The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 18, 1942, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
I Comments On Men and Things '
(Hy Spectator)
I
I"" w* an efficient people, we
*fV,ans > I used to think that we
capable people iu Hie
f<fM Tin* la( k of tt(ie(*UHto Plttnt'a
1artillery for the A, E. F. In the
World War was a bit unsettling
^ t.utluisla8tic boasts of Ameri10
fflcieiu v. Then I had experiences
^Vinv country while in South Amer*
lhat caused my patriotic butupk*
glu..ss to suffer a slump. Produc,|?Ua
snaUsts are giving us hard
[oocks today. So one wonders.
have read with enjoyment muny
,oullis of the devoted labors of the
,C t c'hemist. Dr. Charles H. Herty,
hut recently 1 read of his conversation
.!th a German chemist. Dr. Herty. a
Georgian and full 'of the spirit of
Georgia, asked the German what ho
bought of the turpentine Industry in
Georgia- The Geripan snorted. "You
have no turpentine Industry; you have
just a butchery." He meant that our
Southern treatment of the pines was
utterly wasteful; that we were decoying
values instead of husbanding
our resources by more sclentliic methah,
our method, to the scientific
mind, was like that of the man who
would burn down his home In order
to kill the rats.
Were we efficient? Perhaps the ailgwer
should depend on the conditions.
A mau needing Are wood might cut
iny tree in a vast wilderness of trees,
where the supply seems inexhaustible.
But he had Just a few pieces of
standing timber he would be foolish
to cut and slash indiscriminately I
recall the farmers of France hauling
t*ig/Vhd branches In their carts,
carefully using everything. Our people
in many communities are so full
of the old idea Of exhaustless wood
sup pi v that they disregard tops of
cut timber and let them remain on
the ground to rot.
I've thought of the amazing abundance
of America as contrasted wltli
the husbanded resources of Europe.
One of my disilluslonments came to
me below the Equator. One of my
jobs was the feeding of 3.400 people.
Our budget was not elastic, though
the demands constantly grew.
' necessary to stretch the pounds and
soles, as their money was called.
Iord-tvd salt meat, butter and cheese
from b- I'nited States. At that time
three great steamship lines had a
weekly service each from New York
to Caliao and Valparaiso. And yet,
(would you believe it?) my countrymen
shipped meat and butter and
cheese by a line which stopped at the
Panama Canal. These things had to
be hauled across the Canal Zone by
rail loaded, unloaded, reloaded, stored
until another ship came and then
re-shipped. With three regular lines
or direct ships to choose from my
countrymen choose a line going only,
part of the way. It was hardly necessary
to load the stuff on a lighter
for delivery to the dock; It would
have come of Its own accord and under
its own power, if some one had
whistled.
That wasn't very efficient, was It?
Now we have a great war on our
hands Are we efficient? By the standards
of a dictatorship we are decidedly
not efficient. A dictator does what
he wants to do and tramples down
all opposition. The dictator may be
a good man, but he allows one wlll^
to gown and one opinion to be expressed.
He proceeds to act, if he has
the means. We are people of a free
speech. So we proceed to make loud
and constant pr tests. That sops the
government because our protests stir
up congress. The dictator goes ahead
forthwith and saves time; whereas
our government has to heed us. We
don't really want a dictatorship, but
we are willing to submit to a little
more firmness based on a clear understanding.
"Ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free." That was
spok.-n as applying to spiritual freedom.
but It applies to all the phases
of our living. One might almost become
philosophical and speak or
write on the unity of truth, but I'm
not making an ambitious plunge into
the vast deeps of thought; it is much
easier to swim on the surface. You
and l are more enslaved by our
Prejudices and habits than by law or
employment. Our mental attitudes
makes or unmakes most of x>?. Perhaps
we are llko the man who called
all his family about him and told
them that he was dead. They tried to
prove to him that he was ulive. Finally
the doctor came and drew a little
blood. He said to the patient "See the
blood"? "Yes." said the man, "that
only proves that a dead man can
bleed". Some of us are about that
prejudiced.
I've been enjoying a book on clienturgy.
That, you know, is chemistry
applied to a study of our ordinary
products. For example, you've heard
j the story of Dr. liorty and the uso
of slash pine for pulp in the nunuI
facture of paper. Wo call that chent,
urgy. Today at almost every railroad
siding in coastal Carolina can be seen
cars loading slash pine for the paper
mills. A great industry has been
brought to the south, even to South
Carolina and Georgia, through the
studios and experiments of. Dr. Herty,
a Georgian who deserves u monument
in every state.
Our fathers and grandfathers had
a waste product on their hands?cotton
seed. It was just a nuisance,
good for nothing. Perhaps they thought
it might servo as a stable bed In the
place of pine straw. That began its
career as a fertilizer. Then someone
; pressed the oil out and today wo
have a vast industry based on the
one time despised seed from cotton,
j Millions of pounds of substitute butter
aii/e made from it and its nourishing
qualities are now known and apj
predated by dietitians. Chemists are
studying the cotton plant of the
south, trying to multiply it& serviceable
qualities through a better understanding
of cellulose, its base.
I The dream of men like Dr. Herty
j was not merely to find new uses for
a product, but to find out what the
product was itself. I look at the beauj
ty of the trees along the roadside,
travelling from the Santee river to
Charleston. They are trees?nothing
! more. Sometimes we recognize a long
leaf pine or distinguish between a
live oak or a water oak, but we don't
get much farther, unless it is to rec!
ognize black gum trees In the swamp.
That reminds me. I got out of my
car to watch a long freight train go
'by. I still like to look at a train.
A man asked "What in the world
'are they hauling those old gums for?"
I Well, as I'm told, those old gums
' rise to the dignity of mahogany
'sometimes, just as our cotton seed
joil is sometimes referred to as olive
'oil. Men have learned of fine qualities
In that once-abundant old gum that
cluttered up all our swamps.
While the man who can see in gum
trees pieces of furniture and wood
paneling fit for a king is head and
shoulders above most of us blind, unperceiving
on-lookers, a man of
science sees connections and relations
which spring from the kinship of
things.
What makes the tree? The Sun.
What is coal? Tree? which decayed
millions of years ago. What is petroleum?
As a result of the sun and
the trees and the decay of millions
of years. So, coal and petroleum and
trees and sun are blood kin.
How does all this Interest us? Well,
the men of science are getting down
to the common ground on which many
things stand, or from which they developed.
When the very nature of a
thing is understood men can use it
more freely. So a great chemurgist
says that we may soon use the sun
as power for our cars. One man snorted
at that. "All right," said the
scientist, "What do you use today?"
"Gasoline, of course". "Well, what is
gasoline but something drawn from
the decayed vegetation which is eun
buried in the ground? We may use
the sun some day without first burying
it for millions of years.
We Americans can make something
that will serve as well as rubber.
Our great national fault is that we
delay everything. Even that grows
out of the very richness of our country.
We have everything in such
abundance $at * we don't have to
squeeze it otrt drop by drop. Other
people, forced by lack of plenty, to
pinch it out, are more inclined to find
more economical uses, as well as
many substitutes. Our people must
have fresh butter, or at least refrigerated
butter. I ate canned American
butter all the years I lived on the
Pacific coast of South America.
American organic chemists got a
late start, but they see our nation
supplied with all that we need by using
the growing crops. Instead of
exhausting the stores of wealth in
the ground, or in the forests, they
see a time when the growing crops
will supply us, not only with what
we use today but with thousands of
new articles?all reducetng the cost
of living, while making life fuller,
richer and more abundant. Truly we
may appropriate the spiritual teaching,
"Ye shall know tho truth and
the truth shall make you free."
TRE8PA8S NOTICE
Any persons shooting, fishing or
otherwise trespassing on my property,
lotting cattle run thereon, making
tires, or permitting fires set by them
to run or burn thereon, or pasturing
thereon, removing therefrom any
trees, wood, straw or shrubbery, will
be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law. My property is located in
District Five, near Center school
house, Kershaw County.
MATTIE BLACKWELL.
25-27 pd.
SOUTH CAROLINA JERSEY
SALE VERY SUCCESSFUL
Newberry, Sept. 12.?The 1942 South
Carolina Jersey sale, most outstanding
sale of its kind ever to be held
In this state, Is noteworthy In the entire
nation, recoguizod authorities declare.
The fact that the top-selling cow
led all breeds at the record prlcp of
$2,000, that another cow sold for $900,
and that the average for the 38 animals
auctioned was $272 all prove the
quality of Jersey cattle being bred
In South Carolina, says L. B. Gardner,
Southeastern representative of
the American Jersey Cattlo club.
"This has been one of the most successful
of a long line of consignment
Bales ever held In South Carolina
by any breed", says C. G. Cushman,
Clem son extension dairy specialist.
the two top cowa In the Bale ^
were bred hud developed In tho state
is tribute sufficient to tho fact that ,
South Carolina breeders of dairy cattle
can breed the best."
Referring to "IJesign Alice Chic",
tho top-price cow in the sale, Mr.
Cushman adds, "She was classified by
an official judge of tho American
Jersey Cattle club last week as ex-1
cedent, with a score of 96 per cent |
perfect, and Is one of ttie highest,
scoring cows in tho United States. |
Not only was the cow bred in South ;
Carolina, but all of her ancestors were
as well."
"Design Alice Chic", bred by Wheel- j
er Brothers of Saluda, and offered for
sale by C. R. Hannah of Oreer, was
bought by J. L. Hutchinson, Jr., Ross- ,
ville, Ga., for his Happy Valley farms. ',
The second-price animal of the pale
was offered by Ward Crlmm of Moore
and bought by George Clausaeti of
Augusta, Ga., for $900.
Six bull calves furnished by breeders
In the state were placed at the
sale with winners in the American
Jersey Cattlo club's national victory
campaign in which 1,000 purebred
Jersey bulls were glvon away.
An average hot water bottle contains
as much rubber as goes Into
two pairs of soldier's over-shoes.
Mediterranean Air Bombs
ALLIED WARSHIPS CONTINUE to operate in the Mediterranean. They have brought another convoy to
Malta. There were grave losses of British warships, but the enemy also suffered losses and the needed
supplies reached the sturdy islanders. Other ships oi the British Mediterranean Fleet have bombarded the
island fortress of Rhodes. These pictures show ships of the previous Malta convoy, a few weeks ago. Above,
escorted by a cruiser, two of them see Axis air bombs burst close. Below, an escorting battleship of the
"Malava" class is target for more enemy bombs.
Supplement Fruit
Canning With Pears
Clemson, Sept. 12.?A bumper crop
of pears Is reported throughout the
state, says Director 1). W. Watkina
of the rieitiHon Kxtenslou Service.
"This rariles a challenge to the
housewife to make the fullest' possible
use of them In fortifying the
pantry for the year ahead," Mr. Watkins
adds, "la most sections peaches
have been too high for much canning
this year, and apples are liable to be
the same. Therefore It Is up to
every housewife to make the fullest
possible use of this abundant pear
crop in providing needed fruit for
the family."
llome agents have the latest re*
clpes from Winthrop college and from
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
for putting up pears in various ways,
according to Miss I. Landrum, state
homo demonstration agent. They will
furnish details on pear canning upon
request.
VWHEN kidneys function badly end
** you suffer a sagging backache,
with dizziness, burning, scanty or too
"eauent urination and getting up at 1
nipht; when you feel tired, nervous,
'"I upset . um Doaa's Pills.
^ n's are especially for poorly
working kidneys. Millions of boxes
"* used every year. They are recommended
the country over. AA yom
neighbor!
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The right to
COME and GO
when we please
rrlHIS is a fight-to-the-finish we are in?a
I grim war for survival The stakes are the
highest in all the history of mankind. And one .
of them is the American's traditional right to
come and go when he pleases.
Our enemies say that they will erase this
birthright of ours; that, they'll tell us when we
x can come and go. But they'll find that it's
easier said than done.
No goose-stepping Nasi; no squint-eyed Jap
is going to tell Americans that they can't run
down to the seashore or vacation in the mountains
or take the children to visit Aunt Mary
back home. For we are going to win this war!
How? With the bravery and the brilliance
of our men in uniform. With the toil and
sweat of millions of loyal workers in forest,
field, factory and mine. With our genius for
invention, organization and production. With
the willing sacrifices of every patriotic American.
Yes, we will win this war?even if we have
to lay aside for awhile our right to come and
go when we please.
Thai's why the officers and employees of the
Southern Railway System have solemnly pledged
their all to the winning of the war. That's why
\ our entire transportation plant; all our resources
of man-power and experience are enlisted
for the duration in the service of the nation.
That's why we put the transportation
needs of Uncie Sam first?before aay and every
civilian need?that your right to come and go
? when you please may be preserved for you and ?_
for the generations of Americans yet to come.
In the first seven months of this year we
have carried almost 600,000 men in uniform, all
moving under orders. They traveled in 24,915
coaches and Pullmans; in 1,564 special trains
and 5,563 extra cars attached to our regular
passenger trains. And these figures do not include
the additional hundreds of thousands
who have traveled over our lines on furlough
or in small groups on transfer orders.
That's why our trains are often late?troop
trains and war freight have the right of way.
That's why they are often crowded?so many
boys want to visit home at the same time. That's
why we have pressed old coaches into servicein
our desperate effort to help everyone to come
and go when they please. That's why we have
had to lower temporarily the standards of service
of which we have been so proud. And
that's the way we know you want it to be.
Your willing sacrifices of some travel comforts
and conveniences are more than a personal
contribution to the war effort. They are an
inspiration to those of us who railroad to plan
for the day when victory comes; to plan for a
better Southern Railway System better to "Serve
the South". For, with victory, we know that a
new day will come to our Southland; a new day
of prosperity and happiness and peace; a new
day with freedom to come and go when you
please.
That is worth fighting for!
President. .
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