The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 09, 1936, Image 4
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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.
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THl'RSDAY, APRIL 9TH, ISSfif
’’s Business
Nobody’
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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
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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”
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—WITH—
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MATINEE SATURDAY—4:00 P. M.
COMING Next MONDAY-TUESDAY
Jean Harlow in
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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
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In accordance with
an Act of the General
Assembly, the time for
paying 1935 Taxes has
been extended to April
15th, 1936. 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.
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