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DC'.' JOHN W. HOLMES ISIS—ms. B. P. DAVIES, Editor ud ProprieUr. ■ ‘ EnUrtd at th* post office at Barnwaii C., a« second-class matter. . SUBSCRIPTION BATHS: Om Tear 1:— rt . r $1.60 Mr Mentha — .00 Three Months .60 (Strictly in Adrance.) ‘ | THURSDAY, AUGUST M. 1920. Ne a rin( the 50th Milestone. . — With this issue, The Barnwell Peo- - pie, which was consolidated with The Barnwell Sentinel last year, finishes its 49th volume and next week enters upon the 60th year of what we be lieve has been a valuable and useful career. During all these years it has - not missed a single one of the 2,548 issues, “representing as many weeks erf hard work and pluck,” as the An- derraon Independent says in referring to the 50th anniversary of The Hart well, (Ga.) Sun. For nearly 14 years the paper has been under the manage- wept of the present editor and owner 'and we trust has merited in part at least the generous support accorded it by the people of Barnwell County. Prior to that time it was ably edited by ita founder, the late Major John W. Holmes, a brilliant and gifted writer. Since the present owner as- * sumed control, the paper has grown ftan a four-page sheet, only two of which were printed in Barnwell, to an eight-page, all home print news paper, with a mechanical equipment that compares favorably with that of any weakly newspaper in the State. . In connection with The Hartwell Sun'a anniversary edition, The An deraon Independent had the following to say: Last week The Hartwell Sun ob- senrsd the approximation of its fiftieth milestone, the announcement coming in attractive anniversary edition that reflected the enterprise of the editors and the appreciation the people of Hartwell have for their child—or over $660 per year. On the other hand State and fed eral statistics tell us that the average earnings of all men, aside from exe cutives, Is less than $1,500 per year. If we spend $5fl& of that for bring ing up one child, another $400 for house rent, and $800 for the upkeep and operation eft a car, we only have about $300 left for groceries, clothes, doctor’s bill, fuel, irsurance and saving accounts. And if a second cluld should be born we go in debt. There’s something radically wrong- somewhere in all these figures. It may be that this accounts for to- day’s averafpq mortgage fVpre wages of $100 per family for install ment goods and as much more in other unpaid or unsecured accounts. W# hoar much about the great eaikfing power, grofr increase in savings and life insurance, but we hear littie as to the indebtedness. Yet somebody evidently pays the bill. I About Automobile SpeedeffC ~ or secure them at or .during the ventibn. Whether or not there improvement {a suit bf the efforts to JeBslop better processes for nomiaatioa and election is a debatable question. But in view of recent disclosures the system is s serious reflection on American good sense unless some way is found of nominating and electing public of ficials hat 'will not drive self-respect ing men to cover. But to abolish the primary system would be to deprive millions of a cherished pletsure and is not to be thought of. WONDER CAL ENJOYS HB FTSHNT A. B. CHAPIN V on vne gus aved^part of •e ami by the idrffe of the The history of The Sun is very in terusting. As a newspaper it ■ has contribute^ much to Hart County. If the founders of The Sun, year* ago passed on to their reward, could see the achievement* this faithful newspaper ia making today, they would be well pleased. Half a century is a long lime, but half a century spent in publishing h newspaper, with the hardships be longing thereto, is a span of years oarer which only few publishers live to glance back in retrospection. The Son, when its anniversary edition was printed, had issued more than 1,100 issues, representing as many week* of hard work and pluck. Edit on Louis and Leon Morris ar*> publiahing one of the best newspapers in Georgia. It is a credit to Hart well and Hart County, and is entitled to wholehearted support. It isn’t pleasant to criticise. It is just as easy to say pleasant thiqgs .. , ,, . about people and makes individuals e i and newspapers much more popular. But what w e started out to say is that now is a good time to curb the activities of a few local automobile speed fiends, who evidently are labor ing ounder the impression thatf the Streets of Barnwell are the racing bowl at Charlotte. One has only to sit on his front porch—and a Main Street front porch seems to be a mighty good point of vantage, al though others are no doubt just as good—to learn the identity of those to whom we have special reference. Going East, they “step on the gas” before they leave the pave that narrow thoroughfare time they reach the mi next block they are traveling at a dangerously reckless rate of speed. The corners of intersecting streets apparently mean nothing in their young lives, a s they dash by or around them in the most nonchalant manner imaginable. We sit in our office dai- } and witness escapes that make “Hairbreath Harry” look like 30 cents with a hole in it. However, until such time as reck less driving is curbed in Barnwell, wc must,content ourself with calling the attention of the speed fiends to the fact that little children play along the streets and pray that an All- Wise Providence will protect them from harm. C. F. Sessinger, representing a company that furnishes bonds for the honesty of employes, says, “Ninety per cent of the people country are potential crooks.” Experience tells that necessity, plus opportunity, will show—nine out of ten tp be thieves. The percentage is high, but noti much too high. Our early barbarian ancestors,' our more recent semi-barbarian grandfather* were muraders and killers, and took We are only 12,- 000 years from the late Stone Age now and it will take a million years of universal prosperity to make us 1 all one hundred^ per cent honest. •- I* MM •2* * tromte MAJtMM a*S55$ fj Li 8#* Admiral Samuel McGoWan, chief highway commissioner, advocates placing speed regulators on motor buses, limiting them to 15 miles an hour in cities and 35 miles an hour on the public highways, the latter being the State speed law. If this proves practical he would have like governors placed on all motor vehicles. Just as Jong as autos are built to run 50, 60 and more miles per hour, drivers will continue to break the speed law, thereby endangering their own lives and those of others who use the high ways. The admiral’s idea, it would seem, is one w^y to curb the speed fiend. $K ACT tVAVKU* AM*/ Icamahm*. Dte MoareoH — \ i.tUV Clemenceau on the U .S. A The letter that Clemenceau sent to President Coolidge expressed r.o high opinion of the United States’ attitude on war debts. The old French tigsr is fighting for his country and ur.es the weapons at hand. Four years ago, when he wrote an introduo ion for tus book called “Industrial America In the Worid War,” Clemenceau thought well of the United States' and what it had dore for France. Read this extrAr£ from Mr. Clemenceau’* own writing: “Meanwhile, here are some eloquent figures. In eighteen months the United States sent us 5,000,000 tors of fbod supplies and 5,000,000 tons of wgr material, The steel they sent us represented the raw material for If©,000,000 “75’ shells. The food- they sent us fed 12,000,000 en for a year and a half. If this help had rot been forthcoming, ear army could not have held.” When Clemenceau wrote that, Europe had not yet changed Uncle Baal's name to “Uncle Shylock.” T'..- fpmmm... —— _ fhMMthtng Wreng in Our Budget. ; ' M Something seems to be Vertically with our national family budg- system, and some one, eome- r, should make some attempt to the snarl and otgaaize us. Metropolitan life Insurance Mica! department, ri-q of !the thorough^and dependable in the average coat birth to This does COpehae si money ex- by Ship Subnidy Again. After eight years American claim* agairffct Great Britain for goods con fiscated during the blockade policy, and governmental claims arising from reconditioning ships, are to be uonsidered by an official department sent from Washington. Great Brit ain has refused to recognize thes.? claims on the plea that it was right in seizing all contraband and no com pensation is due the owner*. The matter to be decided is whether the goods seized were contraband or not. The Ship Subsidy question, again loom* up a* the result of a demand made by the new chief of the Emer- ] gency Fleet Corporation to rehabili tate the American Merchant Marine. In view of the failure of the farmer* to obtain from Congress the measure of re'ief they reccn‘W -ought, it is reasonable to expect they will oppose more vigorously than ever the pro- posal to draw on the treasury in favor of-.he shipping interest.*. The West will argue that if a sub sidy for the farmers is economically unsound, a subsidy for the merchant marine is equally so. They will hurl at Gereral Dalton’s devoted head the selfsame argument with which they were bedeviled when they pleaded the cause of the farmers. And wha; answer can the propon ents of the shipping subsidy make? Whkt Pollock and Jennings had to say about Blease back yonder in 1914 was, in the opinion of sopie news papers and people, quite the cat’* aderoids, if we be permitted to use the vernacular of‘the day, bqt when Ed|^r Brown dares discus* the il lustrious Senator Smith’s official record he is guilty of violating the holy of holieq, in the opinion oJ the .aforesaid newspaper and people. IMS' \ “sin/m 4 EM ON ’ WlftC Advertise in THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL B ues-stihgs Apply wet baktag soda or wold ammonia, followad VISES ATTENTION, K. K. K. There will be a regular meeting of *m\vell Elan in the Masonic Hall every second and fourth Tuesday nights in each month. A full at tendance is requested. Save Your Eyes P. W. STEVENS Optometrist and Optician Office in Jewelry Store ’Phone 129 Barnwell, S. C. Relieving eye-strain headache* and blnrred vision with optical glasses is ' my specialty. All work guaranteed. John Bates Civil Engineer and Surveyor JACKSON, S. C. Notary With Seal. Prompt, High-Class Work Assured. Reasonable Prices. Your Work Solicited. u i It may be that Col. Brown’s at tack on Senator Smith’s record is cslled< mud-slinging because “Cotton Ed” has put the world or> notic that he has nothing (no record) to de-* fend. ~ r ~. GINNING NOTICE Rocks Ahead. " Election Reform Needed. Discussing primary boodle cam paigns, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat wants to know what we get for all this expenditure? Do we get any belter officials or better government? Do we get honesty or efficiency any where? Do we, the people, gain anything from this vast expenditure for election purposes? ‘ The answer stem* to be embodied in the advice of an old Pennsylvania newspaper publisher to his young and inexperienced successor to “soak ’em for political announcements as it was the only chance to get at ’em.” It is largely a matter of education. Since the Mark Hann a “blocks of five” program a great mass of ward and precinct political leaders have come to expect alKarmful of “material” ,essential to the maintenarce of pre cinct organization and the delivery of the goods. The system has grown to a point where larger organisations of political bosses havo been know a, to actually “sell” the nomination and election to Legislature ard to Con gress to the highest bidder. In some S.ates that system now applies to the nomination of United Sts tors financed by “vastod” (It those cases the political ion of the pushaser cote no It was because of this eld convention plan of nomi- abolished. H was a eim- a few Prime Minister Baldwin, of London, • s • • • boasts that' for gobd. or evil, hi* money has always b*ep invemtedyin British indue, ries.- That* spirits of national loyalty is characteristic of nearly' all countries except .America. The Yankee has. yet to learn that the purchasing power of the people of his own town or community, or nation, is 'limited to the amouht that industry puts back into circulation. Every dollar invested outside of the town, community, dr .nation depletes and cripples heme purchasing power. As a nation we have been investing in. or lending to foreign nations nearly a thousand million every year-rpi>>- fits from AmerieaJi industry fchat American purchases are expected to use and must use if bwi- ness continues normally. If a manufacturer turns out 100 watches at a cost of 80 cents each, he only returns $80 to the community which is expected to pay $1,00 for the watches. If the $20 profit is sent to some foreign community the next 100 watches he puts on the mar ket will be shy of purchasers and he’il have some 20 watches left in stock. That’s wh^t is now happening th American industry. Production been forced by retail irstallment ges amounting to more than thousand millions of dollars, bout the same amourt of money zs been sent to Europe ho stimulate Industry for other nations—depriving American consumers of the power to pay their installment debts. Pro ducers hare evidently overlooked the old adage, that, “one canned have his cake and eat it too.” A blind . During the Summer, we installed a complete new ginning plant & thoroughly overhauled our original equipment. r _ V . • v Our complete plant now consists of six of the latest improved gins and two double box presses. Everything is in first class • • ”, ' condition to handle the new crop. We are equipped to gin of cotton per day andean assure the public of ' 1 * - 1' ' quick service and excellent turn-out. • > CHARGES: $3.00 per bale up to fiye hun dred pounds, over five hundred pounds at the rate of 60c per hundred pounds. Bagging and Ties $1.50 per bale. , Jr • / ters B. S. MOORE, Manager Wife: - Barnwell, S.C. - - • •>v ■ -