The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, October 20, 1932, Image 4
V
PAGB FOUB.
THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
1 iiu
The Barnwell People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—1912.
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES*
i One Year $1.50
Six Months .90
Three Months —.50
(Strictly la Adranca.) •
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1932.
A few years ago it was the “Yo-yo.”
Now it’s the “Bo-lo.” Youth rnu^t be
served.
If Russia can worl< out her destiney
with Karl Marx, think what she
might accomplish if she had the 4
brothers—Groucho, Chico, et al.
The aytr'onomers tell us that the
island universes, those outside our
own galaxy, are speeding away from
us into . s pace at several thousand
miles a minute. Oh, well, you can’t
much blame the universes for that
after having witnessed nearly four
years of Hoover.
Bishop Cannon made the came appeal
then that Bishop DuBose is making
now.No doubt, thousands of good
On one occasion, when the famous
Notre Dame football team was trail
ing it s opponent, Knute Rockne, its
equally famous coach, is said to have
.'tuck his head in the dressing room
door' between the halves and caustical
ly remarked to his charges: “And
they call us ’the fighting Irish!’ ” We
could have understood hi* disgust had
his remark been addressed to the
1932 edition of the team, the first
string of which includes .‘uch well
known Irishmen as Jaskwhich, Bran-
cheau, Lukats, Kohn, Sheeketski and
Melinkovich.
Our Stupendous Tax Hill.
Can you imagine prosperity in any
country whose annual tax bid—fed
eral, State, city and township—
amounts to the stupendous and un
believable total of FOURTEEN
THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS A
YEAR? Yet B. C. Forbes, authority
on finance, tells us that is the amount
that will be collected in 1932 from
American taxpayers—14 BILLION
DOLLARS.
The human mind cannot visualize
such an immea'e amount of money
and in order to give some idea of its
immensity, Mr. Forbes makes the fol
lowing comparisons:
“If every dollar of gold in ^he
United States were tendered in pay
ment of taxes, the bill would not be
one-third settled. If all the paper cur
rency in circulation throughout the
country were added to all the gold,
we would still owe the tax collectors
a* much more again—and more.
Tf all the gold mine* in the world
shipped every ounce of their produc
tion, it would take 34 years to meet
America’s tax charges for 12 months.
“If five-dollar gold pieces were,
piled on one another, it would take
a stack 11 time* the height of the
highest building in the world (the
Empire State) to equal the 1932 tax
, -
Prosperity may be just around the
corner, but it will never return until
Ihe taxpayers are relieved of a great
part of this burden.
Methodist* who had been life-long
Democrats deserted their party be
cause of their foolish faith in the ut
terances of Candidate Hoover and
the false leadership of Bishop Can-,
non—and have lived to regret it.
Now, in view of what has already
gone before, we find another bishop
of the same denominatfon seeking
once more to lead the members of
his flock astray, the appeal this year
being based on the remote possibility
that, if elected^ Curtis, the alleged
dry, may succeed Hoover, the wet-
dry, or dry-wet, as President. That,
to our mind, is the flimsiest sort of
an excuse for deserting the Demo
cratic party, even by the most rabid
prohibitionists. The prohibition plank
in the Republican platform is most
ambiguous and, if it means anything,
it means all thing* to all men. What
more natural therefore, than for
Hoover and Curtis, in their desperate
efforts to be reelected, to take op-
; posite sides on the prohibition que*-
tion in order to fool the gullible poli
tical preachers and their followers?
There is, of course, a difference of
opinion a* to whether the prohibition
question is moral or political. We
believe that the church should wage
a militant warfare against intemper
ance of all kinds, but we have never
believed that religion and politics
should be mixed.. If prohibition be a
political question, then the church
should be hands off. If it be a moral
one, experience has shown that mor
als cannot be legislated into a people.
We discussed this matter a short time
ago with Mr. Betts when our reverend
fiiend paid us the honor of a visit,
and we gathered then from his re
marks that, in view of the platform
of the two parties on the liquor ques
tion, he would support the Democratic
ticket this year and we were some
what surprised to find that he is now
actively urging hi.* fellow Methodists
to support the Republican ticket. We
still believe in the separation of
: church and state and are no more in
! favor of allowing the Methodist de
nomination to dominate politics than
| we are to allow the Roman Catholic
Church to control governmental af
fairs. (The 'eparation of church and
state, we believe, is-one of the fun
damental principles on which our
government is founded.)
The good Bishops of the Methodist
Church and some of the lesser lights
in the ministry aptarently overlook
the fact that Franklin D. Rosevelt,
as President, can no more repeal the
18th amendment than has Herbert
Hoover, as President, enforced the
prohibition law. That will require
action by the Congress and a three-
fourths majority of the 48 States of
the Union.
We think, therefore, that if the
bishops and ministers of the Metho
dist Church will confine their activi
ties more strictly to religious rather
than to secular affairs, they will the
sooner help to restore the Kingdom
of Christ on earth—and with this
view we believe that the rank and
file of the Methodists are in complete
accord. „ *
Washington every day. Gov. Black
wood is endeavoring to get back
aoma-of thia money go m to make
Methodist Leaders and Prohibition
Elsewhere in this is.*ue of The
People-Sentinel will be found a com
munication from the Rev. W. A.
Betta, of Bamberg, for whom the editor
of this newspaper has a very high
regard personally but with whose at
titude on the prohibition question we
•re not in accord.
Mr. Betts quotes from a statement
issued by Bishop H. M. DuBa*e, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, in which the reverend church
man admits that President Hoover
"has. deserted and disappointed mil
lions of constitutional prohibitionists”
•nd in the same breath urges them
to support the Republican ticket be
cause of the professed dry views of
the Republican vice-president candi
date Chas. Curtis. Mr. Betts then ur
ges pastors of his denomination to “ad
vise their members who are hesitating
in the matter, to do so, (vote the Re
publican ticket) and thereby rapidly
mobilize the forces of prohibition in
♦olid phalanx in the present emer
gency.”
Four years ago, another Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, one
James Cannon, Jr., was misled by the j
profe-sed views of Candidate Her-
ber Hoover anent this much mooted
question that he (Hoover) was pleas-
-ad to term “the noble experiment.”
Ae least that was the reason that
*is former Demosratic churchman
for his opposition to Alfred E.
t>me are of the opinion that
xuBgious bigotry was the true cause, we are compelled to pay this into
rsi* , ** — »
CHRISTENSEN FAVORS BORROW
ING FEDERAL FUNDS.
Editor, The People-Sentinel;
In a recent letter tq Senator E. D.
Smith, I expressed views on Gov.
Blackwood’s ’ effort to secure for
South Carolina an allotment from
the three-hundred million-dollar fed
eral relief fund so that unemployment
in South Carolina may be in some
measure relieved. The League as an
organization has not exressed itself
on this very recent issue, but through
new reports that are being published
of the views of some of ^ts prominent
officials, the League was becoming in
volved. These views were apparently
based on partial, and in some in
stances, erroneous information and I
thought it incumbent on me to study
the situation and inform our mem
bership. Requests for further ex
planation have come and the follow
ing statement is submitted to clarify
these inquiries:
. There can be no question that many
thousands of our’ people are destitute.
In every section families are facing a
winter of suffering. Conditions may
become desparate in some of our
communities. Any step that can
safely be taken to alleviate this very
critical situation should .be taken.
South Carolina is required by the
last Congress to pay several million
dollars in new taxes this year, which
in part are being advanced ‘to the
several States for relief to the unem
ployed. Whether we like it or not,
whether we approve the law or not,
it available for our own distressed
people.
The federal government has arrang
ed to use the governors of the several
States as its agents to receive and
distribute each State’s share of this
fund, whei*e the governor tan con
vince the federal authorities the need
in this State' is acute enough t6 justi
fy it and where the ^State’s proposal
for distributing it js sourid. *
The advance 'of this fund as au-
thorized by Congress would not be
a loan in the usual sense of the
word. Neither the Governor nor any
State agency would commit South
Carolina to any repayment out of
our taxes. No bond or note would be
issued, only a receipt to show the
advance had been made. Our public
bonded: indebtedness would not be in
creased, our public current funds
would not be drawn on, the Legisla
ture under this Act of Congress
would not now or later be required
to appropriate anything directly or
indirectly to repay the money. The
Federal Act provides: “All amounts
paid under this section . . shall
be Reimbursed to the corporation . .
by making annual deductions, begin
ning with the fiscal year 1935, from
regular apportionments made from
future federal authorizations in aid
of the States and territories for' the
construction of highways and rural
pest roads.” The amount advanced
to us (with 3 per cent, interest add
ed) would be withheld by the federal
government (1-5 each year) for five
years out of the road money the Con
gress has been giving us and pro
poses to continue to give us. If Con
gress stops these road appropriations,
then this advance, interest included,
is not to be paid by South Carolina.
The Real effect of this relief Act is
to enable us to get Federal Aid im
mediately without matching it with
State money. The Federal Road Aid
law now requires that w e match thi*
and unless we can come under this
relief Act, we cannot get any more
without putting up our own money.
The whole question comes down to
this—"Does the distressing unem
ployment emergency justify u s in do
ing more road work now?”
As to the expenditure of these
monies when and if secured, there is
no reason why they cannot be used
for road work by the State Highway
Department so that they will all go
directly in the shape of wages t6 the
needy. The State Highway Engineer,
Mr. Moorefield, covers the situation
in this comment: “The State High
way Department is already expending
State funds for the maintenance, bet-
! terment and construction of roads.
Certainly it is feasable for the same
organization to spend effectively a
material additional amount from this
Federal Relief Fund, through the
employment of additional labor for
work on the roads, without increasing
the present burden of cost on the
State.” It will probably be generally
conceded that the Highway Depart
ment is the only administrative or
ganization in position to handle
“wo^k.relief” on a State.-wide. .scale
It is, of course, presumed that
,Gqv. Blackwood would reserve a suf
ficient- part of the fund for direct re-'
lief to be used if a > sufficient emer
gency arises. We are warned that
our tfhajfatble agencies may not
have enough with which to feed and
clothe the destitute this Winter, and
without sufficient state and local funds
to meet necessities we may have to
resort to these Federal funds for
direct relief. But we are all agreed
that WORK relief should be our
FIRST resort and DIRECT relief our
LAST resort.
The real point about this whole
matter is as to whether we are to
get any assistance for our destitute
as a return for the heavy new Federal
taxe s w e are paying for that purpose.
Senator Wagner of New York, on«
of our Democratic leaders in relief
legislation, is complaining bitterly
that the administration is vrithholding
it by setting up resrictions that are
defeating the purpose of this effort
to help the needy. Tax relief is vital,
but our first responsibility is to pre
vent the starvation, disease and suf-*
fering that now threaten thousands
who cannot speak for themselves. Let
me add, they may later act for them
selves if we do not meet this situa
tion.
NIELS CHRISTENSEN.
“Speaking strictly from the moral
viewpoint,” Bishop DuBose said, “the
Democratic prohibition plarfk ia un-
acceptable and impossible to constitu
tional -prohibitionists. The Republi
can plank is almost equally so.”
“For prohibitionists to vote for the
Demccratic nominees,” he continued,
“would help to pave the way for
license and the saloon.” “President
Hoover,” the bishop declared, “has
deserted and disappointed millions of
constitutional prohibitionists, and no
longer has a claim upon their loyalty.”
“But all have admitted that' the
attitude of Mr. Curtis, candidate for
vice-president, continues a modifying
and challenging fact in the contest,”
Bishop DuBose said. “Leaving Mr.
Hoover out of mind, multitudes of
prohibitionists will vote for the Re
publican electors in support of MR.
Cuttis, understanding that should he
be elected, there is always a possi
bility of his succeeding to the presi
dency.” I
From the above position taken by
Bishop DuBose it would seem that
the many men and women of his
chur'ch throughout the South—and
members of other denominations as
well—would clearly see it their duty
and high privilege to “go and do
likewise” as Christian citizens inter
ested in the Prohibition cause. Pas
tors should advise their members who
are hesitating in the matter, to do so,
and thereby rapidly mobilize the
forces of prohibition in solid phalanx
in the present emergency.
W. A. BETTS.
Bamberg, S. C.
Ashleigh Church Service.
The Rev. Mr. Mclver will conduct
services at the Ashleigh Baptist
Church next Sunday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock. A cordial invitation ig ex
tended to the general public to at
tend. There will, be a business meet
ing after the service.
Poor Husband
“But, Mabel, dear, what makes
you so pensive?”
“The maid lias left us. and now
my poor husband has to do all the
work.”
Urges Support of G. O. P. Candidates.
To The Editor:
Quite recently thq^ssociated Press
reported that Bishop H. M. DuBose
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, said in a statement at Nash
ville', Term., where he resides, that
“multitudes of prohibitionists will
vote for the Republican electors in
support of Vice-President Charles
Curtis in the approaching national
election.”
Dormouse m European
Although tiie white-footed mouse of
the United States is sometimes termed
the dormouse, the true dormice are in
habitants only of the Old world. The
dormouse is a sort of cross between
the real mouse and the squirrel. It
seems to have characteristics of both.
It usually lives in trees and bushes
and feeds freely on berries and nuts.
It is thoughtful of the future, like the
squirrel, and lays up a good store of
food for the winter and then curls up
to sleep during the cold months. On
warm days during the winter the dor
mouse wakes up, eats a bit and then
goes back to sleep.
Evened Up
Diner—Hey, waiter, there’s no turtle
In this soup.
Walter—No, and there's no horse in
the horseradish.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
+*e««*+*^MM>{Mg M xfie*******«
My Forty-Fourth Circus.
A circus came to town a few days
ago and I went to see it, as I had to
take the baby. I missed a circus that
came to town in 1899, and never got
over it. On account of the depres
sion, I had a hard time getting a seat,
the show wa s so crowded
The general admission to the
show was the same as advertised,
viz: 50 cents, but when I bought my
ticket, the man charged me 5 cents
tax for Uncle Sam and 5 cents tax
for my home State. The unreser ved
seats were so located that peeping
through a hole in the tent had them
all hollow, so I had to pay 50 cents
more for a chair with back to it—
in sight of the ring.
My chair had a splinter in it, but
I got it picked out of me after I got
home. I don’t enjoy splinters except
for kindling fires The popcorn man
charged 10c for his 5c popcorn, but
he sold his nickle Cracker Jack for
only a dime. I bought an ice-cream
cone for 10c that had elephant hair
and dust all over it. It would have
taken 500 cones to make a square
meal for a kitten.
They wouldn’t start the show till
they sold out all of their candy and
stuff, but just before I dozed off to
sleep for the night, it broke lose. It
had a parade of horses and ele
phants and some camels, as usual, al
so clowns and a few pigs, or shoats—
according to where you were raised.
From the look s of the crowd, grocery
stores are going to have a hardtime
collecting anything for 2 weeks or
more. We spent all we had.
My wife asked me if we had a
nice crowd at the circus, and I told
her we had a big one. I took some
of her folks along
ed some good tricks.:. I saw most of
them 20 years ajgo, ' meaning the
tricks. The show girl s were all real
pretty at a distance, and so were .the
2 trained donkeys. And then ca
the concert. And such a concert!
A UUUIV CJV/Wiv. » ~
clowns puH- rthe little gray squints twitte sott-
Now, folks, that concert was
wonderful. They had Wien with
ropes and 2*or 3 horses, and the
wrestling match was something like
a couple of 3-day old puppie s wallow
ing over one another. That was all
they “concerted.” This was the
first dime anybody had beat me out
of for nearly a year. By the time the
man and woman twirled the ropes
around their heads 6 or 8 times, the
show-gang had the tents torn down,
the seat s all moved and the .stobs pull
ed up. I was a pretty good circus
for 50 cents, but I had to pay $1.10
to see it.
fall is nigh at hand, the oak
leaves is shedding and floating to
the ground in large numbers while
fllat rock news
our efficient school principle,
miss jennie veeve smith and her sis
ter, sallie veeve, has started a liberry
fund fo buy some books to put in the
liberry which they will start in a
back room at the rare of the audy-
torium. each child will be asked to
fetch a peny a month from now on,
if they can bony that much from
their daddies ansoforth.
ly amonkst the limbs, the grass n
the cow pastorals turning brown and
the crickets i s chirping their love
songs under the chips, cotton pick
ing is over and long underwear, if
smme can be had, will soon feel kind
to the legs and anatomy generally,
hurrah for fall!
old mrs. green who was reported
at death’s' door in his collum last
week has overcotqe her spell of colick
and ig up and aboqt again, and hei
chillun will not be aHe to divide her
property as they hope<l\to do - ^ next^
week. her-son-in-law, \who had
picked out the home-place, Vy s she
now looks like she i s good for ^O cr
15 more years. !
the town council met in execu
tive session last night and decided to
cut the expenses for' the insuing year,
they reduced their salaries frlom *.$■
per meeting to 4$ per month, and
they will ask the policeman to buy
his own unieform, and sell his pistol,
they may take out the stove in the
front room, as it is used for loafers
only who enjoy playing checkers an
soforth, but taxes will remain the
s ame and wont be cut pone.
mr. bull jones say s that he aint
going to call no names, but if a black
spotted hound dog don’t stop doing
so much barking at all times of night
in the future, the drug store will sell
a big dost of stricknine at an early
date, flat rock would be a nice town
to sleep in if it wassent for that dog,
so he says.
bob ivvins is putting in a petition
for a compensation or bonnus or
something like 9 other boys are now
getting from the govverment. he
says he can prove that he ketched
flat feet in the camp at atlanta, and
sllso a chigger bit him. he wants
40$ a month, he will no doubt get
same.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
# corry spondent.
Treasurer’s Tax Notice!
The County Treasurer’s office will be open from October tst, 1932.
to March 15th, 1933, for collecting 1932 taxes, which include real and
personal property, poll and road tax.
All taxe.* due and payable betwgen October 1st and December 31st r
1932, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid a^ stated will be
subject to penalties as provided by law.
January 1st, 1933, one per cent, will be added.
February 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 will be subject to collection.
-
; .
State
§ '
6
>>
ca
c
6
Road and
Bridge Bonds
Past Ind. Bonds
Coa-titutional
School
6-0-1 School
Special Local
TOTAL
No. 24—Ashleigh
5
0
4
1
3
4
12 I
29
No. 33—Barbary Br’ch._
5
0
4
1
3
4
29
46
No. 45—Barnwell ^
5
0
4
1
3
4
28
45
No. 4—Big Fork
5
0
4
•1
3
4
17
34
No. 19—Blackville *
5
0
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
44
No*. 21—Edisto
-S -
4
1.
.^-3-
25.
No. 28—Elko
5
o
- 4
a
A
OQ
Ad
No. 53—Ellenton . j
5
0
4
1
3
4
29,
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
5
0
4
1
3 l
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
"S
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
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 ages
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 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 money
orders, or certified checks. J. J. BELL, Co. Treas. -
-J. ' . 4 ' f *
SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOR JOB PRINTING. •