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The Wateree Messenger 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, August 16, 1933 School kids would walcome a code that would eliminate home work. No, Willie, a "tin can tourist" isn't necessarily one who drives that kind of a car. Poets seldom commit crimes, nc cording to one of them. Perhaps not, except on paper. Housewives can snap their fingers at the N. R. A. They don't have to be subject to any old code. A writer declares that the next war will destroy civilization. What daya mean, civilization. Sport item: In Nevada one may ob tain a divorce after six weeks resi dence, a fishing license after six months. Job had his troubles, no doubt, but he didn't have to worry about what General Johnson was going to do next. . f We read that the fall fashions will be full o / eccentricities. Which mear.s that thay will be li4co all other fash ions. Lindbergh suggests that Gpeen land's landing fields be located at Godthaab and Julianehaal). Or what haab you? Babe Ruth had a big disappoint ment the other day. Coming to bat with the bases full, the best he could get was a three-bagger. Ah exporer declares that Eskimo women are old at 40. American wom en never get old, neither do they ad mit that they are 40. * Future generations which must pay off the bonds we have issued will understand how the sins of the fath ers are visited upon the children. An automobile expert estimates that there are five million sorry cars on the road that menace traffic and ought to be replaced. Anil there arc at least twice that many sorry driv ers, ditto. REMEMBER AN OLI) TRUTH There is a rathe. curious attitude abroad now in th.< kingdom of poli tics. Members of the political courts admit that the trend of legislation in all farms of government is toward highor taxe,? ? but insist that these additional costs will be taken care of by new sou ices of revenue. The potential tax on liquor is a good example of this. At this writ- | ing 20 states have ratified rcpenl, and none have turned it down. And at Washington and in two score state capitals, public men ehinp gleefully to | the effect that a liquor tax will pro duce millions in revenue, and make possible more bond issuer, more gov ernmental ventures into strange and attractive realms. Apparently no one in public office has taken the trouble to point out that there is only so much money in the country. It can buy only so much ? it can pay only so much in taxes. A new tax, whether on liquor or on anything else, doesn't create more national income. It simply takes fcs money from a different place which leaves less money in another place. Tax juggling has been the curse of modern governmental economy. It's tho old dodge of spending out of the citizen's rights-hand pocket histoid of his left. For ten yrnrs we have lis tened lo Kpeoeh^s o* tax reduction and have permitted the national oxi pense account to soar. And it's time we remembered a fact of the utmost Simplicity ? tho only way lower taxes can be had is for government to spend less money. The speed of kidnapping has spurr ed Federal authorities to vigorcfua ac tion in an effort to curb this latest criminal menace. Tho states will he expected to cooperate by providing th? death penalty for this heinous crime. Already kidnaping Is punish* able by death in 12 states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Utah, Virginia and^>Vyom Injf. HORSE SENSE ? 1933 STYLE "Horse Sense" has long been the familiar term for native intelligence, for ordinary common sense. The horse has now passed out of the pic ture, o nour roads. He has been re placed by the motor car. Likewise, "Roads" as we thought of them in the horse days, have been replaced by a transpoitation system. "Motor Sense" today takes the place of "Horse Sense" of old. We need to apply it to our roads to understand what they are for. Road travel today isn't all a mat ter of cars. It isn't all main high ways or all farm-to-market roads, all filling stations or all stores. It's n combination of all those things. W< don't have one without the other. It's a complete road transportation system, exactly like a railroad sys tem, with its main lines, feeder lines, round houses, rolling stock and stations. Every railroad man knows that main linos are the revenue producers for railroads. Concentrated passen ger and freight business on the main lines is the reason. Feeder lines arc just what they are called. They feed the main line. The same thing is tnle of our high way system. The main roads produce the gasoline tax revenues that build roads, simply because more motor cars use them. The secondary roads I are feeders for the main highways. I All that is needed to undei stand 1 this is to count the cars on a main highway and then count those on a country road. Highways today ar<* , built and maintained essentially by the gaso line tax. (?' toll, that the motorist pays. This is ronllv a road servicr charge. It is paid because it is cheaper to build good roads and use them than t<- be without them. "Motor Sense" theiefore is just ordinary common sense, 1933 model. Tt means a balanced highway trans portation system that's fair to the j motorist, the road, the farmer, and the roadside business that depends I upon the road for transportation. Such roadside business may be a smal: store or filling station, or it may be a big wholesale house in the city. The main lines, the big revenue producers, must be completed and maintained first. A? the main lines are improved, the feeder lines can be improve^ It is not common motor sense to stunt the main highways, the revenue producers, by an unbal anced building of feeder roads. It takes money to build and main tain roads. In turn, good roads pro vide lower transportation costs. The way to keop the costs low is to use road building money fairly and sensibly, according to the relative amounts of gasoline tax revenues produced by the main roads and the feeder roads. WAR ON DOPE TRAFFIC What is considered a most impor tant step toward better control of the traffic in narcotics was taken when the. international treaty adopted at Geneva in 1931 became effective last month. The treaty was adopted by delegates from 57 nations, and pro vides for limiting the manufacture and distribution of narcotics through ' '? u t the win hi. This is a large order, but there is no doubt that tlx* treaty will be most helpful in curbing the unbelievably vast traffic which now exists. An important part in securing this international cooperation was taken by the World's Narcotic Defense As sociation, of which Captain Richmond I', iloh on of Mor imac fame is presi dent. The next objective of the as sociation is to secure the adoption of uniform laws respecting narcotics by the :eveiai statutes on the subject. Already three states, New York, \< w .1 rsey and Nevada, have passed tho?uniform law, and others will fol low suit soon. There seems to be no reason why every stato should not join in this movement when legisla turc*; mo again in session. The ?lop?/ halat is the most horrible of all habits to which a human being can fall a victim. The dope fiend V condition is aptly described as "the living death," a veritable hell on earth. The extent to which this traf fic has spsead in various countries, including the United States, is ap palling. Any means whereby it may bo stamped out or curtailed is worthy of support by anyone who gives a thought to suffering humanity. Cheating 1 1? ?? UnilorUkff The Zoroavi .hits, no nn< ienl rrlij (oils order of fire worshipers ^lili ex Istent In Persia, never bury or burn their dead but plnee the bodies within the walls of "Tow r of Silei ?<?.' w'ler* they are left to iie devoured by the vulturi s wh'ch swarm in near by trees Collier's Weekly. THE MOTORISTS WHO TAKE CHANCES You see ?hem on streets and high ways every day ? motorists who take chances. You see them turning corners at high speeds. Or stealing another car's right of way. Or passing on hills and curves. Or driving on the wrong side of the road. Or cutting in and out of thick traffic. Or coming roaring into intersectione and road junctions with out looking to either side. Or ope rating at speeds which are obviously higher than are safe under drivinj conditions of the mmoent. And, every once in a while, you see such a mo torist cause an accident. Perhap. there is little damage done. Or pei haps a life is lost and valuable prop erty is needlessly destroyed. The reckless motorist comprises ten per cent or less of the driving population. But he causes ninety per cent of the accidents. If the reck less drivers simply injured each othe it wouldn't be particularly important to the rest of us Hut they seldom d<- | that ? they maim and kill the careful, i the competent, the prudent. And you I never know who's going to be next. This year about thirty thousand people are going to be kileld because someone was careless, reckless, dis- j courteous. Not one of a thousand of those deaths is really due to an un- ] avoidable accident ? an occurrence j which is almost as rare as the dodo. They can all be prevented. And they ! will be when there is a concerted public drive against those who make p'.acos of carnage out of public high \?'ays. WOULD POLICE PLAN What seems to be a constructive I suggestion in connection with the ef- j forts being made to stamp out or re duce serious crimes was made at the recent internatinol convention of po lice chiefs held in Chicago. It pro poses a world police, force, toh mem bers of which would be empowered to disregard all national boundary lines when in pursuit of criminals. The idea of establishing such a force was advanced by Barron Collier, honorary deputy police commissioner of New York, who explained how such a body would operate to capture the criminal who crossed oceans and continents plying his profession. It is well known that the limited jurisdiction of officers of the law seriously handicaps them in bringing criminals to justice. When a criminal crosses a state line he can not be fol lowed and taken into custody, or re turned to the state in which the crime was committed, without much legal formality and red tape. An American criminal escaping t > Canada, Mexico, or any other foreign country, is virtually immune, front the consequences of his crime. Thousands of the most dangerous of fenders against society thus escape I capture and punishment. Such a police force as Mr. Collier suggests would not need to be large. All that would be necessary would he that a few picked men in each coun try should be authorized by interna tional agreement to go anywhere in the world in pursuit of criminals, with the added provision that no na tion would interfere to defeat the "lids of justice. Crime is organized on a worldwide scale. It be comatted successfully only by like organization on the part of the forces of law and order. TIIK RET 1 1 UN OF SILVER I Silver: 38 1-4 rents per ounce. I That quotation probably doesn't explain much to you. Rut it means . that the poor man's gold recently ' touched its highest level since May, | 1 ft.'tf ). During three long years of depres sion silver has been on the bargain "ounter it's boon offered at fire-sale j prices. And that statement, too, ex i plains, little, until cause and effect 'ire related, until it is expressed in the terms of purchasing power, trade am ng nations, jobs. The collapse of silver was the principal economic cause of t.h?> decline in world trade ? a decline which finally became a rout. More than half the world's people saw their purchasing power drop to less than half of former levels, and factories all over the world, here and in England and Germany and else where, closed because cheap silver had taken their markets from them. .Silver is coming back. And that means that prosperity is coming hack in a dozen states and m a score of great, industries. It means that men are going to work, and that great markets are again going to open up. No (>oo<t for Him A soft answer may turn away wrath, hut nev?r an Insurance agent.? Chi cago ICveiilng Tost. PAYROLLS VS. TAXES The time has arrived when the peo ple ? laboring man and capitalist ? feel the pinch of taxation with equal force. Take the specific case of the man with $10,000 invested, the widow with $100 invested, or the laboring man with a job, in the Pacific (las & Electric Company of San Francisco. This company had its taxes raised by the last Califo nia Legislature $1,150,000. Congress palced a 3 pe cent tax on the production of electric ity used for domestic and commercis'J >urposes, which added another mil lion a year. Congress also levied ax on thf company's stock whic amounted to another $200,000. On top )f this Congress placed a tax of " per cent on all dividends to sto.-k Yddres, which mean' ano'he: millioi and otdeted the company to deduc' the 5 per cent before sending out div idend checks. Leaving out the $1, 000,000 to be collected from stock holders, this company's total tax bill for a year will now exceed $10,000, 000 to be collected from stockholders, this company's total tax bill for a vear will now exceed $10,000,000. Compare this sum with the wages ?ml salaries paid by the company for 1033, which amount to .Slo.ooo.oim. For each $1.50 paid in wages the company must pay $1 to tax collec o s ?slat-.1 federal and mui icipal. What becomes of savings, and earnings on the same, for thousands of stockholders who have worked and slaved to accumulate a few dollars to put into an industry which would pay them a reasonable annual return? What i- the future prospect for ad ditional jobs for thousands of labor ing men, clerks, and other employes <>f a company that has to pay out a dollar in taxes for each d liar and one-halt of wages and salaries? Another five or ten years of pro portionate tax increases and there will be no money for jobs. Think it over. When you break a piivate company with taxation, who will furnish the revenue for govern ment, which the tax-exempt govern ment-owned enterprise now escapes? THE MAIN PURPOSE OF FARM LEGISLATION In speaking of New York's Milk Control Board, of which he is chair man, Charles H. Baldwin said: "The Board will make no real or perma nent success unless its work has the effect of bettering and strengthening the cooperative marketing move ment." That statement could he taken as a motto for all govei nmer.tal farm relief activities, whether by the state or the national government. Legis lation which simply makes the farm lean on an official bureau and lov>k to it as the solution of all his problems, would be the enemy, not the friend, of agricultural progress and stability. Legislation which helps the farmer to help himself and shows him how he can build for the future through his own organizations, Is the only kind that will produce beneficial re -esults. The new farm legislation takes notice of that. Farm leaders and executives of cooperative associations had voices in its preparation. Mar.y suggestions which they offered he fore the first draft of the bill was made, are incorporated in it. Its suc cessful administration will depend to i great degree on their efforts. The old, well-sulpported coopera tives have done wonders in meeting the problems of depression ? now <>w they are preparing for the achievements of rcovery. And they will he the most important single factor in building and maintaining | the agricultural civilization of tomor row. ATTENTION! STOMACH S 1 1 F F ER ERS | l oo much acid may be the cause of the stomach agonies you are suffer ing. Yon can get almost instant re lief now from Bisma-Rex, a delicious tasting antacid powder that is bring ing relief to thousands of stomach sufferers everywhere. This new treatment acts four ways to give you uuick and lasting relief. Bisma-Rex is sold only at Rexall Drug Stores, so go to DeKalb Pharmacy today and get a package. It costs hut 50c. My thrtlrtgiml Churn ' tor Aesculapius was n character In (!re??l< mythology, the god of medi cine and son of Apollo nnd Ooronls. lie Is said to have raised men from the dead, so that Jupiter, fearing lest the realms of I'lulo should hecome de populated, struck Idm with thunder F.xtrfm* in Compliment 'Die duke of WHIWi rton remit il<rd After he had seen Dan el Webster . "Mir, no man could be as t as Daniel Webster looked.*4 Sidelight s ? ? ? About all the authority in Green field, Mass., went to jail for three months th eother day, including the board of selectmen, the board of pub lic welfare, the cemetery commission, the tax assessor and the library trus tee. But only three men were invol ved, as they held all the offices men tioned. They were convicted of vio lating the election laws. A Good Samaritan can't always function as such no matter how sym pathetic he may be. This was ex plained to the sheriffs office in Bir mingham a few nights ago, when a booUeggei called up to say that two enforcement oficers had overturned their car and were probably injured. The bootlegger said he was sorry he couldn't slop to give aid because he had .r><) gall ns of whisky in his car which the law was chasing. The of ficers were only slightly hurt. When Patrolman Koster of Detroit stopped Mrs. Klsie Garland for speed ing she grabbed his book of violation tickets and slapped him soundly in the face with it. When the judge sent her to jail for five days she didn't protest, but remarked: "It was worth it." Johnny Gentry, a 6-year-old Kan sas boy, is very fond of a pet pig he calls "Doc," and for a very good rea son. When Johnny's foot was crush ed a few months ago some skin from the pig was grafted on the injured member and he was saved from being a cripple. Snappy Stuff M r.s. Mary V. Linton of Chicago testified that her husband had de serted her 61 times. Contending that his wife is a "witch of evil powers," Giuseppe Porcello of New York City lias filed suit -for devorce. Arrested for driving only 15 milos an hour o na highway near Gary, Ind. A1 Shaw of Chicago pair a $5 fine on a charge of holding up traffic. Joseph Doherty, escaped lunatic, was caught parading the stieet in Belfast wearing only a starched collar. When asked if she had anything to say at her trial for drunkenness, Miss Klla Morris of Chicago said: "Yes, your honor, please give me an other drink." Mrs. Joseph Caughry of Belfast, j who r> husband is trap drummer in a jazz orchestra, described him as a "musical concussionist." Mrs. Maria Quirk of London sued to cancel her lease of an apirtmer.t because she found hectics in he bed, hut lost her case. (/hick Cum, a Chinese cook of New York, nearly caused a riot by his yells and antics when he accidentally flipp ed a hot pancake inside his loose fitting .shirt. Charles H. Hoyles, held in New York for bigamy, is said to have courted F>() widows in several states. Miss Kffie Tyson of I'elfast. rob bed a tailor shop and masqueraded for ;t month in men's clothing Henry Jergens of Chicago stagger ed against a policeman when he heard an automobile back-fire and asked: "Am I shot or half shot'.'" The judge answered the question the next day. Peter Ramoski of Philadelphia saved $K<) by having two pairs of trousers when he was held up, as the bandit searched only the outside pair. Mrs. Alice Sparks of Ml Paso ask ed that her marriage to Phil Mahoun be annulled saying: "We were on a party and I just forgot I was already married." Testifying in court, C. V. Morehead of Chicago said: "I deny emphatically that 1 was drunk; why, I had only M drinks." When Mrs, Klla Cairne, aged 70, of Chicago was fined $5 for begging, the judge paid the fine. Doric Marjea/k, 97, of Sofia, Hul garla, haa married a widow 38 years old. Miss Bertha Henning of Chicago was arrested on a charge of stealing three automobiles parked in front of churches. Burglars broke into a dental fac tory in Berlin and stole 20,0(>U false teeth. The Rev. James R. Wright, of Texarkana, Tex., remarried his own parents at the Miller county court house recently. Charging that for more than ten years she and her husband communi cated with each other only by mess ages written on the tablecloth and letters picked from alphabet soup, Mrs. Rose Wach o fChicago sued for divorce. Because he spit on a tree planted in honor of Chancellor Hitler, Max Wolff of Berlin, Germany, has been sentenced to four months in jail. Taking cognizance of a rumor that he had dropped dead, Alderman John J. Coughlin of Chicago, sometimes called "Bath H< use" said: "It must have been a horse by that name." Miss Annie Mills of Chicago \\Tio waited 31 years to marry Fiank Jesson, .^ued him for breach of prom ise and was awarded .<">,<?< mi to salve her wounded heart. Mrs. Adelaide Sayre >>1 Chicago ci uld love her husband, she said, but when he included 'JS chickens, the family cat, and 10 relatives, all living in teh same house, romance took a back seat. George Malone of Chicago testified that he was only "temperately drunk" when a policeman nabbed him for intoxication. Found guilty of disorderly conduct by a Philadelphia court, Mrs. Caro lina Day called the judge "a disre putable villian," and he doubled her sentence. George Maley of St. Louis was ac quitted of the charge of kissing Miss Ella Lurton, '2.'} who declared she had neve: been kissed before. Miss Jane Raby of San Francisco, who had declared that "the best man born is not worth marrying," died at the age of 100. Miss Emma Fay of Huffalo wore her employer's trousers to a mas querade and was setn to jail. In his farewell sermon to his cong regation in Hath, Eng., Kev. W. C. Glengale said, "I am glad to leave the stingiest parish I ever served." WHY PUHLIC WOUKS? The government's choice of Public Works to help end the depression is probably understood by the engineer and builder. However, it is not so clear to many others. The shoe man, for instance, will reason that a cam paign to increase shoe buying will directly benefit him. It's much the same in other lines. Why then pick out Public Woiks construction? A simple explanation is that Pub lic Works do not produce a nickel's worth of consumable goods. You can't eat a concrete street, you can't wear sewer pipe ,you can't drive a filtering paint. To state it another way, Public Works don't produce more shoes, more groceries, more clothes or more automobiles to com pete in a market already over-sup plied with them. The building of Public Works pro duces jobs. That's its value. It will stimulate business through the sale of materials ;ind also through the service which the structures provide. The immediate effect of any Public Works construction program is to provid payrolls. The workers are given a buying power. They im mediately buy shoes and clothes and foul. They pay for their furniture. The formula is simple. Every com munity can use it. Imnifinnry l.nvfri Sortie (if I lie /c|l '.IIHUH IoVI'VI ' It lit cm I uri'. ii"t ti'iil |K?njiii? ii ro I'en 1 1 1 1 r iiik) Ksl Iter. I i. ii lis inifl .Infin Ah cnssln mid v i *?. >| ct I r. 1 >i iin<lni :? n?l (?ulltpvore, 'I rl i'ii in miii) Isi'iill l'.:is nnlo nn<l f'orlin. Ilnnilel nii'l 0|ilieli:i. Kvn lifeline nnd < Jnlirlel, 1 1 isi \v:i t lui niifl Mlnnehnlifi. Orpheus >!?>') I '.nr\ iIP p. ('mil nTiil Vlryinln. nii'l I'viiiimis nii'l Tlilsho. W inning in t h n "Slrctrh" "(Jnrrlson finish" Is n tin i i'l ? i emlth (Irtish, whereby t f i winner ennies from helilfirl to win nt the Inst mn merit. H Is so rjille<) lipcnnse rJnrrl son, n well known Amorlrun Jnrkey, usually won his rnros li? IIiIm fashion.