The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 26, 1951, Image 23
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Thursday, April 26, 1951
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Jacobs Opens Place
Business In City
Jacobs who has been em
ployed in Tallahassee, Fla., for
some time has returned to the city
and opened a place of business on
Broad street opposite The Chron
icle office. The building inside and
out has been given a face “lifting”
and presents a new appearance.
Theownr announces a cash prize in
today’s paper to the person select
ing the best name for the business
to be announed May 3.
Birth Announcements
GROGAN
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Grogan an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Margaret Anne, on April 21 at Hays
hospital. Mrs. Grogan is the for
mer Miss Minnie Norwood.
MacArthur Story In
Chronicle Feature Today
year and one of the biggest news
breaks since the end of World War
II.
volved in the controversy.
This story, incidentally, is writ-
, ten so that it will “stand up” for
♦ ' i Th Chronicle today carries a ,, „ . , J
The dismissal of General MacAr-! special illustrated feature story on! 1 u. k., eg die*
thur from his command by Presi-,this epic event which examines andl°f what further developments occur
dent Truman is the story of the analyzes some of the factors in- 1 in the MacArthur case.
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Social Secority Ad
Covers Farm Workers
Hall-Million Eligible
For Insurance Benefits
As of January 1, about 500,000
regularly employed workers on
farms and in farm households be
came eligible for social security.
This means they became eligible
for the first time for old-age-in
surance benefits—pensions—and for
benefits paid to survivors if a wage
i earner dies.
Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social
Security administration said the
new program covers anyone wjio
does planting, cultivating, or har
vesting of crops; raises or tends
livestock, bees, or fur-bearing ani
mals; prepares, processes, or deliv
ers crops or livestock to market
Return in Relation
To Feed Cost Down
Beef, Hogs, Sheep Show
Highest Feed-Cost Gain
The nation’s farmers are not mak
ing as much from each dollar
spent for feed as they have in the
past few years. In fact, the return
for each dollar spent for feed in
the production of eggs and milk is
below the 1935-39 average,
For each dollar of feed the farm
er spent in the production of hogs,
cattle and sheep, however, return
is higher than the 1935-39 average.
In the production of eggs the
farmers received $1.72 for each dol
lar spent on feed during 1935-39.
But as of September, 1950, he was
receiving only $1.56. The amount of
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A total of 500,000 farm work
ers became eligible for social
security benefits with the ex
tension of the Social Security
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or storage; cooks or does other
' household work, on farms, or does ,
their general farm work. However, >
each worker must “qualify” first. !
Farm owners or operators are
not covered. Wages paid by an em
ployer to his children under 21 do
not count, nor do other payments
within a family.
Altmeyer said employers of farm
workers covered by the extension of
the law should get instructions from
their local collectors of internal
, revenue concerning when payments !
should be made and methods for
' keeping records.
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Disaster Relief Program
For Farmers Expanding
The government announced ro-
cRntly that the simple relief meas- j
ure started in 1949 to aid mow-
bound ranchers in the west has
mushroomed into a tremendous I
I business. It has grown into a $33,-
000,000 business and covers parts of
$7 states and Puerto Rico.
The farmers home administration,
in charge of the program, reports
more than 26,000 loans have been
made to farmers. They average
about $1,192 each, although there
is no limit on the amount a fanner
may borrow if be qualifies as a
"disaster victim” and can put up
sufficient collateral The largest
loan approved to date was $400,000
to a Mississippi farmer.
One of the most recent disaster
areas was the entire state of Mis
sissippi where the cotton crop was
damaged by bad weather and wee
vils.
“Tha end isn't in sight,” one of
ficial said. “It looks like the pro
gram is here to stay—unless the
government starts taking losses
like it did in the feed-and-seed-loan
program of the depression era.”
Hie above chart shows the re
turn for each dollar the farmer
spent for feed in the production
of the five farm commodities
listed.
return in the milk industry was
three cents less than the $1.92 aver
age of 1935-39.
For each dollar spent for feed
for hogs, the farmer's return in
1950 was $1.80, a drop of 23 cents
from the 1949 return. The 1935-39
average return, however was even ,
lower, only $1.50.
In beef production the average
return as of September, I960, waa I
$2 35 for each dollar apent for feed. !
The 1935-39 average was $1.36 and
the 1949 average $2.01.
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Oil Barrtl Rig
Men on farmi and ranches have
many heavy barrels containing oil,
sheep dip, kerosene, etc., to empty
and at times a faucet may not be
at hand. Here is an easy way to
overcome that difficulty. Secure a
piece of % inch pipe with one end
threaded, eight to 12 inches long.
Place a chunk under one end of the
barrel so contents will fall away
from the upper portion of the head
near the chime. Then bore a hole
through the head with a 7k inch bit.
Thread portion of the pipe into this
hole. When ready to draw off any
of the contents just roll the barrel
a little until the liquid starts to
run. When sufficient has been
drawn, roll the barrel back to a
position where the pipe is upper
most and contents will stop flowing.
Steps to Help Curb Swine
Enteritis Are Outlined
The American Foundation for Ani
mal Health outlines seven steps to
help curb swine enteritis.
1. Isolate newly-purchased swine
from the home herd for at least
three weeks, until they are known
to be free of disease.
2. Control internal and external
parasites which weaken the ani
mals’ resistance.
3. Keep swine away from old hog
lots, contaminated pastures, cow
pastures, stagnant pools and other
sources of infection.
4. Keep feeding and watering
equipment clean.
5. Check rations carefully, espe
cially possible deficiency of B-com-
plex vitamins. Prevent over-eating
of rich concentrates.
6. Earmark sows and their •litters
to identity and weed out sow ‘‘car
riers’’.
7. Watch for scouring, loss of
weight, and failure to feed into
gains. At the first, sign of trouble,
get a diagnosis and isolate the ail
ing animals from apparently
healthy ones.
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Dehydrated Cheese Is Put
On Sale in Netherlands
Cheese in powdered an<j tablet
form is being marketed in the
Netherlands, according to the U.S.
department of agriculture. The new
dehydrated cheese product is made
from Gouda and Edam cheeses un
der a process which is said to re
duce the volume of the cheese by
one hell The report seys that e
variety of flavors can be obtained
depending upon the ace oi tha
used tor dehydrating.
Instead of tying a tether di
rectly to the stake, fasten it to
an old automobile tire casing
and then drop in over the stake.
The later, of course, should be
much higher than ordinary so
the animal will not pull the
tire off the stake. This keeps
cattle from winding the tether
around the stake.
Chemical Blossom Thinning
Raises Yield 15 Per Cent
Research men of the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture co-operating
with orchardists of the northwest
report that for the fifth successive
season the chemical thinning of
blossoms in golden delicious or
chards has resulted in gains that
average six boxes a tree or about
15 per cent.
The new thinner* were used on an
estimated 20,000 acres this past tea-
THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
There's a * 1 MacArthur in All of Us,
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And History Shows Symptoms Behind His Dismissal
Have Existed in Various Forms for Many Centuries
By W. P. SCHOENTGEN
WNU Managing Editor
There is a kind of universality about Douglas MacArthur
that communicates itself to many men, something of the same stuff
that leads nearly everyone to believe in his own heart that he
can run a newspaper and play Hamlet with a deathless genius.
Was MacArthur right or wrong in his belief in the strategic
priority of Asia, the bombing of
Manchuria, the utilization of Chi
nese Nationalist forces?
Did he, in his public and private
rejection of administration and
United Nations policies in tha Far
East, express a subconscious de
sire to achieve "martyrdom” for
his principles?
Did President Truman take the
right action but at the wrong time
in relieving MacArthur of his mul
tiple command?
It doesn't make any difference
who you are — you undoubtedly
cause of aviation which MltcheQ
was personifying. But he also made
it plain that, sympathy or no sym
pathy, he could not overlook the
insubordination of which General
Mitchell was found guilty.
Aa Assist te Air Fewer
The violent closing of Billy
Mitchell’s career, we know now.
marked the turning point of the
controversy over the future of mili
tary aviation .and the pioneering
general did much to advance U.S.
Ueerral Grant
TRUMAN AND MACARTHUR TALKED AT WAKE ISLAND
. . . but the result uas only an uneasy truce ...
have your own strong, definite and
perhaps impassioned answer to
each of those quesUons. And ac
cording to your answers, you align
yourself on one side or the other
of the MacArthur controversy—the
great American schism of 1M1.
It la a basic division, a schism
of the soul and spirit; and the rock
upon which the split has occurred
is a military man. a soldier, yea.
evan a 71-year-old generaL
Military Men’s Drama
'flu! in Itself is not unusual It
la. In point of fact, a fairly sound
historical tradition that great
epochs of man’s development are
likely to turn upon the personality
of a military leader, probably be
cause it is easy for the public to
focus its attcnUon upon a man
who can be identified with the
drama of danger and physical ac
tion. and with the glamour of mili
tary triumph*.
General MacArthur follows vig
orously in that tradiUon. It has been
his peculiar deattny to help lead
this nation in smiting tyranny both
right and left within the past
decade, striking to the right at Jap
anese imperialism in World War
II and to the left at Communist
efforts at dominaUon in Korea and
the Far East
Thus he has become a political
symbol having stood as the spear
head of America's often inept and
fumbling but always intense de
sire for a peace that patently will
not be had for the asking but which
may come if we fight hard enough
for it >
Whether the principles he has
advocated are right or wrong, it
is MacArthur the symbol, not Mac
Arthur the man, around which the
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
be lowered the boom
very real, very basic foreign pol
icy quarrel has gathered.
From that point of view, the
MacArthur controversy is an old
and elemental form of domestic
strife that has occurred and re
curred within this or that national
community ever since man has
been able to formulate and defend
an opinion.
Without attempting to make any
invidious comparisons, a number
of historic parallels to the Mac
Arthur case become apparent from
a quick glance at the records.
Thera is a superficial resem
blance, for instance, between the
firing of MacArthur by President
Truman and Calvin Coolidge’a dis
missal of the late General "Billjr"
Mitchell for defying orders. Mr
Cool id ge made It clear, howev*
that As waa m sympathy with the
air power to the mighty peak It
reached in time to help win World
War II.
Whether time and events wilt
vindicate General MacArthur's
ideas as hilly as they have those
of Gen ral Mitchell is anybody’s
guess.
One of the abiding characteristics
of many powerful and successful
military leaders ia the past has
been their capacity to capture the
imagination and sympathy of the
people and carry them along a
chosen course—to a point, at least
Thu makes for power and au
thority And the possession of broad
authority ia like having a permit
to carry a pistol. Keep It in the
holster and depend upon its pres
ence there to control circum
stances. and chances are you won’t
get into trouble. The danger of
carrying a gun lies in the possibil
ity that sooner or later you might
start firing it indiscriminately and
a lot of people will get hurt, in
cluding yourself.
Julius Caesar, an overwhelm
ing military and political genius,
amassed for Rome and tor himself
a great reservoir
of power which
he was able to
exercise pretty
much at will But
there were those
who felt he had
too much power;
they mis;rusted
it. feared that
Caesar might
mis-use it.
No single man
or group of men were strong
enough to fire or depose the ruler
by legal means. So Brutus and Cas
sius plotted, and on a day in March,
Caesar, powerful and unsuspecting,
walked up the steps of the Capitol
to meet the knives of his assassins.
Controversy, Then. Too
That stirred up a great civil con
troversy in Rome, too. Was Caesar
right in his principles and policies
concerning the Roman empire, or
ware the men who deposed him by
liquidating him right? It might be
argued that Rome, under Caesar,
reached its peak of dynamic ex
pansion and that its decline began
after Caesar’s death in 44 B.C. But
regardless of the truth of that po
sition, the split over the aims and
policies of Julius Caesar marked
an epochal turning point in the his
tory of the Jtomin empire.
Scotland’s immortal Robert
Julius Caesar
Bruce was the storm center of a
raging controversy much of his life,
while he held to and fought for his
ideal of a free and independent na
tion. He settled that issue himself,
however, by decisively defeating,
the English forces under Edward
II at the battle of Bannockburn in
June, 1314, and assuring the con
tinuance of Scotland as an inde
pendent kingdom.
Every student of American his
tory knows of the quarrels and
differences of opinion that flarad
after President Abraham Lincoln
put General Grant in charge of the'
Union armies. Some members of
Lincoln’s own cabinet not only re
fused te support but actively op
posed Grant's appointment
It was, in a sense, a MacArthur
situation in reverse.
Grant's Problem
And When Grant took command
In March. 1864. he found he had to
fight not only the enemy but the
torpor and passivity of his own
generals in the
field. The mili
tary issue at
stake that time
waa whether or
not Meade, Hook
er. McClellan and
others In the
string of Union
generals were
right in fighting
a defensive war.
avoiding battles
wherever possible, and choosing
more often to retreat than to fight
Grant favored action and offen
sive contact with the Confederate
armies. Over the protestations of
his subdordinates. he decided to
attack wherever possible and car
ry the war to the enemy.
The ultimate surrender of Gen
eral Lee and the Army of Northern
Virginia at Appomattox proved the
rightness of Grant's strategy. But
Grant, who went on to become
President of the United Statee.
albeit not an especially popular
one. remained the center of a
malettrom of violent opinions all
his life.
So the MacArthur story la by no
means a new one. Call his actions
and utterances in Korya Insubor
dination. or call them an honorable
defense of his own principles, they
have basic meaning for us as a
dramatic Illustration of the grim
tact that the United States has to
choose between two basic and dif
ferent courses in this battle against
the evils of communism.
One way is going to be right,
the other wrong. We say that the
nation, in its collective mind, has
split over the issue of which ia the
best way to deal with Communist
aggression in the Far East
But it la not. it cannot be. a fatal
split The doubt that has been
lurking behind our thinking and
our attitude on the question of how
best to fight the monstrosity of ‘
tor Id communism has been
brought plainly into the open and
ia clearly defined
There la no longer any reason
for anyone—be he statesman, mil
itary man, farmer, storekeeper or
factory worker—to deny the exist
ence of that doubt. Now it can be
talked about and it can be elim-
nated.
That is the great service that
President Truman and General
MacArthur have unwittingly per
formed for the nation and the free
world. They have managed to get
all the cards on the table.
The answer, still to be found, is
there somewhere.
GENERAL MACARTUHR
be went bis own way
RED ARMY SPEARHEADS THE MENACE OP COMMUNISM
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