The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 18, 1953, Image 12
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June IS, 1953
FARMS
AND FOLKS
Bt j. m. eleazer
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
Corn Champion
In the current publication of the
Corn Industries Foundation I read
this:
‘The nation’s individual com-
growing champion for 1952 is a 13-
vear-old boy. Lamai^f Ratliff, 8th-
grader and 4-H club member, of
Paldwin, Miss., grew 214 bushels
on a measured acre, despite the
driest year in the history of the
South.' Young Ratliff defied the
drought by irrigating, as he had in
two previous years, and his 1952
record followed 187 bushels in 1951,
and 179 in 1950—both sensational
yields.”
With increasing frequency now
we sec the dawn of a better day
breaking through the mists of es
tablished custom in the Southeast, t
For generations we have been an
nually robbed of earned crop yield
potentials by recurring droughts.
Now folks are beginning here and;
there to remedy that with supple
mentary irrigation. And the re
sults are pleasing, to say the least.!
I tell you almost every week of
something I’ve seen irrigation do.
on the test plots of Clemson or the I
field demonstrations over the state.'
We are surely finding pur way witn!
this great new crop insurance called;
.irrigation. 4
We can well remember when 100 ^
bushels of corn per acre seemed;
like a pipe dream. Yet in 1948:
Clemson organized the South Caro-!
lina Hundred Bushel Corn Club,,
and to date 425 farmers have won!
a membership in that- exclusive!
group! And that, despite two very |
dry years of late that proved disas
trous to much corn.
Last year we had just a few
farmers who reached their prize
corn with supplementary irrigation.
Yet six of the eight state and dis
trict winners came from those few.
Yes, with the life-giving water
in reserve and at your command,
you can plant for big crop yields
and then largely insure them.
♦ * *
Harmony Community
..-JThat’s an unusual name. And it's
an unus eta r -community; dow n there
in Edgefield county.
The National Grange and Sears-
Roebuck Foundation conducted a
national community improvement
contest the past year. Harmony
won it. And along with that dis
tinction came a cash prize of $15,-
C00!
Back on the last day of March the
folks in that community dedicated
their handsome new community
building. And their new church
there would be a credit to any town
or community.
I attended the dedication. One
thing was conspicuous. Dynamic
young farm families were in saddle
there. Not that they have pushed
the old folks out. The oldsters sat|
back and smilingly admired their)
youngsters in action.
One of the stalwarts there, H. H.
Herlong, told me off his five sons
had^fimshed at Clemson^ And all
‘had* settled fhere li/the -
munity, farming. One o^themytt'as
Master of their Grange the^past
year, in which they won the above
award.
In the ceremony there they ac
knowledged the valued work of
their county agent, O. W. Lloyd, in
particular, and the others who help
ed in the community program were
also thanked.
That is the community where the
famed farming Smiths and Her-
longs live, and other good farmers
whose names have not been mul-1
tipi led so much. True, they have a!
lot of good land, some excellent
land. But it is not all that way.
However, it all looks good when
- one of. those hustling farmers gets
hold on it. A goodly portion of
state and district cotton contest
prizes have gone to folks in that
community along through the
years.
So, congratulations to the Har
mony community! You must livej
up to your name. For without al
most perfect harmony, no commun
ity could do what you have. You
have made it the finest place dh
earth to live. And your children!
do not go away. Why should they?!
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Tobacco
Tobaco, the great cash crop of
the Pee Dee, now flourishes in the
fields of the Low Country On a
tenth the acreage of cotton, in this
state, it yields almost as many total (
dollars. I know of no crop where
the findings of science are’ carried:
quicker to the field. Clemson's ex
periment statjbn at Florence does
major research work with it, the
plant breeders *sfre ^cohstantly im
proving the varieties, county agents
demonstrate new facts, and intelli
gent fanners diligently apply them
to the limited acres they put in the
Golden Weed. Clemson's tobacco
man, Lewis, lives and constantly
moves in the area, working with
the county agent and farmers in
putting latest techniques to work in
growing and handling the crop.
Boys Are Thai Way
I was impresed early with the
importance of water. !-
I think it was the summer of 1911
that it just about never rained.
That was a tragedy in several
ways.f Gardens burned up and
we made practically no forage. But
those were parents’ worries. Ours
had to do with the creek. For it
dried up until only a few stagnant
holes were left, We would steal off
and go “washin” in those until the
chills and fever struck. Then par
ents really read the law down to us.
But what a dismal summer that
was for us country kids until out in 1
August the cloudburst came? I’ve!
told you of riding its mad current!
before. From hil to hill it spread, j
And down it came logs and all sorts
of debris. Although we couldn’t
swim, except a little dog fashion,
we rode those logs time and again
for long distances down that mad
current. Dangerous! It’s a won
der we survived to tell about it.
And a lot of the wells went dry
that summer too. But not ours. It
got low. But you could always get
a partial bucket of water from a
drawing.
There was a spring about a half
mile on the back of the place. While
working in the cotton patch right
back of the house, we would go
away over there for water, just to
get out of work and kill time. We
knew the spring was dry. Or it was
when we saw it the day before. But
we’d go again, with the pretense of
seeing if water had returned to it.
Even though it hadn’t rained a bit
yet.
At long last rain did come in Au
gust. It was too late to help crops.
And the harvest was meager.
Things had to be tight that winter,
and old clothes wer patched anew’.
But the thrifty Dutchman, with
that August water, soon had his
truck patches at work again. And
the old compost heap was made to
grow’ larger that winter than before.
For losses had to be recouped the
following year.
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
OPTOMETRIST
Offices at
200 South Broad St.
Phone 658
Office Hours 9:00 to 5:30
State Biding
Her Time On
Segregation Issue
Columbia.—Jt is impossible to read
between the lines of the U. S. Su
preme Court’s order which delays
decision and asks for more argument
on the school segregation issue.
Reaction here has been varied.
Most officials were following Gover
nor James F. Byrnes’ lead and re
maining silent. As a former Supreme
Court justice anything he said might
be taken the wrong way and injure
the State’s position.
Dr. E. R. Crow, who heads the
public school’s $54-milliQn equaliza
tion program gave no hint of his re
action. He said the construction and
improvement projects would con
tinue. 1
‘Most talkative was Attorney Gen
T. C. Callison who felt the delay
might be a good sign, but admits “it
is anybody’s wild guess.”
The key to the five new questions
posed by the court appears to be the
basic one on the intent of the 14th
amendment of the U. S. Constitu
tion. That amendment assures that
States will not abridge the fights of
citizens and gives the public protec
tion under the law. The court wants
to know if the amendment was un
derstood by the States which ratified
it to mean an end to segregation.
At least one high State official who
is familiar with the Supreme Court’s
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
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trict No. 55, 426 West Main Street,
Laurens, South Carolina, at 11:00
o’clock A. M., E. S. T., on July 2,
1953, for the construction of an ad
dition to the Sanders High School,
Laurens, South Carolina. Plans and
specifications may be inspected
without charge at the office o£ the
architect, W. E. Freeman, Jr., A.
I. A., Architect, 226 West Washing
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and CharlOte Offices of the Assoc
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The entire deposit on one set and
half the deposit on aditional sets
will be refunded upon return of
plans and specifications in good
condition within five days after
bids are received. The Owner re
serves the right to reject any or all
bids.
Board of Trustees,
Laurens County School
District No. 55.
G. ‘ MT^fcCTJEN; ’
Chairman. " ic
operations advances a thought whi:U
develops a new line of legal theory
which the U. S. Justices may be con
sidering.
Police Power Theory
The theory embraces the States’
police power. Under that police pow
er, the State would be able to de
termine in the interest of peace and
order whether segregation should be
practiced.
If that logic were followed, it
would mean the segregated schools
in the District of Columbia, one of
the five cases now in issue, would be
eliminated because the district does
not have the status of a State.
The struggle which the Justices
apparently are having may also em
brace a political question. That
thought is reflected in the last ques
tion posed by the court—does the
court have authority to abolish seg
regation in public schools gradually?
If the court followed the theory on
police power, it would not take a fin
al step and declare school segregation
flatly and finally ended. It would
draw the lines clearly and leave the
decision on segregation up to the
States. The door would still be open
to put an end to segregated public
schools and possibly on other similar
issues.
Upheaval Likely
A flat and final decision to outlaw
the separate but equal philosophy
would touch ofif a social upheaval
which is hard to estimate. Apparent
ly the court is mindful of that be
cause of its thought on gradual
change. ,
In the Supreme Court’s delibera
tion of six months one thing stands
out. If the court is of a mind to up
hold the constitutionality of separate
but equal schools, it probably would
not have taken it half-ayear to de
cide.
At least one school district in South
Carolina is not making firm plans on
the basis of a favorable decision: a
Charleston county education official
wrote his teachers that they had been
reelected to their jobs on the condi
tion that the State is still operating
the schools next fall.
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