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\ ■ . »> , S 2, 1 ' * -Wufal THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. ,, 49 v . !v » > Consulidate^ JnM L 192ft. VOLUME LVL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1932 NUMBER 12. SUGGESTS CONSOLIDATION OF ONE-TEACHER SCHOOLS La,t Friday Night Mail Robbery Here ft. L. LEWIS ‘"VISITS SCHOOLS Will Erect Memorial for Capt. W. D. Black OF COUNTY. Lock Pouch Stolen and Parcel Post Bag Rifled.—Extent of Loss Ndt Known. k Says Small Schools Should Be Con- sojdated as Soon as Financial Conditions Permit. WilHston Man^ Again Honored County for His Unusual and Valuable Services. by D. L. Lewis, State supervisor cf sural schools, who visited this county njarly in November, has submitted the following report to James H. Hope, Sate supeiintendent of educa tion, and, among other things, sug gests that the small schools of the county be consolidated into larger units as soon as financial conditions permit: “I am submitting beJow report on lementary school conditions jn Barn- veil County, as observed by me in the course of a visit made during the past week. “In compan^ with the County Sup- -crinttendent I visited the fol'owing school-: “Healing Springs, four teachers, 92 enrolled, 84 in attendance; Blackville High, elementary grades, seven teach- /-rs, enrollment 142, ’attendance 130; Ashleigh, two teachers, enrollment 47, attendance 39; Barnwell High, ele mentary grades, *even teachers, en rollment 225; Williston High, giam- nar grades, seven teachers, enroll- nent 222, attendance 208; Tinker’s Cieek, one teacher, enrollment 15, at- :endance 15; Pleasant Hill, one teach- ••r,- enrollment 11, attendance 8; <Jreen’ s Academy, one teacher, en rollment 10, attendance 16; Long Branch, two teachers, enrollment 43, attendance 41; Seven Pine-, one teach- ,-r, enrollment 28, attendance 16; Boiling Springs, on? teacher, enroll ment 17, attendance 14; Kline, one teacher, enrollment 13, attendance 12; Morris, one teacher, enrollment 18, attendance 16; Friendship, one teach- , r, enrollment 17, attendance 15; Bar t/ary Branch, one teacher, enrollment 26, attendance 15; Oak Grcve, two teachers, enrollment 50, attendance 48; Hercules, two teachers, nr'oilment 61; attendance 52; Double Ponds, two teachers, enm’lment 40, attendance : 1; Hilda High, elementary grades, ► lementary enrollment 101, attendance ^7; Reedy Branch, two teacher. , en- ollment 48, attendance 36; Galilee, ne teacher, enrollment 29, atteml- . nee 24. "Every school in the county was ■ isrted except Dunbarton High -cho. 1. 'n a number of the pchoc’s visited her? is not the required enrollment, notably Blackvi.le, P easant Hill, Kline Healing Springs. In one school it was • und that pupils were attending from mother district. In such case th? i&w requires a transfer of pupils from •he district from which they go, by th? trustees of the district, and - the '.rustees ( f the district to which they i-o must consent to such transfer (see Section 2619 and 2620, General ScAtol .aw of S. C.) In the case cf Green’s WilHston, Nov. 18.—Capt. W. D. Black, of Williston, is to bo again honored by his county for hi s unusual and valuable services to it. At a meeting cf the county board of com missioners, cf which Captain Black is new a member, a resolution Was pass ed by it that the county erect in honor of Capt. Black’s services to the county a bronze tablet at the newly erected South Edisto River bridge be tween WilHston and Springfield. The concrete bridge was completed last year at a cost of $98,000 and upon completion was designated by an act of the-general assemblyjn a joint resolution introduced by Barnwell and Orangeburg Counties as “Black’s Crossing” in honor of Captain Black. The resolution to place the bronze plate was passed by the county board of commissioners in the early sum mer and an order was given for it. It is now being erected in a cement block which adjoins the concrete bridge on the 1 ight hand side of the Barnwell County approach. Mr', and Mrs. H. A. Stallings and children, Gaynelle, Henry and Alvin, and Miss Sadie Stone, of Savannah, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. C'yde Vickery. so many grades and classes. No farmer can cultivate successfully two hundred acres with one or two mules. “The Legislative Delegation of three years ago is to be highly commended for dividing the county into high school districts, thus giving every rural boy and girl the opportunity to attend high school. With larger ele mentary schools, the transition to high school would be made much eas ier for the r ural boys and girls. The rural o'ementary teachers should watch closely the progress of their pupils who go to high school, a s their success in the high secols is a meas ure of the efficiency of the rural school from which they go. “Th? teaching observed was, in most instance;-, very satisfactory. A lock pouch was stolen and a par cel post bag was rifled by unknown parties a t the Atlantic Coast Line depot Friday night, but the extent of the loss has not yet been determined by local post office authorities, ac cording to R. A. Deason, post master. The time of the robbery is fixed at seme time between the hours of 11:30 Fi'iday night and four o’clock Saturday morning. This much is known because the mail stolen was brought in by the westbound train from Florence to Augusta, the mail delivered by the eastbound train from Augusta to Florence being intact. Hayne Hogg, the mail carrier', does not meet the night train but places the mail bags in a box, which is se curely locked. In-coming trains pick up these bag s and in turn deposit mail for this point, which r s carried to the local post office the following morn ing by Mr. Hogg. When he went to the depot Saturday mortoing to ^et th? mail, he found the lock on the box had been chiseled off and the mail bags from Train No. 55 missing. So far as is known, there are no clues a s to the identity of the guilty ■party cr parties, but they may rest as sured that Uncle Sam will make every effort to apprehend them. Prominent Mason to Deliver Addresses General Grand Master Will Speak at Florence, Charleston, Columbia and Spartanburg. URGE ON CONGRESS NEED OF LOANS FOR NEXT CROP Christensen Reviews State T&x Situation Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. A lady remarking that H. W. (“Hub”) Sander s bears quite a facial resemblance to President-elect Frank lin D. Roosevelt. . . And “Hub,” as busy a s Hoover ever was during the recent campaign, getting things shaped up before leaving for the Caro- lina-Citadel football game in Colum bia Saturday. . . Magistrate J. W. Sanders, of the Big Fork section dfs- posing of a truck lead of nice turkeys. . . . Property owners making ar rangements with the city authorities to pay their taxes on the installment plan, either monthly cr quarterly. . A renewal subscription from Excel-1 Ge cr gp a. Cole, formerly of this city, lent work in the primary grades was i ha s he;n making his home in observe I in sevvral of the schools. | ^^[^(.1 jy^ p] a ( f or a nuni b er c f y t , ars> One of the greatest weaknesses in small schools is, that the teachers do not have time to impart to their pupil s a love for, and the habit cf reading, with the result that the pupils are unable to d > th.ir work in other sub jects. Writing with pen and ink is also badly neglected, many rural pu pils being sent to high school without -their being able - to use pen effici:ntly. “The State Equalizing Law, known as the 6-0-1 law. is a been to the rural Walter Lincoln Stock well, of Far go, N. D., General Grand Master of the General Grand Council of the United States, will make four ad dresses to Masons in South Carolina under the auspices of the Cryptic Rite, O. Frank Hart, Grand Recorder, has announced. Mr. Stockw’ell will speak at Flor ence November 29th, Charleston No vember 30th, Columbia Decerhber 1st and Spartanburg December 2nd. Mas ter Masons and members of the York and Scottish Rites are urged to attend. A forceful speaker, with years of experience in fraternal circles, Mr. Stcckweil will bring a message of in terest to all Masons. He was elected to the office of Gen eral Grand Master in 1930 at the con vention in Tacoma, Washington, and i s a Mason of national reputation. A native cf Minne ; ota and a gradu ate of the State University, he later took up school work in North Dakota. After supei intending several schools he was appointed Superintendent of Public Instructicn, which office he held for eight year.=, resigning when elected Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge, Chapter, Council and Com- mandery of North Dakota. He has presided over all Grand bodies of that State, and was Grand Patron of the Eastern Star. Last May he wa s made KCCH by the Su preme Council of the Southern Juris diction and selected as active candi date. Mr. Stockwell has been Piesident of the Masonic Relief Association of the United State s and Canada, a member of the executive committee of the George Washingon Masonic National Memorial Association. He is present Secretary of the Mutuals and Grand Secretaries Guilds. In addition he is Past President of the Fargo Rctaiy Club, Past Presi dent of the George Wa-hington Chap ter of the Sons of the American Revo- lution, and served with distinction on the Y. M. C. A. p:rsonnel committee during the World War. Acacia Lodge No. 94, 'A. F. M., of Columbia, as host to Mr. Stcckwe! 1 when he delivers his addies s cn De cember 1st, invites all Master Masons t be it s guests on that occasion. ^ayg There la Only $5,000,000 in Revenue to Over a $9,000,000 Government. MEETING FAVORS CONTROL OF! - v COTTON CROP. Farmers, Bankers and Other Men Meet in Columbia to Talk Farm Financing. Travels Far to Wed British Navy Officer Former Resident of Denmark Becomes Bride in Far Away Capetown, i . ' * * • South Africa- A copy of the Cape News, published Capetown, South Africa, under , ; , . • and rnl H children. Before it s passageLi a *„ Opt-h^r S voppntlv in Academy, established this year, un- . 100 . • 1 u 1 (o^tc of Uct.bei o, iccently sent to , . , ’ ! in 1924 some rural schools wer? eper-, T F n R .. loss a tiansfer cf these pupils from 1 , , n 1 i. 1 lieahUlel *• Biobnam, contains ating only 40 day? a year. Its pas-1 the neWs of the recent mai . ria g e of pupil Williston District can be made, there Obtains Injunction Against Railroad Co. State Railroad Codmission Will Test Right to Abandon Tracks in Aiken County. Columbia, Nov. 18.—To test the right cf a i abroad company to aban don its lines, the State railroad, com- mis.don today obtained a court order for the Seivern" and Knoxville rail road to show cruse in supreme court December 12 why in should not he enjoined from abandoning it s tracks and * ils. Kline is operating five grades with two teachers, and six grades, 'ni< ugh the eleventh—grader—with three leathers. “The one-teacher school? of Barn- .v? 11 County should, so far as possible, v e consol'id a ted. Tinker’s Creek, Pleasant Hill and Green’s Academy should be consolidated into a two- teacher school, a s a two-teacher school )? three time? as efficient as a cne- teacher school. In like manner Boil- ng Spiings, Kline, and Morris should be consolidated into a two-teacher school. “Barbary Branch, Friendship, Oak Grov? and' Hercules, if consolidated, would make ’a splendid elementary >ehoel of six teachers. The schools close to Hilda might well be consoli dated wdth Hilda. The present time is not auspicious fer consolidations, but a s soon as financial condition? be come better the small schools should lie consolidattd into larger schools, on account of the greatly increased ef- ^Hfiency of the larger schools. This is no reflection on the work of the teach ers in the small schools, as they are doing aa good work as is possible with ■ sage at ome inci eased th? term s of ]\,i rs Josephine Hopkins, formerly of j and seivice between Batesburg Perry, in Aiken County. As-ociate Justice Jesse F. Carter signed the order, citing the Seivern and Knoxville and its parent organi zation, the Carolina division of the Southern Railway company, to show oause. The companies were command:d to 's it possible for all rural boys dragged their car to the Cardiff, continue operation of the Batesburg- aTVd gTrrt:: reach high schouL. If the ^heriiimjnfqi rial reception was held.; Perry line until Hurther order of the b-0-1 law should be repealed many oT] “Mrs. Clegg, who looked vAvy^cburl~ and lo Lake no further action th schools of Barnwell County would c i la rniing in a tailored white crepe to discaid the stretch of railroad for be reduced to four months or Jess, or, de chine frock worn w i t h a short red if the schools should try to run as , Afterwards,” the paper says, "a a.d under' this law for transportation team of bluejackets from the Cardiff make: Niels Christensen, president of the Farmers' and Taxpayers' League, has given out the followfing statement re stive to the estimated revenue and cost of the State government for the coming year: Five million i a all present revenue laws will provide the next Legislature with to meet this year’s current ex penses of th? State government, and to supply State school aid through the 6-0-1 law. That is, if our calculations are correct. When you realize the last appropriation bill carried over nine million for these purposes you will understand the seriousness of the situation. More than five million will be coHlected, in fact three million mere than that. But one cf these must be used to cairy that new-old five million deficit, and another is pledged to take up these teacher’s notes that come due Jh the spring, and another would be needed to take up the other brand- new 1932 million dollar deficit. 'Disregarding the League’s persis tent warnings last winter that the in- diiect revenue would not be over seven milion, the Legislature chose to take the estimate of others that it wetf'd be eight million. It tum 8 out to be a million short 'kf their guess, and so with the teacher’s note* we have an additional two million deficit instead of the balanced budget that was promised. “Of course, though the' , League’g es timate for this year was correct, its estimate for next year may be wrong. Bu the only place it can be out of the way is as to our judgment that the indirect revenue will fall off fifteen percent next yeah. That amounts to a million dollar falling off. If we spend as much fer smokes, and dope*, and movies next year, and if our in comes don’t drop off any from cur 1930 profits, and if business generally git* no worse, we may have going on six millien instead of the five million the League chalks up as the high mark. But better be cn the safe side, foi if we guess wrong and get on the unsafe side again a .-till bigger deficit will pile up. “Before going into details a a to what appropriation cuts shoitfd or should net be made, let all hands take seber thought of these outside figures. We see only five million revenue with which to cover a nine million dollar government. “It will be lemembered that as matters now stand, the State contri butes more than $3,0Q0,0OQ^ ; for the confimcn' schcdfs,' $800,000^ for'Jhe State hospital, $312,000 for the Uni versity of South Carolina, $292,000 fer Winthrop, $175,000 for The Cita del, $141,000 for the collegiate activi ties of Clemscn College, $300,000 for extension work of Clemson College, $694,000 for confederate pensions, just to mention of the Stated budget these few items that abne total $5,714,000. “The League will have more to say about this situation later, but for the present hopes there will be due cen- sideraion given to these general facts, so that we may keep our per fect ive.” coat and a white straw hat, was kept Hag Narrow Escape. the pre-ent. The commission in the same long as at piesent, an aveiage tax cf bu*y not only receiving congiatuia- was directed to stay until the con-• narrow iS< *P e rder Fuller, of this city, had a ten mill s special' would have to be levied cn the entire county. If the tions, but meeting many new friends. “The toast to the biide and bride- eppiopiiation foi the 6-0-1 law is tut ^ r2orn was proposed by Vice Admiral $2,000,000 the rural and mill schools Tweedie> and Captain Clegg replied, will suffer; the town and city schools l “Afterwards, when they left for will operate as usual. If South Caro- the honeymoon, Captain and Mrs. hna a? a whole is to have an educated Ckf?g . g car was af?ain dragfr ed by citizenship, the State Equalizing Law bluejackets from the ship to the dry must be continued. dock yard , „ “The moiale of .the teachers of Mrs . cleKp is the daughter of Mrs. Barnwell County is excellent, and Rcy B Faust> of christiansburg, Va., speaks well for their' fine spirit. If widow of th<J late Dr H j Paustt of the county can only ha’d it s own as D£nmarUf who died many yearg aff0> respects the schools until better times, Mr? Clegg sailed on July 30th f0r it is all that can be-hoped for. The South Africa CapUin Clegg, the fine public spirit of school officials, bridegrocm> has been a British naval patrons, teachers, and Legislative officer for some yearg> He rankg high Delegations is to be highly commend- in his majesty’s na^y, and in two ed, and it is hoped that no backward yeari( time win ^ promoted to ad . step in education will be taken, as it m i r ,]._Bambeig Herald, will be only to the detriment of the ♦ rural .boys and girls." ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel elusion of the litigation one of its or ders in which it requirsd the compan ies to continue operation of the line permanently for intiastate service. Action of the State commission fol lowed the issuance cf an ^Interstate Commerce commission erder authoriz ing the Seivern and Knoxville to cease 1 its inter:tate and foreign^ervice. Attorney General John M. Daniel, in filing the petition for an injunction, questioned whether terms of the char ter cf the railroad company would permit it to abandon the line. He pointed out that the stretch under consideration forms an important link in service to Savannah and Charles? ton. * ^ from seiious injury and possib’e death Friday night when his automobile turned over two or three times between Allendale and Barnwell while Mr. Fuller was en route heme from Garnett. He was unhurt except for a painful cut on his head and his car was cnly slightly damaged. Passers-by stopped and rendered their assistance and in a collision between two other cars a boy named Blume, from Williston, wa s l 8 ult in « restoraticn of a fair 1 Farm financing in South Carolina for 1933, the need of extension of cro* production loans by the federal gor- emment in sufficient amount to car* for the needs oil 1933 and variooa other phases of the agricultural situa tion, including a stay for a year of foreclosures of farm mortgages and a control of cotton production undor a •plan outlined by United States Sena tor E. D. Smith were discussed Fri day at the Hotel Columbia in Coitua- bia before some 250 farmers, bankers, agricultural agents and others hi mass meeting assembled at the call of Dr. W. W. Long, director of «*- tension work, Clemson college. Senator Smith, first speaker at the meeting after Doctor Long had intro duced him, said that at the approach ing session of congress he intended to introduce a bill providing for a bank in every State devoted entirely to agriculture. He also discussed hi g plan whereby the government would buy 10,000,009 bales of cotton out of the 24,000^09 now held by farmers, paying 12 cemta a pound for the cotton, storing it and return it to the faremrs who agreed not to plant in excess of 22 percent, of the 1933 crop. Adopt Resolutions. After seevral speeches at the morn ing session, Doctor Long appointed a committee to draw up resolutions ex pressing the sentiments of the meet ing as to what it thought congress might do for agricultuie. m Resolutions as adopted by the meet ing are as follows: “That we indorse the proposal by Senator Smith to control production cf cotton by a government repur chase plan and urge upon congress tu put this plan into effept for the crop plan of 1933. “That we urge upon the congress the urgent need of an extension of crop production loans in sufficient amount to care for the needs of 1933 crop production and that such loans be based cn a further reduction in cotton acreage and that such action be taken at once. “That the county delegations in co operation with the Farmers and Tax payers’ league be requested to set up local committees of three or five man in'fevery county of the State to bn charged with the responsibility of considering cases of foreclosures of farm mortgages and that aH holders of farm mortgages be requested not to foreclose any mortgage withon one year where such committee recom mends against foreclosures; that « State committee of nine memb’ra, in cluding the State officers of Ihe State Taxpayers’ league be appointed by the chaiiman of this meeting to con stitute a committee of appeal to con sider any cases where mortgagees refuse to abide by the recommenda tions of county committees and to consider any other questions arising out of the farm mortgage situation. “That mortgagees who have repcs- ■essed lands through foreclosure be urged to give preference in the sale or renting of such property to pre vious owners or their designees in such case s where the county commit- te? shall ?o recommend. "Thtt in view of the present de pressed prices cf agricultural lands and (be depressing effect of further land sales at low prices we direct tha attention of mortgagees to the serious effect on all other land values and thak further sales a s far as passible he avoided., ~ “That aUl cf the agencies of the fed eral government be urged to set in motion such policies and that the eon- gress be requested to adopt such leg islation as most promptly will re- hurt. Cctton Ginning Report. O. Alderman Duncan, associate edi tor of the Aiken Standard, was a business visitor in Barnwell Monday. There were 11,684 bales of cctton ginned in Barnwell County prior to Nov. 14th, as compared with 18,144 bales ginned to the same date in 1931, according to a report made public thig week by P. A. Baxley, special agent, cf Blackville. tionship between agriculture and other segments °f our economic struc ture. “That we recognise as a funda mental necessity in any program el economic reconstruction the for government, national. State local, to use every possible mew reduce the tax burden. ADVERTISE in The