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. 1 <• THB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BAttNWXLL COUNTY CmsoMatcdl I«m I. 192S. *Ju«l Llk« a M«mb«r of th« Famlly M VOLUME LV.. V > .. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1931 S. C. Extra Session Enters Second Week Measure providing for Advances on 193T Cotton Crop la the Center Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A W Litt|e of Interoat. * -* Session Conies to a Close. Adjournment rinfe die of the 'general assembly of South Carolina, called in extra session by Governor Blackwood to consider th e cotton crisis, was ex pected to come to a close yesterday <Wednesday). The bill prohibiting the planting of cotton in this State in 1932 vra 8 ratified Tuesday, as was the measure providing for an investi gation of the cotton seed industry. Senator Edgar A. Brown’* bill, pro viding for the lending to farmers an amount up to $15,000,000 in advances on cotton stored in State warehouses, was killed * by the House Tuesday night. Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. . Columbia, Sept. 21.—Cotton financ- in^promise* to occupy the center of the *tage in the second week of th-i extra session of the South Carolina general assembly which begins to morrow with the senate meeting ,at Upon and the house an hour later. 'The extra session was called by the governor for the enactment “of such remedial legislation with respect to the situation confronting the cotton growers’’ as was warranted. It held its first session last Monday and, be fore it had adjourned Saturday after- n on, had passed % bill prohibiting the planting of cotton in thtf State in 193*2 and also a measure authorizing an investigation of the cottonseed in dustry. ‘ When the member* come back Tues day, the princiapl matter before them will be the so-called $15,000,000 cot ton loan bill, introduced by Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell. Thii measure already has been g^ven ap proval by the senate and was held up in th e house Saturday by the invoca tion of % rule to the effect that “bob- tailed” bills must lie over a day be fore being debated. A salesman' who travels several States remarking that the mental at titude of Barnwell County people in these times of depression is better than that of the peopl e in other sec tions of hi* territory. He attributes this to diversified farming. Lieut. Arthu r Willis, son of Major and Mrs. Jame* A. Willisy en route from Washington, D. C., to FdH Sam Houston, Texas,, to visit his parents. . "7. . A little negro girl with an aggravated case of St. Vitus’ dance, brought on when she was frightened by a snake whil e picking cotton. . . Col. Edgar A. Brown trying to get to his office after a week’* absence from the city and being be-eiged on every *ide. . . “Bob” .Hair and “Tom" Scott, two of Williston’s good citizens. . . “Bully” Harley losing a light bet because of his inability to answer eight of the 20 questions in this week’s issue of “Liberty." . . One of Birnwell’s citizens all dressed up SENATOR BROWN SPEAKS ON FARMERS’ PROBLEMS Discusses Various Forms of Farm Relief in Radio Talk Over Station W1S.~Scores South Carolina Newspapers for Opposing the Long Plan. The following is the text of the radio speech made Thursday night of last week by Senator Edga r A. Brown, of Barnwell, over Station WIS at Columbia: > That the farmers are in greater dis tress today titan they have been in forty years is admitted and that banks, .merchant* and allied interests are suffering in the same proportion is also true. That agricultural aid in thi* State, as I suppose it is in other States, is and has been a politi cal football, upon which politicians, demagogues and special interests have prospered. That Government aid for agricul ture is and ha» been a failure, is a fact well understood. That co-operation marketing, in so fa r as this State is concerned, i* bunk. the people. It seems to me that it would be well for some cf these prop- aganhists to go along about their own affair* and let those who actually represent the people, apeak for the people and take the responsibility. I know newspaper editors in South Carolina who spend their time cuss ing the Legislature, strong, brave, up-tending, ' patriotic servants, who are trying to do the best they esn, and who have the confidence of their people at home and who ate repeated ly re-elected by those iame people, when their critics could not be elected dog catcher* in the respective com munities in which they live. If these birds want to run the Legislature let them first go to the people, ask for the confidence of the people, and election to the General Assembly and then .-peak with some authority. Oh, with the cost of transportation, stor ing, insuring and marketing over- Y**’ Columbia-State said that the in a new fall suit in spite of the hot ( head and bleeding the very life blood Smith Plan would be the plan of Sal- weather and hard timos. . . Cot- out 0 f t j, e farmers. You can not run v *t'on and yet there is not a high ton fields in and near Barnwell white a store, if the overhead is greater *chool boy in South Carolina who does with blooms near the top of the t h an the profit. You can not operate not know th>t * n y curtailment plan plants, while the lower •‘mbs were manu f actur j n g pj^ un | egg you can white with open bolls. . . Every-T* e j| y OUr p l0 duct for more than the body complaining about Friday’s ter- ^ of manufacturing Advances to Farmers. Through the operation of this^ measure, a revolving fund would be placed in the hand* of the state- warehouse commissioner by which he would be enabled to make caah ad-) vances to the cotton farmers of the State on their 1931 crop. It author izes the borrowing. fir*t, of $500,000. to be used in making advances -to farmers in amounts equal to 90 pec cent, of the market price of cotton on the day of delivery, provided this value i* not above six cents. In re turn for the advance the farmer is to sign an agreement not to plant more than 56 pe r cent, of his cotton acre- age_in“‘4932 as compared with. 1931. Farmer# would be allowed to repos sess their cctton by payment of the amount advanced plus carrying charge* or could direct the warehouse commissioner to sell it at any time, any surplus to be paid the farmer. When cotton reaches nine cents the pound, the governor, unde r the term; of the act, would direct the selling of the . cotton held. The total amount to be borrowed by the State in this enterprise would be ‘up to $15,000,000. Opinion is divided in the house as to the wisdom of thi s bill, already ap proved by the senate, and it is sure to provoke lengthy debate. Of Pay of Attaches. The senate and house ar e also in dispute over pay of attaches and clerk* and the report of-the commit tee of free conference yn the appro priations bill is yet to be adopted. It provide* pay of $10 per day for mem bers of the two houses and base pay . I also for clerks and attaches. The rifle heat, which really seemed the worst of the entire year. . . J. O. Sanders, of ,01ar» declining a Cigar ette with the statement that he ha# his first one yet to smoke. ... A Ford touring car loaded with stove wood. The following paragraph in the "Seen Here and There” column of The State: “Smedes Hendley. re peating what Senpto r James H. Ham mond had to say, humorously, about the people of hi* native Barnwell, ’They are divided into two clas-es: Those who still have a little and those who have a little still. And some me in the crowd saying Senator Hammond was in many way* similar to Will Rogers." . . . Mrs. M. C. Thomas, of the Big Fork section, pay ing several year’s subscription to The People-Sentinel with seed from a bale of cotton. You can not Foot Ball Season to Open Here Friday Local Gridsters Will Clash in Barn well With Strong Aggregation frem Norway make cotton for 10c per pound and sell it foj- 6c unless you beat the man who furnishes the land or the stock, the money to farm on and the ferti lizer bill or all of them. That ther e is s surplus of more than two years supply of cotton in the world, is admitted and yet, half of the world i* naked today. That there is a greater surplus of wheat and other food products in the world today than ever before and yet, there is more hungry people and longer bread lines than in the history of the world. That half the indtit4riaa of Ameri- ca are eithe r in bankruptcy or shut down because of inability to sell their products i* a startling fact that we must all realize. Of course ther e are many contribut ing causes for present day conditions but it is perfectly apparent that the over production ># one of the major causes. In a time of despeiation, when the cotton farmer* have made the cheap est crop in the history of the indus try, with the prit e 4c below the cost of production, leaving nothing to pay taxes and feed and cloth the destitute farmers of the South, they have arisen and determined to take charge of their own affairs, to get rid of political agencies, to rid them selves of 90-cp’s, self-seeking poli ticians and special interests, who thrive on the production of cotton, The strong Norway high fchool eleven will furnish the opposition for the Barnwell aggregation in the open ing game of the 1931 foot ball season, which will be played on the local field tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at four whether it sells for 5c per pound or o’clock. Coach W. R. Price ha# been 40c per pound; there is an almost very busy sinc e early thi* month get- absolute unanimity of thought among ting his charges in shape and while cotton farmer?, but it is startl- he is not predicting a victory over ' n K 1° a* 6 h(> w the newspapers and the visitors, he doe* believe that the special interests have sworn that the Barnwell boys will show’ up fully as farmer shall be saved, not from but well as they did last year, when they | to bankruptcy. He who reads may won every game on their schedule understand and we do understand, with one exception—the contest with the farmers understand, his real Ridgeland. Mr. Price-is very anx-1 friends undeistand, ious to have a large crowd at the! Think, are our farmer?, tenant and opening game and local merchants otherwise being saved by a few daily have agreed to close -their stores for newspapers. The farmers of South the occasion. • j Carolina, and it is practically true of The Norway squad can always be a " colton farmera are lwlay as '■f'- eounted on to furnish interesting op- j tofare >> lanti "* cottoa t0 sel1 Mow position and several exciting games the c0!t ot ^eduction, expect.ng to have been played between the two buy food out ot tin cans from co,mtry IS X total of the free conference report $16,000. - Both house and senate sent back the first report of the committee, and when the same committee brought in a second report, \ a duplicate of the first, the house igain registered its objection. What will be the outcome of this ctontnoveijsy remains {to be seen. There 1* also a possibility that some member* of the house will take action to collect the full $400 as pay for the extra session. Five members * • have given notice to the clerk of the Per day as only partial paymentTo^TneT service, waiving none of their rights to collect the full $400, provided for by the State constitution. teams. Barnwell has practically the same players as last year, with two or three new additions, and as it is thought that the Norway and local boy* ar e pretty evenly matched, a good game is being anticipated. groceiy stores in order to feed their wives and children; thi* is a startling and paralizing fact that stands out boldly in the present situation. And yet there are those who want to save the farmer?, giot by telling them to quit planting cotton and go home and raise syrup, cow-peas, sweet potatoes, -- corn, vegetables, New* dispatches last week told of meats and all of the things that they the finding of C. A. Allen and Don can raise except sugar and -coffee, Moyle, California airmen, on an un- but they are being advised by the prop- inhabitedj island more than a week | agandist for the special interests after they took off from Japan on a who live on them like leaches, that Lost Fliers Rescued. non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean to Seattle, Wash. Tuesday’s daily papers contained they “must raise cotton in ofder to be saved from bankruptcy. My God, they are all in bankruptcy now. But the information that two. German air we hear from day to day the preach- men and a Porgugese sportsman had been- picked ujv after Boating 148 ing in the daily press, representing th e special interest of the city that r ERTISE ini’. The People-Sentinel. bon-to-New York plane. They had been forced down in the Atlantic Ocean about eight- mile* off Cape Pine, a treacherous section cf . the Newfoundland coast. ^ Blackwood has made a mistake in calling the Legislature together and that the member* cf.the general as sembly are a lot of assinine Asses 1 who are not capable of representing 1* a fraud and a subterfuge to fool the people. Is it possible that the Editor of the great State (and mind you I did not say the great Editor of the State) is not farthering to no cot ton plan because it wa# not sponsored by the State and som e of its pets. I don’t think that is true but I do be lieve that I know the reasons that actuate this State faction. I wonder if the Columbia State and the other me-too papers in South Carolina real ly love the poor white farmers more than they love the co-op’* which gives out a lot of jobs to political pet# at the expense of the farmers; whether the State loves the poor white farm ers more than they do the warehouse people in Columbia, who if big crops are made continue to have their ware houses holing hundreds of thous ands of bale* of cotton filled for long term storage at 30c per month per bale, whether cotton is bringing 5c a pound o r 40c a pound. Do they love the poor white farmers of South Carolina more than they do the in surance people who insure this cot- tori; do they love the poor white farm ers moj-e than they do the railroads who want to transport this cottcn and charge as much freight on a $25.00 bale of cotton a* they do on a $200.00 bale of cotton. When did the good Lord endow the newspapers with more common sense to advise the cotton farmers and thei r own representatives what was better for them than they know them selves ? : It is pitiful to see th e New* and Courier, the Editor of whom I love, squawking again?t the no cotton plan, when I can take a billy goat and haul eff all the cotton raised in Charleston County. Of course. Char leston wants the State to make plen ty of cotton, they want it shipped to Charleston, they want it stored in Charleston, they want it insured in Charleston, they want it compressed in Charleston, they want the gam blers to handle it in Charleston, they want to ship it from Charleston to the tune of profit to a few Charles tonians in the amount of hundreds and thousands of dollars annually. What difference doe? it make to them if they make their profit, if the farmer gets 5c or 40c per pound, or if the farmers wife and children are in rags and are hungry. . All of - this about Charleston to say nothing of the fertilizer interest there, who sell millions of dollars of fertilizer an nually to the farmers of South Caro lina and which business the great Seaport town would lose if we plant ed no cotton. I don’t blame them, I don’t b^ame those interested in the promotion cf the City of Columbia; I simply say that it is selfish" and that the agricultural people of S. C. who know what they want to do should not be mislead. The Columbia State says that the Pres* of the State is unanimously against the Long Plan. All I can say is that the Legislature is as unani- Commoh Pleas Court Will Convene Oct. 5 Judge W. H. Townsend, of Columbia, Will Preside at One W’eek Term. —Petit Jurors Drawn. A one week term of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnwell County will convene here Monday,, October 5th, with Judge W. H. townsend, of Columbia, presiding. The term was scheduled to convene next Monday, September 28th, and continue for two weeks, but the members of the local bar association petitioned Judge Townsend to call off the first week, which waiLjdone. Petit juror* for the remaining week were drawn here on Monday, as follows: V. L. Nevils, Blackville. R. A. Patterson, BarnwelL F. O. Black, Jr., Reedy Branch. , W. Henry Birt, Blackville. * C. L. Hiers, Four Mile. W. C. Hall, Williston. Ronald E. Rountree, Dunbarton. Laurie A. Hair, Williston. J. L. All, Dunbarton. T.O. Woodward, Green’s Academy. W. H. McCormack. Blackville. F. L. Stilt, ^Friendship. G. C. Best, Kline* - H. L. Buist, Blackville. W. W. Molony, Blackville. S. B. Pringle, Blackville. Jame* E. Ray, Friendship. W. H. Dicks, Dunbarton. Albert Collins, Hilda. M. L. Collins, Hilda. B. F. Odom, Healing Springs. A. R. Wilson, Ashleigh. Wilton Smith, Hilda. W. B. Parker, Seven Piaes. N. V. Collins, Hilda. C. G. Youngblood, Ellenton. J. H. Black, Barnwell. James Bates, New Forrest. J. E. Bates, Williston. B. A. Rountree, Dunbarton. F. N. Sanders, Kline. O. N. Courtney, Williston.' M. R. Harden, Red Oak. G. M Rosier, Dunbarton. J. R. Grimes, Cedar Grove. E. G Delk, Ellenton Teachers to Meet at Williston Oct 10th Third Arnual Meeting of greaaional District to Be Held. Kills Large Rattlesnake. Healing Springs, Sept. 21.—Murrie Odom killed a large rattlesnake Tues day afternoon of last week, the rep tile measuring six feet in length and sporting 16 rattles and a button. Mr. Odom had quite a battle before the snake was finally killed. This sec tion is noted for rattlesnakes, but a number of old people said tha* was the largest they had ever seen, al though other# killed here had more rattles. of the newspapers in South Carolina. Fo r some I have none. With refer ence to those, a dozen or more, who are taking a conspicuous part in the campaign against the Long Plan, I can only say that as much as we love and respect some of you, I had rather have the good judgment on an agri cultural problem of any dozen hard headed fanners than all the news paper editors in the world. We are going to pass the Long Plan, -f believe Texas is going to .pass something that is substantially I a- good. The newspapers, some af . them, have withheld the true senti ment of the people throughout The third anual matting of the teacher* of the Second Congressional District will be held in the Williston- Elko High School building at Wfllis- ton on Saturday, October 10. The first and second meetings were held at Allendale, but as Edgefield, Saluda. Aiken and Bamberg Counties are in this district, it is true that the teach er population center would be near Williston. - - The District Executive Committee man, Horace J. Crouch, has about completed the program for thi* day, and it will be ready to be released to all the county papers next week. The general session will begin about 10:30 a. m., and among the speakers on this program will be the President of the State Teachers’ Association, A. C. Flora, Supt. of Columbia City Schools; Secy. J. P. Coates, of the State Teachero’ Assn.; State Supt. of Education Jas. H. Hope, a ad Dr. Cocking, of Peabody College, Nash ville, Term. Lunch will be served by t^ School Improvement Association of the Williston School System, the afternoon for one hour and fifteen minutes three department meetings will be held as follows: * Primary, Elementary and High School. Able school folks front out ride the district will address groups. State High School 1 tor, J. McTeer Daniel, will direct tha High School teachers- It is poacible also that Mias Lilian Hoffman, la charge o{ Home Economics, and Prof. Verd Peterson, handling Vocational Education will hold separato confer ence* with their teachers at this time. Williston i* situated on State and Federal hard-surfaced highway No. 7ft, and is sasily accessible from all parts of the district, and a lar^s at tendance of teachers is expected. As an added rttraction for the day, arrangements are trying to be amdate have Carlisle Fitting School and Gaffney High School play a foot hall gam e the seme afternoon at WUlie- ton, and will very probably material ize. Texas Acreage to Be Gut Fifty Per Cent. Bill Limiting Cottoa Crap ta ftft Far tent, cf Cultivated Land the Austin, Texas, Sapt. 21.—The Tans legislature enacted a cotton reduction, bill today designed to a 50 per cent, curtailment in State’* cotton plantings in 1982 1933. "Each farmer would be prohibited from planting to cotton next more than 30 per cent, of the he cultivated in all crops this The same percentage basis would ap ply in 1933 with the additional pre vision that no 1932 cott<» land could be planted to cotton in 1933. After 1933 there would be no percentage limit but no land could be planted to cotton in successive years. Such was the answer of. Texas, the South; it ha* been heralded to the; cotton producing State in world that Texas would not call a nation, to the demand from the South special session, that Georgia would, for cotton acreage restriction by law, net, that Oklahoma would not and so forth and so on, when the truth is, Many southern fanners and legis lators were disappointed that Texas is now rii session, Geor-; Texas did not pass a bill prohibitteff gia and Oklahoma are going to do the growing of cotton next what Texa* does and, of course, the other States will follow suit. The farmers have determined to clean house; they are going to get a di vorce from Miss Fertilizer, they are going to get a divorce from the co op’s, from the gambler#, from the Louisiana and South Carolina passed bills asking for a cotton holi day for one year. Passage of the bill required vir tually two weeks. Governor Sterling called the law-makers into cesafoa September 8th to attempt to relknre politicians, who run to Washington to | the plight of the cotton farmer, whm fix the price of cotton, from the dema-receiving about 6 cent, a pound for gogues and special interest* and see his product, if by the Grace of God they cannot! Constitutenality of the , get in better shape, they can’t get in worse shape; they are so poor now that they can’t go in bankruptcy and are just one jump It is true that likely will be attacked in the Those opposed to the bill said it unconstitutional because it a man of property without due Press a* the Pres* is unanimously | against the Long Plan. Verily, “ThCi voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands | are the hand* of Esau.” I. have ahead of the sheriff all the time. It ( °f laW. 1* equally as true while they are Those defending its constitution trying to get in better shape their ity urged h was a measure to naked and will not be held in slavery ] fexas | much respect for most of th e editors to make cotton for those, who want tore the right to enact to save the farmers not from but to ing natural resour bankruptcy in order to keep -thia to that clause of special interest going. , wop rotation. ( A _ -i a.