and will be observed throughout the United States in response to the annual proclamation by the President An well known, the object of thr day is to recall memories of the moth ers who have passed to the beyond and to p?.y special tributes of affec tion to those living. The badge fo? the day is the white carnation, em blematic of the purity, beauty anr' fidelity of a mother's love. By somr the red carnation is worn in honor of living mothers. Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia originated the idea of Mother's Day which was observed in several cities in 1910, the custom being extended rapidly in the following years. Congress in 1913 passed a resolu tion offered by Congressman J. Thos. Hoflin of Alabama (later senator) recommending observance of the day by its members and by the executive departments at Washington. In 191 Congress authorized the President designate the second Sunday in Mn of each year as Mother's Day, t,hr first proclamation under this authori ty being issued by President Wilso' on May 9, 1914. Few of us reflect as often as w? should on the debt of love and grati tude wo owe to our mothers. I>y thoughts and acts of sincere affection on Mother's Day, we not only honor them, but also honor ourselves. New financing which the adminls tration's program will make necet sary may send the national debt bacT' to its peak of 1919, when it war something over 25 billion dollars 'This was decreased to 16 billion bv 1930, hut deficits since then v have brought it up to more than 21 billion These are di t?.y figures, enough t< sear? us stiff if we could comprehend them. Na*i students In Genmany are agi tating against books by Jewish auth ors and want to collect them from lib rarian and burn them ? an old fanati cal custom which history has proved to be as futile as it Is silly. W ewond to be as futile as it is silly. We wond Prohibitory Index. " ^ I a 1 "V , "T - , ? ? . ? SHOALS POWER LITRES ' A ' ?- "" ' ? As heretofore, the present contro ersy in Congress over Muscle Sboais centers largely around, the questior of building government power trans mission linea, as provided in the Nor ris bill. Officials of private power companies declare this would be e waste of public money, as existing lines are adequate to serve withtr transmission distance. President Willkie of the Common wealth & Southern Corporation, which owns the principal power system lr Alabama and Tennessee, testified be fore the House military committer that even if the government insis* on distributing power his companies would be willing to transmit it under contract at less than the building an^ operation of government lines woulo cost. It is an established principle that t.he unnecessary duplication ?of utilit"v facilities, whether power lines, rail roads, communication lines or what not, increases the total burden of everhead expenses which must ultl mately be paid by the public ? either in the form of higher rates or In. ?taxes to support f^vprtiment proitv* which lose money. Anyway the logical disposition of Muscle Shoals power would be to use it for industrial and domestic use 'iear the point of generation as possi ble. Long distance transmission ' "xpensive and wasteful, whether by private companies or by *he govern ment. ORIGIN OF BASEBALL While baseball as we know it is sport of comparatively recent devel opment, a game in which a tossed bal was batted with a rude club has beer ?raced back to the 14th century b Europe. The present American Tame was probablv an outgrowth of that of "town ball," played in Nev* England from about 1830, in whicT" Mie runs were made around posts se' ;n the ground, instead of bases. The first code of baseball rules was formulated by the Knickerbocker club of New York in 1845, the first match game was played the following year, and the first gate-money series of games took place at Hoboken i" 1868. The development of the gprr> was checked by the Civil War, h" Was revived in 1865, when a con-1" tion was held at which representa tives of 30 clubs were present. A Rockford, 111., team first employ ed regularly salaried players, but the Cincinnati Red Stockings, organize*' in 1868, is considered the first pro fessional club. It made a tour in 1869, winning 69 games without meet ing a single defeat. In 1870 it wor 29 straight games being defeated in the 30th by the Atlantics of Brooklyn. Gamblers having gotten control of the game, a convention was held in Louisville in 1876, at which strict rules to overcome bribery, betting by players and other abuses were adopt ed, and the National League was formed. There aro now more thar 20 professional leagues, of which the National and the American, originallv the Western, (formed by Ban John son in 1893) nre the two "hip? leagues." The most significant event in base ball history was the appointment of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Land!* a? "baseball czar" in 1920. THE VALUE OP TRAVEL Soon the vacation season will be here, and many thousands of persons will visit various interesting places for the first time, some in our own country and others abroad. While recreation will be the principal aim of many, a majority will expect to learn something of permanent value 'nring their travels. Tn order that one may derive thie most benfit from his travel exper iences, it would be well to find out as much as possible about the places t< be visited ahead of time.Then, wher he actully sees the places and objects of which He has studied, .he will gain a more lasting impression of their significance. Information gained from guides and handbooks during one's travels is valuable, of course, but it isgenerally superficial, ami lacking in the histori cal background which is necessary for a full understanding, and apprecia tion of the famous places where his tory has been made. ? The educational value of travel de pends largely upon knowing before hrtnd what one wants to see, and why. Mora Out of Worl* Yet If all were good and wise, who would enre for the unemployed doc tors, lawyers nnd preachers? ? San i Francisco Chronicle. Sleights' | A quick flash of n>emory prevented a depression suicide 'at Pittsburgh a few days ago. Mike Kopkotel, penni less and despondent, jumped from a bridge into the river, but upon strik ing the water he swam irantlcally for the shore. . Upon being fished ouc he explained that on the way down hr suddenly remembered thst he had de posited $68 in an uptown bank five years ago. It is interesting to note that Lieu tenant Colonel Simon B. Buckner, Jr recently assigned to duty as cominan dent of cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point i the son of the famous Confederate general of that name. A Maine wet hailed with delight a court decision that one cMi't be ar rested for buying bootleg liquor. and sugg.*s\-d that this confirmed thi saying that "every clou 1 has n f=il v*? lining." The Boston Hera'd agrees but adds that "unfortunately every stomach hasn't." Dr. Augustus Trowbridge, dean o* Princeton University's graduate ' school, resigned recently at the age of 63 because of poor health. He has the distinction of being popularly known as " the most nearly human member of the Princeton faculty." All Gypsies have been banished from New Zealand because it is al leged that they have been Hypnotiz ing and robbing bankers. Most folk? would think themselves lucky if ^they could hypnotize a banker long enough to negotiate a loan. The famous Hope diamond, named for Lord Hope, a former owner, and( reputed to have brought ill luck t c its various possessors, is in the new? again. Mrs. Evalyn McLean of Washington, its present owner, want? to borrow some money on it and othei jewel 8 to enable her to retain contro1 of the Washington Post. The Hop< diamond is slightly more than 44 car ats in weight and is said to have cost the McLeans $180,000 in 1909. LIFE LARGE AND SMALL Some interesting reflections on the size of living things are made by the noted scientist, Julian S. Huxley, in magazine article. Many of the facts which he relates are not only inter esting, but surprising. When we speak of living things, in the broad sense, we must include thef vegetable kingdom, so the largest living things are to be found among the big trees of California. These incidentally, are also the oldest, with an age of around 5,000 years. These trees, some weighing nearly 1,000 tons, are massive indeed when compared with the largest animal the whale whose weight seldom reach es more than 100 tons. Yet a ?urge elephant could maneuver inside a whale's skin. Most wonderful is what we find a mong the smaller orders of life. We can see a flea, though with difficulty catch him, yet 80,000 would weigh scarcely an ounce. Some of the insects which are hard ly visible to the naked eye are fitted) out with "compound eves, a nice nervous system, three pairs of jawp and three pairs of legs, veined wings and striped muscles." Tiny birds weighing only 10 grams, or about as much as 10 large ants, fly thousands of miles during their mirations. And ants, by the way, are the strongest living things in proportion to their size. Man is about half-way in the scale between large and small mammals and when grown he contains about a hundred million cells. He requires nil his brain as well as his strength, to cope with the great animals on one side and the insects on the other. And then there are the microbes to worry about. TITE COST OF WAR Tt is estimated that the World War has cost the United States to date 5i billion dollars. President Coolidge once estimated that before it is paid than 100 billion, or about the present value of all the states west of the Misisssppi. The 51 billion already spent is tor great a sum for the mind to compre hend. One writer tries to illustrate it, but very vaguely, by saying thaf if someone had begun throwing away dollars at the birth of Christ and had continued to throw them away at the rate of one a minute until the pres ent, without stopping for rest or sleep ho would onlj^ new be starting on the second billion. Then to throw away the remainder of the 51 billion would take an additional 95,000 years. This vast sum, If invested at 5 per cent interest, would yield an income of more than two and a half billion a year, or enough to run the Federal government in approved bureaucratic style. ? i. ItM >, Take Inventory NOW of Your Supplies and send us your order for the various articles >ou need to bring your requirements up to A the standard WE SPECIALIZE IN Commercial Printing OF EVERY DESCRIPTION! Our business has been built on printing of a quality that pleases and service of promptness. Prices in Accordance With Economic Conditions flip Hlalrrrr Camden, S. C.