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The Wateree Messenger x Published Every Wednesday by CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE. Prop. Entered as Seeond Class Matter si the Postoffice at Camden. S. C. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Wednesday, March 28, 1934 Fashion note: Knees will be worn higher next summer. A hick town is where yo ugj&t as many gallons as you pay for. Some folks are happiest when they feel that othei-3 are sorry for them. A Pittsburgh man found his wife's ring in his trousers pocket, but noth ---ing else. Some_ whfiL expect to set tho world afire faFgTri by* lighting another icig arette. Yes, Ben Bolt, tho modeiV Swoet Alice doesn't "trmeble with fear a: your frown." Then there is tho confirmed opti- j mist who expects to see a new circus ' act aome day. Folks who don't like to read crimo 1 news are usually given ample warn ing by the big headlines. If as a crtic asserets, trivial writ- ' ing comamnds the highest remunera- ' tion, our stuff must bo high class, j The emission of 100,000 cubic yards of lava from a Java volcano may give an important clue to the location of Hade3. "Capital Punishment for Biting Dogs in Pueblo" ? Headline. This should make the most hardened crim inal resolve never to bite another dog. HOLY WEEK The most significant period of the j Christian year is Holy Week, the week before Easter, beginning with. Palm Sunday, which this year fell on March 25th. j Palm Sunday . celebrates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and! the strewing of palm branches in hisj path by the multitude. Maundy Thursday commemorates I tho Last Supper, and the washing of ; the disciples' feet; also Christ's agony | in Gethsemano and his betrayal by Judas. Good Friday represents tho Jay of the crucifixon and is celebrated in ' Catholic and Anglican ohurchcs with great solemnity. Easter Even is the namo given to the entire day of twenty-four hours between Good Friday and Easter, a (period for prayer and religious con templation. Easter Sunday, the most joyous day of tho Christian Calendar, com memorates tho resurrection, and this year falls on April 1. In tho early history of tho church, Easter was ob served on various dates by different bodies of Christians, but tho Council of Nice in the year 325 fixed it as the first Sunday following the full moon occurring on or next after tht vernal equinox, March 21. Easter Sunday may como as early as March 22 o ras lato as April 25, and its date governs all ecclesiastical days from Ash Wednesday, t.he begin ning of Lent, to Trinity Sunday, eight weeks after Easter. CAPITA LIS TIMID Why is recovery from tho economic depression so slow? Bocauso capital is afraid. Many millions of dollars now lie inactive in banks because the owners of this money aro possessed With fear. Persons who invested readily in stocks, bonds, real estate and varied business enterprises during 'the pros perous times now hold back jind a WAit developments. And so long as they hold back through fear, so long will a resumption of normal industrial business activity bo retarded. It in inevitable tha^, general pros perity will come back in time, but the timidity of capittal may delay a re turn of normal conditions. And it Menis that little can be done to over come that timidity. A JOB FOR STATESMEN Many experienced observers of world afafirs are greatly alarmed ov er the present outlook. Some go so far as to predict that another Euro pean war is inevitable, and perhaps not a long way off. Even the most optimistic must agree that a serious situation exists. This, we befieve, is not because any nation really wants war, but it is because economic conditions are so desperate in most European countries that the governments in power are unable to satisfy the demands of their own people for a chance to earn their daily bread. There is suffering in America ? real suffering ? among a large element of our population. But it is relatively slight in comparison with what ia "being experenced in some parts of tho world. The pitiful paradox is that there is enough food and clothing and raw materials in tne world to make every one fairly comfortable if some means could be found for their rational dis tribution. The granaries of the United States and Canada are almost buvsting with surplus wheat while millions go hun gry; there is an immense cotton sur plus while millions go unclad; other basci commodities go begging because tho$q who need them haVirrio money with which to buy. Will the statesmen- and business leaders of tho world be able to avert the crisis which these conditions threaten to bring about? THE GOLDEN EGGS ''The taxpayer, let is never be for gotten, is the mainstay of govern ment," says the Detroit Times. "He is. a rule, the man of steady industry and frugality, who labors early and late ? producing, saving, paying and supporting. . . . "He is society's prop and reliance Without him. . . . recovery is an idle dream and the great projects of gov ernment are foredoomed to failure." This essential figure, the taxpayer has few vocal defenders. Public of ficials pile steadily increasing bur dens on him. They take a large part of his income and often his savings? both through taxation and through tax-exempt governmental projects which compete with his iprivate en deavors. I You don't have to pay direct taxes to be a taxpayer. You may never pay an income tax or a property tax 1 ? but a substantial percentago o 1 your earnings is taken for taxes nevertheless. Tho grocer who sella you food, the factory that produces it and the railroad which transports it, are heavily taxed ? and the tax they pay is added to the cost of everything you buy. Every one of us is a taxpayer Every one of us is proud to support our government. But each one of us is less secure in his joh and his sav* ings, as opprosive tax and legislative policies discourage industries and in vestments which provide steady jobs. The taxpayer is the goose that lays the golden c^gs. Will the public ser vants he employs kill him in an en deavor to collect more eggs than he can produce ? TAX NOTICE Tho Legislative action on tax ex tension has been finally agreed upon and provides that only two (2%) per cent penalty shall he added to 1933 taxes up to April first, and from April first to May first a total penal i ty of three (3%) per cent. There after, the books are closed with full penalty added as provided by law. When inquiring about taxes please state school district in which you live or own property. Yours respectfully, ft W. HOG UK, Treasurer Kershaw County. SPECIAL TAX NOTICE An Act was passed at last sesstftn of Legislature allowing taxpayers In this county ten (10) years to pay their 1932 and back taxes in install ments ?f one-tenth each year provid ed t.hey pay current year's taxes each year before books close. This ap plies to real estate and personal property only when lifted with real ! estate. Personal property taxes are in hands of Sheriff for collection as heretofore. Yours nospectfully. 3. W. HOG IJK, Treasurer Kershaw County. 6 6 6 LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSK DROPS Checks Malaria in 3 Hay*, Colds first day, Headaches or Neuralgia ill 30 minutes. FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC Moot Speedy RcmeJIea Kmwb. Sidelights Statistics are often valuable, but sometimes coma high. When a Sen* ator asked the Tariff Coanmission how many tons of fish were brought into the United States by aliens, in quiry had to oe made to some 66,O0T) owerns of ishing vessels before the weighty question could bo answered. The answer cost the country's tax payers about $10,000. We newspaper guys will agree witfi Oscar Webber, manager of one of Detroit's largest stores, who told a merchants' convention: "When the going is tough our experience shows that nothing sells goods like newspa per advertising." Dorothy Dell of New York is a lit tle show girl who is colsely chaperon ed by her mother, in order that she may not fall under the demoralizing influences which sometimes beset young women of the stage. Incident ally, Miss Dell's most striking song hit contained the line: "Was I drunk; was he handsome; did my mother give me hell?" An odd case of versatility is that of Robert Cloud, a New York negro, who is a lyric composer^- of talent, with fit Sre than a score of songs to his credit, for which he has written both worfls and music. His regular job, however, is that of "red cap'* at Grand Central Station. People eat 20 per cent less bread per capita than they did 30 years ago, according to the Department of Agri culture. If bread consumption had kept pace with the increase in popu lation there would be no wheat sur? plus today. Perhaps modern dieting fads are responsible for the low price o! wheat. Entomologists have discovered that cockroaches can't stand a dry en vironment, and that in a dry atmos phere at a temperature of 86 degreea these odius creatures waste away and die in about four days. Unfortunate ly this condition seems difficult to maintain around the kitchen sink. From a Japanese schoolboy's essay on Washington: "George Washing ton was vsore because American per sons was not free. - He say to king, 'I express declaryations of independ ence.' King he say nothing doing and Mr. Washington tell Admiral Dewie to shoot big guns at him. By and by king say he will not run over American persons again. 'Let George do it,' he asy, and so today American persons she is free." The will of Theodore Mants of Des Moines was in the form of a phono graph record, on which he directed the disposition of his estate, follow ed by the statement of witnesses. This is believed to bo the first all-talkie will on record. Don't Prolong The Agony! Next time you suffer from Gas on Stomach, Headache, Sour Stomach, a Cold, Muscujar, Rheumatic, Sciatic or Periodic Pains; That Tired Feeling, That "Morning After" Feeling. Get a glass of water and drop in ono or two tablets of Alka-Sellzer Tho New Pain-Relieving, Alka lizing, Effervescent Tablet "Watch it huhble up, then drink It. You will be amazed at the almost instant relief. It is called Alka-Soltzer because it makes a sparkling alkalino drink, and as it contains an analgesic (Acetyl-Salicylate) it first relieves the pain of every day ailments and then by re storing the alkaline balance cor rects tho cause when due to cxcess acid. After frying mnny brands of medicines ? so-called relief for fis, nnd nil of them a failure, cave up hopes. By chance I tried Alka-Seltzer ? I am more than satisfied, Geo. Bennett, New York, N. Y. Get a glass at your drug stor? soda fountain. Tako home a 30 cent or 60 cent package. Mrfl. W. E. Tlor.ry of IntflowoodJ Calif., has tho first hiacuit aho ever haked and it in still in ft good atatc of preservation after 37 yeara. Eric Wcatloy rode 2fH) miloa In 27 hours on omnibus* in London, Eng., on a ticket coating 18 cento. Announcements Announces For Re- Election To the Democratic Voters of Ker shaw county: Upon my record as Sheriff of Ker shaw counly for the past two terms, and upon my record as Deputy Sher iff for seven years prior thereto, I hereby announce myself as a candi date for re-election to the office of Sheriff. I am grateful for the loyal support given me in my- previous campaigns, as well as in the adminis tration of the "duties of my office, and I ask a continuation of that loyalty and support. J. H. McLEOD. FOR RE-ELECTION TO OFFICE OF JUDGE OF PROBATE I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the Officii o' Judge of Probate for Kershaw Coun ty in the approaching County Prim ary election subject to the rules of the Democratic Party. Will appre ciate the support of the Voters of ICershaw County and if elected will render unprejudiced advice and ser vices as heretofore. L, REX JONES. ANNOUNCED FOR MAGISTRATE We, the many friends of Mr. G. R. Clements, beleiving that ho would make a capable and efficient officer, hereby announce him as candidal e for Magistrate for tho western part 0/ Flat Rock Township subject to tho rules governing the Democratic primary. FOR COUNTY TREASURER To the Democratic Voters of Ker shaw County : I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Treasurer, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. You have honored me with this officu lor two terms. I appreciate your loyalty and su/pport in the past and hopv you will continue this support by re-elect ing me in the coming primary. Very respectfully youis. S. WYLIE HOGUE. ELECTION NOTICE By order of City Council, Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the City of Camden, South Carolina, on Tuesday, April 3, 1034, for the purpose of electing a Mayor and six Aldermen for the said City of Camden. The polls will be open at 8 A. M. and will remain open until 4:01) P. M. at tho following places: Ward One ? City Recorder's Court Roorh. Ward Two ? City Filling Station, Ward Three ? Redfearn Motor Company. Ward Four ? Residence of Raymond Moore. Ward Five ? Residence of A. G. CI ark son. Ward Six ? Resjdenco of G. E. Tay^ lor. \ The following managers have been appointed: Ward One ? J. S. Lee, J. K. Goodale, W. C. Stewart. Ward Two ? George W. Monroe, Mrs. S. F. McCoy, Mrs. W. E. Hend rix. Ward Three ? Mrs. M. M. Reason* over, Miss Ida Wallace, Mrs. Lotti'i Viughan. Ward Four ? E. L. Phelps, Walter Rush, Mrs. Raymond Moore. Ward Five ? Mrs. D. O. House.*, R. E. Stevenson, E. C. tfeimp. Ward Six? W. R. Hough, G. E. Tavlor, Mrs. S. C. Zemp. J. C. ROYKIN, Clerk of the City of Camden, S. C. TAX NOTICE Following is a letter from Comp roller General: "Whereas, there is pending in the legislature a Joint Resolution, al ready approved hy the House, provid ing for the extension in time for the payment of 1933 taxes without fur ther increase in the present penalty of two (2%) per cent until May 1, lJ'.t, and "Whereas, tho said resolution has not been acted upon hy the Senate. "Pending action by the Senate: It i? ordered, with the approval of the Governor and under authority of Sec tion 3155, Volume 2, Code of I<aws 1032, that tho present penalty of two (2%) per cent bo not increased until March 15, 1034, at which time tho books will close and a penalty of severn {!'/<>) per cent will attach un less the I^sfi-slature shall direct other wise. The ponalty to bo collected until March 15 will, therefore, remain at two (2%) per cent as already pro vided. "Given under my hand and seal this third day of March, A. D. 1034." A. J. BEATIT E, Comptroller General. Approved: I.- C. W, A OK WOOD, Governor. S. W. H'OGUE, Treasurer Kersihaw County. March 5th, 1034. ftftjrular communication -Jl thin is h?fd on hh? firrt TWnday in enoh month At 8 p. m. Vlnltinff Brftthr?m ar? welcomed. N. R. GOODALE, JR., J. W. WILSON, Worshipful Maator Kocratmrj. . Charter No. 9083 Reserve District No. 5 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE First National Bank of Camden CAMDEN IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AT CLOSE OF BUS INESS ON MARCH 5, 1934. ASSETS ^ Loans and discounts $226,888.36 ? j Overdrafts . . .' 74.27 United States Government securities owned 90,545.00 Other bonds, stocks, and securities owned 76,809.83 banking house, $29,858.26; Furniture and fixtures, $3,949.52.... 38,807.78 Real estate owned other than banking house 25,864.28 Reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 67,158.00 Cash in vault and balances with other banks 197,625.53 Outside checks and other cash items 811.50 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treas. 2,500.00 Oilier assets 2,792.98 TOTAL $723,372.49 163,161.32 84,795.34 LIABILITIES Demand deposits, except U. S. Government deposits, public funds and deposits of other banks $303,333.2<|? Time deposits, except postal savings, public funds and deposits of other banks Public funds of States, counties, school districts, or other subdivisions or municipalites United States Government and postal savings deposits 42,025.35 Deposits of other banks, including certified and cashiers' checks outstanding 75.87 Total of above five items r (a) Secured by pledge nf loans and I or investments .. $100,358.10 (b) Not secured by pledge of loans and j or investments 493,032.98 (c) Total Deposits $593,391.08 Circulating notes outstanding 48,600.00 Other liabilities 177.32 Common stock, 750 shares, par $100.00 per share $75,000.00 Surplus 5,000.00 Undivided profits ? net 1,204.09 81,204.09 Total, including Capital Account 723,372.49 MEMORANDUM: Loans and Investments Pledged to Secure Liabilities United States Government securities 85,495.00 Other bonds, stocks, and securities 56,694.83 Loans and discounts 7,500.00 Total pledged (excluding rediscounts) 149,689.83 | Pledged : (a) Against circulating notes outstanding 50,000.00 (b) Against U. S. Government and postal savings deposits 42,495.00 (c) Against public funds of States, counties, school districts, or other subdivisions or municipalities 57,194.83 Total Pledged $149,689. 1 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw: I, S. W. VanLandingham, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. S. W. VANLANDINGHAM, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of March, 1934. HUGHEY TINDAL, Notary Public. Correct ? Attest : C. J. SHANNON, JR. WARREN H. HARRIS, L. A. WITTKOWSKY, Directors. Relieved By Taking Cardui "I was weak and run-down and Buffered quite a bit with pains In my side," writes Mrs. Nick Bar ranco, of Beaumont, Texas. "I was nervous. I did" not rest well at night, and my appetite was poor. "My mother had used Cardui irith beneficial result, so I decided to take It. I surely am glad I did, for It i topped the pain in my Bide and buiit up my general health. I took seven bottles in all." Cardui is 8?ld at all drug ator??. A Norwegian dispatch raying that a whale was captured in a Ford was incorrect. Tho whalo wan captured in a fjord. As punishment fur breaking into Batz, 18, of Rochester, Ind., ha.1 been sentenced to go to Sunday School ev ery week for a year. Threo bandits who kidnaped L. R. Jones, of Columbia, S. C., and robbed him of $4,300 were considerate. They returned $75 to him and gavo him a hah' pint o i whiskey. Just 22 hours after H. B. Keilder ling of Waterloo, Iowa, met Miss Ad elino Lee, of Red Cloud, Ben., they were married in Yuma, Ariz. Two minutes after a physician pro nounced his wife dead, Henry Otto, of New York City, committed suicide. REVEALS DJER-KISS is so infinitely finer that it gives any skin the appearance of petal-soft perfection seemingly without the use of powder at all. You will never he satisfied with any other, once you have used it. A French creation ? pure, flinging for hours and hlended to your individual type. 60 C Na/ttrelle Blanche Pec he Rachel FACE POWDER If your 4+nUt e<MA?t Mpply yx< (*n?l ih M( mm. ALFftfiO M. 1MITH CO., MO FWt* Mw Y?ft