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PACK TWO. THURSDAY, APRIL t, HSff. 1HB BARNWELL PBOPLMSNTINBL. BARNWBLL, SOUTH CAROLINA TkiiBarawn People-Sentinel JOHN W. BOLUS ISM—1112. M, P. DAVIES, Editor aid Propriotor. Bntorod at the poat^ffiee at Barnwell S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: * One Year $1.50 ■bt Months JO . Area Months ,60 (Strictly In Adrance.) THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930. Hard Times and the Northern Farmer. Hard times and all of the attendant evils are not confined entirely to the cotton South. Wlillpm Gordon ' Stuart lives in one of the upstate counties of New York that gave Hoover a majority of nearly 3 to 1 over Smith in the last Presidential election—but Mr. Stuart apparently is “fed up” with Hoover prosperity. In fact, he ha s about come to the aame conclusion straw hats and bare heads, according to his age. Light frosts in the in teriors. No money will be loaned to the ffchners. (And April will be about the same, thank you). JUNE:—Heavy weddings will oc cur between the 4th and 6th. On the 7th, Hoover will again predict pros perity while the unemployed continue to look for jobs. Larger furs will be worn by the flappers as old Sol waxes hot. Look for some weather during the second week. Dresses will be too thin* to think of after the 20th. Pic nics will begin about the 25th. Boll weevils and com borers and politicians will arrive about the 30th, then hide —or use a sawed-off shot-gun. T— ting. He's trying to find out some thing about Muscle Shoals so's be will have something national to talk about. He thought Muscle Shoals was some kind of knit shawls that women were wearing till somebody up and told it was water and a dam and a congressional pet. JULY:—Same as June, except fewer weddings and more unemploy ment and, larger furs and gtiU thinner dresses and probably showers and thunder storms after the fourth. AUGUST:—'Same as July except worse. Farmers will be eating grass and fishing for a living—waiting and hoping for farm relief. Swimming holes will be patronized freely if 1- as another farmer piece visible bathing suits will be per- who, upon seeing a giraffe for the * first time, exclaimed: “Gosh, there ain't no such animal.*’ Mr. Stuart owns a farm in which he has invested $10,000 exclusive of his $2,500 home. He works 13 hours a day for seven months in the year and 11 hours a day for the other five months. After making a careful cal culation he found that he received ex- :i wctly seven and a half cents an hour lor his labor. To make bad matters worse, he has a nephew who is a rural mail carrier and who receive* $2.60 per working hour; a niece is paid $4.93 an hour for the time she is en gaged teaching school, and his brother is paid even more for his services as a locomotive engineer, the average wages of these three persons being $3.50 for an hour’* work. Here in the South we have blamed our financial condition on cotton, but It seems to be general throughout the » nation. Of course, there is some thing radically wrong and Mr. Stuart blames it on high tariffs and high wages—for other cla.-ses—and is willing to try a change to low tariff and low wages. We lead the other day that the dollar i* worth only 57 cents as compared with 16 years ago, at which time cotton was selling at about the same price as it is today That being true, it does not re quire higher mathematics to find out the trouble. In 1915, with cotton celling for 16 or 16 cents a pound and the dollar being worth 100 cents, the farmer could buy $75 or $80 worth of merchandise for a bale of cotton. To day it will take nearly two bales of cotton to pay for the same amount of goods. The shrinkage of the farmer’s dollar, together with shoit crops and ever-increasing taxation, has forced him to mortgage his farm, further in creasing costs of production by the addition of interest charges. In contemplating “his unpaid bills, bis overdue taxes and the mortgages be has given,” Mr. Stuart is forced to the conclusion that all the high wages are going to other people and he is tired of toiling for cents an hour. We don’t blame him nor any of the thousands of Southern farmers who work for that or less. That “the laborer is worthy of his hire” seems to apply only to organized labor with its unions, and to the teachers with their associations, the legislature hav ing fixed minimum salaries for the latter by law. Mr. Stuart intimates that the politicians are afraid of and are controlled by the labor unions and the school teachers. The farmers on the other hand bid against one an other. The New York farmer wants high prices for milk and low prices for sugar, while the farmer in Geor gia would buy flour as cheaply as possible and sell cotton for double its present price if he could get it. Mr. Stuart and his millions of brother farmers throughout the United States have our sympathy, but Until they effect a workable organiza tion that can make itself felt they will continue to buy in a tariff pro tected market and sell in an open world market in competition with poorly paid l*bor in foreign coun tries. mitted. Look for your wife’s kin folks and gnats between the 20th and 30th. SEPTEMBER:—Cotton will de cline to 9 cents in sympathy with Hoover prosperity. Dresses will grow thinner and thinner, if possible, and larger furs will be worn. Land sale* for taxes will be 85 per cent higher than ever before and so will booze. Predict another steal by the cotton seed crushers association to begin about the 24th. Much graft will be unearthed and go unpunished in connection with road building pro grams over the United States. OCTOBER:—Wife’s kinfolks will go home for a few weeks. School teachers who have not married will all be back on their jobs. Furs will be discarded during first cold snap about the 15th. Cotton and corn and wheat will continue to decline in sympathy with farm relief. Willie says that he would have had a war record to go before the people with but he was turned down on ac count of his being too old. When he found out that they were taking them only between 21 and 31 and |hat the Lusitania had actually been torpedoed, it took 3 men to take a gun away from him. He wanted to fight right then and there, but he was 33—and then he went back to the pool room. So, friends, please don’t scratch Wil lie Pegg when he runs for office next summer. He ain’t fit for noting else and like as not he will remain a persistent loafer. Be a Booster? What I think doesn’t matter much and what I know has never amounted to anything worthwhile, but it doesn't take a Solomon to realize that there is something radfcally wrong with our good old United States today. Let’s see if we can decide who caused the trouble and why. Competition is the life of trade, so says the press, and it is likewise the death of prosperity, so s ays I. This refers to the so-called competition that we have been enjoying for the past few years. And the faimer and the unprotected manufacturers are the goats. Competition has squeezed the farmer to death and the manufac turer is getting his squeeze today. The mercantile world is trying to buy its merchandise for as near noth ing a s possible and they hammer the producer till he turns loose. In some cases, individuals are cutting each others throats to see who can sell the cheapest and go busted the quickest. Nobody is v willing to pay anybody a profit and the poor man is doing most of the suffering. MRS. CREIGHTON HONORS CONFEDERATE VETERANS. On last Thursday the Barnwell County Veterans were delightfully en tertained by Mrs. Creighton, president of the Johnson ^ Hagood Chapter, U. D. C., when a real old fashioned barbecue and chicken dinner was served them at her home on Jackson Street. The business women of the Chapter were likewise honored on this occasion and had the pleasure of mingling with the Veterans during the noon hour. The following Veter ans attended this enjoyoble affair: T. J. Ready, J. Cohen, D. P. Lancaster, G. W. Anderson and N. A. Patterson. * Mr. Anderson was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Anderson, and little daughter. Dr. E. W. Ellis ac companied N. A. Patterson. The fol lowing business women attended: Mrs. Mary Moody, Mrs. C. O. Jones, Mrs. J. B. Armstrong, Misses Carrie Williams and Laura Clary. Other guests on this occasion included Mrs. Ida Hill, Miss Jamesena Hill, Mrs. F. S. Brown, Mrs. E. W. Holman and Mrs. B. L. Easterling. The following committee assisted in the preparation and serving of the dinner: Mrs. A. A. McAllister, Mrs. J. B. Armstrong, Mrs. T. D. Creigh ton, Jr., and Mrs. G. M. Greene. MRS. BROWN ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLUB. Mrs. Charlie Brown, Jr., was hostess t*. the Wednesday Afternoon Bridge Club last week. The high score prize for members, a box of score pads, was won by Mrs. Marguerite Martin, the high score prize for guests, a box of powder, was won by Mrs. Bethune Patterson, and the consolation, a box ; of handkerchiefs, was cut by Mrs. Ed gar Brown. The hostess served a salad course, sandwiches, cake and Russian tea. Besides the club mem bers, the guests were: Mrs. Bethune Patterson, Mrs. M. Mazursky • and Mrs. Guy Lybrand., v HALL 6 COLE, Inc. •4*102 FANBUIL HALL MARKET, BOSTON, MASS. Commission Merchants and Distributors of Merchil iW ARAGUS One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. t SEND FOR SHIPPING STAMP. »fr»<i"frfr»»»<»<»«»fr«6>»6»»»»0000060«0 00000000»00000*»of M. B. CALHOUN & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. AMBULANCE SERVICE. Air-Sealed, Water-Proof Steel Vaults. COURTEOUS SERVICE and GOOD PRICES. Phones 105-W and 25. Allendale, S. C. LONG TERM MONEY to LEND 6 per cent, interest on large amounts' Private fuhds for small loans. NOVEMBER:—Congress will re sume a session of bull-shooting and tariff squawks. All bank* in the country will have merged into one long chain by the 18th and then no more money will ever be loaned ex cept for installment buying. DECEMBER:—Turkeys will be come engaged to the man who has the money. The farmers will all be in the poorhouse by the 10th. A few scattering weddings and light snows will take place around the 20th. Long underwear will be looked for by the men near the 20th who will find that the‘little Armenians are wxaring it. Then Christmas and head-and-tummy- aches and finally—bankruptcy and the New Year. — > Feeling Fit. Willie Pegg, of the Wild Pig sec tion of our county, is thinking strong ly of entering politics. Willie claims to be a self-made man. He can read little and can write some and I understand he can count money fairly well. He ran a filling station till it busted last year. Willie Pegg insists that he married too young and as proof of that as sertion, he has 9 children consisting mostly of boys and girls." Willie doesn’t look to be over 38 at this time, but Mrs. Pegg seems tiTiJbe nearer 60 than 50, but they were the same age when they matrimonied. Mrs. Pegg does her own washing and ironing and cooking. She also slops the hogs and milks the cow—and ’tends to Willie. t Our so-called Hoover prosperity is the answer to gambling. _The banks all over the country loaned all they could get to men and women to speculate in W’all Street. The Fed eral Reserve bank did not frown on the spectacle. Money for useful pur poses was so hard to get it could not be got. Aithur Brisbane and Roger Babson and other smart men were shouting from the house-tops: “Don’t sell America short.” Everybody seemed to be crazy and the fever reauhed every nook and corner of our fair land. And then something happened. That something always happens. The republicans had permitted gambling and gamblers to run rampant from Dan to Beersheba and just the time that everybody got tied tooth-and- toe-nail, they said STOP! (The mis take the government made wa s let ting them start). And stop they did. In less than 3 months, the financial world had to absorb losses to the tune of $45,000,000,000.00. That’s ex actly five and a half times as much money as there is in circulation. They can call it “paper profits if they want to, but it has got to be charged off. Mrs. Pegg has but one good eye: while cutting stove wood last year a stick flew up and hit her in the peeper. She got hurt once before that (while plowing) and she thinks that if Willie can hop into politics and win that the whole famly will get along much bet ter. Willie is considering the sheriff’s job and likewise has his weather eye on the clerk of court's place, but says he wouldn’t mind the legislature at all. (He thinks he can hold any thing from congress on down.) Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. reather wBl be warm If tfce weather wan aays it wtU be Will begm to wear the 16th. Men's vests Willie Pegg moved to the cotton mill last fall but only 2 of his young- uns were old enough to work and when they put on the stretcher sys tem, he made them quit. His flat- form is less work, less looms, fewer hours, shorter days, more pay, longer vacations, higher tariff oa furrin goods and free rent. Re alao will ad vocate free coca-cela and cigarettes for the laboring man. Willie says that he’s got to leans jhow to Idas babies and grind coffee the loiter half land talk In pubHc before he can hope tor'I to mako math headway fa Then there was installment buying. And high-living. And everything else but common sense. Over-production: why, sure. When people can’t pay for half they have already bought, it’s easy to over-produce. Result: Mil lions out of work. Discontent. An archy. Rottenness in high-places. Graft. Tax burdens being increased to waste and steal. The country is paying for its folly and the debt is a big one. Some day, maybe, a dollar will be appreciated for its real worth. Conditions are normal but the people are not. And the worst is just around the corner. No, there ain’t any panic. ♦ » ♦ Mrs. Ethel Collins Weeks. Hilda, March 31.—This community was deeply saddened on March 17th by the passing of Mrs. Ethel Collins Weeks. She was ill for only a few weeks and her death came as a great shock to those who knew and loved her. Mrs. Weeks was a young woman in her twentieth year. She was a beautiful Christian character. She was very sweet and gentle, endearing herself to all whom she met. She was a member of the Double Ponds Baptist church, having united with this church when quite a young girl. She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, J. Lawton Weeks, and two little sons, Hairy and James; her mother sad father, Mr. sad Mrs. J. S. Collins, five sister*, two brothers sad many other relatives and friend* Luke Reilly Says. “The Rat Died Be fore Reaching the River.” “Since moving near the river two years ago, we’ve always used RAT- SNAP. Watched a vicious water rat, nibbling at HAT-SNAP outside the house. About 15 minutes later he darted off for the water to cool his burning stomach, bdt he died before reaching it.” Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by The Best Pharmacy and Deason’s Drug Store, Barnwell. BROWN & BUSH LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. P TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE The County Treasurer’s office will be open from September 15th, 1929, to May 1st, 1930, for collecting 1929 taxes, which include real and personal property, poll and road tax. ^ All taxes due and payable between September loth and December 31st, 1929, will be collected without penalty. All taxe s not paid as stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law: January 1st to May 1st, 1930, one pet cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter May 1st, 1930. v V . When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one school district. All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. THE BIG DRIVE at the VAMP THEATRE TO-NIGHT Thursday, April 3rd ‘‘The Rats Around My Place Were Wise,” Says John Tuthill. “Tried everything to kill them. Mixed poison with meal, meat, cheese, etc. Wouldn’t touch it. Tried RAT-SNAP. Inside of ten day* got rid of all rats.” You don’t hay^e tx> mix RAT-SNAP with food. Saves fussing, bother. Break a cake of RAT-SNAP, lay it where rats scam per. You will see no more. Three sjzes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold* and guar anteed by Deason’s Drug Store and The Best Pharmacy, Barnwell. Just Like An Ostrich A medical authority says that a person who tries to cover up skin blemishes and pimples with toilet creams and powders is just as foolish as an ostrich that buries its head in the sand to avoid danger. Skin erup tions are nature's warning that con stipation is throwing poisons into your Uood stream and weakening your whole constitution. Remove the constipated condition and you will strengthen your system against disease and clear up S our disfigured skin. The best way to o this is with a course of Herbine, the vegetable medicine that acts natur ally hnd easily, which you can get at Epps' Pharmacy, Blackville, S. C. R. A. Deason, Barnwell, S. C. Mr. R. C. King Telia a Wonderful Story About Rato, Read It. “For months my place was alive with rats. Loosing chickens, eggs, feed. Friend told me to try RAT- SNAP^ I did. Somewhat disappoint ed at first not seeing many dead rats, but in a few days didn't see a live one. What wore not killed are not around my place. RAT-SNAP sure doe* the trick.” Throe sisea, 86c, 66c, $1.25. Sold and Guaranteed by Dea ton's Drug Store and The Best Phar- 1 State Ordinary County Road and Bridge Bonds Past Ind. Bonds Constitutional 6-0-1 School Special Local TOTAL | i| No. 24—Ashleigh 5 10 12 1 3 4 12 47 No. 23—Barbary Branch . 5 -10 12 1 3 4 30 65 No. 45—Barnwell 5 10 12 1 3 4 29 64 No. 4—Big Fork 5' 10 12 1 3 4 18 53 No. 19—Blackville 5 10 12 1 3 4 1 31 66 No. 35—Cedar Grove — 5 10 12 1 3 ;< 4 28 63 No. 50—Diamond 5 10 12 1 3 4 14 49 No. 20—Double Pond 5 10 12 i 1 3 1 4 . 18 54 No. 12—Dunbarton 5 10 12 1 3 4 27 62 No. 21—Ed is to 5 10 12 1 3 4 9 44 - No. 28—Elko 5 10 12 1 3 4 30 65 d No. 53—Ellenton 5 10 12 1 3 I 4 11 46 S No. 11—Four Mile 5 10 12 1 3 4 14 49 No. 39—Friendship 5 10 12 1 3 4 14 49> No. 16—Green’s 5 10 12 1 3 4 20 55 No. 10—Healing Springs. 5 10 12 1 3 4 20 55 No. 23—Hercules 5 10 12 1 3 4 27 62 No. 9—Hilda 5 10 12 1 3 4 35 70 No. 52—Joyce Branch __ 5 1° I 12 j 1 3 4 26 61 No. 34—Kline 5 10 I 12 1 1 3 4 18 53. No. 32—Lee's 5 10 12 1 1 3 4 10 45 No. 8—Long Branch 5 10 j 12 j 1 -3 4 17 53 No. 54—Meyer's Mill .. 5 10 12 1 1 3 4 26 61 No. 42—Morris 5 10 12 1 3 4 14 49i No. 14—Mt. Calvary 5 10 12 1 3 4 28 63 No. 25—New Forest 5 10 12 1 3 4 28 63 No. 38—Oak Grove 5 10 12 1 3 4 19 54 No. 43—Old Columbia - 5 10 12 1 3 4 26 61 No. 13—Pleasant Hill 5 10 12 1 3 4 15 | 50 No. 7.—Red Oak A 5 10 12 1 3 4 16 51 No. 16—Reedy Branch - 5 10 12 ’3 4 21 56 No. 2—Seven Pines 5 10 12 1 3 4 12 47 No. 40—Tinker's Creek - 5 10 12 1 3 4 17 52 No. 26—Upper Richland . 5 10 12 1 3 4 26 61 No. 29—Willisten 5 10 12 1 3 4 32 67 'J The commutetioh road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citixena between the ages of 21 and 66 years. All male citixena between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxes for 1929 can be paid at the same time other taxes are paid It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to sea that this tax is collected or aid tha Magistrate in the enfore*™™*^* the provisions of this Act. — •. - . Chocks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances ex cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Trensurer reserves the right to hold all receipts paid by check until said chocks have been paid.] Tax receipts will bs released only upon legal tender, postoffice ordgs, or certified checks. J. J. BELL, County Treasurer. “W SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOB JOB PRINTINa