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BP > PAGE EIGHT. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELU SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. DECEMBER Id, 1*3*. J K.'' r i B. vt B- ■ I V h COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. Can 'W'p Fe«d the Elephant? t We live in a day of, liberal spend- hipr. The extreme freehanded ness of the National and State Gevomments is only a reflection of the mood of the people. It is what the people are doing in their private business. We have been taught to believe that a man should be thrifty and frugal— that he should spend less than his in come and save something for a rainy day. In our time, by the way, people believed in preparing for rainy days. Most of us had rubber overshoes and umbrellas. But the people of today are no longer afraid of rainy days; and so we see very few men with overshoes and umbrellas and you see very few people denying themselves and laying aside something for old age. The sentiment of today is to get what you want and the absence of money doesn’t make any difference, because they are trying to get it on credit. I know, of course, that credit is a necessary thing in business and that all our businessis built on credit, but credit for the s&ke of increasing your earning power and credit for the sake of increasing your personal spending are many miles apart. Cred it for more spending is the rule of the day. I would not undertake to battle against this tide in our public affairs except for the reason that the spending, though frequently in spired by a few, is charged to us, all. I have given the most earnest thought to our public Activities and I think I may say that not only are most of them good, but I could think of many others that might be under taken. What I am bound to ask my self is whether there is any limit to what the State can do or what the State should undertake. I am myself jnoved with deep sym pathy for our people in distress. I have been called upon to lend money to boys who wish to go to college, to girls who wish to go into training to become nurses, to men who wish to buy homes, to men who wish to ex pand their business, to men who want to save their mules, to men who wish to buy'cars, and to boys who wish to aee a football game. Hardly a week passes but I am called upon to buy a meal for somebody. I should like to be able to respond to each of the calls. Everyone of them was a worthy one; but obviously there is some limit to what one can do. Of course I also have the sqme temptations that other people have, to own a fine car, to wear fine clothes and to indulge my taste for all the fine things of life. If I were to buy just all the books I want it would require more than my entire income. Now you can not deny that books are very necessary to a | man who has spent his life with books; but can I indulge my taste without restriction of any kind? Now, I apply this same rule to the State that I apply to myself. There must be a limit somewhere and the question is have we reached that lim it, or have we, perhaps, even passed it? Some people seem to think that the State is something apart from the people who make up the State, they seem to have an idea that taxes can be imposed without limit and for every good cause that moves the heart of sympathetic people. I think of the State just as I think of an individual. I know that mother and daughter and son, too, may think that dad is an inexhaustible spring of money and that however they may multiply their demands he will find the money by some means. They do net always know how dad toils and suffers; they are at the spending end of the partnership. Now it may be possible that the proper method of househould financing is for the chil dren to get everything in the world they want and for dad to find the money. Years ago what they spent depended on what dad had—and was willing to let go. Here is our little State, as ambi tious as Caesar and too proud to ad mit its poverty, though the Sheriffs’ sales and the millions of debt ought to tell us something. But in studying the condition of the State let us be like young people for a moment; that is, let us forget all about the debt. It seems to be the custom to think that what is spent 'is gone and there is no reason for us to worry about that; that is for the other man to worry about. But we, at least ought to give some thought to the matter of income, even though we forget the debt. If we were to figure out the income of the people of the State it are indigent. Well, you know our would not mean much to us because State ang our people. How many col- nobody knows and nobody can tell ored people, 65 and over, are indi- what a man’s rfet income is. That is gent? There are more than 22,000 the important thing. If I receive ten of them by the census of 1920. And thousand dollars for my crops this what about our white people, 65 and year it is very possible that my net over? There were more than 33,000 profit would be less than one thousand | of them in 1930. Mark you, taking dollars; yet I read day after day a-. this pension will not be like going to bout the farmers’ income, and what j the poor house, it will be as thorough- is called the farmers’ income is the ly proper and dignified as receiving total price received for his crops. I venture the statement that if the av- the bonus, or the farm benefits—and you know that every man entitled to Gifts for Him Augusta's Favorite Men’s Sto:e is packed with gifts that are favorites with men. These ate welcome gifts—the kind that he’ll honestly Ik* glad to receive. Our salesmen will aid you in selecting sizes, colors, patterns and styles. JUST A FEW OF THOUSANDS OF FINE GIFTS: Silk Kobes—$7.00 to $10.00. Anow Shirts—$2.00 to $2.50. Smoking Jackets—$5 to $12.50 Silk Hose—50c to $1.00 Half Hose—35c to $1.00 Fine Pajamas—$1.00 to $7.50 Silk Ties—$1.00 to $3.50 FUnnel Robes—$6 to $10 Belt Sets—$2 to $3.50 Leather Jackets—$9.50 A C OMPLETE RANGE OF PRICES ON ALL. f * i AI L GIFTS PAC KED IN INDIVIDUAL C HRISTMAS BOXES F. E. FERRIS & Co. PHONE 2S51 752 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. NOTICE! Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to situate in Banwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: J. M. Weathersbee 572 Est. of H. A. Patterson 2,000 Joseph E. Dicks 800 R. C. Holman 400 A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. 150 Jthn K. Snelling 100 J. P. Harley 150 L. W. Tilly 160 John Newton 200 Tom Davis 400 Terie Richardson 100 N. A. Patterson (Tanglewood Place) 130 Billy Jenkins 50 Jerry Scott 75 Kemp Place 175 ' Andrew Jessie 60 GEO. H. WALKER, Owner. ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Mrs. Kate Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place 1,650 Sweetwater Place 500 B. L. Easterling, Cave Place 200 Barnell Turpentine Co: Simmons Place 450 Middleton Place 300 Mose Holly 200 B. C. Norris 400 J. W. Patterson 100 L. Cohen—(Hay Place) 200 Dr. Allen Patterson 1,000 Bruce Place 500 Harriett Houston 150 Mrs. B. H. Cave . 250 Sue Ford -- 120 L. Cohen—(Chitty Place) 200 a breathing spell between the battles labor, and yet I was more fortunate —Deflation, Boll Weevil and .Depres sion. Let’s go back a little further sions and old-age insurance.. The old- I’ve heard all my life about White erage farmer kept a set of books in j a bonus seems to have taken it,-even which he charged the services of him- ‘ though he suffered his military ex self and his family against the price perience in action 3,000 miles from received for his crops you would find the fighting zone! And we farmers that he had no net profit and rather, took all the benefits of the Triple A, small wages for himself. The public so far we figured that it was to our service institutions, etc., of our State advantage to do so. I think I am are asking for increases which will safe in saying that about 90 per cent, amount to more than every dollar of of the colored people and 50 percent, increased profit which the farmers of of the white people will qualify for this State have made* this year. Ac- ( the pension. If the State should pay ccrding to the Federal Statistician in ten dollars a month that would a- Columbia our farmers are receiving mount to $4,272,720 a year; and if the $2,028,165 less for tobacco this year ^ State should pay $15 a month it than last year, but $11,548,000 more would amount to $4,984,920 a year, for their cotton. Tht leaves an es- Suppose there were some eff-set, as timated increase for the farmer of Colonel Fulp contends, even then we $9,500,000 over last year. Now, if should have to raise several million the farmers receive 10 per cent, net dollars of new money somehow. As profit, their net profit for tobacco and you know, the Federal government cotton this year is $950,000 more than will match the State in this payment, last year, but the institutions of the I never have been much impressed by State are asking for an increase of that. I am driving a Chevrolet car, more than that. As Mr. Bennett, it is paid for, but it represents all I chairman of the Ways and Means think I can afford, for myself. Would Committee of the House, said jocular- it be an economy, then, for me to get ly one day in a budget hearing “The a Rolls-Royce for twenty thousand institutions of the State can spend dollars, provided some one should pay in three days more than the people half of the price? can earn in seven days. Mr. Bennett j 1 have heard it said that our retail said it as a joke, but he was not far business would prosper because of all from the truth. ^ this new money. Well I am wonder- South Carolina has waged war a- ing about that. In my farming opera- gainst three powerful foes, without tions I know how hard it is to get By Special Request ANOTHER [Just this one before Christmas] £ V* -''t;:', ' J- A', T-' J. B. WHITE & CO. % t Christmas Dollar Day I f. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 12th I & YOU’LL BE HERE, OF COURSF—shopping with your friends t and neighbors! . . . Thousands of beautiful gift specials ready Y ^ for this event. Something for everyone on your gift list. Come and see! ^ * The Best Christmas Georgia Has Known in A ❖ § ♦ V Many Years . . . Let’s Make Everybody Happy! x X than my neighbors. As I ride upend down this State I have seen this week and see. What struck us the most thousands and thousands of acres of severe blow was the drastic deflation ; cotton in the fields. Have our people which overwhelmed our people in become so rich that tney don’t need 1920. Our farmers who had sold cot-|.the price of this cotton? Or have ton in 1919 for 40 cents a pound made they become too lazy to pick their their arrangements for the 1920 crop cotton? Perhaps you can answer that, on that basis; and when that crop But I ask you this: How many plow went on the market at about 12 cents bends and hoe hands are coming from the farmers and the bankers and the homes which enjoy 20 or 30 dollars a merchants were thrown together in- ( month of pension ifloney? And if to a partnership of disaster. And as their fields sre left untended, where cur farmers, merchants aud bankers will the money come from for retail reeled before this blow there came the business, for this country still rests boll weevil, costing us fifty to a hun- on the farmers. The only consolation dred million a year. And then the that I have is that if the farmers World Depression! Yet strangely can’t get labor they will soon have to enough our spending agencies and pa- apply for a pension themselves, and trotic and sympathetic citizens mu!ti- then all the farmers and all their plied the spending of public money “hands” will have nothing to do but many times ever. When the value of ait back and wait for the pension our cctton was three bundled million check. We shall not be worried about dollars the cost of the State govern- over production then. All our trou- ment was less than $4,000,000. As hies will be over and all our problems the State became poorer and poorer will be solved just as soon as we have and pooler not only did the taxes go a pension! up in order to mainUin the institu- How shall we raise nil this money tions that we had, but we became am- for pensions? \ou have heard a bitions and world-minded and ex- discussion about a sales tax. Many panded our State’s activities in every contend that since the benefits are direction. When the depression came for all the indigent, then surely every- and added to all the difficulty caused body should pay. There is one thing ty deflation, miltiplied by the boll about the sales tax that people con- weevil, individuals tried to cut out stantly misrepresent. They say that their deadwood. Seme lost their it is the poor man who pays the homes, maify lost their jobs, but yet sales tax. If a man should spend but gave grateful thanks to. Jehovah that little, then his tax can be just a little, they were still alive; but our little We must not overlook the fact that State went right on nourishing not the man who really must pay the only the institutions we had, but money under a sales tax is the man even adding other agencies. | who spends a lot of money. The man But going back to the condition to- who buys only grits and meal and ba- day; they say we are prosperous con will pay on the scale of grits and again. I call attention that years meal end baccn, but the man who buys ago we were receiving on an average a magnificent car for five thousands of 60 to 76 million dollars a year dollars will pay more tax, probably, more for our crops than we are re- °n that one item than a half dozen ceiving today; and we have substitut- average families will pay on all their ed nothing that makes up that differ- ( expenditures for a year. I am not ence. Can you imagine the difference advocating a sales tax, but I like to it would make to our people if our speak the truth in its fullness and farmers had 60 million dollars more power, to spend this year! In the channels I do not see for the moment where of business that would multiply itself the money is coming from. What I by ten, amounting to six hundred mil- feel is that unless the business brains lion dollars. ( of the State shall formulate a pro- The Legislature will meet in a few gram we shall have some haphazard weeks. I have already mentioned that measure thrust upon us which will all the pi»blic services are full of am- play havee with the business of the bitious plans for expansion. That is State. I wish to remind our people natural; the official who does not that all of us earn our bread and meat love his work and wish to expand it from the business of the State. When- is not a proper person to hold the ever South Carolina becomes too dras- job; but the power to decide these tic in its impositions on business we things has to rest somewhere, and shall not only not attract capital, but that decision rests with the General we shall drive out the capital which Assembly and the governor. We have we have and leave thousands and before us the threat of the heaviest thousands of people without jobs, and additional taxation we have ever in the long run every man of us will known in one year. I refer to the. suffer in business. Nothing needs to provision which must be made if this be so widely preached as this, that State adopts an old-age pension sys- we sink and swim together, whether tern. Let me remind you that there we be banker, or farmer or mill presi- is a difference between old-age pen- dent or mill operative. MAKE YOUR FRIENDS HAPPY THIS CHRISTMAS BY SEND ING THEM ELETRICAL GIFTS AND THEY WILL LONG RE MEMBER YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS. REDDY KILOW ATT Your Electrical Servant. V.X-X~X~X~:*«:~X*<~X*<~X*<~X~X~X~X-X“X"X**X“X"X*<~X"0"X**0"C*<*'X~X* Treasurer’s Tax Notice! \ The County Treasurer’s office will be open from September 15, 1936, to April 15, 1937, for collecting 1936 taxes, which include real and personal property, poll and road tax. All taxes due and payable between September 15 and December 31, 1936, will be collected without penalty. All Uxes not paid as stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law. January 1st, 1937, one per cent, will be added. February 1st, 1937, two per cent, will be added. March 1st, 1937, three per cent, will be added. April 1st to April 15th, 1937, seven per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter April 15th, 1937. When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if propehy is in more than one school district. All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. age insurance will be paid from a fund Elephants, but not until I heard how which will be contributed by our in- much an elephant eats in a cay did dustrial employers and employees. I grasp the full significance of giving Farmers and farm laborers, teachers, a white elephant to a man. I’ve fig- preachers, bank clerks, merchants ured it out that an elephant would and their clerks, will not contribute eat me out of house and farm in a to this, nor can they participate in the few days. He would be too expensive 1 benefits. .For that reason I wonder if a pet for me. I wonder if we are it is constitutional, but old-age pen-j about to get a white elephant, or| sions are for all men and women, whether we have sufficient hay to ^ white and colored, 65 and over, who feed him. State Ordinary County Road and Bridge Bonds Past Ind. Bonds Constitutional School Special Local TOTAL No. 24—Ashleigh 5 7 4 1 3 13 33 * No. 33—Barbary Branch 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 45—Barnwell 5 7 4 1 3 25 45 No. 4—Big Fork 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 19—Blackville - 5 7 4 1 3 25 45 No. 35—Cedar Grove 5 7 4 1 3 28 48 No. 50—Diamond — 5 7 4 1 3 37 37 No. 20—Double Ponds 5 7 4 1 3 20 40 No. 12—Dunbarton - - 5 7 4 1 3 27 47* No. 21—Edisto 5 7 4 1 3 9 29 No. 28—Elko — 5 .7 4 1 3 27 47 No. 53—Ellenton 5 7 • 4 1 3 11 31 No. 11—Four Mile 5 7 4 1 3 8 28 • No. 39—Friendship 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No, 16—Green’s Academy — 5 7 4 1 0 O 20 40 No. 10—Healing Springs — 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 23—Hercules - 5 7 4 1 3 30 50 No. 9—Hilda — 5 7 4 1 3 25 45 No. 52—Joyce Branch 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 34—Kline 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 32—Lee’s 5 7 4 1 3 11 31 No. 8—Long Branch — 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. 54—Meyer’s Mill 1 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 42—Morris 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. 14—Mt. Calvary 5 7 4 1 3 18 38 ‘ No. 25—New Forest __ 5 7 4 1 3 18. 38 No. 38—Oak Grove 5 J 4 1 . 3 25 45 No. 43—Old Columbia — 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 13—Pleasant Hill 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. 7—Red Oak — 5 7 4 1 3 19 39 'No. 15—Reedy Branch 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 2—Seven Pines 5 7 . 4 1 3 13 33 No. 40—Tinker’s C’rqek — 5 7 - 4 1 3 ! 17 37 No. 26—Upper Richland _.— 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 29—Williston 5 7 • 4 1 3 32 52 The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Checks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances except at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.) Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, post office money order or certified checks. J. J. BELL, Couaty Treaa. 1