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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROUlSA Tbtirsday, September 1, 1938 Beware Screwworms fioms-o***.. - r ) o ‘'!n5*c atr* V''* 5 fled of "ares "f in^e' tation b*' tb? true scre^'worrr yo-—a.s a v*a«:’s f r " r the warnin'? by W. C. Nettles, extension ento mologist, that numerous screw- worm cases might occur between now and frost unless percautions are taken. For the first time on record cases have been reportec at Clemson College. Mr. Nettles urges that pine tar oil be applied at once to all wounds on animals as a repellent Benzol, which is used to kill the worms once they are found, need not be obtained until cases begin to occur. Both of these materials are stocked by druggists and by some dealers in farm supplies. All operations, such as dehorn ing and castrating, should be de layed, if possible, until the cold Weather, Nettles suggests. POLITICAL CARPS House Representatives I thereby announce my candi dacy for re-election to the House of Representatives from McCor mick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. I am very grateful for the splendid support given me in the past. Your continued influence and support in my behalf will be liighly appreciated. / WILLIAM M. FREELAND. House Representatives ■ ■ ■ I hereby announce my candi dacy for the House of Representa tives from McCormick County, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. Your support and influence shall be highly appreciated. T. A. DOWTIN. U. Of S. C. Football Squad Begin Practice September 1st Columbia, S. C., Aug. 27.—The University of South Carolina foot ball squad will begin practice for the 1938 season on Melton Field, September 1, at 10 o’clock. Coach iex Enright, inaugurating his CJamecock coaching career, will be greeted by 24 lettermen, 13 re serves, and 14 freshmen. Ten Lettermen were lost by June grad uation, including speedy Jack Lyon, halfback, and Ed Stillwell, outstanding end. With only 19 days separating them from the season’s opener with Erskine College, the Game cocks will practice twice daily in order to master the intricate Notre Dame system, introduced at Carolina for the first time. Let termen and freshmen, alike, will be starting from scratch in assim ilating the new formations and assignments. Faced with perhaps the toughest schedule ever assign ed a Gamecock gridiron aggrega tion, the Birds will be hard press ed to perfect their offensive and defensive tactics before taking on Xavier, Georgia, Clemson, Vil- lanova, Duquesne, Fordham, and Catholic U. The forward wall, with specia emphasis on guards, is Coach Enright’s salient problem. Co captains Larry Craig and W. R. Pop” Howell, end and tackle, respectively, will be the bulwarks of the Gamecock line. Returning ettermen from the 1937 line are: John Bums, Harold Hartel, Robert Webb, centers; R. E. “Big ’ Durham, A1 Bretz, George Makovic, Wally Craig, guards; at Columbia it Cincinnati Sept. 19, Erskine, Sept. 24, Xavier, Ohio. Oct. 1, U. of Georgia, in Colunj bia. Oct. 8, Wake Forest, at Colum bia. Oct. 14, Davidson, at Sumte S. C._ Oct. 20, Clemson, at Columbia. Oct. 28, Villanova, at Orange burg, S. C. Nov. 5, Duquesne, at Columbia Nov. 12, Furman, at Greenville, S. C, Nov. 19, Fordham, at New York City. Nov. 26, Catholic U., at Wash ington, D. C. , Livestock Guide For Late Summer For Congress I hereby announce myself as a candidate for congress in the third congressional district of South Carolina and pledge my self to support the nominees of the party and abide by the results of the primary. BUTLER B. HARE. Saluda, S. C. ack Dorflinger, Thomas Briggs, tackles; Frank Myers, John Crews, ends, the undefeated freshman Irving Granoff, Jim Bethune, Urban, Glenn From line For Congressman I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election as Con gressman in the third Congres sional district according to the rules of the Democratic Primary. Your vote and support will be ap preciated. JOHN C. TAYLOR. Anderson. S. C. TIm worst body odor comoo from P. O — perspiration odor un> dor tho arms. T&ko 1 nainuto to uso Todora — now. amazing doodorant cream that works directly on underarm ookBretlono. Normally otopo odor 4 to 1 day#. Todora also reduces am soot of perspiration. Made without lard—Todora is utterly dlf« foront from otlff. grainy pastes < 1) Soft— smooth as faoe cream. (2) Loaves no sticky film on fingers or underarms. (S) Leaves no "lardy" smell on clothes. tkt—iQ*. Get it to day—money hack If not delighted. Trial stso runs. Send coupon. YODORA • • DKODORANT CREAM • FREE! Send coupon for trial size to McKeanon A Robbins. Fairfield. Conn Dept. K-l. Nome. 4 a a DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. >“ Broad Street Augusta, Qa will come Stan Nowak, Cornell Griffith, and Ed. Brown, ends; Leo Kroto, Joe Patrone, and pilie Jones, guards; T. L. Bozzard, cen ter. Joe Hatkevich and Alex Urban, freshman tackles, have been converted into guard and tackle respectively. In the backfield, the Birds will have Ed Clary, Ralph Dearth, Hober “Rock” Stroud, Gene Robinson, Dick Little, Joe Wil liams, and Jerry Hughes, .from last year’s squad, and DeWitt Arrowsmith, A1 Grygo, Joe Grugan, Lucious Henson, and Bill Lowry, from the freshman lineup. Whit- ey Cope and J. B. Henson, re serves, will also be in uniform. Clary, one of the South’s best punters, is a fast and accurate passer and will probably fill a blocking assignment in the En right backfield this year. Robin son and Little, most versatile of the Gamecock ball carriers last year, will alternate in the running position, with Rock Stroud, as usual, being the “man of all work” in the Bird running combination. Dearth, most experienced of the Bird signal callers, will probably be back in that position again. In the line, Larry Craig, well- remembered for his sparkling end piay in 1936, returns to the Game cock line as co-captain and one of the best end prospects to wear the Garnet and Black. His run ning mate. Pop Howell, tackle and co-captain, will be endeavor ing to break through two years of injuries and illness to turn in the best performance of his pigskin career. All the other line positions are in the dubious stage, according to Head Coach Enright. The Game cock mentor has only nineteen lays to determine the candidates nost adept to the Notre Dame >tyle of play. Frank Urban and Glenn “Chief” Myers, varsity ends, will have a battle for that posi- ion with freshman Stan Nowak and reserveman Bob Turnbul wo giant wingmen who lack only experience to play top-notch ball. At center, the big Alex Urban, freshman tackle last year, is giv ing varsity John Bums and Har old Hartel a close race. Coach Rex Enright, beginning his initial year at Carolina, was assistant to Harry Mehre at Georgia for seven years and also coached at the University of North Carolina after graduation from the Notre Dame school of Law. Line coach at Carolina this year will be Ted Twomey (Notre Dame); End coach, Vernon “Cat fish” Smith (Georgia); And assistants, Sterling DuPre (Au burn) and Ted Petoskey (Michi gan). The 1938 Gamecock schedule Is: Clemson, August 20.—Proper at tention to their livestock enter prises will help keep farmers busy in late summer, according to extension livestock men, who give these important reminders: An r mal Husbandry Full feed all hogs intended for September market. Turn hogs on corn when it is in the glazed stage. Remove the bull from the cow pasture. Give sheep a fresh pasture to control parasites and encourage early breeders. See that all classes of livestock have shade and fresh water. Reserve enough permanent pas ture to carry the beef cattle un til November or December. Observe the herds for screw worm infestation and give treatment if necessary. Dairying Mow pastures to keep grasses tender and to kill weeds. Maintain milk flow by tempo rary grazing of Sudan grass or pearl millet or by cutting green eed. Prepare for heavy fall seeding of barley, oats, and rye for both grazing and winter grain to make up for com shortage. Seed liberal acreage of oats and vetch for roughage. Keep milk products clean and cool and deliver promptly. Plan for trench silo construc tion. Watch com for silage and cut at proper stage. Poultry Do not force the pullets into production too early. Clean and disinfect the laying houses before putting the new pullets in ihem. Free pullets from internal and external parasites before housing. Cull the non-laying hens. xx Ninth Short Course ® pcssible. I * * * On Poultry Is Success sun spots p-edicuon Whenever astronomers Clemson. August 27.—Clemson’. Ninth Poultry. Short Course con- iucted here this week was attend ed by 175 poultry raisers, general farmers, and hatcherymen, oiiis number being double any previous attendance. Immediately following the con clusion of the short course on Friday, 27 of those in attendance passed an examination qualifying them as flock selecting agents to do official culling in compliance with the National Poultry Im provement Plan. While special emphasis was placed on culling, judging, and selecting in this short course, the program covered all phases uf poultry production. The discus sions included brooding and feed ing chicks, growing out pullets, breeding for hatchability, de creasing mortality, poultry diseases, vitamins for poultry rations, turkey raising, etc. see through their telescopes an in crease in the number and violence of magnetic storms o» the sur face of the sun, they nowadays make two predictions which so '■"r have come true. They predict that there will be serious droughts over a period cf years, and that in that period there will be ex cessive static interference with radio signals. Sunspot cycles run about eleven years; five or six years cf activity, then an equal period of quies cence. The present cycle began in 1931, and until 1937 there was an almost constant succession of drought years. Now, astronomers say, the magnetic storms on the sun are subsiding. There have been only two flare-ups since last Summer, the latest in April this in England, according to Marion Ryan. American journalist who 1 has lived for some time in London. Their interest today is more prac tical and personal. And candidates do a great deal of canvassing themselves. There is Dr. Edith Somerskill, Labor candidate, who surprised everybody but the agents who prepared the way for her, by being elected to parliament by a lame majority. University grad uates try to get into some party organization as soon as they leave college. They may do social work first, but they strive for a secre taryship or some other post. They may take four weeks’ in training at party offices followed by a test of their political knowledge which, if passed, helps the aspirant on the road to the House of Com mons, if that is her aim. New York, a city in which many lonely men and women live, has started a new venture in friendli ness for the unattached woman of fifty. This is called the L Club, year. Simultaneously, the past coatralllmr I year has been marked by th « heaviest and most widely-dis- persed rainfall in years. In the its name having been taken from P. H. Gooding, Miss Eleanor I first half of 1938 the avera se rain the Roman numeral for fifty, and Carson, and John W. Matthews and snow was 12 per cent abov( ' headquarters can be found In extension poultry specialists. Pro- £° r ? >al ,‘ he . whole Unlted Lexington Avenue not far front fessor C. L. Morgan and Dr. R. C. States - 1116 dus ‘ b0 , wl ls « reen Rlngrose of the South Carolina f 008 more and ‘b® j ar 8«* t ““P 3 Experiment Station, and Dr. R. A.l ta years are growln « in the wheat Southern Corn Plantings Below Acreage In 1933 Corn plantings in the South this year still are 900,000 acres less than they were in 1933, according to corn acreage figures recently released by the Bureau of Agricul tural Economics, says I. W. Duggan, director of the Southern Division of the Agricultural Ad justment Administration. “Although the farmers in the 10 principal cotton-producing states planted only about 26,900,- 000 acres of cotton this year as compared with about 40,250.00° rcres in 19°.3. they planted slightly less* corn this year than in 1933’’ says Mr. Duggan. “The total corn acreage in the 10 principal cotton states is 28.095.000 acres this year according to the Bureau’s report In 1933 the farmers in these 10 states grew 28,981,000 acres o x corn.” The comparision of corn plant ? ngs in 1933 and 1938 by state" shows that South Carolina farm ers planted 1,623,000 acres in 193° and 1.863.000 acres in 1938, an in crease of 240,000 acres. There were increases in most other Southern states, a small decrease in North Carolina, and large decreases in Texas and Oklahoma. “The. higher acreage of cotton which Southern farmers grew in the past would normally produce enough cotton seed for livestock to equal the feed value of about 65,000,000 bushels of corn”, Mr. Duggan points out. “At the nor mal yields of about 15 bushels of corn to the acre in the South, which are less than half as large as yields in the Corn Belt, more than a 4,000,000 acre increase in Southern farmers’ plantings would be required to make up for the livestock feed lost through the cotton acreage adjustments.” Mays of the state livestock sani tary office, led the important general discussions. Visiting speakers on the pro gram included J. D. Sykes, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash ington; Ross L. Holman, editor of the Dixie Farm and W C. Huffman, Clinton; and J. 3. McCrorey, Gresham. Mr. Holman discussed the and com country. * * MILK refrigeration It must hgve occurred to every body at one time or another that it would be a grand thing if milk could be kept sweet and pure in- _ .. , definitely without refrigeration .J!? 1 xn I Wel1 * that’s happened. Out of one ol the largest chemical research laboratories has come a process, which has been patented, for pre serving whole milk at room World's Poultry Congress which is temperatures for as long as three to be held in Chicago in 1939 and| or four mon ths. urged that South Carolina send a large delegation and a poultry exhibit. —txt- TODAY *nd HELIUM advantage? By the aid of helium new rec ords for deep-sea diving were set in July. This gas, which enables airships to soar, also enables human beings to go deeper in the ocean than anyone has ever gone before. The trick is to pump a mixture I long run The thing is done by adding . .tate j hydrogen peroxide arid potassium iodide to the fresh milk and then heating it to 131 degrees for fif teen minutes to an hour. As little as six drops of peroxide and third of a drop of the iodide to a gallon of milk so treated are said to be enough to kill all the bac teria which cause milk to go sour, more effectively than pasteuriza tion does it. According td the laboratory re ports, the taste of the milk re mains unimpaired for weeks, and no trace of the hydrogen peroxide can be found in it by the most delicate chemical tests. The slight trace of iodine makes uhe treated milk beneficial, especially in re gions where the water-supply is lacking in iodine. * * * CROPS prices Nothing is more certain in the to starve the farmers of helium and oxygen into the I who grow it than a high-paying diver’s helmet while he is sub- crop suited to a particular area, merged. William Badders, Master for which there is a brisk demand. Diver of the United States Navy, That is one cf the paradoxes cf went down 401 feet from the U.S.S. I agriculture, and in it lies the i Falcon and remained submerged at that depth for half an hour, with no ill effects. The greatest danger to deep-sea divers is the necessity of keeping the air pressure inside the diving suits as great as that exerted by reason for much of the agricul tural distress of which wc have been hearing so much in recent years. A single “big-money” crop is al ways a temptation to farmers to abandon everything else in the the seawater from outside, which effort to get rich quick. But a increases with the depth. Under ^oon as it has been demonstrated such high pressures the nitrogen that there are big profits to be of the air pumped in penetrates | made, competition becomes so the blood-vessels and causes a paralysis which is often fatal af ter the diver has been hauled up. With helium substituted for nitro gen that danger is eliminated. * * * TREASURE recovery For nearly 150 years effort have been going on to recover 10 million dollars’ worth of gold bars which were sunk when the ship ‘Lutine” was wrecked on the mast of Holland in 1790. About a million dollars has been salvaged Only a f«w weeks ago divers brought up another bar worth a- bout ten thousand dollars. Off the coast of Portugal divers hr^e recovered nearly half of the 4 million dollars of gold which went down with the ship “At lantis” a few years ago. The ‘ T ’sitania” carried two or three ’." 'lion in gold when she was tor- nrrloed by a German submarine in 1915. The wreck has been lo- cr ed off the Irish coast, and "o ner or later that gold will be b ought up. All along the Atlantic coast cf t' e United States are wrecks o si ips which carried gold or silver b it which lie too deep to be reached by ordinary means. There is a million dollars or so in copper bars in the hull of the “Pontiac,” 300 feet deep at the bottom of Lake Huron. Improved diving ap paratus will make the recovery of most of such sunken treasure /igorous that prices fall below &he cost of production and the farmer who has put his land and his capital into a speculative one- :rop venture goes broke. Cotton is America’s classic cx- xmple, but oitrus fruits, uObaccc xnd many others have ruined communities into which xhey xoured wealth when they were first introduced. Brazil has oecn ill but ruined by its coffee crop; ,he Central America : epublics vhich once flourished by growing •ananas are now impoverished to tire point where they have to im- icrt food supplies, so many of Jieir farmers have xeglected everything else to grow bananas. Like a bonanza gold ?nine, the flow of wealth from a single-crop farming system is bound Lo peter out in time. WPMffcl EmRune White PtsckJent of Th« N»- taotud Federation of Bun* ex* and Professional Woeoexi’c Clubs, Inc. Grand Central Terminal. Mrs. Walter Nelson Sedgwick, Mrs. William T. Payne and Mrs. Harold Smith are prime movers in this new organization which has no dues and whose clubrooms are guaranteed for a year. These are nicely furnished and there is also a workroom where handicrafts are to be taught. * * • Olive Dennis is one of the lead ing civil engineers in this country. xx Professor Has Insomnia Cure Women are taking a different view of politics and political work. Chicago, July 24.—For those suffering insomniacs, weary of counting sheep or catching their sleep in uncomfortable banquet chairs, science today supplied the- answer. For 30 years and with 300 sub jects, Dr. Edmund Jacobson sought the answer to sleep—and today he announced, it’s easy. “The way to fall asleep is to do nothing,” Dr. Jacobson explained, “and do it without effort. Too- many persons wear themselves out working at going to sleep.” Dr. Jacobson, former University of Chicago professor of physiolo gy, who has embodied his findings n a book to be brought out -n September, conducted his experi ments in his own laboratory where delicate electrical instru ments record the time required to go to sleep and the slight musclar tension of the sleeper. “My method is really nature’s method,” he said, explaining six essential ^eps as follows: 1. Lie dPffri on your back. Do your best to relax. Raise your right arm and clench your fist. Uncurl your fingers and let your arm drop—limp, like a rag doll. 2. Stretch your legs, bend down eet and toes. Go limp suddenly. Repeat two times. 3. Lie in any comfortable posi tion. Breathe more deeply than usual two or three times. Let your chest “go” the same way you et your arms and legs relax. 4. Frown, puckering forehead muscles. Let go, taking several minutes to effect this. Doctor Jacobson warns against wrinkling the forehead again in an effort to rub out the frown. • 5. Lie on your back. Look to ’.he right, then to the left. Look up, then down. Relax your eyes 'xy not bothering to look in any direction. 6. Lie in your favorite position. Count aloud to ten. Note that your tongue, lips, jaws and throat are working. Quit counting. “Let go” the muscles used in counting. Along with finding out how to relax, Doctor Jacobson also has ound that coffee drinking does not always cause insomnia; smok ing has practically nothing to do with the matter; city folk often sleep as well as country dwellers; religion accomplishes partial re laxation by quieting fears; fatigue greatly helps induce sleep, and reading in bed is bad business. “People who read in bed get ac customed to imagining and re- f] cting, not relaxing,” Doctor Jr’obson explained. 0 renditions favoring sleep listed t- Doctor Jacobson were: : 'atigue, *if mild. LXercises, if moderate. Fresh air, if indoors. Comfortable mattress. Darkened room. Freedom; from fears.