Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jWj.’TSi.ir: co^ -i;-;l il ••V.* rorl AM! m Two fertilizers may be made from the materials, * but owing to more scientific compounding and better manufacturing, one of these may have much greater value as a crop producer. “AA QUALITY ” FERTILIZERS contain all the essential crop-producing elements so scientifically compounded, proportioned and blended as to furnish properly balanced and continuously available plant food throughout the entire growing season. Insure the best crops by using “AA QUALITY” FERTILIZERS BEST KNOWN TO YOU UNDER THE FOLLOWING BRAND NAMES i A A COE-MORTIMER ASHEPOO POCOMOKE ZELL’S Manufactured only by The American Agricultural Chemical Company Columbia Sales Department PALMETTO BUILDING. COLUMBIA. S.C. Bur S , V, w4n fc»*P «>!v« n’ur firming problem*. Send lor Dr. H. J. Wheeler . Crop Bulicttns. Addre**: 92 State Street. Bom on. Man. Don’t trust to Luck TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR LOVED ONES AFTER YOU ARE DEAD. LET. ME PROTECT THEM NOW WITH ONE OF THE BEST LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES ON THE MARKET. GIVE * THEM THE PRFOTECTION TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED. NORMAN B. GAMBLE Barnwell, - South Carolina. . j.. Fire, Life, Sick and Accident Insurance Bonds ^nd Real Estate We have for sale 278 acres known as the G. W. Green home stead in Rosemary and Richland School districts. Two', lots in the town of Barnwell with build ngs thereon, very desirable loca tion. See us and get prices. Let us show you.—■. —~~— Barnwell Insurance Barnwell, — — — Ag ency So. Car. - late Senator Telman then running for governor, soined the phrase ‘The poor farmer.” It may not have orig inated #iih Candidate Tillman, but if memory serves us right, he cer tainly worked the phrase to a fare- you-well. Along about that time all kinds of produce of the farm was selling at very lo^Y prices; likewise was the product of every other in dustry. Labor was a low down price in those days. Printers, for instance, were paid ten or twelve dollars a week; negro farm labors eight or ten dollars a month and board; carpenter and bricklayers were paid from a dol lar'to two dollars a day. Yes, things sold for a low price in those days. Candidate Tillman capitalized on the farmer and from one end of the state to the other sung the refrain “The poor farmer,” and on this reffain he rode into the governor’s office and later into the United States senate. It was a good vehicle to ride on. It appealed. But— That very refrain has had the ef fect of fastening itself upon the fa*-f7 mers of the state and it is fastened yet. Farmers heard it oO much thai they really began to believe it a^d they, or at least many of them, be- <r lieve it yet. Psychologists tell us that to keep repeating a phrase over to a person in season and out of season, that per son will finally begin to believe it, no matter how absurd. For instance it is stated that a perfectly healthy man or woman can be made sick by constantly telling them that they are sick or look bad. < - • Tillman’s constant repetition of his stock pet phrase “the poor farmer,” had just that effect. It made the farmers sick after a time But were - they any worse off than were other people who were striving to make a living? Are they any worse off to day ? Possibly they are, but are they ? It is generally admitted that hut few farmers actually work more than six months in the year. Yes, to be sure they work when they are working; but what other trade or profession can get ahead working on the aver age only six months to the year? Can the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant, the mechanic, the blacksmith, the cotton mill operative, the newspaper publisher, the railroad man? There is no line of workers that we know of that does not have its bad times—its off seasons and off years. None of them constantly and steadily get ahead. Truo the farmer is the.iirst to be hit and the hardest to be hit by busi ness slumps. The farmer was per- h*ps the worse off of all the sufferers in the big depression that was en gineered by the Federal Reserve banking management In 1920. But why?' In the South he had all his eggs in the cotton basket, he was % depending on cotton for everything; in the middle West he had his eggs in the corn and wheat elevators and in the -stockyardsr^-depending on a single lihe of produce. Following the 19^0 depression those quickest"tof ^ V?in to recover were' those who could {he more quickly, turn to the production of other lines of goods. Ever since that time in congress and in all the various legislatures of agricultural states there have been all kinds of plans offered to help the “poor farmer,” and as yet nothing has seemed- to bring the relief de manded, and, so far as we can see J there isn’t any rtliaf tA cimij from’ legislation^ either State or national. The only reliel we can ste an/ hope m is in the laws that, will give th«! farmer equal and fair chances before the law that is given to any other class, and further than that the fa’’- me(r (must depend upon himself in large measure. Times have < hanged and the farmers’ conditions have changed with’ everything else. The time when the farmer could make a comfortable living according to the standards of thirty years ago gone, and if he lives up to today’s standards, as he should and has a perfect right to do—he is entitled to all the good things in life that any other class is entitled to—he must change his methods. If he stays on the farm he must work to better ad vantage, use more of his brains and plan better. If he quits the farm and goes to other lines, he will certainly have to work harder or at least longer if he ke§ps above water.— - A. Telephone Grow'h In The South T Coroner D. P. Lancaster celebrated his 78th birthday Saturday and was delightfully surprised when a num ber of hisrlriends from the country came in and gave him an elaborate birthday dinner. In the afternoon he was the guest of honor at a recep tion given by several Barnwell ladies. ’Eavens 4 Elp Us! Well, it’s here—beauty contests for men—ami poor Allen F, May- bee, Columbia College Senior—had to go and win first prize as the. ‘Andsomest Mun\ He was so em barrassed that he went into seclu sion—and says he will succeed at law in spite of all thia HE detal's ard reaults of the operations of the Southern Group of Cell Tel-phone Compan'e* during tho year 192S enable you to fce familiar with the progress of the telephone irdyetry' in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, tha Carolinat, Ken- tuck'', "Lch aHna. M «s seippi and Tennessee. This presenta tion is but a continuation of our policy of taking the public fully into o r coVMerc\ and expressing the appreciation of the to’o- phone workers for your friendly Interest and eo-operatlon. Ill these nine St it os there was an expenditure last year of aonroxima'cly $23,668,700 for gross additions to the tek p’'one plant. -• • — T ~ re was a net yr* > of 54 183 new telephone sta- t'ons, rraking a to al of 1,147,590 telephone stations in the nine States. Of. these 772.979 are Bell owned, ‘L?6 4 >0 are ow^ed by other companies, but connected, with the Roll Svstem. The investment in service. December 31, 1925, was $14°>.9G2.50G. * ot including $2,353,011 of construction work in progress. To build Gyrate, main’a n and manage this sys tem requires the s?rv ; ces of an army of skilled men and women, whose annual payroll amounts to $20,- 835,362'. Ano her big expense was the tax bill of $3,966,784 for .hut year, which is three times as great as the tax bill for the year .1918. •ny It is a matter o’ pnde that tho service was th# year since the wnr Another souic- of satisfaction has been our happy rela tions with our r storn'Ts and w th the public. Tfi« telephone workers appreel^*e voir frierd'y co-oreratlon, and It en courages th.m to strive continually to render the kind of service you want. : iwOtt<*AN 1J KPfSlit, Carolines Manager “Ceil Cystcm*' ' SOUTHERN BE1X 1 LEPHONE AND TELEGK/ * H COMPANY One Policy, One Sjilcra, Unrrmsl Service At It Again New Method QuicMy Banishes Heavy Coughs Another Marathon dancing crazo is sweeping the nation—ihi.i tirr.a the erratic Charleston, which wears out milady’s $12 bi'ogans in a few minutes of “buck and wing.” Bessie Lemmey of New York ruin ed her shoes in a contest which went 53 minutesr—said to be the record to date. “Dirt Farmer” — Why be annoyed and weakened by persistent, strength-sapping coughing spells when you can, through a very simple treatment, quickly stop all irri tation and very often banish the trouble entirely in 24 hours? ' This treatment is based on the fa- . HALL 6c COLE, Inc. 94-102 Faneuil Hall Market BOSTON, MASS. Commission Merchants and Distributors of ASPARAGUS t One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. Send for Shipping Stamp. mous prescription known as Dr. King’s >u take New Discovery for Coughs. You just one teaspoonful at bed-time and hold it in your throat for 15 or 20 sec onds before swallowing it. The pre scription has a double action. It not only soothes and heals soreness and irritation, but it quickly removes the phlegm and congestion which are the real cause of night coughing. Thus, with the throat soothed and cleared, coughing stops quickly and you sleep all night undisturbed. IF Advertise in THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL Dr. King’s New Discovery is for coughs, chest colds, tore throat, hoarse ness, bronchitis, spasnodic croup, etc. Fine for children as well as grown- t upa—no harmful drugs. Economical, too, as the dose is only one teaspoon- .' Ask for foL At all good druggists. Let Us Fill Your Tank with And prove to You the^ Superiority of 1 hit ' Wonderful Gat. Barnwell Filling Station SAY ‘‘BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSISTl Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years fog DRJWNCS CoucHS T. O. Lowden, former governor of, Illinels has a 4,500 acre farm near Oregon, Illinois, to which he applies “dirt farm” methods. Mr.* Lowden manager the immense tract, leaving the actual fanning to ten assistants, who are both Lax-bred and sous of the wiL COi- Colds Pain Toothache Neuritis Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism ^ cce P* only * Bayer” package which contains proven direction!, handy 1 Haver” twxea of 12 tablet*—Ako bottle* of it and 1(>Y—Drumriata. to IS* irato Mark « Bern Mutfeetar* *f — - - o. V. MW '-i. * 'Zr ' 'vil*.' • . 'i h i hi iirifii .