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\%iAi ■- ■Y RAPFORD MOBUr Washin^on, D. C., May 9.— Now that th<p political orators In conirress have got moat of their oratory off their chests and have buckled down to the business of keeping the finan cial ship of state on an even keel, in- .terest at the capital again centers up on the fOrthcominfT national presiden tial conventions. The main interest, naturally, is in the question of who will be the Demo cratic presidential i nominee. On the Republican side it is a foregone con- clusiop/that Pi^eside.nt Hoover will be renominated practically by acclama tion, and noiipdy is very much intei- ‘ested/in speculation about the vic.- presidbntial nomination. In fact, a: things stand now, Mr. ('urtis can hu t it if he wants it. and a!)parently he does, since he changed hi.s mind about entering-'the race for U. S. senator from Kansas. The Democratic situation, however, is very much more exciting than it was when, for a time, it looked as if ^ (rovernor Franklin D. Roosevelt of i New Y()rk. was going to walk away' with the nomination. His erstwhile j friend and pre.sent political enemy,' Alfred K. Smith, has grabbed off the! delegations of .Mas.sachusetts and few other states and will, as things' look now, cojitroll a solid ^block of; somewhere between lOU and IT^O dele-j gute.s, who will vote exactly th4‘ way j he t4*lls lh«‘m to vote. That is not j enough to jjrevcnt Roosevelt’s nomi-1 nation if th«- .New York governor! should get all the rest of them, lln-j der the two-thii;d^s rule, which aiiplics in the Democratic'convention but not in i^the K4*publican convention, nomin«*e must have. 770 out of thci 1154 votes. 'Fhat meanit that it takes 8K5 opposing votes to block him. Mr. Roosevelt will probably have a majority of the convention, but the supporters of Speaker Garnei', of Mel- a reduction |n the *use of fertilizer in cotton pro-' duetion this year. The w'idth of rows; is close, and I insist that the farmer' leave his cotton tfiick in the ground | in order to get a high yield, due to the small amount of fertilizer usedk 11 I would suggest that tw’o or three .stalks' be left each hoe’s width. Experiments! I of Clemson college show that where (plants are feft per acre in 3- frot rows, onl *' 3.1 bolls phr stalk arc .Kiuired to produce a bale of cotton! to the acre. This compares with 6.31 j )ll.s per stalk required to produce a! •ale per acre where 14,500 plants arej j eftj this being above the average ’umber of stalks firmer* leave. In .'’act, experiments show that where I cotton is dropped in hills and not ; thinned, the yield of sc'cd cotton per acre is higher than where the cotton : is thinned. I If you intend to top-dress, I would sugge.st jthat it be done not later than two weeks after chopping. i Gardening The garden spot is one of khe important pieces of soil on the and e.specially .so this vear. As a the gardens of the county are bioking I very good, and quite a hit of food is ! being obtained from them. Various' ! insects are now working and doing] I damage. String beans are being at-j 1 tacke<l by a small green bug with j black spots on its back. This bug is 1 known” as the bean 1^'*^ *beetle, not I the Mexican bean beetle. The Mexican bean beetle eats the leaf, leaving the] ! vines in a sieve-like fa.^hion; the l>eaT!' ,,„Jleaf bi-etle eating ir| round holes. To' th^j control these l)eetieit, spray jwith one1 || 'ounce mairnesium arsenate mixed with! |1 ounce magnesium arsenate mixed with three gallons of water, or dust with maifnesiiim-'»r#enfite, one part t*.- ! three parts of hydrated (builder’s) llime. Magnesium arsenate will not I bum or blister the leaves. Calcium i arsenate or arsenate of lead will blis- vin A. Traylor and of a dozens or more ^ other candidates who will have small leaves. blocks of delegates, will be able to! To control potato bugs, the abive hold him in checks as long as they | mixture is good. vote according to instructions. , j spider and lice (aphi^) on It is not the understanding b<‘re' plants, flowers, or vegetables may be controlU'd by dusting thoroughly with sulphur dust, with temperature ofi aroui.d 70 degrees, and when the air that Mr. Smith has any hoi>e or desire of getting the nomination for. him self. He is a master of politici^ .strat egy', however, probably the ablest politician who will take part in the convention, and the anti-Koom'vell jieople are willing to accept his lead ership in the effort to bring about the nomination of a candidate to whom Roosevelt dcU'gatcs may be exi)ecte(i to flock when they see their own lead er’s cause is hopi-lcss. is still; or, spraying thoroughly with nicotine sulphate, commonly known as black leaf forty. Directions for spraying may Ih' found on each con tainer. Th«‘ situation as it pres^-nfs itself now, more than a month before the co!iv4-ntion, which meets on .lune ‘27th, seems I loscly parallel to that of 1912, when Chump Clark had a ch-ar ma- jot'ty in the Raltimorc convention and held it for twcnty-siis ballots;' until Ml. Hryaii, the must astute politician ot Ills lime. su.'t tM'dt d in breaking the solid hl(H*k and starting the .'^wing to W.indniw Wilson. Who (lo\ernon Smith would favor a- a compromise' candidate is. natur- al!\, -til! umeitain. The indications arc that he would like to see Owen D. A uuiig iiominatt'd. There is no ques- ti< n among Ih-mocrats or Republicans of .Mr. ^Dung’s outstanding ability. Hi has i-verything in his favor except, possibly, th«‘ fat t that he is chairman «)f thi board of the (Iimeral Electric comi>any, which while not in itself a public utility, is. nevertheless, closely liid to the light and power industry. It niay create a prejudice against Mr. Young in the sections where the /‘puwi-r tiust" is regardeii as a public menace. Little 'onfidimee i* placed in the sugg<‘Stioii that .lohn W. Davis, who was .so disastroysly defeated by Mr. Coolidge in 1924. will be nominat ed a ra n M»-. Davis is also, undoubt edly, a man of /great ability, but he lacks ajm^ist all of the elements of popuiai appeal, while liir." Young Has inos4 of them. .^nd lh4>re is alway.s in the picture the pos.s^bility of Newton D. Baker, who was se<‘retary of war in‘Mr. Wil- s in's V abinet. and who is generally recognized as not only a great lawyer tut a great state.^man, with outstand ing-ability to sway an'.audience when he makes a speech. Class Hercriir June The clas.s of 1922 of Presbyterian college is jilanning to have a 10-year* leunioti (in June 6 and 7, according to information received^ here from Rev. .1. M. Dick of Pulaski, Va., secretary of tlie class. All members of this class! have been sent letters 'urging their j i<‘tuin to their alm^ mater. The mem bers will assemble in the dining room] and have supfK'r on the evening of I June 6th. This meal will be followed! by a class meeting. Again on the 7th, I just following the commencement ex-| ercis4*s, the class will re-assemble for ' a fjnal sc.ssion and say good-bye. There were 22 members of the class. Nine are ministers—one in the Baip- tist ministry, one in the Episcopal, an^ seven jn the Presbyterian; three ai-e. physicians; several are teachers; several farmers, and other in various businesses. Following is the roll of the class: Rev. George Brooks Bobo, William Waldo Biimm, Dr. Robert Marion Cothran, Herbert <’rgwford, - Rev. Ja mes McDowell Diyk, Dr. Malcolm; Dickson, Rev. Charles Kirk- Douglas, Rev. Marion Ashton j Rev. Iceland Nicholas Ed- Hal Steele I Fewell, Ansel * Godfrey, William Bennet Rev. I»uis Cpssitt l.4iMptte, James Lewis McCord,” James Turner; M< Donald, Monroe McIntyre. Dr, J('hn Young O’Daniel, Rev. Clarence Eu gene Piephoff, Gilbert Worth Stewart, Rev. Howard Me Knight Wilson, Rev.] il Elmer Donovan Wood, James Kirv«nt||[ W'ilson. Shields Patrick Durant, munds, Blakely Kimble, ;/ to be agreeable to that, and so are #both wet and dry Republican leaders, with few exceptions. In the Demo- There is no expectation : fratic convention, however, a desjH-r- er Garner, in spite of having the Tex-1 declare un- as and California delegations and probably a good many tering delegates, will come within. shooting distanc-e of the nomination. .... I ate fight to have the par solid y, for the repeal of the eigh- other amendment is anticipated. The] If the nominee of the party finally sel^'ted should be from the East, ^ Mr. G»rner, with his strength in the Southwest and the far; West, might logically b« the vice-presidential can didate. He will have very large sup port from the *dry element in the' Democratic convention. And the dry wets are hopeful that Mr. Smith will take the lead on the wet side of this fight but that seems somewhat doubt ful, as it would seripusly complicate his progiam of beating Roosc'velt, to accomplish which he must have the support ‘ of large blocs of delegates from drv states. The prohibition q'les-! t on will almost certainly,‘however,! ;ic convention. Ana me aiy ^ Democrat^ must not be convention’s time, but just whaCfinal element will have a stronger influence in the - Democratic convention than in the Re- ' publican, because the Southern states, practically all of which are dry, nor- ‘ maliy provide a very high percentage 4^ of Democratic presidential electori. ^.'4 There is not, as this is written.: much likeiihoed of any serious split, an the prohibition question in the Re-1 pdliiican convention. The belief is that I both aidea will amree readily to a in the plntform agreeing /to aub- nit the pro|ift)itioA question to a na- referandotn. Mr. Hoover it action will be taken may depend large-i ly on exactly the form in which the j Rcp'ihlicans frame their prohibition plank at their «)nventi<‘n,-which meets in the same auditorium in Chicago thirteen days earlier, or on the 14th of June. Haturday Eveninf Pont $2.00 Country Gentleman,‘S years IIJK) l^adies Home Jounial ... tl.OO V Think of the advertisements in this paper as so many letters addressed to you, personally. a That’s what they’re intended to be, and, actual ly, that’s what they are. This newspaper is, in J effect, a mail-bag which brings news of events V . and news of the best merchandise at the fairest prices. "1 You don’t throw away letters unread.;You don’t read three or four letters carefully and skim through the rest. Treat the ‘‘merchandise letters” in this new^Mtper the same way. Read them all. 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