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■mad THURSDAY, JUNE, 1ST, 1M3. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA / PAOl “HAIL BARNWELL” A Pageant by Mus Eddie Judeon Bradham —Presented at the Commencement Exercises the Barnwell High School, Thursday Evening, May 25th, 1933. v Prologue. Herald speaks: “Oh, ye people, what today you be hold Will be to you ^ great experience. Treasure it; keep it within your hearts; • It will be to you a remembrance Until your last day. / “History, guardian of Barnwell’s re splendent gkory, Careful preserver of days that are gone. Reveals the story— " Woven with the thread of unbroken experience It is written for us all to read Inspired for the guidance of tomor row’s prospect. “Behold! a historian, native to Barn well, Followed by a group of eager child ren,, comes! Seemingly he telU a wondrous story. Listen, as he teaches from a book Written by his own skilled hands— William Gilmore Simms!” (Exit Herald) Episode I. Scene 1. "(Enter (jilmore Simms, book in hand, followed by a group of children. They take positions at ex treme left. Children seat themselves at feet of Simms, who stands, facing Indian scene. Forest background. Indian cabins made from logs with matting roofs. Indian squaws and children in fooegrounud. Chiefs and warriors enter). Simms speaks: “My children, you may well be proud of your native ►tste. South Carolina, but you should be no less proul cf beautiful Barn- uell as the place of ycur bi:th." (Flood lights up n Indian scene. Erter white hunters.) “When European adventurers came to Carolinian sh res he found a land abounding in thick foreets which .be spoke a'fertile soil. As th.*y pressed thr ugh the tangled undergrowth, rro'sed swift streams, and plunged through deep mar-hes, they came up on a queer people straight, black ha r tans have finally become regardless of that necessary. caution which bolts a door and keeps a watch dog. (A& Simms has been speaking several In dians have come in and are working at guns with white men.) Surely the ‘stranger in this strange land’ is happy. No less joyous are the grown folk than are the children. Watch them as they play and dance in their new home.” (Folk Dance.) , Enter Father Time. He speaks: “Daughter of Time, the hypocrite days, , — Muffled and dumb like barefoot der vishes, And marching single in endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands, To each they offer gifts after his wilj. Bread, liberty, starg and sky that holds them all. I, in my pleached garden, watch the pomp. Forget my morning wishes, hastily While the seasons bring organization By which o nation is founded. I, too late, Turn and depart—Progress is under way!” L (Exit Far.her Time.) i - Episode II. Scene 1. (Garden. Wihite picket efnee. People dressed in late co lonial attire nuve about. Negro slaves present.) (Minuet.) Simms speaks: “With the pa-sing of years there has come something more gripping, more vital in the pass ing scene-. Ah! we see William Brown, who has come from Virginia with his eleven ch #l-n to live on Brier Cieek. See him directing his r.eg:o slaves. (Man sends slave* out from garden.) He may be sending them ;nto the forest to pen wild rattle or h* rses, with which the forests ab uod. or to prepare for market beef, pork, staves or shingles. There seems some excitement among red skinned, j the women. What ,s the meaning of ta.l, sWght. this? Perhaps the young mancjmlng bat exceedingly nimble. Their homes into the garden may be able to ex- were huts ma le of logs, covered with j plain. What is the mes age he read**? matting for pr lection igainst the Why are there such anxious look.- cold or heat. They received the first the faces of ail? white man into their village with much misgiving, bu- upon reeing the lets with mesMge. pantomime, while (Young man en- Reads message in chers lusten anx- Eumpean gold, they gave their visi- iously.) Ah! a summons to war! tors a warm welcome. Little hostile I Tarlton, for the newcomer is Tarlton spirt is showir between white man Brown, explains that S. uth Carolina and red at this fir meeting. In- calls him into service. The line of deed, the red man, Indian, as Colum- march will be for Pccotaligo, under ~Iais named Rim. offei s his symbol | command of General Bull of friendliness—the pip* peace (Lights dim. Ind ans dunce.) Enter Father Time. Father Time speaks: *i sing the song of a new dawn wak ing. A new wind shaking The children of men. 1 say men in a new world wandering Shall make homes and settle again. Adventure is here! Let the eaith re ceive it, Greeting the Dawn with lifted head. Lo! in the East, where the dark is riven, Shines the rim of rising sun. S ng, 0 sing cf a new world waking, Sing of creation just begun. Glad is earth when morn is breaking! Man is facing the rising sun!" (Exit Father Time.) Scene 2. (Same as first. Cab.ns for settle:s have been added. Men, women and children in foreground Women spinning, knitting, sewing. Men working with guns. Children playing.) S mms speaks: “Look upon a scene over a hundred years after the first etrange whi e hunt.?! s invaded the dim, deep woeds of Indian country! Other adventurers little by little, be gan to come and stay as settlers. The weaknesses of the intruder were, at first, his only but sufficient pro tection with the unsophisticated sav age. The white man had his lands assigned him, and he trenched his furrows to receive the grain on the banks of Indian waters. Day after day the newcomer became more and more at home in the deep forests until now you see the tog house of 4 the white man rising up amid the thin ned clumps of woodland foliage, with in hearing distance of the squat, clay hovel of the- savage. Often you might see the European and his dusky guide working at the corn crop or pursuing, aide by side, and with the same dog, upon the cold trails of the affrighted deer or the yet more tim orous turkey. The Garaliniana are new in poaaraaion of almost the en tire sea-cos*t. For a long season, to pacific has been the temper of the Yemeraea that the Carolin- Revolu- tion he* come! A rebellious confed eration of colonies takes up ^rms a- gainst the mother country to fight f^r liberty and justice!” Choius—His Spirit Is Here. Enter Father T me. He speaks: “Ho! wiKtismen of the mountain side! Ho! dwellers in the vales? Ho! ye who by the chafing tide Have roughened in the gales! The ci'espot rows y^ur fairest land*; And till he flies or fears, Your fields must grow but armed bonds Your sheave* be sheaves of spears!" (Exit Frher Time.) Scene 2. (Same garden scene, people, slaves. Women are wo:king with bandages, or knitting. Slaves help.) Simms speaks: ‘Into the annals of Revolutionary War hist ry there have been written many bloody scenes en acted between tories and patriots. Can it be that we see such a one in that beautiful garden?” (Tories run through.) V ■■V r ' V Hay 22, 1933 v 4 V I suppose that I may claim to be the first Ford DemlT. V % I not only The "drive away" is not new; often I ha to to-ns in Ohio or Indiana or Michigan to make delivery^ ^ ^ There were no good roads in those days, an drove had never seen a motor car before. . Doc t 0 rs They My first really enthusiastic customers were Country. Doctors^ y .ere^hl first to realise the value of dependable transportation to . “•srssi —,n, -r—.—- We had to teach local mechanics ho. to care for th. c.rs^ Jhat is ho. Ford Service began, .hich is no. found every.here in the . ^. We believed from the beginning that a sale does no transaction .ith our customer _ it creates upon ^ an ^ngaU 0 ^ to see that our customer's car gives him service. Ford Dealers their duty to the public in this respect. aT . a J can say of Ford Dealers generally that they have been and are of character^and standing in their communities. Most of^have men . with us nany years, .hich indicates that .e agree on basic business principles. The Company provides that the methods ».£ to the Ford car are consistent .ith the self-respect of the Dealers Wh0 The^present Ford V-8 is the peak of our 30 years expedience We have never made a better car. Its eight-cylinder engine is powerful and smooth running. The car is admittedly very good loo and has comfortable riding qualities.. If is econonuca operation because of advanced engine design and lo. car . n Is the fastest, roomiest and most powerful car .e have ever built. “There is Ben John, whose Tory^ the opposite page is the picture band brutally killed gallant Captain Mumford who sleeps under a great pine tree on Saltkehatehie. Ah! there is another well known Tory—Ned Williams. Among the others I count Colonel Chaney and Moses Kirkland. But Barnwell District no longer call ed Winton, since the new South Caro lina Legisature has severed this sec tion from Orangeburg, and has re- christened it in honor of a promi nent Carolina family, is not lacking in loyal patriots. “See! Here they come! Tarlton Brown leads the chase. (Simms pauses. Skirmish beween Tories and Patriot*. 'Exeunt.) Now that the Tories have been caught. Tarlton re turns for • brief visit jwith his people. (He returns. Seems to be talking with people who hare remained in garden. Slaves look on. Enter slave with measage which he delivers to Tarlton.) What news does that slave boy bring? What is the cause of the Miss America enters.) Enter Father Time. He speaks: “Here was freedom planted In the region of the west Here the torch of truth was lighted Typifying all^that is best. Here was suffered strong men’s an- gulsh Here did heroes do and die. Honor we thu acil as sacred Honor we nobility. ’Mid the serried ranks of nations ’Mid the navies of the earth With a pfide both just and noble Honrr we our nation’s birth!” (Exi; Father Time.) Episode III. Scene 1. (End of War between the States. Several people in front of tavern are looking through an al bum. In background negroes are weighing cctton. Some coming in. Some leaving.) Simms speaks: “Many years have swept over Barnwell District since the Revolution. Let us review the progress of this period with those who look through the album. On the first page b a picture of the pioneer settler of Barnwell—a Scot, named McHeath, who kept a tavern where the town hail now stands, known as Red Hill, later called Barnwell Hill. cf Lewis 0’Bannon,the first child to be born in the town. At his home the first district court was held in 1784, Judge Bay presiding. Here is the picture of Hansford Duncan, the first tax collector, with Barney Brown, who presented the village with the pretty little park in its cen ter. As the pages of the album are turned we see here the likeness of Captain Joe. P. Alien, who erected on the village green the sun dial of which there axe only five in the world, three being in the Uhited States. We see there f the first school in the .coun ty. It was near White Oak Spring and was taught by a young Swede, named Hallonquast. We see Lewis Malone Ayer, planter and slave own er in whose house was the first mir ror ever seen in the neighborhood. Probably the most noteworthy picture of all is this little station of Branch- vjle. Barnwell Cofirty—^the world forgetting, by the world forget”—the excitement’ The war is at an end! jfirgt railway junction in the world! Peace is declared! America stands railway company was organized a newly founded nation!” Jd*. 19, 1827. and the road from (Star Spangled Benna:—Orchaetra. Char La* ton Braarfcvile waa open- I • • ed for travel two years later. The line was soon extended to Hamburg, with a blanch line from Branchville to Columbia. Then and there was heard for the first time in history the cry “change caxs^ Barnwell was connected with the nearest railway station. Blackville, by a tramway, over which a tiny engine, d‘bbed the Lula Mae, drew equally smal. cars. Among the remaining pictures there are Dr. Todd, brother of Mrs. Abra ham Lincoln; Dr. James O. Hago d, father of :he General; D. F. Jamison, speaker of the Secession Convent on; the ruin# left by Sherman . in his blighting march to the sea; notable places left unharmed such as “Wcod- lands”, the Simms’ home, and “The Oaks”, home of Judge A. P. Aldrich. The last picture in the album is one v # of a notabe character, one wh ch shows that the hearts of southerners are ever touched by the loyalty cf true serving men—it is the picture of Gid Hazel, a famous cook of the old liays when he served the muster gath erings, and a negro slave who loved and was loved by all the ‘white filk’.” (Album is suddenly closed. Sing ing cf negroes which has begun soft ly grows louier. Cotton weighing stops as Cunfecierate soldiers come with General Hagocd.) Si mirth—speaks: “Hail! Generat 11 a good and his illustrious men. One of Barnwell’s most distinguished sons returns from war. With h m his brother, James, the youngest Colonel of the Confederacy. The return of these soldiers means that a noble cause has been lost, and that even the gallant men have fought in vain, peace comes to America and to Barn well once more.” (Soldiers pass through singing Dix ie. Negroes join in the song, take up their cotton sacks and follow with those who have been looking at the album.) « Enter Father Time. He speaks: “Gone? Yet with us they Atay And their memories throb ^through life; The music that hushes or stirs today Is toned by their calm or strife. Gone? And yet they never go Man kneels at the shrine of Time Tis a mystery no one may know Nor taH in a poet’s rhyme.” (Exit-) Scene 2. Simms speaks: “We have seen the foot sore Confederate sol dier* at they returned haara—*an army that marched in defeat, not in victory; in pathos, not in splendor; but in glory unequalled, and to hearts as loving as ever welcomed heroes home. What did he find? He found his home in ruin.*, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barn empty, his trade destroyed, his money gone, his com rades slain, and the burdens of others heavy upon his shoulders. What did he do? He stepped from the trenches into the furiows; he plowed horses that had charged Federal guns; he made fields that had run with blood in Ajiril green with crops in June. Who helped most in this task? The women of the ISTO’s.’ (Parade of women). Who restored order when negioes and carpel baggers asserted their unlawful powers? Yonder Red Shirts without whom the election of 1876 would have been a farce.” (Pa rade of Red Shirts.) “Soon after Hampton’s election Barnwell was definitely proclaimed the County Seat despite her keen ri- valiy with Blackville for the honor, and after a peculiar election which left the singular vote 2 to 1 in favor if Barnwell. — “The Spanish American War made little imprint upon Barnwell’s pro gress. By the time the heavy black war clouds of the last woild conflict gathered, the town had become more beautiful, charming and modern. In this war, another Jchnson Hagood wins the laurels for his native state and for the historic town of his birth.” (Exit Simms.) (Parade of Red Cross nurses fol lowed by World War soldiers. They sing “Keep the Home Fires Burning” followed by the chorus of “Happy Days Are Here Again”.) (All characters are in Yeview sing ing “America”.) Scene 3. Enter Father Time. He speaks: “When freedom flung her banner high In triumph o’er the land Twas like a rainbow in the sky A pledge by heroes planned Fair wisdom’s form came then in view With knowledge full and free That alL might learn in lesson* true The creed of Liberty. The Tyrants power melts away When Truth and Right appear No more will ignorance obey The dictates of her fear For knowledge elevates Makes dear the goldm rule And gives the blearing* that we find W’ithin the public school.” (Exit Father Time. Enter Educa tion followed by children who have been listening to Simms.) Education speaks: “I am Education. Under my guidance a few children have ceased to be educated by tutors or governesses in wealthy homes, but all children have come to have the opportunity of a free education at a public school. It waa about the year 1887 that in the growing village of Barnwell Mr. Robert Kennedy, then an eighteen-year old graduate of the University of South Carolina and now librarian there, and Miss Anna Walk er, Barnwell’s own, organised a grad ed school with abut 150 pupils taught In a two-room wooden structure. In 1914 the old building, which had been enlarged in the course of time, was replaced entirely by the building now used by the school. To list the pro minent people who have begun an education in this school would be to make a dictionary. Barnwell is proud of her noble sons and daughters of Yesterday. The children of the bright today take up the chalice thrown down by Miss Anna Walker and Mr. Ken nedy and follow in that lead.” (Parade of school children led by Miss Anna Walker and Mr. Kennedy. They sing “Hail Barnwell”.) Graduates follow children of other grades and take place* on platform with school cfficlals. Education speaks: “Witness the graduation of this splendid class of 1933.” (Introduces class officers and mentions those of highest honor*. Delivery of Diplomas. Class le<| by Education, Mr. Kennedy, Miss Anna Walker, and officials march off sing ing “Silence O’er the Campus Field”.) Epilogue. All hail! Our new Barnwell now ad vances To new-found glories shining in her way Her gaze alight with tender mother glances, She leads her children to a brighter Her youth undying in her glory The vision of the new tomorrow scans I Inspired by her story And promise of her tends. ! All hail! Our BernweU now, advances ! Come children, follow where she teedi Her very nasne is symbolic of her beauty Aye! and rater the free. , ... .. -