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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
Thursday, June 10,1943
QItjp (Clinton (Chrontrlr
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CLINTON, S. C., THl'RSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943
There Is A Difference
' heaveh may we expect when the war
I is over and we get back to normal
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who | conc mj ons ?
returned some time ago frotn his (
gruelling experience in the South,i
Seas and his inspection of fighting
fronts, has been telling the American i
Father's Day
(Editorial by Cadet Joseph J. Car-
people some things they need to hear bine, assistant editor of Wing Spread,
in connection with production prob-, Publication of the 39th College Train-
lems. Members of the administration t i n S Detachment at Presbyterian col
and Congress have not had the cbur- lege. Re-published as guest editorial
age to speak plainly as has this dis-1 by Th e Chronicle).
tingushecj citizen. He has told us that!
if the spldiers could be transferred
from the hell holes they occupy on
the battlefronts, to our factories, and
if the employes in the factories could
be transferred to the batlefronts, pro
duction in this country would double
in thirty days.
Captain Rickenbacker has empha
"Meet the People..
(Each week in this spac* will b* presented a picture
of somaona whoae nan* ia aawa.)
and word portrait
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John L. Lewis
• Bushy haired, heavy browed, broad shoul
dered John Llewellyn Lewis has spent most of
his 63 years fighting brilliant battles to unite
all workers in an industry into one big union
for that Industry regardless of the type of
work done. This goal has made the labor lead
er enemies who have found him savage yet
skillful, dictatorial yet sympathetic, and
rough yet dignified.
eHe is no white collar leader. He was only a
boy of 12 when he went to work in the mines
where he labored for 15 years. His first union
distinction came in 1909 when he was elected
a legislative agent of the United Mine Work
ers. Later he became president of the UMW.
•Under the labor protecting clauses of the
NRA, Lewis revitalized his miners’ union and
strongly campaigned for his vertical union
plan. Meeting discouragement, he broke
with the AFL, taking with him nine other
AFL leaders and 1,000,000 wage earners who
formed the CIO. These two organizations have
been irreconcilable.
• Lewis also broke with other heads of the
CIO and has tossed a bombshell into labor
circles by applying to the AFL for readmis-
sion of his United Mine Workers.
weal and woe, cotton was fetching
. |5c a pound. A big plug of tobacco
In another week we win again, Tray) was being sold for 10c.
Ivave the occasion to send a message i ron wedges and gluts were made at
home that will bring great happiness j Cotton clothes were the style,
to a person who haS 'been our best
friend and pal for many, many years
—Dad!
To many fellows. Dad presents
but jeans britches were common
among common people. Clevises and!
heel bolts were home-made, and the
turn plow had not made its debut.
Nearly every family owned two mon
grel dogs. Rabbit was our principal
quite a unique picture. Some have
sized that nothing the people in this ! too often looked upon him as that
country can do will in any measure fellow who could be quickly wired meat.
equal what the boys in the battle ; whenever there was need for a week- !
lines are doing. They don’t get over-, end $25 — or the man who never j Preaching was held every third
time pay and they work day and seemed to understand why we should Saturday and Sunday in each month,
night if necessary. be allowed to stay out until the sun i A good hired man was paid $6.00
The people agree-with this plain j had yawned and streached itself for
speaking gentleman. We are doing the start of a new day.
Ijtlle at home in comparison to what | Dad has always been the one toj
per month and his board. Cotton
choppers were satisfied with 30c a
day and dinner. Log-rollings and
and corn-shuck-
a nerve-wracking one. The tempera
ture, which had been 92, had sudden
ly dropped to 84. The chicks seemed
to sense and protest the strange ar
chitecture of their new quarters. They
picked at the litter instead of at their
food. Every peep sounded like the
danger peep. All kinds of questions
arose to which I had no answer.
With the feeling of helplessness
which a doctor must experience
when he leaves a patient suffering
from an unknown disease, I went to
bed trying to appear deaf to the
plaintive peeps which followed me up
the stairs.
But next morning my dreams of
big, healthy chickens soared. For,
to my amazement, I .was greeted
in the cellar by 25 live, chirping
our young men in the front lines are w0 'rry whenever trouble would ap-! house “kivverings” ^ __
called upon to lace. Battle stations p ear b e f 0 re us—and we never noticed 1 * n g s were common as flies in season. | c f 1 i c i CSi tumbling over one another
are where the bullets fly and men the fast-appearing gray hairs that . Window screens had not arrived , to jin their enjoyment of their food.
are dying; where men work as long ! we caused. He has been a real sports-I P ush fly-minders and fly-brushes into|
as there is something to do; where mani taking chances on us with his 1 oblivion. Ma and the girls did all of EXPEDIENT — Heat
orders are obeyed; where strikes are time and money, when he had no the cooking, washing and ironing, 1
and worked in the fields, too.
And now, with the authority which
comes only from experience, I am
Men and boys had to work on the ready to tell all would-be chicken
public roads 3 days each and every! ra i sers that a brooder, built of an
year. They received their summons i old piece of tin, ah electric light
utiawed: where overtime pay and 1 g uarante e at all that we would make
profits are not an issue; and where 1 g 00f { He is surely backing us to the
the perpetuation of liberty and free- ii m it in this great adventure that we
dom tor the indivdual are the guid- are about to enter upon—strengthen
ing stars. i n g us bis own courage and de- - - ...............
termination to make the United from a baili ff. and woe unto the guy; bulb and a torn tablecloth is a chick-
Hoover And FBI States a victorious nation. , that laid out. Lumber was cut and, en s, idea of heaven
rru nl , U K , Voc fiqH will Ko Htfhti,,* fh J sawed for 30c per hundred feet. Ceil-; It is true that this device doesn t
The Chronicle has before said that \es Dad w ill be fighting on the ^ ing and glass windows were almost give chicks the gradual reduction of
every American citizen should thank front line in this war, his thoughts, 1 minus j n mos t houses. Nobody ever temperature which the books say
God for J. Edgar Hoover and his FBU his hopes, and his prayers will be
dreamed of closing doors and win-1 they must have, but this very lack
Watkins Warns Of
More Feed Shortages
Clemson, June 6.—The following
solemn news comes from Director D.
W. Watkins of the Clemson extension
service:
“In Washington last week I was
impressed with the possibility of a
continuing feed shortage and a strong
probability that the Southeast would
not be able to import from (he Mid
west the usual amounts of corn and
other grain feeds for our increased
livestock production.
“Most of the counties in this state
had gotten to the point that they had
a pretty good balance between feed
production and feed needs, and some
of them even exported a lot of feed-
stuffs. But the vast increase of live
stock and poultry for war needs has
grown faster than the corresponding
production of feeds. Therefore the
prospective continued shortage of im
ported feeds presents a real problem
here at this time.
“Indications are 'tnat farms have
made larger plantings of feedstuffs,
but hardly enough to take care of the
increased numbers of livestock and
poultry for the year ahead. It is too
late now to plant more of certain
things. But every effort should be
made to increase such things as hay,
sweet potatoes, and temporary graz
ing crops that can still be planted.
It is a very real situation that faces
the livestock farmer, not only here,
but all over the country—the needs
for feedstuffs have grown faster than
the production of if
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organization, both in peace and war- ever with us as we enter into battle, j dowg in the w j n t er _ti me to keep the seemed to bring out their resource
timc /°tv, he haS i cold out and the heat in. Why, we, fulness and, as a consequence, the
The key figure in a Nazi spy ring t bra' e u a soldier to the coun-; didn , t know these things had any j intelligence level of my chicks un
operating in this country was caught! 11 ^ tnat ne loves, Knowing that he jeffect Qn the fire . n the fi rep i ace doubtedly exceeds the brain-power
a few days ago when a Cohnecticut ma y never see bim again. !of those who have everything done
aircraft photographer, became sus-l No ° ne fan ^ eny . the ! Foot peddlers with small notions for them. For, after discovering that
picious of an unusually large order th ese .ew thoughts about Dad, and and tin w j t h quart cups,, the heat was not being regulated,
— for 250 aerial photographs—and re-beny uiat we arejndebt- pi e . p i ateSi dishpans and so forth, I instead of simply curling up to die,
ported the order to the FBI.
Another dangerous enemy
P. 0. Inaugurates
New Zone Plan
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Postmaster R. L. Plaxico said yes
terday that the post office depart
ment was inaugurating a new zone
plan to save time ih the delivery of
mail. The zones are to be established
in the larger cities first, he said, and
will be extended according to" its
success.
Under the plan, he said, cities will
be divided into mail zones. Firms
and persons living in those zones
will be expected to list the zone they
are in on their letter heads or advise
their correspondents in some other
way. The correspondents are suppos
ed to place the zone number along
with the street address.
The post office department, he said,
hopes to facilitate the delivery of
mail by use of the plan.
SAY, “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON
ICLE/' THANK YOU.
ted to him beyond the possibility of
alien repayment. But, fortunately for us,
were plentiful. They would spend the my chicks resorted to the very sen
night with you and for their bed andlsible expedient of moving close to the
was rounded up when an old lady we have the opporunity to make some; board you wou i d pro bably be given | heat if they were cold and away from
on the Pacific coast reported to the retribution to him—we can send Da< J a nttle 1c flowered handkerchief for;it" if they were hot.
FBI that a young man of her ac- a Fathers Day message that willi each of the kic j s 0nly half of the | i n 0 t her ways t oo, the chicks had
quaintance had no visible job but t>r ‘ ng great happiness to him, and; ngsters wore s hoes a fifth of the to adapt themselves to my lack of
always had plenty of money
Last year more than 218,000 people
reported what they considered sus
picious activities to this on-the-job
organization. As a result, foreign
agents haven’t been able to get away
with a single case of sabotage in this
country since the war began.
Recently, Mr. Hoover, head of the
FBI, issued an urgent request that
every American citizen consider him-
seli an indivdual listening-post and
be more vigilant, than ever, reporting!
which will become one of his mos\
'treasured possessions.
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By GEE McGEE
Prominent Flal Rock Citizen
- Seriously Injured j
anything that amuses his suspicions^ flat r °c k la st satturday p.n^mrs. ho1 - fQDAY . . . TOMORROW
He said that a new crop ot saboteurs sum was cutting some stove- (
is being trained by the Nazis and wood in the backyard, she heaved the gy Don RobidSOn
everyone must cooperate if our na- ax ^ P re tty hard towards the last stick
lion’s remarkable record is to be *° be cut, and the said axe flew off
continued - the axe-handle and cut the hammock
This means that when — ^ loose from the back-porch and it fell
have suspicions about
. time. There were three mod^s of equipment and my lack of knowl-
I travel: wagon, mule-back and walk- edge of the rudiments of chicken
ing. Children obeyed their parents, raising. But now, at the ripe age of
;You were disgraced if your shirt- three weeks, they are all big, strong
tail poked ~ out. Ma or one of the and heathy and I can announce to
younguns sat in the room while “sis- | anyone who is listening that chicken
ter” was being courted. Folks were raising is a cinch. Or was that loud
neighborly and rumor^ were scarce, peep I just heard coming from the
But we have outgrown all of the cellar the danger signal?
things enumerated above. j ^
POISONED COTTON
REDUCES WEEVILS
Clemson, June 5.—The South Caro-
i lina farmer who poisons his cotton
I against boll weevil damage will us-
j ually be well repaid in increased
yields and greater profits, according
CHICKS —Care ^
any of us u‘ ,VJ baby chicks I ever raised resu its as revealed in the state
person or , the floor and a s her husband, hon. I are now three, weeks old and, with fiv e-acre cotton contest conducted by
1V.7W.-5 awwui a pci SWII i I . . , ' WVC-CICIC CVSIWJW v.wwtcot VWIIWWC
persons it is our duty to quickly and . s . T 0 ]? 16 w'i aS ^ a ^ ee,J m , ^6 new-born confidence of a young clemson extension service.
quietly tell them to the FBI.
Doing Incalculable Harm
The American public long ago lost 1
all patience with the.continued stop- a
pages in the war industries
been
same, he fell and landed on a empty mother who has kept a child alive, .
,beer bottle under him and then roll- through that first perilous month of t£ c „„te S , £ow Z for
its existence, I am ready to give
ed out of the pi-azza onto the ground.
t ^ l a .vw, f° ur years—1939-1942—on those.plots
friends, neighbors and readers the ,
mr. moore’s spinal collum struck | real loW-down on successful father- P oi soned the. average yield was
iron chicken troff which was on i j ne 0 f i n f an t noultrv l®I g pounds of lint cotton per acre,
but has the ground and mrs. moore says she !. . . „ . , , , . increasing yields for one or more
able to do nothing about it. The: is a-feared he busted one of his ver-! , Never having been close to a baby ; phoning,; up to 678 pounds for three
bl
ame for the growing menace is in] tebrates which mought fetch on pa-jj*^ pJental ’duUes 1 necS- and 71 ° P0UndS f ° r SeVen
jralysis. he was toted in the house by
Washington.
The American public has sons'■ | ov 1 vdng bands and he has laid in the
fighting and dying at the front. The ^ ewer since as soon "as he was
American public is beginning jo' a bl.eto talk he had his wife go down
blame all union labor for the stop-i* 0 ,^ 6 drug stoar and foam the cas-
pages which of necessity raise the I ua ^ty and axcident insurance agent at
the county seat of his calamity so’s
he would be put on notice to begin
paying off at once.
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poisonings.
Increases in yields as a result of
poisoning were greatest, as might be
expected, in the lower district; name-
death toll among their boys.
Is there no way for a patriotic
union worker to work for his coun
try if he wants to? Must he be com
pelled to stand by and allow a minor
sary to give these queer little balls
of yellow fluff a fighting chance to
grow up to be good-sized Sunday
dinners. The more I read, the more . . . .
miraculous it seemed that chickens ly. fromanaverageo^S pounds per
ever survived those first few weeks.
Pamphlets from the department
of agriculture and the feed stores
painted a black picture. They wam-
mr. moore will certainly be ill and
possibly laid up for 12 months, his
ity tc preveht him from performing poUicy kivers only 12 months at 15$
the sacred duties which he owes his, per week and we< think he is hurt
country and his family? Is there no bad. he says he newer intends
way that he as a member of a union to let his wife cut wood that close to
which has agreed with the United the house a g ain . had he not benn
States government to forego strikes sound asl e e p 0 r somewhat comma-
while this nation is fighting this tose, he could of dodged the piece of
lightening war—can force his union flyin g wood) but when he come to
to live up to this sacred agreement? ! hisself he was lying on his back in j change of peep demanded quick in
Few people even remember the t h e chicken troff with both of his
hands on his misery.
acre with no poisoning to 614 pounds
for three poisonings and 755 pounds
for seven poisonings.
In the middle district, average
yields rose from 596 pounds with no
ed that death lurked in every corner poisoning to 723 pounds with three
—that the brooder temperature must poisonings and 718 pounds with seven
not vary more than a degree from;
day to day that water temperature j In the upper district, average yields
must be guarded, that the chicks we re 662 pounds with no poisonings,
were apt to acquire all sorts of hor- 559 pounds wih three poisonings^, and
rible maladies on the slightest pro
vocation, that one kind of “peep”
meant the chicks were cold, another
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J. R. Crawford
Clinton
518 pounds with seven poisonings.
From the contest records it is ap'
parent that poisoning pays best in the
meant they were hungry and^ any;i ower p ar t 0 f tb e state where weevil
infestation is greatest. Irregularity of
great strike in the German munitions
plants in the First World war. But
this strike—which was put down al
most overnight by gunfire—was the
“morale-buster” which started Ger
many toward defeat and bolstered
if the insurance agent do not come
across at once with his 15$ a week
liar-bility, mr. moore says he will
sue all the way from the maggistrate
the wavering confidence of the Allies, j thru the suppreme coart. he is sure
These continued strikes here can so,he paid the insurance premium be-
foar it lapsed last month, he handed
the agent the cash, so he says—and
he therefoar has not receipt for the
premium, supper was late that night,
and so was dr. green, everboddy
hopes that mr. moor^ will be up and
about after the company quits paying
out. _
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
undermine our morale and can so
bolster the morale of our enemies
that we can lose this war. Do the
little minorities who cause strikes
realize this—or do they defiantly re
fuse to use their brains to think?
Our chief concern is to end this
war in the shortest time possible.
This calls for putting into this strtig-
gle everything we’ve got. There must
come an end to the spreading wild
cat strike peril. If the Washington
administration is helpless to cope
with the situation now while we are
at war up to our necks—what in high
I Hove Cheeked Up On These
Things
When I arrived in this old world of
vestigation of the trouble. _ j results is greatest in the upper dis-
After looking over the make-shift j trict. The differences in results of
brooder I had erected on top of an j poisoning are influenced by the de-
old desk in the cellar—just a piece gree 0 f infestation and damage be-
of tin with a 100-watt bulb in thejf ore application of poison. Some
top, an old tablecloth cut in rib-|f armer8 may have waiited until too
bons hanging over the sides, and a
piece of wire screening the edge of
the desk—I saw little hope or my
chicks winning out in the battle for
survival wth those pampered chicks
which have fancy brooder houses,
thermostatic '* temperature control,
elaborate feed hoppers and the ex
perienced guidance of farmers who
know all the answers.
TEMPERATURE — Peeps
But, urged on by a desperate de
sire to prove to myself that I could
raise chickens as^ well as the next
fellow, I bought 25 day-old, chicks
and prayed.
The night they ware installed was
much damage was done before they
poisoned the weeviL Other fanners
may have poisoned when infestation
showed no real need of poisoning.
Certain. it4s that these results show
that poison properly applied at the
right stage of weevil infestation is
worth in yields and dollars much
more than the cost of materials and
labor.
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