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The WmtcT?e Meesengcr Published Emy WedniAnf1 by CHAfl. V. BIBCHHORB. Prey. Entered m Second Qui Blatter ai the Poetofflce at Camden. 8. C. Sabecription $1^0 A Yea* la Adraac>e Wednesday, September 26, 1934 Perhaps "thero'e no foil' like an old fool" (because he has been at it long er. ?... f Most people detest flattery, unless it happens to be directed toward them selves. A teacher says she finds her pupils more Iobs alike. No doubt, in many disrespects When a villian is thrown frotm a tenth story window in the movies, it'B unfortunately a dummy. A singer declares that music stu dents never commit suicied. But the neighbors often feel like It. Those who object to the publication of crime news may be reminded that the Good Book set the example. I Marine Corps recruits must now have a high school education. One with a PhT D. has a fair chance of be coming a corporal. Those Hopewell strikers who caus ed collodion to harden in th? rayon factory pipes literally ''gummed up the works." YOUR GREATEST PROTECTOR The nation has Just observed ''Con stitution Week." It was sponsored by the American Legion, which car ries on continous work in the interest of better Americanism. In these trying times, It will bene fit every citizen if he looks backward into the nation's past. ?)ne hundred and fifty-eight years ago the Revolut ion came to an end. A handful of pa triots, who had suffered great priva tion* for loner years of wa r to break the bonds of governmental oppress ion, marched home. Shortly after wards they established the United States of America ? and for the first time in world history liberty and equality became the fundamental governmental principles of a great nation. 1 There is danger that, in our effort to obtain temporary benefits and fa vors, in order to meet a periodic de pression ("cagual embarasament" in the life of a nation, as Thomas Jef ferson described it) we a3 a people will lose part of T the great heritage that was handed down to us by our forefathers. Today the Constitution is under attack ? critic3 would have us believe that it has outlived its use fulness, and is only a scrap of paper< If the Constitution is outmoded, so is liberty, so is the right to the pursuit of happiness, so is the right to own ership of property, and the privilege and duty of working and saving for one's self The Constitution deals with the basic principles of liberty, equality and freedom from oppress ion which are as timeless as the seas. Every American citizen should re solve to do all n his power to main tain constitutional liberty ? liberty which was won with blood at York town. "NO BETTER WILL BE MADE" Looking back only a comparatively few yearn, we may remember or have called to tmind many things which were taken seriously then, but which causp a smile today. Such a smile may be evoked by an advertisement appearing in the Re^ view of Reviews in 1899. Properly displayed aYid accompan ied with an illustration that look* very much like a/n ordinary rubber tired runabout buggy without a1 tongue, the advertisement said in part: i "The latent and best Horseless: Carriage. Combines all requirements for an ideal and practical pleasure or business vehicle. No better will be' made. Time cannot improve it. $rtOO. Delivery in sityx days. Send for illustrated catalogue and Interst ing reading matter about self-pro polled vehicles." Thef- fellow who wrote that adver tisement took in quite a lot of terri tory. ? "No better will be made. Time can not improve it." Think of that ? 86 years ago. , i WATCH OUT FOR PEDESTRIANS! Her? is something that every auto mobile driver should keep constantly in mind: The pedestrian must al ways be given the right of way. Ho is, by comparison with the motorist, in a precarious positon ? when a crisis occurs, his only chance to es cape unharmed often depends upon the driver of the car which is in dan ger of running him down. The pedestrian accident toll con stitutes one of the worst phases of our disgraceful automobile accident record. In 1938, 37.14 ,per cent of all motor accidents involved pedestrians. These accounted for 30.83 per cent of all injuries, and 44.96 per cent of all deaths ? showing that when a pedes trian is in an accident, the chanco of his being killed is greater than in any other type of automobile mishap. This year the automobile fatality record is rising over the 1933 level, and if the present trend continues thu death toll will reach a new high. And,; as usual, the pedestrian continues to get the worst of it. There 'is a legion of motorists who believe that as soon as the "go" light flares they are en titled to daah across an intersection, whether or not people on foot are still in it. It is an interesting^comp^ent- ; ary on this that the courts have heldi that once a pedestrian has stepped in to a street under traffic light protec- ^ tion, he is entitled to a safe passage i across, whether or not the light changes. Every automobile driver should re gard pedestrians as being his per-! sonal responsibility. You may save a' fraction of a second by dashing , cross intersections thronged witn pedestrians ? but is it worth it in view of the fact that that "saving" may cost a life? I TAXES COST MORE THAN FOOD Last year, according to the United] ^States News, the American people! paid $1,035,000,000 foi* medical ser- 1 vices, $2,160,000 for fuel and light, | $3,600,000,000 each ofr clothing and | for home rental, $7,650,000,000 for the most basic necessity of all, food ?AND $9,000,000,000 FOR TAXES! j The increase in taxation ? local, ( state and national ? is the most 1 startling and menacing economic de. J velopment since the world war. It was not so long aog that we used to pity overtaxed European countries, in the belief that we were escaping theii experience. Today, with the cost of all forfhs of government soaring in the face of diminishing taxable as sets and earnings, we are very close to the European level. Recently Eng land, one of the heaviest taxed coun tries, enjoyed a general tax reduction, made in the interest of indusitrail re covery. The United States, unhappi ly has no such prospect. A great part of the tax money dons | nothing to encourage industry ? some of it is actually used for projects and experiments which discourage and throttle private initiative, retarding employment, rather than increasing it. It is a bar, not a spur, to purchas ing power. It stands in the way of investment, industrial expansion, farm and home ownership. It is cre ating a vast, wasteful and inefficient bureaucracy which waxes fat while the public which supports It starves. Industrial recovery and employ ment are inextricably "bound up with the tax problem. Until government retrenches, all our efforts to go for ward will be largely futile. . IN THE INTEREST OF ALL The farm cooperative movement Is, first and foremost, designed to help the agricultural producer ? to obtain for him a larger share of the final selling price of his product, and Ho; make his production methods morn profitable and efficient. In carrying out this purpose , the consumer is not "stung", he is, on the contrary, irnmonsely benefitted. It h necessary to him that a constant sup ply of first-grade farm products be always at h.'s beck and call. Ho! wants food t)f quality, wold at a fairl priec. And that is what the cooper- 1 atives strive to give him. When at farmer gets more for what he raise* . it does not mean that the consumer Is the victim of profiteering ? it simply means that the money he pays to the retailer has been fairly distributed between those who produced the pro ducts, those who handled them be tween farm and market, and those who sold them to the public. From another aspect, the farm co op is aiding the urban resident. Farm ers of the country normally provide the largest single consuming source for the products of our factories. Tho drop In farm income is one of the A? the co-ops gradually make pro gress, and farm Income rises, all classes of American cltlttens wilt reap the benefit of stimulated buying and] Sidelights Seldom, if ever, has a baseball pitcher made a more Impressive maj or league debut than did Georgo Hockette, an Alabama lad, who in his first game with the Boston Red Sox shut out the St. Louis Brown3, 8 to 0, allownig but two hits, both singles. Hockette is a left-hander, and has been playing with the Kansas City team of the American Association. When Louis Goldstein of Brooklyn sought to have his name changed to Golding, the judge of the court to which he applied not only refused to grant his request, but gave him h bawling out besides. The judge's name also happened to be Louis Gold stein. Mrs. Mary Ma^n of Lynn, Mass., thinks her 7-year-old grandson is de veloping his (business proclivity too early. When she had laid out a size able bunch of clothing to be cleaned, the youngster sold the lot to a junk man for nine cents. Everybody seems satisfied with conditions in Rogersville, an Alabama town of GOO jjeople near Muscle Shoals. On the annaul election day this month no election was held, no candidates having offered for mayor or alderman. Even the present offi cials did not seek re-election, but it is understood that they will continue to perve until someone objects. According to a report by George N. Peek, special adviser to the President on foreign trade matters, the world owes the United States more than 20 billion dollars net, including war , debts and money due private inter ests. Most of this, he might have added, may be charged off the books as ''permanent investment. s" In his daily column O. O. Mclntyre recalls that the famous tune popular ly known as the "Hootchie Koatchie* . which was first used as an accompan iment for "Oriental" dancers during the Chicago world's fair in 1893, was composed by Sol Bloom, now Con gressman from New York. Bloom was for many years one of the lead ing composers and music publishers in Tin Pan Alley. "Recovery is within reach", de clares General Johnson. Which re mark may go down in history with that other prophetii utterance of an unknown patriot and optimist who first assorted that "Prosperity is ju^t around the corner." When knocked to thw ground by a bull and in imminent danger of being gored to death, Adam Small of Mar athon, Wis., saved his life by scratch ing the enraged animal's head, he 3ays. The bull liked the scratching and stood still to enjoy the sensation forwalked several minutes, then d for several minutes, then walked leisurely away. Whether this meth od would work in all cases is problem atical, but it might bo worth trying in a similar emergency. Because his arms were Injured in a railroad accident and ho is now un able to "caress a sweetheart" Frank Towers of Now York City has been awarded $22,600 from the railroad company. Soverc interpreters wero called In to translate tho testimony of Michel Hordak, a court witness in Chicago. They triod 13 languages before they hit on Kurdish. Prank Walton, masquerading as a woman in London, was discovered and beaten by men who stolo his oar rings and silk stockings. Miss Florenco Barrios of Duluth halted her wedding ceremony and had the clergyman frtart over, omitting tho pledgo to "obey". Iforaco" Clayton of Cardiff was ?sent to prison for offering to sell his wife to a neighbor for $50. When arrested for stealing tobac co and cigars, Thomas Barnett of Chicago pleaded that ho did It for his starving children. A divorco was denied F. C. Henley of London, because ho had deeded his wife and three children to Vernon Markloy. Becauso her husband quarreled with her when she burned the break fast toast, Mrs. Nora Norton, of San Diego, Calif., stabbed him to death. increased purchasing power. Today farm cooperation is one of the greateet social and economic forces in our national life. It has done much in its brief life-time and lt? period of greatest achievement I fltlll lies in the future. Snappy Stuff George V. McGrath of Bridgeport, Conn., discovered his electric ice box in flames which firemen blamed on a short circuit. The burglar who opened the safe of an oil company in San Francisco and found $1,000 wrote the following note: ''Your safe is as easy to open as a can with a can opener." Leaping out of a window on the ground floor of Tftfe contagious hospi tal at Haverhill, Mass., where he was recovering from scarlet fever, Will iam Harrigan, 10, walked two miles | to his home wearing only a night shirt. P. F. Darrow of Frederick, Md., is the owner of a bulldog that goes to the store and brings home goods or dered. During the last 49 years, Frank Luckingham, of East?Hartford, Conn., has recovered 567 ;bodies of persons who have drowned in the waters of the Connecticut River. Pierre Granier of Paris broke all re cords by carrying a 623 pound barrel on his head. I Hubert Rallise of Paris branded his wife for life by slashing a cross cm. her forehead with a razor. For three days E. J. Westbrook of Hastings, Eng., was unable to use his back door because a swarm of wasps got drunk on beer he had set out to cool. 1 M iss Dorothy Timler of Chicago, had Ralp Mack el arrested for calling her "sweetie' without an introduction. Rev. R. O. Johns, who served a year in prison on charges made by a wom an parishioner, has been readmitted to the ministry in Lews, England. A Budapest groceryman named Marcoozy whipped his wife (because she flirted with one of his employees. I Jacob Marz of London stipulated in his will disposing of $150,000 that his heirs mu3t never renounce their religion. Jemas Fohsham of Manchester, Eng who lied to Miss Edith Evans about his prospects to obtain her promise to marry him, must pay Tier $750 for the deception. Miss Caroline Mather of Bromley, England., was arrested and declared insane because she to3sed boxes of chocolate candy to school children. Winifred Smith, 18, of Pontlac, Mich., was sentenced to five days in jail for stealing five apples. to visit the Chicago WORLDS FAIR? * Greyhound Still Offers This DOUBLE Saving! You will never forgive yourself for mi??lng th? Chicago World'* Fair I The lust few week* ere the be*?, and you'll avoid mid lummet heat. Greyhound will *ave dollar* on the trip end In Chicago. QRKYHOUND WORLD'S PAIR TOUR8 retefva fir*t-cla?* hotel accommo dation* In crowded Chicago, provide ndml* ?ion to ground*, *ight?eelng. amuiemtnt. 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Council re serves the right to reject any and all bids. J. C. HOYKIN, City Clerk and Treasurer. A ( \Kl> OF THANKS 1 want to thank the voters of Ker shaw County for the vote they gavo me on tlie '1 1th of September, which elected me t < j the House of Represen tative.; for the third term, I shall never forget tTTose good people who .?supported me and shall always have a warm place in my heart for them. Also I want to say that I have no ill will toward those who voted against me Init will .still be representative of all the people, and expect to servo you in the future as in the pa<t, a' 1 ways trying to keep taxes down and | giving the people efficient service, j and with your help 1 hope to mako you a better representative in the fu ture than in the past. I Yours truly, I J. It. HELK. Recently two bandits held up Rev. Walter Carvin of T'urnham, 111., tak ing his watch and Hible. NOTICE 2 Per Cent Discount Will 15c Given on 1934 City Taxes if P;?id in the Month of September Only. J. C. BOYKIN, City Clerk and Treasurer. Sept. 5,1934