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t bt? ^>3 w* er m orncuL nkbspapbb op babnwbll coctot Barnwell w Consolidated Jane 1, 1925. l Juml Like a Member of the Famllv M VOLUME LII. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MAY. 2SRD, 1929. NUMBER M. Barnwell High Will Close Tuesday Next Baccalaureate Servi c es Will Be Held , -Sunday.—Sermon by the Rev. E. L. McCoy. GOVERNOR OF HAWAII The College Man’s Worst Enemy By Henry Louis Smith. m m \ \ The Barnwell High School will close another successful sesrion under the superirtendency of Prof. W. W. Car ter with appropriate graduating exer cises at the Vamp Theatre next Tues day evening at 8:30 o’clock. The baccalaureate services will be held in the Barnwell Baptist Church Sunday morning, the 26th irst., at 11:30 o’ clock, at which time the sermon will be delivered by the Rev. E. L. McCoy, of Orangeburg. Excellent programs have been arranged for both occas ions and it is expected that large crowds will be in attendance. The programs are as follows: Annual Baccalaureate Services. Irish Tune (Percy Grainger)—Miss Betty Banks at the organ. Grand March of the Seniors. Happy Days of Youth (Meredith)— High School Chorus. Prayer. Hymn, “Holy, Holy, Holy”—Corgre- gation. Scripture. « Growers Are Counting Time Until Pilgrims’ Chorus from “Tannhau-J ^ ser” (Wajfner)—Miss Banks. j C '* Un * Se,son A*.m.-Other Priase the Lord (Baines)—High Cropa Being Harvested. School Chorus. A recent portrait of Lawrence M. Judd, Honolulu business man, who has been nominated by President Hoover to be governor of the Hawaiian is lands to succeed Wallace It rington. To Every High School Senior: Your days of college preparation are nearly over. You will soon- be a “college man”, stirred by college pos sibilities, beset by campus tempta tions. Of all the foes of young manhood on the American college campus, alco hol is probably the most subtle and dangerous. With a truly devlish in- dition of law and order, and is culmi- natii^g In a Isocial lawlessness^ es pecially among the immature and the criminal, which constitutes the gravest and most insistent problem now con fronting the American people. It is no wonder that the gigantic forces and organizations which prey upon human weakness and exploit human vice have found in this wide- sffcmct for maximum destructivenessspread moral laxity their unexpected Asparagus Season Has Closed at Elko this demon of the campus seems to pick out for degeneration the gayest, the most lovable, the most talented; and reenforces his assault by enlist ing and perverting those social and generous instincts which are the charm and crown of youth. Paralyzing every higher faculty, opening always the gates of passion and appetite, awakening every animal instinct, dethroning reason and con- Har- rjcience and self-control, alcohol is the 'aggressive ally of everything that degrades college life. It is the tire less enemy of purity, industry, ambi tion, and intellectual development, the opportunity. With newly awakened hope, with' unlimited resources, and with universal propaganda they are Lv<w concenjtratfpg fthoir attack on prohibition, which, being the latest- won citadel captured by the forces of morality, is, therefore, the one least “consolidated” and fortified. A thousand voices are everywhere denying the plainest facts, ridiculing al* agencies of law-enforcement, pouring contempt on all efforts “to make men good by law,” prating with new-born zeal of “States’ rights,” and rehashing to our inexperienced^ and jazz-intoxicated young people the an- promoter of tragedies innumerable on cient glorificatron of “personal liber Elko, May 21.—Things at Elko for | the last two or three weeks are nin- every American campus. If its de luded victims were buried where they fell, the acres of velvet lawn around our college buildings would long ago have become vast cemeteriee, ghastly with thick-strewn headstones. If this was the effect of alcoholic indulgence in the quiet and law-abid- IS LEATHER LUNGED : v;,? Wmm V-. . -4 M: i ■mi mrniB, ■! u now an irnuiami, *» iicn vui j-iiiitru- the Chautauqua. Everybody has plen- can boys and gwla are walking ever | ty to eat. however, and all appear hap- op the perilous edge of the precipice? ' **»» . mm** Iwva. r. » 1/>. 1 mmA 4V... 1/ ♦/> ,4 im Baccalaureate Sermon—Rev. E. L. McCoy. Prayer. 1 rfng on an average. The asparagus ing days of our fathers, who can de- Hymn, “Love Divine All Love Ex- season has fully closed and the grow- scribe its folly and danger in this age colling”—Congregation. , ers are counting the time until cutting of autos and airplanes, of jazz mu.ric Benediction. season again. Everybody was glad for snd animal dances, of widespread March from Tannhauser (Wagner) a resting spell. Then came s.hool moral laxity and hysteric revolt Mia* Banks. | closings and commencements, ard now ^gainst all restraint, when our Ameri- Graduating Exercises. Invocation—Rev. Joseph Burton. Pipes O' Pan (William Baines)—>'py. Gardens are bountiful and the If injurious to youth before, K is High School Girb, Miss Banks at the blackbeny season, is on. Things on micide today. th* form .re tetonc bu»y •gum. A Tmpor , r , victory. Oats snd other grains are k*ing har-1 vetted. “Cuke” growers began pick-! For Iteration* the forces of Chris- mg last Saturday. Vegetables offer civilization in America have been great relief to the housewives in their a never ending battle menu. If guest* arrive unexpectedly. •ff*>nat liquor and lust snd the mighty don’t get flustrated—“be nonchalant." or *»w*ations "hich **ploit them for run slice a diih of cucumbers. | commercial gain. No more inspiring panorama of L human progress has ever been witneseed than the recent slow but resistless advance of Chris tian sentiment agasrat this ancient .. . . snd merciless foe, the redemption of According to A^cnt Jon., th. EUco' town towT1 c , fWr *** J n “ nth < A P n '' d,d Sfot, after SUtc. in in.xor.bl. auc- 63 worth of buiincu. H. vouched for fron| th , cuw of thf u th. figure, for wr.. oth r .Utioc., ^ Kre , t of chH , but sympathy nrccludes our giving this information. ty.” Those whe believe in the American home, the American school, the Am erican church, and American ideals of mora\|tor must, therefore, recognize that the ancient battle is on again and all their hard-won gains are irtiper iled by this new and formidable at tack. Let them unite, with stem resolution, put an end to this period of criminal lawlessness and open de fiance of restraint, and this time fight their devlish adversary to a finish. To Every Parent Who it Sending a Son to College. Your sor., peihaps for the first time, ill leave his home this fall to enter some American college or university, I Cucumber Season Opens in Barnwell Several Cara Will Be LoaM Duriag Present Week^—Buyers frean Florida Have Arrived. I ’ The cucumber season opened in earnest in Barnwell Monday, when, at least a sufficient number of hampers to load a ear were sold by the farmers. Tuesday two cars were loaded and It is expected that several nfore will bt shipped from this point during tht week. Several buyfeife from Florida ar. rived here the early part of the week, among them being J. B. Mixson and Oharlk Marsh, 6f Waudmla. Fla^ who have been making Barnwell their headquarters during the ship ping reason for the past several years Prices paid here Monday and Tues day ranged from $1.25 to $1.50 per hamper, but the buyers have ex pressed the opinion thst there will be an improvement in prices during the week, as the crop is several days ear lier than last year snd there was no regular market $or the firft • few pickings. It is understood that severs! cars Profitable Reading I hive been loaded at Blackvill# during ° 1 the past few days. Some growers report exceptionally fine yields but it is believed that the crop has been greatly curtailed by the storm early in the month. HH TO A closeup “shot” of Vincent Mul lins, the‘leather-lunged coxswain of the hard pulling University of Cali fornia rowing team. The California contingent are expected to prove serious contenders in the Pough keepsie race. People-Sentinel Ada Subscribers Can Save Money by Read ing “Merchandise News” Appear ing Each Week. piano. Salutatory—Dorothy Miller. < lass Poem—Derry Patterson. Clara History—Sadie Owevm. Class Statistics—Stephen Deeson. Poiichinelle (Rachmaunoff)—Betty Banks. Class Will—O'Neal M ore. Class Prophecy—Florid# Jackson. Class Grumbler—Mary Ann Hal ford. Reading—Mildred Moore. Roes and Love (Petrie)—Derry Patterson. Valedictory—Pauline Delk. Awarding of Diplomas. Pi escalation of Medals and Prixet. Graduation Song (Cooper). Benediction—Rev. M. L. Banks. The Graduating Claaa. The members of the 1929 class are as follows: Betty Bank.*, Dwight Black, Bonita Browning, Stephen Kel- Iv Desron, Gladys Pauline Delk, Vic- The recent cool spell made some of the folk here wish they had never tak-1 en ’em off. Farmer* are wanting aun- ahine now to clean out their crops. tian America new generations of boys Subscribers to The People-Sentinel who have formed the habit of read ing carefully the advertisements that r.ppear In this paper each week have|ceei found that some of the most inter esting snd profitab;e “mws” is to be found in the advertising columns. For instance, the South Carolina Dunbarton High to Close Friday Nigiit Night With H. H. I with it* intense and close-knit social I p . anmr \ m \ —1 lif# «rwi its whirlwind of rsmnua “sr-1 ( m ^ any * »pacial •*** baccalaureate sendees of the . „ v k- P *l°* Edison Maxds lampi nt 'r,ly $1J0 ton School were held tivities. You may b# very sure that f . -- . um 0fn001 he will be solketed scorer or later ** c * rton of ,,x Thw lamps m *y •vomng tar rn wrn m mmmmm wmm* mmm*. I be had in 40, 60 or fiO watt sixes. Der- Chlwch ^ Mrmoa to the _ ing the mle they are being sold for | cUjBB slivered by the Rev. s cash payment of only 90 cents, bal- Stcmbridge, Jr. ance payable in three months. The m9n% lltrr ^ M will he power company is also ad vert wing aLv emnc at 8:10 o’clock la the eprlrg tale of General Electric refrig- j auditorium. erotors, which may be bought * or Sunday eveata« an initial payment of only $10, bal- perhaps both soon and late, to ex periment with the vile poison dispens ed by the bootlegger or his agent, es pecially in connection with social fes tivities. His best snd surest defense la to be under an absolute teetotaler’s pledge of honor to his parents, ec.d I urgently suggest that every parent of every boy leaving home for college ask him to sign the follovring before leaving: 1 hereby give to my parent* my’ sacred pledge of honor that from the time I leave in September till I reach Greet relief asd comfort have come w b 0 have never reen a liquor shop or to fathers and mothers since boys in intoxicated human being. The town have di*contirued flying am aziing social and economic benefits kites. It «s enough to sav why by renting from prohibition made every naming high-powered electric lines, area increasingly united ard and girls were approaching maturity Htrne next June I will be an absolute tonne Bonner Delk, Nina Maria Gun- klte * with wet » tnn lf 8 P**tty wreaths, te alous for local enforcement, till all Vivian Clark hair, Mary Am regrets— seemed to recognise that the liquor nels, Halford, Marvin Holland, Alice Flor- ide Jackson, Dorothy Miller, Frank Weldon Hair, who har been sick for traffic was doomed, and the several days, *s improving, his many United States would soon be whole “bo re- Melvin Moody, Eugene O’Neal Moore, I friends will be glad to knew. dry.” In the exalted atmosphere of James Beard Moore, Mildred Moore, Sadie Catherine Owens, Eugene Hay ward Ready, Derry Patterson, Sarah Patterson and Brown- Towles. w • • Closing Exercises at Healing Springs Superintendent L. E. Whittle An nounces Program fee Friday Evening, May 24th. An excellent program for the com mencement exercises of the Healing Springs Public School has been an- no^nqed by Superintendent f L. iSrt Whittle for tomorrow (Friday) even ing, beginning at eight o’clock, in the school auditorium, as follows: Invocation—Rev. J. N. Tolar. Chorus, “The Bells of St. Mary’s” —High School. Salutatory—Mary Cornelia Coggin. Violin Solo—Emmie Lee Hair. Qymmepcdniei$t Addrefp — Hon. Thos. H. Peeples. Violin Solo—Mary Cornelia Coggin. Expression Coptest: (a) Aspirations of the American People—Sarah Hair. (b) The Death Bed of Benedict Arnold—Marian Odom. (e) Her Grandmother’s Way— Evelyn Boylsbon. (d) In “the annual turn-over” (as Dr. moral consecration whkh marked the Bagby says) “of teachers,” Elko suf-j war-period this steady and beneficent fers the loss of every teacher in the moral ptogref* was swept to a sudden local school, much to the regie* of the ard premature political victory and majority of the local patr .i'S. - the eighteenth amendment adopted by The Rev. Mr. Smith, of Kitchings an unprecedented majority. Mill, who filled the pulpit of the Bap- But, alas! just as the premature tist Church on the second evening, will preach next morning at 11 o’clock. Friends of Mrs. J. P. Jones and Miss Kathleen ‘Finch, Who have recently been upon the sick list, are hoping for them a speedy recovery; It does seem strange that a boy in Elko should get the prize for drawing the best map of Wiiliston CITY. No news article from the aforesaid town has mentioned this, so ,to save em barrassment, we won’t. Farmers in this section have thought we have had enough showers during 1929, and between showers :his week our women folk have been preparing for another shower—but another kind. This is « complimentary kitchen show er given by Miss Katherine Green and Mrs. F. J. Green, at the home of the latter, on Tuesday evening to Miss Gretchen Hair, whose marriage to Mr. Hugh Miiey, of Salisbury, N. C., has been announced for June. From the effort and interest manifested, we wa ger that it will be a success. Mrs. Edwin Lee (s spending the Sunday triumph of political democracy caused Sunday by the world war led to bolshevism instead of the ordered freedom we expected, so the premature triumph of political prohibition has hindered rather than advanced the fight against alcohol. The furious actions and reactions of the terrible world war checked the processes of education and religion teetotaler, never touching a drop of any kind of intoxienat. except when prescribed by my regular phyaietan. Signed 1929. Surely no parent should be unwil ling thus to do his part in aiding the college authorities in their ceaseless efforts to safeguard the morals end develop the characters of those who are to be the leaders of the next generation. If your ron is unwilling to sign this pledge, you may be sure that he wants to be free to drink and will almost certainly do so. Do rot be so patheti cally credulous as to accept other pro fessed reasons for his unwillingness to gratify you and thus allay your fears. In this case I advise that he be kept at home and put to work till he be comes saner and safer. » * ♦ Olar News. ed everywhere the devils of hatred, lust, cruelty, and avarice, and confer red upon dgnorant and immature mil lions the fatal gifts of liberty without self-control and power without knowl edge or moral culture. Thlts back-wash of moral deterior ation following thp storm of war has undermined every institution and tra- Olar, May 18.—Dr. J. R. McCormick attended a medical meeting in Char- e?'ton last week.. —^ Miss Laura Stanley, of Charlotte, N. C., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Melvim Hogan. Mr. and Mm W. B. Cook, of George town, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cook. Miss Sarah Needey has returned home after spending several days with relatives in Columbia. anc# payable in 80 months. R. D. Reid, local furniture dealer, it off<ring an O-Cedar Mop. worth 81. with each $12 purchase of Floottex floor coverivfc. Thag wpoctel offer will be found on page seven. Each week, H. Antopolaky offers number of attractive bargains in seasonable merchandise. Turn to page eight now and tee what you can save on your purchases this weak. The Unity Grocery Store announces a change of location this week, to gether with several attractive prices on freah groceries. This firm moved Monday into the store formerly occu pied by Reed and Creech. The Grubbs Chevrolet Company is again offering some special value* in used cam Recer.t purchasers have found that they can secure excellent values in “unused mileage” from this progressive concern. Start reacting (thej advertisements today, for an advertisement is merely I j “merchandise news.” «e o ♦ ■ ■ — R. R. Moore Produces Many Cukes Per Acre SnelUng Man Gathered 141 Hampers from 3 Vi Acres Monday.—An other Also Does WelL * i ] >• “Cukes i* cukes” and in spite of the comparaitively low price* bekg Prelude, Celia Ue* Offering. Heavy Weevil Survival Over Winter Requires Early and Active Contro Clemson College, May 21.—A sur-Ahe hibernation cages at Florence summer with the home *e!k in Macon, vey made kiu Colleton, Jasper and *h° w ^at the weevils have Hved Abraham Lincoln - Sarah G a., while Mr. Lee ii attending to his H ^ m ^ n Countie3 during ^ week ,through the winter in greyer abund- I . . 4 ~ o ~ ‘ I 7 6 ^nce than nt kny other time since care- ending May 18th showed large num- f}jl ^ we ev*l emergence were bens of weevils m practically all of the started in 1923. | cotton fields. A cmreful examination “If we are to produce a crop of cot- Archdeacon Joseph Burton an- showed from 100 to 350 weevils per nour.ees the following schedule of acre and the average number of wee- Whittle. (e) Entertaining Sister’s Beau— Margaret Whittle. (f) The Teacher . the Hope of America—Alice Gardner. Class Song—Graduating dam. • Valedictory—Emmie Lee Hair. A nr ouncements. Presentation of Medals. Awarding of Diplomas and Certi- ficates—H. Jeff Hair. produce business in Greenville, S. C.j ♦ ♦ ♦ - Epis c cpal Church Services. Prayer. Song. Resporssve Announcement^] Song. Anthem, “Serve the Lord in Youth" (Tillotaou.) Sermon, “Deciding”—Rev. H. H. Stembridge, Jr. Special Music—Mias McElveen. Benediction. The program for Friday evening has been announced es follow*: LnvocaUon. Salutatory—Cecil Harley. History—W inton Whaley. Picture—Jenkins Walk Music—Nancy Owens. Prophecy—Geneva Connelly. Will—Dorothy Brown. Valedictory—Vera Swett. Music—Nancy Owen*. Address—Dr. John H. Webb. Music—Nancy Owena, Louise WO- tma. Delivery of Prixea, Medals tad Diplomas. _• ' Music—Quartet—Greene, Williams, Hiers, King. (Dedicated to the mem ory of Wilbur Eugene Harley.) Benediction. ' , a e a — $10,000 Damage Suit Filed Against Town A suit for $10,000 &u* been Ski against the town of Barnwell for per* received by the farmers for the first I tonal injuries alleged to have been re hampers of cucumbers, two Barnwell ceiyed by the Kittle son of Mr. and Hit. County growers aa-e due to “make a j # g. gtHl, of Barnwell, while riding eu kilting” on their crops this year. 1^ town’s road machine Monday morning, R. R. Moore, of weeks ago. services at the Church of the Holy v tis found on aU the farms examined Apostles for next Sunday, May 26th: was 124 per acre on the basis of ten Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Evening prayer and sennen at eight o’clock. thousard plants per acre. The examinations of Spaidah m some weeks ago and the records fi Spelling, gathered 141 hampers from 3 Vi acres, while Framklin Black, a young farmer who lives near Barn well, marketed 125 hampers from five acres. Previous bo that, Mr. Black had gathered ten crate* one day and 47 the next. ' At the prevailing (prices, it will be seen that his first three pickings were worth nearly $300, or around $60 an acre, and the season has just started. It is un derstood that Mr. Moore sold hit cukes Monday at $1.60 per hamper. It is a safe bet that Messrs. Moore and Black will make more clear ton this year it is necessary," rays H. morey on their cuke acreage than W. Barre, director of the South Caro- they will on their entire cotton crop^, I in* Experiment Stetxm, “thet w. get hut their exceptioiuUjr fine y*ekU *> into the field* e*rt r . poisorfn* th*M not reflect the g«er*l .verm,, by over-wintered weevil*, and make ev- any Mary Pkkford in “My Best Girt/ “Our Mary" at her lovable, laugh able best will be the attraction at th* Vamp Theatre Friday night. May when she appears in “My Best GW a throbbing story of young lor* gaily among the gee-gaws of a and Ten Cent Store;-enlivened thousand hearty laughs and it all the vibrant joy of the playgirl, Mary Pickford. This is to be HckfordTs and Charles (Buddy) star of “Wings" and “Abie’s Rose," takes the role ss ’ ia this big super-special, thee* will be no ebeoge in mdttj ery preparation fight through th for the sged by the farmers killed or of May had *** %