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*AGB POUB. THURSDAT. NOVEMBER M. 1»M THE BARNWELL PBOPLB-SKNTINKL, BABNWBLL, SOUTH CAROLINA Tbe Barnwell PBople-Sentinc JOHN W. HOLMES 184#—1912. . B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor, COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS ' By SPECTATOR. Entered at the poit office at Barnwell, S. C., aa second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year H-W Six Months^ * Three Month* *80 (Strictly in Advance.) Thursday,November 26, me #‘+»»»#»000#0»0 0 00»M#####« i| Nobody’s Business i By Gee McGee. < * «> Free Goods. Beinjf a wholesale grocer, I come into contact daily with numerous traveling talesmen, all of whom are mighty fine men. But everything they halve to offer ip “going up.” They are all optimists. Take flour, for instance: the crop is 60 million bushels short (so they say) in Canada, Brasil and Russia; barely enough in the U. S. for domes tic consumption, and none at all, that is—no wheat for hogs, pigs, cows and Bolsheviks. Better book 6 months supply, which I never do. I ain’t smart enough to keep up with our markets much less ahead of them. Every fourth salesman is selling rasor blades; each one has the best in the world, all made from the high est grade steel on the face of the « earth. With each 100 doxen packages, they will give a night shirt or a sofa pillow, and throw in 4 safety razors. Merchandising is no longer selling goods; it’s giving premiums. Every thing is 1 case free with 10, or a tea pot with 6 pounds of coffee, or a rubber balloon for every penny all-day sucker, or a set of dishes with a bar rel of flour and on and on, till the aserchanta have all become nutty from so-called free goods. (There ought to be a law.) There’* no such thng sa "free goods" or premum*. If you pay 26 rents for a package of tea and get 2 ice-tea glasses free, that means that you bought 10-centa worth of tea sad paid 16 cents for 2 glasses you didn't need. Every manufacturer is busy trying to get folks to buy his stuff because of "something for noth- Kunny thing too; the public "eats it ■p.** They never think they are being deceived or swindled; they ac tually believe, down in their hearts, that somebody is really being kind to them. Every store everywhere is afflicted with premiums, prizes, 1 can free with 2 cans, 1 cake of soap extra with a bar of dirt-cutter, etc. Don't blame the manufacturer; it’s the consumer that clamors for this type of wool-pulling. Cure him, and you cure all. My Most Miserable Experience. I am what you might call a selfmade man, but 1 didn’t commence work on myself until about 17 years too late. When I became 20, I ran across a book on table etiquette, and among other things, I read that it was ill- manners to remove food from your mouth except in and under peculiar circumstances. Well, one day I was eating dinner at the home of my sweetheart. She was sitting on my right, her 2 pretty sisters on my left, and mother and father and the rest of the family were scattered around the table. 1 had learned how to handle a knife and fork pretty well, and according to the book, I was not eating with my knife. (I had quite that practice 2 months before.) Brandied (whole) peaches were be ing served. Before I realized what had happened, I discovered that I had a peach kernel in my mouth. I was evidently making myself at home, and had unthoughtedly inserted the kernel for the purpose of “nursing” the attached peach hangers-on. There I was! And • that wasn’t a little peach stone either—it was an Elber- ta. I thought once of swallowing the thing, but happened to feel a sharp, pointed edge on one end of it. I couldn’t afford to reach in my mouth with my fingers and remove it. I didn’t know what to do, so I com menced to sweat, twist and squirm. I pushed it over between my teeth and jaw. I had a terrible time trying to chew and swallow with that mis- aile in my way. (I had to shuffle the When the Board of Visitors of The Citadel elected General Charles P. Summerell as President of that in stitution I thought It was a compli mentary gesture or iritended to pro vide a soft billet for the distinguished soldier. I did not know the General. He does not seek soft billets. No sooner had he assumed the presidency than it became apparent that in tak ing command he meant to command. And this in no idle manner. The Gen eral commands, with great sympathy and coyrtesy, but 'with full knowl edge. He quickly made himself mas ter of the position by learning every detail. One might have thought that so illustrious a warrior might walk about in uniform greatly be-ribboned and be-medaled. Not so. When oc casion requires General Summerall can don his uniform and buckle on his sword and be the cynosure of the parade; but when that's over he goes back to The Citadel and wants an ac counting for the half dozen screws left over from the little job in the pantry. General Summerall does not fail in seeing the high points, he is a charming and cultured gentleman, as well as a gallant officer. When he studies the culture aspects of his position he can get to as high a plane as anybody else, but he so thoroughly masters his business that in each of its phases he is efficient. It is rare to find a college president who so completely measures up to every re quirement of an ideal head. It has been suggested that if all the money spent by the State and the counties on health, relief of the poor, etc., were paid into a central fund that fund would go a long way toward making the sum necessary to pay a pension of ten dollars a month to our indigent. people, men and women, white and colored, whi will be eligi ble to receive the old-age pension. True, it is a tidy sum, $2,H94,000. This respectable figure proves that we Carolinians have been mindful of our afflicted people, at least in some measure. By the way, why not in clude what the towns pay? Even al lowing for all this, and assuming that the amount heretofore paid by the State and counties, $2,894,000, would be used to offset the Federal grant, it remains that by my lowest calcula tion the State must And a million dol lars of absolutely new money, even if it should authorise only ten dollars a month. Cbn you imagine that the Federal Government will allow us a million a year for the asylum? Here is something to consider: How many colored families will work if there is a regular monthly income of even twenty dollars? You under stand, of course, that if the State au thorizes $10 a month, the Federal government is to match that amount, making it $20! Just imagine getting your cotton picked, or chopped or your com broken, or your land plowed. Well, well. This surely is a joyful prospect for the farmer, eh? The only consolation is this, that every farmer of 65 will be so “broke” him self that he wen’t need to have his land “broke”; he will just collect his good old pension dollars, just like his former tenants and “wages hands” and together we shall chew our to bacco and count the days until the next pension check comes due. Now, by the way, that’s the way to reduce all our crops and prevent these de- vasting surpluses. If nobody farms, everybody will be happy because there’ will be no overproduction to worry about. in Charleston this week, going aboard the Cruiser Indianapolis there on his way to Buenos AVies, Argentina, to address the Convention of delegates from all the Countries of North, South and Central America. The city of Charleston prepared for the visit with its accustomed graciousness and hospi tality. Everything was done to as sure the President that he was among friends and admirers. The progres sive Mayor considerately invited a number of citizens from all parts of the State to join the city in honoring the Nation’s Chief Executive. Gov ernor Johnston was present to greet the President in the name of the State. One of the happiest signs of the times is the closer bond between Charleston and the other sections of our State. We all love Charleston and, under Mayor Maybahk, the old city is getting closer to us. It is a great old town. r* 1 ' .K Some people read in the papers that the farmers sold their hogr for so rtiany dollars and their cotton for so much and they fancy that all this is net profit. True it is that if the farmers did not pay taxes, labor, fer tilizers and buy mules and gear, etc., they could clear more money. As it Is, the “net” profit is small. If a farmer charged his services against his sales he would not have any net profit, in most cases. And now come all our Spenders and want more than all the farmer has gained. Not a part of it, mind you, but all—and then some. We South Carolinians must ail be aristocrats, for it is said that an aris tocrat has to maintain his “style” either at his own expense, or some body rise’s. The only way we farm ers will ever make any money will be to get a public office. As it is, we are at the wrong end of the train to the money. President Roosevelt spent an hour kernel about so’s the folks wouldn’t think a bee had stung me on the jowl.) When “she” passed the fried chick en and asked me if I’d have some: all I could say was—“glub-g-lub.” Every word I spoke was—“glub, glub- g-l-u-b.” I conceived the idea of dropping a spoon! I intended to stoop my head under the table and emit that peach stone, but *her” sis ter grabbed that spoon before it hit the floor. I had no better luck with my table napkin. ■ —» I made up my mind once to faint and fall over and play possum, but that was too risky. I turned redder and redder and redder every minute. I tried to explain that I was on a diet, but couldn’t speak any English at all. I didn’t eat anything, but I messed up ail of the food they put on my plate so’s it would look like it had been et. The meal ended. I slipped out first, and on the way to the sitting room, I reached in and got that lump of punishment. They knew something was wrong with me but never found oat what it was. Now and then I like to “figger** a little bit The State published a state ment recently quoting the agricultural statistician as saying that our tobacco crop this year was worth $2,028,165 leas than the crop of last year, but that cotton will bring in a sum $11,- 648,000 more than the crop of last year. Taking those two major crops together our farmer* have an in crease of nine and a half million dol lars over last year. Now our State institutions, depart ments and services are asking several hundred thousand dollars more than they asked for last year and in the offing ie e plea for severe! milliuna more for pensions. Now, then, if the net profit of the fanners be 16 per cent, we ere asked for more new money for public services than our farmers have made. In other words, public spending is running far ahead of public net income. Of course I know that we farmers make a mint of money and that all of us are roll ing in wealth, but not even a farmer can claim the entire price he receives for the crop as net income or profit. “THANKS A MILLION” FOR MORE THAN A MILLION * ft America has bought 1,130,000 Chevrolets during the past twelye months, thereby giving Chevrolet the greatest year in its history and the greatest measure of buyer preference it has ever enjoyed.; The builder* of Chevrolet are thankful for many things, bat most of ell' for the warm friendship of the American people. And so again at this Thanksgiving season we say. Thank yon, America,” lor you have given Chevrolet a measure of good-will without parallel in the annale of modern industry. Couader, for a moment, all that you have done to inspire Chevrolet’s append- stkm during the past twelve mouths: You have purchased 1,130,000 Chev rolets; you have made Chevrolet your favorite ear for the seventh time in the past ten years; yon have given Chevrolet in every section of the country; you have conferred this high honor upon Chevrolet trocka by pm- chasing more than 205,000 commercial units; you have made 1936 the moat successful year in aU Chevrolet history. And now, to climax these expressions of friendship, you are displaying even more £ marked preference for the new Chevrolet for 1937. It is difficult to express adequate appre ciation for gifts so great and so generous aa these. All we can say is. Thanks a million” for more than a million cars in 1936; sad all we can do is offer you the still finer Chevrolet of 1937 in return for the friendship ever bestowed upon any CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT. MICHIGAN J\ic (omplete Ctw. - Compfetefu Tjeur (CHEVROLET ^ Any man who looks a fact squarely in the face and has courage to think— and ability to think clearly—will be come, sooner or later a community crank. Most people love crowds, they can’t work alone, nor stay alone, nor go far away from home. Neither can they think problems out for them selves. They walk with the crowd and accept what the crowd says. That mr.kes a fellow nice and companion able, but the world progresses because some one breaks frtThr'the mass and stands alone. After a time the mob will howl for him or against him with out knowing the real reason one way or the other. and Johnston, Inc., ■ corporation to have its principol place of business •t Barnwell, S. C. The general na ture of the business which said cor poration propoaes to do is that of farming and merchandising, to own, hold, aell, manage and deal in real es tate, stocks and bonds, to borrow and lend money, to buy, sell, own and deal in mortgages of all kinds, to mort gage any or all of the property owned by it of whatsoever nature, and to do all things relative and incident to that of the operation of said business. The Capital Stock of the proposed corpor- atin is to be $2,600.00, divided into 26 shares of the par value of $100.00 each. NOTICE is also given that a meet ing of the subscribers to the capital slock of said propone*! corporation will be held at eleven o'clock A. M., on the 30th day of November, 1936, in the office of the Judge of Probate, Barnwell, S. C., for the purpose of organizing said corportion, electing directors and transacting any other business as may properly come be fore said meeting. W. H. GRIMES, R. R. JOHNSTON. Dated at Barnwell, S. C'. t this 24th day of November, 1936. Radio Commencement Exercises More than 200 widely separated chapters of the American Institute of Banking, the educational section of the American Bankers Association, hold annually tn September f simul taneous commencement exercise at which they listen to the speaker of the evening by radio. This is said to be the most extensive graduation cere mony held by any educational insti tution. The aggregate membership of the chapters, which are located in cities and towns throughout the United States, totals about 35,000 bank employees and officers. The graduates number each year more than 2,500, and total graduates are now over 25.000. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned intend to file with- the SecreUry of State of South Carolina on or after November 30th, 1936, a Declaration for Charter for Grimes •j’ i THE RITZ THEATRE * $ BARNWELL, S. C. Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 30-Dec. 1 LORETTA YOUNG in “RAMONA” MATINEE TUESDAY—4:00 P. M. Wednesday, Dec. 2—Bargain Day Bargain Day—Mat. 10c, Nile 10c-15c CHAS. RUGGLES—MARY BOLAND —IN— Wives Never Know Thursday-Friday, Dec. 3-4 Charlie Chaplin —IN— Modem Times ALSO NEWS. Saturday, Dec. 5—Mat and Nite KEN MAYNARD ia Avenging Water * [Always worth asking for ... this rich, mellow, balanced flavor!... So be sure to order it by name AMEIICA’S FAV0RIT! SO LIDHT..L^«2c^ [Taa hi ch .. IwL;'.V>•';>•:‘S3 }V .... ■ ClauSSenS CRRAITIEL NUT CAKE Is the [wnnitc Cake in ITIani| Homes/ ; Everyone likes this marvelous cake ... so rich ... so light ... it fairly “melts in the mouth” ... a smooth texture ... a creamy icing - - sprinkled liberally with chopped nuts. There are 12 varieties of CLAUS- SEN’S Silver Label cakes from which to make your selection. r Made of the finest ingredients - - baked with the same care you use in your own kitchen. Otyler today. 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