The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 18, 1957, Image 10
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
FARMS.:.'
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
C^emson College
| • Information Specialist
"THIS TOO SHALL PASS" i usually as bad as we thought.
One 1 read a little'•poem that I’ve sure gone a bit'astray here,
impressed me much. I donf re- For this is primarily a farm col-
call its name or author. It de- umh. But it’s about folks, too.
scribed the common troubles we And the above has to do with
been lush of late. But an eye
needs to be kept there. For worms
can come in a twinkling and re
duce them to stem asnd stubble.
Yes, farming is a battle now.
A battle with many adversities,
specially the bugs. Science has
pretty effective remedies. Yes, if
detected and applied right on
time. Clemson keeps your county
agent posted on the newest J and
i best remedies, that are frequently
changing in this fast age.
Remember this, insects usually
meet in life. And it showed’how
some look bottomless when you
are mired down in ’em. However,
after describing each one and
showing how low the spirits fall
and how hopeless the future can
something that’s mighty import-
quite vicious. Plug the first one,
and it was greem Then we felt
that surely the next one would
show, red and we could have a
realization of our dreams.. And it
would be maybe slightly pink, no
good at all to es^t. On an on it
went. •
At first we‘got whippings for
this. Next year came along and
the urge ■vfras just as strong. We
feared those switchings. But we
had an idea. We would turn the
melons over and plug them from
work fast. And'unless you keep and ^n turn them
a keen Watchout the damage is * ack s ° no one ^ s « e ’ Bu !
the melons promptly rotted and
liable to be done before you know
it good. Early detection aids
greatly in the fight. Not only
have they done little damage
ant to folks. So I’ll leave it here I then, but are usually much easier
in the column. ! to kill when young.
see.
MIDJULY - . IRRIGATION GROWS ♦
. It is mid-July. Things are mak-1 In most parts of the rainfall,
look, each verse closed with the ing now, or trying to, if seasons | belt .irrigation is growing fast,
reassuring and ringing refrain, and bugs will let ’em The Arkansas extension service
“And Yet This Too Shall Pass Your soybeans might have been i says that state irrigated 513,000
Away.” j looking good yesterday. But to- acres of crops last year compared
Many times, when troubles day the worms could have invad-1 with 16.000 in 1946. Almost half
came, I've thought of that refrain, ed your fields and maybe now are °f this was cotton. And look
And theres’ a measure of comfort shooting them to pieces. what’s happened to their cotton
in it. Yes, do your best, and why And how’s your cotton? Poison-i yield, over a bale to the acre av-
worry, for This Too Shall Pass mg up to now might have been era ge now by just having some
Away.” erratic due to weather. A newL°f it irrigated!
And another thing along this j generation of weevils has had Last year here in South Caro-
Ime, I’ve noticed this, most of the, time to hatch. And slyly they' lina we just got started with farm
things we worn- about never hap- could be moving against the har- irrigation on cotton. Up to then
pen. Apply that to yourself and j vest there in your cotton patch, jit was principally at experiment
And if they do, they art not' Even the pastures could have. stations. Jt added about .a bale
. • per acre in both the experiments
and farm experience. No other
item of expense going into that
crop gave anything like such re
turns.
Clemson has been irrigating
cotton for a number of years. It
has paid, usually well, on all years
but one. And then they broke
about even. But that was an ex
periment. A farmer would not
have irrigated then. And up to
mid-season this year it hasn’t
been needed here. But most years
it will.
• • •
BOYS ARE THAT WAY
Of all the delights, of sunyner>
examination by parents told the
tale. Switchings!
This urge to plug was so persist
ent, we seldom had a good ripe
melon. . We did find a few ripe
ones though. They were the plant
ed skips and volunteers in the
cotton patch that came after the
crop was laid by. Picking cotton
then, out during cool weather, it
was a rare treat to find a little
knot qf a watermelon there in
the grassy middles, red and ripe
clear thtrough.
A watermelon is one thing that
hasn’t lost the charm of youth to
me. I still thrill at every cutting.
And its lush goodness is as strong
as ever. It seems as we get older
and are prone to get fat from eat
ing too much of the good things of
life, a watermelon stands alone.
For it carries all of the taste ap
peal of the best fattening things
we know. Yet one can partake of
its lush goodness as often as he
likes and get very little from it
th^t will add pounds where you
don’t want ’em.
So watermelon! The chief of
summer delights, I salute you.
■ Let savings give you
a “lift” to the vacation
you really want. And
place those savings
where above-average
earnings will make
them grow faster —
where they’re insured
against loss. Where’s
that? Right here, of
course!
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Let me discuss with you the | the least fanfare, it was decided
situation which has developed in i that one representative of our
Traffic Fatalities Rise
In 23 S. C. Counties
Twenty-three counties in South
Carolina had increases in highway
traffic fatalities during the first
six months of 1957 over the corre
sponding period of 1656, the State
Highway Department reported to
day.
Sixteen counties had a decrease
and seven had no change.
Counties with increases were:
Aiken, Lee, Lexington, Richland,
Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda,
Greenville, Oconee, Pickens,
Chester, Florence, -Georgetown,
Horry, Marion, Marlboro, Berk
eley, Colleton, Dorchester, Allen
dale, Calhoun, Clarendon and Or
angeburg.
Counties with decreases were;
Kershaw, Abbeville, Greenwood,
Laurens, Anderson, Spartanburg,
Cherokee, Fairfield, York, Dar
lington, Williamsburg, Beaufort,
Thursday, July 18,1957
Charieston, Bamberg, Barnwell,
and Hqhipton.
Counties with no change were:
Sumter, Newberry, Chesterfield,
Lancaster, Union, Dillon, and
Jasper.
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It from u* for vocation, Summer Expenit*, to Pay Old
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Phone 1690
the Senate during the debate on
whether H. R. 6127, the so-called
civil rights bill, shall be consid
ered.
This particular bill is one which
was passed by the House of Rep
resentatives and placed on the
calendar of the Senate, as I have
pointed out previously, by .the
highly unusual application of a
rule nbt ordinarily used in such
a manner. Then, when Senator
Knowland, Republican leader in
group should go to th White
House.
The President listened for near
ly an hour and Senator Russell
indicated that the President
would be wi-lling to accept a
weaker bill than the one passed
by the House. However, this has
not given us much encouragement
because the important thing is
that the bill not be passed in any
form.
As a matter of fact, I am not
the Senate, moved to bring the sure that the Senators advocating
this vicious piece of legislation
none quite equaled a watermelon 1 U P ^ or consideration, the de-
to us country kids. Dewberries, j started,
blackberries mulberries, wild UNNECESSARY AND
plums and the like were all right UNCONSTITUTIONAL
m their season/ But out in Julyj , Those of us on the Southern
—‘■lit? jt.U,pLuiTXLi ..-.l>ou.rity of- qrrTp—nf'-th#- rdnt tvp crViT -fraVfYT—i . — - - -
melcmsl “ ” ^ ^ofSe^S!
would be deterred in their desire
to impose the provisions of this
bill on the South—even' if the
President -were to decide that it
should not bq
i tj . « j., , , n °t have been placed oh the cal-
■ B / > ^ Ue U , a ched tf } em fro" 1 th <;, endar in the way it was, and that
1 , £ seed were planted. And th e bjj] y S unnecessary in all re-
when they came up our anticipa-.j spects and unconstitutional
in
many. -
Senator Russell of Georgia, who
has been in the Senate since Jan
uary- 12, 1933—longer than any
tion grew faster than they did.
Soon the yines began to run on
the ground, blooms came, and lit
tle green melons could be seen.
We would never pbmt at ’em* for,senator except Senator Hayden,
the colored folks told us that! 0 f Arizona, who became a mem-
wouid make em drop off. We b{ , r in 1927-is the co-ordinator
made paths to the ones that hung of an efforts and strategy of the
on ear \. And even though it is Southern group. We have been
only about 30 days from the'm*eeting from time to time to plan
b oom to the ripe melon, that, the best course to be followed.
. seemed like an ertdless age to us.
At about the end of three weeks SENATOR RUSSELL SELECT-,
we were becoming more and more ED TO GO TO WHITE HOUSE .
eager and could hardly wait. j Prior to Senator Russell’s meet-
Parents had threatened dire ing with th e President, our group
things if we plugged ’em. But 1 gave considerable thought to
whether it would be best for a
committee to talk with the Presi-
thats’ one thing we just couldn’t
resist. So just before anticipa-
servative Republicans in the Sen-
at.e I am sure that what he has
to say about the bill will not af
fect--Northern Democratic Sena
tors such as Douglas, of Illinois,
and Humphrey, of W^onsin.
NEITHER POLITICAL
PARTY TO HEL^FSOUTH
What this boils down to is that
the South' cannot expect any as
sistance from either of the two
national political parties.
The greatest encouragement we
Southerners in -the Senate have
from any source—other than our
own determination to fight the
bill to the bitter end—is that a
few Democrats and also a few Re
publicans, who would vote for
passage of the bill, will vote with
us for an amendmentto guarantee
tion reached the breaking point, dent or for Senator Russell- to go u™ 1 of’ JroTps^for 0 e^rceme^h
But our hope is that.we can pro-
we would take our knives and alone. In the interest of trying to
cut an inch square plug from the present our views to the’President
older . melons. This urge was 1 >n the best way possible and with
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They know there’s still nothing
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They know that Oldsmobile’s RESALE
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^—They checked the price and discovered
that Oldsmobile’s big-value "88” actually
costs much less than they guessed!
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NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK
JULY 21-27
long the debate until we convince
our opponents that it would be
bad -for the country or until we
j outlast them.
LITTLE HOPE OF
CONVINCING OPPONENTS
Siijce there is little hope that[
• we can convince the advocates of
1 the bill that it would be bad—
I not'only, for the South, but also,
1 for the entire country—we must
M,!v .n:ir. -iturom-. t/,
longer than they do.
Practically everything else has
[stopped :n the Senate during this;
debate over the so-called civil
I rights bill, except the meeting of
committees. However, even the’
work being done* in committees
'•has owed down as everybody is
devoting themselves to prepara-j
i tian. .ur the—continuing foglsla-i
I tive battle.
1 At this stage of the debate, it
i is impossible to predict how long
ithe fight will last.
ADVOCATES WOULD
IMPOSE HARSHER
TERMS THAN COURT
I hope that even,- citizen of the
; South—and of the nation—will |
; req . impoFtan'hr of' tins
fliili- •, -nr preservafion of eon-
, *titut.onal government * in the
1 nitod $tates. This is a continua
tion of the fight which started
with the Supreme Court s decis-[
ion :n .the school segregation cas-f
es. - The advocates of this billl
wan’ to impose even harsher'
i term* on the South than the dc-i
1 cision of the court imposes,
j I am doing my best to keep this
| from happening.
Dove Season Dates
£re Announced
Columbia, July 14—South Cao-
lina dove hunters will be allowed
two more doves in the bag this
season, provided they can hit
them, and five more days of hunt
ing. Director A. A. Richardson,
of the Wildlife Resources Depart
ment announced today.
. The state will again have a split
season, Sept. 14-Oct. 5, and Dec.
4-Jan. 10, with shooting hours
noon to sunset. The daily limit is
10 doves in the bag or in possess
ion.
The marsh hen season will run
Sept. 20-November 28 with daily
limit of 15 and a posse’kion limit
of 30.
The woodcock season will be
Dec. 10-Jan. 18 with a daily limit
of four, and a possession limit of
eight.
Seasons and limits oh water-
fowl and snipe will be announced
later. *
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ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church >s the greatest lac
tor on earth lor the building o'
character and good citizenship It
is a storeheuse ol spiritual values
Withou* a strong Church neither
democracy nor Civilization can
survive There are (our sound
reasons wry every person shoula
attend services regularly and jup
port the Church' They are (I)
for his own sake (2) for his
chi.dren s sate (3) For the sake
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For ,the sate c! the Church aso;*
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