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The Wateree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. - 1 - 1 Entered as Second Class Matter al the Postoffice at Camden. S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advanee Wednesday, September 27, 1933 Wl DOOUN PART Ganluii's "fasting unto death" ap pears to have become a fixed habit. Another paradox is that it is easier to carry a mortgage than to lift it. A Chicago man was shot by (,'nip ese bandits. Wh t a 'ol of t an> portation money hi' wasted! In 1943 many a colonel may he asked whether he got his title in the "World War or in the NRA. _ Max Baer says he hasn't tost a fight sinco he was married . Hut we'll jbet he has lost plenty of arguments. The corner saloon hasn't exactly come back, but we hear of a few gasoline filling stations which sell 3.2 per cent beer on the side. Chicago's fair will close November 1, perhaps because it would be U * cold for some of the gals to perform (that way after that date. In oannection with plans for inflat ion it might be well to consider de lating a few swelled heads, just to keep things in proper balance. China refuses to allow any more of those ancient dinosaur eggs to be re moved frcim the county. Maybe they ?want to throw them at the Japs. "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Some who pay alimony will concede that it kwould have been a whode lot better. Then there was the dumb servant who obeyed instructions to change the water in the goldrish bowl, and also put fresh water in the drip pan under the ice box. Aron Mark of Stockholm is just finishing o..Jlege at the age of 70. And like many American graduates ho will no ^imagine ho is going to set tne world on fire. FREEDOM of the press It may sound s orange to some, but recent warnings respecting the threat to freedom of the press are not with out basis fact. In his annual re port, Carl W. Ackerman, head of Co lumbia University's school of jouinal 'ism, declares that the only possibiliyt of the United States escaping a dic tatorship .rests with the maintenance of a free and courageous press. In a formal statement a few days ago, Senator Schall of Minnesota warned that "we shall see the destruc tion of all newspapers that attempt tr. criticize the gods controlling our na tional administration." These may be extreme views, but Jt can not be doubted that the press of the country fias been unusually timid |of late in commenting on government al policies concerning which con structive criticism might be helpful. It was entirely commendable that the press generally, regardless c?i* party politics, should give support to the sincere effort of the present ad ministration to devise means and ef <fect legislation for *he betterment of conditions. But thai every mov?? jjnade should be accepted as found and beneficial is some'.h'ag else. The question now arises whether the American people are willing to surrender ah the liberties their fore . fathers fought and died for, simply for the sake <cd new theories which are not working out in practice. , Certainly tho press should try to be fair, but it should not weakly surren der its constitutional right to free expression. A ' ,Y' fingl" nd has not produced a golfer equal to our Bobby Jir^nes, but Brit isher* have all tho high records for making holes in one shot. Tho top notchers aer Alex Herd, who ha* ynade 18 holes ine one, James Braid itnd J. T. Smillie with 18 each, and Flower with 12. 1 THE FRUITS OF COOPERATION A short time ago Secrotary of Ag riculture Wallace said that the pres ent cotton plan ? which is reducing acreage, improving the market and stimulating prices ? was principally the work of farm organizations, and not the Department of Agricultu^. Thcv*e who should know believe lhat the plan means millions of additional dollars in the pockets of cotton pro ducers. If that is true, it is a signal victory :'or the forces of coopeartion. As a matter of fact, wise farmers and observers have known for a lojig time that their greatest hope for re covery lay in the success of the co operatives. Individual farmers are powerless in the face of adverse forces. Government relief plans, val uable as they often are, are designed to bridge times of emergency, and lay little stress on the long view. The co-ops are working to create a sound and permanently prosperous agri cultural structHre ? only they have the. weapons that are needed if suc cess is to be achieved. During three years of bleak de pression the co-ops held thousands of n m? rs together, and kept them l-horing in a commor f'use. In that time they unquestiuiiabl> did much to prevent a complete agri< ultural col lapse. Low as prices wore, they would have been lower yet had the co-ops not existed. PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS South Carolina has the opportunity to secure public funds in carrying out a long-delayed and g> e.itly-needed program of building extension and i repairs and remodeling at stato insti tutions which ha.-' b hmi postponed from year to ye. v for the simple reas :. that there wa> no way to finance it. State instituti its either gf-ow or decline with the years. In South ?Carolina several of them are over crpwded and overtaxed, with inade quate scope to carry on satisfactorily and the Legislature for a decade or more has been futilely imp jrtuned to make some provision. From the three and a quarter billion dollars approp riated for the Federal public works fund, legitimate projects can he .'"i nanced. This fund was provided for the states to put poople to work on meritorius projects. There has been great delay and hesitancy on tho part of some of tho states in acting. Chairman Tom B. Pearco of the stato advisory public works board, in Sun day's State, submits an estimate of five million dollars which could bo secured to finance projects where they are needed at such institutions as the State Hospital, the penitent iary, the University of South Caro lina, Winthrop, Clemson, tho Citadel and the state training schoui. At each plant improvement and additions are needed. The vast public sum allotted ' will be allocated to the states on tho basis of population, if customary procedure prevails, and that means South Carolina can apply for a total had better be borne in mind that if of something like $40,000,000 if so , much were deemed necessary to carry out justfiable projects. Anyway it the state authorities w.thin a rea>on able length of time do no: apply for and receive allotments, other states will come in and take their own pro rata shares and in addition the al lotment that was originally South Carolina's. If a state neglects to ask for its share, other states will get it. and eventually tho state that it left out in the cold will have to make up the allotment in tax money. Tho terms of these government grants are easy to grasp: Regulations stipulate that 30 per cent approved for a pr?^ ject is an outright gift, while 70 per cent is to bo raised by the unit or enterprise undertaking the project. The 7<? per cent, may be borrowed from tho Fedeial government at 4 per* cent interest, with a long term period for maturity. Tho law pro vides that when a governmental unit cannot finance its share of a project by issuing bonds, the Federal govern ment may take over the job, take title to the project and lease it to the governmental unit at a rental which will amortize tho cost in a period of years. Quite a lot of discussion and opposition has arisen over the clause of the Federal act governing public works which stipulates the rate to be paid for these porjects. The Federal government has fixed the rate for unskilled labor at 45 cents an hour, with a 30-hour week, while skilled labor will get $1.10 an hour for a 30 hrur week. While this will be a de cided innovation and advance In compensation for such work in times like the present, 't murt he borne In mind that 30 per cent of the total of i each project is furnished by the J Federnl government and tho low j interest rate and long term of the 70 per cent Mupplied offsets that. rate. I NIGHT RIDERS i In sections of South Carolina bands of masked men have been destroying cotton in the fields of farmers. These men are spoken of as night riders, a I term that is not pleasing to Ameri- 1 cans. Masked men who rido by night carry fear to the hearts of the people in the communities visited by them. That they fear ?o be seen and knowr of men is enough to condemn them and their activies. That vhey are willing in the darkness and unuer cover of masks to intimidate the pub lic and destroy property stamps them as criminals. They arp closely akin to the gangsters in our large cities. South Carolina has no place for these nightprowling criminals. Ap peal has been made Vo Governor Blackwood to take steps to stop ;his affront to the peace and dignity of the state and a state constable has been sent to Darlnigton county, from which complaint came, to investigate and repotr upon the situation. Hecause a" fanner may have re fused to agree to destroy part of his cotton should not subject his crop to destruction by unknown parties. That was not the purpose of the acreage .reduction plan. It was left to the fanners whether they would or would not sign the government contract. It was not the plan of the government to penalize those who did not sign. Had that been part of the program, officers would have been sent to force compliance and the department <>f agriculture never for a moment con sidered such action. It is not insym? pathv with the marauders whose ac tivities discredit the state of South Carolina and its people. ? Spartan burg Herald. TAXATION MENACES RECOVERY It is a noteworthy fact that many observers fear that one of the great est barriers to the success of the Ad ministration's recovery program is taxation. Thousands of employers warrt to raise wages and employ more men and women. They want to do their part in starting the march of progress again. But they can't get money out of the air ? and a constantly icreasing percentage of their revenue is usurped by the tax collector. It would be a bitter irony if tho effort of one branch of government to restore prosperity is disrupted by another bi .inch of government, which takes from the citizen and the busi ness the money with which prosper ity can be made. That rigid govern mental economy ? federal, state, county and local ? is essential to our future, is a fact that looms large in the minds of millions of citizens. GOING, GOING, GONE! The recent speech of National Re covery Administrator Johnson con cerning the "buy now" campaign he plans to start late in September, should be of especial interest to the wise and thrifty property-owner. . The forthcoming campaign is not to be classed with sporadic campaign of a similar nature attempted duting the past few years. This one will have the highest backing ? -it will come at a time when recovery is real ly underway, and the public will go the limit in cooperating with the heads of the government. There is every reason to believo it will suc ceed. And the inevitable result will bo still sharper acceleration of the price level. There is, as General Johnson said, a tremendous latent demand for all the necessities of life ? for auto re pains, for clothes, for new heating plants, for house and land improve ment. Organized and directed, this demand can create the greatest buy ing wave since war-time. It wi1'. lower the vaule of the inactive dollar, by making it buy less. It will raise the value of the dollar that is spent wisely now, by increasing the vaule of the improvements. This is fact, not theory. The day of bargains for standard commodities is goinif. It will he gone before we now it. i he American pro|>erty owner is being offered his last chance t.< build a new home, repair an old one, and do similar things at ex tremely low prices. Sijfn of Evil The "murk of the benst" ns It np penrn In the twentieth verse of the nineteenth chnpter of the Revelations of St. John the Divine, refers to fol lowing the {>11 1 It of evil ns distin guished from following the path of good. Those who tnke the letter eourse nr? ?t.ild to have t lie senl of the lamb. In eontrndlstlnctlon to the murk of the hen St. Above all the object is to put .people to work nt a living wage and that will put government money into local cir culation throughout tho stato. ? Spar tanburg Journal. Crop Report As of Sept. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA food and feed ercps .about held their own during August. On September 1 the pi educ tion estimates for coin, hay, and sweet potatoes combined we:e the same as a n- >nth earlier, 15) percent above last year's outturn and 0 per cent above the average production of l he five years 1926-1931). The CORN' crop is estimated at 22, 330,000 bushels -which is 25 po cent ;.bo%\> last year's shoit crop and S ?e cent more than average produ-.-ti >r. ior the years 1926-1930. The TOBACCO estimate of 75.440, 1 '00 pounds is almost double the short crop of 39,236,000 pounds mad" last year and compares with the average production of 81,408,000 pounds for the years 1926-1930. The TAME HAY outlook is for 204,000 tons compared with 210,000 tons last year and the five-year av | e.*age of 175,000 tons. The SWEET POTATO crop at 4, 720,000 bushels is 22 percent below last year's huge crop and 12 percent above the average product i n for the years 1926-1930. The indicated production of PEA NUTS is 9,450,000 pounds, which compares with 10,240,000 pounds in 1932 and 7,315,000 pounds as the average production for the years 1926-1930. The PECAN estimate at 980,000 pounds compares with 75o,oo(i pounds made last year and the average of 856,000 pounds for the years 1926 1930. t The PEACH crop of 1,633,000 bushels is about double that of last year and well above the average of | recent years. APPLE production at , 293,000 bushels is well above 1932 but j below the average of recent years. | PEARS at 97,000 bushels are almost I double last year bu about the average | crop. September 1 condition of OTHER CROPS for this year and last, re spectively follows: Alfalta, 65 and 62; Soybeans, 75 and 70; Cowpeas, 67 and 71; Pasture, 66 and 66. UNITED STATES'. Crops are giv ing very low yields this season al though prospects for nearly all late crops except flaxseed, commercial fruit and some truck crops improved during August and small grains, where being threshed, are showing Vsomewhat higher yields than were in dicated a month ago, according to the September statement of the Crop Itepotring Ho^pd of the United States ? Department of Agriculture. The final j estimates of production are still quite i dependent on when trosts occur and on more accurate determination of how much o fthe acreage sown to spring wheat, oats, and barley was harvested for grain and on how much was salvaged for "hay. In comparison with the forecasts of a month ago the greatest improve ment in prospects is shown by grain sorghums, buckwheat and tobacco. Somewhat better yields or prospects are indicated for spring wheat, oats, rice, Wft-y, beans, sweet potatoes and sugar beets and nominal gains are indicated for coin, barley and pota toes. Fruit prospects declined slight ly during August because of storm damage in eastern apple orchards and probably declined several percent j more during the first week of Sep tember when storms swept the citrus proves of South Florida and I exas. The storm also caused very heavy damage to tomatoes in the Atlantic Coast area. Although ciop prospects improved 1 percent during August, yields are still expected to average nearly 7 percent below those of last year, about 10 percent below those of 1931 and about 8.1 percent below those of the previous ten years. The acreage to be harvested is also relatively low. The total tonnage of all k ra i n produced is expected to be about 23 percent less than the ave rage yearly production during the last 10 years, and 15 percent less than in any year of that period. I he decrease in feed grain production more than offsets the large carryover of corn and oats on farms and indl cate? a total supply slightly less than in 1930 when there was less livestock on hand. Fruit production is now expected to be about 13 percent be low average. The tonnage of the principal vegetables grown for can i ning and manufacturing purposes is expected to be nearly 15 percent be i i,\v the light supply of alst year and 31 percent less than average produc tion during the preceding five years. Regular communication of thin Irxlcro I* hoM on fcho firpt Tuesday in each month it R p. m. Vialtinf? Rrothron wolcamwl. N. R. (JOODALK, JR,, J. W. WILSON, Wornhipful Mwitflr mORE miLERGE From Your Tires on concrete roads than on macadam. Of course you want Concrete. FOR FURTHER IN FORMATION WRITE THE CEMENT SERV ICE MAN. CARE OF: Portland Cement Association Hurt Building, Atlanta/ Ga. A N NOUN C ING The Opening of C. E. Davis Service Station A New Filling Station at the same Location Opposite Hermitage Mill village on Jefferson Highway. 1 in pposite Hermnus^ 'avis Highway. Saturday, September 30 On this date we will give with every tire purchased for Cash a tube FREE. We specialize on Greasing, Washing and Mechanical Repairs. We carry a line of automobile accessories and ? A. 0 Sid eligtits Hetty Mathis, 14, reporter f. *r an Atlanta high school paper, scored tho perfect interview, and thereby won a national prize. Assigned to inter view Ralph McGill, sports editor of t lie Constitution, she did not find him in. Ni(<t daunted, she proceeded to inspect his office, pictures, '"urniture, desk and other paraphernalia, and then wiote "An Interview With a Man Who Wasn't 1 'resent". So clever ly did she do her story that it gained her tin; ward of a scholarship. One of the best similes of the year was perpetrated by Hugs Haer of the ; New York American, who d >c.iibedj something as being "as cruel a . send- ? ing Mahatma Gandhi to bed without hi. supper." It is rather widely known that Stalin's parents were peasants and that Mussolini was once a hod carrier. lN'ow a Vienna newspaper publishes a story by an engiavor named Heinhold Hanisch, who decal res that Chancellor Hitter. of Germany lived on charity in P>09, and later supported himself in, meager fashion by painting and sell ing (Christmas cards. Many may won der how those powerful dictaros got that way, in spite of their former ob scurity, but sonrrhow thye did. The hirth of seven b'ny babies, all living, to a woman in San Pedro, (Co lombia, recently reported,, is perhaps the most remarkable event of its kind in recent years. Hut in his new book, "Tho History of Childbirth", Dp Palmer Kind ley the University of Nebraska tells of an Italian woman of medieval times who bore nine babies at one tinrm and eleven at another. MEETINO OF STOCKHOLDERS A meeting of the Stockholders of tin* Camden Drug Company will he held Oct. 1 <i, 1933 at 12 o'clock noun at the residence of T. K. doodah*, 1213 Lyttleton Stieet, Camden. Meeting called for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the said Camden Drug Company and return ing charter to Secretary of State fur cancellation. R. T. CiOODALK, Pres. T. K. CIOODALK, Sec. 6 6 6 LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROi'S Checks Malaria in .? days. Colds li.st day, Headaches or Neuralgi.i in i') minuten. FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC Most Speedy Remedies Known. Dependable Ambulance SERVICE KORNEGAY FUNERAL IIOMK I'liono 10.'} ( amden, S. (!. Side Quit Hurting, Got Stronger, Well; CARDUI Helped Her Mrs. K. It. of lluntHvlllo, Aln., writes: "I was weak and run down. 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