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V • ' Cotton Is a Natural "Cotton is a Natural" is the theme of promotional campaigns being conducted by the National Cot ton Council, an organization with the objective of increasing consump tion of cotton and its products. When you consider its many implica tions, “Cotton is a Natural” is an apt theme indeed. For example, "cotton is a natural" for comfort, launderability, durability, beau ty, and long wear. It is a natural for stun ning creations by top-flight designers or for long wearing, easily washable work clothes. Cotton is a natural for children’s wear, men’s wear, and women's wear, for daytime or nightime. ami for all seasons. It's a na tural for home furnishings and industrial pn>ducts, also. The fiber is a natural for adaptability to improvement through scientific research in all stages from the breeding plot to the spinning mill. Its textiles are naturally adaptable to notable developments such as wash and wear, water repelleocy, heat re sistance. luster, and many more. Finally, cotton is a natural choice for thousands of fanners. Long a standby as a “money" crop and an item -in commerce since the days of the Pharoahs. it has responded dynamically in recent years to production and marketing research and its application. Cotton sustains one of America’s greatest agricultural industries, providing employ ment and income for several million people who play a part in its transformation from a raw material into useful products. We salute cotton because "Cotton is a Natural.” Oak wood. Ohio. News: “Americans last year spent $1U0 million for comic books — four times the amount invested in library oooks. according to Mark Murfin. elementary education chairman at *.be University of Miami.” Walterboro Press and Standard: "The purpose of our public school system, and the sole reason for its existence, is to edu cate the people, and through this education to prepare them for a richer life, both fi nancially and intellectually. Somewhere along the long road to education the system has failed .. . "Students today, particularly in the pub lic schools, are ashamed of having intel lectual prowess. Much' bragging is heard on the star athlete, or the best dancer and social butterflies.” Murder By Airplane It would a good idea for anybody toy ing with the-thought of putting a bomb on a plane — or even joking about it — to read "Murder by Airplane’’ in the May Header’s Digest. Written in the first person by a lawyer who was at the scene, it is a dramatic Sher- lock-Holmes-style account of how his recog nition of "the sweet, burnt-sugary smell of high explosive” in the fur of a victim’s jacket pointed to the solution of a horrible crime which cost the lives of 23 innocent people. The fact that the writer had, him self, been a passenger on the first leg of this fatal flight and, but for a sentimental, last- minute change in plans, would have been among the victims, sharpens his remarkable narrative. There also were other investigators and they found other clues. Even if this law yer’s nose had been less sensitive, the mys tery of the horrible crime would have been solved, perhaps not with such speed and tlrama but definitely solved and the guilty punished. This inevitability is what those foolish people — w ho, for greed or what else, plot such fiendish crimes — must realize. There will always be an odor or some other clue. There will always be a solution. There will always be a judge to intone, as he sentences the foolish culprit to death: “Nothing escapes the justice of God.” THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 19. 19«© SUCKER BAIT ft ' - tefc.jfffli We-* HA' FARMS. 1. AND FOLKS By I. M. Eleazer Clemson College Information Specialist s ^€RESS\ 0tXPk ^ N I>IN6 5P^ e ^J ^.. • •' _ •' ■, .. 'r. -v rri Clinton Davidson This Week in Washington A Right and An Obligation If anyone thinks that passage of last year’s labor bill solved the labor legislative problem, it’s time he thought again. For instance, here’s something a publica tion of the American Retail Federation has to say: . union lobbyists are trying to get the Congress to pass a bill to permit sec ondary boycotts in the construction indus try . “Here is how the bill would work ... A retailer decides to build a branch store and hires a general contractor to build it. I'he general contractor gets individual subcon tractors to do the <.emen: work, the electrical installations, the plumbing, the painting, etc. In the middle of the construction job, the plumbing subcontractor gets into a labor disunite with the umon plumbers who work for him. Under this bill tH. K. 9070), the plumbers could put picket lines around the store at %hich the plumbing subcontractor is doing work. “Other union artisans such as bricklay ers. electricians, then could refuse to cross the picket line to work on the building. This would be permitted even though neither the retailer, the general contractor nor the other subcontractors were involved in the iabor dispute. Thus, a >ingie picket from the plumbers union'cvidiTstop all construc- iion wv>rk by virtue of the fact that union leaders could urge employees of other sub contractors not to cross a secondary boy cott picket lineJ'. Union strategists are (k ing all they can to weaken, if not repeal, even the most moderate labor laws. That is their right. And it is the right—and the obligation—of those who feel different to work for legisla tion they believe to be necessary to the public interest. V Babson Discusses The PossibUity of World War ffl Bjb-on Park Mass.. May 19—In view of the recent sbootmg down of one of our spies, there is revived in terest in the possibility of World War III I therefore am repeating in this column the first four paragraphs of my Outlook for 1960. MY REFERENCE TO RUSSIA FOUR MONTHS AGO 1 Naturally, as I am just back from Moscow and Berlin, my first thoughts are what will happen to Ber In -My answer is definitely, “NOTHING WILL HAP PEN ” Mr K will make no more ultimatums. Presi dent Eisenhower will continue his peace talks There fore the Berlin situation will be just the same in 1960 and 1961 as it is today 2 There will be no World War started between Russia and the United States in 1960 This does not mean that such a war will not come I within 10 years. but just now- neith er country is ready for it I am con vinced of this after my recent \ isit to Moscow 1 Airplane warfare with the drop ping of bombs is a thing of the post We are turning to rocketry with pin point precision Our expensive air bases may gradually be vacated 4 Moscow is Mr K’s ‘pride and -ij,, ^*aaa W It is a beautiful city with broad streets and thousand* of apartment houses Mr K does not want it destroyed Furthermore, he wants a reduction in armaments so that he will have the money to raise the standards of living m Russia 1 forecast he will have to do this in order to hold his power EFFECT UPON THE NEXT FEW MONTHS 1 am very sorry about the unfortunate shooting down of our spy In addition to the apparent bring ’ in Washington about our pohey upon its first an nouncement, it should be recognized that this air plane was about ten miles above the earth when the shooting took place This demonstrates how high fcfhtmg -eon occur and also-the possible aim and spefd of the missile which Russia used to shoot down our plane The successful use of the parachute from such heights is also demonstrated Although the event, from a propoganda point of view, is important to the Russians, yet it does not delay or hasten World War III. in my humble judg ment It seems foolish to delay the Summit Meeting, although it may prevent its accomplishing as much as it otherwise would have. LET'S NOT FORGET CHINA As I said in Paragraph No. 9 of my 1960 Outlook. “. . . the Rusians are afraid of China.” Over the long pull. China is no more friendly to the Russians than she is to the United States, but she is playing oar against the other. Russia feels that the Chinese would walk into Russia's “back door” if Russia should at tempt a shooting war on the West Thus, it is very- important that we review our relations with China. This Chinese situation is the reason I am aaxious to visit China this year; but whether I will get a visa from our State Department is very uncertain There is no trouble in getting to Hong Kong, as I am in immediate correspondence with Hong Kong by air mail. The postmaster in Hong Kong tells me that any mail addressed to Peiping he forw ards to Canton. As to what happens to R after that, he does not know EFFECT UPON OUR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER Surely the events of the past week will not bdp the Republicans, or the election of Nixon. How they will affect the Democrats, the next thirty days will probably determine.' My present hunch is that the situation will help Symington. Johnson, or one of the others familiar with the defense situation Mr Ken nedy has not specialized in foreign affairs or defense Of course, the event may cause a decline in Euro pean travel this summer and it cannot be helpful to business It will make people think more about the possibility of World War III and the serious fallout which may accompany it. On the other hand, com panies actively engaged in defense work should be assured continued employment. Defense expend! lures, however, will be directed to missiles and rockets, as I have said may times before in my col umn. rather than to airplanes. The Family Form Congressional farm experts this immediately end the costly and in week are re-writing a long-range effective price support programs, farm program which observers Each farmer would assume respon rate as the favorite to replace sabiliiy for any surplus he might present programs within the next produce two or three years BARGAINING POWER The program was first offered A purp**** ol the proposed in February by a group of 20 Demo- legislation is to give farmers, cratic congressmen representing ev- through their own organizations, ery section of the country. They bargaining power in ‘-he market called it “The Farm Family In comparable to that of organized la- come Act of 1960 ” Public hearings before the House Agriculture Committee in March brought out a majority of farm ex perts generally favorable to tho bills, although there was enough criticism to cause the Committee to order them re written bor One way of accomplishing that is only about half the national non might be through marketing agree ments. such as those now in effect in many milk, fruit and vegetable producing areas, which permits producers to adjust their produc ‘jon and sales to demand at prices identical, place the iq ^ "fair and reasonable" emphasis just where the title im b> farmer government board, pbev on improving the net income Justification for bargaming power of family-owned and -operated to increase f ar i„ income is argued farms These make up four out of ^ ^ ^ government reports every five of the three and a half vhowmg the average income ofXm million farms producing for mar fanujjes including allowances for rlinElLS CWMCH — »— »"-■* fa >*- ! .i v * r,t .t* The big departure from present -p*. wou ] d ** pro *S,* a L t is J lhat . program p nces - for each commodity Parity would be developed by farmers u M ^ coowden)d Uir ^ themselves and then submitted to ^ jTiSatw. to prices they pay Washington for approval If approv (or lhe ^ ^ tuch as auto ed by Congress it would be submit mobiles, refrigerators, tractors, etc. ted to growers for approval or re lsOA nguni show fMrm jectmn m a referendum penes now average S0% of parity The first step would be election Contrr** isn t expected to pass of program drafting committees by thf ^!,| U this yra7 but backers growers of each commodity, such as th:nk ^ .iflR havi a good chance wheat, corn, hog producers, etc of passage in 1961 or 1962 Each such committee would wort out a program for its particular Inyifed f 0 Join commodity, then sifbmit it to the " , ” . Senate and House agriculture com Mllltory PlXltcrniTy m’tees Friends of Georga Blalock. Jr.. It would then go through the usual will be interested to know he was procedures of hearings and. finally, one of 19 students to receive an invi to the Senate and House for debate tation to join the "Scabbard and If approved, the Secretary of Agn Blade" honorary military fraternity culture would submit it to growers I at Davidson College m a referendum George, the son of Dr and Mrs A big advantage claimed is that George R Blalock ofthis city, is a such a program, if adopted, would junior at Davidson HYBRID GRAIN SORGHUMS As they had already done with com. hybrids are writing new chap ters in the grain sorghum book for this area. E. B. Eskevv, in charge of sorg hum.. experiments at Clemson, tells me they beat the oki Varieties 15% | at Clemson the past year and in a test down-state at Nichols they made 50% more Saluda is our main grain sorghum county. County Agent Craven has been testing varieties there for sev- j eral years. He tells me some of the hybrids far out-yield the older sorts that have been commonly planted.! At Clemson the highest yielding sorghum last year made 106 bushels per acre. The coming of these proven hy brids has caused Clemson to re- vamp its list of recommended grain sorghums for thi# year. Three are recommended, all hybrids They are RS 610, DeKalb E-56A, and Texas 660. Sorghum has about the same feed value and uses as corn, stands drtwight better, and will usually make more under average condit ions. • • • SHEEP PROGRESS Sheep seem to be staging a mild comeback in the Southeast. South {Carolina is sharing in this. We used to grow a lot of >m But in our time 1 we saw them dwindle to practically: nothing As a part of our diversified 1 growth with livestock. Clemson put on a sheep specialist a few years ago to help, through the county t agents, rebuild our lost know-how with sheep And experimental work, is underway with them at the col lege and at Johnsonville. Wool and lamb pools are held; each year to assist with the mar keting The past year 98 growers from 34 counties pooled 2.788 of their Iambs in cooperative sales Others were sold direct to packers Our sheep specialist. H. M. Jami son. urges all growers to follow- his sheep guide to the end that better lambs might result Choice lambs in the past year s pool averaged S21 39 per hundred pounds while those grading common brought 916 S3, and cufk only 97 07 per hundred on foot Fortunately, the bulk of them were in the upper grades Your county agent has the pub hshed sheep helps from Mr Jami son. and if you have special prub lems with your sheep he can ar range for the specialist to visit your place • • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY 1 always liked to go down to Aunt Yemue's. She was a great aunt that lived at the ancestral home, down the valley that was Eleazer's Tav ern back in stagecoach days She was the kindliest of souls 1 never heard her speak a harsh word She hadn't had it easy She raised a large family, and her bus band had been an officer in the Con federate Army I never saw her idle, and her patience knew no bounds She saw to it that came from the rather unyielding stone hills around her. And her gar den and orchard and flowers and food patches were always ample And no visitor left her house with out carrying come of that bounty away. She never failed to have some sort of goodie for a kid that (hopped in, and I’d go down there as often as my folks would let me. I liked her pantry best, for there Is where the tempting viands were. Next best 1 liked her large half-story upstairs room in the older part of the ramb ling house. You entered it by an an gular and cramped stairway thatj went up from the company room. Up there was kept the accumulat ed trivia of the years. I’ll bet now a | lot of that stuff would be valuable. I A1U sorts of old papers, pictures, books, saddle bags, and Uncle John’s war equipment and uniforms., She would let me go up and rum mage around in there to my heart’* content. I know 1 must have lefijl things in a mighty mess. But every time 1 went back, it had all been ! straightened out again. Since they had a large family, they baked bread every day. They had the last of the Dutch Ovens I ever saw in action. It was a brick affair out under a shed. They would build a big fire in it, getting the brick hot Then the fire and ashes were all raked out. the place filled with bread, pies and cakes, and the door tightly closed. Then that fire- less cooker did a job that anyone who ever experienced them will tell you has never been matched as an oven. The tough crusted, pully mix ed bread they cooked in there was tops in eating for us. When I would ^ eventually leave for home, she would cut a crescent shaped piece from the side of one of those warm round loaves, paste the holes full of fresh-churned butter, over-lay that with blackberry jelly, and up the path I would go. And the road to Paradise could be no sweeter than that path through the pasture was then. IF YOU DOITT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DOMT GET THE NEWS 74 Bring IN accumulated funds and start them earning our abort-average dividends paid twice yearly. Lock has a habit of favoring those who don't depend on it Inrest where sav ings earn regmitOess of luck ... or market upa and downs. Remember, funds invested here are not subject to fees or commiaskuw. Open your investment savings account soon! CURRENT DIVIDEND RATI COMPOUNDED SEMI-ANNUALLY # CITIZENS ® FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clin tea InetHatioa 1999 CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. 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