Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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wmm ------ . % mmmwm m- Kft ■ WAGE TWO. .r- /T.-.— THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH. CAROLINA THURSDAY* AUGUST The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. B. P^DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell S. C., as second-dy matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jfoe Year 91.60 Six Months M Three Months ... (Strictly in Advance.) ^0 THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931. t Well, after all is s aid and done, we’d rather have seven-cent cotton and world peace than forty-cent cot ton and a world war. Ripley of “Believe It or Not” say* that an Italian woman’s hair turned from pure white to jet black at the ajre of 80. Humph! Beauty parlors perform greater miacles than that / before their customers reach the age cf 80. South Carolina’s perennial candi- . date is at it again. Cole L. Blease, ex-this and ex-that, has anourced again. This time it’s for the office now held by Senator E. D. Smith. We hope that the outcome of the riice will make Coley ex-it once more. The town of Belmont, Spartanburg County, has closed all of its theatres, churches, swimming pools and gather ing places as a precautionary measure against the threat” of a meningitis epidemic. And we’ll bet our bottom dollar that the town officials view traff.c law violations with compla cency. We Correct “The Record." The Columbia Record, in comment ing on tax reduction in Barnwell County, says that this “county now claims the lowest county tax ratj in the State.” The editor of The Record errs just a little. The news dis patch on which he liases his editorial stated that the low rate wa-* for “ordinary county purposes.” But aside from the consideration of lower- ed^axes, Barnwell County will con tinue to offer home-seekers the best section in South Carolina in which to locate. Our ftiend of The Record can hardly deny the truth of this ■tatement after having attended , a catfish ?tew ami fried fish supper on the banks of the Edisto not many moons ago, and if he still lias any lingering doubts, we hereby extend him a most cordial invitation to visit Barnwell on the occasion of the high way celebration next montn. Our Backs to the Wall. The economic situation in which the South finds itself today is no less desperate than was that of the Allies in the Woild War in the early Spring of 1918, following the drive cf the Germans agaist the British. “Our backs are against the wall,” declared 'Sir Douglas Haig, the Rriti-h gen eral. He did not mean that his armies were beaten, but that the situation was so desperate that further retreat would spell disaster and that his soldiers mu-t die fight ing where they stood. After several years of low prices and numerous other disappointments, followed by Monday’s slump in cotton values of more than a cent a pound as the result of the government’s pro duction estimate—the price being at the lowest mark in over 30 years— the Southern farmers find themselves in a desperate situation. Their back 9 * are to the wall. What the outcome will be, no man can foretell. The fact that they have materially helped in bringing about th e present condi tion is beside the point. It is useless to point out that various govern mental agencies urged and pleaded -with them for a drastic cut in acre age this year in an effort to reduce the • surplus. They did cut acreage about 10 per cent, and the se of commercial fertilisers tome 30 per cent. -But the forces of nature hav e apparently combined to produce an even larger yield than in 1930. Over this' they had no control. Under like condi tions that existed last year, a crop of twelve million bales or less would probably have been produced. If the government is.coirect in its guess on th e probable yield, we are cursed with a surplus of cotton that will weight prices down for several years. Desperate jjitugtions require 'drastic remedies. One of these remedies is contained 7 in a statement . ter the A^sociatiopjorjhe Incensed Use' of Cotton7wHrch'gppearg one of this issue. We urge iia adop tion by the people of the South. Another remedy is found in Sena- E. D. Smith’s suggestion of months xge, whsn he urged the government to sell cotton to the farn^rs- oh credit uhder'wTIron-cIiiff 4 recuperate—in. ageement that they not plant a Sdii: O gle acre of cotton. Thig would have -automatically cut the acreage to .a very large oxt^nt and insured "“better prices fo r the present and old crops. Senator Smith, we believe, still favota tain g he could think of for them to -I am in the middle of my second-’ week of batching. I think I’ll, wash the dishes tomorrow. .. I have not made up any beds yet., We have 8 bed^m tj»e house, and whtfi I “tousle’’ this plan, but will probably experience one ,‘Up‘too bad, I move’ : to another bed. I have not felt like sweeping up great difficulty in having it adopted. In spite of the fact that cotton i» worth only about six cents a pound, the general expectation is that values will go still lower. To force sales at such ridiculous prices ig to invite gen eral bankruptcy and privation. The time has come when the best minds of the nation must be drafted to save the American farmer. Every possible agency -must be marshaled for his re lief. Failure to do this will provide a fertile field for the seeds “of-commun ism aqd revolt. Our backs are against the wall. Cotton Letter. either of the rooms occupied so far. Newspapers are not quite knee-deep yet in the sitting room. - ‘ .. ( . .—-I had a death in my family yes terday. The gold-fish died. I did- dent know how to feed gold-fish, and I thought as long as he had water to svrim about in. he was all right, but he’s gone now where all good little gold-fishes go. The cat left last Tuesday a week ago. The towel in the bath room is getting somewhat soiled. I wonder wher e in the world that-.woman hides the clean towels? I was instructed to look after the chickens. “Arr t>M hen came in with 12 biddieg about 10 days ago, but I’ll, be hanged if 1 can find her or her resultg anywhere’s in the yard. T^ere ara 7 other hens a-setting on nothing but excelsior, and I_arn let ting them set, if they ain’t got no more sense than that. I ran out of - New Yoik, August 4.—Futures broke 24 points „in sympathy with f ^f for ~them 4 or five days ago, Germany, but scattering showers in J ^ tkiZlTtn fetch any home Oklahoma wat OMwjround in some me ^jjj a ft er ( ] ar ) ( arM j then I’m places. .The heavy southern selling' afraid ^ g0 back to the store and Shanghai straddling spelled weak ness in print cloths and yarns for the nearby months, however,—Liver- poot ami 2 Atlantic flyers came in as (hie. Manchester reports some ac tively in wash rags and communisms, but Russia insist- th|U it was the heat. The faim board is still board ing with Uncle Sam and will not finish busting th t , agricultural world until next year. We advise shorts for boxing and longs for street >year. Jumble-Isms. When a man lUea-across the At lantic ocean now adays, he doesn’t create any more inteiest or notoriety than 1 useter when I went to the post office for our mail on Saturday afternoons. When the railroads get that 15 per cent advance in freight rates, JJie trucks will be winners in the [on* run. They i*iH simply “hist” their lates 15 per cent, and live happy ever afterward. In other words, the railroads will hold a nice, large um- biella over the already highly-pleased- with-present-income highway trains. Cotton Letter. (Poetry.) New York, August 5.—Spots were dull, and futuies were too; But Liver pool came in alwiut as due. It. rained in Texas and thundered in Maine, October spots gave the bulls a pain. The Ih>U weevils "are busy from morn, till night, and the farm board • has witheied plumb out cf >ight. Hoover fixed Germany, Italy and France, and new- they are doing the hcotchy-koo- chy dance. The price went down in sympathy with stocks, and the poor 1 old farmer is headed toward the locks. If we make a big crop, and sell it below cost; we’ll be in a mess* ’long about frost. We advise holding unles* you’ve gota sellf no matter how you turn, you’je drifting toward bankruptcy. I am sorry of one thing. My wife begged pitifully that I w’ater her flowers and shrubbeiy, but it's been looking so nfuch like rain for 10 days, I have waited. It hassent rallied yet, and nearly everything is dead in our yard except the nut-grass—which sun nor fire, nor hail, nor brimstone, nor shovel nor hoe, nor drought can hurt or stunt. But she can plant some new flowers and stuff next summer. I am sjck of thig hatching busi ness and waul my peopU back home. I get two aseals a day down town, but thejmin’t like the meals mother useter cook. If ft-would sonw, I be lieve they would come home. I get sweet letters ftom them every day though and here’a the way they read: “Dear Qaddy: It is nice and cool up Here. Send 20 more dollars quick. Love and kisses. Mother.” TAenty dollars are getting mighty scarce since Mr. Hoover straddled that mora torium on us. • • - »■" —. * Inaugurates Bus Service. The Inter-Carolinas Motor Bus Company began bu* service between CoJumbia and Savannah on Monday. Two buses will be run each way daily. When a legislature sees fit to levy a tax on a farmer or a mer chant, they go. ahead and levy it and the afflicted citizens do nothing but grunt and pay it, but when they put a worthy tax on a power company or a kindred utility, the said corporation immediately procures an injunction stopping any action thereon, and a few mandammusseg are handed down by the supreme court—reciting the gicund» and facts that the act was unconstitutional, illegal, unlawful, and a djyrect violation of inter-state commerce commission, and. possibly highway robbery, if not grand larceny. and almost confiscatory, as well as insidious. A garage man told me the other day that he thought it would be ad visable to send ' my. car to hig gar age aftd hav* It “looked over. 11 Well> as I though it would be nice for him to' “look over” it, I sent- it. He charged me $4.0^ *or his sight-seeing. He diddent do anything to the car, but I judge he saw that the wheels and fenders, «nd motor were *U in tact. I am sorry he diddent "ovar- look his bill. The next time—I’m going to do my own looking. ADVERTISE i.» The People-Sentinel ^^^Restless, could not sleep «THERE were days • when I felt like I could not get my work done. X would get so nervous and ‘trembly’ I would have to lie down. I was very rest less, and could, not ■ sleep at night My mother advised me to take Cardul, and I certainly am glad she did. It Ms the first thing that aeemed to give me any strength. I felt better after the first bottle. I kept It up and anf now feel- Take Thedford's Black-Draught for Constipation. Indigestion, .and Biliousness. .Wanted: A Family. I don’t like summer time. Sum- nyj y t|me ffgans keeping- batch for me abotit .6 weeltl* while the folks £6 away where the cool breezes blow and hotel bills flow. They are away, now. The doctor told them that they eoulddent stand this hot weather, and auggc:ted the highest priced moun- INSURANCE • " FIRE .WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH - SURETY BONDS * AUTOMOBILE Calhoun and Co. P.-A. PRICE, Muuier. Mr. Merchant! . • < . . . .... V- ' % , THAI the man who doesn’t adverse pays the bill of the man who does? . Hr— * ^ . THERE is a certain amount of business in your, trade territory. If you do not get your share, it will go to some other merchant who » • • * • is putting forth a little extra effort to in crease his sales. The merchant who does Jf,,... * ' <« .Maftwatfrii .*'.*.**»•-■* ■ iiif * -11, 57! not advertise is paying the advertising'bill * * - . * -" • , * of the merchant who is increasing his sales and profits by advertising. ’ BARNWELL has its trade territory. In this territory a certain amount of money is spent each year. The merchant who is get ting the bulk of this business is the merchant who is inviting customers to visit his store • V . a . •’ in well-prepared and attractive advertise ments. MERCHANTS in other counties may be invading Barnwell territory.. They may be taking advantage of fast automobiles and * * . ' ’ # ■ _ paved roads to draw trade to their towns. N. -**• n r 1 The Barnwell merchant who doesn’t adver- • % * ♦— • _ # tise is not only paying the advertising bill of his competitor in the outside town but is losing* the business that legitimately be- —• Y-T"..;-*.. -— — .-ft..am — - longs to him. THE WORLD is full of business if you Know how to go after it. Many merchants - ■ . . ■ # # ’ .... have actually increased their volume of business during the present depression. - 1 - - * • . ,/ They have taken it away from their com- competitors"~by judicious advertising. x