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V FOOT. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY JANUARY 2, 11 Tbs Barnwell People-Sentinci JOHN W. HOLMES : 114#—It U. ^ B. P. DAVIES. Editor and Proprietor. Entorod at the poat office at Barnwell S. C M aa second-claaa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year H-W Six Months .90 fhree Months ... (Strictly in Ad ranee.) THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1930. HAPPY NEW YEAR. Write it right—1930! ‘ . r > • \ The pickpocket is democratic, never losing “the common touch.” All the inetallments laid en^ to end would reach to next Christpas. The rate at which new laws are be ing made sorely taxes our disrespect. Too frequent appearances of the atork may bring a visit from the wolf. Folks must repeat; there isn’t enough original conversation to go around. \ Mr. Coolidge does not choose to say whether he will choose to run for the Senate. The New Year will be about the only new thing some of Ur will get for a while. A New York phyfician says old age needs whiskey. It also works the other way arouryi. The fellow who went broke thia year will not get much benefit from the income tax cut. Senator GrUndy would be an ideal chairman of a committee to inveati- gate lobby inveatigators. The numbers in “1930'‘ aid “13.“ So do the letter* in South Carolina. May the New Year be lucky. Senator Grundy isn't saying much, but the mythical Mrs. Grundy ha t been even more loquacious than usual since hte appointment. A noted scientist has juat drvcover- ad what the rr*t of us have known ail along—that man dkl not evolute from the ape However, as has been remarked before, lota of us make monkey* of oui selves. Nea Year’s l>ay. January 1, marking the beginning of the year, has been observed a* a public holiday for may centuries, cartamly in Rome since the reform ation of the calendar by Juliua Cae sar in the century befofe Chriat. Owing -to the confuaion in dates which has reaulted from the imperfec tions of various calendars, which CUPaed skipping of dates at various times, New Year's Day may I* said to be merely an arbittary designa tion. As late as 1752 the adoption of tha Gregorian calendar by England and the American colonies caused a skip of 11 ^ays. However, regardless of the day designated as New Year’s at various times and in various countries, it has been generally observed as a holiday. The Romans celebrated it with processkiro, abandonment of litiga tion and strife, exchanging of visits *nd of gift**, feasting and merrymak ing. Early fathers of the Christian church did not approve of these fes tivities, but recommended that the day be devoted to meditation, scrip ture leading and works of charity. But about the fourth century, when December 25th had been agreed upon for the observance of Christ’s nativity, New Year’s Day, falling one week Jater, began to assume a sacred char acter as the anniversary of the cir cumcision, and as such it still figures in the calendars of certain branches of the church. Other religious faith"', such as the Mohammedan and Jewish, have their own calendars with distinctive holi days and festivals, in which their New Year's Day has a corresponding sig nificance to that of Christendom. Among ail it is considered an ap propriate day for reviewing the events of the previous year, the making of new resolves and the adoption of pUna for the future. It is also the occasion for the expression of good TisWia We Join in the spirit of the day in wishing all a Happy New The Weak Links \* •*.*•*• •rWXM'’. PEAK ME/ THAf VOO n '£l%\ GV W r . A. u' space to the value of $206,000,000, during 1930, or $20,000,000 more than their expenditure in 1929, according to the president of the association. Thi« represents an increase of 11 per cent. This anouncement was made in connection with the survey of busi ness and industrial activities being made at the suggestion of President Hoover, after conferring with leaders in the various basic industries. / It should be encouraging to the country at large that these national advertisers have sufficient faith in the soundness of our economic structure to press forward with increased vigor in their sales efforts for the coming year. * ' * To Curb Slanderers. An effort to curb the tongues of Congressmen who are given to making reck lea* ami slanderous statements concerning objects of their displeas ure is seen in a resolution introduced in the House by Congressman Fort of New Jersey. It is well known to every observer that both Senate ami House member* frequently take advantage of their immunity and make attack* upon citr- rens which would probobly result in damage 'uits if made by p.ivat? indi viduals. While Mr. Fort’s resoution would not make Congressmen liable to pros ecution. it would give injured per sons the right to m*ke complaint to the House, which might then discip line the offending member according to it* own rules, if deemed ptoper. Whether the proposed measure would be effective or not is uncer tain, but it ought to be brought to * record vote, so that the public might know ju«t which legislators desire to preserve their ligKt to indulge i n unrestrained slander. Prohibition Deaths. In a series of articles recently pub lished the Washington Herald print ed the names of 1,360 persons said to have been killed as a result of viola tions of the prohibition laws in the United States. Thia Hat included both law viola tors and enforcement officers, and purports to be the total of fatalities recorded since the Volstead Act be came effecive, nearly 10 years ago. Regardless of one's views concern ing prohibition^ it is deplorable that its enforcement should be accom panied by such a loss of human lives. their occupation? THEY LIVE ON FARMS! Heie, then, are one hundred thous and white families living in some sort of way with an anual income of three hundred and ten dollars the year. How they live one might well say, only God knows. Like the minister in the West who described his pinched rendition by saying that he lived on faith, his wife lived on hope, and his children lived on charity, it might be said that thia ia the way or worae that the'e human beings live. How doea this family income com pare with the family Income of those who work in cotton mills? The average estimat^ of those who ate conversant with the family earn ings of textile workers in Piedmont South Carolina runs between one thousand dollars aiyi twelve hundred dolars the year. Many farailiea have an income of two and a half to three times that amount in textile plant/. Much has been said by Northern agitators of various types, labor leadeis and others of the incomes of textile workers but not a word has been said in behalf of the one hun dred thousand white families living on farms in the South, the Piedmont s«ction. which runs from Virginia down through the two Carolina* and into Georgia and Alabama, who are existing on a family income of three hundred and ten dollai* the year. ffe'ot a word of protest, not a word of sympathy, not a word of encourage ment for these farm families. 1 Labor leader* have as little practi cal sympathy for the men on the farm as the wealthy financial leaders of the North and East. Labor leaders have other iron* in the fin*. Let the farmer live in penury. But it does seem that somebody, sometime, and somewhere should lift .up a voice in behalf of these one hun dred thousand white families of the South who are having to live on an anual income of three hundred and ten dollars the year. And that there might be some recognition of the fact thut if it were not for the cotton milfeaof the South there would very probably be twice Advocate, the Southern Episcopalian, the Southern Presbyterian, the Cath olic Miscellany, the Sunday School Visitor. Other periodicals were the Southern Quarterly Review and Der Teutone, a weekly. Columbia had one daily paper, the South Carolinian, which had a tri weekly edition. Weeklies were the Columbia Banner and the Illustrated Family Friend. The only magezine here was the Southern Presbyterian Review. One of the meat remarkable facts in the 18&3 lift is that Winnaboro had a daily paper, the Register, which had a weekly edition. It boasted also of the Fairfield Hergjd. weekly. All other newspapers in the State Were weeklies or monthlies. They were: | /Cht *terville. Palmetto 1 Standard Spartanburg, the Carolina Spartan Greenville, Mountaineer, Southern Pa triot. Cadet of Temperance; Sumter- villo, Sumter Banner, Black River Watchman; Oteraw, Gazette; 'Dar lington. Darlington Flag; Lancaster Lancaster Ledger; Yorkville, York- ville Miscellany, Yorkville Remedy Newberry, Newheriy Sentinel; Lau unsville. Southern Agriculturist < monthly), Laui»*n*ville Herald Edgefle!d, Edgefield Advertiser; Ab beville, Independent, Abbeville Ban ner; Due West, Due West Telescope; Anderson. Southern Rights' Advocate .Andtaon Gazette; Pickens, Keowee 1 Courier; Pendleton, Southern Farmer and Gardener <monthly); Barnwell Barnwell Sentinel; Georgetown, Pec Dee Times; Union, Uniunville Jour nal; Camden, Temperance Advocate, Camden Journal; Marion, Marion Star. Subscription rates varied. Two of the Charleston dailies charged $10 a year, one $6, and the other $X. The Columbia daily wa« $6 and Winns- bero’s $5. -The Illustrated Family Friend of Columbia was sold for $2 h copy, but 202 copies could be had for $20. Tri-weekly rates ranged from $3 to $5. The only weekly which had a sub scription rate of $1 per year was the w’ith such small annual incomes. The average annual income of one <•* "•F*F*y*.**.*****!*****i—t**.**F*:**r—;-*;**r—i* In 0ther Sanctums Farm Family Incomes vh. Textile Workers Family Incomes. that many white families in the South AbbeVille Independent. Winsboro’s Weekly Register was the pnly weekly which commanded $3 per year. All - thousand dollars of the textile work- ° f ^ ei wee ^ es t * (KSt a ers rs more than three times One of the most striking conclusions one hundred thousand w’hite families on farms in the Piedmont South as « shown by the Government report The Greenwod Index-Journal. Our Newspapers in 1853. of 0* The Associated Press carried Sun day a dispatch from Washington giving the main facts of a recent in vestigation of family •> incomes in the Piedmont section of the South “by Federal bureaus.” In this report it the statement that one hundred thousand white families m this section have an average an nual income of three hundred and tan dolkiw the year. • Read that over and get those amaz ing figure* fined ia year mind. Where do these un/ortanWe ami ©p- pmaad white people live and what is Forty-eight newspapers and period icals were published in South Caro lina in 1853, according to a list pub lished in the Daily South Carolinian of Columbia. One hundred and forty such publi cations in this State were listed in 1927. Two journals devoted to the move ment for solution of the liquor prob lem existed here 76 year* Ago; the Cadet of Temperance in Greenville, and the Temperance Advocate, a Cam den weekly. Charleston had three newspapers which had both dally and tri-weekly editions, the Courier, tha Mercury and tha Evening News. The Southern Standard was issaad daily, tri-weekly, aad weakly. In addition to Ha four la home of tha Soath- to be drawn from the 1853 list is that, despite notable improvement in many i aspects, the average subscription •^fVate of a South Carolina newspaper is no higher than it was three-quar ters of a century ago. Only six of the publications of 1853 are printed today under exactly the Same name: Southern Christian Ad vocate, Laurensville Herald, Edgefield Advertiser, Keowee Courier, Barn well Sentinel, Marion Star.—The State. 427 436 QUARTERLY REPORT Continued-team Page Six. ! t. b: EIH> J. B. EIHs ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Spatially. & C John K. Snelling, stationery - 3 -° 7 The People-Sentinel, stationery and adv -— S 7 - 00 G. M. Greene, public buildings - - — - 5.00 P. W. Price, public building* *- 7 ^ J. B. Armstrong, county treasurer — 63.89 W. H. Manning, auditor and clerk 206.30 H. M. Cook, magistrate’s constable — 14.58 Barnwell Ins. Agency, premium on bonds 8.50 John K. Snelling, pension 2,400.00 John K. Snelling, pension distribution 150.00 Carolina School Sup. Co., public buildings 5.00 Carlisle Courtney Home ,special 50.00 W. D. Black, State Highway 99-80 E. W. Black, State highway — 100.00 Irene H. Lemon, board of regents 66.67 A. E. Corley, co. board of eequalization 16.00 Mutilated. E. F. Woodward, jail 29.19 C. F. Molair, chain gang 8.65 Elizabeth McNab, Home demonstration agent 80.00 Perry B.-Bush,-director’s clerk 138.33 George James, janitor 20.00 W. E. McNab, poor house 3.00 W. L. Powell, State highway - — 20.10 W. L. Powell, State highway — 4.90 Mrs. M. E. Tooley, State highway 40.30 Standard Oil Co., chain gang 116.83 Standard Oil Co., chain gang 411.05 L. S. Creech, magistrate’s constable 12.50 James Morgan, State highway 26.10 437 L. T. Claytor, poor house and lunacy 31.66 438 Hayne Hogg, poor house - 15.00 439 Ding Dunbar, State highway 15.00 ■X Claims Paid June 4th: 440 J. W. Patterson, county supervisor 150.00 441 Horace Williams,, chain gang 7.25 442 Idi* Brabham ,county director 16.66 443 L. S. Still, county director 16.66 444 G. W. Greene, county director 16.66 446 / R. R. Moore, county director __ 16.66 . 446 R. B. Harden, magistrate 12.50 447 O. W. Harley, magistrate 14.58 448 G. L. Hill, magistrate ... 14.58 449 B. W. Peeples, magistrate 29.16 450 Paul Sanders, magistrate 12.50 451 R. L. Wooley, magistrate 25.00 452 C. S. Bunt, magistrate .... 25.00 453 W. P. Sanders, magistrate ... 29.16 454 G. R. Peeples, magistrate’s constable 29.16 455 G. H. Harden, magistrate's constable ... 12.50 436 Charlie Hieis, magistrate's constable ...... ... 15.83 457 L. S. Creech, magistrate's constable .... ........ 12.50 458 C. B. Parker, chain gang and constable ...... ... 30.11 459 V. B. Martin .magistrate’s constable ... 27.92 460 G. M. Hogg, magistrate's constable *29.16 461 H. M. Cook, magistrate’s constable 14.58 462 Perry B. Bush, director’s rleik .... .*. IMff 4fifi H. G. BoyHton, county farm agent " . Ifhon 464 , W. H. Mailing, auditor and clerk ........ ........ .... 105.06 465 Carlisle Courtney Home, special .......... .......... 611.O0 466 Elizabeth McNab, home demon-tration ........ 124.06 467 Jennie P. Greene, rest room ........ .... ........ .. 8.33 468 L. C. Fowke. co. hoai^ of equalization ... ...... 12.00 469 R. L. Bronson, clerk of court and stationery ......... 182.00 470 Henry Hartxog, chain gang 100.00 471 N. F. Sanders, chain gang ....... 75.00 472 A. M. Sanders, chain gang ... 65.00 473 Joe Baxley, chain gang - ^ _ 76.25 474 Bennie Still, chain gang .. v 75.06 475 E. W. Holman, chain gang and pcor house ... 11.45 476 . L. Cohen, chain gang ..... 28.15 477 IT. J. Trotti, chain gang 300 478 George James, janitor 20.00 479 Frankie Hatley, sheriff** clerk 25.00 480 B. H. Dyches, sheriff, court expen-es, etc. 261.97 481 M. M. Mazursky, poor house ... ...... 36 66 482 Mutual Ice Co., poor house .. 483 A. T. Russell, lunacy i^qq 484 A. O. Hair, State highway 26.00 485 B. H. Dyches, dieting prisoners __ _ 50.59 486 Terie Richardson, State highway 21 40 487 A. B. Patter.*on f county physician and lunacy 55.00 488 H. B. Sanders, State highway 46.00 489 John K. Snelling, judge of probate, etc. .. 64.16 490 Tina tee Hankinson, chain gang 2.40 491 0. F. Molair, chain gang 13.23 492 Sarah C. Armstrong, treas. clerk 50.00 493 H. J. Crouch, supt. of education 125.00 494 The People-Sentinel, stationery and adv. __ 20.00 496 W. H. Manning, chain gr^ig "..""IT. 77783.10 496 Phoenix Oil Co., chain gang ^ 175.17 497 Merritt Grocery Co., chain gang 187 00 498 C. F. Molair, poor flug 499 Farmers Union Merc, Co., poor hduse 84.70 500 Vickery Bros., chain gang and poor house 62.76 501 T. A. Holland, chain gang 16.56 502 G. M. Main, chain gang, jailor and jail 75.32 503 Dicks Auto Co., chain gang . 32.50 504 Max Bronson, chain gang , 14.15 505 Estelle Patlerson, State highway ... 43.50 506 A. D. Furtick, poor house g 70, 507 W. T. Hankinson, poor house • ^ 9 qo r/ ' ri Gilmore Harley, chain gang __L 30.00 J. P. Harley, chain gang 2 0.00 Barnwell Filling Station, chain gang 75.16 E. F. Woodward, chain gang 210.00 D. P. Lancaster, coroner 50.00 Cornelia Butler, poor house * 2.50' Charlie Taylor, poor house 1. 15.00 A. J. Owens, poor house 35.26 Lemon Bios., chain gang and poor house 95.35 Sarah Ray, poor house 10 00 R. A. Deason. chain gang 18.60 Irene H. Lemon, board of regents 16.67“ W. H. Dyches — 5.00 G. R. Peeples, chain gang .... 45 75 Perry B.^Bush,^hain gang ; 3 J. B. Armstrong, county’ treasurer - _ 63.89( J. B. Armstrong, court expenses 258.40 S. C. Power Co n poor house, etc. 84.19 (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) SEND US TOOT FOR JOB