The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, November 14, 1929, Image 6
By Gee McGee.
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What's What and Why?
HEALTH PRESERVATION
IS AIM OF RED CROSS
Society Employs Rural Public
Health Nurses—Teaches First
Aid and Life Saving.
A comprehensive^ nation wide pro
gram to prevent Illness, and to save
lives through proper nursing care and
advanced methods of life saving and
first aid Is fostered by the American
Red Cross.
The organisation Is the largest em
ployer of rural public health nurses
In the United States, through Its
Chapters. The policy of the Red
Cross Is to encourage Its Chapters to
extend the public health nursing serv
ice. where leadership In this field Is
t POt taken by soma other agency In the
*communIty7
The Red Cross health and life sae-
fng campaign embraces the following:
preservation of health through sfcUTed
nursing care: prevention of loss ot
life In accidents; prevention of Illness
through cleanliness In the home and
knowledge of methods of home core
of the sick and raising the standard
of health and physical efficiency
l[hrougli proper nutrition.
During the year Just closed, more
than 42,000 certificates have been is
sued in the Red Cross course in Home
Hyglana and Cara of tfea Sick, and
jalnce the c^ursjs were Inaugurated
'‘•fiSTe tban 500,000 persons hare been
taught: 149,000 children were Instruct-
od In proper eating through the Nu
trition course; 46,898 individuals
passed the severe Red Cross tests In
Life Saving and 52,596 persons passed
tfie rigid examinations In the First
^Alcl CoursaT —
hTs work Is supported from funds
fd In the annual Roll Call,
Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day,
Novi
spondence with schools of other na
tions, through exchange of albums mud
small gifts. The American Juniors
eent 85.000 Christmas boxes of small
gifts to children of many natlona last
year.
The American Junior Red Cross
gained 349,171 in membership last
year.
Fifty-one nations belong to the
League of Red Cross Societies, and
are prepared to curry on health, dis
aster relief and life saving programs
all around the world.
WOMEN KNIT AND SEW
FOR RED GROSS RELIEF
Volunteers Aid Through Motor
and Canteen Corps—Send
Gifts to Service Men.
fovnmber 11 to 28.
SIX MILLION CHILDREN
IN JUNIOR RED CROSS
Tbt year 1929 mark* the tenth an-
adversary of the founding of the
American Junior Red Croat. There
nre now Junior Red Croat aocletiet In
fnrty-one nationt, all pledged in the
eomeson cause ot service to their tel-
ibwa. '
ip In the American Jonlov
tn the United Suite and
~ le M7UM. and
through grade and high
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Recalling the dara of the World
War, many women still make pajamas
and other hospital garments, many
knit sweaters, and more than 2,500.
000 surgical dressings were rolled by
volunteer workers for the American
Red Cross Chapters aM over the na
tion, fn {Tie year Tust closed.
The hospital garments are given to
veterans and the surgical dressings go
to civilian or Veterans’ Bureau hoc
pitals, or wherever need.d. Many
Chapters a]so maim a in well stocked
closets of surgical dressings and gar
ments, in order to be prepared should
s disaster strike their communities.
Volunteer workers make children's
clothing and layettes which are dis
tributed in time ot major catas
trophes. The Motor Corps ot Red
Cross women and the Canteen Serv
ice, also first created daring the World
War, still are maiiiUined by many
Red Cross Chapters. Last year the
various Motor Corps, tome with am
bulances, answered about 30,000 calls,
tod the Canteens served mere tban
20,000 persons. They were especially
setivs where floods or forest fires or
other catastrophes called for feeding
refugees or firemen engaged in active
work fighting disaster.
Another activity of women volun
teers is (hat ot filling Christmas bags
—email cretonne ditty bags—to send
to soldiers and sailors who are sta
Uooed at poets or porta abroad. More
than 46.600 of tboeo art sent each
year for distribution to the Americana
at Christmas time.
Q.—Why do stocks fluctuate on the
Exchange ?
A.—Gamblers.
Q.—Who generally loses money be
cause of fluctuations ?
A.—The small fry.
Q.—Why did wheat declinO 15 cents
a bushel last week?
A.—It sympathized with cotton.
Q.—Why did cotton sell off 150
points last week?
A.—It sympathized with corn.
Q.—Why did the corn market break
10 cents a bushel last week?
A.—It sympathized with wheat.
Q.—What puts stocks and grains
and cctton up or down?
A.—Speculation.
Q.—What does the government
think of speculation?
A.—It smiles on it or winks at it.
Q.—What has government Farm
Relief done for the’farmer?
A.—Nothing.
Q.—What will the tariff do for the
farmer?
A.—Nothing.
Q.—How muat the farmer get re
lief?
A.—Dig it out of the ground.
Q.—What today ig the farmers larg
est asset!?
A.—Boll weevils, army worms
fruit flies, com borers and wheat
suckers.
Q.—Who weight and grades what
the farmers sell ?
A.—The buyers.
Q.—Who weighs and grades what
the farmers buy?
A.—The sellers.
Q.—Does anybody, lov^ the farmers
and their wives?
A.—Their children love them till
they get big enough to work.
Q.—How could the government help
the farmers?
A.—Ask the Federal Land Bank.
Q.—What does the Farm Relief
Board offer to do for the farmers?
A.—Lend them spme money on good
collateral plus a 20 per cent margin.
Q.—Do farmers wear straws in
their mouth nowadays?
A.—No. Their teeth are all gone
and they are too poor\to buy a plate.
Q.—Who gets the little sum of
money that the farmers are paid for
their crops? # \
A.^The tax collector af\d the in
stalment agents and the fiUing sta
tions.
Q.—Who makes and break
prices on Farm products?”
A.—Wall Street and the gam
Q.—Who loses the bulk of the
lost on the cotton exchange?
A.—The Southern bulls.
Q.—What chance hag an out-sider
to win on the board?
A.—The same chance that a &now-
ball in hell has of becoming an ice
berg.
Twenty years ago, if a person
would keep well, he must need to do
the following things:
Take an occasional dose of calomel.
Rub with liniment.
Tote a buckeye in his pocket.,
Stay out of the night air.
Sleep in a warm room.
Use mush poultices.
Wear asafoetida ground his neck.
But today, if one desires good
health and perfect happiness, these
things are essential:
Eat spinach and liver, r
Get horribly sunburnt.
Play golf.
Take cold baths daily.
Go half naked.
Dodge germs.
Absorb ultra-violet rays.
Smoke.
Breathe deep.
— NOTICE
Against Hunting, Fishing 6c Trapping
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Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to,
situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of
hunting, Ashing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law:
Mrs. Tomain Pizen is not a plastic
surgeon or any other kind of sur
geon so far as I know, but I under
stand she lifted her husband’s face
with a frying pan the other night, and
just yesterday morning, she cut out
his liver and put him on hot wetanies
and then removed his yo-yo and left
him for a week-end. Brutality, I
cal 111 it.
Danger Signals.
I hsve been checking up on who's
tbst and wheie’t he going for the past
few days. I have learned that the
fastest drivers are the boy» who run
trucks for the dry cleaning shops.
They average about 45 miles around
comers and 5 miles between traffic
lights and 85 miles where the street
or road is clear for a distance of 50
yards. 1 guess they have some clothes
to clean and are in a hurry for fear
they will spoil before they get where
they are going.
Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000
W. H. Duncan 405
Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000
Du r ear non Place 1,650
Mrs. Jane R. Patterson 1,000
Sweet Water Place 500
John K. Snelling 100
Barnwell Turpetine Co:
Simmos Place 450
Middleton Place 300
Hariet Houston 150
J. M. Weathersbee 572
.Estate of H. A. Patterson— £,000
Joseph E. Dicks 800
R. C. Holman 400
A. A. Richardson 1,000
Lemon Bros. 150
Bruce Place 500
B. L. Easterling Cave Place — 200
J. P. Harley 150
L. W. Tilly 160
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GEO. H. WALKER, Owner
ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr.
Barr well, S. C., Sept. 3, 1929.
TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE
Next to the dry cleaners trucks and
car* come ambulances. They run the
risk of killing every corpse or invalid
they If a man sticks a splinter
in his little finger, an ambulance grabs
him up and busts down the street thru
traffic like a skeeddle and it's a won
der half of the folks in town don't
k*t run over and mashed so flat they’d
have to be picked up and turned ever
with a batter-cake paddle.
The Courty Treasurer’s office, will be open from September 15th, 1929,
to March 15th, 1930, for collecting 1929 taxes, which irclude real and
personal property, poll and road tax.
Ail taxes due ard payable between September 15th and December 31st,
1929, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will
be subject to penalties as provided by Isw:
January 1st, 1930, one per cert, will be added.
February 1st, 1930, two per cent, will be added.
March 1st to 15th, 1930 seven per ce’t. will be added.
Executions will fee placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af
ter March 15th, 1930.
When writirg for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if
property is in more than one school district.
All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection.
On the heels of the vehicles just
enumerated comes Jimmies or Cam- f
mie Cake Eaters in their dady’s instal
ment plan. They are always making
all the lizzies will stand for, but are
not going anywhere’s in particular ex
cept to the devil. They squirt around,
moderate drivers so fast the other,
fellow thinks a bee martin dived at
hinL Ihey. go even faster when the
Ducoed flapper is hanging onto 'em
by the neck ansoforth, and it is dan-j
gerous for anything to meet ’em ex
cept a freight train. That type is the
chief asset of our hospitals and tomb-
tone agents.*
of the big:
Q.—How much did the stock mar
ket decline in 1 day recently?
A.—Only $2,545,000,000,00.
Q.—Meaning which?
A.—$2,545,000,000.00 is one-fourth
of all of the real circulative cash in
the United States. I
Q.—What can we do to remedy the,
various troubles enumerated? r
A.—Nothing, so long as the govern
ment permits speculation and the
money lenders lohn money for the
purpose . ... of betting.
store trucks that hog half tha
and pick their half from out o$
cha
roi
the center thereof. They look neithe}»
to the \right or to the left, but hold
to what^they've got, and woe under th^
man, woman, child or Ford that trief
to pass them. And then there ar$
|other big
worse. A
be built for
that inhabit
elusion of
:ks that are a» bad of
nal highway ought to
cars and freight trains
highways to the ex-
ler tax-payers.
Who Said So?
And here com&s th<
runs fast and it
I’ve often wonder
would give the fire
tage. We can excuse
those other nuisances
fire-truck. It
... but
a minute Uter
ch more advug-
however. but
ind irregulari-
Uncfe Joe went to a football game
the other day and paid 2 dollars and
20 cents for a ticket and he sat up ties auto be summarily dealt with,
there on the bleachers in a cold driz- j But, listen folks: aytomobiles and
sly rain and hoRered and hollered. trucks killed more people last year
every time anyone would k ck the old then the American army lost during
pigskin. I tried to get the world war in battle. The orfy
him to go to church with me laat I wonder is that the number that
Sabbath, but he told me that he wasn't gipped into the sweet
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No. 39—Friendship
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No. 32—Lee’s
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The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens
between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the ages
of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00.
Dog Taxes for 1929 can be paid at the same time other taxes are paid.
It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to
that this tax ia collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement
tRp provisions of this Act.
Checks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances
cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the
right to hold all receipts paid by check until said chocks hart been paid.)
Tax receipts will he released only upon legal tender, poetoffice money
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