The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, August 14, 1930, Image 2
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and Lxport Dutiea.
■kla(to«.—Aoatrtiu h*« iwcMilly
t nrw ttrlff law wblrh has
features. It rmkare duties on
tj products shipped from ths Unit*
Wi Ststsa, and It prohibits ths Impor
tation of numerous articles except by
written consent. Ths objects of the
new legislation are stated to be re*
auction of unemployment, stimulation
wf manufacture In Auatralla by branch
ftetorles under foreign ownership, and
•Utilization of the exchange rates.
"Australia's new tariff law, coming
ml the time of a revlsldff of tariffs at
boms, arouses interest in the origin
wf tariff systems and their develop*
IMBt In various countries,** says a bul-
lutU from ths National Geographic
wodety.
"No one knows when or where the
first tariff was Imposed or the first cua*
toms duties collected. The collection
wf a toll or duty from goods brought
i lute a city or a country became impor-
daat with ths dsvelopment of trade
to a considerable volume. Although
Babylon, one of the earliest civiliza
tions of which we have a record, had
• highly organized social system with
a minute code of laws relating to
•soda leases, mortgages, taxation, and
tbs Ilka It Is not known whst part
played In ths sffalrs of the
•ramsnt. A cosntry's revenue in
se days was chiefly from s tithe of
live stock and crops of Its cltlieoa
0 re see Kxsotsd Duties.
When Greece held the meet Impor*
t place Is tbs world, defies sa rom-
movlag la trade had reme te
DAD'S QUEER WILL
ft
lies rrsarfero.—Ao i
$160,000 sod remarried
took the
divorced
As a denoutoem to ths spectacular
affaire of Dr. and Mrs. ftoderic O'Con
nor of Oakland, the divorced couple
re-entered the marital state In Ksno.
The prominent Oakland physician
was divorced by his wife, the former
Gertrude Gould, last December. In
Keno. She charged him with fault
finding and nagging.
In January Mrs. O’Connor appeared
fn Superior court and asked that the
“divorce clause” in her fpthejr’s,.will,
be fulfilled. ‘
This will r:ade by the late Charles
B. Gould, former president of the Cali
fornia fish and game commission, pro
vided that tils daughter should receive
only tbe Income from a $160,000 trust
fund.
If she were widowed or divorced,
however, she was to receive the $100,-
000 principal immediately. She got
the money by order of Superior Judge
Lincoln S. Church.
Shortly thereafter persistent ru
mors were current among friends of
the couple that they were ahortly to
remarry. Both denied this, admitting
that they were “close friends” but no
more.
The wedding ceremony recently wss
performed by Rev. Brewster Adtms,
Keno Baptist minister.
The couple bsvs one dsughter. who
Inherited $90,000 from Gould's eststsi
Birmingham It Still
Bathful About Limb#
Birmingham Kogtsnd.—To Brest of
tbe world s leg. whether It is shssthsd
ta silk or wrere s garter around Its
calf, is merely sorest blag te get sores
*et re ts
fsihs here rest
st their
A few t rere
tee. whist eef
•is reeled t
that even thee
heeetf. It ted
ago the Watch
••re tree the rity s
gt s leg ere s thing eg
s trees* a (lag
u i cuns rauR
UNO and to nus
Will SMk Control of Byrd i
Antarctic DiacororiM.
WnshlagtofL—Tb# Unltsri States Is
punning to lay claim not only to ths
Bryd discoveries In tbe Antarctic but
to various Islands In ths Arctic and
to establish ownership to some fifty
Islands In the Caribbean and the
South seas.
While It was stated that the Arctic
and Antarctic wastes are of little
value or concern to the United States,
this country would claim certain por
tions by right of discovery. Senator
Tydlngs (D.) of Maryland has a reso
lution to this effect pending In the
senate.
Holds Rights in Islands.
About the Islands In the Caribbean
little la known, and the State depart
ment la to name a commission to
make a study to establish ownership.
Some of them are inhabited and of
considerable value as coaling bases.
Others are barren and little more
than coral reefs. There are also is
lands In the South sea group which
American mariners of former days
laid claim to, but which have never
been placed under the American flag.
An Interesting Instance Is the Island
of Roncador, off the coast of Colom
bia. Two years ago it was discovered
that the United States was the right
ful owner. It developed, however,
that it was populated almost entirely
by Colombians. Although ths United
States established Its ownsrshlp. Co
lombia waa permitted under a treaty
to retain Us trading station there sot
tbe United States limited Its rights te
erecting s lighthouse for tbe safety of
navigation
There are several such islands la
the Recite and tbe Atlantic adjacent
t# tbe entrance of tbe Panama canal
ant tbe entrance of tbo propooed
Nicaraguan canal, which (star may be-
ceres st great strategic vales.
The Usttsd States archives. It was
seated, rentals many claims sf dtecev-
ariosi and they are te hs carefully
stetreg with a view te tjteg the
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per rees te pri-e
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*a path te the heat, hreh
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$
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nut this tire# Marre Pete travel
I Ortas, found that dities were
there la the reelm of tbe
Khaa He found duties collect-
city boundaries as well at at
il frontiers. These duties
ranged from X 13 to 10 per cent.
•In medieval Europe, tariffs became
a nightmare to ttruggllnf traders. Kv-
. rery petty prince and feudal lord set
up bis toll gates and custom houses
wad took a share of the merchant's
rears*. After the feudal kings took
-ever the barons' privileges there was
m uresuresnt sway from ths collection
uf duties In every small area; but
progress was slow, and la some coun
tries. such as France and Germany,
provincial customs continued to 'be
levied. Even cities took toll from en
tering goods. The local taxes of Paris
wre survivals of this custom."
* ,
Costly Criticism
\ T&iU Gauguin whs staying at Pont-
Bvea, in Brittany. In the summer of
1880, and painted there his famous
portrait of “Le Belle Angela.” La
He&e Angele, wife of Satre, mayor of
fesat-Aven, never raw her portrait till
Vt was finished, when she exclaimed,
Be tire dismay of the artist;
"How terrible r
She refused It as t gift Degas
ft, and after his death It wss
for several tent of thousands of
it te tbe belated die
uf More. Satre —Kansas City
UUmCf m Railways
Cat a Tvs urea of
tho aretri ren reads le ihu ire* aoif
•rribad *• •reiretp sUreti«fo«frey by
Ihu ijl moulkuiucu of tho rs.touy
drey too i-wre N ijpoare from s
msitsiwul is Ms. currisd out three pew
•mred sresoot sf ftregb*
tree TVsre wore tW
tbs eouthwsasore ret
aii otbw Uore frei tsc hobisd
Msrewu Ksrsa read, always ru
st • reodoi ocgsaiastivs.
tho rellreod world her* by
isk.ug Isa* pises ta ths taUo of work
B« i *• »I li ^• fi tR*I
VI rmyot* of traloa sccordtog to
time tables fell to only <B per rest,
Uudok deilsrea, HI ace that Is regard
ed ss sn lode* of eAclem operaUon,
the slinstloo la obviously bad. Ths
press calls for greater efforts and for
measures to fix responsibility for fail
ure
Women Live Longer and
Age Ea$ier Than Do Men
New York.—If woman’a youth-ex
pectsncy were governed by her Ufa
expectancy, she would presene the
sheen of her hair and the smoothness
of her skin from two to three years
longer than her masculine contem
poraries.
“Women the world over live longer
and age easier than men,” Mine.
Helena Rubinstein of London, Parts
and New York, Internationally-known
authority on feminine beauty, said In
an address here. “Data of the fed
eral census bureau, for Instance, es
tablishes the fact that in all age-
groups In the United States female
mortality Is lower than male.
“In the natural process of evolu
tion, this paradox of long life and
early old age will cease to exist.
Women will learn to resist time not
merely by living longer but by staying
young longer."
First Caaadiaa Fret Ofl&ca
A historic tablet. In Halifax, com
memorates ths folloming: -la 173a a
lias of packets was placed sa .
Kslmooth sad New
tart. This waa part sf t gseiral
regular
~D«d~ Sob Bock Home;
Aged Father
sf Vi
SmS its?*? mmjmmmimm I 2i
ee euresetret
le a
it to
W oman to Bom
K«r North Trading Po»t
tnarepag. kfea — Agues
vuswty Ovuyear-sit ssliip
fta Oat Malta*, lees, hat geat a
hare so bar way la MBt Sit so the
IteOsae Bay rail«ay. frsttlsr rail Has
being built by tbe raaedlaa Nstlsaal
re 11 we ye frere tb« Fas te Cbercbtll
st tidswatse riese te tbs Arctic cirri#,
litre Pousra. abo also has heea a
school teacher and Mreognipher. will
taka charge of a trading post at Mils
214. Later la the summer sb# will
go out on a proa peel lag expedltluo.
Dream Rettoret Hearing
to North Carolina Man
GoldU»orn. N. C.—A Goldsboro man
who lost his hearing In sn accident
six years ago regained It through a
“dream” accident. The roan Jumped
out of bed. dreaming he was In an
accident, and hit his head against a
rocking chair. The second Injury re
stored his hearing.
Old Coin Unearthed
Danville, Pa.—A coin bearing the
date 1317 has been found burled three
feet In the earth here.
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Turkey One-Year Old
Lays Her 87th Egg
Point Pleasant, N. J.—Nancy,
a pure bred Jersey turkey, cele
brated her first birthday at the
home of her owner, Mrs. George
Kcknmn, by laying her eighty-
seventh egg.
This reproductive activity of
Nancy's Is Raid to be quite no-
preesdentsd. the usual laying
power of a turkey hen being not
over fifteen eggs a year; hot
Nancy's maternal Inttiocc
te
her goreia for tbe fact that all roores
are supplied with towers from her
garden and ths manner In which they
are arranged. There Is a reason. At
s certain fashionable resort hotel,
some time ago, it w’us noticeable that
one dining room table always had
lovelier flowers than any of the others.
This was peculiar, os the flowers came
from the hotel gardens and were al
lotted by the head waiter. A watch
man solved the mystery, when early
one morning he discovered the waitress
assigned to the table In question, In
the garden picking the choicest blos
soms. She had formed the habit of
getting up at sunrise, stealing out of
the dormitory which housed the fe
male help and gathering the flowers
she loved. The girl was discharged.
The Long Island woman, who was
among the hotel guests, happened to
hear the story, sent for the girl, talked
to her and hired her. Now the girl’s
chief duties are to keep the rooms
In the Long Island place bright with
floral decoration. The girl originally
came from a section of New York
w here the only flowers are puny speci
mens In the pots on Are escapes.
• • #
Almost every one has s favorite
game. Basebsll, football, golf, chess,
checkers, cross-word puzzles, poker,
anagrams, hearts, backgammon, ao($
solitaire all have their devoted fol
lowers, but ths hobby of William I*.
Carey, head of Madlsoa Square Gar
den, Is pinochle. This Is ths game hs
la never too busy to play. Goes when
Carey wss building a railroad in
Sooth America, hs took u man all tbs
way ts ths Argentina with him. Just
so hs would bsvs a ploocbls opponent
on tbo boat. Ths ochsr day. Carey
ant a friend had been playing ploorbia
st ths Chrey apartment so long that
they felt It might be a good thing to
get a little exerrise by walking In
Central part. Tbo friend kept in rial -
lag that Carey bad baoa exceedingly
larky.
-Nothing nf tbo sari." said Carey.
"Tint waa still If wo had a piasrirts
dart bore 1 ererid boat yen right
-We have." said bis friend. *1 pot
• pact la m pretre.*
Bo a reopis of tbo bare know* reea
Ip Now Tart pdrted OWC a Mre Spa*
of tm
are oi at
Tbo gtri win
ibtalbod t leave of ab
sence to go hack to the old cows try
sad as# her parents. She care# to her
employer with a die mood ring, which
sho sold belonged to her. sad asked
him If hs would have It appraised, ss
aha might want to soil It to get more
money for l^er trip. Hs agreed and
put ths ring In his pocket. The next
day he looked for It and couldn't find
It. This worried him considerably;
first because he had no Ides of the
ring's value, and secondly because he
didn't very well see how anybody ex
cept the maid herself, whom the fam
ily always had trusted Implicitly,
could have known he had the ring.
After he had worried about the ring
for a couple of days, the maid's hon
esty was demonstrated. She brought
him ths ring for the second time, hav
ing found It in his handkerchief draw
er, where he hasn’t the faintest recol
lection of putting It. Now he is wor
rying about himself.
* • •
A Wall Street friend tells me what
he claims is an old but true story. A
depositor at a branch bank came to
the manager and said he wished to
borrow $10 on a $1,000 government
bond. The manager told him he
could borrow much more than $10 on
such security, but he didn't wish to
make any larger loan. Tressed for the
reason he explained:
“Voa tell me your cheapest safe de
posit box is $3 a year," he said. "On
a loan. I pay 0 per cent Should I
pay $3 when I can get yon to keep
tbs bond Jost ss safely for to centsT
Be didn't get the loan.
For Governor
ASHTON
WILLIAMS
Advocates a Return
to States Rights
i re.
y
PLATFORM
WILLIAMS favor* reodiBmUon of PROHIBITION laws, be
cause they are a vielstiea of STATES BIGHTS, he raws* tbe paa-
pla are tax Mrirtia trying ta enforce tbte as enforceable Inn, he
rs nee r flare baa become virh ant powerful arena il tbs p ret is nr -
rnreri from I tuner tratW. beranee re*pe t for lbs eeaetltuirea Is
hrear brsfcea tawn, bars are lbs par r sari defenseless are paying
tbe penalty
WILLIAMS will eef sees all law* as long as they are an tbe
beaks WILLIAMS flavore euanltaatre* ef taxes. WILLIAMS ari-
f s
d Beasarvi
W 11 l 1 \ II s
■ppm* Stats tasBriensmi WILLI AMS Is against saw.
tbe Tas Csreretstrea with tbs CsreptreBev General * «f
WILL! AM* will net tureens sWkriewi sad trained putfv sf
i WILLIAMS Is fee repeal uf eg law* nut in are»«ri witi
prinr*ptse sf gn* erureen* sad eaenfer* sable das ta
lark sf public rest unset. • * .
RECORD
WILLIAM*
Mr. TW Km
» fo* • « > »• • a l»e<Wr n tb*
tinner, tbe Morning News, tbe Spartanburg
Herald and ether prerereuat dailies credited lure ef being lewder
of tbe goad roads moeonrewt re Benth CaraHaa- Qnatiag frere sa
editorial appear tag February SA IF? I "Ttris a an age ef young
area. TVs Bre and rnsrgy of youth Is prueid ag leadership Bene*
Wr ASHTON H. WILLIAMS in nest te the yeungnsf mas re tbe
senate and M tbe daddy sf areen ire portent legnieime than anyone
there ~ WILLIAMS nae ant bar ef Ike Pay-A*-Yeu-On* Act. aae
sf tbs slbtn uf tbe Coastal Highway Act. tbe A bee ate* Veter*
Act, tbe Forestry Bril, tbe Medal Seeing Act and sseerai atbere
designed ta preside batter marketing fur farm produce f Wres»
LIAMS did a*t rsuffer fur tbs senate ta IPT7. Though saly tb rty •
nine years uf age. bis record saeak« for Itself.
Prohibition Has Failed—
Restore Respect for Law
The Marks of True Statesmanship:
COURAGE:
WILLIAMS fearlessly denounced the prohibition laws when
his friends told him it would mean his political ruin. He ha s never
followed the lines of least resistance, no matter what the result.
VISION:
WILLIAMS foresees a greater South Carolina, without hy
pocrisy, returning to sacred principles of STATES RIGHTS, doing v
constructive work and taking her former place of leadership.
INTEGRITY:
■ ’4 ...
WILLIAMS is honest with himself, refuses to play hide and
seek with his opinions, has always been against prohibition, and
speaks out even if it costs him the office of GOVERNORSHIP.
ABILITY:
WILLIAMS has made life a success at the age of thirty- ‘
nine. For six years he was leader in the General Assembly. He
ha s succeeded in whatever he has undertaken and will do so as
GOVERNOR.
INITIATIVE:
WILLIAMS' record ia tbe General Assembly Is one sf surtmg
things and then isutag there through. Hs never fears he ythf
tbe ftist stop a# bis mod > Seat too Hand ta Oris careprega departs
PROGRESS:
WILLIAMS hM always stand puagBure m % 0
m o rihsreu by ire
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