Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 + n V m.r. pavfm. •I the post office ot Borawoll, 8. Cn m >ocond-cU— motUr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Om Ymt ................. 11^0 ................ BO Thro# Month* BO (Strictly hi Adrueo.) THURSDAY, JULY 1ST, 1937. ‘‘Red Lifht Ahead.'* New Yorker* usually keep abreast of the times, but quite often it oc curs that happenings “out in the provinces” are stale news before they trickle into the matropolis. Meaning in particular that the attitude of small just beginning to percolate through kr that the attitude of the small towns and communities about the em ployment of unskilled labor on “re lief projects” when such labor is badly needed by private individuals is just beginning to perculate through the minds of those in the big towns. A few days ago, O. 0. McIntyre, whose synidcated column, “Day by Day,” appears in daily newspapers throughout the country, wrote the following paragraph: Red light ahead: From small com munities and towns over the land come an increasing avalanche of letters a- boot the inability to hire unskilled fchor. People everywhere have to hmld their own fences, chicken houses, mow their lawns, etc. Ordi nary house painting, too, has no more practitioners. Unskilled laborers, the plaints are, have found they can get •iong on relief without work and, of course, to take any sort of odd job may stop their relief. This collective ly is a mad that can easily lead to national disaster.” State administrators of WPA have Comments... On Men and Newt By Spectator. THE BLACK-CONNERY BILL OUR LITTLE STATE. SOUTH CAROLINA’S RESOURCES. HOW IGNORANT ARE WET A bill is under consideration in Congress which, if phssed, will just about put all our business in the hands of the Federal Government. If you favor letting Uncle Sam super vise and controJ every little mill or enterprise—which employs 15 or more persons—then the matter of Federal control has no terrors for you. Most of us are afraid of such control. This is an enormous coun try—the United States And we have difficulties and problems in the dif ferent sections and among different people in the same sections. No Board of flve men can know intimately the local conditions when the Board must survey a vast field. I regard myself as fairly well informed on the business conditions of our industries in South Carolina, yet I have marvel ed at differences even here, matters that I didn’t dream of And so, even here in a small State there is so much of difference that we may get an idea of the bewildering complexity of the problem if we multiply our difficulties by forty-eight—the number of States. This bill—the Black-Connery Bill— would set up in industry, even very small industries, a maximum number of hours per week—40—and • mini mum wage—$10. Now, then, how many little industries in South Caro lina can pay $16 for 40 hours work? Perhaps, reader of mine, you think this ifeesn't concern you, that it will ju»t hit the other fellow. But that also at long last taken cognisance of ( sn 't true. If all industry pays $16 the fact that most of the “emergency” for 40 hours work that will establish created by the depression baa passed » base time and pay schedule in every aad that the relief rolls ran be ma- | community and for all work. Farm tonally reduced. It is not telling labor and domestic labor will move tales out of school to My that many J to town. That means that those in- *U not fail. This la what we call n rich State, POTENTIALLY. But that POTEN- TIAL wealth doesn’t butter any par snips, as they used to My. To be modem, potential mutton com, roast- ’n ears and sugar com can only be enjoyed in the pictures—you can’t eat it; and Iboking at it wouldn’t stretch your belt. What we crave at this season is ACTUAL com—roasCn L A. at Olar. of wire whkh had pierced her ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. have entertained a strong bus- that hundreds and thousands of have been kept on relief rolla er to justify the fat salaries of rr-i old John P Tax- dustries which cant pay that scale will have to cloae. That, in tarn, will mean mere unemployment and more unemployment will reduce the retail I business of the store*. We have ' H Imbed slowly oat of the worst of to suspect that he the Depress ion. but we are not yet to foot the enormous tax ' clear out of the woods. If the Do- hfll and that all of the government i press ion isn’t here; if an economic i” so lavishly distributed art emergency bo not with us, why this aanaa aar “pe nates from | wrangle about one toll ion dollar* for The money i* going to be reslef, or o billion and a half? Why dd back "to the sweat of the man my relief at all? Why the hundreds ho labors " | ot million* addition* for CCC camp* ? | Why the N Y A and a do sen other cu lt a reported that la Siberia the terpnaea? Why Mill the PWA? Aad i rare for a Headache is a •by the RFC? Yet her* to a me* eaiea massaged on the fora- uro which threatens to cat at the very But wouldn't the headache be mats of all baotaeaa. itoe' Why this moas • distribute the we wiser to product ir* ? The idea to ta *th Wstain it ho more wealth ? If ta distribute wealth it it true that a ten word tele- Xkm "S ** U i can be sent from New York u> “<» *** *** * 1 11 peraaaa in whatever job and in whatever place ? Why a business af IS per sons? Is not a man who works in a two-man shop as much entitled ta short hours and good pay a* any body Barnwell to Charleston | ? Then ’ 1 « k - ^ the farmer and hia hands, the clerks a distance of Si miles. per than a like message will cost Barawel: to Charlotte. N C, 160 miles apart? And that it almost as much to send such a f as it does from New York to Wash ington? And that it costs a third ■sore to send a telegram from Bsm- w«ll to Greensboro, N. C. t some 268 miles, than from New York to Wash ington, although the distance is only about one-fifth more? Why must the South always be dis criminated sgainst? Why should telegraph tolls be higher in this sec tion than in the North, although in comes, salaries and wagesg are on a much lower scale here? And isn’t it also true that California enjoys a distinct advantage over this section in the matter of freight rates to the metropolis, allowing produce growers in the Far W r est to deliver shipments almost as cheaply as we do, in spite of the fact that the distance is nearly three times os great and despite the further fact that cars must be iced en route? ears, mutton corn and sweet corn. Now that ACTUAL corn is what does the trick. So with our grand little State; we must take the POTENTIAL wealth of the earth and convert it to ACTUAL wealth. Every barrel of flour is 196 pounds of POTENTIAL biscuits, but what we “holler” for of a morning is ACTUAL biscuits with ham gravy. Mark you, none of this potential stuff. So our State is rich POTENTIALLY, but we must trans form that into ACTUALITY. South Carolina! Well, is this a good place in which to live and do business? That’s the question. The population of South Carolina is about two million one hundred thous and today. In 1929 the total wealth of our people was two billion, seven hundred sixty three million dollars ($2,763,000,000), or $1,593 for each man, woman and child. Of course, a lot of water has passed over the mill since 1929. My guess is that our wealth is considerably less than two billion dollars; and, of course, our individual wealth isn’t more than $750 today. and messenger boy*—and *11 who labor? If the motir* be to diffuse the wealth, to increase spending pow er, why exclude anybody? We can quickly see that farmer* can’t pay such wages. But it ia equally true that others cannot. There is something in our scheme of things that some wise people can’t understand. I don’t defend it; I merely state a condition: There are jobs which are worth just small wages because the little enterprise cannot possibly operate on a higher scale. 1 Shall we close that business? Henry Ford grew from that kind of start. Is the Government prepared to guar antee a profit when it fixes a scale? No; it cold-bloodedly stands ready to freeze the little fellow out! When you freeze him out aYe we prepared to support his employees on the After all, what are we trying to do in the United States? With eight These are just some of the little mysteries of life that the average lay man cannot understand, in view of the fact that we have an Interstate | milUon 8ti11 “ on th * P ublic ,f Commerce Commission that is sup- , * not , our flret obligation to get them posed to regulate rates impartially, h** lnt0 P rivaU work? Cmn we do In the word, of ih. Japanese achool-, ^ * rnppling pm.U work?^ boy, "We **k to know ” Lh* aaiuwniiy saaasv * muimi on* ntosN Mtooeiuag on li snbwsty snohsa tone - *« kltoestoff tftog A lot of theory about hour* won’t ■tend the te*t of ei|wi tonco. Lot’* get our country en ita feet before we . South Carolina has two hundred mile* of sen coast, with inlets, bays, etc., etc., a* well as fine beaches. Our State contains 19,516,800 acres. We have some good harbor*. Char leston, of course, to w*ll known and exported in 1955 a total of $15,758,- 362. Everybody has heard of George town and Beaufort, but moat of our people don’t know that Port Royal to one of the finest harbors in the world In 1935 the value of all crop* and lie* stock was $124,711,000. In 1935 this State produced 745,000 bales of cotton, worth $41,906,000 and add the seed for $10,261,000. The vain* of all our maitu|>itured products for 1935 to about $266,000,000 Our in dustries bring into the Stole than twice ns mark a* the farms. We had 20,000 horses, 115,000 mules, 519,- 000 hog*. 374,000 cattle. IMjOOO be ing milch cows, and 22,C Star* we have aheut 157,000 farms w* have so*** farms without Perhaps they have eaen. In about cow* aad beef cattle aad hog* era meat remember that not the farms r only, hat all the Stole to la taruelsd. Only 519,600 hag* foe 2, 000.000 people. That moans that we mast hay a tot of salt park, hams am bacon from the eatoade. far 5I9JOO hogs, e**a If w*tgh ing 200 Ih* each would g've only shout a ha four milhoa pounds *r fifty pounds a year each. Of raarea 50 pounds af hag aseat a year. Wing nearly a peuaj a week, waald soem safftoieat. to* penally recalling the day* whoa the intense heat amke* It impossible to think of a beg with affection. Still ia those homes where • man la a man the consumption of ham and bacon ia limitad only by the sise of the purse Of course those big fellows with foot ball hair who have tomato juice sad a cracker for breakfast, a lettue loaf six peas for lunch and ditto for dinner —oh, well, I’m talking about men of the great open spaces. We can’t hope to build a stalwart citizenry on tomato juice and crackers! By L. L. STEVENSON Oh, Fiddlesticks!—Broadway has become fiddlestick conscious. In fid dlesticks, you know, you grasp a handful of differently colored sticks, drop them, then try to pick them up one by one without disturbing the rest. Colors count in the score. Three actors missed cues last week rather than miss their turns at the game and four chorus girls were all but ousted. To date, Jimmy Du rante and Bert Lahr are leading the field as fiddlestick experts, with Wil liam Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Ernest Truex not far behind. Hazel Hofifinger and Helene Ecklund of “The Show Is On,” lead the chorine section. Broadway is talking about that new game, “fiddlesticks.” When I was a youngster, fiddle sticks were jackstraws. Tradition has it that the Chinese originated the game centuries ago. s • • Famous Footwear—The collection of the Shoe club at the Hotel Mc- Alpin continues to grow. The club is composed of manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers of shoes in the metropolitan area. Shoes that have shod famous people are col lected and exhibited. The latest pair came from Helen Hayes. Her dainty footwear nestles between spiked sneakers once worn by Ty Cobb and the gleaming pump* of Fred Astaire. Other contributors to the collection are Katherine Cor nell, Lily Pons, Gladys Swarthout, Jack Benny and Fanny Brice, as well as many famous athletes and some statesmen. A request waa made for the shoe of a newspaper writer but he didn’t send it fearing there arouldn’t be room to exhibit it. • • • City Scene—A young woman standing under the window of a mu sic school over a Forty - second street museum . . , Where the cost of lessons to 23 cents each ... A young girl to singing an aria from Chick's “Akastis” . . . The young girl's voice rises and the loo* listen- er down below tenses . . . Flaloty the to wondering if the pupil anil be able to taka ths highest not* . . . She hits II exactly without trace of flatting . . . The listener walks away with a smile on her face She to Lott* Lehman* •tar. who has sung that sam* before brilliant audience* at How ignorant are we? I don’t know. Our illiteracy in South Caro lina is 14.9 per cent. That was in 1930, before the WPA helped us re duce this percentage; also before the Legislature increased the pay of the teachers. Mark you, 14.9 per cent, sound bad and much has been said about it, but upon analyzing the fig ures I find that illiteracy among the Whites is only 5.1 per cent (and since 1930 may have been wiped out by WPA help.) Colored illiteracy was 26.9 per cent, in South Carolina. Let me say that 26.9 per cent, of illiiter- acy among a people who were slaves less than seventy-five years ago is a marvellous achievement. Can any other nation of our tine or any other time show such a growth Hi literacy as that? 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And, under the law, if it had been used it could not be returned. So what seemed like unusual service turned out to be merely a matter of profit and loss - . . . Music Note—For some time, Sig mund Romberg, composer-conduc tor, endeavored to induce Frank Black, music director of the Na tional Broadcasting company, to sell him a harpsichord. Director Black demurred since he cherished the in strument, it being an exact copy of the one on which Bach composed many of his famous works. But the deal has been made. What with three grand pianos and an enormous music library, life in a New York apartment was becoming just a bit too complicated. Children Ask Opera boo to Car* Snorinf Dog 6 m NB * * _ _ — I * wa Baa am •ilVWfr' Jft taJz/i CUmb a mountain . . . aafl • boat ... aink a putt . .. catch • fiah . .. romp and plar and tan and lac* ... 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