The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 22, 1931, Image 2
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Attorneys-at-Law
BROWN-BUSH
BUILDING
BARNWELL, <
SOUTH CAROLINA !
PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS
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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
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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
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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
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Ttoal $33.80
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*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
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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
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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
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Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Harriet Hoiiston 150
W. H. Duncan 405 J. M. Weathersbee 572
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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.
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No. 23—Barbary Branch .
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No. 45—Barnwell
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No. 52—Joyce Branch
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No. 34—Kline
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No. 32—Lee’s
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No. 54—Meyer’s Mill __
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No. 42—Morris
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No. 26—New Forest
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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.
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