Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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a P. DAVIES. MUr Mi port offlc* at SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jmr 91.60 Month! M m Month* ... t 60 (Strictly hi Adrane*.) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 19.10 <PW"" ’ - 1 Add to standing headlines: “Re newal of Business Activity Expected Soon." The Perennial Candidate. Coleman Liingston Blease may well be termed the perennial candidate. No sooner had the State executive committee declared Jame s F. Byrnes tO ai the Art vea* at 0>t« Art W HWfalty raaatrwt U faw of the • beentoo voter, and the dec>• ion of the Enrollment Committee or Cob Secretary a* to the neceaaity of any particular voter being allowed to vote by mail shall be Anal." We do not charge that the law^has been violated, but are merely point ing out the possibility of such viola tions, in the hope that Senator Edgar A. Brown, the author of the bill, will have the Act repealed at the coming session. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. Inconsistency. A certain big corporation "up North" paid its president a salary of the nominee over Senator Blease as 9350,000 and a bonus of $1,345,000 last a reault of the second primary elec tion than the latter declared that he would again be a candidate for the Senate. He failed to state, however, whether he would oppose Senator Smith two years hence or Senator Byrnes in 1936. Webster’s definition of “perennial” is: “Continuing with out cessation or intermission; perpet ual ; unceasing." The Liberty Hill Vote. year and incidentally laid off about one-third of it* employees for an in definite period and permitted the re mainder to work only half time—on account of its inability to make mon ey. Bolshevism thrives on practices like unto that. What they should have done was: Turn off that president and take all that money and keep 3,000 men at work for 24 months. * Governor John G. Richards is cer tainly not without honor in his old home town. Some time ago, there was a break between the Chief Execu tive and Senator Blease, who had been political cronies for many years. Olin D. Johnston, defeated candidate for governor this year, has repeatedly attacked the Richards administration. In the gecond primary last week, Byrnes received 70 voteg and Blease none at Liberty Hill; Blackwood re ceived 68 and Johnston 2. Liberty Hill is Governor Richards’ home pre cinct. The editor of The People-Sentinel has received a number of commenda tion* from big friends relative to his action in refunding money to a sub scriber and stopping the latter'* paper because the subscriber objected to this writer’s Anti-Blease tendencies. Should the time ever come when we are called upon to sacrifice our princi- Cotton Letter. New York, Sept. 15.—Southern gell ing had a weakening effect on Sep tember while November short* were absorbed by Bombay longs, thus forc ing the speculators to straddle—with one foot in Wall Street and the other foot in the Federal Reserve. Options were lower than due in Liverpool on leceipt of private reports from Texas intimating that it thundered last night. Much covering with new December was apparent when a boll weevil was discovered in a turnip patch in Okla homa by the farm board. Awaiting clearance—42,888 bales, counting hay hair and hides. Stop orders were in jected into the hedge market near the close, but nobody got hurt except a few bulls—who never do anything but lose. \^ for sail ■ notis: i will sell to the highest bid der for cash next week at 5 p. m., on my premmisses in front of my house pies in order to continue publication j ant * lowering described of The People-Sentinel, we shall hang ^ ouse ^ a l e 8 0O ds and kitchen furni a “For Sale” sign on the door. We <io not criticise the personal life of any man or woman, but the records ture f to-wit: 3 nice dogs, fine for pos sums, rabbits, and mebbe coons, 5 trained beegle dogs and increase, two of public officials are subject to y° un 8 calfs who ansers to the name of criticism. God forbid that the time •>' m a,ld P°« and wil1 make ftne 8teers should ever come in this country when such criticism can be suppressed! Only the ignorant or corrupt would ■welcome such a day. Some Needed Legislation. When the General Assembly con venes next January, there are two important matters that should engage ka attention, along with the other griat that will be carried to the legis lative mill. We have in mind the matter of the cost of school books and the absentee voters’ law. Complaints are heard on every band about the high cost of text books and the annual outlay is proving Mnrdensome on the rank and file of achool patrons. Gee McGee, in his ^Nobody’s Business,” packs some good hard common sense in his humorous or beef, allso the ballance of my farm ing impliments consisting of 1 radio and 1 ford and one third intrust in ole beck who is coming 7 next spring, am giving up farm life and moving to town to help my 2 brothers loaf, rite or foam if you want to come up anc suspect my stuff befoar the sail, yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. Longer But Thinner. Long dresses have definitely arrived I saw a flapper with one on yesterday and when a flapper begins to conseal her principle works of art, it’s good bye John. That was a pretty dress though, and I am sure that she did- dent have on anything else, as the sun was shining. It was of flimsy mater ial, loose as a laundry bag everywhere except at the sleeves which did. not comment on various topics and we exist, and had little cloth dangles commend what he has to say this week about school books to the atten tion of our readers. As he points out, a well printed, profusely illus trated and substantially bound novel can be purchased at most book stores lor 75 cents, whereas school books dangling all around the bottom of the skirt. This dress was about 4 inches longer in front than at the rear and the north side was 1 inches shorter than the south side. But I broke only 1 fender when I ran into that tele phone post. Moral: Stop, look and Don’t risk trying to drive on down the street. range around $1*00 to $1.60—some listen when you meet a jane like that. Beta, of course. . There evidently are loo many “middle-men” getting pro mts out of the distribution of the Iwoki. Why wouldn’t it be feasible lor the State Department of Educa- Uoo to do what a private business concern in Columbia now does at a prom, School Days. I thought mebbe something was be ing done about birth control until our school* opened a few days ago. The without added cost to the j streets and alleys and roadg and buses ? And why couldn’t the and Ford* and Chevrolet* are packed County Superintendents of and jammed with knowledge seekers set as distributors in the t whose ages range from 6 to sweet 16, coimUm of tba State without plus coat, ffxrept paaMMy a ( A ad hundreds of daddies and moth er a era sweating Mood trying to rake to hay little Sallie ay a** Johany a: to to outlay for elerh hire during the day* ef the artoul aaualou T to »«wM rut out at leeet twe uf added cweC. '• mi tou «* et 91* «» t*d % • We Utah some of our state legie- laturee are to to thanked for the hold up ia school books. They passed laws that permitted ;he book publisher to get 2 or 3 prices and then the “hold ing" company got it* finger in the pie and on down the line, the repoaitory forked in, and then the folks who made the final sale had to have a little, and when dad got through paying ao many folks, he wept. In less than 3 weeks, our younguns will be cutting open bug* and frogs, and reading Goethe, and playing bas ket ball, and studying their lessons about 3 minutes [(occasionally) at night before they go to the talkibs or the golfies or the gwimmies, and chew ing gum, and grumbling about “zams 1 and enjoying the “gym” and playing hooky, and talking about the teachers and blessing out the trustees. sd with what to say about tto Votstoad Act. W* have a straw voto tvary now and \ What’s it all about now Lrt' a I have been trying to find out who wants booze and why. I am anxious to ascertain just what place whiskey ha 8 in our present civilization—that it must cause such a hully-baloo year in and year out. Now, folks, I have been “inquiring around” to get the facts and here they are: la work A .tre« car motonuaa must lot booze alone or | hunt op another job. Railroad presi dents are not looking for booze-fight ers to run their trains and look after their roadbeds. I asked the president of the Last National bank what he thought of whiskey and he said that whiskey might be all right, but he wouldn’t keep a man in his employ that drank it even in a mild way. A merchant told me that he could not risk a drunk man in hi* business. Children have never before had such wonderful opportunities to obtain an education. We have fine school build ings, equipped with everything that is modem and desirable, and our teach er* are as good as the best, and every possible convenience i* at our finger tips: Maps, globes, spy-glasses, op erating tools, first-class libraries, and all else that anybody could expect— and here's hoping that the country wilj soon get down to brass tackg and ap preciate what the tax-payers are do ing for education. My preacher stated that he much preferred that none of his members would touch whiskey, and the superin tendent of our schools spoke out loud that he would not keep a teacher a minute that used intoxicating bever age* and he further informed me that all pupils who fool with whiskey would be expelled without argument. Who Needs Whiskey? v Why all thi* fuss and feather* about The cotton mill bosses Intimated that it would be dangerous for a drunk man to attempt to work in their mills. The oil dealers swear that they will discharge any truck driver that shows up drunk while on duty. The city turns off policemen who drink— that is, the right kind of city dies. A bootlegger won’t hire an agent if he drinks. Fathers and mothers don’t want their boys and girls to drink. About 22 per cent of the folks in the poor houses are there because they drank booze or were the victim* of husbands who did, 96 per cent of the men in the penitentiaries were dram drinkers be fore they were locked up, and the asy lum is full of folks that sucked the bottle. So, folks, I’d like to know what we need whiskey for if it hurts everything it touches. ADVERTISE IN F. E. Chardon, of Cardiff, directed in his will that his family dog be buried in the family mausoleum. The gnawing of a rat awakened Ralph Asbury, of Newark, just in time to get his family out of their burning home. The People- Sentinel. 6 per cent, interest on large amounts] Private funds for small loans. ! BROWN & BUSH LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. Inibttry Prompm-So Prosper Tto For Your Sake as well as ours 0 \ ER A YEAR AGO we pointed out some of the grave economic dangers facing the cotton manufacturing industry in South Carolina. The problems threatening then are menacing now. The dangers inevitable then are actual now. The lapse of time hag proven that the apprehension of a year ago was not without foundation. The world has produced more cotton goods than it has consumed and much has been produced at a low labor coat against which South Carolina mills cannot compete, even with improved machinery and modern methods. The result:—an inevitable drop in tho price of cotton goods to apoint far below the cost of manu facture in South Carolina. For Instance— Price Cents Per Pound PRICE-WIDE PRINT CLOTHS AUGUST 19, 1929 - .40% WIDE PRINT CLOTHS AUGUST 19, 1930 - .25 2 | 5 Shrinkage in Price of Cloth ------- .14 3 | 4 SPOT MIDDLING COTTON AUGUST 19, 1929 .18 3 | 4 SPOT MIDDLING COTTON AUGUST 19, 1930 .11% Shrinkage in Price of Cotton *07% Thus it will be seen that the price of cloth has shrunk approximately twice as much a s the price of cotton during the same period. Possibly the bottom of cloth prices has not yet been reached. Certainly there. i 8 little hope of relief in sight A “ It hag now become not a question of profit but actually a question of existence. No mill can con tinue to operate at a heavy loss month after month and survive. A* a result of such dire circumstances and in order to take some constructive measure toward an im provement of the situation, many of the mills have been forced to a rather drastic and much to be regret ted, though necessary, policy of part time operation.. It is not a step which the mills themselves desire. They were all built to run, not to shut down.. Part time operation disrupts production^ and makes profitable operation practically impossible. However, it is apparently, the only measure in sight that can now or later improve the situation by reducing thesupply of goods and leading to a more steady employment. Thug the widespread effort at curtailment is undertaken that the mills may actually avoid disaster; not only that their operatives may eventually have remunerative employment, but that they may have work at all, for their very job* are at stake. To give employment to the usual number of people would be a different problem ,but with the enor mous over supply of families that have flocked to the mills it is a gigantic problem and the cotton mills of South Carolina are staggering under the task, for they do feel a sense of doep responsibility for their ployeeo. em- la their vigorous efforts to solve mill problems they deeply appreciate the ce-operative effort and kindly spirit of helpfulneu* already manifested by the employ ecu and by the public at large. Such unity of in time.