The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 26, 1933, Image 2
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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.
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{ C *THAT LITTLE CAME” ui.r^.fic.rto..c^,».T^By B. Link*]
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
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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.”
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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.
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