The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, February 20, 1930, Image 4
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The BarnwD Psople-Sentinel
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1840—1912.
a. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
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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
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exponent of constructive journalism
LIGHTS * dixon
et NEW YORK
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, 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. .
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-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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:—
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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 .... It is a great and worthy
undertaking.
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blue with cold. And if they are the
first ones at the school house, they
have to gather up wood to start a Are
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