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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 2, 1950
Number 44
By J. M. ELEAZER.
Clemson Colleye Extension Infor
mation Specialist
Something New
Congress has enacted a partial so
cial security law for farm workers.
It is to go into effect on January 1,
1951. It does not apply to the farm
operator nor to tenants. Only to hired
laborers.
In order to become eligible, a
worker must work steadily for 3
months. And that can be the last
3 months of 1950. During that period,
no social security tax is paid. That
simply makes him eligible for cover
age under the act. Then the tax of
3 percent of the wage would start on
January 1, 1951. The worker and
the farmer each pays half of that and
the farmer is responsible for paying
it to the government, just as in other
cases already.
Then, after a worker establishes
his eligibility by having worked for
the same farmer for one-quarter of
a year, he must participate. Then
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after that a worker must be employ
ed at least 60 days and r.eceive at
least $50 cash payment per quarter
to remain eligible.
Retirement age under this is 65.
One whose monthly wage has aver
aged $50 will then get -$25 per
month. (And payments are graduated
from that for higher pay. For in
stance the worker who has received
an average of $100 per month will
retire at $50 a month.
Now, folks, I’m no amhority on
this. And please don’t write me for
further information. I’ve just given
this brief outline as I heard it. Ap
propriate agencies will surely be set
up to handle and answer your ques
tions. I just thought you’d be in
terested in knowing what was com
ing. ^nd I think I’ve given you the
gist of it above. There are many
minor ramifications.
Grazing in Lexington
County Agent Evans of Lexington
says: “The excellent grazing crops
of the past two years have greatly
stimulated interest in more and bet
ter pastures and grazing crops.”
And that is the story everywhere
I go in South Carolina. A large seed-
man told me he had sold over three
times the seed for both temporary
and permanent winter grazing this
fall than he had ever before. Yes,
that Blanket of Green grows over
more and more of the former bare
lands of South Carolina.
Better Meal and Grits
The Bureau of Human Nutrition
in Washington gets out a little pub
lication called “Nutrition News Let
ter”. In the September issue it says:
“South Carolina has an active Nu
trition Committee of 54 members re
presenting all professional and civic
organizations within the state inter
ested in nutrition and related fields.
Originally appointed in 1950 by the
president of Clemson college the com
mittee was reappointed and enlarged
by the Gdvernor in 1941. D. W. Wat
kins, director of the South Carolina
Extension Service, was appointed the
chairman and because of his able
leadership the committee has re
quested that he continue to serve as
chairman.”
Dr. E. J. Lease of Clemson work
ed out the method for enriching coru
meal and grits, and the committee
got right after a project that would
bring its benefits to the people of the
state. The result was the corn prod
ucts enrichment law that the legis
lature passed several years ago.
Much of the committee’s work has
been educational, getting the folks
of the state to appreciate what they
had in corn products enrichment and
to get a widespread demand for and
use ot the improved products.
Since this work started here Ala
bama, Mississippi, North Carolina,
and Georgia have passed similar en
richment legislation. And thus the
folks in the heavy corn-eating area
of the country are being better nour
ished by the application of this bit
of science to an old food product.
Clemson’s L. W. Johnson works
through the county agents with the
millers and farmers on the produc
tion of better enriched meal and
grits, and Miss Janie McDill, exten
sion nutritionist, works with the
housewives through the local home
agents to the end of getting better
use o( these improved foods.
Signs Of The Season
Wooly brown worms humping it
fast across the road. Wonder where
they are going in such a hurry. Ne
ver see ’em except at this season.
Scattering to spend the winter, no
doubt. Better to preserve their kind
that way, who knows? For there is
much wisdom in nature.
Sluggish wasps too flying clumsily
around buildings. The cold has num
bed them and they too are seeking a
safe place to’winter, I guess.
Boys Are That Way
We always got sugar by the bar
rel. One barrel a year usually did
us. I think it weighed something like
300 pounds. We kept it in a dark
corner of a closet in our parents’
bedroom. I think the reason they put
it there was so we wouldn’t see it.
Then we wouldn’t think to bother
it very often.
But back there in the stone hills
of the Dutch Fork, candy was far
from plentiful. And they had to
watch us about eating sugar. We
would often get it from the sugar
dish there on the table, but were told
to stay out of that closet. Aside from
eating too much of it, we would spill
it on the floor and you know what
a mess that makes. And sugar is
one of the easiest things to spill
anyway.
At times the sugar dish was empty,
and we had the strong urge for
something sweet. Then we watched
for our chance to slip in the closet
to the iugar barrel. If the folks were
too near, I would get a handful, hide
behind the hanging clothes, and eat
it in there. But the tell-tale crack
ling of sugar on the floor would soon
thereafter betray my act. That stuff
just would spill, no matter how care
ful I was.
One day I slipped in there and
reached down in the dark for some
sugar. I got hold of a lump. I
thought that It wouldn’t spill so bad
and maybe I’d get by. I lit into eat
ing it. It was the nastiest thing I
ever tasted. That broke me from
Bobson Sees Market
'Considerably Lower'
Wellesley Hills, Mass, Nov. 1—Eco
nomist Roger W. Babson, who pre
dicted the 1929 stock market crash,
said here the market may go “con
siderably lower.”
Comjnenting on Thursday’s break
which wiped $2,000,000,000 from the
valuve of all listed shares, he
said:
“The break . . . was not especially
due to President Truman’s reported
plan to call a special session of Con
gress. A meeting of Congress one
week earlier is not at all important.
“The real reason for the break is
that people are gradually coming to
understand that we cannot get some
thing for nothing in this country. As j
this basic economic factor is more t
generally understood the market will |
go considerably lower.”
Mr. Babson said “business appears
prosperous now, but we’re just pul
ling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
eating it in the dark. I never under
stood then vyhat the trouble was.
But I have since figured that a cat
had been in-there.
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
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