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Thursday, April 22, 1954 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Five ************************* By SPECTATOR... ( COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS I Like— The bamyard at sunset, with the fanner about his chores, and the critters headed there for the night; The feel and sound of power, as a great airliner takes off; pressing against your back with the power that will hurl it and you across the continent be tween meals; ^ A field of growing com after the shower; a silent symphony of growth there that smells like a watermelon; Spring, a deed world awaken ing, with power and life at eVery turn; The might and meaning of a great train, n#se to the .rails, swiftly carrying a great cargo; The humble man in the field, as he followc the furrow; and places his faith in the soil; The majesty of the ocean, the one thing in which man hasn’t *made a dent; A moonlit night, when you can see wild things on the prowl; ^ Resting cattle, in the cool shade of a grassy lowland; And the odor of country ham afryin’, as night draws on. • • « Laara Plenty Cotton Cotton is struggling to get up at many places. After a good stand is gotten, we often hurt it. Reasonably thick cotton makes more, and every skip is a loss, Clemson’s Sam Williams points inches apart is about right, sc out. Three stalks per hill 8 to 12 cording to both experiment and experience. ^ With delinted seed dropped or otherwise properly distributed in the drill, some do not thin it at alL That is widely practiced out West. The slogan is, “A Bale or More ih ’54,” you know. That is, cot ton per acre. + * * x * Grain Sorghum Grain sorghum following grain has grown into a usfeul crop on many a farm. It has similar uses and feed value to com. It stands drought a lot‘better and out- yields com. And, as stated above, it makes swell following grain, where com won’t. The dwarfy types, best suited to combining are Caprock, .4 Plainsman, Martm’s, and Mid land, according u> tests at Clem- son. And the high-growing sorts, best suited for forage and silage, are Hegari and Atlas. In Newberry they have found the mature grain good grazing for turkeys, as have beef cattle growers at places. And after combining, there is a lot of roughage there that cattle can clean up. It seems I notice more grain sorghum acreage in Saluda coun ty than elsewhere*. County Agent Kearse tells me the folks like-it there and the acreage is on the UP V. W. Lewis, livestock agent for the ACL Railroad, writes: “Since 1915, I have paid regular visits to Texas and have been in terested in noting that with one- third our rainfall, a great deal of feed is made there with grain sorghums.” It is surely a crop worthy of wider planting here. It fits right in with our grain, livestock, and poultry development. * * • Dry Walar I heard tales of the . drought when I was out in West Texas a while back. One fellow said his well got so low that he thought he had bet ter have the water tested. The report came back, showing only 30 per cent moisture in it. Another fellow said when they spoke of a 3-inch rain they meant the drops fell 3 inches apart • • • I Was Surprised I had a good visit with County Agent Miliken at Dallas, Texas, in February. He told me some surprising things. One was “The mule-operated parts of planta tions are still the most profita ble.” And he went on to say that the scarcity of labor is all that ever drove them to mechan ized farming on the great cotton plantations around Dallas. But, as he pointed out, the machine was a life saver. For otherwise, the land would lie out. . * # * Boys Are That Way About this time of year, the bark of hickory was slipping. We used it to make whistles of, as kids. We’d get a fast growing hick ory sprout about an inch across and without limbs. We’d pound it lightly a while to loosen the bark up, but not hard enough to break or bruise it. Then we’d cut it in the shape of a whistle, notch and all, and about 6 or 8 inches long. The core of wood could then be pushed out. Two short pieces of the core would be cut off. Wjth on ewe’d Stop Up the bottom end, and from the other, we made the stopper with air vent for the mouthpiece of the whistle. Those whistles would blow good for a little while until they started drying out. Then they would crack, and the jig was up. So the hickory whistles, didn’t last long, nor the season for making ’em either. FoT soon the bark stuck hard and wouldn’t slip. Then we went back to our cane-brake down across the creek in Mr. Bill’s bottom. There the canes grew large, and We dragged them the several miles home by the armfuls. With these canes we not only made whistles of all sorts, both single and double, but water squirters and pop guns galore. Next week I’ll tell you about them, and, oh yes, how we found that treasure house of large canes down there in that forbid den realm. Deficit May Top $7 Billion Next Year, Hoover Warns Washington, April 17—Former President Herbert Hoover warn ed today than next year’s federal budget deficit may reach “7 1-2 billion, dollars or more.” Pleading for a halt to tax-cut ting for the present and stronger efforts at coat-cutting. Hoover told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that “the disciples of more spending and still lower taxes are having their way." His remarks were aimed in large part at “pressure groups” seeking Urge expenditures and demands in Congress for further big tax cuts. The former president warned that the potential deficit, 2 1-2 times as great as the official forecast of the Eisenhower ad ministration reflects an infla tionary policy which is “the road to disaster in our society of free men.” “It is the surest road to disas ter in our defense against the Communist horde,” he added. In an address prepared for a banquet ending the editors three- day meeting here, Hoover said newspapers must preach pa tience to the states, cities and pressure groups who bombard Washington with appeals for “handduts." Hoover promised that, if post- ponable outUys can be deferred for a while, his Commission on Government Reorganization will be able to report within a few months on methods of saving five to seven billion dollars of government spending annually. But he painted a black picture of current progress 6f the Eisen hower administration’s effort to redeem its pledge of baUncing the budget. “It is already clear that the deficit'"for this fiscal year end- ing 76 days hence will be Urger than the budget estimate (of $3,- 300,000,000)” the Republican el der statesman said. ‘Tor next year instead of a $2,900,000,000 deficit, it will rise to a minimum of five billion dol lars. “And if the George amend ment (to increase personal in come tax exemptions) passes the deficit may rise to 7 billion dol lars or possibly more." This does not take into ac count what Congress may do in appropriating funds, Hoover said, but “if the demands of pressure groups have their sweet way the situation will be even wprse—some people have ex pressed the horrid thought it will reach nine billion dollars.” Whereas the “handout philoso phy” at one time was “tax and tax, spend and spend,” Hoover said the retrain is now “cut tax es, cut taxes,” but the spend- and-spend philosophy lives on. “The immediate medication is no further reduction of taxes than the administration propos als,, and to systematically re duce government expenditures until the budget deficit is met,” Hoover declared. “Then, and then alone, can inflation be stopped.” With a little patience, he went on, defense costs can be reduced by taking advantage of new weapons and methods of war fare. There is hope in this field, he said, because “the New Looks by the Eisenhower administra tion gaze in these directions.” But he added: “Let there be no mistake, we must have full defense.” The white-haired former Pres ident also saw prospects for bet terment of government financing in the expanding frontiers of sci- ience and invention which, he said are boosting productivity end will increase the federal revenues. Hoover advised the editors not to believe that inflation has been stopped. “It will continue as long as we have a deficit,” he said. He pointed out that a family now requires an income of $3,- 700 a year to achieve a living standard that a $1,500 income buy 23 years ago. The buying power of pensions and savings has been cut in half ::amid mil lions of tragedies,” he said. Excise Tax Ciit Complaints Are Being Received Washington, April 17—Members of Congress disclosed today they are getting mail complaints that some of the federal excise tax cuts have not been passed on to consumers. A random check of offices in dicated these complaints are not, yet at least, flowing in any signi ficant volume. Without price con trol, Congress could do nothing anyway. The office of one senator, who represents a populous state, has received about 40 complaints. These complaints mostly involved the admission tax and a failure to reduce the price of tickets for movies, college football and pro fessional basebal.. - Other offices reported fewer complaints and these, too, dealt mostly with the admission tax. In its long campaign for excise tax reductions, hwoever, the mov ie industry never promised to re duce the price of" tickets. 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