The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 12, 1936, Image 16
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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936.
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TbR Barnwell People-Sentinet
JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—1913.
8. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936.
“The HumbuK DanRer.’
H ‘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 sipms of it ? They were not
in Charleston. When the banks closed
many people were alarmed and ex-
citcM, “panic” affected all of us—but
nobody grabbed a gun.
In South Carolina the writer has
witnessed before 1932 two periods
when the price of cotton dropped be
low five cents a poundl Nobody grab
bed a gun.
In March, 1933, when Mr. Roosevelt
took office the cotton mills had been
running about as usual R 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 after 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
fer “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 mest of our losse R 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 3 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 readly for ‘revolution” no
man will stop it without planty of
cannon and machine guns.
Danger of “revolution” in 1933!
There was nr.re danger of humbug in
South Carolina. That danger we still
have with us.—News and Courier.
The News and Courier is such a
bitter and caustic critic of the New
Deal—to such an extent that it think s
that “nothing go:d can come out of
Nazarath”—that it is probably a waste
of time to remind 1 our Charleston con-
temperary that in the closing days of
the Hoover administration Mid-West
farmers had resorted to shotguns to
save their homes and farms fr mi fore
closure and dairy farmers were riot
ing in an effort to keep their products
from the market in the hope tf forc
ing living prices therefor.
The people generally bad 1 entirely
lost confidence in the hank s and were
withdrawing funds at such a rate that
if Presdient Ro sevelt had not ordered
a “bank holiday” there probably would
have been no banks that “deserved to
reopen.”
True, there Vas no blcody revolu
tion in South Carolina, but we have
been told that merchants in Colum
bia and other cities of--th? State were
fearful in th .se dark days that whole
sale 1 noting was “just around, the cor
ner” where prosperity was supposed
to be.
There is no denying 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 and
anything could have happened but for
the steadying influence if Mr. Roose
velt’s election and the revival of hope
in his leadership. The News and
Courier itself admit s that “in 1933
we had had mo«t of our losses anil n t
much remained to be 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 our
money is “stage money,” but eve^n
that i s better than no monejr 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 centg cotton in 1932 was
more ruinous to the farmers than a
like price in the two periods referred
to, due to the fact that the costs of
manufactured articles that the form
ers had to buy were much higher, to
gmj 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 popuiaticn 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
has lived on such i
Tried shrimp since
Charleston that he h
ed> with chronic ini
lieves his ill feeling
wrath upon the New
two year s ago, in th<
cussion with The P
the merits and demi
Deal, our esteemed
temporary admitted
Roosevelt’s treatmen
situation wa 8 one of
administration that i
For no other purpo
keep the record stn
producing herewith
Courier’s editorial ui
“Applauded Very Li
News and. Courier no
things that it applaut
Here is what Doctor
“How can The Barn
that ‘The News and
plauded very little
Roosevelt has atten
plish?’
“The News and Cou
od President Rooset a
mediate treatment <
crises when he came
“It has applauded
cessful leadership in
Eighteenth amendme ,
“It has described hii
as an honest gentlem
“It has appla udeO** ~ ^
lobbying and the pra s /*x
departments by conj
“It ha s applauded
salary compensatiot
bill.
“It has applaudedl
of fedleral officeholde:
paign funds.
“It has applauded
the merit, or civil f
in which he is opp«
rassed by nearly all
i a no hope for the N
the merit system—b
South Carolinian wl
to an efficient Repul
in office for the Nev
“It defends and urj
by congress of hi*
bills.
“While opposed to
payers’ money, for
declares that if that
be violated, the pvt
reservations is wise
“It has repeatedly
suits of the NRA hai
to the textile industr
lina and has approvec
the working week •
h wever, it does not «
ciple of governmen
with industry.
“Where is anothe
South Carolina that
defended the preside!
tion toward those of 1
are unpopular in Sou
Wherein lies the gi
Danger” in South (
assertions of politicia
ial expressions of nev
In the words of the
boy, “We ask to knot
Prcsb>tcriau Chu:
Pi i . ; byt.crian Chun
be conducted in the
Church Sunday after
clock by the Rev. Y
public is cordially in?
Birth of a
4. I
Mr. and Mrs. Johr
nounce the birth of
baby boy on March
infant son has been -
ryclear Scoville, Jr.,
Advertise in The J
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 Charleston. v
D. I. Ross, Jr., spent the week-end
at the home of Mrs. W. H. Morris in
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girl and then tries to copy hor faco
in clay. (Aemo)
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of the Asiatic fleet view this etately mosque during
their visit to Singapore, China. (.\<-iiii )
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with Whom Any of Said Minors May
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Take notice that the summons and
complaint and! 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 fot Barnwell
County, at Barnwell S. C.
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Plaintiff’s Attorney.
20th day cf Feb., 1936.
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