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' ^ # t i«rv:-: Ttf* BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH GAROLMa ThaBarnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES ' 1840—1912. er» shall not have the right to sell power to any city, town, county or I municipality, but it may be ufeed for a fish pond or wash-hole. Write or phone.—Uncle Sam. «+- —. A B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .90 Three Months .50 (Strictly In Advance.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 1932 — /*“ Man Proposes. “Man propose* and God disposes.** Two or three years ago, a young student at the University of South Carolina—a very popular young fel low—announced that he expected to become Governor of South Carolina in 1946. Monday, Nigel League, candidate for the House of Representatives in Greenville County, finished addressing an audience and, as he walked from the platform, dropped dead. He n-ss the young fellow who expected to be come the chief executive of hh State at the age of 38 years. The plans of puny mortals too of ten go for naught in His *rflnite scheme of things. X Topics of the Poor. _ •. , These time s are indeed peculiar times. The other 4ay, I found that mother earth was tickling my feet thru my shoe-^oles, so I betook myself to a shoe store to be re-shod. I final ly found a No. 6 that suited my square foot; the price of that pair of oxfords was $9.88. These “dog houses” contained 15 cents worth of leather, 2 cents worth of cotton cloth, 10 eta. worth of pasteboard, thread, eyelets and. strings. All of the bal ance consisted of price. Puzzle: How do you do it, and why? Saw an automobile yesterday that was dolled upon the government plan. It had 6 horns, 4 spotlights, 4 taillights,* 3 windshield wipers, 6 spare tires, 2 chauffeurs, 2 gas tanks,, 2 clocks, 5 cigar lighters, 2 speedo meters, no brakes, 3 license plates, and 1 passenger. There are enough idle government employees plus en ough useless government employees to re-populate 7 States—if the folks already inhabiting them were to starve—jyhich thing now looks possi ble and feasible. The Primary Election*. On next Tuesday, ,the people Barnwell County and the Stat» large will go to the polla to begin the selection of their ao-called public ser vants. In this county, moat of the local races will be decided in tbe flsat primary, but ♦.here wi*| hr •econd race for the Uni’ed States Senate. Thank heavens, none of the ’bitterness of former years has been injected into the campaign in this section and we hope the *am? .a true of other sections of the Slate. The People-Sen tine I has refuse,) to “get all het up” in the interest ti any candidate this year and we shall cast oar vote for the man we believe u beet qualified to represent the peo ple of the State. We hope that the voters will view the cla’nn of the various candidates in a dear and Impartial manner and arrive at decision solely on their merit*. Fur ther than this, we have no:h'n K to aay in reference to the crmmg pr naary elections. May the beat man win. ; Nobody’s Business i By Gee McGee. Cotton Letter. New Your, Aug. 16.—Cotton futures opened steady on account of Liver pool, light offerings were scarce, but -straddling seemed normal on the sarfs/r. Covering was more notice able than uncovering near noon, the weather bureau said it looked like Cain but smelt like cheese, anjl that’s why the nearby months eased off. It was reported that 3 bales of cotton had been consumed during July in the manufacture of 145,798 female bathing suits but this could not be verified at any of the beaches m swimming holes. October* showed a net loss of 12 points but that ain’t like losing 200 points. Kindly hold. —..Tl^e (republicans had a mighty hard job keeping Mr. Hoover from finding out before August 15th that he had been rbnominated to lead the people on through his prosperity. They keep this matter quiet. Times got so tight in Spain last week, the Royal dogs had to be sold. The Royal cats and the Royal can- azies have not yet gone on the block. If things don’t let up over there, it ftoks like I am going to have to hock my Royal typewriter. The depression ha g caused a few of our railrbads to reduce the sala ries of their presidents from $135,- 000.00 to $135,555.55 per* year. Some of the presidents on the smaller roads receive only about $75,000.00 annually. It took a little bit of figuring a s to bow to accumulate enough money to pay these big heads but by laying off 250 conductors, 100 enginee$fe, 450 Bagmen, 2400 common laborers, 299 switchmen and several thousand other employees the said presidents are still tarrying on, ' Fortune has never smiled upon met .but .«he has frowned at me many s time. My Uncle Jobe Smith went to Texa a with Berry Cowan’s Uncle Jim Brown in 1867. Berry’s uncle died in 1928 and left nearly million dollars, besides 2 oil wells and s bunch of cattle. My Uncle Jobe fell in a well oat there last fall and I had to send $87.50 to an under taker before he could be laid away; and now it looks like the 2 boy* who pulled him out of the well are going to sue me for actual and punitive damages, as well as for $26.00 for services rendered. I have always been that way. m Storks and Itond*. ....Rails are strong, steel is strsng' er, but Alto common i t selling at 2 dollars per bundle, while American forks (hanged hands near noon at cents per pound, Troy weight; the present holders are stuck. Brazil copper waa bid up to 50 cents per •quare yard—to be used a s wrapping paper. Soft shell crabs were easy until near the dose; Hudson Bay slumped 2 points to a new low. Ger many IDs, reparation specials, were •-begging at 16 cents per ton at the close. All other stocks, such •• to bacco, telephone, gas and power were steady, but gradually growing weaker in sympathy with the B. E. F. The State Warehouse System. -power daifi, cost W, never been used—except for'political than $10.00 considered. Par- agree not to use it for* and furthermore, all future own* Editor of The People-Seentinel: In the State of August 5th, I find the following:—“Warehouse post goes to Jones. . . The State warehouse de partment is one of the self-sustaining departments of the government.” Now a 8 a matter of fact, the South Carolina warehouse system is a competitor of mine, I being a tax payer and it paying no taxes. The record shows that from 1928 to 1931, the appropriations for the State warehouse system amounted to $121,- 302.99,, while the receipts amounted to $51,247.10, there being a deficit of something over $70,000, which means that the competitors of this system, along with the other sleeping taxpay ers, are subsidizing this system through the government—one of the many forms of political greed. While I am on the subject of such subsidizing, I may remind you that the same is true a 8 to the truck and bus lines. The railroads along with other taxpayers (sleeping, as I have already said) are footing the bills for the upkeep of the roads, which are virtually free to the truck and bus ines. The matter of the governments be ing in business on a non-tax basis, in qompetilfon with its citizens who pay taxes, certainly needs attention. We cry “high taxes,” but make no practical move to relieve the situa tion. I shall appreciate your giving this letter spue* in your paper, in order that we may thinking along this line, in the hopa of discovering a Moses to lead us out of this wilder ness. ^ C. G. ROWLAND. Sumter, S. Cr v Williston’g firat bale of new cotton Submit bid«; no bid tot was *old on Tuesday of last week Inman Scott for’, about seven cents a pound. The bale was ginned Monday fertilizer, grinding wheat op, -and was probably the Coun’/s first j bait thi 8 year. V •Mi JUTE Fulmer’s Bill, taxing jute, proposes tb retain American markets for American cotton. This would mean that three million bales of addi tional cotton would be consumed, the manufacture of which would give employment to the thousands of unemployed, thus - aiding in restoring prosperity to the South v This Bill is attracting wide approval. “I wish to inform you that, as a taxpayer, farmer and merchant, highly approve the stand that you have taken on taxing jute.” ’ (Signed) JAMES L. SHEALY, Columbia, S. C. I ‘‘It is very important that a tariff be put on jute in order to help our own farmers rather than the foreigners in India, where this jute is grown. 99 (Signed) BELTON COTTON MILL, Belton, S. C. “I read with great interest, your speech on the jute question in the Congressional Record of March 26th. (Signed) PLANTERS FERTILIZER & PHOSPHATE COMPANY, « J. Ross Hanahan, Charleston, S. C. “The Southern cotton farmer is certainly indebted to you for your ef fort in proposing the tax on jute, but let us not forget that, if you are successful in this matter, we will advance the values of the Southern Cot ton Mills over one hundred million dollars.” (Signed) LANE COTTON MILLS, New Orleans, La. “Taxing jute would do the Ajnerican cotton farmer and the American cotton mills more good than any measure that could possibly be put through Congress.” * -V (Signed) McCAMBELL <£■ COMPANY, New Orleans, La. . “One of the greatest difficulties, under which we have labored in en deavoring to operate Sibley, is the continued inroad that the importa tion of jute cloth has made into the markets that were formerly suppli ed by h<iivy cottoncloth. made here at Sibley and at other Southern Coarse Yam Mills.” ’ (Signed) SIBLEY MANUFACTURING CO., Augusta. Ga. The Cotton Manufacturers, at Convention in Greenville, passed a Reso lution. indorsing the tax on jute. The United States is being flooded with jute and jute products. In 1931, there were imported into this country one hundred million pounds of raw fibre; ten million burlap bags; and one billion yards of burlap cloth. Fulmer Obtains, Free of Charge, Expert Cotton Classer for South Carolina “1 greatly appreciate the work that you did in getting an expert ootton elasaer placed in the Wai’diouae Department for the benefit and uae of the farmer^ and ■mall cotton buyers and other* in South Carolina. I think yqu hav» done the greatest woilP that ha« ever been Ion* for the bt-mfit of the marketing cf t >f.oo in South Carolina by thia one act—lar greater .h-n any other oiganisation or achtmc that has been placed befote our people. Farmer* reived from $10 to $15 more for the cotton that they had giaded than 'or tha* wh.ch they did not.” - (Signed) ’J. CLIFTON RIVERS. ^ State Warehouse Commissioner, Olnmhia, S. C. “I know you are still actively at work on your bill to establish in th» varioa* States licensed grading office* w*th a view of extending the benefit* of yo*ar cotton jading act to all cotton farmers. I am glad to see you are doing this. At most of the «mall cotCm markets of this State, the matter of grading Ukes into consideration only the color of the cotton. In 1929, I grew on my own farm cotton which 1 knew from the type of seed 1 lanted should command a premium anywhere fr* ra $6 to $10 per bale. I sent some of the cotton (3 boles) to the nearest local coltonincichant, who offered the price of prdinaix 7-8 length staple. 1 told the tenant not to sell the cotton but to brin* back the sam ple with the price offered him. The ne*t day I took these samples to one of the giaders detailed by the Department of Agriculture to work in connection with our State warehouse commission. He did not know who I was, but he graded the cotton and it graded 1 1-32 inch®*, carrying v/ith it, as he informed me, a premium of $7.50 a bale over 7-8 length staple, which, as you know, i* the usual length in this State. He gave me documents to this effect and the following day I sent the tenant back to the same merchant presenting him with the licensed grader’s papers and was prompt ly given the premium. I do not raise much cotton (because I am a small farmer and this year I am not planting any) but if I had gotten the premium on all.the cotton that I sold for 1929 these premiums would have more than paid my taxes and those of my tenants as well. Real, worthwhile things are sometimes hard to get going, but I am sure you have the patience to keep on pushing. You have a real proposition. With kind personal regards and beat wishes, v Sincerely yours, ■ % (Signed) A. F. LEVER. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 1932 i . ■ Fulmer is the Real “Dad * the Veterans’ Hospil Hearing Before Veterans’ Committee Mrs. Rogers, Congresswoman, Chairman of the Veterar “We are taking up first H. R. No. 9441, a Bill introduce of South Carolina, authorizing a milthe Committee in refe erans’ Hospital in South Carolina. This is the Bill that in my (Omnibus) Bill.” (TELEGRAM) “I cannot reach Washington tomorrow. I desire yc following statement for me before the Committee i refe erans’ Hospital. I cannot too emphatically urge the Coi favorably upon the Bill to establish a Veterans’ Hospita lina. (Signed) E. “That the Hospital was secured for South Carolina i to Congressman Fulmer’s work, re-inforced at a critical tive stand taken by Senator Smith.”—Editorial, The Sta1 “We all do appreciate the efforts that you gave in the much needed institution for our men.” (Signed) MOl “We cannot let the matter go by without more folly sincere appreciation for the most excellent wojk and lea< by you in this matter, which is all import^ ^ the ejfk (SigneJjkJlLLIAW Secretary. Columbia Chaiib As Commander of the Legion in South Caroling I j t fntena express the sentiment of our organization for the that you have done on this project for our disabled eon fight it has been!” (Signed) A. STANLEY LLEWELLYN. Com’d’r, Ameri Hon. Hampton Fulmer, House of Representatives. Wash My Dear Hamp:—In the first place. I want to coagi your splendid work in getting your measure for farm j Ho—t. It is a pity that the amount could not have f—m the Senate, but. of course, those of uir who have been in Washington, understand how easy it is to get a thing ate and how like getting a camel through a needle’s through the House. You and your colleagues have done a fine work and work. Except those, who have intimate contacts witl appreciate just the situation in the storm stricken area on the South Atlantic Coast. Again, I want to congratulate you. . .. . . . (Signed) A. F. LE> Fulmer Votes Against Extravagance and Voted against the General Sales Tax, which would burden of tax on the consuming public, and relieved t tions and income tax payers. Voted against tax on gas. oil, increased postage and Was opposed to going into new fields of taxation or ini was in favor of balancing the budget by expe Voted for general reduction of salaries, including a my salary. * Have always voted against large and extravagant Republican tariff legislation. J*' Have always stood for economy and against the e: priations of the Republican administrations. Am onl; dred and thirty-five members, and am not responsibl Congress beyond my own personal record. EXCERPTS FROM THOUSANDS OF LETTERS O “I wish to express my sincere appreciation of your efforts in having white arsenic of lead placed on the free list. You did some very efficient 1 work in this connection. In fact, I am appreciative of the very generous and effective response on your part on a.l occasions when you have^had the opportunity to be of service.” (Signed) THOMAS B. YOUNG, Carolina Cooperative Consolidated. 4 . “You are growing stronger and stronger in the good will of the people and I feel sure that you will find it easier and easier to be re-elected.- JVhen you first offered yourself for election, some peo ple did not know you and were not for you, but the?e same people are learning your real worth.” (Signed) CRUTCHFIELD MOTOR COMPANY, ^ “I wish to'take this opportunity of thanking you for the* interest that you have shown to stop this hectic manipulation of cotton through contracts, and I trust should new legislation take place to point of delivery on its merits.” TON §X«HANGE. (Signed) CHARLESTON COT- er,- T wish that I lived ia your district long enough to vote for you. If the good folks down there know your standing down there and know how well you look after them, I am sure that you would not have to go back home to campaign.” (Signed) T. S. WILLIAMS, Washington, D. C. “On behalf of the American Retail Jewelers Association, I wish to express our appreciation of the efforts you have made in our behalf and in the interest that you have, at all times, shown. This reduction will perhaps mean the salvation of many small and* medium sized businesses, and for your efforts we are deeply grate- ful.” (Signed) RALPH. ROESSLER, Chairman, American Na tional Retail Jewelers’ Association. “I appreciate your effort?. You Work faster than anyone I know of.” (Signed) W. L. BENNETT. inestimable value.” of Agriculture, Wai “You always shov (S “I am glad to sa; the polls for I fee’ Washington.” (Si “I thank you for “I want to tell you that I feel proud of the great stand that you have taken in Congress, You have certainly made a valuable „memh6^^ -4Sigped) JQI1N.JL HAMBLIN^ “I should like to express to you my appreciation of the contribu tion that you have made to the welfare of agriemture. Your care ful study of agricultural legislation in the past year has been of “In re short line : interest the article, views ir^oonnert' 1 r «et(^|to corn M Washington who i classes *to devote i “By this time, tli are the beat and I