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9 ACM tOCB. ■ TUB BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA rHURSDAT, JNLT 15TH, ltS7. Tlx Barnwell PeopU-S«nt>nel JOHN W. HOLMES IS4#—19IX B, P. DAVIES. Editor oad Proprtotw. ■eUnd at the post offics at Bsrnwtll, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear $1A0 Biz Months AO Months AO (Strictly le Adraaea.) THURSDAY, JNLY 15THv 1037. No Place in American Life. v ‘The violation of agreements, the seizure of public property, violencee, riots and uprisings can have no place in the social, economic and industrial life of America. No union of workers who resort to the use of such methods can succeed. “ How true are these words, which were spoken, not by tn opponent of or ganized labor but by no less a person, age than William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. His statement was directed against John L. Lewis and his CIO, which he .accused of having made “stupid mis takes’' in the strike sgsinst “Little Steel," which, Green charged, had failed. Coming from the president of a national labor organization, Presi dent Green’s statement is most en couraging to the rank and flle of Aaserican citizens who are not in sympathy with the methods employed by Lewia and his CIO. Green further charged that policies pursued by the CIO in the automobile and steel in dustries had transformed a sympa thetic public opinion into one “openly hostile.’' What Lewis hss apparently forgot ten—or ignored—is the fact that there are three factors involved in a strike—the employer, the employe and the general public, all of which should he considered The American public is for fsir pls v and s square deal, not to labor but also to capital as we3 The public realises what Lewia or forgets—that capital snd it one upon the workers striking against the employ ment extended to them as a life-saver in emergency, and continuing to be paid for their time while they stage their strike.'* “Spending** and “Passing. The State and the News and Courier have been engaged in a friendly ar gument as to whether one “spends" or “passes" time when he goes a-vis- iting. Regardless of whether one “spends" some time in Columbia or “passes" it in Charleston, such visits are usually very iences. delightful exper- A Damning Indictment. “Two out of every three families in the United States own an automobile, and more than half of the automo biles are owned by.families with in comes of $1,500 a year or less. Near ly twice as many families operate auto mobiles than those that own homes." These are statements made in a “press release" by the South Carolina Petroleum Industries Committee in an effort to create sentiment favorable to a reduction in gasoline taxes, but it seems to us that it is a rather dkroning indictment of the American people. Wouldn’t it sound much better—and wouldn’t it spell a more lasting pros perity in this country—if we could say that “nearly twice as many fami lies own homes than those that oper ate automobiles"? Is it true that there are fewer home owners because there are more automobile operators ? At least there is food for thought in the above statements. didates in the privacy of their own land. Property Rights and Human Rights. Speaking of “property rights" and “human rights,” about which we have heard so much of late, isn't the right to own property, free of trespass, one of the most human of rights? Are You Indifferent to Slaughter? Automobile accidents gan be re duced. Death on the highways can be ■topped. Last year, traffic fatalities reached an all-time high of 38,500. Yet 18 and Preoident Green is quit* States and the District of Columbia he aays that a sympathetic showed an average reduction of 7 per hss been transformed in death*—even though gasoline , consumption, beet barometer of traffic to the reuse of labor but rather to the conditions, increased 10 per cent employed to enforce demand j These States weren't “Just lucky." the reentry h recover- Chaace dida*l pave the lives of their of one of the rtttsene. According to the National i* *** Safety Council, all but two of the I States carry on aggressive programs Grooa's sentiments are 0 f safety engineering law enforce- ia the recent action of the •doratkm. legislation, etc. The sreilaa Federation of Labor same authority reports that in ba* ly opposing C I O arttvi- i the remaining 80 8la tee seat to in this State That srtioa, how- nothing ia done t* prevent the Grim was no more than we expected Rear's grisly harvest. » South Carolinian* sad will do) There are two prime causes ef au to w.a to the rouse ef labor the tomobtle accidents One ia the rack- •thy of the canaerraUea ef of the general public that abhors via- ksmes, sopociai y when the ei be obtained by peaceful “Yea may enjoy them in a baaety and sn atmosphere of South- hospitality seldom found this of the Atlantic. 1 *—From adver- t of a new Columbia restau- L But where else, may we ask, on# And “an atmosphere of rn hospitality" except on this of the Atlantic? Pandora’s Box. It it beginning to appear that, when Uncle Sam undertook “relief work” in an effort to help the needy and dis tressed during the emergency created by the depression, giving them jobs up-to-dbto traffic law* that are honest y and rigidly enforced- The other cause ia dangerous, "sc- icatinas bud later- highways without dividing areas, etc. Here the highway engineer must be called ta to elimi nate such needless hazards snd thus make it virtually impossible to have an accident. “Make our town safe” should be u community motto. It’s high time, as the New York Times says, that are “shook off our comparative national indifference to this man-made evil— snd began safety campaigns in earn est.” Where, Oh! Where Is He? And what, may we ask, has become of the old fashioned farmer who was to tide them over until such time as ( wont to give the editor of his favorite they could re-enter private employ- newspaper the prize watermelon from ment, he opened a “Pandora’s Box,” his “patch”? the loosed contents of which will plague him for many a day. Perhaps the strangest spectacle of all is that of “relief workers” striking against the government for variou causes (?), which leads the Atlanta Constitution to comment as follows: “In New York was presented the spectacle of workers employed, theo retically at least, on an emergency In Other Sanctums Time for Change. We agree heartily with Lieutenant- Governor J. E. Harley that “there is job to tide them over until they could no longer any need in having a cam- re-enter private industry, going on' paign meeting for State offices in strike and being paid by the very government they opposed, while they are striking. every county.” As he points out, it Is a man-killing schedule for candidates to speak at homes and in the comfort of their favorite chairs, making it more satis factory to the voters as well as the speaker. Then, too, roads are far better, automobiles are numerous and faster, and by having fewer officially listed speeches the newspapers of the State would! report them more com pletely than can possibly be done when the orating is on a daily basis and mostly on the same topics day after day. The lieutenant-governor’s sugges tion that one duly scheduled meeting be held in each of the 14 judicial dis tricts instead of in every one of the 46 county seats is so obviouly sensible and workable that it should be adopt ed in time to be made effective in the 1938 campaign.—Anderson Daily Mail. Why Silent, Mr. Roosevelt? To the Editor of The Stater- Have just read your fine editorial, “The Right to Work—A Principle.” It is fine, but please tell your readers: What is President Roosevelt doing these days to help the American citi zens that wants to work? Why is he silent as to those who are trying to keep honest citizens from their jobs? I am a Democrat and have been read ing The State for more than 40 years. South Carolinian. Chester, July 9. If The State could, with positive ness, answer the questions asked by our disturbed correspondent we might feel better—or worse. The president, because of an ex ceptionally appealing personality, be cause of a recognized deep sympathy for those who live by the sweat of their brows, and because a combina tion of circumstances during his first term in office gave him strength as a leader possessed by no other president, had the opportunity and the power to bring about with the least cost in strife and bitterness the inevitable readjust ments between labor and capital—to the tremendous advantage of both. In our opinion he has missed that great opportunity offered him since the beginning of his second term. It may be said that it is no business of a president to meddle in strikes or labor disputes. But Mr. Roosevelt is in sn unusual position. He is recog nized as a friend snd champion of the working men. For them he hss gone immeasurably further than has any other president in sponsoring and pressing legislation. As president, he is more concerned officially than any other in having laws obeyed, the rights of individuals secured and peace preserved. He should also be a leader in deprecating, and to the ez tent of his influence preventing class feeling and destructive hatreds b tween groope in the United States. Therefore. M seems «o ns, that when low ia flagrantly violated, and eon man rights, including the right to by force by some ef the president is trying to help, he hoe an obligation to them, te country and te himself, to have forth and aay: That la the wrong way; that rend lend* to the precipice. ! am leadia away from the precipice toward zo- cial betterment, to Jnetice, snd to legality.” Because be has been silent when they were looking to him as a wise, outsponken leader and guide, many of Mr. Roosevelt's devoted friends snd supporters are grievously disappoint ed that having led the nation in a gallant movement to prime and man the pumps, he did not reprimand those throwing monkey wrenchees into the priming. But some of those friends are still hopeful.—The State. (Comments... On Men and News “Twelve thousand staged a parade | every one of the 46 county seats and under banners which read, ‘Don’t this very fact undoubtedly serves to Tread on Me,’ in protest against the discharge of some of their number resulting from the necessary tighten ing of government purs* strings. There has been, in some instances «f ‘work relief,’ boondoggling There | a good Men as a suspicion that relief has | —ubsd tn am i keep out of the - race many who are eminently fitted to serve the public. Conditions today are not what they were when the every-county plan of pnigning was started. Then K was ny of the voter* who hear the WAGES, TAXES and DIVIDENDS. MONEY IN CIRCULATION. DRINKING AND DRIVING. The Sumter Item carries a news item from the Spartanburg Herald which is very much in^ point if any citizen wishes to know whether South Carolina is a good State in which to operate a business. Here are the high lights: The Brandbn Corporation of Greenville reports to its stock holders that it has paid in taxes from 1929 to date $1,300,000.00 (one mil lion, three hundred thousand dollars.) This does not include the sum of $1,- 277,000.00 paid in processing taxes. The report declares that since Sooth Carolina taxes on cotton mills art 80 per cent, higher per The report has other interesting data. For example, from July l f 1929 to July 1, 1937, Yhe mill has paid $10,089,000.00 in wages. The stockholders, the men who own and finance the mills, have not come out at the big end. Says the report: “Certainly, in our case, the opera tives and tax collectors have fared a good deal better than the stockhold ers." nmmmMM I see in the papers that in the first week in July we had more money in circulation that we usually have. To be exact, the amount in circulation in creased $54,000,000, making a grand total in circulation of $6,448,000,000 (six billion four hundred forty-eight million dollars.) Notwithstanding my friendship with several big manufac turers, bankers and merchants and politicians, I am represented in this sum by the 000,000—and so are you. Still we can talk about the figures as big as anybody. Here’s something new under the sun. A liquor concern advertises in a great financial journal, “We who make whiskey say: ‘Drinking and Driving Do Not Mix.’" So they have found it out, too. My word! But here comes a South Carolina expert and lets us believe that auto mobile wrecks are due to our foggy- mindedness, while thinking what ,to do with all our money. Return from Hospital. John Atkinson, and his daughter, Miss Martha Atkinson, who were bad ly injured in an automobile accident in West Barnwell on July 3rd and taken to a Columbia hospital for treatment have recovered sufficiently to be returned to their home, and were brought back Saturday. Horace Randall, driver of one of the cars, ia still in the hospital, due to a severely injured knee. The Atkinsons are in proving slowly, but satisfactorily. Hard Liquor Preferred. Barnwell County imbibers of “the cup that cheers" evidently prefer “hard lickker” to the more or less in sipid wines and beers offered to a 666 checks MALARIA ia 3 days COLDS Liqalt Tablets first day Salve. Nose Dreps Headaches, M wins Try Ttah-Ny Ttsto”.World's Li ai meat. Let Us Frame THAT PICTURE We are well prepared to FRAME PICTURES. DIPLOMAS, Etc. Oar assortment of Frames oad Framtag Material ia the best that caa be work Is doae by ox- We caa frsase say size picture, from the saaolleot to the largest—and our prices art MOST REASONABLE SEE OCR MR. BOYLES Reid’s Furniture Store BARNWELL. S. C. THE RITZ THEATRE BARNWELL, S. C. MONDAY-TUESDAY, JULY 19-20 NORMA SHEARER and LESLIE HOWARD in 'Romeo and Juliet’ MATINEE TUESDAY at 4 P. M. WED,—BARGAIN DAY—10c-15c WARNER OLAND in Charlie Ch&n at the Olympics MATINEE 4:00 P. M. THl'RSDAY-FRJDAY, JULY 22-23 FRED ASTAIRE and GINGER ROGERS in “Shall We Dance" MATINEE THURSDAY. 4 P. M. SATVRDAY ONLY—MAT. 4 P. M. PAYSY B8LLI • Nobody’s Baby ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ thirsty public, judging by the amount of revenue from this source that the county treasury recently received from the State tax commission. It totaled exactly $172 for the first three months of 1937, while Aiken received $1,493; Allendale, $128; Bamberg, $280; Beaufort, $547, and Hampton, $201. AdvartlM In The People-Senttnal Optometrists to Meet. Dr. P. W. Stevens, local optometrist, will have charge of the meeting of the central zone of the South Carolina Optometric Association which will be held in Columbia next Monday even ing, July 19th, at eight o’clock. Dr. Stevens is chairman of the central zone. The Service that adds Comfort to Your Home During these hot summer days, the time you save with a telephone to aid in settling daily problems may be the difference between a day that worries your nerves into a frazzle, and a day includes the time you need for relaxation. There are so many details in running a household. An extra loaf of bread from the grocer—a six o’clock order of ice cream from the drugstore—and so on. And with a telephone to run your errands, many concerns of the day are easily disposed of. 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