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The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. *— > Y ;‘:'3 , 'I . * 9 • > y THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA n “ ' r r* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the poet office at Barnwall S. C., aa second-clan matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: jfae Year $1.50 Biz Month* JO Three Months JO (Strictly la Advance.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931. h sources of revenue,” while making no serious effort to retrench. The Soldier Bonus. No one will seriously question the debt that the people of the United States owe to the veterans of the World War. The sole question seems to be whether or not the national gov ernment is in position to pay all or a sub-itantial part of the “adjusted compensation” at thi* time. Secre tary of the Treasury Mellon, himself many times a millionaire, has been holding up his hands in holy horror at the idea and predicting all sorts of dire consequences to the bond market and business conditions throughout the country. Other millionaires and representatives of “biff business” have also voiced their fears, but such ex pressions, together with the opposi tion of Prd-ident Hoover, did not pre vent the ConffToss from passing over- w’helminffly a bill to lend the veterans one-half of the face value of their certificates, instead of only 22H per cent., as formerly. It is hard for the average man to see how the loosing of such a vast amount of money—$1,700,000,000—in to circulation at thn time can do any vast amount of harm to business in jfeneral. It may be true that the value of certain bonds and other se curities may be depressed—none of us ‘ Farm Relief. Mebbe. have any way of knowinff that until | Prof. Parinsky says that the pea- later—but ordinarily it would seenf ‘ not is a fine brain food. Pshaw, he that s o much new money froinpr into doesn’t know what he’s talking about, the channels of trade should help Half of our politicians don’t eat any- rather than hurt business conditions thing else much but goobers, and I generally. If it means that the bulk wish you’d just looky h<Tw foolish they of the burden must be borne by those act. Unde Joe says that most legis- who have waxed rich on the country at lators think it is smart and elevating large, so much the better. One big 1 to introduce a bill every day or so. trouble with the United States at present seems to be that the wealth of the nation hais become concentrated in the hands of a few men, coihparative- ly speaking. Perhaps a more general distribution will help things. At any rate, we shall soon gee what we shall see. Thomin every night on the radio you won’t have much need for The Liter- There are many way B in which the ary Digest. He tells nearly every- postal service could reduce expense*, thing it tells. •• But of course you’d For instance, a good many millions mis„s the pictures. are spent each year for mail carriers „ in towns and villages of a few hun- We have had to buy several dif- dred population. As most of j the ferent parts for one of our ten-and-a- peopte in these town B get a part of half trucks here lately. We figgered their daily divePsioij .from a visit to ; up’fast night—if we were to buy one the post office, the carriers serve pnly ' of thiese trucks piece by piece and hire comparatively .small numbei* of ’em put together on the so-called pati It is jalso true that the cost of the rural delivery service has been gteadi» ly mounting. We are told that most of these carrier? are paid around $3,- 000 a year for only a few hours worje each day, with a vacation at full pay during the summer.* We venture the assertion that very few of them would quit or resign if the pay were reduced. And we daresay that many more millions could be saved by cutting out many useless clerks in the various de partments and a reduction in salaries all along the line. Why should the government pay more for certain class of service than is paid by individuals or private enterprises? “scale” basis—-the job complete (for a $725.00 truck) would cost ua exactly $26,775.88. STATE AID: Ma getting some money, from Pa to help Willie (their beloved son) buy a present for his sis ter, Sue. JY‘ ■ FEDERAL. AID: Pa taking 1 dollar out of his vest pocket and put ting it in his britches pocket with the 50 cents he borrowed from Ma, and then hiring his mother-in-law to go to town to tbuy an inner tube for their lizzie—with the $1.50. Mustard Plasters. -...Well, folks, times are almost nor mal at, last. Shoe-shines are a nickel, and a shave is 15 cents and a hair-cut (male) % 25"^ents. All we need now is—lower freight rates and Pullman fares, 5-cent street car ticketa,~pre scription adjustments a cut in picture show admissions so’s poor people can attend occasionally, and a pretty cot ton stocking that can be bought foe a quarter. COMMITTEE: £ number of men or women appointed to do something for nothing that doesn’t amount to anything at all—before or after. -L„-INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE: Usually a bunch of resilient men with itching palms and weak eyes and deaf ears who are paid for trying to do something they can’t do' and wouldn’t do if they could, who use only white wash brush©' and large pocket-books in their burlesque. , ^ VOTER: A bonehead that can only.listen and hope, possessed of ad miration for a sawdust-head candidate during the campaign, and; cusses and fu-ses at "tax-p&ying" time. Also thre guy who gets it in the neck both going and coming—and is always jghored aftefr the votes are counted. As to Biennial Sessions. In spite of the fact that a small majority of the meagre number of voters who participated in the gener al election last fall favored biennial sessions of the legi-lature, the House last week voted to continue ratifica tion of the measure until the session of 1932. Opponents of ratification took the position that the vote polled did net truly reflect the sentiment of a majority of the people of the State and contended further that biennial Sessions would be more costly than annual sessions, this having been the afcperietoce in other States. The Peo ple-Sentinel is rather inclined to this view and is not in sympathy with those who belabor the members of the general assembly for disregarding what they are pleased to term the "expressed will of the people.” We did not favor the biennial sessions bill as voted on last fall for the rea son that it did not limit the length of the geaMons of the legislature, regular or special, nor the amount of salary to be paid the members. In 1929 the legislature of Tennes- *ce held an extraordinary session and voted the members “extra compen-a- tion” of $100 each. The supreme court pf Tennwee has now decided that this payrtfeitf w*s unconstitutional. A test case on this question, has never been held in South Carolina, but if, under the tern? j of the present biennial session s bill, the payment rf "extra compesation” to members were hold to be constitutional, the way would be wide open for a raid on the State treasury by members of future legislatures. Perhaps “it is better to bear the ilh that we have than to fly to others that we know not of.” Cotton Letter. New York, Feb. 24.—March con tracts broke 22 points when it thuTT- dered in Texas (about noon today)— where mqiature is badly needed. Liv erpool came ih as due, but nobo’dy no ticed it. Continental buying was in evidence when call money went to 1 percent, but as their credit wassent good, they immediately soi^l short or straddled. Cotton-aids, bird’s - eye, brown sheetings and denims will im prove in price, according to Mr. Legge when the present stock of rayon and’ silk stuffs are worn out. We advise more night-life before it is too late, as silks will help you to have a better time. Cotton mill curtailment is im proving .‘ome; in fact, several mills have decided to curtail from now’ on, but their creditors are working on full time, both night and day. We advt&e a democratic administration. INDIGESTION^ A symptom en tirely unknown amongst washer-wo men, well-diggers, ditchers, convicts, bears, tramps, and lions, but jo a pet hobby with millionaires, flappers, gold fish, dieticians, poodles and candy salesmen. ..DETOUR: The softest route be tween two places,- common to jMhd- builder-s plentiful at the season offhe year when travel is at its highest. Ap preciated only by garage men and tire dealers. Want-vr Ride? Folks, please don’t cuss the auto mobile. It ha s done m^re toward fur nishing employment to individuals than anything else since the building of the Pyramidi? of Egypt and the Chi nese wall—of Japan, as a school teach er would say. How to Cook Spinach. Take a gallon or more of nice, well-washed, fresh spinach, place in a large aluminum boiler (manufactured by Mr. Andy Mellon)—examine each and every particle of this vegetable and if you find a leaf without vitamin Today the automobile is giving work te 4,555,777 farm hands in gar age rephir shops. With cotton and wheat selling for might nigh nothing per pound and per bushel, respective ly, what in the world would become of all of those plow-hands and hoe-hands if they diddejaL have jo.ba4n garages, other men, women and foreigners now engaged in making cars and drilling oil wells and running filliiig stations and driving tank wagons and making tail-lightg and otherwise getting our joy buggies ready to roll. Nope—we coulddent do without automobiles. If you stop them, politicians would have to get the government to appropriate $4,654,333.22 annually to feed and clothe the 3,666,879 tit-suckers that are given employment by them today. You have perhaps forgqften that there are about 17,000,000 people in the U. S. right now that derive their liveli hood from'the manufacture and use of automobiles. (But mine is in the shop now.) - ' ’ Linger at State Door* for “Closeup” of Star* Familiar among Broadway’s night sights are the small crowds who gath er near stage doors after the show is over. Usually between the hours of eleven and twelve they are to he found waiting for’ their favorite star to emerge. They stand with a rather quiet expectancy. Every time the" stage door opens they push forward eagerly, often to be disap[>ointed when an_fiy£nU.l-elud stage hand makes his exit logging a .trunk or piece of sceiv ery. When tile long-awaited star does come out they crowd about, asking questions, bestowing adoration and pushing forward to obtain a better view. Some fans come with photo graphs to be signed. Others seek a star’s autograph on a program, while still others want to see what their fa vorite performer looks like away from the footlights. Some nights an actor or actress Is In a hurry and, desiring to avoid the crowd, leaves by a different.exit. The stars use various ruses to get away in, a hurr>\_ sometimes telling the door- -uum-to notify tfac-'tfrowd ‘that so-and-so will not leave the theater for a few hours. J' Easy to Grow Roses— », , • w... . Have gorgeonf re*** .*® aa* Sammer. HO vsriettea •Ve - <v4 * roae feuMic* and climbing ^ SSd. rf other plants sands rf otner stitonic, healthy stock. Clg. c contains fall planting direc--ns. Wrt for It TQDAY! FROiISaNB NURSERIES Desk V-4. F. O. Drawers *10, AUGUSTA. GA t ) 6ROWN & BUSH BROWN-BUSH BUILDING Attorneys-at-Law •tTp- BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA 1 ' PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS „♦ - \ ' * NOTICE! Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping ,..<v Publicity’s Value Well Known to the Ancients More than 3,000 years ago, accord ing to the London Morning Post, the Egyptians devised innumerable meth ods of bringing their names before the public; and by inscriptions, by historic monuments, and by the literature of the period, they left to posterity the records of a complete and systematic scheme of advertising. In certain respects they made even more extensive use of publicity than does the present "age. In the reign of Tutankhamen, doctors, unlike the modern practitioner, were allowed to advertise their remedies; and*one of the more subtle methods used to. at tain this end was to comi>el patients on swallowing specific medicines to cry out. “A really excellent remedy proved a million times!”' The art of ^Bbpetition was thoroughly understood ny Egyptian publicists; anff it was customary to stamp wine jars with the word “Good” thrice repeated. Sim ilarly they weir well aware of the value of disguised advertisements; and experts now declare that the tem ples of ancient Egypt were in nearly every case built to advertise the pow er of Egypt’s rulers. They were cov ered . with accounts of victories achieved, and records of'’cities. con quered. Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of hunting, fishihg qr trapping, - will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: ~ . Mrs. Flossie. Smith 1,000 W. H. Duncan 405 Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place 1,650 Mrs. Jane R. Patterson ____ 1,000 'Sweet Water Plac^r^v.... 500 B. L. Easterling/uHve Place 200 Barnwell Turpentine Co: Simmons I*lace 450 Middleton Place 300 Mose Holley 200 B. C. Norris 125 Harriet Houston -__ 150 J. M. Weathersbee 572 Estate of H. X. Patterson. _2,000 Joseph E. Dicks *--- 800 R. C. Holman t 400 A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. 150’ 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 And as little as you think of it, the automobile has increased the num ber of undertakers and assistants O-ince 1900) from 6,432 to 99;752. Ev erybody knows that there ain’t enopgh positions in beef markets and abat toirs to keep al] of this bunch of men at work. And thousands of men are constantly digging graves and setting “P.” turn it over. Then take the con tainer and its contents out into the 1 up tombs to n es today that would be hack yard ^nd empty the spinach onto the ground where the chicken s can find it and eat it, if they ain’t got no bet ter sense. And last but not ba<t— send back to your grocer and tel] him to let you have a mess of turnip-greens for. dinner and charge ’em—and cook over a slow fire. loafing were it not fer automobiles. Rubber Growth Experimenta Rubber plants that are native to dry region* are being--tested in Calb fornia. in the coast districts as we' T as in the interior valleys. Several dry- country rubber plants are known in Mexico, while others are reported In South America, Africa and Madagas car. The production of rubber from the Mexican quayule plant (Partheni- um argentatum) has been Investifftit- ed carefully by a private corporation and the stage of agricultural practi cability Is believed to have been reached in California. The quayule rubber plants in Arizona and Califor nia amount to several bdndred acres. The County Treasurer’s office will be open from October 15th, 1930, to March 15th, 1931, for collecting 1930 taxes, which include real andj, personal property, poll and road tax. . , All taxes due and payable between September 15\h and December 31st, 1930, will be collected without penalty. All taxe 3 not paidras stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law: January l^t, 1931, one per cent, will be added. February 1st, 1931, twa per cent, will be added. March 1st .to 15th seven per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter March 15th, 1931. » ^ When writirg for amount, of taxes, 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 c.ollection. Tune: “Somebody I s Calling Today.” A man came to our house not long ago to pay us a social visit. He owed me 25 dollars, but he diddent come to pay that, jvi?t a visit—which he did dent owe us. Well, he was welcome the first, second and third day, but along about the fourth day, we needed his bed for another of my wife’s cous ins, and we told him that we were ffcoking for more company, and he said it wouldn’t bother him to let it come, Were it not for automobiles, the 82,000 highway patrols and speed cops (now in use in the United States) would be absolutely minus sufficient revenue to .buy everything they want —as their wives simply could not af ford to keep them in luxury without help—as they are now enjoying. » And who made the hospitals what they are today? Automobiles. Who made it necessary for 1 girl out of ev ery 12 to become a trained nurse in stead of a mother? Automobiles. What keeps the bandage and splint wheels of the country a-turning? Au tomobiles. What makes growing flow ers a profitable indulgence today? p, v -V i Brt.v.n, A l 1 May Raise Postage. Automobiles. What has made the but he evidently reached the conclusion ! coffin and caaket manufacturers rich? Automobiles. And what made all of the doctors go prosperous ? The Drug The Republican administration is advocating an increase in the postal rates now in effect to take care of the $100,000,000 deficit in that branch of the government Naturally, it doe 8 not seem to occur to the national gov- that we had only one “company” bpd and he said he would not object to sleeping with th<r other person, and be fore I thought, I ?aid, “Who would?’” This other company was a pretty school-teacher-cousin, but when my wife looked at me so horrified, I apolo gized and told him why he w’ould have to go tomorrow and come back later. He went tomorrow and came back dav emment that the deficit MIGHT be "tfeEen imi'-iSrW* a Tedtre1T«r!SF«P*t*ftei' toittwrow: ^rnnftfollw have ’been very considerate since Christmas, when I wrote that piece about them. m by increase This little oversight seems perinea rather than revenue. to he common with governments, ■whether they be State or national. - - j -\- P-u-n-c-t-u-r-e-*. Stores. What is it that gives employment to 143,888 instaJJm ent agents and col lectors? . Automobiles. Why can so many thousands 'of bookkeepers be hired every yearyn the commercial credit agencies? Automobiles. And tlflnk of the* 564J98 puueture fixers and blow-out patches that w’ouIcT pro! ably be riding the blind-baggage were it not for automobiles. Famous Tapestry The Cobelin tapestries originated In the work of a former dyer, named GobelinAwho in the Fifteenth century came frfm Reims to Parts, the famlly having discovered a marvelous scarlet dye which attracted great attention. In the Sixteenth century to the manufac ture of dyes was added th<^ ? thufac- ture of tanestry, which warn' the fortune* oL v *- family. SafiX family^;-, and ^ U ■>-- * Fra the tai>e! main ~ . .. | 4 "V I Si, Old foresteri^ih ' ne stroifeest opinions as to the* influence of the I moon on timber. In the royal ordi nances of France for the conservation j of forests, it was laid down that tim ber, especially oaks, should he felled only during the wahe of the moon, and the belief—superstition, tf you like to call it so—still persists both in France and-KnglondA The idea is that timber felled at these times is less liahle.-to • rot than when felled during the wax. The belief dates right back to Roman times. 5 c a o U « c •5 ■ o -3 “ M « * o * e • .... . •S ’ o — c __ *. o cC « c o § ~6 c ►H -«-> 3 to ■ h3 4-» CO cl CO c o 1 o o ■ a H O Aa ——... u o to £- No. 24—Ashleigh No. 23—Barbary Branch . 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The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by a. between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens bet of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxes for 1930 will be paid at the same time other taxes are It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to - that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate ifi the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.) Tax receipt* will be released only upon legal tender, postoffice money orders, or certified check*. . J. j. BELL, Co. Treas. mu, 1 J I ■•} V