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'■ I! t! • •> Page Ten f THE CLINTON CHRONICLE r Thursday, November 28, 1957 / WASHINGTON AND " r A A A I I SMALL BUSINESS” By C WILSON HARDER There is a strange paradox in Washington that often puzzles many observers. * * • / Obviously, this nation, and its people, abhor communism. # * • a Yet under export licenses is sued by the Dept, of Commerce this nation ii engaging! trade with Rus sia and othei communis bloc nations Europe. * * * f In fact, ac-i cording t C » m mere Secretary Sin clair Weeks, 1_ Ci WTTlarder this trade is rapidly growing, or increasing at the rate of about $1 million per month. In fact, It is possible volume this year may approach somewhere around $100 million. • • • The U. S is exporting to Rus sia, Poland, Rumania and East Germany such items as autos, cotton, wool, synthetic rubber, graphite electrodes, hides, ciga rettes, hops and other items. • oo Yet it is strictly against gov ernment policy to do any trading with China where there is a vast market. Between China and adjacent asiatic nations, almost half of the world's population is located. Of course, they are largely controlled by commu nists, and thus this nation cannot trade with them. 0 0 0 But so are thp U.S S R and the nations of Eastern Europe con trolled by communists. 0 0 0 Now the $64,000 question seems to be this. What yardstick is used to determine for trade purposes which communists are tolerable, which are Intolerable. 0 0 0 In other words, has official Washington now developed some g) Nation*! Ffedfrntton of Imlnu^etn Bmlnm secret scale of determining the degrees of communism so that there is now officially classified good communists, bad commu nists, and in-between grades of communists. 0 0 0 On the other hand, there are some observers who say it is not so confusing. They claim that through the British Crown Col ony at Hong Kong there is quite a lively and profitable trade be- tween Britain and China. 0 0 0 Mariners who ply the south China coast report there is a great deal of shipping in these waters. In fact, at times the seas an*quite crowded with shipping, in this area of the ,world. ooo Either, they claim, there is a heavy amount of commerce by somebody with China, or the Chi nese are Just craxy to tail hither and yon on pleasure excursions. 0 0 0 Others claim these reports of commerce is a reason State Dept, opposes American newspaper men being permitted to go into- China for a look-see around, oo* If the government has a strict embargo against exporting to sny communist nation, that could be understood. But trade with Russia, hands off China, doesn't appear to be a coherent policy. 0 0 0 Situations such as this have caused many to wonder if there is actually an American policy. -ooo Or Is the strategy to keep just enough turmoil alive In the head lines so that when a reduction in taxes seems possible, » grave new danger can be trotted out as justification for keeping taxes high. It seems more than a co incidence that every time a ma jor cut Is threatened in foreign aid, in taxes, or governmental expenditures, stories are released in Washington of great , new enemy weapons, or an expected’ assault on Formosa, or some other danger to peace. , : — has been upward through the years, although no spectacular increases have been made with it, as with many other crops. This state h J as ranked along from 4th to 7th among states in production of improved va rieties of pecants during recent years, i Many mistakes have been made in | selecting varieties, spacing, fertili^ zation. and care of pecans in the past. Those contemplating the plant ing of some would do welhto review the accumulated knowledge on thej subject contained in the above eir cular; Palmetto 4-H'ers Win Chicago Trip Hard work and perseverance brought auccesa and a trip to the 1957 national 4-H Club Congress In Chicago to three South Carolina 4-H Club members, Their records In 4-H Frozen Foods, Poultry, and Home Improvement were judged best in the state. \V * Watermelons, I like ’em! So I’m thinking about ’em now for '58. And I want to tell you of two good new ones. The Garrisonian is a dandy, carrying much of the qual ity of the fainted Darlington or Gar rison that doesn’t ship well. But this Garrisonian ships well and is really a dandy to eat, and has extreme dis ease resistance too. Makes large melons. Then there is the Black- stone, designed for those^Wanting an early Cannonball type melon with marked disease resistance. Both were produced by the USDA station at Charleston, and adequefte certi fied seed should be available the coming year. melon-s In 1858 FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Oiemson College Information Speri&list What Ails Lespedeza whith is becoming a rather com- Kor years lespedeza grew as a mon practice, as they will kill the crop in this state. First in the up- lespedeza. country. Then it gradually went to the coast. Much good was made The scarcity and cost of annual seedings too entered the picture. from it. and the seed proved to be a Many of his farmers had found al- good money crop. falfa a more dependable source of hay that didn't have to be seeded each year. And the spring droughts didn't hurt it as bad as lespedeza, for the alfalfa had so much longer growing season during which it could make several cuttings of hay a sea son as against one for lespedeza. ^ And. folks, there's the present les pedeza picture. Its futureOnly time will tell. Marl in late years, we have seen les pedeza fade as a major, crop, and almost go from the picture at most places Why, I wondered? So I ask ed my county agents and farmers about it The most common reason giveij was that we seed grain heavier now and fertilize it more ; . That, on top of dry springs, gives the small strug gling lespedeza in it more competi tion and it just dies out while the Change In Marlboro more advanced grain is making County Agent Abrams pf Hugh McGee, farmer of Anderson, boro says: "A heavily fertilized cot was the first to advance this rea- j ton crop with unfavorable weather son. Several years ago he saw it and and poor insect control gave us only started giving lespedeza the status about 40 per cent of a crop this of a full crop on its own land Pre- year." part'd and sown on clean land in Marlboro was once just about all •March, he has continued to make cotton But interest in other things gooo-crops-ui-.-botfa_hay -ind seed ^ running high—there too- Their from annual lespedeza. County general farm tour in August featur- Agent Hopkins ol Anderson shared ed Coastal Bermuda grass, annual that view grazing crops, soybeans, cotton, County Ageift McCord of George-1 corn, irrigation, and cattle raising. town thought piotash deficiency had. 0 af/tyt 10 w ‘th' it on the sandy. Revised Pecan Circular Lands ofthelowcountry. He pointedt The Specialists'of CIem>on have Boys Are That Way Plugging watermelons is some thing we just couldn't resist doing as kids. We liked ’em so, and it seenied so long from one ripening season to the next, we just couldn’t wait. So we plugged ’em to see if they were red inside. One summer our dad really laid down the law about it. We had a nice patch of melons and he didn’t want to see the best of 'em ruined by plugging again. So we laid off of that. But there are other ways of telling about ’em. like thumping ’em with the forefinger. We had al ways heard if they sounded "pink” they were still green. But if they sounded "punk” they were ripe. So we carried that to an extreme. We must, have started, thumping them when they were about half green. And -we kept ; it up almost daily, for we were hungry for melon But the sound kept coming back •/pink” We'd thump harder to try to .make ’em say the welcome dead •punk ripe sound but they wouldn’t until they gofready. It was then we found a lot of knotty white spots in the meat of our melons. Parents' wondered why. But we didn't. We knew. Early .bruises My friend Jim McBride of the SAL Ry. tells me of the late Vice President Barkley who plugged .a lot of his dad’s melons when he was a boy His dad cut a switch and called him in. He said he recalled what George Washington had said under similar circumstances,-"Fath er, I can’t tell a lie.” But he also remembered he wasn’t, George Washington and could tell a * lie, which he did. M«rik« EtUn Lavar Lota of fresh frozen fruits, vegetables, meats and baked foods are served the year around in the home of Martha Ellen Lever, 18, of Barnwell County since she began her 4-H Frozen Foods project. She prepared over 8,000 pounds of food for the freezer. Organizing, demonstrating and being a good leader make Martha Ellen a popular girl in her com munity. She appearad on TV sev eral times, plays tne piano and organ, and organized a commu nity 4-H Club this year. Her excellent record in the frosen foods project brought her state Imors and a trip to Club Congress provided by Whirlpool Corporation. Putting all of his eggs In one basket was a winning factor for Adrian Thomas, 18, of Aiken County, who is state champion In the national 4-H Poultry pro gram. A trip to Club Congress waa hla reward, provided by the Sears Roebuck Foundation. A club member for seven years, Adrian raised 73,600 chicks in five years. His net profit in that time, including prize money, is over $6,100, which he will use for his engineering course at at Clemson College. Adrian Thomas Patricia Coatee Adrian’s 90 exhibits made hi"* county winner once, and • bine award winner twice at diatriot shows, and twice at State Fair. He is a past president and loader of the Monetta Sr. 4-H Clnb, a leader at school and third high est In his class. ‘ Patricia Coates, 16, of Kershaw County, la well on the way to a successful career as a homo maker. She was named 1967 stata winner in the 4-H Home Improve ment program, and her reward la an expense paid trip to the Clnb Congress provided for the 17th year by Sears Roebuck Found* tlon. A 4-H’er for seven years, fiho was a three-year county winner in Home Improvement Pat and her mother made an old houoa Into a livable home for their fan* ily, remodeling rooms and refin- ishing walls, floors and fumltnra. Pat had a major part in selecting colors and furnishings for added rooms. Some of the skills Pat learned In 4-H work are: painting, re modeling rooms, slip-covering, upholstering and making pleated drapes. She also carried 10 other 4-H projects. AH of these 4-H programs are under the direction of the Co operative Extension Service. ^ The Christian Viewpoint In Edgewater Park, New Jersey, we read in a paper, there is a con troversy as to whether or not ele mentary school children can say a blessing before Itltich. TTie state attorney general hed that an inter val of silence understood by the children to be for grace would be a religious exercise nad therefore il legal. He said the silence period could be observed without any un derstanding grace was to be repeat ed by the children to themselves. The principal is reported to have said, “I would say 98 per cejit of our people are in favor of their children saying grace. Our legis lators have incorporated ‘one na tion under God’ in the salute to the flag but apparently we cannot men tion God in prayer.” "i The New Jersey law requires the reading of at least five verses from the Old Testament, without com ment, in each classroom to start the school day. The state Supreme Court has fuled that the LortTs Prayer and the Old Testament are nonsectarian. It has been suggest ed that five verses from Psalm 103, a prayer of thanksgiving, be read before lunch. Maybe we need some fresh air in the musty thinking of some of our legal minds. The first amendment to the constitution says “Congress shall make 'no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pfo- hibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press—.” If that 98' per cent of the children ask the principal to keep everyone quiet for a minute before luneh^so they may not be prohibited in the-name. Bless Jehovah, O my soul free exercise of their religion, it seems they have strong constitution al grounds for forcing him to do so. Too long in our public schools laws, we have had interpretation limit ing the rights of children to the'free exercise of their religion. At this Thanksgiving season it may do us all good to say over the 103 Psalm which the New Jersey Supreme Court says is nonsectarian: “Bless Jehovah. 0 my soul; And all that is within me, bless his holy and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities: Who heaieth all thy diseases; Who re- deemeth thy life from destruction; Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.” (Prepared by Department of Bi ble, Presbyterian Junior College, words of the first five verses of-that Maxton, North Carolina'. THE WATCH HOSPITAL W. PITTS STREET Houtto 2:00-6:00 P. M. Daily deed, do everything in the name of „ . , . ... the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to He 18 ^ for Ws merc y endure t h EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Spa ugh God the Father through Him.” "Let us come before His pres (■nee with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him psalips. __ “Thanks be to God for His inex pressible gift! *. —•‘O give thanks unto the Lord for forever.” “Through Him then let us con tinually offer up a sacrifice of with praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that .acknowledge His name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sac rifices are pleasing to God.” IF YOU DON'T READ . THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS PhoM 74 Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. 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They oil the machinery of society, of industry, or the home, and the individual nervous system Personnel direc- _ . tors in industry have learned that .out: lespedeza is a heavy feeder on j^ist received Circular 301 on Pe- and women do their best work potash and the average farmer can Production and Marketing maunder th'e stimulus'of appreciation doesn't put enough back to make up South Carolina ' It is free for the for what the crop takes out. The re- asking from your county agent or suit is. after a few years of that, the from the Publications Division here land is so shorf in* potash that this 'at Clemson gross feeder on it just won’t thrive it is time to set out pecan trees there as it used to. And the heavier now Every home without shade seeding and fertilization of grain, on should have a few for that purpose, lop of-dry springifc.hurfrtrHit too, he in addition toTfi! r valUabte ffutslhey thought.. make And commercial settings un- Then over in Spartanburg I found der the right conditions would not additional reasons. County Agent be amiss either. .Martin pointed to the fact that tnod- The pecan is the only commercial ern weed killers could not be spray- nut we grow, and it is to be found ed on gram with lesjaedeza in it, in every county Its production here LAI RENS COUNTY Tax Books Now Open -The tax books of I>aurens County will open for pay ment of the following taxes: t C C, e « e x ■p U5 J 1 mmi ■++ §1 •a - u t- « S 1956-57 Total £ 5 w a X X e x ec Sc o -o x u: Laurens No. 55 '18 34 1 53 l-aurens No. 56 18 30 4 1 53 Greenville No. 520 18 38 t Vi 56i/> Ware Shoals 51 18 42 60 (County-wide includes: ordinary county, 9 mills; bonds, 8 mills; hp^pital, 1 mill—total, 18 mills). — (Mauldin-Simpsonville-Fountain Inn Water District levy, 13 mills). Every male-between the ages of 2Tand 60 years, who is not physically disabled is required to pay $1.00 poll tax. Tax books open October 1,1967, and will remain open without j)enalty through December 31, 1957. Taxes will be collected through April 15, 1958, with penalty added, and will go into execution April 15, 1958. The following penalties,will be collected: January, 1 per cent; Feb ruary, 2 per cent; March, 3 per cent; and from April 1 to April 15, 7 per cent.. SAM M. LEAMAN COUNTY TREASURER Safety directors have learned that the happy and grateful worker-has the least number of (accidents. Edu cational and social leaders have learned that men and women are best led to constructive thought and action through appreciation. Doctors “psychiatrists and" ministers have learned that the door to health and happiness is appreciation. From long association with people 1 have learned that the chronically ill are the complainers who haVe lost the grace of gratitude, if they ever had it. The teachings of the Bible, center and revolve around love and grati tude, which is ^n expression of love. The secret of answgred pray er is thanksgiving. St. Paul Wrote, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say. Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. TTie Lord is at bond. Hav*no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the grace of God, which passes all under standing, will keep your hearts and- your minds in Christ Jesus.” (RSV) He tells us that we are to pray about everything, and with thanks? giving. No matter how small our need we are to ask God about it and then thank Him. The reason so many of our prayers aren’t an swered is that they are not conclud ed with true thanksgiving. Pray ers offered in true faith in God will receive an answer. It then re mains for us to thank Him, and then wait for the answer. Learn to be thankful and practice it every day in your relations with God and your fellowman. Follow the in- mains for us to thank Him, and strtictions in the Bible, that great Book of Wisdom. “And whatever you do, in word or GILES FEED & SUPPLY 203 N.-Broad St. This Series of Messages Is Published Each Week By the Following Clinton Firms in the Interest of Increasing Church Attendancer GULF OIL CORP. J. A. Addison, Distributor PALMETTO OLDSMOBILE CO E. Carolina Avenue JOHNSON BROS. South Broad St. '4; vt&t/ Ipl v - x % itAsi. ■p BANK OF CLINTON 215 N. Broad St. GASTLEY’S GIFT SHOP Columbia Highway THE FIRST • < 'at % w-.V-W.- .V--- • - * COOPER MOTOR CO. 211 W. Main St. NEWBERRY COUNTY BANK Joanna W OFTICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. C. & L. CONCRETE CO. 205 W. Carolina Ave. ‘ CUNTON TIRE & RECAP. CO. 113 S. Broad St. HOTEL MARY MUSGROVE North Broad St. YARBOROUGH OIL CO. 415 W. Main St. SUNSHINE CLEANERS 102 W. Florida St. CITIZENS FED. SAV. & LOAN 220 W. Main St. CHRONICLE PUB. CO. 109 Gnry St. Dost think this turkey will please the Pil grim Fathers? Those cranberries have been strung with careful fingers, the bird itself has been roasted to just the proper degree of succulent brown ness, and that bit of wheat, lying on the table, symbolizes the rich bounty of this year's harvest. If our Puritan maid, Priscilla, looks a bit skeptical, it is only because she is wondering if tom turkey will be big enough to satisfy all the hungry guests. They will be coming with vigorous appe tites, whetted by the walk through snow covered fields from Church, where they have given thanks for their good fortune. And on all Thanksgivings since that first one, thankful ^people have knelt in prayer. Thanksgiving is our own American holiday, unlike any other. It is deeply religious in nature. -We can only observe it if, like the Pilgrims, we go to church to give our thanks. And never have a people had cause to be so thankful for so much. 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