The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, May 22, 1935, Image 4
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CHAS. W. BHtCgMORg. Pup.
Entered u Second CUm Matter at
the Poetefflce at Caatden, S. C.
Subscription $LM A Tear In Advance
Wednesday, May 22, 1985
Kindness of beart doesn't always
extend to the pocketiboolc
Many novels have a moral, and the
best sellers have an imimcxral.
A new naval conference would have
plenty of blue-prints to scrap.
Being <a college president is easy.)
All he has to do is to please the
board of control, the parents, the un-j
dergraduatos and the alutmni, 1
MORE BUSINESS?LESS PROFIT
A summary of railroad operations!
during 1934 brings out some surpris
ing facts.
Freight traffic increased 7.9 tpei
cent ovor 1938, and passenger traffic
increased 10.4 nor cent.
Operating revenue increased 5.7.
per cent. ' 1 -
Yet, net operating income for the
lines was $11,0^0,000 less than it was
in 1988, which was in itself a very
bad year. And where, in the preced
ing year, the lines thsad a net deficit of
$6,000,000, they sustained a net de
ficit of $32,000,000 in 1934.
Here is one more industry which
is doing more business, receiving a
larger total income, and is still mak
ing leas money ? or more deficits. Th?
reason for the unfortunate experience
of the railroads is that operating ex
penses increased 8.5 per cent over
1988. Some of the increase may h&ve
been unavoidable? but rafuch of it
was not. Unfriendly legislation (had
fastened new and increased charges
on the lines. Taxes had risen. Gov
ernment had, in brief, forced up the
cost of operation ? and done nothing
to enable the lines to make the mon
ey with which to meet it.
The I. C. C. decision which empow
ered the rails to make slight increases
in some freigfat charges, will help
meet the problem. So will the pro
posed new law to affect equitabl*
regulations of all carriers, which ha?
been passed by the Senate and is now
pending in the House. But these
measures, forward-looking as they
are, only scratcQl the surface of the
issue ? much more remains to be done
If our most vital single industry is to
be given a chance to prosper and pro
gress.
THE WHOLE WORKS
An exdhsmge prints a little story,
clipped from an unknown source,
which is very good and perhaps verj
old. Anyway it's worth repeating.
It concerns an Omaha jobbing house
and a customer merchant in a small
Iowa town. A shipment of goods re
ceived by the customer was rejected
as unsatisfactory.
The jobber prepared to institute
puit for collection, and wrote to the
(railroad agent ?t the village for in
formation about the arrival of tihM
merchandise; to the president of th?
bank for information concerning thf
(financial standing of their customer;
to the mayor of the city asking htm
to recommend a good lawyer to
handle thStr case; and to the merchant
Mmself, threatening suit, ^f he did
not mlake payment at once.
All the desired infortmation cam*
in a single letoor, as followw:
"I received your letter telling me
I had better pay up.
"I am railroad agent hecre and re
ceived the letter you -wrote the agent.
"I am president and ?ole owner ol
the local bank and can assure you ol
my financial standing.
"As the mayor of the city, I hesi
tate to referr you to a lawyer, since
I am the only memlbwr of the bar in
tibia vicinity.
"If I were not the pastor of th?
only chunrc/h here, I would tell you to
go to helll"
Officials of the America?* Automo*
bile* Association assert that if present
Increases in traffic accidents continue
one of every three children born in
this country Is destined to be killed
or seriously Injured In traffic.
Approximately one billion of our
nearly two billion acres of land is
in Ipfcatar*
Older Indiana in the Grand Coulee
XMcm district blaia# accidents to work
men at th* dm etrtfe* ire of the
-Or*rt SrItH- ?; i. j,
TIDfl BISING AGAINST
BUREAUCRACY -
There is a wave of sentiment roll
iog up throughout the nation ex&ress
4ng the opinion -Uhat business shtould
be frped from the deadening hand of
politics and government competition
to order to speed recovery and em
ploymsot in a normal manner.
The landowner is becoming fright
ened by the enormous debt burden
and tax bills that are blanketing
homes and farms.
Industry is terrified by growing
tax bills, a multiplicity of regulatory
and restrictive laws, and subsidized
government com|>etition with privatf
enterprise.
Investors, who include all classes
of citizens, home owners, farmers,
industries, banks and insurance
companies, are beginning to realize
that savings and capital will be de
stroyed by tax exeenjat government
competition with highly taxed pri
vate business.
One has only to read the proceed
ings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Con
vention of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association juBt closed in
New York, the recent statement of
the National Association of Manufac
turers which comprises all branchet
of industry, and the opinion express
ed by the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States to see the growing
sentiment for greater encouragepmen
of industry and investments, and a
lessening of the dole idea and bureau
cratic domination of business and in
I dividual^ by government.
} The sjpark that finally aroused pub
lic opinion on this question is tha
Wheeler- Raytnurn Bill pending iq
Congress, which threatens to destroy
electric holding companies, instead of
providing orderly, remedial legisla
tion to correct any imperfections in
Mholding company systems. Stat
I governments have suddenly discover-*
ed that this proposed legislation
limits states rights and makes local
commonwealths and industries subser
I vient to Federal boards and commis^
ions.
The people are afraid of the ex
tension of socialistic (policies when
I they understand a trend that way.
The socialization program proposed
for the electric industry has aroused
I many sound thinkers who see it being
used as the entering wedge for so
cialization of other indstries. Hence,
the growing opposition to proposed
banking legislation!, utility holding
1 company bills and further extension
of Federal control of industrial, labor
and state activities in many direct
I ions.
} This is a very helathy indication of
J serious thinking by our people who
(wish to maintain constitutional ideas
I of government and droip socializing
I plans patterned along European lines,
whicQi force tlhte citizen to exist for
the State rather than tfhte State to ex
irt for the citizen.
i The gradual awing back toward
constitutional safeguards is not al
political issue; it indicates a desire
oc? citizens to maintain liberty of
thought and action, freedom of speech
and of the press, and to preserve
private enterprise and individual
J property rights wflridhi extension of
I bureaucracy would destroy undeT a
I socialized state.
The averago rate of interest for all
government securities now outstand
ing is only 2.88 per cent.
In Connecticut there is a 45- acre
/aim that has been in the possession
of one family since 1675.
There are 161,000 legally qualified
physicians in the United States.
CIVIL SERVIClft EXAMINATIONS
| The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open com
pefcitive examinations follows:
Ethnologists, various grades, $2,60o
to $4,600 a year. Indian Service, De
partment of the Interior.
Chief, Division of Migratory Water
fowl, $5,600 a year, Bureau of Biolo
gical Survey, Department of Agri
culture. ,
Instrument makers, varrious grade*
$1,620 to 2,800 a yea/r, Departmental
Service, Washington, D. C.
All states except Massachusetts,
Utah/* Iowa, * ,Verrmx*it, Virginia,
Maryland, and the District of Colum
bia have received less than tiboir
quota of aippointmentn in the apport
ioned departmental service in WaSftv
ingtonk D. C. Instrument maker pos
itions are not effected by the State
apportionment law.
Full informal on may be obtained
from M. H? Moore, Secretary of the
United States tCivil Service Board
of Examiners, at the Powtoffice at
this citjr. I
LONG STAPLE COTTON
It is constantly becoming mora
generally realized that the rapidly
diminishing demand ?- *
j" by tho production of
g staple, hi^h grade cotton, which
we once produced and can do again.
Experts of federal and state gov
ernments, agricultural colleges, ex
periment stations, and progressive
county faim agents have recognized
this necessity and are now coo per a
ng on a constantly increasing pro
gram to esta/blit#! pne-variety com
munities in Georgia and other South
eastern states, in which all fanmere
Plant a long staple, high grade var
iety which has been selected by ex
erts as best suited to tfho soil and'
climatic conditions of that particular1
section of the state.
In an enlightening and compreJhen
sivo article on another pac-e bvE C
Westbrook, Georgia cotL expert
and state leader in ono variety com-!
munity cotton production, it is point- 1
ed out that before the advent of the
boll weevil in Georgia, arnd particu-'
larly the northern part of the state
was famed for its excellent cotton
was eagerly sought by spin
ners who gladly paid a premium for
it because of its long staple and Ih4gh
grado fiber. During the years when
the boll weevil was wreaking havoc
in this section, Mir. Westbrook shows
that a large minVber of inferior var
TZ v0"5 i?to,oduc,!d' ^ within
a few years Georgia lost her repu.
cotton. ^ ProdUCti?n ?
The same thing happened in oliher
southeastern states, and ou, 0n6
time supremacy in the world market
began to be lessoned by the severe
compet'tion of the other cotton CouIT.
ket wiO Wer? f'00dinB t1,e m?"
m Z aamo class ?'
came inT" ?"cty cott?n community
Witt the to,C? Georgia miasl
With the organization of three cam
murufes i? 1934 Mr.
tates that this number hod increased
to 46, while in 1935 thero will 46 ad
dit"nial communities added to the
fa <drt' b?'?ing th0 t0tal 10 "faety
?re" of T*"' N"ety thousa"<'
, W?re Sr0Wn ?
43,00? b^TeTL^ Jear
uaios were produced, and it
I is estimated Uvat premiums paid
e farmers increased their re.
ceipts $738 000 eictra prefix
from $6 to $10 ,per Mrc T?
aorne counties the bonus far wKh
560,000. 8taP,? m0Unted aS as
In middle Georgia this year ten
counties Will be 00 to 96 per c^t
<Mne variety, and according to fedenul
42'8 por ~nt -
1?34 crop was 15-lSth inch a?d Ion
f com.pared with 27.8 per cent
for 1933 and 10.5 per cent in 1929.
These facts give a definite idea as
to how the one variety plan is bring
ing .about improvement in grade and
P ? of Georgia cotton.
Fifteen of tthb ono variety commu
nities received federal grado and
wZ ll 8e, CG IaSt year' Mr
Weetfcrook asserts that if Georgia
continues to make progress at the
same rate as during the past five
years, it will not be long until the
state will bo producing better cotton
than ever before. When this is
?ug t about in the several south
ern states, and the federal govern
ment puts its power behind higfli den
sity gin compression and the produc
tion of an improved bale for export
then American cotton will move for
ward to its former domination of the
world market acid the southern cot
ton farmer will reap the rich reward
due hi.s progressivenoss.
More good cotton and less poor
cotton should bo the slognn on ever*
IculUvato^ iC> th? SOUtJh? * ^thern
Laxative combination
folks know it trustworthy
TtM oonfldenoe thousand* of parent* hnv?
In good, old reliable, po#d?rM Thedford's
Black-Draught Km prompted them to
tto* new Syrup of Blaok-Dr au ntlt for their
children. The grown folk* a tick to the
powdered Black-Draught: tha youngetera
probably will prefer It when they outgrow
{heir chlldUh lore oflaweet*. . . Mrs. O. W.
Adama, of Murray, Ky., write*: "1 hare
need Thedford'a Black -Draught (powder)
about thirteen years, taking it for MltOU*
ne?a. Black -Draught acta well and X am
?lwaya pleaeed with the reeulta. I wanted
n good, reliable laxative for my children,
i nave found Syrup of .Black-Draught to
be juet that." '
BLACK-DRAUGHT
SALESMEN WANTED
MEN WANTED for Rawleigh Routei
in Camden. Write today, Hawleigh
Co., SCE-21-SB, RidWmond, Va.
Loron E. Slocum wanted solitude,
so ho dug <a hole in the ground near
Faith, S. D., made It into a hogne,
nnd has lived tihtore for twenty years.
cotton in the world
NATURAL FORCES AID
BUSINESS RECOVERY
By R. 9. HECHT
President American Bankers
Association
A LTHOUOH, as official studies of
** business conditions show, business
is still far from having struck its full
stride, nevertheless.
I believe that It is
undoubtedly true
that the natural
economical proc
esses which have al
ways brought the
nation out of a
slump are now and
have been for some
time steadily at
work laying the
foundations for
more active and
normal business
conditions.
R. S. HBCHT
I believe that
there is growing a broader public per
ception (bat the people of this country
must make their own prosperity and
not wait for the Government at Wash
ington to make it for them. In other
words, normal economic vigor and vi
tality of the United States is slowly but
inevitably bringing a return of natural
business recovery.
The Fundamental Cure
Like a doctor, the administration can
help nature. But the fundamental heal
ing processes will come from natural
causes and not from political reme
dies. Despite the slackening of busi
ness now apparent, despite expressions
of disappointment we hear from vari
ous quarters, nevertheless I am confi
dent that these fundamental healing
processes, if not spectacular, are none
the less surtely at work.
Gradually our business leaders are
? showing greater confidence in the fu
ture and are assuming a more forward
i looking position. I firmly believe that
If we will make up our minds to replace
fear-psychology with confidence-psy
chology the results will fully justify
such a new attitude.
BANKERS' ASSOCIATION
STIMULATES ADVERTISING
The American Bankers Association's
Advertising Department reports rapid
progress of the use by bankB of the in
formative bank newspaper advertising
prepared by it for members to assist
them In rebuilding public confidence
and good will in their communities.
The central theme of this advertising
service deals with the "essential line of
economic and social service that all
sound banking Inherently renders the
depositor and the public," the report
says, showing that "it Is not banking
lawB which make banking useful and
safe, but that fundamentally it is hon*
esty and skill In management under prl*
vate initiative."
The Advertising Department is sup
plying about a thousand members of
the association with newspaper and
other advertising material. The news
paper material totals about BO, 000 ad
vertisements annually. The growth of
the work of the department Is shown
by the following figures: On September
1, 1934, the number of banks being
served regularly each month was 623.
The total number on April 1, 1935, was
924, an Increase of 301 regular sub
scribers, or 49 per cent in a period of
seven months.
WARSONBANKROBBERS
National Bankers Association
Pressing Active Steps to
Protect Members ?
Losses Cut
? Imprisonment or death of many des
porato bank orlminals the past year has
brought no appreciable reduction in at
tacks on banks, James B. Baum, in
charge of the American Bankers Asso
ciation Protective Department, has re
ported to his organization.
In the six months ended February 28,
1935, he Bays, banks were targets for
109 daylight holdups and 40 night bur
glaries. He added that although banks
that are not members numhor only
about half those enrolled In the asso
ciation, they suffered a far greater rate
of attack, namely, 51 per cent of all the
bank robberies committed during the
period.
Lotnea Show Decrease
During the period under report, bank
burglars and bandits exacted tribute
amounting to $943,551 compared with
losses totaling $1,257,000 a year ago, ho
said. This reduction in losses is attrib
uted to the time-locking restrictions
and other limitations in the exposure of
surplus cash Imposed last year by
underwriters and several bank super
visory authorities.
The sharp reduction in tho material
loss of money and securities resulting
from bank robbery tli's year was "over
shadowed by the killing of 2 bank em
ployees, one bystander and 5 arresting
officers," and since last August bank
robbery also cost the lives of 15 crimi
nals and caused physical Injuries to 10
bank employees, 12 bystanders, 9 ar
resting officers and 8 bandits, a total of
62 casualties.
Investigations hf the assentation's
agents resulted In the arrest of 86
forgers, 42 bandits and one burglar, or
79 of the 141 bank criminals reported as
'-olng apprehended (taring the period.
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.New Motor Oil on Market
A new prumium quality motor oil
that will sell for twenty five cents a
quart was announced today by Gulf
Refining Com)pany\ It will lie sold by
all service stations at the 'Signs of
the Orango Disc' in tamper-proof, re
finery-sealed cans, as well as in bulk.
| Tih'is new lubricant* Gulflube, is
made by a scientific method of oil
refining, known as the Multi-Sol pro
cess. The process, although consid
ered by scientists to bo the finest of
t,ho se/eral new selectivo solvent
processes for refining oil, is actually
simple to understand. Two cleansing
fluids are used 'which act as 'chemi
cal policemen' in the oil. They separ
ate the desirable qualities from the
natural impurities. When they havo
performed their so called third de
gree, out comes the pure paraffin*
portion which is then thoroughly do
waxed and filtered.
I The development of this process
grew out of the great demand fo
a low priced premium quality 01
that would be capable and of better
withstanding the Uvigh speeds of tha
present day motor car. For years
Gulf engineers have been keeping
pace with the rarpid strides made ir
autamotivo design and havo preced
ed tiho introduction of new engiix
designs with improved oils to meel
such new engine requirements.
Even tho less expensive cars ol
today are-capable of road speeds ct
1 90 miles petr hour. At these speeds
the pistons are traveling at a ter
rific rate and tho exllvaust valvo
stems are su'bjeoted to great heat.
This means that an oil of premium
quality is needed to provide safe lub
rication to all moving i parts of tho
motor. This new premium oil provides
an excellent lubricating film, a tight
er seal between the piston rings and
cylinder wall, and avoids sticky val
ves which impair smooth operation
and helps motorists to get thousands
of miles of trouble-freo motoring
from their new 'h'igh speed cars.
BEFORE SUCH A
SMOOTH SHAVING BLADE
at this low price t
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ON WOLF BENCH
Find adventure and romance with Kentucky Jones in thia
lighting, he-man ;tale of an intrigue that started ? and
finished ? a bloody cattle war. Alan I>eMay at his best.
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