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PAGE TWO. y iTt # •• . .. THE BARNWELL' PEOPLE>SENTINEL f BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THUR3DAY, APRIL 23RD. 1931. TheBarnwellPeople-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. B. P. DAVIES, Editor aod Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell S. C. t aa second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Taw ——— 91.60 Six Months — JO Three Months ,60 (Strictly In Advance.) THURSDAY, APRIL 23RI). 1931. Influence. Every one has it! So much 90 that every an untrue statement can be K’ven such \urnmcy that the final results are often as damairinK »» though the baseless ‘rumor were one clothed with truth. BUSINESS IS BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT GIVING WINGS TO IDLE WORDS. Were we bo lend lip and tonjrue as freely to fact as to business Rossip, ours would be a happier and more stable place in which to live and make a living. T»>Rether we can spread the Ro^pel of constructive enc mraRement in this community and make our influence count in the cause of confidence and sound business.—By Clayton Rand. tering attendance of members of the strohg leader than that presented by miles. And here it is: First, drive House. ^ 'the 1931 general assembly, and not up close to the loaded truck; Second, Last week, a delegation from the in many years has the lack of such turn the steering wheel, over to your Pee Dee section, representing the leadmvhip been so sadly lacking, wife; Third, erawl up on top of the Farmers’ and Taxpayers’ League, i Even a minority leader could have en- load, anc$ shoot the dri\"er in the journeyed ‘ to Columbia and it i 8 , re- trenched himself firmly for future back of the head with a 44, and when he tuins over in’ the ditch, why, just Jones, the former high cockalorum of the State Highway Commission, re ferred to them as “repudiated poli ticians.” Thus does the ballot box transform would be “servants of the people” into “monarchs of all they survey.” And it may not be amiss to remind some of the arrbgant members of the gen eral assembly that they, too, may join the ranks of “repudiated politicians” next year unless they mend their ways and lend their ears to the appeals of a long-suffering people. - The Appropriation Bill Again. With the passage of an Act to legal ise boxing and the introduction of a bill to legalise betting on horse races, it begins to Icolf lik e South Carolina ift preparing to “go Nevada.” While prices for a-paiagu- are not quite us high as they have been for the pa.«t few years, returns re-' reived by fanners in and around Barnwell will put quite a bit of money jnto circulation. When aJl is said and done, asparagus acre* wiil probably net more ca-h than any other lanj on th e faim. The State of South Carolina "la In no way different from the individual men or women who compose itg'Cttf- zeship. In ~lheir consideration of the appropriation bill, the members of the general assembly should take that as a premise, and from that viewpoint endeavor to’solve the difficulties con fronting them in their efforts to make the outgo conform with the income For the past several years they have endeavored to make the | Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. New# Item No. 1. The net earnings of the tobacco manufacturers of the United States for 1930 were $89,500,000.00, being an excess of $42,567,888.00 over 1929. Thesfe immense profits came about by reason of the fact taht the manufac turers paid only about half as much for their raw tobacco in 1930 as they paid' in 1929 yet they were able to maintain 1929 prices through 1930— and are still doing qp. (3 dollars please.) drive on by. ■* ' » , 'V *■,' t J —: Mike Writes Mr. Wrigley. flat rock, s. C. apull 17, 1931. mr. wm. wriggly, jr., Chicago, ill. , deer sir:— . — : i notis ifTAhe papers where Jrou will buy 200,000 bales of cotton at c!2' a pound to hepp u s poor farmers out, so i am riting to let you know you can have my bale at' that, i have already hell it for 6 months, but will let her go at yore price News Item No. 2, The net losses of the tobacco growers of the United States for 1930 were $42,567,888.00, the said leases' hackee having been brought about by reason of the fact that their raw tobacco sold my bale waid when first ginned 325 lbs., and i suppose it still ways that mutch, so please send me 41$ and c45 in monney for same and i will ship it right out to you. don’t send anny chewing gum. a s i don’t care to swap my cotton for gum, but i promise to chew yore gum if i •chew annything e.lse but browns mule to- *4 on tljt* market at about -50 percent less than it -old at in 4929, yet the income conform to the outgo and we cost 0 f pj-o^icing it wa s slightly more state with regret that that still seems than ihv C3gt of productnf r lh e 1929 to be the object of too many members. l* crop (Pu^. Who beat the faim- No mati can indefinitely spend ers 0 m 0 f $42,567,888.00? more than he earns. He may “get • - by” for awhile by putting off hL f Cotton Letter. - creditors, but sooner or later he __ Nfrw York, April 20.—Liverpool must pay the fiddler. Th# wpci- is ( , arru , j n as due," but eased off to a true of a commonwealth, and the time has come when it is ho longer a question of whethert or not this thing or that thing—this commission ai that bureau—is good. It is now entirely a question of whether or not For the month when Wm. it is mighty nice of you to buy this cottcn from us, and some of my na- bors say that who ever sells his cot ton to you that yen will pay him off in. juicy fruit, but a- i coulddent use annything like a bale cotton’s worth gum at this time, kindly send real monney for my crop. please be advised that the sed bale of cotton is a cross betwixt long stee ple and short steeple, as i planted no. new low | Wrigley swapped 75,000 boxes of 5 cett-n j-eed which had been ptddi- Juicy Fruitt for 84 bale s of middling greed for^everal years, so it is possi- tinge's, and gave 2,000 boxe- of Spear mint'’to boot. It looked so much like rain in' Texas'last night, July longs It may or may not be “right” t> •bet on a horse race. F’enunally, we never have. In fact, we have not been fortunate enough to witness many exhibitions of the so-called “sprt of kings”, being, as it were, merely a Commoner. But betting on football games and primary elections ami other such outdoor sports are aanctiuned if not legalized in South Carolina. The esteemed News and Courier even knows women who bet on bridge game* and its editor con fesses that he likes to play with them. The enforcement of “prohibition” against betting, whether on hor<e races or fcotball or baseball or elec trons or bridge or what have you, will probably bo as successful a 8 the en forcement of “prohibition” against the manufacture and sale of liquor. Most of us have too much of the old Adam in cur make-up to be legislated into a moralized perfection. Usually, if a man wants to drink liquor, he manages to get it somehow, and if he ha s an appetite for gambling he finds means to gratify that also. Some of them carry such practices to ( excess, with or without the sanction ®f the law. A« a result, temperate men—and we use the term in its broadest sense—ate ground between the upper and nether millstones of the rabid prohibition sts and the in temperate who wishes to indulge his appetites unrestricted. It’s just too had that there isn’t room enough in the middle of the road for u s all. the people -the taxpayers-can afford go , d October short in sympathy with the farm board—who t don’t know Back in 1920, when ordinary cotton whgt in t fc e he „ ^ do eit)M , r . Brokers wa> selling at 40 cents a pound an; ^vising December straddlers to when farm labor was being paid $1.50 go ^ o ; apoU and borrow cal , to $2 a day, with steady work-when money at !. p2ice nt from the federal enttim mill operative., were receiving reaervef but the wither seem, too good pay and steady time-the appro- chiHy for thatf therefow we pri .turns bill was between five mil- HCOuthern M lling. * lion and six million dollars, and there ‘ were no taxes on soft drinks, cigar ettes, cigars, etc., to swell the public treasury by several million dollar, a ; year. Today cotton is selling for ble that you will give me c2 a pound bonus for same, and.if so—kindly^add that to the check, but f’on’t send me no >^um till further notis. f les- than ten cents a pound, farm labor is being paid about 75 centg a day, cotton mill operatives are on re duced time—and we find the general, a'sembly wrangling over an eleven million dollar appropriation 'bill— with several million dollar, more be ing collected annually by the so-called nuisance taxes, to say nothing of the) millions from the gasoline tax that go into read construction. The People-Sentinel believes that wastefulness and extravagance, rather-* than graft, aie responsible for the larg2 appropriations, and that the present times demand men with the intestinal stamina—more commonly known as “guts”—to apply the prun ing knife/ P-O-E-T-R-Y. He tooted his horn, . And stepped on the gas, And so did the fool in front; He was making 85, But he couldn’t pass, ’ So each got killed by the sttint. More Poetry. There wa, a girl in the drug store, Who haJ a pair of lips that were sore, She kissed the soda jerker,' Who was a hard worker, And now he is at home in b#d. With a very sore head and a nurse. Information. rAprrf ha* -gone-thus Luv-iiv-»- very-, satisfactory manner to the Hoover- follower, who are peeping around the comer at where prosperity is said to be. The tariff makeis are still willing to admit that they are re publicans.' Well, they might as well of course, if you plan-to swap chewing gum for cottrn, kindly ignoze thi* letter, a map can’t plow and hoe a crop on chewiitg gum, and i intend to buy meat and bread with' my bale, and that’s why j can’t take gum for same, all of ipy folks chew wrigglys altogether, and ,o do our scholl teech- er, and you may rest ass sured that if you pay cash for my cotton, i will talk for you from now on. so, mr. wriggly, you-can rit e or foam me in care of mr. gee megee, anderson, s C, if* i can sell you. my bale, and if r du^-i will get him to cash my check, as he is working for now, but don’t try to trade me chewing gum for my cotton, as i need monney worser than gum anso- forth. X yores trulie. — mike Clarl^rfd. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. The Taxpayers and the Taxpayees. . The Stat e one day last week report ed that several women employees of this grand and glorious commonwealth ■were gathered together in an office diaci^dng where they will spend their vacations this summer. Some •were planning to visit the seashore, 'while others selected the mountains. And all the while, th taxpayers who foot the bill, that make summer vaca tions possible for these “servant, of the deer peepul” were worrying whether or not they will be able to c-ven stay at home this summer. “Dere yer is.” Popular Excursion —TO- FRIDAY. APRIL 24, 1931 ‘Servants of the People.” We believe that some members of the general assembly hav e acted very unwisely in the discourteous manner they have shown to visiting delega tions of taxpayers to the State capi tal. Some time ago, a Statewide meeting of taxpayers, was—caikA Assemble at the South entray.ee to the State House for the purpose of pro testing against large appropriations thi B year and if our memory serves us Tight, the Senate, on motion of a Sena tor from the Piedmont section, did net adjourn to «llow its members to at tend the meeting. There was a scat- There is no denying the fact that the people a, a whole aie demoralized by the continued stress of “hard idmiXitltbey rtrtainto can’t get in- times,” and when they compare their to our democrat ic party. Bread link shrunken incomes with the bloated A , e KpttinK 8horter at one end and appropriations, they cannot help be- lonjftr at tbe ot her. Times will be ng resentful against those responsi- ^ un til aftor the 19 and 32 elec- ble for the latter. A somewhat simi- and then We wil | straighten --- - . T\ lar situation existed in the nineties, out At p regentt j 8t ill think Washington, U. L. when -cotton was selling at low Hoover ig a - fi rs t. c lass—engined. prices and resulted in the Tillman ____ movement. Th^ Reconstruction per- Blind Staggers, i.xl which is not compaiable to the won’t.make any difference with present time except in the matter of you who had the right-of-way, afte* high taxes, brought on the Red Shirt ^ embalmed, movement of ’76. Just what will be A had 2 good friends once, but the resut of the present conditions, no lost ^ of th e m du ,ing the same man can forecast; but this much is yMr; j lcaned Bin 5 ^iiar, and , K ed certain: Unless the present general „ — assembly succeeds in keeping the ap- propiiations within the States in- _ ^he “wear-cotton movement is come, its members will have hard making progress in^eorgia. Under- sledding when they go before the g^and that cotton cruppers for mules people for reelection or advancement are being ^ freely wher e farmers in the primaries of 1932/ Not all of are stin ab , e to ^ mules . them will go down in defeat—some — ^ will be saved by their personal popu- _^_ S en. Borah claims that President laxity and magnetism, but it is safe has fulfilled every campaign predict that the lank and file who promise h e made. ~I am mighty glad voted for larger appropriation, will he didn , t make . many—’cause if he be retired to “innocuous desuetude.” bad we . d Lv,7 nil starv- And the legi^" achievement will From Barnwell, S. C. —to— WASHINGTON $15.50 Good 5 di r rom date^ri sale. 'tT ^’3 crowning ed by no tflr 10 |te it, mem- birs the proposed ^L^xtra pay for But fo a session that has come to b e popular- troubles on \j all starv- /r W .- . J .arjfie all our Arr»>can party. ly regarded as an ignominious failure. Now they diddent catise that drought. What we have said, cf course, ap- nor did they have anything^ to do plies to those legislators as a whole with the flu epidemic, bpt I lay the who have refused to. accept the man- following stunts at their door-steps: date of the people to lower appropria- The tariff, farm relief, failure tp re- drifr-lightt. savings own distressecffimmcial con^1ti<m amr*|i'me, and the'spinach craze. concern} thdse m Proportionate excursion fares from other points. Visit the ^Nation’s CapitaP in the Beautifpf Spring sea son. Famous Chferry Blossoms in * bloom. ^'Consult Ticket Agents ♦ Southern railway system m no way members who have consistently tried to better have figgered cut a good way- condition, and whose voices of pro- to pass one cf those large fcotton tesit were la “of one crying in the trucks or moving vans or highway wilderness.” . j freight tains that usually hog all of Net in many years has ther e beenUthe Vcad t thus farcing you to trail grgater need of or opportunity fox a J along behind them for-jniles and T~ LIQUID or TABLETS . Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever .6 6 6 SALVE CURES BABY’S COLD mm and— Sulphate of Anunonia ON HAND Prices Right M. B. HAGOOD . * Barnwell, S. C. Genuine - . ~ “The Henderson” Cucumber Seed — FOR SALE BY — SIMON BROWN’S SONS Blackville, S. C. THE ORIGINAL PARENT STRAIN OF EARLY LONG GREEN CUCUMBERS, MOST PROLIFIC. BE SURE—PLANT GENUINE THE HENDERSON SEED. MAY Last Day to Pay * — State and County Taxes EXECUTIONS will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection after MAY 1, 1931. * . *• •' ^ ‘ • X. . . ‘ All who can are urged to pay before the LAST DAY, help the County Treasurer’s office to handle.the rush, one third of Barnwell County’s Taxes are UNPAID and CANNOT BE HANDLED IN ONE DAY. All large tax payers are requested tq get a list of their properties and employees’ taxes as soon as possible. Be sure to bring or send list when you go to pay your taxes. , * . . . When writing for amount of taxes be sure and give School District property is located in. DOG TAXES for 1930 are to be paid at same time other taxes are to be paid. Be sure and get your dog tag. * • % *• • • .^4 ’ CHECKS will NOT be accepted for taxes EXCEPT at the risk of taxpayers. The County Treasurer Reserves tb^ right to hold all receipts until said checks have been paid. ' . • Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, Post pffice Money Orders or Certified Checks—certified checks subject to final payment^ # s - S' ' YOUR COUNTY TREASURER WANTS TO GIVE GOOD SERVICE—HELP HIM BY PAYING BEFORE THE LAST DAY, IF POSSIBLE. ~T J. J. BELL, ’ COUNTY TREASURER. ADVERTISE IN THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL. ■7v>"