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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.
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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
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at prices that com
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I know conditions are not normal. I have
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standard grade jewelry and allied lines, and
must turn as much of it into cash as possible
regardless of profit.
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Rings, Brooch Pins, Fountain Pens and
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Compacts and Bags, Sterling Silver Flat
Ware, Clocks and many other gift items.
Come in and select your gifts now at
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Jeweler and Optometrist
Barnwell, South Carolina
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Local and Personal
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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.
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A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS. I
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- Barnwell, S. C., Dec. 10, 1930. -
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Dear Santa Claus!- ;
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Please bring us remittances from -
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our delinquent suberibers arid we >
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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.
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