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THURSDAY. DECEMBER S. ItM. TAOB FOUR. \ : i- TH1 BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA ThsBarnwell People-Statins JOHN W. HOLMES 1M#—1911. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprt^r. Entered at the post office at Barnwell. S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year H-50 Six Months Three Months -&0 (Strictly in Advance.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936. i; Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. A Santa Claus Letter, deer old sandy claws:— i am a few days premiture with my xmas letter, but i want to f?et ahead of some of the fellers who have got in the lead enduring the past few years with their requests ansoforth.. sandy, deer: plese fetch us a new mannager of the direct fedderal relief in flat rock to take the place of hol- sum moore. he has hell this job so long, he thinks he owns the gower- mant hisself, including the Washing ton monument, he is unfair in put ting out; his family gets the first whack and his friends get the second whack, after that, there ain’t no more whacks. darling sandy: won’t you kindly give the flat rock post offis to mr. ncudd Clark, his farther is getting old and he will have to soon lean on his shoulders for support, he is full of honnor and grit, and can read and right very well to be only 33 this coming december. preshus sandy: it will be a bless ing if you will give mr. dudd Clark a pcllitical job in the department of justice being a g-man. he is a straight-shooter, hawing served as cheef of police at cedar line for may and june of 1922. aallery is not thff question. sandy, deer: the undersigned litle min. hon. mike Clark, rfd, his always believed in you and noboddy has ever made him believe otherwise, so be sure to fetch him a nice box of red mule chawing tobacker, a good barlow whittling knife, and some black mush- tash dye. and keep op mudd Clark’s compensate who got killed over yon der. all of these things will be verry timely and highly thought of. anny loose nuts or candy and groceries you mought have lying around will like wise be thankfully received by the familey at large, but don’t try to come down the chimbley in the front aeiting room, as it is stopped up. we use a w.p.a. stove in the kitchen to set by altogether. yore devoted friend, hon mike Gark, rfd. Here They Come, There They Go. All of the 1937-models are out at last. Each make is so much alike that you can’t tell them apart from the rear or on either side, but the name gives them away when you stand in front with a good pair of specs to read thru. The body types are all of the tur tle design. Every car has 4 wheels and a spare, the latter being more or less hidden under the lid where the rumble seat used to oe. The first question the public asks about the new car is: “What is the down pay ment, please?’’ The uccond question is: “Will you allow me $4. r )0 for this old worn out boat that is worth at least $210?” -—. Every dealer claims that his au tos are the best; some boast that their brakes are so powerful that they will stop within 3 feet of the fellow that has just been converted into a corpse. Some of them guarantee that their bumpers are so resilent that they will knock a man 50 feet up in the air and he will imagine that he was struck by.a feather bed. Landing will be his only complaint. During the last few weeks, the junk-dealers have increased the acre age in their yards from 4 to 11. They have cars worth all the way from nothing up to $4.75; these new boats have made old cars look like old cars. Some model “tease” ar fctill in circu lation, but that’s because everybody didn’t get on relief. Henry is proud of his 1914 stuff: it shows how far he has come. Some of the higher priced cars (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. With regard to the request for a r.cw organi/.ation to help get places for the blind, and the very respecta ble sponsorship of the plan, I think we should have learned something in recent years, though apparently we hive not. Those who advocate spend ing public money are not restrained by any thoughts of taxes, taxation or tax burdens. Just as soon as a good idea domes to their mind they think of methods to enlist the State in the entei prise—and the thing is done! Mark you, I readily admit the purity of the motive and the appeal to our sympathies. I insist that the State is not able to do all the good things that altrustic citizens recommend. Taking into consideration every- 1 thing we South Carolinians should not be drawing government rations for the hungry, this year, should we? Our fathers and mothers *saw much worse times without whimpering, and their privations and self-denial made real men and women of them. The character so wrought through hard ship was the character which rebuilt our Southern States after the awful destruction of the Civil War and the worse destruction of Reconstruction. Our poor people, whites and colprqd, have seen harder times in South Caro lina than in 1935 or 1936. Yet the Federal Government spent—and is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to feed our people. It does not pay to stir up some mat ters. If you run around advertising for poor people there will not be enough people in good circumstances to hand out the food, even if the Gov ernment should provide it. Otherwise, we should get along and be the better for it. We like to tell the story of the frozen-footed soldiers of Washing ton at Valley Forge and the msrvel- lous fortitude of our fathers and mot hers in the terrible time of the Gvil War. We talk with pride of our mothers boiling the planks of the smoke house floors to get salt. Won drous people, men and women of heroic mold; and we —? Shall it be said of us that we “worked hard to get on re lief”; toiled and slaved and suffered and sacrificed for the E. R. A.;—and then passed a quiet old-age with Gov ernment pension? OLD-AGE PENSIONS are a dif ferent matter. The State and the na tion will pay equal sums to all the pqpr 65 years old or more. That will be a tax on the State and Nation. Spectator is just human, so he en joys the appreciation of his readers. Recently he has heard indirectly from some of his farmer readers of Bam berg, Newberry and Clarendon Coun ties. The Bamberg fanner told some one that he opened his Bamberg Her ald and read Spectator every week; the Clarendon farmers (3) said the same thing, that is, speaking of the Manning Times; and the Newberry farmer said that if Spectator (who runs in The Herald and News) would advertise his coming to Newberry the farmers would turn out to hear him. Spectator will tell a secret I once heard that a Bamberg fanner read this column with enjoyment. An Aiken farmer, also once wrote that to me. Since then I’ve had a picture of my Bamberg friend adjusting his spectacles and turning up the wick to see what Spectator has for him. And I am trying to talk to him every week. If I can entertain or inform my Bamberg friend then I can be sure of pleasing my readers of Williams burg, Clarendon, Beaufort, Dorches ter, Barnwell, Aiken, Lexington New- bet ry Colleton, Oconee, Kershaw, Dar lington, Marlboro, Lancaster, Lee Sumter, Anderson, Saluda, Green ville, Calhoun, Richland, Dillon, Horry and Georgetown. THANKSGIVING! A day of special review of the blessings of the year, even sorrows and trials may have brought about a wholesome ef fect and may be accounted today as deserving of thanks. The occasion is not one for feasting only, though great joy frequently is celebrated with a feast; but in calm reflection one may look back over the 12 months and ponder the success with which he meets his tasks and his fellow men. Life, is to be lived, and success in life must depend on how we live it. Dying is comparatively unimportant, for as we live, so we die.' The thing, then, is to learn how to live. Most people do not understand that there is a difference between old-age pensions an|d old age-insurance. I have met a number of men who think of the two as being one and the same. That is far from the truth. Old-age insurance is for industrial workers. Farmers, teachers, preachers, lawyers, merchants and others can’t enjoy that. That is the insurance for which em ployees and employers are taxed on the pay-roll. You and I can’t come in on that. As a matter of fact, I think it unconstitutional because it does exclude us. At any rate, we don’t belong. I have always wondered just how our State happened to commit itself to some of its undertakings. In a general way I understand, of course, that virtually every cause fostered by the State is a worthy one and sponsor ed by our most serious and respected citizens. I saw almost the initial im pulse recently. The Budget Commis sion of the State was in session. It is composed of (1) Governor Johnston, a benevolent, warm-hearted and sym pathetic gentleman; (2) Senator Ward, benigent, charitable church man, full of the milk of human kind- nes; (3) Neville Bennett, one who is inclined to scrutinize proposals sharp ly, but whose heart resonds to appeals for the unfortunate. Now, then, be fore this admirable and amiable body comes Mr. J. Nelson Frierson, a fine gentleman; one who shows refinement in every line of his face; whose voice and manner immediately command re spectful attention. Mr. Frierson is dean of the School of Law, an exem plary citizen and a steadfast church man. Mr. Frierson introduces two ladies—from out of the State—repre senting a national Council fro the blind. They propose that—in addi tion to $86,000 which the State now spends for the blind, that $30,000 be apprbpriated for one thing and “either $50,000 or $75,000 a year” be given for something else until the need shall show the wisdom of giving more. I am reminded that our charitable citizens are quickly responsive to the needs of humanity and readily recom mend new commitments by the State. No one with a heart can fail to be moved by an appeal for the blind. But how about the deaf and the lame and the halt and the maimed? What a- bout the hungry and the naked? How about the akk and the sorrowing, the bereft and the dying? In an idea! Society we should all become “Good Samaritans”; or is it the ideal that the State should be the Samaritan? The Son of God proceeded slowly in reforming theNrorld, but our poor lit tle State would not be willing to wait nineteen hundred years to do His work, it would put it in the budget for $25,000 as an opening wedge and it would be $150,000 a year within five years, especially so if the tempt ing bait of a Federal appropriation were added. Take a look at our Forestry Com mission. A short time ago it waa $15,- 000. Then it jumped overnight to $50,000; now it it $63,000. That’s the way. I was in the postoffice the other day. A young fellow asked for some thing to eat. I took him to a restau- ant. Now, surely every man should have food and clothing and work and stimulating diversion and a home, etc. But I cannot do all the things my heart would like to do. And neither can the State. Our people in seeking some cause to recommend to the State are like a mother with a thermometer —she finds somebody “with a tempera ture” all the time. Perhaps so, but nothing so enfeebles us as nursing every little symptom. During the exposition before the Budget Commission frequent refer ence was made to the State of New Jersey. Now, New Jersey is a vastly wealthy State. It has one corpora tion which owns more than all our cotton mills put together. Our well- meaning citizens assume that just whatever Massachusetts has, so must we have becauae beyond a doubt we are as deserving as anybody else. Very true. But because I see some other people sailing about in private yachts, and others in Packards does not argue for me to enjoy the same, does it? No; not even though I may be as deserving as they. ON YOUR RADIO! NatMiral Chilean Nitrate PRESENTS UNCLE NATCHEL AND SONNY Famous Natural Nitrate Calendar Characters BE SIRE AND LISTENl WAFI war a WFLA was WWL war wrrr wia WNVA WJOX WUC KWKN STATIONS Thm. aM Than. Tuu tad Than. Mm. aarf WM Ta« aaATtar (C.T Tan a at Than. Tan and Than. Taaa. aad Than. Taaa aad TSan. Mm aad Wad. Taaa. aad Than. Taaa. aad TSan. ■aa. aad Wad. 12 :45 F M. 12:15 F.M. SJaFM. >4:45 F.M. 12 45 F.M. 1245 F.M. 5:15 F.M. 545 F.M. 12 :tt F.M. 1245 F.M. 12 4S F.M. 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RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts, made up of 109 different notes with short or demand maturities $ 53,209.77 Distribution of above loams: Notes from $ 1.00 to $ 100.00 —49— $ 2710.32 Notes from 101.00 to 200.00 —24— 3790.45 Notes from 201.00 to 400.00 — 9— 2540.00 Notes from 401.00 to 800.00 —10— 5706.00 Notes from 801.00 to 5350.00 —17— 38463.00 $58209.77 Security to above loans: Notes secured by Bonds and Stocks readily marketable $ 6587.67 Notes secured by Warehouse Receipt^ on Cotton and 1 or Farm Products 21426.00 Notes secured by Other Collaterals 18178.00 Notes secured by Two Signers 7018.10 $53209.77 United States Government, State, County and Municipal Bonds... $ 80,489.09 FHA Mortgage Loans 22,805.16 Municipal Note s secured by Current Taxes - 32,000.00 CASH ON HAND AND DUE FROM BANKS 261,247.87 Bank Building, Fixtures and Equipment j j 6,500.00 $456,251.89 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock Paid in $ 25,000.00 ... 25,068.75 3,500.00 1,416.26 262,846.35 - 134,730.43 3,690.10 Surplus and) Undivided Profits Reserved for Contingencies Reserved' for Taxes, Interest and Insurance Demand Deposits Savings Deposits Certified, Cashier’s and Expense Checks V- >:• MEMBER of FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION $456,251.89 t f T ❖ f f T T T T f T T t T T i t T T T T i T ± T T ♦ ♦> ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ❖❖❖ DR. 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