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The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1M#—It 12. Wt,}. 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, MARCH 8, 1933. A New Deal—A New Day. THAT LITTLE GAME" T One of the .'lo^ans of Franklin D. Roosevelt’g campaign was the pledge of a “new deal'’ to the American peo ple. The new President set about re deeming this pledge immediately upon assuming office, and Sunday night he issued a proclamation ordering a “bank holiday” for four days, pend ing the convening of ' Congre-s in special session and the enactment of remedial banking legislation. The financial and economic situa tion in the United States is very much like that of a patient who has been suffering from a malignant disea-e. /Quack doctors have tried opiate.* and ice packs to alleviate the pain without removing the cause. Now comes “Doctor” Roosevelt, who, after a care ful diagnosis, ha s decided that only a major operation can save the patient’.* life. With the unfaltering courage of the born leader, he has {fearlessly undertaaken to perform that operation. The patient is now under the surgeon’s skillful knife and when a few cancerous growths have been removed an^ a blood transfusion administered, complete recovery L* confidently expected. A new day for the American people has arrived simultaneously with the new deal. Which Is It? It is indeed surprising to note the number of people who read the. Eng lish language without being able to understand intellig<intly its simplest terms. Or do they deliberately mis interpret the printed word with some sinister purpose? Which brings to mind Kipling’s immortal words: “If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaVes to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools; . . . you’ll be a Man, my son!” Nobody’s Business I By Gee McGee. J A ♦♦ ♦ » • o » » Try Thin on Your Thinker. Taxes can’t be cut for the reason that somebody’s cousin or nephew will lose his job and that will hurt his feelings. It won’t do to hurt anybody’s feelings during hard times. If a law-maker i s making it hot for a corporation, a 1 ! that corporation has got to do to stop hotness is—give the said law-maker’s son or daughter a nice little job or a position or some thing, and presto! the wounds are healed. If the department of agriculture finds that it has 50 or 5,000 idle men on its hands, it will begin sending droves of workers (?) all over the country to experiment with cows or bumble bee s or June bugs or boll wee- vil g or gnats; just anything to keep wasting money. Half of their work amounts to so near nothing they have to have their jobs’ diagnosed once a day. Amu't a uC or camoY 'too Frtoert *w»e Yovwe always Made os feel So fAocn at hoiar that uie WANTED To X>0 A Util SOrtp||4j* Yooa OLD MAN HAS OFYCM TiPLD OS HOW TOo BNTOY hatvns os plat HBne.o HE SATS too NEYECL REGlSTEa A KICK* “ A FELLA can SORE e>e PROUD OF A REAL Scout AnGEl LIKE Too, MRS. - ♦SM* MAKES US )HE CALLS HER FtlL AT HOMEJ'J AN ANOEl . - HA* where does HC TV4\MW. WE LINE ? ,ust«N ■Xo Hi* V OOMT WANT TO GO WHERE they Plat harps. {fiC gold Talk uuE THAT SAlmE ^O* YD NENERt AFRAlO To THAT LYRE W\NS the whole darn brown derby CROP* LETS PLAY- No Court Next Week. T. j i *; The March term of the Court of Common Plea.®^ scheduled to convene next Monday, has been call off and the jurors have been notified not to ap pear. Mayor Cermak Dies. Mayor Anton Cermak, of ChicagS, /died in a Miami, Fla., hospital Mon day morning at 6:55 o’clock, the vic- assas.-in Zangara for President Franklin D. Roosevelt three weeks ago. Zangara, already under a sen tence of 80 years for the wounding of four other persons, has been indicted for murder. *■ Typewriter Ribbons A New Supply for all Makes v Just Received At * ' .- v The People-Sentinel Office ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. my nicest 12c per pound—but I would be borrowing money from the R. F. C., so it wouldn’t matter if somebody else did get my business. Folks, itg g< ing to take men with in-nards to correct the present evils and the past mistakes. If such men have not yet been elected they soon will be. The public is sick and tired of pussy-footing, dodging, rottenness j'nd boneheadedness. Politicians must stop dilly-dally-ing. It’ s high time that something be done for the peo ple and this doesn’t mean kinfolks of the office-holders, either. Another City in Good Shape. (Jeer mr. editor: i have notised in the papers where p few cities have benn bragging on l»eing out of debt ansoforth enduring the pressent panniek, and i want -to list flat rock amongst the crowd that was allso prevented from having finanshal troubles. at the meeting of the town counsel last night, the treasure showed a bal- lance’of cash on hand n s followers: sinking fund, d$, gen. fund, 2$. past due taxes, 105$, sanitary waggin, 6$, fire fighting, 2$, street tax 1$, past due bills, unknown. (p. s. the treas ure do not keep a record of outstand ing detts, if anny.) flat rock is on a strict bugget, in stead of a regular sallery, the mayor gets all of the dog tax and the police man gets all of tfre money where peo ple is fined UM( 1 ketched for speeding and tying out cows in the middle of the rtreets and going without muzzles on their dogs, which is c75 apeace, he make 8 most of his m nnty on dogs. _.Every time the government creates a bureau, the said bureau creates 10 dressers, 20 wash-stands, 30 chiffer- robes, 40 wardrobes, and 50 sub bureaus. If you don’t believe this— the next time you go to Washington, D. C., just try to find the proper guy to tell you something about the bean beetle or the tail-less tadpole. You’ll hunt two weeks for him and then, when you find him, he’ll be “in con ference.” If there was some way to convince the interstate commerce commission that a depression is on, we’d soon have better times. They are still holding freight and passenger and Pullman Dates up, aa well as many others that Are due to come down so’s some busi ness can be transacted. If the I. C. C. had charge of my store, I’d still be offering (but not selling) my calico at 80c per yard, my sugar at 25c per poind, my flour at $16.00 per barrel, I aL_^ Tit the counsel members ustey ant 2$ for evec regular meeting they attend ed and nothing for special meetings, so the mayor don’t hold no meetings exfepp specials, and no monney is wasted on them, there is some tal-k- of putting a pole tax on both men and wimen and let it go to the saniter- ry department, but his waggin and horse seems to be o. k., an ( j so it was tabled. poles, lizards, ansoforth? this is a verry needed thing and * s a great pitty, for instance, iO see a pore doo dle without a permanent place to bore his hole. nearly all cf the mud-holes in the highways and byways have benn filled up by the unemployed with r.f.c payroll?, arid now some thing should be done for the insect life, a nice paradise for feebleminded honey bees would be a step ferward f'.r the gov ernment to fix up. my wife’s, cuzzin, bill got'2 days work on the front yard of the last baptist church a few days ago, but he ketthed a misery in his back and now he get. fed without working, he is preud of his back andiiTTfiahkful that the jint slipped when it did, as he newer was anny too hot for a job. what the govverment railly ought to do to bennyfit the unemployed is take all State and county and fedderal taxes tff of -gasoline and oil, and fur nish licents plates for same free of charge and then the r. f. c. monney could be paid to the unemployed for washing his own ottermobile. rent should be free allso, and taxes and in surance ought to be done away with, as they are hurting bizness. some of our folks is rawing a few things for a rainy day by getting red cros s flour* and not using annything they have alreddy got. this is a fine world we are living in and it is almost heaven to seme of us. we don’t hafter work, but we can eat; we don’t hafter pay nothing for cloth es, but w© stay well dressed, and whatever rail cash we get holt of is our own to t attle, ancF go to pitcher shows with. . no monney Js,wasted as hereto, four, when the town pump broke down a few week s ago, the merchants all toted watter from their respecti- blc homes till it was fixed by a tdu’ris (for nothing) who had to have some watter for his Fadiator. he seemed to be a mighty nice man. he said he worked in a machine ship in havanna, cuby. he spoke the cuban language, it seems. someboddy stole the poleesman’s billy off of him the other night right after the jewellry stoaar was broke into, but that will be his loss, the town furnishes him his clothes, but he has to pay for his own billies and pistols, yes, sir, put flat rock down as a town that the depression has not depressed. ' yores trulie, mike Clark rfd. corry spondent. WANTED: More and Better Aid. seeker terry of the treasure, . Washington, d. C. deer sir: iU could you spare me about 400$ of that rXc. monney to build a park for crippled insects, suh at doodles, tad- please pardon me for getting eff my subject, send me the 400$ r.f.c. dough at once and then the bugs, ggats that have-beenHiviiig the lives of outcast s will have a comfortable place to stay, that is, just as soon as i can get a bunch of unemployed to go to w^rk; we can’t live on less than 1$ a day and get the rightjeind of tobacco to chaw afrd smoke, rite or foam when iJnajLjixpect this remit tance. , yores" trulie, mike Clark, rfd. consigned eight bags to J. and J Teasdale and Co., of Liverpool, which was promptly seized by British Cus toms, who claimed that it could not have been produced in the colonies. “Incidentally,” Mr. Church quotes me ! from Smithers History of Liverpool,! “thi s same shipment of cotton was j received from the West Indies and re-shipped at Charleston, but other documents show that in 1785, the same John Teasdale shipped fourteen bags of cottqn to Liverpool, and the state ment is made in connection therewith, that during the year before, he bought and shipped ‘the first cotton ever gr;-wn in South Carolina.” “Ress' Incyclcpedia states,” says Mr. Church, “that cotton wa* not ex ported from the colonies urtlil 1787, whkh, attowtnir for minor Haccure- cies in dates, would tend to support our local data. I can find no report a s to who grew the cotton shipped by Mr. Teasdale, or of the ship which carried it.” Questions as to the origin and early plantings of Sea Island cotton have been answered from several sources. Mrs. Ernest W. Kong, of St. Andrews[ Parish, Charleston County, ha 3 fur nished the public with a record taken from the files of her husband’s great, 'grea‘, great grandfather, Kinsey Burden, of South Carolina, who grew the first Sea Island Cotton near Charleston. Mr. Church states that “As to the beginning of sea island cotton, the earliest mention accredits an un-named planter on St. Simon’s Island with having raised some in 1788 from seeds secured in the West Indies. One, Kinsey Burden, of Scmth Carolina, experimented with long staple cotton with indifferent success in 1789, but in 1790, W’illiam Elliott, cf Hilton Head Island, raised a small crop, and subsequently be- .came ThoTJavid Tt. Cffker of his time. ’He brought the long staple seed to perfection and made possible the cul tivation of this type of cotton on the SOME HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT S. C.’s FIRST COTTON A month or son ago I had an in quiry from an Atlanta friend in which he asked me certain questions con cerning the first cotton grown and s shipped from the American Colonies. I sent these questions to Coley Mar tin, secretary of the Charleston Cham ber of Commerce; Major Henry Church of the Charleston Board of 'Port Development; H. P. Drew of the Charleston Port Utilities Commission and others, asking them to shed what light they could on the subject. From them, and from still others came an swers to my questions. (The list of questions having been published in the News and Courier, at the request of Mr. Martin.) It seems that the first cotton raised in the American Colonies is reported as of 1621, and the first cotton ex ported from the Pert of Charleston wa s sent out- in 1784 by one John Teasdale, a merchant of this city, who Grade Fertilizers! Any Analysis Desired! 8-4-4,8-3-3, Acid Phosphate, Kainit, Manure Salt, Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Am monia Delivered to Your Farm by Truck See Me Before Buying! L COHEN," " These facts are very interesting to me, especially those about sea island cotton. When one considers that this industry which at one time w T as the very life blood of the coastal country of our State, is gone, it seems, for mer of things. The World War, when the Germans destroyed the millg of Belgium and France, took away the market our growers had been using. The boll weevil later finished the profitable growing of the crop, and recent weather conditions and the subsequent loss of the best types of seed just about wiped out the industry. For the past six or seven year s the Federal Department of Agriculture has been experimenting with Sea Is land Cotton at the (J. S. Cotton Field Station at James Island, and at Rockville, on Wadmalaw Island. Grow ing the crop profitably seems to be an impossible task. At least one crop giown during the .past few years has made a good yield, over 250 lbs. of lint per acre, if I remember right ly, but the expenses incidental to making this and other ' crops, have been far too high to put it'back into the realm of profitable production. The late J. Swinton Whaley, of Lit tle Edisto was probably the most op timistic person in this section about the comeback of sea island cotton, and the information which he gather ed in preparation for a book on the subject, is awaited with much in- f f f ❖ f ❖ f ❖ f V A Notice! T V ❖ -t SCHOOL CLAIMS can now only be used to pay Taxes on property 4 ? T ? . Y in Y ♦5> same district on which the Claim is ❖ Y drawn. We are forced to do this to ♦ v - . & avoid some districts from piling up defic- 4 * its. Of coprse, every dollar collected by 4 Y claims or cash is credited to the dis- 4 Y trict to which it belongs, but the claim 4 has to be charged to the district on which *•£ f TitTr Y Y create a deficit. The county treasurer’s ♦f X office is handling school claims for taxes Y 4 t .believing £ that this service is helping our teachers ♦ ’ . • to exchange claims for board, merchan- % disc and cash, and helping the taxpayer 4 Y to collect amounts and pay his taxes with Y x . . Y claims. It is our desire to render every 4 Y service we can and we earnestly ask our % citizens to co-operate with us, and NOT Y T CRITICISE. Remember, your schools, j $ your children and their future depends X on YOU paying YOUR taxes. x 4 * * t I % JAMES J. BELL, County Treasurer. f