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Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Tlmraday, October 14,1954 FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clem son College Information ^Specialist Feeding Molasses I ing the last spoken words of Growing heifers and milking many famous folks. George dairy cattle can use up to half of Washington said, “It is well,” as their needs in black-strap molas- that great life went out. Lord ses. This has been proven in tests here in the college herd. And they get along just as well as when on the usual full grain rations. We, being fairly near the refin ery at Savannah, can get this molasses at reasonable price compared with grains that it partly replaces The most practical way to feed it, according to Professors La- Master and King, is to just pour it over the roughage there in the trough or manger. In view r of the critical feed shortage at this time, doubtless many livestock growers will be interested in feeding some black strap County agents have the details and results from Clem- son’s feeding tests with it. Beef Cattle Sales Last week the Angus breeders had a cattle sale at Greenwood, and on November 11 they are holding one at Anderson. Hereford breeders are hold ing sales at Spartanburg on Oc tober 15 and at Orangeburg on the 28th. And the Catawba Val ley Hereford sale is to be at Lan- canser on November 19. Now while the feed situation sort of has cattle down a bit might be a good time to get some ( good foundation stock. That is, if you have the feed, or if you have good early fall grazing com ing along. * t • I'd Bet On This Last summer I saw fires raging across thousands of grain fields burning the straw and stubble off They were getting the land ready for soybeans. It just might nearly never rained after that. I’ll bet many a man wished he had baled up some of the straw. For, you know, oats straw is not bad feed at all, specially when you have nothing else. So, folks, remember that. Droughts do come. And a scorch- , er, like the past summer, leaves you with bare fields and H bare barns, with winter coming. My, the good that burned straw could ; do now! Then, pour a little cheap black-strap molasses over it and! you have a fair feed to carry ’em through on. Let’s not be caught like this again. A good batch of that straw baled and stored away could be a cattleman s fort now. And this condition will come i again, at some time. * * * Peppers Were A Fizzle Several thousand acres of -pi- miento peppers were planted in up-state counties this year. But most of the plantings never had a chance to make. Most of ’em got practically no rain from the time they were set until it was too late. This is a crop that seems pret ty well suited to our up-country. The past few years during which we have been growing some, 1 these peppers have paid well j where anything like normal rains came , Here is another case where ir rigation would have been a crop- saver. Like the tobacco and po tato growers, they could have used it to get a stand And then they could have used it to in sure the harvest, if the showers didn’t come. I wonder if folks will quit with peppers now. If so, by the same token we might quit with about everything else too. For nothing made much during this disas trous drought year. * * * Last Words I saw an interesting book quot- A. Trying to take up your problems as you mentioned them in your letter, I would say first of all that if your son has gone as far in alcoholism as appears from your letter, secrecy is im possible. Everyone in your com munity above the age of three probably knows about his drink ing. For your own peace of mind I advise that you face the fact that alcoholism is a sickness of mind, soul and body. An un pleasant fact faced openly is much easier to deal with, and loses much of its power to harm cr hurt. Again, you must face the fact that few if any alcoholics are helped by being committed any where. The nature of this af fliction is such that the alcoholic cannot be helped against his will- Again, it is very hard to do, but it is in the long run better to let the alcoholic stand on his own feet. If he writes ]bad checks, let him settle his account himself. If he is picked up for drunken driving, let him, go to jail. Tell him first of all, how ever, that he must stand on his own feet. Tell him you love him, but ♦hat love has failed to bring him to his senses. Therefore he must take the consequences for his own acts. The result of this may be that he will immediately go out, get drunk, and do worse than ever before to test you out. You will, then, be terribly tempt ed to cover up for him again. Don’t do it. He is your flesh and blood, but he is also an individ ual created in the image of God who must find his own life in the world and live it instead of run ning away from it through alco hol. Some will not learn except the hard way, and some not even then. We cannot accept committed patients. As to secrecy, we never make public the names of our patients, but we have learn ed through sad experience that those who are ashamed of havihg come here never stay sober. The, alcoholic and his family must honestly face the fact of alcohol ism and admit it publicly as well as privately. Q. Do you think that all the alcoholic needs is will power? My oldest son drinks and I keep telling him that if he would only use will power he could quit He tells me that he has tried. and cannot quit. I don't believe him. If he really tried, couldnt he quit? W. D. A. A. No. Will power alone is not the answer. Will power, whether in an alcoholic or non alcoholic, is never enough, for in the history of man • will power has lost nearly every battle with imagination. Your son is prob ably telling the truth. So try to believe him. Nagging and doubt will never help him find’ so briety. Faith and love may suc ceed where doubt and fear fail. Alcoholism is too complex to be explained so simply. Yes, we will gladly talk with you and your son if you come to Fair- view. Among Clinton contributors to Fairview are: Bank of Clinton, D. B. Smith, Baldwin Appliance' Co., Baldwin Motor Co., Mc Gee’s Drug Store, M S. Bailey & Son, Bankers. CREAMED CHEESE-HONEY Soften a bit of creamed cheese with honey, and then add chop ped nuts or raisins to it This keeps well on a hike or camp outing and your sons and daugh ters will love it. Byron said, "I must sleep now. And Stonewall Jackson’s last words were, spoken on the bat tlefield, “Let’s cross the river now and rest under the shade of the trees.” Wonder what you or 1 will say? That greatest of all adven tures must not be so frightening at all when we get near it. Rob ert Ingersoll quoted his brother’s last whisper to have been, “I am better now.” Our faith, too, tells us that. • * • » Boys Are Thai Way As kids, my, how we would hive treasured many of the throw-aways of today! A wide-mouthed gallon jar, one you could get your hand into, we could have kept our things from the rats and flies in there. And these sealed containers like oil and anti-freeze come in, boy, what we would have given for a few of them! We would have made boilers that would have blown the whistles we made from the canes that grew down on the creek Yes, and in cidentally, one would have likely been stopped up too tight and never bother their minds with blown up, scalding us. But kids such unpleasant subjects. We did get a friction type molasses bucket once. It was a rare treas ure. We built at furnace around it as a boiler and the steam blew out whistles for hours on end, sounding like an old-time peanut parcher. The handle was lost from that one is the only reason we ever got it. For buckets were scarce and money was too. Strings, wire, rubber bands, paper sacks, cardboard cartons, and the like of today would have each been a useful and treasured item to us. And all sorts of abandoned wheels of today would have been prized indeed. The only sort we had were saw ed from the trunks of trees, and they cracked when they dried. And occasionally the country store there got a cheese box with solid top and bottom We watch-j ed for those with the eye of an eagle. And they were spoken for > time they arrived Then when the cheese was all gone, the treasure was ours We nailed i ‘ grasshoppers” that worked back' them to the end of sticks, making and forth like the rockers of a locomotive. An old automobile tire was un- 1 known then. We would have treasured one of them for sure., A i d an old inner tube would have supplied the whole com-, munity with slingshot rubbers. r ;uty shells, crates, bottles, and, jugs that we throw away now would have all found a place with us. Change, change, the constancy of it! Alcoholism Today By Maxie C. Collins, Director, Fairview Alcoholic Rehabilita tion Center, Ridgeway, S. C. r^FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years T. E. Jones & Sons The Best for Over Fifty Team CLINTON, Q. I am writing to you in strict confidence to ask your help. Mv son is, I fear, ai alcoholic. He gets drunk, writes bad checks which I have always taken up, and once was picked up for drunken driving. My business connections in the Community would suffer if these things were generally known, and yet I know that something has to be done. I wonder if he could be quietly committed to Fairviev/ and kept there withci** the public know ing he is there. 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