Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V MAT JOHN W. ISO—1911. & P. DAVIES, Editor aad Proprietor. At the pool office at Born well S. C., *a second-doss metier. SUBSCRIPTION RATESs >m Year — ItlO Six Months ....—j— *90 Three Months ....... JtO (Strictlj In AdroMi.) THURSDAY, MAY 1ST,, .1930. The Magna Charta of the Farmers. ¥ L. The manifesto adopted *t the meet ing of farmers in Columbia April 16th, endorsed by the Blackville Demo cratic Club Saturday and to be pre sented to the Barnwell County Con ▼ention next Monday may well be likened to the Great Charter that the English barons forced King John to sign at Runnymede in June, 1215. It is a damning indictment of the alleged causes of the farmers' present and past financial difficulties and if the agriculturists are successful in enforcing the demands contained therein the results will be as far- reaching as were those that followed the Tnglish Magna Charta. History is merely repeating itself. No great body of people in any nation has ever been oppressed by the ruling classes that they did not sooner or later rebel. A parallel to the present situation of the American farmer may he found in the history of ancient Greece, when the ruler of that country called upon Solon, a man of wisdom, for a solution of the difficulty. He responded by cancelling debts and re storing the farms to the tillers of the soil. It is argued that government can not help the farmers. It is hard to understand why this cannot be done when government, through the med ium of high tariffs, has enriched the manufacturers and guaranteed better than a living wage to organised labor throughout the country. It is hard to understand when one recalls that, dur ing the World War when the govero- asant took over the operation of the railroads, a guarantee of fixed earn tags was made to the earners and the •mployee* were given ever-increasing P*y. Ml of which was retroactive. It fe hard to understand when the sugar Aarons, constituting only a small part ef the agricultural life of the United BUtea. are alloared to raid the pockets af the American people by Congres sional enactment. During the past ten years we have aaan incomes decrease and taxes and expenses of upkeep of property in crau*e until the one hardly balances the other. Indeed, we have seen thousand* of farms abandoned and •old for tare* because the ownera realised the struggle was hopeless. Many are yet holding on and paying taxes and other expenses on property, town and country, from other sources of income, hoping against hope that the powers that be will see the folly of their present policy and stretch forth a helping hand before it is too late. The People-Sentinel urges the adop tion of the manifesto at next Monday's iting of the county convention and we urge the vigrou 8 prosecution A bloodless revolution to enforce demands of the farmers upon the people of the United States. Hereto fore appeals have fallen upon deaf UAra. Let the farmer abandon the rule of supplicant and demand that to which he is justly entitled—a re turn commensurate with the capital invested end the labor necessary to produce the crops that clothe and feed his fellow man! Ai 'Reds' or Iht At Jiportsd or made to feel tke “halter of the law." Our contemporary called attention to dispatches from New York City, which relate thpt, when five anarchists were arraigned before a court for alleged unlawful activities, “they hurled in sulting charges of injustice at the presiding judge." ' Most of the names df gangsters and racketeers in New York and Chicago are foreign and their owners are apparently just as alien to all American ideals. No free bom American citizen would allow a guest or an intruder to desecrate the sanc tity of his home and by the same token we should refuse to allow these unwelcome people to ride rough-shod over our government, whether munici pal, state or national. If these men and women will not obey our laws, the sooner they are deported the bet ter. There is a vast difference be tween liberty and license. - * - them as being just as good, sad there the same situation would preseat it self." The Williston Way says that the merchants of that progressive town are planning a big advertising cam paign to attract new customers, “be lieving that this town (Williston) is the logical trading center between Orangeburg and Augusta." While we cannot concur in the belief that Wil liston is the logical trading center be tween Orangeburg and Augusta, we applaud the efforts of its merchants to attract trade from the surround ing territory. Their example might well be emulated by the merchants of other town* who silently (so far as newspaper advertising is concerned) allow legitimate trade to be attracted elsewhere. Bain well could be made the logical trading center of a large territory if the proper effort* -were put forth by local business men. In Other Sanctums White IMainn. New York, imunta on Being White. Pardon our smiles, hut they cannot be suppressed. The South has been treated to so much buncombe since 1876 that we cannot help enjoying the arrival of the evidence proving it is buncombe. So many Northerners were so tremendously fond of the Brother m Black when he was thousand miles sway and they couU show their affection at no greater cost than by condemning Southern whitsa f6r their alleged injustices anc cruel tia*. White Plains, New York, was not so named because it was 100 per cent white, but the whites of that attrac live town of eye-delighting residences wish their town to be absolutely un shaded. They object to the blacks browns, yellows, and even the seven eights whites. Here is the story telegraphed to a New York paper of an existing “serious eituation”: Tell U« the Name* A friend who followed with in terest the efforts of The Columbia Record to obtain a list of those who urrote surety bonds for the State of Booth Carolina is curious to know irliether or not the Columbia news- paper was successful, such a list never Aaving been published so far as he knows. If Editor McMaster obtained ^^he names of the agents, he shouldn't be so selfish as to keep them to him self. Be a good sport, Brother, and kt us in on the ' big news. Well promise not to tell anybody except r who read The People-Sentinel, should we ever find out that McMaster was successful and to share his information with we shall, in the words of a more less popular song, "lift up our and say. Tweet, Owl the TMth* it say. Ad- That it is high The situation arising from the ap pearance of two negro families as legal owners and occupants of 115,- 000 houses in the Highland and in the Carhart sections of this city, will he examined this week by a special committee appointed by the White Plain* Realty Board, under the chair manship of Albert Loekyer. Meanwhile another committee under the chaitmanship of Earle P. Hite lawyer, appointed last week at a mass meeting of about 600 whiti householders who discovered they were neighbors of the negroes, de cided to draw up a deed for future sale s of their propelty, prohibiting the passage of title or renting of the land to any one of African origin or descent. Mr. Hite said today that the agita tion over the right of the two negroes to settle wherever they wished should not obscure the right of some 500 white householders who had settled there first and invested the savings of a lifetime in the neighboring houses, at about $15,000 each. “These ne groes move in," he said, “and at one sweep all the other houses are forever lemoved from the market and their value destroyed.” A subcommittee of the white house holders was still unable to open ne gotiations with the two negroes, Er- rold D. Collymore, dentist, at 461 South Lexington Avenue, and A. M. Williams, physician, at 22 De Kalb Avenue. On behalf of the two negroes, John A Ross, negro lawyer of 11 John St., New York, who established them in their houses, said today that there was no hurry. He said he desired to make R clear that they had not moved in for the purpose of selling out right away, and that his references yester day to a bonus for withdrawing did not mean that aay offer would be Mark well, ths^fact, as stated, that in White Plains when two negroes, unquestionably respectable and self- respecting; professions! men, one be ing a successful dentist and other an equally successful physician; move into a section of the town, ^ “at one sweep all the other houses are forever removed from the n^arket and their value destroyed." While plans are going forward to get the dentist and the physician to name a price on their newly acquired homes so they may be “bought out,” a mass meeting of whites had been held to draw up a covenant prohibit ing the future “passage of title or renting of the land to any one of African origin or descent.” A negro lawyer promises that if such exclusion clause is written into deeds he will negotiate a purchase for a person of color and then go to the United States supreme court if necessary. In this he is supported by the Association for the Advancement of Colored People. All of which we, down here, find quite entertaining. By the way, negroes in other parts of the country pay as much as $15,000 for homes. Cplumhia for one place. And they do not live out of sight of white people, and the white people have held no mass meetings or moved for “exclusion clauses.”—The State. ' Fourth Clasii Postmaster Examination The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an ex amination to be held at Augusta, Ga., as a result of which it is expected to make certification to fill a contem plated vacancy in the position of 4th class postmaster at Martin, S. C., and other vacancies as they may occur at that office, unless it shall he decided in the interest of the service to fill any vacancy by reinstatement. The com pensation of the postmaster at this office was $626 for the last fiscal year. Applicants must have reached their 21st birthdsy but not their 65th birth day on the date of the examination. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied *by the post office for which the examination is announc ed. The examination is open to all citi- xens of the Unitsd States who can comply with the requirements. Application blanks. Form 1753, and full information concerning the re quirements of the examination can be secured from the postmaster at the place of vacancy or from the United States Civil Service Commission, at Washington, D. C. Applications must be property ex ecuted and on file with the Commission at Washington, D. C., prior to the hour of closing business on May 23, 1930. The date for assembling of compe titors will be stated in the admission card* which will be mailed to appli cants after the close of receipt of ap plications. Golden Words Uttered by Tongues of Unknown There nre hundreds of people who<*e names we do not know, though their words have passed into history. There is the nameless, well-dressed woman who, meeting Wordsworth walking by Loch Kathrine one fine evening, observed, “What, you are stepping westwerd?" She gave the poet the Idea for Ids intern, Stepping Westward. There it the watchman who passed under Pepys’ window’ crying, “Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty morn ing!” There is the man who first invented the Breton fisherman’s petition as he put out to tea, “Oh, God, do thou help and guard me; the sea Is so wide and iny boat is so |mall. And who was tTte poor old dame who, when questioned by a kindly bishop, held up her dry crust and said, “1 have all this, and faith”? And there are, of course, all the un knowns whose words are sung and said around the world and will not pass away. “Scandinavian” Peop! es The word “Scandinavian” is of Latin adaptation and its etymology Is not certain. In a strict sense it re lates only to the Scandinavian penin sula and its people, Norwegians and Swedes. In a broader sense it Includ ed also Deqmark. Iceland, and all the contiguous islands inhabited by the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic nice. The Swedish elements In Fin land are also generally Included. •f Liability “Ht washed his hands of tho en tire affair" we read every now and then, the Implication being, that the person of whom this Is said simply re fuses all responsibility for or interest In the particular matter under discus sion. Certainly, If any phrase sounded modern, this one does; and yet, sur prising as It may seem, It Is a direct allusion to Matthew 27:24. "When Pilate saw that he could pre vail no longer, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am Innocent of the blood of this just person.”—Kansas City Star. 666 Tablets Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks n Cold the first day, and checks Malmria in three days. B 666 also in Liquid A Crtat Ditcoctrf When Pasteur disooesrsd, in tel tbs infection ot wound- — caused by malignant bacteria, be per formed a service^ meetimabjc value to mankind. Since then medical science has been producing better and better antiseptics, to kilT Atlantic Fertilizer Co. Ice Age 'Turkeys'* Turkey!Ike birds once nested In the region now occupied by the city of Los Angeles, Calif. This fact has been brought to light in the course of a re view of the Ice age birds of Rancho La Brea tar pits in. the collections of the Los Angeles museum. The review was undertaken by Dr. Hlldegarde Howard, of the museum, for the pui- pose of establishing a census of the birds of the region. It was found that of about 500 individuals of the extinct, turkeylike bird, Parapavo, represented In these collections, more than 150 were young birds, many of them only chicks. FISH GUANO SPECIAL ASPARAGUS FERTILIZER. Call 79 R. L. HAIR, Representative Williston, S. C. antiseptics, w these gcroas that may enter tho smallest cut and give us diseases such aa typhoid, tuberetdosis and lockjaw. Now, all you have to do to be sure that these dreadful gcnns witt not infect a wound, is to wash that w ound, however small, thoroughly with v • • • Y) + Ko m/wiom antiseD- purse, R. A. Deason, Barnwell, S. C. Epps’ Pharmacy, Blackville, S. G ♦♦ ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Titled Bartender Some six years ago, says a writer in Piccadilly, you could see painted above the door—where the law or dained that the publican’s name should he seen—of “The Cider House,” an Inn at Haddenham. In Buckingham shire, England, “Sir Henry Echlln, Bart., licensed to sell wines and spir its.” and If you went Inside you w’outd be served by the bnionet landlord or his wife. Sir Henry was the eighth baronet of his line, and hid become a publican after having been a pri vate In the Life Guards, because four of his predecessors had squandered the family fortunes. Advertise in The People-Sentinel Candidates' Cards I HALL & COLE, IltC. 94-102 FANEUIL HALL MARKET, BOSTON, MASS. Com mission Merchants nnd Distributors of ASPARAGUS One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. SEND FOR SHIPPING STAMP. 1 For H of Representative*. Barnwell, April 25. 1930, I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Representative in the Genera) Assembly from Barn well County, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. R. C. HOLMAN. MONEY TO LOAN Loons made same day No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT Attorneys-at-Law BarnwelL S. C. LONG TERM MONEY to LEND 6 per cent interest on large amounts' Private funds for small loans. BROWN & BUSH BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. ®: TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE The Coaxty Treasurer's office will be open from September 15th, 1929, to May 1st, 1990. for collecting 1929 taxes, which include real and personal property, poll and road tax. All taxes due ard payable between September ISth aad December list, 1929. wffl bo collected without penalty. AU taxes not paid aa stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law: January 1st to May 1st, 1990, one per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed la the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter May 1st, 1930. When wrttirg 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. DIVIDENDS Safety and Y’ield Start EARNING 6 Per Cent. TODAY $6 PREFERRED STOCK Price $100 (Ac. Div.) per share Cash or Terms Checks Mailed Quarterly South Carolina Power Co. Ask any employee or write Investment Department Charleston, S. C. 3 3 00 Ordinary County 111 • s rw «, i! 03 * e i a T3 C 44 m m 0. s 0 • ««• £ <5 1 1 4 1 75 I 09 No. 24—Ashleigh & 10 1 12 1 8 4 12 47 No. 23—Barbary Branch • 5 10 12 1 3 4 30 65 No. 45—Barnwell ... 5 10 12 ! i 3 4 29 i 54 No. 4—Big Fork 5 10 it i ’ 3 4 18 53 No. 19—Blackville 5 i 10 12 ! i 3 4 31 66 No. 35—Cedar Grove ... 5 10 12 ^ i 3 4 28 j 63 No. 50—Diamond 5 10 12 ; i 3 4 14 49 No. 20—Double Pond 5 10 12 1 i 3 4 19 54 No. 12—Dunbarton 5 10 12 1 i 3 4 27 62 No. 21—Ed is to 5 10 12 i 3 4 9 44 No. 28—Elko 5 10 12 i 3 4 30 65 No. 53—Ellenton 5 ' 10 1 12 i 3 4 11 46 No. 11—Four Mile —... 5 10 1 12 i 3 4 14 49 No. 39—Friendship 5 10 i !2 i 3 4 14 49 No. 16—Green's 5 10 12 i 3 4 20 55 No. 10—Healing Springs. 5 10 12 3 4 ’ 20 55 No. 23—Hercules 5 10 12 i 3 4 27 62 No. 9—Hilda ... 5 10 12 i 3 4 35 70 . No. 52—Joyce Branch __ . 5 10 12 V k 3 4 26 61 No. 34—Kline 5 10 12 1 3 4 18 53 No. 32—Lee’s 5 10 12 1 3 4 10 45 No. 8—Long Branch 5 10 12 1 3 4 17 52 No. 54—Meyer’s Mill 5 10 12 1 3 4 26 61 No. 42—Morris 5 10 12 1 3 4 14 49 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-r—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 5 10 12 1 3 4 i 16 1 51 No. 15—Reedy Branch . 5 10 12 1 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 6£, No. 26—Upper Richland _ 5 10 12 1 3 4 26 ef No. 29—Williston 5 10 12 1 3 4 32 67 "After all." ha said, "the only Stickler for Fairasas Ha declared that a man could kits a girl whetber aha wlllad it ar not, whila sha maintained that It couldn't be dona. Finally they decided the aaly way to sattia the argument waa by ax* perlman ting. i wow after a brief the girt ardently ter Than ha I My rn u Ask Your Soldier Boy How "Cooties' Got Sack a Hold. Hall tall yon that the battlefronts of Europe were swarming with rata, which carried the dangerous vermin and caused our men misery. Don't let rate bring disease into your home. Whan you see the first one, get RAT- SNAP. That will finish them quick, i, 9fic, fife, ILfift. Sold hy Tha Boot The commutation road tax of 13.00 must b« paid by all male dtizena between tbe age* of 21 and 65 yean. All male citizen, between the age. of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of f 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 fee that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act, Chocks will not be accepted for taxes under any drcumataaeea ex cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The Court, Timaurtr him i m tho right to held all receipts paid by cheek until said checks ka.e bee. uaidA wtn hi t 4 J. Je