Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lm K i . . . - FAGK FOUt. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. MARCH ' I7TH, itr. TUB>mw«n P»opU-S«ntin«l JOHN W. HOLMR8 IMS—It It B. P. DAVIES, Editor aad ProprioUr. Ratarod at tba poat off lea at Barmrall S. CX, m recond-cUaa aaattar. SUBSCRIPTION RA1 Om Year —os Six Months ttsaa Months At (Strictly hi Adraaea.) Sunday that Governor Rkharda says are aU wronf. "Ain’t it fanny how Sooth GaroJtna is always rifhtT" la other words, the whole coonUy. ie-oot of step with usl With such a wide fWd o^ osefal endeavor before him, it does seem that a man who was bif enough to be Vlected Governor of South Carolina would, in the wojnds of Robert Quillen, editor of the Fountain Inn Tribune, "step this foolishness before he has lost the whole of his dignity and lost the respect of the entire State.” THURSDAY, MARCH 17TH, 1SS7. - i Hr A 90-hcie golf course Is being built in Ohio. That’s scattering profanity fr- It’a quite true, there are no friends like old friends—for no others would dare be so nosy into one’s private af fairs. ' t ii U v. —————— Rather subtle sport writer who informed his readers that Babe Ruth Itartl fhaping felf for Hugging feason.” 1 . s , America’s credit system is being extended in most unusual ways. In other words, we are keeping up by paying a dollar down. And yet Governor Richards hails from LIBERTY Hill. As our good friend, Walter Duncan, would say, “God save the mark!” A >4 * — ~ It’s now getting along that time of year when neighbors take up the self-appointed task of watching the husband whose wife is sway on vacs- tion. A “Her countenance fell,” read the ^ mother. "Why doesn’t she have It lifted?” asked ft-year-old Dorothy” Then peps, the author, shot himself. American tragedy. We are beginning to lose faith in doctors. They must know that pedestrians ere killed *t the rate of one every three hours. Still they prescribe walking. President Coolidge suggests that poor farms be converted into forests which isn’t s bed idee. We nominate Billy Sunday and Aimre Semple Mc Pherson to do the converting. The prises went to the swift in the •print for diamond mines in Africa leet weik—but w*Vt in Americ a end the long, slow, and hard pull still is In the dash for riches. 4jr Enough of This. The riot: in the Senate at the clos ing of the ft9th Congress was in every way equal to former filibusters. ,It resulted in the same loss to the coun try at large, as has grown common with the short sessfcm. Important ap propriation bills were not passed. Everything was sidetracked for log rolling, back-scratching and midnight riders. When will it end? . It will end just a s soon a*the public takes the trouble to understand the is sue and bear down in • demand for a change in Senate rules. The Senate can make itself capable of doing business during the short session, either by adopting thg House rules of procedure (which is the change advocated by Vice-President Dawes), or, through a constitutional amendment, abolishing the short ses sion aPd giving the Senate time to finish all necessary legislature every year instead of every second year. This totter method is the Norris amendment which has been passed three time* by the Senate—but* as many times held off the floor of the House—and never permitted to be brought to a vote. The Norris amendment would as semble Congress each January 4th. ending Presidential and Congressional terms in January and installing the entire new administration a nd Con gress two months after election. Un der the present method, the Congress we elected in November, 192ft, will not assemble until this December, 1927. In the Congress just closed we were at the mercy of fifty-eight lame ducks. Fifteen of them Senator* and forty- three of them (Vtngressmen who fail erl for re-election last November. Important national questions should he fully aad freely debated in the "Senate. Adoption of the House rales might defeat this. The second method appear* to be the better one. • We have been watching and wait ing for Chariton Wright, editor of The Columbia Record, to suggest that Governor Richards have his Sund?»y golfers triad before the World Court. The War Proceeds. The comic, opera war being wag*:d by Governor Richards and his State constabulary on the golfer* of South Carolina goes merrily on, and In the meantime North Carolina, Georgia aad Florid* art reaping the benefits from the tourist trade that is being driven away from this State. It I* high time that the Governor come to his senses and beat an orderly re treat from hia untenable position of trying to impose his own individual religious views and beliefs upon a long-suffering people under the guise of enforcing centuries old blue Sun day laws that long ago outlived their usefulness and are inapplicable to this day and time. In addition to the loss of thousands of dollars in revenue and the making of South Carolina the laughing stock of the nation, all that Gcfv. Richards it doing is turning thousands of other- wmw law-abiding citizens into law breakers. The rank and file of the pfeople are not in accord with the Governor in his interpretation of Sab bath observance nor do all of the min isters of the Goapel in. South Carolina uphold and applaud him in his stand. A Christian minister gets at the meat in the cocoanut in a letter to the edk>r of The State, in which he writes: ,*1 am” also. of the firm conviction that if there is any lack of the proper observance of our Sunday it has come from the pulpit, which thought Ue task consisted in presenting the negative of “thou shak not’ instead of presenting the real positive gospel of Jesus Christ” — 'Will Rogers, in his recent lecture Babies. Bishop James Wise, of Chicago telU Episcopalians “unless America comes to a halt in its mad rush for wealth a nd pleasure, national more destruction is at the end of the road.’ That ha* been said in the paM. some timeg when conditions were much worse than they are now. Fortunately, every new baby is clean page. n ot injured by what hap pened befrre it was bom, every gen eration is a new volume. Beck of the human race, controlling its destiny, there is a power greater' than that of bootleggers, dance halls or a degener ate stage. May Yet Reach Goal. The interest of South Carolina citizens in the fight against tubercu losis has been demonstrated again in the preliminary total of $34,600 raised by the 1926 Christmas SdU. and Health Bond Sale, according to a re port made yesterday by Dr. D. B. Jchnson, Seal Chairman of the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Johnson thinks that the goal of $35,000 may yet be- reached if those who received seals through the mail and postponed sending in their dol lars will send them to their county chairmen this month. “It ia dob to the faithful work of chairmen in every county in the Stafe and to *ub-«hairmen in nearly every community that we were able to sell so many seals in so short a time,” Dr. Johnson said. “The Campaign Com mittee wishes to publicly thank the seal chainnen; the teochera in city and rural school* in every county; the editor* who co-operated in getting the work before the people; the min isters, white and colored, who spoke in behalf «f the cause; the thousands of people who bought the seals so generously.” As soon os returns are all in, a Robert QuHleii to Gormor Rickard* to his heart.” P. P. 8.—Those lynchers haven't been caught. Is it all right to lynch Negroes—except on Sunday. 'The .following letter written by Robert Quillen, of Fountain Inn, a nationally known author, appeared in a recent issue of the Fountain. Inn Tribune: f ’ My dear Governor:- Please don’t misunderstand the?e letters. The first one was ironical, of course, but it was written in good. ( humor and with the kindest personal regards.. This is written, seriously. You were in my home only bnee, but you left a tremendous impression. You have the dignity, the old-fashion ed courtesy, the face, and the very look of a Governor. I da not criticise you, but your policy. —— Lost Sunday the State was “closed up” in accordance with your orders. And yet I know, by observation and by knowledge of mortals, that the forbidden things people wished to buy were bootlegged Of course the true bootleggers functioned as usual, but your order made many other boot leggers. - Why? Because this is a fres peo ple. This is * free land and South B utsinesd flLDERO a^ Aiken, remarked that most cf the complete report of the sale wiH be Central and South American. countrW ' gMMgMHMftog claim that Sscass is the duly elected president of Nicaragua, while Presl- dent Coolidge contends that Diaz is preeidsnt, the noted humorist marking in his dry manner, “AW funny how we’re always . right?” Fbfty-aeven of the 48 States in the i It ia not fk desecration of to play pAi or eel! gooo- the various other thing* on ''H*bsd. The funds from the tale will be used to enlarge the program <d health education, free clinic service, health nursing and sanitation carried on by the State and the county, associations.” »4WO»»»eM*OOOCO 0 0&»»»»♦ Advertise in The F wple-Sentinel, on a jV*nniitted adultery with her Carolina is the most free spot in it. South Carolina was first to secede from the Union when outsiders tried to run her business; she would secede tomorrow if they tried it again. You can’t coerce this people. They simply won’t stand for it. When you say Thou shall not,* you sdmply bring to their feet a million people who cry: "We will. Who are you to stop us?” Does anybody in South Carolina who likes lityuor respect the Volstead act? Doesn’t their reset ion in one case prove what it will be in another? That silly “blue law” ha* been on the books for a great many yean which means that it has been broken for s great many years. Do you wish to classify as criminals all those mil lions who broke H? If, by common consent of the peo ple, who are the Government in i free land, it was no crime to sell -*oca roU four weeks ago, is it now i crime merely because you **y it is? You can’t get *way with it. Gov emoi*. You are not a pop'*, and these people are pot ser's. The very ideu of the law wa< bai- ed on ignorance. It was intended to enforce obsen-anc» of the Ss^bath and every id-iMtcd ii dividual in the world know a that the Sabbath is Sat urday, not Sunday. I tell you frankly that the law is silly, and I would be ashamed to face free men if I were so weak as to respect it You cannot enforce morality—if this be morality— by law. Hasn’t the filthy trail of the Volstead act taught you that men cannot be made morsl by statute? Doesn’t all of history teach you that the spirit is stronger th»n the sword—that no law will be respected unless it is based on the will of the people? Efforts to enforce this law will only expose your impotence, make you seem ridiculous. It has been tried elsewhere, has succeeded for a little while, and then a has been forgotten as the people blandly went their accustomed way. The people of South Carolina .will do as -they please, whether you like it or not, and I glory in their spunk. The sale of gasoline on Sunday is a trivial matter, but freedom is every thing For it men must fight and die. You are wrong and you must inevitably fail. With an army of five thousand constables you might close the filling stations and stop the sale of soft drinks and end the recreation of golf ers who need their hours in the open air, but even then the law would be breken behind ‘ your back and you would have accomplished nothing. As a friend I urge you to stop this foolishness before you have lost the whole of your dignity and lost the respect of the entire State. These people who cheer for you arc unthinking fanatics, alipost without exception, and tomorrow or next year they will curse you because you re fused to do something even more fanatical. You cannot tramplft on liberty in the name of religion. You cannot en force every outgrown law on the statute books. You must be a man of, reason and common sense to gov ern justly. My. sincere hope is that you will reconsider, for your cause,is made hopeless by its ^injustice and its tyr anny in this enlightened age. . . Cordially, * ^ , ROBT. QUILLEN. P. 8.—You stopped sports on Sun day, but allowed the sale of news- popors containing sport pages. “But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh woman to lust after hsr hath FOR ^8ALE.—Excel seed from 40 and 50 pound watermelons.—L. A. Drummond, Dunbarton, S. C. MELON SEED.—Out of large mel- ,400—Excels and Tom W&tdons; $1.00 v per*poun<L—Otis Brabham, AJlendale, S. C. . / 3-17-2t WANTED. — Second-hand, Drop-, head Singer sewing machine. Ad-' dress stating price, Mrs. Angus Pat terson, Box 15, Barnwell, S. C. CHICKS.—Hatch coming off every TUESDAY. All heavy breeds, 20 cts.; light, 15 cts. 75 per cent live delivery guaranteed. We also do custom hatch-1 ing at $4.00 per tray of 96 eggs, j Book your orders now and get chicks j when you want them.—Blackvillc Hatchery, Blackville, S. C. 2-24-10tp PROFITS FOR THE FARMER:— Get more money for your crop by growing cotton of full inch fibre or. longer.* The mills want it. Coker's strains of Cleveland meet the require ment. They won five out of six. prizes in the Statewide Contest. Write for free copy of 1927 catalogue describ ing our seeds and breeding methods.' It offers practical suggestions that will help you make money this year. —Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Co., David R. Coker, President, Hartsville, S .C. 2-17-4tc. FOR SALE.—White and yell >w chrysanthemum plants, 10 cents each, $1.00 per dozen.—Mrs. B. P. I&vies, Barnwell, 8. C. FOR SALE.—Watson Watermelon Seed, saved from larfce melons last July when the market slumped. Ex cellent quality. Price 75 cents per pound delivered.—Mutual Trading Co., Blackville, S. C. 2-10-10tc. FOR SALE. — Several hundred thousand feet of pine timber, located about a mile and a half from Kline. For further information address Mrs. L. A. Best, Barnwell, S. C. 1-20-tfc CHICKS.—Hatch coming off every Tuesday. All heavy breeds. 20 cts.; light, 15 cts. 75 per cent delivery guaranteed. We also do custom hatching at $4.00 per trsy of 96 eggs. Book your orders now and get chicks when you want them.—Soujourner Poultry Ffcrm, I\”’m*rk, S. C , 2-24-7tp FOR SALE:—Frost Proof Cabbage Plants, grown in the open air, all early varieties. By pfreel post: 200, 75c; by express collect: 500, $1.25; 1,000, $2.00. Lettuce plants, 30c per hundred. These are fancy plants. Will ship day order is received. Cash with order. Send check, money or der, cash or one and two cents stamps. —Dr. C .N. Burckhalter, Barnwell, S. C. t4-l-27. HIDES WANTED! I am paying highest casn prices for HIDES of all kinds. Let me know what you have. I am also in the maikct for $ used burlap bags, scrap metal and old rubber. * C. H. PINCHUK Blackville, S. C. Pigs and Shoats Wanted IF YOU HAVE 10 OR MORE FOR SALE, DROP US A CARD AND WB WILL COME AND BUY. WE PAY HIGHEST CASH PRICE. ^ * ■ -9- y — Gleaton Bros. SPRINGFIELD, S. C. U, *~~r- rv Burlesque Entertainment THE VAMP THEATRE Friday, Mardi 17, at 8:15 p. m. For the Benefit of the Baptist Church Organ Fund Most humorous play under the direction of Mrs. Garland (Professional) of Atlanta, who opens with negro impersonations. Can you'imagine important business men in todies evening gowns; in comic songs and dances; as blackface comMhans, etc? The Baptist church will not be held responsible if your eyes run rivers of water, your sides ache and you die of laughter, for - all of this will come to you and wore as sure *8 you go to hear the oast belqw—it had to come: Madam Jarley — Mrs. Beulah Garland Black Mammy - -J-- Mordecai Mazursky Andy Gump E. E. Goodson ' Sis Hopkins —- - - , 8. B. Moseley BABIES ___1 Willie Jackson and J. R. Harrison New York Flapper L Lee Easterling Village Cut-Up Ed. Woodward - Tiny Tots C. H. Fowler and V. S. Owens Miss Spualina Allen Brown Dude P. W. Stevens Bride-Groom • 1- H. P. Compton Bride --i--- Miss Lena Cave Topsy Mrs. Mary Moody Silly Liczie _* Mrs. Lee Easterling Follie Girij Misses Riley and Dee son Social Buttrfly *_ C. Keys Sanders Servants Harris and Brodie Pavlowa Aillaine Harley Wander ing Minstrel Mrs. T. A. Holland Marion Talley & Mrs. Ira Files Little Jack Horner Boncil Dychea Rufus Rsstus ______ Lloyd Plexioo Geraldine Perry Price Pianist Mrs. J. M. Brodie Admission: Adults 50c, Children 25c Vamp Theatre ONE NIGHT ONLY THURSDAY, MARCH 17 LAST RETURN ENGAGEMENT OF THE Reno Road Show Company — IN A NEW PLAY — “An Arizona Cowboy** WITW HERBERT K. BETTS as “Happy Hazzard” the “Take a Chance, Happy Go-Lucky Cowboy.” If you don’t like “Happy” you’d fight with an Angel. \ COMEDY THAT WILL MAKE YOU ROAR WITH LAUGHTER. DRAMATIC SKETCHES THAT WILL MAKE YOU SIT UP AND .TAKE .NOTICE, and ALL .NEW ’.SPECIALTIES TO ROUND OUT TWO HOURS OF AN ENTERTAINMENT WORTH TWICE WHAT YOU WILL PAY FOR IT— PRICES: 25c ,35c and Sftc. IT ISN’T NECESSARY TO Violate the “Blue” . * 4 Sunday Law % nor go without your usual “dope” on Sun day if you’ll order a case of * For Sale CUCUMBER SEED W# offer for sole ike genuine THE HENDERSON” Cucumber Seed in original I pound printed bags: 1 to 5 ponada at $1 2S per 5 to 25 pounds at $1.15 per 25 to 1M pounds at $1.M per 1M pounds at « SIMON BROWN’S SONS BLACKFILLS • - - S C t sent around to your house.. Just phone and r . say “Send me a case”—we’ll do the rest Barnwell Coca-Cola Bot Co. ^ ‘ t H. P. Compton, Mgr. Barnwell, S. C. Advertise in The People-Sentinel