The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 12, 1936, Image 12
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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.
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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
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THE STATE FARMER SECTION
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Advertbse in The
Feeds, 5
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AND GARDEN
MACHINERY.
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IN MT COTTON
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and made
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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
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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.
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