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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
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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.
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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. Where thoe
is no love there is no interest. Were
there no interest we would fade
away into sordid nothingness.
Gray
Funeral Home
Clinton, S. C.
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