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VAOB TWO. TH> BAKNWBLL PBOPLB4BNTINEL, BARNWELL, CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 1STH, 1928. Social and Personal News of Blackville Eulogy on the Dog Blackville, April 14.—Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ncfvils entertained Monday even ing with four tables of bridge. Misses Lila Taale» Eva Clarke, E4Ja Hill, Emily Ingram, Elizabeth Shilito and Helen Weissinger, Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank Posey ard Mrs. Pefcrl Mathis, J. C. Turner, Nick Martin, Melbume Creech, Gene Watts and V. L. Nevik were guests. - During the evening fruit 7 punch was served. The hostess served ice cream and cake. Friday aftemoor, the cradle roll and beginners' k department of the Baptist church of which Mrs. C. R. Boylston is superintendent enjoyed an Easter pearty on the church lawr* Etach little guest was given an Easter bunny full of candy eggs. Lemonade and cakes were Served. Man’s reputation may be i<a<*rifieed in Miss Genevieve Murphy entigtained a moment of ill eonsidemi action. In view of the fact that this is “Be Kind to Animals Week," the following tribute delivered by U. S. Senator George G. Vest, before a Kentucky jury in September, 1870, is most ap propriate: “Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in, this world may turn against him a^d become his ene»» my. His son aril daughter that he has reared with loving care may become ungrateful. Thos<i who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom ave trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him when he may need it most. about 40 young people at the home of Mrs. J. E. Mol on y Tuesday even ing. Rook, touring and bridge were played while some imjoyed dancing. Punch and mints were served. The home economics class of the Blackville high -school gave a party at the home of Miss Marguerite Wal ker bst Friday evening. A crowd of UTe people who are Prorje to fall onJ their knees and do Us honor when suc cess is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when fail ure settops its cloud upon our heads. The absolutuly unselfish friend a man may have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or young pnople attended. Several con-! tn•icheiiTUs, is his dog. 'tests were enjoyed. Brick ice cream i and cakes were served. The Blackville School Improvement i association held its regular monthly meeting at 4 o’clock Tuesday after noon. The regular routine of busi ness was conducted, Mrs. T. O. Bolarfl, presiding.- This club has responded to every call of the federation during the past year; has painted th^ school building, installed new scenery for the stage; and purchased new furni ture for the teachers’ rest room. The treasuries’ report shows a balarpe of $f>2.42 with no outstanding indebt edness. ' Mrs. LeRoy C. Still, director of the Western district of federated clubs, Mrs. S. G. Lowe, delegate from the Wednesday Afternoon Book club and Mrs. H.L. Buist, delegate from the School Improviiment association re turned Thursday afternoon from Aiken where they attended the State convention of federated clubs. The Western district is justly proud of having won the gavel for the_ best district report. Thu Blackville School Improvement association also claims the distinction of having first honora ble mention for club achievements for the past year. This dub reported $2, 1 85 28 raised. W. W. Molony, H. G. Molony, W. W. Molony, Jr., and Dr. J. E. Molony a'-e ir Washington, 1). C., where they attended the wedding of Miss Lucile Mok-’ v daughter of^Mr. and Mrs. W. W Molony, of Blackville, to M. M. Cornwall, of Washington, Tuesday, April 10th. A. H. Ninestein has returrpd from Genevai, N. Y., where he attended the funeral of his mother. Mrs. C. H. Mathis and daughters, Etta and Hettie, were visitors in Trenton last Sunday. Murray Turner, of Augusta, spcr.t last Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Turner. Paul Magruder, William Altman and A. V. Collum have returned to the Citadel after spending the Easter holi- -days at home. Newton Heckle, of Saluda, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Matthews for the week-enl. Gene Watt was a visitor in Char lotte one day last week. Edward Ninestein, of the University of South Carolina, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. artd Mrs. A. H. Nine*, ■stein. Mrs. Annie Minus, of St. George, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. LeRoy C. Still/ v “A man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and in sickness. Hf will sleep on the cold ground, when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only ^ # V he may be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the rough ness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. “When all other friends desert, he remains. When ridhes takes wings and reputation falls to pieces he is as constant jn his love as the sur. in its journey through thci heavens. If for tune drives the master forth an out cast into the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful -dog asks no higher privilege thar, that of accom panying him, to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies,vand when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his grave- i side will the noble dog be found, his head 1 between his paws and his eyes sad, hut <>P*n in alert watchfulr«0ss, faithful and true even to death." jr Arthur Bmbuw CONTROL OF POWER SOURCES. FRANK B. WILMS. WAR AGAINST RATS. . AMERICAN FLYING. Canada’s Government encourages use of electric power, particularly on farms and in small communities. Water power is developed fully to generate the current, and all are as sisted in its installation. Farmers are taught to grind feed with it, pump water and do their other Work" " ' And, by the way, United States farmers are urgently invited by the Canadian government to settle in Canada. Our attention here is concentrated on a different problem. We want to make sure that the right people get* posscssio'n of our power sources, the right people being those that control power and peddle it to the people. As to farmers and others that buy and use power, our Government has not found time to think about them. What the Oath Prescribes. . A good deal hit been jmUL in the pree* recently about the Junior sena- tor,, from South Carolina, special re ference being made to the fact that Senator Blease has voted with the Republicans in the Senate on nearly eivery issue before the national legis lative body. The senator has repeat edly inferred that he is a free lance and that he is privileged to vote as he pleases. , In view of his utterances on the subject, it is quite interesting to note what the -rules and regulations of the Democratic party of South Carolina, 1924, under which Senator Blease was nominated by the Democrats, have to say. Every candidate for a Democratic nomination was required to subscribe to the following oath: “As a candidate for the office of in the Demo cratic primary election, to be -held -on the last Tuesday in August, 19—, 1 herdby pledge myself to abide the results of such primary and support the nominees of the party, State and National, anl I declare that I am a Democrat and that I am not nor will I become a candidate of any faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other; than the regulation Democratic nomination." Candidates, however, for the Unit ed States Senate or house of repre sentatives, were required to subscribe to an- additional pledge as follows: “I will support the political principles ard policies of the Democratic party during the term of office for which I may be elected, and work in accord With my Democratic associates in congress on all party questions.’’ . If the senator has ever taken the trouble to read the rules and regula tion* of the party which nominated and elected him to his exalted office, it must be apparent to him that in electing himself as a fme lance, he^ is not only violating the principbwj^ ‘ the Democratic party of South Ca^ j lina, but'he is, a s well, violating a solemn pledge which he subscribed to in the form of an oath. If he had not subscribed to this oath, ho could not 1 have been nominated by the Demo crats of the State. On numerous is sues Senator Blease has stood almost alone among the Democrats in. the senate in voting with the Republicans. No senator or representative elected by Soutfi Carolina Democrats has the slightest right, leigal or moral, to vote with the Republicans on any party issue.—Bamberg Herald. Prophecy is usually dangerous, par- ticularly dangerous for farmers when government prophecies go wrong. The Government forecast on potatoes last Fall predicted a crop greater than the real one. Many farmers sold in a hurry at low prices, sbme\were not marketed, many fed to stock. Then the shortage was seen, price went up, a few wise^people made the money, NOT the farmers. The sudden death of Senator Willis, in his battle for Ohio’s Presi dential delegates, ended tragically one phase of the 1928 campaign. Senator Willis would have pre ferred to die fighting. Those that know Secretary Hoover know that Senator Willis’ death will cause him sincere grief. A powerful man, never sparing himself. Senator Willis forgot that there are limits to the heart’s endur ance. A tired heart often succumbs in the most powerful man, wearied by constant strain. The dead man’s widow - attributed the Senator’s attack to the fumes of smoky flares that he had been inhal ing constantly, in the course of a political parade. A weak heart, fighting against poisoned' air, is in danger. It Isn’t Much Fun to “Company; Entertain a good oS-fash- means .starched “COMPANY^* ioned word that guests Guests of this type are mere ac quaintances. They do not call with out an invitation, though at times they call by telephone and ask if they may call in person. When they arrive they have on their Ixist clothes and best manners. They sit very erect in their chairs and make x Laurid Buist, of Columbia, spent the 'week-end with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Buist. Reddick Still, commandant of the -Collegiate Institute of Mt. Pleasant, N. C., spent Easter at home. Mr. and Mrs. Earl McFarland and little daughter, Constance, of High Point, N. C.* spent the week-end with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. X o H. Ninestein. \ Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Fickling and Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Duncan and thdir guest, Miss Bonnety of Raleigh, N. C., visited Magnolia Gardens Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Still have as their guest, Mr. and, ; Mrs. Curtis Faulkner, of Clarksville, Ttnn. Friends of H. B. Grilles, of Lees, will be glad to learn that,he is im proving. Mr. Grimes is in the hospi tal in Columbia where he has under gone a very serious operation. Mr. and Mrs. C. J; Fickling, Misses Marjorie Fickling and Annie Willie Johnson motored to Columbia Thurs day afternoon on a visit to Ro Fickling, who is ill at the Baptis' hospital. conversation — manufactured conversation that has neither wit nor interest, and is merely a painful so cial duty. If they laugh, they do it politely as though afraid to violate some rule. They agrte with all you say and smile dutifully when they think it \s time to smile. They bore you and yoiTbort them; and when they Can stand it no longer, they get up and go. Ther, for the first time, they show some sign of being alive. A new note of anima tion and sincerity shows in their voices. That is because they are glad th« agony isFover. "• - Friends are not company. They come when they wish and go when they wish; select the chair they like best; sit at ease; talk or read as they prefer; helf> themselves to fruit with out waiting for an invitation; smoke ife they wish; go back to the G E. for a cold bottle; in short, make themselves at home and accept with out restraint the welcome they know is theirs. Anybody may have acquaintances. But only the favored of the gods have friends. For real friends anrborn and not made, and in all the world there are but few who are worthy of your. love and able to love you in return.— Robert Quillen in The Fountain Inn Tribun*. The League of Natrons proposes international war against rats, their complete extermination. Such a war, made to include mos quitoes and flics, would be the best war in history. It would save every year in lives and money as much as the big war cost in any year. J Carriers of Southern Prosperity j: i . • \ ; O UT from the heart of the South to Northern and Western Gateways and to Gulf and Ocean Ports reach the glistening steel rails of the jSouthem—*that the products of the South ijrtay speed swiftly to the**rai^ ing markets of the world. In the yast traffic handled by the Southern^ Railway System today is the story of the South’s dramatic rise toward industrial and agricultural A supremacy. The Southern is inseparably linked with the destinies of the South. Its development to one of the most efficient transportation systems in. k the world has been made possible by the growth of the South—and has in turn laid the foundation for greater and more rapid progress of this great section in the future. , Our sixty thousand employees, Southern men and wo men, are proud in the knowledge that their job today is . to build a greater Southern to serve a greater South. No more rats, no more bubonic plague. No more mosquitoes, no more yel low fever or malaria. No more tse-tse ffies, no more sleeping sickness. No more house flies, no more filth dragged over food of young chil dren. < It would be interfering with Nature’s plans, perhaps. Darwin says a pair of tropical flies and their maggot offspring can dispose of a lidh’i carcass in a few hours. Kill all the lions and. the flies would not be needed-to dispose of the carrion. Corpora! Sandhurst was one da drilling a batch of raw recruit “Why is it,” he sairl to a brighHo^k- ing chap, “That the bJiKfc? of frour sabre is curved instead'of straight?" “Thu blade is curved," the/recruit answered, “in order to give more force to the blow." “Nonsense,” said the cororal. “The blade is curved so as t</fit the scab bard, you idiot!" — * Misses Hutto, were visitors ini and McMeekin sta Saturday. George Haldeman and Eddie Stin son, Americans, broke the world’s endurance record in the air, flying without stopping fifty-three and one- half hours. The French Government offers a million francs to any French flier that will win back some flying rec ords formerly held by French fliers. A little encouragement from our Government would make it-knpossibl< for any nation to compete wil American flying. |The first flying machine was here. Lindbergh' waTborn her< have the money and engineer; might to be the flying nati^fi. This comes from Itgly: “Major de P.ernardi has established a new; world’s air record, 318*4 miles an hour.’’ Will solemn na^al gentlemen that call flying machines “only an auxili ary” be good/enough to te)! what chance slotv-moving ships on the sur face would/have against a flock of airplanes vfith that speed? On the great mountain called Nashan; in Manchuria, far up where air is/pure and clear, Japan, as a monument to the newtEmpcror, will build the greatest astronomical ob-* servatory in Asia. 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