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i / V Y. THE CLINTON CHRONICLF / —- - — — Soil Stewardship No man lives wholly unto himself. The re- sponsihle man works for the well-being of his family, his loved ones, his community and yountry. By his actions, he seeks to e{\rn the respect and friendship of his neighbors. In thoughts expressed, he hopes to guide his 'children wisely and lend good counsel else where as the opportunity appears. The hallmark of civilized man is the con cern he expresses for his fellow man. And this concern nurtures the spirit of responsi ble people at work on the land. The way man manages his land affects his fellow men. Soil poorly used and ill-tended results in wasted fields and in poverished eommuni- 1 ties. The steward knows, as he conserves the Tsoil. that other men and other families de- i pend now and forever on the produce of an ever-tVuitful land. He recognizes that the Earth is the Lord’s and that it was placed here for the benefit of all His children. And so the steward sen es God as he serves men • everywhere. Men are known by their deeds. So it is that the quality of Soil Stewardship is most evident in the doing. The true spirit of re sponsible people at work on the land is in evitably tested in the fields. Soil Stewardship has no definable limits. It may be of an indifferent quality or it may l>e exceedingly well done. It cannot be meas ured in acres or hours, or in miles or tons or blades of grass. There is no point at which the steward may step back from his handi work and say: ‘This is it. This is conserva tion completed.” The requirements of Soil Stewardship are perpetual. In the climate and uses of each tomorrow, the steward meets new’ challen ges to his ingenuity, his skill, and. his devo tion. How well he meets them can be meas ured only in terms of the sustained useful ness of the soil he cares for over the years. I V Thursday, 1969 Alternative To Delinquency Former President Herbert Hoover is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Boys’ Clubs of America. At the organiza- tion's 54th annual convention he said this: ‘ We hear much these days as to the causes and the growth of youthful delinquency. The blame is usually put on the failure of par ents; the failure of religious training and the infections from the TV and radio. • But one cause is too often overlooked. That is that the boys in many of our slum or congested areas have no place to go for air and play except the streets. Being self- starting dynamos of energy and also being gregarious, they join in groups. These groups too often step first into mischief ami from there to crime.” The Boys’ Clubs provide an alternative. 'ITie meml*ers are organized into sports teams instead of into gangs. And the clubs main tain shops and reading rooms where the boys are given the opportunity to determine their t>ent in life. These clubs need linancial support. It costs about $16 million a year to maintain the present dubs, and new ones are constantly being started. Their only source of revenue is voluntary donations. The same thing is true of other and similar institutions—the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Campfire Girls, and so on. All of them, as Mr. Hoover points out, need funds. Editor Don Robinson of The American Press observes: “Ha\i ig kept up fairly well with the so-called progress of our education al system in small-town America, as reported in country newspapers, I am becoming in creasingly convinced that all the fancy school buildings, the demands for more and more extra curricula facilities, the unimaginative requirements for teachers, and the insistence upon higher education foj all nit-wits, has resulted in little progress. ... In my opinion, a group of fifteen or twenty children, gather- id together in a small building for the sole purpose of learning, and taught by a teacher who is more concerned with their welfare than her own, would still get a much finer education than is available in our present million-dollar monuments to learning.” Political Payola . ^ ~ v We’ve heard all about “payola”—a device where, according to the revelations of a Con gressional investigating body, disc jockeys obtained large sums of money along with valuable gifts from record companies in re-1 turn for plugging the product. This, coming j on the heels of the TV quiz-show scandals, I has left a bad taste in the mouths of millions of Americans; But there’s 'another form of "payola” that is far more important. Congressman Halleck deserves the credit for calling attention to it. He describes the avalanche of proposed mul-1 tibillion dollar spending bills as "political j payola.” In his words, they "simply hand out the taxpayer’s money to buy votes for the next election." If the "political payola" groups have their way, there won’t be a budget surplus. In all probability there’ll be a deficit instead. Then we’ll have more inflation—and. ultimately, still more and higher taxes. Babson Discusses Why The Summit Conference Broke Up Babson Park. Mass . May 26—It does not seem rea sonable that the Summit Conference of the four larg est world governments broke up suddenly in a tur moil without a cause THE SPY INCIDENT Khrushchev must have kno^Ti for a long time that we were flying spy planes over Russia and that it was a routine thing with our Intelligence Service. Surely it could not have been the real rea- • For truly, the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, but the responsibility for its stewardship is vested in man/ 1 FARMS... AND FOLKS By I. M. Eleozer Clemaoa College Information Specialist Firs; draff'Hf the sign was this. •We Have Fresh Fish For Sale Here." Then the folks who sat around the stove there got to criti cising it The first one suggested the two first words "We Have” be cut out. because you have to have them »f they were for sale there. They all agreed on that. leaving it “Fresh Fish For Sale Here.” * ,v ' Then another fellow suggested cutting out the first and last words, for they wouldn't be offered for sale if they were not "Fresh.” and if they were for sale it would surely be "Here ” So they cut them off. leav ing" Fish for Sale.” On further thought they figured the "For Sale" was not needed for if you had fish in the store they would be for sale So that left it at just the word “Fish." | Then one bright fellow suggested that the word "Fish" wasn't needed either. "For." he said, ' anyone with a nose can smell em and know you have fish. So all agreed no sign at aH was necessary. | Bible School At Brood Street Church Set May 30-June 3 Vacation Church School will begin at Broad Street Methodist Church on May 30 to continue through June 3. , Classes will be held for kindergar ten through junior departments each morning from nine until. eleven. Monday through Friday. Refresh ments w ill be served by the various circles at the intermission period each day Mrs. .Allen Simmons, superintend ent of the children's division, is in charge of the Bible School. The following workers. Mrs. B. B. Bal lard. Mrs. Talmadge Simmons. Mrs. Joel Cannon. Mrs Murphey Tim merman. Mrs George Reid, Mrs. L, Know Your PC Faculty though many interpret thy- A REAL PROBABLE REASON bases which surround the Russian empire. Further more, it was understood that in the event of the out- son for the Summit Conference q Edwards. Mrs Forrest Adair,, breakup Something else must have SOYBEANS UPSTATE try kids did or had happen to them t -j, ar i es Buice. Mrs Paul Mul- happened to cause Khrushchev to So far the soybean expansion has when l was coming along ^ aI¥ j Howard Watkins, will' give President Eisenhower an uKi been mainly down-state Some coun- When I w as county agent at Sum ^ assisted by a number of high matum and deroand the abject apol ties now grow more of 'em than ter these tales were started in my schoo f ogy which Khrushchev, of course, they do cotton county column They were headed An offering vail be taken at the knew he would not get. This year their planting received "for Boy* Are Just That VAay. \ou of ^ school for the Methodist It also was a general surprise a boost in the up-state when a mill Know.'' When I went on state work. ^ amp Building fund when President Eisenhower indicat at Spartanburg, that uses a lot of l continued them Some t-dnors ed that the U-2 spying would be sus- meal, put m processing equipment i shortening that title and im- kJLmr Wjfinard Heatfc pended, at least for the time being, and promised a good local market proved it to what it is today. By JT' as a final cancellation Countv agents over the up-country rutting off three words they didnY ClOSSrOOm I COCherS „ . .r . held meetings with their fanners to hurt * » bit ,n fact the > improved A , a meeting of the Class Many rumors are flying in the various capital cities d]scu>s it. Room Teachers Association of Dis as to the reasons for the collapse of the Summit Coo- an< i specialists from Clemsoo told In speaking of brevity. I'm re- trict 56. Mrs. Barry F. Wingard lerence and the calling off of the spying gf -results vnth the crop in the test minded at a tale that went the was elected president of the asso- anas at the college The evidence rounds in the Stone Hills when I nation; Miss Ruth Hair, rice-pran- points to the fact that this can be was a kid there The local store dent; and Mrs Raymond Pitts. When I was in Moscow a short time ago. I heard a payu^ crop in the Piedmont started something new They got in secretary and treasurer the United States bases discussed The l mted States. as It 1# fuj-j^r do* n m the state a box of fresh fish in ice on the noon Retiring officers are: Mrs Julian it was said, was depending mainly upon these missile county Agent Bull of .Abbeville has train on Saturdays. They wanted Coleman, president: Miss Hair, vke- a number of farm demonstrations folks to know about it. so a sign was president, and Miss Mary Johnson, with it. as has many of the other proposed secretary and treasurer break of World War III. these missile bases would be a gcnts .n the Piedmont the first targets of attack: that is. Russia would first ^ llVf> a?x , ^ And ^ app , ies try to destroy these. , to soybeans At first we planted 'em Also while in Russia. I heard that the U. & bomb- almoM Aether following grain j ers were to be gradual^ withdrawn following tbe. w ^ „„ tmltoer except resM T S Defense Department s disagreement as to due> lHt from lhat ap pt iw i to the whether we should depend upon bombers or upon , rani missiles and rockets This may have b*en another ^ nmrtU ^ expern-nce have "Eisenhower compromise. Also when m Russia, I need to plant a lot of our heard much about rocketry and imssilry. Rockett are lhan „ po^jbi* on necessary to perform stunts in space, such as going , tubble land ^ nw i to ter '■ around the moon, but there are various types of mis tlhz , too vnth some phosphor j siles that are sufficient for fighting on land or water ^ and p, rtas h They are specially They can be fired from East Germany to any city in heavy feeders on the latter. The :he United States, or from any of nnr nitins U Unwin | gum pURlB^i MMUy betgrj yields, and different pi anting times of different varieties spreads the harvest season out better, too Dr Musen. down at Clemson s Blaekville Station, is doing extensive wwk on soybeans. It is a very odd „ . , .crop in its-response to treatments bases are a practical success If this is true, the ^ fertllurrs gfe ^ Not United States may have no further need of spies to ^ o^ier crops Dr Mu- discover rocket bases in Russia Furthermore, the ^ ^ digging in on it there and your United States may be able to give up rocket bases in count> . ageDl mi|th , ^ interested in countries now surrounding Russia arranging a tour there to sec his in- The land-based mobile rocket will work as follows: j teresting work with this crop this Instead of being on a fixed foundation, it will be on a { summer hea\y weighted car operating on heavy rails. This ma • • • bile base could be moved each night so that it would ^AKKETING MELONS be constantly in a different location Some nights it i Marketing is a big item with any might be moved only twenty-five miles, other nights ! cro p And there is where we so often a hundred miles. Furthermore, at junction points it 1 f a u down The farmer is primarily could be shifted to another railroad. Of course, Rus-1 a producer, but must look more and sia will also adopt mobile bases, but she has no such - more to his marketing. The melon railway systems as we have. This would make the growers of the Blaekville area are work of both the United States and Russian spies more difficult and dangerous. DR. NOLON CARTER Presbyterian College has an ex cellent reputation for the graduates it has sent out into the science-re- Utfed professions. Dr. Kenneth No- lon Carter, chairman of the chem istry department for the past nine years, exemplifies the highest stand ard of teaching necessary to provide this training. He has those attributes of careful scholarship, scientific curiosity and keen interest in students which com bine both to inform and to inspire those studying under him. He makes his influence felt also as a dedicated Christian who offers unselfish devo tkm to the institution. Dr. Carter came to Presbyterian College in 1951. immediately after receiving his doctorate from Van- derbih He had earned his master’s from Vanderbilt two years earlier, and he served as an assistant in general and organic chemistry lab oratories throughout his four years of graduate study there He received his BA degree from Erskine in 1947. Since joining the Presbyterian staff. Dr. Carter has done additional reseurch here and at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and has con tributed numerous articles to publi cations in the field. A native of Columbia and an ac tive church worker, be is married to the fanner Eugenia Goerney of Oak Ridge. Tran , and they have a Cross Anchor A News i MRS. J. L. BOLTON. Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. F..,C. Burgess of Reidsville. Mrs. Pauline Weir, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weir and children/ Bobby and Sherrill, spent Sunday af ternoon with Mrs. Minnie Dobbins. Henry Taylor has returned home after spending two weeks in Greer with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Huckaby. Howard Burgess is a patient at the Wallace Thompson hospital in Union. Mrs. G. J. Taylor of Enoree, vis- i;ed Mrs. J. L. Bolton Saturday. Mr and Mrs. C. L. Casey of Spar- tanburg. were visitors here Satur- * day. The Cross Anchor Garden Club will meet at the home of Mrs. M. L. Avinger Thursday night, with Mrs. G C. TCmpleton as co-hostess. Mrs. Maggie Bennett is program leader. Mrs. Louise Starnes and Mrs. Gertrude Stribble spent Sunday in Union. Mrs. E. E. Stribling and Mrs. J. O. Dobbink were visitors in Wood ruff Saturday. Mrs. H. P. Bennett and Mrs. Grace Sumner spent Saturday in Spartanburg. Mrs. Sullivan Skinner spent Thurs day with her mother, Mrs. Corrie Owens Three From Clinton Chosen For Winthrop "Senior Order" Three Clinton girls, Misses Sara Pitts. Betty Jane Hamer and Jen nie Addison, have been chosen for the Winthrop Senior Order. The rising seniors are the daugh ters of Mrs. James Pitts, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hamer, Mr. and Mrs James T. Addison respectively. Twelve girls, representing the most influential in the senior class, arc chosen each year for this hon or. Miss Margaret Ann Bolick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian S. Bolick. who is graduating May 29. made Senior Order last year and served on the court to make the se lection for next year. WHAT KHRUSHCHEV KNEW ABOUT BASES What may have made Khrushchev so ugly and in sistent on an apology from Eisenhower is that he was just learning of these mobile bases. For instance, now most rocket bases are fixed. Elsenhower, how- ever, was probably informed that the mobile rocket OTHER POSSIBLE REASONS FOB KHRUSH CHEV’S SUDDEN LEAVING Khrushchev probably had news from Moscow which caused him to destroy the meeting before it opened. It may have been some action of the Presidium di rectly after he left Moscow, or he may have felt that some other man was looking for his job and he had to be home to protect it. He may have heard that the younger element in Moscow is getting aroused, as in other countries, demanding reduced armament expen ditures so that they may have more consumer goods. He may have been informed before the meeting that he would not get satisfactory action on Berlin. Finally. Khrushchev must have been anxious to get home to speed work on his submarine fleet, as sub marines will eventually take the place at all land bases, fixed or mobile. The Chinese government, too. may have passed along threats to him which he could not ignore At any rate, knowing he was blocked on all the most crucial subjects, he saw that it would be impossible to get any agreement on a reduction of armaments CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY. MAY 26, I960 ii!l?r (Elintnn (Ehrnnirlp Establtted 1900 July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13, 1855 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year 83 00. Six Months 82.00 One Year $4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its sobneribers and readvs — the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters at general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper Is Ml responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Sooth Carolina Proas National Editorial Association AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York. Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia trying to do something about this important angle of their business. Their marketing Authority met in the late winter with 150 members present. County Agent Griffith tells me. Last summer they marketed $663,906 96 worth of watermelons and cantaloupes The latter were tested for sugar content and those not measuring up w^ere rejected. In 1 close cooperation with our extension marketing man and Clemson’s Sta tion there, their efforts should bej grow ingly fruitful in not only doing; a better marketing job but in pro-, ducing better melons It takes the, latter to do a good job of the former 1 with • • • LEAVE PLENTY COTTON 1 "Leave plenty cotton stalks on the ; land*” That's the admonition of Clem- son’s cotton man. Sam Williams, j For. without the stalks we just don’t get maximum yields. He suggests 3 to 4 stalks to the foot of row. And in 3-foot rows, folks, that means fifty to sixty thousand stalks per acre. Most of our cotton is not left nearly that thick But thousands of farm records and experimental evi dence shows it ,-ays. It is w ith thick dbCton. where just about everything, else is done right, that those high yields come from. Out West, where they make 2 to 4 bales per acre, moot of the cotton isjn’t thinned at all. It takes about 100.000 boDs to make a bale: So with 50.000 stalks to the acre, you cm see where such yields come from • • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY Eve been writing these true tales of my boyhood in Hie Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork for about 25 yean, total about UM And I atffl have a backlog of 'am to use. BEST OF ^ IU<K %uk m wdU MUfUAftAiUUAH tfmlfUmL Ketfaf tmiA SAAd mak ChaAl / 60 IRBY’S MARKET MUST,ROVE STREET For each of you we wish great happiness. GRADS OF 1960 SUNSHINE CLEANERS SHIRT LAUNDRY — SHOE REPAIR 1§2 W. Florida St. Telephone 436 APPLAUD ... your many achievements during the past year and wish you great happiness. McGee’S drug store Tm-N* 1 CITIZENS FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. abta*RC. St