The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 13, 1930, Image 4
THURSDAY, MAHCH «»,
JOHN W. HOLMB8
iso—im.
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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.
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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
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urer Jameat J. Bell.
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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?
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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-
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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■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.
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, All In all, this is an age of remark
able talent. We quote; “The shop-
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of women shoppers and escaped.”
When they get around to making tlie
final All-America football list, they
ought to remember the unique per-
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