Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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e*. .> W> r '- JOBE V. SOLEESs — MB-MU. & P. DAT». EEtor Ml Fm ^dmil at tha pwl rfffes ot Barawen S. (X aa sermid Haw matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATH X. Y*»r Six Months . «%MD Monthfl Is .sijo - J0 __ JO (Strictly In Advanea.) THURSDAY, MAY 1STH, 1930. Som^thinf New. Here's something new under the sun. tn these days of ever-increasing taxes, Sumter officials announce that the surplus in that oounty’g treasury is such as to allow a reduction of 25 mills in taxes. Barnwell County of ficials state that there will probably be a reduction of 12 mills in this county next year, thanks to the road bond issue, which will relieve the taxpayers of that part of the burden. Slaughtering Fish. The Marion Star calls attention to the wanton slaughter of game fish in the streams of the Eastern part of South Carolina. For several years high water has prevailed in that •action and the fish have multiplied greatly. This spring the water has been quite low and thousands of fish have been and are being caught. The Star advocates State control of fish ing in order to conserve the-supply and The News and Courier applauds the idea, the latter newspaper calling attention to the rapid depletion of fish in the streams of lower South Caro lina. The writer was told that one day last week three fishermen caught S16 large perch from a lake in Little Jaltkehatchie Swamp, and he and two others probably exceeded what would be a reasonable limit for one day’s fishing. Sunday’s issue of The State showed a picture of Governor Rich ards with a large string of fish—kome 10 pound*, we believe—that the chief executive had caught in one after noon. With the governor of the State netting such an example, what can be of the rest of us? The the fish are protected, the bet Hai Under the terms of a retolufiqp 'adopted by the Hampton County Con- ' vention, the voters of that county will have ■n opportunity this summer of expressing their view* on the pro- •hibition question. The resolution pro vides that the question, M Do you fsvor the repeal of the 18th amendment to the Constitution of the United States of North America?” be printed on the primary ballots, and if it be found that this cannot be done under the rules of the Democratic Party that the delegates to the State Convention ' which meets in Columbia next W’ed- nesday get authority from that body to have same done or to print the ques tion on separate ballots and provide additional boxes for them at each poll ing place in the county. The outcome of such a referendum in each oounty would prove both in teresting and enlightening iri view of the apparently growing sentiment against the bcand of prohibition that the people are now enjoying. A decade of national prohibition has haen a woeful failure in the minds of many thinking people. Graft and 'Corruption have honey-combed the body politic and it seems that only faeble attempts are being made to anforca the Law. Millions of dollars are being fpent in the attempt and other millions are being lost in revenue. If prohibition were an un qualified success it would be worth the price we are paying—every penny of it—but it cannot succeed unless 'and until it has the support of a safe majority of the people of the country. No one, unless he be blind or foolish, believes for a minute that the law is strictly enforced in South Carolina. As Senator George D. Kirkland said in the Allendale County Convention, 41 We would like to see if people vote like they drink." > the mosey to tjmd hi aider to (or hay) the offices mast aspect • retsurn aa their teveet- in the way of graft bq) by perpetuating the high protective tariff and other principlaa of the Republi can party that eo favor big business at the expense of the rank and (He of the American citisens. Over in England an expenditure of more than a set sum by tlye candidate or his agent deprives thp candidate of the right to office. One or two of our Western States have begun tentatively to legislate on the theory that the whole process concerned with elec tions is a public function and must be paid for by the State alone. Dr. A. B. Patterson, 1 of Barnwell, shares similar views, contending that the entire cost should be borne by the State or counties, with a wide-'pen field for entries. The only objection to that plan in these parts would be that everyone would be a candidate for some office and nobody would be left to vote. But, on the other hand, as office-holders seem to be °.bout the best-off people in the country today, if everybody could elect him«elf or herself to a public job, poverty would be banished, Hoover prosperity to the contrary notwithstanding. In that case, the plan would be worth trying. Rule 32 Again. According to The News and Courier and The Columbia Record, the reten tion or abolition of Rule 32 of the Democratic party in South Carolina seems to be a case of "you can and you can’t, you will and you won’t, you’ll be damned if you do and youll be damned of you don’t.” Our Char lesion contemporary is of the opinion that white political supremacy in thr* State is largely dependent upon keep ing the rule intact, while our Colum bis friend thinks that the preserva tion of the Democratic party i s en tirely dependent upon the modifica tion of the rule. The People-Sentinel agrees with The News and Courier. Two year* ago, when sn effort was made to change or mpdify the rule because of the probable nomination of Alfred E. Smith for President, we favored the retention of the rule as it was (and still is), and we can see no good rea son to change our viewpoint now Rule 32 requires every voter who participate! in the Democratic pri mary elections to "support the nominees of the party. State and National." There are some who ob ject to the oath because it also binds them to support the Presidential and Vice-Pmridential candidates and would change the oath so as to read "to support the nominees of this pri mary.” Under present methods. South Carolina voters do not vote in a primary for candidates for President • nd Vice-Preesident, but they do vote for nominees for the United States Senate and Hou'e of Representatives, which are national offices. But if the rule or law were so I amended as to require a Presidential primary, the voters of South Caroli na would not be bound under the new W Outstanding Features of the New Fsr» New streamline bodies. Choice of attnethre colors. Adjustable front seats in most bodies. Folly enclosed, silent fomvwheel brakes. Foot HondaiHe double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers. Bright, enduring Rustless Steel for many exterior metal parts. Chrome sdicon alloy calves. Aluminum pistons. Chrome alloy- transmission gears and shafts. Torque-tube drive. Three-quarter floating rear axle. Extensive use of fine steel forgings and electric welding. More than twenty ball and roller bearings. Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield. ( .... • * • - / • L*' ' • • ' • v 1 N Five steel-spoke wheels. 55 to 65 miles an honr. Quick acceleration. Low first cost. Economy of operation. Reliability and long life. Good dealer of control. THE NEW FOBD TUDOB S KD AN S4SS CoavDTtiblc CiSHrIrI IMS SwUnMS Town Sedan • • UTS Ford Motor Company ertnee in th« matter of voting fo- Presidential nominee, end the rules under which the primaries are now conducted were adopted as the most efficient method of guaranteeing a continuation of that supremacy. If there be a choice between retaining Rule 32 a s it now stands in the effort to retain white supremacy in politics and the threatened formation of an other party in this State because some voters wish to be free and un trammeled in voting in the general pendent in national affairs. Let those who advocate any change or modification look carefully before they leap. oath to support the party nominee election for President and Vice-Presi- unless he happened to be the man dent, then we favor retaining the rule who received a majority or plurality unchanged. Under the present scheme of the ballots cast in the primary in of things the Democratic party in this State. We "can’t have our cake South Carolina cannot be a hybrid and eat it too,” and we can’t play any organization—Democratic in local and game with the idea that we can abide State politics and Republican or Inde- by those rule* only that t?uit us. It would be inconsistent to change the rule so as to allow the voter to sast his ballot in the general election for a candidate for President other than the regular Democratic nominee, while requiring him to vote for the party nominees for Congress (includ ing Senators and Representatives), no matter how repugnant the latter might be, both persenally and politi cally. In other words, the voters of South Carolina might not favor the Democratic Presidential nominee be cause he was an avowed "wet." Un less bound by an oath, they would be free to cast their ballots against him. On the other hand, the party nominees for the Senate and Hoii«e might also Judging from the number of chat tel mortgages being tecorded in the court house from day to day., the sale of automobiles and radios is up to normal, but it is still difficult to buy fertilizer and liver pills on credit. ticity-equiniraity. Mother’s Day at Baptist Church. A special Mother’s Day service was held Sunday morning in the Barnwell Baptist Church. An excellent pro gram was arranged for the occasion and Dr. W. M. Jones preached a splendid sermon. New Pea Grown. If the democrats don’t quit watching the republicans so close, and step talk ing so much about them and their mis cellaneous practices, it will soon be impossible to buy a postmasterrhip that’s worth having at any price at all. I have been expecting Wall street to list public offices on the stock ex change, but so far, all trades of this nature have ben of a private sort. garden pea has fqund its way to this section. This vegetable, which is be "wets" and yet the voters would known in other parts of the country have to vote for them under the pro-' but is strange here, is the salad pea, posed change, which would bind them | which is very much like the English to support the nominee of "this pri- pea, but instead of being hulled is Cooton Letter. New York, April 12.—A private re port from Shanghai a-serts that the cotton acreage in the United States for 19 and 30 will be 46,777,888 acres, counting patches behind the barm as square miles and school districts as townships. The Shah of Perm thinks the boll weevil activity in the nearby months will offset any gain that fut- aha-j i a e ures might show when spots reach a Allendale, May 10.—A new type of ^ , j g3S£^w!ugher level than wool and rayon and The High Cost of Politic*. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, iter of the late Mark Hanna, admits having apent more a quarter at a million dollars of own money in her successful race the Republican nomination for the hi BHaoie. Her defeated admitted mary,” meaning the regular Demo cratic primary election under which we now select our officials, from the United States Senate pn down to the more or less lowly office of Magis trate. To require the voters to sup port only a part of the ticket while leaving them to exercise their indivi dual choice in the general election ae to the others, simply because those others were not their choice in the primary in which they participated, ^“ State snapped and cooked in the hulls. This vegetable was grown by Mrs. George Deer at Sycamore and is be ing offered for sale by local mer chants. spider webs. Southern selling was in evidence near the close—due to a falling off of fertilizer sales in the in terior and too much sitting down on the posterior. We advise hedging and shallow plowing during July. Methodist Revival Closes. . Who’s Gat My Hat? I kept batch for 6 days a few weeks ago while the old lady was off attend ing a Missionary meeting for the pur pose of trying to get little Wing Foo and Wun Lung te change their way of The series of revival services, which living. I didn't know before that there began April 29th in the Barnwell were so many secret hiding places in Methodist Church, came to a close our house for my things. I never Sunday evening. Dr. E. P. Taylor found a clean colter or an ironed shirt preached strong sermons throughout or a night-shirt or a pair of fresh sox or my hex of pills or the Milk of Mag- or my Notice of Appeal. The lowly ant uses better judgment than the average human being. Last fall—the ant gathered his crop of seeds and vegetables and stored them in his den and prepared against a hard winter. Mr. Man gathered his crop and sold it and bought an automo bile and depended on the cold, cold world to help feed his family dur ing the cold, cold winter. If the poor man ever gets to the point where he will be better satisfied with a cow parked in the pasture than with a lizzie parked under the shed, then hig day-dreams might come true. It doesn’t matter much whether we make or earn more than a good living: if ye find that we have a few extra dollars, we spend it for things we can do without or for machinery we do not n ** d - ’ i ft iiifl The south today needs worse than anything else a spirit of thrift and economy to spread itself over its citi zenship. The tenant class will never do any good until it gets to the place where it will be able and willing to buy its own pills and fat-backs rather than depend on its busted landlords to do those things for it. A fellow came to our place the other day and bought a small sack of flour for his wife and children to usfe, and then )ie bdbght 6 dollars worth of corn meal to feed his dogs on . This farmer claimed to be the own er of 9 fine fox, rabbit, bird, coon and possum dogs. There isn't a fox in 30 miles of this place; the rabbits all have tuluramae; it's against the law to shoot birds except ^Thanksgiving day; the coon population of that man's school district is 2; and he could swap the feed the dogs devour in 4 days for aH the possums that bunch of dogs will ever smell, yet—he kicks about high tmxe s and cusses the banks because they wont let him have mon ey to mile dogs and cotton with. get so hard that a tees of for 25 cents a quart, and 10 per cent, of the filling stations will go out of business, and parking apace will be plentiful on our streets—then, and not tell then, should the country worry over its financial condition. Candidates’ Cards For Congress. I hereby announce myself as -candidate for reelection to Congn from the 2nd District of South Car? lina, pledging myself to abide by the v ^ results of the Democratic primary. BUTLER B. HARE. , For House of Representatives. Healing Springs, S. C. r May 5,1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives from Barnwell Coun ty, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary election and to sup port the nominees of the party. D. W. HECKLE. Barnwell, April 25, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Representative in the General 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. Williston, May 14, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Representative in the General Assembly from Barn well County, pledging my«elf to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. WINCHESTER C. SMITH, JR. For Magistrate, Red Oak Township, jrt * Snelling, May 14, 1930. "tef I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of •Magistrate. 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