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JOHN W. HOLMES
184e—1912.
B. P, DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.
“It i s only the man who owes
money who can by any possibility be
assisted by inflation,” says The News
and Courier. Well, with the possible
exception of the plutocratic editor of
that newspaper, that include s all the
rest of us.
Uncle Sam has installed a $4,000,000
robot in the new terminal post off : ce
at Kansa g City and the mail i s handled
two hours faster than before. “A
hundred motors drive the five miles
of conveyor belts capable of handling
many tons of mail an hour,” we are
told, and “hiKh speed machines can
cel stamp s and electric scales weigh
parcels automatically and compute
postage.” All of which displaces the
work of human hands and minds—
and all the while Uncle Sam is faced
with the huge problem of unemploy
ment and is imploring private indus
try to put more people back to work
and the government itself i s shoveling
out millions in “relief work.” All of
which is about on a par with lending
farmer 9 money to grow crops and then
paying out more money to plow them
up.
J. S. Wannamaker, president of the
American Cotton Association, thinks
that the plan to lend farmers ten
cents a pound on their cotton assures
a minimum price of 15 cents for the
staple. On life contrary, h( wever
when the government advanced around
16 cents a pound on cotton several
year,, ago the price declines! below
that figure and. after reepi nling
Saturday morning to President Ro «e-
velt’s announcement of the ten rents
loan by advances of t'J to $3 a hale,
the market sagged later in the day
and opened down Monday morning.
The price appear* to advance *n
rumors of inflation and decline when
the President denies that the cur
rency will be inflated. In spite of the
apparent sympathetic attitude of the
administration, it seems that the
farmer is again slated to “get it in
the neck.”
Roger W. Habson thinks that land
ia a g o<( investment dunng the im
mediate future. lie says that The
People-Sentinel ha s been contending
for some time, that “in order to have
the various plans succeed, commodity
prices must In- pushed highe r. Above
all, farm prices which are so vital to
our prosperity must be supported and
increased.'' Furthec. that “if present
recovery measures fail th.-n President
Roosevelt will be forced to attempt
some type of aitiflcial inflation.. . .
In other words, if the administration
dacg not succeed in improving farm
land values it i> doomed.” Mr Hab-
aon’s conclusion that land is a good
investment is based, therefore, on the
assumption that commodity prices
will be advanced in ?c me way, with
inflation as the last resort. And it
begins to look like only inflation will
bring about the desired result.
More About Inflation.
The News end Courier appeals to
be more or less opposed to inflation,
whether it is “controlled” or other
wise. Editor Ball says: “Inflation
of the currency would be of
assistance to the debtor class. If
one owe a thousand dollars and cotton
double in price one can then pay the
debt with half the cotton that would
pay it now, before the doubling.”
Conversely, if one borrowed a
thousand dollar s when cctton was 40
cents a pound, he got the equivalent
of five bales of cotton. With cotton
at ten cents—and the debt still un
paid—it requires 20 bales to discharge
the obligation. That’s where the shoe
i s pinching—so many people borrow
ed money when cotton was foity,
thirty, twenty cents a pound with
the expectation of paying in kind
When the price slumped to five and
six cents, the debtors were faced with
financial ruin.
We agree with the Charleston paper
that inflation will not apply to the
prices of cotton and tobacco alone. It
is bound to be reflected by advances
on all purchases, and we are inclined
to believe that the matter has been
deferred too long. If we are to have
ition, it should have been put into
t when commodities and wages
more evenly balanced. The buy-
Ing power of the farmer ia less this
THAT LITTLE CAINE” IntT-aatM Cart—a Co», W.T^-By B. J JllIC |
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER^a^lfff^
Treasurer’s Tax Notice
The County Treasurer’s office will" be open from September 15th ’
to March 16th, 1934, for collecting 1933 taxes, which include real and pe -
sonal property, poll and road tax.
All taxes due and payable between September 16 an ecem r ,
1933, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not pak as s a e w.
be subject to penalties as provided by law.
January 1st, 1934, one per cent, will be added.
February 1st, 1934, two per cent, will be adde.d.
March 1st to 15th, 1934, seven per cent, will be added.
Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff foi co lec ion a
ter Marcl^ 15th, 1934.
When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district
if property is in more than one school district.
All personal check s given for taxe s will be subject to collection.
year with cctton at nine to ten cents
a pound than it was in 1931 and 1932
when prices ranged around five and
six cents. In other word*, what he
has to sell has not advanced in the
same proportion with what he has to
buy, and this is especially true of
cofon gfods.
If inflation wi.i lift the mortgage
off of the homes and farm, of the
country and put more people back to
work, we are in favor of it, but we
would like to see first a greater de-
giee of parity between prices for
commodities and manufactured arti
cles. Otherwise, even the debtor
class of farmers will not be greatly
benefitted thereby.
line. At least 20,000,000 people
ought to be out of work, and^the few
who must work should work very
little—and not at all hard. (Note:
This additional unemployment should
take place in agriculture.)
Because we have been industrious,
we have produced so much wheat and
corn, we are just ab„ut to starve our
selves to death and because we have
applied our mind and energy to our
job, we have produced so much cot
ton, it looks like most if us will have
to go naked.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
Scheme No. 251.377.999.
.... Everybody i« «ffenng his valuable
services and suggestions as to how
agriculture might U- put on its feet
again. So far. I have withheld my
suggestions, but now I am go ng to
give the world advantage of my
wisdom and knowledge, and here's
my p'an:
....If half of the p«ople ;n the United
States w..uld quit work entirely, the
other half could pro luce all that the
c< untiy could possibly consume and
d'gest, and then the working half
could divide 50-50 with the unemploy
ed, and everybody would have plenty
I I’low up eveiy thud politician
from the -peaker of the house t > the
court house janitor.
Not a stalk of cotton or a head
of wheat should be grown in 1934;
we have en- ugh of these commodities
on hand now la*t us 2 years, so
I why try to raise more? Limiting the
acreage planted won’t control pro
duction—unless a kind Providence
stepii in and withholds the sunshine
and the tain. We can gr< w us much
cotton on 25,000,tKHi acres as we can
on 45,01*0,000 if we use the same
quantity of fertilizer and the same
amount of work.
—Mr. Public will permit his wife to
suffer with shooting pains all day
long and deep into the night before
calling the doctor to come over and
see if she has appendicitis or gall
stones, and then bless thte poor doctor
out because he’s not there in 10 min
utes.
Mr. and Mrs. Public will trade on
credit at the Peoples’ store and then
let the store-maji send a collector
around to their house 15 time, before
paying the bill—never thinking that
it'g their duty to go to the store and
pay the poor old merchant what they
owe him.
Old Man Public will have the
paper carrier fetch him the paper
every morning and every evening for
6 months and then get mad because
the Jfple kid asks kindly for his
mcney—and stop* his paper in some
instances and forces the hoy to lose
the arc unt—and then he borrow., his
neighbors paper till a new boy is put
on that route.
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State
Ordinary County
Road and
Bridge Bonds
Past Ind. Bonds
Constitutional
School
Special Local
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No. 24—Ashleigh
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No. 33—Bafbary Bianch
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No. 45—Barnwell
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No. 4—Big Fo^k
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No. 19—Blackville __
5
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No. 35—Cedar Grove
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No. 50—Diamond
5
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No. 20—Double Ponj
5
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No. 12—Dunbarton
5
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No. 21—Edisto
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No. 28—Elko
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No. 53—Ellenton
5
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No. 11—Four Mile
5
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8
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No. 39—Friendship -
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No. 16—Green’s
5
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No. 10—Healing Springs
5
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No. 23—Hercules -
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No. 9—Hilda
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No. 52—Joyce Branch
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No. 34—Kline
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No. 32—Lee’s
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No. 8—Long Branch
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No. 54—Meyer’s Mill —
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No. 42—Morris —
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No. 14—Mt. Calvary
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No. 25—New Forest
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No. 38—Oak Grove
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No. 43—Old Columbia
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No. 13—Pleasant Hill
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31
No. 7—Red Oak
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No. 15—Reedy Branch
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No. 2—Seven Pines
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No. 40—Tinker’s Creek
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No. 26—Upper Richland
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N<». 29 WiUistoa
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2.—Let the government take over
all of the faim land* of the country
for taxes, which must hi* done sconer
or later anyhow, and set half of it
out in shade trees.
3.—Require every other farmer to
sit under the shade trees referred to
in paiagraph No. 2 from March 15th
(seeding time) to October 15th (har
vesting time) at $2.00 per day, in
flated currency.
4.—Create a boll weevil hatchery
and a wheat fly hatchery in each and
every State growing such crops as
these pests like to ruin and distribute
the said insects by government agents
at the proper time amongst growing
crops.
5.—Make it a misdemeanor, a sin,
a shame and a crime to use any mod
ern machine in the cultivation of
crops, such as tractors, sulkies, disc
plows, or any other implement that
came into use after the 14th cen
tury. Mules and horse s will be dis
pensed with in favor of oxen, billy
goats and wives.
What America needs is more
money and h. only wify to geCmore
nr ney, so's the wheel, will go 'round,
is to do R4»mething that will enable
the pioducer :o get something beside,
convict wages for what he produces.
When a faimer grows cotton and
sell, it far 8c, it’s like Henry Ford
working in a toy factory at 50c a
day.
But the trouble with most of us
is not low price cotton, it’ s debt, in-
teiest and taxes. We need inflation
to get out of debt, and then we can
live on what we have been paying to
carry these debts. Folks who sit
around on park benches, woik in
stores for wages, and hold govern
ment and municipal jobs don’t know
farmer
has to endure to obtain even the com
forts »f a little bit of chewing tobaccc
and a P fl i r °f socks, but they all think
the faimer is a bum and loafer.
6.—The government shall not
charge its tenants any rent, but shall
furnish each tentnt with a milch
cows and a milking machine, 2 auto
mobiles, free electric lights and $75.00
per month in cash, 6 good rabbit and
possum dogs, plenty ( chewing tobacco
and snuff and cigaiettes, and a radio.
If these ideas are carried out, pros
perity will be upon us and will stay
with us. All we need now is money
and plenty of it iqgtead of nothing
and lots of it.
Your* truly,
Gee McGee, Farmer.
Leta Ail Quit Work and G«t Rich.
Apparently what America needs
ia more unemployment Wo arc al
ready producing surpluses in every
.-.The next solution of our ttrou-
bles, if we can’t get inflation and the
processing taxes removed—which are
being absorbed by the farmer— is a
farmer’s strike: just quit growing
anything to sell for one year and then
he’ll have the world at his feet in
stead of upon his neck as at present.
That’s all, thank you. (I am a farm
er and know what I’m talking about.)
Let’s All Turn Over a New Leaf.
The public is a very peculiar ani
mal. Its habits, desires, demands, dis
likes, expectations and anticipations
are the same in Bostqn as they are in
Miami, Lo s Angeles and Norfolk.
Mr. Public will buy milk for the
babies, cats, digs, et al., and change
milk men after getting so far behind
that neither he nor she nor it will
answer the door hell ab.ut milk-de
livery time—never sympathizing with
the po< r old dairy folk, that get up
at 3 to 4 a. m., and play maid to
old Bossy 365 days every year. The
milkman get< the least sympathy of
any person extant, and yet—he r-n-
der* the most needful service of any
other interest .-triving to make a
living.
If we, Messrs. Public - and Co..
w- uid have a little more regard for
our merchants, cur dairymen, our
doctors, our delivery boys, our tele
phone gills, where the policy of the
office is to give service, and our neigh
bors, thi s old world would be a better
place to live in. We could save the
folks who serve us millions of dollars
and hours of work and worry every
year if we would only think and then
try to do our part.
DR. HARTER’S
EYE LOTION
ON SALE AT
Deason’s Drug Store
Main Street, Barnwell.
Railway’s Pills
For Constipation
Mrs. Public wrill go down town,
buy 10 cents worth of ribbon at
Brown’s, 5 cents worth of cheese at
Smith’s, and '15 cents worth of pork
chops at the Palace market and say
to all: “Please send it up right away”
—instead of carrying it herself—in
the car or in her arms or hand-bag.
Wkat Tfcer Aret
A mild ratiabU vccctabU
which doss wot grip*, cause -
or diatuab |< li«aatioai Not habit
Whet They Det
MUHom at
1S47, bars mad tfsma to rafcara mtk
Yarik, N.Y.
ADVERTISE In The People-Sentinel
The commutath n road tax of $3.00 must be paid by til male citizens
between the ages of 21 and 56 year*. All male citizens between the ages
of 21 and 60 years are liable ta poll lax of $1.00.
Dog Texes for 1933 will be pail at the same time Uher taxes are paid.
It is the duty of each school mi*tee in each school di*trict to s«*e that
this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement of the pro
visions of thi. Act.
Cheeky will not be accepted far taxes under any circumstances except
at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Tiea*urer reserves the right to
hi Id all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.)
Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, post office money
oiders or certified check*. J. J. HELL. County Treas.
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TO RAISE THE PRICE on CLEAN
ING and PRESSING SI ITS and
DRESSES to 50 CENTS EACH due
to the fact that price of things neccH-
fer the operation of a Dry Cleaning
plant has advanced within the past
several months.. In this connection,
we wish to say that we are better
prepared than ever to render prompt
and satisfactory service to
patrons and friends.
our
CITY DRY CLEANERS
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Mr». Harry Daley, Propr., Barnwell
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