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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHA8. W. B1RCHMORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poetofflce at Camden, 8. C. / i Subscription $1.50 A Year In Advance ?' * ?Y" ' ' Wednesday, July 12, 1933 . . f ^ Add similes: As thrilling as chang ing typewriter ribbons. When one writes the truth it isn't so necessary to keep a carbon copy. Don't be in too much of a hurry. Remember the fate of the early worm. Another kind of hypocrite is one who pretends to believe a fullow who ho knows is lying. Let's hope the new Federal Reserve chairman, Mr. Black, will help get us out of the red. An educator declares that modern youth is not so wild. Except, perhaps, during second childhood. Americanism: Buying radio sets in order to hear phonograph records played in New^York and Shreveport. Warm weather will favor our Lon don delegates if they lose their clothes and have to come home in a barrel. Folks who are to take vacations this summer should b-j getting into physical condition to s and the strain. Somehow we can't help feeling n bit less enthusiastic o\er celebrities whose pictures adorn soap and cos metic ads. Lawyers in Providence, R. t., want $35,000 for getting a couple divorced. Wu had heard that necessaries of life wero coming higher. WASTEFUL FOREST FIRES In spite of all precautions, last year was one of the most disastrous in history in forest fire losses. Nearly 6,000 separate fires occurred in national forests alone, destroying timber worth many millions of dollars covering an area of ij^re than 840, 000 aores. No estimates of the losses in state and private forests are available, but they reach an enormous total. When it is considered that a large percent age of the trees burned were arour.d 100 years old, the lasting damage to an important resource can be better appreciated. The problem of reducing these losses is a most difficult one. Much money is being spent in providing forest rangers, lookout stations, air plane patrols and other means for detecting and extinguishing incipient fires, but under conditions of extreme drought, such as obtained last year, these seem unavailing. Still, nearly all these losses are caused by the carelessness of tourists and others, who fail to exercise cau tion in the disposition of burning matchos, cigar and cigarette butts, and in putting out camp fires before leaving them. Most fires, in forests and elsewhere are caused by indifference and negli gence, which it seems impossible to overcome. SPENDING AND SAVING The problem of spending and sav 1k as old fts civilization, and in scarce ly any phrao of human conduct do we find greater differences among diffe-j rent persons. It is unfortunate that so few are ablo to striko a happy medium between stinginess and wastefulness. The type of spendthrift who wastes ? inherited money is well known, as rs also tho lazy, shiftless type who live from hand to hand to mouth In good times or bad. The industrous worker | who Htorally throws away his earn ings is more rare. X An Illustration of tho latter class is seen in the late author and play wright, Edgar Wallace, who was one of the most prolific and successful v writers of all time. In the 25 years before his death he Wrote some 160 full Jength novels and literally thous ands of short storied, beside 20 plays. So many of his/ works htfd big sales that his income must have been ex ceedingly large. He was thought to be a wealthy man, but at his death his estate was found insufficient to pay his debts, *n4 his .wife was left without means of support. It seems Incredible that a man of Wallace's intelligence and tireless energy should have been so short-sighted with reapeci to his fi j , NEW NAVY PROGRAM ? Some details of , the plan to strengthen the American Navy in ac cordance with recent legislation have been made piiblic by Secretary Swan son. Stated briefly, they are as fol lows: A total of 32 new vessels will be built during the next three years, in cluding two 15,000-ton aircraft car riers, four 10,000-ton cruisers, four 1,850-ton destroyers, sixteen 1,500 ton destroyers, four 1,400-ton subma rines and two 2,000-ton gunboats. For this program $238,000,000 will bo made available nnd the work will be divided between government and private shipyards, as is customary. It is estimated by Secretary Swanson that 85 per cent of the sum to l e ex pended for new warships will go to labor. It will directly affect some 16 major industries and more than 100 different mechanical trades. Lest it be thought by some that we are setting a bad example at a time when efforts for general reductions in armaments are being made, it may be said that even with the addition of these 32 new ships the United States will still be far behind the strength permitted by the London treaty, while Great Britian and Japan have built their^iiavies up to approximately ^re*ty strength. A BIG SPELLING BEE So far as spelling is concerned, the United States Constitution was rated below Webster's dictionary by judges in a spirited spelling bee in which Chicago school officials, teachers and pupils participated recently. In the Constitution the word, "tranquility" occurs, but the dic tionary spells it with a doublo 1 ? "tranquillity." Various contestants fuelled it both ways, and after som<? argument the dictionary way was held to be correct. Rose Marie Bartlett, 13-year-old country school girl, was the final winner, defeating County Superin tendent Aiken by one word. That is, Rose Marie spelled "concensus" cor- 1 rectly, but Mr. Aiken bought It wrong, and had to concede his error when confronted with the big book. A few of the words used in the test were:: Phthisic, battalion, rarery irascible, liquefy, heinous, putrefy, ecstasy, aligned, curriculum, despica ble, transcend, adequate and publi cizing. It would bo a good thing if more such contests were held among both school children and adults, as Ameri cans are notoriously poor spellers, including many college graduates, who often exhibit surprising origi nality in this line. COLLEGE MORALS Ir. what amounted to a defense of present-day college students against charges of immorality which are of ten hoard, Dr. Sweet of the divinity school of Chicago University recently told of conditions in our leading col leges in tho early days. During Colonial times and foT som? years following the Revolution relig ion was at its lowest ebb, according to Dr. Sweet, and even in tho univers ities Americans were hardly touched by the church. This is asserted by some of the early presidents of the universities themselves. Lyman Reecher is quoted as saying that at Yale in 1790 most of the stu dents were skeptics, while "rowdies were plenty and wino and liquors were kopt in all the rutins." Similar conditions were reported about the same time at Harvard and Dart mouth, at the latter it being said that in 1799 there was only one student who claimed to be a Christian. Ashbel Croon, who was president of Princeton frorrt 1812 to 1822, writes that thero were not more than five or six students who did "not use profane language in common conver sation, "sometimes of tho most shock ing kind." Rishop Meade has declared that the Episcopal college of William and Mary was during this period "a hoitbod of infidelity and of the wild politics of Franco." In spite of the conditions noted by Dr. Sweet and others, however, it seems that most of these wild stu dents of early days turned out fairTy well and many of them became lead ers In the building of the new repub lic. Perhaps those of tho present will do equally well after thy have had their jaw ago fling. Bryan McMahon, 85 years old, of Dubtin, has dtlfc his own grave, put up a headstone and made his coffin. If the sun were to, exjplodo we would haVe only 18# hours to live, according to an astronomer. But think of the hot extras the news MOVIE STARS' SALARIES I From what appears to bo a reliable source, we are informed that some rather drastic cuts have been made in the salaries of movie stars of late. In fact, some of them have had to take two or three cuts, even as you ana we. A table recently published shows the actual weekly salary figures for same of the Metro stars. Weekly, mind you, not monthly or yearly sal aries. We quote a few: Marion Davies and Marie Dressier have been cut from $6,000 a week to $3,000; Norma Shearer from $5,000 to $3,260; Joan Crawford from $3,000 to $1,950; John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Berry from $2,500 to $1,625; Jackie Cooper, John Gilbert and Ramon Novarro from $2,000 to $1,300; Jean Harlow, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery and Lewis Stone are slashed from $1,500 a week to only $976. The above list includes only the headliners of one producing company but it may be assured that it fairly represents the salary range of other producers. It has been said that in their prime Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford and several others received1 salaries much higher than the highest quoted in the foregoing, and at one time Tom Mix was reputed to be drawing $20,000 a week. But maybe that was only press agent talk. Anyway, kind reader, when you see your favorite stars on the screen, re member that they may be doing their best to appear happy and gay, while in real life they are worrying along on salaries ranging from only $975 to $3,900 a week. Sidelight s Sidelights C. R. Bruce of Birmingham got 15 years for slashing the throat of his bride for three months. He pleaded in extenuation that she had bit him and hit him with a pick handle. A press dispatch says that after the verdict was read "Bruce was per mitted to chat for several minutes with his wife, who was in the court room." Which almost reads like a happy ending. Another fellow who fooled the doc tors is William Haas of South Caro lina, now 88. At 18 he was turned down when he wanted, to enlist as a soldier, because he had a week heart, and has never been able to get life insurance for the same reason. His wife, who was a frail girl when he married her 64 years ago, is also still living. Lawrence county, Tennessee, boasts of a bull calf which weighed 150 pounds at birth. The owner had to get another "fresh" cow because the calf's mother gives only half enough milk to sustain her enormous infant. The Lawrenceburg Democrat-Union assures us that there is no "bull" about this story. An unusual collection of love letters written by famous men. including Lord Nelson, Benjamin Franklin, -,athan Hale and others, was recent ly placed on display 1>y the Rosenbacn Company in New York. Some of them were pretty mushy ,even as those of today, and the imaginary ones of Andy to Madam Queen. It was a kind fate that reserved them for posterity, instead of permitting them to be read to a jury of the writer's contempo raries. Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton has been in the news again, also in a Paris hospital. A mysterious cablegram to her husband said a 9 pound son had been horn. Husband Hutton said "impossible." HospltaT attendants laughed at tho idea. Tho attending physician said nothing. But Aimee got on the front page oner more. Nineteen communities of Fayette county, Alabama, joined In a rat killing campaign wherehy It is said that some 80,000 of the rodents wero done away with. It is estimated that each rat destroys about $2 worth of property a year. Possibly a rat-kill ing campaign on a national scale might be a better activity for tho C. C. C. boys than the present forestry program. Probably under the impression that it would bo news to someone, a nat ional weekly prints this item: "Ver mont has a town named Moscow." Perfectly true, but so has Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mich igan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. If you don't believe it, consult the U. S. Poetal Guide. Mrs. Carline Jones of Chicago was recently arr eeted for collecting eggs for a hospital that did exlat^ .v . ? . ? SCRAMBLED RADIO The stenographer was about to be married and was greatly interested in cooking receipts, which she had i been taking down in shorthand from r. radio lecturer on homo economics. One morning she got two stations on approximately the same frequency at the same time, one broadcasting the receipts she wanted and tho other giving directions for the daily exer cise. Here is what she wrote in her notebook: "Hands on hip, place one cup of flour on shoulder. Raise knees and depress clothes and wash thoroughly in one-half cup of tmlik. In four counts raise the lower leg and wash 'wo hard-boiled eggs in a sieve. Re peat six times. Inhalo one teaspoon of baking powder and one cup of flour ? breathe naturally and exhale and sift. Attention! Jump to squatting position and bend white of an egg backward and forward over the head ' and in four counts make a stiff dough 1 that will stretch at the waist. Lie flat on the floor and roll into a marble the size of a walnut. Hop to a stand still in hoiling water, but do not boil into a gallop afterward. In 10 minutes remove from fire and dry with a towel. Breathe naturally, dress in warm flannels and serve with fish soup. MAYOR'S FUTILE JOKE An amusing twist was given to a municipal campaign In Vancouver, B. C., recently, when the re-election 1 of Mayor L. D. Taylor was opposed by all the newspapers in the city. j Somo time previous to the cam' i paign Mr. Taylor had been apparent- , ly at the point of death, so news papers had prepared highly com mendatory editorials for publication when he should shuffle off, and had them set in type. The mayor got well and the type was discarded, but proofs had been struck, and somehow he got hold of them. At the height of the campaign he read the laundatory editorials to a large audience, much to the amuse ment of the public and the discom fiture of the editors. But the newspapers had their re venge. The mayor was defeated in the election. Overcome Paine this better way WOMEN who get into a weak, run down condition can hardly expect to be free from troublesome "email ? symptoms." Where the trouble ia due to weak Mu. Cardul helps women to got atronger and thus makes It cmiler for nature to take' Its orderly course. Painful, nagging symptoms disap pear as nourishment of the body Is unproved. Instead of 'depending on temporary pain pills during tho time of suffer ing. take Cardul to build up your resistance to womanly ailments. On a charge that he bit his wife's hand when she refused to allow him to use her automofbile, Oliver J. Pritsch of St. Louis was fined $75. NEW RBLIEF WORKS WONDERS FOR STOMACH SUFFERERS Bisma-Rex is a new antacid treat ment that is bringing welcome relief to people who have sufered for years from the agonies of acid stomach. It acts four ways to gn'e this relief. Neutralizes excess acid; -elieves tho stomach of gas; soothe? ?he irritated membranes; and aids digestion of foods most likely to ferment. It la sold only at Rexall Drug Stores. Go to the DeKalb Pharmacy, tho Rexall Drug Store today and ask for Bisma- J Rex. Big package for 50c. . Busy Beans YOUR husband certainly has to keep the old bean busy In or der to make any money those days. But In order to keep the old bean busy, he must have adequate amounts of nourishing food. Here's a secret. Nourish his bean with beans and hejll Hover lack energy. There are lots of varied ways to do It. Here's one that will make a hit with him, and all the rest of the family as well. Baked Beans in Tomato Casrs: Cut ofT slices from the tops of six large ripe tomatoes, and scoop. out the centers. Dust Inside with salt, and brush with the merest suspi cion of prepared mustard. Fill with contents of a one pound ono oun<^ can of baked t .ins, and j 3priukle th? tops with one-third cup grated cheese. Bake foT twenty to twenty-five minutes In a 375? oven. Serves six. Devilish Good And here's another recipe which contains a green vegetable a* well as tomatoes, and a touch of meat also to make him call for more. It Is called lied Devil on Toast: Add two cups grated cheese to one can to nyato soup, and heat until melted. Add th? contents of a No. 2 can of poms, one-half a No. 2 can (one cup) of red kidney beans, and salt and pepper to taste. Heat thoroughly, serve on toast, and i lay eight crisp curls of bacon oc top. Serves eight.* FEEL 100% BETTER DON'T DRAG THROUGH LIFE Enjoy the sturdy health that Sargoo can brirvf t ? Get sound, refreshing sleep ? Eat with a keen, hearty appetite ? Have that rugged glsv of haalth ? Faed four starving nervss and imp??w<ibid hUsd ? create your bodily vifor (?( k >?' ' W?e on life at once with the help of nil ?*? and mod ern compound. Million* um it. i SARGON SUMMER SCHOOL PLANS AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY Greenville, July 11. (Special). ? Final plans for the second six weeks term of the Furman Summer School were announced here today by Dean E. M. Highsmith, who predicted a "relatively larger" student attendance during the July 19 ? August 24 term. Teachers notes will again he ac cepted at face value in payment of second term fees, Br. Highsmith said. Other details included in his an nouncement related to faculty per sonnel and curriculum, both com pleted. Furman is the only college in South Carolina operating a second six weeks term this summer, Dr. Highsmith pointed out. "Rumors to the effect that we will not operate are abso lutely unfounded," ho said. 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