The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, February 21, 1935, Image 4
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THE BARNWELL PEOFLB.SEffTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2i, 1985
Tha Barnwell Peopie^Scntinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
184A—ISIS.
m. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION 0 RATES:
One Yeitr $1.60
Six Months JK) \
(Strictly in AdTanee.).
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935
BarnweR County’s Finances.
welfare, we sincerely hope that he from taxation, and the printers pay
will, for if the executive and the their just proportion of taxes* Every
lejhslative branches o$ the government time that government—State, or na-
are divided by bitter hatreds, nothing tional—enters into competition with
worthwhile can be accomplished. In private industry, it reduces the abili-
that event, however, the legislature ty of that industry to meet its tax
would have the advantage, as it could assessments.
Ifiss legislation over the governor’s! There has long been a great hue and)
veto. On the other hand, with such cry over the high cost of textbooks,
a close division of strength, as shown bul it should be remembered that af-
by the highway bill vote, it is hardly ter all this is a comparatively small
probable that many vetoes would be item in the average family’s annual
over-riddten. 1 budget Furthermore, the establah-
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Three Months .60^ k Representatives Blatt, of Barnwell, ment of a State printery will be no
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Last week The People-Sentinel pub
lished a statement of Barnwell Coun
ty’s finances covering the period from
1929 to 1934. It revealed a number
•f interesting facts, not the least
among which was that showing tax
induction amounting to $108,511.48,
an average of more than $20,000
year. And while taxes were being re
duced by this amount, there was a
steady reduction in the county’s in
debtedness, $61,000 having been paid
on bondis and $50,000 on county notes,
thereby reducing these items of in
debtedness from $194,000 to $93,000—
a matter of more than 50 per cent.
Tn addition, the school indebtedness
was likewise substantially reduced—
, from $172,000 to $99,000, county
v^fchool notes amounting to $35,000 and
school bonds of $98,000 having been
Pdid. The net result of all of this
is that taxes were reduced $108,511.48
and county and school indebtedness
$174,000, a total saving to the tax
payers of $282,511.48 Aver a period
of five years. In terms of mills it
represents a reduction for ordinary
county purposes and bonds from 23
mills in 1929 to 10 mills in 1934—
nearly 60 per cent. We doubt if there
be another county in South Carolina
that can show a, better financial record
during the depression.
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NING ON A CASH BASIS.
It is a record cf which the county
officials who are responsible for the
aaving may be justly proud and while
they may be a little too modest to
proclaim their very worthy achieve
ment, The People-Sentinel is glad to
call it to the attention of the taxpay
ers of the county. It is a vindication
of their judgment in electing worth
while officials to^ postions of honor
and) tust. We commend and con
gratulate the officers themselves for
being able to effect such savings when
various other governments—national,
State and county—faced steadily
mounting deficits
Some months ago, a daily news
paper published a dispatch from Barn
well in which it was stated that this
county was unique in that there was
"no politics,” reference being had to
the fact that ALL of the county offi
cials were unopposed for reelection.
A corresponefent in another town took
issue with that statement and alleg
ed that a great political upheaval had
been averted by the narrowest cf mar
gins—that the body politic was sit
ting on a seething volcano that was
on the verge of erupting: But tbf
people don’t "upheave” when their
chosen representatives do their sworn
duty as they appear to be doing in
Barnwell County and in such instances
the so-called seething volcanoes quite
often turn out’tq be a mountain rin
labor that finally brings forth a
mouse
We cb not say that any particular
man or set of men should be per
petuated in office—such a practice is
jrepugnant to our form of government
—but we do submit that tried and
worthy public servants who are per
forming their duties in a highly ac
ceptable manner should not be dis-
placed to gratify the selfish wishes of
others who think that “So-and-So
has had the job long enough.” It is
time enough to kick them out when
they cease to get results.
So, we take pleasure in commending
our county officials for performing a
worthy piece of work in a worthy
manner.
But, then, it is no more than we
expected of them in the first place.
Congratulations, gentlemen!
and Smith, of Williston, both opposed guarantee of the lower cost of text-
the governor’s reorganization bill, but books. On the contrary our general
they stand on solid ground in this experience vith government in busi-
matter. They cannot be charged with
opposing a reorganization of the high
way commission, for the reason that
last session—a year before Governor
Johnstn’s election and inauguration—
they sponsored a measure reducing
ness has shown the opposits to be
true. The* cost df operating such
plant must, of course, be provided by
taxation an<] any deficit must come
from the pockets of the people. As
a rule, government employes are paid
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the membership of the commission tu|e. higher scale of wages and its plants
are operated on a more extravagant
basis than individually owned plants.
Therefore, we doubt seriously if there
would be any actual saving in the
long run. We are more inclined to
the opinion that the cost would be
greater. In the meantime, private in
dustry would suffer in the loss of
businees to which it is justly entitled.
But if it be true that the State can
save money for its citizens in the mat
ter of printing textbooks, why would
hot it be reasonable to demand like
savings in the larger items of the
family budget?—those of food and
clothing? Why not install State-
operated butchers and bakers and
candlestick makers?
The People-Sentihel hopes that the
members of the general assembly will
give serious and careful consideration
to this matter before launching the
State upon a dangerous undertaking.
six (the ’number proposed by the
present chief executive), but their bill
provided for the ELECTION of the
members by the legislature, whereas
under the Johnston bill they would
have been APPOINTED by the gov
ernor, with himself as ex officio
chairman.
We believe that Messrs. Blatt ant
Smith are as much opposed to the
highway commission being operatet
as a political machine as is Governor
Johnston, and they are unalterably op
posed to its being operated as a ONE
MANj political machine. Colone
Blatt Uade it very clear in his speech
that he did not believe that the pres
ent governor would try to operate it
as such, but one of his successors
might. The People-Sentinel agrees
with them that South Carolina does
not want a one-man political machine
any more than it does a 14-men ma
chine, arm R seems to us that there
is less likelihood of the commission
degenerating into a political machine
under the plan of electing its mem
bers than there would be if they were
appointed by the governor. We ex
pressed ourself along this same line
in these columns two weeks before
the debate in the house.
Governor Johnston may or may not
oppose the reelection of those who
fought his bill, but if he should bring
his fight into Barnwell County, we
have enough faith in the fair-minded
ness of our voters to believe that
they will place their stamp of approval
on the action of our representatives in
this matter. In our humble opinion,
Messrs. Blatt and Smith did nothing
more than their full duty in protecting
the people of the State from the perils
of a political machine more dangerous
than the one pictured by Governor
Johnson in his attacks on the present
highway commission during his last
campaign.
Governor Johnston should not let
his fight on the highway commission
become an obsession to the exclusion
of other matters equally as important.
Who Is He?
In a letter to The Greenville Obser
ver, in which former Governor Cole
L. Blease corrects a story published
by that newspaper relative to the
manner of removal of his picture from
the governor’s office and his future
political intentions, Mr. Blease denied
that he will be a candidate for the U.
S. Senate next year, stating: “There
is a younger man than myself, who I
think will receive my full, whole
hearted support beyond any doubt if I
am living.”
Mr. Blease’s statement will occasion
much' political speculation as to the
identity of the “younger man.”
Who is he?
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More Government|Competitic.fi.
Speaking of Mandates.
Govwtncr and the-Legilsature.
We believe that Governor Johnston
nude a grave mistake last week when,
disappointed over the defeat of his
bin to reorganize the State highway
ion, he declared that he would
'carry the fight to “the people” in the
. primaries next year. His declaration
pwt the Jpgislators who had opposed
Ids pet piece of legislftiort on notice
that he is their politcal enemy and
can only serve t6 strengthen their
exposition to him on. future worth
while measures that he might pro-
It may be that he will hav?
his error before this issue of
from the
People-Sentinel comes
In the interest of the State’s
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We see by the papers that the legis
lature is flirting with tho idea of put
ting the State of South Carolina into
the printing and publishing business,
the senate last, week having adopted
a resolution for tf joint committee “to
investigate posgibilites of establshing
a State press to print textbooks.”
Textbooks used by the pupils of the
schools in this State are not published
by South Carclina concerns and it
may be argued that if they be printed
by the State, there will be no compe
tition with South Carolina prnters.
But there are several concerns in this
State that have the facilities for print
ing such books and th «y should be
given the opportunity of producing
the books needed in our schools.
The establishment of a State print
ing plant is fraught with much danger
to the printing inctostry of South
Carolina. From the publishing of
If Governor Johnston had been elect
ed! in the first primary last sUmmer,
he could horfestly claim that he had a
mandate from the people of the State
to^ouStThr pT^gflrlir^ay commiT-
sioners and reorganize the commis
sion. That was the main plank in his
platform.
But Mr. Johnston received only 104,-
000 votes out of a total of nearly 300,-
000 cast—far from a majority. The
second race was between him and
Mr. Blease, and more-than 100,000
voters whose first choice was neither
of these two gentlemen, had to choose
one or the other as (to them) “the les
ser of two evils.” In the second pri
mary this large group of voters divid
ed their ballots pretty evenly between
the two candidlates.
To claim, therefore, that Governor
Johnston has a mandate from the peo
ple on this particular plank of his
platform seems absurd to us.
He does have, however, a clear man
date on the legalized control of
iquor. There was a direct election
field on that question in connection
with the first primary, and the result
showed overwhelming sentiment in.
: r avor of legalized control.
Governor Johnston should not let
his disappointment over the defeat of
his pet highway measure warp his
good judgment in regard to other mat
ters of importance.
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NOTICE
SECOND NEGRO ESCAPE IS
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LODGED IN COUNTY JAIL
The sheriff’s office has scored a,, ■
other victory in the capture Saturday
of Junius Heyward, one cf the three
negroes who escaped from the Barn
well County jail cn the night of Sep
tember 15th last. It will be recall
ed that “Bo” Miller, awaiting trial on
murdler charge, Dallas Brown and
Junius Heyward let themselves down
from a seecntf^story window by means
of ropes made from bed sheets, and
made an apparently clean geUaway,
but the, ever Vigilant Sheriff Morris
has been continually on the job and
Miller was caught in Massachusetts
just 60 days from the time of his
escape and returned to this county.
Word was receivedl Saturday morn
ing at the sheriff's office that Hey
ward had been seen near Cope, this
State, and Deputy Sheriff Gilmore S.
Harley, together with Policeman Geo;
Gray, of Blackville, captured him be
tween Cope and Cordova and lodged
him in the Barnwell pail.
TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER
State of South Carolna,
County of Barnwell.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
B. .SPELL, Plaintiff, >
vs.
EMMA MINES, and JOHN DOE rep
resenting all other heirs and distri
butees at law, if any, of George
Mines, deceased, whose names and
addresses are unknown to the plain
tiff, and Richard! Roe representing
all the creditors, if any, of the said
George Mines, deceased, whose
names and addresses are unknown
to the plaintiff, Defendants.
TO THE MINOR DEFENDANTS
ABOVE NAMED, IF ANY, AND
TO THE PERSONS WITH WHOM
SAID MINORS RESIDE:
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE that, unless you procure the
appointment of a guardian .ad litem
to represent you in the above entitled
action within tiyenty days from the
service of this notice upon yoq, ex
clusive of the day of such service, the
plaintiff herein will apply to the Court
for the appointment of a guardian ad
litem to represent you in thi,g action.
— BLATT & FALES,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Barnwell, S. G., Feb. 5, 1935.
80 People Out of 100 Who Die Tonight
- - Leave Nothing but Life Insurance.
You select your family physician and your lawyer*—why not select
your Life Insurance agent to advise with you and to see that your
widow and children get every dollar due them ? '
THOS. O. LAWTON, Life Insurance Consultant
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO., GARNETT, S. C.
P. S.—A post ^prd! addressed to me as above will bring me immediately.
PROQRAM
REX THEATRE
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22-23
“FURTING WITH DANGER”
-WITH—
NOTICE OF DISCHARGE.
Notice is hereby given thdt I have
filed my final accounting's Adminis-
school textbooks to the printing of the . tratrix upon the estat&df C. M. Rogers,
hundreds of iterfcs of printed matter j Jr., with the Hon^Sohn K. SneUiqg,
us*d by the ^tate government and its Judge of Prohafe, Barnwell County,
various departments is just a step, 1 and will petition the said! Court for an
.and from that to the furnishing of Order o£/t)ischarge and! Letters Dis-
printed supplies to the 46 counties is missopy jpon Saturday, Februay 23rd,
juit another. And there we: would , at^0:00 o’clock m the forenoen.
have very active government compe- tX > JEVELYN ROGERS,
tition with every individual printing Admx. Estate of C. M, Rogers
plant in South Garolina. Deceased.
Government derives iU revenue Barnwell, 3. C, Jan. 28, 198$. 4tp!
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S. B. SPELL, Plaintiff,
vs.
EMMA MINES, and! JOH>rDOE rep
resenting all other h*
butees at law, if/any, of tieorge
Mines, deceased; whose names arid
- addresses aj^unknown to the plain
tiff, and/itichard Roe representing
all the'ereditors, if any, of the said
ge Mines, deceased, whose
ames and addresses are unknown
to the plaintiff, Defendants.
TO -THE MINOR DEFENDANTS
ABOVE NAMED, IF ANY, AND
♦ TO THE PERSONS WITH WHObJ
SAID MINORS RESIDE: *
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE ^at a cobv mid the original
of the Notice, Petition and Or<ksr in
the above entitled action were filed
on the 5th Any of February, 1935, in
the office of the Clerk of Court of
Barnwell County. ;
^ BLATT, & FALES,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
R. L. BRONSON, T*
Clerk of Court,
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Robert Armstrong, Edgar Kennedy and
WiHiam Cagney.
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