The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 31, 1950, Image 16
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
A Regular Chronide Feature
Better Fish For Less Is
Problem Facing Industry
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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
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nkruptcy Yet.
stry has great
Many
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buy
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possibilities.
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is free to all. A far-
land and pay taxes
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one State is proclai
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1. Its growth since
mo
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MISBSMMI ,
up
81%
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lividu*! Income .... «
up
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Elf
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up
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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
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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!
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$1.00 DOWN
$1.00 WEEKLY
A *14” VA1UE
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YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE
IT POSSIBLE TO OFFER
THIS GREAT VALUE
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Sit IT TO DAK
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