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THURSDAY, PHBRCAHT U, I***. The BarnwD Psople-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. a. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the poet office at Barnwell S. C., ae second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year fl*®0 Six Months *20 Three Months -— ....... .60 (Strictly in Advance.) r Zm ' ■^ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930. r , ''-y i •* .• > American Newspspers. , # Perhaps in no other industry is there such a variety of conditions as in the newspaper business. Totalled indiscriminately, there are something over 14,000 newspapers in the United States, ranging from the /smallest cocuntry weekly which prints only two pages in its own shop with aditional pages printed by a syndicate, to the great metropolitan dailies which em ploy thousands of persons each. For the smallest/ probably not more than 25 pounds of paper are required each week, while the Chicago Tribune uses for one Sunday edition all the paper produced from timber grown on 240 acres of land. According to Grove Patterson, the well-known writer, the New York Times employs 3,100 persons, with a payroll of $25,000,000 a year. Hearst's newspapers and magazines use mote than $50,000,000 worth of paper a year. But in spite of the disparity be tween the smallest and the largest of American newspapers, the publisher of the small country weekly need not be oveVawed by the size of his metro politan rival. The local newspaper has a place in the life of ifc« communi ty which the great dailies tan not usurp if the local publisher is alive to his opportunities and makes the most of them. Now, as always, the home town newspaper is the best and cheapest exponent of constructive journalism LIGHTS * dixon et NEW YORK ********* , Rewards Recently I read that a Chicago gun- mao hat been linked with to many murders that rewnrda for bla capture total $100,000. There are, probably hundreds of detectives who make a profession of going after reward cases who are now oo Ida trail But some one else may capture him—* truffle policeman might arrest him for speed ing, for example. And If this happens and the traffic policeman doesn’t know aiMMit the rewards, he Is out of lock. He might hear about the prize afterward, but In most states he could not bring suit to get the money. Not long ago in New York a taxicab chauffeur found what be thought was a string of Imitation pearls. As a matter of routine he turned the pearls over to his employers, nnd they found the owner. The string was worth $50,000. and a reward of $5,000 had been posted. Since the chauffeur made no claim at the time he turned them In. he had no legal right to the $5,000. But the overjoyed owner gave it to him anyway. Exit Shoestringer* The Wall Street crash accomplished one good thing at any rate. It drove to cover dozens of shoestring the atrical producers. These gentlemen, for the most part Inexpert In the ways of the stage, rely,upon “angels** to put up the money for their ventures. They are called shoestiingers. but often they spend huge amounts of some one elses money. In the old days a cloak-nnd-sulter felt rich enough to take a flier at the stage. Rut now he has retrenched, and Broadway Is slightly safer for the real producers. Rut only slightly It’s an off season, and many real pro ducers are taking vacations. MAKE NO CUTS IN EDUCATION ECONOMY GROUP MEETS WITH DEFEAT IN HOUSE. Many on the Floor.—Efforts to Reduce , Figures in Section on Depart ment of Education Fail. will affect the common schools. I want to see these children transport ed to school and the man who does not is not humane—I hate to see a man who is so darned ignorant that he cannot see that.” Mr. McCaslan praised the 6-0-1 law as one of the best ever passed and urged that no cut be made, while C. E. Perry, Jr., of Jasper, declared that the cut proposed would hurt the ru ral schools. A Kindly l>i c (at»r. Mustapha Kemal, president and Virtual dictator of Turkey, has ruled with a rather stern hand since he lose to power in 1922, ami hi* official record would hardly indicate much sentiment in his nature, although his regime ha* been marked by many Salutary reforms. That he has a kindly heart be neath hi« rough interior i* evidenced, however, by hi* solicitude for the welfare of children, six of whom he ha* adopted, five girl* and a laiy. The boy wa* tending sheep in the hill* when the dictator ran across him and wa* Mtruck by hi* bright, intelli gent face and also by the fact that the lad appeared undernourished. Kemal took him in charge, sent him to a hospital to be cared foi, adopted him, gave him his name and arranged for his education. Thu* a poor shepherd boy may one day rise to high position in hi* hative land, because a mighty dictator—and a Turk at that—had a heart. Wisecrack There Is. a* 1* usual each senson. one of those holt-whimsical, half- ilrnmntle A. A. Milne plays at the tiny Charlea Hopkins ibeitier. This time It la alK>ut two very nice people, one of whom commit* bigamy. All Milne people are very nice, from Winnie the Pooh on up. and the hlgamy In this case la quite the right thing to do. Rut I am digressing. What I wanted to tell about I* a line that amused me. Kdlth Barrett, the wife. I* try- Inf to get the attention of Henry Hull, the bnktuind. who is reading * book. Finally she asks: Some four hours of debate Tuesday night on that section of the general appropriations bill dealing with the department of education failed to make a single 'change in the items, the House refusing to adopt any of the amendments which proposed cuts from around $400,000 to 1125,000. Fire directed at costs of transpor tation of school children and . at the increase of $50,000 in appropriations for adult night schodls was unavail ing and after midnight the section was Approved with no changes. The so-called “economy** group, headed by J. E. Harley, of Barnwell, Which has trimmed the appropriations bill by about $158,000 so far, met with its first major defeat of the session. Members of this group divided on the question as to where the appropria tion should be cut, one section seek ing $200,000 from the 6-0-1 school law fund and the other to pare that Amount from the total amount •given •tjle department, with the hi on ty to be ■fenpended under direction of the State **ifperintendent. v Many Get Floor. r Prior to taking a vote on the sec tion having to do with the department of State superintendent of education, many member* addressed the House. The galleries were well filled and Gov ernor Richards was a member of the audience during a good part of the evening, as was James H. Hope, State supei intendent of education. Before debate was opened, Olin D. Johnston, of Spartanburg, made a mo tion that consideration he adjourned on the section until Thursday a* he had in the making a bill which would save the State about $300,000 in 1931 in educational expenses. This bill, he said, made certain change* in $he 6-0-1 law which increased the “teacher load,** giving more pupil* to each “1* that one of those hook* that teacher, and thus reduced the number once yoo have picked It up. you can | 0 f teachet*. not put It down?” •‘No.’* replied Hull. “It Is one of those hook* you cannot pick up, once you have put It down." Wrong Book The new* Theatre Guild play. “Me teor," tried out In Boston recently, with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne “The economy group has already spent $30,000 or $40,000 by playing with this appropriation bill,** R. E. McCaslan said, in opposing the mo tion. “1 know’ what is happening. It i* getting too hot back at home. The people won’t stand for their children going uneducated. We’ve wasted in the principal roles. ] he business I eno ugh time. Let us get at this thing Asparagus Case Halted. _ Aiken, Feb. 18.—The case of the [South Carylijia Asparagus Gtioj^rs "HAa^ociation against the Southern ^Railway Company came up for trial today in the United States Court for the Eastern District of South Caro lina. It was continued until Wednes day, after one witness, M. C. Kitch- ings, of Williston, piesident of the as paragus association, had been on the » stand. The association, represented by J. . A. Kennedy of Williston and IVilliams, Croft and Busbee, of Aiken, is suing > the railroad for damage to a shipment - of asparagus. The railroad is being . represented by Harley and Blatt, of Barnwell. of the piny calls for the use nf a lirst edition of a very rare old hook. To got h copy was out of the question, so n not her very old hook was used. One day the company reertved a package and * letter from n Boston bookseller The letter explained that the writer had seen the play, and had rioted that the hook being used did not look like the first edition of the work It wa* *up|H>*ed to he. “It I* the wrong size." he wrot*. “I am sending you another old hook whose general appearance and size are closer to the original." Encouraging results in the applica- • tion of a new cure for cerebro-spinal ; • meningitis are reported by Dr. Ed ward S. Lauzer, of Rock Springs, . Wyo. What’s New? The germ which causes influenza is believed to have been isolated by J)r« Isadora S. Falk, of the Univer- aRy of Chicago. *— - * * The 208,000-kilowatt electric gen- orator* recently installed in the State power plant in Indiana is the in the world. A great new petrified forest has ^•covered in Montana. . - ** f * * -torch nstnff powdered alom- 4jf SBM kp been devel- Uniteraity. New Poor The recent stock market crash has put on the lists of charity orgnniza Hons persons who never before had dreamed that they might be objects of charity. But a wrong slant on the situation might be got from a cartoon I saw recently, depleting a man ac cepting alms from a woman. “Poor fellow,” said the benefactress. “Stock market, 1 suppose?” “No," replied the object of charity. “1 tons always s hum.” The persons who are now ask ing for help are not Investors and former Mg men of Wall Street, but such folk ss artists who have lost their commissions, servants who have been let out. tutors and music teach ers and the like. The family that has suffered In Wall Street goes on an economy program, and the retrench ment affects the hirelings. <(£) by the Bell Syndic*!*, Inc.I Spar* Part* f6r Ddf* Ixmdon.—The days “when faithful dog friends, overtaken by' Infirmity, had to be taken to execution* have passed, ’according to the organlzer* of the National Dog show here. They state that dogs enn now he fitted with artificial limbs, glass eyes and false teeth. Baby Drowns Sailing Toy Boat in Bathtub " Washington. Seventeen month-old Frank Edward Do- \\ nelan's desire for more water the batlinib fn which to mlniatert^'sallboet ca death. The child was fou 11 merged Kr nearly a foot of j! by his mother, Mrs. Melba Donelan, after eoaads of I $ baby’s play-bad Aw department aad emergency hospital pbyei* worked ever’ the body, for !! 11 nearly an bow brtMt Dr. li U 11 j! h*** pwwm ttx On* j! daoA in a husine-s way. It won’t be long until there will lx* requests for extra pay far the members of the legisla ture—and there will lx* cries about this clerk and that clerk getting $1,- 000.** The House refused to adjourn debate on the «ection. Flood of Amendments. Then came a flood of amendments to the education section of the appro priation bill which carried a total of $3,879,468. The Harley group offered an amend ment to cut the amount by $200,000. Others offered amendments to va rious items in the bill. One amend ment proposed a ctit in the 6-0-1 law item from $3,500,0(3(0 to $3,160,000, “none of which is tq tye used for trans portation.’’ Several offered amend ments to cut the amount allowed adult night schools from $100,000 to $50,- 000. , J. E. Harley, of Bainwell, speaking for the amendment offered by the group of “economists," held that the 6-0-1 law was unfair to some of the countie?. “The school system is top heavy,” he declared, “and our children are not receiving what we are paying for. I don’t think the schools are any better than they were five years ago, yet the cost is about twice as great as it was then. “Our schools and colleges are no better financially than the people themselves. “Mr. Hope has^psed illegally for trarisporting pupils $1,340,000, of which $1,000,000 w*as paid by the counties. That money for transpoita- tion was expended illegally, without authority of law.” “If the money was spent illegally," W. W. Smoak, Colleton, asked, “why didn’t you r get out an injunction against Mr. Hope?” “No one offeied me a fee to do that,” Mr. Harley replied. Playmakers to Vuit Allendale Saturday Young Players from University of North Carolina to Present Caro lina Folk-Plays. Interesting Notes. ■ -r— Seven 22-toii boilers will be used to heat the new $17,000,000 Depart ment of Commerce building of 3,000 rooms in Washington. Pearman Gets Floor. 1 Whether any life exists on Mars will probably be discovered when the new 200-inch telescope now being constructed is completed. Owing to fatal errors in filling prescriptions, Norway has passed a law requiring physicians to write more plainly. An oak. tree has been planted in Paris as a memorial to the soldiers of France who were killed in the World War. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS Allendale will have the pleasure of having the Carolina Playmakers, well known throughout the country for their dramatic productions, on the evening of Saturday, February 22nd. This theatrical troupe will appear in Augusta cn the* evening of February 21st and comes to Allendale the fol lowing evening for one engagement. Folk-plays will be presented at this time under the direction of Fred erick H. Koch, assisted by Hubert C. Heffner, associate director, and Elmer Hall, technical director. ’ * **■ ,»,%#«. -* This is the twelth season for this popular group of players. Their pro ductions have to do with the Carolina country and are written by the young playwrights at the University of North Carolina. Some of their plays are “The No ’Count Boy,” The Man Who Died at Twelve O’Clock,” “Job’s Kinfolks” and “Magnolia’s Man." Proceeds from this performance will £0 to the high school athletic asso ciation. Following are some of the worth while comments made on the Carolina Folk-Play*: Augustus Thomas, in "- The New York Review:—The j>la& have, been published and I have r^ad them. I consider them fully equal to any of the Irish folk-lore plays produced by . the Abhey Company under Lady Greg ory’s direction. — Frances L. Baer, in The Washing ton Post:—These short plays possess “drama” in its truest sense, the ele ment of “struggle” is there—there are snatches of life—life with its tangled web of traditions, fears, desires, la mentations and the fleeting joys— transcribed with remarkably ,fidelity and finish. * * Arthur Hobson Quinn, in Scribner’s Magazine:—Such, an impulse as that started by Professor Koch in North ’ Dakota, and now carried to North Carolina, where the folk-play is made and produced in its own birthplace, is of great significance. Paul L. Benjamin, in The Survey:— % Plays which *are a rich and splendid vein to our native drama. Charles Pike Sawyer, in The New York Evening Post:—Their plays are a good deal more than merely inter esting; they are dramatically strong in pathos and tragedy . . . with in tense human interest and all true to life .... 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