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, v v . ♦ rAQB rwg THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY,- FEBRUARY 16, 193S TheBarnwel i ; S' K fe K Wh 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, FEBRUARY 16, 1933 AL THAT LITTLE GAME”* SALVING A CRAB The General Assembly. {fe" A visitor to the State House in Columbia can hardly help but be im pressed with the fact that a majority of the members of the general as sembly aie apparently honestly striv ing to solve some of the grave prob lems that are today facing our peo ple and to keep the appropriations for the State government within the esti mated revenue and the ability of the people to pay. At least, that Was the impression made upon the writer on the occasion of a recent visit to the capital city. It gives us special pleasure to record that Barnwell County’s mem bers of the asssembly are right on the * job, being prompt in attendance upon the sessions of the legislature and taking an active and influential part in its deliberations. Although a new member of the house, Representative Solomon Blatt, of Barnwell, is rapidly making a place for himself in that body. Both he, Representative Win chester C. Smith, Jr., of Williston, and Senator Edgar A. Brown are popular with their fellow members and their combined influence should have weight in shaping the destinies of the State for the next few years. True, there are acme free spenders in both brandies of the general as sembly who are still “wedded to their idols,” but on the whole there seems to be an honest effort to reduce ex penses to the ability of the people to pay. Thursday night, during the debate on the appropriations bill, when an attempt was being made to increase the item for the operation of the 6-0-1 school law from $1,051,- 600, as provided by the ways and mean s committee, to $2,800,000, Colo nel Blatt said: “IT. never vote for an appropriation bill larger than the anticipated revenue, and I am a friend of the public schools.” And that’s the meat in the cacoanut. South Carolina already has a deficit cf some $5,000,000 which has accumu lated during the pad few years be cause the legislatute has peisisted in appropriating beyond the State’s revenue. It is estimated that the revenue this year will not exceed six and a half million dollars. To appro priate that amount will mean no re duction in the tax burden under which the pecple are now staggering. Pro vision must also be made for retiring the deficit if,the State is to regain its financial credit. Like Colonel Blatt, The People-Sen tinel is a friend cf the public schools, but we do not believe in the sacrifice of homes and farms and businesses to the fetish of education. Let the legislature reduce every department-of State government as drastically, as /possible and then appropriate as much as possible to the public schools, within the ability of the people to pay. That, after all, is the real test. Cer tainly we do not owe the youth of the State anything beyond l h at - We sympathize with the members of the general assemblby. They have real problemi to solve and they should be given the sympathetic cooperation of the people of the State in helping in their solution. We believe that if the house will stick to the course it is now steering and if the s enate will approve what the house does, an easier road is ahead for the taxpayers of the. -State. _ i ■■ i.i — ——■ * » Nobody’s Business | NoO Frcoffl TV*E BoNS,” *foovs Auways Made us feel So (Aoch at hoiae that VYANTEO TO X>0 A Utl SOMPufr Voda OU5 MAN HAS OFTEN •Towti us Hou) Too Enjoy havang us plat here,- HE <SATS Too NEn/ER REGISTER A HlOK. — A fella can SURE E,E PROUD OF A REAL Scout ANG&i UKE Too, MRS. - OH, That'S Oust lovclY op Too /bovs ™JAAHeS_gs)HEC^‘-SHER FEEL AT HOME?) AN ansel. . - ... '# r\t li ^ OH HAvT HAUU-, 'NHERB DOES HE THlNVi VUE LWE ? HADES? WOvW. Then \ donyvuant TO Go WHERE TheT plat HARPS* turn them loose to prey again on or ganized society. A man of criminal record, who ha 3 been duly tried and convicted by a jury and sentenced by the presiding judge should be made /ustbN [To ■\pTc OULO Talk UttE THAT SALYE E»OA YD NEYER F>E AFRAiO "To GO HOMT THAT LYRE \N\NS THE vsiholE DARN BROWN T>ERBY CROP* , LET'S PLAT- to serveTiis term of imprisonment. And to turn them loose on condi tion that they leave the State within a specified time is hardly “toting fair” with sister 1 commonwealths. Why not punish our own criminal in stead of trying to force them on the citizens of other States?—Barnwell TPeople-Sentinel. PROBAK- shoWi coml at home (PROBAK BLADE) t; w. '\t All of which is well said. Every once in a while crime gets so rampant in a big city that the police stage a mock crusade against criminals, de spite the graft and their protection by politicians. Usually the crusade hag as its objective driving known criminals out of those cities. That is as decent a a man throwng a dead dog over the fence into his neigh bor’s yard so he will not have the Potting carcass on his own premises. —Greenville Observer. INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE. Manager. V Y NOTICE! 10. —Ga s rates. 11. —Automobile tags. 12. —Most federal jobs. 13. —Gold-rimmed specs. 14. —Just specs. ■/ 15. —Motor oil. 16. —Moth balls. 17. —Church dues, (if possible.) 18. —Dog tax. 19. —Soft drinks. 20. —Speed cops. 21. —Pig chitterlings. I think it would he much better if we would se'l the Philippines to Japan instead of just turning ’em over to her. We might as well move out and begin ibarging th se folks duty on their stuff. We are losing money on those Islands at present. Japan seems to like her China, and niight not want any more countries for a while. They ought to fetch about 1,000,000 yen a little later on. The best way to tieat the “lame ducks” is—give each one of them a pair of ciutches and let them walk hoine.j The voters will see that they never wander off into politics again. Had it not been for lame ducks, we wt uld have 25,000 fewei bureaus and commission# and useless jobs. Most of the discarded congressmen are holding jobs that they don’t know a darned thing about. run# good, stops quick, and has a wonderful pick-up.” Meaning nails and tacks. ’—- liiWUHl I have tried to trade my car for 4 years, but nobody has .ever agreed to accept it as the “down payment” and, naturally, that a!way 8 broke up the trade. I don’t have any tiouble with it except when I go around a curve, it cuts off, and I can’t back it, ami it shimmies in coop cr cJd or warm or hot weather, and it backfires ami always chokes down for red lights. I think I’ll buy rjne a new’ car when congiess adjourns, and the sport models are reduced to $35.00, including the tags, windshield wipers, tail light, etc. I don’t think I shall ever speak to those 2 smart guys who pulled that" punk, reflecting joke on me and my car. It ain't for sale. Most of my customers went off the gold standard in 1929. They forsook the silver standard in 1930. They discarded the green back stand ard in 1931. They abandoned the bank check standard in 1932. Now they aie swapping eggs and pullets and turnip sallet for the things I have and can’t sell ‘for money, 4 as there ain’t any’ money any more. - ^ A Mean Trick. My feelings have beenihurt bad. I usually park my car in front of my office—except when it is raining, and then I park it in front of my office as usual. Most cf the smaller cities that arc still afflicted with street cars and war-time stmH car fare ought W re quire the power companies to furnish somebody to ride with the motorman to keep him company, as nobody but the motorman sees fit to ride street cars now-a-days, if they refuse to do this, they should be psosecuted for ciuelty to animals. (N. B.— Man is an animal.) —Scientists say that Netv York Is I sinking:-*-! say the whole country is sunk.—When # the federal and State and county and city governments get thru taxing 3.2 beer, a mere whiff of it will cost the whiffer 50 cents—and we will still be busted.—Fox the fel lows who expected politics to help the country, I advise bi-chloride of mer cury cr a good shotgun. PLENTY OF VEGETABLES SAVES MONEY,AND HEALTH Funny thing about seme coipora- tions. When prices are too high, or not in keeping with the times, private business reduce# such prices, but be fore a corporation reduces it 3 rates to a legitimate level, they have to be sued, lawed, investigated, and coerced; and whenthey aie told to cut, they get and when they are told to cut, they get tiers, malfeasance papers, gtay of per- petration and several mandamuses'; and when they do reduce, they add various and sundry technical charges that not even Svlomon would have thought of; Clemscn College, Jan. 28.—Millions of dollars would be saved annually if every faim family, including tenants, raised such easily grown crops as turnips, mustard, sweet potatoes, cab bage, tomatoes and beans, says A. E. Schilletter, extension horticulturist, urging again also that plenty cf vege tables and greens* are essential to the best health, especialy children’s hea’th. “One of, the first things to do now,” says Mr. Schilletter in making gen eral suggestions for planning and starting a garden, “is to take a new 1933 catalog and make out a list of the seed you intend to plant—then go right ahead an< I send in your order so as to have the setd on hand when you get ready to plant. This making out of your order helps you to plan your garden and decide just what and how much of each vegetable you intend t° plant. Do not depend on cheap seed or those that are easy to get. Order from a reliable seedsman, because if you start out with poor seed all of youi later efforts will be wasted. “It i s Late to mulch strawberries, but it is better to do it now than to have sanded berries. “It is not well to plant cabbage or Irish potatoes on the «anie land for many years in -ucccssion* as the soil will become infected with diseases that are difficult to eradicate. When Judges Err. By Gee McGee. " ^ DUE-DROPS. I was talking to a man the other day ( and he said. “Everything in the world ha 3 gone down; why ain’t con ditions normal?” I explained to him that while everything in the world that grows out of the earth or is dug coo of the earth is cheaper, the follow ing things have not declined: 1.—Postage stamps. 1.—Freight rates. S.—^Telephone rates, (yet.) 4.—Passenger fares (generally.) &—Pullman fares. \ 7.—Street ear ride*. 8—Hospital costs. %—Cutting out gall stones. . Last Thursday, I walked out to get in the said car, and - 0 m y very best friends—friends from whom I borrow money—had fastened a large /placard on my sedan which read as follows: FOR SALE. Price, with license tag $15.00 Price, minus license tag 3.00 And that’# what hurt my feelings. I bought that car brand, spankfired new in November, 1926. I had it washed in 1929, painted in 1930, and washed again in 1931. So you see, I have taken good care of it. I had the roof patched in 3 place 3 riot over a year ago. Cotton Letter. New York, Feb. 14.—The nearby months were fairly satisfactory, thank you on the opening, but March eased off when Huey Long sneezed in the senate. The allotment fnrm relief plan plans to .relieve the farmer again and that sounds like lower base and redder spots, therefore, we look for declines in round bales, square bales and Liberty bends 4s and dog-tails. Liverpool showed some strength when France loaned $20,000,000.00 of our (U. S.) money to^Zecho-Slovcckid, but that i s no reason for bulls to be scared, as she ain’t going to pay U. S. now or later on. But hold. Circuit judge# err, it is respectfully submitted, when they suspend the sentences of habitual criminals and I even went to the trouble of having the valves ground 3 years ago, and have changed 3 spark plugs since I bought the car. I do not seriously object to running on 3 or 4 cylinders; I guess I save ga# by not using all of them, but I ain’t stingy, mind you; I’d use them if they would fire, but they won’t. ....The railroads have reduced rates on lizard skins, cratked ice, soda crackers, bulLfrog "eye-balls, ; and gnat’s whiskers on short hauls, the same will go into effect—“When and whereas, possibly, on or before next fall at 4 o’clock, provided the tariffs are not in conflict. A general cut in freight rates will take place in 1945, just 13 yea^s too late. cu Are Fortunate WHEN YOU MAY OBTAIN RICH CREAMY AND PURE MILK OF A DELICIOUS FLA- VOR (no odor of the animal) at a “LIVE AND LET LIVE PRICE. I wouldn’t think of taking $15.00 for this car. The license plate coat me $12.60, and if I were to sell out for $15.00, I would have only $2.40 clear. I would not have been insulted if they had let their sign read as fol lows: “This nice car can be bought for $30.00 with tag included; she CHUCKLES:—These newstyle hats weigh from 2 ounces on dswri. If you ain’t got one of ’em, why just paste a postage stamp on the side of your head and nobody won’t know the difference—women have quit using their hose for pocketbook purposes; they had to, as they didn’t want to undress everytime they spent a dime We deliver every morning in Barnwell and way points, rain or shine. See our truck or .drop us a card to-**- -■ LAURIE FOWKE, Appledale Dairy LYNDHURST, S. C. (BARNWELL COUNTY) Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or person s entering upon the land# hereinafter referred to situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose cf hunting, fishing er trapping, will be prosecuted ta the full extent of the law: Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place 1,650 Sweet Water Place ^ 560 B. L. Easterling Cave Place 200 Barnwell Turpentine Co.: Simmcns Place 450 M : dd!eton Place 300 Mose Holley 200 B. C. Norri s 125 J. W. Patterson 100 L. Cohen—(Hay Place) 200 Dr. Allen Patterson 1,000 Brice Place 500 Harriett Houston 150 Mrs. B. H. Cave 250 J. M. Weathersbee 572 Estate cf H. A. Pattei.son __ 2,000 Joseph E. Dick# 800 RTT. Holman - — AOO A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemcn Bros. 150 John K. Snelling 100 J. P. Hailey 150 L. W. Tilly — 160 John Newton 200 Tom Davi? __ r _ - 400 B. L. Easterling Tfr Terie Richardson 100 N. A. Patteison (Tangleweod Place) 130 W. M. Cook 250 GEO. H. WALKER, Owner ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr. ™ j t ? t t ❖ ❖ t T t T f * Notice! ❖ SCHOOL CLAIMS can * t ❖ f T— .j. ❖ *:* now ♦% ^ only be used to pay Taxes on property 4? *f in same district on which the Claim is *f V drawn. We are forced to do this to ♦♦♦ V • ♦♦♦ V avoid some districts from piling up defic- Y V . «$♦ V its. Of course, every dollar collected by v j V claims or cash is., credited to the dis- *£ V ' x T * v trict to which it belongs, but the claim *♦* X has to be charged to the district on which ? Y it is drawn and in some cases this would Y I <8* T1 * ~ * & % create a deficit. The county treasurer’s f % office is handling school claims for taxes Y a matter of accommodation, believing ^ that this service is helping our teachers to exchange claims for board, merchan- .1 disc and cash, and helping the taxpayer i Y ? ❖ i f ‘ “ -r-j — *t* to collect amounts and pay his taxes with f claims. 11 1S 1V* f I f-* CIV I i~v f n n .—.. ....... ♦♦♦ J, service claims. It is our desire to render every Y | service we can and we earnestly ask our f Y citizens to co-operate with us, and NOT * Y ♦T4 ♦♦♦ CRITICISE. Remember, your schools, | your children and their future depends 1 X on YOU paying YOUR taxes. £ I JAMES J. BELL, | County Treasurer. ❖ ' _