The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 23, 1953, Image 13
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Thursday, April 23, 1953
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Page Five
COMMENT
ON MEN
AND THINGS
By The Spectator
most of the corn the cattle eat.
This has been a highly profitable
operation during most of the post
war period. But since late summer
cattle prices have flopped hard.
From a price of 31 cents a pound'
in September, only five cents be
low the post-war high, slaughter
steers have fallen to about 21
cents.”
A Clarendon county farmer sold
Are you a mathematician? Were(^ attle lor less mone y than 21
you “good at figures" in school?! 0 ur Iowa friends will sympathise
Even 'f you were famly proficient ifh the (armer wh0 finds
m Algebra, Geometry, Trig, j dle p r j ce below his expectations.
Calcalus, do you really believe that^ r 1—
one and one are two? The world ! _ j 7CA
has never suffered because of our: ^Srimoreu
deficiency in the higher branches Officers
of Mathematics, but mankind has
ril 1, for. failure to answer corres-1 stands in rows may be transplanted' each, plant room to become stout- from the root to the top, and about
pondence concerning the indefinite i to fill in missing places in the rows,! stommed and stocky. If, well harden-j as large as a lead pencil Set thet
term appointments. Members of 1 or to set new rows,
this group have neither accepted | Beans, pole beans, lima beans, cu
nor declined the appointments.
; cumbers, squash, okra, and corn may
“Wte have * made several unsuc- j be planted now except in the upper
cessful attempts to contact those: Piedmont where they should be
people in the latter group by mail, j planted after April 15. Tomato, egg-
but to no avail,” the colonel said, plant, sweet potato, and pepper
“Discharge of these officers will
leave us with a reserve force com
posed of officers vitally interested
in remaining connected with the
plants may be transplanted to the
open field after April 15.
Tomato plants should not be al
lowed to grow long-legged,” Mr.
ed, they may be set in the open 10
days earlier.
“In setting tomato plants do not
follow the old rule of setting them
only as deep as they stood in the
plantbed. This is not deep enough.
A good tomato plant is about 8 inches
plants so that half the stem is below
the surface of the ground. Plants set
in this manner will ^ have roots
enough to resist drought, as roots
will develop along the part of the
stem that is under the ground,” he
adds.
been grievously afflicted with the
prevailing ignorance of simple ad
dition—that one and one are two,
just two, seldom three and almost
neVer four.
Some folk have a Mathematical
imagination and they become great
mathematical philosophers, as, for
example, Einstein and the late Col
onel Bond of The Citadel. But
there are others whose mathemati
cal imagination causes them to
spend $200, when they have only t
$150. Our country is full of peo
ple who spend more than they
have. They miscalculate, don’t
they? Or are they like Mr. Micaw-
ber, who was sure something good
would turn up?
Recently I read of a new machine
to calculate. I thought that might
serve backward students in col
lege, but I was in error: the ma
chine will rent for about $12,000 a
month: that will put it beyond
most students.
This calculator is tor that kind
of mathematics which is in the
clouds or deep down in the earth:
it doesn’t apply to us ordinary
mortals. Still here’s what they tell
us:
“International Business Machine
Corp. has taken the wraps off its
new electronic calculator, designed
to shatter the time barrier con
fronting technicians working on vi
tal atomic and airplane projects.
These electronic data-processing
machines, to rent for $11,000 or
more monthly, will be used to cal
culate atomic radiation effects and
to compute the many statistical
things scientists need to know
about planes, guided missiles and
rocket engines.
It will be a technical computing
bureau for organizations that have
such math problems to figure out
as interpreting production -* cost
<iata.
A staff of scientists already has
spent two years planning the eco
nomical solution of typical prob
lems. One result of this work, ac
cording to the company, is that us
ers of the machine need no longer
be concerned with tracing the po-!
sition of the decimal point through-
problems involving thousands of {
millions of arithmetical steps.
The machine was designed for
scientific and research purposes,
but its parts are adaptable for ac
counting and record-keeping.
It is said ti be capable of doing
each second more than 16,000 addi-
r 1 tion of substraction operations, or
some 2,000 multiplication opera
tions. In solving a typical prob
lem it averages 14,000 mathemati
cal operations a second.
It is toiling for the Government.
It waits about eagerly at New York
headquarters for commercial cus
tomers. A- Chemical concern has
a cost-accounting problem now be
ing programmed.
When th^ machine starts working
the chemical firm will be billed for
time in use at $300 an hour. It can
engage the machine for as short a
period as an hour, but this particu
lar problem will run about 100
hours.
Asked how long it would take a
man to work out the problem on a
hand calculator: Two thousand five
hundred years’, the reply was.
So far as I am concerned I do
not need a machine that will save
me two thousand five hundred
years, do you? But isn’t this a
wonderful era? And yet men and
women will continue to believe
firmly that two jmd two are only
four, regardless of the weather or
the smile of the merchant.
* * *
I have great respect for Iowa:
it produces fine people. So I feel
deep concern over the problem of
low ! prices for cattle. Here is an
interesting account:
“The first fresh green of spring
is beginning to ouch the rich, roll
ing farmlands around this town in
the heart of the Iowa cattle-feeding
country. But blue is the prevailing
mood, both ajnong the feeders and
the merchants of Neol/a, Iowa.
The mood could spread. What’s
happening to the rich farm market
hereabouts under the impact of
profitless farming could be instruc
tive to many businessmen from
Pittsburg steelmakers to Oregon
lumbermen.
Farmer Walt Wellman summed
up the view of many farmers: “I’ve
just got to curtail my buying. I
was going to get a new tractor and
might have purchased a new car,
but they’re out now.”
About 90 per cent of the formers
here in Pottawattamie county are
cattle feeders. They buy calves
fatten them for a year or more;
they also purchase heavier beeves
(TOO to 900 pounds) and fatten them
for six months or so before ship
ping them to market. -They raise
To Be Discharged
military. It will also relieve re- Schilletter advises. -Transplant them
serve units, not to mention military t0 other boxes or frames and give!
district headquarters, of a large ~~ ^
amount of paper work connected BSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE
with maintaining t ehrecords of
those inactive reservists,” he said.
With the exception of approxi
mately ten persons, those dicharg-
ed were not active in units through
out the state, the colonel reported.
“The Paper Everybody Reads’
Columbia. — An estimated 750
South Carolina reserve Army of-!
ficers will be discharged from the j
reserve by April 15 for failure to |
comply with provisions of the!
Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952. C nr Thk Month
Lf. Col. McDonald Bailey, execu ' w
Vegetable Garden
Work Suggestions
live officer of the South Carolina
Military District, said 406 officers
have already been discharged ef
fective April 1. This group, ranging
in grade from second lieutenant
through colonel, were discharged
when they declined, in writing, to
accept an indefenite term appoint
ment in the reserve.
Colonel Bailey pointed out that
acceptance of the indefinite term
appointment “in no way meant
that the appointee would be called
to active duty.” However, “he
pointed out,” anyone holding a re
serve commission is liable to recall
to active duty in the event of an
mergency.
“The only advantage of an in
definite term appointment,” Col.
Bailey said, “is that it will not have
to be renewed every two years as
in the past. The national Guard
has had the indefenite term ap
pointment for many years, he said.
Approximately 350 others will be
given discharges, also effective Ap-
Clemson.’— Early kinds of veg
etables such as’beets, cabbage, car
rots, cauliflower, kale, lettuce, mus-.
tard, peas, spinach, etc., which were
planted in February and March need
to be cultivated frequently and thor
oughly A. C. Schilletter, leader,
Clemson Horticulture Extension 1
Work, says they should also be top- j
dressed with nitrate of soda or other
quickly available source of nitrogen
The topdresser should be scattered
between the rows without getting it
on the plants.
Mr Schilletter suggests the use of
a wheel hoe in cultivating the gar
den. He points out that it will take
about three hours for the gardener
to kill as many weeds and pulverize
as much soil with an old-fashioned
weeding hoe as he can do in one
hour with a wheel hoe.
He suggests that in order for gar- j
deners to have an unbroken supply
they should make additional plant-1
ings of the vegetables planted during 1
March. Beet plants from thick
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