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* - - --,.w V I !■ T, W ■ * — - - . • '"J T .. ,. - w 'I , ^ II "W J J •' ~*'r- -. . -r -W*W~ ■ ■ f "irw^pr — , k. ' ■* . - ^.■•' - ' vV v*:* 4 "• THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA • / ' .. -. ? THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH, 1W7 J: V. V "~ K P. DAVIES, Editor aod Proprietor. Entored at the poet office at Barnwell 8. C, ae eecond-claae matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Om Year $1.50 Six Montha .......... JO Three Monthe ... ,50 (Strictly la Advance.) ■ i THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH, 1927. Some women who think they are ahining socially find later that it was only their nose. v J Looks like Volstead also changed our standard measure scale. A quart of gin now means a peck of trouble. The poor fish who holds a soul mate in his arms and thinks he has fpund happiness >3 only hugging; a^ delusion. If women’s skirts keep on getting shorter we for one are going to ’quit worrying about this ever beco ring a petticoat government. Ninety-five raido stations are to bnoadcaat government crop and mar ket reports daily. Is this a little Federal “sop** in lieu of the Farm Re lief measure? -The High Coat of Guessing. It is impossible, of course, to esti mate the tremendous cost to the Southern farmer of the government's erronexis guess as to the size of the 1926 cotton crop. The price started o<T last Fall at about 17 H cents a pound and declined steadily iq the face of ever-increasing estimates un til it reached the low level of about 11 cepts for middling in Savannah as the result of the government’s es timate of a crop of 18,600,000 bales. The final ginning report was issued Manday and showed a crop of 17,600,- 000 bales, a million short of the fore cast. If the average loea be placed at four cents a pound, or $20.00 a bale, this guesswork on the part of the government has cost the farmeis $352,000,000. And rvow it appears that while the South has made a slightly larger crop than the year before, the for eign crop is more than a million bales abort, which means that the work! has actually produced leas cotton in 1926 than in 1925. Furthermore, ex port* so far have totaled about tw<? million bales more and domestic con sumption about a million more than the previous year, with several months yet to go. Therefore, it would appear that the 1926 crop was not too large-—or at least not large enough to justify the ruinous prices that have prevailed. Another crime Kaa been perpe true ted againat the Southern farmer and our oWn govern ment waa an accessory, Whether wit- Jtingly or not, ^ It would seem from pafct experience that these semi-monthly guesses do the cotton farmer more > harm, than good and in the present instance at least have coat them the difference . i between prosperity and poverty. In Death Struggle. Die-hards are ever with us. Tb6 current species is gs tough and hardy ha any the nation has had to exter minate ft the last seventy-five years. It is the corrupt political boss or ward- heeler, fighting, in his death struggle, to have us repeal the direct primary. With a presidential primary loom ing ahead in 1928, there are reason? etafotugh why it should be advantageous to many of the old bosses to return to the convention system, in county, in State and in nation. Of course this is too much for them to hope for, still It is a fact that a moat -determined ef fort to that end is this year being made. Voters everywhere should be warned of the subtle and indirect methods that are being used, to take from their hands the right to name their representative party candidates. The attack on the direct primary is being pressed by those forces that prefer a government by money-r—to one by popular opinion*. The scandals within the last year have put a new determination into the foes cf the primary. * Bosses have' learned that money used too lavishly in a primary, defeats its own ends. U ruler the ootivention system money can be handled easily, effectively—and at tracts no attention. Right now there are some very learned discussions being featured by the political-boss directed press which attempt to palm eff the old corrupt convention system of nomination as the “indirect convention system.’* In a nutshell, it is a joke for advo cates of the convention system to talk about “the cost” of the direct primary and compare it in any way with the old convention System. Just remember this. Every real progressive in Congress today comes from direct primay *u ngholds—and virtually every one is a poor man. Also, investigate and you will find that the drive against the direct primary is headed by public utility officials, old school politicians and corporation lawyers. Rill Boards. An Open Letter. To The Editor of The Barnwell People-Sentinel:— Any careful and sustained estimate of public sentiment in Barnwell, whether shown in the columns of your excellent paper or in public comment, will show that Barnwell wants to grow. We want new business and manufacturing enterprises to select our town as business locations. In common with every other t^wvn ih the State we are greatly interested in the prospects that will grow out of the new hydro-electric plant to be built in Columbia by the Bar- stow interests. The beat of it is that Barnwell can offer induce ments to prospective enterprises second to no town of its size in the State. We ought to see that our job is a matter of salesmanship. In ether words, we are trying to sell the town of Barnwell to pros pective business enterprises. We will have the keenest competition from other towns who are as anxious as we are to land the business plums. We can’t put Barnwell <nver by creating this or that organ ization and then leave the work and responsibility to them: Selling Barnwell is—or ought to be—the business of everybody in Barnwell. While we enjoy unrivaled advantages in soil, climate, high ways and many other things, yet in these we have no monopoly over other competing towns. We Barnwell people find here a charm of living and association which we prefer to all other towns of our acquaintance. In other words, “W£ had rather live here than anywhere else on earth.’* But salesmanship cf Barnwell to prospective business enter- 1 prises will depend not on what we see in the town, but what we ean- induce. them to see in it. Our job i 8 to sell it to them, for they, may net desiie the same things that we value. We ought to recognize the fact that we must sell Barnwell to ourselyes before we can ever hope to sell to anybody else. This may be illustrated by an incident in which a minister i n a small church received a call to a large city church which he was inclined to accept. On visiting the church a chance remark from one cf its officials revealed the fact that conditions in that church were not as good as they might be.. Fuller investigation revealed the fact that he could not wisely accept. Because they had not sold the church to themselves they could not sell it to him. Now this princiole will apply to everything that goes to make a town. It must first be changed from the column cf liabilities to that of assets before we can hope to sell it tb other people. When I was a boy I faced ameng my tasks that of sweeping the yard in expectation of the coming of the minister cr other guests. The family and neighbors didn’t mind the gradual accumulation of sticks, leaves and trash in general. My job was to get that yard in shape to approve itself to the taste of the visitor. We must first sell Barnwell to ourselves befewe we can ever hope to sell it to prospective business enter prises. No business slogan, organisation or newspaper publicity can take the place of this. * 1 W. M. JONES. along our national highways, with huge, lurid billboards and signs, is one of those things, like the follies of youth, which we wish we dbuld undo. 730 An attempt to disfigure English | landscapes with billboards and signs, ft( la American, is meeting with stiff i opposition. Our sympathy is with the challengers and against this vandal ism. It is our hope the protest will' save the rural landscapes of England from such defacement. \ I *—- J I A few successful protests by other nations may some day awakep Ameri ca, and public sentiment force a re moval of all wayside billboards which deface and destroy our nation’s natur al beauty. Dr. Frank Crane Says No Compromise With Liquor. There are times when the Unitsc States can sincerely regret that she js a y<ung nation. When one is young, one oftimes does many things un thinkingly. So with the nation—aiu the day we permitted the start in besmearing our beautiful landscapes > The liquor business is like a deadly serpent. _ - It is about as easy to regulate or to make legal as iit ig to tame a hyena.' It Ja essentilly a wild beast. It is unfortunately aligned with conviviality. Many people seem to think that getting drunk ig a joke and the consumption of alcohol • is abusing. They speak condoningly of the'use of whiskey by the youth. Many people, and especially those engaged in wet propaganda, do yot realize the deadly end of this peril. It is an own brother t® murder, hold-ups, burglary, smuggling and thuggism. A man engaged in the business of enforcing the law of prohibition takes his life in his hands, for those in the liquor business do not heaitate to kill when it is necessary. It em braces not only low brow thugs, but millionaires and social leaders. While the*common people have de clared for the abolition of aleolnl there are many who are determined to go on with their consumption of liquor. The efforts of the convivally in clined and thoae who think that their personal liberty has been interfered with are influenced by one of the ■tlongest passions in the human breast —greed. It is difficlut to enforce any law when the breaking of that law is backed up by human passions. The laws against arson, murder, adultery and theft are thousands of years old, yet they are constantly violated no matter what thfeir evil effects. The law against the use of Hqujv is aimed at the greatest curse and greatest crime that humanity has ever known. Those who see the vileness of its effects, the moral degradation of youth and the damage to busmei have lined up solidly for prohibition, while against the prohibitory law are thoae who are subtly influenced by the traditional tolerance of the human race to a habit that is supposed to he genad and pardonable. The trouble with bootlegging is that it pays and pays big. Whoever will take the profit out of this unholy business will be doing a great service. Judge Xenophon Hicks of Knoxville snid in u discussion of the divorce evil; . “Married people are so frank ivlth one another—that’s another cause of divorce. They say exactly what they think. Brr! “ ‘Marriage Is certainly a lottery,’ a wife said thoughtfully, us she looked hp from her evening paper.* ‘One draws a prize, another draws a I lank.' “ ’Yes, love,’ her husband snickered. ’You drew me, I drew you.’ ’’ * Asks One Million - National IS NOW LOCATED IN A 'i * * • We are now better prepared tp serve our customers than ever before. 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