The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, December 03, 1936, Image 4
THURSDAY. DECEMBER S. ItM.
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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.
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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.
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STATEMENT OF CONDITION NOVEMBER M. 19M.
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
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