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The Water ee Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHA8. W. BIRCH MORE, Prop. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Camden. S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, October 18, 1933 All men are born equal, at least so far a^ clothes are concerned. The nations seem willing to disarm up to the limit set by existing treat ies. 1 A popular movie actress refuse:- to play "bad girl" parts any m<>re. Ho, I hum! The lawyer's best friend is the fid low who thinks he can make out his own will. Optimists are more pleasant fel lows than pessimists, and also go J broke oftener. I Folks who keep their noses to the grindstone seldom turn them up at J their neighbors. i t Americanism: Giving folks "re lief" by arranging ways for them to j go deeper in debt. Fortunately, the title of a book or movie never gives any inkling of what tho thing is about. The 1933 world's series drew smaller crowds than usual, but the fans certainly got their money's worth. Triumphs of science continue to ac celerate the march of civilization. A newly invented megaphone doubles the efficiency of cheer leaders. It is said that good dancers make the safest auto drivers because of the "cultivated instinct for easy and rap id changes of direction." The same accomplishment ought to help pedes trians a lot, too. " OUR CHANGING WORLD Selecting a trade or occupation to day is a rather more serious matter than in years gone by, owing to the rapid changes in methods of manu facture and in tho products demanded by tho public. In hardly any line of manufacture does one know how soon some nevr method or process may render all his present skill Useless as a means of gaining a livelihood. Highly skilled hand craftsmen Tn many lilies are continually being replaced by machin ery, while products which were formerly in great demand are rapidly I becooning obsolete, such as the buggy J and other horse-drawn vehicles. Speaking from the manufacture; V standpoint, E. W. McCullough of the United States (Jhambor of Commerce said: "I could enumerate a hundred lines of business this evolution has wiped out, and lines without number have changed in materials, construc tion and form." These changes have affected the if, dividual workmen, as well as their employers, and never were change? made so rapidly as at present. Those who enter the mechanical trades must be prepared to adapt them selves to new condition* as they arise. FEDERAL RED TAPE Thoughtful citizens can not fail to look with concern upon the ever in creasing tendency of governmental agencies to restr'rt and regulate our daily activities, which aro becoming more and more emenhed in a maze of red tape. Practically every new law passed by Congress or state legislatures in designed! to further extend this pa ternal supervision by innumerable* commissions, Hoards and bureaus, many of which have no valid reasons for existence, evcept that they make ?? John to fatten tho public payroll Among the mar.y persons of prom inence who have protested against these indefenfrible encroachments up u ' tlje liberties of the people ir . form* r Governor Theodore Chrfe- j WHAT PROTECTION HAS PRIV ATE INVESTOR? A recent release issued to the presa by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the administrative body o? the new Muscle Shoals project, lists some fif ty towns, mainly in the states of Ala bama, Mississippi and Tennessee, which have filed applications for pub. 1 it* power service. It makes eleven statements concerning its power pol icy. Number six says: "The fact that action by the Authority may have an adverse economic effect upon a priv ately-owned utility, should be a mat ter for the serious consideration of the Hoard in forming and executing its power program. Hut it is not the determining factor. The Authority cannot decline to take action solely on the ground that to do so would injure a privately-owned utility." Elsewhere in its release the Au thority says that it will make a gen uine effort to avoid duplicating facil ities, by buying existing lines of priv ate utilities "on an equitable basis." Just how is that to be interpreted? A power company's distribution lines are but a part of its investment. Be hind them must be plants costing mil lions of dollars, whoso capacity has been determined \ y d. land. Every time i'. l.-ses disi ributio.i in a town, a percentage of its p'..n. capacity be comes worthless. It is left with an investment upon which it can earn no return. The only way to offset this and protict the property of private citizens, which has always been a cardinal principle ot" our .government, would be for the Authority to com pensate private owners for generat ing capacity made worthless by gov ernment duplication of facilities. Nothing like this power program has ever been inc ?rp< rated in Ameri can gove rn mi tnl p >liey heretofore. ". he release observes that the interest of the public is superior to any pri vate interest. That Is true, but is it superior to tho ibligation of govern ment to protect or compensate the individual, even the humblest, in his private property rights, bought and paid for under the law, and on which his own government collects taxes to "protect" him? The principles here involved affect all property owners, all businesses, all territories. Department, --stoics, insurance companies, banks or any thing else could be si milarlyf'6pe rated free from taxation. by the government, at the expense of all remaining tax payers. The project in the Tennessee Valley involves much more than a subsidized government-owned power system in a limited area competin gwith its own citizens. It involves the basic princi ples of democratic government ? pro tection and security in private owner ship of property which every Ameri j can prizes so highly. A FOUL BLOT ! "Tho way to prevent lynchings is to arrest the lynchers, try them and convict them," says the Columbia ^cord. Correct, and add thereto, af ter fair trial if convicted, when sent ence is pronounced, let it stand undis turbed. Every time there is a re currence of this foul cowardly, brutal crime justieo is set at naught and I constituted authority defied in the I most blatant manner. There can be | no justfieation for mob rule or viol ence supplanting the means and ends of justice and the machinery of the courts. A state, a county, a section is disgraced when a lynching occurs therein. Just when a state's citizen ship assumes that the slate is going to be kept clean > n this score, comes the recurrence. A human being is put t r > death by a mob or group of iridi viduals who can plead no justification for their act on any ground. We pride ourselves on our advanced civilization but when lynchings and cowardly munrRrs by team work can occur in ;i state, its people has a long way to go to get back to the elementary principles of justice. ? The Spartan burg Journal. tiansen of Minnesota, who said: "I emphatically disapprove of th? numerous ai d petty regulations with which little bureaucrats in Washing ton annoy and harass business, big and little." The fact is that these burdensome regulations are not the result of any demand on the part of the public, but are originated by politicians who fieek tho limelight, and are ambitious to have their names identified with restrictive laws on every conceivable subject. Mind Run* Wild A mnn often thlnkN ho Is ftpenMng hlH mind when lie la merely too ex cited to *nlnd hi* ftpenklng.?Wnflh fngton Rtnr. BIG MEN ARE SHY J It may sound cynical, but it is a fact that the really capable men of the country are becoming extremely shy of politics and political jobs. Whenever a man who has made a success in life is proposed as a can didate for either election or appoint ment, he is immediately pounced up >11 by the demagogues and hounded without mercy. The situation was sized up some time ago by Will Rogers, who with his keen insight said of presidential appointments: "Big men won't take them, for they won't take a chanco on a Senate in sult. - If he has ever earned more than a Senator, he is in league with gib business. If he ever drove a Standard Oil truck or was a book keeper in a Morgan bank he is in league with monopolies. If he is rich I he is in league with the devil. Rut if he has never done anything and has been a financial failure at that, lie will pass the Senate as a brother." While these are the words of a humorist, they are literally true. COOPERATIVES UNDERLIE AG R I C U LT U R A L ST A BI LI T Y~ C. O. Moser, vice-president of the i American Cotton Cooperative Assoc-' iation, recently observed that ootton producers, like ether groups of farm ir.'s, have three problems to contend with: First, production; second, the exchange <of their product for the products and services of other pro ducing groups; third, national and international occurrences and issues which affect finance, employment, buying power, and so on. This gives a pretty good idea of 1 what the farmer who trys to go it j <>n his own, faces. Even the first and simplest of his problems, production,] cannot be intelligently handled ? he can't know how many of his acres should be fruitful in order to produce the highest |Vssible return. When it comes to exchange he is almost pow erless ? he simply takes what some buyer offers, ami that is usually a. very unfavorable price. And when he, in turn, buys the necessities and lux uries of life, he must buy in organized markets, where other producers have cooperated in one way or another to create profitable prices. In the case of national and international econom ic trends, he is completely at sea. It is a testimonial to the vision of progressive farmers that, recognising the difficulties faced by the individ ual, they havecreated cooperatives to fight and solve their problefns for them. The cooperative has size, it has power, and it can employ experts in many fields. It is a force in the forming and passing of legislation, and is considered and consulted in pursuing the national agricultural policy. It is, in brief, the farmer's greatest vehicle on the road toward recov<jpy and prosperity. RISING VALUES REQUIRE IN CREASED FIRE INSURANCE After three years during which policyholders had to rut down their fire insurance to keep pace with steadily declining values, the reverse situation has arisen. During the last ninety days, the values of buildings and merchandise have increased so materially that in sured values are nr>w lagg \>g behind replacement costs and ' >?? the event of loss many property ^v-rmrs will find themselves inadequately insured At this critical point in the recov ery program, a loss inadequately in sured is a crushing blow that few are capable of withstanding. Increase in values makes it dangerous to wait for existing policies to expire before se curing increased pr ttection. The problem of the assured whose policies carry the co-insurance or average clause, is especially pressing. In these cases, there should be no de lay in increasing the amounts of in surance to comply with the co-insur ance requirements. Relieves Women'* Paint Here Is. nn e*. rnple of how Cardnl has helped thousands of women: "I was very thin and pale," ?writes Mrs. I*\ II. Heott, of Roa noke, Va. "I suffered from weak ness and a severe pain In my hack. Thlit pnln unnerved me. nn<l I <1M not feel llk> UoImk my work. 1 ?1ld not care to fro nlncm. nn<1 felt worn, tired, dav nfter djiy.' ''My mother hnd token Cartful, and on KeotnK my eon <111 Ion nhe ndvlftetf mo to trv It T Imvo never regretted (lOlnR no f took three hot Hen ?nd It built me up I irnlned In weight. my color was lictter nrd the fvnln loft my bnek. I ant Htiontfer Nthan I had b?en In some time" f?nrdul -In noid hv loen.1 drtiRKlM*. On* of Cupid'a Trap* When n woman begin* to dlncns* lovfi "Impersonally" with a man, she In totterlnpr the brink American Magazine i Laugh at Bad Weather *"or Distance They offer no real hindrance for you can bank by mail! Uncle Sam's postal department serves us both. The post-man brings the Commer cial Bank right to your door. The postal system enables you to laugh - at both bad weather and distance and enables US to transact your business with safety and dispatch. Try it. The Commercial Bank of Camden "Let's Get Better Acquainted" Sidelights One of the mos.t remarkable trib utes ever paid to an individual over the radio will be the nation-wide birthday party planned for Marie Dressier, beloved film star, on No vember 9, when sho will be 60 years old. An international hook-up, in cluding principal radio stations in the United States and anada ? Miss 1 the United States and Canada ? Miss ada ? will carry the birthday pro gram, in which many celebrities will take part. Her screen success during the last seven years has been one of most notable comebacks ever scored by any actress. A New York columnist quotes a cigar stand girl as being disgusted with traveling men, presumably be cause of their bad grammar. She de clares that no matter what they talk about they "end every sentence with a proposition." A Brooklyn bachelor, living in an apartment, thinks tho morning set ting-up program is tho best radio feature. Asked if ho took part in them, he admitted that ho did not., but confided that the lady living just across tho court did, with thn window shades not drawn. Baseball fans are again speculat ing over what, if anything, is going to happen to Babe Ruth next, season. The Babe himself i-? quoted as say >ng: "I will mako no decision about retiring from baseball until T am convinced T can no longer play, hope to play next yonr. T believe ^ will be able to? so, for M10 present, at least T am not retiring from base ball.'1 . | One American family out. of eight moves each year, according to data compiled from the records of a lend ing telephone company. As telephone subscriber belongs to the more sub stantial class of citizens, it. is quite likely that changes of r^si'lence for the country as a whole are much more frequent than the company's figures indicate. Karl Lundherg found the ri^ht K'irl on the wrong boat when he fcri^l to sail from Honolulu to San Francisco, only to find that by mistake he hnd boarded a ship bound for Alaska. All ended well, however, and the girl, ' then Miss Marie Henzet, whom he met and wooed on his unpremeditated Alaskan voyage, is now Mrs. Lund berg. Hold-ups and practical jokes do not go well together. At least they made a fatal combination for Earner Fields of St. Louis. He held up and i robbed 1 1 persons in a drug store and then maife each drink a s.'da which he served them. While play ing his little prank four policemen arrived and shot him to death when he offered resistance. More twins are being born than formerly, and biologists are seeking to discover the reason. Prospective parents are also interested to know. An unusual sanctuary is the mis sion home at Kongolo in the Belgian Congo, Africa. Mere native biides, some very young, may obtain refuge when they run away from undesirable husbands to whom they have been sold by their parents, but the mission refunds the purchase price to the de I serted husband. If the girl later finds a man she really wants to marry, he can have her by reimbursing the mis I sion. More than 600 girls have pass ed through the mis-ion in this way in the seven years of its existence. The Story of Half an Egg WttKT, NOIGQSl HLRt'SYOUfe PORM*. NOW \ DOLOUR A ISTUfF J [ *fcV NAfiNDft ' BWHQ MORE BUCKETS ? / > ? ^ A HEN CAN'T LAY HALF AN ?60 - - AND IF YOU FEED HER GRAIN ALONE YOU WONT GET MANY EGGS BECAUSE GRAIN MAKES YOLKS. FEED HER PURINA LAYING MASH along with YOUR 6 RAIN ( TO MAKE THE ^ WHITES, AND YOU'LL GET PLENTY Of^ EGG*/ ^ Rhame Brothers Rutlcrigc St. Camden, S. C.