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' vM' PAG* THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1927. COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. Years ago our fathers lived in a sort of swashbuckling epoch. The so-called best man won. Sometimes the winner won by trickery, imposi tion or fraud; but however he may have won he wore the laurels of suc cess and people bowed and scraped to him, that swashbuckler method was true in many relationships. Many men of large business interests were ras cals; and many men of small inter ests were rescals. When it comes to rascality almost any small communi ty has its full quota of shady people, though they operate on a small scale. It need* not surprise us, then, that investigators can bring to light many deals and details of more or less crooked taint; but that is no reason for suddenly crushing necessary busi ness today. We are all familiar with the story of the Chinaman who set fire to his cane house so as to roast his pig. Burning down one’s home to roast a pig or kill a rat is expensive and foolish. So it is that in harrying our big business concerns we are almost burning down the house in quest of a rat. What would become of Greenville or Spartanburg if the cotton mills up there should go out of business ? What would be the effect if those mills were removed* to Alabama? Would that be a profitable experience for those pro gressive and delightful towns? would that be for the betterment of our State? On the other hand, would not our low-country towns be happy to get a few cotton mills? By the way, the low-country is getting paper mills. How happy they are! But that is our road to progress; we must have industries. At one time we aimed constantly at Railroads and we developed such a «ure aim that you could throw a rock in any direction and hit a railroad. We nearly strangled the railroads to death. Now we are sharpening our knives for the utilities. We almost seem to forget that utilities were built by private enterprise and with private capital; we seem to forget that utilities serve customers, most of whom are not complaining. Most of this furore about the utilities is something the politicians have incu bated and hatched for the sake of something to say. Are we victims of the utilities? I’m not, for I can still buy oil and use a good lamp. I have done it and I en joyed a good light. Are the big busi ness concerns victims of the utilities? Well, have you noticed that many big concerns generate their own power? They don’t fear the utilities; in fact they don’t even do business with them at all. Two big paper factories have come to South Carolina. They will not buy power from any utility; they will gen erate their own power. Do you know that the big paper mills can generate their power for less than the utilities can sell it to them? Why? Because the man or concern who generates his own power does not pay the power tax. If he bought the power from a company he would have to pay the tax through the power company. By generating his own power he saves the tax. As more factories install their own generators what will become of the power companies? They are facing a keen and resouueful competition just as the railrocds have in the buses and trucks. The governor’s suggestion that the highway patrol and the State con stabulary be merged as the nucleus of a State police system is sound. I think he might go somewhat further in that direction, for that alone would be just a small beginning, though it has the merit of recognizing a prob lem and* offering a constructive re commendation. The suggestion that the sale of licenses be concentrated in one office is, of course, sound; and the proposal that all funds be handled by the State treasurer and accounted for as one general account is timely. Now that these concrete proposals are being stuided over the week-end I think the most urgent point that could be studied is that of relieving to be incredible that up to this mo ment our statesmenship has not grasp ed the need of reducing school dis trict taxes and other local taxes. This does not necessarily presuppose a re duction in salaries; but it should con template first and foremost the condi tion of the citizens who are struggling to hold or to buy a home. Our na tional leaders are concerned over the growth of farm tenancy and town renters. It is being recognized that our social stability is dependent on people owning their homes and farms. A foot-loose people don’t build towns or communities. All of us know that it is cheaper to live as a tenant than to meet the obligations of an owner. This is one of the unset tling factors of our present-day condi tion. Furthermore, we would do well to call a conference of our business leaders, a few men from each branch of business, to study a plan for the rehabilitation and development of our State. We live in a keenly competitive day and should look forward to providing employment for those who live here now and their sons. I say it with the greatest appreciation of our pub lic men that their thought seems to be on spending, not on earning. If we have the problem of providing more generously for our schools and at the same time a more pressing problem of relieving our taxpayers, that is just about the sort of problem which our manufacturers met so suc cessfully and thereby began the econo mic recovery. We have in our gen eral assembly and in our public offi ces many men of first-rate ability. If they would devote their best thought to the problem of a more productive use of our resources our condition would be improved. I don’t mean to increase taxes; I mean to increase the earning power of the people so that the cost of government would be dis tributed among more producers. And by so much be less burdensome to industry and to home and farm- owners. Our memory is short; perhaps that’s a good thing, but it comes al most as a shock to read that 5,377 banks are still indebted to the RFC. What was the real condition of our country in March, 1933? The rail roads also owe many millions to the RFC. Since the RFC was created it has lent $11,376,180,099.00 tf> save the business of the country. Even in South Carolina we are borrowing millions for our homes— and other causes; thirty-two million dollars being spent in this State in 1936 for relief and work relief. The President had allocated about sixty- two millions to South Carolina and forty-nine millions were spent on all forms of Federal aid between April and December, 1936, in South Caro- NOTICE! Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to situate in Banwell, Richland and Red Oak Towmshipe, for the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: Mrs. Flossie Smith .. _ 1,000 J. M. Weathersbee 572 Mrs. Kate Patterson .. .. 3,000 Est. of H. A. Patterson ... 2,000 Duncannon Place . 1,650 Joseph E. Dicks .... 800 Sweetwater Place - 500 R. C. Holman 400 B. L. Easterling, Cave Place 200 A. A. Richardson ... 1,000 Barnell Turpentine Co: Lemon Bros. 150 Simtnons Place 450 John K. Snelling 100 Middleton Place 300 J. P. Harley —. 150 Mose Holly 200 L. W. Tilly 160 B. C. Norris .. 400 John Newton 200 J. W. Patterson „ 100 Tom Davis 400 L. Cohen—(Hay Place) 200 Terie Richardson 100 Dr. Allen Patterson .. 1,000 N. A. Patterson (Tanglewood Bruce Place 500 Place) 130 Harriett Houston — 150 Billy Jenkins 50 Mrs. B. H. Cave ... 500 Kemp Place 175 Sue Ford — .. 120 Andrew Jessie .... 60 L. Cohen—(Chitty Place) .. 200 Mrs. J. A. Porter —. 600 C. F. Molair (Big Savannah C. L. McCaslan 150 Pond) . 400 Ransom Snelling 300 W. B. Parker Place ... 200 Willis Williams 50 McCreary Place — 165 Mrs. P. J. Drew 80 Alice Green ... 20 Allen Hill 65 GEO. H. WALKER, Owner. ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr linn. ' How’s that for a prosperous State? More government mopey spent in this State in the prosperous year of 1936 than the total cost of State, county and municipal government in South Carolina. Yet there are those among the gladsome spenders who think the Depression an incident of the long ago! Simply that—and nothing more. Suicide Was Reward For Life of Service Yorkville Enquirer Says That Dis couragement Led to Death of Kersh»w Editor. The following editorial, which ap peared under the caption, “The Price He Paid—Suicide”, is reproduced from the January 8th issue of The York ville Enquirer: “The elder generation of South Car olina newspapermen who knew and admired the late John W. Hamel, edi tor of the Kershaw Era, learn with regret of his tragic passing into eter nity. He was an exponent of the week ly newspaper editor who stood for civic righteousness and common hon esty, and in the columns of the week ly he founded more than 40 years ago and personally directed up to the time of his death, faithfully served his State and community. “By nature modest and unobtrusive Hamel was a man of sterling charac ter and fine ideals. The Era reflected in its editorial and news columns the personality of its owner. During his length of years he served his county and State, in the legislative halls and also as head of the State pardon board. He will be missed, especially among the members of the State press who knew and esteemed him.”—Spar tanburg Journal. The editor of The Yorkville En quirer did not know much of Captain John W. Hamel personally. He met him a time or two and liked him. All that the Spartaburg Journal says a- bout the late editor is true; but there is much that is true about him that isn’t said. Much that should be said. We thoroly know the type of man of which Mr. Hamel was an example. For more than 40 years, we are told, he published a newspaper, The Ker shaw Era, at Kershaw. He was an editor who “stood for civic righteous ness and common honesty.” No doubt of that, and we dare to say that no force in Lancaster County and the town of Kershaw ever had more weight in upbuilding the moral, spiritual, ed ucational and industrial life of that section of Lancaster County than did Jdhn W. Hamel and his Kershaw Era. No, not even the churches with their paktors, nor the schools, did mo/e for Kershaw than John W. Hamel. He contributed mightily in making that community fit to live in, and his in fluence will go on and increase in the coming years. But what was his reward? Judging by the Kershaw Era, as we saw it from time to time, his material re wards were very, very limited. His newspaper never reflected great pros perity; it never evidenced that Editor Hamel was reaping material rewards commensurate with what he was do ing for Kershaw and Lancaster Coun ty. We suspect that during most of those 40 years he was constantly “up against it”—up against it despite the fact that he was giving every subscriber to the Era, double and tre ble their money’s worth in each is sue of the paper; the business inter ests of his town were not generous in their advertising patronage; not near ly so generous as they should have been. No doubt some business houses who should have been liberal users of his advertising columns, had a notion that it wasn’t worth the price; when as a matter of fact in direct and in direct returns, the value of the adver tising was worth twice the cost and more to the people who should have used the Era’s columns and didn’t. We know that Captain Hamel would have felt insulted and rightly so, if any Kershaw business house had of fered him patronage on a basis of “I’ll advertise to help the paper.” To in sinuate that the cost of the advertis ing wasn’t worth the price asked and more, would have been an insult to the editor of the Era, who thruout all the years worked and slaved for the up building of the community he served. Captain Hamel wasn’t a mendicant, he wasn’t a beggar and neither are thousands of other small town news paper publishers; but as a matter of fact he was, and they are, among the greatest forces for civic, spiritual and moral righteousness to be found any where. It is not necessary for an edi tor to be constantly crusading in his columns; but those columns stand as silent guards against the spoilsman who wbuld desecrate and rob a com munity, who more often than not is held in bounds by the very fact that such men as Captain Hamel are stand ing by, ready to go to the defense of such communities. Yes, we think we can picture Cap tain Hamel’s plight. He was about 75 years of age; he wad not long ago lost his printing plant by fire; he was not being given the patronage sup port that he ought to have been given on a basis of value received; he could n’t, perhaps, see much daylight ahead; he became cynical discpuraged. Why keep on? He decided that it wasn’t worth the effort. He snuffed out his long and useful life—a life, more than half of which was spent slaving for his town and county. A little more business encourage ment, a little more support for his circulation. Elimination of that ele ment that perhaps read his paper free—the chronic borrower—and Cap tain Hamel would most likely be still carrying on for Kershaw and Lan caster. Peace to his ashes! Triple “C” News Notes W. TEAL, Reporter. CCC Camp, Jan. 25.—Of the 20 new men who reported* to this company two weeks ago, 10 are being transferred to Edisto Island today. The news that these men Were to be transferred burst like a bombshell this morning at “work call.” All the new men were there, ready to go to the woods for the first time, as their condition period of two weeks is over. They were very much surprised when half of them were held back and not allowed to get on the trucks with the old members. Everybody sensed that something was going to happen. Then Lieut. Cobble came out and announced the news. The boys did not want to go, but “orders is orders.” Four old mem bers are being transferred at the same time, which makes a total of 14 going to Edisto. In addition two members of the kitchen force, Albert Griffin and Al exander Capers, left us last week be cause they have secured jobs outside, which brings the total of departures in the last week up to 16. This leaves the company strength a little more than 160. We are sorry to see the new men go. We appreciate the tennis court they built for us, and when ,we are playing on it this summer, we will think of them sometimes. Edisto Scares Local Team. In the first game of a double-header in basketball Saturday, Jan. 23, the locals barely nosed out the Edisto Is land team 19-18. The second game was more one-sided, the score being 37-12. We are all set to play the Supply Company here Saturday, Jan. 30th, and we are set to give them a good game. Tree Planting Going On. The work crews are now engaged in replanting on various plots where the stand of pines planted last year was not good because of drought. This is being done free for those who had trees planted by the camp last year. W. D. Trantham, of Camden, has been transferred to this camp from Montmorenci, in place of E. M. Padgett. ’Alf and ’Alf. Blackville, Jan. 24.—Blackville boys rose to great heights Friday night to down Irmo, 26 to 14. Blackville led all the way and showed the best pass- work and eye for the basket that it had showed* this season. Cooper, with 14 points, led the attack. Quattle- baum, Nevils and Delk aided with four points each. Lineberger led the Ir mo team. Irmo downed the Black ville girls, 30 to 24, in a game that was exciting all the way. The more experienced Irmo girls got the jump and held the lead alj the way. The whole Irmo team showed outstanding work, while Still and Tant led the Blackville attack. ~e. Money to Lend A. H. NINESTEIN, Attorney Blackville, S. C. INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT 1 Calhoun and Co. 2* t A. PRICE, Manager. IN TOUR COTTON POTASH STARVED m Wm MM m h. • ' :.pj ’mm M ■., s-. 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