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PAGE FOUR. the Barnwell people-sentinel, barnwell, south Carolina 1 *1U ItJSUA I f r i ak» 9 The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES . 1840—1912. B. P. DAVIES, Editor mud Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell S. C M as second-class matter. SUBSCIUEIJON RATES: - One Year - ILM Six Months ^0 Three Months - , .60 (Strictly in Ad ranee.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928. Republicans wise Hooverize. Blue laws make a lot of people see re-d. , A straw vote doesn’t always show the sentiment of the farmers. A yawn killed a man in Kentucky not so lonK ago, and he probably was just bored to death. Washington was the father of our country, but if it hadn’t been for Lincoln he probably would have been the father of twins. It’s easy enough to catch ’em young thei;e days, but it takes a strong fel low to treat ’em rough anfi tell ’em nothing. These “still blasts’’ you read about in the pap<trs can’t be so still, after all, fime by the same papers they occasionally shatter windows. Washington’s Greatness. Too many of the writers who seek to essay th« greatness of George Washington look upon him either hs a super-human being who should be venerated even more highly than he is, or else as «n idol that needs to he smashed. Naturally, when these writers set out w ith such preconceived notions, Washington the man tends to „ he overlooked. Fortunately, a few recent writers have paid more at tention to Washington, the man. To su h writers Washington dur ing his remarkable career furnisht-d a great deal of material. Consider, for example, Washington’s versatility. He was athlete, surveyor, woodsman, business man, soldier, tar.'tian, states man—and these by no means exhaust the list. Too, he was far above theav-. erage in all thbse various thing's he did at some time or other during his life; As a business man, for instance. Washington was one of the richest men of his time in this country. In other words, almost anything Washington set out to do he mastered. His will to do carred him through!. His greatness did not consist in do ing only one thing well. Count the Cost. Rear Admiral Plunkett and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt have lately prophe^od that the Urtftjed States soon is to be involved in another war. Their prophecies are probably of no greater value, of course, than are tho&o of an amateur weather forrv caster. But- just the same they should prompt intelligent people to do a lit tle thinking about the cest of war in these piping - times of peace. The cost of the World War to this coun try has been figured at about $30,000, 000 a day. Another war would proba bly cost more. Then, too, the cost in life ra^ikes cheap the cost in money. Let the intelligent people, how ever, place merely the $30,000,000 a day item in one pan of the scales and put in the other pan the^thirigs Tfilff can be bought with that surr > -to im- • * prove conditions in this country. Th row into the other pan. for exam ple, miles of good roads, thousands of dollars worth of new equipment for hundreds of country schools, lower taxes, and dozens of other items. After the scales have been balanc ed, the cost of war im pea?e time achievements will he more clear. People Want the Truth. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is to he congratulated on his action in taking the witness stand an the oil investiga tion and telling what he knew. Mr. Rockefeller demands the truth for “the sake of American Busim<ss.” The people demand the truth. For years they have been hearing and reading about this oil scandal and yet after all this time it seems that many of the facts remain carefully.,hidden. 1 Mr. Rockefeller understands that this condition harms both business and the government. So, Mr. Rocke feller not only asked Colonel Stewart to place whatever information he might have in the hands of the investi- gators but followed this good advice > through by taking the stand himself and answering all que«tions the inves tigators asked. This attitude on the part of Mr. Rockefeller will be wholeheartedly ap plauded by the people a t large who want to know the truth that lies some where beneath all this talk.* Since Mr. Rockefeller has shown he is witting, even eager, to have the truth brought to Hght, the public generally will thank him and jw'ili respect him the more. Main Street. CORNBORERTHREAT MENACE TO SOUIN FARMERS MUST LEARN HOW TO FIGHT PEST. ENOMO US DA MAGE ^ TO CROP Borer Haa Already Spread Over East and Middle West Regions. Life is full of paradoxes, and among thes(i may be listed the fact that the noted ballyhooer Sinclair Lewis, who some years ago made himself famous by punching Main Street in the jaw, I so to speak, is himself a product of that very “Main Street” for whiefy he | expressed such contempt. This in itself would not be significant. But on* could string a list of names across the continent, and every name would | be that of a successful arvd By Roland Turnor, General Agricultural Agent, Southern Railway System. A TLANTA, GA.—The European corn borer, entering this country from Europe and being first discovered in the summer of 1917 In eastern Massa chusetts, presents to the southern farmer a most serious problem. In 1919 separate infestations were worthy ^ found in western New York and north- man whose birthplace was some Main western Pennsylvania. The insect has Street or other spread until at this time all of the ter- Main Streets'are not only charm-nc the, Great Lake Reglo.* 1. In- fested. the line of Infestation extend ing south to West Virginia, middle . Ohio, and well down into Indiana, genius. Our small tows, aided by the j Aigo spread has been extensive in little red school-house, have turned ( the New Enghftid states. Much of places, American satirists to the con trary, but they are breeding spots of the *\ out many men who are shaping destinies of America today. Colonel Lindbergh, our aviator ex- traoitlinary and Ambassador of Good Will, first saw the light of day'in a Canada in the Lake Region is Also in fested. The International Corn Borer or ganization was formed some years ago for the purpose of making a study of Hi HpHHpHH ways and means of effectively fight- .mail town; Calvin Coolidge, the Pre-^ , Df the iDtect Congre « ha9 appr0 . dent of these United States, is another of many examples of Main Streeters that might be given; and there are,'control too, John J. Pershing, Henry FoVilJ James A. Rued, Charles G. Dawes, and William E. Borah. And so Main Street which to boast. True Main Street is not inhabited entirely by geniuses, but neither is Broadway. priated ten million dollars for this purpose and a campaign of corn borer was Inaugurated formally In / . ' V • - \ Clean-Up Methods. \ ' . . \ • -V , ' ■ * \ Thus far investigations seem to show . , . conclusively that a total eradication has much ot, , __ . * ^ » of the European corn borer is beyond the realm of possibility. It has been found practicably, however, to reduce the numbers of borers in any given Main Street neods no defense. The area to such an extent by clean-up methods and cultural practices that the damage by the insect may be kept below the point of serious commercial loss. . HBHBBHH It appears practically certain that Hold your heajd high, Main Street! g p rea( j 0 f the insect will continue Those who flaunt your feenngs are calibre of its citizens, both those who still live on it and those who have left it for larger spheres, speaks for itself. . too blind to see your virtues. Hard Times in the South? and that eventually it will infest our southern country. Therefore farmers In the South should interest themselyes In ways and means of combating the insect when it may appear and pre venting serious losses to the corn crop Did you know that North Carolina which is growing in importance in the pah] more tax money into the federal. ( South as live stock interest increases, treasury in 1927 than all of tho New! The European corn borer passes the England States combined? Did you 1 winter ^s a full grown borer or worm know that Florida paid more federal ^ * ts tunnels in the stalks or ears taxes during the past year than their most careful and serious con sideration to the end that when the Sonth does become Infested, we will be able to offset the damaging effects of the Insect and so control the borer as to suffer no losses.- —^— '■ - It is interesting when one remem bers that if the American, corn crop becomes affected only 6 per cent it w ill mean an annual loss of more than one hundred million dollars per year. The seriousness of the matter makes It important that every farmer be alive to the threat, that th£y read farmers’ bulletins, and other avail able literature on the insect, and lend their active support to the state and federal efforts for control of this dan gerous enemy of the corn crop. Travel Always With, . Death as Companion Bolivia is probably the most inac cessible country In the world. It can . only be reached by crossing the Andes ori by taking a long and difficult Jour ney through the Argentine. Thps, although It is four times as large as Great Britain, its population Is only one-quarter that of. London. It lies wholly In the tropical belt, but much of Us surface, consists of a lofty tableland , running up to 13,000 feet, where the climate Is intensely , dry and cold, with considerable snow and fearful electric storms. A track crosses this great plateau to the western seaboard, and along this trail travels a constant stream of mules and donkeys carrying rubber and other products of Bolivia to the coast. In many places the track is a mete shelf of rock with nothing be-^ tween its edge and a drop of thou4 shnds of feet. In places the track rises 15.000 feet above sea level. The whole trail Is lined with the bleached skele tons of pack animals, and the losses are enormous. On this plateau, at a height of 13,- 000 feet, is the vast Lake Titicaca, al most as big as Lake Erie in Canada. iado. Idaho.. Iowa, Vermont, Montana, of eo«r. warm up in April and May the borers their aetfrttietr. North and South Dakota combined? The abovq statements aie facts, ac cording to the Manufacturers Record, and constitute an amazing record. When you hear talk of hard times fi* 0 m whicl^ the adult or moth is de- reiiume feeding probably takes spring. ...The development worm or larva stage now begins, the worm passing into the pupa stage aTTTfdugh no place in the from —the- in the South, in the past months, or in prospect for the months to come, it would he well to recall the following fncts tmd figures, which conelusivety j takes place and the females begin to answer any pessimistic talk that may, lay eggs. Careful investigations have veloped. Moths* Very Prolific. _ Soon after the moths emerge mating be going the rounds: “Peihaps no more'striking illustra tion of the increasing wealth of the South could lx. given than the fact* that during 1927 the South paid to the internal Revenue Department of Federal Government taxes^to the extent of $638,284,000. which was an inn-edse of $51,928,000, while there wax a decreasei in the amount of Fed eral taxes paid by the test of the country of $22,000,000. North Carolina paid into the Fed eral Treasury $205,648,000, as com- paml with a total for all the New England States of $181^86*0Q0».and^aJ-UB-til total for all the Pac-rfic—Coast States of $160,231,000. -Ohio paid into the Federal Government $147,428,00, or $58,000,000 Jes^ Ihan^North Carolina, “Viiginia e-ame second on the South- ern list with $79,160,000, which was $38,000tb00 more than Wisconsin and $43,000,000 move than Indiana, and six times as much as Iow r a paid. “Florukrpaid'Federal taxes pf $44,- 484,000,'which was $8,000,000 more than-Indiana, $32,000,000 more than Iowa, $24,000,000 more than Kansas, $16,000,000 more than Minnesota, seven times as much as Nebraska and $8,000,000 more than Cotmudo, Idafto^ kola and South Dakota combined—the total for these seven States being $36,391,000. ”—A ugusta He raid. Locomotives and Cars Purchased by Southern ^TLANTA, GA.~The Southern Rail largest order for. motive way System has just placed the >wer and rolling stock ever given it, hav ing purchased 68 locomotives, 3,000 coal cars, 2,250 automobile box cars, 250 ballast cars, 20o caboose cars and 25 all-steel mall and baggage cars for delivery during the spring and early summer of 1928. Of the locomotives, 63 are for freight service, 55 being of the Mikado upe and 8 of the Mallet type, and 6 of the Pacific type are w for passenger train service, X proven that a female moth lays an average of about 400 eggs, although the number varies greatly, some laying many more. The...maths live ouly~for 10 to 24 days. The eggs hatch in from 4 to 9 days, depending much upon weather conditions. A newly hatched borerfgeds for a few days upon the surface of the leaf or stalk but soon enters the plant and completes most of its development therein, increasing in size until it reaches full develop ment, in which stage it passes the winter.- The weakestf^ink in the existence of the European corn borer is in that the farmer has the fall and winter and during . which, lie may destroy the hibernating borers and that they have- been found to live through this period only in corn stalks, corn cobs, or remnants of corn plants. t has been found that any method of absolute destruction of corn stalks^or .the control of the Insect. The burning of all corn stalks Is being practiced in some in stances with success. It has been found just as effective to plow under all corn stalks and refuse in and about the corn field." - Another weak point is the fact that only one generation each year is pro duced. In this respect they are not like the cotton boll weevil and some other cipp pests which have numerous generations develop to give the farmer Iowa,—Vermont, Montana, North Da- trouble. The ability of the moths to fly long distances; however, makes It all the more important that the clean up methods be efficiently conducted on a community-wide scale. Destroy Ail Refuse. It therefore appears to be of great importance that the destruction of corn stalks and refuse in corn fields, whatever the method used may be, be thoroughly done and be done by all farmers. In the .South the fatt plowing of grain and corn lands is be coming more common and of course is most desirable. The careful plow ing in of all corn stalks therefore in connection with fall plowing of the land seems to offer very exceptional opportunities to the southern farmer to control the European corn borer and avoid the loss that otherwise it may cause. We" believe that farmers in the South will be interested in giving the matter of the European corn borax United State* “Christian” In the case of the Church .of the Holf Trinity versus the United States, argued in the Supreme court, January 7. 1892, the decision was handed down by Justice Brewer, a part of which reads as follows: Justice Brewer stated that in his*opinion the fact that “the form of oath, the custom of ^open ing the national and state assemblies with prayer, the laws of Sabbath oh- sefvanee, with the closing of courts, -legisintures and similar public as semblies on that da$ the number of .churches, missionaries, philanthropists, these and many-other matters which might he tiottced, add a volume of -un- *{l ofticial declarations to the mass of or ganic utterances Unit this is a Chris tian nation.” not Inc T HE whole South now knows the story of the 1927 cotton champions... every single one of them in the different states made liberal use of Chilean Nitrate of Soda. Same story the crops told the year before • . • and the year before that. It’s Soda,"not luck, that makes the biggest, most profitable crop. 9 v ' Two South Carolina Chamfftone Peter M. Arant, of Pageland, wbn the State Cotton Coiltest and B. R. Smith of John ston won the State Corn Contest. Both used Nitrate of Soda liberally on their prize crops. The Cotton Champion produced 12 bales on 5 acres. The Cbm Champion made S01\i bu. on 5 acres, on the same 5 acres on which he won 2nd place in 1926 in the State Cotton Contest. Both champions are enthusiastic Soda users • • . and why shouldn't they be? ' How about your cotton crop this year? If you feed it the quick-acting nitrogen it needs—Chilean Nitrate of Soda—it will produce more cotton per acre... and better cotton, too. Beat the weevil. Order now and be sure of an early money-making crop. _ Valuable Book • . . FREE Our new 24-page illustrated book “Low Coat Cotton" ia ready. A copy will be aent you free. Ask for Booklet No. 2 or tear out this ad and { mail it with your name and address. ^ ■ "V EDUCATIONAL BUREAU ' Carolina Life Bldg., Columbia, S. C. / In writing, please mention Ad No. 69E IT’S '’SODA”—NOT LUCK Longest Bridges In estimating which is ehe longest bridge in the w-wrbF~U*e 4engfh -of main span is usua+ly considered, with out the approaches. The Quebec can tilever bridge over the St. Lawrence. 1.800.feet main >'pan. is the longest.^ The new Delaware river bridge be tween Philadelphia and Camden, 1,- 750 foot span, is the longest suspen- SRffi- bridge' In the world. If ap proaches are considered, the Key West extension of the Florida East Coast railroad, a 30-mile viaduct, is perhaps the longest. The Lucin cut- off across the Great Salt lake is 20 miles*! long. The Cerno Voda bridge over, the Danube, at Constanza is 12. miles long. Not Original Draft The fate of the original draft ol the Declaration—of Independence :s not known. It probably went to the printer on the day after The declura lion was adopted. The engrosser) copy which was ultimately signed by the members of Hie Continental con gress was formerly in the archives of thc Suue dtqumuientr but Js new .preserved in the Library of Congress.. There, prorected against handling and injurious light, it is now .constantly on public viewy ^ , -B Advertise in The People-Sentinel FOR SALE CUCUMBER, CANTALOUPE AND WATERMELON SEED —Buy your Cucumber Seed from the grower’s representative?— .Get thf- Genuine—“THE HFiNDERSON/’ bougrht direct from Peter Henderson and Co., and “KIRBY,” bought from I. N. Simon and Son, put up in 1 poun^l original packages. 1 fo 5 pounds at $1.25 per pound. , 5 to 25 pounds at $1.15 per pound. 25 to 100 pounds at $1.00 per pound. 100 pounds at 95c per pound. Rice’s Perfect© Cantaloupe Seed at, $1.00 per pound. Irish Grey, Excel and W’atson Watermelon seed 80c per pound., I, ' ' f / • /* ~ r'- ' l Simon Brown’s Sons BLACKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. ‘ 1 LONG TERM MONEY to LEND j — - 6 per cent, interest on large amounts Private funds for small loans. ; BROWN & BUSH LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. ■ - . •; B USINES TTLEE FOR SALE:—S. C. Red eggs from pure' bred stock, $1.00 per setting.— F. H. Miller, Barnwril, &X. 2-l23i2 FOR SALE or RENT:—My resi dence in the town of Barnwell.- For terms see Mr. J. R. Harrison.—W. T. Aycock, Bennettsville, S. C. 2-23-1 tc. WONDER-WEAR Fine silk, hosiery. Dira:t from the mills. Newest shades. Ladies Full Fashioned Service Chiffon, 3 pair $4.20. Pure Thread Silk, 3 pair 13T3^__Silk-and-Ar^SUkr3 pair $2.70. Men’s Hose, Pure Thread Silk, 6 pair $3.25. All Postpaijd. Agents Wanted. Wonder-Wear Co., Asheboro, N. C. FOR SALE:—Tancred Strain White Leghorn eggs, $1.50 per setting of 15, $10.00 per hundred. Also BABY CHICKS—$16.(|0 per hundred. Orders booked now for. Mareh delivety. Eggs are from prize-winning stock. —W. H. Moody, Jr., Kline, S. C. 2*9-tfc.'