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V fcftWriK WiJdHi I '«n iitirriiiHiiia > --3- mSi.tftltr}.. I' I f 1 PAGB TWO. v r -w V J THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLIaa THURSDAY^ AUGUST 4TH, 1932. JOHN W. HOLMES 18M—1911. B. P. DAVIES, Editor «nd Proprietor. Entered at the poet office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .90 Three Months .50 (Strictly in Adranca.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 1932. The Federal Gasoline Tax. Congress, in levying a federal tax upon gasoline, put another twist in the neck of the motorist goose that lays the golden eggs of highway revenue, and then added insult to in jury by pulling out the tail feathers. The eggs the federal government snatches from the nest will hatch no highways, for the estimated $150,- 000,000 income will be used for gen eral purposes. * In one act Congress thus gave the federal government the doubtful prestige of diverting more gasoline tax money from roads than ever previously had been considered. The gasoline tax was conceived with, and dedicated to, the idea that income should be used only for highways. But now that th^ federal stamp of approval has been put upon diversion, State legislatures undoubtedly will seek the same privilege for the States and will probably be emulated by the counties and communities which levy local gasoline taxes. Thus diver sion of gasoline tax revenue, the greatest single threat to the future welfare of American highways, be comes an issue. There is no element of fairness or wisdom in selecting the motorist as this country’.* tax goose, nor in pluck ing him to finance the general cost of govjrtiment, simply because he has demonstrated an ability to pay. Nor is there logic in making gasoline exclusively the revenue - producing commodity .'■imply because it is heap. Both rmH^rist and gasoline have reachedythe limit of taxation. The taxuratjon point is here. The motorist was the most heavily taxed citizen, and gasoline the most heavily taxed essential commodity even before the feder'al tax was im- I posed. If government, federal, State or local, after achieving every econo my, still must obtain more revenue by taxation, the most remonerative and the fairest procedure would be to tax classes and all commodities alike. If motorists can pay a billion dollars a year in taxes, a sizable part of the cost of government, all citizens com bined can contribute in larger meas ure. If gasoline can support federal, State and local sales taxes aggregate more than 100 per cent, all commodi ties should be able to support a single, and general sales tax, of two per cent. —Contributed. The population of our congress, speaking advisedly, is about as fol lows: Upper and lower house, 650. Wives, sons, daughters, cousins, aunts, uncles and granddaddies of congressmen residing in Washington —and helping some, 5,899. Pay-roll population residing outside of Wash ington and in foreign countries, con sisting of relatives of all kinds, 34,- 333. Miscellaneous, non-essential em ployees, 15,000, exclusive of thte print ing office wasters. Practicing Tax Dodging. You can’t get ahead of Uncle Sam and his tax schemes. I decided last week that I was going to save 42 cents by getting in my car and driving around to the folk^ I owed and paying my bills in cash. I was trying to dodge 3-cent postage and 2- cent bank checks—(fat No. 15,432, 555, 55th Congress, Vol. 8,999 page 45,666.) I; Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. ♦♦ ♦ 0 What’s What and Where. ~ Germany won the war, France col lected for it, and the taxpayers of the United States footed the bill. Cotton Letter. New York, July 30.—A slight rip ple in November sales, predicted no doubt, by the advance in goats and hogs, lowered spots 3 points in sym pathy with the farm relief board. Two thunder-heads and 5 drops of rain tended to ease December contracts, but the straddlers were interested in the shorts and the longs, but Bombay cabbage remained firm throughout the day. Liverpool cables reported hedging combined with prospects for a turn in rails and wheels, therefore, we anticipate hot weather during Au gust and probable frost in the early fall. It might pay to hold if you can, but if you can’t, please don’t. If beer will kill the 3-cent letter tax, I’ll take a schooner, please ma’am. Then we might let booze absorb the 2-cent tax on checks and the 4 cent tax on oil; with an arrangement like this, the politicans will help pay most of that tax. Wine would help to do •way with the gasoline tax, and all we will need then is free automobiles and some ham and eggs added to our Red Cross flour. It looks like we an going to have prosperity in spite of congress. Well, during this economy drive, 1 used 55 cents worth of gas and had 2 punctures, I ran across one fellow that I didn’t intend to pay at all, and he got his money. I was out of my office 45 minutes, and as I am earn ing 20 cents an hour—there’s where 15 cents more went. On top of all that, one guy short changed me Sets. holding the pole at the end of e half hour, so I stuck it in the bank. The first thing I caught was a dozen big, long, red ants which were taking din ner on the back of my neck, anso- forth. [ ^ v . I fished right on, I got a bite; a big bug bit me on my leg. And I killed him with much glee. Then I got about 200 more bites—mosquitoes. I saw something bubbling close to my hook and I moved my hook amidst the blubbers; no luck. It must have been a mud-turkle gargling his throat in the dirt. I pulled my line in and the bait was still there, untouched by fish whiskers. I moved down stream about 60 yards and sat down on two thorns. (?!!-!?! And that’s ex actly what I said.) Anno New Typewriter ‘The Remie Scout Model P (Manufactured by the Remington Typewriter Co.) 1 I am getting by faijrly well with postal cards, they are not taxed. I can write my own* wife on a postal card all right, and when I want to “dun’’ a customer, I simply write him a postal card and say: “Dear Bill: Please come to see me. You know very well what for. I can’t tell you how much it is, but you ain’t forgot that ham -and them eggs I let you have last January, I don’t reck on?’’ Then I say, “Yours truly, Gee McGee,’’ but Bill never show’s up—nor did he when I wrote him 2- cent letters. I have slowed down with my cor respondence and have quit air mail. I rearly ever telephone over 30 cts. away, from 4 home'., I enjoy 10-cent talkies. I don’t smoke, chew,drink or cuss, so I don’t get hurt there. Of coun*e, friends, I realize that I owe my part of that $2,550,666,333.22 deficit—but if they will let me off, I’ll pay them the 22 cents and the rest of you may pay the balance. Somehow or other, I believe that future congressmen are going to think of the “deer peepul” instead of themselves. When the voters get expressing their venom at the poll.-,, duiing the next few months, Wash ington will have to get up an entirely new city directory. I have one con solation: no tax was pTSced on frog- legs and our country is full of fiogs, judging from the noise th<v'e 2 frogs are making every night in the pond back of the gas-plant. I kept on a fishing and watched the sun go down. I got a nibble. I jerked hard. It was a chunk that was floating by. The next thing I pulleflfup was an old shoe. I wa^ a- fishing, not a-shoe-ing, so I flung it back. I was full of patience, chig- gers, energy and other insects, so stayed right on. It soon began to rain. I scrambled and slid and turn- l bled back to my Ford. I drove home; no fish; no kind word for anybody, and no more desire to fi.?h. I’m thru for 1932. Might go next year, doubt it, but if I do go, I’m going where fish will bite. Evidence Prove* That Indian* Were Gambler* Pittsburgh. Pa.—There was a great deal of gambling done here long be fore the advent of the numbers racket, slot machines and similar forms of up- to-date ways to lose money, according to Curl R. Long of Carrick, a suburb. Long has been collecting arrow heads. stones, and other things left behind by the Indian tribes which once made the meeting place of the Monon- gnhala, Allegheny and * Ohio rivers their headquarters. The sites of Indian encampments in the district yield mute evidence of the popularity of gambling before the white men came along. Long says. Stone rolling was the most popular, he says. In that one the “house man” selected a nice round stone about two and a half inches in diameter. He rolled the stone along the ground. At a marked spot, a big shot Indian with bow and arrows tried to drive the stone from its course with his weapons. Other brakes bet on or against him. Sometimes. Long says, the bet was as important as several strings of wampum or a blanket, and sometimes only a squaw. These Indians—Long says they were Cornplanters and the biggest gamblers of the eastern tribes—also played the old shell game which still is tried in parts of New York city and in some rural districts. T Delivered Typewriter t T 1 f f f T T T i i T f T T T i T i Y ♦ T T T ❖ t T f f f r Standard Four Row Keyboard.—Standard in Size and Arrangement. Specially Designed Type for Extreme Legibility and Long Wear. Light Touch Easy Running. f T X T T X X f ♦♦♦ f X i f t x X T ; * -4- Ideal for College Student, for Home and Office Use or Traveling Salesmen. Drop in at The People-Sentilel Office for a Demonstration. > B. P. DAVIES Barnwell, S. C. x t T f f t f T f ? T T X X V Balancing our budget was a most remarkable feat. The government’s action in this matter reminds me of % the fellow who got one arm cut off in a saw mill and he cut the other one ‘ I off so’.* he wouldn’t have any arm at all.tp unbalance him. It ain’t very pleasant working 10 hours a day when your Uncle Sammy gets about 4 of ’em to devote to his whims and whams. If your house ever catches fire, by all means put it out with gas oline or benzine—’cause you might need your house again. Fisherman’s Luck. A few afternoon’s ago, nothing would do me but I must go a-fishing. I had felt fishing pains for two or three weeks, but did not consider them very serious at first. The time to go semed very' propitious—if you happen to know what that means —I don’t, so I began'td get The first thing I did was to make a search for some bait, commonly called worms in this section. I hired a colored boy to dig me a supply; he soon came back for 50 cents and hand ed me a can (sardine type) that con tained 5 earth worm*, 5 grubs, 4 snails and 7 or 8 infant dirt-dobbers. These are what we fish with down here. |2uV. E8M Lwt, Strayed or Stolen! 1^—The Young Plan. 2.—Prosperity around the amtar. I*-—The foil /dinner pail. As there was no sea or lake or « ocean within 300 miles of my home, I selected a nice, deep, muddy river for my Ike Walton-ing, it was only 23 mile* from my front door. I was selfish enough to go alone—with the exception of one other fellow who knew nothing at all about river-fish ing—I wanted to do all of the catch ing myself—go’s I could do all of the bragging when I got back home. We reached the happy fishing waters about 4 p. m. The sun was creating temperature around 97 in the shade. I hurriedly baited my hook and droppeyi it ia^tlw water, HER BROTHER BILL TOLD HER THAT— No gambler ever wante to win the very flret pot, for if he docs, that puts the Gypsy curse on him for the rest of the session and he will be writing I. O. U.’s before he is through. ' «e>. 1)31. McClure Newspaoer Syndlcata.) Russia Plans Dam to Irrigate Waste Lands Moscow.—The Irrigation of the mid dle Volga drought region by the erec tion of a gigantic hydroelectric station, announced recently by Josef Stalin, and Premier Viacheslav Molotov, is one of the greatest engineering, proj- ects in modern history, according to Soviet scientists. The station, supplying 2,000,000 kilo watts of power for machinery to irri gate some 10,000.000 acres of ferain lands, will cost the Soviet at least 1,500,000,000 rubles. It will Involve the construction of a dam across the Volga at Kamishinsk about 30 meters high and some three kilometers In length. 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