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The Watfcree Messenger Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORR, Prop. v Entered as Second Class Matter al *< the P<*,toffice at Camden. S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, November 15, 1933 IN MEM0R1AM Charles Whitaker Birchmore Nov. 10, 1860? Nov. 11, 1931 Racing a train to a crossing is an exciting yet harmless sport ? unless the race ends in a tie. "Rubber dollars" might be desir able if we could strc/tch them suffic iently to make ends meet. The come-back of the bicycle is hastening the day whetn we shall blow taps over the last pedestrian. It is charged that there was illegal voting in that New York city elec tion. Who would have thought it ? The United States battle fleet will be returned to the Atlantic next year. Glad to know our war with Japan is over. Chicago's world's fair may be re- i opened next year. Provided nothing serious happens to Sally Rand in the meantime. An economist is a fellow who has a new theiory whereby he hopes to repeal the stubborn old law of supply and demand. Irate farmers cast 1,000 pounds of butter into a Wisconsin creek. We have read in the Good Book about casting bread upen the waters, but nothing about its being buttered. Some bright organizer ought to form a national Second Guessers As sociation, composed of persons who said that the 18th Amendment would never, never "be repealed. Fireworks are generally associated with the Fourth of July, but there may be a fairly impressive display next January, when Congress meets. THE METHODIST CONFERENCE The Lower Division of the South Carolina Conference convened here this morning at 9 o'clock. Camden is proud* to be host to this notable body and extends a cordial welcome to the preachers, lay delegates and visitors, and trusts that their stay hero wiTl be both pleasant and profitable. It is the 148th session of the Conference and it was called to order by Bishop Warren A Candler, D. D. L LD., of Atlanta, Ga. MODERN EDUCATION In a series of articles I)r. Cilenn Fraftk, president of the University of Wisconsin, discussed some of thu laws which ? he believes underlie a thoroughly modern education. Coming from such a distinguished source, they are worthy of serious conside ration. % AffkHlg the principles he set forth these: We learn by action rather than by absorption; learning is spe cific rather than general; the best things to stufly are thoso which are I important to our life and work; wo should study the things that will most directly contributo to our effeciency and happiness. Like many other progressive edu cators of the present day, I)r. Frank does not believe that a college edu cation is either necessary or desirable | for everyone. Tho four years spent in college might often be better em ployed In gaining practical experience in a workshop or in business. It de- 1 ponds largely on tho natural talents And inclinations of a young person whether he should go to college. For one who has a studious dispo sition and aspires to enter one of the imrned professions, a college educa tion is indispenaible, of course. For those who go to collego merely to be able to say that they have gone to College it Is a waste of valuable time. As Dr. Frank very truthfully says: "We cannot prove that a collge edu cation guarantees a big income, or that it make us happier men or wo men. Most of the old arguments /or ' college education are in the ash can." SALARY INCREASES The suggestion offered by Mr. W. G. Query, chairman of the state tax commission, that salaires of state em ployes be restored to the basis of 1932 is of state-wide interest. Mr. Query says that state departments have em ployes on their payrolls who have suffered much from the depression and some of them have had to give up their Komes which were bought the installment plan. He says the revenue prospects for the fiscal year beginning next July look good and therefore, he would raise salaries. There are other salaries that have been cut besides those of employes of the state departments. Salaries of private citizens have been reduced an(i.. many of them in all parts of South Carolina have lost their homes. The thought comes to us that the school teachers of the state have suf fered most- from salary reductions. Many of them aro without work and many probably have lost their homes. What shall be done about Cite teach ers who hold the most important jobs in the state, jobs fro which they have had to work and spend in order to hold them? Are they not entitled to equal consideration with the depart ment employes? There is a little army of county and city officials in South Carolina. Its members have taken salary cuts, and some of them have probably lost their homes. Firemen and policemen in this city^ an dwe assume in all other ciHQSjJfhave had their salaries slashed. Some of them may have lost their homes. Wh*t shall be done abou; them ? No "doubt many hafHships have been caused those whose salaries have been reduced in state departments. That is also true of all employes of counties, municipalities and public schools. Salaii.".; were cut because of government deficits. The taxes collected were insutTicient to permit their payment on the scale of former years. It is gratifying to know that revenue prospects are brightening but, since one swallow does not make a summer, would it not be best to wait until sufficient revenue is as sured before acting upon Mr. Query's suggestions. The servant is worthy of his hire. Many state department employes are underpaid, but they are not walking th? streets or accepting aid from re lief organizations as many worthy men and women are doing in every county in South Carolina. Salaries should be raised as soon as the state, counties and cities are well out of the depression. Can it said that such is the case at this tim#? ? Spartan burg Herald. FALSE ECONOMY During his four terms as governor of the state of New York, Alfred E. Smith established an enviable record as a consistent friend of public edu cation, tho importance of which he emphasizes in a recent public state ment in which he says: "It's all right to have economy; let everything else go by in times of stress, but don't jfjt false economy fall on our public schools. It would not db the state a bit of harm if we did not build another mile of road for the next three years. It would not do much harm if we did not spend any more for operating the canals. I could name dozens of other activi ties that we could get along without in time of trouble. But one single year that education is neglected can never be brought back. Wo carybuilrf roads any time ? but where you lose one year in puhii'.- education it can never be regained." In evil economic times liko the present, when economy muBt neces sarily be applied in all lines of public service, those in authority should go sparingly about the task of cutting reasonable, necessary appropriations to keep the public schools functioning. Tho other big projects that involve such great expenditures of public j funds, liko building highways, public buildings, public works can afford to bo halted or suspended temporarily, but tho child's education must go right on whilo ho is a child. Time does not stand still for him, ami if the schools aro crippled or shut down, tho children 'oho what can never bo restored. ? Spartan bu rg Journal. Mrs. Mary Hodden of (llassgow, who has served many years in prison for stealing, has requested that she be Rent, back there to die. Detectives steking Mile. Marie Devas of Paris for stealing jewels found her getting married and wnited until the coromrvony was com?pleted. Mrs. I, lllian Ilonner of Rellingham, Wash., was given a divorce fromn her husband becauso ho hurled a pumpkin pie at her and scored a bull's ey?s. THE HITCH HIKERS After about four years of operation the Maine law against hitch hiking is decalred effective and beneficial MV the chief of the state's highway po lice, although not a single prosecution has been necessary. The law forbids any person on a public highway to "endeavor By words gestures or otherwise to beg or se cure transportation in any motor ve hicle not engaged in carrying pass engers for hire, unless said perso* knows the driver thereof or any pass^ enger therein." An exception is made in case of sickness of an emergency nature. Maximum punishment for i violation of the law is $60 fine or 30 days in jail. Hitch hikers are a nuisance to mo torists, and many cases are on record in which persons soliciting a lift have robbed and even murdered those who thus befriended them. On the other hand, most kindly disposed person.* would willingly give an honest pe destrian a ride if there were any way to distinguish him from the other kind. In this matter, as in so many others, a vicious minority seems to make necessary a law which imposes a hardship on those who have no wrong intentions. Law or no law, it is safer not to pick up the unknown hitch hiker. THE SAFE DRIVERS'S CODE There is. one badly needed code which will not have to await an of ficial signature. It affects ever> person in the country, and its adop tion should bo unanimous. It is "The Safe Drivers' Code." Accident statistics reported to June 30, 1933, according to- the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Un derwriters, showed that. 12,920 per sons had been killed by automobiles this year. The indications, judging from unofficial reports in July and August, are that final results may show a decided increase in deaths and accidents for 1933. This is u?^u*?'.y significant, because there are nearly 10 per cent fewer automobiles regis tered this year than in 1931. To motorist, therefore, and to pe destrians and all users of our streets and highways, the following coda is directed: 1. Regulate your speed to fit traf fic conditions; keep your car under control at all times. 2. Slow down for intersections, and obey traffic signals. 3. Use better judgment in passing, waiting until there is at least 500 feet of clear* distance ahead. 4. Pedestrians: Cross at cross walks; walk on the loft side facing traffic; dbey traffic signals. 5. Remember that automobile ac cidents constitute an economic waste totaling bilions, through property damage, high insurance costs, in creased taxes, etc. Every motorist should fee that it is his duty and privilege to pledge himself to this code. OLI) FIRMS' NEW LINES If it be true that politics makes strange bedfellows, it is equally true that something similar may be said of business, in the light of recent hap penings. Manufacturers of various commod ities are adding lines apparently un related to their original products, some of the new combinations being almost incongruous at first glance. For illustration: A big automobile manufacturing concern has added refrigerators and radio sets, a yeast company takes on coffee as a companion product, an old sewing machine firm brings out a vacuum cleaner, while two piano man ufacturers are also building motor boata. Perhaps these firms, as well as others making similar departures from their original lines, have an ex planation for the. new activities ment ioned, each logical enough from th'e standpoint of the company concerned. The general idea is believed to that by making two or more products a manufneturer is better enabled to cope with seasonal slumps and in many cases to keep working forces on a more nniform schedule of employ ment. Whatever the explnnntion, the new trend is interesting, and seems likely to spread to many other linen of manufacturing and marketing. Kpprulnr communication ofl this lo<lsro |<? hftW on th? flr?t Tup?<|ay in ?or>h month *t R p. m. Vlnlt.injf Urethral nr? welcomed. N. It. CfOODALR, JR., .J. W. WILSON, Worshipful LABOR VS. COMMUNISM No immediate menace uf commu nism threatens the United States, in the opinion of Congressman Fish of ! New York, chairman of the House committee which investigated activi ties of communists in this country. He states, however, that it is import ant for tne government to keep in formed concerning what the Reds are doing, ?o as to be prepared to meet | any situation which may arise. In a recent speech Mr. Fish took j occasion to pay a tribute of praise to American labor leaders and members of labor unions for their stand on communism. He said: "The most potent force against ihr extension of revolutionary commu nism in the United States is the American Federation of Labor, and the patriotic leadership of both Sam - i uel Gompers and William Green has stood boldly against the attempts of I ?ommunists to undermine tlie faith of our wage-earner* in our foim oi government and in our free institu tions. The entire American people 1 owe a debt of gratitude to the Ameri can Federation of Labor for not com- 1 promising with communism and fori waging a relentless war against it I wherever it shows vicious and dis- j loyal fang." While communists in the United , States are relatively few they are ! very active, and lose no opportunity to foster class hatred, with the object I of ultimately fomenting a civil war whereby they hope to destroy our form of government. | In this they will hardly succeed, but they can make a lot of trouble and for\that reason should be closely watchecw Sidelights Some oddities of the November election: It cost the city of New York $500 to allowltoibbi Nathan Wolf to vote. He is "tfiepnly voter in the 40th district, which was once a residential section, but is now a factory center whose operatives vote elsewhere. A special voting machine and three in spectors were employed to record and count the Rabbi's vote. Neither of the three New York mayorality cand idates carried his own precinct. La Guardia, the winner, lost his home precinct to O'Brien; O'Brien in turn i lost to LaGuardia, while McKee lost also to LaGuardia. t "Repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933" would have been considered an utterly foolish slogan a year ago, yet it will shortly be an accomplished fact, only the formalities of convent ion ratification by four states and the official proclmation being necessary to end rational prohibition. But the liquor question is not settled, and will not be settled so long as some want to drink and others want to prevent them from doing so. General Italo Balbo, who led the Italian air armada in its epochal flight from Rome to Chicago and re turn, has been deposed as chief of the Italian air ministry and Mussolini has taken the post himself; in fact, the dictator is almost the whole cabinet again. It is whispered that Mussolini was jealous of Baibo's popularity, so he sent him to be governor of an obs cure and remote province. In the election of Fiorello II. La Guardia a? mayor of New York on a fusion ticket Tammany suffered its firest mayorality defeat in 19 year?.. Four years ago LaGuardia was beaten by Jimmy Walker by about 500,000 votes. Jimmy cabled congratulations from France to LaGuardia on his recent victory. The now mayor calls himself a Republican, but in tho past has boon Socialistic in bis leanings; he was an aviation major during the ! World War; be was born in Now York of Italian parentage nml w;,| be 51 years old on December 11. Attempting to play the part of his father in a film being made in a Hollywood studio proved to bo too much for Pancho Villa, Jr., 2\ -year old son of the latn great Mexican bandit. After a short time hi the movie colony he wont haywire, re fused to wear clothes and attacked his mother with a piece of iron. A Los Angeles court declared him in sane. The Literary Digest, is suing the New York Times for $4f)0,000, be cause the. Times published the Di gest's final p?ll on the Now York election a day ahead of tho release date. Inasmuch as the poll cost t^o Digest about $100,000, it does seem that all daily newspapers should havP been ethical enough not to publish the figures until the date on which they had permission to do so. Tho out come of this suit will he awaited with inte??Rt, especially hy publishers. BUY NOT, EAT NOT By BOOTH TARK1NGT0N Sometimes we have to go against our training or go broke. Some times what w: have always believed to be a rule of virtuous conduct proves fatal in prac'tice. For instance, we have grown up in the belief, fostered by our parents and teachers and enforced by our government, iliat we have no right to take or use the property of another person without his consent, but if the property in question happens to be a blackjack that the other person is about to bring down on my head I shall have a better chance of surviving if I perceive, in time, tho unwisdom of clinging unalterably to old convictions. That is, there are times of emergency when clinging to an old conviction will bo ruinous. Let us consider the present time in its relation to our old con viction in favor of thrift. People of pioneer stock are often spoken of as the "backbone of the country," and probably they are. Pioneers are thrifty or they don't sur vive. If the wood pile is used too freely in the autumn it may not last through tho winter, and the Midland child learned thrift at its grand mother's knee. Moreover, we've been taught for several generations that it isn't what a man earns that counts and takes care of him in his old age; it's what he saves. We've always believed that thrift is a virtue, that spending is risky and that squandering is suicidal. We demand thrift from our government, vote against political candidates proven unthrifty, and we investigate, and often relegate to private life, officials shown to be carelessly lavish with public funds. The value of thrift, indeed, is one of our strongest convictions. No one doubts that it is a right and useful conviction or that it would be dangerous to unsettle it; but here is the United States government coming to us now, asking us to buy, buy, buy, advising us to spend our money rather than to save it, and generally appearing to set itself strongly in opposi tion to that old principle of thriftiness in which we were trained. There seems to be a contradiction somewhere. Moreover, the government asks us to spend at a time when we have the least to spare, at a time when the Federal government it-elf. as ?well as our State, county and city governments, are taking heavily from its in taxes and in that way lessening our power to spend. Worse still, our government, through the N.R.A., asks us to spend at a moment of great financial uncertainty in our lives, at a moment when we don't know whether we're emerging from the depression ? r ^>-inu deeper into it, and when we aren't sure whether we're le-s afraid >f the future than vre were a year ago, or more so. The curious thin*' about the govern ment's exhortation to us to spend i? that t'..e e\h >rt* r? know ! 1 ? ? w we feel and how we're situated: they know our old cor .:, limi in favor of thriftiness and they agree with that conviction and yet these same exhorters ask us to buy, buy, buy! What's the answer? Money is a means of trade. If yon had a r**rd of wood and no food, and your neighbor had a cellar full of i>"t tons and no fuel, and if neither of you were willing to trade he'd have raves' potatoes to cat but he'd freeze to deat'.i. and you'd have heat enough perhaps, but you'd starve to death. Thrift is in le d a virtue: but this is a time of emergency during which it's :ieee?s,:ry to buv good- so that somehodv'U have monev etw.i: !t to pay r fi r v. '? >t we produce. If it's hard for us to get rich by washint: one mother > -iiirts. it's cer tainly impossible for lis to make a living by oar own. It seems wiser to lire by spending than to perish by saving. TAX NOTICE Books for collection of Shcool, I County and State taxes year 1933 will open October 15, and stay open untiW December 31, 1933, inclusive, without any penalty. Any information con cerning this office will be Riven by mail. When inquiring about taxes please state School District in which you live or own property. Following is a list of total levies for each School District, for School, County and Stato taxes: DeKnlb Township Mills District No. 1 40 District No. 2 3C> District No. 4 38' 2 District No. 6 . 40 District No. 25 24 District No. 43 24 Buffalo Township District No. 3 37*4 District No. 5 21 % District N<<. 7 30*; District No. 15 21% District No. 20 28*4 District No. 22 40 District No. 23 28 >4 District No. 27 35 District No. 28 21% District No. 31 29% Dis* ricf No. 40 40 District No. 42 21% _ Flat Rock Towns' ip DifrhYt No. 8 35 District No. 9 35 District No. 10 25% District No. 13 24% Dis'rict No. 19 35 ^isf -K-t No. 3H " 1 District No. 3?. 35 District No. 37 35 nifsf'ic* No. ^1 35 District No. 40 2.r>% Dist -ict No. 47 21% W'nteree Townshin Disfict No. 11 24% Hist vict No. 1? 3.ri ' '? District No. in p.r> District No. 29 27% District No. 38 21% District No. 3ft 20% Yours rospfcl full v. S. W. HOC I TIC, Treasurer Kor^h-uv County, S < Dependable Ambulance SERVICE KORNEGAY FUNERAL HOME Phono 103 Camden. S. ('. GRAIN SMUT CONTROL EASY FOR FARM ICRS Clemson College, Oct. 3D. ? Answers to recent inquiries on the control of grani smuts are important t?> all farmers of the state. Three such are briefly stated here. 1. What is the best method of con trolling loose and covered smut of oats? Seed treatment with formalde hyde. This can be applied by spray ing, sprinkling, or dipping. For the sp^ay and sprinkling methods, one pint of formaldehyde diluted with from on? pint to 40 gallons of water is used for each 50 bushels of grain. For the dipping method one pint to 40 gallons of water is used. Organic mercury dust and formaldehyde dust are showing promising results as seed disinfectant?.. 2. What is the best method of con trolling stinking smut of wheat? Seed treatment, preferably with cupper copper carbonate applied at the rate of two ounces per bushel in a closed container. Formaldehyde and blue stone may be used but are not gene rally recommended, because under some conditions seribus fed injury may occu.s 3. Can corn smut be controlled by seed treatment? \rn; the fungus which causes corn smut is not seed borne but is carried oevr in the soil on old corn stalks, and in manure from animals that have been fed on diseased corn. The spores are spread by wind and other agencies. A Laxative that costs only 1 (f. or less a dose NEXT TIME you need modlcln? to act on the boweln, try Thed ford'n niack-Draufcht. It brings quick relief and Ih priced within reach of all. Ftlack Draught In one of the least expensive laxa tives that you can find. A 2f> cent packnge contains 2F> or more ()?*<?*. Refreshing relief from constipa tion troubles for only a cent or less n dose that's why thousands of men and women prefor Yhetf ford's Black Draught. Stanley Thornton of Philadelphia was sent to prison for three years for stealing 10 cents. A DOLLAR'S WORTH Published by Th? 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