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The Wateree Messenger y Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Camden, S. C Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, July 26, 1933 Many matrimonial bonds are of the short term variety. With a six-hour day. why tho ne cessity for daylight-saving time? We lend Russia money to make her a customer. Why doesn't our grocer try that plan to us? Business is on the up-grade, says a current magazine. Which means that there is a hard pull ahead. Uncle Sam has a bear sanctuary in Alaska, but we doubt that any of the Wall Street species are up there. Scientists say farming is 20,000 years old. And the idea of farm relief we imagine, is at least 19,999 years old. This is the season of the year when folks are threatened with a nervous breakdown as a result of sternous vactioning. One may shoot his neighbor and get away with it, but woe to the luckless gink who parks alongside a firo hydrant. Boston culture was again demon strated the other day by the theft of a truckload of beer near the historic Common. Peoria Star sagely remarks that removing the teeth will 'cure some things, including the foolish belief that it will cure everything. A naturalist says a, bear will run if you look it straight in the eye. We are not going to do ar.y experiment ing in the hope of proving he is wrong. COTTON REDUCTION CAMPAIGN CLOSES The cotton acreage reduction plan sponsored by the U. S. Government has closed and has met with great success throughout the entire cotton belt. The plan is a good one and will mean much not only to the growers of cotton who signed the contracts with the government but to everyone. -In South Carolina Kershaw County led the entire State in the percentage of cotton signed up. Much credit should be given Henry D. Green, County Agent, and his helpers, for the splendid showing the County made. Mr. Green and his co-workers have been very active and earnest in their efforts to put the campaign over in this County and they deserve the praise not only of the farmers of Kershaw County but of the people of the County as a whole. Congratulation Mr. Green! and maj you keep up the good work of aiding tho agricultural welfare of the Coun ty! FARM YOUTH PROGRESS Rural boys and girls aro far out stripping their parents in the study of improved practices in farm and homo work, according to a recent an nouncement by the Department of Agriculture, which shows that more demonstrations had been conducted by young people's club than by those of adult membership. Considerably more than half a million farm boys and girls now par ticipate in these demonstrations, which include tho raising of various crops, animal husbandry, handling of poultry, food preparation, designing and making of clothing, homo im provement and beautification, and in fHct evory phase of rural life. Instruction in these activities im parted by farm and homo demor. ntration agents, serves to aid these boys and girls in improving rural farm and home practices thereby fitting them - to become efficient farmers and homemakers, besides teaching them the fundamentals of public-spirited, useful citizenship. While tfte enrollment and vesults obtained in club work are gratifying, considering the circumstances under which this effort has been put forth, the Department points out that only about one rural boy and girl in twen ty has the benefit of this training at present. Here is a field for constructive achievement which should interest all who have a regard for the importanco of improving the conditions of rurnl ttvin*. ?'* -v AUTOMOBILE LICENSES South Carolina has had a time with its automobile tags and drivers' licenses. 'A day was fixed for the purchase of tags. A large percentage of motorists went ahead and complied with the law, bought and paid for their tags, placed them on their cars and then discovered that a tender hearted Legislature had extended the time of purchase. They drove their cars with tags on them vrtiich had cost good money while cars which met and passed them on the high ways and streets bore old tags. The Legislature simply encouraged the practice of not paying taxes. Now comes another automobile joke, the drivers' license. By state wide publicity the people were told that licenses must be bought by a certain fixed date: Many motorists, anxious to comply with the order of the highway department, bought their licenses, in many cases paying a service fee of 50 per cent in order to have applications properly filled and promptly delivered. What hap pened? Thousands of motorists have not bought licenses and are driving ;ibout the stale without them. It may be, as many think, that the driver's license is worth about as little as the paper on which it is printed, since almost any sort of a human being of proper age can se cure one by the payment of 50 cents, but the regulation was obeyed by all law-abiding motorists and there is little excuse for the naniby-pambyism shoved by the authorities in forcing obedience on the part of some mo torists and extending leniency to others. Why have laws and regula tions which are to be made the laughing stock of the public? ? Spar tanburg Herald RELIEF MOBILIZATION While it is hoped that the unem ployment situation may be less acute next winter, relief workers know that there will be a tremendous demand for food, clothing and shelter among the poor for many months to come. Plans for continuing relief work will be laid at a rally of civic and welfare leaders, to be held in Wash ington in September. It is expected to conduct an intensive mobilization effort between October 29 and No vember 19, when the public will be called upon to give liberally for the support of local community chests, but no national fund will be raised. Newton D, Baker, former secretary of war and head of relief mobilization last year, again has been called to service as chairman of the 1933 mob ilization, the object of which is thus stated: "Its sole purpose is to coordi nate social service organizations and to present to the public the necessity of the human services which must be supported at this critical time." As heretofore, women will play an important part in ?'his mobilization, and women's committees will be formed in every community support ing welfaro services. Through the unselfish labors of many thousands of volunteer social workers, both men and women, suf ficient funds haVe been raised in the past to reduce actual suffering to a minimum during the depression. This work must go on if the distress which still faces millions of our people is to be avoided. TWO BIRTHDAYS Two men of widely different types, each of whom has been prominent in ttie world's news for a long time, will reach an important milestone in their life journey this month. Benito Mussolini will be 50 years old on July 29, and Henry Ford will be 70 on July 30. Both rose from humble be ginnings. In early ilfe Mussolini worked as a common laborer, but managed to obtain a fair education. He fought as a corporal In the World War until he. was wounded in February, 1917. Tn 1919 he founded the Fascisti to sup press Bolshevism, and by 1922 it had 4,000.000 mmnlhers. It demanded that Mussolini head the government and he wa smade premier by the king on October 30, 1922, since which time he has been Italy's dictator. His rule has been stern, but on the whole hen- 1 eficial to tho country. ?He nry Ford had only a common j school education and began as a ma chinist's helper, later becoming chief engineer of one of Edison's compan ies. He was a pioneer in tho nutomo bilo field and employed more than 100,000 persons at tho height of pro duction before the depression, at which timo ho was reputed to be worth a billion dollars or more. There is a world of inspiration In a study of these two men, who by their own efforts have risen from obscurity to commanding places In their respective spheres of action. THE PIE COUNTER , ' There has been murmuring for some time on the part of Democratic Senators. Congressmen and office seekers about the slowness of Presi dent Roosevelt in replacing Republi can office-holders with Democrats. But the President evidently believes that getting his recovery program rnder way is of more importance than giving his time to distributing political pie. And there will not be as much pie it seems, as his campaign supporters expect. Now, on top of this delay, the President has stirred up a hornets' nest by suggesting that all post masters should be . placed under Civil Service 'rules, instead of being ap pointed upon the recommendation of Senators and Congressmen. Presidential postmasters have for some years gone through the formal ity of a Civil Set vice examination bo fore. appointment, but everybody knows that this has been a farce, as rlmost invariably a member ?>f the party in power has been appointed. Of course, thei-e is nothing gained by displacing a capable official for political reasons, so far as the public, is concerned. But, politics being poli tics, it is unlikely that any marked change in the old system will be made for a good while to come. OUR AMAZING HELEN For the sixth time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody won the women's tennis singles at Wimbledon, England, a few days ago, playing the finals against Miss Dorothy Round, a little English >?irl who gave the world's champion one of the hardest battles of her career. Since 192G the California star has dominated the women's tennis world, and she has been the American cham pion almost continuously since 1923. Born in Centerville, Calif., in 19<)n, Helen Wills became the women's national tennis champion shortly be fore her 17th birthday. She was graduated from the University of California in 1927, and married Frederick S. Moody, Jr., of San Francisco in 1929. She will be 27 on October 6, and doubtless has many more championships ahead of her. Besides her unequalled skill as a | tennis player Mrs. Moody is an ac complished artist, a collection of her paintings and drawings having been exhibited in the Grand Central Gal leries in New York in 1930. America is proud of this amazing girl, whose brilliant record, both in this country and in Europe, marks her as the greatest woman tennis player of all time. A $100 fcHUT-OUT A little baseball story that is both Rood and true concerns Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, the able but somewhat erratic pitcher of the St. Louis Card inals. Dizzy had been fined $100 for fail ing to show up for an exhibition game at Elmira, N. Y., and protested loudly asserting that his absence was unin tentional and the result of his mis take in boarding the wrong train which took him to Pittsburgh instead of Elmira. A few days later Dizzy was sched uled to pitch against the Brooklyn Dodgers, when Manager Gabby Street told him that if he would shut out Brooklyn the fine would be re mitted. He was further told that merely winning his f?ame would do him no good; it had to be a coat of svhitewash. And if you don't believe that Dizzy did his stuff, look up the record of the game, played in St. Louis on July 8. The score was St. Louis, 1 ; Brook lyn, 0. Relieves Women's Pains Hero Ik fin mplo of how Cardut has helped thousands of wom?n: "I wns very thin und pale," writes Mrs. F. H. Hcott, of Hon noko, Va. "I Buffered from weak ness and ? severe pain In my back. TIiIh pnln unnerved mo. nnd I did not feel HUo doln?f my work. I did tint caro to rro pluers, and felt worn, tired, d?v after day. "My mother bad taken Oardul. and on BrcInK my condition she advised me to try It 1 have nevor regretted doing f?o I took throe bottles and It built mo up. T gained In weight, my color was bettor ard the pain loft my back. T nm stronger than I had boon In worn? time. Cardnl Is Hold by local druggist* HALRO'S CLOSE CALL (ion. Italo Halho on his arrival in New York, after his capture of Chi cago. wns asked his opinion of Amer ican girls. Somewhat embarrassed, after the fashion of young1 men,' he replied that the girls he had seen were "molto belie." What a narrow escape this conqueror of the air had! Suppose the compositors on the news" papers had set it "molting belles"? Sometimes such mistakes are made when American Hnotypas tackle a foreign language. Spartantairg Her ald. ' Sidelights An old war story recently revived: There was much rivalry between two regiments, one from Wisconsin and mother from Massachusetts, station ed at the same camp. One day a traveling evangelist approached the Wisconsin colonel, asking permission to hold serviced and telling that he jad converted eight men oi the rival outfit. The colonel roared: "Adjutant, letail 10 men for baptism at once; no damned Massachusetts regiment is joing to beat us for religion." Four government witnesses against Vaxey Gordon, New York racketeer mve been murdered, according to the federal attorney. Thus is a new field >pened to unemployed gunmen, (lor lon is chaiged with that most serious >f gangster crimes, falisfying his in :ome tax returns. An interesting news item tells of the Harvard rowing crew of 1883, all line still living, who hoarded a racing shell and rowed two mfies up Charles ?liver as an incident of the recent commencement. These sti^rdy oars men, all now over 70, and all promi nent in business and professional circles, recalled their victory over Yale a half century ago. They made the somewhat reckless promise to row up the Charles again in 1943. Last year automobile thefts in Chicago and Cook county totalled 34,246, or more than the number of new cars registered during the same period. Consequently automobile in surance rates are higher in Chicago than elsewhere, the premium being $91.80 per $1,000 of insurance on a certain popular car, while other cities' rates are $30.60 in New York, $17.00 in Boston, $9.50 in Washington and $7.50 in San Francisco. Sea sickness, car sickness and air sickness may be relieved by electri cally heating the (back of the neck, according to Dr. E. E. Free, the emi nent scientist, who declares the same treatment to be helpful in many cases of sick headache. It might even re lieve slightly that pain in the neck which the average radio program gives persons above the moi^on class. Frank Thomson of Muskogee, Okla. thinks he got a reaw deal as referee of a wrestling match recently, and is asking $10,400 damages. He says every move of the bout was framed up, but that the promoters failed to inform him that he was to be thrown out of the ring by one of the wrest lers. Frank suffered a broken leg when he hit the concrete. We read that a great many Demo cratic Congressmen are still hanging around Washington, although it is well known that our national capital is not exactly an ideal summer re sort. The explanation is offered that the boys are naturally afraid to go home because they have not been able to land any jobs for deserving Dem ocrats in their districts. CONFEDERATE CABINET While the Confederate government under President Jefferson Davis was in existnce only a little more than four years, only one cabinet officer ? Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the navy ? served throughout the whole period. During the same time ther-i were three secretaries of state, Toombs, Hunter and Benjamin; three secre taries of the treasury, Memnungor, Trenholm and Reagin; six secretaries of war, Walker, Benjamin, Randolph, Smith, Seddon and Brecken. idge: two postmasters-general, Ellet ar.d Rea gan, and four attorneys-genrals, Ben jamin, Bragg, Watts and Davis. Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana went into the cabinet in 1861 as at torney-general, was secretary of war, for a short time in 1802, and wns made secretary of state later in the same year, serving as such fo the end. John H. Reagan of Texas served as postmaster-general from 18(51 un til 1865, when he became the Con federacy's last secretary of the treasury. President Davis, who had been sec retary of war of the TJnited States from 1853 to 1857, appears to have had had difficulties with his own sec retaries of war, whom, as noted above he had six. Prehistoric people had teeth trouble, says a paleontologist. And moderns not only have teeth trouble, but also have to rea<^ prehistoric magazines in dentists' offices. Miss Elsie (toold of Hull, Eng., has been declared Insane since she tries to kiss every man she meets. Aconcagua, an extinct volcano in the Andes Mount* inn, is the highest Volcanic peak In the Western Hemis phere. Snappy Stuff Mrs. Barbara Ann Hunt, 98, of Elkhart, Ind., took her first airplane ride several day sago. When his wife, during a family quarrel, said: "Give me tho car and you can have the ch'.ldren," William H. McGuire of Milwaukee, Wis., ap plied lor a divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bird of Hop kins, Mo., entertained the fc. lowing relatives at a dinner: Mr. and Mrs. Loren Buzzard, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bird, Mr. and Mrs. Eugine Crane, Dale Bird and Mr. and Mrs. Joe bird. Rays from a hot sun, concentrated through a window glass, set off sev eral hundred dollars worth of fire works in a 5 and 10 cent store win dow in Chiremore, Okla., on the F ourth of July. The day after Mrs. Iva Jones of Watseka, 111., received a divorce she took a job as a housekeeper for her former husband ? on a salary. Ivan Mills, a sign painter in Quincy Mass., recently underwent his eight eenth operation in 20 years. Police arrested Charles Levine in Chicago when he confessed he stole a music box once owned by \braham Lincoln from Paul DuPont and sold it for $2. Somebody stole a 30-foot flagpole from the front yard of Everett C. Burbank in Wollaston, Mass. Chief attraction of the state mu seum at Jefferson City, Mo., is a pair ; of shoes, size 22, once worn by Miss I Ella Ewing a native MIssourian who f died several years ago. The Carter-Miller Clothing Com pany in Carthage, Mo., recently re ceived $1 from a young woman, who said that seven years ago a clerk gave her that amount over in change made for a purchase in the store. A "bicycle built for two" was the transportation method Mr. and Mrs. Cope Hartley, of Alameda, Calif., recently employed for a honeymoon trip to Modesto. ^ootsie Shue was one of the sweet girl graduates of the Lafontaine, Kans., high school, recently. Chester M. Biggs of Oakland, Calif., testified in Mm divorce suit that his wife was inexpensively cruel because she refused to wear silk or satin. After giving birth to 12 daughters, Mrs. C. J. Ray of Porter, Wash., re cently gave birth to a son. Miss National Liberty Pate works in the office of the Corona Daily In dependent at Corona. Calif. Elvie George Slaughter of Shreve pprt, La., was recently married to Lola Gene Hogg. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Windchy of Chicago were divorced after living together only five minutes. Mrs. Windchy refused to live with his mo ther. Six years in the penitentiary is the "price" Robert Jones, negro, of Gon zalez, Tex., must pay for stealing 86 cents. Mrs. Mae Holl of San Erancisco testified in her divorce suit that her husband, who was a shoe store owner, refused to buy her any shoes. Since Emil Holm of Centralia., Wash., saved the life of his cow by feeding her warmed home brew, shr* has become an inveterate drinker. John Cullan, 56, of Newark, N. J., told police he had a dog which was starving to death while he was in jail, so they let him out long enough to feed it. George Henderson of Chicago has broken tho same leg seven times, but it is a wooden one. Dressed in rags, Geo. Marshall of Chicago presented a $60 bill to a grocery and was arrested on suspicion but he proved that he was worth $75, 000. An operation on Mrs. E. F. Schu erman of St. Louis, Mo., revealed a pair of scissors in her stomach. Mrs. Maud Collinson of Notting ham, Eng., was arrested for fraud in selling love powders that failed to win a husband for a lady customer. When Mrs. E. H. Reynolds of Cario, 111., got out a hat that had not been worn for several months, she found a snake coiled within it. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hilton of Cam den, spent last week end in Kershaw with their relatives. ? Kershaw Era. Dr. and Mrs. S. F. Brasington, of Camden, and their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Cecil Brasington, and her chil dren, were visitors at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Brasington Tu< s day. ? Kershaw Era. J. H. Clyburn and J. H. McLeod, of Camden, Clerk of Court and Sher iff, respectively, of Kershaw county, were visitors in Kershaw last Thurs day, enroute to Bethune on official business. ? Kershaw Era. I ? 1 Little Mary Frances Cur^ton, of j Camden, is visiting her grandparents, ! Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Calloway, Uiis week. ? Lee County Messenger. The i.ruests Friday of Mr. and Mrs. Washington Davis were Mr. and Mrs. Avery Reasonover, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith and Mr. Charles Smith, all of Camden, and relatives of Mrs. Davis. ? Lee County Messenger. Mr. and Mrs. Daw* Kirsehner of Camden stopped over in Sumter yesterday en route to Baltimore. ? ' Sumter Daily Item. Miss Ruby Moseley is visiting in Camden. ? Sumter Daily Item. Dr. J. R. Dunn and Mr. M. C. Zemp spent Thursday afternoon in Camden. ? Sumter Daily Item. Mrs. Holleman Seaborn is spending this month at her home in Camden. ? Anderson Independent. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Kirsehner .of Camden were in the city today, en route from Baltimore. ? Sumter Herald. Mrs. Therese Monley of Chicago escaped a prison sentence by repay ing mony stolen from five women while they were praying in church. 1 Mrs. P. V. Gerton of St. Paul had her cook arrested for bombarding her with pancakes. After being warned to make his wife stop talking, James Barrs of Chicago, explained: "I have no con trol over her." George Dalgreen of Duluth, who was found under a bed in a suburban home and arrested, said he J^as looking for h former sweetheart^? ' After being arrested for bigamy, James L. Robb of Glasgow pleaded that he had forgotten his first mar riage. WE HAVE A CARLOAD OF Ni trate of Soda on hand. Also some Sulphate of Ammonia. Kainit, Aeid and Cottonseed, all of which we are offering at attractive prices. Tho Southern Cotton Oil Co. Dependable Ambulance SERVICE KORNKGAY FUNKRAL HOME Phone 10:1 Cnmden, S. C. Prri?>er*nc* Ixrts of i?e??|?l?> huv?? jjood lrh?nR, hut 1 hoy full because lliey won't slick. ? \inorlr?f? Mnen/lne. A New Deal For Liver Sufferers Don't be infilled any longor. Ohlo u'l, *?H?, oil*, mlnernl wntora, laxrt ve pllln, herb ten*, powdera, etc., ivo no effect whatever on the Hver. I'liore aro only two generally recog nized anhfttance* which actually caiinc i MhiK?l?h liver to increawo it n pro duction of bile, ftargon Hoft Menu IMIIh contain both of them. Ton Mat M well and fttron* un let* fan ttvor tnralrfh? plenty of hnfc fa war WKW Mb food (loon n't digest properly? It Jn?t fcrnicntA and iIc jij a ('mint i|int ion, K"H, Hour Kioiiliirh, headache# niwl nervounneafi follow. UiiIrsH yon hnve tried Sanjon Mo ft M n hm Plllft yo?i can linvo no idea of their effect- Yoii feel wtroijfer, healthier, happier- ? lifo and color re turn to faded eyea and ohepk*? appe tite and dljceatlon Improve rnpidly. Only OOti tor ? fall 30 <1r?jr tre.iti- - it. At roif i?tr?|(ht, or writs O. V. Willi*, Inc., AtUata, OoorgU. ?(?dr.)