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JOHN W. HOLMES 1S4S—191X Bw P. DAVIES, Editor aid Proprietor. Eotored at the poet office at Barnwell S. C., aa second-data matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jm Year SUO Six Months JO Three Months ... ,60 (Strictly In Adrance.) THURSDAY, MAY 22ND, 1930. And Governor Richards joins that little band of famous men who “do not chose to run.” “ ‘Daily Dozen' Has Some Bad Points,” says a headline. Yeah, about twelve of 'em. With the State Convention out of the Way, watch the boys hop into the political pond. the the pauper competition of Enrope Ip Impertinf Euro pens pauper B In d revet to press down American wafee. Thus the American Industrialist is forced to a more fenerous division with his organised workers, and they, dwelling in the cities, have come to dwell in Easy Street, enjoying high standards of living in contrast with the wheat grower and the cotton grower. All these years the protectionist has held a gun in the face of the farmer with one hand and gone through his pockets with the other. The debenture plan is a knife in the farmer's bootleg and he threatens to get it out and stab with it. The Democrats in Congress should vote for the debenture plan, vote for it to the last ditch, vote for it till the cows come home. |t is bad, thorough- ly bad—and much better than protec tion to which it is the answer.—The News and Courier. B* U da wttfc Mi md death aiacv the lari count. Mont places seam to ha interasted only in the quantity rather than the quality of their dtiaenship. What will worry seme of our towns will not be ao much the decrease in population as the increase of jobless men. It looks like it would be much cer to have a village with 1,000 working men and women rather than 500 folks with positions and 500 loaf- era. * We could have had several thousand more people for Uncle Sam to count if we had taken in more territory. Where you find that certain cities ’practically doubled in population with in the past 10 years, just look about and see how much of the country they have absorbed with the corporate lim it line. Success is a fickle thing. No, this isn't a new thought of ours, but a picture of Stribling, the prize fighter, in Sunday’s issue of Tip? Atlanta Journal, brought it to mind. A few years ago, when the Georgia boy was barnstorming the country and seem ed to be a contender for the heavy weight crown, the Atlanta papers and news dispatches from that city al ways referred to him as “of Atlanta." The brief line under his picture in Sunday’s paper gave Macon as his place of residence. The Gun and the Knife. The so-called “export debenture plan" ia of course unsound, but it is quite as sound as protective tariff duties are. If it is indefensible as a fiscal measure, so are all measures of “protection." Its design i 8 to miti gate the injustice, the dishonesty of protection, and inasmuch as it scarce ly promises to place the farmers pro discing commodifies that cannot he wholly consumed in the United States on even terms with the manufactur -era, it is in that degree of superior v morality to protective duties. With the debenture granted the farmers would still have less than their due. No man unwilling to blind his eyes to the dictates of what we call com mon honesty can protest against a plan that would tend to equalise the benefits of protection, that would dis tribute among producers of cotton and wheat a part of the sum of the pro fits which protective laws bring to the United States As long as a tariff on sugar or on farming implements shall compel an American wheat grower to pay two price* in pounds of wheat to the sugar planter or the manufacturer »ny plan that would make restitution to the wheat grower is sound in morals The opposition of the protectionists to 'the debenture plan is natural, in evitable. for the moment that protec tion ceases to be unfair, to be discrim inatory against the majority of the American people, it ceases to be of value to its benefit iaries. If the price of wheat should rise considerably, a« it would weie the debenture plan adopted, the price of bread would rise in the cities where the hoes and the harvesters are manu factured, and that would compel the manufacturer* to raise wages. There is a limit beyond which they could not snise prices without *>hrinking con sumption. Obviously the debenture plan is de structive of the whole theory of pro tection, striking at the heart of it. The real and sole objection to it is a franker form of robbing the taxpayer than protection is. It is not hypocritical, not adroit, not a filching and pickpocketing method of rifling producers of their earned wealth, as protection is. It cannot have its malign counte nance painted over with the deception of catch phrases, as “protection of American labor from the pauper com- qietition of Europe" and “protection of our infant industries." There is not one argument against H that does not apply with greater force to the whole protection theory and practice. It frankly exposes the subtleties of the protectionists, calling upon them, if their claim that they are makers wf prosperity is true, to distribute the prosperity among all the people. ft will be opposed not only by the employing protectionists but by their employees and all those who draw wages and salaries directly or indi- tartly from andHhrough the protected istriet. heee employees live in the cities, are organised. Restrictions on have given them hi the decade a genuine protection which ‘par e^joyad before. Manafae- allowed to cancel Nobody’s Business What Next? This year has run mighty bad so far. First, we had parrot fever in our midst. Second, jake paralysis broke out in 26 different sections of our community. Third, some of our pret tiest girls put on dresses that all but drag the ground. Fourth, politics have busted loose in many places— and the worst of these is politics. Some Florida towns did not even get a chance to be numbered among those present. Villa Hites had a pop ulation of Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their 7 children in 19 and 20, but in 19 and 26, according to the real estate advertisements, «he had 1,899 souls within her environment, but the cen sus man knocked on several doors in that town the other day, and nary a guy did he have the pleasure of writ ing down. (otton Letter. New York, May 17.—In sympathy with Muscle Shoals, #pots sold off to a new low on the opening and it look ed like rain in Texas. Boll weevil emergence was entirely up to expecta tion* and the bears predict fewer of them as the tariff on wash tags is boosted. Southern selling was in evi dence by the straddlers who jumped from July to October, but the longs hung on to the shorts and hedged. The Farm Relief Board went into execu tive session last week at 2 o'clock and have not been heard from since: Wall street is wondering whether it is bridge or poker or “clips" or home brew. Anyway—futures will decline a< usual when they come out. We ad vise poke sailet and com bread until we can pay cash. A Tromised Miracle. A «mart guy who runs a collecting agency in Chicago came to see me the other day and guaranteed to collect 50 pet cent of all bills placed in his hands. I gave him the following accounts; Bill Smuts, who is on the chain gang. John Dow, who in jail. Pete Rowe, who has jake paralysis. Ellick Catt, who is in the asylum. Kattie Keels, who is dead. He’s out hunting the 7 fellows that have been dodging their creditors since they bought Fords in 19 and 27. The rest of the account* are lost, like the folks who owe them. 1 wished him luck. Vacation Time. fiat rock, s. C., may the 22, 1930. deer mr. editor:— it will soon be time for the poor folks to begin to plan for a vacation to the mountains and the sea shores an- soforth. thehy usually start by stop ping paying their grocery bills along about may the 1, and they get too sick to go to church *o's they can save the nickle the preacher has the habit of getting enduring the summer, and they allso send off for pamfiets telling about the sights and cool breezes, and by june the 20, they have enough mon- ney to buy gas and oil with. The Morgue. I went out and took a look at the Auto Salvage Company’s junk yard the ether day. These folks have a very, very large collection of d&*repit cais. I saw Mr. Brown’s little Sh-acre farm over in one corner with nnly 2 wheels and part of the body intact. Mr. Smith’s little bungalow was al most unrecognizable ,but I knew it from the fancy radiator it had. It was no trouble to locate neighbor Green’s 7 vacant lojs. The windshield J looked O. K. Away over toward the j back-sale of the junk pile, I discovered Mr. Redd’s character, and right by its side was Miss Pinky Knight’s reputa tion, both gone, but the paint was fairly good on the chassis—of both cars which Mr. Redd bought on credit. And then there were lots of other mis fortune in that heap of dissipated wealth and honor. but mr. editor, i am riting this peace to tell the folk* who hafter pay ca«h for everything they get including the doctor and the milk man how they might avoid a vacation and be a* hap py a* if they was off from home, of course, me and my wife have plenty monney to go to cuby and cally forny both if we wanted to, hut we prefer to do as we have been doing for the past 10 year and save the difference. After we see all of our nabors crank up and pull out for a vacation, we start on our’n. we move into the com pany room and take the sorriest mat tress we can get and put it on the bed ins ted of the fether bed and then cut dowm on ham and eggs and change our diet a s followers: grits and store- bought butter and weak coffee for breakfast; sanimon balls and rice and poke sailet for dinner; and grits and light bred and gravy and watter for supper. A Lick at Prohibition. At its last session, the South Caro lina General Ass-sembly put a 75 per cent ad valorem stamp tax on Malt for making home brew. It is very evi dent from this that the legislators that did this mean thing intend to stick to corn licker and avoid the penalty. Over ten per cent of them had not had a single drink in 30 minutes when this statute was born. Let Mo See Your Census. Gaffburg is terribly hurt because the census showed that her population decreased .01 per cent during the past 10 yean. That’s right though: I re member when old man Smith died in the summer of 19 and 25. It has been pretty hard for a great many towns to show any gains with jake paralysis, birth control, parrot fever, Ford# and Cherroku haring ao after the last meal, me and my wife go out into the front yard and set in the swinging settee and brag on the cool wind which seems to be blowing, we retire and go to bed about 10 pm but don’t leave no watter in the watter pitcher on the wash stand and we all so see that there ain’t but 1 towel in the front room and that the 2 cheers is straight backs and rough on the boddy. we talk a while befoar going to sleep and worry about folks who ain’t able to take a vacation ansoforth. we keep this up for 10 days and then my old lady gives ine 25$ and i give her 25$ and we pack up and tell ev- errybody good bye including my gram- paw and my wife’s grampaw and her 2 unclet who fought in the war and her 8 sisters and her family doctor when she was little, all hanging on the waD, and then we move back into our regular room to * gam mence to oat stuff that ia aid went lay heavy oa join yon can print this if you to and It might prove a lesson to folk s whe can't do no better with out outside help. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. Puzzle: If the dresses are 8 inches longer, but 25 per cent thinner, why should anybody worry about anything —except high-powered specs—and if a jaybird can fly 92 yards per second, how many holes are there in a salt cellar ? It is fine for the government to tab ulate us every now and then. But if Mr. Hoover had thought to ask the census takers to find out what the fi nancial status of each individual was, these would be the answers: Own your home? No. Own a car? Yes. Is it mortgaged? Yes. Bank account? No. Working regularly ? Occasional ly. Radio? Yes. Do you want a home? No. Why? Taxes. Evidently Chinese Boy Hus No Use for 'Phone Telephone service in Shanghai, with the subscribers talking half a dozen languages and the operators all Chi nese, has been the target of complaint. The latest voice raised is that of a Chinese youth, the operator of a pri vate switchboard in a foreign firm. He stated. In that peculiar phraseology known only to his kind, as follows: “For long time now this telephone no good and everybody fight me. This not my fault. I proper boy, but tele phone make everybody angry and everybody fight everybody else. Pretty soon all Shanghai fight and telephone fault. This no proper. My Sunday school say must love everybody. How can I love everybody when everybody fight me because telephone no work. I think house boy job more better. But every house have telephone and every body fight me again. How I get away from telephone? I work in shop, have telephone; I go to school, have telephone; everybody have telephone, •o fashion everybody fight. More proper I think have telephone all fin ish. May l>e you have friend who no have telephone and wanchee house boy, you tell me. I go. No more tele phone, 1 very happy.’* There are 14 other reasons why our town did not show a greater increase, vis: Mr. Bott< and his family moved away.« But we certainly counted ev- eiybody that stood still long enough to be counted. We didn't want anoth er burg to beat us and we rejoiced ex ceedingly when Billvtlie fell off 653. But Billville claim*\that she got rid of all of her undesirables and dead beats, and that’s something to crow about if you didn’t but know it. In looking ov er my hooka, I can pick out some of Billville’* ex-populatiqp. Popular Weather Signa Decried by Forecaster ‘There’s a lot of pagan auperstltlon aboiit many of the weather signs that people like to believe in,” said a wfath er forecaster recently. ‘There are a aoore of rural sayings, esperinlly when winter la coming on. as to how severe It will he. The groundhog fa credited with miraculous vision. Such Idea* go l»ack for centuries. “Lntmof people l>elle\e that the |m»- alt Ion of the new moon la a sure fore teller of weather. The saying la that If the new moon ntunda upright, the thin crescent in a vertiml |M>*ltlon. the weather will he dry for the greater part of the coming namth. On the other hand. If the new moon recline* on Ita hack. In the shu|>e of a shallow cup. that means a mouth of rainy weather. “All the pioneers In this country flnuljr believed that, and out iu the country districts you will find many people today who are equally credo lous. Unfortunately, the idea lias no basis In fai*t. Weather bureau rec ortls. If examined, will cmnpletely dls irove any such ideas.*’—New York un. I “Itching Palm'* It take* a lot of |»eople to make h world. And people of all •orts. In all walks of life, unfortunately are said to be possessed of Itching palms—that la, hands ever ready to receive a bribe. That this ia not u distinctively mod ern tendency la indicated by the fart that even in Shakeaiieare's day It was a symptom well known—if we are to Judge from the ntiml»er of recorded in stances, one of which la in the bard's own Julius Caesar, 4. The phrase itself is an allusion to the superstition that an itching hand is a forerunner of the receipt of money. —Kansas City Times. Cow 28 Years Old Gothenburg, Sweden.—A cow twen- ty-eight years old, believed to be the oldest In Sweden, is living contented ly on a farm In the western province of Hallund. Considering that cows rarely reach more than twelve to four teen years of age, this venerable “bos- sle" seems to have broken all Swedish records for longevity'. Advocate Color in Soccer London.—-A plea for brighter soccer Is made by a group of London fans, who note that no team has selected dark brown as its color because it is not easily picked out, and therefore suggest that the football itself should be painted green, yellow or red. Hen Works Overtime Woburn, Mass.—A Rhode Island Red hen owned by Mrs. Frank L. Hawkes recently laid an egg nine inches long and seven and one-half inches in cir cumference. Inside the shell was a normal sized egg, shell and all, and an extra yolk. !! If • Illegal to Wear Sweetie’f Frat Pin Madison, Wls.—Scores of co eds at the University of Wlscon- ► sin face fines and Jail sentences \ for wearing the boy frleod’a ; fraternity pin. A state law, nearly fifty years old, forbids any person to wear the badge ; er etber insignia of a fraternal, social, or service organisation te which that o o o o o GOOD FARM PRACTKCS REDUCE WEEVIL LOSS Qoee spacing of cotton combined with the judicious use of fertilizer Is helping thousands of farmers to out smart the boll weevil. These two practices make it possible to hurry the development of a large number of bolls so that they are out of dan ger when the weevil begins to do its worst damage. Where weevil infestation is heavy it is always difficult to mature the bolls on the upper half of the stalks. Experiments have shown, however, that a full crop of cotton may still be grown by spacing the stalk^ closer and by leaving two stalks per hill in stead of one. An abundance of plant food in necessary to form and develop the bolls on the two stalks In half the time as was formerly required to ma ture the same number of bolls on one stalk. The best way to supply this food is to side-dress with quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer at the first or sec ond cultivation after chopping. The extra plant food speeds up the forma tion of squares and the development of bolls before the heavy weevil at tack begins. Although the weevil will likely destroy the bolls at the top of the stalk the large bolls at the bot tom, set early in the season, are safe ly out of danger. The side-dressing is applied 35 to 40 days after planting or at about chopping time. The common applica tion is 100 to 200 pounds of ChPean nitrate of soda per acre. The nUftta dissolves in the soil just like sugar and is absorbed at once through the roots of the plant. Candidates’ Cards For Coogreea. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection to Congress from the 2nd District of South Caro lina, pledging myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. BUTLER B. HARE. For House of Representatives. Healing Springs, S. C., 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. Advic* Worth the Money A novice who. deciding at last to Ignore his friends' advice aud to try and make his fortune on the race course. answered a tipster’s adver tisement which ran: “Horses to follow, horses to watch, and horses to avoid. 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WINCHESTER C. SMITH, JR. For Magistrate, Red Oak Township. Snelling, May 14, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate, Red Oak Township, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulation* of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. J. ALLEN HILL. Nine-Tenth* Prevent ibl* Nine-tenths of all the diseasm of tlx* American people can be traced directly to oooaUpaUon. doctors aav. CoosUpa- tioo throws into the system which taint and of the body and make them eeev victims for any germs which attack them. Prevent conetipation and you will avoid nine-tenths of all dweasm, with their consequent pain and 6- nanrial losses. Herhme. the good old v'vsUbfc cathartic, will prevent con stipation in a natural, easy and pleasant way. Get a buttle today from R. A. Dea-on. Barnwell, S. C. Epps’ Pharmacy, Blackville, S. C. For Sale I have gcod Hay and Oats for sale here at $20.00 per ton and Com at $1.00 per bushel. D. A. DYCHES Hilda, S. 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