The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 22, 1930, Image 4
JOHN W. HOLMES
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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
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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. Send $•*» for the
best and soundest advice.**
The money wns sent and In due
course the cianl and sound advice was
re«-ei\cd. It ran:
“Horses to follow, henrse horses;
horse* to watch, hotiby horwea;
hor*es to avoid, racehorses.**—Kz-
change.
H«'a • G. A. R. RaguUrt
Cleveland.—Ulay tlsbcme, ninety, of
Clark comity. Ohio, has attended every
national reunion of the Grand Army of
the Republic.
ADVERTISE in Tne People-Sentinel
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 myself 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.
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. C.
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Excursion Fares
WASHINGTON, D. C.
THURSDAY, MAY 29th, 1930.
A fine opportunity to visit; the Nation’s Capital. Wonderful parks,
Washington Monument, Library of Congress, Zoological Park, Lincoln
Memorial, National Musieum and Mount Vernon,
Big League Baseball
Philadelphia (Athletics) vs. Washinton (Senators) June 1st.
Round Trip Fares:
Barnwell $16.50 Blackville $15.00
~ Date* of Sale and Fjnal Limit: «
Going: Tickets will be sold to be good on all regular trains (Except
Creacent Limited) Thursday, May 29th, 1930;
Returning: Tickets will be good on all regular trains (except Crescent
Liminted) so as to reach original starting point prior to midnight of Tues
day, June 3rd, 1980.
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