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/ «< ■* »■♦ THE OFFICIAL NEWEPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. Barnwell -Sentinel Cs^soHJated June 1, 1925. Volume lix. ‘Juftt Llk« a Member of the Family" Lurcest County Orculation. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JULY 9TH, 1936. NUMBER 43. Claims Inoculation Not Sure Preventive AMERICAN LEGfON BEAUTY " ' PAGEANT IN BLACKVILLE - I Blackville, July 6.—An American No Substitute for Sanitary Precau- Legion Beauty Pageant was held in lions in Combatting Typhoid I the Blackville Hi S h Scho01 auditorium Fever, It Is Said. The following business houses were sponsors: Simon Brown’g Sons, Ar- Friday afternoon. The pageant con sisted! of the following girls: Misses Emma Boylston, Margaret Whittle, The People-Sentinel i s in receipt of Helen Cain, Doris Baughman, Marie the following communication from Still, Pansye Gleaton, Martha Guess, Mrs. Sue M. Farrell, of New York Sue Quattlebaum, Mary Cornelia Cog- City, president of the Vivisection In- gi n , Daucus Cromer, Berta Hightower, v^stigation League, Inc., which is Arline Cromer, Alleewee Ross, Runell passed on for the information of the Gray, Ruth Hutto and Louise Collum. general public: Editor, The People-Sentinel:— Your issue of June 18th, contains an mour and Co., (Augusta), Blackville article in which it i s said: “Any com- Depositoiy, Williams Grocery, Dr. 0. munity desiring the public health of- D. Hammond, Thompson Motor Co., ficer to hold 1 a clinic in that communi- S. G. Lowe, Sam Kaplin, J. C. Hoff- ty in order to take typhoid treatment, man, Merchants’ Baking Co., Western can have the services of the health Union Tel. Co., Peoples’ Baking Co., officer by getting up as many as ten Farrell O’Gormen Co., and D. 0. Fan- or more who will take the shots.’’ | ning. Anti-typhoid inoculation is being choice of the judges were urged upon the public with the im-1 M* sses Emma Boylston, Margaiet plied assurance that theieby they are Whittle and Marie Still. These three protected against typhoid fever, but y° un & l a die s will compete with three the following from the U. S. “Public Williston g!i‘l s in a final contest to be Health Reports,” March 28, 1919, un- , held in the Williston-Elko High school der the caption, “Typhoid Vaccination auditorium on the evening of July No Substitute for Sanitary Precau- j l^li. - h rcm the six, there will be one tions ” by the Chief Surgeon of the selected to represent the Williston American Expeditionary Forces, show P° s f at fhe State Legion Convention that during the war, in our army, where, though the men were inoculated repeatedly and most systematically, epidemics of typhoid fever occuned where sanitary precautions were neg- Johnston Would Not . Play Dictator Role Want* Legislature Composed of Men Working for Greater State, Says Chief Executive. Senator J. F. Byrnes Returns to Campaign DIXIE REELERS COMING TO ALLEN’S CHAPEL CHURCH Ignores Stoney’s References to Negro. —Predicts Own and Roosevelt’s Re-election. in Charleston next month. EDISON THE INVENTOR. The dominating factor, the driving lected. The following excerpts are force back of Edison’s prodigious from the Chief Surgeon’ s article thus labors was the sharply felt needs of reproduced: i humanity. Other great men have en- “The occurrence 8 and distribution of r * c hed the world, but none in so many typhoid-paratyphoid in our troops has held g a s Mr. Edison. Whereas names constantly and continuously been that have gone down into history are brought to the attention of all medi- associated with one great discovery, cal officers serving with the Ameri- Edison’s name is associated with hun- ca* Expeditionary Forces—it would dred8 of discoveries. No man ever appear, however, that many officers had so many patentg to hi g credit, and have utterly failed to grasp the signifi- no man ® v * r invented so many things cance of these reports and warnings, vit*! practical usefulness. H« was a fact which may be due to a false responsible for creating great new in sense of security uncter the popular dustries employing millions of men. belief that vaccination against ty- Single handed, he did more than any phoid and paratyphoid give g a com- other man to establish this nation as plete immunity even in the midst of th * leading industrial people of the gross insaniUry conditions.” world. Without him modern methods “Following the offensive in the °t production would be impossi- Argonne sector, typhoid and paraty- hie. phoid began to be reported from prac- Probably no man was faced more tically all division g engaged in that often with failure than he. There is offensive.” a popular misapprehension that a Duiing the World War, space was problem had only to be placed before frequently given in the medical jour nals to the dangers of anti-typhoid in oculation. For example in “American Medicine,” June, 1914, it i g etitonally said that: him and that instantly, in a flash of brilliance. Edison founu 1 the solution. Nothing could be farther from the truth. His experiments to find the most simple and practical forms of “Tuberculosis following antityphoid the desired finished product literally vaccination has been reported suffi ciently often to be accepted as a fact.” Dr. J. W. Schereschewsy, of the U. S. Pu!4ic Health Service, said in Bulletin No. 66, of h:s service that: led int^ hundreds of thousands of ex- periment4, often spread over many yeais. He tested more than 6,000 different specimens of vegetable growth before deciding that bamboo made the best Aliment for the first . vaccinal inoculations should commercially marketed incanotescent never be maue during an epidemic or lamps. And in makng the g torage in persons who certainly have been ex- battery the experiments ran more posed within les s than three weeks to than 50,000. Thi g is typical of the thorough painstaking work he did. He was never satisfied to let the pub lic have any of his inventions until those inventions had passed the most heartbreaking tests that he himself the contagion of typhoid fever.” “It may, indeed, aggravate the dis ease.” “We cannot, therefore, consider th? inoculation with bacillary vaccine a painless or an indifferent procedure could tfevise. for him who is the subject thereof.” i Di. William Osier, formerly of the] Johns Hopkins Hospital, and later Ben T. Sexton, who has been work- Regius Professor of Medicine in the ing for the past two months with the University of Oxford, in “The British C. G. Fuller Construction Co., in Medical Journal,” Nov. 28, 1914, said North Carolina, teturned home last that: week to resume his duties at Sexton’ s “Inoculation has been followed by Drug Store. an illness not to be distinguished from : — ~~ - , typhoid fever. “Occasionally septic cent, later furnished 40 per cent, of fever follows unassociated with the a n t h e typhoid fever in the county local lesion.” ' The only death from typhoid 1 fever in Dr. W. W. Ford, D. P. H., Associate the county that year occurred ip a Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriolo- person having received the vaccine a gy, Johns Hopkins Hospital, in the f ew months previous to death.” “Bulletin of the Johns Hopkin s Hospi- “i n 1930 and 1931 the percentage of tal,” Jan., 1915, said: those having had typhoid vaccine who “If you will read the history of ty- jficveloped typhdid fever w|as much phoid vaccination over, you will find 1 gi eater than the percentage of those that untoward effects sometimes real- who had never .been vaccinated. The ly dangerous, are by no means un- experience of Clarke County wa s not common.” unique.” (See Atlanta, Ga. “Constitu- And finally, it i s now reported in an tion,” March 15, 1933.) International News Service telegram “The Journal of the American Med- from Havana, Cuba, dated July 28, ical Association,” July 15, 1933, con- 1933, that Dr. Maclen, Secretary of tains a letter to the editor, describing Sanitation, said that in Camaquery the death of a physician “in appar- Province a curious (feature of the ently good health (who) cied about epidemic was that numerous people six hours after taking his third pro- who were vaccinated against typhoid phylactic injection of typhoid vac- after the Camaquey cyclone last No- cine. Shortly after the injection he vember, had come down with the dis- developed a severe chill and complain- ease recently, particularly in Moran, ed of generalized 1 aching, especially in According to Dr. Wedford W. the back. Circumstance s seem to in- Brown, Health Commissioner of Ath- dicate a cardiac death” the editor ad- ens and Clarke County, Georgia: mils “death following vaccination,” “Ip 1925 in Clarke County 12 per and! describes three such cases,- end cent of the population was vaccinated adds that “typhoid vaccination, appar- against typhoid fever and thi s 12 per ently at least may hasten death.” Columbia, Jbly 5.—Governor Olin D. Johnston declared yesterday that it was hi s purpose, visiting various coun ties this summer prior to the election in August, to “tell the .people of cer tain thing s that have been cairied on in Columbia during the last two ses sions of the'general assembly” in or- ter that the voters might be in bet ter position to select men who would place the interests of- their constittu ents abeve their own “selfish inter ests.” “I do not intend to dictate to the people as to whom they should vote for,” he declared. On the day that the general assem bly adjourned in June the governor gave out a statement fh which he an- nounced that he would not run for the United States senate, saying he thought it moie important to continue to serve as governor. At that time he s aid he intended from time to time, to give the people of the State a resume of conditions in the State, speaking in person in the various counties and al so using the radio. He said at that time he intended to carry straight to the people the issues on which he was elected governor. Gives Statement. The statement he gave out yester day was as follows: “In -order that the people of the State of South Carolina may under stand my attitude in regard! to the election of men for the general assem bly thi g summer, I desire to state On Wednesday, July 15th, Allen’s Chapel Baptist Chuich will sponsor the Dixie Reeler s in -a program of sacred songs. Commencing at 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon ice cream, cake and other refreshments will be Wihhs.boio, July 6. Senator Jame s offered-for sale. At 8:30 the Dfxie F. Byrnes ignored the thrusts of Reelers will play andi sing. Come, en- Thomas P. Sidney regarding the ne- , j 0 y mU 8ic and the refreshments, gro question in his campaign speech here today, and resumed his lauda tion of the Roosevelt administiation while Stoney and Col. William C. Harllee again flung verbal brick-bats at the “New Deal.” 13 Cents Cotton. For the first time in more than two years middling cotton in Augusta crossed the 13-cent level Monday, be lt was Byrnes’first appearance with i ing quoted on that market at 13.08 the senatorial campaign party since the first week of the county-to-county itinerary. He quit the tour to attend legislative work in Washington, and announced that he was detained the remainder of the time by official du ties in the capitol. Stoney, former mayor of Charleston, as the first speaker, twitted Byrnes for not joining Senator E. D. Smith and other membeis of the South Caro lina delegation in quitting the na tional convention when negroes par ticipated in its activities, and again challenged him to state hig position on States’ rghts, the federal lynching bill and the Smoot-Haw-Iey tariff. * The Roosevelt administration was charged by Colonel Harllee, retired marine officer from Dillon, with breaking a “solemn pledge in its 1932 platform” to lowdr the high protective tariff, and with attempting to destroy State’ rights. Adlvpaating “old-fashioned democ racy,” he declared he wa s unwilling to follow “a’ crew- of radicals and ne groes and renegade Republicans yid Socialists upon the opposite course.” cents per pound. Prices have been steadily advancing for the past few weeks, due to prospects for a com paratively short crop and improved business conditions. Protracted Meeting at Sileam. clearly my position. j Byrnes did not come to the plat- “I do not intend to dictate to the form in the crowded court house until people as to whom they should vote. Stoney had completed his speech, and Evry man has the vested right to left immediately after he had finished vote for the man he thinks will be his own, without waiting to hear the best qualified for the position. It i« my purpose of going into the various counties to tell the people of certain things that have been carried on in Columbia during the last two sessions of the general assembly. To Inform People. “I desire to tell the people of cer tain conditions that have existed for yeai g and to inform them as to certain methods that have been used in re gard to legislation that has been passed. “I am doing this in an effort to give the people the facts so they will be in better position to select men of char acter and integrity and who will work for a greater State, and who will place the interests of their constituents above their own selfish interests.” The governor said he had heard 1 of no countie g in which pro-Johnston can- dates were not in legislative races. B. T. U. Quarterly Meeting. Revival services will be held at the Silorm Methodist Church beginning next Monday night, July 13th, at 8:30 o’clock. The pastor, the Rev. C. O. Shuler, of Ellenton, will do the preach ing during the week, each evening at 8:30. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. The People-Sentinel's Friends. Among the new and renewal sub scriptions received recently by The People-Sentinel are the following: C. J. Fickling, Blackville. O. D. Moore, Snelliing. T. D. Creighton, Jr., Snelling. R L. Bronson, Barnwell J. M. Sprawls, Williston. T. E. Snelling., Chaslotte, N. C. Small Blaze Tuesday. The B. T. U. of the Barnwell Asso ciation will hold its quarterly meeting with the Bamberg Baptist Church on Friday, July 10th, using the follow-^ ing program, a s prepared by J. W. Chitty, group director: 7:30—Song end praise service. 7:40—Devotional. 7:45—Welcome address—Bamberg. 7:50—Response by member from Denmark. t 7:55—Special music—Barnwell. 8:00—Roll call, report and an nouncements. 8:10—Discussion: “An Associations! Program of Work that Will Reach Every Church in the Association— Mrs. T. R. Pender, Williston. 8:25—Song. 8:30—Address: “Boosting the B. T. U.”—Mrs. J. W. O’Cain, Bamberg. 8:45—Address: “Defeating the Summer Slump,”—Rev. Jas. P. Wes- berry, Bambeig. 9:00—Song. O'iOS—Adjourn for lunch. You are invited and urged to at tend this meeting whether you have a B. T. U. in your chuich or not. Harllee. He made no mention what ever of the race issue raised by Stoney, and referred to by Harllee on various occasions. “I am running on my record, and I am proud' of it,” he told the audi ence of Fairfield County voters. “President Roosevelt is going to be re-elected, and g o is Jimmie Byrnes,” he predicted. i The senator said the Roosevelt ad ministration was the first in the his tory of the country to give the farmer and the laboring man fair recognition. “The Roosevelt administration saved' the bankers, the business men and the farmers,” he asserted. Taking cognizance cf charges that the party had been false to its 1932 platform, the senator replied that the administration wa g faced by a great emergency which demanded emergency measures. He likened the matter to the case of a man and his wife who had budg eted their income along the best- advised lines in normal times, only to have the wife become seriously ill. "Would he be expected to stick to that budget regardless of the needs of hi 8 wife,” he asked. At the end of Stoney’g speech,- the Charleston candidate was asked a series of questions by W. W. Dixon, Winnsboro lawyer. The first question was whether Stoney would support Roosevelt. “Yes,” he answered. “Will you support Colonel Harllee if he is nominated?” asked Dixon. “Yes.” “Will you support Senator Byrnes if he is-nominated?” “Yes, but I’ll hold my nose when I' vote for him.” “Will you abide by the decisions of the Democratic caucus?” “Yes.” “Will you support the 1936 Demo-' cratic platform?” “No,” shot back Stoney, “but I’ll support the 1932 platform.” Stoney, in his speech, referred to The local fire department-was call ed out about two o’clock Tuesday af ternoon to extinguish some straw burning near a box car at the South ern Railway depot. The blaze is thought to have been started by a careles g cigarette smoker. Notice to Veterans and Widows. Holiday Deaths in State Total Twelve Stabbings, Wrecks and Suicide Swell Number of Fatalities on the Glorious Fourth. The holidlay death toll for the week end reached 12 in South Carolina Mon day with a fifth highway fatality. Odell Jones, Colleton County far mer, died at the Walterboro hospital at 4 a. m. after an automobile collis ion in Bamberg County. Julian Hasting, 43, and Milford Hasting, 42, first cousins, were killed in jumping from a truck after a trail er had bioken loose near Greenwood. Mrs. Lillie Wilson, of Columbia, was fatally injured in a bus accident near Chester, and Will Eubanks, 65, was struck and killed by a car near Union. Douglas Barnett, 45, drowned! while fishing near Laurens, and Roosevelt James, 9-yeais-‘old negro, drowned when he stepped over his head while wading in a creek. Lightning hit Williain, Purvis, 14, while he was swimming near Kings- tree and killed him. R. L. Cullbertson, 30, a textile work er, wa s killed in a homicide near Greenville, and Hershey Wilson, a ne gro, died of knife wounds at Colum bia. A negro named Montague was stab bed to death by an in-law on the main street of Blackville, Barnwell County. H. G. Wollacott, 24, a chief petty officer aboard the H. M. S. York, Brit ish cruiser in port at Charleston on a good will trip, we* found shot to death six miles from Charlestn near a highway Sunday morning. Coroner H. P. Deveaux said it wa B suicide. Homicide at Blackville. BlackvHie, July 4.—Quitman Monta gue, negro man, wa g stabbed to death on the main business street of Black- viHe thi g afternoon by his sister-in- law, Lillie Belle Brown. The stabbing wtas the climax of a fight between Montague and the husband of the Brown woman. The woman was ar rested and lodgedin the Barnwell County jail by Sheriff J. B. Morris. The money for payment of Confed erate pensions has been received. All who are on the Pension Roll are re quested to call at the Probate Judge’s office, receipt for and get their | checks. John K. Snelling, Judge of Probate Mrs. Doris Bell, of Washington, D. C., arrived in Barnwell last week to rpend some time with her mother, Mrs. P. J. Drew. after the supreme court killed NRA, in which the senator pointed out the possibility of a constitutional amend ment if the voters of the country should decide one was necessary. “Where does Byrnes stand on this issue today?” he demanded. “I believe the government would be better off following a free econ omy,” he said, “than in attempting to follow the fool procedure of planned economy suggested by Tugwell, Wal lace, Ickes, Hopkins and Byrnes.” Both Stoney and Harllee demanded an end to what the former called “the wild orgy of waste and squandering of the taxpayers’ money.” The Dillon marine severely de nounced the “Republican protective tariff” and assailed the Democratic ad ministration for its tariff policies. "The substantial diffeience between the policy of the Republican party and that of the Democratic party,” he said, “has been in creating special privilege for some at the expense of all the people. The main issue has been the protective tariff. 444 Fatalities in Nation. Chicago. July 6.—The double holi day of July Fourth was celebrated by the nation at a cost of 444 lives, re vised fatality tables tonight disclosed. The list wa g the second largest for the country’s holiday in nine years and exceeded only by the 483 of 1931 for the peat six years. In 1931 as this year was a two day holiday period. With millions of cars on the high ways, motor vehicle accidents*led all other causes of accidental death with a 254 aggregate. Drownings num bered 104. Variou 8 other accidents contributed the remainder. To Ele c t Community CommitteeaMn Seven meetings are announced in the county for next week for the purpose of electing the permanent community committeemen who will work in the new Soil Conservation program. All farmer g who have filed work sheets are eligible to *rote. Cards will bp sent to each of them and these cards are to be brought to the meeting in their community where the election will be held. Schedule of Meetings:—Williston High School building, Thursday, July 16th, 10:30 a. m. Blackville High School building, Thursday, July 16th, 3:00 p. m. Hilda School building, Thursday, July 16th, 4:30 p. m. Dunbarton High School building. South Friday, July 17th, 10:30 a. m. Carolina Democrats have been fore most in the fight against it. “It hag been denounced in every platform of our Democratic party. Our platform of 1932 condemned it Kline School building, Friday, July 17th, 3:00 p. m. Barnwell Court House, Friday, July 17th, 4:30 p. m. Farmers are expected to attend the meeting which is held for their town- Got Cotton Stand July 4; Thinned July 7; Made 93 Bales on 50 Acres 1936 Lynching Record. A prolonged drought in May and June d'oe s not always spell disaster to the Anderson County cotton crop. In 1 11, for example, no rain came down for six weeks or more during the critical growing period, yet the yield that year was not bad at all. Twenty-five years ago (1911) F. A. Pruitt hed 50-acres of cotton planted . . TT . . w ^h the correct statement that it _ Byrnes address before a Un.vers.ty de8troyed our international trade and ship.-H. G. Boylston, Co. Agent, of South Carol,na graduating class robb ed the farmer of hi s foreign mar- ■ , : 1 . — ket. “Adherence to that infamous meas ure brings to those responsible for it There were four lynchings in the not only the infamy which defames first six months of 1936, according to the Republican party but also the the records compiled at Tuskeg'ee In- addsd infamy of a broken pledge.” , stitute. This is the same number as He charged “the radical prophets for the first six months of 1934, and who proposed to reconstruct Ug again” i g two less than for the first six - On July 4, he recalls, he managed with efforts to “wipe out every ves- months of 1934. to get a stand after plowing 11 times tige of the rights reserved to the All of the persons lynched were ne- in an effort to persuade the plants to States,” he declared himself for States’ groes, the offenses charged being: grow. He thinned the cotton on July rights, white democracy. Rape, 2; attempted rape, 1; murder, 1. 7. The yield off that 50-acre tt-act “I am unwilling,” he declared “to The States in which lynchings oc- that fall was 93 bales. Mr. Pruitt follow a crew of radicals and negroes curred and the number in each State sold the cotton to Bert McG’ully.—An- and renegade Republicans and So- are a 8 follows: Arkansas, 1; Georgia, derson Independent. cilists upon an opposite course.” & on the Fowler Six Mile farm.