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/ Thursday. November 1, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE *3' • r LAND SALE The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. In Court of Probate. Mrs. Bessie E. Adair, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of W. J. Adair, Deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Geneva Adair and James Adair, Defendants. Pursuant to a Decree of the Court in the above stated case, I will sell at public outcry to the highest bid der, either in or in front of the Court House, at Laurens, S. C., on Salesday •in November next, being Monday, the 5th day of the month, during the le gal hours for such sales, the follow ing described property, to wit: All of the right .title and interest of the late W. J. Adair (the same be ing a one-half undivided interest) in and to all that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing two hun dred forty-six and 4-10 (246.4) acres more or less, lying, being and situate on the Renno road about one mile east of Renno in Jacks Township, Laurens County, State of South Car olina, and having such shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat made by John M. Hudgens, Survey or, on the 17th and 18th dpys of May, 1905, and modified by C. A. Power, Surveyor, on October 15, 1911, and by J. Roy Crawford, Surveyor, on January 6, 1918, the plat showing said tract of land to have originally contined two hundred fifty-six and 1-3 (256 1-3) acres, 9 9 acres having been cut therefrom to J. C. McMillan by subsequent survey. Said tract is bounded on the northeast by lands . of J. M. Bell, J. F. Bell and J. C. McMillan, on the southeast by lands of J. C. McMillan. John M. Copeland and R. P. Adair, on the northwest by lands of Mary Fowler and Mrs. M. J. Vance’s Burley tract. This Is the Identical tract of land conveyed to Will J. Adair and Bessie Adair by the Federal Land Bank of CohnnbU by deed dated JaJnuary 14. im, re corded In Deed Book dl. pegs M4. office of the Clerk of Court for Lau rens County, ft. C. Terns of Sale ful An invitation to speak to the James Island Agricultural Society carried me back to the years of my farming ambition. James Island, you may know, is across the bay from the famous Battery at Charles ton. You can stand at the edge of the Battery drive and see the Quar antine station at the tip of James Island. All ships coming from for eign countries anchor off the Quar antine station for medical inspec- j tion. I once spent four days in quarantine on the island of San Lorenzo, Peru, because I had come j from a community full of yellow. fever. This James Island Society was 1 holding its seventy-ninth annual meeting. Seventy nine years ago was about 1872. 1872! Seven years after the close of the Civil War and while South Carolina was under the indignity of Federal army oc cupation. Our State was poor, our economy shattered, our people op pressed. but the undaunted spirits which had led to war organized to battle for the rewards of peace through the age-old calling of agri culture. No Marshall Plan for them; no Economic Rehabilitation; no World Bank; no International Mon etary Fund; no Lend-Dhse. even that which they had was taken away. Men were men In those days; and the same gallantry so marked on the batlefield met the problems , of peace, sustained by the grace of God and inspired by a noble and in the full flower ofj era. the t was a •a. though M elusion of the with the Judge of Probate the of five <»«) percent ef tb price as s guarantee ef his In the bidding The plied to the ef otherwtae to be peid to Ptamuff credit on the imtshtsdnaei In dewM the fall to mako surk fail to enntpiy with the tones ef the said castle, since this was once a. rice country. When Lwas a child in Charleston we had rice every day for dinner. We used to, have dinner, for it was a full meal, not a sandwich and a glass of milk. Rice everyday. When I went to South America we had rice twice every day—for al- muerzo y comida (midday and night. Dr. Huntington of Yale was my guest and told me something about rice. Most of our Northern friends think that rice is something pe culiar to Charleston and they try to cultivate a taste for it, even mix ing milk and sugar with it, result ing in a sad mess, neither rice nor rice pudding, but a dish that would cause the ancient worthies to turn over in disgust. Dr. Huntington said “Rice is a universal cereal; more food can be produced in a given area in the form of rice than in anything else.” So it isn’t peculiar to Charleston by any means, having come to the Carolinas from Mada gascar. - Rice is now produced extensively in Louisiana and Texas, but I’m told that the best rice is known as “Carolina”. From the Rio Grande through Mexico, Central America and South America the people eat rice. Down in Peru the rice was cook ed with Jard; they didn’t have gravy. If our Northern friends want to eat rice at its best they must have ham gravy or steak gravy on it, or eat^the rice stuffing of a tur key. Our friends to the South have rice with duck, rice with chicken, rice with beans—>Arroz con pa to. arroz con polio, arroz con fnjolaa. Irrigation won’t coat us as much aa it coats the men out West But it pays them. When I talked with cotton fanners I heard many stor ies Oscar Johnston harvsstad 400 000 arras in the Delta of the Mis lbs of lint cotton per acre over M. •iMippi Los Angeles County. Cal ifornia. averaged 019 lbs per acre with Irrigation. New Mexico. An r California farmers talked ef three he lee per acre, aa though thetr costa, thought they may 4 a hale and acre, the profit m good I 4e net know thet only the Weet has oft; no man hnswi what the nest go nor at mn may find m fteuth Page Fire Carolina. It may not be in the hills or the rivers; it may be in the swamps, or on the sea islands, or on the unlikeliest stretch of sand; but in the proper time will come fresh revelations of stored wealth which we do not need today. HOME Eggs are rich in protein that tough ens rapidly when high temperatures are used for cooking. Don’t be afraid to Wash your poultry before cooking. Use a soft brush or cloth and run water through the cavity of the bird. Brushing the outside of the bird will make it easy to get rid of dark ened spots where leathers were singed. WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 Avoid violent boiling when you’re cooking vegetables. After the food comes to a steam, lower the heat to the lowest temperature required to maintain steaming. This keeps veg etables whole and decreases loss of wafter-soluble substances. Curdling in scalloped dishes can be prevented by making a white sauce of the milk and cheese be fore combining it with other in- i gredients. •Any dishes with milk should be baked by setting the dish prepared : in a pan of water. This allows a more even temperature for the cooking and also prevents scorch-. mg. 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And now our State has become imbued with the same spirit; so I think like my friends of the Episcopal Church, “there is no health in us.” In a region once famous for its long-staple cotton, then its fine veg etable crops, I wonder what next will distinguish this island and all this part of the State. On every hand men are thinking of cattle as the hope of the South. I think so, too. We have grass most of the year and we can have something green all the year. Permanent pas tures and new grasses with new kinds of cattle—those may be the factors of the new day. The late Norwood Hastie used to urge me to convert my farm into a goat establishment for the pro duction of goat’s milk. We seem to have^- a market for goat’s milk, though I don’t know enough about it to make even a guess. Our hope seems to be in beef cattle, under irrigation. A friend of mine, a very pro gressive automobile man who has a broad grasp of business oppor tunity—Mr. L. C. Protho of Man ning—tells me that through irri gation he is maintaining from three to six cattle on an acre, instead of devoting four to six acres to one head. For some time he has aver aged three cattle to an acre and they haven’t grazed the land ex haustively. Mr. Protho tells me that through irrigation his tobacco crop paid for all the expense of irriga tion and yielded a nice profit He tells me of a peach orchardist who, through irrigation, picked three timet as many peaches per acre as hit neighbor, and received about ENI IMS HIIIIIU If! On June 15, 1960, an Emergency Board appointed by the FVeeident under the ' leRaih terms of the Iway Labor Act—an Act ay L largely fathered by the —it* recommendations on certain wage and working conditiona (’’rules” in railroad language which had been in dis pute between employee and the railroads. three times as much per bushel. Irrigation will require capital but to speak of irrigation must seam like carrying coal to More Than 90% of Employes Accept Since then, terms equal to or better than the Board recommendationa have been accepted by about 1,200,000 railroad em ployes—more than 90% of the total of all workers. They are represented by 20 of the 23 standard railroad unions. • Lees Than 10% Refuse But three unions—with about 130,000 men, or leas than 10% of the total—have refused to accept, even after months of negotiations. These three unions are the Brotherhaod of Locomotive Enjrineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Conductors. These are three of the so- called "operating” unions. Already the highest paid men in the industry, their leaders demand still further advantages over other workers. In all, there are about 270,000 operating employes. But not all of them, by anv means, are represented by BLE, BLF&E, or ORC. As a matter of fact, leas than half—132,000 to be exact—are in these three unions. More than half—about 140,000—are in other unions, principally the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. What makes the whole situation so hard to understand ts that these 140,000 op erating employes are working under wages and rules which the leaders of the other 130,000 say they cannot agree to. ft What Do the Railroads Offer? TKey offer these three unions the same settlement which was contained in a Mem orandum of Agreement signed at the White House on December 21, I960, by four brotherhoods-and the railroads. Later brotherhoods sought to repudiate But on May 25.1951. the principlat of the Memorandum Agreement of December 21. They have been working under this agreement since May 25. What A bent Wages? Under the terms of the agreement, yard engineers, firemen and conductors would now be receiving a wage increase of $.34 an hour ($2.72 a day ) and road engineers, firemen and conductors would now be re ceiving an increase of 19H cents an hour ($1.56 per day). Large sums of retroactive pay have already accrued and if the agree ment is carried out, will be paid promptly. What Absut “Coat of Living” Increases? The White House Agreement includes an "escalator” clause under which wages will be geared to changes in the Government’s coet-of-living index. Two such increases —April and July, 1951—have already been paid to the 90% of railroad employes oov- ‘ by signed i ered agreements. What About the 40-Hour Week? The White House Agreement calls for the establishment of the 40-hour week in prin ciple, for employes in yard service. The employee can have it any time after Jan uary 1,»1952, provided the manpower sit uation is such that the railroaos can get enough men to perform the work with reasonable regularity at straight time rates. If the partie^ do not agree on the question of availability of manpower, the White House Agreement provides arbitra tion by a referee appointed by the President. What Else Do the Union Leaders Demand? The c ontinued quibbling of the leaders of the three unions has to do principally with rules changee, which have already to by the Brotherhood of Railroad Of theee, the principal one to be thet having to do with so- called "interdiviaional service”—runs which take in two or more seniority dis tricts. The union leaders would bar prognaw and efficiency in the industry, and better service to the public, by maintaining a situation where they can arbitrarily stop a railroad from establishing such inter- divisional rune. The carriers propose that if a railroad wishes to set up an inter diviaional run, the railroad and the unions should try to agree on such run and the conditiona which should surround its es tablishment, and if the railroad and the unions can’t agree, the matter will be sub mitted to arbitration. But the three union leaders still refuse. Rules Can Be Arbitrated The railroads have not only offered theee three unions the same rules agreed to by the BRT and covered by the White House Agreement, but have even agreed to sub mit such nilee to arbitration. The Industry Pattern Is Fixed With the pattern so firmly established in the railroad industry, it seems fair to sug gest that the leaders of BLE, BLF&E, and ORC stop their quibbling and take action to make the railroad labor picture 100% complete. Certainly today's eco nomic and international situation calls for a united front. And certainly no good rea son has been advanced why these three unions should be preferred over all other railroad employes. carrying out the We are publishing this and other advertisements to talk to you at first hand about matters which are important to everybody.