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CLINTON, S. C.. MARCH 21, 1929
SPACES
The good may die young^ but that
fact is not disturbing the mortality
tables.
What many of us need is currency
so elastic that it will stretch' from one
pay day to another.
Nowadays that man certainly is no
account who is not able to get more
credit than is good for him.
AUTOMOBILE COURTESY
Courtesy if a, wbrd that seems to
have been completely eliminated from
the lexicon of the auto driver^ Let the
most meek of men get at a wheel and
they frequently become arrogant dev
ils, determined to “have their rights”
whatever the consequences. It is mo-
toritis in its most acute form.
Let a dog or a rabbit cross • the
read and the driver will instinctively
step on the brake, but if a human be
ing hoves in sight he will press the
button horn and step on the gas.
Here is an aspect of human nature
that never manifested itself so for
cibly before the day of the gas buggy.
It is an interesting one, nevertheless.
and “backbone” to override his veto
and the small amount asked was
granted by an overwhelming vote. In
the senate, the margin by which the
appropriation was granted was pro
portionately as large. ^
The grovemor's statement explaining
his disapproval of the item, was partly
erronepus. He stated that “the pres
ent school building is comparatively
new and meets the demands of the
present time.” Here he is entirely
wrong. The building in question was
erected as a temporary structure in
1919, ten years ago when the institu
tion cami into existence. It was poorly
built and from the first was used as,
the dining room and kitchen depart
ment up until 1926. It has undergone
hard use, is very uncomfortable, in«
adequate, and unsafe, especially from
the standpoint of a fire-trap. When
discarded as the dining room head
quarters, it was converted into a
school and chapel because there was
no other available place on the cam
pus. On cold, rainy days it is impos
sible to use the building and as a re
sult the teachers are forced to sus
pend school. A temporary frame build
ing, never intended for permanent oc
cupancy, it has been utilized and
served its day for the past ten years
with an earnest plea being made an
nually to the legislature for improved,
fire-proof facilities in keeping with
the brick dormitories—the request
only to be denied. We are familiar
with the conditions that exist at the
school as stated above, in spite of the
declaration of the governor that “a
new building is not now needed.”
Governor Richards makes the mis-1
take of showing his idiosyncrasy. He I
takes the position that he “knows,” j
regardless of the statements of con- j
ditions made by conscientious men and
1 women who have entrusted to their |
I management varidus institutions and
interests of the state. By such an at
titude, he makes himself ridiculous.
He can approve and sign a road bill
for $65,000,000, help appropriate mil
lions to public schools, coUeges and
other causes, but when it comes to a
small appropriation by comparison, to
make comfortable these unfortunate
feeble-minded 'Wards.of the state
utterly incapable of providing for
themselves—he Miiies the stereotyped
politician's (Ogrihat “the state's finan
cial condition does not justify the ex
penditure.” How long—how long—this
econoniy bunk. <
Wlut is a'miserly sum of $15,000
in a general appropriation bill carry
ing two hundred thousand dollars over
ten million? ' *
Oh! consistency. Thou art a joke—
with the governor.
GYMNASTS SCORE
BIG HIT HERE
Mackey’s “Y” Team of Greenville, De
lights Big Crowd With Clever
Gym Performance. ■
The gym team of Greenville Y. M.
C. A. performed before a Clinton au
dience in Le^oy Springs gymnasium
Friday night. Under direction of Mr.
Mackey, who is well known in the
Palmetto state, the score or so of lithe
young athletes acquitted themselves in
a manner that was worthy of the in
stitution that they represent. The
same team has, as in previous years,
made, an extensive tour; and it has
met with a warm reception every
where.
The seventeen number| which com
prised the evening’s entertainment
were well chosen an 1 beautifully
worked out. The work on the parallel
bars and en the horizontal'bars*^was
especially good; and gage evidence of
much hard practice. The folk dances
were very enjoyable, and went off
with precision.
The “life of -the party,” as it were,
was the clown. He was always pres^
ent with some little crazy stunt. And,
unlike most clowns, this one was ac
tually funny. In addition, he was a
good athlete, and proved to be the
equal of his team-mates in every
phase of the program.
BLUE STOCKING ADVERTISERS!
PROMISE WITH CARE
Tradition says that the sovereign of
an ancient kingdom offered to grant
one wish to the inventor of a new
game which would amuse his army,
wearied in a long seige.
A venerable man thereupon came
forward with the game of chess, and
it fitted the need.
Told to state his wish, the inventor
suggested one grain of wheat for the
first square on the chess board, two
for the second square, four for the
third square and so on, doubling up to
and including the sixty-fourth square.
The king, amused at so queer a
wish, ordered his chamberlain to give
the old man a sackful of wheat and
send him away. But the aged inventor
insisted upon exact measurement.
A schoolboy who once had the pa
tience to reckon this sum found that
the wheat would load a train of cars
reaching from the earth to the moon
and back, thence half way around the
<earth.
Be careful what you promise.
THE HIGH SCHOOL ISSUE
The special high school issue of The
Blue Stocking, weekly students’ publi
cation at Presbyterian college, was
an iinuBually fine accomplishment.
For the splendid presentation, credit
is largely due to the paper’s talented
editor, C. W. Grafton, who has a pe
culiar aptitude for this kind of work,
and is a young man of many rare
qualities.
The special issue was produced to
set forth the advantages and oppor
tunities offer3d students at Presby-
.torian college. Its appeal was made
solely t ohte ’29 crop of high school
seniors throughout the state and two
thousand copies were printed and put
into the hands of these young men. In-
cstinaable good, we feel sure, will
come to the college through this fine,
• FLYERS
On the wall near my desk, hangs a
first-rate picture of Colonel Lindbergh
—America’s Lindbergh. I keep it
hanging there because it lends me in
spiration. This mere boy ranks with
the world’s greatest men—and brav
est.
Many youths pass my door during
the day. They seem to poesess the
same physical equipmeht as my air
hero—and many of them look more
robust than he; but I do not know the
names of the youths that pass my
door; they may not have tried to do
very big things.
Not that there aren’t big things
waiting to be done—not that; these
boys here just haven’t stopped to take
an invoice of their capabilities. And,
I doubt if they have ever thought se
riously of doing things that would
make the best people in America ap
plaud them.
I have heard tha^ this Lindbergh
boy is very devoted to his mother.
Just that one little thing, which any
boy can accomplish without much ef
fort, sets me to praising him with all
my might. One thing: I never knew a
boy who really adored his mother,
who wasn’t worthy to stand before
the King.
This Lindbergh face is my inspira
tion. It seems to say “Onward—Up
ward.” There are a thousand paths to
{face aside from the air and the raar-
' velous flight therein. Every human
brain is a storehouse of unparalleled
energy. What an example to others of
our youth, is this Lind^rgh!
“Let’s go—let’s go” the picture
seems to be saying. Ah, the dauntless
brayery—the boundless courage de
picted here! I wouldn't part with this
picture for any reasonable suni. But
there are those who look at the por
trait time and again, and never see iL
The boys are still passing my door;
they’re going to the park to watch the
game.
VOL III, NO. 6
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation
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Copyright 1929
Laughs at Weevils'
They’ve found a new cotton
called the Acala variety, that la'ighs
at the boll weevil. But just to keep
things in balance, they’ve found a
new boll weevil that laughs too.
Acala cotton, first discovered in
southern Mexico in 1906 by this
government, is a sufK'rior upland
type, says the U. S. Depwirtmcnt of
Agriculture. It's one of the earliest
and most prolific of the kind and
produces better and longer fiber
than other large-boiled varieties.
It grows so fast it bi'ats the weevil,
and Acala cotton brings srpn^mium
in communities that are careful not
to mix their seeds. As fur the boll
weevil, he’s called the Thurberia.
But that’s another story.
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“I have used V'-C, and although
the boll weevil hit our county hard
I made over a hale to tfie acre.”—
J. Long, Tarboro, N. C.
“You would , not try to
overdraw your bank account.
You should be equally sure
that j’ou do hot overdraw
your soil fertility account.”—
New Yorx Central Lines.
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“Scientific fanning has
paid well all along; but it is
not the scientific farmer who
is complaining. He hasn’t
the time. H* u bus]/ making
money."—^H. H. Heimann.
Old Friends.. and New
Southern fanners who are still iu
their prime can remember helping
their fathers haul V-C Fertilizers to
the springtime fields of long ago.
Now their sons are helping them—
Premiums in Pure Seed
Commun'ties are learning to pro*
tect themselves against hybrid cot
tonseed—“run of the gin” seed—
“pot luck” seed—by getting laws
passed that keep anybody in tha
neighborhood from growing an off
variety of cotton. ^ 1926 the Cal
ifornia legislature enacted a qMcial
law on this point, ssya the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, when
several counties were establiahed as
pure seed districts for the Acala
variety, with no other kind to ba
grown there. “The effect has been
highly beneficial,” says the Depart
ment. “All the fanners of these
communitiee have seed of the beat
quality to plant, and the fibre is of
uniform quality that brings a pr»>
mium.”
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Gold Dollars from Waste
Cottonseed oil was known among
the Chinese before 1700,—ahundred
years ahead of the rest of the world.
They burned it in lamps, feeding the
cake to cattle. Then some chemist
whose pame has been forgotten dis
covered that the oil could be eaten.
By 1890 over a million tons of seed
were being crushed—for nothing
but the oil. Little by little other
developments were worked out, fiirst
for separating the soed from the
bulls, thus getting more oil and leav
ing a cake that could be used as feed
or fertilizer; then for cleaning the
hulls to get linters. In 1926 they
crushed 5,528,243 tons of cotton
seed. Its value was $256,027,431—
and two-thirds of this got back to
the man who grew it. . . . Yet
most of us can remember when cot
tonseed could hardly be thrown
away, dm the scientists credit/
and T-C remiuDS a family institu
tion. Could V-C be otherwise than
reliable, with such traditionabehind
it? Other regiona too are following
the choice of the Old South as they
in their turn discover that fertilising
pays. V-C’s good name keeps on
opening th^ way to new friends—v
whom the yean will ripen into old
ones.
V-C
“Ours is a nets country, but much
of our farming area ia already crying
for more commercial fertilizer.”—
American Farming.
V-C
You've 'got to have a
properly BALANCED fer
tilizer to get a good cotton
yield. There must be enough
nitrogen in it, enough super
phosphate, enough potash,—
and not too much of anv one.
Use the RIGHT GRADE of
V-C and pi?^: real money off
your acres.
V-C
Two THINGS—yield per
acre and quality of product-
spell all the PROFIT in
farming. V-C Fertilizen in
crease yield and improve
quality. Therefore V-C and
Profit are partners.
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"V-C Ferthjzbbs push the crop
to maturity and enable you to get
easily a bale to the acre, even under
boll weevil conditions.”—T. H.
Bonus, CoatayfN. C.
V-C
Farming’s Great Future
“No other country has such im
mediate possibiGtiee for the develop
ment of its agriculture as the Unit^
States. We have vast acreages of
good land from which the virgin
fertility is now practically exhaust- /
ed; we have intelligent farmers,
hi^ly ^cient machinery, the best
organized system of research, teach
ing and extension that the world
has ever known;^nd a fertilizer in
dustry prepared to compound the
proper formulas and supply the de
mand.”—Dr. Firman E. Bear, Ohsa
State University.
V-O
The "merctriziixffi’ cjf cotton/ohries
is named after John Mercer, idhe
discovered how to do it in 18J^.
V-C
“7 am so thoroughly Kid on high
grade commercial fertilizer that I
would consider it folly to plant a row
of cotton unless a liberal application
had been applied before planting.
I use a 15-5-5. My advice to the
average man would be to increase
the amount of fertiliser he has been
using. It,would prove a profitable
inMstnunt.”—J. M. Aumuch.
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■VIHGINtA-CAHOLlNA CHEMtCAL COKPOHATION*
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D., Associate General Secretary of tte
World’s Sunday Seboel Association.
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effective advertising feature.. Several j force, but the world is the field
articles appearing in the issue of Sat
urday, are reproduced in The Chron
icle today. Your attention is directed
International Sunday School Lesson for March 24
STEWARDSHIP'AND MISSIONS
Acts 1:6-8; 2 Corinthians 8:1-9
It has been well said that the church \ of all nations.” They were to teach
There is that in Christianity that
makes its appeal ^to share with others,
as is evidenced in no other religion.* It
to them since they forcibly set forth 1 i* ® question of propagation to ob-
40ur institution, its aims and purposes, j tain a world mastery but to give that
Congratulations are in order. We' others may enter into hke precious
take off our hat to editor “Chip”! joys and blessings.
Grafton and all who assisted him. ' ’The Bible still the greatest mis-
* ' [ sionary book. The selected portions
TRAINING SCHOOL GET’S [for intensive study this time are Gen-
NEEDED BUILDING jesis 12:1-3; Deuteronomy 8:17, 18;
The State Training school located,Jonah 3:1-10; Malachi 3:7-12; Mat-
liiere, will soon get its long and badly theW 28:18-20; Acts 1:5-8; 13:1-3;
weeded school building and auditorium. 126:12-20; Roman9 1:14-16; Corinth-
Por favorable consideration of the ians 8:1-15; 9:1-9. The boo^ for fur-
cntirely reasonable request, thanks is 1 ther study covering each portion of
>due the legislature — none belpngrs; the title, are “Changing Foreign Mis-
however, to Governor Richards who! sions,” Cleland B. McAfee, and “Mon-
lued every means possible to kill the ey, the Acid Test,” James McCon-
Hem. aughy. ^
'The building is to cost $30,000. Of Abraham was a great foreign mis-
fhis amount $15,000 was-appropriated^sionary as he journeyed from Meso-
and the state finance committee given potamia to Canaan and began the life
zmtherity to borrow $15,000 to make of the Israelites in Palestine. He fol-
Itf immediate erection possible. When!lowed the call of Jehovah and had ba-
completed it will provide school facili-' sic part in being the Father of the
ties and an auditorium for the reli-' faitl^ul and no race can compare in
giooB services, entertaixunent and rec-
Tcation of the several hundred people
ander the institution’s care.
When the measure providing > the'
KuiMing came from the governor’s of-
fke Friday night, he had vetoed this
xt«n along with a number fo others
that did not suit his fancy. The house
immediately took up consideration of
the appropriation bill, item by item,
and the governor played a winning
Imnd until the item affecting the
Training school was reached. For tl^e
ffhrst time since he has been in office^
the hOTBe showed sufllcienrstrength
with the Hebrews in their contribu
tion to the world. Mosfs can well be
classed with Abraham, as he led the
nation from 'bondage to the borders
of the Promised Land. Jonah is dis
tinctly a missionary book as it records
how his preaching led the Ninevites
to repentance. r'
Rapid developments come with the
closing of the earthly work of Jesus
Christ. He purposed that all mankind
should be blessed in his completed
work and gave the Great Commission
to the fileVen-disciples when
iee. He told them to “Make disciples
and baptize. As they were obedient
they were promised “Lo I am with
you always, even unto the end of the
world.” Thf Acts of £he Apostles is a
history of the fidelity of the early
church in obeying their Lord's com
mand. Paul became the mighty apos
tle to the Gentiles.
It costs to accomplish any program.
Giving is spontaneously an act of wor
ship. This is recosrnizsd in every re
ligion of the earth. But no work can
be maintained by spasmodic gifts. To
day we talk about making a budget
and this surely applies in connecti<ni
with our contributions to help make
the V great commission effective.
Throughout the Old .Testament we
find that the Hebrew practise the
principle of tithing. Malachi asks that
the “whole tithe” be given over. This
means honesty in administration. Bnt
the Hebrew did far more than give a
tenth. He added many free will and
thank offerings. It is calculated* tiott
the Pharisee contributed at least one
fourth of his earnings.
We must give both proportionately
and systematically. Let the tithe be
the minimum. -Laft week a man said
to the writer that he planned to
for the Lord's work at least as moeh
as he spent on his home and penonal
expenses. Paul taught the principle of
weekly giving from the amount al
ready laid up in store. This apostle
was always taking up an offering for
the poor saints in Jerusalem and he
was a blessing to them each time he
helped them share with others leas
blessed. One said that personal conse-
eratton means “purse and aU” conse
cration.
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