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THURSDAY, MAHCH «», JOHN W. HOLMB8 iso—im. *♦* B. P. DAVIES, Editor aa* Proprietor. Entered at the poet office at BarnWell S. C. t aa aecond-claas matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cm Year 91.60 Six Months JO Three Months ,60 (Strictly la Ad ranee.) THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930. ttr-'-" - '"rr r,-::rr-^s There’s more than a cough in a carload of the sort of weather we have been having lately. When the weather turns suddenly cold at night, be nonchalant—reach for a blanket instead of a sheet. It might also be said that the farm relief board is “a noble experi ment.” At least, it is “far-reaching in Ha effects.” For and Against. When the matter of increasing the salaries of members of the legislature from $400 to $600 a year came up be fore the House on Thursday, Barn well County’s two representatives came to a parting of the ways. Col. I. E. Harley, who hag been recognized as the leader of the so-called “economy group” in the House, voted against the increase, while the Rev. D. W. Heckle votad for it. We con gratulate Colonel iwrley on his efforts to relieve the burden of taxation and his vote on this question dh entirely in keeping with his aUrtude during his two terms of office./ TmrfI - urer Jameat J. Bell. t The people of Bsmwell County are to be congratulated on having secured the services of so able a public ser vant as County Treasurer James J. Bell and they in turn should congratu late Senator Edgar A. Brown on hav ing made so wise a selection in choos ing a successor to the late lamented Capt. J. B. Armstrong. Ar. Bell is well qualified for the duties of his new position, and along with his mental qualifications he is known both at home, and abroad as a Christian gentleman, characterised by his rug ged honesty and loyalty. In short, he is a worthy successor to * distin guished predecessor. And the action of the County Dele gation in stipulating that Mm. Arm atrong be retained as assistant tieas- urer at a substantial increase in salary wa B a fine thing to do and is an act of appreciation that should meet with the approval of the entire county. Barnwell County's finances are in deed in safe hands. bccoma the empty mockeries that Bol shevism has encompassed In Red Rus sia. Dr. Ball can turn big brilliant brain and facile pen to a nobler work than has engaged his time for the past few years. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. Meeting of Ways and Means. MR. WAYS: We must have some thing else to tax. Before we adjourn, we will have to devise a plan to raise not les g than $7,000,000.00 in addition to the $13,500,000.00 we have already appropriated. MR. MEANS: How about reducing the sums promised to our State in stitutions by about $2,000,000.00? It seems that they could get along all right with a cut by ctyfrging . rich folks tuition and expenses. MR. WAYS: Why, man—that would never do. We would lose the votes of the Alumni of every college in the State, and furthermore—the persons that might have to be discharged by reason of a cut would never think of voting for us. MR. MEANS: Don’t you think the arylum and penitentiary could get along on $750,000.00 instead of $1,- 245,000.00? MR. WAYS: Well, they might, but don’t forget that some of those folks ’prill sooner or later he out of confine ment and if they should happen to find out that we hit at them in any such manner, they’d actually -work against us rather than vote for us. MR. MEANS: I understand that Messrs. Dedd ami Goan have offered our State 450 acres of fairly fertile land in the east corner of hell •pro vided we will build an institution ing is concerned, thereon for the drunks that are down there. What ought we do about it? ■h Big Noise of the Army Ordnance Meeting One of the features of the Army Ordnance association meeting at the Aberdeen proving grounds was the firing of this 16-lnch gun. one of the biggest In the world. It hurled projectiles •twenty-five miles to sea. ' Fertilizer Co. fish guano SPECIAL ASPARAGUS > FERTILIZER. ‘ * Call 79 R. L. HAIR, Representative Williston, S. C. foot or glue. Spinners takings were ^ waist-line disappeared about that in excess of the estimate and thus time afid alonw with underwear, petti- July longs ?old short in order to coats, cor.-ets, underskirts, balmorals, hedge against Southern selling and cotton stockings, belt, underyests, Bombay straddles. Since the farm and*a great many other things thnt board has announced its policy which, were considered absolutely essential reduced middling 15 dollars per bale,* to the well dressed, the boll weevil emergence has been 1 - ignored along with light wines. We advise chloroform and running fits for cotton pains and government aid for all jokes. Good-Bye Mars. Editor Ball and lh<« Prohibition Law. Paradoxical as it may <<eem, we both agree and disagree with The Columbia Record in what it has to say anent certain statements alleged to have been made by Editor W. W. Ball of The News and Courier to the Con- m gressional committee in Washington. Among other things, Dr. Ball is quoted as having said thfct “national prohibition was worse than the old aaloon at its worst” and that he comes “from a cocktail .country,” where ladies and gentlemen who used to turn up their noses at corn liquor have become educated to its use. We agree with Editor McMaster The Record when he says that Editor ’ Ball “has encouraged contempt for the prohibition law, which is not only the law of the Nation but of his Stutej” but we cannot agree with Editor McMaster’s oponion that the old proverb, “False in one, false in fll,” applies to judgment a? well as to other characteristics. To do so would I ♦e to damn the whole human race. ■ None of us is infallible—not even The Record’s able editor—as witness toother old proverb which says “To orr is human.” We believe that Dr. Ball’s attitude toward prohibition is on unfortunate error of judgment but it does not necessarily follow that his judgment and opinion on other mat ter* are “false.” While frankly re gretting his open encouragement of contempt for the prohibition law and end not agreeing with all of his opin- kms on other subjects, we don’t be lieve that The Record would discredit all of Dr. Ball’s editorial expressions, many of which contain rare pearls of Rather than condemn un- leeervedly all that he says, let’s sepa- ^^Jhe wheat from the chaff. vA* the same time. Dr. Ball should that the beet way to effect the I of a bad law Is to enforce it To encourage contempt for violation of any law ie to strike 9*' very root of organised gov- Hh- wm MR. WAYS. I heartily recommend that we accept this property and I shall introduce a bill tomorrow to appropriate $2,000,000.00' to erect suitable building* <>u this real estate. We ean’t turn down such a gracious gift. Their loved ones will vote for us as long as they live if we provide suitable quaiters for their forbears. MR. MEANS: Well, let me see: We have nearly everything '-double- taxed already except BVD’s, electric irons, bow-legs, potato bugs, axe handles and the air that is blowcd into automobile and truck tires. How about putting, say 4 dollars per each on these items ? And # then came the war, blessed war — and knee-and-ahove diesses (and they were dangerous to boot) and paint and powders and bobbed hair and stepins and step-outs and penciled eyebrows and fancy hose and The naval conference practically the Charleston and wrist watches and outlawed war so far as gunboat shoot- J the Black-bottom and slippers and Japan agreed to lipsticks and automobile rides and junk 2 cannon of the 19 and 12 type j bridge and public hugging sprees, and and England promised to move the j the first thing anybody knew, Miss sailor’s lavatory 3 feet further away Modesty had packed up and left the from the gun turrets and Uncle Sam 1 country, and y thus we men, young and said he would cut the length of his old, have been happy—so don’t kick submarines down from 543 feet to 542 just because the unsanitary long dress feet and 12 inches, while Italy and is here to befog our sense of apprecia- France stated that they would think tion of art—for possibly a few weeks, over the matter carefully after prayer | + + m To Sweep Unsafe Cars From Southern Roads Women Suffering Bladder Irritation If functional Bladder Irritation disturbs your sleep, or catwes Burn ing or Itching Sensation, Backache, Lgor Pains, or muscular aches, mak ing you feel tired, depressed, and discouraged, whynottn^ theCystex 48 Hour Test? Don't give up. Get Cystex foday at any drug store. Put it tothe test. See for yourself how auickly It works. Money back if It !U.n-t bring q^toprovemen^ and satisfy you completelir, Trf, , cystex today. Only 60o. —. For Sale by Deason’s Drug Store MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT. Attomeys-at-Law BarnwelL S. C. Motor Industry to Retire 69,000 Vehi- % cles at Cost of $2,600,00 in South This Year. T. B. Ellis J. a Bills meeting next Wednesday night and would probably consent to cut down their smoke-stack* 1 foot and shoot only when shot at in future. The other nations were not asked to join in the armament reduction, as they didn’t have anything that would throw’ a shell further than 75 yards. MR. WAYS: That would be risky. We’d never get another vote from any of the people affected. We will sleep over these matters for a few nights and have another meeting. How about another little drink before we go? I tell you this hard work is gettigg the best of me. We have to r be right here 3 days in the week and 2 hours in each of those day*. See you later. But They Won't Bt* Long, Very Long. Well, men, 1 don’t know* that w’e have any right to kick just because long dresses have again made their appearance. We have had 10 or 12 years of sight-seeing at practically no hurt, except possibly a few of u* have run into telephone posts and curbs while not looking tstraight ahead. S-L-R-E. If you want to make a man mad, refuse to sell him some goods fin credit, and if you want to make him madder, sell him some goods on credit and then wait a few week* and ask him for your money. You have done dun something now* and he no longer speaks kindly of you. A-N-D. r * If you want to make a woman smile from ear to ear, just ring the bell in the usual manner and when she opens the door—say: “Good morning, is your mother at home?” She will fling the door w'ide open and exclaim —“Why, —er—er, I am the mother. Ain’t this a pretty day though?” After all, style is the only thing that counts. I can remember when a 10-by-15-inch bustle was a thing of beauty and a joy forever. They look ed all right and we young fellows thought that they had come to stay. Occasionally they would drift around to one side of the hips and make the dear sweet thiqgs appear to be kinder lop-sided, and in many instances, such mis-placements were mistaken for dislocation of the hip. • B-U-T. If you want to hurt a girl’s feel ings, tell her that her hat is just like the hat ' that Sadie Sue Arti- choak had on at church last Sabbath, and if you want her to wish you were dead and in the cemetery sprout ing violets, just insinuate that her cheeks and lips aie excessively paint ed for this season of the year. Very few girls think any man believes she paints. Shortly after the anival of the bustle, th'e wasp wai-t-line came and spent a while. It was an horrible disgrace for a woman to have a waist any larger around that a stick of balogna sausage. Corset strings were always from 20 to 40 feet long, and the fair sex would begin lacing up about 3 hour’s before they started any place, and by the time they ^ere “helped” into the buggy, it actually 1 looked dangerous for them to bend over—for^ fear they’d break. Take Us or Leave Us* Says Ed. Howe to Women Women know perfectly well what they are getting into when they marry. All. their lives they have heard the subject dl*nisj*ed, and witnessed over and over all its phases. They know precisely what men an?; they know they cannot he anythin; else. They may say they <lo not. hut they do; they cannot help learning a lesson presetiUs! withojir variation for thou sands of years; therefore I object to their threshing the same old straw over and over, in linding fault with men. Let them take us ns we are. or let us alone. Every month, every day, every hour, I hear of marriages fail ing, and women chattering that wives always get the worst of It. Why do they not* talk this way to brides, in stead of acting ns marriage agents? Women get precisely what Nature provides, and they know it f»efor** they make the contract.—E. W. Howe iu Howe % s Monthly. Rubber Is Not Elastic Rubber Is one of the most inelastic •of substances, points out “Time, the Newsmagazine.” The extensibility of rubber is usually confused with its elasticity. An absolutely elastic substance is one which returns to its original size and shape after stretch-* log. Rubber does not do that. Pull a piece of rubber, release it. measure It. It is deformed. Old rubbers are big ger than new ones. Steel is far more elastic than rubber, but of course much less stretchable. Glass Is prob ably more elastic than steel. QuarU Is an almost perfect elastic. Hence Its use Jd nice measuring instruments ch sal SUCJ telescopes. ’ t 1 TSLtTg ENGINEERING CO. Sixty-nine thousand unfit automo biles will be removed from the high ways of the South during the coming year in an effort which is part of a national Highway Safety Plan under taken by various companies in the antomqhile industry, as announced by the National Automobile Chamber ^of Commerce. The program will involve the expenditure of approximately $2,- 600,000 in the Southern States. Nationally, the motor companies plan to setap 400.000 old automobiles in 1930, at a cost of about $15,000,000. The number of cars which it is esti mated will be scrapped in each of the Southern States is as follows: Virginia 6,060 North Carolina 6,640 South Carolina 3,240 Georgia 4,260 Florida 3.960 Alabama ; 5,490 Louisiana ‘ 4-- 4,490 Mississippi 3,760 Tennessee 5,860 Arkansas 3,620 Texas 21.210 The program is characterized as “perhaps the greatest single safety move in industrial history,” by Alvan Macauley, president of the Automo bile Chamber, and former chairman of its Street Traffic Committee. “This widespread experiment f iwill strike right at the heart of the unsafe vehicle problem by eliminating a huge block of those cars which are in the poorest condition,” says Mr. Macauley. One of the hazards of the highway situation hag been the rattle-trap car which keeps re-appearing on the road after it has presumably been sent to the discard. The aim of this pro gram is to guarantee the actual scrap ping of the vehicle.. The plan will be worked out by each company partici pating, in line with its general sales policies and the v;olume of its produc tion. R. H. Grant is chaiiman of the committee which planned this pro gram. Other members include-: C. H. , Bliss, J. E. Field*, Paul G. Hoffman, H. W. Peters, Courtney Johnson, Ed ward S. Jordan. Land Surveying a Specialty* Lyadhurst, 8. C 666 Tablets Relieves a Heada c he or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 also in Liquid POWER in South Carolina ih helping you grow. I Y Y Y LETS PROSPER TOGETHER, i ' v A Invest today in $6 Cumulative <. Preferred Stock. Price $100. A (Ac. Div.l Cash or Easy Terms, PAYS REGULAR DIVIDENDS South Carolina Power Co. Ask any employee or write Investment Department Charleston, S. C. Cotton Letter. ■New York, March 17.—Spots broke 89 points this morning when Karl Williams told Mr. Legge, the big hoes, that the only way he could sac- coed in getting the farmers to reduce acreage and stick together would he to confiscate half their planting seed 4 roll the said farmers up ip tangie- Then*came the white shirt-waist and black skirt and sailor hat, yet the skirt still served the the purpose of concealing the ankles from view and xaising a dust. Before we had really gtotten to the place where* this new fad had reached the point of ap preciation, the middy blouse hove into sight. Thty worj never very popular. They looksd too* much like a sawed off night shirt. ? V _ About 19 and 12 the skirt began .to creep knee-ward but hesitated about half-way up on its journey. Button shoes went taboo over night and shoes that laced for an hour or more took tfceir place and played tag with the iff the skirts. We mtm appre- that innovation. The Heron Honest Fisherman If a vote was ever taken among trout fishermen there would he a con tinuotis oi»en season on great blue herons for this brigand of the trout streams (so named for the reason that fishermen won’t become convinced the heron eats anything but small trqut). annoys the fly casting aud pi tinker by Its mere presence on a trout stream. As a patient, honest fisherman, how ever, the‘heron has It all over his hu man contenders and it fishes for food alone, not sport. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Advertise in The Poqple-Sentinel. We Overlooked Him , All In all, this is an age of remark able talent. We quote; “The shop- iAfter made his way through a crowd, of women shoppers and escaped.” When they get around to making tlie final All-America football list, they ought to remember the unique per- of tide Cuke Seed GENUINE “THE HENDERSON” Cucumber Seed. 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