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( / rrV- / - •■ ' fST THE 1/FPIClAf NEWSPAPER OF BAUNWELL COUNTY \ Consolidated Jane 1, 1926. Mufet L.lk« a of the. family" VOLUME LIV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931. v ' NUMBER 24 -Si. New Money-Bills to Be Forced by Budget IlndinK Cuts of $2,000,000 from Ap propriation Bill Impossible, New Revenue Hunted. Criminal Court Will Convene February 23 ^ i • Grand Jurors for the Year,.and Petit ' - ' . • f * » Jurors for the Approechinjt Term * ' v -jj,:«■/'. *' _ » _ . *• Are Drawn. Popular Citizen Comes Back Home Appoint W. D. Black Teachers of County as County Director Oppose Salary Cut " Columbia, Feb. -6.—The revenue ap propriation problem,' perennial enig ma to each succeeding general assem-; bly, comes to the forefront tomorrow as the eightieth general assembly be- trins its fifth week. . Wednesday, according to the presnt schedule, the ways and means com mittee will complete its appropriation request hearings and may begin work of actually writing the 1931 ap propriation bill. Before the writing is begun, how ever, Representative Neville Bennett, Bennettsville, chairman of the ways and means committee, said, the com mittee desires to find the revenue needed to meet expected appropria tions. The first week of the session pan wa s to tackle the problem the ^►ther way, making all possible cuts in appropriations and then setting out. if revenues were insufficient to supply this amount, to write such new in come bHls ijs might be requiVcrh*T;5ng ago, however, hope that appropria- vtionspcould possiblyreduced ^yy the nearly $2,000,000 necessary to balance the budget tm the basis of existing i-fvcrrue Ipw rveeipts was abandoned. ^ Three Bills Draftedr And so the inevitable new revenue * >mmittee, styled this jrear the subr- committee on revenue and balancing the budget, was appointed. This com mittee has draftedVthree hills which ;.re to be presented to the ways and means committee and are expected, Mr. Bennett said, to Ite introduced this week. One proposes to levy a tax o’n- hydro-electric ppwer produced in the State. ,A second taxes motor busses ;,nd trucks. The thiid is the bil] to in crease the-tax on insurance premiums which was vetoed last year by Gov ernor John G. Richards when a clerical error in the act made the increase one per cent when the legislature' had in tended to make it one-half of one per cent. The bills have .already‘ been drawn although the ‘rates have hot been an nounced. The bus tax bill, however, Mr7~Bennett *aid, would not impose such a burden upon motor transpofta- .tion as to prohibit buses and trucks from operating in the State. It is in tended to bring in revenue. Already before both houses are divers bus tax | and fegulartory hills. Two senate ; .measures, drafted by railroad employ- , ••os and supported by the labor lobby, ‘ .<«te obviously either not revenue bills of would be ineffective if' passed. ; Revenue measures, the constitution ' provides, must originate in the house , t.ntd neither in the senate nor at a railroad brotherhood meeting. The biennial sessions amendment ratification bill, which the house pass ed 1 temporarily by one vote last week, i? scheduled to come up for, considera- The Court of General Sessions will convene at Barnwell on Monday, Feb ruary 23rd, with Judge J. K. Henry, of Chester, presiding. Grand jurord for the year and petit juror s for the approaching term, which is for one "week only, we%e drawn Monday, as follows: Grand Jurors. * ' -Birt, I^ong Branch. T. E. Killmgsworth, Dunbarton. P. M. Hair, Williston. ^ R. G. Hiers^JVilliston. W. R. Kenniffy, Williston. S. J. Halford, Barnwell. C. M. Turner, Ellenton. A. D. Connor, Jr., Barnwell. Cairoll Davis, Reedy Branch. Charlie Brown, Jr., Barnwell. '— S. H. Ussery, Barnwell. Arthur Still, Elko. ■ •> • -v Hcjd-over Grand Jurors. P. J. Hi?rs, Dunbarton. W. W f rfarley, Hercules. O. B. Staley, Elko. C. C. Black, Reedy Branch. J. M. Walker, Healing Springs. Petit Jurors. Jasper T. Jenkins, Kline. T— ' T. A. Holland, Jr., Barnwell. G. L. YVeissihger, Blackville. Edward Thompson, Williston. C. J. Fickling, Blackville. M. B. Hego&d, Barnwell. E. E. Delk, Barhary Branch. W. G. Hill, Barnwell. J. A. Joyner, Oak Grove'. L. C. Still, Blackville. Geo. N. Odom, Healing Springs. William Odom, Healing Springs. R. R. Cheek, Barnwell. L. H. Bclen, Williston. Clarendon Black, Reedy Branch. Hoyt Rutland, Pleasant Hill. U. S. Plexico, Kline. T. M. Johnston, Sr., Hilda. W. C. Bell, Pleasant Hill. I. F. Keeler, 'Healing Springs. M. L. Dyches, Blackville. H. H. Crum, Blackville. Lawton Creech, Barnwell. jp. F. Woodward, Barnwell. J. Black, Jr., Reedy Branch. G. C. Fowke, Dunbarton. Marion S. Hair, Green’s Academy. Brooks O. Bennett, Barnwell. H. W, Sanders, Barnwell. ■d. E. Grubbs, Blackville. C. E. Hall, Williston. _ B. F. Gardner, dealing Springs. B. S. Moore, Sr., Barnwell. J. C. Hoffman, Blackville. 'T~M. •'H5«vXU«5aV.A*cSl»fKy.--— A. A. Lemon, Barnwell. Prominent Citizen of Williston Suc ceeds the Late G. Walter Greene on Board. Favor Increase in Teaefctr Load. Re Capt. W. D. Black, of Williston, ha s been. selected by the county delega- moval of County Superintendent from Pol Kies. W’hile favoring an increase in the' ‘teacher load,” the removal of the -• tion to succeed the late 'G. Walter office of County Superintendent of Greene, also of Williston, as a mem- Education from polKieg and the adop- ber of the Board of County Directors, tion of a compulsory attendance law, according to an announcement made the teachers of Barnwell County have here Saturday: Capt. Black needs no gone on record as being opposed to introduction to the people of Barn web any reduction in the amount of their County, a s he has always taken an ac- salaries. This action was taken ^t live interest in public affairs. He the meeting of the county teachers’ served a number of years ago as a association at Williston Saturday, at ~ member of the Board of County Com- whith time the following resolutions missioners, the duties of which were wer^adopted: ~ - ' r- similar to those of the present Board “We, the Barnwell County teachers,, of,County Directors. He has also in regular meeting held at Williston, headed the town government of Wil- S. C:, February 7, 1931, offer the liston as Mayor for several terms., and following resolutions for the consider- was a candidate for Congress a num- aticn of our 9ounty Legislative Dele ter of years ago. In addition he has gation and other members of the represented the people of Brfriiwell South Carolina General Assembly: County in the legislature. He hag “Whereas, the South Carolina large farming interests in the Wil- Teachers Association, in which we liston section. are enrolled practically 100 percent. His friends believe that their con- has employed the best available talent fidence in him in the past Was not to map out an educational program misplaced and are quite sure that he for the State; will again measure up to the respon- “Whereas, we agree wjth these edu- ■sibilities now placed upon him. The cationa] loaders that the outstanding People-Sentinel feels that he is a need s 'in South Carolina today are (1) valuable addition to the Board of an increase in teacher load as recom- County Directors and a worthy sue- mended by the Department of Super- cessor to his late distinguished fellow intendence of our association, (2) the removal of the office of County Super intendent of Education from politics, and (311 a compulsory attendance law; “Whereas, we consider .the State salary schedule inadequate in propor tion to the responsibilities of teach- 8 townsman. “JUDGE” BELLINGER MAHER. A large crowd gathered at -the Southern Ry. depot in Barnwell Friday morning to greet this popular citizen, who returned to his old rome after an absence of several months in Washington, D. C. He seems as gad to be home again as his friends are to have him here. Resolutions of Respect. WARN FARMERS AGAINST PRODUCING LARGE CROP SMALL COTTON YIELD WOULD BE MORE VALUABLE. Production of 15,0000,000 Bales This Year Will Result Disastrously to the South. That a cotton crop of only ten mil- The following resolutions of re- lion bales this y* ar will be worth spect were adopted at the regular n ^ r Jy three hundred million dollars monthly meeting of the Board of mo5*-than a yeild of fifteen million maximum acreage at 31,875,00?) acres, or 14,317,000 acres le-s than last year. A It is pointed out that the real gain to thrfi, < County Directors, held here Tuesday of last week: tion Wednesday as scon as the house jmpleted its consideration of local uncontested matters. Represen- tative'Alan Sapp, of Lahcuster, whose vote, in favor of biennial sessions was cast underNnisapprehensiori, was re sponsible for^he one vote majority 1 f nded i from end of the count y ^ given the ratification bill which ma jority would have oeen sufficient for the measure’s second heading passage hadr it been allowed to stand. On Mr. Sapp’s motion, however, tka vote for w ^ ose ^ as ^ )e€n e J* adoption was reconsidered and the cated to the ^ illtere8t of his coun - bill, restored to second reading^ was and hia State, and. bales, not taking • into account the extra cost of producing the unneeded ordered carried over until Wednesd Justice Balloting. The joint assembly tomorrow night will resume balloting on an associate .justice of the supreme court. The deadlock ha s been unbroken after fifty-four ballots.' In 1927 Associate Justice J. F, Carter was elected on the fifty-fifth ballot. . The senate tomorrow rs scheduled to consider a resolution passed by the house to have low candidates, dropped on each ballo't‘after the fifty-seventh _ . .. . , ,, ... . , this Resolution inscribed thereon be ballot. No new candidates would be , . , . „ X WHEREAS, death has removed fiv e million bales, i s the collecUve from our Board, George Walter opinion of 21 leading American cotton Greene, a most valuable member merchants. This information i:« con- thereof, and in addition thereto a Gained in a “ttitton digest” which was man whose worth and usefulness ex- handed to The People-Sentinej by a local merchant and cotton buyer, the other, and j These opinions take into account the “WHEREAS, our xpunty ha s in his fac t that 'the carry-over of American death lost one of its main springs of <*>tton this year will be approximately industry ai\d progress and a man nm® million bales and the added fact that the activities of the farm board this year will be confined to the liqui- of the cotton bought and held agency. The collective judg- of the 21 below, with jents per d farm “WHEREAS, his sudden passing especially at this time of deep de- pression and discouragement, is in truth and in fact an irreparable los: to his\ounty f^nd community, “THEREFORE, be it resolve^ b the Board of Directors for Bamwe County, that do expess to his reaved widow and family our mo sincere sympathy, that a copy of this 1 Resolution be forwarded to Mrs. Greene by the Clerk of this Board and that a page in our minutfe book with received after that ballot. Two hearings are scheduled Tuesday afternoon. dedicated to his memory.’ for , board of examiners for barbers One on the bill introduced by W. L._ requires them to have licenses to fol cents per ,000; 14.51 cents 7 $798,500,000. Twelve million bales, 12.39 cents per pound; total value, $733,400,000. Thirteen million bales, 10.19 cents per pound; total value, $662,350,000. Fourteen million* bales, 7.36 cents r pound; total value, $592,200,000. and, ^Fifteen million bales, 7.36 cents per pound: total value, $552,000,000, ' Thus^Nit will be seen that as the size compared with a large one is the sav ing in growing and harvesting the ci^op on the excess acreage, this sav ing irt expense being conservatively figured at $225,000,000, or over $100 apiece for the two million cotton farm ers in the South, and evejn allowing for the fact that “the labor cost rep resents the otherwise used and unre munerated labor of the farmers anc their families, it still remains true that very heavy items of unfavorable ocst- cf production will not be incur red.” On this basis, counting the cost of seed, fertilizer and ginning, it is figured that the Southern farmers will be better off by at least 372 mil lion dollars, or nearly $190 per farmer from the production of ten "million bale s than from the production o ,f fifteen million bales, while also per mitting the farmers to put the extra acres into food and feed craps. The inescapable, conclusions from the fact< just presented may be briefly stated as follows: “(!) Every dollar which the aver age farmer spends this year in plant ing, cultivating, fertilizing, harvesting and ginning a cottbn acreage in excess of 70 percent of that which he had last year will net only be a dollar com pletely wasted, but it will also be a dollar entailing a lower aggregate re turn from the farmer’s entire cop. “(2) Every dollar .which a banker or local merchant advances to the. average farmer to meetLtne expense of putting in an acreage in excess of 70 per cent, of what the farmer had Daniel, Greenwood, requiring banks low their trade, receiving money on deposit to take out ^."There-are seat* vacant because qf of the jerb^ increases, the price per surety bonds in the full amount of the death in both houses. ‘Arthur pound and total value decreases. To deposits received’for-the protection of Kibler, representative from Newberry, obtain the higtyeat pricq, it is only depositors. The bond would have to died last Tuesday; and-Satundsy tright necessary for the farmer to plant less bear the approval of the State finance' Dr. Isaac J. Campbell, state senator cotton thi 8 year, but the cut in acreage ^^.^ti**** X - from York, jdied at Clover. must be not less than 31 per cent, in Barber License Bill. J-' Special election? ipust be ordered order tp insure a yield of not more The selcnd hearing is on the barber to fill the two vacancies.—News and than ten million bales under normal licensing bill—a bill which creates a Courier. conditions. Thi^ would place the ■,V ; - / >'■ HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmers McDermid. Some of our Cdai tal Truck Farmers ing and to the standards of living de- are getting “itchy” to plant beans, manded of teachers; This weather i s enough to persuade | “Whereas, we regard the teaching anyone to do just a little with nature. By the time you read this, about gambling” ; Profession as lequirrng professional training; . “Whereas, we believe that to cat half of South Carolina’s Irish potato the »l*ries. of twurhers is to redoc* crop will have been planted. It hag * he ^catioital efficiency of the been an ideal season so far, altho some 8cho ° l8 ** dri ™* «nbitioo. of the planters are holding up on ac /teachers, and thus to invite dineter to count of the dry weather. The lighter soil types are just a lit- the public school system; “We, therefore, endorse the legisla te dry at present, and some farmers tlve P">*rmm of the South Carolina fear dry rot if they plant before they Teachers Association, and we appeal get a little moisture. ' | 10 the ^•^tor.-pf South Caroline— A great many of the Beaufort and the Bar ™ell delegation Jn particular Charleston potato mdn are “treating” , - not 10 ] ™ €r the P reaent ^ndard of their i?eed this season. I think that ^ Caching profession and to protect this i s a good thing, and a mighty the ri & hts cf our ^ a " d * irl »’ cheap form of crop insurance. Seed treatment is also good on cukes, cants, cotton, watermelons and tomatoes. Many seed born diseases which have really become a serious State’g future citizens. Farmers Joining Contests. A number of farmers have already joined one or more of the State-wid* nate t:( '.'Ui b ,ul . 14CP- crops on» each iee asm, th, past f. w y. aia. can ba almost 100 S w«t PoUtoe., Crden and per cent controlled by .eed treatment. Ton ^ or of ^ The •treatment in nmple end ex- may ^ by , , armer ^ ^ tremely aheap. I cannot, advise it too strongly. Your County Agent will be glad to furnish instructions, I’m sure. Let me make a plea to you aspara gus grower)?.—DON’T NEGLECT the . 1 j j u . . FKRTII.IZATtON OF THE ASPARA. Kh ° 0lS ' ^ 4 H ^ County Agent knew which you entering. — Dan Lewis, State Club leader, as sisted Harry Boylston for a day last week in visiting a number of th* GUS CROP. Time s are hard, and money tight—but for pity’s saks don’t neglect your money crop. Remember — proper fertilization makes COLOSSAL grade asparagus, and there are more buyers who want the Colct-'sal grade than want the choice grade. ^ Good response was made and a fine membership is expected. Hog feeding for March and April market is being done by many fans* ers, some of them being M. W. Wise, J. Mims Walker, I. Keeler, P. A. Bax ley, J. A. Kennedy, A. R. Dunbar, H. T. You mans, S. H. Greene and others. Feed a full 'ration of corn and fish • You want your shore of the buyer, meal or ^ ihoata ^ ^ money, ao make a deaperate effort to them for SprinI[ »d vi>M Coob- (tive the "(Trass crop what rt need. ty AgtM Number me Hoc. and the returns w.ll not d.sappomt are , h<]M >traigh ^ 8m00th _ Ht ^ you ' . . weighing 165 to 225 poUfidi. A** jam And you cotton and com, and poU- fMding , Ul the to and truck farmom-juat because ^ s0 yim M you feel p.nched-don t foreet that tim( , 0f;mM Ji._ By H . G. Boyk- we hare passed the stage where we ^ A)[ent think that we can make a crop of any- ^ ^ thing without fertilizer, and plenty of Presbyterian Cbsrcb Servkaa. it, at that. • r . j— _____ What happened to those few rows Annoncement is made that the rego- you forget to fertilize a year or so ] ar gerv i ce9 w }ii be conducted at th* ago? They just came up, took a look Barnwell Presbyterian Church Sunday at you and then turned, over and died, evening, February 15th, beginning ah didn’t they? 7:30 o’clock. An important congro- . I attended one of Bob Hamilton s gt^tional meeting will be held iat- fertilizer meetings the other day and me diately after the services, heard this recommendation for cotton. ^ . It ran al>out like this—200 pounds of Return to England. 16 per cent acid, 100 pounds of 18 per ’ „' . centjiitrate of soda, and 50 pounds of Relatives and friends of Mr. and N; last year will not o^ly bring-fto netr ^jriate of potash. Mrs. Duncan Holmes will be intereot- return to the farmer but will qlso : This recommendation amounts to e^d to know that they sailed for tend to impair the farmers’ ability to 350 pounds of about a 9-6-7, per acre. l«)d on February 7th after i repay the money borrowed by him to Clem^on has found it good, and a weeks Vacation spent in J>lant; cultivate and harvest th? profit- Greenville axxd New York-JQity. Mr. able 70 per cent.” ** this season. Holmes is European manager of the Tune in to Station WENR, Chicago, Standard Statistics Company, _ with every Tuesday evening—7.45 to 8 o’- headquarters in London, growing cotton, what will the South- clock Eastern Standard Time for a* ^ ^ 1 *' * era farmer do about it? * * good fertilizer talk. • ADV]HT18B i* per Knowing that he can mak? more clear* murrey by working less thik year