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i THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 19S7. COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. I ■ The Speakership race has been set tled by the election of Mr. Solomon Blatt. Now, gentlemen, let’s get to gether for South Carolina. In this day of intelligence and in the face of grave problems our State should not be “pro” or “anti” Johnston; nor should the House of Representatives be “pro” or “anti” Blatt. Let us be South Carolinians, eager to promote the vital interests of the State. South Carolina has brains enough to solve her problems; and in the gen eral assembly are men desirous of serving the State wisely. Let’s use our brains more and our prejudices less. Mr. Blatt has begun well by putting himself above pettiness. He is a capable man and will prove one of the ablest Speakers we have had. I expect real, definite leadership from Mr. Blatt and congratulate, not only Barnwell County, but our State on having such excellent presiding offi cers as Lieut.-Governor Harley Sn& • • • vjpa/iaytw USE EXTRA POTASH FOR EXTRA YIELDS AND QUALITY For EACH asparagus bud to produce a fancy spear, it must have an abundant supply of reserve food material. To pro vide this, successful growers have found that an application of 2,000 pounds gf a 5-7-5 fertilizer per acre is neces sary when the plants are set. Then they make additional applications of muriate of potash amounting to 200 to 300 pounds per acre to replenish the supply of this plant food. Growers who follow this practice each year are making good yields of high quality asparagus. Consult your county agent or experiment station. Write us for further information. AMERICAN POTASH INSTITUTE, INC. INVESTMENT BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. SOUTHERN OFFICE: MORTGAGE GUARANTEE BLDG., ATLANTA, GA. Announcement!: We Write Fire Insurance Auto Insurance Life Insurance IN ANNOUNCING the opening of our office in Barnwell, we wish to assure the public that our every ef fort will be to give the VERY BEST service possible, and we solicit your business with the understanding that we will do everything in our power to warrant your ENTIRE SATISFAC TION and LASTING FRIENDSHIP. : • Real Estate Sold Rents Collected WE REPRESENT THE Home Owners Loan Corporation Barnwell Realty & Ins. Co. •— -p Next Door to South Carolina Power Co. C. R. Peeples, President Zenobia M. Peeples, Secy.-Treas* ’ WELCOME TO % Doiu^ghues Beauty College 433-435, Eighth St. V Augusts, G*. Recognized by State of £eoagia. ^ School With Background. 24 years experience. Day and Night Classes. Enroll now. DONOGHUES Speaker Blatt I don’t know now whether to move to Barnwell or Spar tanburg in order to achieve political honors; but I must go and go soon to one or the other. Two large new enterprises have re cently come to South Carolina, the paper mills at Charleston and George town, with the prosepct of a third mill soon. These mills will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for wages and the money will go immediately into the channels of retail business. Within thirty it will have reached the wholesaler, the jobber, and the manufacturer. Within 12 months the churches, the insurance agencies—and others—will have received 1 some benefits from the wages paid. At the same time the money paid for timber will have cir culated through all the channels of business. And as trade expands the pfiblic service receives a contribution in taxes. Not only will the big mills pay taxes but through a hundred ave nues will come revenue to the State. Gasoline, soft drinks (and possibly some not so soft) cigarettes, movie tickets, etc., etc., will yield a steady stream of income to the State. Even if the mill itself paid no tax it would make a rich indirect contribution to us. This State must move to recovery through the channels of industrializa tion. Not only the State, but the na tions of the world, are engaged in the sharpest competition for new indus trial establishments. All sorts if in ducements are offered so we should enter the field. Whatever persuasion we can make should be made. To boil it down, we need new money and a lot of it in South Carolina. We are spending—and sending out of the State—for automobiles and other things—more than we receive for all our crops. We need industries that will produce for the national and world markets in order to restore the balance and yield us a margin of prof it. South Carolna had more manufac turing establishments in 1919 than in 1936; it received 1 vastly more for its crops in 1919 than in 1936. I need not take such a banner year as 1919; even some of the lean years will show that. When our cotton crop falls off seven hundred thousand bales in one year we can calculate our loss as at least sixty million dollars a year While our income fails our pubilc expenditures increase and our taxes have enormously increased. In 1919 the cotton crop brought about three hundred million dollais to the farm ers, as compared with $53,000,000 for the 1936 crop. In 1919 the State gov ernment cost about $4,000,000; where as in 1936 it cost about $20,000,00, though camouflaged 1 to appear $8,305,- 715.32. Since the days of 1919 we have passed through three terrific ex periences; in 1920 began the Defla tion which brought into a whirlpool of disaster farmers, merchants, manu facturers, bankers and depositors; in 1921 began the boll weevil, which ate what little the Deflation left. Strug gling from 1920 to 1929 our people saw their farms foreclosed, their stores bankiupt, their banks insolvent. Then just as a few of the hardiest began to get a fresh grip a suffocat ing blanket of Depression was thrown over the whole world. But in all these years of tribulation our public under takings and expenditures increased year by year. intelligent championship oY wise and prudent measures. I do not make that statement at random. Anyone who tries to withstand the avalanche of special pleaders for public appro priations will find most of our business men so absorbed at their own desks that they fail to act in their own in terest. 1 am interested in this organization because it is evident that those men in the legislature who oppose the in roads of highly emotional advocates all sorts of new things need an or ganization to arouse the taxpayers to support their efforts. I have no quar rel with the gentlement of the legis lature; they see so many good 1 people clamoring for all sorts of things that they yield to the importunities of the advocates. Now who pleads against all those well-meaning people? That’s why I say that we taxpayers frequent ly lose the war without even a battle In fact, the sponsors of new things get a judgment by default because the taxpayer doesn’t even appear. You will find many Senators and Representatives who have not bowed to Baal; but sometimes I feel like crying aloud as Elijah did that I, only, am left. "It's pietty hard >to. beat NATURE SULU Qneen A survey should be made to deter mine what governmental agencies we need and what instructions we can foster. The habit of yielding to every humanitarian impulse has resulted in creations of many kinds. Perhaps a rule should be adopted that the State should adequately support certain in stitutions that directly and immediate ly touch every family and withdraw from undertakings, however good, which it cannot adequately support. Certain it is we must stop imitating Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York Power to day is in the hands of those who have no stake in the land; the man with a stake would do well to think about this and* take measures for his own protection. Money to Lend. Sulu, deep liver-end- white pointer bitch, owned by A. Q. C. Sage, New York. Han- dltd by Clyde Mottoo. H ERE is an action picture of the famous Sulu, the pointer who swept every thing before her at National Field Trials of 1936 at Grand Junction, Tenn. Sulu, the queen of them all! Thousands of bird dogs range the fields... but there’s only one Sulu. To this glorious creature Nature gave her greatest gift, a perfect balance of the vital ele ments; speed, scent, endurance, instinct and intelligence. An other pointer may be just as good to look at, but Sulu has that vital spark—everything in perfect bal ance. So Sulu is the queen; the other is just a dog. Just as Nature favored Sulu, she favored Natural Chilean Ni trate of Soda. Just as Sulu has many elements in Nature’s bal ance, so has this nitrogen fer tilizer. Nature aged and blended into Natural Chilean, more than thirty "impurities”, or vital ele ments that your crops need to grow and to produce their best. These vital elements are in addition to Natural Chilean’s quick-acting nitrogen. That’s why Natural Chilean is so good for your land and your crops. Our entire governmental structure needs reconstruction. It would 1 be ted ious to listen to that in detail, but I suggest that the policing policy alone will show how arc&ic our set up is. Crime today is using brains and it employs the machinery of the day. Fast cars, airplanes, motor boats, me- chineguns, gas bombs, these are the tools of organized crime. We oppose to that county and city peace officers who cannot leave their precincts - and a few traffic policemen who are severely limited in authority. Obvi ously we must prepare to cope w’ith criminals. The usual method would be to add just another department and support it with new or additional taxes, whereas a thorough-going re grouping of our governmental services would provide for an efficient system without additional expenditure. As a first step I should suggest the in clusion of all field workers of the State and all county and city law-en forcement officials 4n a State Police System, with a radio broadcasting system or an arrangement with Co lumbia’s broadcasting system, which would be better. This might be done by giving to all a State Commission without interfering with their purely local duties. It would serve as a first step and would obliterate city and county limits in the pursuit of crimi nals. Our men of affairs have been too supine in their acquiscence. While the legislature is in session they us ually make light of H or denounce it; but they seldom unite their force in A. H. NINESTEIN, Attorney Blackville, S. C. k- ■ i ■ , INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. ?. A. PRICE. Manager. ADVERTISE ip Thu People-SentineL Natural Chilean NITRATE of SOD& NATURAL AS THI GROUND IT COMIS FROM With Vital Element* in Nature’* Balance and Blend RADIO—"UNCLE NATCHEL & SONNY” FAMOUS CHILEAN CALENDAR CHARACTERS See announcementa of leading Southern Stations 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: 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 500 Sue Ford 120 L. Cohen—(Chitty Place) 200 C. F. Molair (Big Savannah Pond) 400 J. M. Weal hers bee 572 Est. of H. A. Patterson 2,000 Joseph E. Dicks 800 R. C. Holman 400 A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. ( 150 John 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 Mrs. J. A. Porter 600 GEO. H. WALKER, Owner. ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr The New Year Will Bring NEW NEWS JUST AS THE YEAR 1936 was replete with thrills and new happenings—so will 1937 bring forth something never before heard of. Revolutionary changes are taking place and never a day passes but that we read and learn something new. CRYSTAL GAZERS again predict war between Russia and Japan during 1937. And if such happens there will be plenty news during 1937 as the wise men claim both China and Russia will take the field against Japan. ON THE OTHER HAND, recent developments in China indicate secret preparations for war afoot and if the cover was lifted w’e would find France, England, Russia and prob»bIy the United States giving finan cial aid to China. THE PRESIDENT OF CUBA w T as impeached to pave the way for a military dictator and the people are told it is a blessing towards freedom. The people will find it is the beginning of the end for freedom. • AN UNOFFICIAL WAR is going on in Spain, with Italy and Germany on one side and Russia on the other. A new w r rinkle, w’hy mar the country side of the home land when you can take the battle to your neigh bors back yard? NORWAY DEPORTS LEON TROTSKY, the revolutionist, to Mexico and now he nestles among the hills across the border in Mexico. Government officials claim Trotsky started the conflict raging in Spain. If true, then we can look for things to pop in Mexico any time during 1937. FRANCE, prepared more so than any other European country for war, continues to be bulldozed by Ger many because of internal strife. PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE were startled when they learned of King Edward’s love for Mrs. Wally Simpson—stunned when he gave up the throne—and next comes the marriage. A blue ribbon story in 1936—what will it be in 1937? WITH ROOSEVELT AS OUR LEADER for the next four years, the depression well spent, congress and .State legislature in session, it looks as though 1937 will be a big year. But to watch the trend of events and keep abreast of times, it’s important that you subscribe to a newspaper that you can depend on to print the news as it happens. By that w-e mean—unbiased—uncolored. THE STATE is that kind of a newspaper. For -local news, we suggest you read YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER. 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