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t • \» r i r m Thursday, July 31, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Fir« = FARMS AND FOLKS As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist would have been. This is based on; corruption issue which the GOPj 1943 campaign. the theory that he will not go all- out in berating the foreign policy of this adminisrtration since he has been a part of it. Also, since it was the Eisenhower backers who yell ed and howled ‘‘thieves'’ and ‘‘steal’’ and “robbers” against their the so-called New Wheats Cleamson has aided in developing a new wheat that looked mighty good where I saw it growing at a few places over the state the past season. Five years ago Dr. Paden at (i , Clemson reveived small samples 0 f the . ellminatlon contest in selecting Mr. Republican of the party itself, cross-bred wheats that were made 1 ^eir 4-H livestock judging team w ho controlled the national com-1 at the USI?A Station at Beltsville, i on t ^ e ^ arms ^ C. W. Brunson, Jr., m itiee, the machinery of the con-1 Md., as did other southeastern ex- an< * **• M. Edens, Both of these vention and who had the two sup- periment stations. He planted these men , were star 4 ' H club members posedly top big wigs of the party 1 , ~ * ~ J " in his corner—one, the keynoter,' Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and the samples and observed them very Closely. One looked especially good. He made selections from it, and since then he has been perfect ing it. Last year he had increased it until he had enough seed to plant about 50' acres. This was turned of the past and are now carrying on as leading livestock farmers in their communities, after each had | other, the only living ex-president, attended Clemson a while. ■ Herbert Hoover. What the conven- When the history of modern j tion proved, however, was that commercial livestock raising in the J Gen. M-icArthur, while given an state is written, the early efforts ; ovation as a national hero, has al- over to our Foundation Seed Asso-i of the county agents through the' ready ‘‘faded away,’’ and Mr. elation for increase and distribu-! 4-H boys will show up as a large Hoover is living and thinking in tion. They placed it with some < portion of the basic groundwork on the past. very cajeful farmers over the state, j which the industry was built. < . What happened was this — the and there is where I saw it grow- I looked at a picture the other f young Turks simply moved in and,! day of a calf that Edens fed out in i with an aroused public opinion be- 1 his early 4-H experience. And, as u: “ J *'—~ “ :J “ J u ” I recall it, it placed high in the state show. It was good by the standards .we had then. But now he has a herd of cattle that will average far better than this prize! presidential nominee, a 39-year-old is handling the distribution of this J individual in the past. Last spring freshman senator, is proof that the seed wheat. 1 he won first with his pen of fat younger element of the party has —And Dr. Paden tells me we have' cattle at the state show and Brtm- come into its__Qwn.‘ Senator Nixon, another very good wheat for this! son showed the grand champion served several sessions in the ouse ing. It all looked mighty good. One of the 3-acre fields I saw made 195 bushels. And I understand yields of around 50 bushels per acre were not uncommon with it. Our Foundation Seed Association, Bob Garrison, secretary, Clemson, hind them, aided by television, simply took the reins of the con vention machinery away from Sen ator Taft and his cohorts. Selection of Sen. Richard Nixon as the vice; area. It is Coker’s 47-27. He s^aid, ■ barrow. “It is really a beautiful wheat.”' Progress with livestock here has Registered seed of it is available 1 been rapid for we had so far to go. a name for himself as a Commu- through Pedigreed Seed Company,! • • • I nist foe as a member of the House before moving over to the senate, and in the lower house made quite Hartsville, S. C. * * « Model Home Interested in promoting better housing among her people, Mrs. Fanners Week Its not long now to Farmers Week at Clemson August 11-15. This event has grown each year. This year will be no exception. Marian Paul, state supervisor of; More exhibit space than has ever Negro Home Demonstration work, got behind the project of building a model house several years ago. Its purpose would be to show and demonstrate that better housing was possible to many who'do not now aspire to it. That house was finished and dedicated a few months ago in the Jeremiah com munity of Williamsburg county. The plan is to award one young family in each of the 30 counties having Negro home demonstration agents a week’s residence in this up-to-date home between’ fall and been spoken for. And the program un-American activities committee. ; How the forces of Senator Taft, supposedly veterans at the political game, could make the mistakes they did has the political lynd- sighters here on the ropes. But mis takes Taft did make, one after of lectures, demonstrations, tours,, another. First Ithe lineup of speak- and entertainment will cover the e rs included the top isolationists wide fields of farm and home inter- and “expendables” on the GOP est. senate raster with the group head- j ed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of; Wisconsin, who has made “Mc Carthy ism” something to be shun ned in American politics. Time's Aflying Here we are in the very shank of summer. Crops are maturing in the field, and days have started shortening. Soon the cicada wfllj. There are a f e w Democrats here, have sung his last droning tune and who have a defeatist attitude re- the frosts of winter will be near. My, how time does speed along when we are busy with our work - garding General Eisenhower, who! four years ago at Philadelphia, 1 could have taken the Democratic spring. And then during the suim It seems but yesterday I was nomination had he chosen to do so . mer 4-H girls wi l win the pnvi-1 talking with you about a spring, Thls attitude 1S that Elsenhowe r lege of a weeks stay in it. A full- — — J — A ~ J time home management worker will be provided there. “To moti- xat£ our families to improve their fall and wipter greenery and summer garden And now it s; cannot ^ beaten and ^ the nom . time for Us to be getting a spot en-! inee of riched, prepared, and ready for theL w jn ^ “DIE FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH” Hugh L. 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Of course this attitude is NOT shared by the top echelon of the ; party leaders either here or' throughout the nation. As a mat ter of fact many of them believe that Eisenhower will be an easier opponent to beat than Senator Taft table. Not only the things for us .eat, but those for thee ritters, too. % • • • Boys Ax# That Way Some more recollections: Seldom shod feet that burned so at church on hot Sundays. The old milk cow that I could | ride back in the field and tie on j the ditch bank to eat Johnson grass. : We rode all sorts of yearlings. But felt a little funny riding the milk cow. That then made it sort of like drinking milk from a mule or horse. Funerals, I avoided ’em all. The best wagon and team in the com munity did the hauling I ran when I saw it coming, with the sheet- draped coffin. Flowers in the cemetery. I cov eted them, specially the bright col ored hyacinths that some planted there. For we didn’t have any like that in our yard. Once I swiped one from there. But was afraid to take it home and threw it in the honeysuckles. Pot hloes that formed in the red clay of the ditch by our house. At college I learned w<hat made ’em. A jagged flint rock would lodge in a slight depression there. The wat er couldn’t quite carry it on down the ditch. So it just wiggled around there after rains for a while. That loosened the clay and the water carried it away. I've seen them get as big and deep as a wash pot. They held water long after the shower had passed, and there is Where we continued to play. Take its rock out and it wouldn’t grow any more. Resin coming from the back of seats near the fireplace, while kids in the back of the room shivered. And the big boys piling the rfch lightwood on the fire so they could get excused and go to the woods for more wood. Several ants dragging t a dead grasshopper many times their weight. The feeling of futility while pecking away with a hoe at a long row of grassy com on rocky land. ■t Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Musgrove Street Clinton, S. C. Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W Washington, July 30.—The nomi- i nation of General Eisenhower at Ithe GOP national convention! Taft opponents in j means curtains for the party Old delegate steal, many here claim the ■ Guard and the rebirth of a new, i sting is taken out of the alleged ! more progressive, more liberal Re- j — — [publican party. . homes,” is the aim, according to' Further, it means that a bunch! Mrs. Paul. In other words, to make 0 f ‘ Young Turks” have moved in folks want better things and to do; t o take over the machinery,of the more with what they have is whatip arty national committee as it did they are working after there. \ the machinery of the convention. ! Growing Results This column had forecast the selec- : The Sumter county agents heldjtion of Sen. Robert A. Taft, the has been prepared to hurl at the! 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