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Barnwell Sentinel
Owned and Published Every Thurs
day by The New * Sentinel Publish
ing Company at Barnwell, J/B: C.
Chas. CarrolT Simms, ; President.
John K. Snelling, Sec.^Treas, and
J. B. Morris, Jr., Bu -iness Manager.
highly expensive became so few
them cared to make Ji success'
teaching. It was with the most of
them only a stepping stone to some
thing else, and the majority of them
didn’t take long tatake the step."
■-» As long as applicants and teachers
agencies were willing! to supply new
of ] to drive a truthJTTtOthe public headr.
of i In this section of the State with 1
our varied types of soil we. need not
depend on any one'trop for a money
crop. JThere is a grea^ probability.
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that tobacco cultqre will succeed with
It should be borne rn mind that
An Unsurpassed offering of the
us.
,v/e have a splendid opportunity to cap
teachers to trustees at the same low. ture the market with our tobaccp.
W. M. JONES,Editor.
Entered as second class matter, Feb
ruary 14, 19105 at the Postoffice
- Barnwell, S. C., under the Act of
Congress of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1919
The Boll Weevil’s Partner.
The boll weevil is an unlovely and
ungainly insect. It is now the most
hated and despised of all our neigh
bors because he surely threatens to
jolt all £f us out the well beaten path
of prosperity. The banker is afraid
of the “critter.” The merchant sees
several lean years of business be
cause of the pesky varmit. The
small cotton farmer has been throw’n
into a perfect panic because of the
weevils presence.
The prosperit of Barnwell Coun
ty has had for many years as great
a menace as the weevil can ever be
come. This menace is the incompe*
tent farmer who knows only how to
grow cotton on his own farm. . We
have felt that all that our lands and
climate would produce was cotton.
Recently an opportunity was given
to see sohie of the goods sold by the
Army Quartermaster stores and pur
chased by Barnwell residents. There
was bacon raised in the west and
packed in Chicago, asparagus raised
in California, beans raised in Colo
rado, and peaches raised in Delaware,
if those people can raise these pro
visions, can and ship them to us at
a profit to themselves why can’t we
raise them for ourselves and keep
our money at home? If the boll wee
vil can convince the farmers of this
county thnt a dollar saved instead of
spent is a dollar earned we ought
to erect a monument to it as was re
cently done in Alabama. Prosperous
people live at home while the incom
petent cotton farmer supplies his ta
ble from every quarter of the Union.
The boll weevil injures only the
cotton industry, the farmer who rais
on ly cotton and doesn’t live at
salaries, the trustee^ saw no reason
to put the "salary of teachers' on a
living basis. Boards of trustees valy
greatly in the interest taken in their
schools to sdcure the best results.
They felt that "their duty was done
.'lyhen the strange,teacher arrived at
the schoyl house. The war has rudelly
awakened the average board of trus
tee^, for the teachers have in many
cases quit the school room to secure
better wages elsewhere. Trustees
not realized that unless some
addtional financial help from parents
is given the teacher that she cannot
board and dress herself on the aver
age salary given for teaching. The
teachers have learned this fact, but
the average board of trustees have
not. / _ _ . . ' ’
The shortage of teachers is increas
ing at an alarming rate. There are
now r no substitutes to take the places
of teachers who are compelled to fall
out for one good cause or another.
There are no additional teachers to
take care of the lower grades and
the late enrolment in each school. In
every county in the State some
schools remained" closed all of last
session. • *
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The remedy is to be faund. in look
ing at the causes which have^To-
duced the present situation*. School
salaries must be raised to command
the talents of those who have left the
school room for business, or the
school children will pay for their fath-
stinginfess. We must consider
ersv
how* to secure the best school advan
tages for school children instead of
the convenience of tHeir parents.
This means that it win irv some- cases
pay to transport the children to first
class schools, rather than leave them
to inferior teachers in ordinary
schools. In any caw it is the children
who need school advantages who will
pay the bill.
The Law at a Friend.
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home* attacks the best business inter
ests of the banker and merchant, ft
should be borne in ntind that it is not
the incompetent farmer as an individ
ual, but as a class that constitutes a
greater menace to our prosperity
than the weevil ever can be. As an
individual this man deserves our best
sympathy and help to tide him o.vcf
the next few years. We must tide
him over or his adversity will be our
adversity. It is the incompetent farm
er in the mass that threatens us more
than the weevil.
The most dangerous factor in the
whole situation is the merchant or
banker who feels that he can save
himself by cutting off the incompe
tent farmer from credit. We are ex-
tricably bound up together, i The. mer
chant and banker will go down or
stand with the mass of incompetent
fanners. The merchants of BarnwelL
County and its bankers might with a
rare business foresight form asso
ciations arcL.employ experts in the
The majority of our people have
learned neither to make nor to keep
the laws of the land. It is given to
but a small number to have a voice
in the making of laws. All of us may
have a voice in the keeping of the
laws as made.
_ It may be stated as a fact of fun
dryncntal importance that law’s ought
to be observed. Eygg a bad law
-oug\t to be kept, because the keeping
of it is a lesser evil than the break
ing of it. Once let \the idea get
.aboard that any man or set of nten
are superior'*??* any law, ieven a bad
law, and the.whole structure of law
is endungered. A bad law pbserved
a quicker way to get rid of it by
is
ancL,employ experts
culture of tobacco and peanuts who
would teach the incompetent farmer
how to i;aise these products. They,
might employ experts in the construc
tion and operation of canning fac
tories, and experts in the raising
•f vegetables that might be sunned.
-These business men might then as
sist the incompetent farmers to grade
and market their produce to an ad
vantage to the farmers. Surely they
would thereby make two dollars grow
where one grew before. After &11 an
, unprogressive banker- or merchant is
a side partner to the~boll weevil.
The Teacher Shortage.
There was a time when the posi
tion of teacher in the schools was
given to some widow who needed the
salary to supplement her slender in
come, or to some boy who needed the
money to go to college. The case
might include the whole number of
people who needed to be helped from
public funds. This system resulted
in some first class teachers who might
have been ignorant of many modern
ideas of teaching, but they knew bow
When the graded end high schools
graduated huger numbers of 9th and
1M grade pupils than cargd to go
the average hoard of
is very similar to the Turkish and
Greek tobaecos which formerly won
such high estimation for cigarettes.
The war has practically destroyed to
bacco culture in Turkey and Greece
beyond hope^ ^consumption. Even
theje they are looking to us to sup
ply the demand for cigarettes. The
American army in France introduced
our cigarettes to a new market. The
probability is that we will be without
fonnadible competition in our types
of smoking tobacco for the next fpw
years. The culture of tobacco is
worthy of aurjeonsideration. V
It requiT^sits largest outlay in the
construction of tobacco barns. There
must be one of these to every, four
gcres under cultivation. The man
agement. of the crop from start to
finish should with us be under the
oversight of some expert secured
from a tobacco section. This would
be a splendid investment on the part
of the 'banks -jxuany town to secure
such an'expert to serve its customers.
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SEASON’S NEWEST STYLES FOR
Minimum Salaries.
A distinction is to be made between
wages and salaries. The man who
makes from six to twelve dollars a
day plastering, laying brick, cleaning
ivindoWs, or in similar lines of bread
winning receives wages. The man or
woman who clerks in a store or bank,
or teaches or preaches, and it receives
(from two to four dollars a day re
ceives a salary.
The salaried person hot only is in
the trough of the sea. but all of the
waves of the high cost of living have
gone over hinn He must ljve under
some roof, have food on his table,
and wear some clothes, but the prob
lem of getting the fox and the geese
across the river is kindergarden play
compared with his problems of meet
ing daily expenses on his "or her sal-
It is a game of chance in’which
ary.
repealing it, than to disregard it. The
laws of the land are the supreme
safety of the people, therefore to
preserve the best we must keep the
worst inviolate.
While the law is a protection yet
by many it is regarded as a restraint.
The figure may not be complimentary,
but many people, even the great ma
jority of us. regard the laws very
much as a lot of stock look on the
pasture fences. 'We spend entirely
too much time trying to-find its loop
holes an dweak places through which
we may get outside of it. We fail to
see that the law is our friend instead
of enemy. The laws -that forbid
Inmting with- aii-guns- and- riftes on-
the streets of a town are not to de
prive the small boy of pleasure, but
to protect others from the dangers
that might arise from street hunting.
TheMaw against"the selling of mer
chandise and keeping open of barber
shops and garages on Sunday are not
to injure the proprietors of suefi es
tablishments or the general public,
but to protect the community in gen
eral from the dangers that wotfhL
arise if Sabbath observance w r ere to
be destroyed. The laws against) -
hunting out of season are not to keep^
a man from the pleasure of the hunt,
but toprederve even fyr him land his
VhildremTKTadequate supply of game.
It is only a shortsighted view that
regards the law as an er\pmy.
The true spirit of law observance
is found nothin the policeman** club,
nor the machinery of the cbtirts, but
in the conviction that the law is our
friend. The law breaker is not mere-
thoroughly selfish person who is
blihd to the interests of all others,
but, in breaking the law he breaks
d^wn.the wall of protec£i0h*4>efore his
own house.
he bets his whole salary that thing
can’t be done.
Ministers have suffered nitfst of all.
Clerks in stores are not far behind
them. Bank clerks and clerical help
are well up in the front of the pro
cession. A worthy step that has been
taken with reference to the ministry-
in certain states is to suggest a min
imum salary for single men and a
larger minimum for married men.
Why not have u similar movement for
salaried people in every line of em
ployment? The employees who are
w orth a minimum salary would make
it a good investment for their em
ployers. Those employees who are
not worth a minimum salary are not
vorth employ-ing.
Unless this is done we shn M ir this
country find sooner of la> ?r want
has come to pass in England, an or
ganization of salaried people who by
the power of numbersivrill compel a
larger amount than a minimum sal
ary.
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latest and most up-to-date styles of COAT SUITS so dear to the
feminene heart more complete. A Beautiful collection of the
most authentic styles in Ladies and Misses Coat Suits ill all*the
new materials—Silvertoues, Broadcloth, Tricotine and Serges.
Some tailored styles, some models trimmed in fur. - We are now
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Beautiful fall and winter Dresses in .a multitude of alluring .styles
at very reasonable prices.
The reason why we are able to offer these dresses
at very low prices, now in the middle of the season
is that we were H)N TI1E SPOT” at the right
time, se we obtained these splendid bargains.
Come in and look at our
WESTERN CAROLINA DEPARTMENT STORE
8, MAZURSKY, Prop,
Eliza
.Beulah.
against
Gamble,
et. al.,
Defendants.
By virtue of a,decretal order to
me directed 'in the above entitled
cause, 1 wjjl sell at Barnwell, in front
of tiie Court House, on Monday, the
first day of December 1919, it be
ing salesday in said month, within
TfThrr icgal nt> n-ra- of sale-, -th«—failawing,
fTe7. ribu it real -estate : ■ A-ll-thut cer
tain tract or parcel of land known as
the Killingsworth Home Place, con
taining about six hundred (GOO)
acre: , more or les*. and hounded on
the North by lands of Hinton Ander
son and lands forfnerly of R. R.
Rountree and now owned by Coon
Owens j on the East by lands of Isaac
Rountree; South by M4Her--Ander
son Place, now owned by T. A.
Greene and on the West bv lands of
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HAPPY WOMEN..
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of Them in Barnwell, and
Good Reason for it.
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Wquldn’t any woman be happy,
After years of backache suffering,
Days, of misery, nights of unrest,
The distress of urinary troubles,
When she finds freedom.
Many readers will profit byfltji
lowing.
Mrs. J. L. Koger, Hampton, S. C.y
says: i*5\bout five, years ago I was
troubled with a very lame back, which
ached hard nearly all the timer My
kidneys didn’t act right and were
very annoyirig. I had suffered for
some time when 1 was advised try
Doan’s Kidney Pills. After taking
them i short time, 1 bepan to fell re
lief. My back felt stronger, the ache «»»nce on «na
... f.« disippc.rirf end kid,*
rest on the »a apeper-- On# and
the daily to ttejsyli y weekly j an
began to act normally again. One
if Qoan’g gave me complete re
I haven’t needed a kidney rem
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-Jr At -Killmg*worth, -now ownejd
James \ T Killingsworth.
ALSO:
All that certain tract-or parcel of
land in said State and County known
as^-bhe Nathan Anderson place,
bounded North by lands of James
Barker and I. W. Rountree, on the
East^by Lower Three Runs; on the
South by Adams Branch, separating
it from lands of Isaac Dunbar and
M. O. Wall and on the West by lands
of I. W. Rountree and W. J. Mc-
Cutcheoii and containing three hun
dred and fifty- (350> acres, more or
less, i .
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Sale of the above lands will be
made according to a plat to be made
theeof and above description is sub
ject to the lines and acreage that
may be established by the plat to be
made as aforesaid.
Sale of above lands to be exclus
ive of the timber claimed by Kendall
Lumber Company upon the tract up
on which the alleged^ lease exists fn
its-favor. }
Sale of above lands to be made
first in parcels and then as a body.
Master to accept the bid or bids for
the highest amount offered, so that
the said lands may bring tfie highest
price at said sale.- r
’ Terms of sale-: One third cash
and the balance on'one and two yeirs
se-
igeoi the
p rem tars, beaming .interest aT eight
per cent per annum, payable 1nnu-l
BRCUS DAY IN BARNWELL
Only-Big Railroad Show Coming This year.
Grand Street Parade &JTwo Performances.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21
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lit interest to bear interest
fame rate until paid, with the
re to the pairhaaer of pffri"
\ to pajr all raafc if dwirat
Inarm Mjr far papery and
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