The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 08, 1933, Image 2
The Barnwell People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
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B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1933.
A New Deal—A New Day.
THAT LITTLE GAME"
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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
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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. -
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they Plat harps.
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AFRAlO To
THAT LYRE
W\NS the
whole darn
brown derby
CROP*
LETS PLAY-
No Court Next Week.
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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. *■
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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 $16.00 per barrel,
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the counsel members ustey ant 2$
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
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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-
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