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JOHN W. HOLMES U4»—1»U, — B. P. DAVIES, Editor oad Proprietor. .fntored at the poot offleoat Barnwall S. C., u oocond-claoa mattor. SUBSCRIPTION RAW: Pm Yoar — $L60 Six Months JO Hum Months ,80 (Strictly In Admneo.) THURSDAY. MARCH 3RD, 1927. BHfJLI— *■ ■*■"!'IM Got. Richards and the “Blue Law." i ■ Whatever else Governor Richard* &M done m hi* attempted enforce ment of the “Blue” Sunday law he ha* at least provided the people of South Carolina with a topic of conversation, and it has been interesting' to see the reaction of various people to this order. Many who voted for hhn ap parently regret having done so, while other* who supported his opponent are now heart and soul for Richards. It is the genera] opinion, however, that the law as a whole is almost im possible of enforcement and that the Governor ie not very consistent and is taking unto himself undue pdwera when he selects certain portions for enforcement. For instance, if we understand his ertfcr clearly, it ie un lawful for a small group of men or women in GreeaviHe Oourtty to play on Sunday, but hundreds or thousands of people may enjoy the pleasures of the beaches near Char leoton on the Lord's Day. It is un lawful for a drug store to sell a package of cigarettes or a soft drink on Sunday, but railroads, bus lines, Me., may operate as usual. It b, therefore, difficult to under stand whether the Governor's inter pretation of the law appHes against pleasure or work. The Biblical com mandment, upon which the law is undoubtedly based, says, “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep tt holy. In H thou ahalt do no manner of work.” If his interpretion is intended to put • stop to all work on Sunday, he ia inconsistent a nd if he were otherwise it would mean the paralysing of all man ner of industry within the State. If it b aimed at pleasure, he is like- wise inconsistent and discriminatory, tn that he allowa surf bathing c«i the and prohibits golfing in the ; he prohibits the operation of ■arimmmg peals, but •llowa the people to enjoy the pleasure of motoring. And, as we see it, it ia this very Inconsistency—this interpretation of lawn to suit the Governor’s own pur poses—and not the blue law* that are an trial He has assumed a preroga tive which, as The News and Courier paints out, “the State Gmstituti n says most poeKivety belongs only to tbs courts. Sheriffs have been or dered to proceed agsin-t those per sons and establishments which the Governor singled out for discipline. They have been ordered to let alone moons end establishments Governor wanted let alone.” If ode man gate pleasure and recre ation from a game cl golf on Sundiy emd another from a motor ride, it ia certainty inconsistent to prohibit the sea and allow .the ether. If it i* wrong for darks at roda fountains to work on Sunday, it is likewise yvron^ for cooks fto work in the kitchen*. The law aay* that murder is wrong and no distindion is made whether murder » committed with a gun or a pistol or a knife or any other weapon. If it is wrong or unlawful to enjoy pleanure en Sunday, no distinction should be made. If it is wiong or unlawful to work on Sunday, nr exceptions should be made other than the two named in the law—works of necessity and works of charity. And wh*> shall de cide what are works of necessity— Jthe Governor or the people? Are we to have one man rule or a govern ment at laws? There is a whole lot more to this question than whether or not ycu can buy a “dope” or a cigar on Sunday, •ad The News and Courier sum* up the matter in these words: “Governor Richards has talked e good deal about constitutional government in his at- subject to them he will have done more to undermine the Constitution than all of hb predecessors put to gether.'’ School Trustee Elections. Lessen the Logislachure reveal that Blue Sunday Law, I’m gwine enforce 'or to the limit, but I reckin one of here Circuk* .fudges will re verse me backwards. Up in Lancaster County, we learn from dispatches to the daily papers, the citizens “roje in quiet dignity but with the utmost determination and emphasis” to protest against legisla tion pending in the General Aeeem- bly affecting the method of selecting trustees in the Lancaster school dis trict. It eeems that in the past torus tees have been chosen by the school patrons at a mass meeting of free holders. The Lancaster representa tives introduced a bill providing for a special election to be held in Mpy, 1928, and delegating unto themselves the power to appoint a board for the interim. It ia this feature of the bill that does not appeal to the good peo ple of Lancaster, who charge that they are being deprived of their rights suffrage. Speaking against the ac tion of their representatives^ in the Legislature, Mrs. Leroy Springa is quoted assaying: U Y speak as citizen. I do not care whether you throw the present board out or not— throw them cut, but do not let any man, two men ox three men tell you who shall be your board, but let them be elected by the people.” The -attitude of the people of Latv- castr is of interest to the patrons of thq Barnwell school district, in that *n Act providing for the election of a Board of Trustees ift this district has just been enacted by the General As sembly, supplanting the. nnvious method of apointment by the County Board of Education. Heavy Thinking. Heavy business men worry consider- a bly about the thought* of ether men. They luopeot that others are thinking along “Bolabevist" or “Communistic” line* And, needle** to say all the heavy ones feel that the other men have no right to do their own thinking. In the highly prosperous automo bile industry, teus of thousands of workers in Lansing, Mich., are idle fifty-five days out af one hundred. And as in Lansing, so in other cities. Uncertainty in employment breeds bit ter discontent Value* in motor stocks rt nr, dividends increase, huge for tunes are made and the men who pro vide all the work—and a large part of the buying market are idle, worried and angry. fll:y-five days in one hun dred. That ■ what produces Bolshe vism and the “heavy" men should think it over. .. What does the heavy business man demand for himself? He demands, first of all, a steady, sure, uninter- rupted return on his capital and busi- saa skill. If he cannot have these things, he wants to change the govern ment, threw out one president and parity—and put in another. • The worker also demands steady, uninter rupted return for his mechanical skill, strength and time. Stupid industry and shnrt-sighted high finance refuses the worker what it demands and gets for himself. Why wait for thq intensifying of class bitterness to a dangerous ex tent before finding a way of regulat ing industry and employment. With industrial workers on one hand, feel ing -as they do, the farmer on the other hand — having plenty of work — but n:3 just return (unless he doe* get farm relief )—<k>n’t you think it about time Mr. Heavy Business Man should realize thait he can’t grab it all—and get away with it for always. thinking 'only of power, pelf and pro fits. Any State which Uuuws iqfl.' H* primary ayatoem *n4 returns to thto antiquated ocnvention ! in nominating candidate* is taking a step backward*. If a ny tinkering ia to be done with the primary Jaw—let it to EXTEND Hie direct primary plan to the general election. Under such plan the party label ia abandoned at the top of the ballot and &e candidates grouped un der the headings of -the respective of- ftoes they seek. The. party designa- - tion is placed after the name of each candidate. New England States, California, Oregon and New Yofk have adopted it—and find that it works well. » InsteadJpf letting,® grafting pofiti oal boss wrecking crew work on the primary—why mat, put a .construction gang on the job? Then it won't be many years until the old tame rotten boss is as extip^.as the dodo. v Use, ^cn’t make, mistakes. Suc cessful people get there on other pec ’s Well, spirg is 'ear. The reg, reg, xobgh fsa hopk, hopk, hopkig a-log, a-log. i Finding strange hairpins in hub by’s a uto isn’t «e common thtoae days- which may account for the' origin and popularity of the bob. The Shoe Pinches. Your hard-boiled political bosses everywhere are finding a shoe on the foot which pinches even more than they thought it wias gring to. It is the Direct Primary. And now, after a “reasonable length of time,” sub.Ie propaganda—and even- brazen direct methods are being adopted by bosses in many States too repeal the primary law—and go back to the old boss- ridden and boss-controlled convention system. Political bosses thought “a way would be found” to get around the primary—and put the men wanted in the desired offices. However, the ante was raised fast and we had the -. „ ■ • * ’ .. ‘ ~ 'i . - ■ recent Illinois- and Pennsylvania money debauoes. Bosses now know there is “no way around” so they want the convention system again. One fact the voters everywhere should never lose sight of ia that the direct primary system puts the politi cal power and control in their own hand*—-where it tigltiy belongs. One hundred and twenty millions of people won’t go so very far wrong—as eom- Pfred to a handful of political boaaes, Here’s hoping the Federal Radio Commission will have at least one kmd speaker who will tell the radio trust where it. gets on—and off. • Famed London artist says English girl's ig moat perfect ankle. We’re above such things over here. We’ve been judging knees for two years now. 9 ■■ ■ ' —- pi ■! A man alt' Olympia, Wash., luw de veloped a barklea* dog. Nqw for howless tom carts, and scratchless hens. And talkless worn—. No, we won’t say it. English dentist says we should re- vetse the order of our meals. Al right. Instead of having “colfee and doughnut” for breakfast, we will take “doughnuts and coffee.” New York is arresting actors in dirty plays—trying to ■•clean up the stage, the audiences growing larger all the time. If they want to end it— why not arrest the audience? The Republican farmers of. the West are probably so hot over the President’s veto of the Farm Relief Bill that something more convincing than “Keep Cool with Coclidge” will have to be adopted as the campaign slogan in 1928. “Tex" Guinan, famous New York night club proprietores*. and Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles’ “Vamp in Vestments,” played return engagements at each other’s show in Gotham lant week—stunt stuff of which even the famous old Bamum could not find fault. A Barnwell business man remarked last week if the farmer* of this coun try really understood the high tariff impoeed by the Republicans and the benefits that they (the farmers) would derive from the Farm Relief Bill which PceeidsiH -Coolidge vetoed Fri day, one of three things Wculd hap pen: Either-ahe tariff act would be repealed, or farm relief would be adapted, or there would be a revolu tion. Perhaps this is another case of where “ignorance is bliss.” The McNary-Haugen bill may or may not have been a good thing for the farmers—it may or may not have been constitutional—but it seems U> TYPEWRITER RIBBONS WE ARE NOW STOCKING TYPEWRITER RIBBONS for ALL STANDARD MAKE MA CHINES. ONLY THE BEST CARRIED IN STOCK. THE NEXT TIME YOU NEED A Ribbon, send us your ORDER. The People-Sentinel BARNWELL. 8. C. Above is Jim Maloney, latest Boston strong boy, with ;: \ black eye and a $^(h000 smile after beating the famed Jack Delaney in a very punk fight of Tex Rickard’s tourney to find a summer opponent for Tunney. Maloney ia bound to be in the news, therefore we thought you would like to see what he looked like. Insert, Delaney taking a left on the jaw. ua that the moat inconsistent reason given by Preident Coed id ge is that It is ia “discriminatory,” in that it did not apply to ail products. What ia the Republican tariff if not “discrimina tory”? Can even the President him self truthfully deny that it ia the rankest sort cf “favoritism”—taxing the millions for the benefit of the few ? “Consistency, thou art a jewel” —and by the same token Mr. Coolidge cannot annex- the name “Consistent Cal” along with that of “Cautious Cal.’ yie race that never ends B UILDING a telephone system Is an unMrte^O never ends, the telephone plant co " ,tructe . d ( . # f ®^°^ a y needs, muat be so engineered as to have a definite pjaca In the plans to meet the anticipated- demand* of the future— five, ten-tand even twenty year* hence: ~ Last year, for inatanca, there wa* a gross expenditure of v $33,225,352 for addition* and replacement* to the Southern - Bell Telephone System In the-jilne Southeastern State*. ^ There was a net gain of 66,289 new telephone stations— making a total of 1,242,689 telephone station* In the nln# Southeastern States. Of these 843,172 are Bell-owned, 362^ 308 are owned by other companies, but connected with the Bell System and 37,209 are located in farm homes. The investment In service, December 31, 1926, wa* $166,- 757,502, not including $3,834,097 of construction work in prog- * res*. ' ■ • S To build, operate and - manage thi* great telephone sys tem requires the services if an army of skilled men and women whose annual payroll amounts to $24,433,290. An other big expense wa* the tax bill of $4,432,018, which was an increase of 174 per cent over the tax bill of 1920. . There wa* an Improvement In the efficiency and scops of the service, so noticeable a* to win the commendation of our cuatomers, and the largely increased traffic wa* handled * with greater speed and accuracy than ever bpfo r *- The presentation of these detaHe is a continuation of our policy of taking the public fully into our confidence. It also gives ua another opportunity to express the appreciation of the telephone workers for your friendly interest and co operation. - , — MORGAN B. SPEtR, Carolina* Manager “’"BELL SYSTEM" | j SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE -/ AND TELEGRAPH COMTANY y iMcoaroiAno A V . — 4- It Sidelights on “Blue > Sunday” Law GolTera at Aiken were permitted to enjoy their usual Sunday games, but Httie newwboys w«e prohibited from selling papera on the streets. How ever, four getters were arrested by Sheriff Robinson Monday. The manager of the Frances Marion Hotel in Chariestosi reported a 40 per cent, decrease in buxines* a* com pared with the week before, many prospective guest* having cancelled their reservations and ordered their mail forwardd to cities in other States. Dispatches from Augusta and Savannah reported an unusually large rAmber of automobile* bearing South Oarolina license tags on the streets of tiioee cities, with drug stores and soda fountain* doing a land office brain ess. Cooks and nurses in Charleston re fused to report for duty Sunday morn ing, declaring that they would not “buck de governor.” FV*to golfers were arrested in Greenvhle and required to post bond* of $200 each. Governor Richards expressed him self as being “highly gratified” at the manner in which the law* were observed and declared that he has re ceived hundreds of letters oranmend- ing his stand. Many ministers in 'their sermons here and elsewhere in the State today cqmmended the Governor for his ac tion in imfoking the old State law. Resolutions of commendation were passed in some instances. God's Love We are taught to think that God’s love Is the biggest thing In the uni verse. Let ua think of some of the biggest things wa know, and then wo will lift our eyes upon one that Ir bigger than all.—J. H. Jowett PROGRAM FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 12TH. VAMP THEATRE Barnwell, e • • e s. c March 4-5 "“Tom ,Mix in “K. and A. Train Robbery.” Also a good comedy: Big Business. / ■' f y March 7-8—An extra fine major picture ‘‘Summer Bachelors.” Variety: /‘Spanish Holiady.” * r March 10—No Picture, instead, will be , shown a stage play— “JESSE JAMES.” “ Vaudeville between acts. \ March 11-12—One of the very best Wes tern pictures—”3 RED MEN” will be shown together with a good cqynedy: “Honeymoon Hospital.” ; 1 Fox News Red shows every night ex cept Wednesday and Thursday. -i— l MS. .VI V