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*■ '-Ww /.A «£ ,*{■ /-,'/.</ ... fir TH* OfTIOAL NEWSPAPER OP BAKNWELL CUUNTT-* I* V CwMiMtM Mmm t, I«S. 'Ju»t L.lk« a Mam bar o of lh« Pamllv*' VOLUME LVII. \ BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, .1934. NUMBER Takes Part in Making Legislative History Norman Smith, 9-Year Old Son of Barnwell Repreantative, Plays Role in Assembly Act. Columbia,^ March ^10.—When Nor man Smith, of Williston, 9 years of age, son of Representative Winches ter C. Smith, proudly bore from house to senate, for ratification, the —- FiTtT tag tax-reduction bill, one chief cause of controversy which has raged in South Carolina through two ses sions of the general assembly was settled for the time being, at least, si> far as the general assembly ie concerned. Little Norman Smith was up there oh a visit, and Speaker Gib- V/ son of the house^invited him Lo^prd- *cede the speaker and cany the bill | in the ceremony which attends the ratification of acts. For such ratifi cation the house comes over to the senate. It is usual that only the speaker/and possibly a few members come, and the acts are borne by a . regular house page. The speaker, in his purple robe, is announced by the sergeant at arms of the senate, and the senate stands while the speaker walks to the desk of the president of the-senate, -and-there the two preaid- ing officials sign the act anj it goes down to the governor’s office for 4 such disposition as he. may make of it—that is L he may sign it and jt be comes law; he has three legislative days- during which he. may decide whether he will sign it or veto it... If •he vetoes it, he sends his veto mes sage to the house in which it originat ed, and the usual procedure follows, two-thirds of each~ house voting separately being necessary to over- ride the veto^ During the Pa»t Week X. . ■ '■ »■ : \ • A Little Senae and Nonsense About — ■"/1; M - / • \ People Yon Know and Others You Don’t Know. Robert Goodchild, of Buffalo, N. Y*, the first “rookie” to arrive in Barn well for -a try-out with the Albany baseball club. He is a southpaw pitch- erjand during the winter conducts a dance orchestra. . . . Allen Reed, colored, cf the Williston section, sub scribing to The People-Sentinel. His ’ather wa s a regular subscriber to this paper for many yeaig prior to iis death. . . . People complain ing about the belated cold weather, there having been ice and heavy frost lere Monday morning. 4 . And the song of a mockingbird later in the day with its assurance that spring is here regardless oT the weather. . ./X . 'him bushes, flowering* peach and Fulmer RepeaU His Advice to Saw Mills Gary Paschal ^titers Race for Congress SccccmI District Congressman Urges Richland County Attorney and Mem- ‘Co 1 mfn«‘n Sense’ Compliance With Code Pending Revision. His assertion that small saw mill operators in Sout^ Carolina should operate on a “common-sense basis”, until their code is modified to enable her of Columbia City Council Makes Announcement. Boost in Gasoline Tax Hits Motorist H. J. Phillips Points Out That 40 Cents Buys as Much Gas Now as $1 Did in 1926. was repeated a few days ago. by Rep resentative Fulmer before an N. R. A. group meeting. Fulmer states, “If General Johnson, national recovery administrator, gives* orders for me to go to jail because I see fit to stand up for many of the Juda* tree., in bloom. A flock of waxwings visiting hackberry trees that had been already denuded by swaims of robins. . . Highway _ ^tfolman Rogers arresting a negro )reacher from Gastonia, N. C., for driving his car under one of GeorgiaV isL bargain license tags. A tale of small" sawmill concerns throughout the country which are trying to compete with the larger ones under the saw> mill code, then you may say for me that I have my suitcase packed and am ready to"start.” Fulmer made an unscheduled ap pearance before the same group that had heard C. £• Sheppard of the lum ber code authority read two letters written by Fulmer to saw mill opera- Gary Paschal, of Richland County, announces for Congress from the Se<^ ond Congressional District in this is sue of The People-Sentinel. It has T>?eh rumored for a number of months that he would be a candidate. Mr. Paschal is a practicing attorney from Richland County, i 8 39 years of age and wag raised in the Olympia Mill Village, in which mill he worked for ten years. He attended the night schools of the village community and For the greater part of twenty years gasoline has been relatively the low est priced of all the articles generally classed as necessities, according to H. J. PhTTRps, local representative of Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey, Columbia wholesale division, who pointed out that the average price of ga&oline would be more than 26c per gallcn today if the industry had main tained service station prices at the 1926 level. ^Actually, however, the tors. Both letters'advised “common sense” compliance with the lumber code and stat -Boy,.Took -PaeMw-Legigiative The point of the story is that the little son of one of the most popular representatives in either branch of the general assembly took part in the making of legislative history which will have, even though it may be in directly a vital bearing not only upon the cost of tags and the revenue of the State highway department, but * upon the gubernatorial campaign this summer. The cost of license tags has been an issue which hag commanded a considerable part of the time which Olin D. Johnson, candidate for gov ernor, has permitted himself in his various pre^campaign speeches. Mr. Johnson favors- a flat three-dollar rate similar to that in the State of Geor- —gia. The bill which has been ratified sor J. D. Robison, a former superin tendent of the Barnwell high'school, noV living in Columbia. . . F. M. Munt”) Harley, of Kline, who_ en- ,k>ys a-“mess of collard gieens” (or is it mustard “s®llet u ?t for dinnerThiee" times a day. . - . The mercury in street thermometer's “gaining aiti- tude”again after a nose dive eailier in the week. . . . Barnwell's repre- sentatiVes to the Charleston azalea fes tival—Misses Mildred Stome and Marian -Bolenr-cxunplf tinK arrange- jnents far theit IritL. ^ And Per- ry Bush, et al., making final arrange ments for the arrival of the Albany baseball club. s-- -fng-ritTT- have • the code • ■modified so' hs borrowed The money to pay his wajT through Newberry College. Being a member of the National Guards in 1916, hp- was called from the. Junior class-of Newberry College to the en campment "on the Mexican border in 1916. a'nd ’17. He transferred to the Destroyer Service. of the United States Navy in the World War, in which branch of the service he served for eighteen months.-* Having receiv ed his honorable discharge^ from the Navy in 1919, he went to Central and South America, where he remained average price taken from 50 represent tative cities on October 1st was 21c, .including tax. . ‘The motorist may not stop t6 real ize it, but he is getting his/gasbline at a much lower price thdn he pays relatively for any opier necessary commodity” Mr. PhiHips explained “The figures of the/IJnited States De- partment of Labpr iprove this. Using 1926 prices as/a standard and giving them an arbitrary index number of J.00, we fipd that gasoline prices, ex- to exempt small opeiator g from some of its provisions. Fulmer presented to the meeting a letter dated Tuesdav from H. L. Bravo of the lumber code authority com pliance department, saying the South ern Pine Association had sent a rep resentative to explain the code to K. W. Watson, Windsor, S. C., and this operator no.w is complying with the code. Employes Divide Time. Watson was one those addressed by i nrg years. bia in 1921 hs was elected Magistrate of the Olympia Mill Village and pur sued the study of law at the Univer-/ sillL,Q CpxPli BJi-WhUfi-h 0 Id ij that office and graduated in 192( Mr.“Paschal was elected in a field of twenty-three candidates /for the position of City Council in 1932, which position at that time nriid a salary of four thousand dcliats a year and, after ascertaining th/amount of work involved, he voluntarily reduced his sal ary-to that pf two thousand-dol- last year: ’That means that for 0 cents the motorist could obtain much gasoline as he could for $1.00 in 1926, exclusive of taxes. On the other hand, farm products were just below 60 and the average, prive cf all commodities was at 70. - “In the slow climb of prices out of the rut toward 1926 levels, gasoline starts from a lower base than any other necessity. Yet its recovery thus far has not been at a faster rate than that of other commodities. Fact* in Caw. One Family in Four on State’s Relief Rolls South Carolina Burden, Second in the United States, Doubles Coun-. try’s Average. Washington, March 11.—The relief mrden of South Carolina was appre ciably higher than that of most of the other States of the country, when the unemployment relief census was taken in October. 1933. This is pointed cut Fulmer. The South Carolinian com plained he was unable to operate his small mill under the code, as the five hands he employed divided their working time between the mill and Watson’s farm. “The Southern Pine Association having their representative call eveiy little saw mill operator in t)*6ir division as rapidly as possible^ the letter from Bravo said, “with the view of explaining the purpose and provisions of the code to tnem. “The Southern Pine Association de cided to adopt this plan after same had been suggestecKby yourself and other members oy Congress, and the plan apparent!)/is working out very satisfactory. iar-t cy involved diej/not warrant a salary be yond that/figure. He is/active in religious, civic and fraternal organizations and is much t after as a public speaker. Hammond Thinks of Congressional Race Richland Senator, Native of Barnwell Has Campaign for House Under Ccfisideraticn. 1 tend ing..that thawork ..‘‘In.theface of these facta it may bought their tags prior to the passage provides for a fifty per cent reduc tion effective the first of November, which is the beginning of a new fiscal tag tax year. It will satisfy the people who have urged the tax reduc tion. The house wanted to make the cut effective on the first of May, with a twenty-five per cent, refund to the holders of anual licenses, which of course ■ would simply have put them on a parity with the holder s of six months licenses expiring upon the ef- fective date of the cut urged by the house. But the report got pretty well circulated upstairs, with a good deal of what ,wa s left to be authenticity behind it, that Governor Blackwood / would not approve any measure which would interefere with the revenues of the State highway department dur ing the present fiscal year. So that ifcrhen the bill went to free conference it was pretty well assured that the house conferees would finally accapt. the senate effective date. Several Cows Burned to Death Last W< C. F. Molair and Son, W. Lv/Molair, Suffer Heavy Loss by ^ire of Unknown Orif C. F. Molair and/his W. L. Molair, suffered quite a heavy loss last week when arlargc barn on their Cave place, a few^ipiles from Bam- well, was 'destroyed by fire,-together with six heifers, a young bull, a small calf and several tons ot hay and stuiw. The blaze was first dis covered by a tenant on the place shortly before daylight, but the roof I already falling in and it was im- /possible to save any of the doome< j cattle. / The origin of the fire ha s not been determined, but it i 8 believed that someone had lodged in the barn dur ing the night and had carelessly thrown aside a. lighted cigarette. It is understood that neither the barn its contents were insured. in a •preliminary summary-by Cor- rington Gill, director of research and * 1 . . statistics, federal emergency relief administrator. Twenty-four per cent., or almost one out of every four families in South Caiolina, was receiving relief from public funds at the time t unemployment census was ta Only two other States in the ufnion, West Virginia and Florida, shhwed a relief load of over 20 per c^nt. The average relief load (per pent, of re lief families to total families) cf all the States was 10 per/cent. Mr. Gill said thay(he relief census, which was taken in October does not take into account change 8 , made in the total s by/the activities of the CWA and other factors since that time In Sodth Carolina, as in most States/ children appeared in large numbers on. the relief rolhh Approx-: imately 170,000 children, under the ;e of sixteen made up 42 per cent, of all (persons in families receiving relief. However, in South Carolina, this high percentage i s explained by the fact that in 1930 children of these age s nepresented approximately the same proportion of the tctal popula tion of the State. In moat States a marked difference was found between the percentage of children on the re lief rolls and of children of the same ages in the population figures. This is demonstrated by the fact that Wly 31 per cent, of the population of the entire country was*under the age of Colonel Bl&tt May Offer for Congress Barnwell Representative Says He Received Offers of Support * Coming Primary. Col. Solomon Blatt, a member” of the house 4 of representatives from Barnwell County, who/Spent the week end at his home /here, declined to state positively that he will not be a candidate lot congress in the pri mary election next August when ask ed Monday by a representative of The People-Sentinel concerning variooa political rumor*. He did say, how ever. that at this time he does not making the race, although delegations from various part* ofthe~ district visited him in Columbia last * week, urging him to run and pledging their support. Colonel Blatt has made an enviable tepuiation a s a lawmaker during his first term in the State legislature and should he decide definitely not to en ter the congreskierral- race, it is more than probable that his many friends throughout the county will urge him to seek reelection to the general as sembly. He has fostered many worth- while/ measures during hi a tncuin- bency an^ Is especially proud" of two introduced by himself, Representative Winchester C. Smith, Jr., and other members and passed at this session that will aave the motorists of the State many thousad* of dollars. One bill provides for a refund to au tomobile owners on licenses purchased since February 1st. Under a former law they were required to pay for a full year, but Colonel Blatt introduced a bill providing for the purchase of licenses on a quarterly basis as in the past and fb'r a ref U j^ to those whdl»i<r Fulmer denied he has advised code violation /and insisted he was “100 per cent: for the President.” He said he had counseled small operators to continue operation until N. R* A. cpuld investigate. Calls for “Common Sense.” Fulmer charged that what the N. R. A. needed was a “little common sense.” “If there is not a realization of the problems of small enterprises and some common sense in the operation of codes,” Fulmer said, “aome of these days we are going to wake up and find this country in a hell of a fix.” -Questioned as . to whether Congress would give money to “sell" N. R. A. to saw mill operators, Fulmer replied that if, with, “all the money Congress ■'i A is appropriating,” there was not enough to “do the things that should be done,” the money was “going in a rathole somwehere.” Fulmer gave as an additional diffi culty for small operators under the code the ban on direct sale'of lumber. The operator, he said, had to sell to a retailer “at a ridiculously low price” and the retailer then made tt large profit by selling, at a. price fixe# t>y the code. Fulmer charged that the “big fel lows” not only had written the code, but were administering it. He said he could make “startling disclosures” by revealing his dealings with N. R. A. on the matter. ' Jame s H. Hammond, senator from Richland County, asked recently if he had anything to say about his political plans, it having been known for some time that he would notSagain offer for the State senate, said he was seri ously considering entering the race for congress this summer from the Second district, composed of the counties of Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Lexington, Richland apd Sumter. *• The Richland senator said he had not definitely made up his mind in the matter but that he would reach a definite conclusion within a few days. He said that he would not be in the lace for the State senate. Senator Hammond has seen service both in the house of representatives and in the senate, and is now rounding out a second term in the senate to which he wa 8 first elected in 1927. still seem to the motorist that the price he pays for gasoline is not much low er than it wa 8 several years ago. However, that i 8 due to the increase of gasoline taxes which have gone up Jts the price of gasoline has gone down. This is a factor beyond the control of the petroleum industry, but one which gives many motorists an erroneous impression of the price of gasoline.” Mr. Phillips pointed out that in creasing taxation had escaped the no tice of the motoring public because the increase was over balanced by the owering of the refiner’s price. The latter was brought about both by savings in gasoline manufacture and the general decline, according He i 8 well known over the State and is particularly well known in the 2nd Congressional district and many of his friends in the district have ap proached him in recent weeks with regard to his entry In the congres-, sicnal race. The congressional representative of the 2nd district at present is H. P. Fulmer, of Orangeburg. Dr. D. K. Sturkie, of Calhoun County, has an nounced for congress from this district —The State, March 11. t Phillips. The extent of this lowering is shown by comparison of the average price of 20.9 cents jn 1926, exclusive of tax, with the present average of 14.4 cents, exclusive of tax. “But despite this decline,” Mr. Phillips continued, “the increase in taxes ha 8 been such that a rise of a few cents in keeping with increased costs and general trend, appears to bring gasoline back to the 1926 levels, whereas the amount which the refiner receives still is far below the 1926 level. - “It is our hope that the public will bear in mind that taxes alone mqy be held responsible for gatsoline prices hitting the 1926 level.” Human Freak Born. of the measure. i*' The other bill, which was passed^ and is now awaiting the signature of Governor Blackwood to become law, makes a 50 per cent, reduction in the cost of auto licenses, effective Novem ber * 1st. The measure as originally introduced made the cut effective May 1st, but the senate refused to concur and a compromise was effected on the later date. 9 Colonel Blatt is quite popular with his fellow membera and his speeches on various bills are followed with close attention. Hia-decision as to whether or not he will be in politics again this summer, either as a candi date for the legislature or congress, toe^xw*tted~with cordial by his friends. interest Dr. Sturkie in Race. Dr. D. R. Sturkiq, of North, who announced last week that he will be a candidate for congress thi 8 summer, was a visitor in Barnwell Monday af ternoon and called very pleasantly nt The People-Sentinel office. He an nounced his candidacy for the office two years wgo but withdrew before tho rarrypsign . Monday, however, that be is in the race to the finish this year and will make his formal announcement through these columns, in the near future. The People-Sentinel’s Chicago, March 11.—Birth of a baby with a two-inch tail has been report Mqrc -inch ed in The Journal of the American Medical Association by its London (England) coirespondent. “The rare condition of a baby bom with a tali has been observed at the Metropolitan Hospital^” the corre spondent reported., “The tail i s about two inches long, tapers to a point and nor sixteen in 1930, as compared with 42 per cent, in the relief censu 8 for the country as a whole. Of all the families receiving relief, 45 per .cent, were white. This ratio is materially lower than, the percent age of wtete families (54 per cent.) shown in the figures of the population census. Negro families constituted 55 per cent, of all families on the re lief roJJs, and since negro families represented only 46 per cent, of the total number, of families listed in the population census, it is evident that the negro race is relatively hard hit. ' Mrs. Sallie Sanders. ' Ms.. Sallie Sanders, 84, of the Friendship section, died Saturday af ter a short illness of pneumonia, and ternoon in the Friendship Churchyard, the funepal services being 'conducted by the Rev. Woodrow Ward, pastor of the Barnwell Methodist Church. She i s survived by one son ^nd two daughters, J. O. Long, Mrs. E. W. Holman and Mrs. Tom Prince, who have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement. Re 1 For Rural Relief. Atlanta, March 1£.—State directors cf relief from 12 Southern States to day offered plans for permanent reha bilitation of rural areas, calling for expenditure of millieng cf dollars over is curly and normally .sensitive moval is proposed. “Prof. Julian Huxley has remarked about the case that different parts of the body develop at different tates during embryonic life. Usually tail does'not develop at all, but this case apparently it has grown almost the same rate as the other a period of at least one year. Open discussions cn the needs of the Southern farm tenant and land lord were held following a genera outline of the program as, suggested her body was laid to rest Sunday af- by the federal emergency relief ad- parts of the body.’ ministration. Assistant National Administrator Lawrence Westbrook told the direc- tors, representatives of agricultural institutions and State agricultural de partments that a solution of the rural: - WiR Ril problem would wipe out the greatest the Av pant of the ‘ relief troubles in the visitors in South. - . / noon. - ■ ' ' y Card of Thanks. / l - 1 '■» We desire to thank our friends for their many kindnesses during the ill- nesA and death of our beloved son, Wilbur, and for their kind* expressions of sympathy in our bereavement Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Black. and Zsck Creighton, of Chronicle office, were rnwell Monday after- to New or renewal subacrij The People-Sentinel received the past week are as fallows: Allen Reed, Williston route L Dolly M. Sams, Meyer’s Mill. W. G. Hill, Barnwell. Dr. D. R. Stprkie, North. T. W. Willis, Williston. Mrs. J. S. Younger, Denmark. Delinquents are again reminded that the publisher cannot send the P*1 indefinitely without at leaft a payment on account In moqt in stances, the amounts due are small and it i* hoped that payment will be made promptly. v / J* • — "7- - To There will be a meeting of the pas tor* and assocmtional officers of the- r Colleton, Edisto, Sav/umah River and Barnwell Baptist Assoria- Monday, March , according to an public this weak H. Price, of EUen- for the occasion will pastor st St Mat- the Rev. R. F. TsmB, manager of the Baptist Coer- » Greenville. Luncheon will be pro- videa by the Baptist Coertar.