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-r USB FOUR. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA r- THURSDAT, APRIL 25TH, 1SS5. ■b K i ^ s' I L" ‘ fer fc. JCP4 K. as*. The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES \lS49—191S, B, P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprirtor. Entered at the poat office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ,t One Year $1.50 Six Monihs -— — .00 Three Months *50 (Strictly In Adraac#.) THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH, 1935. Matching Federal Relief. An effort is to be made to get the general assembly to .appropriate $2,- 600,000 to “match" federal relief ex penditures ip South Carolina; other wise, it i 8 said, this money will be withheld from the State. Proponents of the appropriation point to the fact that the sum of $37,000,000 has been expendedl by federal relief agencies in South Carolina in the past two years. The legislature is hard pressed to keep the general appropriation bill within the estimated revenue, without increasing the levy or creating new sources of revenue, and it is also a fact that there are thousands of unpaid tax executions in the hands of the sheriffs and tax collectors in the vari ous counties, including Barnwell., The sum demanded by the federal govern ment if it is to continue it s activities in this State is about one-third of the present 'annltKa) S ate appropriation bill and would mean just that much increase in the tax bill of the citizens. How is it to be paid ? If the property owners now find it difficult to pay their taxes, how are they to meet this additional demand? A general sales tax is proposed by some advocates of the additional ap propriation, but no matter how it is raised, it must come from the pockets of the people, most of w’hom have be come thoroughly disgusted with the spectacle of waste in the administra tion of relief. With this picture before their mind’s eye, and with the burden of taxation already resting heavily upon them, they are in no mood for edcS- thmal taxes and the quicker the mem bers of the general assembly realize this fact, the better for all concerned. We understand that the members of the Barnwell delegation are opposed to the proposed appropriation and we hope that they will throw the strength of their influence against it. And whether or not South Caro lina appropriates one cent to “match” federal funds, we contend! that the State is entitled to a part of the bil lions that Congress has made avail able. Our citizens are being taxed by the federal government to pay the bond 8 that are issued and we are con tributing our pro rata share to the various relief measures. Furthermore, the 37 million dollars that have been sent into the State is miserably small when compared to the huge amounts that have been spent in other States, the amount per capita allowed “cli ents” in the North and West being several times as much as the “dble” in South Carolina, due to the different “standards of living” in these sections. In other words, it has been costing the federal government several times as much to maintain a family in New York City on the scale to which it has been accustomed as it does to en able a similar family in South Carolina to eke out a bare existence. We want to see this State get its share of federal money, but we are most certainly opposed to imposing additional taxes on our people in order to get something to which we are al ready rightly entitled. Allendale Store Sells. ml Allendale, April 21.—Edenfield Cul- lom, who for the last five years has - been associated- with -J. H, -Langford in the Unity Grocery store, announced^ this week that he had bought the business from Mr. Langford and is assuming active management. Mr. Langford plans to ~go to Beaufort, where he will operate a wholesale grocery and meat business. Dock Drawdy, of Blackville, will as sist Mr. Cullom in managing the Uni ty store. He and Mrs. Drawdy have moved to Allendale and are occupy- W one of the Barker apartments. “Alice in Wonderland.” The Barnwell grammar grades will 'pngsent “Alice in Wonderland,” a fascinating operetta, this (Thursday) evening, April 25th, at eight o’clock. At has bean the curtom, no admission -win he charged for this entertainment, hot as the school i s anxious to have \ « library in keeping with the hand some new school building, k' basket wriB be placed at the entrance for -silver offerings. This offering will be seed for the worthy purpose of pur- mucb ““needed new books for school library. “Woodlands for Sale or Lease” Reads Sign Home of W. Gilmore Simms in Bsm- berg County.—Writer Recalls Family History^ (Chlotilde R. Martin in The State.) “Woodlands for sale or lease,” reads a sign in front of a stately oki farm home near Bamberg on the Augusts - Charleston highway. The passerby senses a prick of memory and slows down. Woodlands was open to friends . and it was filled with not only celebrities from thia country but also from across the sea, who came to see him at Woodlands. Among the notables to visit woodlands were William Cullen Bryant, who used to ride , in his car riage frem the North and spend weeks at a time there, and said he was re conciled to slavery when he saw it et Woodlands; Elbert Hubbard, who wrote of his visits to Woodlands in his hook, “Little Journeys to Homee of Great Americans;” Timrod, H-ayne and others. . During the Confederate war, Simms Woodlands?” This is a fast-mov- left Woodlands temporarily-and went ing world and the interests of even the day before yesterday are soon dimmed, but “Woodlands” has a fa miliar ring. One scratches one’s head —although it never was considered an elegant gesture—the better to think. “Ah! William Gilmore Simms. The hom^ of South Carolina’s own famous son, author poet, historian. One sees the big old house, surrounded by an cient mosa-covered oaks, with sad dened eyes. Once the scene of bright ness and gaiety, the gathering place of the distinguished from all walks of life from American an<t foreign lands, Woodlands is now only a mute mon ument to the past, a tomb for crowd ed, dusty memories, and haunting echoes. One’ 8 eyes drift back to the sj^gn end the name beneath it and one gets a shock—“W. Gilmore Simms; Man ning, S. C.” Visited in the Manning Drug store, Mr. Simms, a slim, white-haired gen tleman with a gentle, scholarly face, proved to be the gradnson and! name- rake of William Gilmore Simms. Woodlands is for sale, he explained, because none of the family can live there and its care has become too expensive and burdensome. The tract of land known as Wood lands comprises 23,000 acres of land. A 25 or 30 horse farm is under culti vation with 12 tenant houses scattered about over the place. In addition to the farming land on the plantation, it has large wooded areas where game is plentiful. Quail especially is numerous, a s is the wild duck. The plantation is bordered on one side by the Efdisto, River, which affords beautiful scenery and fishing. The present house at Woodlands, a large two-storied brick dwelling, spacious and gracious looking, is not the original Woodlands, which was burned by a party of stragglers of the Union army the day after the of ficer left in charge to protect the home and the splendid library there*, said to have been the largest private library in the South, had gone. The faithful slaves salvage^ a great num ber of books and* some of the furni ture. 4 Woodlands was a complete wreck after the fire except for one wall, which ha/d been left standing. The present building was added to this one wall. Even the same brick were used to rebuild the house. The brick were all hand-made, from clay on the farm at Woodlanch and by the slaves of the plantation. The walls of the present Woodlands, as of the original, are of to Columbia to edit a newspaper and it waa while he was .there that a guard was stationed at Woodlands to protect it from Union soldBers, be cause the North contended that Simms rightljT belonged to the nation and not to the South alone. And now the old house stands there just off a modern paved highway alone with its glorious memories with ai “For Sale” sign swinging disconso lately not fa raway. iWp m. • m&zM • • • \ ■ The V m X'vX*tvXvX> . . v ' ■ . ivlvIvL-’: Universal Car r.-- • ■• : ****>':v m ■U ; Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. « Mike Clark Makes Some Suggestions to Uncle Sam. mr. hennery moorgan thaw, seeker-terry of the tressure, Washington, d. C. deer sir:— * i want to be some help to the gov- verment in givving away monney, and hope you will appreciate my advice as much as you did mr. townsend’s ( ad vice from callyforny. he is not asking for enough for old-agers, and; further more, he is skipping other folks who ought to be remembered by old sandy claws. i want you to please take the fol- lowering recker-mendations befoar congress and see if you can get them added to what has alreddy benn spoke of. i propose that the govverment make prepper-rations to pay pensions, allowances, doles, rebates and com pensations on the schedules named below, vizzly, per month basis anso- forth: folks over 65 J 500$ folks under 65 400$ married folk s 300$ babips 150$ twins and triplets, each 100' quintuplets, quadruples and tertios 75$ world -war vetterans 800$ eivvil war Vetteran s -900$ yankee vetterans 5$ all others 450$ One name comes quickly to mind when you think of “The Universal Car.” The description is distinctively Ford. No other car i$ used by so many millions of men and women in every part of the world. Everywhere it is ihe symbol of faithful service. .^.That has always been a Ford funda mental. Something new is constantly being added in the way of extra value. Each year the Ford has widened its appeal by. increasing its usefulness to motorists. . . .Today’s Ford V-8 is more than ever “The Universal Car” because it enciteles the needs of more people than any other Ford ever built. It reaches out and up into new fields because it has everything you need in a modern automobile. . . . The Ford V-8 combines fine-car performance, comfort, safety and beauty with low first cost and low cost of operation and up-keep. There is no other car like it. 1 FORD V-8 $♦95 up, f.o. b. Detroit. Standard accessory group including bumpers and spare tire extra. Small down payment. Easy term* through Universal Credit CompanyXAH body types have Safety Glass throughout at no extra cost. the next thing the govverment ought to do after getting lined up as herein set forth js—stop everb'oddy from working^tlose all factories, shoot all mules, Hosses, jackasses, tractors, and other faim emplements, quit making anything, and buy everthing we drink, wear and use from the furrin nations wiio owe - Easter Egg Hunt Enjoyed. Wenesday afternoon, ])frs. W. W. Carter entertained the young children of the Primary Department of the local Baptist Sunday School at an Easter egg hunt.' After the egg hunt, the hostess served ice cream and sweet crackers. Quite a number of little folk were present and a delight ful evening was spent. solid brick, 18 inches thick. William Gilmore Simms came into the possession of Woodlands, after his marriage to Miss Chevilette Reach and here he spent the happiest days of his life. He came,to Woodlands after he had b^rome Well known "in the 222,567.00$ til* we get paid up.- we can Hye decent with out work and worry., if the govverment will pay us enough. plese inter-duce this as the “mike Clark, rfd.” plan, and send him his North for his writings and after bit- 500$ at once, as he is over 65 alred- ter struggles in his native State over his political beliefs. Simms was owner and editor of The City Gazette, a newspaper published in Charleston at the time that John C. Calhoun was gets it. preaching nullification in the senate. South Carolina was divided against it self in the dispute, one group called itself “Nullifiers,” arguing the right of any State to nulifiy an act of the national government, and the other group calling itself “Unionists,” who insisted that a State could withdraw fronv the—Union btrt -eottW net- mrHify- an act of the federal government. dy, make it a law th#t everboddy re ceiving govverment. aid on this basis will have to spend all of thp cash so received the day that he, she or it yore s trulie, mike Clark, rfd. Flat Rock Rumblings. the health of flat rock is fine con sidering that we have only 1 fissician in our midst, he is kept so bizzy that folks have almost quit sending^for him for-annything -except wrecks, broke Simm g was a Unionist and! made his paper fight the battle for his group. In the State elections, when nullifica tion won, bitterness was very great and feeling ran so high that leaders of the Union party in Charleston de cided to leave. Simms was among those to leave. nacks, busted skulls, hydry-phoby and sleeping sickness, he also owns the drug stoar. * n govverment moiney is getting verry skace >^hen it comes to furnishing Jhe unemployed with regular jobs, some of them seems tp be working only ever BAMBERG, S. C. ’ Special Representative -THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. ..of New York * If you -are interested in any foi m of life insurance or an nuities, drop me a card at Bamberg and I shall be glad to call on you. now and then, and it is hard for He went North, where he bsgan to them to keep theirselves in cigarettes, write. Here he found himself among snuff and chawing tobacker. hoo-ey ‘ friends who appreciated him and' long has benn rote about this trouble, j shortly became one of the most popu lar American authors, sense of humor and with his unfailing kinches s and his ready collection pi amusing stories, made him popular everywhere. He wrote a number ^>f books and at the height of his popularity, returned to Charleston^where, the bitterness of feeling caused by his formed, political stand halving''died down, he was warm ly received. 1 When he went to Woodlands, he had the money and leisure to enable him tp indulge his fondness for en tertaining. Throughout the year . I He had ai keen | miss jennie veeve smith, our efficent this combined scholl principle, fell down for the 44th time enduring this scholl semes ter in front of the drug stoar last friday when her foot stepped on a bannanna peling and broke her um brella and sprung her ankle, our po- leesman believes that traps are being baited 1 foY her to slip down ay' the young boys, she is a ftne figger. our mayer has concluded that it is not worth his while to rite or foam (CONTINUED ON PAC?E EIGHT.) Special Prices ON PERMANENT WAVES $3.00 to $7.50 Don’t forget our IODINE and HOT OIL Reconditioning Scalp •Treatments.. They are guaran teed to cure dandruff We are now using the famous • I ‘ -r > GALVE 4 Preparations foi facials which we are sure will please YOU. FOR APPOINTMENTS PHONE NO. 43. The Barnwell auty Shop I’m disgusted^ This thread brea •23 with nearly every push! I have it easyl J. & P. COATS What a Fight We are planning against Mr. Moth--- the Rascal who ruins your clothes during • “ * the warm days. mm Dry Cleaners Barnwell SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOR JOB PRINTING. * 'V.