The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, August 02, 1933, Image 4
The Wateree Messenger
Published Every Wednesday by
CHAS. W. BIRCH MORE, Prop.
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the Poetoffice at Camden, 8. C.
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Wednesday, August 2, 1938
Correct this sentence: "Let's not
stop; it's only a dog fight."
It is safer to guess that the head
light nearest to you is the one that
Now if the efficiency experts could
only devise some means of utilizing
the left-over advice!
To err is human. And in some
cases that is about the only human
characteristic discernible.
Then there is the fellow whose idety
of fame is to have one of his testi
monials read over the radio. '
Women rule a certain tribe of
Indians in Peru. Which is further
evidence that civilization is spread
ing.
A social worker has discovered that
prisioners like music. No doubt they
like the sound of the opening bars.
The idea that space is only a fic
tion of the brain may be of comfort
to those looking for a parking place.
Americanism: Doing the daily
dozen for health and trying to pass
. another car on a blind curve an hour
later.
It is estimated that only 40 per
cent of persons have bath tubs. But
perhaps the other 60 per cent have
no urge to sing.
President Butler of Columbia Uni
versity says there is no great poet in
the world today. Which remark will
be resented by admirers of Mr. Eddie
Guest.
A Yale professor, who has great
confidence in ambitious youth, says:
"The boy who is determined to go to
the devil will in all probability ac
complish his purpose.*
SUPREME TEST AHEAD
Events are moving swiftly to the
time when President Roosevelt and
the "new deal" will be put to the su
preme test, and the people generally
hope the outcome may be favorable
to the administration and to the
country. 1
But the powers granted the Presi
dent by Congress and the program
undertaken are so vast as to almost
stagger the imagination. These in
volve pothing less than government
control of all business and industry,
including agricultuxe. They embrace
such a radical departure from former
American ideas and practices as to
constitute a social revolution if the
powers granted to governmental
agencies are actually used to their
full extent.
In view of this, it is natural that
many thoughtful persons look upon
this vast program with some mis
givings, although they see the neces
sity for a change fn the conditions
which have prevailed.
So far, business and industry gen
erally have shown a disposition to
cooperate with the administration in
evolving a solution of the many prob- i
lems which exist. But such radical
changes in the national set-up as are
propoesd can hardly be made over
night without working additional
hardships on many individuals and
business units.
The arbitrary fixing of hours of
labor, wages and prices of commod
ities is an experiment of the most
far-reaching nature. If carried out as
planned, competition in its ordinary
sense will be virtually elminated. No
proposed can hardly be made over-,
work out. But we shall soon see.
1 A QUESTION FOR THE N. R. A.
A. 'w nights ago a large motor
with ponderous freight trailer stop
ped In front of a local restaurant long
enough for tired drivers to snatch
a cup of coffee and a sandwich. ' One
of the drivers was heard to say that
he made round trips from Winaton
Salem and Atlanta, driving day and
night. He and his companion took
turn about at driving and sleeping.
An goon as the contents of the truck
was unloaded in Atlanta he said a
new load was taken and the return
trip to the North Carolina city at
once began. It was 21 o'clock at
night and, after a stop of ten minutes
the track was on its way again.
Swapping naps by than driven Is
^Qot a hhHm fft safety to tksm or
ItiitM . '
FIGHT ON RACKETEERS
War on racketeers has been de
clared by fhe Crusaders, an organi
zation of militant young , men be
tween the ages of 21 and 46, and
claiming a membership "of 1,260,000.
This body was first formed to agi
tate for repeal of national prohi
bition, and now that it believes this
fight is won, racketeering will be the
next target.
According to the Crusaders' chief
Fred G. Clark, the first battle will be
against corruption among office
holders. He recently said: "These
political racketeers, including corrupt
politicians and self-seaking public
officeholders in the Feieral, statu
and municipal governments, must be
removed and replaced by honest rep
resentatives of the people before
racketeering can be wiped out of this
country."
He added that nothing can accom
plish this but a powerful organization
of patriotic Americans, who by force
of numbers can eliminate the graf
ters from public office.
The Crusaders contend that rackets
can be broken up by responsible
government, and that responsible
I government can be secured by the
j courageous efforts of an alert, inde
pendent and unselfish minority.
| THE SPREAD OF DIVORCE
Many persons stttl living remem
| ber away back* when it was consid
! ored something akin to disgrace to
i get a divorce, except for ..he most
compelling reasons. Toda$' divorces
and annulments of marriage are so
I common as to excite only passing
comment.
An interesting table showing the
spread of divorce in this country is
contained in the World Almanac,
giving statistics on the subject run
ning beck to the year 1888, when the
percentage of divorces to marriages
was only 5.4. Since then this percent
age has increased with almost con
tinuous regularity, until in the year
1931 the last for which complete
statistics are available, it reached 17
for every 100 marriages, or about
one out of six.
Taking the record of 40 years by
i intervals of 10 years we find the
following: There wen 6 divorces for
every 100 marriage*, in 1891; 8.2 in
1901; 9.3 in 1911 13.7 in 1921 and 17
in 1931. During the same period the
number of marriages per 100,000 of
population has not varied greatly,
but the last 20 years has shown a
slight increase over the previous 20,
with the exception of the recent de
pression years which have shown a
slight falling off.
The lowest number of marriages,
population considered during this' 40
year period was in 1894, when there
were 8.6 marriages per 100,000 of
population; the highest was in 1920,
when the number rose to 11.96.
Taking actual figures without con
sidering the increase in population, it
is shown that in 1888 only 28,669 j
persons in the United States were
divorced, while the highest numlber
was reached in 1929, when no less
than 201,468 couples were released
from their marital bonds.
Nagging Pains are
Warning Signals
TEMPORARY pain relief remedies
may save you mueh suffering at
the moment, but putting a mask
over a warning signal does not
clear up the condition It was tell
ing you to avoid.
When periodic pains, due to a
weak, run-down condition, dis
tress you, treatment for the cause of
the trouble Khould be started without
delay. Tako Carclul to build up against
tho nnKKlnjr symptoms of ordinary
womnniv ailments. So many women
praise OATtDUI, It must bo good to
nnvo tho widespread use that It has
today. Hold at drujr stores. Try it I
Major, a pet monkey owned by
Thomas Charles of Jersey City, does
a number of interesting stunts, in
cluding that of shining his master's
shoes. A new and practical kind of
"monkey-shine."
to the cars, buses and trucks they
meet on the highway. A tired man
fools better for a short nap but sleep
on the seat of a truck assuredly does
not wipe tho cobwebs from the brain
and fit one for tho perilous task of
steering a truck and load of 15 tons
gross through crowded roads by day
or by night.
Perhaps we may be timid and not
skilled as a truck driver but we main
tain that this method of operating
trucks is contrary to common sense
and violates all the rules of safety.
We hear much of the National Recov
ery Administration, or shorter hour*
and higher wages. What will the ad
ministration have to say and do about
these giant trucks that rush over the
highways through the night with
drivers who take cat naps between
service at the wheel? ? Spartanburg
Herald. s . I
A LABOR OF LOVE
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The recent award of the degree of
doctor of laws to Miss Matrha Mc
Chesney Berry of Georgia by Bates
College again calls attention to one
of America's most remarkable and
useful women. Her life has been de
voted to the education of mountain
children.
Miss Berry was born a Southern
nristoarat and had the advantage of
the best schooling, as well as Euro
pean travel. Many girls so privileged
might have been satisfied with the
pleasures of a purely social career,
but not she. In 1902 she founded tlie
Berry Schools for mountain boys and
girls at Mount Berry, Ga., of which
she has been the director ever since.
Her inheritance was also devoted to
the work and from a small beginning
the school has grown to include near
ly 100 buildings, with a "campus" of
15,000 acres, and an attendance of
nearly 1,000 students. Still there are
always hundreds on the waiting list.
Among the honors bestowed upon
Miss Berry for carrying on this labor
of love, these may be mentionea:
Voted the state's most distinguished
citizen by the Georgia legislature,
awarded the Roosevelt medal for ser
vices to the nation, received a natio
nal magazine award of $5,000 for
outstanding service, and the medal of
the Town Hall Club of New York for
accomplishment of lasting merit. She
lias received several honorary college
degrees and other tokens of recog
nition.
At the age of 66 Miss Berry is still
active in the management of her
great institution, and is planning for
the future as always. It is not sur
prising, therefore, that in addition to
the honors enumerated above she was
by popular vote in a nation-wide poTr
acclaimed as one of the 12 greatest
American women. Off-hand we can
not think of one whom we consider
greater.
Sidelight s
A western athletic authority de
plores the fact that so many college
men go into professional baseball,
declaring that money spent in edu
cating baseball players is wasted. We
fail to get the logic of his idea. Any
way, how can we keep college men
from playing professional ball, unless
we make each freshman sign a pledge
or give a bond? We do not refuse
education to young men through fear
that they might become bootleggers,
bank robbers or professional reform
ers. Why, then, should we be so ap
prehensive lest they take to baseball?
Wilbur B. Houston of Seattle, who
won the college scholarship offerd by
Thomas A. Edison four years ago to
the brightest high school graduate
who could be found in the United
States, has been graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy (not Technocracy), better known
as "Boston Tech." He made good dur
ing his four years and stood near the
top of his class. Mr. Edison did not
live to see the result of his experi
ment, and it appears he made no fur
ther provision for his protege. So,
Wilbur, like mast other recent gradu
ates, is looking for a job.
Cooking with heat from an auto
mobile while traveling is accomplish
ed by a new device, a steam kettle
mounted on a rear bumper and heated
by gases from the exhaust pipe. It is
said that a dinner of meat and vege
tables can be cooked in an hour by
this method.
Whon sentenced to death for mur
der, W. G. Bignell of Swinton, Eng.,
said it was "a very good verdict."
Which apparently makes it unani
mous.
An aged Indian in Montana recent
ly ex'pressd his scorn for the white
man's civilization, which has substi
tuted rouge for war paint and silk
stockings for buckskin leggings. He
ventured no opinion concetrning what
has been substituted for whiskey.
Many immiKrant* havr risen vto
high estate, and such may be the good
fortune of Atostolos Tavalioscoulos
Panagiotakogoules, recently natura
lized in Boston. But the Traveler ex
presses the hope that for his own
sake Mr. I'anaRiotakogoules does not
rise to he secretary of the treasury
and have to sitfn his name to many
thousands of Liberty Bonds and the
like.
Miss Lula Faile is visiting her
friend, Miss F* /.abeth Gaskin, at
Camden.-? Kershaw Era.
When Frank Jones of Chicago tried
to flirt with a girl on the street, she
knocked him down, had him arrested
and he was fined fKO.
Snappy Stuff
. W. B. Potts of Memphis arretted
for speeding, asserted that he was
rushing to police court to pay a $5
fine for his wife for traffic violation.
James X Colber of Chicago testi
fied in his divorce suit that his wife's
tongue "neve: stopped its wagging."
Mrs. Elizabeth Racker of San
Francisco named her twenty-first
baby after Queen Charlotte Hospital,
where it was bom.
Mrs. Ruth Demarest of Chicago
testified tha^SrftiS- her husband drove
her from home he refused to talk to
her except through the window.
Mrs. Imogene Matquill of St. Louis
was adjudged insane after her hus
I 'land testified that "dancing had driv
en her crazy."
In an application for a divorce a
Los Angeles man complained that m
17 years his wife had not spoken to
him and had not even asked him for
money.
Miss Helen Richards of London lost
her suit against a butcher. whose
sausages she claimed had ruined her
complexion.
The wife of Rev. L. C. Banks of
Barnstable, Eng., had him arrested
because he beat her and made her eat
stale bread crusts.
When two women were arraigned
in court in Chicago for fighting the
judge told them to go home and read
the 133rd Psalm.
John Franks, a beggar, of Dallas,
Tex., was fined $25 because he cursed
a man who gave him only a dime.
"They can't stop me from going to
Heaven," said Mrs. Margaret Could
of Liverpool, when told she would
have to undergo an operation, and
then she took a fatal dose of poison.
Because her husband refused to eat
Mrs. P. R. Clark of Leeds, Eng., ap
pealed to police, but was informed
that they were powerless to act.
Walden Johnson of Chicago found
a drunken stranger sleeping in his
bed, and turned him over to the po
lice.
Richard V. Neille of Liverpool was
granted a divorce because hia wife
eloped with a guest at a dance the
couple was giving.
Mrs. Harriet Boyden of Bath, Eng.?
had a polished oak coffin lined with
pink silk made for her pet dog.
Chris Sorgen, 16 years old, of St.
Paul, recently confessed he had swal
lowed two $5 gold pieces that he had
stolen.
Mrs. Hannah Bromley of Leeds,
Eng., complained to the police that
her husband took a bath every day
and beat her whenever she did not
have the water hot.
""Curb that, impulse," said police to
D. C. Christensen of Salt Lake City,
Utah, when arrested for smashing a
revolving barber pole which had an
noyed him.
One man eats a porterhouse steak,
25 slices of bread and a piece of pie
in a restaurant on King street in
Charleston, S. C. every morning.
Wher the undertaker took Mrs.
Alice Head, recluse, out of her bed
at Edmeston, N. Y., he found a roll
of bills in the mattress, totaling more
than $4,000.
The package that a thief took off
the seat of a parked automobile In
Waukesha, Wis., contained nothing
but a dead canary destined for a
taxidermy shop.
A few days after a Wisconsin
woman lost her false teeth while
swimming in Lake Waukesha, she
found them in the stomach of a large
bullhead fish caught by her husbar.d.
Hurglarp robbed the homo of *
London detective, taking medals giv
en him for his work in running down
criminal*.
Mme. Marie Deaconicr of Pnrin has
a mania for swallowing needles, aaf-.
ety pins, coins and like junk, and had
to undergo four operations an a con
sequence.
Mrs. T. J. Govom of Chicago de
clared in court that her husband had
beaten her on every holiday for six
years.
Roy Scholea of St. Louis nearly
killed Miss Harriet Snyder In a fit of
jealouay, but ?H? will marry hfm
when He geto out of pHeon. ']
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