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I i . # THE BABNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAT, MARCH 18, ItIT. ThBBTiiwIl P»opU«SeptiBt JOHN W. HOLMES 1848—1811. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. ——— _ i—— ' Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. a* tecond-claM matter. subscription Crates : One Year 11.60 Six Month* ...—...... JH) Three Month* J>0 (Strictly in Adranee.) THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937. The Supreme Court. We have heard and read so many discussions pro and con President Roosevelt’s proposed plan to revamp the Supreme Court that our headl, like the music in the more or less popular song, “goes ’round and around.” Some of these discussions have been by self- styled “experts”—and we are remind ed that “*n expert is just an ordinary fellow a long way from home.” Many of these fellows who are spouting about “the Constitution” don’t even know the opening words of the preamble—but they feel them- selves to be entirely qualified to pass upon so grave a question as now con fronts the nation. Considerable criticism has been launched against the statement of Chief Justice Hughes that “the Con stitution is what the judges say it is.” That is quite true—and the critics of Mr. Hughes’ statement lose sight of Hie fact that even with 15 judges on the Supreme bench, the Constitution will still be just that Frankly, we do not believe that the Constitution is such a sacred instru ment that it is as Unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. It was fashioned 160 years ago to meet the needs of those times, and it would be folly to claim that the fram ers were so omniscient as to foresee all of the changing fortunes of the past century and a half, and thus be able to construct a perfect instrument. In fact, it seems to be a rather am biguous document, judging from the many 5-to-4 decisions that have been rendered of late. The original Constitution itself has been amended about a score of times, to suit the changing conditions, and it is highly probable that it will con tinue to be amended in the future, just as many of the laws that were enacted during the infancy of the na tion have been relegated to the scrap- heap. along with bustles and hoop- skirts. It may be quite true that five of the “nine old men” are out of step with the times, as charged by pro ponents of the President’s plan—but what assurance have we that, ten or a score of years from now, eight of the 15 proposed justices may not be out of step then with what we as in dividuals concdive to be “constitu tional’’ or “unconstitutional’’? Isn’t it the TYPE of men who may be appointed to the bench, rather than the number, that will count most in shaping the destiny of the nation? After all, they are merely required to interpret the spirit of the Constitu tion as originally written and later amended, just as officials in a game of baseball or football interpret and apply the rules govemng those con- testa—and how many fans have agreed with the umpire on a called Srd strike against a home club batter when there were two out and the bases loaded? It takes a two-thirds majority to over-ride a Presidential veto—why wouldn’t it be a good idea to require concurring opinions from two-thirds of the justices before an Act of Con gress can be declared unconstitutional, whether the number be nine or 15? Or their ages 35 or 75? In conclusion, dear reader, we are frank to admit that we do not be lieve that “packing” or “unpacking” the Supreme Court is going to solve all the ills to which the human flesh is heir nor that such a proceduce ^ill boost the price of cotton to 20 cents a pound. (It has been as high as 42 cents when the number of justices was the same as now.) Our advice to you is that, if you don’t know any more about it than we do, don’t try to qualify as an expert. You may be just an ordinary fellow but not far enough away from home. Who Own No Soil? This from The Barnwell People- Sentinel: “At a time when the farm ers need money most—when they are buying fertilizer, seed and getting ready to plant—the checks for soil conservation payments are being re ceived at the county agent’s office for delivery.” Without disparaging other able articles of The people-Sen- tinel, that is the most powlrful argu ment we have, to this date, read in its columns, and we ask a question: How much are the farmer*, white and Muck, in Barnwell County, who^don’t own any soil getting for soil conser vation ?—New* and Courier. Well, we can’t answer the News and Courier’s inquiry in exact terms of dollars and cents, but anyone who can recall the depths to which agri culture had sunk in the dark days of 1932 and early 1933 must certainly realize that “the farmers, white an< and black, in Barnwell County who don’t own any soil” are sharing to no inconsiderable degree in the amounts that soil-owning farmers are “get ting for soil conservation.” Then the farmers of this county were hopeless, dejected lot, their cotton crop, curtailed by the boll weevil and lack of sufficient fertilization, selling for 6 and^ T cents a pound. Many were thrown en “relief” at 6 to 10 cents an hour—ahd glad to get even that small pittance. Today, farm activity is greater than at any time in the past decade, with very few able-bodied men on the re lief rolls and with farm labor at a premium, and being paid higher wages than was the case a few years ago All of this didn’t “just happen,” and we for one are willing to give pay ments for soil conservation some of the credit for improved agricultural conditions. Call the payments a sub sidy, if you like. The high tariff has subsidized big business for lo, these many years, and certainly the em ployees of big business have profited thereby; in fact, to such an extent that it now becomes necessary to subsidize the farmers. Understand, dear contemporary, that we are not arguing it is right to subsidize either, but what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. The Difference. When announcement was made by the post office department that a “Sherman stamp” was to be issued, there was a storm of protest from some sections of the South, and the legislatures of South Carolina and Georgia “resoluted” against the sl- leged insult and indignity aimed at this section. Hie P. O. department countered with another announcement that a stamp commemorating Gener als Lee and Jackson would also be issued. It now appears that there was “a nigger in the woodpile.” The “Sher man” stamp is of the S-cent denomi nation used largely on letters, while the “Lee and Jackson” stamp is of the 4-cent denomination, very few of which will be used except on pack ages. Fin in Barnwell. Quite a large number of Barnwell people have had attacks of influenza within the past two weeks. Among those who are sick now, or w)k> havy been sick lately, are, Perry B. Bush, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Sexton, Miss Del- ma Burgess, Miss Lillie Mae Jones, Angus Carter, Willie Baxley, W. E. McNab, Mrs. W. J. Baxley, Supt and Mrs. W. W. Carter and daughter. Miss Ida Carter, N. D. Coclin and Mart1% C. Best. Legal “ CITATION NOTICE. CHANGING A VISION . INTO A REALITY If you are not in the telephone business, such factors in mod ern long distance telephone communication as vacuum tube repeaters, permalloy loading coils, echo suppressors, attenua tion equalizers, CLR toll operating method, and others, are terms from a language you may not understand. But, as a user of long distance telephone service, you do understand that many improvements in the service have been made. The greater speed with which you are connected with another city, the clearness with which your voice is trans mitted, the extension of service to countries all over the world, and .seven rate reductions in the past decade, are all facts you are familiar with. * ~TT To make these improvements possible, someone had to have the vision to know what had to be done. Someone had to finance the research. Someone had to successfully condlude the research. Someone had to standardize the new equipment and operating methods. Someone had to put the equipment and methods in effect on a nationwide basis. The Bell System does it. Research, by the Beil Labora tories. Standardized manufacture, by the Western Electric Company. Standardized and nationwide operation, by the Bell regional operating companies. The result is the long distance telephone service you use, a service that grows better each year. Use “long distance” to keep friendships alive—to save time and money in your business. The cost is small wherever you call. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Compang. I N C O R » O ft AT ■ O during the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate: “All that certain piece, parcel or ;ract of land situate, lying and being n George’s Creek Township, Barnwell County, South Carolina, containing sixty-five (65) acres, more or less, xmnded on the North by the Brown ing place; on the East by Hugh San ders, on the South by Hugh Sanders and on the West by Estate lands of J. 0. Sanders, Sr., deceased, and Sid ney E. Sanders. Purchaser to pay for deed and stamps. G. M. GREENE, Master for Barnwell County. Barnwell, S. C n March 8, 1937. NOTICE OF SALE. The State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. By John K. Snelling, Esq., Probate Judge: WHEREAS, A. K. Hammet and H. J. Phillips hath made suit to me to grant unto H. J. Phillips Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of U. B. Hammet, Sr., deceased. THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said U. B. Hammet, Sr., deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held, at Barnwell, S. C., on Saturday, March 27th, next after publication thereof, at 11 o’ clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Admin istration sould not be granted. Given under my Hand this 12th day of March, A. D. 1937. JOHN K. SNELLING, Judge of Probate. Published on the 18th day of Mch., 1937, in The Barnwell People-Sentinel. MASTER’S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. In the Court of Common Pleas. Sidney E. Sanders, et al., Plaintiff, vs. „ ^ Sarah Ayer, et al., ’ Defendants. Under and by virtue of a decretal Order to me directed in the above en titled action, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction be fore the Court House door in Barn well, South Carolina, on salesday in April, the same being April 6 1987, The undersigned will sell to the high est bidder for cash, in front of the Court House at Barnwell, South Caro- ina, at eleven o’clock a. m., March 20, 1937, as the property of the es tate of U. B. Hammet, deceased, one 1933 Chevrolet automobile. License Mo. C-63,114 and also one gold watch and chain. H. J. PHILLIPS. Temporoary Admr. of the Estate of U. B. Hammet, Sr., deceased. MASTER’S SALE. State of South Carolina, ^ County of Barnwell. In the Court of Common Pleas. Addie M. Lott, et al.. Plaintiffs, vs. J. R. Lott, Administrator of the es tate of W. P. Matthews, deceased, et al., Defendants. Under and by virtue of a decretal Order to me directed in the above en- titl d action, I will sell to the highest bidder, for cash, at public auction be fore the Court House door in Barn well, South Carolina, on salesday in April, the same being April 5, 1937, during the legall hours of sale, the following described real estate: “All of that certain tract or parcel of land with all buildings and im provements thereon, lying and being situate in the suburbs of the town of Williston, County of Barnwell, and State aforesaid, containing forty (40) acres, more or less, and bounded as the Southewest portion of the town of Williston, County of Barnwell, State of South Carolina, containing in the aggregate about two and one-half (2Vt) acres, more or less, and being bounded as a whole as follows, to-wit: on the North by lot owned by Dr. J. L. Smith; on the East by Bennett Street; on the South by lands of the estate of Dr. W. T. Willis, and on the West by lands of John G. Smith and A. M. Kennedy, being the same lands conveyed to B. C. Matthews by Inez Laval Greene, individually and as sole devisee and as executrix under the will of G. W. Greene, deceased, by deed dated March 5, 1932, and re corded in the office of the Gerk of Court of Barnwell County in Book 9-Z at page 170. Terms of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for all papers and revenue stamps; the Master to require the successful bidder to deposit at once the sum of five per cent, of his bid as a guaranty of good faith, such deposit to be ap plied on the bid upon compliance with the itame and to be forfeited as liqui dated damages upon non-compliance. If the deposit be not made as requir ed, or if the bidder fsil to comply with his bid without legal excuse being shown, the premises to be re-sold up on the same or a subsequent salesday upon the same terms and at the risk of the bidder. G. M. GREENE. Master of Barnwell County. MASTER’S SALE Under and by virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Barn well County, State of South Carolina, in the case of Ruby Hiers, Calvin Hiers, and Azilee H. Still, Plaintiffs, vs. Horace Ray and Riley Ray, De fendants, I, the undersigned Master, will sell in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., during the legal hours of sale on the 6th day of April, 1937, same being salesday in said month, to the highest bidder, the fol lowing described premises: All that certain tract of land situ ate in Reedy Branch School District, Barnwell County, South Carolina, con taining sixty (60) acres, more or less, bounded on the North by lands of Margaret Ann Baxley; east by landfe of William Dyches, formerly of George Carroll; South by lands of To- follows, to-wit: On the North by the :bias B,ack > and West b y lands of es " ‘Old’ Charleston and Augusta Public Road; on the East by lands of Mrs. Carrie K. P. Smith; on the South by the Right-of-Way of the Southern Railway Company; on the West by lands of Joe Kelley, and others.” Purchaser to pay for '’deed and stamps. G, M. GREENE, Master for Barnwell County. Barnwell, S. C., March 15, 1937. MASTER’S SALE. Under and by virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Barn well County, State of South Carolina, in the case of Pauline P. Matthews, Plaintiff, vs. Audrey Matthews, B. C. Matthews; Jr., Gloria Matthews and Jack Zeke Matthews, Defendants, I, the undersigned Master, will sell in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. G’., during the legal hours of sale on the 5th day of April, 1937, same being salesday in said month, to the highest bidder, the following described premises: All that certain group of lots and all buildings thereon, being situate in tate of A. D. Hiers and rands of es tate of Johnson Black, Sr. ALSO, All that certain tract of land situate in Reedy Branch School District, Barnwell County, South Carolina, containing forty-eight (48) acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of Julia Grubbs; East by tends ^f-estate of Mrs. Minnie Hiers; South by lands of estate of J. M. Grubbs and lands of estate of John son Black, Sr. 4 Terms of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for all papers and revenue stamps; the Master to require the successful bidder to deposit at once the sum of five per cent, of his bid as a guaranty of good faith, such deposit to be ap plied on the bid upon compliance.with the same and to be forfeited as liqui dated damages upon non-compliance. If the deposit be not made as requir ed, or if the bidder fail to comply with his bid without legal excuse being shown, the premises to be re-sold up on the same or a subsequent salesday upon the same terms and at the risk of the bidder. G. M. -GREENE, Master of Barnwell County. Treasurer’s Tax Notice! The County Treesurer’s office will be open from September 15, 1986, 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 81, 1936, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stoted 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 16th, 1937, seven per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter April 16th, 1937. When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one school district. St 1 . ®ws j Ordinary County Road; and Bridge Bonds f Past Ind. Bonds Constitutional School Special Local 4 s H No. 24—Ashleigh — 5 7 ' 4 1 3 13 S3 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 17 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. 63—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 3 20 40 No. 10—Healing Springs — 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 23—Hercules — 6 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 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 42—Morris 5 7 4 1 3 1 15 35 No. 14—Mt. Calvary 6 7 4 1 3 18 38 No. 25—New Forest 5 7 4 1 3 18 38 No. 38—Oak Grove 5 7 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 6 7 4 1 3 13 33 No. 40—Tinker’s Creek 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 26—Upper Richland 5 7 I ^ 1 ■ 3 26 46 No. 29—Williston 5 * ’/ « 1 1 3 32 62 be paid by all male citizens ale citizens between the ages 1.00. The commutation road tax of 83.00 mu between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax ol 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, County Tress. USED CARS With “IT” Plesant to drive it—proud to own it—priced to buy it—performance sold it—policy backs it. “It” is here. COME IN. 1931 Ford Coupe—a Real Buy 1936 Ford Tudor, New Motor $475 1938 Ford Tudor Sedan 250 1930 Chevrolet Coupe 106 200 1934 Ford DeLuxe Fordor ‘’■"Sedan—trunk 375 Our repair department will serve you PROMPTLY, HONESTLY and PROPERLY. Come in. Estimates given on any job. Let US Care for YOUR Car TRY and Yon Will BUY The FORD V-8 A Car You Will Be PROUD to Own B 6cB Motors Phone 50 - - Barnwell, S. C. Self-sustaining farmers have come through the depression in compara tively good condition, because they have been doing for themselves and the persons dependent upon them. They did not buy feed for their domes tic animals. They produced their own hogs and cows and chickens, syrup from their own cane, meal and grits from their own corn. REDDY KILOWATT Your Electrical Servant. )