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BEFORE PURCHASING ,A . wj Flower, Garden and Field Seeds SEE OUR LARGE ASSORTMENT W? carry only ^ Fresh, Reliable and Tested Seeds High in Quality and Full of Life. Authorized Distributor of Seeds T. W. WOOD & SONS FERRY?MORSE SEED COMPANY S. N. NICHOLSON 934 Broad Street any Products Of Wheat Used yheat and cottonseed rank first I second in value and importance sources of by-products used in livefk feeding. Both wheat and cottond are leading southern crops, and availability" of the feed products m theee two crops is an important In the efficient and economical iling of livestock in the cottonwing states. Vheat, itself, la an excellent llve[ck feed When it is not more valu* e as human food, and wheat pasD provide winter grazing In many tions. Chief uses of wheat In ltveDk feeding, however, are in the m of the following products, alugh-there are a number of others: yheat Bran?Palatable, bulky, mildlaxative and rich In phosphorus, Bat bran Is comparable to oats In iling value. It is one of the most inlar dairy feeds, and Is widely d for work stock, breeding ewes growing lambs. Bran gives best Blts when fed with cottonseed il and farm grains In balanced one, with bran comprising not -e than one-fourth to one-third of ration. Wheat Gray Shorts?Low in fiber lent and high in digestibility, Kit gray shorts or wheat flour mldC furnish about 12 percent more M digestible nutrients per 100 ids than wheat bran. Both are Ely used by hog feeders, and are Blent for young pigs because of high digestibility. When prices By, they can be substituted for Kt bran In livestock rations, but live prices usually cause wheat I shorts, flour midddlings, BtandImiddllngB and similar wheat bylucte to be used principally in try feeds. ittonseed meal, rich in the prothat is needed to balance wheat [ products in livestock feeding, Is excellent supplement that is widened in rations containing wheat i, shorts and eimlliar feeds. Livek feeders can obtain from County its, Vocational Teachers, Expertit Stations and Agricultural Cols suggestions that will enable n to combine these feeds efficlentind economically in balanced raB typical southern dairy ration usiheat bran Is the following, to 1 with medium protein roughWheat bran 200 pounds, corn hominy feed, ground barley or sorghums (threshed) 400 pounds iseed meal 300 pounds; ground 00 pounds;- and 10 pounds each t, and ground limestone, oyster flour or bone*meal. b coarsely ground wheat shorts may be used In blowing ration for pigs weighess than 76 pounds: Coarsely d wheat, corn meal, ground sorghums (threshed), or finely nul barley 55 pounds; wheat gray rts 20 pounds; ground oats 10 nds; cottonseed meal 9 pounds; kage, fish meal or shrimp meal >ounds; limestone, oyster shell r or bone meal 1 1- 2pounds; and one-half pound. Where wheat Is free-choicer Ju a self f66der to p, it may be fed without grinding, [ grinding Is profitable when it is d-fod or used Iti a mixture. lore than 3.000 refugee Jews from [many, have reached Shanghai,, jna, mostly without funds to sup-| t themselves. J I 8P ART AN BURG'S PA8T- DUE TAXE8 8. C.'e BIGGE8T Spartanburg county, where past due taxes total $916,790, tops the list In the state as to delinquent property taxes, a study of the Agures today reveals. Other big delinquencies are: Richland county, $762,667; Orangeburg, $734,678; and Chesterfield, $724,886. The total amount of delinquent tax* ea In the state la $11,679,729, of which $8,648,423 represents delinquencies of 1936 and back years, and $2,931,306 delinquencies of the year 1937. The figures are shown on a statement prepared by the state tax commission from the annual report of the comptroller general. The statement says the figures for each county are thoBe in the comptroller general's report with the exception of Chesterfield county, the figures of which were supplied the commission by the county's auditor. Jasper and Calhoun counties have no dellnquences except those of the year 1937. All taxes for 1936 and back years' have been collected in these counties, two of the smallest in the state. This table shows the total of pastdue taxes In each county: Abbeville $367,226 Aiken 328,270 Allendale 410,606 Anderson 281,129 Bamberg 94,879 Barnwell 189,198 Beaufort 90,206 Berkeley 156,446 Calhoun 11,902 Charleston 157,916 Cherokee 109,205 Chester 56,887 Chesterfield 724,886 Clarendon 182,668 Colleton ; 163,691 Darlington .77 508,315 Dillon 69,394 Dorchester 139,637 Edgefield ... * 286,339 -Fairfield 82,984 Florence 319,807 Georgetown 43,992 Greenville *273,108 Greenwood 283,879 Hampton 416,381 Horry 407,096 Jasper 8,471 Kershaw 182,000 Lancaster 79,206 Laurens ?Lae ~ 370,626 Lexington Ijv. Marion X v7? 122,125 Marlboro * . 256,993 .McCormick 61,686 Newberry * 223,415 Oconee li?'22Z Orangeburg Pickens 63,140 Richland Saluda *74,114 Spartanburg 916,790 Sumter 204,281 Union 138,619 Williamsburg 122,431 York 217,556 4 For Improving Highways Washington, Feb. 28.?Congressman James P. Richards, fifth district of South Carolina, has received Information from David K. Niles, assistant administrator Works Progres Administration, Washington, D. that Project No. 30826, In the amount of $135,107, has been approved to improve state-owned highways, some of which are a part of the Federal aid highway system, thrbughout Kershaw county. Work includes excavating, widening, surfacing, placing base, laying pipe, widening and sloping banks, and performing appurtenant and Incidental work. This project is sponsored by the South Carolina state I highway department. This project is now eligible for operation at the discretion of the state Works Progress Administrator. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD PRINTING A HUGE JOB Hot ween tbe congressman orating earnestly in tl?u capltol and the ih>sturlty that will one day muse over his remarks there la a great gulf. Bridging this gulf Is tho Congressional Record. Jokes havo boon made about the Record over since George WashingUrns day. it is popularly supposed Nty be one of the world's driest publications. Hut there is nothing ut till dry about the way it Ih gotten out. There is a job geared to speed, a Job done as smoothly utul quickly as any in tho land. / Twelve official reporters are the shock troops. Six of them work In the senate and six in the house. It Is up to them to take down every word that is said In each chamber reduce It to type and start it on its way to the government printing office Unofficially, they are the congress I guardians of clean epeeoh, good grammar, and literary embellishments. The official reporter?an artlBt in shorthand?may use a pencil and he may use a pen; If the latter, he weais on one finger a tiny cylinder full of ink, made in some trick fashion so that the ink won't spill. The oratory may come as fast as 200 words a minute, but that makes no difference; these reporters are geared to a 260word clip. In the senate, he is relieved at the end of twelve minutes, hot or cold; in the house he works until he thinks he has enough and then turns the assignment over to someone else. In either case, when he leaves the floor he goes at once to his office and roads what he has JuBt written into a telephonograph machine. typist transscribes all of this as soon as he has finished, and he takes the manuscript I back to the chamber and sends a copy to each member therein quoted. * The member reads what he has said and polishes it. He may delete cuss words and reconstruct grammatical errors, but he Is not supposed to alter the meaning of what he has said. When everything is properly polished up, the manuscript goes to the government printing office. By midnight, every word spoken on either floor is in type; by 4:00 In the morning, the Congressional Record Is ready for distribution. . The job Isn't over even then, however. Before the Record becomes part of the government's permanent files, ! members may submit corrections. As a sample, Congressman Knutson arose on the floor the other day to point but that RUSSfcfn caviar had been I omitted from & mfenu he offered in a [satirical comment on the Jackson Day dinner. The correction was duly . made, and Russian caviar goes to the constituents. ^Wlth permission of the house or senate, which is almost invariablfy4 granted a member can get Included in the Appendix of the Record?a section printed at the back, daily?an extension of his remarks. These may , be anything under the sun?speeches he admires or has made off the floor, letters from constituents backing the same point he has made, poetry he happens to like. It costs about $50 a page to print the record. (This doesn't Include the cost of maintaining the corps of official reporters, nor the cost of maintaining the congressman; just the actual cost of setting the type, making the plates, proof-reading, binding, and so on Incurred by the government printing office)., Dast year the Record ran to 13,386 pages and set the taxpayer back about $669,300. The official reporters are paid $7, 600 a year. They are miffed, though, because the comptroller general not long ago ruled that the Job of shorthand reporting is not a profession. They think it is, say it takes from six to ten years to make a good shorthan dreporter. Cassatt Club Held Meeting The Cassatt home demonstration club held their regular monthly meeting with Mrs. J. M. Watklns1 Tuesday. Tebruary 2ir The meeting opSITCfl wltih singing "America," after which prayer was offered by Mrs. Rachel Hall. Mrs. Virgil Watklns gave a very Interesting sketch of the life of George Washington. The roll was called with only three members absent and received three new members, two visitors. Mrs. Anna Hall, of Edgefield; and Mrs. Oscar Gardner, of Colombia. The minutes of the previous meeting were read by the secretary and approved by the club. The meeting was then turned over to Miss Fewell, who gave a very Interesting talk on the month's subject, "Outlook." She stressed very forcibly the! importance of raising more food and, feedstuffs. more poultry aud livestock,! Instead of so much cotton. She also spoke on the Importance of the proper food for the school child. . After distributing bulletins on "Betr ter Diving for Farm Fathllles" and The Agricultural Outlook for South Carolina," tho meeting adjourned to hold their March meeting *ith Mrs. j. w. Parker. The hostess served delicious refreshment^ after which a social hour waa enjoyed by all. I COMMENTS ON MEN *ND THINGS illy Spectator) Farmers, sit steady In 11?? boat. A 111(f?* warts weutbtM' about this tltno prompts tln? planting of col urn a bit too soon Then come cool uiKhts i Poor stands and Ilea arc the result.! Let us K?'t our soil ready, but our' long growing season allows us f wait. Many think they will net ahead, of the boll weevil by earlier planting i Hut what Is the nam If the stand bo I poor and the lice numerous and destructive ? Spectator has Ioiik urged that the highway department should keep up all the roads. This should bring about a substantial reduction In county tuxes. Spectator will bo glad to publish the economies showu for each county. Already the highway department maintains a capable force In each county, with adequate equipment, tt should be allowed to uHe convict labor on some Jobs, but not associated with free labor. Reduce state expenses! That should be the battle cry. The state Is spending twenty-five million dollars, or more, not Including the hlghwuy department. The total expenditures are now forty-three million dollars a year. Making a liberal allowance for the highway department, we find the ordinary, general expenditures of the state at least $20,000,000. The legislature Is wondering If It be possible to reduce the cost of the state government three or four million dollars. The state budget Is $10,800,000, but the state spends $25,000,000! l^et's not deceive ourselves; we can eliminate a lot of the sllllbub and thrive on solid food. The general akBembly of years ago tied the hands of this general assembly by ear-marking certain taxee and certain parts of some revenues for specific purposes. This Is all wrong. 1 think It Is unconstitutional, as well. Each legislature should authorize all expenditures. There should not be ear-marked funds constituting a sort of lien on the state. Each legislature has the power and the duty to decide how Btate funds shall be spent. It should repeal every so-called continuing statute. It can do so by Betting forth all authorizations In the general appropriation bill and repealing all acts Inconsistent with It. When I say that three or four millions can easily be taken from the twenty-five million dollars I am saying this in advocacy of reduction and relief to the taxpayers. I do not mean that I advocate spending three or four million dollars for the program of Social Security; I do not. I think a million dollars a tremendous sum for this poor little state to spend on one form of charity. Remember we still operate Institutions of charity at tremendous cost. We still have the state hospital for Insane, costing us $1,176,620.12 for this current year. We have the school for the feeble-minded, costing us $196,000. We have the John de la Howe school for a few orphans, costing the state $75,000. Then here are others: School for the blind, $92,000.00; South Carolina sanatorium, $227,150.97; Confederate infirmary, $25,488.65. We are providing advanced academic Instruction and professional training for boys and girls, men and women of this state to the amount of $1,087,000, not counting $295,257 for the public, activities of Clemson college. This reaches only a small percentage of our people. I do not refef Id the common schools. They probably would do at least as well as they are doing, If shorn of a lot of frills and foolishness now cluttering the classes and adding heavily to the expenses. The common schools, extravagantly operated as they are, at least reach j most of the people. Have we become so socially-minded that we can think of nothing but spending? Are the recipients of public bounty the only ones to be considered? Are not the taxpayers en-' titled to some consideration? Have we resolved to crush every man who works and saves In order to feed and care for those who have less? There I is such a thing as thinking straight and it is the thing to do now. | Spectator dqes not hesitate to write the plain truth. If he were ah officeholder or a politician he might be so prudent as to dodge these Issues. But; he Is a farmer and Is speaking the! truth plainly and bluntly as farmers are talking It among themselves. The American Federation of Labor tells the truth clearly In a statement recently Issued, which I quote from the Congressional Record of February 15: . "The market for the sale of goods and service can be Increased and enenlarged only through the application of a sound, economic policy whereby there is placed in the hands of the masses of the people a buying power which will enable them to buy, use, and consume the manufactured goods and services which private industry is prepared to supply. This leads to the Inevitable conclusion that private Industry and business r,- - \ generally should be stimulated so that the facilities of production may be increased and millions more working men and women may bo employed What can be done and what should be done, therefore, are the problems which, at tho moment, call for consideration and a proper solution. Wo do not believe that the Nation has reached the maximum in production or consumption of manufactured goods. For that reason we cannot accept the reasoning of those who maintain that wo must prepare to maintain constantly an army of unemployed ub the wards of the government. We must turn to private industry for the solution. It should and must serve the Nation. Our national interests require that private industry be accorded the widest opportunity to do so. Obviously, tho next step must be the establishment of credit and the will and purpose, on the part of the owners of industry, to risk, invest, build and construct. The basis for such procedure must be found in the creation of a favorable state of mind. Fear, a lack of confidence, and distrust in governmental, sociul, and economic procedure, should be removed. A political and economic state of mind should be created which would enable all financiers and the owners and management of Industry to face the future with confidence, willing to risk in the expenditure of funds for the development ofj industrial enterprises and in the manufacture and sale of manufactured products." Gentlemen of the Congress and of the Legislature, no one has said this better. Here in South Carolina, let us plan for a more diversified industrial development. We don't need a planning board; all we need is an attitude of friendliness that can be relied on. Taxpayers, get in touch with the senator and representatives of your county. They want to know what you think. Tell them. Make it plain that you want appropriations reduced afid that you want the Social Security incubus lifted from us right now. Social Security should be held to a maximum of one million dollars, limiting administration to 6 per cent. Reduce intangibles tax. Majco sure of bl-ennial sessions. All large appropriations can bear a substantial cut. Let's back up the Ways and Means committee;, it has .started welL I Two of three triplets at Trenton, N. J., born eight months after the death of their 70-year-old father, are "doing nicely." The third child died shortly after its birth. The age of the mother is 40 years. SPRING IS COMING TIME FOR 8CHEME8 AND CROOKS GALORE! Spring is coining and the time of yeur for schemes of all klnda and crooks galore Is at hand, 1-ast week | Wo had In the county a group of fellows engaged in selling medicine and extracts about over the county tolling the people who bought the stuff if it was not satisfactory that they could return the empty containers to a local drug store and get a complete refund of their money. They even went so far as to name a certain local store where such a refund could bo- had. The stuff was no doubt worthless so in the due course of time the people be-gan trying to get their money back from the local drug store. Hut the crooks had neglected ono Important item in the deal. They did not make previous arrangements with the drug firm to refund the money. The local drug firm did not even know anything about the whole transaction until called upon to make the refunds. The sheriff's office was notified. But the crooks had had ample time to cheat the people and get out of the county before the sheriff's office was , informed. They had sold a lot of the j worthless stuff and obtained the money of even needy people in several V; Instances and got away in due time. Another group of people came to town last week rented a room and obtained board1 as well as the use of a telephone to put on a safety drive. The safety drive did not go over so well. The safety campaigners left town owing for the room and board. Like the medicine peddlers they had time to beat those concerned and get out of town before officers were aware of the situation, i So it is evident that the people of Lancaster and Lancaster county should make everyone who sells them something show proper credentials.? Lancaster News. The senate military committee gave its unanimous approval to President Roosevelt's rearmament program on Wednesday, while the house engaged in a vociferous debate on the question of extending naval facilities on the island of Guam. 'Among other things ? the senate committee specifically en- 1 dorsed the proposed expenditure of $368,000,000 to increaso the army's war planes to a total of 6,000, and to augment the army's air corp's personnel, to strengthen defences of the Panama canal and to school American industry in the production of war materials. , I Remember Hospital Tag Day on March 18. MUNICIPAL UTILITIES, CAMDEN, S. C. I NOTICE Your Attention is called to following rule relative to I discounts ' .*' 4 T ' - N . N . - * "Please be no dfoount wHl be tlue o^desp# Announcing THE OPENING OF " II A V A R E S T " TEN MILES FROM COLUMBIA ON NEWBERRY HIGHWAY OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO REST AND RECUPERATE " ?* For further information write Martha M. 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