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asr* THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY The Barnwell CwMoUdatH Jma L 19CS 'Ju«t Like, a Mtember of the. Family” VOLUME LV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MARCH 3. 1932. NUMBER 27. Barnwell Senator Fights Money Bill Senate, However, Refuses to Recommit A Little Sense and Nonsense About Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week by 21 to 13 Vote.—Playing Politics Charged. I v Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barn well, waged a vigorous fight Wednes day night and ^gain Thursday of last week against the Senate’s big $10,000,000 appropriation bill, but by a vote of 21 to 13 that body refused to recommit the measure. Out of the flood of oratory of criti cism only three members spoke in favor of considering the bill as re ported. Senator Long, of Charleston speaking last, asked the return of the bill to the committee for increased appropriations. Otherwise there was general criticism of at least parts of the measure. Senator Brown was accused of play ing politics by his maneuvers to re commit t,he bill. Contending that the bill could not be reduced materially without crip pling the public schools, Senator Laney, of Chesterfield, was the first to attack the motion t<> recommit the bill. In ansjver to statements made that to reduce teacher salaries would be breaking faith with them, Senator Brown said that to reduce the salaries of constitutional officers, provided for in the report, would be no less a failur e to keep faith. “The only item not cut,” he declared, “is the 6 0-1 school fund, while the average cut to departmental servants i s 16 per cent.” “The state superintendent of educa tion’s office,” he continued, “is wreck ing South Carolina.” He also charged that there was more graft and thiev ery under the school transportation act than had been under any other law since the dispensary. He said that it* would take a six and % mill property levy to meet the oligations of the bill as reported by the committee, and that that would leave no provision for the retirement of the $5,000,000 deficit. The note 8 is sued last year to take care of the deficit, he declared, will be due March 30, and there will be no money .with which to meet them. He quoted J. H. Scarborough, stat e treasurer, as saying that unless the method of pro viding for the deficit is changed, it would sooner or later result in a complete tie-up in governmental acti vities. The Barnwell senator also said that the committee had been divided al most equally on many of the items in the bill. ' He indicated that the results of the bill would have been different if some of the members had attended all of committee meetings. Charge of Politics. Senator Gray, of Spartanburg, charged Senator Brown with playing politics, and declared^ that it would b e foolhardy to recommit the bill. Senator Brown’s speech, Senator Gray said, sounded like a carbon copy of some of Niels Christensen’s letters. Mr: Christensen is president of the Farmers’ and Taxpayers’ league and an ardent econpmist People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. A truck load of cucumber crates. . . The following letter fiom Mrs. Mari e T. Cornell, of San Rafael, Calif.: “Am sending check for paper for another 'year. It means a great deal to the trhee cf us.” . . W. H. Hartzog, of the Double Ponds section, in town to pay his taxes, the first time in many years that he has failed / - s to settle this debt before Christmas. . . . A visiting pilot and Col. Ed gar A. Brown stunting in an airplane. . . . A parked automobile catching fire from a short circuit. ... A few expressions of regret over the closing of the hunting season. . . . Charles Burckhalter, Paul Bolen and Gilmore (“Buddy”) Harley taking a pre-summer swim in the “ole swim- min’ hble” last Saturday. . . . . Johnnie Bronson paying the boy who delivers his daily paper in advance with candy and almanacs. A letter from Col. Butler Hagood, formerly cf this city but now living with his son in Avenel, N. J., stating that his little- grandson, who is also the great-grandson of the late Gen. Johnson Hagood, of the Confederate army, made a speech on Abraham Lin coln at a recent school celebration in New Jersey, winding up with the ex clamation, “Hurrah for Lincoln!” The world do move! . . . Expressions of relief that Bim Gump and Millie’s mother have been rescued at last from the perils of the deep. The re lief wa 8 occasioned net so much by their predicament but because of the fact that the cartoonist had grown a little tiresome, to say the least. Q. A. Kennedy, Jr., of Williston, remarking that it certainly pays to advertise in The People-Sentinel, he having recovered a lost truck tire through a small ad. in thi 8 paper. Williston Boy Shot. » Senat^r^ray said that should the bill be recommitted, Senator Brown would probably mak e a similar speech when it was again reported. He re- fered to his speech as a “newspaper splurge.” “Let’s iwt play Edgar Brown poli tics,” the Spartanburg senator said. Senator Jefferies, in voicing opposi tion to the motion to recommit the bill, said that Senator Brown had already told his objections to the finance committee, and that a major ity of the members had not agreed with him. He said that it was use less to talk about the State’s having no credit. “South Carolina’s credit,” he declared, “will be sufficient to carry us through.” He cautioned members against being swept off their feet by oratory. He agreed that the general assem bly had no right to reduce the sal aries of constitutional officers. “No more, than they have a right to re duce teacher salaries,” he said. > He said that the bill was about the minimum under which the State could be operated without breaking down it s institutions. Senator Greneker, of Edgefield, ask ed where the revenue would come from .to meet the expenditures. Obligations to teachers were no more sacred than any other obligations, he declared, but added that the bill would be im- Committees Appointed. Committees have been select ed and will be announced when farm lean blanks are received Blank 8 ar e expected during last of this week or early next week. Help is being arranged for to help fill in the applications. There will probably—be ten or a dozen workers located at the Court House as Well as help at Williston and Blacjcville. County Agent Boylston has the full cooperation of Senator Brown and other member 8 of th e delegation who want to as- ^si-t in every way possible to help everybody have their ap plication . blanks properly and promptly filled in.—By H. G. Boylston, County Agent.' COURT OF COMMON PLEAS TO CONVENE MARCH 14TH Petit Jurors for Two Weeks Term Were Drawn Monday. Brown and Laney in Near Fight Friday Two Senators Are Forcibly Parted.— 6 Curses Are Hurled.-^-Bcth Apolo gize After TiH. Except from having been forcibly kept apart,- Senator Laney, of Ches- Liquidation of Bank It Started by Tarver Dispatch .from Aiken -Says Stock holders Will Be Called Upor. * Soon for Liability. to. Aiken, Feb. 27.—Liquidation of the Bank of f Western Carolina, which terfie!d, and Senator Brown, of closed it? doors October 15, has be- Barnwell, would have physically at- ! gun. The hfcad office in Aiken and tacked' each ether in the senate Fri- 1 the nine branches in North Augusta, day. I Ellentcn, Barnwell, Blackville, Wag- The trouble was precipitated when en?r * Salley, Johnston, Batesburg and Senator Laney accused Senator Brown Lexington, are in the hands of T. G. of costing the State several thousand* Tarver, formerly of th e Citizens and dollars by/holding up action on the Southern bank of Georgia, who was general appropriation bill. Senator recently appointed receiver, and who Brown responded by saying that he * 8 preparing his machinery of liquida- had never cost the ./State $250,000 as tion for immediate work. Chesterfield County had done. 4 understood that the stock- tt1 ., }■ >, o r holders of the bank, several hundred “Its a he,” Senator Laney said, . , .... . ,, * u- r * 'in number, will be called upen within quickly rising to his feet. The Barn- [ ’ Nvell senator, standing about ten feet Tax Payers Are Given Until 10th of March Ccmptroller General Sends Notices This Effect to County Treasurers and Auditors. Williston, Feb. 27.—Douglas Par ker, ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Parker, came near being seriously wounded late Thursday af^ ternoon, when a gun shell exploded in some trash he and other little boys were burning in the yard. At least thirty-five shot entered his arm, face and body. However, it is thought that none of them were deep enough to cause any serious trouble. possible lo pay. Says Bill $10,000,000. The senator sai<l that the finance committee’s report in reality was about $10,000,000, that some of its items weie hidden. “If we collected every dime in cuirent taxes, we would still have a deficit of $200,000 from last year,” he said. “Revenue will fall off considerably this year, and as written now, this year’ 8 appro priations will leave us with another deficit of from $200,000 -to $300,000.” He said that th e State could be run on what the house had approved as appropriations. The total of the house bill wa 8 $8,548,624. The finance committee, according to him, had in creased salaries $250,000 above those approved by the house. Senator Greneker said that the bill should not be more than $8,900,000. Senator Bryson, of Greenville, also spoke in favor of recommitting the bill. “The committee,” he declared, “was evidently not conscious of the financial condition of the State.” He said the maximum of the bill should be $8,500,000. The people, according to the Green ville senator, could not stand a $10,- 000,000 appropriation bill. , “I may be all wet,” Senator Long, of Charleston, began his speech, “but this bill should be recommitted with instructions that the total should be higher.” . ^ By passing a bill totaling $8,500,000, Senator-Long said, that the State wculd be hanging its head in shame. He appealed for well paid officials, and asked that the senate not be too deeply impressed with the “depres sion talk.” At 11:15 Senator Long relinquished the floor for a motion to adjourn. With the vote tied, the Charleston senator cast his ballot with those who wanted to quit for the night. % Debate on th e measure continued Thursday and a vote was not taken until 10:30 that night, when the Senate refused to recommit the bill by a vote of 21 to 13. A .two-weeks session of the Court of- Common Pleas will convene at Barnwell on Monday, March 14th, with Judge E. C. Dennis, of Darlington, presiding.. Petit jurors for the first week were drawn Monday, as follows: H. F. Odom, Ashleigh. E. T. Bates, New Forest. W.-H. Moody, Jr., Big Fork. H. E. Givens, Williston. T. E. Killingsworth, Dunbarton. R. L. Riley, Barnwell. W. H. Woodward, Green’s Academy. Wilton Smith, Hilda. Willie Black, Reedy Blanch. W. H. Hartzog, Double Ponds. Sidney Collin?, Hilda. B. M. Creech, Blackville. W. C. Cunningham, Williston. F. S. Brown, Barnwell. Dallas Creighton, Barnwell. J. S. Collins, Hilda. | , J. M. Lard, Blackville. Crimmins Renew, Long Branch. L. N. Connor, Barnwell. E. Harold Beasley, Barnwell. Luther Black, Long Branch. Leon W. Hutto, Double Ponds. A. J. Joiner, Hilda. * Lauri e Porter, Edisto. B. M. Hair, Barnwell. Geo. Hartzog, Lees. J. Howell Delk, Hilda. Harry Nix, Hilda. Ira Black, Long Branch. G. W. Duncan, Dunbarton. A. P. Scott, Williston. W. H. Birt, Blackville. J. F. Swett, Meyer’s Mill. Wm. P. fcloyd, A-hleigh. J. H. Boyles, Diamond. away, with rows of seats between them, began moving toward Senator Laney, cursing him. -Senator Laney kept hi 8 ground. Senators had difficulty in keeping the two apart, but the tide was stem med when the stout sergeant-at-arms got between the two antagonists. Sen ator Brown was unable to climb over him and in a few seconds, while Sen ator Riley, cf Bamberg, who was pre siding, kept pounding the gavel for order, quiet was restored. Both senators apologized and later shook hands. a short time for their liability, which will amount to $289,000. All reorganization plans as recently proposed by the steering corhmittef have been discarded, Circuit Judge E. C. Dennis, in a hearing held this week j in Barnwell, having frowned upon the i proposal to reorganize the bank by asking depositors to charge off 50 per cent, cf their accounts to make the bank solvent and thus enable the securing of a loan from the Recon struction Finance corporation. This wa 8 proposed to be done before the stockholders would be called on for their liability under the law and met with considerable opposition from Tension* however, remained high large groups of depositors, although and it wa 8 in that atmosphere that the meeting of depositors held in senate passed without a* roll call! Aiken February 15th voted in favor the house bill to extend the time of payment of taxes from March 1 to June 1, with the addition of a 1 per cent, penalty each month. The bill was maneuvered through by Senator Nash, of Sumter. ^ Appropriations for public schools has been the center of a two-day fight on the finance committee’s re port of the general appropriation bill. Friday, Senator West, of Abbeville, suggested a 25 per cent, reduction of 6-0-1 funds and a suspension of the act for the next session, leaving the money to be appropriated directly to the counties. Senator Brown has led the fight I* against the committee report. He was defeated e on Thursday night in his effort to recommit the bill. Friday he was successful in forcing consideration of the school appropriation fight. He contended that unless the school appropriation was cut there could be no material reduction in the bill totaling $9,820,- 279.95 a 8 recommended by the com mittee. , A Great Success. of the proposal. The vote, howevfer, wa 8 protested. Judge Dennis also was opposed to the appointment of an ad visory committee, as proposed by the steering committee, but * 8 under stood that the advisory committee, which will be composed of three mem bers from each bank in the group, will act in the appraising of proper ties at their varions branches. The receiver, Mr. Tarver, now busy with liquidation arrangements, stated this week that he hopes to be able to secure a loan'froth the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation, although this will not be at any immediate time, he says. Cotton carry-over LARGEST IN HISTORY No matter what the action of tha senate toddy on the veto by the gov ernor of the time extension bill for tax payments, tax payers will be £iven until March 10th to pay 1931 taxes without increase in penalty, ac cording to notices 8 e n l out to county treasurers and auditors yesterday by A. J. Beatie, comptroller general. The notices, issued with the approv al of Governor Blackwood, were aa follows: -* “On account of the uncertainty as (to the penalty to be collected m March, and regardless of the action of the legislature on the governor's veto, it is deemed proper and just that taxpayers be allowed until March 10, 1932, to jray 1931 taxes without in crease in penalty. “Accordingly it is therefore ordered, with the approval of the governor, and under authority of section 851, volume 3, code of laws 1922, that no increas e in the penalty of 2 per cent, already assessed be made prior to March 10,-1932, after which date such penalty as provided by law will at tach, and you will be given due no tice of same.”—The State, March 2. SUDDEN ATTACK TAKES H. D. STILL Funeral Friday for Widely Kaowa Blackville Man. Washington, Feb. 25.—With the planting reason for cotton at hand, Chairman Stone of the farm boaid said today indications were that Au gust 1st would see a carry-over of about 13,000,000 bales. “This is about four time g the or- After the near fight, Senator Laney din • , ■> , ^ ! * id - “ Let ‘ hc cotton farmer draw his own conclu- wa? the first to apologize to the sen ate. Senator Brown followed by ex pressing himself as being “sorry for the poor spectacle.” Senator Laney took time to review the action which had caused Senator Brown to say that Chesterfield County had cost the State $250,000. He said that the county had cost the State nothing. Due to the closing of a Ches- trefield bank which tied up several hundted thousand dollars of the county’s funds, Chesterfield County was unable~to meet the highway bond obligations, he said. The highway de partment took them over but the county has been paying them a s they came due, he said. In this year’s bill a two mill levy on Chesterfield County is planned to raise sufficient 1 money to retire the bonds which come due during the period. Senator Laney said that the county would never fail to meet its obliga tions while he was senator. . He was not senator when the county default- Barnwell County has 13 students enrolled at the University of South Carolina for the second semester of The free barbecue and chicken din ner given last week at the Court House to those who would furnish clothing, staple groceries, shoes, peas, corn, etc., for the needy in thi s vicini ty, was a success from every stand point. The floats were donated by R. R. Moore and Terie Richardson and ’cued by Rivers Duncan, %nd all who partook voted it the best they had ever tasted. The chicken dinners were prepared by some of the ladies of the community and served about forty or more people. Some folks * f - 1 who preferred to do so paid for their dinners and this amount was turned into flour, bacon and lard and went into twenty-four of the neediest homes of the community, along with a generou 8 bundle of dothfcig. Each case was investigated and a volunteer from every church in town met at the Court House and the families were supplied from the clothing fur nished. Those who assisted were e( j on jt 8 bonds, in effect, and the !oud In their praise of the generosity highway department had to take t o be disturbed by the remark, of the Barnwell people, several hun- them over. dred garments being contributed. After quiet had been restored the Some good friends brought in cured two senators were reconciled. Each shoulders, middlings, etc., some syrup, referred to the high esteem in which potatoes, corn, peas and meal which tkey hfld each other. Senator Brown brought joy to* the hearts of those in 8a jd that he had “no hard feelings n€e< *’ I (against the Chesterfield senator.” t To all who in any way contributed Senator Laney said that he would not toward the success of this undertak- have been able to sleep for i week if ing, the committee in charge extends their misunderstanding had not been thank s and wish to assure each and straightened out. Just before Senator Laney’s review of the Chesterfield County bond mat ter there was another tense moment when Senator Person, cf Allendale, asked if it had anything to do with sions as to how many acres to plant.” The board has consistently advo- vated cotton acreage reduction. The acreage was cut’about 10 per cent, last year, but favorable growing weather resulted in a bumper crop of almost 17,000,000 bales. Thirteen BarnweD County Students. the 1931-32 scholaktSo yearr' Ander son, Charleston, Florence, Greenville, Richland, Orangeburg and Lexington counties lead the list. Twenty-four States are repfesented among the 1,780 students at'the Uni versity this term. Four foreign coun tries have five students enrolled. * . • North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Virginia have the most out- of-State students. Advertise In The People-Sentinel Serate Kills Amendment. every contributor that their donations were most thankfully received. ■ f •' Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Guess, Miss Nelle Moore, of Walterboro, Mrs. Elizabeth Drew and son, Jaek, of Hendersonville, Robert Cropland, of Charlotte, N. C., and Qunicy Martin, the appropriation bill. “If he doesn’t lil^it,”. Senator Laney exclaimed, “he can leave the of Columbia, were guests of Mrs. J. senate.” B. Armstrong recently. | Senator Sears :n, however, ref&sed Monday night, by a vote of 19 to 12, th e Senate killed an amendment to the general appropriations bill to reduce the 6-0-1 public school fundyby $565,721.40. The amendment offered by Senators Brown, of Barnwell, and West, cf Abbeville, would in effect have reduced teachers’ salaries 15 per cent, for the 1931-32 session and the 1932-33 session. Senator Laney, of Chesterfield, a pro-school man, announced that he would offer amendments to provide an additional 1 cent tax on gasoline and a 2-cent per quart tax on lubricating oil, to be effective frpm April 1 to January 1, 1933. Proceeds from the gasoline and cil tax would be set aside fer the 6-0-1 school fund. ’ Blackville, Feb. 27.—Henry David Still, 50-year-qld farmer, and widely known Blackville citizen, died at his home Thursday afternoon a short time after suffering a sudden heart attack. At the time of his death Mr. Still was a member of the board of visitors of The Citadel and a member of the county board of tax assessors. Funeral services were held Fri day afternoon at 4:30 at th e residence here, conducted by the Rev. L. G. Payne, pastor of the Baptist Church. Interment wao made in the Blackville cemetery. Mr. Still was one of Blackville’s most popular and publiA spirited -citi zens who, while one of the section’s most successful farmers, found time to serve hi g community in many pub lic offices. Bom in April, 1882, he was grad uated from The Citadel in the class of 1901. In/1904 he married Miss Mag gie Hair, daughters of the late 7. E. Hair. , In addition to his posts on the board of The Citadel and the county tax assessors Mr. Still was a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He had also served on the town council and for 20 years served as a member of the beard of trustees of the Blackville schools. Surviving besides his widow are his mother, Mrs. Marian M. Still; brothers, F. H. Still, of L. C. Still, of Washington, and four sons and four daughters, Henry D. Still, Jr., graduate of The Citadel; ■Mias Eugenia Still, Miss Martha Still, student at Green ville Woman’s college; Pinckney, Joe, Marie, Lorena and Jimmie Still, ail of Blackville. Death of G. A. Beet. The many Barnwell friends Andrew Best were saddened to learn of his death, which occurred at 3:15 o’clock Sunday morning at his home in UlAer. Mr. Best was 62 years of age, having been born February 22, 1870. He was a son of the late Wil liam Best and Jane Kirkland Best, and wa 8 & brother of the late C. Ar thur Best, Esq., of Barnwell. - Mr.' Best was twice married, his first wife being Miss Lizzie Folk, ef Ehrhardt. After her death he mar ried Miss May Brant, of UlSner, four children being bem to this union, as follows: Mrs. Myrtle B. Myrick, Miss Emily Best, Lowry Best and G. A. Best, Jr., in addition to whom ha la also survived by one sister, Mrs. T. J. Deer, of Ulmer, and brother, Willie K. Best, of Olar, and a number of nieces and nephews. ' Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Sam Dander in the of a large congregation of relatives and sympathetic the body being laid tj Great Saltkehatchk