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i rAGB FOUR. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936. ThaBarnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year r $1.50 Six Months - .90 Three Months .50 (Strictly In Advance.) THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936. “The HumbiiR Danffer.’ “ ‘We were close to a revolution when Roosevelt took office,’ Governor Olin D. Johnston asserted,” an Asso ciated Press dispatch from Columbia reports. Where was the “revolution”? Where were the si^ns of it ? They were not in Charleston. When the hanks closed many people were alarmed am? ex cited, “panic” affected all of us—but nobody grabbed a gun. In South Carolina the writer has witnessed l>efore 1932 two periods when the price of cottffn dropped be low five cents a poundl Nobody grab bed a gun. In March, 1933, when Mr. Roosevelt to:k office the cotton mills had been running about as usual s ince October, 1932. Thee was no problem of unem ployment in them. Nowhere in South Carolina during the first six months of 1933 three months before and three ^ifter Mr. Roosevelt took office, was unusual dis turbance or crime reported in South Carolina. After the “holiday” the banks that deserved to reopen would! have reopen ed anyway. The fact is that between 1922 and January 15, 1932, three or four times as many banks “went broke” in South Carolina as after that time. If losses and depression be excuse for “revolution” we South Carolinians should have resorted to it ten years before Mr. Roosevelt arrived to stop it* The naked fact is that in 1933 we had had most of our losse s and not much remained to be lost in banks. The nearest approach to “revolu tion” or “insurrection” that we have seen in a long time in South Carolina was the textile strike. That wa a in 1934. Mr. Rooseveelt was president. Mr Roosevelt did not stop that vio lence. Our own people put a stop to it. When the South Carolinians are go d and ready for ‘revolution” no man will stop it without planty of cannon and machine guns. Danger of “revolution” in 1933! There was m re danger of humbug in South Carolina. That danger we still have with us.—News and Courier. The News ami Courier is such a bitter and caustic critic of the New Deal—to such an extent that it think s that "nothing go J can come out of Nazarath”—that it is probably a waste of time to remind' our Charleston con tempt raiy that in the closing days of the Hoover administration Mid-West farmers had resorted to shotgufis to save their homes and farms fr m fore closure and dairy farmers were riot ing in an effort to keep their products from the market in the hope > f forc ing living prices therefor. The people generally had 1 entirely lost confidence in the bank s and wore withdrawing funds at such a rate that if Presdient Ro sevelt had not ordered a “bank holicijy” there prob.ibly would have been no banks that “deserved to reopen.” True, there was no hi ody revolu tion in South Carolina,, but we have been told that merchants in Colum bia and other cities of the State were fearful in th se dark days that whole sale Loting was “just around the cor ner” where prosperity was supposed to be. There is no cbnying the fact that the pe pie as a whole were in the depths of despair and almost without hope in the closing days of 1932 an 1 anything could have happened but for the steadying influence f Mr. Roose velt's election and the revival of hope in his leadership. The News and Courier itself admits that “in 1933 we had ‘had mo«t of our losses and n t much remained to he lost in banks.” A comparison of the hopeless despair cf those days with the cheerful opti mism of (today cannot be ign red by the News and Courier. It may agree with General Johnson Hagood that pur money is “stage, money,” but even that i s better than no money at all. It ;Is also true that the News and Courier ‘^writer has witnessed before 1932 two periods when the price of cotton dropped below five cents a pound,” but isn’t it equally as true that five cent s cotton in 1932 was more ruinous to the farmers than a like price jib the two periods referred to, due to the fact that the costs of manufactured articles that the form- had to huy were much higher, to nothing of the increased burden of taxation ? Then, too, conditions a s a whole have undergone a great change and the farmer 8 are no longer content* to ■submit to the privations incident to five-cent cotton when a large per centage of the population enjoys the luxuries of life. It is this changed condition and the problems it has created"that the News and Courier re fuses, to recognize. Can it be possible v has lived on such fried shrimp since Charleston that he 1 ed 1 wdth chronic ir lieves his ill feelini wrath upon the New two year s ago, in th cussion with The I the merits and dem Deal, our esteemed temporary admitted Roosevelt’s treatmer situation wa s one of administration that For no other purp< keep the record str producing herewith Courier’s editorial u “Applauded Very L News andi Courier n< things that it applau Here is what Doctor “How can The Bari that ‘The News a‘nd plauded very little RooseAdt has attei plish ?’ “The News and Coi ed President Roose 1 mediate treatment crises when he earn* “It has applauded cessful leadership in Eighteenth amendme “It has describee! hi as an honest gentlerr “It has applauded 1 lobbying and the pra „ departments by conj “It ha a applauded salary compensatioi bill. “It has applauded 1 of federal oflficeholde paign funds. “It has applauded the merit, or civil i in which he is opp rassed by nearly all i s no hope for the f the merit system—1 South Carolinian wl to an etficient Repu in oflfice for the Ne* “It defends and urj by congress of hi a hills. “While opposed t< INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FROM ASHLEIGH SECTION Ashleigh, March 10.—Gordon Hair enlisted in the U. S. army at the Co lumbia recruiting station recently and .is new stationed at Fort Moultrie, near ChaVleston. D. I. Ross, Jr., spent the week-end •** * *«•*» nf Mm W H Morris in DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Offices 956 Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA. NOTICT TO CREDITORS. payers money, for declares that if tha be violated, the pu reservations is wise “It has repeatedly suits of the NRA ha to the textile industt lina and has approve the working week h wever, it does not ciple of governmei with industry. “Where is anoth South Carolina tha 1 defended the preside tion toward these of are unpopular in So Wherein lies the p Danger” in South assertions cf politici ial expressions of ne In the words of the boy, “We ask to km l‘rcab> terian Ch Pn-bytefian Chu: be conducted in'the Church Sunday afu clock by the Rev. public is cordially ii Birth of page eight THE STATE FARMER SECTION I ~w Mr. and Mrs. Jol nounce the birth cl baby l>oy on Marc inf..nt son has beer ryclear Scoville, Jr Advertbse in The Feeds, 5 WE FEATURE AND GARDEN MACHINERY. REl IN MT COTTON I «ed ***? and made acre* on 85 »»Y* f exen (Ungstiee. “I made 92 bales on 85 acres last year,” says J. H. NEXEN. “I used 10% potash in my fertilizer, part of the potash at planting and the rest as a top- dresser. My crop was completely free of Rust. It produced large bolls, easy to pick. There’s a lot of Rust in this territory but plenty of potash prevents it. Part of my cotton made 2,625 pounds of seed cotton per acre after losing some in the storm. I used extra potash on my tobacco and made the best crop ever produced in this section.” IT IS EAST to understand why NV POTASH greatly increases yields when you realize that Rust often reduces yields by 20% without showing signs that are easily visible in the field. Bad Rust reduces yields by 50% or even more. When you PREVENT RUST you give your cotton a chance to do its best. NV POTASH PREVENTS RUST! it also help, control Wilt and produces vigorous, healthy plants, with less shedding, larger bolls that are easier to pick and better yields of uniform, high-quality lint. It helps you to get greater benefits from the other elements in your fertilizer. Remember, Rust is the last stage of potash starvation. Rusty cotton plants are weak with hunger for potash. A little potash is not enough to prevent this starved condition. You must make sure you use enough to produce a healthy, high-yielding, high-quality crop. WHEN TOU PLANT* Select and use fertilizer con taining 8 to 10% potash. You will be surprised at the very low extra cost of this better-balanced fertilizer. WHEN TOU CHOP OUT* Top-dre„ with 200 pounds of NY High grade 20% Kainit, or 100 pounds of NV Granu lar 50% Muriate per acre. When you buy Kainit or Muriate, or any form of potash, ask for and get genuine NV POTASH, the same potash that Southern farmers’Jiave used for more than 50 years. I IT COSTS LITTLE to make sure you are using plenty of NV POTASH. The extra cost usually amounts to only a few extra pounds of seed cotton per acre. Yet many farmers have found that extra potash greatly increases yields and improves crop quality. It Pays! N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY., Inc., Hurl Bldg., ATLANTA COTTON ne, ' et RUSTS irAen well- Aed with POTASH V 1218 Broad Street, Phone 1817 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. RELIABLE WELDING CO. ELECTRIC AND ACETYLENE WELDING. WORK QUICKLY DONE AND AT THE LOWEST PRICES POSSIBLE. 933 JONES STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. and ta the Father,-Mother or persons with Whom Any of Said Minsrs May Reside and Their Guardians, If Any: Take notice that the summons and complaint aadl the order appinting guardian ad litem, of which the fore going is a copy, are on file in the office of the Clerk of Court for Barnwell County, at Barnwell S. C. THOS. M. BOULWARE, Plaintiff’s Attorney. 20th day cf Feb., 1936. IkSV. & A A1 Plexico’s Dry Cleaner’s Main Street Barnwell ADVERTISE IN THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL. • •_