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I MATHER ACADEMY TO HOLD FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY I i A consideration or vocatiouul Kduat ion for Negro Secondary Schools ,f South Carolina is the subject chosen for diacuaaion during the celebrajon of the Fiftieth Anniversary of iluther Academy. Leading oducatora ,r the atate, persona of national oiniu-nce and frienda of the school are o gather here on February 12 to 14. Throughout the fifty years emphuii? liaa been placed on the building of well-rounded Uvea and development >f home training. With this idea aa t foundation, Mrs. Sarah Babcock Maher in 1887 became Instrumental In establishing what ia now Mather] Academy. The fuct that she had tioen a teacher in the Freedman'a school tweaty years before and had! teen the condition of the Negroes shows why ahe was eager to give of ser time and money the rest of her ife in helping them. Maintenance of a high scholastic standing and the service that can be pendered to the community are goals hat Mather has always strived to each. Both of these goals have been m a measure accomplished. . Since 1934 Mather Academy has been rated in "A" grade school under the Southern Association of Colleges and Secmdary schools and has given to hunIreds of young people industrial training which has enabled them to become economically independent in their own communitleH. Mather has realized the importance of developing all round students. In j keeping with thin, music was added , (in organized form in 1908, dramatics I and clubs have been a part of school I life from early duys. Russell Memo-1 rial Library was begun in 1922. A j new dormitory in 1928. Athletics and , a school publication in 1930. Other j industrial activities have been going' on in the home. Under a trained dietician and in the Home Economics department students learn the fundamentals of meal planning. The laun-! dry lias proved practical for vocation ! I al training. Agriculture was added in 1928 and shop work in 1933 have made u well-rounded vocational course for both girls and boys. Mather students have been for the paBt fifty years recipients of many privileges because of their vocational training. During the celebration, great emphasis will be placed on means of educating students so that they may more readily fit into the perplexing situation that the economic world presents today. Millicent I. Fuller is superintendent of the school and she and her corps of assistants invite the white friends of the school whore spaces will ho reserved for thoin. The following will be the order of exercises for the three days: Thursday, February 11, 7:30 p. m.? Alumni program. David Jones, president Dennett College for Women, at Greensboro, N. C., will be principal speaker. Friday, 10:00 a in.?Discussion: "A Consideration of Problems of Vocational Industrial Guidance in Secondary Schools for Negroes in South Carolina.' Led by M. F. Whitaker, president State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Orangeburg, S. C.; followed by J. D. Felton, State Supervisor of Negro Education, Columbia, S. C.; Dr. Flenunio Kittrell, deun of Women, Professor Home Economics at Dennett College for Women, of Greensboro, N. C.; J. Andrew Simmons, principal Booker T. Washington High School, Columbia, S. C. Friduy, 7:30 p. in.?Address: "What To Teach Negro Youth." Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, principal Pulmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N. C. Sunday, 11:30 a. m.?Anniversary Sermon by J. B. Randolph, president Claflin College, Orangeburg, S. C. Sunday, 7:00 p. m.?P a g e a n t : "God's Going to Build Up Zion's Walls." Coast guard-crews and boats and other equipment have been sent from many places along the coasts, to help handle flood conditions in the middle west. i Cotton Rust Is Potash Hunger Cotton Kust bus done widespread damage In recent y*ais, costing the South millions of dollurs in lost yields. Many funnels la this auction Ioho HtUny vuluuhie pounds of scud cotton- yt-ur utter y'eur, because they 1 t*t rust ravuge their cotton crop Vet cotloli rust is euay to prevent by us iug plenty of potash. Loading author ities say that cotton rust is simply "potash starvation." Cotton, like all other plants, manufactures its food In the loaves, i'ot-: ash is needed for this manufacturing i process and for the. transportation and j asHimllatiou of the food. When tiiej cotton plant approaches maturity and | begins to develop burs, seed and lint, 1 there is a tremendous demand for quickly available potash. If the cotton plant does not receive plenty of potash, food manufacturing is hindered or stopped, the food is not properly distributed throughout the plant and a complete breukdown occurs as a result of a starved condition. Then you see cotton rust. The leaves turn yellow, break down at the edges, become rusty or black and finally drop oft. The fruiting limbs are weak, the twigs supporting the burs ure short and small, and the burs are small and do not open properly. The cotton is hurd to pick and the lint is weuk and not uniform with koine long and some short libers. rI he seeds are sniftll and immature with a low oil content. All of these losses are due to potash starvation, commonly known as cotton rust. Nitrogen and phosphoric acid do not prevent rust. The average fertilizer does not contain sufficient potash to prevent rust. There is only oue way to prevent rust? simply use enough potash to balance your plant food and help you get! greater benefits from other more expensive elements in your fertiliser. Many farmers have found thai It pays to use potash as a top-dressing. They have gotten excellent results from using 100 pounds of Muriate of Potash, or 200 pounds of Kanit per acre. Other farmers use nitrogenpptash mixed-goods top-dressers. All of these materials are on sale by loading fertiliser men. Potash top-dress| lng should be upplled when you chop out. Finance Corporation To Be Extended On January 1 r>. 1P37, the Senate passed Senate Dill 415, a hill which provided for the continuation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for two more years. Thin hill was passed with only one dissenting vote, jthat being Senutor * Hyrd's from Virginia, who is sponsoring the CongicsI atonal movement for tiro roorganl/.aI tion of the Kxecutivo branch of I lie I I Government. ID*, said that if this hill ho passed, it would sot u precedent | for continuing other Federal organisations mealed to combat the emergency. This hill passed the House of! Representatives on January 22, und is only awuiting the signature of the " President of the I'nited States before! becoming a law. The HFC wus termed, during the discussion on the floor, by both bodies, as one of the most efficient and populur branches of the Kxecutivo agencies. Spanish Socialist airplanes bombed ships in the harbor of Cadis on Saturday, among them one or more naval vessels. It was later reported that at least one ship was seen to be sinking. S ^ Kev. Michael J. Gallagher, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Detroit, and sponsor for Father Coughlin, radioj politico priest, is dead. Honor Roll of Bethuno Schools Crude 1?Semester honor roll, Betsy Ann Hothuno, Elizabeth Jones, Kit u Duvis. Kathleen Hranuon, Travis Kelly, Murion Parker. Crude 2?Junior McDonald, Marvin McCnskill, H^fty Kelly, Junior liuhunks, Joy Hlackmon, iloyd McKinlion, Jr, Willie Esther UutelifT, John I >ii 11 llorton I tirade J Margaret Bruswell, Carol King, Joyce Muiin, Georgia Mildred Squires, Mike Mango, Joyce Fowler. tirade 4 Itosa McLeod, Ermine Floyd, Wilson llolley, Nell Kelly, Sura Kebecca McKlnnon, Tola Ourdner, Carolyn Hothuno, Runny Hammond, J. W. Campbell, tirade 5 Carlisle Floyd, Norma Loo Mcpherson, Ralph McCasklll, Wayne Hlackmon, Kvu Joslo Ratcllff. Crude 0 Kara Cordon, Trosslo Mao Davis, OUn Thompson, Kara Murgurot King. Crude 7? Deris laine, Myrtis llorton, Janetto llinson, Noll llorton, Mary Nancy McLaurin, Atlia Loo Mungo, 10. W. Tolbert, Vera llorton. Grade 8?-Karl Jones, Francis Helms, Alvo McCasklll, Drucilla Ratcliff, Josie llorton. Grade 9 ? Margie Jones, Ixmteo Hinson, Myrtis Mungo, Alvjn Kelly, T. C. McCasklll, Evelyn Hall. tirade 10?Gerry Davis, Katherino Foster, Iris McCasklll, Margaret McLaurin, Jean Hethune, Ixirono Bluckmon, lOva llorton. | Crude 11?Lavern Jones, < Ilobbie Newton Murion, llryco Joyner, Frankle Heard. Spanish rebels ure laying a trap in Kpuniuh waters for the Spanish steamer Mar Cantabrico, loaded with $2,000,000 of war munitions, which hurriedly loft New York on January 6. It Is reported that the ship went from New York to Vera Cruz, Mexico. North Carolina's highway death toll lust year totaled 953, a drop of 105 as compared with 1935. mmmmmmmmmmmmaammmmmammBm-i 212 BALES ON 212 ACRES J. E. BRIM, of Dawson, Ga., has had 35 years of experience in farming. This has taught him that good fertilizer and good seed are essential to successful cotton production. He produced 251 bales on 225 acres in 1034, 178 bales on 198 acres in 1935, and 212 bales on 212 acres in 1936. He blames his low yield in 1935 on a long drought. He uses 400 pounds of 3-9-5 NPK fcr, tilizer per acre at planting and topdresses with 200 pounds of 14-0-12 after his cotton is chopped out. Mr. Brim says: "Potash in my top-dresser prevents Rust and gives me better maturity, better lint turn-out and better matured seed. I sell over 3,000 bushels of Wilt-resistant Seed annually. The cost of potash is low and I find high-potash fertilizers profitable for all farm crops." I BIG, PRETTY BOLLS W. A. ROBINETT, of Enterprise, Ala., says: "In 1936 I had 30 acres in cotton and used 400 pounds of 3-8-5 NPK guano per acre, I top-dressed two acres with 100 pounds of Soda per acre and on one of these I put an additional 100 pounds of NV Muriate of Potash. On the entire 30 acres I made nine bales of cotton. The acre top-dressed only with Soda made 570 pounds of seed cotton. The acre top-dressed with Soda and NV Potash made 919 pounds?a gain of 349 pounds of seed cotton. Allowing for the cost oi ootash this is a prcfit of $16.54 per acre. You could tell the potash cotton. by walking through it. It stayed vigorous and healthy and kept making thf biggest, prettiest bolls I ever saw." DOUBLED HIS YIELD H. F. STRENGTH, of Dnleville, Ala., says: "In 1936 I top-dressed 7\? acres with 100 pounds of NV Muriate of Potash per acre and made seven 500-pound bales and 138 pounds of lint. That figures a bale to the acre as compared with 1,000 pounds of seed cotton per acre in 1935, when only part of my cotton was topdressed with NV Potash and half a bale to the acfe in 1934, when I didn't use any extra potash. "In 1934 my cotton rusted badly, like most cotton In this section. I decided to try potash top-dressing and I have been well pleased with the results. This year my cotton stayed healthy and kept growing, while my neighbor's, adjoining me, rusted badly and died. I am going to top-dress every acre of cotton I plant this year With NV Potash." ? IS BALES ON 9 ACRES M. L. O'CAIN, of Orangeburg, S. C., Bays: "On my average cotton crop last year I used 4% potash in the fertiliser at planting and 200 pounds per acre of top-dressing consisting of NV Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda in equal parts. I had no Rust, except on a three-acre block where I didn't use the extra potash. The photographs tell the story. ^ i rX' "On one block of 9 l/ao acres which I fertiliied rather heavily, using 160 pounds of NV Muriate as a top-dresser, 1 made 16 bales and a remnant. On one field where cowpeas followed oats, which had received only nitrogen, 1 lost my hay crop. But on another field where the oats got 60 pounds of NV Muriate per mat with the nitrogen, I made a ton of pea-vine hay per here." ' ' ' - - - . "I? FEWER BOLLS MAKE A POUND "Look at that top crop,"says H. J. JOHNSON, of Wegener, S. C. "That's where extra potash gets in its best work with large, fully matured bolls right up to the top of the 6talk. It takes fewer of these bolls to make a pound. Plenty of potash makes the cotton pick better and improves the staple. "Since 1934 I have been giving my cotton three times as much potash as I did before and have been making considerably more cotton. Rust has been stopped in most of my fields but some spots need still more potash. I use a good complete fertilizer at planting and extra potash as a top-dressing along with my nitrogen. The use of 3-8-8 NPK fertilizer at planting is growing in our section." Mr. Johnson, standing in his pet patch which produced 3,657 pounds of lint on three acres. He douuled his potash application in this held. 1,000 pounds of seed cotton per acre had been picked before thie 4H picture was taken. CONTROLS WILT E. F. CALHOUN, of Eufaula, Ala., says: "Cotton, well-fed with NV Potash, weighs 10 to 15 pounds more per basketful than cotton grown with just my regular fertilizer. The plants look healthier and fruit closer. Where I had NV Potash I had no Wilt but lots of stalks died where 1 had only my regular fertilizer." BBS V^HEN you buy your fertilizer and top-dresser, tell your fertilizer man you want more NV POTASH. Plan now to top-dress with 100 pounds of NV MURIATE or 200 pounds of NV KAINIT per acre, or use a nitrogenpotash, mixed-goods top-dresser containing 10 to 25% NV POTASH. If you prefer to use your extra potash at planting, select a fertilizer containing 8 to 10% NV POTASH. Where Rust has been very severe you may need both high-potash fertilizer at planting and potash top-dressing to STOP RUST and START PROFITS. < Thousands of farmers have found that it pays to give cottbti a lot more^ potash than the average fertilizer contains. NV POTASH keeps cotton strong and healthy, maturing fruit until a full crop is made {including a good top crop). It PREVENTS RUST, helps control Wilt and produces strong, Rigorous plants with less shedding, larger bolls that are easier to pick and better yields of uniform, high-quality lint. NV POTASH PAYS! N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY., Inc., Hurt Bids., ATLANTA Royster Bldg., NORFOLK A-U