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fiiWinlK' i'r - , • PA6B TWO. A—— ■X V v» J THE BXteNWELIxPEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARN 1 SOUTH CAROLS a THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 19S2. Tlw Barnwell People-Sentinei JOHN W. HOLMES 1841—ItLL 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 (Strictlj in Advance.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932t We hasten to assure out-of-town subscribers who have not visited this town in the past twelve months that, in spite of the fact that few of them advertise, there are still some more or less wide-awake merchants in Barnwell. We favor an amendment to the rules of the Democratic party in South Carolina which will require, as a qualification for membership in a Democratic club, that the applicant take an oath that he or she did not vote the Republican ticket in 1932. A new subscriber to The People- Sentinel, after being shown over the printing plant, said that he often wondered how anybody could make money printing a paper. In view of the woeful lack of local advertising, we have the same sense of wonder ment at times. fusing to the voter who may not be acquainted with 4he names of the weakened Octdber and November, but nominees, especially those of the Presidential electors." So far as the secrecy of the ballot is concerned, the writer, personally, does not desire it. We are not asham ed of our affiliation with the DemO- , V cratic party; on the contrary, we are proud of it, and we favor dragging into the open those who would become affiliated with the Republicans under the cloak of secrecy. Let’s separate the sheep from the goats and if there be any so-called Democrats who are tempted to stray from the fold in this year of grace, let them be frank and fearless enough to come out in the open and show where they stand. And the rush this week to get reg L«tration certificates by voters who participated in the several Democratic primaries augurs ill for the Ham- brighters and others of their ilk in old Barnwell County. Our rock-rib bed Democracy is not yet in peril, thank God. s Business If the Democratic nominees in South CaroJina are so rotten that the for mation of a second party h&« become necessary to insure good government, ’sfunny that Hambright, Harrigal, et al., would want to associated with them even to the extent of having Democratic and Republican nominees’ nanrns printed on the same ballot. A few day.s ago we received a let ter from a tobacco manufacturer say ing, “We are advised that you have been kind enough to accept a pack age of 20s.’’ Unless the party or parties who made such an erroneous report “come- across” with our package of said cigarettes, we shall advise the manufacturer that lebody has been “spoofing” him. “Secrecy” .'eems to be the watch word of the Republicans in South Carolina. They demand that the names of nominees of both parties be printed on one ballot in order to preserve its secrecy, which Is in keeping with the secret manner in which they nominate their candidates —in the secrecy of some hotel room. On the other hand, the Democrats •elect their nominees in the spotlight of primaries—knd they are proud to walk up on election day and vote for their candidate's in a manner that should cause the secretive Republicans to blush with shame. Re-Introducing the Hoover Overalls. The new “Hoover” overalls are blue (naturally), an theyd have no pockets, you don’t need any pocket*, as you have nothing to put in ’em ex cept your hands and as they have no buspendetrs} yiou’ll need’ yodr hand to hold your overalls up with. One of the mo.«t striking features about these “HOOVER” overalls is— they have a stripe near the waist band suitable for carrying a 24 lb. sack of Red Band flour and further more they are made slightly -trongei in the seat so’s park benches won’t wear them out so quickly — Anotner thing, these overalls have rubber draw-strings on them so that they will fit you when you are full and fit you when you are empty. In othei words if the wearer thereof were to stumble upon a square meal he would not have to bother about his stummick expansion—they are made that-a-way. The Ballot Squabble. 1" The leaders of the Republican par ty in South Carolina—the near lily- white s—are trying to stir up a temp est in a teapot by insisting that the names of Republican- candidates be jointed on the same ballot with those of the Democratic nominees. It has been many years since the G. 0. P. has had a ticket in the field other than Presidential electors, which appeared •on separate ballots. In fact, local Hoovercrats four years ago were pro vided with their own individual bal lots and spurned the ones proffered them by the managers of election. The whole matter is now in the State Supreme Court and all we know about it is what we read in the newspapers, as Will Rogers is wont to say. In spite of the contention of the Hambright near lily-whites that the secrecy of the ballot must be ob served, there doesn’t seem to be a single, solitary law on this pha.se of 4he matter—“nary one.” It is argued that because in other States the names of all candidates •re printed on one ballot, the same should be done in South Carolina. That argument is just about a s .<ound as to contend that because all other States have divorce law.?, South Caro lina should be forced to follow suit. Merely because North Carolina and Nevada have divorce laws afid use one ballot for all parties is not a sound reason why this State should be a copy-cat. Naturaly, the printing of the names of all candidates on one ballot would be more to the advantage of the Re publicans than to the Democrats. The “turn-coats” who are more or less ashamed of knifing the party that restored white supremacy to South Carolina could hide their ac tion under the cloak of a .secret ballot. One ballot containing the names of •B candidates of both parties would sl«o react to the advantage of the Bepublicina because it would be con- -...An extra flap will be found at tached to the apron-portion of these “Hoover” overalls. Thi.< piece of mateiial is to be used in patching your garment from time to time. The left leg is longer than the right leg — this arrangement became operative when an investigation was made amongst unemployed and ’ it wa*= found that they stood longer on their right legs than on their left legs waiting for the gates to open to tiy to get a job, thus forcing the right legs to wear down or shrink up. It ha-* been found (also) that these overalls make nice shrouds. If you should starve to death and your family (if it can be located) is not able to buy a black shroud to lay you away in, ju t put the overalls on the corpse backwards, and he will look all right in same. Some of them are made long enough to be pulled down over the feet—if you ha^e no shoes. Kindly beg for' long ones when you beg. There “Hoover’ are no buttons on the As you can never overalls. own but one pair and must wear that pair all the time, day and night, but tons are not needed as you won’t have to take 'em off and put ’em on— as you will have ’en) on all the time, or Ik- in the dude. You will find a little hole near your left shoulder to hang your* thumb in while hitch-hik ing—and not giving signals. The price of a pair of these over alls is 2 bags of government flour, or anything else that you might have paid for. If the depression has got your shirt, you can get some of these overalls wi]th the sun-back feature and that will make it un necessary for you to have a shirt. If you can’t obtain any of these things from your nearest Salvation Army post, write your nearest congress man (who helped to bust your country) and tell him to ask the farm board to supply you. Current Shocks The defeated candidates in the United State.**, laid end to end, would' be fine. We hope the same \hing for those that were elected. •ooner or later. Southern selling December shorts are holding tKelr longs for the January straddle. Print cloths are no stronger than they were when they were as strong as they are now, but we think it wise to hold. |250]000.00 office building in Washington to house the Investigat ing committees is nearing completion and so i& the building for the Com- mis. e ion for the Blind Red Ants of the New Hebrides. The balance of the money remaining in the Treasury, if there is any, will be thrown in the Potomac river. It must be wasted or destroyed. What this country need? is an investigating committee to in vestigate politically apointed investi gating committees. -—The janitor at the jail told a cousin of mine last week that the pres ent administration is now issuing $3,- 000,000,000 in new. greenbacks. If you want to get your hands on some of this circulative medium, all you’ve got to do is—buy yourself a big bust ed railroad, or a nearly-busted bank, and your Uncle Sammy will possibly let you have 'All you ask for. You can’t get any of it by working or by selling anything you have grown cr raised. l The farm board was given $500,- 000,000 in cold cash to play with.— They still have $3.75 of this money and a few bushels of wheat and several bales of cotton. When you pay that extra 1-cent tax on ga.**oline, don’t kick; just remember that the farm board needs more money to help the poor farmer.?—to stay poor. ( In order that truck competition might be met, the railroads have cut the rate on beeswax and snake hides and frog leg-* and lizard eye-balls be tween all points in a few States When they cut all commodity rates and passenger fares about 30 per cent and put some of their folks back to work, and reduce the carload min- imum.s the trucks will find out that there are still some railroads. Baby business is still being indulged in by the I. C. C. The worst thing that commission ever did was—levy a 2 percent tax on freight rates. That was like giving a dying man a jab in the heart with an ice pick. It Is the Little Things That Count. Dear Friends:— We must get busy and stay busy if we keep our budge.t balanced. It is up to us to lick 900 million 3-cent stamps within the next 10 months so that federal buildings and post office.? might be built at Punkville, Doodletown, Turkeyti'ot and 7,000 other burgs where such buildings are not needed—and in many cases, not wanted SHUT OFF SALE OF OOIIS TO GANGSTERS Hurry, folks, and use up 1,600,- 000,000 gallons of gasoline carrying an extra 1-cent per gallon tax or it will be necessary to discharge a few thousand useless employee-’, or cut the wages of 15,000,000 govern ment workers something like 5 per cent. The four cents per gallon tax you pay extra on oil will be suffi cient to keep nepotism muchly alive for the next year, so keep on enjoy ing yourself—riding. Thompson Arm to Be Con fined to Military Use. Washington.—Taught a lesson by the hundreds of gangster killings in the past six years, lawmakers through out the country are considering ways and means of removing sub-machine guns from the underworld. The first move in this direction has been taken by the single concern man ufacturing the gun. Sale of the weapon has been forbidden except for military purposes. But the damage has been done. The gangsters have the gun—hundreds of them—and only time and unrelenting vigilance on the part of police officers will serve to clean this potential source of sudden death from the haunts of the lawbreakers. v Brig. Geh. John T. Thompson is hor rified at the use to which his invention has been put. Placed on the market in 1921, the guns almost immediately be gan to reach the underwirld. More and more of the guns were diverted from the legitimate trade channels into this quarter, as the gangsters be gan to realize that here was a gun vastly superior to the automatic pistol and other old weapons. For ten years there was no super vision over the sale of the guns. When occasion arose, as it usually did after a gangland killing, of check ing the ownership of a gun the quest always ended at the dealer who sold it. In most cases fictitious names were given by persons whe bought the guns. r-axe Concern Bought Guns. Not all of the guns, however, were acquired by gangsters through pur chase from dealers. Thompson sub machine guns have had a habit of dis appearing from the hands of the po lice, bank and industrial guards, and other legitimate possessors and turn ing up with gangsters behind them. That is why the manufacturers have stopped selling to such persons. In one case a fake company was or ganized specifically by gangland to ob tain the guns in carload lots. It op erated for several months before au thorities discovered what was go ing on. The gangsters obtained the guns “by hook or by crook.” If one state made rigid regulations for the sale of all guns—as a number have in the past few years—the gangsters motored to an adjoining state, bought ail they wanted there, and smuggled them across the border. One of the first incidents calling at tention to the use to which Thomp son's invention was being placed was a mail truck robbery in Elizabeth, N. J.. in October. 1926. Eight gangsters, armed with sub-machine guns, drove up to a mail truck and, without warn ing. turned one gun full on the truck. With another they laid a protective barrage across the street Intersection, driving the populace to cover. The guards in the truck didn’t have a chance. One was killed, and three fell wounded. The bandits fled, aban doning one gun as they departed with about $100,000 of Uncle Sam's money which they obtained from the truck. In the same month—In Chicago— came the Hymie Weiss murder. A gang leader and foe of Al Capone, he was shot down on the steps of a cathedral where he had taken refuge. The killers fired from an upper win dow of an apartment across the street, and Weiss fell dead with 12 slugs in his body. Gun Called “Lawn Mowar.” In such ways has the Thompson sub machine gun been put to use. Gang sters call it a “lawn mover,” an apt ._.Folks, won’t you write as many checks as possible by July 1st, 1933? It will cost you only 2 cents addi tional to write checks, but think of the good $250,000,000 will do the managers and operators of the Fed eral land bank and the farm board. They need twice that much to waste and lose, so, please don’t permit these wonderful agents to suffer for a single thing. Your own congress men abated them. ...Listen, boys and girls: Don’t dollars you must unhoar^l to pay the than $400,000,000 extra for your chewing gum and matches and lip sticks within the next year or so in order that Uncle Sam might carry those European debts until he real izes that they arfe gone forever. Chil dren, do this extra paying willingly and smilingly, won’t you? Our spenders must keep on spending. You won’t miss the 600 million dollars you must unhord to pay the’ extra tax on drugs and medicines and stock* certificates and automobiles and refrigerators and electric light bills. This money is badly needed by your government (and mine) to investigate the death rate among bull frogs, and the birth rate in the ground squirrel kingdom, and the length of a grasshoppers hind-legs at the end of the 4th day of its life. We must save the country from bankruptcy. Congress has cut expenses already t nearly 2 percent} at that rate; our cent slump in GOPSk Boll weevil in-, taxes won’t be doubled for 6 or 8 festation is nill in Texas and still I months yet to come, in Georgia, bat we look for ram] Gee McGee. Cotton Letter. New York, October 5.—Spots broke 85 poi.nts during the week in sympa thy with Ex-Mayor Walker. Picking and ginning are progressing rapidly in all democratic States and Maine potatoes taste better since the re- j. j-:., V- After the Weiss killing there fol lowed a string of machine gun mur ders and holdups too numerous to mention. The "tigers” we^e biting in the underworld jungle. There is every evidence that such weapons were and are an essential part of every efficient gangster’s equipment. The infamous St. Valentine’s day massacre in Chicago, when seven of “Bugs” Moran’s gang were lined up against a wall and “mowed” down, brought to light many more facts con cerning the machine-gun warfare among the cliques of the underworld. A twenty-three-year-old girl, cruis ing on a pleasure yacht at Waukegan, 111., a short time ago was shot when a machine gun sputtered from the shore, sending her to the deck and imperiling the lives of 19 other per sons. No one knows who did it No one •knows why. It was just another “tiger” loose In the jungle of the un derworld. 67 “Betties’* Fail in Claims to $2,000 Estate Detroit, Mich.—Because none of the 67 “Betties” who claimed the estate left by Thomas F. Sheehan could prove their claims, the estate, amounting to $2,000. went to Mary Margaret Gil- ner, a distant relative living at Mar tin’s Ferry, Ohio. The Ohio girl, a sevent^eu-year-old orphan, had never eveo^heard of Sheehan, who left a note, on his death, bequeathing his money to “Betty.” Federal Prisoners Farm 900 Acre Tract of Land Lewisburg, Pa.—Two carloads of farming machinery arrived at the new northeastern federal penitentiary for use on the 900-ocre farming tract con nected with the governmental penal reservation. The machinery Included tractors, plow*, and other equipment. • * c r 1 ■ In Good Times and Bfld —Your Service Improves Some of our customers have commented favorably upon the fact that telephone service is better than ever, e spite the depression, and that their telephone friends seem as anxious asjever to satisfy the individual needs of subsen ers. This is gratifying, but quite natural when one consu&nrtiat service comes first with telephone people and that they rega it as a serious obligation to serve the needs of the public efficient ly, twenty-four hours a day, in good times and bad times. During the past ten years the number of telephones in prac tically every community has doubled, and in some instances trebled. With this growth the service has become more com plex but there has been a constant improvement due to scien tific inventions, new methods and practices and a more skille and experienced personnel. The value of the service has grown to the extent that it is regarded by many as the cheap est form of service that can be bought. That the increased quantity ana quality of the service has not been accompanied by a greater cost to the user is because of economies effected by new inventions and practices which have been passed on to the telephone using public in the form of more and better service. Although your telephone company has suffered a serious loss &i telephones and an enormous loss in revenue, there are still many more telephones in service than there were five years ago and the cost, compared with the value, scope and quality of the service is much less than it ever has been. Telephone people have faced the depression cheerfully. • They have accepted shorter hours in order that the work might be spread among as many as possible and with a deter mination to fulfill their obligation to render the best possible service at the lowest possible cost consistent with financial safety. Southern Telephone and Telegraph (lNC*a»0"ATto) 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 Lst, 1933, two percent, will be added. March 1st to 15th, seven per cent, 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 will be subject to collection. * :— • * State 1 Ordinary County Road and Bridge Bonds Past Ind. Bonds Corvtitutional School 6-0-1 School Special Local TOTAL No. 24—Ashleigh 5 0 4 1 -a 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 Gro^e 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 44 No. 2L—Edista 5 0 4 V 3 4 ' 8 25 Nq| 28—Elko ... 5 4 1 3 4 "29 46 No. 53—Ellenton ..1 % 5 0 4 1 3 4 7 OA 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 • 5 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 Forest.... 5 0 4 1 3 4 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 t 3 15 32 No. 15—Reedy Branch.. 5 0 4 1 3 1 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 the Magistrate in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Checks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances ex cept at the rhk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the f right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid ) Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, .postoffice money orders, or certified checks. J. J. BELL, Co. Treaa -—^ SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOR JOB PRINTING. * - ^ ” • ♦♦+*+*+***+*« t**********^ ... . - &£#3'