Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f>AGR TWO. THE BARNWELL The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES ^ r 1840—1912. == B. P. DAVIES. Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the poet office at Barnwell S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ine Year $1.60 Six Months JO Time Months * JO (Strictly in Advance.) THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1930 Consolidation of Counties. t Recently there has been seme dis cussion in the pre** of the State re lative to the consolidation of small counties for the purpose of reducing taxes and in a radio address prior to the recent general election former CroveTnor Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee for President in 1928, ad vocated the idea for some of the counties in New York State. Without a doubt such a plan would save large amounts of money in the administra tion of county governments. Small counties belong to the pre-automobile era when visits to the county seat were made by, train or horse-drawn vehicle and entailed considerable in convenience and loss of time. In these days of fast automobiles and good roads it is possible for a Barn well citizen to visit the State capital and return home in much less time than it formerly requited to make the trip to Barnwell from points in what is now Allendale County. Such consolidations, however, will not come in the near future—in South Carolina, at least—for the reason that they would deprive a lot of poli ticians (office-holders) of their jobs. Then, too, there is the little matter of the abolishment of county seats that would result from such consolidations. It is hard to conceive of any of the preaent county seats voluntarily re linquishing their prestige along this line. Still, necessity forces many changes. A dispatch tells of the wonder with which Rachel Gillies, a 17-year-old girl from the Island of St. Hilda, off the English coast, first saw a horse, an automobile, a railroad train and a moving picture on her first visit^to the mainland. Thousands of people live and die without seeing any of these things, al though they live within a compara tively short distance of them. But it is not only those who live in sparsely settled localities who are unfamiliar with objects which are comnponplace to the great majority. Not long ago a large and curious crowd gathered in a certain section of New York city to see a strange animal which had often been heard of but never witnessed by those who gathered to gaze upon the beast. It was a cow. Nobody’s Business The Real Danger. While we question the wisdom, at this time, of organizing an active and militant Republican party in South (Carolina, we fail to see why any opprobium should necessarily result from membership therein. Those who may dislike the principles and work ings of the Democratic party have a perfect right to Organize another political body. Many thinking people are firmly convinced that two parties in South Carolina would be for the best interest of the State as a whole. They take the position that the National Democratic party, when in power, doi»s nothing for the State because they know it is always solidly Democratic and the Republicans do nothing for the same reason. There is, of course, something to that line of reasoning. However, as we stated last week, the danger as we see it would come in the general election. A lily white Republican organization can keep negroes from participating in the nomination of candidates by holding primary elections similar to those now held by the Democrats in South Caro lina, under the rules of which a voter must be 21 years of age and a white Democrat. Thus the nominees of both parties would be the selection of the white voters of the Statfe. In the general election the situation would be entirely different and ne groes who could qualify would be en titled to cast their ballots for the nominees of one party or the other. With any considerable number of ■qualified negro voters, it would be en tirely possible for them to hold the balance of power, with the natural result that one party or the other, or both, would make a bid for the negro vote in order to get control of the State government. We would then toave the nauseating spectacle of white women being forced to mingle with negro men and women at the polls, with the attendant danger of clashes between the two races. Either that or a large fiumber of white women would be disfranchised because of their refusal to take part in such an ♦election. We sincerely hope that such a day, if it ever comes, is in the far distant future and loyal Democrats should discourage at this time the furtherance of the plans of the Repub lican party in Barnwell County and South Carolina. Wonder If He Stays Out Nights. I read in the papers where a South Carolina dog chews tobacco. Why, the rabbit-chasing scoundrel ought to be ashamed of himself. Next thing ycu know, he’ll be doing the blind-fold cigarette test. Competition Not Allowed. The other day I bought an upper berth in a Pullman for $4.75. I had already bought my railroad ticket, and of course I could have ridden in the day coach or on the rods, but af ter giving the fellow all the money I had for these preparations to ride, he asked me if I wanted any accident insurance. I replied: “Nope, I guess not. The accident has already hap pened—I ran into you.” The train was almost empty—onner-count of the war-price of fare. Cotton Letter. New York, Oct. 12.—Light frosts in the Panhandle and rain in the interior forced Liverpool to come in as due in sympathy with Brazil. Hedging and straddling prevented further breaks in (he nearby month', . but bank clearings were satisfactory to the bears, therefore—southern selling had begun to take place when the longs caught the shorts shorter on Decembers and Juiys. Some covering took place in the west where snow fell, but when a fair cloth inquiry came in from China, February ruled lower and petticoats eased off with the clothes. with my fanning interests. Among other things, I found that there were 38 children on these various farms too little to work but big enough to eat. Five out of the 23 tenants had a shoat or two, 7 had a few chickens scattered about the premises, and there were 2 cows (both dry) bellow ing around over the fields. ^ i ——— One of the boys sold his pig in July and bought a license plate for his old Ford. Two or three of the others started off with a pig but they swapped them off for tires and tubes. One old colored fellow who had two grown sons and 9 other young-guns owned an old car and each of his grown boys had a car, but neither possessed a cow or a calf or-any other kind of personal property. If there are no Fords in heaven, and there are some “lizzies” in the other place, even tho it be 70 times 7 hotter than melted lead down there, that bunch will make a bee-line for Hades as soon as they discover those cars, that is—if they should accidently get into heaven. Some tenants keep enough stove wood cut ahead to cook s one meal. Other s have to cut it when they get ready to cook. I found one colored family that had just recently bought 14 volumes of“Plutarch’s Lives” from a book agent. Another crowd had in vested in 8 bottles of Yokem’s Herb Juice at $1.50 per bottle. There was enough hair-straightener on the var ious mantels to take every kink out of Africa’s millions. If it would re move a kink at all. The walls were lined with maps, and the tables were filled with useless junk that agents had so«ld them, and not one out of a dozen could spell “c-a-t” in car-box letters. Yes, sir, ree, Mr. Carl Wil liams: put me down as one farmer who i s willing to reduce his cotton acreage exactly 60 per cent. I am ready to sign up. A Bed-Time Story. “Yes, darling. I was detained at the office for 3 or 4 hours, and could not poasibly have gotten home any gboner. Gosh, it’s past mid-night. f£ht dusted the powder off his coat lapel, and remover 4 coal black hairs from hi 8 shoulders, and reached in his pocket and got the 2 theatre tick et stub*, tore them up and threw them in the fire, and kissed him and hur ried him off to bed). This Way, Fellers! County fairs and State fairs have been held all over the country. We had one too. I was especially struck with some of our exhibits—one man hit me with an ear of corn and a woman biffed me with a biscuit. We had a nice carnival with i ur fair and without a carnival, a fair wouldn’t lx much of a show. I was agreeably sur prised at the fine hoochy-koochy and the Poland China pigs, and the Hula- hula girls and the canned vegetables were also mighty attractive, and so was the fortune teller and the other chickens, as well as the crazy bouse and the pumpkin display. A Tail of Whoa. W’hen you strip “Old Bossy,” you must stand atide and wait for more milk to accumulate. Instollment buy ing of radios, cars, and luxuries, plus the stock market tail spin, stripped our countiy of its cash, and now we all must stand by till economy and common sense help to re-fil| the pud dle. There’s plenty of money in the banks, but it belong-* to rich folks who don’t need it, and poor folks can’t dorrow money any more. Off Again, on Again. Trouble has already started with me and my heavies. I put ’em on Monday and took ’em off Tuesday, and it ( turned cold again that night, and I repeated the performance, and took the weather man’s word for it Thurs day and almost froze to death from east wind, so I then and there made up my mind to put ’em on and keep ’em on, weather or not, and if July ever got any hotter than it was two days after that resolution was carried, I do not recall it, so I’ve changed «igain. The ilittle Armenians and the rummage sales got my best ones! (Ker-choo, ker-choo-ey.) Farming Blues. I am sorely afflicted with 8 farms and 23 tennants. One farm is wqrse than diabetes, 2 farms will kill a man quicker than gallop-ping con sumption, and if there is anything in the world worse than 8 farms it must be 10 farms. . I believe I would trade most any man 100 acrc s of land for a slight attack of roomy-tism in my legs. Seeing the Sights. It is difficult to imagine the sen sations experienced by person t from Isolated sections of the worid. per .island dwellers, when first into contact with the fartli- The majority of everybody’s tenants look to (he landlord for bread and meat, gas and oil, pills and salts, coffins and caskets, clotheg and tobac co, doctors and preachers, and every thing else that they want or must have. They no longer have any credit and every extra penny they get goes for something that they coaid very well do without—end it*§ the lend- 0WB e* that sweats and sweats. A few weeks ago. I went dews te h»eh ever my pceenecta ta -» The Law Is Blind. It is easier to get by with murder in- New York and Chicago than it is with mumble-peg-for-keeps in Great Britain. They tell us that every gang ster who lives in these cities is known to the officers of the law, even *his street address and private hang-outs are almost public information, yet— they simply can’t be caught. They convicted a man for shooting three other men in Chicago year before last, but he has had 7 or 8 new trials since then and is now out on bond. One Way Out. We saw in the papers last night where a man killed himself and his family because he was out of a job. If all of us who were similarly af flicted were to do that, we would be busy burying one another for the next 45 years. Personally, we be lieve it will pay us to wait on the democrats before we suicide. Uncommon Sense. These are indeed curious times we I are now enjoying. Nobody seem s to be jible to diagnose our troubles ex cept a few Democrats, and they of course olame our plight on the Ren publicans, and in part—they are right. The country is entirely too full of smoke-less smoke-stacks. Mr. Hoover continues to appoint committees and establish bureaus and wash-stands for all noises that sound like an ailment, and he has commis sions out investigating everything from cucumber warts to fruit flies, and he has now named an employ ment commissioner whose duty will be to find jobs for the jobless. He has already found one good job, but he took that himself. Folks who lire in Washington will never feel the pinch of hard times. They will continue te draw their pay. with ell pest recoids. and nothing will happen et “headquarters’’ that will portend to help the helpless. A mil lionaire can’t do anything for e poor man except hire him to do something for him. We need some advit^ from the fellow who is getting it/ in the neck. When the government loans the farmer some money to pull him thru the drought, that is possibly a tem porary accommodation, but when a farmer happens to have the kind of collaterals to offer that Uncle Sam will accept, 9 times out of 10, he can get along without assistance or get his favors locally. What a man needs when his house bums down is another house, not a house covered with mortgage* instead of shingles. J. M. Riley Appointed. Allendale, Nov. 7.—J. M. Riley has received his appointment as a<ting postmaster at the Allendale office. He has gone into office. Mr. Riley has been for 12 years THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 198# clerk of court cf this 5 county. He te a veteran of the World War and well and favorably known throughout the county. He succeeds Miss Lucy Vance in the Allendale pqstoffice. ^ NOTICE! Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or person, entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of tBe law: Many things are puzzling the southern farmers today. For in stance. Farmer Smith sold a ton of cotton seed the other day to the Jesse James Oil Co., for which he received $18.0p. The oil company squeezed 325 pounds of oil out of Mr. Smith’s ton of cotton seed and got $1^.50 for it, and they had left over the following merchandise, to-wit: 1,- 200 pounds of nice bright cotton seed meal, worth $18.00, 350 pounds of clean sound cotton seed hulls, worth about $1.75, and his linters were worth 2 or 3 dollars, and he weighed the stuff himself. Therefore, the tariff bill ought to be repealed, whether it be good or bad, taxes ought to be reduced till we can get on our feet, even if sugar-tits are not so plentiful, government ex penses should be cut, even though thfi grafters have to run their old Rolls- Royces another year, and the millions we are planning to spend for battle-* ships right away shouldTSe distributed among the poor. What this old coun try needs now is a citizenship with a hundred dollars in its pocket and his radio and ice-box and car paid for. Sad Error. Frantically the young bride tele phoned her husband at his office. “Oh, John,” she sobbed, “please hurry home. I got the electric wires mixed up, the radio is all covered with white frost and the refrigerator is playing “Home, Sweet Home.” Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 W. H. Duncan 405 Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place 1,650 Mrs. Jane R. Patterson 1,000 Sweet Water Place 500 John K. Snelling 100 7 Barnwell Turpentine Co: Simmons Place 450 Middleton Place *300 Harriet Houston 150 J. M. Weathersbee 572 Estate of H. A. Patterson.-2,000 Joseph E. Dicks 800 R. C. Holman 400 A. A. Richardson 1,00 Lemon Bros. 100 B. L. Easterling Cave Place .. 200 J. P. Harley 150 L. W. Tilly 160 ; GEO. H. WALKER, Owner ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr. Barnwell, S. C., Oct. 14, 1930. Re-Paint or Repent Which WiU You Do? It’s a fact that unpainted property goes to pieces fast and that the use of Good Paint is a Good Investment. Made in the SOUTH For use in the SOUTH “LEMOCO QUALITY” PAINTS Inside and Out—Do the Job and Do it Rright. n? C. F. MOLAIR, Going Out of Ford Business All Model “A” Parts 10 Per Cent Reduction. Model “T” Parts at 20 Per Cent Reduction. Take advantage of the above opportunities. Bring us your SERVICE WORK and SAVE MONEY. Ample and WELL EQUIPPED Shop. Men trained in the “FORD” Service Schools. Taking on the Plymouth-Chrysler Agency NEW MODELS ON DISPLAY New PLYMOUTH Sedan same price as Ford. Ample roomy body, hydraulic brakes, simple, economical and ef- ficiont motor power. Let tis show you the NEW Ply mouth before you buy. Bargains in NEW and USED Cars. Barnwell “ ' £ M’f g, Co.