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■ ■41 JOHN W. HOLMES iMt-ma. M. F. DAVIES, Editor and Proprktf. Entered at the poet office at Barnwell, 8. C., ae eecond-cUee mattey. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ."— flAO * Six Months ' &0 Hr- * Three Months *— .60 (Strictly la Advance.) THURSDAY, MAY 31ST, 1934. “Applauded Very Little.” How can The Barnwell Sentinel say that “The News and Courier has ap plauded very little what President Roosevelt has attempted to accom plish?" / The Newg and Courier ha s applaud ed President Roosevelt for his im mediate treatment of the banking crisis when he came to office. It has applauded him for hi 8 suc cessful leadership in the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. It has described him time and again a 8 in honest gentleman. It has applauded his antagonism to lobbying and the practicing of law in departments by congressmen. It ha 8 applauded his veto of the salary compensation and veterans’ hill. It has applauded his condemnation of federal officeholders soliciting cam paign funds. It has applauded his insistence on isting problem'? ton Chamber of Commerce, only a short time ago, advise taro such couples from New York not to at tempt the experience? (This story, we believe, appeared in the New g and Courier.) / “The hope for the farmer is in the abolition of all subsidies to the city and the country, leaving the firmer free to swap a bale of Barnwell Coun ty cotton for a bale of British wool without paying the value of half a the merit, or civil service, system—Jthe News and bale of cotton to an American manu facturer of wool." That, of course, means the lowering of the tariff wall, which, in many instances, is probably too high, but is it desirable to lower it to such an extent a■ will permit the flooding of this county with goods manufactured with cheap for eign labor, with the resultant low wages for industrial labor and lower prices for farm products? Would it not be better to raise the prices of farm products to enable the farmers to buy the articles manufactured by their city cousins working on a decent scale of wages t . ". • ..t- ^ Or does the editor of the News and Courier advocate wholly the abandon ment of the so-called “American standard of living”? Would he—se cure in his editorial sanctum and com fortable home, with a high-powered automobile to whisk him to the near by beache 8 or the more distant moun tains—be content with a return to the meagre comforts of 50 or 75 years ago? We do npt think that he, any more than “the strikers, in Minneapo-* is and Toledo, would swap places with tenant farmers in Barnwell because cotton is eleven cents a pound.” But perhaps all this i 8 aside from what we said in our original editorial that elicited two rather lengthy re plies from our good friend, Editor Ball. If we have mistakenly read hig pithy editorials, we are sorry. It was thatf- in which he is opposed and embar- rasaed by nearly all his party. There S 8 no hope for the New Deal without the merit system—but where is the South Carolinian who would consent to an efficient Republ#an being kept in office for the New Deal’s sake? It defend 8 and urges the enactment by congress of his reciprocal tariff bills. While opposed to the use of tax payers’ money, for investments, it declares that, if that principle is to be violated, the purchase of forest reservationg is wise and expedient. It has repeatedly said that the re sults of the NRA have been beneficial to the textile industry in South Caro lina and has approved the reduction of the* working week to forty hours, however, it does not endorse the prin- ple of governmental interference with industry. Where is another newspaper in South Carolina that has specifically defended the president in his disposi tion toward those of-his measures that are unpopular in South Carolina?— News and Courier. The People-Sentinel is glad that the News and Courier has applauded so many of President Roosevelt’s policies. .Somehow, from a perusal of its editorial page from day to day, we had gathered- the idea that our Charleston contemporary was in op position to most features of the New Deal—a “reaction” that otherreaders of that journal have shared in. For instance, we don’t believe that the News and Courier "applauded” the nt of the gold standard or the reffflrti the reMetfon in the gold content of thu dollar -two important monetary policies of the administration design ed to aid the debt-burdened agricul tural classes. If we remember aright, thi 8 opposition was based on the fact that it would also relieve other debtor classes and was, moreover, a “repudia tion” of solemnly contracted debts. A 8 we have pointed ot?t before, and repeat again, • most of those debts were contracted on the basis of “cheap” money and to require their repayment with deflated dollars was a Shylock method of procedure. We favor neither the inflation of post war days nor the drastic deflation of the past few years, but a happy medium between the two—a goal that the administration ha s been striving for. As the News and Courier admitted in a second editorial Manday morn- infi, it has not “applauded” the ef forts of the Roosevelt administration to boost farm prices through what it terms “subsidies’ a sop . flung to the farmer s to keep them quiet.” To quote: “The more the farmer shall be subsidised the greater will be the cost of the city man’s food and the sharper will be the demand on gov ernment to feed the city man lest he riot, as he is rioting in Toledo and Minneapolis.” Does the News anc Courier mean that the alternative is to keep the price 8 of farm products low ? But the News and Courier contends that “th£ hope and the °nly hope of thig republic Is in million 8 of city people coming to the lands.” With country 7 trying to solve the prob- r-preduction on the part of idy on the lands, we must our dense ignorance in fail follow this line of reasoning ; is possible to dig one’s living of the ground—if that be wha ; lessen the number of (city) con- srs of farm products and add them to the number of producers of such yroducts, wherein it the problem solv ed? It “dirt” farmers, born am reared on the lands, have found It V /difficult to keep their heads above water, would not the migration by the thousand? of inex£erjen:ei ciiy IN CHEVROLET SALES ! Detroit Mich., May 10.—For the first time in three years, sales of an automobile manufacturer for a single month topped the one hundred thousand mark. This was brought out to#ay in a statement issued by William E. Holler, genaial sales manage n of Chevrolet Motor Company, an nouncing ' retail sales of Chev- rolet passenger cars and trucks uring April of 100,046 units. This figure includes Canadian, export and domestic deliveries. _ This compare s with 59,193 units in April, 1933, and 96,693 units in March of this year, accurdliig to the gt&W- ment. Retail sales the first four months of this year totaled 281,033 as com pared to 184,138 in the same period a year ago an increase of 52 per cent. Chevrolet’s April retail aale 8 record is considered significant in view of the fact that this country hatg Ulffcredan only recently advanced the premise that the “drys” in the State Demo cratic Convention could not refuse to applaud the repeal of the 18th Amend ment and at the same time endorse the Roosevelt administration—or did we mistakenly read that editorial al- If hig premise as to the prohi bitionists be correct, how will Editor Ball vote in The Literary Digest poll (if he be favored with a ballot) on the question: “Do you approve on the whole the Roosevelt policies?” And just one more thing, Brother Ball: It is The People-Sentinel—not The Beople’s-Sentinel, although we strive in our modest way, to be “the people’s sentinel.” E* Tu Brute? In commenting on the sympathetic attitude of the Boston Transcript (Re publican) towards the Roosevelt ad ministration, The State says in part: “So far as we have observed „ Jbe Transcript has confined derogatory expressions to the reproduction of comments by others, and so we find in its columns almost daily those paragraphic notes of apprehension and gloom appearing in cur sincerely esteemed contemporary, The Charles- j ton News and Courier/’ Is it possible that The Transcript and The State, like The People-Sen tinel, have "mistakenly read” the editorials of The News and Courier? acute car shortage, practically since the new 1934 models were introduced and only now is catching up in a small measure with the thousands of un filled orders on its books. Retail sale 8 were higher than for any similar period in 36 months, since April, 1981, to be exact, and this tremendous re tail volume, according to Mr. Holler, is the direct result of the modern fea tures and many unusual improve ments incorporated in the new 1934 knee-action models. < ♦ ♦ w ■ Walker—Jenkins. Allendale, May 26.—Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Walker, of Allendale, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mary Eugenia Walker, and Mr. Basil Manly Jenkins, 3rd, of Kilne. The wedding will take, place in-the faB. - County £ey Bankers Describing the activities of the Agri cultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, the Director, D. H. Otis, says: “With 2,500 agricultural ly minded bankers designated as county key bankers, there is enlisted a tremendous force for the improvement of agriculture. These key bankers bring organized assistance to progres sive bankers, who are led to see the possibility of agricultural work in their communities. Banker • farmer tours are emphasized as a means of acquainting bankers, farmers and other business men with first-hand knowl edge of how agricultural Improvement methods are working out in practice. These give an opportunity for the key hankers to coptact country bankers and work out new ideas.” riUDE ATWATER KENT RADIO with golden voice. Electric, Battery and Automobile sets. RCA Cunnihgham tubes. Leonard Electric Refrigera tors. Easy terms.—Molair, BinriveTF, S. C; ’ 5-31-tf. FOR SALE:—Five registered Spot ted Poland China pigs(2 boars, 3 sows) weighing about 35 pounds., 7 weeks old, fat, short, guinea type. Very bftfit. breeding.—14.50 eaeh er |C0.66 for the lot with registration papers.— W. L. Molair, Barnwell, S. C. 5-31-tf. FOR SALE:—White corn in shuck, 70 cents per bushel; velvet beans, $1 per bushel.—C. H. Dicks, Dunbarton. HAVE OPENING NOW for reliable salesman age 2IT to &u years to take care of demand for Rawleigh House hold products in South and West Aiken, North Orangeburg Counties, Barnwell. Good profits for hustlers. We furnish everything but the car to Co., Dept 12-C, Richmond, Va. 5-10-31. SC- FOR SALE.—Edisto River cypress shingles. Special price in quantities. C. F. Molair, Barnwell, S. C. 8-1-tfc. SPRING TIME IS PAINT TIME Go to PAINT HEADQUARTERS Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Still wish to thafik their many the kindness shown their recent bereave* BUYING ond Hand Bicycles . Clyde Dunaway 215 Twelftth St. Phene 3936 AUGUSTA GA.; ilSEDGAR BARGAINS 1932 Dodge “8”' Coupe $325 1929 Graham Paige Sedan — $250 1931 Ford Coupe $225 1931 Chevrolet Roadster — $200 1927 Hupmobile Sedan $100 £927 Dodge Sedan -JlflL Nash-Augusta Co. 740 Reynolds St. Phone 2135 AUGUSTA. GA. FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY / / . The Modern Beauty Shop, BUCKVILLE Offers the Following Specials Lovely Marcel Permanent Wave • Advertise in The People-Sentinel. Tbr your” requirements. There is satisfaction in knowing that you get the best. A Few Spring Paint Specials: Absorene Wallpaper and Window Shade Cleaner, per Pkg. 15c NuLustre Furniture Polish, per bottle 15c Dic-a-Doo Paint and Enamel Cleaner for all Woodwork, ~ per Package Kyanize Paste Wax, pound 59c Ready Mixed paints, for inside and outside use, flat and gloss, 16 cclora and white, per gallon __ $1.98 Many Others. R I N K E R Paint 6c Glass Co. 869 BROAD ST. PHONES 74-75 AUGUSTA, GA. tJ-lcltH i/lHtOH * —"VITAJOyilLWAVt- or AlLRinglet only $2.59 Croqugnole Wave, formerly $5.00, now only $3.00 Eugene Wave, new process, for merly $7.50, now ’only $5.00 Shampoo and Finger Wave dried 40c Facial with Pack 75c Ma i'cure 40c We specialize on Bleaching and Hair Dyeing, also Henna Packs. Superflous hair permanently and pain- lesSly removed With Kbrex treathiChtS. 4- We now have with us Mrs. Janette Parsons, fbrmerly of the Charles ton Beauty Shop. You will be served promptly and efficiently. No wait- ing. ALL WbRK GUARANTEED. . * . ■ v MODERN BEAtmnSHOP, . c. WHITE AND INDIANA TRUCKS—PARTS—SERVICE Whitton Machine & Equipment Co. MACHINE, BLACKSMITH, ELECTRIC WELDING, BODY, FENDER, WOOD WORK, AUTO TOPS, UPHOLSTERING AND GLASS SHOPS CYLINDER GRINDING AND BORING, SEALED POWER, PISTONS, PINS AND RINGS. B-K VACUUM BRAKES, — FRUEHAUF TRAILERS. Shops Corner Washington and Ellis Streets PHONE 1637 AUGUSTA, GA. V\M CLAIM Slot-Machines and Lotteries. * Another war on slot-machines in this State appears imminent. Com paint has been made in Columbia parents and school authorities, ’>Vho charge that school children us? the money given them with which, to buy lunches to play these machines of chance ( ?) instead. The 7 State re call? the war against riich* devices that was wflged by Governor Rich ards of South Carolina and Mayor LaGuardia of New York City. The claim is made that in New York City alone the totial amount of money garnered annually by 8 lot machines exceeded that collected by the in- iquitou s Cuban lottery, with the dif ference that the Cuban government got part of the spoils while the New r York City government profited not one penny. If that be true, what is the annual toll paid throughout the en tire United States? The total figures must indeed be staggering. A Futile Gesture. The Act passed by the recent legis lature, requiring that primary election ballots be preserved for 30 day s fol lowing an election,- seems to us-y very futile gesture. If those who control the election machinery, be crooked enough in the first place to “count out” any particlar candidate, they would most certainly be shrewd enough to “fix” the ballot boxes ac cordingly. The main thing is to put honest managers in charge of the elec tions. The law, of course, seems to be aimed at Charleston, where the ballot 8 were burned immediately after the State executive committee had de clared Blackwood the nominee for governor in 1930. Charges were made at that time that Olin D. John ston had been “counted out,” though no concrete proof to substantiate the Courier means, but if chBTg’iT’Wits ever offered. Strange things happen in Charleston politics but that-does not necessarily mean that they are crooked. Candidates and their friendg should not make charge 8 of fraud and crookedness in the conduct of primaries unless they are prepared to substantiate them with competent evidence. Baseless rhai jrs o:.ly epi to w akeu tonli- folks to the farms on.y iud to the tx-| leace in our elec.ion system. I MOST POWER' \ GOT HORSE powerjorur# wm 9J-AIU t v\"V V /i SO WHAT/ M ■»s While some moke claims in printed word. And others on the t air ore heard. 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