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PAGE POUR. THE BAKNWELL PEOPLE-SENTlNELf BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA APRIL Tj^BarnwIl People^mtincl JOHN w. holmes is*—mi B. P. DAVIES. Editor Propriotor. Entorod at the poet office at Barnwell 8. C., as second-class matter. • • " I ' < SUBSCRIPTION RATIB: One Tear^™ H Six Months JO Tfcree Months - ,#0 , (Strictly la Advance.) THURSDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1927. ■ I ^ There is one thing that few of us really live up to—our obituary. Reno, Nev., is back into the divorce running. Gee, won’t that make Paris greejv? We are at last a nation of real he- men. No longer is there one who hides behind a woman’s skirt. We can’t. T"\ The Government now has 4,000,000 gallons of whiskey in storage. Which announcement may speed up - enlist ments in the Tank service. the community, because the reason ie self-apparent. Aside from considera tions of pride and duty^the_ propofk. SOUS OF PREACHERS • _ NOT -BLACK SHEEP" Japan spent two million dollars to bury its late Emperor. Almcet as much as Pennsylvania and Illinois spent on their senatorial candidates. Sixty million women and children visited beauty parlors in 1926, spend ing 1390,0000,000 in “prettying up.” Which is pretty good returns on a “skin game,’’ we’d say. We don’t know what it is all about except that a lot of battles are being won and lost in China—end that •ooner or later some country will, learn that it hag the wrong queue. A divorce court judge remarks that men should learn to handle their wives with glove*. Alright, Judge. We never had on a pair of boxing gloves in our life—but here goes. tlSn' fhvoTvei a*clear case of self-pres ervation. /’ If the money we make here is to be sent away to enrich other places, we are standing in our own light. We do not believe the evil is. as great here as it ia in some other cities, perhaps, but every individual case in which goods are purchased out of town when they could be procured here at no greater, or even at l^ss, cost, is a black eye for the business community. It must be borne in mind that pur- shasea made from door to door sales men have precisely the same effect as though the money were sent direct to the mail ^order houses out of town. This city is poorer by the aggregate sum of all such purchases and the ef fect upon local trade and local pros- perity is 1 too obvious to require com ment. Thoughtlessness is responsible for it, but that is a poor excuse for mak ing it moie difficult for the local mer chant to give full service, to carry full stocks, to expand his business and bring here the class of merchandise he desires to carry. . . ’ Another injustice ia that the mail order business is all cash, whereas the local merchant is accommodating to his lecal trade. It is unfair to use the local man’s capital for certain neces sities and then to send away cash for the other things that could be had here. The practice ia economically unsound and sooner or later those ce- ap nsible for it wiL :<gret that they have ever been so blind to the beat in terest* of their own town.” The home merchant must be sup ported b^ the home people if he is to prosper, and unless he prospers there can be no proaperity in that town. The call to support him is not based on “town pride” only but is in the inter- o*t tf the buyer, if that buyer has any interest in his home tewn.—The State. Ft gar99 Shaw Mo$t of Thom 'Matte m Good.” T III Spent Effort. Judging from the headlines and “amashea 7 ’ on the first page of the average big city nowapaper it is no longer difficult to "break into the news." Instead on# must watch hia step to keep from being dragged in. Not So Good The methropolitan or big city presa show* recent inclination to stir things up a bit, particularly jn regard to th** make-up cr the membership of Con gresa. In tho last few srasiona things haven’t gone along a" smooth )y or as easily fJT capital as had be?n expected—judged by achievement of other yoara. In other words, measures or bills, such as the McNary- Haugen farm relief effort, shewed a line-up not at all comforting to capi tal or the interests. A repeal of the direct primary is one subtle meth d which might help return full political power to capital. Another method might bn to have the country force a redistribution of seats in Congress—for both Senate and House—which, if based on population, would give overwhelming dominance in Federal Government to the city districts. H 4s troe twenty-fiye of our popii- «r*rrrth our homes, on our?»nn* ihfft lous States have fifty votes in th«\ Senate or fretn a representative popu lation of, say twenty million peop’e. The other twenty-three States, with a population cf eighty-six million, have forty-six votes in the Senate. Also, that failure of Congress to redistri bute seats in the House of Represen tatives since, the 1910 census, as Con stitutionally ordered, perhaps needs attention. However, there are two sides to every question and if agriculture and labor expect ever to attain or retain a voice in how they are to be governed, then they would do well to be on guard and think twice before endors ing movements for legislative changes which on the face may appear only just and fair. ‘Buy at Home.* ir - The Boston Transcript copies from one of its Massachusetts contempor aries, the Haverhill Gazette, the fol lowing argument for supporting the hpme town, net only in words but in deed*! It is so sound that we adopt it in toto: , “There is vastly more in the slcgan ‘Buy »t Home’ than a mere appeal to local pride, local patriotism and pub lic apirit and local self-interest. It Roght not to be necessary to point to •ay of these things aa the duty, or rather the high privilege of every res- Probably no governor elected in South Carolina in a quarter of a cen tury had, upon assuming the robes of office, greater opportunities for con structive work, nor more tremendous responsibilities created out of the six continuous year* of rapidly changing conditiona that John G. Richards. Yet, in less than three months he has spent his force on an unimportant issue, and unless pubHc opinion and confidence in our governor undergo an unusual change, he will recede into historical obscurity merely as "Blue Sunday John.” Had the publicity that has been giv en the blue law*, and its resultant dia- oussi :w in every nook and corner of A society of Me’hodlst pfeachera* sons has been formed to combat the old myth that preachers’ son* are bad ahd never amount to much. Just how this myth originated Is not known, but probably at a very remote time some minister’s son, whom everybody looked I To as a model for the other boys of the vlllege, so departed from the path of virtue as to shock the en tire community and to cast ti shadow of suspicion on the offspring of every other parson through succeeding ages. At any rate 4 the Idea has long pre vailed that preachers’ sons are a bad lot—a conviction that exemplary con duct could not entirely erase. . The names of some of the eminent men who are officers of this organiza tion constitute positive proof that not sll clergymen’s sons are scnpearrnces. Melville E. Stone, founder of the As sociated Press, Is one of Its vlds'pres idents, the other vice presidents being Paul H. Helms, president of the Gen- al Baking' corporation, and Emory Buckner, federal district attorney of New York. Fletcher H. Montgomery of New York Is president. But, some may protest, these may he the only preachers’ sons among many ’ thou sands who ever' made a name for themselves—a few white sheep among a vest herd of black sheep. How about the remainder of parsons’ progeny? "Who’s Who" supplies ample data with which the newly formed organiza tion might explode the myth, not only as It applies to the sons of Methodist ministers, but to the sons of clergy men of other denominations. All per sons sketched In the 1922-23 edition of this reference work of eminent men were asked'to Indicate the occupation of their fathers. It was found that no less than 2,69.1. or 11 per cent, were preachers' sons. Still others men tioned that their father combined preaching with some other occupi- tlon. The census Ar the year 1870. the year nearest the birth of these notables, shows that clergymen com prised less than” one half of 1 per cent of sll men. Upon this basis. It Is cal- f ciliated that clergymen fathered twen ty-eight times the average number of notables, one Protestant minister In each fifteen having a child whose name later appeared In "Who’s Who." In the *gme year buslne** and pro fessional men fathered seven and six teen times, respectively, the average number of notable*, or the number that might have been expected from their portion of the total population, while farmer* fathered less than their prof tort Innate sbnre. and un skilled laborers much less than farm ers. SHU more impressive l* the •♦•le nient that ' Pratestant clecgymetj about 1870 contributed In proportion to their number* about 2.4<>n time* a* raunj tcrlnent |»er*oii« a* did unskilled laborers, thirty-five time* a* many a* did farmer*, four time* a* many a* business men and over twice as many he State, been directed toward South' "" th * «verage of other professional Carolina’s failuie to fred its people and its horae* and mule* and hogs and cows instead of importing million* of dollara worth of food and feedstuff*, the people of &uth Carolina might have found just where to put their fin- gqrs on the economic pioblems which men Europe’» Mytiory Man The so-called “Mystery Man of Europe,” Sir Basil '.aharoff. I* spend ing hi* thirtieth winter at Monte t’arlo enjoying hi* sunny outlook over the Mediterranean from his suite In have always confronted them, today. ' the Hofei d«- Paris But he still has Very few of us are really concerned hl * over the wn-ld and keej* well about the buying and selling of dope, l > ° ,, '* 1 L He says that he always did . .. . , , , business for fun and that slm-e the a few gallons of oil, cr the playing ^ , . " , ’ r / * departure of his beloved wife last here and yonder of a quiet game of spring | lf doc* not find so nfurlr fun or play In business. What the paper* say does golf. We are all concerned and deep ly concerned about the abili.y of our people to pay their debts, to see pros perity, peace and contentment reign in cur places of business. Soon, the flurry over the enforce ment of antiquated laws will subside. The people will, within a few months, have forgetten the matter entirely, and g If will continue to be played, gas, oil and dope* will be obtainable not con- tern him. for his **>-returie* still have directions, a* always. t»* ■brtng.trfltLliaC^ rttpplttgtf concerning himself. It I* about other people—France, England, the United States, and oilier nations —that he desires lo lie Informed.— Wall Street Journal. Big Cigarette Factory A contract has recently been let for the constructlop'-of what will he one of o n about the same basis as hereto-! thp largest cigarette factories in the fore. But we will continue ta he a de- i rni:e d Kingdom, according to As- j sistuut Trade Commissioner Janies Somerville. jr„ London. Located not 1 far from the heart of the city, the i boihftng will have a floor space of sonni nine acres. will be 7S feet above the pavement. 600 feet long and 2|M) feet wide. The building is ex pected to cost about f.VSI.'lOO and will be completed within eighteen months. pendent State, dependent communities and ^dependent homes, because have-uo teal leadership toward intelli gent and practical production on our farms of food for our people and feed for our stock. - We will continue to raise n dollar’s worth of cotton with which to buy five dollars’ worth of the necessities of life that we should raise at home and would raise at home if cur statesmen were big enough to lead a crusade th the interest of all the people and forget the “galleries” for while. There is hardly a farmer in South Carolina, white or black, who has not become thoroughly familiar with the questions involved in the blue laws ccntroveisy that has raged for about a month. They are not one bit better off, nor a bit worse, as a consequence. If our governor can succeed in get ting before these fatmerg the all-im-_ portaut question of intelligent farm ing and can secure the same amount of intense publicity through cur daily and weekly papers we should soon find Conley Dabney, of Frankfort* Ky., above, said he was innocent, but he was convicted of killing Mary Vickery four years ago. Now Mary Vickery shows up alive—and the body found in an old mine—. still is a mystery. Governor Fields of Kentucky quickly granted a par don and Dabney’s life is saved.. Chine re Build Highway* Szechuan province, China, at last Is capitulating to modernity and Is huildlng highways. Funds for their i construction were obtained front the I sal* of unused temple lands. One of the most populous and wealthiest provinces In China It long resisted the Introduction of modern ideas. The opposition of the Sr.e<-hnanete to the pro|»osed great trunk railway in the Yangtse valley, which was to have been built sotae sixteen years ago, led to the revolution. our way out of the depression, the j fatluies, the hopelessneis of the con- ident of the community in keeping it*. ditiong that shackled us for the prosperous. And it :ught not to be p „ t 6 y eara.-County Record, Kings- to point to the further rea- tree, for keeping money earned in thia ^ > m any other town at work 2n and for ADVERTISE in Th# People-SentineL: f ■ ■ ’ He Remembered Buddy Gillespie, serious minded and ea/nest. had attended Sunday school, where be listened attentively to the Christmas story his teacher told.- When he came hams his father, by way of Interest, Inquired, “Well. Buddy, what was the Sunday school lesson about?” Ruddy thoughtfully pondered, then remarked. ”It was something like ‘Mary hud a little lands’ hot it wao- —it was ‘Mary had a Httle baby.’ Use High Grade Feed and watch the improvement in your chickens Starter, Fine 3aby Chick, Growing Mash, Egg Mash, Scratch Feeds. ■= . Lemon Bros t'- rv " ' Barnwell, U-i Inc. s. c. I »- Coker-Clevfeland cotton seed, one year front Coker. This is sbain 5, the best strain of Cleveland big boll and the winner of first prize in the State-wide contest last year. Price 90 cents per bushel. P. A. BAXLEY Blackville, South Carolina. ^ • - 4Tj Advertise in The People-Sentinel JuSt natural... Men like the "natural” in all things. Chesterfield’s natural tobacco taste is no exception I ./ Here, and here alone, will you get natural to bacco taste at its mild and mellow best for here natu ral aroma and character are entirely held and brought out to the full! 9 . • 'faSfflt' and yet, they’re MILD I Lstaarr & Ninas Tobacco Co. ■"-»** ■ ' W. .