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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CARObtnj
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, IMS
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JOHN W. HOLMES
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Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.60
Six Months .90
Three Months .60
(Strictly la Adraaee.)
and opened up a vast empire. Their
forebears fought the red jnen for the
possession of the land—now they are
ready to fight their own kind to re
tain possession, JL ‘
It is hard ti convince men in their
^P»J)AVIES t Editor and Proprietor, present frame of mind that such acts
of violence are justified. They have
worked hard to produce enough from
the soil to support their families and
pay the interest and principal on in
flated loans. It ig no fault of theirt
that the collapse of our economic sys
tem has brought them to the brink
cf ruin—wiping out in a short space
of time the work and sacrifice and
THURSDAY, JANUARY—12. 1933 .. privation of many years. Debts were
for c35.
v the 'city counsel drug off main
street friday and it was much appre
ciated by the voters, as it had got ver-
ry bumpy and full of ginnanests. this
made it rough on ottermdbeels anso-
forth. they used the chaingang scrape
which is camped nearby.
Watch your step tomorrow—Friday,
the 13th.
Hush, little girlie, don’t you cry,
You'll b€ a school marm by V by.
The general assembly convened on
Tuesday and bad weather may be ex
pected for the next 40 days or more.
The People-Sentinel favors a sales
tax if the revenue is to be used to
reduce or remove the property tax.
If it is to provide an additional seurce
of revenue for the purpose of paying
high salaries to officials, providing
useless jobs in the various bureaus,
etc., etc., ad infinitum, we are un
alterably opposed to it.
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Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
against the Manning Times, Clarendon
County weekly newspaper, have been
instituted in the United State 9 Dis
trict Court in Charleston for Virginia
creditors, who allege that the news
paper and its owners owe them $18,-
123 for newsprint and other suplies.
Wish somebody would show us how to
owe somebody $18,123.
At the press institute held by the
South Carolina Press Association at
the University of South Carolina in
Cclumbia Friday, our good friend,
Ed DeCamp, of Gaffney, made a few
extemporaneous remarks that were
thoroughly enjoyed by all in attend
ance.
During the course of his short talk,
Ed said that people have fallen too
much into the habit of praying for
additional things instead of falling on
their knees and thanking God for the
many that 'they already have. A
world of philosophy and common sense
in that.
And it is also worthy of note that
Ed did NOT recite “Let me live in a
house by the side of the road and be
a friend to man,’’ which is news of
the same calibre as that of the man
biting the dog. Incidentally, the
Gaffney scribe had a new “pome.’’
Local jig-saw puzzle enthusiasts
should beware. Out in California the
ertaze has taken such a hold on the
feminine population of one town that
the husbands have appealed to the
mayor to send their wives back to
their housewifely duties. Here’s
what an Associated Press dispatch
from Carmel, Calif., says:
“Golf widows, bridge widowers—
now the poor husband bereft of femi
nine care and attention on account of
the jig-saw puzzle.
"That their' wives might return to
dishwashing, bed making and door
bell-answering, a group of Carmel
husbands has appealed to the city
council to banish the jig-saw puzzles
and picture cutouts. They charge the
■wives were ‘constrained in unhealthy
positions’ while working the puzzles
and were neglecting household duties.
“Mayor John Catlin avowed he
would refer the matter to the city
attorney for opinion.’’
The Farmers Rebelling.
Out in the Middle West a few
weeks ago, the farmers went on strike
and attempted to prevent produce
irom reaching the markets in an
effort to increase prices. Now, from
the same section—Iowa—comes news
of a more serious and disturbing
nature.
Last week at Le Mar's, Iowa, a
group of irate farmers at a farm
foreclosure sale slapped the face of
the sheriff, dragged an attorney of
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany down 18 stone steps and forced
a judge to write his recommendations
to the governor-elect. The attorney,
fearful that he would be lynched,
■wired his company for permission to
■raise their bid on the property, which
was granted. Their display of vio
lence forced the postponement of
another foreclosure sale. While
aympathizing with the farmers of thg.
country in their distress, The Peo
ple-Sentinel is very glad indeed that
ttta incident did not occur in South
Carolina, which i s looked upon by
aaany in other sections as a lawless
State. Iowa, however, is supposed to
W populated with old fashioned, pion
eer American stock—decendants of
contracted when wheat was selling at
$2 and more a bushel./ Now they find
it impossible to repay those cheap
dollars with wheat selling at as t
a s 12 cents a bushel. David R. Coker
last week quoted a member of the
federal reserve board as saying that
wheat is selling at that price and
com at nine cents in South Dakota.
What is tine of the condition of the
grain growers of the West is likewise
true of the cotton growers of the
South with the fleecy staple selling
at five and six cents a pound. These
figures should represent the PROFIT
on such products instead of their sell-
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While the action of the Iowa farm
ers may be lawless, it will have serv
ed a most excellent service if it re
sults in a readjustment of farm
values.
An ( j unless such readjustment is
hastened, such acts of violence and
lawlessness will spread to other
farming sections.
v _.effie green ha 8 sold his pair of
•rutches, as he found he w^as well en
ough to walk without them the next
day after he got his insurance monney
for being crippled in a wreck, which
was 65$, but the docto^ got 10$ and
his lawyer got 25$.
crutches, so he come out all right in
the end.
plnyment from one end of the earth
to the other. - - 7 y-
And thusly have our beloved (?)
poli-ticians handled and hampered
Uncle Sam’s business affairs. They
have 1 eft no stone unturned to~ tear
down and mess up. They have bor
rowed and bought, bought and bor
rowed, wrecked and built, built and
wrecked, hired and re-hired, wasted
and destroyed, taxed and double-tax
ed, expanded and extended—till we
are nearly all broke or busted or
bankrupt and tbe end ain’t yet in
sight—much to the shame of decency
and common sense. Selah!
Maxwell Brothers
Furniture
Special Values for
Christmas Shopping
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Reforming the School System.
Because of lack of funds, hundreds
of schools in Alabama and Atkansas
have been forced to close. Thousands
of teachers have been thrown out of
work and other thousands of pupils are
“all dressed up and no place to go.”
Among the major problems to be
faced by the present session of the
South Carolina general assembly is
that of reforming our school system.
It i? needless and foolish to say that
we can continue spending money for
educational purposes a s we have in
the past. Already hundreds of dis
tricts in the State are unable to pay
their teachers. Where funds are not
available, many teachers are selling
their pay warrants at substantial dis
counts, thus accepting a drastic cut
in salary that doe R not benefit the
taxpayers cf the State except those
fortunate few who still have money
to invest. It stands to. reason, there
fore, that if the teachers can accept
a cut by discounting their warrants,
hands of the State and the' various’
districts for the benefit of the tax
payers as a whole.
It is idiotic to continue to promise
to pay salaries to teachers^er other
employes of the State that cannot be
paid except by the sacrifice of the
homes and farms and industries of
South Carolina. We would hate to
see the schools of Barnwell County
closed for a month—but it would be
better to dose them for a year or
two years rather than be forced to
educate our children at the price of
bankruptcy.
And what we have to say about
the schools applies with equal force
to other departmeuts of government.
The time has arrived when dristic cuts
must be made in the personnel of the
various bureaus and departments as
well as in the salaries of those who
may be retained to administer the
affair s of government. A reduction
in the appropriation bill that does
not also carry a reduction in the tax
levy will be giving the people a stone
,vhen they ask for bread.
The People-Sentinel does not envy
the members of the legislature the
task that they are facing. But the
situation in Alabama and Arkansas
is the handwriting on the wall. The
people are looking to them for real
relief—even at the expense of the
pampered tax-eaters.
__. .thexirug stoar is serving hot sody
watter and chockerlate drinks and is
making a killing out of same, he took
in c30 yesterday from a quart of milk
which cost him only clO. if he don’t
cut his prices, he is sur’e to have com
petition. folks can’t stand idly by
and see him get rich, the millenary
stoar is talkin about putting in soft
drinks, that will hurt him bad.
the citty counsel is having a right
hard collecting the license fees
from the merchants onner count of
them being too high, considering the
deprAsLn and the panick; but the
poleeseman told the cumm and gitt
cash stoar that the city had to raise
some monney to pay the help with and
keep him employed, and they had to
get it by the license route, as it is
against the law to use a pistol like
jesse james done, the citty don’t know
that the merchants is hard up allso.
mr. editor, kindly run a parri-
graph in youre wanted department
that all peddlers and hitch-hikers are
warned not to come to our town
looking for relief, a 3 there is none
left for the regular ressidents at
piessent. they will all arrive and
depart at their own risks, as the
citizens can not raise nothing for
them, it is about all we can do now
to pay for our gas and oil and toback-
er, much less help the outside world.
some changes have took place
since the new month arrived, the cor
ner cash swopped stoars with the pay
and tote, and the maggistrate moved
acrcst the hall over the post offis, and
jhon smith moved into 2 rooms of his
mother-in-law and saved his rent,
and jeff stokes left town entirely.
yores trulie,
mike Clark,
corry spondent.
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The Trust and^the Trusted.-.
they can accept a drastic opt at the - — Mn A. Citizen owned, a right
sihart of property in 19 and 20, sbeh
as merchatidwie establishments, farms,
factories, etc. He found it necessary
to go on a very long journey whi»|.
required his absence for a peried of
12 years.
Mr. A. Citizen and hi s wife and
family knew that their interests must
be intixisted to other men and they
proceeded therefore to ballot on cer
tain candidates that had offered their
services to tun his business during
their absence.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
News From Flat Rock
bob flynn has not yet returned
back from the last bonnus martch on
Washington and his wife i s afeared
that he did not get his bonnus, as he
is staying off so long, and if he did
get it, she i s a-feami that he has
spent same by now. he was in the
war hot never did get but oT W
first camp.
Mr. A. Legislator was duly elect
ed to look after Mr. Citizen’s farming
interests. Mr. A. Congressman was
the successful aspirant*in a race and
he wa? delegated to manage Mr. Cttt-
zen’s mercantile holdings, while Mr.
A. Senator came thru with a howl,
and he was immediately put in charge
of Mr. Citizen’s factories and wage-
eamers.
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Mr. A. Citizen returned home in
1931. He found that Mr. A. Legisla
tor had mortgaged all cf his farm
lands and built roads over the said
lands, erected useles g barns, hired
various and sundry unnecessary ten
ants to look after this and that while
he slept and slumbered and loafed on
a high salary created by himself. Re
sult: All of Mr. A. Citizen’s proper
ty of this kind had become worthless
to him.
Fools, We Are.
Before I was 35 years of age, I
thought all of the fools were in the
asylum. I know better now.
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drive hi s daddy’s car down a sleet-
covered street the other day at 50
miles per hour. It takes a dormant
btain to do that. \
Last year a bunch of senators
and congressmen passed the Smoot-
Hawley tariff bill. Thinking minds
would not have done that. This smart
trick made S i® v es out of half the
world, Cuba especially, and paupers
out of us.
Edward Tully went all over town
last week trying to borrow some
money on a third mortgage on hfs
house. He should have been sent to
the “Rattle-brain home” years and
years ago. Only a fool would even
try out a second mortgage in that
manner.
Our public office-holders are
loading more taxes upon the backs of
our citizenship, knowing full well that
they have already pver-burdened them
Oniy idiotic people would attempt to
make a horse travel with a heavier
load than it could bear. Pig brains
would knew that the animal should
be relieved of a portion of it s ton
nage—rather than keep piling on.
Willie Green makes 10 dollars a
week and spends 14 dollars a week,
including his own 10 dollars. Willie
is crazy, but he doesn’t knew it, and
he will soon find out that the place
where he is getting those extra 4
dollars will vamoose. The asylym is
beckoning to Willie with extended,
empty hands.
Politicians still think that they
can pay debt s with borrowed money.
They might not be as nutty as they
loolC'and act, but they are goofy in
mind a nd crooked in pripciple. Only
crazy men believe that paying a debt
■with the other fellow’s cash solves a
debt problem.
Hundreds cf so-called business
men are wailing for times to get
better. Ninety-five percent of our
college graduates expect to teach
school somewheie, but they don’t know
where. Millions of dollars are being
paid out l?y our government to folks
who don’t deserve it, but the govern
ment doe'n't know why. We are
all moie or less crazy. Analyze your
self and see if I ain’t talking about
you while I am talking about me. Ad
dress comments care of Asylum No.
12354.
Jury Decides Razzing
of Policeman Is Legal
Cincinnati.—The well-known “Bronz
cheer,” alias the “razzberry." alined
at a policeman, has been uphold by a
jury here.
Deciding the “cheer” was no cause
for arrest, the Jury awarded $500
damages to Ben Stein, who was Jailed
by Patrolman L. Van Coney. The le
gal definition of the "cheer” was left
unsettled.
Mr. A. Congressman had expan
ded Mr. A. Citizen’s mercantile inter
est from Dan to Beersheba, and the
folks in Dan could not pay for what
they bought, and BeeP^heba had quit
trading with his firm because he put
a tariff on his goods that kept them
from exchanging commodities, there
fore, Mr. A. Congressman had reach
ed the point where he could neither
sell nor collect. 1
Mr. A. Senator had builded haz
ards round about the premises of his
miss jennie veeve smith, our
scholl principle, in company with her
twin sister, miss sallie veeve, were the
dinner guesses of the all-nite caffay
in the county seat last tuesday and j to discharge all of his day and night
employer’s factories, in the way of
high-priced, white collared, swivel-
chaired agents and advisors, excess
expenses for whims and whams, sell
ing agencies that failed to function,
and other costly accessories before
the facts—that forced Mr. A. Senator
How Doctors Treat
Golds and Coughs
To break up a cold overnight and re
lieve the congestion that makes you
cough, thousands of physicians are now
recommending Calotabs, the nausealess
calomel compound tablets that give you
the effects of calomel and salts without
the unpleasant effects of either.
Onp or two Calotabs at bedtime with a
glass of sweet milk or water. Next morn
ing your cold has vanished, your system
is thoroughly purified and you are feeling
£ne with a hearty appetite for breakfast
Eat what you wish,—no danger.
Calotabs are sold in 10c and 35c pack
ages at drug stores. (Adv)
MEN WANTED for Raleigh Routes
of 800 Customers in and near Cities
cf Barnwell, Blackville, Counties of
North Barnwell and parts of Aikcftr
Reliable hustler can start earning $25
weekly and increase every month.
Write immediately. Rawleigh Co.,
Dept. SC-12-S, Richmond, Va.
Jan. 5-19.
NOTICE!
Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping
Any person or person s entering upon the lands hereinafter refened to
situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose cf
hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of tlje ^
law:
Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000
Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000
Duncannon Place 1,650
Sweet Water Plac^ 500
B. L. Easterling Cave Place 200
Barnwell Turpentine Co.:
Simmons Place 450
Middleton Place 300
Mose Holley 200
B. C. Norri s 125
J. W. Patterson 100
L. Cohen—(Hay Place) 200
Dt. Allen Patterson 1,000
Brice Place 500
Harriett Houston 150
Mrs. B. H. Cave 250
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J. M. Weather.=bee 572
Estate cf H. A. Patterson 2,000
Joseph E.’ Dicks 800
R. C. Holman 400
A. A. Richardson 1,000
Lemon Bros. 150
John K. Snelling 100
J.T7Harley 150
L. W. Tilly —- 160
John Newton 200
Tom Davis 400
B. L. Easterling 75
Tcrie Richardson 100
N. A. Patterson (Tanglewood
Place) 130
W. M. Cook —- 250
GEO. H. WALKER, Owner
ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr.
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.
February Lit, 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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No. 33—Barbary Br’ch..
No. 45—Barnwell
No. 4—Big Fork
No. 19—Blackville
No. 35—Cedar Grove
No. 50—Diamond
No. 20—Double Pond-
No. 12—Dunbarton
No. 21—Edisto
No. 28—Elko
No. 53—Ellenton ^
No. 11—Four Mile -
No. 39—Friendship
No. 16—Green’s
No. 10—Healing Spgs.—
No. 23—Hercules..,
No. 9—Hilda ;
No. 52—Joyce Branch..
No. 34—Kline.
No. 32—Lee’s
No. 8—Long Branch
No. 54—Meyer’s Mill
No. 42—Morris -
No. 14—Mt. Calvary
No. 25—New Forest
No. 38—Oak Grove
No. 43—Old Columbia...
No. 13—Pleasant Hill...
No. 7—Red Oak .
No. 15—Reedy Branch.
No. 2—Seven Pines
No. 40—Tinker’s Creek-
No. 26—Upper Richland
No. 29—Williston
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ADVERTISE IN
The People- Sentinel.
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 risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the
Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, postofrice 11 money
orders, or certified checks. ‘ J. J. BELL, Co. Treas.
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