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The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Motored at the post office at Barnwell S. C., aa second-claaa matter. • SUBSCRIPTION BATES: jOoo Tear —Lf.—. H-60 0b Months *90 Arse Months * — ,60 » (Strictly In Adranco.) THURSDAY, JANUARY-22, 1931. The local branch of the Bank of Western Carolina is fostering a sys tem of diversification and rotation portation ig hero to stay, but the owners of the several lines should be allowed to operate on the public high- ly. So they came first ag well as last. that ghould, in a few years, restore the ways only after they have been made farmers of this section to at least a measure of prosperity if they will in* to pay a fair proportion of the cost thereof, together with their, propor- teRigently follow .it. Certainly, it tionate share of the cost of mainten- seems more than foolish to continue once, or else require them to build the over-production of a crop of and maintain roadg of their own from if No, It Won’t Be Done. If - — Of course, it won’t be done, but George R. Bowman, an Orangeburg County farmer, ha s offered the most •ensible solution of the cotton farm er's problem that we have seen so far. In a letter addressed to Chairman LeOTfc. «f the federal farm board, a copy of which is reproduced in this issue of The People-Sentinel, Mr. Bowman suggests that, instead of lending the farmers money to buy aeed and fertilizer to make another crop of cotton, which would only add to the distress of the present situa tion if a large yield results, the farm board lend them money with which to "buy cotton, on the basis of the number of bales produced in 1930, with a binding agreement that such purchas ers not plant a hill of cotton this year. Such a plan would not only retire a iarge number of bale s from the mar ket but would insure a cut in acreage that can be had in no other way. v While it is generally conceded that farmers oannot produce cotton at eeven to nine cents a pound, a certain amount of money will be available to produce another crop, but Utile," if any, can be had to put Mr. Bowman’s suggestion into effect. In way s that are "dark and tricks that are vain, the heathen Chinee is not alone in his peculiarity. Farmers in Name Only. which there ig a price-depressing sur plus with the expectation of getting enough money from the proceeds of that crop to pay for thingg* that can be produced rigHt here on the farm. But “there are none so blind as those who will not see.” When i s a. farmer not a farmer? The answer is plain: When he fails to produce for his own use those things that can be grown on the farms of this section. The Lavonia (Ga.) Times has re cently conducted a survey to deter mine just what becomes of the money that is advanced to a tenant to make a crop. One tenant, whose ease is typical of many in Barnwell County except that he paid his bill in full in the f|ill of 1930. The Time s found that this farmer’s total supply bill, a»ot including guano, was $201.80. Of that amount^ $168 was expended for food and feedstuffs that could have and should have been produced at home and only $33.80 for things that could not have been produced. Thus jt is seen that very little actual money would have been required if the ten ant had been a farmer in fact as well aa in name. The figures cited by The Time s are convincing and eye-opening and The People-Sentinel cotnipends them to the careful consideration of the farm er* of Barnwell County. Here they are: Things purchase that can be raised mt home: Flour $40.00 __ Meal 21.75 1 Meat 13.40 Lard 14.80 Syrup 8.65 • Feeds 69.50 Unfair Competition. * The People-Sentinel is glad to note that public sentiment in South Caro lina appears to be crystalizing rapid ly against the use of the State’s high ways by commercial passenger buses and freight trucks, reeultinpun what we consider most unfair competition for the railroads. Last week we pub lished some facts and figure g that were presented by Col. J. E. Harley, of this city, before the Board of Con- demhation at Bamberg a couple of weeks ago. They deserve the serious consideration of all thinking people. Among other things, Colonel Harley called attention to the fact that "in Barnwell County the total amount of taxes collected in 1929 was $202,800, of which the railroads paid $80,475, and in 1930 the total amount collect ed by the Treasurer of Barnwell Coun ty to January 1 1931, was $115,624. That in addition to this, there i s col lected from the lailroads in Barnwell County by the several municipalities more than $5,000 in taxes.” Furthermore, the railroads of the country ^nmktfytLffPjprpximately 1,- 7OO,0O0Lmen in-1929ju-t° whom they paid wages amounting to $2,937,000,- 000. The two railroads that have lines through Barnwell employ quite a number of men, both white and col ored, in variou 8 capacities, thus fur nishing a regular payroll which is largely npent with local merchants. Now, then, in comparison, just what would the owner s of a bus or freight line through Barnwell pay in to the public treasury or otherwise in the county? Nothing, we’d say, except perchance the vehicles required an occasional supply of gasoline or oil en route. Take, for example, a line running from Augusta, G«., down through Williston, Blackville, Bamberg .and on to Charleston with a connect ion at Blackville for Barnwell and other points South. The owner s of such a line would pay a nominal sum in the way of taxes on its very limit ed equipment, the financial benefit to this county being very small. The chance s « re that a la^Ke part of the gasoine would be purchased in the Georgia city\ and used to propel ve hicles in South Carolina over roads built and The buses or trucks would, of course, be required to have licenses, operators would spend little or noth ing with the merchants of the county. ) which the vehicles of the general pub lic are prohibited. 1 And last but not least from the .standpoint of public safety did you ever meet a big bus or heavily laden truck on the highway end note how often th$ driver thereof demand* his share of the road “right down the mid- The People-Sentinel respectfully refers this grave question to the members of the General Asserrfbly now in sesstoa. I > By Gee McGee. Safety First and Last, il have invented a scheme that will make banking safe and sound. If my ‘suggestions are followed and my plans property promulgated, there wilt never again be such a thing as a busted bank. No more financial sorrow^ sad ness and remorse will afflict our land, and death will never again stalk in the wake of this notice: “Bank clos ed for repair?.” ‘ _ * claim on, and—that would have been terribly awful on you and your fami- F/?F£'B1G PLANT CATALOG v Plants Beautify Your Home— . Thi* 1. ti. pU"tU* iVo* win kip you P 1 ** r r?lC , ,o Thousands af rftnUy. healthy choose from. Maheyoor bouses fsracu And furthermore, the firm -who helped you made you promise to pay an installment every month—regard less of sickness, death, sfohn, firebar brimstone. And be side* having a mortgage on you and the stuff (in question), they made the man who abld-ih-io you endorse and guarantee the paper, so you *ee—Alfony, you had to destroy, th^ property purchas- Here Are My. Rules. 1. Don’t lend any mone^ to any- body under any circumstances. 2. But in case you should find it necessary to make a loan, force the borrower to pay his note in advance. 3; Don t cash any checks unless they are signed by Henry Ford, Andy Mellon, John Raskob, or John D. Rockefeller. ~ 4. In case you find that you have any unpaid notes in your bank, pos sible carry-overs from post war in flation, make the makers of such j notes check them out before the de positors check their money out 5.. In case you find that a run is being made on your bank, lock the doors, throw the keys away, and phone the Federal Reserve to’send you an armored truck-load of 10-dollar bills and a few pennies. 6. Don’t discount any paper unless it is secured by Liberty Bonds in the ratio of 16 to 1, and therr require the man to get the endorsement of his wife, 5 married sons, 7 sons-in-law, and his family physician, if you think he would add anything to the streng th of the papers. 7. If you have any cash at any time, turn it over to the Bank Ex aminer to store for you in another Lo go broke before the credit company .could get hurt, J - *■ i Ll ~ l ‘ * .. ■ ■ - * -i Dr. Treatem Goode told me last week that he could not get a mort gage on the pills he gave and the many trips he made to see hie sick patients while they were paying the credit* company with the money they owed him, and' my grocer lamented the fact that much of hia flour and meat and sugar money went to those wonderful finance corporations, and that’s possibly why they had not yet Buffered any losses of any Conse quence. % y 4- . A few people will pay the man who trusts them before they will pay the man who won’t trust anybody, but both of them moved off last year. Nearly everybody I ever knew was honest—(if they happened to have more money than they needed)--but it - seems that some folks 1 don’t consider a debt an honest debt unless they Signed a mortgage setting it forth. (At least. Uncle Joe thinks so.) • ' BROWN & BUSH I, Attorneys-at-Law BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL, < SOUTH CAROLINA ! PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS X- LCDl !%I Some folks Will actually read a newspaper on credit and forget about It. I know a man who thinks he’s go- •going’to pay the preacher next week. I guess he thinks salvation i s free, and mebbe it is, but churches and pianos and organ s and song books and repairs and insurance cost something. All I’ve got to say is—I wish I had a big finance corporation instead of what “I is got,” which is just about the same as what you’ve get too. flat rock new*. some sicknes stock place right _af- ter the holidays onner count of they eat too much sawsage and other heavy greases, but the doctor has announced all of them out of danger except old man smith and"he would of been o. k. too if he had not tried to mix some home brew witb his buttermilk anso- forth. ' ' ~ V a serious lawsuit will takfe»4»laee at trail State, being sure to negotiate with , u .v 0™.” ' U° vernment Bonded Warehouses only, maintained by this State. ' 8. Require despositor s to leave 95 irse, y • # . i • • * The * )er cent t ” e,r mone y on depisit at all times, and forbid them to give checks to any person, firm or corpora tion, without first having the same Using roads built and maintained attested and counters j gned by thf > nal taxes, employing a CQmparatively| (jf any)> and the fcur small number of people, such trans- j an jt orj f portation companies offer the rankest j 9 permit any qfficer of ^ maggistrater king’s offis tuesday when sam wright and bill ivvins will* be tried for their life, it seem that last week, no—i believe it wa s week be- foar last sam’s old rooster got over into bill's turnip-sallet patch and he rung his neckband throwed him back over the fense and a fight insude be twixt them, some folk s believe a ver- dick of man slawter oughto he handed down to stop them from picking at law ,gOTttteff.,. but it .-remains to be Lv bank to own anything or buy any- sort of unfair competition to the railroads of the Slate. „ within the past week, a lesident of 0 f va ] Ue j n excess of 5 cents, U>lumbia addressed a letter to the ajl< j | n 8UC }, eventualities, require him editor of The Slate, in which he ^ bave b j s w jf e p ay sucb b j]j g w hj, calls attention to a radio address h<?r own money _ which ghe i ftherite d broadcast from a Shreveport, a ;‘ j f rom a dead uncle in another county. thing or speculate or trade for any- citizens gay it is onner count of hard _* •_ * r Tx; timoc whilp sav it ie ottpritio- station. Three statements merit ahr Totaj $168.00 > Things purchased that cannot be xaised at home: Sugar — $6.50 Coffee .* 4.00 Other groceries, soap, etc. __ 3.65 Tobacco 6.00 Hardware A 4.90 Dry Goods and Shoes - 8,75 ,4 l - ^ . *: Ttoal $33.80 t *Tf a farmer can live and pay his debts with the above program, what «ould he do with a program which would save him the purchase of the $168 ,worth of suplies that he could have produced at home?” asks The __Times, which continues: “In the above accounting, nothing **9 said about the fertilizer account. S-^Thft wa s $195. just $6.80 less than the i/j^Lcntire supply bill. In the first place, the farmer paid a premium of one- third or $65 in buying hi s fertilizer on time. A hundred and thirty dollars la cash would have purchased the same fertilizers and the merchant > * would have ben just as glad to sell for cash. With the growing of other eropg the fertilizers used couldvhave been reduced a third or even cut in half without^ hazarding the Ir could be cut even more in later years r '''wRh a system building uj> farms with the use of more animal* and a balanc ed system of rotation.” — ^ *' publication in every newspaper in South Carolina. They are: “1. Railroad mileage is being aban doned in the United States at the rate of 1,000 miles a day.” (Must have meant a year.) “2. Railroads operating in Caddo County, of which Shreveport is the 1 county seat, pay $250,000 in taxes, 1 while commercial buses and trucks | operating in that county pay the piti- fuj sum of $3,000 in taxes f 10. Don’t permit any officer of the bank to smoke, chew, play golf, shoot jay birds, take in washing, punch pool, wear specks, or shine his shoes,,and keep his hat locked up in the vault during banking hours. seen, as it is up to the maggtetrate. this town has run mig'hty scarse of weddings here of late, some of the times, while others say it i 8 ottermo- beels and the young folks don’t see no reason to get married, it is a miss take for anyboddy to think that 2 can live a* eheap as one: it might be so when the honneymoon is going on, but the fambly don’t remain 2 verry long and then expenses begin to dime, the doctors charge 40$ for a visit cf that kind row, and just think of a poor man having that mutch munney. Now, friends, this will s dve the j a new filling station is liable to open banking question. Think of the pros- ( up at this place, »o we hear, a* jim perity that will besmirch us in a long has decided to move back here period of only a few years if the bank- 1 and go i?Ro bizness, and they say that ers stop depositors from checking out ( a filling station is the only kind of their cash until -their neighbors have bizness that he has ever run. our 3. Railroads operating in Ca o , ^ tb eir notes: Ye$, them’s 1 town ha« only 4 corners in it and all County pay employes a living wage, my own j deaa and ^ey are absolutely ] of them 4 corners now have filling while drivers of somej>f the^true s * or jgi n al. (But they are not patented stations on same, JL r i- he**”* 1 hafter on account of the unemployment situ-! or copyr jghted.) I TTTk-*-—£. ~ - N ation, are paid 50 cents a day.” The writer continues: “F am told that if South Carolina would impose the same tax on commercial buses and trucks that Massachusetts imposes, this State would collect $1,800,000 more than it now collects from buses and trucks. 1 am told that 75 per cent* of the 1929 South Carolina cot- There’s A Reason. I saw a piece in the paper the other day that said in part: “The commercial credit companies have withstood all of the terrible shocks of the past few months of hardtimes without appreciable losses.”. As you know, dear friends, those credit corn- ton crop was moved by trucks .and paniea are the firms that ^ a jame,9. r i* he^*”* 1 hafter 2 cor^lj 1 ^rt. ’ f ill the ftnotheV^RrrL A.te will • _ i- . * * 1 j bild betwixt 2 town grows anothe 1 possibly put in a line of tubes, and mebbe some groceries, if he can get some on credick. only 25 per cent, by rail.” If this unfair competition is allow mortgage on our cars and radios and refrigerators and machinery, and ed to continue, the railroads will ^ giaag aru j kept, U s riding sooner or later go the way of the old ( and li8tenirv g ^ eatingTool food. The reason why those credit com pa- stage coach, and in the meantime the heavily laden buses and trucks are wearing out our magnificent high way*. Wheh they are worn out or damaged beyond repair, who will re place them? The public, of course, if they are replaced. It may be that bu 8 and truck trans- nies have done so well is—they always -got'-* first mortgage on yom* stuff, the farmers of our section seem to barve about enuff of cotton raising, and say they will plant mostly food crops, they intend to boycott the guanner agents, "hut unless they get more cash than they now have, it looks more like Hhe guanner agents will boycott them, things is down in the dumps as to farming and if a change ain’t made by the farm bored, someboddy is go ing to get hungry befoar blackberries and waiter meUon 8 get here. (mr. after you one-haTf of its value, and of course— that meant a mortgage on your earn ings till the debt wa 8 paid* or you’d have to give up the stuff they had a Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping ^ Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of hunting, fishing of trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the J*1H~ — ' -X—t— X rr_ Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Harriet Hoiiston 150 W. H. Duncan 405 J. M. Weathersbee 572 ' j Mrs. Kate M. Pattersdn ___i 3,000 Durtcannon Place ^>650 Mrs. Jane R. Patterson __.i_i,Q00 Sweet Water Place 500 B. L. Easterling Cave Place 200 Barnwell Turpentine Co: Simmons Place 450 Middleton Place 300 Mose Holley 200 B. C. Norris 125 Estate of H. A. Patterson.-2,000 Joseph E. Dicks 800 R. C. Holman —— 400 A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. 1 160 John K. Snelling — 100 J. P. Harley 150 L. W. Tilly 160 John Newton 200 Tom Davis — 400 GEO. H. WALKER, Owner ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr. TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE— The County Treasurer’s office will be open from October 15th, 1930, to March 15th, 1931, for collecting 1930 taxes, 'which include real and personal property, poll and road tax. All taxes due and payable between September 15th and December 31st, 1930, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will be subject to penalties ds provided by law: . January 1st, 1931, one per cent, will be added. . Y February 1st, 1931, two per cent, will be added. March 1st to 15th seven per cent, will be added. Executions Kill hq placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter March 15th, 1931.. ^ . When writing for amount of ta£es, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one school district. • .• All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. ** .1 3 ■Ms P § o O S ’V « * 80 _ -a e B * « « & BS- ■0 -a c £ T3 C ■*» M _ ca JG W ; OT "« C o 3 * *J CO c o I X o CO ^■4 1 o 1 Special Local h h) < H O S.V: No. 24—Ashleigh 5 • 13 4 I 1 3 1 4 12 42 No. 23—Barbary Branch . 5 13 1 - 3 4 30 60 No. 45—Barnwell 5 13 4 - 1 3 4 29 ' 59 No. 4—Big Fork 5 • V* 00 4 1 3 4 18 48 No. 19—Blackville . Bl J _ 13 4 1 3 4 25 55 No. 36—Cedar Grove — 5 13 4 1 3 > ^ 28 58 No. 50—Diamond 5 13 4 1 'S 4 I* 44 No. 20—Double Pond j 5 13 4 1 8 4 19 49 No. 12—Dunbarton 5 13 _ _ £ 8 -4. 27 67 No. 21-vEdisto 5 13 -r 4 1 3 -HL! 9 39 No. 28—Elko 5 13 4 ' . u 3 4 30 60 No. 63—Ellenton 5 13 4 1 1 3 4 11 41 No. 11—Four Mile * 5 13 * 4 1 * • 3 4 14 44 No. 39—Friendship 1- 5 13 4 1 3 4 14 44 No. 16—Green’s 5 13 4 1 3 ^ 4 / 20 50 No. 10—Healing Springs. 5 13 4 1 ? 4 20 > 50 No. 28—Hercules 5 13 . 4 ,1 3 * 27 57 No. 9—Hilda - 5 13 4 1 3 4 35 65 No. 52—Joyce Branch 6 13 4 1 3 4 26 ~~ 56 No. 34—Kline 5 13 4 1 3 4 18 48 No. 32—Lee’s 5 • 13 4 1 .3 4 10 40 No. 8—Long Branch — . 5 13 4 1 3 4 17 47 No. 54—Meyer’s Mill __ 5 13 4 1 3 4 26 58 No. 42—Morris 5 13 4 1 3 4 12 42 No. 14—ML Calvary — 5 13 4 1 3 4 28 58 No. 26—New Forest 5 13 4 1 3 ' 4 28 58 .No. 3$—Oak Grove 5 13 4' 1 3 4 19 49 No. 43—Old Columbia — 5 13 r 4 •1 3 4 26 56 No. 13—Pleasant Hill — 5 13 4 1 3 4 15 45 No. 7.—Red Oak 5 13 4 1 3 4 16 46 No. 16—Reedy Branch . 5 13 4 1 3' 4 21* 51 No. 2—Seven Pines 5 13 4 1 3 4 12 42 No. 40—Tinker’s Creek _ 5 1 13 4 1 3 4 17 47 No. 26—Upper Richland ~ 5 1 13 4. ' 1 3 1 4 ’ 26 56 No. 29—Williston 6 1 13 M 1 » 1 3 | 4 32 62 The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 66 years. AH male citizen* between the age* of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.06. Y. _ - Dog Taxes for 1930 will be jjpid at,the same time other taxes are paid. It is the duty of each school trustee in -each school district to see that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. editor‘rite dr fbarinTybtf'^efthis ar- tickle, as i want it to edme out next monday.) . \ ~ yores trulie, A' , mike Clark, rfd. r . Checks wfll not be accepted far taxes under any circumstances *x- of t tfce taxpayer*—(The County Treasurer reserves the receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.) cept at the riek right to.'hold *U Tax, receipts wtfl be released only upon legal tender, postoffice money, or certified checks. J. J’. BELL, Co. Trees. .Y- X /■r ■h;v. » \ :T~V-