The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 22, 1954, Image 13
Thursday, April 22, 1954
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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COMMENTS
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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.
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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. With
business shrinking because of
competition from television, the
ater operators wanted the tax re
pealed so they could get more
money from each customer with
out raising ticket prices. Other
wise, they said, many theaters
would be forced to close.
RITES AT LAltE CITY ^
Funeral services for Miss Flora
Elizabeth Baldwin, 34, of Lake
City, who died unexpectedy
Friday morning at Whitten Vil
lage at Clinton were conducted
Sunday afternoon from the Lake
City Presbyterian church by the
Rev. W. H. Boyd, assisted by
the Rev R. W Park. Interment
followed in the Lake City ceme
tery.
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