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w ,1 •ft Um poet office at Bom- 8. C., •« Mcond-claM matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ymr $1.00 Montha 75 M Montha 50 (Strictly in Advance.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937. The Farm Problem. in Wa gather from the reports ha meeting of formers, heW Friday at the call of J Jones, commissioner of agri that the majority senti JMBt favored a government subsidy ea that portion of the crop mmmmi domestically, with no re- edriftinna whatever on production -of cotton. Ml view of the fact that Presi Amt Roosevelt, in agreeing to t caap ken and subsidy on the six- i bale crop insisted that enact some form of crop at the next session as for financial aid and Wallace, in his ad- r+mm aft Memphis Friday, empha adaad the fart that a modified form Cf jieduction control is essential. ft vanM aaeas to the casual ei war that what was done st the ras "love's tabor F# 4a soft hotter* that the will look kindly i to fanner*. *a aay fcr crop, unic** th*r* w of crop control U issit supply to both foroign and tho formoi ■n a Urge proporlton of ther I ewd then turn tKem t an aseny acreo and it* at tho Ci Foe thotr rUy An- i part of which they wm a government subsidy • result would he that tho large cotton surplus wou'd from year to yeor until H would st last become so tap hoary that a crash would in sult. er* see it, there must be i sort of crop control coupled the subsidy, snd this control must be one thst will pro- 1 tho small farmers, feeding *11 of the same spoon so fsr as sage and bale allotments, etc., concerned. Without sny egoism reh on our part, we still think the pUn suggested by the r of The People-Sentinel to ent Rosevelt some time ago, (as Congressman Fulmer de- it) "simple, fair, workable deaifty justifiable," and that new form legislation will fol- closely along the lines sug- Thar Home Service projedt, sponsored by the WPA, will re sume its operations in Barnwell County on Monday of next week, after having been idle for the month of September. Mrs. 0. H. Best, under whom the projest is carried out, stated that 19 women would go back to work on the project Monday morning. The present work center is in the cottage owned by Mrs. Lena Davies and located on Washington Street in Barnwel^. The object of the work is to show the people of the county how cheap it is to keep their homes neat, clean and in good repair. One of the rooms is also used as an office for the worker* * In the work, the people are shown how rooms can be papered by use of heavy brown paper such as used in lining box cars; how a stain can be made from the bark of trees and applied to the woodwork, giving it a brightening up which is most pleasing to the eye; how easy it is to make a house snug by the stopping of cracks and small patches and how much more invhing and livable a house is when it is kept neat and clean. These women are doing these things in the house and at the same time Holding institutes to show the people how easy it is done Another phase of the Home Ser vice project is the t ruining of >mei» to go from homo to homo as they are w»»dod and help faasi- te* who are unable to pay f®* boip during the tlmo of urhnoM If the woman of the family la iR. p ared ta tho heme and curry am (be dwtie* of beeprug boooo. getting tb# meaU. aoetag tbul tho children get «ff to achoel and uuee g tho **rh 4 boa *ao caao H eaplotod the e ocher • moved ta HO bee roe* The prejert woe ter* i oc^illy m- tc tho rMtaeao of Roreec’l Comm ty and lb* MH MN* fUote ml h (Mwnm to <«mo and mopoet tho eh that ha* hooa doa* oM • be Mrs. Parker Given Close Cooper a boo WHAT -AILS- THE FARMER. SUPREME ISSUES PENDING. I have sold some cotton today— two bales—for $85.84 for the two I turned back in my ledger and read (1886) two bales $140.08— about the same weight and grade. Quite a difference! The seed brought $23.20 in 1936 and only $7.86 today (SatUFdiyn — Now, that’s what ails the farm er. He could do very well with those dollars of difference. Every* thing the farmer used this year cost him more—fertiliser, labor, tools, implements—all, but he him self is at the mercy of all the fac tors of trade. Even today the former is paying as much for harvesting the cotton as he paid when it was selling for 13 cents! What is the matter with the United States? Why are stocks tumbling on the stock exchange? Why are commodity prices (cotton, etc-.) tumbling, too? I know that moat commodity prices are fixed in a world market, but the world market isn’t causing the drop in the New York stock market. No, not this tiase. Now, then; what is the trouble? Wliere does the shoe pinch? The troth stares us ia the face and we can't it Much of oar trouble is da* |a the attitade of oar own m Waahingtea. It wa wt hag to take its hat has ttakered with the value of oar amaey with evrythfg else. ■aft haarasaa and theaaMmod it ahy 11 gala Hag M. a l yhody oak a dattar ame fam » *af* ia tu*eetiug T •tiff, aady wer* allowed Ha head we might have IS cams cotton, hat instead of being allowed to earn a living wt are being fed with a spoon. No country can prosper unless men see opportunities to make profits, and nobody wants to take a chance with the government more anxious to reform the nation than to rebuild it We seem to be destined to become as pure and noble a corpse as you ever saw. -V- BARNWELL MAN’S BROTHER BADLY INJURED IN WRECK Harry Jarrett, 17-year-old broth er of Bill Jarrett, local bead dealer and operator of Jarrett’s Luncheon- ett, was seriously injured 1 in a The Council of Agriculture of the South Carolina Federation of Commerce, Agriculture and Indus try is planning to speak for the farmers of South Carolina with an authentic voice. It is convinced that the highly vocal farm organi zations of the Middle West are the dominant influence in national form legislation. Southern farm ers are not heard. Our Senator Smith as Chairman of the Agricul tural Committee of the Senate speaks often on the problems of agriculture in the South, but he and the other political figures have no substantial backing by us at home. What is the real problem of agri culture in South Carolina? If we have a problem peculiar to us, what is the problem ? Are we concerned primarily with methods of pro duction and details of farm man agement? Ia H oar problem to make two blades of grass grow where only one has heretofore grown? Is the basic problem one of cheaper root of producing our If through hotter seed and fen 1 hint lea our d he made at a lower roe of cottea er hue he! ef would eor problem he solved * We faro the gueetlea whether the onul wo J Mint tan Iftso wtihtn oueeefvoe. *r Is fua Manaiaftp hsysad us It may bo doubted ohether our frrgbtrnwl ' MU* ■R.ALTW (U*M» IN m wooiff rvta »ttm farm mg even when merhawmd. $Rggg Is * ran raaepew with low rwol labor. *• fertile tend, etc ef Sowth Ameewn and Afrwn H wU not b* rhn lowg*d that tho hoot heums *f the* wstmw are as in- nee wvO N •e <ba engod that • *b aff the ad« oat ago «f motorcycle-truck collision in the city of Augusta early Tuesday morning. Young Jarrett was rush ed to a hospital where it was re ported his condition was serious and a head operation would be necessary. Legal Advertisements NOTICE OF DISCHARGE Notice is hereoy given that we will file our final accounting as Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Isaac W. Rountree, deceased, with the Honorable John K. Snelling, Judge of the Probate Court for Barnwell County, Stata of South Carolina, upon Saturday, the 30th day of October, 1937, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon and petition the said Court for an Order of Discharge and Letters Dismtssory. ANNA ROUNTREE. BEN A. ROUNTREE. NOTTICE OF DISCHARGE. Notice ia hereby given that I will tie my final accounting aa Executor of tho Will of J. Morgan W*other*boe. deceased, with the Hon John K. Snelling. Judge of the Prohete Court foe Barnwell County. South Carolina, upon Sat urday. October 33rd. 1*37. at 1* 00 •'clock ia tho forenoon and petition the emd Court for an Order of i aaad Letter* Dlemieeory, j R S Wen there he*. Emeroter, Cot cf J. Morgan W an theca bee Rorwwe 1. s. C, Soft. 20. |*S7, MfTTK E OF DISCHARGE given that I wtH tfta nay two! srrouwting aa Ad- rta of the Estate of L K But ->*g. Judge of Probate State of p. Or* *. IM7. at II o'rftoril In the petition the sntd fee an eedar of Dmrharge Mrs M- Weagrow, Admix. Katate of L. Weagrow. Dee d *. 1*07. Gleatcn-Dawson. Blackville, Oct. 2.—Miss Merle CSeaton, of Blackville, and Joseph U. Dawson, of Columbia, mere quietly married at the Baptist parsonage by the Rev. P. D. Walker Sunday afternoon, Sep- lenaber 26, at 5 o’clock. Only rela- ftjvea and a few friends were pres- -MrfL The couple left immedately for a trip through the Shenandoah aalley. After their return they mfll be at home to their friends in For her wedding the wore a fall suit of green heaver trimmed, with brown For »• of rb y nog noon out of l yoo/v. as wo* aa tho hove To •»ly»tooliou • ivf to give • fro teotigolod oe proof. Mr* had tho following to say: I visited on* home ia which tea hildren wete being kept out of school to ha*cot the crop and be cause of insufficient clothing. I called the mother from the field and laid the facta before her—that she was depriving the childien of on apportunijty to Mtter them selves in life without cost to them. After our discussion she sfreed to send the group to the nearest school and on the following day they were enrolled. What seemed worse to me a- bout this particular case," Mrs. Paiker continued, "was the fact that they were operating a two- horse farm and making only four bushels of corn to the acre and piac- tically no cotton. These people are in dire need. “Other families investigated have shown a similar need 1 of the necessities of life and yet, after a discussion of the matter, every one of the parents has agreed to send their children to school." The students, the trustees, the parents and the faculty members have shown every indication of co operating fully and making ‘the plan successful in this county, Mrs. Parker stated. She also predicted that with a continuation of the in terest shown, the enrollment in Barnwell County will be the largest this year in the history of educa tion in this county. other* te* Am nr rally have each • whom paents are unable tu have a private physician fur Ueataseut •ill be allowed to get treatment j ,,mJ, b. be protected? through the county hea th office. government recognise a Annual Meeting of B. T. U. Advertise in The People-Sentinel The annual meeting of the B. T. U. of the Barnwell Association will be held with the Barnwell Baptist Church Thursday evening, October 7, beginning at 7:15. The following ptogram has been ar ranged: Subject:—Enlist church mem bers for training in service. 7:15—Song service led by M. B. Webb, chorister. 7:25—Devotional, Mrs. E. A. Stevenson, Ulmers. 7:35—Words of welcome by mem ber from Barnwell. 7:40—Response, J. Cecil Folk, WHliston. 7:45—Business, roll call, reports, appointment of committees, etc. 8:00—Special music, Barnwell Union. 8:05—Talk, "Training Unions are essential in building great churches.”, Rev. W. C. Reese, Den mark. 8:10—Song. 8:15—Talk, "the importance of the Training Union to the Rural Church.’’, Rev. R. W. Hollis, Ehr- hardt. 8:40—Special music, Williston Intermediate Trio. 8:46—-Election of officers. 9:00—Closing prayer Rev. J. A- Estea. Lunch and social hour. everything farmer is problem of agi icultural labor Shall our government recognise a standard of farm living as well as a stand ard of industrial living? If we have minimum wages for indusry snd short hours shall we have it for farmers and their "hands"? All these considerations for indus trial labor are charged to the farmer in higher prices for what he buys. Who will guarantee him a share in the high standard of living? And how shall it be done? Undeniably greater buying power on the part of the farmer would make for prosperity, as the farm dollar is widely distributed and invigorates all the processes of business. Supreme issues for agriculture- in the United States are now pending. The South should be heard. South Carolina should have a voice. But who speaks for the farmers of South Carolina? Do the farmers themsleves agree on their problem and on a solution? No; nobody knows what the South Carolina farmer thinks or what he wants. Twenty-five prominent farmers may speak, but the poli ticians have done most of the talk ing in this State. The Farm Council will recruit its membership from practical, cutstanding formers in each coun ty of the State. At least 50 men for each county, studying separ ately snd together will constitute a symposium on South Carolina BARNWELL, f. C Monday and Tuesday OCTOBER IMS CLARE GABLB-GENE HARLOW “SARATOGA” With LIONEL BARRYMORE ALSO COMEDY Wednesday Only OCTOBER 13 Bargain Day ALL STAR CAST —IN— “Hotel Haywire” Thurtday-Friday OCTOBER 14-15 DICK POWELL in Singing Marine” With DORIS WESTON and LEE DIXON 44 SATURDAY Only OCTOBER 16 WILLIAM BOYD *s HOP ALONG’ GEO. HAYES as ‘WINDY’ in “The Hills of Old Wyoming” ALSO COMEDY e Coming Next Week ‘The Good Earth’ Wee Willie Winkie ALSO NEWS FIN EREMY th wi Vtar back la 1141—M years when "stylish dressers" looked Hke this. CLAUMOrS BREAD was coastdsred. as It Is today. hl«h la Food Easegyl r lEMIljbiABmafcmfifj/. Today. CLAUBSOrS BREAD Is stm ol the Boost loarodloato. andor coaotaaMi Improved precosee* oad equipment; to emroBM to quality aud flavor. It's al ways bosh! 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Bring in that last winter s suit or overcoat NOW and let us clean and press it, so that you will have it in readiness for the first chill blasts of the fall and winter. Remember that we are now in new quarters opposite the Barnwell Baptist Church, where we are ready to serve you at all times. Call Phone 122— “LET TED DO IT.” Plexico’s Dry Cleaners BARNWELL, S. C. IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HAS EXPIRED—TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR SPECIAN SUBSCRIPTION OFFER OF $IJ* A YEAR. BR toi a in wi 1T)< an in L. Sr ba ha to ac d 8