The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, May 10, 1933, Image 4
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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.
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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
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SHOALS POWER LITRES
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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.
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