The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, August 16, 1933, Image 4
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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.
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(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.