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pack row. THE BARNWELL PBOPLE-SEVTINKL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMB'ER IS, 1930. ThaBBrnwll People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840-1912. B. P. DAVIES, Editor mod Proprietor. Sotored at the post office at Barnwell S. C„ aa aecond-dmaa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year Six Month* JO Three Month* ,50 (Strictly ia Adraaco.) ^ THURSDAY, DBCEM BER 18, 1930. Nobody's Business By Gee McGee. Distorted Fact*. “Buy Now” i g perhaps a pretty prood •lo^an, but what’s wrong with—“Pay Up Now?” The trouble with 95 per <*ent of the people is—they have al ready over-bought and under-paid. Puzzle: Who’s got the money? There are 4 absolutely worthless things in this world, and here they are: Investigating committees, an ap pendix, highway patrols and Warts. And we could do without a few traffic lights and fare better. We have observed closely that short dresses are still with us where there are 2 good reasons for same. Thous ands upon thousands of girls with un der-pinning of an unattractive type have welcomed the longer dresses with itching shins. If 50 per cent of the money invested in unnecessary automobiles during the past 10 years had been invested in dwellings and barns and pocketbooks, this old country would not now be feel ing the pinch of hard times. But who wants to sit still in a house when you ran ride and sit? There’s a man up in North Carolina -'’v- who answers to the nanie of Aiken Payne and they say he is—to his friends. The cnly way to avoid “Ake” as a chronic syfnptom is to cash a check for him or let him have a dollar till next week. Aiken is so much like about half the re-t of the folks in this old world. I loaned a man 75 cents once and I had the pleasure of not see ing him for 5 years. ly ought to hare * nice orgnn and pos sibly a graffer-foam. I am still think ing of him. If there is a class of men in this world who is run-down-at-the-heel, broke up and busted, taxed beyond re cognition, trampled upon, talked about, cussed and discussed, it ig the land lord class. Taking the average south ern landowner as a whole, his plight is worse than that of any other person who ha 8 to try to make a living. The land he is supposed to own is not his. He is the buffer-block for everything that can buff. He hasi to fight the rain and the drought, the bug and the worm, the grass and the book agent, and he4ias no more idea what he will get for hig product when he plants it than the government does about farm relief. And by the way, the farm boards and all other so-called helpful agen cies, are working on the wrong end of the farmer: they are cutting out his tonsils instead of drawing his ingrow ing toe-nails. They are all trying to help him sell his crops. What they ought a ,to do is—help him grow a cheap crop so that it will sell itself. If this “aid” will supply lower-priced fertili zer, plow-tools at reasonable figures, and a little cash during the crop growing season at a low-interest rate, Mr. Farmer will be in a position to accept trust-prices for his produce. W’ell, I can’t do'all the figgering for them, so I will leave *the matter with Mr. Lcgge and Mr. Williams. They know why and how. I Am Not Talking About You. Speaking of churches: Sdme con gregations apparently want a 1-min ute prayer, a 5 minute song, a 10-min ute sermon, no collection taken, chance to dodge the preacher, and a tank full of gasoline for a 75-mile outing. W'hen I was a boy, it was not a dis grace for a good old deacon or elder to say—“Amen” when he agreed with the minister, but now’ if somebody were to say “Amen” in the middle of a discouise, the. choir w’ould faint and the clock would stop. Aunt Elvira Springs won a pretty i little silver vase playing bridge at the 1 I home of Mrs. Kinda Sw’ift, president * 1 j of the Ladies Aid, one afternoon not ! j long ago and the kind-hearted old soul donated it to the Royal Ambassadors and it now’ adorn s their Sabbath loom. Mr. Hoover’s "Child Conference” almost ended in a spat. Some of the women insisted that the child should first be taught to walk ami then taught to crawl, others con tended that buttered toast wa- too strong for a 7-year old girl, and the majority seemed to think that the Child’s Bureau should be un- <ier the management of the De partment cf Commerce instead of the Aviation Corps. Anyway, nothing was done about keeping their little necks and nosts clean. Uncle Ebben Risket is peculiarly af fected when he goes to church. He grows intensely sad when he gets fixed j in his pew. Hi s face become^ covered with grief. His eyes soon begin to emit trickling tears. Hi s w’hole ex press! n shows him to be miserably afflicted with sorrow. He cries thru the seimon and moans when it’s over, 1 but as soon a s he gets outside again, he returns to normalcy and is jolly j “Uncle Ebb” once more. He has prac tically quit drinking and cussing. I can remember ’way back yonder when I thought that at least 50 per rent of the prohibition officers were sincerely in favor of enforcing the pio- hibition law, hut a little later on I de- ■oided that possibly 40 per cent would not permit a man to sell whiskey if they knew it, and just a few months sifter that, I made up my mind that over 5 per cent of our officers could not be bought or biibed or influenced either by the use of money or booze, and then I quit thinking about the matter at all. Where Are We Headed For? Editor, The People-Sentinel It is a well know fact that the farm ers in a bad way, and from the way the wind blows there i« little or no prospects for better times in the near future. Taxes on farm property are a great deal higher than before the boll weevil came to stay with us when we could reasonably expect a fair Trop provided we had good land and used lots of fertilizers. You can now ride for miles in Barnwell County on fine hard surfaced roads and pass grand school buildings through a desolate, God-forsaken looking country — no much-needed repair work done and the out-buildings like the little old log cabin in the lane, letting in the sun shine and the rain. Schools and roads are both good thing*, but even a good thing can be over done. Every salesday land is sold for taxes by the sheriff. Barnwell is entirely dependent on the farms for business, so it is folly to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by excessive taxes. The upper counties have their cot ton mills with big pay. rolls every week, which of course puts lots of money in circulation. Have heard that dead farms in Georgia are only taxed about ten cents per acre. Such prop erty ought to be taxed very low, if at all. Land, no doubt, will come back some day, but that grand and glorious day is in the far and distant future. It is a long and 3I0W process to introduce a new money crop, and lets of land owner s are going to have their lands sold for taxes in the meantime Un less something is done to relieve the situation and done soon, large parts of Barnwell County will be bought for a song by Northein sportsmen as hunt ing [preserves. This will be of no ad vantage in a business or social way, as very little cf the land will be plant ed. It would need &ie services of one or two men as game wardens for thousands of acres of land. No coun try can prosper when the land i s all owned by a few rich men. They will hold the whip-handle and the tenants will be practically slaves like the peons of Mexico and Brazil, and our two chief crops instead of cotton and corn will be paupers and peons. Let’s reduce the taxes on farms^ es pecially those that are not now being planted. Don’t penalize a man for owning a farm. Possibly if a large number of voters would write our representatives in the legislature, Something might be done before the land passes into the hands cf strangers and aliens. It would be better to cut everything—salaries, schools,, etc.—than to have our homes and lands sold for taxes from us. Protestant. Nearly all of our churches aie just like nearly all of our businesses: they are mosty hard up, generally busted, 2 months in arrears on the pastor’s salaiy and foreign missions, and plan ning to put on a “drive” to raise a deficit. Seme members are chronic signers: they are willing to promise 50 dollar s for a new carpet, if they can write their name down on the list in large letters, and then they^a^e through—they never pay a pledge. We had a brother once that always agreed to pay 100 dollars on the preacher’s salary; if he ever gave a dime in 9 years, nobody heard it drop, i MAGAZINE IS PAL OF BOYS. Prospects Versus Probabilities. A man came to me a few days ago and said: “If you will furnish me with a stock of merchandise in a well- located store-room, and spend just a few hundred dollars for fixtures, and have a telephone put in, and pay for the water and lights, give me a nice delivery truck, I believe IWill go back into the mercantile business. Of course I will draw only 50 or 60 dol lars a week to live on.” I am giving his kind effer consideration, but am wondering if he woulddent like to have a radio and a piano in hi s store. And there is no end to the fine prop ositions I am having made to me al most daily. As previously stated, I am burdened with several farms and also am suffering some in the vicinity of my gall bladder, but Aiken Head said he wanted a big 2 horse farm, and 2 mules to work it with, and enuff money to buy rations for 11 children, a mother-in-law, plus 2 gram-paws, and about 50 dollars right now so’* he could keep his children in school till he moved to my place. He thinks he can possibly run hi s old Ford mithout bothering me for anything except the plate and a few sacks of cotton meal to feed the cow on, which I will have to buy for hia. Aiken real* A young lounge-lizard friend of mine made up his mind once that he wa* going to tithe his income, which according to his statement, wa s 35 dollars a week. He gave $3:50 the ; first week and gradually gave less and | less till he stopped entirely. I asked him what had become cf his tithe- j agreement. He said that he tithed as * long as he had anything tD tithe, but after he got thiough paying his board and various and sundry installments • for things he diddent need, he actual ly had to borrow a few tithes from his brother to make ends meet. He insisted that if he tithed, he could- dent pay his honest debts. He finally quit the church. The judge gave him 90 days for the last offense. Good “DentUt” Gono Year* ago a dentist sent out by the Hudsons Bay company had for his mechanic an Eskimo known only as “Siberian Mike.” Watching the dentist pull the teeth of his victims, Mike soon learned to do It himself. When the dentist left the Arctic, Mike remained and became an Itinerant tooth puller. In aR theae jean be has wandered from place to place with hit kit of forceps pulling out teeth for anyone needing such ministrations. Mike died recently la the Perry river region, his paaMag woumsd ae*ti which knew lane—Capper s Weekly. 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I have about a $5,000.00 stock of standard grade jewelry and allied lines, and must turn as much of it into cash as possible regardless of profit. Some Gift Suggestions: Wrist Watches, Pocket Watches, Watch Chains and Knives 1 Rings, Brooch Pins, Fountain Pens and Pencil Sets, Necklaces—pearl and novelty, Comb and Brush Sets, Belt Buckle Sets, Compacts and Bags, Sterling Silver Flat Ware, Clocks and many other gift items. Come in and select your gifts now at .. M0NEY SAVING PRICES. is* P. W. Stevens Jeweler and Optometrist Barnwell, South Carolina A Full Line of Xmas and New Year Greeting Cards. Local and Personal * News of Blackville Blackville, Dec. 13.—On Thursday afteinoon, Mrs. Kelly Browning en tertained the members of her bridge club. Mrs. William Folk and Miss Lola Folk, of Denmark, were guests. Mrs. Joe Golding received high -core prize and Mrs. Folk cut consolation. Mis. T. O. Boland and Mrs. Emmett Matthews entertained again on Thurs day afternoon at the home of the former. Six tables were arranged for “Hokum” which afforded amuse ment for the 25 guests. Mrs. Carl Buist held the most successful card, receiving the prize for the afternoon. A salad course was serve 1. Mrs. H. A Rich gave several vocal numbers dur ing the afternoon. Miss Helen Weissinger was hostess to the Monday Bridge Club this week. Several members of the school facul- j? ty were guests. Highest score was made by Miss Helen Holstine. Mrs. R. B. Fickling was. hostess to six tables of bridge Wednesday after noon. High seme was made by Miss Eugenia Still Consolation was cut by Mrs. G. M. Magruder. Mrs. Harold Crum and Mrs. Sigsbee Grimes assist ed their hostess in serving. Mrs. W. R. Carroll entertained Thursday afternoon with Mrs. E. H. Weissinger and Mrs. T. L. Wragg as | guests in addition to the regular club members. High score was made by Mis. Herman Brown. Consolation was cut by Mrs. Wragg. Miss Marie Farrell has returned from Augusta where she has been the guest of her niece, Mrs. Victor Dorr. The Blackville Baptist Missionary Society observed the annual days of prayer Tuesday and Wednesday after noons at the church, the meetings be-| ing in charge of Miss Olive Baxley, j president. Mr. and Mrs. James Nevils were visitors in Columbia Tuesday. Dr. and Mrs. S. B. Rush, Mrs. J. L. ! Bui*t, Mrs. G. F. Posey and Mrs. S. I H. Rush motored to Augusta Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Still, Mrs. H. D. Still, Mrs. T. L. Wragg and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Buist were visitor* in Orangeburg Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Farrell O’Gorman mo tored to Augusts Tuesday. Make This Ch ristmas a Cl&uSSeriS Fa mous Fruit Cake South's Favorite Since 1841 Christmas Strong, Healthy, Nursery Stock Roses, Shrubs, Evergreens Every plant adapted to Southern plant ing. Thousands of plants to choose from. Roses, 110 varieties. Guaran teed strong, healthy stock. Make your home beautiful—the garden spot of your neighborhood. Write TO DAY for free catalog. Contains full planting directions. Fruitland Nurseries Desk V-3, P. O. Drawers tit, AUGUSTA, GA. puth's Oldest Nursery J A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS. I a 4 4 - Barnwell, S. C., Dec. 10, 1930. - • 4 Dear Santa Claus!- ; 4 Please bring us remittances from - i our delinquent suberibers arid we > 4 shall be 4 Gratefully yours, < a The People-Sentinel. ; O’Gorman were visitors in Augusta this week. Mrs. Kelly Browning returned Wed nesday after spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. W. Folk, near Den mark. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McLaurin, of Sumter, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wragg, Sunday. Charlie Martin and family, whose ( apt. and Mrs. L. J. Ccnnelly, Mrs/home was destroyed by fire Thursday night about 12 o’clock, have moved to ^John O’Gorman and Mi s Margaret j the Leroy Fanning reside] another house belonging t< be repaired. Wyatt Browning, of Colu a \ isitor here Thursday. Mrs. Joe Golding left Th her home in New York ( spending a few weeks wit! entst Mr. and Mrs. I. Brown. 1 ADVERTISE in The People- uMiuiiiJlaihM *ii I. i