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SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY JANUARY 2, 11
Tbs Barnwell People-Sentinci
JOHN W. HOLMES
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THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1930.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Write it right—1930!
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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
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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:
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/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
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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.
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QUARTERLY REPORT
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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.)
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