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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-8ENTTNKL. BARNWELL. 80UTE CAROLINA
THIREOAT. AVGUST M. 1MT.
Tl>eBarnwell People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—1911.
B. P. DAVIES. Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 1937.
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The Electric Age.
The use of electricity is today al
most 25 times what it was 35 years
ego, according to W. C. Mullendore,
executive vice-president of the South
ern California Edison Company. Its
cost is only one-third what it was
then. This remarkable reduction of
cost has been achieved in spite of the
fact that operating expenses of al
most all kinds have risen, and the
industry’s tax bill is 94 times as
great as it was in 1902.
Cold figures cannot adequately tell
what this remarkable record of ser
vice means to the American people.
Expressed in human terms, it means
that where only a small proportion
of homes enjoyed the blessings of
electric power at the beginning of the
century, more than 80 per cent, of all
homes have electricity today. It
means that we can use power to
operate radios, refrigerators, stoves
and other labor-saving equipment for
less than we used to pay for lighting
alone. It means that the average
family’s electric bill is actually less
than its tobrcco bill, and a great deal
less than its theatre and amusement
bill. It means that hundreds of thous
ands of farmers have been provided
with power that performs swiftly, ef
ficiently and cheaply, tasks of back
breaking severity.
Private capital started the electric
industry. Private initiative and en
ergy developed it. Vision foresaw its
magnificent potentialities. In other
lands, where electric development*
have been dominated by government,
progress has been nowhere as great.
Then* the dampening had of politics
has deprived their people of elec
tricity’s maximum aids to a happier,
more comfortable life.
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On Paying(?) Subscriptions.
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adopted by some subscribers when request is made for
payments of or on their subscription accounts. During
the depression years, we have been rather lenient in the
matter of subscription collections, believing that our
friends would pay their dues when conditions improved.
It begins to develop, however, that in many instances
this was a most erroneous belief, while in some instances
requests for payment have been met in a most discour
teous manner.
Frankly, we consider dues for a year’s subscrip
tion to a newspaper to be just as honest a debt as one
for a grocery bill or irrerchandise account, and just why
any honest person should feel otherwise is more than
we can understand.
The People-Sentinel has never tried to force the
paper upon anyone. We are confident that it is worth the
small subscription price asked (less than the cost of a
3-cent stamp per week) and those who feel that they
cannot afford to pay even that small amount should noti
fy the publisher to cancel his or her subscription.
Publishing a newspaper is no small task—it re
quires considerable time, effort and money and at least
a semblance of brains to fill the columns week after
week with interesting reading matter—and then, when
statements of subscription accounts are met by pleas of
pauperism or the delinquent subscriber “gets huffy” and
discourteously casts the statement aside with some other
flimsy excuse, it is discouraging, to say the least.
While money may not be as plentiful as many of
us would like to have it, conditions on a whole are better
than they were a few years ago and we do n6t believe
that there is a single subscriber on our list who cannot
afford to pay us at least one year’s subscription at this
time.
The cotton crop is now being marketed and farm
ers are assured of 12 cents a pound for the staple, so we
are once more asking those who are in arrears to make
an effort to pay us some part of the amount that they
HONESTLY owe us.
ARK WE DEf.ENEJtATE?
TK* question »• aiked aanottaljr
Apt our public m«n l«u patriotic, loaa
raapoctful of pnncp.oa than w*r*
pvblir m*n SO jraara ago? Have tbo
rowp cation* of a Suajr Ufa, of vartad
urtarrata. ronfuaod principle wth
policy, idaala with ao-callatf practicali
ty? May it not be true that tha
aaoamed auprnonty of a former day
«a due more to the gloaaing ovar of
the recoord* than to facta?
1 recall be ng engaged ta a caae in
Coart. during which one of the “great
lawyer*’’ waa engaged ta *eearal mur
der trials. I had heard of this lawyer
and was humble before ha* transcend
ent learning in the law. But, aside
from a “grand manner," a east pom
posity, he had nothing that overawed
even a young worshiper.
Many reputations for learning in
the law, and in the pulpit, and many
reputations for brilliancy of mind or
of achievement are due to the partial
ity of newspaper reporters or sympa
thetic admirers, rather than to facts.
Reporters and journalists of long ago
were more inclined to hero-worship
than they are today. Today, every
thing and everybody are open to the
close scrutiny that is predicated on
the suspicion that there is something
theatrical about public men and that
they are “feeding us the bunk.” If a
man should strike a pose today or
speak with the gush and grandilo
quence of a hundred years ago he
would be laughed out of court. But
some of our older writers still have
illusions and by their illusions create
for posterity false estimates of men.
I read recently that a certain man
had “just resigned” a political job
“after a career of singular brilliance.”
Knowing both the author of that and
the subject of the sketch I marvel.
Now, is this man to go down in our
history as a man of brilliance, or as
a public official whose career was dis
tinguished by brilliance?
But what really distinguishes our
“great men” from the men of today?
Let us consider the preachers first.
I say “preachers" because it is the
preaching of the Word that we have
ta mtad. It may be that great preach-
m a
AW «f
papers, schools, colleges, radios, au
tomobiles—all bring the world to us
us and carry us to the world. We may
possibly suffer from too many adrsn-
tage*. The great principles of con
duct are few. but in an age of infinite
variety they may have phases of ob
scurity. It is essy to denounce down
right theft, but sometime* it presents
>t*elf almost in a twilight sons ef
moral obfuscation.
It is p robs hie that the preacher of
old studied fewer subjects and had •
firmer gnp on a few than the
of today can have on a grant
(•rentnesa in preaching must he
clear discernment of essential truth
and lucid exposition of the truth. Of
tentimes w# think ef greatness In
prenchmg as courage ta proclaim and
apply the truth, though it crash like
an avalanche on those in high pieces.
Greatness at tha bar is commonly
is led with skill as a trial lawyer
•specially ta criminal rases
Civil actions are comparatively doll
to the onlooker; It la the rruataal
case, particularly a mur^gr case,
that offer* fall theatrical affect and
falls within the mental grasp ef all
in attendance Both the eyes and sare
relish the skirmishes among tha law
yers. the effort to pry off the Ud on
as to get the whoW truth fgpm the
witnesses; er. mayhap, ta "squelch"
the witness before he can tell more
than the lawyer wishes the jury to
hoar.
Great lawyers may have developed
when there were not so many statute*
and when there was both opportunity
and occasion to apply the great prin
ciples of law. There ia small oppor
tunity for that today, for every de
tail of life has been covered by some
statute or constitutional clause or
judicial decision. The great lawyer
whose grasp of principles gave him
the appearance of an intellectual
has no place among us today; the
successful lawyer is the most diligent
seeker after “cases in point,’ decis
ions by courts on similar facts.
“Greatness” is like “scholarship” in
that there is no uniform standard for
our guTdhnce in evaluating qualities
and attainments. A man who devotes
a dozen years to the classical authors
is accounted a scholar; though a mas
ter of applied science is regarded as a
chemist or physicist—nothing more.
Yet he may be incomparably greater
in science than was the so-called
scholar ,in the humanities. There is
vastly more of intellectual acquire
ment todiay than ever before, but it
does not express itself in ponderous
manner, nor yet in quotations from
ancient philosophers.
How do our public men, our offi
cials and politicians, compare with
the leaders of 70 years ago? In
large measure they reflect the condi
tions under which we live. There is
so much going on, here and abroad,
that life tends to superficiality. We
are all so busy running to and fro
that we do little real th aktng More
own hand and he labord over them
pridefully. Today all of thia is dic
tated to stenographers. The old-time
lawyer waa a lawyer; he read law, he
thought law, he practiced law. More
recently a lawyer is likely to be a
real estate agent (directly or indi
rectly I a hanker, or something else.
He is usually more of a man of busi
ness than the lawyer of old. He b
aloe more of a politician. That re
quires an explanation, la the olden
times there were State and county
Under*, not bosses. Lawyers were
steeped ia politics (public affairs.!
but were not such glad-handers as
political men are today, as a rule,
though there are except ions. Today
pclitiral preferment depends on an
appeal te voters end thnt takes a lot
of starek out of a stuffed shirt.
Again, this la aa age of aaatabU sim
plicity; we don't marvel at the
greatness of anybody and we live in
aa atmosphere of soft cellar*. We
have rant off sob powders and rents;
kas a radio sad a car and
nk the genial current of the
mdant life
Life io eapeheive today. We must
hove thing* and go place*. A digni
fied, austere lawyer of the aid
would starve to death, with an
go-getters all around.
And so today a lawyer can’t wait
ia dignity and aloofnese for a fee;
he must be somewhat of a busy man
of affair*. The very time* tend to
make a lawyer Use profound then his
brethren of other days. Even the
same mental energy must flow over
broader surface.
It may be that both our lawyers
and preachers read more today than
of old, though more reading is of con
temporary matter, writings, though
perhaps not “literature.” Might we
say that they read more, but not so
well? Or does that permit us to say
that what enters into one’s general
preparation is only that which he
masters?
In a simpler era the reading or
studious men read and reread Gib
bons, Carlyle and authors of that
rank—read them time and again,
marked them, underlined them, mulled
over them and talked them. Conver
sation being of things read they
seemed to be profounder men than
their present-day successors. But
Fm not sure they really were pro
founder. I heard a man speak elor
quently of the taste of music of
Italian children. He marveled that
fliey whistled snatches from “Opera”
instead of “Ragtime.” But is that
really proof of anything? If a-child
hears “Opera” and not “Ragtime he
will ‘hum” or whistle “opera,” of
course, just as d French child speaks
French without any special ability as
a linguist, although most of us can’t
train our noses so as to get the proper
pronunciation. But let’s hear that
French child speak English!
la the hurley-barley of life today
w* are seeking a means ef
flea; we t/y to sink em
and great fundamentals. The ruling ^
philosophy is to work in harmony
with other people; principles, tenets—
or whether once caused the fortfath-
era to storm and thunder are laid a-
side. To labor in peace, cheerfulness
and effectiveness with another man
has come to overshadow all princi
ples, whether of law or faith. This
desire for peace, for the easy, quiet
way, blotted out differences of creed
and doctrine, whether theological, po
litical. legal, constitutional, or econo
mic.
The easy road of accommodation is
athwarth the path of greatness. Crept
men make great issues and great is
sues make great men. Life is easy
and peaceful; in this country no issues
of life or liberty are at stake, unless
it be the ancient unhampered right
to contract and be contracted with
as best suits the contracting parties.
A generation hence may proclaim the
greatness of him who promulgates a
program of broad social regeneration
or it may crown the achievement of
him who challenges programs which
usi^rp the functions of the individual,
even though ; it increases his bread
and meat. Greatness among us to
day seems asleep, though here and
there a voice is raisedu But the un
wavering, vigorous adherence to a
course of action, regardless of one’s
personal fortunes—the readiness to
dedicate oneself, even to consecrate
oneself, to a cause, to a principle, with
calm disregard for all possible per
sonal disaster—that isn’t common to
day. Of course, it never was common,
but methinks it grows rarer.
We are not destined to greatness;
we get together and compromise and
get something done. Do we overdo
it? I
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