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■ Sf V. THUR8DAC, ' JOHN W. HOLMES 1S4#—191S. B. P. DAYIBS, Editor aod Proprlotor. BsUrtd at the post office at Barnwell S. C. t as second-daso matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATB8: Om Year 11.00 i f to Months SO Hues Months — — . — *00 (Strictly In AdTanca.) branded wf&Ar-B., the market as a pure product. It is Voter, a mere label—a standard bonded label on a bootleg bottle.** All of which may make some of his fellow-educators see red. r wounda/ TbatV r Nobody’s Business - Q. What can be done to remedy the.situation you are referring to? A. ^Nothing. Q. Why? * A. Politics. Q. Who put the country in such a mellofahess? A. Politics. donT pay lunch atten tion to him and he doesn’t pay much attention to them. He is a farmer by profession, but has run for the legis lature two or three times unsuccess fully. He says it is hard for a good in to be elected to office in Texas. > T thing about going home of January t but Sudella’s husband is a little bit deef, and he never understood what she was talking about till a week later. By Gee McGee. Out of Town Visitors. THUtUBDAC, FEBRUARY 27, 1030 • f . • To possess capital in Russia ap pears to be a capital offense. We often wonder whether those noisy Senators carry on that way around Itbme. About the most effective way to keep peace is to employ a few Ameri can Marines. This is the time of year when para- graphers dust off the old seed cata logue wheeze. Even victims of the Inquisition missed one torture. The saxophone had not been invented. It will soon be v time for those sheared Wall Street lambs to emerge with a new crop of wool.. ^ If our friends send us any more chain letters we’ll sick Mr .Hender son of Shreveport on ’em. The proposed tariff law must be flexible, judging by the way the ar gument over it is stretching out. The boys in Congress are hoping the farmers’ feeling of relief will last un til after the election next fall. Americanism: Doing the daily dozen for health and trying to pass another car on a blind curve an hour later. \ The Caraway Committee seems to have made the startling discovery that thcge has been some difference of opinion concerning the disposition of Muscle Shoals. History in 500 Words. Much comment has been caused by the recent announcement that former president Coolidge had been asked to write a history of the United States in 500 words, these word* to be carv ed in stone on the Mount Rushmore Memorial in. South Dakota. It was wondered how Mr. Coolidge, even with his unusual knack for terse expression, could condense so much into a few words. Now the task has been simplified for him by the com mission in charge of the memorial, which has decided that the “history” shall be limited to a consideration of only eight events deemed the most Important in the life of the nation. They are these: Declaration of Independence, 1776; the framing of the Constitution, 1787; the Louisiana Purchase, 1803; the admission of Texas as a State, 1845; the Oregon boundary settlement, 1846; the admission of California as a State, 1850; the end of the Civil War, 1865; the completion of the Panama Canal, 1914. Whether these are the most impor tant incidents in our history or not, they furnish ample material upon Ccasus Figgers. Speaking of the three babies that were accidently bom in Hollywood last year, and the importation of 9,- 666 pet monkeys, and the 55,555 poo dles that were shipped in from other sections of the country, we are ready to say that the talkie and singie and laughie industry looks very promising, but all of this proves that Hollywood is not raising her own actors and ac tresses. My wife’* kinfolks have been to see us a right smart here of late and nat urally we have all enjoyed ourselves* good. Her fifth cousin, Sudella Sim- kins, came on December the 15th to spen<i Christmas with us. She has a right cute bunch of kids. I like the twins better than either Bill or Rufe or Sudie or Joe or Mollie or Rube or Ben. The baby girl was right sweet also. Farm Lemon-Aid. Sudella’s husband is practically non committal. He says very little except “No” and “Yes’* as the case might be. I was very much surprised to find an old farmer in town last week who had really and truly believed that gov- ernfnent farm relief was actually go ing to relieve' the farmer. He said that he might be by himself in hold ing on to this hope, but he saw no reason in the world why fertilizer should not be 10 to 15 cents a ton low er this year in sympathy with cotton, and tumipgreens ought to fetch 11 cents a gallon in April instead of 12 cents today. Hope—that eternal “thing” that makes us continue to de sire to live. Speed, the Undertaker’s Friend. It looks like it is getting just about as dangerous to ride in an airplane^ as it is to live in Chicago. I’ve my doubts about so much speed hel ing this old country of ours anywa It doesn’t mater much whether a letter gets to me in two days or four days, especially if it’s a bill. If a person wants to go to New York on Friday, he needn’t wait till Friday in order that he might use a flying machine. He could start on Thursday, and would probably reach there in time to do anything that ought to be done Saturday. This rush and hustle and bustle hasn’t done anything but kill a good many of us, and run lots of us crazy, and bust the rest of the popu lation. I’m in favor of taking my time myself—unless something or nuther gets after me—like a dog or a snake. which Mr. Coolidge may. exercise his talent for condensation. Bunk in Education. Forward-looking educators are more and more coming to look upon wuch that is taught in schools and colleges today as useless rubbish— something that intelligent laymen have suspected for quite a while. In a recent article, Edward Wilber Berry, dean of the college of arts and •ciences of Johns Hopkins, handles the subject without gloves . He says: the ordinary curriculum to day represents is simply the accumu lated debris of the past three or^fobr hundred years of hit-or-miss instruc- Uau, Some of it is plainly superflu ous and some of it should be dismissed immediately as the merest flubdub and flapdoodle—inherited rubbish.” He refers to the average college student as “the product of a stuffing imed with facts of a or less unrelated and useless Berry never went to college i (Jniversi- f, btft a course in the Hard Knocks included eight as manager of the Passaic Daily AiwOugn ^onnecxea wivo ss US inktructor for degree. Speaking iys that when the seored his points An Eye-Opener. Men, don’t laugh at Chicago be cause she’s busted. Your town is like wise busted. Check up and see if you have not issued all the bonds that the law will let you issue and also look around and ascertain if you have not permitted your city council to spend a great deal more for the past 8 or 10 years than they have garnered from the taxpayers. In fact, you might be surprised if you don’t learn that you owe thousands upon thousands of dol lars for current expenses. Spending money has been what our politicians have done nothing else but for a long time. They have used all the cash they could get and have al most exhausted all of their .credit. This applies to all states, most cities and some counties. The schemes to raise money to waste are legion. There are 28 different kinds of taxes and licenses paid by the business world, and the tax gatherers are now wearing multi-powered goggles — seeking other things to devour. Up till last night, no one had ever thought of reducing operating expenses. They reduced a garbage can toter from 25 dollars a week to 25 dollars a week. A man with some bull and a little pull can get a good public job now— regai dless of his ability and, in some cases, regardless of his dishonesty. Half of the government employees could be turned, off and nobody would miss them except the picture shows and the boarding houses. • It costa 4 dollars and 20 cents to thread a gov ernment needle. You must have a needle holder and a thread poker and an eye-finder and a thread catcher and a spool holder and an end-wetter and a store keeper. Folks working for the public tramble on one another, yet they have different duties. Real estate (farm lands) is being assessed for tax purposes at a higher price than they will fetch, even tho the trade be made between a willing buyer and ft willing seller. The state ia buying thousands of acres of land for taxes and yet nothing ia being done to relieve the situation. The lack of action reminds me of a throng of so- called intelligent people passing a man in the street who had been run over and crippled badly by an automobile, and no one raised a han*’ t* mend Ms broken kg or stop the of blood While Sudella and her folks were with us, she phoned (collect) several of her relatives from Yankton to come see her at our home—as it looked like to her that we had 8 bed rooms in our house. My wife’s third dousin, Elbert, and his 4>unch came over and spent 3 or 4 days with us—them and Sudella had a right nice time. Elbert is kin to my wife through her grSat- grandma who was a Pinkerton and married Elbert’s step-grandpa. Those Texas children craved scram bled eggs terribly while with us. They (eggs) were selling at 65 cents a doz en while they (the children) were our guests. They (the children) liked ham also, but we bought that at only 40 cents a pound. Sudella said some- Cousin Aaron and his wife were at our housq^for a day or so last week. They had hot been up since week, be fore last. Sudella did not recollect him—as she was only 21 when she married and moved out west. They both saw a close resemblance betwixt the kids of all parties concenied, ex cept her’n were brunettes and his’n were blonds, onl^ Sudie and Jim had hair that was bordering on to white, hut tjiis was traced to my wife’s great Uncle, Jerry Merkle, who never show ed up after the battle of the Wilder* ness. 1 guess the bushes were so thick he never found his way out. jhL once that some of were tuViny the flu, but “her” fourth cous in, Ellie, assured us that^re had only a slight attack of tonsilitis. It is very lonesome around home today. They have practically all gonq back home for efew days* ADVERTISE in Th« People-Sentimd. 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