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► **24 j. ». , ir ^ THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OP BARNWELL COUNTY.* v CouolMfJ* Jam L The Barnwell People-Sentinel 'JuaI Like a Member of the Family" VOLUME LVII. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1933 Common Pleas Court to Convene Sept. 25 Judge J. Heivry Johnson, of Allenadle, Will Preside.—One Week r* * / ‘'Called Off. / Because of the small amount of business to be transacted, -a scheduled two weeks term of the Court of Com mon Plea s for Barnwell County has been reduced to one fteek. The term, which was scheduled to begin Sep tember 18th, with Judge J. Henry Johnson, of Allendale, presiding, will not convene until the following week —Monday, September 25th—and tyie following i s a list of the petit jurors who have been summoned to appear on that date: John P. Chitty, Double Ponds. F. C. Birt, Long Branch. S. H. Greene, Four Mile. C. W. Wall, Dunbarton. Hennis Creech, Reedy Branch. Matthew Bolen, Mt. Calvary. G. S. Boynton, Ktine. Uley Bolen, Williston. E. H. Weissinger, Blackville. Charlie Brown, Sr., Barnwell. J. E. Hair, Green's Academy. J. A. Myrick, Jr., Big Fork. J. M. Walker, Healing Springs. D. J. Hair, Long Branch. L. A. Hair, Williston. L. A. Plexico, Barnwell. B. C. Norris, Seven Pines. Jennings A. Owens, Barnwell. M. W. Hartzcg, Hilda. C. L. Greene, Williston. C. E. Fcwke, Red Oak. B. M. Jenkins, III, Kline. J. S. Towne. Jr., Barmrell. W. S. Browning, Barnwell. J. W. Plexico, Barnwell. Hoyt Rutland, Pleasant Hill. P. O. Beasley, Long Branch. G. M. Hogg. Big Fork. N. Bolen. Elko. !terman Brown, Blackville. B. 8. Baxley, Blackville. A. I* Thompson. Williston. J. R. Moody. Four Mile. C. C. Cheek. Barnwell. Merman E. Birt, Long Branch. Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. An echo reproducing the voice cf an itinerant street preacher, the one South Carolina Crop Declines Many Bales rafaterakle Weather and Weevil Damage Caaae* Lam of (•(.••d During \eguat. clashing with the other Bright-faced girls and boys hurrying to school on the opening day of the new session, eager( ? )to welcome their teacher s an dresume their studies. . . . Dove hunters complaining that the heat, gnats and mosquitoes make an afternoon's outing anything but an enjoyable occasion. . (Several counties have had the chief game war den to proclaim a closed season on doves). . . Employing printers from several counties in the 4th zone meeting in Barnwell Saturday after noon for the purpose of formulating a standard price list. . . A boy with a new, brightly painted bicycle, the center of an admiring group of young friends. . . A lady passing The People-Sentinel office and asking if the writer were “seeing and hear ing.” . . Cotton farmers and others greatly disappointed over the continued decline in the market last week. . . A young lady addressing W. E. McNab as “Mister Buckshot.” . . . C. G. Fuller leaving for Col umbia in hi 8 plane to attend the let ting of road contracts by the State highway department. . . And R. R. Moore with a party of friends also leaving for the capital city to attend the cotton conference. FASCIST DICTATORSHIP FOR UNITED STATES IS FORECAST Roger W. Babion, Statistician, Predicts Result of Wrath of Middle Class, Aroused by Current Conflict Over Redistribution of Wealth.—Blue Eagle Unfavorable weather and weevil damage played havoc with the South Carolina cotton crop laat month, gov- •:nment figure* announced Friday In- d cated. Frank O. Black, atatiatcian for the Stated *am the indicated yield in the State dropped 101.000 boles during the month, more than in any other cotton State. Thi s was in face of an increase in S'ates west of the Mississippi river, which resulted in a government pre diction of a total ctop of 12,414,000 bales, or 100,000 more than estimated ^ month ago. \The indicated yield in South Caro lina as of August 1st was given at 791,V<K) bales compared with 690,000 in Friday’s repcrt as of Septem ber 1st, and estimated rendition of the cron dropped off 14 points—from 77 to 6J Black ifcUributed the decrease in the calculated \out-turn in the State to unfavorable w’eather in some sections and weevil damage in others. "Some thing just happened,” he said, “and the crop went'to pieces.” / The expected Vield of 690,000 bajbs this year comparVd*with a final imt- turn last year ofVl6,000. The/indi cated yield per acrbi as cf September 1st was 245 pound s \>f lint, compared with 285 as of August, 1st and a final yield of 206 pounds last, year Acreage remaining fo\ harvest was put at 1,346,000, as against 1,779,000 planted. Removal cf /426.000 acres from cultivation through the national acreage reduction campaign accounted almost wholly forAhe decrease. Martin Newa. Martin. Sept. 5.—Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hardin and little ton. W. F., Jr., of Florence, spent Inst week-end with friends and relatives at Martin and Barnwell. Miss Essie Towne, of Martin, spent laat week-end with Miss Mil dred Harden. Mra. Jim Bates, of Barnwell, la the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Harden, of Martin. Harold Duncan, of the C. C. Camp, spent laat week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mia. J. T. Duncan, of Mar- I “»■ Mr. and Mra. A. N. Harden had as | their gue«ta Sunday. Mr. and Mra. Dannie Jones and little daughter, I Irene, of Martin. Mr. and Mra. W. F. Harden, of Florence, Mrs. Jim Bate* ' and little niece, Eloise Cook, of Barn well. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Yenre. of ' Aiken, were the week-end guests «>f Mrs. Sadie Towne. Mrs. Susie Cook and Miss I«ot"le Bates, of Augusta, spent Sunday with ! their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bates. Mrs. Sadie Towne is visiting Mrs. I Lloyd Ycnce, of Aiken. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Harley and | family, of Charleston, spent this week-end with Mr. and Mrs. B. M. j Wall. / W. F. Wilder and A. N. Harden * motored to Barnwell Saturday after- ; no n on business. Mr. and Rra. W. F. Samuel, of ! Edgefield, ?pen^ the week-end with j their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bates. Wellesley Hills, Mass., Sept. 8.— A fascist dictatorship for the United States was forecast today by Roger W. Babson, statistican, who predicted the stock market collapse in 1929. The dictatorship, hf said, with blue eagle of the NRA as its symbol, would result from the wrath of the middle classes, aroused by the current con flict ever redistribution of wealth. “It is being crystalized,” he said, by the immediate conflict between cfepital and labor, between unionism and the open shop.-, Neither group will be victorious. The mildle classes will stand this conflict only for a limited period. Then, due to depre ciated currency and high prices, they will themselve s take charge of the situation with a temporary dictator ship. This dictatorship will take the form of Fascism.” Babson, making his preliction at the conclusion of the 20th annual business conference here, pointed sig nificantly to the disbelief that had met his forecast of the 1929 panic. “In 1928 and 1929,” he declared, “when my Wall Street friends were hailing a ‘new era of prosperity,' you know that this Wellesley conference was then looked upon as a hotbed of Jeremiahs. We did not believe in that ‘new eta’ and constatly asserted that it was false and would fail. History Cited. “We feel entirely differently, how ever, regarding the present new era, which is act upon redistributing wealth This is now just beginning. We believe this new goal will deter mine the program for the next 150 year a although it wili soon be found necessary also to redistribute judge ment, initiative, industry, courage and those other rugged traits which made Aaaerira.” In a broad summation of the foun dation for h is belief, the statistic:an said: “Study of history shows the follow ing four facta: w (l) Every nation passes through ifi<* same stages. The histories of individual nations differ a* to details, but not a* to their basic struggles, (2) the world, however, cannot b e judged an an entirety, although each nation develops from primitive tribal conditions to complex civilization, yet all nations are at different stages a-t one time. (3) The great progress in nations is brought about, neither by the conservatives nor by the radi cals, but rather by the great middle class. This middle class puts up with the conflict between the other two classes a certain length of time, and then loses its patience and takes con trol in the form of dictatorship. In the case of the Anglo-Saxon race/ these changes have occurred about every 150 years. For instance, the re ligious conflict was supreme until 1492, when we entered the era of reform and discovery, lasting 156 years; in 1648 we enterej the period of stiuggle for political freedom which continued 190 years; and in 1787 we entered the democratic period New Session Opens at Healing Springs School Is Again in Charge of Prof L. E. Whittle.—Fine Program Enjoyed. Fanners Ask Price of 15 Cents Pound Healing Springs, Sept. 11.—The Healing Springs puhlie school began the 1933-1934 session Monday morn ing, September 4th, at 9 o’clock, with Prof. L. E. Whittle again at the helm. A fine program wa 3 presented, Svith B. F. Gardner in charge of the devotionals. “America” was sung by the audience, following which the Rev. B. H. Duncan, of Williston, of fered a prayer. He also delivered a splendid address, placing special em phasis on the moral side of education. Miss Eva Blume, teacher of the 4th and 5th grades, was at the piano dur- jng the general singing. Mr. Gardner made a fine talk, as did also H. Jeff Hair, who outlined the policies of the school and pledged the support and full cooperation of the board of trustee 8 for the coming •session. In addition to Mr. Haiti the other members of the boatd are E. A. Wade and I. F. Keeler, both of whom were present. Prof Whittle made a short talk and Mrs. B. F. Gardner and Mrs. Give Kemp spoke The j largest attendance in the history of Cotton Growers, in Maog Meeting, Call on Federal Authorities for Action. ’ Amid resounding cheers and with out a single of rugged individualism, w’hich con tinued up to the present, namely, 146 J a few words of encouragement, years. Another Era Due. »ohool was present on the opening “Another great era ia now due.” A1 j Ih.urt h., prediction of d,ct.tor»hip j Th ' f * cult)r i * ,h ' “ , * ,t was unqualified, Babson made no at-,^ e *’ r ‘ ____ tempt to name tha dictator. **Who the dictator will be no one farmers of South Carolina, with rep resentatives from North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama present, at "a mass meeting iq Columbia Tuesday adopted a program, hoping to raise immediately the price of cotton to 15 cents «iid that of cotton seed to $25 a ton. The program also calls for the im mediate expansion ^of the currency; the suspension of the cotton process ing tax; limiting the cotton crop for 1934 to 9,000,000 bales; payment to farmers immediately the amount promised for destroying a part of thi»* year’s crop; cessation of sales of'cot ton pledged against production loans prior to 1933 and variou 8 other steps for the relief of cotton farmers “faced with utter ruin because of a worse price tondition today that has existed during the entire depression.” Claud N. Sapp, chairman of the State Democratic executive commit tee, went ao far as to declare that “if conditions don’t improve in the next 120 days, I firmly believe we will have a new form of government in the United States.” Growing in Grace. All-Star Team Will Play Here on Friday Selected Aggregation* from Piedmont and Georgia-Carojina Leagues Clash. What will probably be the last game of the 1933 base ball season knows, h, ,.,d Dictators .r, „lf-, ^ . in rr ,„, ^ msdr .nd u.uslty .re men who h.vr , h> „ y. P. U. net Sund.y suffered persecution ether than men I „ „„„ oVlock who are elected by popular vet. The. jf ^ „„ * .mporUnt thin, fo, .11 u rh.t the dtc-K [ , rorr . m h., beep t.to r ,h.ll be spintu.lly-minded andl p|in|if<1 ^ ^ „ yM , come you will flrul your time there well spent. Come and brbing your friends with you. The following pro gram has been arranged for this or r os ion: Discussion 1.—“Are We Growing?" by Mias Marian Bolen. Discussion 2. — “The Christian Ideal," by Mis* Florence Sanders. Discussion 3—What Price Growth? by Mias Edith Mahaffey. Discussion 4. — "The Means of Growth.” by Mia* Hilda Martin. Discussion ft.—“The Tragic Alter native,” by Dodson Still. Groce Reaches All Classes Everywhere. “Not enjoyment arfS not sorrow la our destined end or way, But to act that each tomorrow Finds us further than today.” —Longfellow. Marian Bolen, Reporter, Carey Martin. Captain. May Hold Seed Loan Cotton From Market Staple Pledged oa Collateral for Farm Loo** May Be Held for Higher PricW. absolutely unselfish, with good judg ment, and indomitable courage. In short, 1 do not worry about Commu nism, Socialish, capitalism or labor- unionism. The American people will j stand these selfish doss conflicts forj only • short time longer. Then they will rise in their wrath, clean out all j selfish groups and substitute on im-; partial diotator, who will give each, group its proper place in the develop ment of the nation. “This dictator will continue in pow er until the people come to their senses i an/ catch up spiritually and intellee-! tually with the progress which they i had heretofore made along other, lines. Yes. statistic* clearly indicate I that we now are in an economic revo-1 lution of which the blue eagle will become the symbol of the new era 1 under Fascism.” Lives Threatened by Carbide Tank Blast Several Allendale Men Narrowly Es caped Severe Injury La*t Fri day Morning. To Register Williston Voters. In view of the fact that WUlistcn ia the only place where the registration Allendale, Stpt. 9.—Several men are «>>*»>"«. the Board of Reg- , narrowly escaped severe injury Fri- i * tr * tion ha * decided to spend two will be played at Fuller Field, this'day morning when a carbide tank ex- day* in that town in order that voters / Millen and Rocks Tie. Storm “Douses the Glim.” The wind rain storm ol^ last week, which was a backwash or, the tropical hurricane, damaged rh e power lines of the South Carolina Power Co^pany in the lower part 6f the State to such |an extent tha Brunson, Hampton and Varnville were in darkness Tuesday night and the current was still off Wednesday morn ing. A force of linemen was put to work immediately to repair the dam age. Service in Barnwell wa* not in terrupted at all lien came from behind to tie the in the sixth and seventh innings jieie Tuesday afternoon in a desperate ‘ effort to make that game the final of j the Georgia-Carolina league cham pionship play-off, but daikness halted the game with the Graniteville Racks at 2-all in the ninth inning and cost the Carolinians one of the best center ' fielders in the semi-pro circuit. O’Bannion, fighting a tie and ap preaching darkness, singled in the ninth inning and stole second, but his tight leg snapped half-way up the shin-bene as he slid into the bag, breaking both bones and probably banning him from baseball for the remainded of his life. The plucky Graniteville center gardener reached back with his hand to make sure he had not overslid the bag before he called for help after the slide had snapped his leg. Millen 000 001 100—2 9 1 Graniteville. 000 020 000—2 6 0 Batteries: Gillespie, Davi s and Don ahue; Corley, Timmerman and Mc Carter. city, tomorrow (Friday) afternoon when Blackie Carter’s All-Star team of the Piedmont League will oppose an all-star aggregation fiom the Georgia-Carolina League. This con test will give the fan s of this section the opportunuity of seeing the best playets of these two circuits in ac tion ' C. C. Farr, president of the Geor gia-Carolina League, arranged a three-game serie s between the two all-star teams, the first having been Cotton Ginning Report. There were 5,626 bales of cotton ginned in Barnwell County prior to Sept. 1 a s ro.Tjsyred with 2,367 bales day), while the second is scheduled for this afternoon at Millen. He has selected the following player s from the various clubs of the Georgia-Caro lina circuit to oppose the team from the Piedmont League: Mitchell (c), Augusta; Bailey (lb), Bamberg; Whitley (2b), Millen; Mar ion (s.s), Sylvan ia; .Whitlock (3rd), Graniteville; Daniel (1. f.), Millen; Baker (o. f.), Millen; Baird (o. f.), Augusta; Hayes (o. f.) Graniteville; Gross (u., captain), Barnwell; Outz (p), Graniteville; .Dixon (p), Millen; Gray (p), Barnwell; Campbell (u.,l.f.), Thomson. The game will be called promptly at four o’clock and the admission will be 35 and 15 cents, plus tax. ploded in a garage, located on Main! who are unab,e 10 come 10 Barnwe11 street, back of and adjonining the ma y have an opportunity of securing postoffice building. It was said by' re &i 8 t ra tion Certificates for the ap- occupants of the building that the preaching repeal election. J. M. negro helper in the garage had crank-' chairman of the board, has ed up a truck, which was in gear, and announced, therefore, that he and the it had run into and overturned the'^ther member,, will be in Williston tank. Being aware of the imminent next Monday and Tuesday, September 18th a«Kl 19th, for this purpose, i e e w danger of an explosion, the men iff the garage, B. L. Moore, J. L. Moody and Henry Barker, immediately ran from the building. Mr. Moore called a warning of fire. Being the last in • q Carter—Dyches. Mis s Adelia Carter and Claude played in Augusta last night (Wednes^- line he ivas knocked down by the Dyches were married at Allendale on Sunday afternoon, September 3rd, on- ginned to the same date in 1932, ac cording to a report made public this week by P. A. Baxley, special agent, cf 2'ackviile. force of the explosion, but was unin jured. The noise of the explosion was heaid nine miles from town. The garage was almost completely demolished, and the rear window of the postoffice were blown cut, as was' the Coastal Ice Plant at Fairfax. They a window’ in a barber shop across the j have the best wishes of many friends street. About half an hour after the f° r a an< * happy married life disaster the plaster fell from the ceil- ly a few friends witnessing the cere mony. The bride has been employed in North Augusta for a number of years, while the groom is manager of ing of the barber shop, narrowly miss ing W. T. Riley, Sr., who had just left the chair. The volunteer fire department was on the scene immediately and per- vented a spread of the fire, which followed the explosion. J. C. Spann, postmaster, gave as hi g belief that the brick conatruction of the postoffice had prevented dam age to that building, although he and others in the office were deafened and stunned by the explosion. Gasoline Prices Advance Again. ADVERTISE in Tile People-Sentinai For the third time in about as many weeks, the price of gasoline wag given another boost Friday, one cent a gallon being added to the cost of motoring. The retail price in Barn well, including State and Federal^ taxes of 7% cents, is now 22M cents. This represents a 20 per cent in crease on motor fuel in the^past month, based on the price of gasoline without taxes. Attention is called to the advertise ment of the Blackville Federal Ware house, which appears elsewhere ia this issue of The whereby fanners who money from the Crop Production 1 Office may store their cotton their loans and hold the staple off oi the market for higher prices. The Blackville Federal Warehouse, of which D. Staaiey Brown is mana ger, ia the only federal warehouse ia Barnwell Connty and i* prepared tn handle cotton in accordance with the government’s plan at a low rato and in addition ran advancu hoi $2.50 a bale thereon. Mr. Brown offers to truck eight hales or i without charge. Not only are tho facilities at warehouse open to those ed money from the govern meat but is also available to other farmers who desire to hold their cotton for higher prices. Read the advertisement and g«t in touch with Mr. Brown for nay further information. Another new advertisement in this issue is that of J. S. Bogen, of Barn well, who is offering to pay highest cash prices for furs of all kinds. Paso* Half-Millionth Mark. a With an increase in production of cars and trucks in August of this year, which more than trebled Aagust 1932, W. S. Knudsen, president and general manager of the Chevrolet Motor Company, announced that it had passed the half-millionth car in the year 1 * output. — August production of 73,433 unita wa<, 404 per cent over the some month a year ago. It brought pro duction for eight months to 511,48ft units, as compared with 394,000 for the full twelve months of 1932. When compared with 1930 and 1031, August, 1933, shows large increases, approximately 22,000 over the former and nearly 20,000 over" the latter. The sizeable increases over those two years and the exceptionally large margin over August of last year show clearly and emphatically bow business has turned for the better, Mr. Knud- sen said. The month just passed ranks fifth in point of production in August his* tory. It was exceeded only by Au gust of 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929. V/1N Shuman With Furniture Co. F. L. Shuman, a former salesman for the Reid Furniture Stoma of Barnwell and Allendale, hat a similar position with tha Furniture Go. aa salesman tor tho territory between Allendale ondl well. A new truck ha* pee Advertise in The People-Sentinel for de ivery err vice in thi* t - ' Ifel ‘-Vv,