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A. ti> r" mmmnm * . i THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA HiaBarnwell 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: One Year $1.50 Six Months .90 Three Months ------—.50 (Strictly in Advance.) THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1933. . So much has been said by Tom, Dick and Hairy against every form of farm relief that is suforested that we have about come to the conclusion that the poor old farmer’s case is hopeless. And yet there can be no real return to prosperity until his purchasing power has been increased. Multiplicity of Offices. The evils of the commission form of government are strikingly shown in a statement by James H. Rice, Jr., in which he eall s attention to the fact that the natural resources work of this State is in the hands of six different commissions. Mr. Rice as serts that the same work can be done more efficiently by one commission. He says: .“There is a chief game warden, empowered to administer the laws for protecting game and tish in fresh water; there is a State bo^rj of fisheries, administering laws for fish and shellfish in salt streams and estuaries; there is an iodine commis sion; there is a power commission; there is a State forestry commission, functioning along modern, approved lines, and a sector of the State board cf health has oversight over stream pollution.” Here, then, is at least one place where the economists in the general assembly—if they be sincere in their pledge? to their constituents—can ap ply the pruning knife. Why continue the operation of six costly commis sion,, if, as Mr. Rice claims, the work can be done more efficiently by one? And, we daresay, thi? is only one instance of the overlapping of boards and commissions in the administra tion of the State’s affairs. To just what extent are the mem bers of the present legislature en dowed with “chitlings?"—to borrow a description term from a member of that august body. •-> ^ _ J { C *THAT LITTLE CAME” ui.r^.fic.rto..c^,».T^By B. Link*] Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. ♦♦♦ 0 ♦ o Search Me. 1 confess that I don’t know very much about the gold standard, the high tariff, and foreign exchange, but I do know how hard it is to laise a bale of cotton an ( j a bushel of corn and a turn of wheat. It seems strange that Liberty Bonds are fetching a premium, $104, and our government can issue billions of 1 per cent note„ and they are miapped up before the Ifek on them gets diy—while nothing else (much) is worth owning. It looks hard for' farmers to staive and sweat to produce food and fibre and get nothing for their pains— while the bondholder still c'ips his coupons at the old intrest rate and the taxpayer pays his taxes with the nickles and dimes that cost him every comfort known to man. “They” say—everybody knows who “they” is—that going off the gold standard would prove a great blessing to 998 persons out of every 1000, but 2 big men cut of that 1000 would get hurt a right smart. If staying on the gold standard is caus ing all of our suffering and worry anj hunger and death, I say, darn the geld standaid. ^ In just a short while—if the gov ernment keeps on borrowing money— and throwing it away—the few fel lows who loaned all of that money to the government will own our govern ment. Wonder what they will do with it when they get it? Too many rich men have been in charge of our governmental affairs during the past few years; rich men looking for rich men, and ignore the poor man. To my way of thinking, it would not hurt much to try stepping off this goM standard. It cculdn’t possibly make matters any worse. Hard working, honest men and women are losing their farms and homes every «iay. They are nearly all doing the ▼ery best they can to hold, on, but who can hold on when such conditions obtain? Nobody—except people who own bonds; but folks can’t eat bonds. I am the unfortunate owner of about 1000 acre 3 of farm lands, a few buildings, some mu'es, 2 old automo biles, a wife, 3 childien, and half in terest in a wholesale mercantile busi ness. It took all of my rent for 1932 to pay the taxe„ on my land and 1 had $3.20 left. It takes practically a'l of my rent on the buildings to pay taxes and insurance, and the tax gath erer gets much more money out of the operation of my mercantile busi ness than my partnei and I get. Who wants to own anything under such conditions—unless it’s bonds, nun- taxable and non-repudiate-able, so -long as there’s a penny left in the hand s ‘of the folks who try to earn a living by the sweat of the brow. We need men in office today with com mon sense and guts, and a desire to help the helpless. (Now I feel better.) Stuff For Stuffing Purposes. When the present congress gets thru helping the farmer, he will be receiving 5 cents a pound for his cotton instad of a nickle, and he will be selling his wheat for a quarter a bushel instead of 25 cents; and every thing else he grow s will be adjusted on the same'basis, or worse. The Fedeial Reserve bank was created to save the country during panics. It has possibly saved the country during the present crisis, but it hasn’t done anything for the public. Bank failures are off 20 per cent, during the past 6 months, so they say—George Washington’s fami- IV never did die but once, and after their demise, very few Washingtons w*re left to die. - * » , I am a wholesale merchant by trade, and try to go sttaight, and so do most wholesale merchants as for that matter. But enough different kinds of agents and inspectors, Fed eral and State, come to our. place (ever and anon) to make a pretty good sized little at my. One man could easily do the necessary work of 10 of these so-called employees, and the good that he could even do might easily be crammed into a gnat’s eye ball sideways without making him wink. We are taxed and lawed to death, and it’s getting so that very few of us want to stay in business if there’s a chance to get out without busting out. The government won’t submit to a report or a tax retutn unless it is deeply shrouded in mystery.-. The guy that invented the blanl? forms doesn't even understand them. About 5 per cent of a 1 ! returns are useless and cieate no revenue. But if you make a return once, you are doomed to the task of making Jhem forever and ever—whether ycu, are rich or poor, in jail or the pooi house, dead or alive, working or loafing. It takes a s long to make an income (?) tax return as it does to prove you lost $250.00 as it does to prove that you made only $500,000 the previous year. Wish Uncle Sam would swap his red- tape ideas for some-thing that is simple, but not as simple a s a poli tician. Did you ever try to take an all day sucker out of a baby’s mouth? An^ did he holler? Ycu are asking By G. Chalmers McDermid. me. Just wait ttlTTliat Washington HOPOCATR UC bunch tries to cut eff those Spanish- American and World War pensions. Why, folks, you ain’.beard no fuss yet. It’s mighty easy to swallow a tack, but it is terribly hard to get it back. As a Matter of Fact. There are still a sufficient num ber of Model “Teas” and Chewy “4s” on the highways to retard traffic— much to the horror and disgust of the guys who are in a hurry—behind them. A street car in a small city is just about as much out of date as a 1905-bustle would be cn Fifth avenue. Nobody rides on our cats new ex cept the motorman, the track walker and an occasional other fellow—who can borrow 7 cents from hi? wife’s mother. Another thing that i 3 25 years behind times is—a gieat, big old Pull man cai with 2 or 3 passengers (fre quently.) If you were to see a man going down the street using a tele graph pole for a walking stick, you’d say he was crazy cr a giant and mebbe both. 75-ton passenger cars aie like that. The average cost of convicting a half-pint bootlegger and getting him on the chaingang for 30 days i s $250. An office-seeker shakes hands 10,000 per cent more times during his 50 days campaigning than he shakes the entire 4 years he is in office, but if he is defeated, he is never caught shaking hands again. There ought to be a law. The depression ha? slowed down instalinient buying and.tlips around* the world. I had a fellow working for me in 1923 that was receiving a salary of 80 dollars per month and it took 12 dollars per month more than that to meet his payments. He kept nearly all of the stuff though till he wore it out, except his lugs and elec tric range and radio and auto and 3 baby caitiages. ~ A- great many asparagus growers are getting their crops ready for an early season. N. B. Loadholt, of Fairfax, and J. E. Harley, of Barn well, have already shipped a crate or so, and many a stalk is showing up in this kind of weather'. Most all cf the -growers have put the stalk cutters over their beds and are beginning plowing. I listened in on a conversation between a big grow er and his foreman the other day, and their talk went about like this: Foreman: “Do y u want me to use the big disc cultivators or the plows on the X farm? It look 3 to me like the plows do a better job.” Asparagus Farm Owner: “The discs are cheaper to operate, and are much faster, but I don’t believe they give us as good a bed or' prepare the soil as well. We’d better use the plows, because they will put a few more men to work, and will leally do a better job in the long run.” >✓ The;re’? a gentleman, fclks, who feels for hi s fellow man, anti who is willing to spend a little more money to help him make his daily bread. This conversation was in connec tion with both plowing and /ertiliza- tion of his asparagus crop. My fiiend had enough stable manure to cover a part of his crop at the rate of 5 loads per acre. He expected to use a combination of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda and 300 pounds of 20 per cent, kainit (manure salts) in ad dition to the stable manure. Judge Kitchings, prominent grower o( Williston gives me the following information on a little test which he carrj^d out j^st season cn his “grass’.’ —“Taking six rows of Tny asparagus, 1 fertilized two row s with fertiliser at the rate of 1,600 pounds per acre, 2 rows at the rate of 800 pounds per acre, and on two rows I put no fer tilizer at all.” “The two rows which had the 1,- 600 pounds yielded me 247 pounds of ! spears, the 800 pound application 212 If the government wants to help the farmer—the best way to proceed is let him alone. The farmer doesn’t need any help to make a crop; what he wants is something for his crop after he makes it. If he grows too much stuff, he will need help, but if he’ s too poor to gi'ow enough to live on he will become prosperous. No body ever got much help from the gov*“ ernment till ah ut 15 years ago and eveiy person who got “aid” is within 15 minutes of the pooihouse today. Of course, something has £ot to be done for us now, as rotten politics and crazy* laws and high taxes have ruint us, body and soul. And some of us are hungry and the balance of u.« are naked. INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM, PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS 'AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICK. Muaiw. i pounds, and the no fertilizer plot gave me only IfH pounds. This fertilizer was applied in February. My ex perience ahows me, that the best sys tem to use in fertilizing asparagus is to apply 600 pounds of 7-5-5 in Feb ruary, 1,000 pound g of manure salts after I plow down in May, and again in July to ue* from a thousand pounds cf 7-5-5 epward, according to the state of my pocketbook.*” “Last season, following this season, and on 8 acres less “grass” than I had the year before, I made 205 more crates for my season’s total. In looking over Judge Kitchings’ figures, I rememhejed that I did not ask him about the size of the spears cut from the various plots; but I would imagine that he got a much better perceatage of Colossal grade stuff from the 1,600 pound s of fer tilizer than he did from^ie no fer tilizer rows. Asparagus Grower Don't neg lect your crop. Rake four lots clean, put out the compost, bay a little man ure salts and some q*ick nitrogen. Asparagus is your money crop—you can’t afford to neglect it. Asparagus seeds a complete fer tilizer high in potash and nitrogen, especially in potash. Give it what it wants, and he a satisfied grower in 1933. NOTICE! Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or persons entering upon the land? hereinafter referred to situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose o hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the lull extent of t e law: Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Mrs. Kate' M. Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place 1 1,650 Sweet Water Place 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) ^00 Dr. Allen Patterson 1,000 Brice Place 500 Harriett Houston 150 Mrs. B. H. Cave 250 J. M. Weathersbee 572 Estate cf H. A. Patterson __ 2,000 Joseph E. Dicks — 800 R. C. Holman A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. 1^0 John K. Snelling -- *00 J. P. Harley 15 0 L. W. Tilly I 60 John Newton — 200 Tom Davis • —— B. L. Easterling "5 Terie Richardson 100 N. A. Patterson (Tanglewood Place) 180 W. M. Cook — 250 GEO. H. WALKER, Owner ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr. f f ❖ f t ♦ f ? f Notice! i V t T f ❖ t SCHOOL CLAIMS can ^now $ only be used to pay Taxes on property ♦* ** in same district on which the Claim is T <& ♦ f V drawn. We are forced to do this to y ♦ y y avoid some districts from piling up defic- £ its. Of course, every dollar collected by V claims or cash is credited to the dis- y ♦ f trict to which it belongs, but the claim y X has to be charged to the district on which T y j Y it is drawn and in some cases this would y A , ^ . -T-, . Y ♦ i • y X create a deficit. The county treasurer’s Y X office is handling school claims for taxes 4 X f T T ♦♦♦ t i T x X as a matter of accommodation, believing y that this service is helping our teachers Y to exchange claims for board, merchan- 4 t T disc and cash, and helping the taxpayer to collect amounts and pay his taxes with Y claims. It is our desire to render every y |* service we can arid we earnestly ask our * % citizens to co-operate with us, and NOT CRITICISE. Remember, your schools, X your children and their future depends % X on YOU paying YOUR taxes, k £ y X X f f T JAMES J. BELL, County Treasurer. * T T T Send Us Your Job Printing Orders