The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, September 29, 1932, Image 4
TlwBarnwIl People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
IMS—1912.
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932
We don’t believe that to date any
other newspaper has recorded that
4 ‘the melancholy days are here—the
aaddest of the year.”
Does President Hoover’s remark
that “what this county needs is a
great poem” forecast the creation of
r the office of poet laureate for the
United States? What Mr. Hoover is
going to need after November 8th is
somebody to write his swan song.
“What
this
9f
country needs is a
great poem,” President Hoover is
quoted as saying, which once more
shows how little the President really
understands the real needs of the
country. What it really needs is a
leaded—not an engineer—in the
White House. Franklin D. Roosevelt
will supply that need.
had been changed to bine.
I understand now why we have a
deficit of about $2,500,000,000, not
counting the many concealed obliga
tions. The subway and the garages
for the congressmen and senators
had a little something to do with our
troubles. There are already enough
of large office buildings in Washing
ton to take care of England, France.
Great Britain, Sicily, Europe. Ger
many and Italy, yet-^-they are pre
paring to spend a billion dollars more
for office buildings.
The boys are razing about 100
good buildings so’s they can have
plenty of room to erect about 100
more buildings that they don’t need.
If they would cut out 50 percent of
the red tape used in matters of gov
ernment, 65 percent of the federal
employees could be sent home and
put to work. It takes £ different men
to lick a postage stamp up there, and
the services of 3 stenographers and 2
clerks are required to help a boss
sneeze.
A man told me that they were
going to build a 10-million-dollar in
ter-state commerce building— as if
there was any more commerce of rny
kind left. All the I. C. C. has dene
so far^ has been to hpld up freight
rates aqg passenger fares so’s the
trucks and buses would get all the
business.
Another Noble Experiment.
Apparently the Republican cause
has become so desperate that Presi
dent Hoover is about to try another
“noble experiment.” Fearful of a
wholesale defection from the Republi
can party in the Northwest, we are
told that “federal aid in an attempt
to j?ell many millions of bushels of
privately owned northwestern wheat
to China was discussed today (Sun
day) by President Hoover and high
government officials at a hurredly
called White House conference.” Ac
cording to the dispatch from Wash
ington, the exponent of the “noble ex
periment” of four years ago advo
cates lending China $8,000,000 of
America’s money with which to
purchase 15,000,000 bushels of Ameri
can wheat grown in the Northwest.
(As if we didn’t already have too
many uncollectible foreign loans!)
In 1928 President Hoover’s cam
paign slogan was “a chicken in every
pot.” For 1932 we suggest “a bis
cuit for every Chinaman.”
Mere Straws in the Wind.
Monday’s daily newspapers contain
ed the information that the author,
Richard Washburn Child, ambassador
to Italy under Presidents Harding
and Coolidge, will .support Franklin
D. Roosevelt for the Presidency and
.would head tn organization known as
the Republicans-for-Roosevelt League.
The National Progressive League also
announced that Senator George W.
Norris, insurgent Republican from
Nebraska, will make a coast-to-coast
apeaking tour in behalf of Mr. Roose
velt’s candidacy.
Initial returns in the Des Moines
Register and Tribune statewide presi
dential straw poll showed Mr. Roose
velt leading President Hoover by
more than 4,000 votes out of a total
tabulation of 23,728. Roosevelt re
ceived 13,954, Hoover 9,187 and Nor
man Thomas, socialist, 294, the re
maining ballots being cast for scat-
'tering candidates. While Iowa is
normally 60 per cent. Republican, Mr.
Roosevelt’s share of this early vote
la 58.8 per cent, and President
Hoover’s is 38.8 per cent.
At Hollywood, Calif., la^t week a
crowd of 50,000 persons greeted Mr.
Roosevelt and gave him an ovation.
California is the President’s home
State.
The building for the Forked Tail
Tadpole Commission will cost in The
neighborhood of 3 million dollar:?
The building to house the Bureau for
the relief of Blind June Bugs will re
lieve the taxpayers of only $750,000.
The structure that will be occupied
by the Commission on Food ami
Drink for the Colorado chipmunks
will be erected at le^s (possibly) than
$3,455,666.77. All forms of wild life
will have Bureaus at their backs, and
the said Bureaus will sit in nice,
marble houses. You can actually
smell wa.^t?, extravagance, idleness
and pin-headed politicians when you
get within 42 miles of Washington.
The March of Progreso.
My pa was the first man or wo
man in Dark Comer township to put
lightning rods on a house. I was
quite young, but I will never forget
that lightning rod agent and them
lightning rods he sold my pa.
That agent could talk faster than
5 women put together. He could
25 words while any man was battmg
his eye. He knew more about light
ning rods than Solomon knew about
poligamy.
3,
Pa paid $155 for his set of light
ning rods, but the said set had four
points and one weather vane—(to
show which vray the wind was blow
ing—as if that mattered), and it also
had a rooster in the crowing act on
top pf the kitchen. There w?re 7
glistening balls on those lightning
rods, and
beautiful—them balls was.
, folks they were simply
A Skin Game.
1 have never been very good to
look at. I was born that-a-way. I
had a relapse when I was 10 years
of age, and I gradually grew worse
until la^t week, and then I suFere'.!
another relapse. It must be fine to
be soft on the eyes.
;; Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
Washington, D. C., the Politician’s
Paradise.
It was my pleasure, if pleasure it
-might be called, to spend 10 hours
and 4 dollars in Washington one day
last week. I was surprised tc find
that the gold-leaf on the Capitol
dome was still intact, and none of the
tombstones had been removed from
any of the public buildings, meaning
the marble buildings, of course ,
Realizing that my natural ugli
ness could be increased by not exer
cising the proper care of my dress
and make-up, I have always tried to
have my hair cut in such a manner
that only about two-thirds of my
bald-head would show when my hat
was on it, but I ran into serious
trouble a day or so ago.
1 went into a barbershop last
Friday and crawled into the most
comfortable looking chair they had.
I didn’t pick out any special barber.
I told him to barely trim the edges
of my arleary sparsely settled locks.
He began with a pair of electric
clipper’s that made 50,000 revolutions
per minute, and that got me sorter
bothered. All the other barbers had
always used scissors on my head.
That “bobber” kept on running
different kinds of instruments thru
and ovei' my hair, and the room was
full of flying particles. He finally
hollered “next,” and I betook myself
to the looking-glass and I almost
fainted. That bird had shaved and
shined my head from my ears across
my plate and back again. There
wasn’t a single hair that was one-
millionth part of an inch anywhere
on my head except at the base of my
neck.
The 5 square inches north of my
ears were as white and glossy as a
California oniort, and no kind of
animal now extant could light there
on without sliping up and busting
his anatomy. One side of my spinal
column that extended to the base of
my skull wa« as clean as a cucumber.
He actually cut my eyebrows off’and
they were so short they wouldn’t
scratch the skin of a 3-days old baby.
... I noticed that Mr. Hoover ?s hav-
ing the White House re-painted. Mr.
Roosevelt ought to appreciate his
thoughtfulness. I couldn’t understand
It, but it waa being painted white;
after the prosperity wave that has
waving for 2 years, I think it
have been bettor if the color
1 started °nce to grab a razor
and go to the pen for life for mur
der. I was so mad I forgot to pay
the man. He asked me to hurry
back. I told him if I could find a
shotgun close by, I’d be back in a
minute. If that boy ig a good bar
ber, I am the Qneen of Rumania. He
ought to move west and jon the sheep
shearers. I will he ashamed to go to
prayer-meeting forf the next three
years. I looked had enough “just
so,” but now I am embarrassed when
my wife and children and 2 cats look
at me. Why, folks, I’m plumb ruin:.
I m thinking of joining a side show
for a while.
Our house cost $45.00, and v.hen
that sum was added to the purchaie
price of our lightning rods, the
total value of our re.-:idence -(we
changed its name from ‘house to
residence as soon as the rods were
installed— was $200.00. We never
worried about lightning striking us
after those copper rods were put ,iup
for the purpose of keeping lightning
away. (The agent said they were
solid copper just like what money
was made out of.)
♦
This effervescing peddler quickly
conyinced pa that he should buy the
lightning rods when he showed him
some pictures of lightning striking
dwellings and killing the inmates by
,the thousands. He said they were
actual photographs, and we believed
him. You see, when the photogra
pher saw that lightning was a-fixing
to strike a house, he ran home and
got his camera and got back in time
to take a picture of the terribie
stroITe.
People came from miles around
to see our lightning rods, and all 12
of us children took much delight in
showing the folks about and explain
ing the function of each point. It
took all of the money pa and the
family had saved up for 9 or 10 years,
but we gained much prestige in qur
community. We were the first folks
in them diggings to buy a swinging
lamp, and put pillow shams on the
beds, and hang up signs in the rooms
that read, “Peace” and “Home, Sweet
Home.” We were leaders. Two or
three of my brothers and sisters had
learned how to read and spell by time
they were 10 years of age, but it took
me 13 to do that.
Four Negroes Killed.
Four negroes are dead and four
white persons are in the Walterboro
hospital suffering serious, though
probably not fatal, injuries a? a Re
sult of a head-on collision at Early
Branch Sunday night between auto
mobiles driven by Dick Taylor, white,
of Beaufort, and Heyward Brocking-
ton, negro, of Yemassee.
Mr. and Mis. Taylor and their two
children w’ere returning to Beaufort
from Allendale where they had gone,
to spend Sunday with Mr.?. Taylor’s
aunt, Mrs. Jack Harley. Brocking-
ton and five other negroes from Yem
assee were going to Early Branch
to attend church services.
The injure^ were rushed by passing
travelers to the Walterbdro hospital,
the injured white people being first
to reach the hospital. When the car
containing the negroes arrived, two
were dead and the other two died
shortly afterwards.
Brockington had traded for the car
in which he was killed on Saturday,
paying for it in cash.
Enroll at The Ckadel.
Charleston, Sept. 26.—S. E. Carter
and W. H. Sanders, of Barnwell, have
been enrolled at The Citadel a-s mem
bers of the Freshman Class. They
are at present undergoing a period of
instruction in Recruit Regulations by
mepibers of the Senior Cla-s who
have been detailed to act as instruc
tors to the Freshmen.
The recruits are also receiving in
struction,? in the fundamentals of
drill so that they may be prepared
for the dress parades which will be
gin about the first of November
Hurricane Deals Death.
A hurricane Tuesday dealt swift
death to several hundred persons and
caused millions in property damage as
it ripped across the island of Puerto
Rico. Early Tuesday night the huge
“doughnut of wind,” carrying veloci
ties up to two miles a minute along
its outer edges and an absolute calm
in the center, was pursuing a relent
less north-northwestard course to
ward tbe island of Haiti.
URGE SAAR BE MADE
i INDEPENDENT STATE
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What Will Happen When
Control by France Ends?
Washington.—What wl’l happen to
the Saar?
As 1935, the end of the fifteen-year
period ^for which the coal mines of
the Saar basin were turned over to
France, approaches, that query is bid
ding for an important place in Euro
pean politics.
“Saar, which straddles the Lorraine-
German border, almost next door to
Luxemburg, is a region about two-
thirds as large as Rhode Island and is
famous for Its mineral deposits,” says
a bulletin from the Washington (D.
C.) headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society.
Famous Coal Region.
“Before the World war when Lor
raine was German territory, the com
bination of Lorraine iron deposits and
Saar coal deposits made this region
one of the outstanding steel produc
tion regions of Europe.
“Saar coal, perhaps, would still be
long to Germany, if it were not for
the efficiency of German troops who,
while retreating in north France, de
stroyed coal mines that once yielded
28,000,000 tons annually. Because of
this act, when the peace treaty was
framed, diplomats attempted to com
pensate France by turning over Saar
coal digging rights to France for a
period of fifteen years—1920 to 1935.
The German government also was
called upon to compensate private
mine owners in the Saar fields for
their losses but these losses were not
difficult to meet as most of the mines
were the state property of Prussia
and Bavaria.
“The transfer of coal mining rights
to France, however, was not made
without political and economic ob
stacles. The region could not remain
under German control for the prop
erty rights of the Frencli would not
he assured protection, and the great
German population and German prop
erty could not be placed under French
control. The League of Nations, there
fore, set up a governing commission
composed of one Frenchman, one citi
zen of the local region, and three non-
French and non-German members. The
commission is directly responsible to
the League council.
“Saar took its name from the Saar
river, a winding stream which flows
through the western part of the re
gion. While coal is the district’s most
famous product, the river banks are
covered with vast fruit orchards and
vineyards. There are also farms, but
agriculture is not a major Saar in
dustry. On the picturesque hills, here
and there dominated by ancient castles
of Homan days, are thick forests,
which form the basis of another im
portant industry.
“The coal mines now being worked
lie about ten miles.to the northeast
of Saarbrucken, a city of some 125,000
inhabitants who are employed in many
Industries. Saarbrucken’s skyline is
studded with the smokestacks of blast
furnaces, metallurgical establishments
of many kinds, machine shops, chemi
cal works and ceramic kilns. The city
is an Important railroad center.
“Saarbrucken went to France ten
years before our Declaration of In
dependence was signed. After the
battle of Waterloo, the Allies took It
and turned It over to Prussia. At that
time the coal deposits were hardly
known. Its present prestige may be
credited to the development of the
steel Industry which thrust It to the
front among the important European
mineral regions owing Hb its location
near the Lorraine iron deposits.
"Recent reports Indicate that there
Is a griming movement in some parts
of Europe to urge the creation of an
independent Saar state under the pro
tection of the League of Nations. If
no change is made from the original
provisions of the treaty, however, in
1935 the people of the region w*Il de
cide by popular vote whether to live
under the French or the German flag.”
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come here each season for their clothing needs. They
know our methods, our service and our honest effort always to
keep their interests in mind. To these hundreds of old custo
mers mere words cannot express our deep appreciation.
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“Coin the Ocean”! Prize
Idea for Solving Crisis
Boston.—The “prize idea” for end
ing unemployment was a proposal to
have everybody extract gold from the
salt water of the ocean, Harvey A.
Wooster, director of the Massachu
setts commission on stabilization of
unemployment, revealed.
The gist of the idea was that since
there was about five cents worth of
gold in every cubic yard of sea wa
ter, all the unemployed could tackle
the job aad all could be millionaires.
Director Wooster threw a wrench
into £be works, though, by pointing
out that it would cost more than 5
cents to get a nickel’s worth of gold
out of the water.
Enemy War Flyers
Stage Friendly Race
London.—Two aviators, enemies
in the World war, recently staged
a friendly air .race around London.'
One w’as Baron E. von Schleich,
known during the war as the Black
Knight of the German air force;
thje other was Maj. Christopher
Draper, the Mad Major of Jbe
Royal air force in war years.
The Cerman lost the race by
thirty secoads, but hit British op
ponent “stood” for the dinner given
later at the clubrooms of tLt Old
Comrade* of the Air Fore*.
Treasurer’s Tax Notice!
The County Treasurer’s office Will be open from October 1st, 1932,
to March 15th, 1933, for collecting 1932 taxes, which include real and
personal property, poll and road tax.
All taxes due and payable between October 1st and December 31st,
1932, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will be
subject to penalties as provided by law.
January 1st, 1933, one per cent, will be added.
‘ Februaiy L«t, 1933, two percent, will be added.
.March 1st to 15th, seven percent, will be added.
Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af
ter March 15th, 1933.
When writing for amount of taxes; be sure and give school district
if property is in more than one school district.
All personal checks given for taxes w’ill be subject to collection.
State
Ordinary Countj
Road and
Bridge Bonds
Past Ind. Bonds
* 1 •
Constitutional
School
6-0-1 School
Special Local
TOTAL
No. 24—Ashleigh
5
0
4
1
3
4
12
29
No. 33—Barbary Br’ch..
5
0
4
1
3
4
29
46
No. 45—Barnwell j
5
0
”4 —
1
3
4
28
45
No. 4—Big Fork
5
0
4
1
3
4
17 '
34
No. 19—Blackville
5
o
4
1
3
4
23
40
No. 35—Cedar Grove
5
0
4
1
3
4
27
44
No. 50—Diamond .
5
0
4
1
3 !
4
13
30
No. 20—Double Pond._
5
0
4
1
3
4
19
36
No. 12—Dunbarton
5
0
4
1
3
4
27 1
44
No. 21—Edisto .
5
0
4
1
3
4
8
25
No. 28—Elko
5
0
4
1
3
4
29
46
No. 53—Ellenton *
5
0
4
1
3
4
7
24
No. 11—Four Mile -
5
0
4
1
3
4
8
25
No. 39—Friendship
5
0
4
1
3
4
13
30
No. 16—Green’s
5
0
4
1
3
4
19
36
No. 10—Healing Spgs._-
5
0
4
1
3
4
20
37
No. 23—Hercules
5
0
4
1
3
4
26
43
No. 9—Hilda
5
0
/ 4 .
1
3
4
35
52
No. 52—Joyce Branch..
5
0
4
1
3
4
26
43
No. 34—Kline
5
0
4
1
3
4
17
’34
No. 32—Lee’s
6
0
4
1
3
4
10
27
No. 8—Long Branch
5
0
4
1
3
4
16
33
No. 54—Meyer’s Mill
5
0
4
1
3
4
26
43
No. 42---Morris ^
5
0
4
1
3
4
11
28
No. 14—Mt. Calvary*..
5
0
4
1
3
4 *
27
44
No. 25—New Fore?t_l*f.
S -
0
I
•—f—
— 27
44
No. 38—Oak Grove
5
0
4
1,
3
4
18
35
No. 43—Old Columbia.
5
0
4
1 -
3
4
26
43
No. 13—Pleasant Hill--.
5
0
4
1
3
4 *
14
31
No. 7—Red Oak -
5
0
4
1
3
4
15
32
No. 15—Reedy Branch.-
5
0
4
1
3
4
13
30
No. 2—Seven Pines
5
0
4
1
3
4
11
28
No. 40—Tinker’s Creek.
5
0
4
1
3
4
16
33
No. 26—Upper Richland.
5
0
4
1
3
4
26
' 43
No. 29—Williston *
5
0
4
1
3
4
31
48
The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens
between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the age?
of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00.
Dog Taxes for 1932 will be paid at the same time other taxes are paid.
It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to see
that this tax is collected or aid tltt Magistrate in the enforcement of
the provisions of this Act.
Checks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances ex
cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the
right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.)
Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, postoffice monev
orders, or certified checks. - J. J. BELL, Co. Treas.
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