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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CUAS. W. BIRCH MORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter al the Postoffice at Camden, S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year la Advance j Wednesday, June 21, 1933 A lot of folks take to bridge but don't bring anything back. They call it "legal tender," but we have a tough time getting hold of any. It is now in order to have a Senate investigation of President Roosevelt's "brain trust." Viscount Ishii says war between Japan and tho United States would bo absurd. But so are all wars. A fat Alabama politician's bed col lapsed with him the other night. He should be more careful in choosing his bunk. Those who say wo are coming out of tho depression should bo more original. Dr. Julius Klein said it three years ago. It seems that tho lion-hearted Senate isn't afraid to investigate anything or anybody except Huey (Kingfish) Long. Japan and China have signed a truce, which will probably hold good until Japan feels tho need for an other slico of China. If they expect to reduce the cotton crop this year they may have to re vive the famous Farm Board idea of plowing under every third row. It is rumored that someone wants to blow up Muscle Shoals. Wo have known for a long time that it has been full of political dynamite. J ' From recent important appoint' ments by President Roosevelt wo conclude that the shortest cut to fame is to first become a college president. 1 Some fear that tho Macon may meet the fate of the Akron and most other dirigibles. Why not investi gate this probable disaster before it happens ? Desertions from forestry camps havo reached less than 1 per cent. Under the prevailing popular ratio we assume the boys will bo permitted to mako it 3.2 per cent. USEFUL EDUCATION Those who criticize the cost of ed ucation in this country almost always direct their charges against the mon* ey spent for what they call frills and unnecessary extras. No one anywhere raises criticism against the cost of giving our young people sound training in fundament als, but it seems easy for educators in many cases to get away from the essentials and to waste at least part of their pupils' time on unnecessary or profitless subjects. It is interesting consequently to hear from Madison, Wis., that a mod- i el house is undor construction there, j sponsored by tho public schools hnmo ! economics department. Tho instructor and tho students in one high school planned teh furnishings of tho living dining room. Other students were held responsible for planning and i purchasing tho furnishings of the 1 kitchen and laundry. For these tw" rooms the expense j was limited to $200. As showing how sensibly the punils did the'*, buying, it is reported that a house- ! hold washing machine -was the one 1 large piece of electrical equipment j allowed in tho budget for tho entire house. Tho students explained that i this was choRen in preference to any' other largo equipment because they j felt that tho housewife could make I her greatest savings in home opera tion by doing the washing in tTie house and with machinery. Practical training such as these Madison students are being given and auch as many individuals do not re ceive until they are pitched into the midst of household responsibilities, in the kind of education that every thoughtful taxpayer will approve. Walter J. Dodge of Portland, Ore., and hla brother, George S. Dodge of Montebello, Calif., have completed a chess fame which began ?<*ven years ago by mall. ) A GREAT PUBLISHER DIES 1 Cyrus H. K. Curtis of Philadelphia who started his business career at the age of 12 with three cents of cap* tal as a street newsboy, and became one of the world's greatest publish ers, died a few days ago at the age of 83. Born in Portland, Me., in 1860, Mr. Curtis received only a common school] education. His first publishing venture was launched in Philadelphia at the age of 26, when he became publisher of a small periodical called the Tribune and Farmer. Later he established Ladies' Home Journal, and afterward becamo head of the great Curtis Publishing Company, whose magazines include Saturday Evening Post, Tho Country Gentle man and Ladies' Home Journal. He purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1913, and the New York Evening Post in 1923, and was the active head of all these import ant publications until he was strick en with heart disease about a year before his deafh. planned the furnishings of the living thropist, although his benefactions were bestowed without ostentation, His only daughter becamo the wife of the late famed editor, Eaward Hok, who was associated with Mr. Curtis for many years. F ew men who started to make their way with limited education and no capital have ever traveled far ther than Cyrus Hermann Kotzsch mar Curtis. HOW FREE ARE WE? It has always been the pride and I boast of America t.iat it is "tho home of tho free." But just how free are we? With our hundreds of thousands of federal and state laws, to say nothing of city ordinances, what citizen can go through a day of 24 hours without consciously or un consciously violating one or more of i hem Yet, "ignorance of the law excuses no man." And yet, again, not one official in a hundred is familiar with all the laws and ordinances which he is sworn to enforce. It is true, of course, that the ever increasing complexity of our civiliza ? or is it civilization ? appears to make new laws necessary from time to time. But is there any justifica tion for the orgy of lawmaking, with its inevitable accompaniment of law breaking, which this country has wit nessed in recent years ? The most disturbing result of all this is that really serious crimes, such as murder, burglary, arson and the like are seldom punished, while the ordinarily decent citizen is har assed in his business and in his pri vate life by a maze of laws and bureaucratic regulations which re And at that they are not enforced, quire an army of officials to enforce. It looks as if we are paying a tre mendous price for government, the principle object of which appears to bo- the destruction of those funda mental rights for which our fore fathers fought and died. C LA SS I FY ING MOTOR I STS Among the measures designed to reduce automobile accidents, a new Connecticut law will be watched w;tb interest. It provides different in surance rates for various classes of motorists. Those whoso driving records indi cate them to bo especially competent and careful aro granted a reduction from the regular insurance rates; the next class pay the standard insurance fee; those found to have been in volved in minor accidents nnd slight violations of traffic rules must pay a premium of If) per cent; those who have had serious accidents aro pena lized 26 per cent, while those who are shown to have been at fault in highly serious and flagrantly avoidable ac cidents must pay an additional prem ium of 60 per cent for their insu rance. The new law has not horn in effect long enough to enable one to judge of its results, but it seems to be based upon sound principles nnd may prove to be of some measurable benefit in reducing automobile accidents. Use This Laxative made from plants Thodforrt'n Bi,aok-Db AtJGItT fa tvade from planta that grow In the ground, like tho garden vegetable* you ont at ovory meal. NATUftffl hnn put Into theso ,,lnritn an aotlv? modlolno that ntlmnlnten tho hownln to act ? Just ft* Nature put tho ma terial* that mintaln your body Into the vegetable foodn you oat. In Diack-Drauflrht you have a natu ral laxative, fro? from synthetlfl dru*ra, ltd une does not make you hav? to depend on cathartlo ohomfonl flr-UffH to ffftt tho bowel* to aot dally. Now you oon ant H Utah-Draught <* tho form of a SYRUP, for Sidelight s Those who have predicted during the last three or four years that Babe Ruth was about done, finished and washed up were given another jolt recently when the Bambino whacked out three home runs in one day. Science and invention have con tributed much to the joy and com fort of niankind, but they also may conjure up new terrors, ono of which is reported from Honolulu. A fel low out there has invented a ukelele which can be heard for half a mile. An automobile radiator may be used as a churn, but removing the finished product presents difficulties, according to a New Jersey motorist. When no water was handy he filled his steaming radiator with milk and later had to pay a mechanic $3.25 foi removing the resulting butter. Upon becoming naturalized some aliens Anglicize or shorten their names. But a Greek who applied for citizenship in Newark spurned the suggestion of a clerk that a little shotrening of his congnomen might be advisible. He said Uncle Sam would have to take him with his full name, which is Constantine Pappa dimitrilloupoulos. Illustrating how it is possible to form a widespread organization in the United States on the slightest pretext, a writer asserts that there are now 18,000 members of the So ciety for the Prevention of Calling Pullman Porters "George." The Atchison Globe declares its town has a citizen who punctiliously observes all the niceties of etiquette in telephonic or other communication. Even when saying his prayers he be gins with: "This is Jones speaking." Without doubt this is an ago of specialization. One London photo grapher advertises as his speciaty the making of pictures of widows* weeping beside their dead husbands' graves. A tragedy was averted by radio in the home of a prominent North Caro lina woman recently. Hie receiving set was turned on, but tuned to the wave-length of a silent station when a negro entered and attacked the woman. While she was struggling with the brute the station came on the air and the booming voice of an announcer hundreds of miles away frightened the assailant off. Four hoodlums, firing from an automobile, seriously wounded two men on a Chicago street a few days ago. The news dispatch ends with the rather superfluous sentence: "The gunmen fled before police ar rived." TOLERANCE GROWING Most informed observers will agree that in recent years a growing spirit of religious tolerance has been man ifested in the world, especially in the United States. It is not. unusual to find Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergyman appearing on the samo platform in aid of some worthy movement. In recent months representatives of these three great bodies of re ligionists havo united in mass meet ings and elsewhere to protest against the persecutions of Jews by tho Hit le.* regime in Germany. Hut an incident hitherto without precedent occurred a few days ago In Cincinnati, when Rabbi James G. Heller of tho Center Temple Jewish congregation of that city was elected a director of tho Cincinnati and Ham ilton County Y. M. C. A. A Jewish official of a Christian welfare so ciety! And why not? Rahhi Holler, ac cording to tho Cincinnati Times Star, "has so identified himself with tho community life of this city that it is quite impossible for any unprej udiced observer to compilo a list of its cultural and religious leaders without including this distinguished rabbi among such leaders." The Ohio Y. M. C. A. organization is to bo congratulated on its religious tolerance and good common sense. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herzborg of New Yorktown, la., recently an nounced the birth of their twentieth child, a daughter. A wedding ring lost 50 years ago by Mrs. Elisabeth Looney of RlfchvHl? Ind., has been found by Mm. Ida Powell on a farm near Bentonvilla. ,/ ,v 4 , ? % *?.&?' WE SPECIALIZE IN Commercial Printing OF EVERY DESCRIPTION! Prices in Accordance With Economic Conditions Tltr Walrrrr Camden, S. C. THE 22 1ST COMPANY PSALM Roosevelt's my shepherd; I shall not want: Tie makcfth mo to lie down on straw mattresses; Ho leadeth mo inside a messhall; Ho restoreth to mo a job. He leadeth mo in the paths of re forestation For his country's sake. Yea, though I walk through the val ley of The shadow of poison oak and poison ivy I will fear no evil, for he art for me. ( His blankets and 0. D. uniforms, they comfort mo. He proparest a saw and an axo bofroo 1 me in the Presence of my commanding offic ers. He anointest my mind with discipline My shoes runneth over from marching. ?Surely beans and ermpToyment will follow me All the days of Roosevelt's admin istration I And I shall dwell In a tent forever.-? Lyman Hunted, Ft. Hancock, N. J., in "Happy Days," the authorized weekly of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Think It Ow Pmm 11m not In th? external world ft Ilea within one's own aool. AN AARON BURR TRICK In Now York is tho 71-story build ing of tho Bank of Manhattan com pany, an institution whoso history K<>es back almost to tho foundation of tho tfovornment. It is recalled by a recent writer that the institution resulted from tho shrewd trick of n lawyer, who was none other thnn the notorious Aaron Rurr. At the time the bank was project ed the Kroup behind it were "in bad" politically and hence: unable to obtain a bank charter. They organized a water company Instead, but in draw ing tho charter Rurr added a clause | permitting tho company to en^a^e j also "in other necessary business." The other business was construed to include banking and it has been car ried on ever since. The structure in Wall street ad joins the lot formerly occupied by Federal Hall, the first national Capi tol, where Washington took the oath of office as President. That tract, is now the site of the sub-treasury. If Aaron Hurr and hi? associates could look upon'tho scene today tl]M would marvel at the developing! which has resulted from their clove* scheme for obtaining a bank charter. Hecause they disagreed over radio programs, Mrs. Catherine McAuley of Flint, Mich., was disinherited by ber mother, Mrs. Martha Morea. A New Deal For Liver Sufferers Don't h? mlfltal *ny longer. Oalo i "I. nnltn, oil*, mineral wntern, Imxm .o pilln, herb tea*, powder*, etc., ive no Affect whatever on the liver. Iipre are only two generally recog nized Ntibfttancaa which actually caune n <dugftl?h liver to increane it* pro* Auction of Ml#. Hargon floft I 'ill* contain both of them. You M?'t f??l Well and atrong nn tatt |Mt Uv?r furolahea plenty of *rMk btu mmt 4*r. Without bile foo?| (JofHii t <1 i k < ? n t properly? It JumI fflrment* nml (leonyn ? ConHtip.-.l ion, l!i\n, sour ?l mrw'li, lionrtncbos niul ?lervotiriix hm foiiovv. Unlet** you Iwve trier! Silicon Boft Mn?? I'IHh you enn hnve no i<l< i of their efieet Von feel HtronRrr, henlthler, hnppier ? life nnil color re turn to fnrfeci eyes nnd ohee1<K? r.ppe tito unci Oigenlion Improve rnpio.y. 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