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PAGE BIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. a THURSDAY, MAY 15, 19S0 \ BOOKS The United States has become the ifreatest nation of readers in the world. We read more newspapers and magazines than all the rest of the world put together, and now we are becoming the greatest book readers. Only Germany and Denmark print more books in proportion to popula- tioTL And we are reading books of realValue. The most popular book of the day is the most powerful argu ment against war ever penned. It is called in its English translation “All Quiet On the Western Front." Its au thor, Erich Maria Remarque, served in the trenches with the German ar-1 my. In America,^England, France, as well as in Germany, it has outsold the most popular no^ls ever pub lished. Next in popularity is a biog raphy, “Henry VIII,” by Francis Hackett. fice reading: “Where are the facts?" The difference between leaders rnd followers in this world is that lead ers know how to use facts. The way to begin to prepare ;* tr leadership Is 1 > dy factrf. The ’greatest colle»".i'>:i 0/ fait:- atr jt the United States, our gov rn- m? I industries, business, people and cc' (it ons, is in a book pnl-lished . n"- i.o.-. Iy by the United States govirn- ment. It is call^ “The Statistical Ab stract of the United States.” Anyone who wants to be able to answer any questions of fact about our nation ^n get them all in this book for one dollar sent to the Public t»rintef at Washington. coveries is a germ which will extract the oil from coconuts without pres sure, economically and completely. FACTS The basis of all successful business is facts. The head of one of the world’s greatest corporations has a sign over the door of his private of-, Blow the Whistle WILLIAMS The most widely known newspaner man in the~world is probably Walter Williams. Williams started life as a printer on a country paper in Mis souri. His education, except for a few • ears in the common schools, came from his newspaper work, travel and leading. He conceived the idea of a 'ollege of journalism and in 1908 es tablished the first school of that kind, at the University of Missouri. There are fifty or so colleges of journalism now, in different, universities, all founded on the Williams model. The other day Walter Williams was made president of the University of Missouri. He still retains the title of dean of the school pf journalism. He is the first newspaper man ever to head a great educational institution. WELCH “No human being in this country is not his debtor, though millions have never heard his name?' No greater tribute could be paid to any man than that phrayjwhich waa applied to Dr. William H.' Welch of Baltimore, “dean of American medi cine,” on his eightieth birthday. Dr. Welch’s great work has been in starting in this country the methods of medical research into the cause and prevention of disease and in leading in the application of the results of re search to the practice of medicine. His especial interest has been in pre ventive medicine. 'The public health systems of America owe their origin largely to him. It is because he es tablished the principle that it is the physician’s chief du^ to aid in pre venting disease that the world owes him a debt of gratitude. Farm Demonstration -— Notes C. B. Catanon, County Agent SUGAR Straw and cottonseed may soon supply the world with sugar. Xylose, one of the most widely distributed oij- ganie compounds in nature, is -found in aTT vegetable fibers. It is a sugar which does not produce fat when eat en. It was first discovered in 1880 and chemists have been working for 44 years to find a cheap way to extract it. Up to reafcntly it cost about a dol lar a pound to get it out of the fibers. Under a grant by congress two years ago the federal bureau of standards has been engagfed in chemical re search "into xylose, and now announce the development of a process which extracts it from cottonseed hulls at a cost of only five cents a pound. The salvation of the cotton farmer may come through this added by product of the cotton seed, though it will hurt the sugar-grower. Hr COCTO JOIN JOSEPH MINK Ml era* “TWILIGHT SLEEP” .Sounds almost alluring, doesn’t it? Gives one a sort of dreamy feeling just to think of it. Yet, as used in medicine, and ijuackery as well, it is Cotton Spacing' Within the next few days chopping of cotton will be carried on through out this county. There is a possibility of cotton seed being rotten in the ground. I would advise that each farmer keep a close check on his cot ton seed for germination, and if nec essary, plant over. When you chop your cotton I would suggest leaving 2 and 3 stalks to each hoe’s width. Laurens county’s cotton spacing last year has been the thick est on the ground since the present agent has been on this work. ^ soon as you chop your cotton I would ad vise giving it a top-dressing of nitrate of soda at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, or its equivalent in other forms of amnv>nia. Experiments show that from 100 to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre as tbp-dressing gives the greatest profit return. patch this year. I would suggest that these sprouts be set during this month. The best results in growing sweet potatoes are obtained if the rows are 3 feet apart, setting the plants between 10 and 12 inches in [the drill, and fertilizing with 600 to hOO pounds of a fertilizer analyzing ?8-4-8 or 10-4-10. In'other words, sweet potatoes require quite a bit of potash. The potash causes the potato to^evel- op very fast and produce a smooth skin. The close spacing in rows pro duces a medium-sized potato and pre vents the large size, known as the jumbo, which is very undesirable to market and for table use. The most desirable potato is the pink skin Pdrto Rico variety. H Mil L I O M a day » TUNE IN ON STATION WSB Every Wednesday Coca-Cola Dance Orcheatrs. Grantland Rice interviewing aporta rlumpiona. Broadcast hom New York Studioa. GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. - Greenwood, 8. C. OIL Oil is the world’s most precious commodity. I am not thinking espec ially of petroleum, which is the first thing we think of when, we say “oil." Palm oil from interior Africa, olive oil from the Mediterranean shores, whale oil front the seven seas, were articles of international traffic cen turies before Columbus. Today the animal and vegetable oils are .still sought for everywhen* and consuuH'd ■ in larger quantities than ever before. America htts contributed lorn oil, peanut oil and eottonseeil oil to the list. We produee more lin.seed oil, from flax grown in the northw«'st, than any other nation. Florida is be ginning to product tung oil, extracted from the nut of a tree native to Chi na. The pursuit of whale.s for their oil has developed in the past twenty years to such an extent that interna tional laws for the protection of these huge 'beasts are under consideration. Aviation has stimulated the demand for castor oil, which remains fluid at low temperatures and does not car bonize. Cod-liver oil is in greater de mand than ever. Porpoise oil is used for lubricating watches. And the oil from coconuts is used in a thousand ways, for foods, candies and cosmet ics. One of the newest scientific dis- Summer Hay Crop Since sending out a circular letter a few days ago calling to the atten tion of the farmers the need of a sum mer hay crop, I have received a num ber of inquiries in regard to the 90- day velvet bean as a hay crop. Within five days following this letter, eight thou.sand poumls of seed have been ordered, bringing the total number of tons to 12'1-2, to be used as a hay Sweet Potatoes The .sweet potato crop is a rather important crop to be grown, but is not looked upon with the value it should Ik*. I suggest that eai’h farmer, ten ant or land-owner, plant a potato one of the most deadening combin»-^xrop in I>auren8 county. This county trons of drugs we have at our Com- has never taken the step forward be- mand. . fore in the use'of ^0-day velvet beans, -- the . formula ag it w’dbing this year. Thik-question known as ‘.'H. M. C.” claimed at-first of a hay Crop is a problem to the in- that a th'gh might be amputated with- dividual farmer, and as I see the situ out pain under its influence. The at- ation, there is no time to lose, tention of the medical woild was at tracted. That was a good many years ago; and the best surgeons of Ameri ca are still using the safer method of ether anesthesia; "twilight sleep" dropped back to its very limited sphere and stayed there. Hyo.scin, morphin and cactin are the ingredients of the compound; the first two are most powerful drugs, and the more so when used in combination; the latter has, if any effect at ^ull, a very negligible one. My experience with “H. M. C.” led me to abandon it early in its history as too dangerous to tamper with. For instance, a patient of mine, an inebriate, was in delimium tremens— alcoholic mania; he had not slept for four days. Having tried everything else, in despair 1 gave him a df)«e of the new “twilight sleep.’ \\’ell — it worked; within five minutes the man was snoring loudly, and alino.'«t blue from' cyano.sis; he breathed only .siy times |K*r minute! 1 stayed at his bid- side fourteen hours, until the poi.ion wore away- never more anxiou.“ be fore or .since. When he awoke he d< clar«‘(l, looking .wildly about him. that he hadTieen druggE*d! I told him if he hadh’t, then theie never huvl been a man d+4Egge<l. tie immediately ordered his helong'ngs pjickeil and left town and I diilu*. blame him. I l)lame<l myself and the new “twilight sleep.” Now I only use the stuff in eigth-grain do.ses, to soft- en the terrible pains in childbirli.— and I haven’t used it Cven that w»iiy in fifteen years. The quack, however, uses "twilight sleep’’ as a slogan, and dopes hi.i ^upes in his own sweet way with 'e deadly thing. r Simplicity it often imsrtest. u in diis black kid one-ftrap with trimmmf of black land ifuke grain 1 cr. 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C. / Not A Dry Year Says Dutch Prophet “I do not indorse the prediction of John Henry Baxter, voluntary official government weather observer of New berry, as reported in a special dis patch to The State of Tuesday, that 1930 wHl be a dry year,” said the Dutch Weather Prophet Saturday in Columbia. ■ C/ontinuing, Columbia’s" weather prophet said that Mr. Baxter’s pre dictions did TfK>t agree with the for mer's spring forecast issued March 9, that this year would have raihil abundant and seasonal enough to pro duce good crops of all kinds, while there pould.be no serious overflows in the rivers of the southeast. “On the other hand,” the Dutch Weather Prophet advised the planting of much crops and gardens in the lowlands in order to secure best vegetable pro ducts. “Wind directions since the winter sollice (December 20) indicate exact ly opposite of any condition that 1930 will be a dry year. .“It has been on record for nearly 2,000 years that ivind from the south west without fail will bring rain. 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