Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y \ t Pape Four —T - a COMMENI OH MEN AND THINGS By The Spertotor fore machining would, save this money. And without X-ray, the hidden defect might not turn up until the casting is in use. That gets back to quality control, plus cost reduction.” * * * ! What about France? The new Prime Minister plans higher taxes rather than reduced spending. An outstanding American who al- ways studies these problems writes You know something of X-rays, that the French national debt, per Well the X-ray has long been used capita, is much less than our Ameri- by the physicians, but now it is be- can debt, per capita; and he mat ing used by industry. urally wonders why we pour our Industry's X-ray is getting big- tax money down a rat hole, ger, ceeing better and starting to do something about what it sees. In- We think about cotton and the dustrial X-ray machines are peering problems involved in producing cot- into and through thousands^ of di- tQA,. We may ha^ve to sell cotton at verse products on production lines a lower price in order to compete and in assembly shops. Primarily with synthetics. The practical an inspection tool, X-rays focus on question is “How can a pound of tank hulls and cellophane, beer cans cotton be prodcced and marketed at and hand grenades, peanuts experimentally—pork chops. and- a lower price, yet yield a profit that will make the crop profitable. About 4,000 plants now use some Is mechanization the solution of the kind of an idustrial X-ray apparat- problem? The farmer is confrohted us. Factory X-ray has boomed with by the same problem that concerns defense mobilization, and some industry. Industry tries all the r-quipment builders expect a slump time to reduce the cost of making .vhen Government contracts are cut goods or articles, realizing a satis- baek. Still, the manufacturers feel factory profit from the total sales, there's a solid base for further You see the problem as it is solved peacetime growth and that any in electricity: if we followed the .slump will be short-lived. ‘The methods of 1900 your home electric next ten years will see industrial bill would be thpee or four times X-ray sales go up another 500 per greater. In fact, most of us would ;cnt.’ Mr. Hi:’ predicts. ; not have electricity because we Aside from inspection require- could not afford it, even for, light- vner-.s :n defense contracts, what is, ing. Now we have lights and refrig- behind industrial X-ray’s boom? erators and kitchen ranges and fans, •Quality control and cost reduc- radios, television, and a dozen oth- tion arc the two main reasons,’ ex- er home, uses, including air.con- plains Richard F Hoiste, another ditioning. We don’t worry about GE industrial X-ray official. ‘For the electric or gas bill because it is many products, all the way from less than the bill for gasoline for heavy castings to food. X-ray in-i but a great volume, spection is the only way to guaran-. How dp we get sd 'much for tha| tee that finished goods meet stand- money? That is what all industry ards they’re supposed to. Or take tries to bring about—a lower price i ■♦he question of costs. Hundreds of but a great volcme. man-hours and thousands of dol. H ow do you suppose you can buy ,ar> can co n. < machining a defec- a ^jiy p ail>er f or fj ve cent's? Prob- tivc casting before an internal f.av. ab j v cos t s a t i east a dollar to pro- is found. X-rajmg the casing be- duce the paper. How do you ride on a city bus for a few cents? It is much cheaper than driving your car. | It is costing you about 1-3 of one cent to listen to this, although that high cost will be pro-rated among The Intermediate Department two or three, if sp many listen to Promotion banquet will be held in one radio. You may think the cogi the recreation room of the Joanna excessive—1-3 of one cent—and I Baptist church on Friday, Septem- naay have over-estimated the ex- j Promotion Banquet At Joanna Friday her 25, at 7:30 p. m. The 12-year pense, not having that mathematical Juniors will be among the special shark, "Rip” Sanders, to do the guests. The members of the Clinton arithmetic involved, but, at any high school bind. Harry Bauknight, rate, I’ll give you something else director, will also be special guests to worry about, and so will take nnd render several selections: Tren. your mind off the old stale forries ton Bruce, young business man of for a few minctes. I ••Greenviire.•associated•' withVLester n But how about the cotton: 4 Bates and the Capital Life Insur- '‘Machines are taking over from ancc company, will bring the closing mule-poyer and manpower in the challenge. Tickets are on sale for cotton patch, and lower prices fw 50c each at the church office. WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 DAISIES WONT the fibre may accelerate the rush to mechanize. Cotton requires more labor than any other major American crop but tobacco. So this mechanization means a sizeable cut in the cost of production sheet-and-shirt-mak- ing fibre. Startling mechanization gains have been made since the end t f World War II. In 1946 only 0.4 per cent of the U. S. cotton crop was TELL But the w of Your Telephone Directory Will They tell who buys, sells, rents or repairs — almost anything you need! A Proven EGG-MAKER "SQ” LAYING Mash 'Spartides •Pellets to meet every need! T’f.y.sr. rV-.’vy ( t "SQ” LAYING MASH-rthe old standby and still favorite of thousands. SPARTICLfS—a new favor* ite—^cuts feed waste. PIllETS—to boost feed in* 1 lake for extra eggs. C-W-S GUANO CO. Phone 62 Clinton. S. C. _ “Your ‘SQ’ Feeds Dealer mechanically harvested; last year 25 per cent of the crop was machine- l! picked. Lasa year 88 per cent of the country’s cotton land was pre pared for planting by tractor power; in 1946 the proportion was 60 per cent and in 1939 it was a puny 30 per cent. Tractor use in planting and cultiating showed similar gains. ’Despite the gains we’ve already made,’ say^.^a cotton farmer, ‘we must mechanize our operation fully j if we are to be competitive and still produce cotton at a profit. We just cant’ afford the expensive ways of our daddy’s days any more.’ The cotton farmer is vitall/ in terested in profitable, low-cost pro duction of the white fibre that’s \ - bee used by mankind for at least j 5,000 years—particularly when he looks at today’s cotton prices, some 20 per cent under a year ago. Other interested parties are cotton users like the auto maker, who uses cot ton in upholstery, Gres and con vertible tops; the housewife who has to buy sheets and baby’s diapers; and the-factory’ hand wearing cot ton work clothes. In a partly-mechanized operation production costs are 22.1 cents a pound and under a fully mechaniz ed operation it drops to 13.5 cents. | In each case the figure does not include land and management cost. i The difference in costs reflects en tirely the degree of mechanization.! In ,the Mid-South and in the | Southeast—whejje more than half of ; all U. S. cotton is grown—mechani-i zation » lags far behind. Tractors provide only 65 per cent of the pow-1 er used in the Mid-South for plow-, ing, planting and cultivation; a little! less than One pound of cotton in 10 is picked mechanically. In the Southeast pre-harvest tractor power! use ranges from 45 per cent to 65 Per cent and only around 2 per cent of the crop was harvested by ma- Ichiriery last year. Mechanization has advanced much faster in the Western section of the cotton belt for a number of reasons. ‘The main one is that they had no old system before going into mechanical production; they went into cotton growing fresh*. Many Western farmers have only gone in to cotton in recent years. On a man.and-mule farm it takes 160 hours of man labor to grow and harvest a bale of cotton. In cur rent ‘fully mechanized’ operations, with average weather, this is cut to 30 hours. But of this 30 hours, about 20 back-breaking hole-labor hours are needed to control weeds and grass.” 1 ~T THE CLINTON CHRONICLE L Thursday, Septem DIXIE-HOME ♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 2 li w if 8 Join in on the ROUND-UP of rip-roar- § 8 ing values in all departments at the Dixie- | 8 ♦♦ • • ♦ ♦ if :: 8 Home's Harvest of Values! Check every :: P, :: ♦♦ • * ♦# • * ♦> « 8 ♦V department for the savings it holds because | it's a good time to hitch your chuck wagon to real values and stock up on all your fa vorite "vittles" — AND — to make the ROUND-UP complete, there are FREE PRIZES of beautiful Nylon Hose and a TV Set that could be YOURS! : 8 get the BEST for LESSi VALUES FROM OUR “QUALITY-TENDER” MEAT DEPARTMENT Short Shank - (4 to 6 lb. size) - Smoked PICNICS 39c “Quality-Tender” Fresh 4^4% Ground Beef ,b - uSC Fryers lb. 47c —SEA FOODS — Fresh Dressed North Carolina CATFISH lb. 49c » ! .M — , , ■ , Easy to Prepare—Perch l V a FILLETS L... lb. 33c Fresh Large MULLET , lb. 25c Fresh GROUND VEAL lb. 29c — DEUCATESSEN — Chef's Masterpiece 12 Os. Pkg. CHICKEN POT PIES 19c Makes Delicious Sandwiches! 8-Os. Cup DEVILED EGG SALAD 29c Fr«sh Mid. Frank', Lb. Pkg. LIVER MUSH 19c YaUo (>4 Lb. Slicks) MARGARINE 2 lbs. 33c 9 GE—21 Inch Screen Television Set 12-Oz. Tumbler NOTHING TO BUY! 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