The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 03, 1939, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Remember Hospital Tag Day on
March 18.
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