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\ ■••/ V ’ ■ '^j \ . ' ■, s.-'.- -• • * ' ■ s- • Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. / Thursdoy, April 10,1941 THE NATIONAL SCENE As'Washington Sees It . Special to The Chronicle. Washington, April 8. — Following on the heels of the signing of the largest lump-sum appropriation in the history of this country—the $7,- 000.000,000 defense bill — a record- breaking appropriation for the bene fit of farmers may be pushed through fongi'css. Favorable Teception of the senate appropriations committee’s request for a $1,340,610,822 farm grant, which is $445,000,000 higher than the president’s budget recommendation, indicates that many congressmen don't intend to do much scrimping on domestic expenditures to offset the huge appropriations for defense. The farm-aid bill may face a fight in the house, which already had ap proved a bill more in line with the president s recommendation. If the senate measure goes through, how ever. it will provide more than dou ble the amount suggested by the prc.'i'ident for “parity payments.’’ The president had asked $212,000,- 000 for parity payments to aim at A Little Child Led Them Aleundri* VbUUiio*. mge two. Is shown leadlnc 10,OM O^eek-AAier- icons as they paraded In New York City to celebrate the Utth anniver sary of Greek independence. The child wears the traditional kilted cos tume of the Evxones, Greece mountaineer fighters who have distlngnished themselves in warding oft the Italian invaders. pricing farm products so, that they'totaled over $14,000,000,000, it wjas would equal at least 75 per cent of'reported that 36 per cent went to the the purchasing power they equalled 1 federal government, 25 per cent to in the base period of 1909 to 1914.'state governments and 39 per cent But the farm bloc senators are at-ito local governments, tempting to attain .a “parity” ot near- i . "op^,Mntrot' the larger appropri-' ation areue that farth nrices Vndl^*°" ° ^ fpw fcvGclcs is the Droblem of strikes farm purchasing power will benefit bv the defense soending They savi*" ^hedefense industries and the ac- L i tivities of the new mediaUon board there is no justification for a record- breaking subsidy to farmers during a year when the treasury is being sub in coping with the strike situation. It is generally believed that the jected to the heaviest demands in our board doesn’t have enough history. power to do an effective job of deal- Proponents argue . that certain with_organize<J labor or with un groups of farmers are worse off than i^®®P®y^hve employers, since th e ever before because their export s only enforcement power is markets have been cut off. That is i>3sed on the rather intangible meth- why they have included in the bill a appealing to the patriotism of specific provision that a large portion those involved or seeking the pres- of payments be made to the worst sure of public opinion. These meth- sufferers — those who grow cotton,! ods may prove to be effective in wheat, corn, tobacco and rice. jmany instances, but are not thought Appropriating billions has become' enough to deal with large- more or less routine procedure in strikes. congress rcently. The office of pro- j Senators and representatives are duction management released a fig- becoming aroused over the situation ure of $39,800,000 as the amount of a result of floods of letters from authorized and proposed expendi- ‘ mothers of soldiers who can’t under- turcs for defense alone, but the fig- i stand why their sons arp forced to ure IS so astronomical that ordinary jmn the army at $21 a month when congressmen and officials seem al- j high-paid defense workers are per- most to ignore it, leaving it up to the mitted to refuse to produce neces- financial experts to work out. j sary equipment. Many congressmen also are influ- Above The Hullabaloo By Lytle Hull Smearer, debunker, destroyer, icon oclast, vandal, wrecker, devastator, extirpator, — they all mean more or less the same thing and they all have an unpleasant odor. The sneering invective of today’s smear boys aims at the same destructive principles as do the impudent whimsies of those half-baked, self-styled historian^ Notes From The Couniy Agenf's Office By C. B. CANNON, Cevily Agent who insult the intelligence of edu cated readers with their obvious ef forts to tear down the idols and ideals which serve as an incentive to young Americans to live decent and upright lives. The abuse of America, and of all things and persons American, does not ring very musically in the ears of most of us, for most of us are proud of our country and of its great achievements and of its outstanding men and womefi. And so it isn’t par ticularly pleasant to pick up a book by some American who discovers a century and a half later that our revolutionary armies were composed of “sprinters” and “milers” who won the War of Independence by so ex hausting the always pursuing British that the poor fellows had to return to England for a rest cure. We won- Farmen Treatliig OottoB Seed "V. E. Shealy, Clinton, Bonds Cross Road community, proved to himself last year it pays to treat cotton seed with Ceresan dust before planting. Mr. Shei^ly had never treated cotton seed before and planted a few teed not treated. At chopping time he had 38 plants per 100 feet as compared to 158 stalks on treated seed. At har vesting time there were 21 stalks per 100 feet on imtreated seed and 92 stalks per 100 feet on treated seed. Also there were 305 bolls of cotton per 100 feet on untreated seed as compared to 614 bolls (m treated seed or a yield of 650 pounds of seed cot ton per acre on untreated as com pared to 1311 pounds per acre on treated seed, stated C. B. Cannon, county agent. In further discussing seed treat ment, Mr. Cannon said good results were obtained with a few demonstra tions Conducted with Negro farmers. He pointed out that Sam Stoddard, colored, Owings community, pro duced at the rate of 746 poimds of seed cotton per acre 'on untreated seed as compared to 1183 pounds seed cotton per acre‘where he treat ed his cotton seed. “Never again do I expect to plapt my cotton seed with out first treating with Ceresan dust,” Stoddard said. In fact, Stoddard had' to plant his entire crop over except where he planted treated seed, Mr. Cannon said. Stoddard feels that be lost, at least, one bale of cotton by not treating his planting seed. Wilkes Shell, another colored farm er of the same community, on whose place a demonstration was held, showed he produced 1405 pounds of seed cotton per acre with untreated seed and 1936 pounds seeds cotton per acre where seed were treated. Shell’ states that his cotton from treated seed came up'and grew off faster than the cotton from untreated seed. In fact, the plants grew like nitrate of soda had been scattered over the land where treated seed were planted as compared to the un treated seed plants. Shell said in his conversation with County Agent Cannon while on the farm checking the demonstration. Farmers throuidiout the county are treating or have made arrangements to treat their planting seed this year. It is estimated that 80 to 95 per cent of all planting seed were treatbd last year in the county. Farmers should be careful not to feed or sell any left-over treated planting seed to oil mills due to be ing poison to livestock. Cannon cau tioned. SPECIAL OBVEB Readers Digest—If awths for IS. 21 montlis for Oflsr axfires Jane S9. Good only when ghren aothorlaed local agent. I^ot good when aeoi In direct Will appreciate yew baadnoM. JAMES W. CALDWELL Readers Digest Agent SUBSCRIBE TO I’HB CHRONICLE ■—— ' TYPEWRITERS Anthorised bnderwood OealM*. Cleaning and r^airing all makes, reasonable ehargsa. Kenneth N. Baker Phone SM 1921r-1940 Hngli L Eicfielberg er NEW YORK LIFE MAN . 19 Years Experience Profesnonal hisurance Information Furnished Free Member The National Association of Life Underwriters. FOR PERSPIRING FEET USE STA-DRI lo™n At Tour DmgftePs S5e Valuable background information ^nced by the polls of public opinion for planning new taxes was made j hy the InsUtute of Public public last week when the census bu-! Opinion under the direction of Dr. I (jer where he obtained his informa- reau released figures showing ^st week a Gallup )tion. These athletes weren’t recog- last year's tax assessments averaged! P°ii labor situation gave many nized at the time—in fact the chron approximately $410 per family, ot\°^ them new courage to support about one-fifth of the average fam- drastic labor legislation, if necessary, ily income. Of these taxes, which I the GallUp poll shOWB that If ,the mediation board can’t stop «Pirri&¥ civvvn [strikes, 72 per cent of voters favor a M'EL.iAi. forbidding strikes in defense in- Good Housekeeping. 2 years for I dustries. $4.00. Cosmopolitan, 2 years for $3.50. j Anti-strike sentiment was particu- JAMES W. CALDWELL j larly strong in the small towns and “Your Magazine Man” rural areas. iclers of that day gave our forefath- ^s a pretty fair rating. When we read the works of the so-called “debunkers,” we take no particular pride in the knowledge that the debunkers always seem to be American citizens and that Amer ica always seems to be the object of their debunking. Rather we feel a little shame when we realize that English and French and German and Spanish writers are inclined to eulo gize their national heroes—never to drag them through the mud of far fetched mutilations of fact. When one of our debunkers dis covers after a hundred and fifty years that George Washington was a man of unenviable character and of unattractive habits, we wonder meekly where this genius unearthed knowledge which was not possessed even by that great man’s family or friends or political opponents. Re markable fellows these debimkers, with a pnenomenal faculty for un-, earthing that which never was. When we are told by some pseudo historian that the greatness pf Abra- j ham Lincoln was a myth and that the hero whom we have been bt ught up to admire so greatly was just a second rate political bounder —we begin to wonder what state, in the process of evolution, we more or dinary folks have reached if our greatest men are just so much bo x' kum. How have we managed to feed ourselves all these years? How have we learned to read and write and wear clothes and play bridge and whist? How can a nation whose best human products are so mediocre, hope to stand up against a chap like Handsome Adolf Hitler? The answer is simple. It isn’t the American people who are out of .step; it isn’t that our national heroes can be justly removed from their pedestals. The great men of Ameri can history were just as magnificent as you were told in your school books —“debunking” to the contrary not withstanding. The patriots of today are loyal Americans who place their country first—“smearing” to the <?on- trary notwithstanding. The fault lies in the perverted minds of those who attempt to tear"* down and destroy the decent instincts and the glorious records which weld and hold togeth er, through justifiable pride, the peo ple of the United States. Tragic would be our fate if these destroyers were able to convince the American people of the rubbifh which they scribble. Where there is no pride in one’s country there is no love for one’s country. 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