The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, August 26, 1926, Image 4
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JOHN W. HOLMES
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B. P. DAVIES, Editor ud ProprieUr.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST M. 1920.
Ne a rin( the 50th Milestone.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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fhMMthtng Wreng in Our Budget.
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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
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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.
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every second and fourth Tuesday
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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,
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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.
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v Our complete plant now consists of six of the latest improved
gins and two double box presses. Everything is in first class
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' condition to handle the new crop. We are equipped to gin
of cotton per day andean assure the public of
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quick service and excellent turn-out. •
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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. ,
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B. S. MOORE, Manager
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