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Newspapers Better Than Radio in News New York, Jail, 2.? I'rtfnacy of the newspaper proas uh the "only real uml trustworthy medium for dissemination of news ami the inouldlnK of lnthllo opinion" wits upheld today by Winston Churchill, noted Fugllsh statesman. After a thorough analysts of the aubJuUi-AUu.-X'huabllJ k.^iiyiti^ "there can be no really serious ('habl lunge to the press from either radio or moving pit lures," ami, looking further ahead, from promised television ' "I believe that huth Kngland and America can he proud of their press," he says, writing in Collier's. "I believe they cun trust their press. "In other countries whose peoples are less Intelligent or where education Is less careful of the Individual mind, the future of publicity may lie with radio and moving pictures. Under dictatorships the press Is bound to languish, and the loud-speaker and film to become ever more important, ihil where free institutions are indigeoiiH to the soil, and men-have the habit of liberty, the press will continue to be th* fourth estate, the vigl lant guardian of (h<- rights of the ordinary citizen." Mr. Churchill sees no "menace in , advertisement" nor does he believe I here could ever be any mucci-shIuI corner ur news and opinion in the Culled Slates or Flighted. It w<>111<I In- aili-etation in ignore two burning ijin-stloiis," tie- Colliet s n i m i 11 <-i i n 11 n ie v I 111 line'' it I r.i I ion hi iio\v>pup<-r ow 11?-r.-1111 in relatively t.-vv baiels and the power ot ;elv> rtis i i>, to db tale polit y ai'i- both held to trespass n poll tie* lioeilom ol (hi: pl'ess. "Frankly, I think that hot.li these features aie i saggerah d There is salety in liillllhers. A pit ss combine must, as a matter ot business, d? h*gate <i large measure of responsibility for policy to its ciiitoVs and a gnat editor stamps his own-personality up on the- paper which he controls; and no newspaper can afford to suppress Important news which Us rivals will print. "There Is certainly no menace in advertisements. It was the development of commercial advertising that lira! enabled the press to stand on its own feet, without relying on subsidies front governments or politicians and revenue from ibis source Is still the bulwark of its independenee today. "Advertisers are business men they pay to havo their unnouneements placed before the largest possible public, and they ought to know that permanent circulations can only be secured by honest news and hottest opinion '' In a more specific consideration of the subject of news as offered to the public by means of radio as compared to newspapers, Mr. Churchill declares; "People who listen to radios do not as a rule, concentrate on it. They switch on the se.t and carry on with whatever they are doing. Ideals can ( not be apprehended so casually. Hut we sit down to read newspapers. We concentrate upon it. So the ideas . which we find on the printed page reach out to us. We think them over. ( They help us to form considered opinions. which we may he glad to have relnforeed upon the radio." Mr. Churchill also discusses news conditions In other countries than Fnglund and the United States, pointing out that if the press !s to live up to its traditions it must be free. "The fate of the press in (lertnany i> an objri t lesson." he says "Journals whose names were household words, whieh lieu- read and quoted all over Kurope. huv. teased puldien t ion. I 'i e; i rile d .lint -Inn kh-d. doprive.i mti* i" inletn . or the rmlil to, e\|ite-.-? opinions, honestly held, they Lav. di- d oin a., oiu Those newspaper- which remain, the servile mouthpiect s ef tie. regime, pap-fed by the ministry of propaganda, see their circulations dwindle dally. "Dictatorship lias allowed a wider measure of freedom to (he Italian newspapers, but there, too. prestige of the press has suffered from the knowledge thnt it enjoys only a shadowy indepe.mlenee and that no editor dares to offend the I)uoe. "I helieve that only in Russia has the circulation of newspapers increased under a dictatorship. But that Increase is due almost entirely to the tact that a much larger proportion of the population than formerly is now able to read. And Russia, it may bo remembered, never possessed a free press. As a general principle we may say that dictatorship and the liberty of the press are incompatible. "A free press Is the unsleeping, guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe to tyranny," Mr. Churchill writes. "No wonder Iheg that the great democracies have always been quick to resent any attempt to limit Its Independence or to bring it under regulation." Labor troubles, processing taxes and the 40-hour week are assigned aa a reason for a met loss of fl.lSMtt m 1936, by the Naunkeag steam cotton company of Massachusetts. ^ u.. . ~ BIRTH AND BURIAL PLACEb Of Our Presidents May Be Of Interest To Headers Of History, George Washington wax horn at Wakelh-ld (Westmoreland couniyL Va. lli< Hum hurlod in the funiily burInl vault at Mount Vernon. John AdaniH was born in Quiticy, I Mass., and It la horn, in tho granite temple of the First Cniturlan church, that ho IJe? buried. ' Thomas Jofforson was boin ul Bhud well t Albemarle couulyh Va,. uuti wub buried at Monticello (Albeinurle eoun! ty t, Va. Juines Madison's birthplace whh Port Conway (King George. county), Vu., and IiIh burial place, Mont poller (OrttiigH county), Va. James Monroe's birthplace, Westmot eland county, Va.; burlul place, Hollywood cemetery, Itichinond, Va. John Qulncy Adams, born In Quincy, Muss.; burled in the granite temple of Firm I'nltarlun church, Quincy. Andrew Jackson, born in Lancaster county, South Carolina, buried on tho Hermitage ostute near Nashville, Ton n. Martin Van Huron, horn in Kinderbrook (Columbia county), N. Y., burled in the Kindorbrook cemetery. William Henry HarrJaon, born at Horkeley (Charles City county), \ a., buried near his old home In North Mend. <) John I yler. horn at Greenway (Cliarlex City county). Va., burled in HoiHwood cemetery, Kb lunoiid, Va. James Is Polk. born near Pjucviih M? < kleniiiiiM county i. X buried " 'ho stale- rapitol grounds, Nash '.lb', 'I ?mi /..i? In s > i a \ lor. I).ii'n in < ) range < ount . \ iri'iiiia. buried m-a i t in- old Taylor home t Springlield >. about, m-v " miles east of Louisville, Ky. Millard Fillmore, born in Sumiui rbill i Cayuga c ounts ?. .V Y., buried in Fon-st l.awn <-? nietery, Buffalo, N Y. I* in11kIi11 Fieric, born in .Millsborough. X. II.; burled in Old North cemetery. Concord, N. H. lames Muchauun, born near Cove Hap. Fa : burled in Woodward Kill cemetery, LnncuKter, Fa. Abraham Lincoln, born near llodg' nville, Kv.; burled Oak Kidge cemetery. Springfield, ill. Andrew Johnson, born In Kaleigh, N C.; burled in Greenville, Tenn. Flyases S. Grant, burn in point Fleasiiirt, () ; hurled in Kiverside Falk. New York City Kuthertord H. Hayes, born in Delaware. (> ; buried at Fremont, (). James A Garlic-Id, born in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio; hurled in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, O. Chester A. Arthur, born in Franklin county. Vermont; buried in the rural cemetery. Albany, N. Y. Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, N. burled at Princeton, X'. J. Benjamin Harrison, born In North Bend, O.; -buried in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. William McKlnley, born In Nlles, (>.; buried in Canton, Ohio. Theodore Roosevelt, born in New York City; burled at Oyster Bay, L. I. William H. Taft. born In Cincinnati. 0.; buried In the Arlington National cemetery. Arlington, Va. Wood row Wilson, born in Staunton. Va.; buried mi tho NatlOhal Cathedral, WashlngtonAD. C, Warren GAHardin, born in Morrow county, Ohio;\ burled In Marlon, Ohio. f alvin Cool edge, born In Plymouth. Vt.: buried at Plymouth. Herbert ( lark Hoover was born in West Branch, la . and President Koosevelt at Kruin Elbow, Hyde I'ark. N Y TODAY ^ FI' ll>e setting sun. vour liop?-s <<t > st tela> died out. All right. That was >esterday Things didn't materiali'/.i the way you dreamed they would. All right again. Now?the present hour is Today. Yesterday bears no relation to it, except perhaps, the relation that a nightmare bears to the morning after. Forget all about yesterday ... it is dead and buried in tHo cemetery or Time. Today is alive. Are you? Well then, got busy! Fling from your shoulders the depressing weight of those hopes that haven't come true. Stand erect. Man, the world is yours! You have Just ns much claim on its good- tilings?on the things you've longed for nnd prayed for and worked for?as the other fellow has. 1 ills hour has been handed to you as a gift from the overflowing storehouse of Eternity. What are you doing with it? Answer that. Moping? Growling? Despairing? For shame! God jias favored you with another chance to make good. . He has given you Today. Prove your appreciation by making n stepping stone to happter, worthier tomorrow!?Cleveland Star. Charles W. Anderson, Jr., a negro, of Louisville, Ky., Is to be seated In the Kentucky legislature after a contest decided In his favor. He will be the first negro to hold a sest- in the Kentucky legislature. r?? 1 c Everybody Loses When Woods Burn K. W Helger, who is the Houth Curollim Htate Forest Service's District Forester with headquarters In Camde.ii, has recently made u tour of his district, which includes Kershaw, Richland, Chester, Chesterfield, Fan custer, York, Bumter, Leo and FairHeld counties, TLui forester aluK'b th?t In traveling over these counties Jie was forcibly in pressed hy the marked contrast between woodland areas which have been protected front forest Area und those which have been allowed to burn over periodically. The two types of areas, present generally two very different pictures. Ah a rule on areas over which fire has repeatedly burned there is a noticeable absence of young tree growth and seedlings, which constitute the landowner's surest guarantee of u future timber crop. On areas where ft res occur annually the seeds, especially pine, seeds, are usually destroyed by lire, thus making the establishment of a young tirn her crop Impossible. Other areas, on which tree growth and other vegetation has been destroyed by fire, are now subject to water erosion and tons of valuable spll are each year being washed from these exposed ureus to eventually tlnd their way, into our creeks and larger streams where they have a tenduncy to kill our (ish and in sonic instances' result in the si reams hm oming subject to overflow tin ring period* of excessi vo .rainfall. Another damage . incurred by lire i>u lands from which it is not excluded is that of reducing the productivity of the soil by destroying the organic manor which is supplied by litter from ilie trees. Tibs litter, if not destroyed by lire and allowed to accumulate, also acts as a sponge und has a favorable influence on the soil with reference to its moisture content. It also regulates stream flow in that it retards the speed with which rain water finds its way to the stream. Trees on a few tracts, including some that had been burned and some that bud been protected from fire, were examined from a standpoint of growth rate, and it was brought out in every instance that fire had materially reduced the rate of growth. Many of the trees on areas subjected repeatedly to fire had diseases contracted as a result of fire injuries. A fewtracts were observed on which timber of saw-log size had been destroyed, and enumerable instances of sawtimber having been materially reduced In value were perceived. On many of the protected tracts a young timber crop was well established under the older trees. In woods or this type there was a deep covering of forest litter which was constantly disintegrating and decomposing to add to the productivity of the soil. On areas, over which fire had swept uncontrolled for a number of {iraes, any value which might have been termed aesthetic was not in evidence, and the sight presented by woods of this type was far from inspirational. Fires resulting in conditions similar to those described herein are certainly resulting in a financial loss on the part of someone, and a close study of the woods' worst enemy substaniated the statement that everyone loses when the woods burn. Gimme, Too, Says Bennettsville Man lh-nuettsville, Jan. 10.?When a resident' <>f Mennettsville read in a newspaper that the town had distributed Christmas gifts totaling $ in the form of cancelled water, light ami power bills, for December, he caim to Mayor Troop L. (Toslaml for his gift. Asked if lie hadn't received hi- l)e i-ember bill marked paid the man replied he had neither light nor water in his house. Since he did not lie figured he should h^ve received instead $2.4S, the average of the water and light hiU^X The mayor advised him to put in water and lights"~and hang up his stocking for Santa Claus next year. 17-YEAR LOCUST HORDES TO COME OUT THIS SPRING Urbnna. 111.. Jan. 14.?Kmerglng from a 17-year retirement for a hare three works of life, mllltons of cicadne. which usually are referred to I as locusts, will make their appearance I In seventeen states oast of the Mississippi this year. Cicadae will bo abundant during May and early June in southern Michigan. Indiana. Ohio. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Virginia. West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Dela ware and parts of New York, particularly lx>ng-Island. The 17-year clcadae, socalled because of the time lapse between appearance of adults, are not harmful to cultivated crops. Instead all of the damage la done by depositing eggs in the twigs of shade, fruit, or forest trees, or In ornamental shrubbery. nil.I .y M? Soybean Seed Fraud Headed South Again Clumaoi), Jai^lfi.?With reports uiready coining in that large amounts of Ebony soybean seed are bejng trucked Into the south from Illinois und being wold uh the Otootan variety, K. W. ilamilton, extension agronomist, cautions all buyers of soybean Heed for planting purposes to determine carefully the source of the seed which they are buying. "Those who were growing soybeaus in 11*144 will recall the famous South Carolina soybean Heed fraud thut was perpetrated upon Otootan soybean Heed purchasers in that year," says Mr. Hamilton, "The Ebony seed, which was the seed used in 1924 to imitate or substitute for the true Otootun seed, is again the seed being ubed tills year. These unscrupulous Hellers use Ebony Beed for this purpone because the seed of the Ebony and Otootan vurietieH present the peculiar botanical fuct of appearing identical. "The characteristics of the plants ami the growth of the plants, however, are entirely dissimilar, the Ebony not being adapted to the conditions of growth and purposes for which South Carolina farmers plant, the Otootan." Mr. Hamilton points out also that the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports that in some southern states a yellow bean of the Macoupin' variety is being sold as the Mammoth Yellow, and tins Norredo variety is being so hi as the Laredo variety. Such sales, (it" course, are fraudulent subsi it ut ions. "Anyone purchasing Otootan, Munimoth Yellow, or Laredo seed should make such purchases only after having satislied himself that the seed being purchased were .grown by a reliable grower who is known to be producing seed of the variety desired," Mr. Hamilton concludes. Sees Roosevelt Re-elected. Columbia, Jan. 20.?"That Roosevelt will be re-elected president was the majority opinion of students attending the annual convention of Student Federations of America in Kansas City recently," declares Thomas F. Mauldin, president of the University of South Carolina student body, who attended the conference as the University's representative. Girls who work in the Iowa liquor commission's office at Des Moines, are forbidden to have dates with liquor salesmen or newspaper reporters. The reason, as a commissioner explained: "So there'll be no leaks as to official business." ***. 'Poultry Movgjnent i From State Heavy l Columbia, Jan. 18.?Approximately ttuo.OOO pounds of poultry lias moved from South Carolina to eastern markets during the past six weeks, states George 10. Prince'of the C'lemson Cob lege Kxtension Service, Division of Markets. This poultry was ?!d through cooperative ear-lot and D-ia.i; schedules arranged by Mr. Prince's offlee and county agricultural agents. I Some 6,.">00 growers in 24 counties participated in these sales and received around $48,000. This amount of poultry would hll 20 cars. "Prices of poultry in the eastern | markets which have been relatively low during the past three years ad1 vanced considerably during the fall months," says Mr. Prince. "Dealers I are now offering higher prices than , those being paid locally. This has j resulted in heavy loadings on all schedules operated recently unddr the Di' vision of Markets." ! Additional schedules are being ar| ranged weekly and Mr. Prince anticiI pates that at least as much more poulI try will be moved from South Carolina during the next two months. Reports to his office indicate that more 1 growers than ever before are taking advantage of these schedules to con' vert a part of their farm flocks into cash. Pop Corn Crop Much Larger This Year Pop corn is not ho much of a luxury thin year as last. The farm price in December 1934 averaged within 2 cent* of $0 per hundred pounds. In the early monthsof 1930 some eastern dealers asked 12 to 13 cents a pound for certain varleties. The December price to farm-" ers for the 1935 crop was $2.15 per hundred pounds. In 1934?the drought year?the crop in the three pricipal producing States of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska totaled a little over 5,000,000 pounds. The 1935 crop Is estimated at well over 34,-000,000 pounds by the Crop Reporting Board. Records show that a surplus of pop corn Is more coinmqn that a shortage. Because a court ruling was against him, John W. Keogah, member of an uristocratic Chicago family, went wild and shot an attorney to death and sent the judge scampering to safety, missing the judge, by inches when he fired at him three times. Senator NorriB, Republican of Nebraska, bluntly told farm leaders in Washington that no law regulating agricultural production would be held constitutibnal in the light of the supreme court's AA'^ decision. 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