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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.
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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-
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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.
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—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
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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.
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State
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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
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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
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