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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter al the Postoffice at Camden. S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, August 30, 1933 "To err is human." But few are human enough to admit the error. The cut-in dance was probably in vented ,by a darky with a razor. Our idea of a soft job is that of tester in a mattress factory. Few newspaper readers are igno rant enought to qualify for jury duty. Modern bathing suits for ladies shisuld be either reformed or abolish ed. Neckingpt.rues were probably originated by a pair of affectionate giraffes. A fair knowledge of human nature may be acquired by trying to lead a bull calf. There are still a few old-fashioned folks who have never had an opera tion. A laudable aim in life doesn't count for much if one persists in shooting blank cartridges. The most universal delusion is that ?wftrich makes folks think they can write poetry. Every college man should study Greek, so he can remember the name of his fraternity. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." And that's the only way they will ever get it. Americanism: Observing one Thrift "Week in a year and urging people to spend their heads off the other 51. A Georgia youth who married two girls is declared to be mentally de ranged. For once alienists are forced to agree. The age of the average adult is only 14 mentally, says a psychologist. Which would indicate that the av erage adult is considerably below the average. WHO IS THE SANTA CLAUS? A lot of people have come to look upon Uncle Sam as a financial Santa Claus. They forgot that every dollar that he gives to his children has to first be taken away from those children in the form of taxes. It is just beginning to percolate into the people's minds tthat the $8, 300, 000, 000 ipublic works program is going to have to be taken from them, the taxpayers. Every community is clamoring for a share of this fund and although the government gives 30 per cent rutright of sums alloted to projects which rt approves, the remaining 70 per cent must be returned by additional tax levies in every political sub-division obtaining a loan. The 30 per cent that is given outright must bo dug up by all the people f?r the favored section to which it is given. Tho public works .program, which has been passed as an emergency measuro in time of stress, must of necessity in crease the burden of the taxpayers, .unless ways and means are found to Cut government costs in somo manner, sufficiently to off-set this new ex pense. It is well for the people to begin to understand that each citizen is a separate Santa Clnus, who pays for every "gift" presented to him by his government. Crime has become "a national menace and a national problem," de clares Attorney General Cummings. And a cynical columnist remarks: "It's marvelous how quickly some people discover things; only on the jo(b five months and found that out already." Airmail instead of telegrarps has been ordered by tho government for all but the most urgent montages. This edict came after Governor Miller of Wyoming called attention to the fact that the NRA sent him a 644 word telegram concerning the New ^Orleans milk code nd another of 1,488 words about a similar situation In Tennessee. I THE NEW AGRICULTURAL ERA It would be an interesting thing if a farmer of thirty years ago could bo suddenly transported to the Chi cago World's Fair and shown the model exhibit of electricty at work in agriculture. As the saying goes, his eyes would pop out. Ho would see chickens | treated with ultra violet rays, and their hours of rest and work con trolled by light. Cows in a scientifi clly built lactery are automatically washed and then milked by sanitary, efficient electric equipment'. Electric cooling and battling equipment has superceded old hand methods. There are no hay olfts in the modern barn ? instead, a large now type silo, a silo i within a silo stores both ensilage and ! dry feed and reduces fire hazards. Two small structures store grain j which is transported by electric con veyor systems. In the fields of this farm, he would see still more startling things. Kven the tractor, thought up-to-date a short time ago, has been dispensed with, its place taken by an electric cable plough which makes its way about the field carrying its own self winding cable. There are no power poles to interfere with work or mar the farm's appearance ? all the dis tributional lines are underground. As a matter of fact, the farmer of thirty years ago wouldn't be the only one to stare with unbelieving eyes at the exhibit. Today's average farm is still wasteful and inefficient, exacting a maximum of hard labor for a min imum of result. The exhibit at the world's fair shows what the farm of the future will be like in a really "new agricultural era." THE AMERICAN KI'EORM ATION France looks with surprise at the progress of the national recovery act in the United States. It has not been France's way of conducting a revo lution. Time was when the French people took it into their hands to re form government and so they erected the guillotine in the heart of Paris and crazed mobs of me i, women and children gloated over th~ fall of the big knife that chopped off the heads of thousands. / France cannot understand that in the United States the people decided last fall to make radical changes in government affairs and how industry, labor and all other occupations joined in the movement. It cannot realize that they are Working to make a suc cess of the plans of the President and his advisors and that it is the sense of all persons in this country that the changes desired must be made with out acts of violence and bloodshed that have characterized many former reformation*. Commerce and industry long have suffered from unwise and unjust competition, workers have been sub jected to long houi;* of labor and sweatshop tyranny, children have entered- industry and crowded adult labor from machines and benches, banking fell into a condition that was i little short of putrid, agriculture suf fered from countless ills. Americans realized during the de gression that the way out of it would be by the adoption of new methods by industry, commerce, labor, banking and agriculture. Already child labor and the sweatshops are doomed, ruin ous competition it tottering, a better banking system is assured and the work of eliminating the rough corners by the NRA is progressing at rapid rate. The reformation from now on will be in the hands of the Ameriran people. They called for the New Deal. It is up to them to see it t h rough.- -.Spartanburg Herald. HAN DICAPS OVERCOME An anonymous writer has called attention to some of the handicaps which were overcome by those whom the world now recognizes 'as geniuses and leaders of the first rank. Among those mentioned are the following: Demosthenes, who became one of ' he world's greatest orators, stuttered in his youth. Junius Caesar and Napoleon liuna parte, two of the greatest generals and statesmen of all time, were epil eptics. So was Mohammed, who founded a religion which now has more than 200 million adherents. Alfred the Great, considered "the wisest, best and greatest king" of Kngland, had a lifelong internal disease. Among authors and poets Cailyle was a dyseptic, Hryon had a rlub foot, Koats had tuberculosis, Milton was blind, and Popo was a hunch back. Darwin suffered from a nervous disease, and Heethoven composed somo of his most majestic musical wofks after ho had becomo totally rteftf. In our own generation, tho great electrical wizard, Charles I\ Stein metz, was a deformed dwarf, and Helen Keller, one of America's most acccuuplished women, has been deaf and blind from childhood. The list of world famous notables who have labored under serious phys ical handicaps might be extended al most indefinitely. Their example should be inspiring to any whc are inclined to complain about minor af flictions or difficulties. THE CAREFREE HOBO In this day of government regula tion of everything, and fear of trans gressing some sacred code, the life of the carefree hobo seems rather at i tractive. He doesn't have to worry about meeting 'payrolls, nor does ho fear a boycott because he can't dis play a Blue Kagle. There was a big hoboes' convention in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and one philosophical delegate, known only by the name of "Slim." told in a few wo.! ds the story of a hobo's life. Now the hobo, it must be remembered is a different character from the common tramp or bum. The hobo t.-avels from place to place, but he is willing to work, and d ;es work whenever opportunity off ers. The three classes ? tramp, bum ant' hobo ? have been described thus: The tramp is a traveling non-worker; the . bum is a stationary non-worker, who j accepts seasonable X>r temporary em ployment wherever he can got it. But let "Slim" tell about the hobo in his own words. He says: "The hobo may be defined as the stiff who built the railroa !s and rides the rods; who built the highways and hitchhikes; who stacked the wheat and eats stale bread; who mowed the hay and sleeps on it. About the only surplus remuneration he ever received for his essential services was his freedom, and he will not easily part with it." And, come to think of it, there are some compensations for the hobo's rather precarious existence. He doesn't have to dress up in uncom fortable clothes; he doesn't have to conform to a lot of foolish social customs; he doesn't have to listen to luncheon club orators or other speak ers who bore us superior folks stiff. Maybe it't fun to be a hobo, after all. Sidelight s Being janitor of a bank is some times preferable to being a director. So thought Charles Williams, director of the Ramapo Trust Company of Spring Valley, N. Y., who recently resigned to become janitor and night watchman. It's wonderful what a perfectly functioning conscience will do, some times. Raymond Cross, fugitive salesman who had embezzled $1,000, hitch-hiked from St. Louis to Nashua, N. H., to plead guilty of the charge. Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants recently smashed the National League record by pitching 4(5 score less innings against his opponents, being stopped by the Boston Braves. The previous scoreless innings record in the National was 44, attained by I.d Reulbach 25 yeais ago. But these fall far short of the amazing feat of Walter Johnson, the former "Big Train" of the Washington Americans, who pitched 50 scoreless innings away back in 1913. In the midst of sizzling heat which nearly overcame him, Horace Dutton of Davenport, la., recently filed a claim for a cool $034.50 against the city. Dutton avers that on February 8 he was so badly frostbitten while shoveling snow for the municipal authorities that he suffered the loss of three fingers and permanent dam age t'> one foot. Readers of a Durango, Colo., news paper were amused recently by the headline "Mutton and Lamb Married in Denver," but it really wasn't quite as bad as that. A sleepy telegraph operator was to balme. The "high contracting parties" were Douglas Hutton and Mary Laub. In a season replete with unusual baseball stunts mention should be made of the feat of Fred Shaffer, a farmer by pitcher of New Castle, Pa., who held the Pittsburgh Pirates to two hits and one run in an exhibition game played in his home town a few days agt). New Castle won, 2 to I. Regular communication thin lo<l (ye h hcW on the fir?4, Tucfwlp.y in each month it 8 p. m. Vlnit.inpr OreUiren arp welcomed. N. R. GOODALK, JR., J. W. WJI.SON, Worwhlpful Mnntnr 8?y?r?t.ary. Snappy Stuff Charged with marrying throe wo men without getting any divorces, George Graves told Chicago police that he wanted to be sure of a place to eat and sleep while out ol a job. Alleging that he came home with perfume on his coat and lipstick on his face, Mrs. June Gilmore i i loci s-iu i or divorce from her husband at Se attle, Wash. John J. Mann of Lond n was held for burglary because he broke into a house to see his estianged ?vii'e. Willard Potts of Cairo, 111., has *en married four times, each time to a girl whose first name was Alice. When Miss Catherine Dooglin, f>7, of Belfast was evicted fiom he i ho::t ? .101 e than i>00 cats were round run ling about her propeity. Thieves carried away^l pig-; from .the state prj&on furm near Jackson, Mich. After looking over two lawyers as signed by the court to defend him, lames Reardon of Chicago, accused of theft, said he prefened to defend nimself. Mrs. Katherine Woods of Addle ? one Kng., has again been barre l from the baseball grounds because she attacked an official lor his de cisions. Because his wife forbade him the use of facial cream, Fireman Lauritz T. Mielsen, a husky member of a hookand ladder company, in Chicago, wants a divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Collins of Hanworth, Kng., were awarded a prize on their claim that they had never quarreled in 38 years. William Coldman of London was denied a divorce when the court de cided he had actually given his wife to his cousin. Peter Gallagher, known for years in London as the ''perfect butler," was sentenced to prison for stealing antiques. When sentenced to 18 months' im prisonment Charles Davies of Glas gow asked that it be increased to three years so that he would be free from evil companions long enough to reform. Josef Galdrun of Chicago admitted that he was living on his mother-in law's wages when arrested for bein^ drunk and disordeTly. J. V. Coulven wrote to the traffic court in Chicago that he "regretted his inability" to accept a summons for speeding. Mrs. .John Church of Rensselaer, N. Y., testified in her divorce suit that her husband had been hurling plates at her fo r29 years. Mrs. E. T. Stevens told Chicago police her milk was being stolen every day, and they arrested her sister, who lived two doors away. Sebastin Schwindt of Milwaukee is suing his Ifi-year-old bride for di vorce because she doesn't talk enough. George Wwmun and James Dale of Glasgow committed 21 burglaries while making a 200-mile motor trip. For a 25-cent fraud, Miss Rose Fiiman of London was sentenced to six months in prison. Mrs. Kdna Russell of Chicago put two letters in the wrong envelopes while she was on a vacation and as a result her husband got a divorce. Richard Swift of Mew York had Miss Cicely Smith arrested for stick ing a lighted cigarette < under his collar. Henry Helms of Belfast, twice married, is the proud father of his 27th child. Mrs. Fdith Byers testified in her br?aeh of promise suit against Robert Gemmel of Kdinburgh that while they were engaged she lost seven pounds in weight,. MrR. Mary Latham of Chicago fell in love with Henry Porter at first sight and also lent him $6,000 ? then he disappeared. James Hustis of Chicago struck a neighbor with a sock, and was Bent to jail when it was shown that the sock contained a chunk of lead. FOR FURTHER IN FORMATION WRITE THE CEMENT SERVICE MAN, CARE OF: PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Hurt Building ATLANTA, GA. C. C. C. GETTING RESULTS; EFFICIENCY WILL INCREASE Men of the Emergency Conserva tion Corps are already getting results ? in woods actually completed as well as in building strength, stamina and c >nfidence in t lie men themselves ? according to rep??;ts n w coming to K. V. Stuart, Chiei Fo.estei foi the ! C. S. Department of Agriculture. As an example of wha- can bi ac complished by inexpe: it. need men. Major Stuart cites the July rut put of the Ties Kilos camp, as t :s called, located on the Carson National Forest i;i New Mexico. He:e, during July, two and one -h:df miles of telephone lines, two miles of road, one fireman's cabin, four bridges, and one mile of fence were constructed; one-half mile of tele phone line, one-mile of road, two bridges, one mile of fence were partially completed; six and one-half more miles of telephone line, tour more miles of road, four more build ings and six more miles of feme were repaired; forty acres of forest were put in more productive shape by means of improvement thinnings, four hundred ninety acres of land were brought under control from erosion, and one public camp ground wa scleared and sanitary facilities in stalled thereon. These Jesuits were attained, ac cording to the reports, with one hun dred forty men (or 74 percent of full company strength), who put in on the forest jobs an average of five to six hours actual work, for five days each week during the month of July. Twenty-six percent of the company ? 53 men ? were assigned to camp duties or to cam pconstruction. bet terment or maintenance: activities over which the Forest Service has no jurisdiction, the report reveals. In commenting on the hours of work, the Chief Forester called atten tion to the fact that, fo rthe Civilian Conservation Corps, the eight-hour day had been defined as "eight hours, less one full hour for lunch, less travel time both to, and from, work." "And since, as time goes on, much f th woods work is necessarily seme distance from the 200-man camps, this means five to six hours of actual woods work per day, for five days a Week," Major Stuart explained. "Hut I am happy to say." h< idded, "that worth-while woods work is being accomplished and that all indi cations are that results per man-hour - ? which is the only fair measure of output that can be used under the conditions laid down? -definitely will improve the continuance o' 'avorable weather conditions, at least." DISTRESS AFTER MEALS Relieved By Black-Draught "I had ?our stomach and gas," writes Mr. Jess lllgglnR, of Daw sonvllle, Oa., "and often I would have bilious spoils. F read about Thed ford'fl Mack-Draught and be gan to take It. It relieved me of thl? trouble. I keep It all tho time now. I consider It a fine modlcln?. I takn a pinch of Hlack- Draught after rnenln when I need It. It helps to prevent nick hendache and to keep the ayatem In kooi! order." flet a package at the ntoro. Try It I Novo j/om c?? yet Hlaok-Draupht <n th? form of a SYIIUI', for Children. Not I.iknnfii of lUrvurd The Rtntue of John Harvard, on the Harvard campus. Is not n likeness of the original John Harvard, the found er of Harvard college. It was posed for by a Hiirvnrd nndersrrndunte. Because Mrs. Charles Wittshire of Liverpool reads the morning paper to her husband at breakfast the couple was awarded the "marital happiness" prize. Mrs. Jacobina Kautenberger <>f Milwaukee, the "world's most ar rested woman," has appeared in court for the 1 -loth time. A prospective bridegroom of Mc Allen, Tex., unable to pay Justice (J. C. Seawell his foe it a lump s n, turned over $1 each week until the whole amount had been paid. Policeman James Murray of Hath, Eng., climbed To feet up a tree to rescue a cat. In a London couit M s. Kathleen Rathe, ft I 'hr? .v her h:it at Judge t'ance'.or when i : ? ? s tite cod hei to jail. ShaWj? of ( P .. t It li;ts oi'i'ii esi ,11 ,i t ? 1 1 is, i in the :ippro\ iinat i-ly l.smi r i ? i . 1 1 . ? ? ! . since H 14 I u ( '. 'J.' NIO.l kill ? IIMH< [U'Ol I I i Vf? 1 in the ui hi l! i s impnS si ! ? I ?? to S'a'e. t?vel1 a-. an e-?l!' lie, the number <?( h lm.in it. siIm.iii! - cf the r t h js' lire iis crea I i i ? 1 1 . or. t ore ac curately, since i lie lio^hiiiiitius i>f liil man life, since this has out yet t.een definitely dated ? Washington Star. Old Vanity Case An ancient vanity ra<e. dallng from S<M? It. C Is iii Hie mn<euin of Haver ford relieve as pad of the collect ion gathered by the college <t rrheologieal expend ion during work at I'.etli She niesli. in R >le*:t i'-'v Own Life to Con At Oar-r\,s-SaInain, Tanganyika, an African native is pointed out as the man who coughed in his grave. Pro nounced dead, his relatives had assem bled and the drama had reached the moment of burial when the chief ac tor coughed loudly, lie recovered, ex pressed n belief that he had been un der a spell and started for tne village witch doctor, who coughed once and fled. FORECLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given that in ac cordance with the terms and provis ions of the Decree oT the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, 1 South Carolina, dated the 11th day of August, 1933, in the case, of The Richmond Mortgage and Loan Corpo ration, plaintiff, vsT The Camden J Loan and Realty Company, H. L. Schlosburg and K. Sam Karesh, de , fendants, I will sell to the highest I bidder for cash, requiring of the suc cessful bidder, other than the plain tiff herein, a deposit in the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, be fore the Court J louse door at Camden, South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in September, 1933, being the 4th day thereof, tho following described propei ty: "All that lot or tract of land, with the improvements thereon, located, lying .and being in the City of Cam den, County of Kershaw, and State of South Carolina, described as fol lows: All that piece, parcel or lot of land in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, and in the City of Camden at the Southeast corner of the intersection of Rroad and De Kalb Streets of the said City and be ing a portion of lot No. 1 199 as shown in the plan of the said City, fronting west on the said I {road Street, thirty three and nine-tenths (33.9) feet and I north on the said DeK?lb Street, nirielv and four-tenths (90.4) feet and b^ing a rectangle having said >; j,;. ? mi id hit is bounded East and South by pronertv of 1?. 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