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JOHN W. HOLMES lS4t—1912. ♦4; B. P. DAVIES, Editor »nd Proprietor. Entered at the poet office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.60 Six Months .90 Three Months .60 (Strictly la Adrance.) E.'rijrz: 1 ti,:y THURSDAY, APRIL 20TH, 1933. i — On Closing the Schools. The fear that^it may be necessary to close the public schools of the State—engendered, no doubt, by Governor Blackwood’s recent special message to the general assembly, in which he suggested the closing of the schools from May 1st, this year, to January 1st, 1934—wag probably re sponsible for the meeting of school trustees, superintendents and mem bers of the legislature here Monday. During the course of his remarks, Representative Solomon Blatt declar ed that he was in favor of suspending all other governmental activities be fore he would consent to the closing of the public schools. We don’t know that we would go with him quite that far, as there are other departments of the State governtnent equally as im portant. Nor do we believe that it wijl be necessary to take such drastic steps, and neither doe s Colonel Blatt. For instance, some $700,000 to $800,000 are appropriated annually fof Clemson College, Winthrop Col lege, The Citadel and the University of South Carolina. We understand that out of the total enrolment at these institutions about 46 per cent, have free scholarship;, or free tuition. Now, while the State of South Caro lina may be under obligation to pro vide a high school education to every boy and gir'l—the esteemed News an | Courier limits the obligation to a grammar school education—the tax payers are under no compulsion to provide college degrees to embryo lawyers, doctors, or what ha\e you. Therefore, rather than close the public schools, the thtee-quarters of a mil lion dollars being appropriated for the support of the institutions of higher learning could be diverted to the support of the common schools— at least, until the present emergency is at an end. We agree whole-heartedly with Colonel Blatt that the office force of the various departments should be curtailed and the salaries of the re maining employe,, reduced. C ertainly, there is no fairnesg in paying stenog- Maphers in the emydoye of the State government $100 to $150 a month while teachers are being paid only $60 to $75 a month. We may disagree on some details, but The People-Sentinel has the ut most confidence in Barnwell County’s representatives in the general assem bly and concurs most heartily in the rising vote of confidence accorded them at the trustees’ meeting. cause your head to swim at the end of the 10th bottle. It will cost about 3 dollars and 20 cents to throw a Recent drunk with this vermin; but, of course, this will include the federal tax, the State tax, the county tax, the city tax, the school district tax, and the enforcement tax. In other words, thig - beer will be 50 percent foam, 40 percent tax,, and 10 percent hops and skips. /-f MRS Wown AH CAn'r fiAKE WO CHOC’LAT* CAKE 'CAUSE AU ©E SV1EET cHOCXatR AW QONCt Every time I think cf a legisla ture and a congress pretending to work 40 days and 40 nights doing nothing except creating deficits, I feel more and more like we need a dictator or something worse. The disgrace of modern times is our pres ent type of politics. The funniest thing I ever heard of in my life was the head of a big power company complaining about something (that he had to buy) being too high in price. Just think of it when you pay your light and water bills! Heard in the Soda Shop. Some folks contend that 3 point 2 beer won’t make a man dizzy in the upper story. But if you will drink 10 bottles of this joy fluid in 20 minutes and let your wife bust you over the head with the eleventh bottle, you’ll get the dizziness that you might be craving. This 3.2 beer will possibly prove a teaser of merit and will enable a fellow to cut down at least 2 or 3 drinks a day on his bootleg. Old s'.yle beer would jnake a bejgging pauper -offer to loan money after the! the parrots- will have-done all of the fifth mug or *tein, and 8 bottles would '•ause a man to slap his- wife, kick the cat, spank his younguns and chase hi s mother-in-law out the back door. I have been hearing so much about personal liberty and State rights, etc., heie of late, I took a small census Tast year and endeavored to find out who wanted beer and who ought to have it. Our school teach ers and preachers don’t seem to care for the return of beer, and none of the doctors claimed that beer would cure anybody of anything except a surplus cf ea<h. My Uncle Joe thinks it would pay our State to send a covey of parrots to the legislature tot the first 40 days to talk, and then send the duly icleeted legislators down or up and allow them to stay in session 10 days only. As talking they won’t have anything to do but legislate. My department store manager didn’t want his clerks to drink beer while on duty or olf and the help said they didn’t want it anyway. The cotton mil! bosseg insisted that they could not work a person who had drunk so much beer that he or she couldn’t tie a knot or stop a loom, and the < peratives said they didn’t care anyhing about beer and if it came back, they would n t la* able to buy beer and tobacco both. Think cf 200 fine, big, intelligent men—spending 40 days doing what 3 of the same type of men could do just as well and possibly better in 40 hours. Most legislators are always trying to introduce fo 1 bill* that they think will get them re-elected. Why, even some of our congressmen are playing politics and don’t seem to realize that our countiy is facing an emergency. H* i; Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. Shock Absorbers. -—The man who got up the idea of patting throttles on automobile dash- os instead of on the steering wheel broke out of the asylum the other day in Detroit and w’hen he was discover ed, he was trying to attach a dog’s tail to the side of a dog; he said the tail would look better there than at ita rear. Federal aid i s like letting your wife have five dollars out cf your left pocket if she will slip five dollars out of your right pocket and buy herself si week-end bag that she doesn’t need —aa she never gees anywhere, and State aid ig just the reverse. R. F. C. money is the only money I ever beard of that States can borraw and not have to pay back, that is, directly back. Cotton Letter. • New ork, April 15.—Liverpool open ed 1 point up and 1 point down; while tbo bulls and the bears ran around and around. Thunder heads in Texas forced July to ease off to a new low, aa it looked sorter like rain. Boll weevils axle scarce in some sections, bat no complaints have come from the sad spider. In sympathy with the Anitb bill, the shorts straddled while tfce longs hedged, bt)t Manchester looked for relief in the interior. The peoad sterling is still minus while ■ ^“ American dollar ranges from 2 to 6 points off of July or any nearby months. Advise support- Roosevelt or resigning. a Bi Lots of folks will want to wallow in beer and it—is in order for beer gardens to eiect wallowing troughs for such customers. The cost of beer to the consumer per pint will be made up of the following items, t:-wit: Federal tax 5 cents. State tax 3 cents. County tax 2 cents. City tax 2 cents School District tax 2 cents. Foam 1 cent. Beer 1 1 cent. Fines 1 cent,. Well, it had to come. Folks are getting diunk every day without pay ing taxes on the said drinks. New Uncle Sam will enjoy each and every wobbly pel son, and he might not have to pay out that $500,000,000.00 far the weak attempt to enforce prohibiion, and it .looks sorter like enforcement officers will have to work for a long tjme after T>eer and wine both get into every neighborhood. But not all enforcement officers have retired to live in luxury. Political Prodigies. Legislatures are funny things. Every State in the union has a legis lature. Our State owns a nice one. It is supposed to be in session 40 days; they are paid $400.00 for their 40- day’s service s and many of the legis lators clear enough money to run their one-horse farms when they get home. (When they legislate over 40 days, why, sure they get extra pay, why not? Running a legislature is (p ssi- blyl a big job—if you let a small minority hook a hcok in the nose of the big maj rity. There is always a sort of “ring” in the legislature— meaning a bunch that knows every thing; how, why, when and wherefoie —and is pretty liberal with enter tainment (of \arious and sundry forms) that appeal* to the fellow that that can be easily led. Lobbyists are geneially plentiful at legislatures—meaning a bunch of guys interested in themselves and their corporation—cr their town—or their favorite college or institution— or possibly their proposed highway— and mebbe their kinfolks—and pulling for a few and Dying to oppress the many. Our legislature seems to be as good as anv and better than some, but they don’t work apy on Saturdays and Sundays and Mondays—very little Tuesdays, not much more on Wednes days, about the same on Thursdays and very little, if any on Fridays. In other words, they seem to have a 4- day week and a 2-hour day. ‘ Good night. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. 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BROWN & BUSH Attorneys-at-Law BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL, | SOUTH CAROLINA ' PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS A A a a A a a. a a a a at a A A A- m • ^ A Am V'SAVANNAH’S BEST f • •That is the reputation we havegained as the result of an unceasing endeavor to provide tor your enjoyment delicious, wholesome foods, and comfortable,most satisfying accommodations.^ Altho our rates are the lowest in many years, every detail of service is better than ever before. 300 ROOMS • 2 RESTAURANTS-FIREPROOF ANDREW A. SMITH Manage* Treasurer’s Tax Notice! Special Prices on ALL PERMANENT WAVES -*._For the past few years, our legis-) lature, and possibly yours, spends 40 days talking, and going down and coming back home Ours got busy though this year' and during the first 40 days, they enacted the following bills: Bill No. 234,567—To make it against the law to hunt foxes in July. Bill No. 894,723—To permit the town of Bunkville to sell vacant lots in it, cemetery. Bill No 668,903—To regulate bull frogs. Bill No. 784,186—To investigate the office of chief janitor in Buck college. 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. The following waves can be had in any style: Oil of Tulipwood $7.00 Frederic Vita Tonic 6.00 Eugene Wave 6.00 Oil of Caster 3.00 All work done by experienced operators. The Barnwell Beauty Shop Main Street, Barnwell, S. C. You Are Fortunate 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) RHEUMATISM Pain-Agony Start* To Leave in 24 Hours Happy Days Ahead for You Think of It—how this old world does make progress—now comes a prescription which Is known to phar macists as Allenru and within 41 hoars after you start to take this swift acting formula pain, agony and Inflammation caused by excess uric add has started to depart. Allenru does Just what this notice says it will do—It is guaranteed. Ton can get one generous bottle at lead? lag drugstores everywhere for W cents and If It doesn’t bring the Joy ous results you expect—your money whole heartedly returned. The County Treasurer's office will beopen until June 1st, 11)33, for col lecting 1932 taxes, which includes rea. and personal property,• poll and road tax. A penalty cf two per cent, will- be added to all taxes up to June 1, 1933, after which date executions, with nl' penalt es anj costs, will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection. When writjng for amount of taxes be sure and give school district if property is in more than one fchooi district. All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO; No. p. o. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 2 4—Ashleigh 33—Bai bary Br’eh._ 45—Barnwell - 4—Big Fork 19— BlaSkVtttd' 35—Cedar Grove _. 50—Diamond 20— Double Pond.. 12—Dunbarton 21— Edisto . 28—Elko 53—Ellenton 11—Four Mile____. 39—Friendship 16—Green’s K 23—Hercules... 9—Hilda 52—Joyce Branch.. 34—Kline 32—Lee’s — 8—Long Branch 54—Meyer’s Mill 42—Morris - 14—Mt. Calvary 38—Oak Grove 43—Old Columbia... 13—Pleasant Hill... 7—Red Oak 15—Reedy Branch.. 2—Seven Pines ... 40—Tinker’s Creek- 26—Upper Richland 29—Williston . State Ordinary Count) z C z s ** 1 « Cv V# o ji K •- S3 £ 2 -4-A ft X 2 •o ? ~o —. - Z jz 5 ^ 6-0-1 School .2 W TOTAL 5 o 4 1 3 4 12 1 29 5 o 4 1 3 4 29 ! 46 5 0 4 1 ' 3 4 28 45 5 0 4 1 3 4 * 17 34 ft—f—A i a • ^ < 92 Afk 1 * ’1 h i ^ ^ ” iM t a 0- 4 l I 3 1 4 27 44 5 0 4 l 3 4 13 30 5 0 { 4 H 3 4 19 36 5 . 0 4 i 3 4 27 44 5 0 4 i 3 4 8 25 5 • 0 4 i 3 4 29 46 5 • 0 4 i 3 4 7 24 5 0 4 i 3 4 8 25 5 0 4 i 3 . 4 13 o CO 5 0 4 i 3 4 19 36 5 0 4 i 3 4 * 20' 37 5 0 4 i 3 4 26 4S 5 0 4 i i 3 4 35 52 5 0 4 i 3 4 26 43 5 0 4 i 3 4 17 '. 34 5 0 ' 4 i 3 4 10 » 27 5 0 4 i 3 4 16 33 5 0 4 i 3 4 26 43 5 0 c 4 i 3 4 11 28 5 0 4 i 3 4 27 44 5 0 4 i 3 4 27 44 5 0 4 i 3 4 18 35 5 0 4 i 3 4 26 43 5 0 4 i 3 4 14 31 5 0 4 i 3 4 15 32 5 0 4 i 3 4 13 30 5 0 4 i 3 4 11 28 , 5 0 4 i 3 4 *16 33 5 0 4 i 3 4 26 43 5 0 4 i 3 4 31 48 The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 55 y^rs. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxes for 1932 will be paid at the same time other taxes are paid. , It >s the duty of each school trustee in each school district to tee that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Checks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances ex cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to hold-all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid ) Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, postoffice monew ordera, or certified check*. j. j. BELLf q, t