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• \ CMMlMciM Jna I, im. VOLUME LVIIL r-r r v V cr the Official newspaper of barnwkll county. "Jumt LlkV a M^mbT of lh^ FamUv M BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1934 NUMBER I* Local Fire-fighters Deny Protest Strike Brand as False Rumors That They Re fused to Combat Blaze Here Christmas Night. Members of the local volunteer fire department brand as false the rumors circulating Christmas night that they Seen, and Heard Here During the Past Week OFFER $100 SCHOLARSHIP TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS A Little Sense and Nonsense About People Yon Know and Others You Don’t Know. Ralph Smith, who is now making his home* in Alabama, saying that he was in Shelbyville, Tenn., on the cc- •will refuse to respond! to any more easion of the recent bloody alarms as a protest to the recent ac tion of the city fathers in allowing a carnival to show here under the auspi ces of the American Legion after they had been denied the right to raise funds by this method in the past. When quite a large crowd gathered at the scene of Tuesday night’s fire, which was a small warehouse fronting on the street in the rear of the Court House, it was noted that no effort was being made to run a line of hose to the burning building, whereupon the report gained circulation that the firemen wete striking in protest to city council’s action. E. F. Woodward, a member of tfie organization, was questioned about this report yesterday morning and stated emphatically that there “is ab solutely nothing to it.’’ The chief of the department, Lloyd Vickery, was at the engine house shortly after the alarm was sounded and after looking the situation over, Mr. Wcodwan says they decided that It was a waste of time to combat the blaze, as there was no hope of saving the building from destruction and no likelihood of the fire spreading to nearby struc tures. For that reason and no other, he says, the equipment was not car ried to the scene of the fire. The builcSng destroyed Tuesday night was the property of Mrs. J. A. Porter and 1 was used for the storage of hay by the Barnwell County ERA. f several men were killed in an at tempt to lynch a negro. . . . Two Carolina supporters bemoanifig the ousting of Coach Billy Laval frpm that institution and a listener-in (not a Carolina man) remarking that the sun would probably rise and set the next day in spite of that drastic ac tion. . . . Several airplanes pass ing over Barnwell, one of which was advertising a certain brandl of gaso line through the medium of a loud speaker, the voice several hundred feet in the air being heard quite plain ly by those on the ground. . . Hap py college girls and boys greeting their home-town friencis and acquaintances. . . . Passenger trains on both the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line run ning several hours behind their sched ules, which is considered quite the thing in railrcad circles at this sea son of the year. ... A select coterie of local epicures enjoying “chltterling -partres^ — • . C, II. 1 th * must J*. in S. C. -Hutto; of Elloree, sending in his re The South Carolina Education As sociation is offering a 4-year scholar ship of 1100 per year to any college in South Carolina to a high school stu* dent, and a $10 award to cne elemen tary student in each congressional dis- trict. The State Department of Edu cation will supply the contestants, through their superintendents' and principals, with information on the subjects of the speeches, if it is re quested to do so. Valuable infcrma- -tion may be secured also from the of fice of Education and from the Nation al Education Association, Washing ton, D. C., from the various colleges, etc. The general plan and set up is as follows: ’ v .High School Oratorical Contest. 1. Open to all white students in grades eight through eleven, boys and girls. 2. Speeches must not exceed 12 minutes in length and must be pre pared by the student with the aid of interested citizens, if desired. 3. A 4-year scholarship of $100 per year to the State winner, payable to the college of the winner’s choice— Grammar School Oratorical Contest - Guv’munt” Supports One of Every Five 25,500,000 People Are Financed by Federal Resources, Survey cf ir :— — “—i — —■ ■ Agencies Shows. Washington, Dec. 23.—The closing days of 1934 finds over 25,500,000 per sons—one out of every five in the na tion—looking to the federal govern ment for all, or a substantial portion of their support. These range from the president downward through the army cf offi cials anj employes to the millions who depend upon the federal emergency relief administration. A survey today of federal office holders and employes disclosed that those receiving* salaries and other payments from the government—aside from processing' taxes—total well over 6,500,000. The federal relief administration es timates the average family of four has only one wage earner. In addition, the public works ad ministration estimated that 400,000 were employed directly, and a total of 2,000,000 indirectly on public works administration projects. This organiza tion has spent around) $3,500,000,000 in an effort to crank the business nrotor. Routine erttftloyes, including the White House, congress, the depart ments and miscellaneous commissions, and some trf-the numerous indepemfenr agencies created by the present ad- mlhistration, number 680,181. As for the rest—some 19,000,000 are on federal relief, including 750,- DOO single persons and 4,500,000 fami lies. Public works administration construction projects employ 406,283, the civilian conservation corps 383,798. Employed in emergency recovery agencies are: Agriculture adjustment administration, 6,683; farm credit ad ministration, 6,846; public works ad ministration, 4,999; emergency relief administration, 485; home loan bank board, l7l; housing administration, 1,- 195; home owners loan corporation, 20,538; national recovery administra tion, 3,933; Tennessee valley authority, 12,360. Those (Drawing pay (mostly as em- newal to , The People-Sentinel and writing that, the paper “is so much like a letter from my very own home folk.” s. . . And renewals also from W. T. Hankinson, of Meyer’s Mill; Victor Lewis, of Kline; W. W. Holland, cf Spartanburg; J. O. San ders, of Olar; W. H. DeWitt, Sr., of Blackville; H. T. Youmans, cf Ellen- ton; J. W. Browning, of Blackville, and C. E. Grimes, of Elko. An alarm of fire one day last week when it was discovered that grass was ablaze in a field near the resi dence of L. C. Eidson cn Main Street. . . . Twenty-odd couples enjoy ing “card night” at the Sweetwater Country Club Friday night and an other large gathering in attendance at-the Christmas dance Tuesdlay night. . . . Everybody thankful that the small boys have about exhausted their supply of fire-crackers. . . . A very quiet and orderly Christmas Day in Barnwell, the occasion being more like “just another Sunday” in stead of a gala day. .Mrs. A. N. Garber. 1. Open to all White students be low the eighth grace, boys and girls. 2. Speeches must not exceed 10 minutes in length and must be pre pared by the student with the aid of interested citizens, if desired. 3. $10 in cash to each of the con gressional district winners—no State contest on the grammar grade con test. Plan. 1. School Contests.—Each school district will select its best speaker in the grammar school grades and in high school grades. The contest is to be under the supervision and direction of the superintendent or principal and must be held not later than Feb. 1. 2. County Contests.—The grammar school winners from the several school 2. The consolidated school. 3. The county as the unit. 4. The State as the unit of finan cial support. 5 The unknown teacher, or the forgotten teacher. 6 The new deal in education. 7. Larger units of school adminis tration. 8. New sources of revenue fof schools. 9. The forgotten child'. 10. Three hundred years of high school education. v < 11. The high school of the future. 12. The school—the foundation of a people’s government. 13. Shall politics control the edu cation of children? 14. The public school guarantees the continuation of the best in civili zation. 15 What the public school means to me. 16. Better rural schools. , The schools and law observance. The schools and our economic 17. 18. life. 19. 20 The extravagance cf illiteracy. Educational advantages of the country boy. 21. Our schools, are good because a county contest to select the county winner; likewise the high school con testants. These contests are to be under the direction and supervision of tjje county education association thru its presidbnt, and mus^ be held not later than Feb. 15. 3. Congressional District Contests. —The winners in the several county our district is rich. 22. Do high school students in other States have the advantages that we have? 23. Can South Carolina colleges give me as good educational advan tages as colleges in other States? 24. ' Does South Carolina need junior colleges? 25. Do our teachers have a fair chance to do their best for us? 26. Should more vocational educa tion be given in South Carolina? 26. Is South Carolina spending too much on public school buildings? 28. Should school buses be owned ® • and operated by the district, 4he coun ity, or the State? 29. Are the teachers of South Caro- Una being paid eoough salary for Credit Association Will Meet Jantifury 4 Organization Serving Allendale, Bam berg and Barnwell Counties to Meet Here. The annual meeting of the Barnwell Production Credit Aksotiation serving the counties of Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell will be held Friday, Jan uary 4th, at 10:30 a. m., at the Court Hodse in Barnwell, according to an announcement by F. V. James, secre tary of the organization. Not only are all of the farmer-bor rowers from the association, the hold ers of Class B Stock expected! to be present, but Mr. James said recently that a most cordial inVftation was also extended to all other farmers in the territory served by the association and that it was hoped that large numbers would accept the invitation. “Every member of the association,” saij Mr. James, *<is urged to bring one or more non-members with him as it is cur desire that every farmer in this section shall acquaint himself with the credit service which our organiza tion has to offer. “Directors of the association for the ensuing year “will be elected at this meeting. Every member of the association is entitled to cast one regardless of the number of shares he owns, and it ir to his inter- est to vote for men of the^highest 4n- tegrity and business acurnen. “At the iqeeting a complete report of the year’s operations of the asso ciation will be submitted. The Pro duction Credit Corporation of Colum bia will be represented at the meeting by Ernest Graham, President, who will outline the set-up of the Farm Credit Administration of the third district, the method of control and operation of the Production Credit Associations and will give an explanation of the association’s operating statement from organization through Dec. 31, 1934.” Tarlton Best. Attempt Made to Rob Southern Depot Safe Combination Forced Off But Mbera- *nts Fail to Open Strongbox,— “~ Rifle Found. ’ a. • . . i An effort was made Christmas Eve night to rob the safe at the Southern Railway depot here, but the miscre- before completing the job. In their haste to leave they left behind a crow bar, a brace and four bits and a 22- calibre rifle. After gaining entrace into the of fice, the safe was attacked with a crowbar and the combination, was breed off. It is believed that at this stage, the robbers were frightened away before gaining access to the strongbox. The crowbar and bit* were taken from a local blacksmith shop, according to Sheriff J. B. .Mor ris, who is investigating the robbery^ The only article reported missing was an express package valued at $5. -iti. H^iv --- ■ II ’ V11V * T 30. Should the county superintend ent of education be elected by the people or be appointed by an elected board of education? (The same thing for the State Supt. of Education.) What should be the qualifications for these? 31. Should! school trustees be elect ed by the people or be appointed by a Willistcn, Dec. 25.—Mrs. A. N. Gar ber, 54, died at her heme in Williston Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, fol lowing an illnes of four days with influeneza. Mrs. Garber was before her mar riage Miss Esther Mazursky, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. B. Mazursky, of Barnwell, and had been a resident of Willistcn since childhood. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Miss Dorothy Garber, a student at Brqnau college; Miss Sadie Garber, of Williston; three sons, Sam Garber, of Williston; Mordie Garber, of G’edartown, Ga.; Yale Garber, of Bamberg; two sisters, Mrs. .Edgar Loyns, of Elloree; Mrs. Nathan Kar- tus, of Montgomery, Ala.; two broth-’ ers, Mordecai and Herman Mazursky, of Barnwell. . —Funeral services - wilt be heht contests within a congressional dis-jcounty board of education? m Aiken Wednesday ^fternocn 'at three oYroek. Tritermerrt'fbllowing 'in the Jewish cemetery. trict will compete in a district contest, not later than February 22, to deter mine the district winner in both gram mar grades and high school grades. The district eontest^will be under the direction and supervision of the re spective committeemen of the South Carolina Education Association. This will end the grammar grade contests, and the six district grammar grade 32. Should there be a pension and retirement fund for teachers? 33. Should there be a teacher ten ure law in South Carolina? 34. Should the State provide through scholarships for the educa tion of the boy and girl whose par ents are unable to send them to col lege ? p- 35. Should! textbooks be provided winners will be given $10 each by the j through expenditure of public funds South Carolina Education Association. The siff&congressional winners in the high school contest will compete in Columbia, March 1, 1935, for the State winner. This contest will be under the joint supervision of the State De partment of Education and the South Carolina Education Association. The State winner will be awarded a 4- year college scholarship of $100 per ^ ______ _____ J. M. Weathersbeee. Williston, Die. 23.—J. Morgan Weathersbee, 73, died at his home in the Pleasant Hill community Friday. Mr. Weathersbee is .survived by his widow and one stepchild!, two daugh ters by a former marriage, Mrs. Eunice Owens, of Williston, and Mrs. Tom Weeks, of Jacksonville, Fla., two sisters, Mrs. Mae Creech,, of Willis ton, and Mrs. Walter Hill, of Yemas- see; one brother, R. S. Weathersbee, and a number of grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted by his pastor, the Rev. John Owens, at ployes of private contractors) from the Pleasant Hill Baptist church at 3:30 public works administration include 241,376 on federal projects, such as the Grand Coulee dam on the Colum bia river; 144,800 on non-federal; 19,- 965 'on relief highway construction; 142 in the housing division. Misses Elizabeth and Maizie San tera, of Columbia, were the holiday guest* of their parents. Magistrate and Mr*. J. W. Sanders, of the Big Fork section. Saturday afternoon with interment in the Pleasant Hill cemetery. Mr. Weathersbee had been a mem ber of this church for many years and was a prominent citizen of his com munity. % J. E. Harley, Jr., and Hummel Har ley spent Christmas Day in Colum bia with their father, Lt.-Governor- elect J. E. Harley, who is a patient in' the Columbia hospital per year by the South Carolina Edu- cation Association. • ■, 5. The chairman of each contest unit must give on the day following his contest to*the next “Higher up” chairman the names of the winners; i. e. on Feb. 2 all superintendlents or principals will report the names of their winners to’ the county associa tion president, etc. ■ 6 The State winner will deliver his oration at-the next annual convention of the South Carolina Education As sociation. 7. Certificates signed by the State Supt. of Education and either the High School or Elementary Supervisor (depending on whether the pupil is in the high school or elementary school) and by the President 6t Secretary of the South Carolina Education.! Asso ciation, will be given to all students {certified to by their superintendent or principal as having spoken in the con test either in their school, county, dis trict or State. ; , - Subjects. The general theme fer all the ora tions is “The Educational Conditions and Needs of South Carolina.” The following topics are only suggested as subjects for orations: 1. The school bus and the part it plays in education. for all pupils or only for those whose parents are unable to provide them? 36. Should the public school sys tem be supported entirely by the State or should the counties and local districts be required to supplement Sttfte support? 37. Are the so-called “fringe and fads” such as music, art, kindergarten, gymnastics, various school clubs, ath letics, home economics, janitorial help, science,, etje., .necessary, for modern education? All transportation and other ex penses connected wfth fhe contests are to be paid by the contestants— neither the South Carolina Education Association nor the State Department of Education will pay any of these. The principal of the school may write the State Department of Educa tion, Columbia, i for speech material for pupils in his school. Individual pupils should not write for this ma terial. He should be able to get some good material from the'cffice of Edu cation and 1 from the National Educa tion Association, Washington, D.* C., and from the extension divisions of dolleges and universities. Superin tendents of Education of the different States should be able to help. In writing for material, be very specific in what you want. * inquiries concerning the contest, the prizes and the scholarship should he sent to the South Carolina Education Association, Columbia, but requests for material and help should not be sent to the Association. ’Rales and Regulations. 1. All contestants in each contest should determine their position on the program by lot and speak by num- The body of Tarpon Best, 22, was laid to rest Saturday morning in the John A. Pinckney conducting the services in the presence of a large number of sonfewing relatives and sympathtic friends. Mr. Best died in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday after several years of ill health. He was a son of the late E. Peyton. Best, who was killed here a number of years ago, and Mrs. Frankie Harley Best. Besides his mother, the young man is survived by one sister, Mrs. R. O. Fcl- ker, of Washington, D. C., and two brothers, Edward Best, of Washin($on, and "Rivers Wilson Best, of New York City, and several uncles and aunt's, one of whom is Mrs. Rosabell Peacock, of this city. Among 'the out-of-town Relatives and friends who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Delph, Miss Ger trude Delph and Miss Annie Laurie Brown, of Savannah, Ga.; Mrs. Hutto, Mrs. Moody and two little daughters, of Aiken; Mrs. R. A. Ashe and Mrs H. A. Lazar, of Allendale; Mrs. H. C, Beasley, Miss Florrie Beasley and Hugh Beasley, of Reidsville, Ga., Mrs, Frankie Best, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Best, Miss Dorothy Evelyn Best and Mrs. R. O. Folker, of Washington, D. C. Card of Thinks. •u ’ '• _ ' . • * ' • ' ' • , We. wish to express our thanks am! appreciation for‘the sympathy and kindness shown during the illness am death of our husband and father. Also for the floral offering^. Mrs. J. M. Weathersbee and Fapuly Advertize in The Beopie-Sentine) hers (not by name.) j 2. No oration in the grammar grade contest shall exceed 10 minutes, and no oration in the high schoo 1 shall exceed 12 minutes in length. 3. A tomekeeper, appointed by the chairman, shall notify each contestant at the expiration of his time. A con testant speaking over his time is dis qualified. 4. Judges for each contest shall be secured by the chairman. 5. The judges in all contests shal be directed by the chairman to use the following speech analysis: (a) Selection,* interpretation and appreciation, 40 per cent. (b) Voice, including modulation, enunciation and pronunciation, 30 per cent. (c) Gestures, including ease, grace and naturalness, 30 per cent ~ New Proposal Listed Among ’lan Would Reault in Payment of $1,- 200,000,000 in Cash to World War Vetera—. Washington, Dec. 22. — A new soldiers’ bonus proposal, which would result in the payment of $1,200,000,000 in cash to veterans, took a high place tonight on the list of compromise plans submitted to the adiministration. • Informed sources, who declined to bo quoted by name, said the scheme had been given careful study by of ficials familiar with the troublesome issue, who hoped to evert a strong move for immediate cash payment of the certificates. The latest plan.—should it be ac cepted—is depended upon by its initia tors to settle the question and to save the treasury a billion dollars be sides. The proposition calls for the certi- ficates to be paid in 1935* Mki thelaw _ would be amended so they would datb from Armistice day, 1918, instead of 1925, as at present. The certificates under existing legislation would ma ture in 1945. But the bonus group wants immediate payment. Advocates Argument. ' - On this basis the certificates would be paid on a maturity of 17 years, instead of 20, as proposed in the Pat man bill. Advocates of the plan argue that if the date of tKe certificates were mov ed back to the end of the World War, veterans would receive all but three years of interest on the certificates if they were paid in 1935. One of those who is supporting-4he proposal-outlined the situation thus: “The average Certificate is around $1,000. About 80 per cent, of the veterans already have borrowed 60 per cent, of the total value. Under our proposition, a veteran who had borrowed $500 on a $1,000 certificate would receive about $300 in call. “It is roughly figured that this would cost about $1,200,000,000 and would save the government $1,000,- 000,000.’' Bonus Measure Certain. Flguroa on the actual cost, however. are being compiled by the veterans’ bureau at the request of certain con servative administration followers on Capitol Hill, who say that some sort of bonus legislation is certain to pass the new congress. The proposal already has been dis cussed in general terms with Repre- senative Patman (Democrat) of Tex., author of the bonus bill calling for full payment of the certificates— amounting to $2,200,000,000 — next year. ^ . Patman has said that the time to discuss compromises is in the event of a presidential veto. Thus far, the administration hmtr frowned on such measures as the Pat man bill. However, the report has been widely circulated that tbs presi dent would not oppose a bill to pay needy veterans. si M Suffers Stroke, of Paralysis. The friends of Mrs. G. Price will learn with regret that she fered a stroke of paralysis at her here Sunday afternoon, her left being affected. Her conditio© 4a side red quite serious. ■'Sa'-SBR .