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/ / /- Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 9, 1950 COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator but are there not thousands of teach'- R ec j U ce CrOD Disease |ers who are paid more than they really earn? By the way, do you LoSSCS By GOOQ ‘know what the pay of the teachers is, n„_ I or have we joined in a land chorus rrC-rlanting Practices without definite knowledge? Here is Do we receive a dollar in value something to help you form a con- rom the dollar we pay in taxes? elusion: A new teacher, fresh from reduce the severity of the disease is Some citizens receive much more college, with no experience, receives before the crop is planted, according han their tax dollar pays for; that about $175.00 a mo«4h—lor—nine to County Agenf C. s because the total of all the taxes months, in evenjsmali schools; cities Disease Notes” i>aid enables us to provide many pay much more. And this rises to s y ‘ 1 ect ncl Blant Disease Notes oublie services, such as schools, col- $285 a month for nine months in prepared by specialists of the Clem- eges. health-, police protection, and average schools. Even small town son plant disease and insect exten- Superintendents from sion work recognize this fact and m excellent system of public roads, schools pay The average man receives more than $275 to $350 a month, usually for stress the importance of disease-free le pays for. My question, however, twelve months, I’m told. seed stocks; of rotation as a valuable s just this: do we receive fifteen -p^e tendency is to compare teach- aid; and of the use of best resistant nillion dollars of public benefit from 0 jv S alaries with salaries in other varieties available. He points out ihe fifteen million dollar gasoline fj e ids. That overlooks many thous- that the following suggestions from lax 0 I'm not sure of the figures at an ^ s 0 f ca p a ble workers w'ho receive 1 these notes are brief and that fur- he moment, but the fifteen milion j ess p e fhaps everybody should join ther information on these subjects vill serve. The answer may be a union and have an annual strike.'may be secured from his office. .hat we receive fifteen million dol- The ma j or ity of people have, nobody Disease-Free Seed Stocks Important ars of construction, policing and S p ea ]< f or ’ them. Nor do ail young The importance of seed stocks as ■ rther service. 1 do not challenge i aw - V ers and physicians draw large nearly free from disease as possible nat; all the money is spent, honest- f ees ' However, get the facts in your cannot be over emphasized at this y spent, in public service. But be- own ' Court House; and then you can time. This warning applies to all ore we let ourselves be carried away think this out on the basis of the nursery stock, roots, bulbs, tubers pest control is a very important one. ! Rotation aids in the control, of sev- |eral soil-borne diseases, insects, ne matodes and weeds. Rotation is one .{of the cheapest means of controlling , ~ . .. . ! pests. No one rotation will suit all With many crops the best time to anc j f arm conditions in the S state; hence it behooves the farmer $ to know just which rotations work He r best on. his farm and in his locality. Rotation as means of controlling pests has its limitations. Use Best Resistant Varieties Available For a long time breeders nave sought to add high vith the idea of a cent, in additional f ac t s . We used to starve all the preach- and seed. This freedom from disease is secured in numerous ways. Prom- gasoline tax, let us inquire whether ■ hc n > onc >' i ” "rt"* used protiuc l 'oarn 1 i~! , ‘ *?“* «■>">«« the ye.* ?£ t, helpfully, necessarily. We iv<un , .. „, . ._ , .• ui ^.wv_r., a business that a man may be hon- it . C 2one l also we ’star- treatmerit > inspection, and growing st and faithfuP and industrious and ,' ,, ' f, ’ , ’ , seed in disease-free areas. Too much tified seed or nursery stock, seed not be the most efficient work- ved the teachers in order to keep them intellectually vigorous as well (stress cannot be placed on use of ft resistant seed ft ♦V LOANS! IF YOU HAVE MONEY TROUBLES BRING THEM TO US Clinton Loan & Inv. Co. ROOM 6, NATIONAL BANK BUILDING . North Broad Street — Clinton, S. C. — Upstairs PERSONAL — CONFIDENTIAL t A !?r t i e i r var * et jf s an 5 in many in- tmxtmwjmmsmmmmtHmttmKtmmsisxwminsxHmmHmmxmuvnxK: stances have been highly success ful. The work of the breeder is never finished because plants change and plant diseases change— new strains of diseases may develop and severely damage here-to-fore resistant plants. In making recom mendations for varieties, this factor of resistance is given due attention and many times the importance of disease resistance is taken for grant ed. _ ■i r. Wo m.ght study how the High- mem imeiieciudiiy 'i^ruus as , disease _f ree Irish and sweet potato! ” „ * as individually humble. I had thaD . . ay money is spent. ... * k .|8«ed stocks. Rotation Valuable Aid in Pest Control has several values and x i hence, and still retain the South Carolina has good roads; humility. R llt today we observe the: p . .• nr Highway Department builds and p av 0 f office-workers and we grow MclNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To Us for Best Materials and Workmanship. Kiimains the roads im a \ei> com- d j isa tj s fied. One trouble is that we' lend able degree o. ef.:cienc>. an } ha\e our mind on what somebody 1 aat attackib ave both if: "bn the contrary, I T *.• ♦# 1 . _ else is receiving. That is natural, appieeiation and tuend- w , 10 j s keeping an eye bn the regard for those in charge, both tax p aver o j mention him just cas- % <-''>mmiss;oners and the compe- ually / though j knovv that the t ax- h. exeuutnes. payer is the forgotten man. And why 1 throw my bomb straight out: why should he be remembered? What the Highway money being u.->ed to did the taxpayer ever do that earned ideri -ft erty street, move all the for him our consideration? Perhaps uitamgs on both—sides? It is- said y^ u can. answer that. Today all gov- 1 § nat this costing a million dollars, ernments are used, “used”, mind •*; d‘" not know whether the Legis- you. to tax all those who have, or ■dure authorized this, or whether ca!1 make, a dollar, so that the gov-1 ne Highway Commission undertook ernment—State, as well as Nation- m ois of its own choice; the point I al—may benevolently hand it out. j’j mke is that while we cry about There is a secret; more people have S mortage of Highway funds to get n0 f than have, so the politicians are $ be farmer out of the mud; and seeking to win. those who have not—, j| hile we cal! for more gasohnt taxes a—majority—by taking from those :*• i order to do more for the farmer, w h D h av e—or industriously earn— S' e spend a million dollars on a City; a nd bestowing it on those who have ft tree*. Of course one can defend not: or, like the .lilly, toil not. neith-18 mis: .t we had waited three years er do they spin. Yet’ they also flour- ft e might have had three million j s h as d0 es the lilly. ’ niore for those farmers in the mud.. Let us concede that some teachers ;'t The case cited is not the only in- are vinderpiaid: does that mean that ?| '.ancc of spending thousands of dol- a n teachers are underpaid? W& are ft .irs today that could be postponed spending money very freely; in fact, .-ever a I years, or postponed forever, j have an idea^thatwe should study Let us observe the approaches to our public service for the good of S me road to Beaufort, Port Royal the service, not as partisans. The ft nd Parris Island, leading out ot teachers are about as well organiz- j Highway 17. Instead of the road ed as a Labor Union and they make . icrely coming into or going from demands for all teachers. '7 it has a-long sweeping approach I repeat, if we would study what . om North and another from the becomes of our tax money and stop South: at least a mile or more of ex-!any practices that may not be wholly • ensive construction that could have necessary, we might find that we 1 een avoided so as to have money have sufficient money to correct "■ ‘or the farmers sunk in the mud. In those cases needing correction. Could mother county, instead of- coming; mraight to the main road the High way (some years ago) bought a 1 : ght-of-way paralelhng the present; i -ghway for about three miles, and ; aved it: now both roads are main- t :neri It certainly was not urgent.! • Now I notice a magnificent boule- vard running about five miles into V.'a’ferboro, though some miles of : at same highway are in need of t pan . Of course it is nice to do., , . . tne.-e things, and the money is bmebly .-pent, but why do sueh! t mg-.; bay when more urgent need.^ cannot be attended to 0 Again, com- . g from Charleston to Walterboro t vo ;.'a loads, not tar apart, have •< en onstructed' within the last two , < tm .-c years Why the haste? There. * ♦,* • ♦> ♦ * ♦> ♦> ♦> ♦ # • #* »#♦ • •# *♦ * # «» «v«v ♦♦ «#«««• ♦♦ ♦♦ i § Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Clinton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient ser vice, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount — from $1 up — opens an account. Each account is insured up to $5000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $15,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. 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But how many ■ (>ad> should a half-dozen farmers have, if both those parallel roads are oeces'.Ky Of course they may be -meful, what about alt the other me: wtro are buried in the mud? it y iv ..tie over the State you will ooserve that miles of roads sdem to be tore the special benefit of some voter ot special local influence; or, tne road may be for some kinsman. ; It i' said that these roads are farm- :o-market roads and have special political value. There may be at least; a grain of truth in that; but it is a grain comparable to the Biblical sto ry of the mustard seed, which though smallest of the seeds sprouts and makes a great tree. The only reason lor a State High- .vay Commission is to have a body to survey the State and act in the interest of the State as a whole. Ev en the Highway Commission tends to become ambitious opportunity for each Commissioner to serve his region, rather than to serv r e the whole State. It shows how soon we be come submerged in politics. The State Legislature should not meddle in the paving of roads; nor should the Commissioners become so local in their point of view as to be ambi tious contenders for their immediate Jerritory. All that I’ve been talking about is the present day idea of being “real istic”; but we should be more sound ly realistic if we served the whole State. We are spending - great sums of money on our schools and colleges, great sums when we consider the condition of South Carolina. I do not dissent from those who tell us that Massachusetts nad Virginia pay this or that: we must not try to spend on the scale of other people, though that is the commonest practice of the time. _ • We may well conclude that some NOT£ THESE STYLE LINES WELL. They're straight out o) the Btiick Riviera hook - and they cloak interiors that are roomy as much-higher-priced cars. 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