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Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE A Regular Chronide Feature Better Fish For Less Is Problem Facing Industry — . ■ ' • V Thursday, August 31, 1950 One Of Few Universal ly Used Products Of Home Still Handmade r By ROGER BABSON Gloucester, Mass.. Aug. 25- negro pupils while this year’s enroll- j ment is expected to be 280,000 white and 227,500 Negro pupils. The department expects 86,500 pu pils—36,000 white and 50,000 negro— i in the first grade. Approximately 4,- I am 500 white ^nd 10,000 negro pupils * gai n enjoying a vacation in the good ^ I citv where I was born. This city, { or 1949 50 ? ere re t al ^ ed from tru- ; built on a rocky island, is America's first g rade 0 , f the preceding year and, most famous fishing port. It is-also approximately the ^me percen age, a beautiful, healthy and prosperous ^ , ’ 1 ^ re t3ined in the 1950-51 first: city, famed by industries, artists and ^ rade ‘ , , , , tourists. I love all of Cape Ann. over-load of pupils per teach-; Fish is almost the only universally be somewhat decreased with, used product of vour home which 1^601 teachers, compared with 1<,- continues to be "hand-made.” You 006 durin S the past year. This is an are no longer wear- increase of 3.5 per cent, compared ing clothes made w ith a pupil increase of 2.9 percen'.^ bv hand: all the Between 1,200 and 1,500 of the teach- canned "oods used ers wi tl be “new”, meaning that they in your home aie di d n °t teach in the state public picked, processed schools last year. This includes those and canned by replacing teachers leaving the pro- machinerv. fession and those added because of Even the nriik you the-increase in enrollment. drink was taken! The steadily increasing enrollment' from the cow by is also being met materially with 17 machinery! Your new buildings to be used for the w. Babioa b reac j j s p ven a bet _ first time next month. In addition, ter illustration. The ground is it is estimated that 167 classrdoms | plowed, planted, cultivated and the have been added to existing biiild- grain harvested by automatic ma- mgs, and there has been considerable chinery. The grain is then dumped remodeling and renovating, into a mill and comes out the same The department estimates the cost baked and wrapped loaves you buy. of the coming school year at $65,000,- One more thought: Think what you 000- would pay for this newspaper if the • newsprint was now made by hand —— « it was 100 years ago’ COMMENTS ON men and things jr. a net. the fish are assorted by hand; Spectolf ; : e fish are headed and gu’tel by ! hand, fisn arc taken from t.;e boat A freat financial daily tells about r.u weighed by hand forks, f.lived building of suburbs and the y hand, packed by hand, etc. Some growth of business sections outside in any argument as to whether it keeps away flies or not; but I say I have seen no published article on! it, nor do I know of any scientific 1 grounds in the case. “The doctor was being put ‘on the spot’ by an inquiry, and that was i the best he could do. i “Then again we hear from Mr. L.i S. Wolfe, of the State Department j of Agriculture: j “Mr. Wolfe says he notices that the number of houses, with batches of cotton fastened to the screen doors is steadily increasing over the Cayce section of Lexington county and on | down towards Orangeburg; literally j dozens of homes, some large and j some small, have the cotton fastened to the screens. “In some cases, wads of cotton the size of a baseball, are attached to the center of the screen doors, both from and back. In other instances, small pieces of cotton, no larger than a 50 cents piece, are fastened over the screen door, as many as 5 to 6 in some cases. The cotton has not been treated with a chemical—it is just as it came from the field or the gin. And many people say it does and will keep flies from entering a house. “Agriculturalist Wolfe, who has devoted much of his life to study of pests and plant diseases, has his own theories as to the cause of the ef- ficancy of these wads of cotton. "I think there are two ways to ac count for the avoidance by flies of these doors protected by cotton balls,” he says. “One is this: The fly mistakes the cotton for some sort of fly catching moth, and so avoids it. “The second, and perhaps more plausible. The eye of the fly is said i to be microscopic. As it approaches a { doorway, the fly sees the tiny fibres extending from the wad of cotton and 1 thinks them a part of a spider’s web, and hence keeps away. “I have seen no scientific treat ment on this cotton on the screen door, but there are many people who are thoroughly convinced that such cotton will keep a home free * of flies.’ ‘This Piedmont country started early putting cotton on screen doors— and there is yet to be a fly reported on a screen door. m ‘‘However,” said an observer the other day, there are mighty few flies anywhere and I believe the dusting of cotton has put the fly out of bus iness.” THE CHRONICLE Completely Covets Clinton’s Area for Advertisers Trade . jtomatk ie ■>e machinery is used in con i’, h canning: but 90 percent i you eat are handled in a i i* \ery expensive In fact, ■ent rawiers . but tf trawler* probably destroy almost as > hia di msTiv f;»h as ever get to market. i for hi !condi lltifr Maale One ;jl!y u that xh e fish bu*- sumet * 4 tt PYttfai ft If i* MTf aa t by a large ! “Five number of inerfic:ent and iMiorlv fi- beyor .‘.unred v oncem*—no one of which neigh oif or r icn QtxoiAjLiX \o operate a ■RMj 1 modem plant and afford con tlnuous today the established centers, even far out beyond the towns. We. too, have seen i that. Mott of us expected Charleston to shrivel after the war; and Colum- of the Fort .'ould dry up business But the men f Charleston and the men of Colum- d not fold their hands and wait If the irge d it- Ions and started out to do j ung It is worth noting that points” in Columbia, and far 1 1 "Five-poinu”, even to the, orhood of the Fort, building ever stopped ‘F.ve-points” is a city by ttaeif. an up and do- ‘ tUe fish mg community of wide-awake bus- ; ng Rob- incMmen As for Charleston, all over 1 vessel the city, and across the Ashley Rtv- * auto- or, and ‘‘up the road**, to and be- ive one yond North Charleston, everybody Her fish is busy Sumter is building In all di- the na- rections. also, even a couple of miles i would out of town, going West as wed a» r would South. nan ai- nkruptcy Yet. stry has great Many 1. The ocean r mu: buy ■y tru.y ca a ages unc fact, very ide m >ne) ost have < potentially I possibilities. Advantage* is free to all. A far- land and pay taxes pres- 2ISA n the led in le m- Sot jth Carolina is tel tin ig the world ■fl T advantage* I d len t know how this s late cum* i with some others. OL it H ere i§ one State is proclai ml lit f Ka» 1. Its growth since mo Poi MISBSMMI , up 81% Rei mil Seisf$..... # Ind lividu*! Income .... « up s»U 1 . c Elf etric Power —r a»s# I < nk Resources up 264% Pos ital Receipts . .. up 116% Pei Capita Sa\ mgs up 214% No Business l*hones .... up 102% Re* lidential Phones .. . up 169% Air to Registrat.qns up 49% Rei »enue Collections ... up 707% Lif e Insurance ........ up 155% Inc ome from Livestock up 235% Wa ges and salaries .... up 220% New Construction up 231% 2 Fish are the only “livestock” wnirh do not need raising and feed- Blessed by a matchless climate and! occupying an ideal location. x “What a Manufacturing Plant Em-I ploying 150 men means to a com-! munity: A plant investment of $100,- 000; an annual payroll of $200,000;' a dozen stores; the support to! a ‘"7 u | thJusar.'i neople; a ten room scnoclj A nole sal. water fi» are t. c house; sales and service for 200 cars;, m,: perfect and complete food pro- public improvements; $60,000 annual-! ’•‘;“ 3 l 4 e ' . .. , . ly for the railroads; yearly markets 4 Fish bull as up our orains; and for $300 000 in ?gricultural art(? oth _ Drains today that make our fam- er farm prodccts; a taxable vahla _, ...es goo earners. ^ on 0 j a million dollars; an annual d Due o rains and winds, our expenditure in trade of a million dol- , soils and tneir products of grains, j ars >» ?°7, ab if S - and . li T! OC f V* f° n ‘ That is something I've read in an' rtantly being reduced in food values, advertisement of a great Utility to .«ry day the equivalent of 200 ter- their customers al but the / 0m _ | ,y acre farms, with their vitamins muni as a who|) , enormous , y and minerals, are washed down nv- more , han th( . m J ers into the sea. Millions ol bags of , tj „ d this interesting, don't fertilizer and the human waste and you 7 garbage from city sewers are like-, m wise washed into the sea. Hence, the p-y * ... . ocean products of fish, lobster andj^Yliy L/O0S Al WcXQ Ol other sea foods are constantly be- ^ ^ » coming richer, while grain, vegeta- OOltOIl Oil i)CrC0Il bies, poultry, eggs, etc., may con- -- ^ ' stantly be getting poorer. The time IvCCD AWStV FllCS; is perhaps coming when your descen-, * dants must regularly depend upon Will a little wad of cotton on a lish for proteins and minerals. The screen door keep the flies away? fishing industry is the hope of man- There are many people in the coun- k:nd; it needs only capital and Un- ty as well as all over the state who ited Nations supervision. Yet our think so as is evidenced by the fact government spends only one dollar that such wads can be seen on screen to protect., our fisheries for each % one doors all over the county, i.uiidred dollars to help agriculture.* Just how and why the cotton keeps ( flies away is what is, puzzling all of School Enrollment the entorn<)1(> * i * t »- jinuui tui wimiciu The following , article from the For State Will Spartanburg Herald on the subject will be read with interest: “So the director of the department of the South Carolina State board of Special to The Chronicle. health,.the specialists on preventa- Columbia, Aug. 28—total public ble diseases, does not do a bit better school enrollment of SOT.fJOfl for the than the National Cotton Council and school year beginning next month, all the entomologists, who have compared with 493,091 during the i passed the buck, on why a little wad 1949-50 school year, is predicted by of cotton keeps a fly away from a the department of education. , screen door. Last year’s enrollment was com-* “Dr. G. E. McDaniel tells R. E. poaed of 271,875 white and 221,218 Grier, of The State: “I am not getting Reach 507,500 Mark Repeated By Popular Demand! * t $1.00 DOWN $1.00 WEEKLY A *14” VA1UE * YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE IT POSSIBLE TO OFFER THIS GREAT VALUE • >! A f Sit IT TO DAK -.VI U. S. A. COPYRIGHTED 1948 t \ i i A CREDIT TO SOUTH CAROLINA K 4 )