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■ X' THURSDAY, APRIL- UTH, 1935. TheBarnweU Peopl€«Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 184*—1912. i 1 B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ono Year Six Months - .90 Three Months .50 (Strictly in Adranco.) THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH, 1935. Mr. Holmes’ Letter. The People-Sentinel takes pleasure in reproducing in this issue a letter from Mr. J. Duncan Holmes, a native of Barnwell, who has cast his lot in the North and for the past several years has been associated with the Standard Statistics £o., a nationally known concern. We . appreciate all that he has to say about the cotton situation and our views thereon, but we fear that he has absorbed the opinions of big business in regard to the plight of the cotton farmer (though, of course, he is more sympa thetic by reason of hi s early environ ment) and agrees with it, to a certain extent, that the South should continue to raise crops of cotton at ruinously low prices in order to compete with foreign growths and thereby help maintain a favorable balance of trade. Mr. Holmes, in commenting on the idea of “a fixed price in this country, coopled with a subsidy on exports to make up the difference between the low worldl price and our domestic price,” says that such subsidies are regarded as the moral equivalent of “dumping” and would provoke repris als. But isn’t it true that certain large manufacturers of machinery in this country have been selling their products in foreign countries consid erably under the prices charged here? Has their practice provoked reprisals? And just why is it all wrong for the American farmer to apply the practices of industry to this business of farming in an attempt to get a decent price for his product ? There has been considerable criticism of the Roosevelt administration’s ef forts to boost prices of agricultural products by controlled production, which is noting more than an attempt to fit the supply to the dlemand, but when a manufacturer curtails his out put to equalize supply and demand it i 8 considered very good) business. Nobody thinks that he should manu facture in excess of the demand for his product and throw his surplus cn foreign markets in order to maintain a favorable balance of trade, and the American manufacturer has the added advantage of selling his product in a tariff protected market for a large part of his output. We would hate to think that the Southern farmer must continue to produce cotton at prices that will not permit him to attain some semblance of the vaunted American standard of Irving—that he and his family are forced to continue lives of dreary db-udgery—and that may account for our failure to face the realities of the situation. We much prefer to believe that It i s a .problem that can be and will be solved, and that the solution will bring peace and prosperity to a favored section. But it will not be solved without the cooperation of the interests that are so extremely anx ious to maintain a favorable trade balance, even though it be maintained at the expense of the cotton farmer. Mike Tries tp Explain the Situation, mr. henry s. wallis, seeker-terry of agger-culture, Washington, d. C. deer sir:— please pardon me for riting this letter, but it seems that you ought to have some information from poor folks that you don’t seem to have in yore files ansoforth. at a meeting of the citizens of flat rock last night which was hell in our •citly hall, we had a few talks ■ from working men about yore processing taxes on cotton and wheat and hogs. t % I at least the shirt and sox reppresentg the bootleggers voted for him, he processing taxes. . slid in. rawElTiii poor folks pay most of these high --yore cotry spondent, mr. mike k'c/ processing taxes onner count of they ! ^ ar ^* mpught enter the race have to wear cheap, heavy cotton, for ma y €r * but he realises that* it is COLDS«P clothes, and eat plain bread and! sop gravy made from the" lowest twice a very difficult job to elect a good man to offis, so he is “liessertating HELPS PREVENT MANY COLDS Let's go places .... I cuts of the shote, which is almost out bet wix t in and staying out.' of reach, and furthermore, ever other chaw of tobacker is taxes and 8 puffs trot of 10. from a 'clfca rette is Also taxes. rich folkg don’t eat the stuff is taxed; they dine oif planked^ftea caviar, roast turkey, codfish balls, etc., and) rarely ever tetch the artick- les that carry all of the tax burden, they don’t have to wear cotton clothes that weigh over 5 ounces per pair, they buy silks and) sattins and im ported woolen goods. the crowd decided that you fellers have got the brakes tightly sot on prosperity, and yore processing taxes is the said brakes, you are forcing the north and east and south and west to grow their own bread and go naked at the same time, and! y»u are shut ting down our cotton mills and piling up big surpluses of cotton and wheat by not knowing but one side of the question, and thfm we all got go mad, we adjourned. — yores in misery, mike Clark, rfd. tax-payer. he is well quallerfled to- hold! this posish, but he hales publicerty an ■i ■ Mfii m^SL -- - - -* - but oren . ..art square is flggering on asking for the job of aldermon for the en- Legal Advertisements 6-cord thread holds me fasti NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that I will suing term from ward 2, but his file my final account as Administra- wife has not yet give him her con sent to enter the race, the fees for running for annythlng are as fol lowers: mayer 5$, aldermen, 2$ each, th^ poleesman’s job is usual ly a peace of pie bonded out by the mayer.v v -..perry winkle, our new citizon, wants to run for something, but he is out-lawed onner count of he has not resided in flat rock long enough to be alligihle t« hold offis, but he says he would be ok if the election would be hell in august instead of june. he want s to be the poleesman if he can’t get nothing else. j Mike Offers Huey Long His Valuable Services, hon. huey long, battan rogue, la. deer sir and bro:— plese rite or foam me at once and let mq know if you can use me as a big organ-nizer of yore “shear the wealthy” program an f j let me make speeches all over thq country on yore flat form, i need! the job and i can out bally-hoo anny other man on yore staff. you can turn georgy over to me to convert and i will have over 3 million folks in that state on yore side in less than 6 weeks, as i was borned in that state myself and stand verry high wherever i have benn contaekted. i believe in yore pollicies and think the poor folk s is all reddy to get their shears. as i understand it, you intend t° take everything away from everbod- dy that has got annything to be took and divide it out amongst the folks that have not got nothing so’s they can get off of the relief rolls anso forth. i guess you will divide up the land betwixt us just the same as you do our monney. _ .nearly everbodidy who is running have different kinds of planks in their respectible platforms, holsum moore is wet, art square is <|ry, the pressent mayer is on the fence as usual, yore corry spondent, mike Clark, rfd, is a libberal and will a- bide by the voice of the people as to licker. lookout for more news a- bout this from time to time, yores truulie, yores trulie, cony spondent. Why Children Shciuld Go to Church. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8.) when you come to henry ford, plese let me suggest that you make him run our factory just as he is do ing, but force him to give fcverboddy a nice car for nothing and let hun work for 10 a day, just Tike govvev- munt men cSd enduring the worlds war. this will beat tearing down his plants and shipping them to us. * mr. holsum moore took the floor and prored that ever third biscuit we eat is processing taxes, and ever fourth bite of fatback we swallow (we ain’t able to eat anny other part o( a hog) ig processing taxes. if we happen to be able to wear 1 pair of over-halls and 1 over-hall Jacket and I pair o^ sox and 1 cham- J**y shirt aim 1 peace of underwear, i suppose you will charge a com mission for what you get turned over to us.’ in other words, you wiU take fifty-fifty for* yore shear of what is took over, i think that will be verry cheap work and we will all be willing to let you iletain same, and you are, to get a 500000000$ home instead of a*®500$ one. some of your friends down here are alreddy pulling for me to get on yore band-waggin, and if i do, i will make' s.peecha a from ever scap box in the world if you will pay me enough travelling expenses ansoforth. the peeple is a little bit harder to fool than they was befoar mr. roseyvelt hope them so much, but i believe i and you can turn the trick and keep up their sperrits till you get all you want, i will be waiting for yore or ders. yores trulie, . - mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. r Political News from Flat Rock. -.polliticks have commenced to boil in our midst, everboddy is getting redldy for the muny-cippal election in flat rock at which time a new mayer and 4 new counsells will be chose at the poles. been regular attendants at Sunday school. There is a moral restraint in the religion which we receive in the worship service which has its influ ence upon the children. Real religion is mediated in worship, and in worship only. What is mainly wrong with the present generation of young people is that they have no religion, and the fathers and mothers are, in most cases, responsible for this tragic con dition. From their infancy most of the children of today have been stran gers to the place and the hour and the means where and whereby religion is imparted. And for none of this are they responsible. ’’The challenge of childhood is put up squarely to thi s generation in a \vay in which it has never been put *before. There is no more opportune challenge before us, and yet a great percentage of our people are not ful ly conscious of it. Fatherhood has ’been a neglected' art. Men have thought that their greatest concern was the gaining of food and clothing and shelter and money for comforts and luxuries. The greatest gift a man can give to his son is his own character consecrated to Christian ♦ living. Give me.the manhood of today, consecrated to Christ, and the problem of childhood will fade. ..the bumble-bee “has aireddy got into holsum moore's head and he will no doubt throw his hat into the ring for mayer in the near future, he has alreddy qpnunenced to shake hands with everboddy he meelfc and he has also died his mushtach a dark brownr AAI88 GRACE MOORE, lovely #V1 alnolno l« hoard each Tuesday evening on • coast to coast network of the Nstionsl Broadcsst- irtg Company. Her weakly concerts «ra made up of requests from hor radio listeners. --tom head, the pressent encum brance from ward 3, will be in the race again, he is the guy that beat spudd Clark last year by 3 votes. * verrjr-sorry man to repper- 6(6 checks. LIQUID TABLETS COLDS and FEVER first day HEADACHES in 30 minotes. tor upon the estate' of M.. B. Hagood, deceased, with the Hon. John K. Snel- ling, Judge of Probate for Barnwell County, State of South Carolina, upon Monday, April 22nd, 1935, ab 10:00 o’ clock in the forenoon, and petition^the" said Court for an Order of Discharge and Letters Dismiss ory. ^ G. B. hago6d, ” Admr. Estate of M. B. Hagood. March 22, 1935." 4t. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that I will file my final account with the Hon. John K. Snelling, Judge of Probate for Barnwell County, State of South Carolina, as Administratrix upon the estate of Joe F.‘Ready, deceased, up on Tuesday, the 9th day of April, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, m\di will petition the said Court for an Order of Discharge and Letters Dismissory •• CORA E. READY, Admtrix., Estate of Joe F. Ready, Deceased. March 14, 1935. 4t. B usin esc uilderO .X**X M X M X M X~X~X~X~X~X~X**X M X* FOR SALE:—All kinds of cut flowers and Easter lillie s for Easter. —Mrs. Ola^ee Cail, Barnwell, S. 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