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if Joanna MUl News 'CSoldville, April 23.-i-Jack McLain of Camden, spent a few da^s last week witk Miss Lillian Cunter. Mr. and Mrs. Hayne ^ Willingham and family spent Sunday with rela tives in Ninejy-Six. , Mr. and Mrs. W: 0. Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Ercie Brown spent Sat urday'5n Greenville. Mrs. Ce^ O’Dell is spending’a few weeks with her sisters in Newberry. Mrs. W. W. Cole of Atlanta, is spending a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. L. H. Poag. ' Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Mullinax of Taylors, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. George Blakely. Mr. and Mrs^ Shuford Lewis spent Sunday with relatives in Ninety-Six. Mr. and-Mrs. C. B. Dickey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Turner, Mrs. Leila Tur ner and Helen Turner spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will McGarity, in Elberton, Ga. Mr.' and Mrs. C. A. Ledford and children of Marion, N. C., are spend- TODAY Md f Rank PAItK&R SrCXKBRlDOt weeks with Mr. and Mrsrttr to reach Tor and seixgUhe fajmers:theipselve.s; althpughj the _tQ__all .staples bringing the same price. ing two E. Shaver. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner and Sam Corley of Greenwood, and Mrs. Lizzie Carter of Augusta, visited Mr. and Mrs. Earl Arthur last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Higginbotham and son, Carl, of Anderson, spent the week-end with Mr. and. Mrs. W. E. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Wofford, Miss Doris Wofford and Miss Ruby Kelly spent Sunday in Spartanburg. Mr., and Mrs. S. G. Sulton and - daughters spent the week-end in Man ning. Mrs. Dora Whitmire and Miss Doris Dudley spent the week-end in IVood- ruff. Mr." and Mrs. Luke Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Kuthel Brannon spent the week-end in Charleston. .Miss Phoebe Witherspoon attended «the .\zalea festival in ('harle.ston last week*. Hogan-Fuller Kites .Miss .fennie-Hogan of Gumtor, and Willie Fuller of Goldville, were mar- ri4Ml the hoffle--of -thv^-officiattng minister, the Rev. J. M. 'Wells, in Sumter,'*Friday evening, April 1(5 Birth Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Galloway are. the prc^ud parents of a son,‘boTP Sun day, April 18. Has Birthday Party Tommie Rowe celebrated his sixth birthday by inviting sixteen of his -little friends to a party at his-home DICTATORS — Social Unrest It' is always dangerous to give one man unrestricted power over the lives and fortunes of other men. I think of (but one mart in our his tory who, having sueh .power, vol untarily relinquished it. ‘He was George Washington. The Conti nental Congress made him Dictator in 1778. After the Revolutionary War he could have been King .of America if his common-sense had not been stronger than his personal ambition. History is full of examples of men whb, attaining r lffeaSure of dicta torial power, were not satisfied but WILL SHORT STAPLE COTTON OUT-YIELD STAPLE COTTON? |(By C. B. Cannon, County Agent) more power. Usually they were asesassinated, but it took years, even centuries, for their countries to re cover from the' effects of their -dic tatorships, ^ Dictators do not ^rise over night. They are the end results of years of economic unrest and social dis order, Usually they result from the failure of the previous government to perform the two functions which any» government entitled to survive mu.st perform. I do not believe we are in danger of a dictatorship in America as long as our government maintains order and ' administers justice. CO.M.MUNISM — And Dictators ' ThT modern dTctaloFshlps began* with the Ru.ssian "Comnvtmists. A small group of Marxian • socialists under the leadership of Lenin and Trotzky, organized the Soldiers and Sailors Union, and ou.sted the popu lar democracy which Kerensky had begun ta organize to replace the old There are some farmers who still argue that short staple cotton such as Rucker variety out-yields staple varieties such Coker's or other leading plant breeders of desirable staple. Let us consider a few facts in the case and see if such a state ment ktill holds true. No^ do^bt that ,in the past the short staple va rieties did produce more lint per acre than varieties pulling 1516 inch to an 1 1-32 inch, but is this true now ? The answeV is no If you will take the records ek- taiblished * by farmers throughout South Caroj^ina who were in the five- acre cotton contest froih 1928 through 1936 (the 1936 records not published yet), you will be convinced that the statement is trtjfeJ^JTFarmers of Lau rens county helped establish this rec ord. This is not experiment or gov- emn\e^t records, but records made by results bear out the experimental re sults. For the six years average the 7-8 inch staple cotton produced 486 ptounds of lint per~acre; 15-16 inch staple, 511 pounds lint per acre; one inch staple, 536 pounds'lint per acre; 1 1-32 inch staple, 590 pounds lint per acre, 1 1-16 inch staple, 633 pounds li.nt per acre, and .1 1-8 in ambition to making Italy a better place for Italians. NAZIISM — Power by Force Hitler, Dictator of Germany, rose to power, like Mussolini, on an anti- Communi.st wave. His National So cialist party had been gathering strength for several years. Its op- porTuhity carhe’"'in 1931, when the financial crash caused by the failure of the Credit Anstalt Qf Vienna, started a popular uprising fo.stered by Convmunist.s. Chancellor Bruen- ing su3i)ended by decree the civil rights clauses of the Weimar consti tution of 1920, and so opened the Czarisk regime. It was a seizure of j door for Hitler and his "Storm power—by—fnree ' of arms,—and—the- Saturday afternoon. The little ,folk had a merry time playing games on the lawn. Refreshments, consisting of lemonade and cakes, were served by Mrs. Rowe and Mra. Ralph Stroud'. School News Th^ Joanna school won the follow ing places in the recent county read ing contests held in Lauren.s: .Mai7 Kate Cair, fir^ grade, sec ond place. Wallace Glenn Carr, third grade, tied for second place Communist' party has retained its {K)wer by force. Stalin, the present Dictator of Russia, has no official title but thaU'W Sect'etary of the Communist Party. f What scared the rest of the world when the Communists got control of Russia was their threat to under mine the governments of all other nations by secretly organizing the “have-nots" to rise, and seize the property of the "haves.” Russians' are “soft-pedalling" that line of. talk lately, and have relaxed some of the rigorous discipline whereby the people were terrorized into subjection. But it still is not very .safe in Russia for anyone to criticize the Communist Party or refuse to obey its orders. Tnxtpst- to gain control of-the- ernment by a combination of votes and force. In Germany, a.s in Poland, Hung ary and Turkey, where dictators also rule, pe^les and governments sur rendered their powers to one man under the pressure of economic dis tress and social disorder with which the existing governments were un able to cope. The one-man power at once began to jnake hia power secure, by force and terrorism. We haven’t reached that stage in America, as yet. staple, produced 517 pounds lint per acre. Has any short staple cotton varie ties such a production? Has then ever been a short staple winning a first or second state prize wer must be no.. With these unquestionable facts, yet there are people who insist on the use of short staple varieties of cotton after so much work and effort has been used in improving the-qual- ity of cotton. One person in a com munity can gin mix seed sufficient to causQ^ the-other farmers to suffer considerlible loss in sales by using the undesirable varieties. Some farmers argue that short staple cotton brings j-ust as much on the market as de sirable staple. If this be true, then it appears-that the seller of the‘cot ton is not a good business salesman. Even if the argument were true as er. can’t be anything Agqin y^our a: mojre tfian No. Of ihe eight finwers ia the' five- acre contest last ^ear, they Averaged 576 pounds of linlf per acre of which all their staple was an inch or longer in length. - — ^ Mrs. Carrie B. Smith, Johnston, Eklgefield county, who won the 1936 five-acre cotton contest prize, pro duced^ 6,640 ^pounds of lint with 1 1-32 inch staple. Mr. P. M. Arant, Page- land, Chesterfield county, winner of second state prize, produced 6,265 pounds of lint with same staple length. ' Labor Tug Of War Centers In South why grow the 7-8 inch when the 15-16 or longer staple cotton will out produce the 7t8 inch? In the past years the cotton miiJs never needed or required cotton be yond 7-8 inch staple, but due to changing conditions, the mills are demanding staple cotton. Since this is true of the mills, then the plant breeders began breeding cotton for the de.sirable length of staple and at the same time increasing the yield until we have today varieties of cot ton producing of these desired quali ties. , A person connected with one of the cotton mills was talking a few days ago aibout the improvement in staple in this county. He stated that the mills could u.se cotton grown here^ and had rather buy locally than go w’est proviiled the desirable length of staple was produced. • There is one thing certain, no mill is going to buy cotton that cannot be manufactured into a profitable finish ed product. The growing of Tihort staple cotton is a good way tc^drjve eHocarihins''’buyers’‘”lrtt'(J^ west for their supplies. Why do this? Labor Foderation Opens Drive To Organize Textile Workers In Southern States.’ Anniston, Ala., April 27. — The American Federation of Labor opened a drive today on an opposition strong hold—cotton textiles—in its Soirthern * conflict with Jahn L. Lewis’ Commit-, tee for Industrial Organization, George Googe, ranking Southern officer of the A. F. of L., challenged the Lewis labor group in an address here before the Alabama Federation of-Labor, which had been “purged" of Lewis supporters on Googe’s instruc tion. Textile workers already are organ izing in many Southern mills under the Lewis banner as members of the United Textile Workers of America. Googe, emissary ih the South of A. «F. of L. President William Green, said organizers woul^ take, the field^ imm^iately in elartou call to- tW banner of the A. F. of L. and true Americanism.’’ Before delegates from Alabama craft imions, he con<^emped the “sit-' down and slow-down ^ strike,’’ and pledged the federation to work against “the subversive proponents of foreign ideals, imported from Mos cow, Berlin and the Ofient.” ‘The * time has arrived,’’ he said, “when the intergity or even the ex istence of American trade unionism, and of our American system of 'gov ernment, are at stake.’’ ' Discussing the textile organization drive, Googe said it would be made “by ^uthemers for Southerners.’* He said the federation planned to urge the 320,000 textile workers to come directly under the A. F. of L. . f WHAT DO . . . P. S. Jeanes DO? Fertilizer ETTWAN FERTILIZER The Oldest' Braitd In South Carolina. They use Fish Scrap, Cot ton Seed Meal, Blood, Ani mal Tankage ahd^ Other Organics. For Reliable, Satisfanory FERTILIZER See B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. Then grow varieties producing^ sta- ,ples usetl by local mill*. It can be done. There, is no question hut what real progress is being made is seen in theji^ fact that while in 1925 less than 20 per cent of South.Carolina: cotton wa-s 15-16 inch or longer, this percentage has risen to 94.7 per cent in 1936. Rtill a punit better, 72 per cent waa one inch or longer in ^6. Again ask yourself the. quMtion: AWill short sta ple cotton out-yield staple cotton?" J. R. Hall, Jr.,,fourth/grade, fourth /' place, Eunice WHelchcl, fifth grade, sixth place. / Bobbie Jean Carr, kizth grade, third place. Louise F^llis, .«eyenth grade, ninth place. \ - - In the-county/nigh school .spelling! conte.^t, .Julian Gardner of the ninth grade represented Joanna and w0n third place,-.While Bernice ;Whelchel of the .'«e/ventrt gra()e won third place in tlvir-gniminar grade spelling con test. Elizahct)j Willingham of the ninth grade wo^ first place in the high school e^^pression contest. /' Gray Funeral Home Clint 01^S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ••• and ••• EMBALMERS^ AmbiRknee Service Phones 41 and 399-J ‘ L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgrfc FASCISM — From Communism Fascism began in Italy as a means of suppressing Communism. Com munist doctrines had taken root in the army, the whole government service, and among workers, who not only organized “sit-down" strikes but took pos.session of factories and tried to run them. Money was scarce prices were rising, and general dis order- prevailed, with the Italian ]^:overnment doing nothing effective about it, __ A young newspaper editor of Milan, Benito Mussolini, began organizing loyal young Italians secretly into a group called “Fascisti," from the Latin word “fasces," meaning a bundle of rods. It took three full years to build an organization strong enough to be effective. Then, in October, 1922, the Fascists served notice on the Italian government that unless it proved, witl^in 48 hours, that it possessed authority over its own employees, the Fascist militia would march-mr'Rome. It was an alpiost bloodless affair, the Fasci.st march from Naples to Rome. Two or three Fascisti and fcuKS WHO KNOW OUR.L fEWAnONil^YOORMtAT^ / ALL* , WE HAVE WON a reputation for serving the pablic with meata whose purity and quality are beymid ques tion. You will be 'served in a manner that will appeal to your senae of valpes. We proaspUy ezeente orders. r COPELAND’S^ Meat Market PboM M a few rioting Communists were killed. The government resigned and the King of Italy sent for Mus solini and asked' him to form a new government. He has been the head of the government evw since, and the Dictator of Italy. MUSSOLINI *— Menaces Peace Mussolini started out with a 'well- thought-out scheme, to roatore law and order and put Italy on its eco nomic feet. One of his first acts was to send a financial commission to America, which negotiated a re duction in Italy’s war debt to us, and obta.ined «a bundred-mHlion- dollar government loan from Amer ican bank^. I was in Italy after Mussolini had been in Tjower two years, and was amazed at the evi dences of economic progress an j the general contentment’, of the ped- ! pie. Everybody was busy and cheer ful, and the beggars who used/ to I infest Italian cities had vanished. I Everybody, however, had to /order ! his life and business - according to {rules from above. I Mussolini was not oonteht to be boss of Italy. \ Power^'^bfro the de sire for more power. He/wants now to 'be the boss of the /whole ' Medi terranean, to restore old Roman Empire with himself as Caesars Fnma a stabilising force, he has baeome a menace to’'the peace of Europb and the world. The world thought pretty well of Mussolini so long as he confined his BUBBCBJBB TO THB GHROIllCI^ ’The Cohverrion of Citizens Building and Loan Association By Federal Charter To Federal Savings & Loan Association €)ur Motto for 28 Years — “Own Your Own Home” SAFBY of your investment insured up to $5000 LOANS Wp Have Funds Available for Loans for tlm Construcaon, Purchase or Re financing of Homes At 6 Per Cent, l^ect Reduction Loan^ INVESTMENTS I i i We offer attractive Investment Plans in Investment Sharek at $100 per share^^diyidends paid semi-annually, and regu- kr monthly installment shares payable $1.00 per share per month'n^th accumulated dividends added semi-annually. Al) present investors and borrowers will make the'skine monthly payments as heretofore, which wiU be doe between the 1st and 10th of each month. v ' > / We are NOW READY to receive applications for^ Loans and Investments, or give any further information. Citizins laditil Sinnut Lom Ass’i, Cl • (FORMERLY aTIZENS BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCUTION) No. 1 Broad Street / CLINTO)^, S. C. ^M. J. McFadden, President B. H. Boyd, Secretary-Treasurer J. P. Prather, Vice-President Miss Robbie Henderson, Asst. Secretaiy —“ > MARD OF DIRECTORS Phone No. 6 V. M. J. McFadden J. P. Prather / B.H. Boyd ^ iD. €. Heustess T. D. Copdand W. W. Harris r W. A. Moorhead S. W. Sumerei W. J. pqpcan ih ■4* \ Vi \ . / 4 ■a > ..-.iW,