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Battred at the post office at Barnwell, 8. (X, aa Ncood-clan matter. ^ 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year .... ........ $1.60 ................. JO Urea Month* .... JO (Strictly to Atone*.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,19S4 " Wonder if anybody Addled while Home burned? la Uncle Sam trying to budget the balance or balance the budget? Life may begin at forty, as Walter Pitkin says, but how many women will admit that life has begun? Another thing that many people are trying to reconcile is that allegedly “wet” support in Charleston for a declared “dry” candidate for governor. Cole. L. Blease said Tuesday that if he had been elected governor last week he would not have been a candi date agein. In other words, the only way te get rid of hlity is to elect hint. Somewhat like the woman who said that the married her husband to get /rid of him. Percy Dees, editor of the Winnsboro Herald and News, was defeated for auditor iii Tairfleld County in the first primary that took it« toll of so many other good men. In his card of thanks he said: “Because through de feat I have learned many things which it ta good to kr w. I thank the voters of the county for theii expres sion at the polls Tuesday.” Percy i> a good sport end a philosopher, and while not rating him as a modern Solomon, we gave him credit for enough sense to keep our of politics. Congratulations on your defeat, Percy. L We understand that one of our friends (?) asserted last week that we refused to publish a picture' of Governor-elect Olin D. Johnston. Of course, our critic can hardly be ex pected to believe that the real reason that we did not possess s half- f, or “cut,” of Mr. Johnston, nor do we expect him to believe that, now that Mr. Johnston has been chosen to steer the ship of State for the next four yesrs, he has our sincerest wishes for a successful administra tion. We would liie to see that, not •O much for Mr. Johnston’s sake as for the good of South Carolina. In last week’s issue we pledged him “our cooperation in every sincere effort for the betterment and advancement of South Carolina.” Neither Mr. John ston nor Mr. Blesse was our choice for governor, but that does not keep us from wanting to see our State and our paople go forward. We hope that oar friend (?) is himself patriotic enough to understand and appreciate that attitude. A Glutton for Punishment. Following the declaration of the results of the second primary elec* ion the State executive committee Tuesday, Cole. L. Blease said that •tfce condition of his health would de- termine whether or not he would ** A candidate again in 1936. As we re marked once before, Mr. Blease is certainly a glutton for punishment. Quite So. L'r In suggesting that the federal gov ernment appropriate $75,000,000 with which to buy 50 cotton mills at a each, and set aside .another half-miHion each for operating ex- », turning them over to the United Textile Workers with no /strings attached, to be operated by them precisely as the “workers” de sired, with no dividends to pay, no “stretch-out system” and a 30-hour week iit competition with factories operated under the code, all in an effort to ascertain how quickly some off them would go “on the rocks,” The News end Courier closed a most worthwhile editorial as follows: “Two of the great mills whose operatives are now on strike were hnilt by a young man (he died long «CO> whose personal fortune was $2,- SM. Iff he had not had, besides his fSJOO, indomitable courage, willing- «••* to labor sixteen hours a day—he was oat of bed at 4:30 in the morning cooking his own breakfast by candle light to go to the mill and oversee the construction of the plant in order. the fees of engineer* and i—and, great v managerial f, there would be no strike in m in those two mil's, mills would not be there. built anything off value or ever will.” Quite so. Even the Groat Archi tect of the Universe labored sin days and the Book of Books makes no to serve at parties doctor came along the other dgg and exploded that hallucination: now wa don't know what It’s good for so’s folk* e can for- mention of A five-hour day. We say ( get their troubles with the greatest of reverence that j an d their pant, due notes and accounts. tbhrty-hour-atoek Prohibition prohibits the government nob w Mil ; Nobody^ Business j By Gee McGee. from competing with the bootlegger, bat it doesn’t exactly prohibit whis key. tion which on Sep- I don’t think we ought , to call it : gome other name would mission to others. Of course, the winking of the law has somn.hing to do with prohibition which permits so much whisjgey. Mike Is Having Government Cow _ Troubles. fist rock, s. C., eepp 18, 1934 hon. henry wallis, seeker-terry of agger-culture, Washington, d. C. deer sir:-*- * three of yore gowerment cows got 'jout of sid smith’s cow pastor last night and et up 43 stalks of corn, and 68 pounds of long staple cotton * and 17 heads of my wife’s biggest cab- 'bages, so please send me 24$ dam-. , . . .. A ^ * j, , I she went to do some fall shopping an mages at once or get reddy for the 8n ! Al . ^ ^ K „ suit and sound better, for instance: Imagination, or Intuition, of Assaa- sihationr or lrihlhitiofl/ Oi Expedition, ttaa turning point in banking history la the matter of recovery. Reasons for ”** * “f *. the optimism are twofold—the condb Member 1, 1934, rolled a general jtnke tloa of the banka and the prospects throughout the textile industry, pro of better banking business. j viously called a similar strike last “The reorganisation of tke banking June in the Cotton Textile Industry Old-trad Uion, oi Quick-ignition, hibition seems to extend special privi leges to some, and openhanded per- j a serionn factor in the situation*. Tbs Flat Rock Newt Items mr. hbrt moore borried his- daddy's ottemtobile last satterday and motor ed to the county seat with miss jennie veeve smith setting by his side where ■uppreme coart. This dammage will set me and my family back at least 6 months, and if 3 more cow s waster break into our fields, we would be thrown on the mercy -of the c. w. a end f. e. r. a as they would eat us out of house and home, like a great manny of our nabors have done who wont work for a liwing either. soforth. they returned back by his aunt’s house near cedar lane and din- nered with her. it seems that my farm -looked like greener paatora to the said cows and they diddent pay no attention to the 2 IHtle strings ,of bob-wire which sep arated them from same, and they waded right thru German entangle ments, and when yore plaintiff, mr. a report ha* benn circulated that the gowernment will soon take over all feeds in the country and deal same out to the cows and hogs .41 needed onner count of the drowth out west which killed everything of a for- rage nature, it will not hurt flat rock and ►the community verry much if they do that: they diddent make nothing here to amount 4o anything, a* it was SEES TURNING POINT IN BANKING HISTORY NEW YORK. — Tbs America* ikers Association Journal In Its Jnly lasne presents the following ro> rt9W of baking and business condi tions: “It is an .almost nnivjrsal opinion among bankars that Jane has bM* Public Statement by the Cot ton ^Textile CodeT w 7 Washingtor t. system -after -the beU4ay -e! sixteen months ago la now practically complete, ’nhe rooiparaiiveiy tew keek# yt to he reorganised and reopened are no longer of alleged grievances. . Following this June strike* or* conferences.- were- held by the year’s preparatory period for the en- , National Recovery Administrator forcement of major provisions of tba with Mr. Thomas P. McMahon and Banking Act of 1933 has paiaad, and banks now have a definite ides of where they stand.” Man af the Skiree Wiltshire moonrakers owe their orl- gln to an astute group of natives who grew.a written settlement between the political year and the farmers barely Bad enough time to talk politics. mike C.srk, rfd, found them they had done et up everything they wanted and was laying down in my wife’s lower garden behind the house, chew ing their cudd 8 nsoforth. dr. green reported a case of slop ing sickness last week, but when he wont Karfc «n» h annftipr dnrtnr to hold if you can’t see your way clear to pay me my dammages, it.willjiuit me o. k. to keep yore cows and call it square betwixt us, so inst^d of send ing me 24$ in cash money, you might ship me 24 bails of hay to feed them on till i get reddy to convert them into beef ansoforth. j will hold yore cows for the pressent and will await the cash dammages or the hay. a consultation over his boddy, ha had done got out of bed and gone to town, .it was found that he wa 8 only overdosted with some new ^whiskyond it had settled in his brain and spinal collum, and made him lay verry still with both eyes shot tight. you will be getting off verry light to let me keep yore cowa they tromp- ed my land powerful bad and it mought keep me from making another crop next year, the 3 cows i have decided to hold for ransom are brown spotted with white tips on their tails, and i guess you remember them, as they were that-a-way when you shipped them. mr. smith, the man who is poster ing yore cows, wants them back, but refuses to pay 24$ dammages and that is why i am making a direct appeal to you for relief, they will be hell by me till further notis. yore« trulie, mike Clark, rfd. the imployees of the peples cash stoar in fiat rock have notified the owner of same that all 3 of them will walk out on a strike unless the following schedule of hours and wages is put into operation at once: • 25- hour week with 3 hours off for (Tin ner and 2_ hour* eff .for supper. with no pay cut; double pay for over time; softer chairs to aet in while waning for a customer; free tobacco, pigarettes, dopes and chewing gum. three or four communists from cedar lane seems to be at the bottom of this strike. Wet-Dry Prohibition. I am dry, and m y State is dry, but booxe is cheap as well as plenti ful. Bootleggers are proaperpus, thanks to the high tax on legal venom, but competition is too hot amongst them for comfort. Somebody’s going to get hurt in this business. ’ll Our State permits us to send 4 dollars to a wet State, as often as once a month, for a quart of legal stuff. Now, this legal “happy-day” fluid is O. K., considering that its cost is made up of the following items: 30 percent federal tax, 15 percent dealer’s license tax, 20 percent bottle and express charge, 10 percent pack-j ing costs, and 26 percent for the whiskey itself. ..—: 7 We have hundreds of highclass, honorable,', trustworthy bootleggers who will sell a fellow a quart of real good Hcker, made out of nothing but sugar, potash, stable sweepings, lye, sulphur, flies, bugs, corn meal, black strap and gnats for only $1.00, in cluding the fruit jar, cap, ring, gaso line, police protection (if any,) and federal stamp. -...There has not yet been a plan de vised that will control whiskey, hor has there ever been a law that will control a man full of whiskey. But we have lota to be thankful for yet; nearly all of our boys and girl s who drink whiskey now-a-days are over 21 years of age; but, of course, there are some exceptions. ^ I think the government ought to raise the drink ing age of children from 12 years to 13 years and 6 months. Lois of ua thought that whiskey mag te* for snake-hi tee, but it must be a pleasure to be a hog now, as he is getting in the aristo cratic class, in sympathy with the drought, u. *. taxes, and killing all of the young shoa a by uncle sam, a meat skin costa cl8; a slice of fat-back c21; a bite of ham can’t be hit for less than clO; and 2 grunts of a corn- fed hog are now worth 4 dollars, it wont be long now befoar pig knuck les will be so high noboddy but labor ogger-nixers and politicians will be able to eat same. the funneral of eke burkitt which was to have benn hell last Sunday at rehober church in the presence of his manny friends was called off .onnor count of he did pot die according to the tellegram. dr. green thinks he will recover and get well, and live to try to drive a car 90 miles an hour on another day. his familey had already planned to spend his insurance. * yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. SHOPPE 954 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. 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And Borrowdale cuckoos originate from that little lakeland village’s once lamentable attempt to build a wall to keep the cuckoo wlttrln lta oonflneSL—TltBtta Magatln* , Mummified Cato Archeological excavations In Egypt have brought to light thousands of m'ummTfled cats—some elaborately in closed In bronze boxes, many of which were found to^ be surmounted by a bronze statue of the cat’s Ka, the dou ble personality that was thought to survive after death with the aoul. The mummies were wrapped In yards of plaited linen ribbons The heads of some cat uiuinmies had been Incased fft f“ rough kFmf of papier-mache, gilt and covered with linen. The ears were always carefully pricked up. Mr. Francis Gorman (representing the United Textile Workers), and also with the Chairman of the Cotton Tex tile Code Authority. 3. Out of these conferences there Administrator and the officials of the United Textile Workers, some off the terms of which are as follows: (a) That the United Textile Work ers receive representation on the Labor Advisory Board of the N. R. A. New Deal voluntarily abolished child wage rates 70 per cent. It shortened its weekly hours of work by nearly It to its payrolls. At the suggestion of the Agencies of the Government, the Colton Textile industry was also the first to agree to the creation of an Industrial Relations Board compose<r of lahoj* and industry ad of a Chair man . representing the public interest. 7. In the face of all this and under conditions of declining volume of business of' the Industry, the United Textile Workers, who represent only a minority of the employees, ignored all agencies of the N R. A. and called a general strike in this Industry not withstanding the June settlement, i 8. No one deplores more than this Industry, the lawless violence that has grown out of this conflict.—We regret (b) That the Cotton Textile Indus trial Relations Board (the Bruere Board) be enlarged by the addition of theae consequences as the inevitable result of organised assaults upon men and women exercising their right to work. • ■ , one employee representative and onej 9 Under the Joint Resolution (he employer representative, from the Board of Inquiry in inquiring into the Cotton Textile Industry. (c) That one representative of employees of the Cotton Textile In dustry be appointed Labor Advisor to the Government members on the Cot ton Textile (d) That the Administrator further tions Board, including the handling of pending or future claims and com- plaints. the alleged violationa of Sec n»« Emerald UU Ireland la called the Emerald Isle because of the bright verdure of Ua grass abfr other vt^punlon, - * 'condT- tUm due largely to the frequent rains for which the Island is noted. It la supposed that t>r. William Drennan (1754-1820) au Irish physician and poet, was the first to use the name. In a |K>eu> entitled “Erin.” published In 1703. he siienka of “the men of the Emerald Isle.” later. In a letter pub- -Londoa .Votes and Queries, tion 7 (a) and other working condi tions. i facts. We believe such inquiry will be useful, and we will gladly cooper ate in this investigation. 10, We have been upable to fing^, any basis tor a request to the Board of-inquiry ^ftroctT Bs att arbitration board. We have already commented on the impossible conditions attached clearly define the of theXot- th . chatmiin to hta rot- ton Text.!. N.Uon.1 Wn.tri.1 Rela- for fuch , reque » t . 11. Apart from that the issues are not, in our opinion, ap propriate subjects for arbitration. We believs that: (e) That the Research and Planning Division of the N. R. A. be requested to investigate and report on the ability cf he Cotton Textile Industry to assume any further burdens of coat arising out of increases in wage rate or a reduction in hours, or both. "4. The tpnn«! of this settlemenf ~ were promptly applied, by the .Govern* ment agencies and the Industry. he said the name wns original with him. “Contact,” Verb and Nana The verb “contact.” In the sense In which H has been rehabilitated. Is transitive and require* an object Therefore, one either contact* a man or makes a contact with him. In the latter Instance, contact la a ncum.— 1 lOAotAsnas A - ■■ ■ ■ laiiermrj tsigm. Quick Relief for GUIs and Fever and Other Effect* of Malaria! jetting That’s v Don’t put up with the aufferiat of he teeth-chattering chffla and j fever. Get rid ofMalaria by the infection out of your system. it’s what Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic does—destroys and drives out the infec tion. At the same time, it builds up your system against further attack. Grove’S Tasteless Chill Tonic contains taste lea quinine which kills theiaf~~ A, ~~ in the blood. It also contains iron builds up the blood and help* H ove the effects of Malaria as well as fortify against re-infection. INSURANCE^ FIR WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT/- HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. ooooo omomommMMmmm ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel OOOMOOOOOOOOMOMOMOMM (a) Mr. C. M. Fox, « cotton mill employer, was appointed to the Cot ton Textile National Industrial Rela tions Board. (h) ’Mr. Thomas F. McMahon, President of the United Textile Work ers, was appointed to Labor Advisory Beard of the N. R. A. (c) Mr. Abraham Binns, an offi cial of the United Textile Workers, was appointed Labor Advisor to the Government members of the Cotton Code Authority. .Tha right of workers to remain at work free from mass intimidation and violance is created by law; The right to collective bargaining in each plant, defined by the National Recovery Act end embodied in the the dejviand gf-tfag- be to strike chairman that his group recognized as having the right speak for those textile workers who have rejecta^ his leadership, is an is sue already settled by th^law; f \ Changes in the Code provisions as to minimum wage* an i maximum hours involve Code amendments— amendments to theJaw.. The Recov ery Act and the Code provide the only lawful methods for amendments; (d) The Research and Planning Division of the N. R. A. reported that there was no factual or statistical basis for any general increase at that time in Cotton Textile Code wage rates. /The report concluded that in creased production, more or less Matters relating to the socallel “stretch-out” and to alleged violations of Section 7 (a) are matters of Gov ernment administration. Changes in conduct of Governmental administra tion are matters for action by the con stituted authorities. 12. The Board of Inquiry will find that tha Code Authority has hereto fore urged the strengthening and im provement of the functioning of Gov ernment machinery in these matters. simultaneously, in all industries, waa ] We continue to urge the strengthen- “the necessary prior condition fpr a ing of this machinery. 13. The Cotton Textile National This settlement wss signed by 1 Industrial Relations Board (the permanent increase in real wages.” .5. Mr. McMahon and Mr. Gorman in behalf of the United Textile Workers. On July 16th the United Textile Workers called a strike in cotton tex- til* mills throughout the State of Alabama on issuey covered by the June strike settlement Mr. C. M. Fox, al though a member of the Coton Textile Industrial Relations Board, assisted Alohamar and later became a member of general strike comm! the ed Textile Workers, thus ignoring his duties as a member of the official agency created to promote industrial harmony. He was supported in this action by Mr. McMahon, President of the United Textile Workers, and by Mr. Gorman, Vice-President, both of whom had.sigped the strike agreement June 2, 1934. The Cotton Textile Industry was the first industry which appeared be fore the agencies of the Federal Gov ernment, and accepted a code. To further the’.President's recovery pro gram this Industry gladly made im provements in \ working conditions which have h«en the subject of univer sal comment duringXhe past year. The Industry in its cooperation with the Government in the' first daya of the Bruere Board), established under the Code, has been expected to function for 456,000 workers employed by 1200 cotton ihjlls in 25 States, with in sufficient Government appropriation to obtain adequate staff. We there fore specifically urge that the Cotton Textile National Industrial Relations, Board be properly financed to further luate staff of- its selection and operating under its ta perform the tasks assigned to it. 14. After long conference many manufacturers we have read decisions that seem to us inescapable and. which represent the considered opinion of this Industry. V 15. We hold the solemn conviction that the issues at stake go fhr be yond any temporary industrial dis pute. We believe that the future of our country demands our support of the principle that law shall not he amended by force; that the provis ions of a Government Code shall not be changed hy intimidation and vio lence; that the will of Congress and of the President, ss expressed in the procedure off the N. R. A., shall not be set aside by flying squadrons. V = ♦0»00»»000»0»» ♦»»0»»»»»»0»0000»»»jH>000»0 :—I—S ADVERTISE IN THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL OOOOOOOWOOOOOJOOOOOWttPJtgyfM+MMOOOMIMOlO