Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ILDERi A JUST RECEIVED.—A carlotd of famous “Titehold” brand of red “ cedar shingke. Can make attract- v* price. C. F. Molair, Barnwell, S. 1-12-tf. • HERB AND HEREABOUTS. • Mr. A. C. Matthews, of Newberry, was in the city this week. Cadet Leroy Molair arrived home from Clemson College Tuesday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Mathis, of Blackville, were among the visitors here Tuesday. Mr. G. M, Neeley, of the Olar Buick Co., of Olar, was a business visitor here Monday. Mr. G. W. Boylston, of Blackville, was a welcome caller at The People office Tuesday afternoon. Miss Arab Gatling, of Rayford, N. C., and Mr. Ralph B. Stuart, of Greensboro, N. C. t were the guests of the latter’s sister, Mrs. B. P. Davies, this week. Supt. J. D. Robison, of the Barn well High School, will leave in a ffw days for Orangeburg, where he accepted a position to teach in Summer School for teachers. The '^■riends of Mrs. Robison will be glad ^IPo know that she will remain in Barn well. Messrs. I. K. Still and J. 8 ! Blume, of Blackville, were callers at I The People office one day Kaat week. I While here Mr. Still instructed the • editor to publish his formal an nouncement as a candidate for re- I election to the office of Magistrate J at Blackville Mrs J. A. Porter. Mr*. Miuute Calhoun and Mias Blanche Porter left Thursday lot Spaitanburg to at* I tend the gradust mg csercises at I Converse College, at which time I Biases Emily Porter and Helen Cal* i boon received their diplomas. Mr. I Porter went an 8unda>. at* >a. or II. The cool, windy weather of the past few day* ha* played havoc with truck and other crops. To add to an I already unpleasant eltuat i on. the | bottom dropped out of the cucumber market Saturday, It la understood I that one rarlond * sold nt Blackville I for 60 cents a basket. Due to ad- ' verse weather condition*, shipments from Barnwell have been limited. • TELEPATHY FALSE? NOT SO IN THIS PHOTOPLAY Theory Serve* to Make Thrilliag 1 Situation in *The Call of Youth" Is there such a iHtng as mental telepathy? Volumes have been written pro and con on this question, but at any rate it serves to make one • of the most dramatic scenes ever own in motion pictures in Henry rthur Jones’ “The Call of Youth,” which has been picturized in London by the Famous Players-Lasky British Producers. Ltd., end will be exhibit ed at th£ Vamp Theatre next Thurs day. ; Imagine the beautiful heroine in- England about to be sold to a middle- aged financier to save her Unde from financial ruin; her veal lover dying on a cot in the-^jungles of Africa where the financier sent him to get him otftof the way; the wedding day frawing nearer and nearer every day. Then, suddenly, in the middle of the night the man she loves rises in his sleep, for he feels a message from the girl in her far off home in Eng land that puts new life into him and enables him to recover miraculously and go to her. The story is interpreted by a cele brated all-English cast headed by Ben Webster, Malcolm Cherry and Mary Glynne. Hugh Ford was the . director. ■' • DAVIS BRIDGE NEWS. Mr. Earl Walker and family from Aiken were in this section Sunday. Mr. E. M. Boylston and family and Mr. Lloyd ^Boylston and family were* the guests of Mr. M. J. Boylston re cently. Mr. John Johnnun. Mra. Ada.Jokn pn, Mrs. Annie Toole and Mrs. Lula iston were in this section Sunday. F R«v. H. D Benet will preach .at Spring Branch church the last Sundhy might in May. Everybody invited. —The Williatoa Way your Job Work to The SOME ASPECTS OF THE FARMER’S PROBLEMS By Bernard M. Baruch mrnrnmmm * • (Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly) \ • 1 The whole rural world la la a for* meat of unreal, and there Is an on- paralleled volume and intensity of do* terfelned, if not angry, protest, and an ominous swarming of occupational con ferences, Interest groupings, political movements and propaganda. Such a turmoil cannot but a meet our atten tion. Indeed, It demands our careful study and examination. It la not like ly that six million aloof and ruggedly Independent men have come together and banded themselves Into active unions, societies, farm bureaus, and ao forth, for no sufficient cause. Investigation of the subject conclu sively proves that, while there is much overstatement of grievances and mis conception of remedies, the fanners are right in complaining of wrongs long endured, and right in holding that U is feasible to relieve their ills with benefit to the rest of the community. This being the case of an Industry that contributes, in the raw material form alone, about qne-third of the na tional annual wealth prodnetion and is the means of livelihood of about 40 per cent of the population, it is ob vious that the subject Is one of grave concern. Not only do the fanners make up one-half of the nation, but the well-being of the other half de pends upon them. So long as we have nations, a wise polltdal economy will aim at a large degree of national *elf sufficiency and self-cootnlnmeot. Rome fell when the food supply was too far removed from the belly. Like her, we shall destroy our own agriculture and extend our source* of food distantly and precari ously. if ire do not »ee to it that our fanner* are well and fairly paid for their aervirea. The farm gtie* the nation tnea as veil ** food. Clues derive their vitality and are forever renewed from the country, but ah Itn poverivhed ceuntn *»<ie exports latent- gene* and retains cata tell I renew, tmly the loner grade* of mentality and character will rei the farm. unle%* agrir Of being pui»ued With adequate o mpoasatlw bitter and impoirruh dry up and roman ao-irre* of the nstt«4L The war ahowml « dependent the hattei prndn'-mtty of the Hermlean effort*, agr non kept only a few ahead of oUkaeniptlH by lacTeamta* the ar •ta|4e rrnpe at the J that of other*. W* aught not to far get that Im—m whop we ponder as the farmer’s pmtdemn They are tmly .-otnue prof Ir na. sad there should he no attempt to deal with them a* If they were purely setheh demands of a rtoar-ert group, aa'agonlatlc ta the mat of the rammanlty. Rather aboell ere rwns'der agriculture In the light of bmad national pot try, just at we mo*ldec oil, root, steel, dye stuffs, and so fonh. a* sinew* of na tional strength. Our growing papula tied sad a higher atahdard of living demand Sacrensiag food supplies, and more wool, cotton, hides, and the reel With the disappearance uf free or rtieeff fertile land, additional acreage and Increased yields can crane only from costly effort. This we need hot expect from an Impoverished or ua happy rural pnpu’atioa. It will not do to tube a narrow view of the rural discontent, or to appraise It from the standpoint of yesterday This is peculiarly an age of finx and change ami new deal*. Because ■ thing always has been so no longer means that It Is righteous, or always shall be so. More, perhaps, than ever before, there is a widespread feeling that all human relatione can be Im proved by taking thought, and that It is not becoming for the reasoning ani mal to leave his destiny largely to chance and natural Incidence. Prudent and orderly adjustment of production and distribution in accord ance with consumption is recognized as wise management in every business but that of farming. Yet, I venture to say,'there Is no other industry in whhrh it is so important to the pub lic—to the city-dweller—that [Produc tion should be sure, steady, and In creasing, and that distribution should be in proportion to the need. The un organized farmers naturally act blind ly and impulsively and, in conse quence, surfeit and dearth, accompa nied by disconcerting price-variations, harass the consumer. One year pota toes rot in the fields because of excess production, and there is a scarcity of the things that have been displaced to make way for (he expansion of the potato acreage; next year the punish ed farmers mass their fields oh some other crop, and potatoes enter the class of luxuries; and so on. AgrlcnRtire is the greatest and fan damentally the most Important of our American Industries. /The cities are but the branches of the tree of na tional life, the roots of which go deep ly Into the lahd. We all flourish or decline with the farmer. So, when we of the cities read of the present uni versal distress of the farmers, of a ■lump of six Mlllnn dollars In the farm value of their crops in a single year, of their inability to meet mortgages or to pay enneut bflla. and how, aeeklng relief from their Ul% they are plan ting to form pools, inaugurate farm- era’ atrikea. and demand legislation abolishing grain exchanges, private cattle markets, and the Uks, we ought Mt hastily to brand them as economic _ ra* men, and hurl at the charge of beug oaakara of Rather, vajboaM J ai* u ibeiiME&Uie la a* Sbra, and as* what can be done ta Improva the •Itoatlna. Partly from oelf lntersm. If for ao higher motlva, we should help them. All of as want to get back permanently to "aoniMlcjr;* but ta It reasonable to hope tor that condltidb unless our greatest and moat basic in dustry can be put on a sound and solid permanent foundation? The farmers are not entitled to special privileges; but are they not right in demanding that they be placed on an equal foot ing with the buyers of their ptpducts and with other industries? n Let ua, then, consider some of the farmer’s grievances, and see bow far they are real. In doing so, we should remember that, while there have been, and still are,- instances of purposeful abuse, the subject should not be ap proached with any general Imputation to existing distributive agencies of de liberately intentional oppression, but rather with the conceptlcgi that the marketing of farm products baa not been modernized. An ancient evil, and a persistent one, is the undergrading of farm prod ucts, with the result that what the farmers sell as of one quality is re sold as of a higher. That, this sort of chicanery should persist on any Im portant scale in these days of busi ness integrity would seem almost in credible, but there Is much evidence that it does ao persist. Even as I write, the newspapers announce the suspension of several firms from the New York Produce Exchange for ex- port'ng to Germany at No. 2 wheat a whiiie shipload of grossly Inferior wheat mixed with oata. chaff and the Ilka. Another evil la that of Inaccurate weighing cf farm products, which. It la charged, la sometimes a matter of dishonest Intention and sometimes of protective policy on the port of the local buyer, who fears that he may "weigh out** more than he "weighs in " A greater grievance Is that at prow •wt the ffetd farmer has little or no control over the time and conditions of marketing hi* prodncln with the result th« he Is often andemstd fee his proii*-** and nsanlty overcharged fee marketing nervlce. The differ S^NTf" thft W 4NNH whst the farmer m reives and * Hat the consumer pays 'Mien escredo all possibility of jnett first law To rite a single lOoittratian (met year, acmrdtng to fignron attest *d by the railway* and the grew era Georgia watermelon rsitsr* rereived the average TA renis for * moUOL railroads gag tXT cents for carry ing N in Mwltimwee and the cwnsnmnr I pnhl one dollar, leaving Tfig rsnen far I the service of marketing and its risk a I ae against Big rents for growing and I tmawporttag. The hard aaaats of | form ufe are replete with noth mewisries *w the rredeweas ef MM prsrtlrsa Nature prescribe* that the “goods' meet he gntehed within tw SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. The examination for the award of vacant Scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for admission of new atu- denta will, ba held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When Scholarships are vacant after July 1, they will be awarded to those mak ing the highest average at this ex amination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Ap plicants for Scholarships should write to President Johnson before the ex amination for Scholarship examina tion blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1922. For fur ther information and catalogue, ad dress Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. - of tk« F Byrnes, , Magistrate at Blackville Blackville, 8*. C., May 2,4 1922. . I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Magistration at Blackville, subject to the rules and regulations of ther Democratic primary election. I. F. Still. CANDIDATES’ CARDS FOR CONGRESS. I hereby annonce mystlf a candi date for the Democratic nomination frr Representative in Congress from the Second Congressional District, subject to the-rules and regulations For Magistrate at Barnwell Barnwell, S. C., May 23,1922. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Magistrate at Barnwell, subject to the rules «and regulations of the Democratic primary election. W. P. Sanders.^ FAR SUPERVISOR Barnwell, S. C., May 23,1922. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Supervisor of Barnwell County, sub ject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election. Jut Still. cratfc For WilHston, 8. C., May 12, 1922 I hereby announce myaalf a candi date for the House of Representatives from Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary election. J. W. Folk. Blackville, S. C., May 9, 1922. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Supervisir of Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo- Barnw6U, S. C., May 1, 1922. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives from Barnwell Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary elec- j lion. 1 . X Edgar A. Brown. ..... Blackville, S. C., May 1, 1922. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the House of Representa tives from Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election. G .L. Weissinger. For Superintendent of Education. Blackville, S. C., Jan. 2«, 1922. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Superintendent of Education of Barnwell County, sub ject to the rules and regulations 6f the Democratic primary election. (Mias) C. Alva Baxley. bis •v three im>orh* ef the year, while taeaclal end storage timitatleae g*w •rally compel him to sell them at the ■aam titan As • rale, other ladeetrim are ta a eestiaeoas prnrses ef lag goods far the amrketa; they dts tribute aa they predare. sod they ran cartal! prodoettea wttliani tee groat lajnry to thowmatsna or the tommm stty; bet If the termer output. It to with quraces, both te htmeaM and la the community, The average fkrmor to busy with production for tbo major part ef the year, sad has nothing to soil The bulk of bit output comes on the mar kot at **nc*. Ho.-*use of lack of stor age faculties and of fiaaactai support, the farmer cannot carry bis good* through the year and dispose of them aa they are currently seeded, in the great majority of cases, fanners have to entrust storage—In warehouses and elevators—and the financial carrying of their products to others. Farm products are generally mar keted at a time when there Is a con gestion of both transportation and finance—when cars and money are sent The outcome, in. mary In stances, la that the farmers not oniy sell under pressure, and therefore at a disadvantage, hut are compelled to take further reductions in net returns, in order to meet the charges for the service of storing, transporting, financ ing, and ultimate marketing—which charges they claim, are often exces sive, bear heavily on both consumer and producer, and are under the con trol of those performing the services It Is true that they are relieved of the risks of a changing market by selllng at once; but they are quite wili Ing to take the unfavorable chance, If the favorable one also is theirs and they can retain for themselves a part of the service charges that are uni form, In good years and bad, with high prices and low. While, in the main, the fanner mast •ell, regardless of market conditions, at the time of the maturity of crops, he cannot suspend production In tote. He must go on producing if be la to go on living, and if the world la to jurist The most he can do li to curtail pro duction a little or alter its form, and that—because be Is In the dark as to the probable demand for bis goods— may be only to Jomp from the frying pan Into the fire, taking the consumer with him. -—-— —— Even the dairy farmers, whose out put is not nennonal, complain that they find themselves at a disadvantage la the marketing ef tbelr production*, eopeetally raw milk, fine— sf the klgb oners of distribution, which they I CONTINUED NEXT WEE*.) ^ Outstanding Buick Features Buick Sixes SIJ6S Of5 ISSS IfdJ 20TS ISSS sirs Buick Fours 3 Bsm- Roadster S 393 5 Rasa- Toonng 935 3 Pm— Coops • 1293 S Pm— Sodmm - 095 a * r—i.tomrn. A "Pm The power and dependability of the Buick valve-in-head motor, the positive yet easy action of the Buick multiple disc clutch and the Buick torque tube drive rear axle with its certainty of performance—are three of the principal reasons why more Buick cars are in use today than any other make save one. We'll be pleased to have you ask for a demonstration., , . • rk« C. M. A. C. Purckun COMPANY. WHEN better automobiles are built, buick. wjl build them EVERY DAY YOU READ SOMETHING TO THIS IN THE NEWSPAPERS: -V “BesidPs losing his home by fire, a large amount of money and valuable papers were destroyed by the ravages of the bames. It seems that he kept all of hit money and papers in an old trunk, hid* den away in the house. It was a disastrous loss to the owner, as the contents of the trunk were more valuable than tiik house.” GUARD AGAINST BEING A SIMILAR VICTIM AS THESE UN FORTUNATE PEOPLE. 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