The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 28, 1937, Image 8
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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
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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.
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Attorney
Blackville, S. C.
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