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• ’ ^ ' THE OFnClAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. Jum L 1*25. VOLUME LVI. ‘Juat Like a Member of the Family'* BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1933. NUMBER 19. Fulmer Urges More Pupils Per Teacher Asserts That South Carolina Has One of the Lowest White Teacher Loads in South. Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week Ar LitHe Sense and Nonsense People You Know and Others You Don*t Know. Dr. H. L. Fulmer, director of re search and information for the State department of education proposes a reduction in schcol expenses in South Carolina amounting to approximately $1,500,000 a year by increasing the classroom load for teachers to 30. He said that for ever} increase of one pupil in the teacher load, there w T ould be an annual saving of approximately $300,000. South Carolina has one of the low est white teacher loads in the South today, Doctor Fulmer asserted. The average class numbered 23 pupils up on a bisis of average attendance dur ing 1932. The average was 22 during 1931 and 1930. The reason for the unusually small classes in this State is that State financial aid is awarded upon mini mum basi s of 12 pupils in average daily attendance afld 15 enrolled*- in one-teacher white elementary schools, Doctor Fulmer said. Similar conditions exist in the allo cation of State aid to other types of schools. A two-teacher high school is lequired to halve only 25 enrolled pupils and an average dai’y attenance of 20, the research directocr pinted out. Some SoutJi Carolina schools func tion adequately with teacher loads or classes as large as 37 on a basis of enrolment and 32 average daily at tendance, however, reports have in dicated. Teacher leads numbered 24 by aver age daily attendance in elementary schools and 20 in high schools in South Carolina a year ago by official report. In other States they were: Florida, 36 elementary, and 22 high school; Georgia, 31 elementary and 21 high school; North Carolina, 30 and 22; Illinois, 34 anj 22; Maryland, 30 and 21; Massachusetts, 29 and 24; Minnesota, 27 and 19; New Jersey, 30 and 25; Virginia, 28 and 2l; Pennsyl vania, 32 and 20. The teacher load in Charleston, Florence, Greenwood, Spartanburg and Sumter elementary schools al ready stands at or above 30 both in enrolment and aveiage daily attend ance. Doctor Fulmer pointed out. He said many larger city schools now operate with classes of 30 or more. In South Carolina the load might vary from 28 in thin'y populated rural districts to a minimum of 30 in nor mal counties, Doctor Fulmer said. He indicated that some latitude should be allowed because of differences in various parts of the State. “The legislature could effect the $1,500,000 saving by amending the present law so that money for schecds would be apportioned on a teaching unit for so many pupils in*average daily attendance,” Doctor Fulmer ex plained. . s “This could net be properly put into effect without a complete county wide district or unit system under an appointed efficient head who would set up an efficient budget and busi nesslike system. The county would then be one district, under a strong county board, with only one superin tendent of schools for the county,” the research director said. An increase in the teacher load from 22 in 1930 and 1931 to 23 during 1932 eliminated 111 white teachers and superintendents during the past year, Doctor Fulmer asserted. There were 8,715 white teacherjand superintendents employed in 1932, where there had been 8,826 in 1931, and 8,888 in 1930. The decrease was due largely to the increase cf one in the teacher load, Doctor Fulm^tf said. Salaries also decreased steadily during the three-year period. From an average of $1,048 for white super intendents and teachers in 1930, pay dropped to an average of $1,010 in 1931 and $902 in 1932. While the plan outlined by Doctor Fulmer would not entail further sal ary slashes unless county school au thorities wished them, it would leave county boards with the alternative of setting up their own teaching staffs and salaries. Renewal subscriptions received from F. U. Greene, cf Milwaukee, Wis., W. W. Holland, of Spartanburg, and W. B. Turner, of Aiken. . . An itiner ant unmbrella ‘fixer.” . . . And Clerk of Court “Bob” Bronson' re marking that it has been a long time since he’ s seen an Italian with a train ed bear or monkey. . . . Local thermometers registering a sudden drop in temperature. . . . Dr. H. A. Gross stepping high, wide and handsome over the arrival of a daugh ter. . . Miss Jennie Black, of Winthrop College, subscribing to The People-Sentinel. . . Workmen re pairing worn and broken places in Main Street sidewalks. . . . And others painting the roof of the Court House. . . . Merchants express ing disappointment over Saturday’s business, which fell far below expec tations. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Var- dry McBee and sdn passing through Barnwell while en route to their home in Greenville after a visit to rela tives in Varnville. - An automobile loaded fore and aft with homemade, cow-hide bottom chairs. . . . Col. Edgar A. Brown and Col. Solomon Blatt being button holed by Tom, Dick and Hairy in ref erence to the relief work being con ducted in the county. . . . Shot guns and pistols and one lone church bell (that of the negro Baptist church) signalizing the arrival of the New Y’ear. Miss Anna Walker, 80 years young, enjoying a ride in C. G. Fuller’s plane Sunday afternoon. . . . Dr. Mar tin C. Best and C'ol. Solomon Blatt discussing the organization of a base ball club. M. P. Hazel, of the Summerland Creamery, presenting the writer with a pound of excellent butter and inci dentally mentioning the fact that his business has doubled in the past year. . . A “baby parade” in The Circle. . . L. P. Hanson, of New York City, remodeling the Vamp The atre for talking pictures. . . New Year’s Day dawning bright and clear, which, it is hoped, is an omen of a brighter future. . . Pupils return ing to school after a two week’s vaca tion. CONGRESSMAN BUTLER B. HARE SUCCESS WHERE OTHERS FAIL MARKS BUTLER HARE’S TERM Reid Furniture Store Locates in Allendale Consolidation of Barnwell and Varn ville Stores Insures Large and Complete Stock. Meat Supply Stolen. Unknown parties Saturday night entered the smokehouse of Dr. A. B. Patterson, of Barnwell, and stole his entire winter’s supply of meat. Last week the stocks of furniture $nd house furnishings of the R.‘ D. Reid Estate, which for-several years: has conducted stores in Barnwell and Varnville, weie moved to Allendale, wheie this progressive concern i s now occupying quarters in the Wolfe building on one of that town’s most important streets. Monday morning the writer had the pleasure of visit ing the new consolidated store, which is in charge of C. H. Bailey,-of Varn ville, as manager, ably assisted by T. N. Putnam, who made many friends dui ing hi s residence in Barnwell. The store building has been com pletely remodeled inside and out. A modem plate glass front, with largo, show windows, permits the attractive display of complete suites of furni ture, which compels the attention of passers-by. On the first floor' of the building will be found a complete shewing of living-room furniture : rugs and novelties. The second floor is given over to a display of bedroom and dining room sets, while a large line of stoves and ranges is in a separate department. The consolidation of the Barnwell and Varnville stores gives this con cern the largest and most complete stock of furniture and furnishings to be found between Columbia and Sa vannah, Charleston and Augusta, and should be the mecca of everybody in this section desiring 'any - article "for the home. Beginning next week, a series of ad vertisements will be published in The People4^entinel, in' which attractive prices on furniture, rugs, etc., will be listed. In the meantime, readers of this newspaper are urged to visit the new store in Allendale, where they ‘will receive the courteous atten tion of Messrs. Bailey end nam. Washington, Jan. 1.—A seft-speak- ing, even tempered • South Carolina farmer-lawyer is going back home next March with a record showing he helped to accomplish something that other members of congress had sought, unsuccessfully, to do for years. The fruit of his labors the last eight years now is in President Hoo- ver’ s hands—a bill to give independ ence to the far-away Philippine Is lands in ten years. Butler B. Hare is the farmer-law yer. He did net seek re-election to the next congress, although after on ly six year s service he rose to the chairmanship of the house Insular af fairs committee. Hare, a farm boy, w’as in school when the battleship Maine sank in Cuban waters. He watched the sub sequent war and decided the Philip pines should be freed. When he became chairman of the Insular affair's committee, he had a chance to carry out hi s ideas. He South Carolina Laws Hold for Prohibition State and Federal Supreme Court De- cisicns Quoted.—Transportation Prohibited. Several Sales Made by Master Monday Fairly Large Sized Crowd in Barnwell for January Salesday.—List of Sales Made. started hearings on a Philippine inde pendence bill. He let everybody talk who wanted to, then with the help of hig committee, he drafted a bill. There w’ere many for arid against it. Hare sonded out house senti ment, made necessary concessions, obtained essential support of the members from agricultural areas and brought the bill to a vote. So successful was. the preliminary w’ork in which he joined that the house passed the bill by a vote of 306 to 47. Subsequently, a compromise measure wa s agreed to by both house and senate and sent to the W’hite House. ' r ■* ‘ “There are some things about the bill I don’t like,” Hare said, “yet I realize that everybody could not get all he wanted and Fthink it is a s fair and just as possible to all concerned.” What President Hoover will do with the bill, no one is certain although a veto is predicted by many Republi cans. JANUARY SUGGESTIONS ABOUT FARM LIVESTOCK Clemson College, Dec. 31.—Start the New Year right with livestock, say extension specialists, who give these brief hints, Prof. L. V. Starkey, speaking for hogs, sheep and beef cattle; C. G. Cushman for dairy cows, and P. H. Gooding for poultry. Animal Husbandry. Give the ewes ample legume hay aqd shelter from rain. Treat for worms sheep that are thin and do not respond to good feeding. Double- treat for cholera ail hogs to be car ried until ’ spring. Provide hogs win der shelter and liberal bedding. See that the hegs have green feeds—bar^ ley, rye oats or rape. W’inter feed ing beef cattle on cheap roughages, with enough cottonseed meal to pre- ; vent weight loss. Feei horses and tnules roughage liberally and just enough grain to keep them thrifty. Dairying. Make inventory of livestock, feed, and equipment. Decide now whether you will have silage, next fall and plan for its production. Analyze herd Repair pasture fences, clean out un prove in management and feeding. Repair pasture fences, hlean out un dergrowth, and stop .washes in pas tures. Start the New Year right by keeping daily milk and feed records on each cow. Poultry. SCIENCE OPINES IN AFTER SUPPER ROW Mate breeders for hatching eggs. Make special breeding pen of best hens and pedigreed male to produce cockerels for next year’s matings. Provide breeders witli ’ green range. Get ready for baby (hicks. St. Paul, Jan.'1.—Listen, children: Don’t let your parents know we told you, but the fact is, you shouldn’t do any school homework. And if dad and mother insist, tell them physicians of the Minnesota State Medical association say grade and junior high school kids should do all their studying in s chcol; no more of this arithmetic and grammar stuff after dinner. If the folks are still skeptical, you can learn the following quotation from the medical association and rat tle it off: “Excessive demands made upon the children by both school and home schedules have a tendency to impair health. The six hours required of a child in school is enough time for him to devote to formal learning. “If he cannot learn enough reading, writing and arithmetic in that time, something must be. wrong with our teaching or with educational require ments.” Of course, you don’t have to say anything about the “best general rule,” the association mentioned. That rule is making all kid 8 go to bed at 8 p. m. Prohibitionists are saying that not only does a generally false impression exist as to what the recent election of Franklin D. Roosevelt means but as to what effect the modification of the Volstead act or even the repeal of the 18th amendment would have upon the laws of Suth Carolina. In respect to the Volstead act and the 18th amend ment the prohibitionists say they have no effect in South Carolina. As to the meaning of the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt they say that it was more because of economic conditions than because of the prohibition law and the declarations in the Democratic plat form were overshadowed by the res tiveness of the people because of eco nomic conditions. They also say tha\ the people have been misled as to the amount that would be derived from the licensed sale of beer and that.the estimates of the secretary of the treasury show that this will be almost neglible. Quoting decisions of the State su preme court and the federal circuit court of appeals and the United States supreme court they say that the modification of the Volstead act or the repeal of the 18th amendment to the constitution will have no effect upon South Carolina. They say as far back as 1922 the supreme court of South Carolina said that the prohibition laws of South Carolina, now on the statute books, are not affected by the 18th amend ment in the case of the State against Moseley, 129, S. C., 62; 114 S. E. 866. The same principle was announced in the decision of the circuit court of ap peals (Fourth circuit) in 1931 in the case of McCormick and company vs. Brown, 58, F. (2nd) 995, which de cision was unanimously affirmed by the United States supreme court May 1932, 76, L. Ed., 771. This decision holds that the construction of the State supreme court is binding on the federal courts. In respect to beer it is pointed out that in 1909 the State supreme court in the case of the State vs. City club, 83, S. C., 509, held that the word beer, used without qualification, is a malt liquor containing enough alcohol to produce intoxication. The statute laws of our State against the manu facture and sale of intoxicants, beer or whiskey, as contained in the code, are in full force and effect. One sec tion provides that any one guilty of the provisions of this law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be im prisoned at hard labor for the first offense, the punishment increasing for subsequent offenses. In the decision of the supreme court in the McCormick case, reference is made to the Webb-Kenyon act, which prohibited the shipment or transporta tion in interstate or foreign commerce of intoxicating liquor if intended to be received, possessed, sold or in any manner used in violation of the State laws of the State into which it was shipped. This act of congress is still in full force. The prohibitionists point out that in 1915 the legislature submitted the question of whether cr not the manu facture and sale of intoxicants should be permitted and that the people by a vote of 41,735 against 16,809 decided against the manufacture or sale of intoxicants and that then the women could not yote and they believe that if the vote was taken again it would show greater majorities opposed to the manufacture and sale "cf intoxi cants.—The State. A fairly large sized crowd was in Barnwell Monday, the occasion being “January salesday.” Many of the visitors were negroes, but the old time “Emancipation Day” parade wae missing. Several sales were made by G. M. Greene, Esq., master in equity, as follows: Daisy Willis vs. Inez Laval Greene, as executrix, 157 acres of land in Williston township, bought by H. L. O’Bannon, attorney, for $750. H. L. O’Bannon vs. Amanda Bodi- ford, 35 acres of land, bought by the plaintiff for $125. N. Blatt vs. T. J. Langley, et aL, two lots of land with improvements thereon, bought by the plaintiff for $1,500. L. E. Bush vs. H. R. Baileys et aL, 200 acre 8 of land in Four Mile town ship, bought by Brown and Bush, at torneys, for $1,900. Edna McDonald vs. W. A. Todd, et al., 381.2 acres of land, bought by^ Brown and Bush, attorneys, for $1,- 800. Leon Carroll vs. P. A. McDonald, 97 acre 8 of land, bought by the plain tiff for $550. T. G. Tarver, as receiver for the Bank of Western Carolina, vs. D. A. Dyches, et al., 468 acrees of land, bought by A. H. Ninestein, attorney, for $1,370. T. G. Tarver, as receiver for the Bank of Western Carolina, va. James Odom, et al., 56 acres of land in Blackville township, bought by A. H. Ninestein, attorney, for $260; one lot and building in the town of Black ville, bought by A. H. Ninestein, at torney, for $700. W. A. Porter vs. Mamie E. Johnson, et al., 64 acres of land in Williston township, bought by J. A. Kennedy, attorney, for $390. One sale was made by Probate Judge John K. Snelling in the case of Inez L. Greene, Executrix, vs. George E. Crouch, et al., the crate mill, gin nery, lots and tenant houses being bought by George E. Crouch for $11,' 000, while the residence and lot were bought by Brown and Bush, attorneys, for $9,400. Several sele 8 were also made by Sheriff J. B. Morris under tax execu tions. Farm Forest Demonstration. Timber is a crop for land which is unsuited for cultivation. The farm woods and waste lands can bring prof- it 8 and benefits if managsd prcperly. Have you been able to protect your wood from fire? Are you assured cf a continued wood supply for heme needs and for ttye market ? Does your Boylston, Co. Agent. Many Enjoy Plane Rides. Quite a number of people, including several visitors, enjoyed flights in Mayor C. G. Fuller’s plane Sunday afternoon, the genial mayor acting as pilot. News from Lyndhurst. Lyndhurst, Dec. 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Gantt and sons, John and Frederick, of Columbiba, were tbs guests of Mrs. John M. Gantt during the Christmas holidays. A. P. Hay and family, of Parris In land, spent the holidays at their homo here. Mr. and Mrs. Ifenry Hay, of Beau fort, were the guests of relatives dur ing the past week. Andy Hay, of Parris Island, spent the holidays here with friends. Miss Minnie Hay of Charleston, spent Christmas with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Tharin and little son, Whitney, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C., were the guests of Mrs. M. W. Tharin on Christma 8 Day. Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Steinmeyer, of Beaufort, and Mr. and Mrs. Ulmer Harrell, of Savannah, motored hoe Christmas Day and spent a few hours with relatives. Jack Harley and Ben T. Sexton vis ited Bluffton during the holidays. woodlands get the same intelligent care a s your cultivated lands? W. R. Dunlap, District Forester, and the county agent will be at the farm of Paul Morris between Olar and Barnwell on the highway at 10:00 a. m., Thursday, January 19th, to give a demonstration in forest protection from fire, forest thinning and im provement cutting and forest tree planting. All farmers and others interested are invited to attend.—By Harry G. I will be at the following places for the purpose of taking tax returns for the year 1933, ouly personal property is to be returned this year. Tea per cent, penalty will be added for failure to make returns on or before Febru ary 28, 1933. Dunbarton, January 6, 1933. Elko, January 9, 1933. Hilda, January 11, 1933. Kline, ^January 18, 1933. Leigh, January 16, 1933. Meyer’s Mill, January 18, 1933. Robbins, January 20, 1933. Seven Pines, January 23, 1933. Willistop, January 25, 1938. Respectfully yours, I W. H. MANNING, ~ • Auditor, Barnwell. County.