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PAGE FOtTR. THE BARNWELL PE6PLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH, 1936. The Barnwell 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 $1.50 Six Months -90 Three Months *60 (Strictly In Advance.) THl'RSDAY, APRIL 9TH, ISSfif ’’s Business Nobody’ I By Gee McGee. I Didn’t Know It. -...I spent a few hours last week at the place where I was brer and bom. The big gully behind the barn wasn’t so big after all. The spot where I usedi to jump in that gully, a distance then (apparently) of about 50 feet, wa s there all right but the gully, af ter all these years, was only about 5 feet deep. I had a hard time locating the fence corner where I always dug doo dles; the fence was gone and so were the doodle dens. The old smokehouse where I generally hid when I outran mother who had a healthy switch in her strong right hand was not there, nor was there any sign of it ever hav ing been there. The peachtree where all of us skinned cats had disappeared. The rock that my head! struck when I fell out of the shade tree was easily found in the front yard and I had no trou ble in locating the identical edge where my cranium contacted that rock; a large place of it was chipped off. Some folks say I never got over that lick. I couldn’t find the old stump where I kept my pet bull-frog. He was a fine frog, and could jump a lit tle bit faster than I could push a stick behind him. I spent many a hot hour catching flies for that frog, but he al ways appreciated them. I was even glad to find one for him in the gravy. His name w’as Scoop. The room in the big hi use where I always slept in a trunk-bed seemed mighty small. It wasn’t ceiled 1 when I lived in it, and it still isn’t ceiled. 1 found the nails in the kitchen where mother used to hang her red pepper pods and squash seed ami the no k behind a rafter where I hid my 2 or 3 ears of pop-corn to keep my brothers and sisters from popping it up. The old well wa s just like it was at the Up, but the bottom of it was not so far down as it was when I had to draw water for 4 mules, 2 yokes of <xen and 2 milch cows, as well as for an old steam engine during sawing and ginning season. N thing ever looked like it did when I was a boy except the eld fire place and the cracks in the floor in the company room (we had three rooms, c unting everything) where we always hoped visitors would drop a nickel or s mething thru so’s we could find it, but we never r.alized that ambition. Your friend, Gee Mi Gee. This is the month for the meeting of the Democratic clubs. The clubs will meet in their respective precincts and choose delegates to the County Conventions which -will be held on May the County Conventions will choose delegates to the Static Conven tion which will meet May 20, then the State Convention will elect delegates to the National Convention which will be held in June in Philadelphia. Down here in South Carolina where everybody i s a Democrat the State Convention has not the same impor tance that it has in States that are more or less divided between the big parties. The South Carolina State con vention will adopt resolutions endors ing the administration of President Roosevelt and mag fail to endorse the administration of Governor Johnston. Governor Jnhston will get along with out it, if this should be the outcome, he will carry on until the end of his term just as blithely as though he had received an overwhelming and en thusiastic endorsement. President Roosevelt, however, will find the lauda tory expression from South Carolina good advertising for use in doubtful States. He does not neeca our endorse ment, for thjs State will as surely vote Democratic as the sun shines, and will surely vote for Mr. Roosevelt even if the sun does not. shine. Two years ago' there was a little flurry in the South Carolina Demo cratic Convention. That is, to say, there was more than the usual flurry. Now it can be predicted as a certainty that ten citizens of our State will go to the Democratic National Conven tion as delegates. It ha s become a custom to choose certain officials. I don’t think much of the custom. If the men in office get all the honor and profit that can be derived: from public office, then surely the more or less empty distinction of being a delegate should be left to seme of those as piring men who will tell it to their children as one of the memories.’treas- ured in the family. There are no honors any more. The emptiest of empty places are sought \Vith such vigor and zeal that nothing seeks the man. Some people run after a trusteeship as though it were an honor; and it would be an honor if it w’ere bestowed in recognition of train ing and qualities. But that second flurry that I spoke, of in the Democratic State Convention is the regular bi-ennial campaign for election as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of the State. Two years ago a powerful coalition was, formed to unseat Mr. Sapp. One wondbrs whether Mr. Sapp plans to enter the list again and whether the same force s which brought about his defeat would line up again against him. Undoubtedly the present chair man, Leppard, will make a report of bis stewardship, but there are many who insist on raying that South Caro lina might have fared letter if the old chairman had continued 1 . work when the sun shine s again. On the pension plan, the exclusion of farm and domestic labor is a discrimination against men and women that is hard to explain. We know, of course, just what is in mind andecyeryb^dy will pass that over lightly. The News and Cour ier’s suggestion that farm and domes tic labor may seek other fields of ser vice because of benefits to be dervided is important. One cannot but wish that we cculd build up our business in stead of our pensions. : majesty go from York to King’s Mountain. Then if you still have time ide from Aiken to Augusta u If you have time yet cn hand you might take the view from GreenvilJe to Spartan burg, or from Spartanburg to Green- villte so as to prepare your spirit for a drive to Walhalla. If you can’t see all you want to see by taking those trips you had better move to some county I know not of. You can see all this in one week at small cost and it would make a man from Barnwell County take fresh delight in his State. Said) a lady to me the other day: South Carolina has every kind cf scenery— mountains, hills, valleys, woods, forests, plains, rivers, seashore and the bread surging Atlantic. From the red hills of the Piedmont to the swamps and savannas of the .Coastal Plains—eveything is here. Are you planning a trip for scenery? Do^l’t take the trip and go to the expense of running off to Maine or Florida. Take several day s during the course of a month. Go around Georgetown, Char leston anl Beaufort ,not forgetting the old read from Magnolia Gardens to Charleston—a secene of arched trees that will' compel the admiration of all who see, them. Then several'-days later—after digesting this—go through Stateburg and by Camden and up to Liberty Hill and look around the coun try for rugged beauty. Then ride from Sumter to Columbia on the paved road and go on to Lexington for the big steeple chase hills. And for sheer ? I J Y THE RITZ THEATRE BARNWELL, S. C. Extra Nitrogen in "ARCADIAN 1 ' with an extra cash value as high as 88^perton Monday and Tuesday, April 13-14 Bing Crosby in Anything Goes With ETHEL MERMEN Also SHORT SUBJECTS MATINEE TUESDAY—4:00 P. M. Wednesday-Thursday, April 15-16 RUTH CHATTERTON in Lady of Secrets Also COMEDY. MATINEE THURSDAY—4:00 P. M. dr. h. «. towr.send , care of the townsend plan. Washington, d. C. deer dr:— t— the 1 cal cld-agc tensions dub has) asked the undersigned pi 1 ninent dti- zon of flat roek, mike Clark, if., to rite to you and find out what has be come of yore 200$ per month plan for the old-agers about which you was so hot up to m ent date. The News and Courier has pointed out that farm .laborers and domestic help are not eligible to s hare the bene fits f the “social security” bill pend ing in our legislature. The same classes—farm laborers and domestic help—are not included' in the proposals to restrict the w rking week to forty hours. Probably the compelling rea son for this is that .farming must be done by the weather, n t by the hour. Within recent days very little has been been done on the farms, it being too wet to plow, as it was t o cld to plant a while back. Now’ the resourceful farmer will not coufit thg hours cf will enli't bro. coughling, and possi bly al. smith; to puU--for this great i hum tin bill, it will soon pass houses, as this is election year. b th a large bunch of our verry worthy old folks hav. alreddy bargained f r stuff to be paid for with their first four or five checks, and some of them have paid down* thereon as mutch as 1$, but they mought as well ask for a refund if you r have glwen up the “ship cf plenty." a few’ of our sons and darters who had fathers and mothers in the poor-house have fetched them home to their houses and have benn verry good to them so’s they c uld help them spend the aforesaid 200$ as fast as it pored in from the gevverment. unless something is done verry scon, some of these maws and paw s will have to be took beck to the county home. a few of yore supporters had thr wed their crutches away and had I'ought green eye-glasse s and other parry-phernalier to be used in con nection with long otter-rh heel trips which they had planned to take, old man skinner and his 76-year-old bet ter half had arranged to have a h use car.bilt and take all if their i ff-springs on a verry distant tower in the west; their fqelings are hurt by yore appar ent laying down cn the job. everbody is worried about the slw speed you are making in their behalfs, and they have rote and foam ed in for me to urge you to w-ake up congress Midi the sennet and tell them to harry everthing forwards. If yoa as soon as you get this letter, plese get verry bizzy on yore move ment cr else—many of us will be in a .worst state than we were befoar you thought this scheme up. if you can’t get 200$ per month, try them on 100$, and if that bill wen’t make the grade, we wrill be willing to ex pect as low as 10$ per month per head, rite ‘or foam. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, cheef advisor. Friday and Saturday, April 17-18 “HOP A LONG CASSIDY” Bar 20 Rides Again —WITH— Wm. BOYD and JIMMY ELLISON MATINEE SATURDAY—4:00 P. M. COMING Next MONDAY-TUESDAY Jean Harlow in ‘Riff Raff When Southern fdrmers buy Nitrate of Soda they want Nitrogen, the "growth element", and they want all they can get fbr their money. The Department of Agriculture and Immigration of Virginia, after official tests, reports that ARCADIAN. THE AMERICAN NITRATE OF SODA contains extra nitrogen over the 16% guaranteed with an extra cash value running as high as 88d per ton. Thit ii good n«wt for farmers. Fo> Cotton. Corn and also for all other crops ARCADIAN, THE AMERICAN NITRATE OF SODA brings the farmer big value Big value in extra' nitrogen. Big value m crops. "SOUTHERN FERTILIZERS FOR THE SOUTHERN ‘ ' 'FARMER' DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Jffices 956 Broad St. 1 AUGUSTA, GA. Dr. Chas. A. Buist DENTIST - BLACKYTLLE, SO. CAR. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Greatest Value in Whiskey Field OLD AMERICAN Straight Rye Straight Burbon Costs Less Than $1.00 Per Full Pint One Year Old j _ Costs Little, Tastes Like a Million ' I- -"M The Largest^Producing Distillery in America. State Distributors » J- vf’ I. GINSBERG, Inc. CHARLESTON COLUMBIA t ‘ M*M*<M*M*M*M*M*M*M*M*<M*M*M*M*M^.;M^.*MV.*M*M}M*M*Mr. HALL & COLE, Inc. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER TOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS 94-102 FANEUIL HALL MARKET, BOSTON, MASS: ! Commission Merchants and Distributors of ASPARAGUS One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. 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The Act provides for a penalty of 3 per cent, to and in cluding April 15th. The Treasurer’s books close April 16th, and all un paid taxes will be placed in Execution with costs and penalty added as provided by law. All Taxpayers are urged to pay at Treasurer’s office and save further cost. J. J. BELL Treasurer, Barnwell County.— Satisfaction is worth a Lot. Let us do your fc. . r '- Cleaning and ^you’ll be SATISFIED! Plexico’s Dry Cleaner’s Main Street Barnwell ADVERTISE IN TJHE PEOPLE-SENTINEL. :—:—: