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McCORMICK MESSENGER^ McCORMlCK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, February 8, 1940 Tmirdr I England I used to hear people A J-iULJV speak of the year “eighteen-hun- At McCormick dred-and-froze-to-death.” It was ” [not until after I had grown up , that I learned that they were Arrangements have been worked I talklng about the 1816i the out with the Greenville Poultry y ear j n w nich there was no Sum- Gompany to buy all poultry at l r at aU ln northern New Eng- McConnick each Wednesday from land but snow and frost every 11:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. month in the year. A truck will be at the depot platform each Wednesday until i i 0W j n g usual ‘‘February thaw further notice. You are urged to | such a cold wave struck ^ . northern Maine that it froze the when you have surplus poultry f°r smaller trees t0 the heart-wood, sale. Regular market prices will The bursting of the tree trunks as be paid, based on leading poultry the frozen expanded filled the After the sap began to rise fol- mackets. D. Austin Shelley, County Agent. x Asks Contributions For The Suffering People Of Finland Winter nights with a noise as of an artillery battle; at least so some of the old letters record. That was the year when ice bergs were so large and numerous that many of them floated into [tropical waters before they melted. [An old account of Florida tells of an iceberg which went aground 1 on the beach near the mouth of IN HIS NAME —by— WILLIE S. CROMER In considering the question of the third term for the office of the President of the United States, there is far more involved than the statesman from Hyde Park,—far more entwined in the expression than petty party poli tics. We should forget politics, and think of principles; forget prejudices, and consider ideals. It is not a question of the worth of the present Chief Executive, nor the good that he has done, nor the preservation of the New Deal, nor the continued success of the Democratic party. We should think of this question as Ameri cans, heirs of a liberty previously unknown in the history of the world; receivers of lofty ideals. Washington, the first Presi dent of our country, frowned on the idea of a third term. He felt Factors That Affect Incomes Of Farmers Columbia, S. C., Feb. 7.—A. the St. Johns River in July, 1816. Prank Lever, State Director for There is no doubt that the cli- two terms were long enough. the Finnish .Relief Fund, Inc., a I mate has changed in twenty fund, the proceeds of which are to thousand years, but there is very be used to provide clothing, food little change over two hundred and shelter for more than 900,000 | years. Finnish refugees, of which num ber more than 30,000 are babes in ICE harvesting the !arms of their mothers, wishes The other day I saw the name every person in this County—men, of my native town in a newspaper women and children, rich and dispatch. Gardiner, Maine, it poor—to have the opportunity to said, is harvesting the biggest ice contribute something to the re- crop in years on the Kennebec lief of these suffering people of River. Finland. He calls attention to I was too young when we moved ths fact that these Finnish people away from Gardiner to remember are highly educated, industrious, anything about the harvesting of frugal and are fighting for their ice, but as a boy in my ’teens in homes, their lives and their liber- Washington I became very fa- ties against odds of more than miliar with the delivery and fifty to one, and that their hero- marketing of Kennebec ice in the ism must stand alongside that of old port of Georgetown at the the patriot army at Valley Forge head of navigation on the and Pickett’s charge ' at Gettys- Potomac, burg. ' The Kennebec ice trade began Mr. Lever continues, “that some more than a hundred years agor. A of these families are being moved schooner from the ' West Indies across an ice covered country with | was caught in the ice and frozen the temperature fifty degrees be- in for the Winter. Her captain low zero, as much as two hundred had the bright idea of loading his miles and that the suffering is ship with a cargo lying right at intense and the need imperative his hand. He set the crew to work and immediate”; and adds fur- cutting ice and storing it in the ther, “that the daily press of the nation through its columns is in viting contributions every cent of which is to go direct to Finland”. He is asking the rural press of the State to open its columns for this purpose and it will do so. It is the fight of democracy against communism, the fight of Chris tianity against the anti-Christ nation of the world. Hereinbelow is a coupon for the purpose of transmitting contribu tions to this cause: Date A. Frank Lever, State Director, Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., P. O. Box 1172, Columbia, S. C. I enclose the amount of Dollars in check, money order, for Finnish Relief Fund. (Name) TODAY and hold, and as soon as he could get clear he"'sailed for Baltimore and sold his ice for several hundred dollars. Until artificial ice came into general use the Kennebec ice schooners supplied the only ice anyone could get in Southern ports and in Cuba and Jamaica. SKATING Potomac Last Winter in Washington I looked for traces of the circular pond called Babcock’s Lake, which was the great outdoor skating rink of my Washington boyhood, more than fifty years ago. It was between the Washington Monu ment and the White House. It has been filled in because the seepage of water was undermining the foundation of the Monument. I found few young folk who really believed me ' when I told them there was more than two months of outdoor 1 skating in Washington in 1887. Hardly any believed that the Potomac River had been frozen over that year. I knew it because I skated across it. I chuckled a little when I read a Washington news item saying that the Potomac River was frozen over this year for the first time in history. It is just an illustra tion of how little reliance can be placed upon popular beliefs, such is that the climate is changing. Just because there was a fifty vears stretch between one severe Winter and the next doesn’t prove ■*ny such thing. EXTREMES adaptability After thinking about it for half a century or so I have come to the -onclusion that mankind reaches the height of its possiblities in a climate where it is alternately ex posed to extremes of temperature. The great thinkers and the great doers of history have devel oped neither in the tropics ilor the arctic regions. They are the product of the so-called “temper ate” zones in which it is usually either too hot for comfort or too cold for comfort. People who are exposed to con tinuous and unpredictable changes in weather and temperature have to develop an adaptability to cir cumstances, which is not neces sary at the poles or the Equator, where tomorrow’s weather or next year’s is always predictable. „ and other records going as « eI1 “ _ one hundred and fifty years P^ 31 adaptability are the chief point, to the same cycles of alter, "foAhe temSe nattng extreme weatoer and nor- of ^ raal wea r. PP have to be agile and smart to keep ference is mainly in imperfect the whose ther memories and hazy traditions. x J mometers may range from 40 be- TRADITTON 1816 low to 120 above between Febru- When I was a small boy in New ary and August. . WEATHER memory For a good many years I have been hearing people say that we don’t have the kind of winters we ^ed to have. All sorts of theories are put forth to explain the sup- l»osed fact that the climate is get- vng warmer. A common belief is that the Gulf Stream now flows c loser to the shore of North America than it used to. Then, just ‘as people begin to 1'lieve that the era of cold and : now is passing, Nature steps in : r>d hands us a Winter like this r -e. The cold and snow of early ^.nuary, 1940, were more wide spread, North to South and East 1o West, than any cold spell in recent years. So far as accurate weather ob servations have been kept, which is only a matter of less than sev enty years, the scientists who study such things haven’t found rny evidence that the Winters are colder or the Summers hotter than they were twenty-five, fifty or more years ago. Study of old For 150 years this country has fol lowed this policy, and no man has been in the White House more than eight years. There have been several reasons for this It is absurd to think that only one person in 130,000,000 has the ability to be the chief executive There are dozens of capable men But there is a greater reason. Democracy is our heritage, but it does not come to us insured. It can be lost,—easily. Those who think our democracy is infallible are slow to see the danger. If a man can have a third term, then it would be still easier to get a fourth, and a fifth, and from then on have complete charge. After all, Hitler doesn’t speak of him self as dictator—we call him that. He only claims to be ruling by the will of the people. If there are those who have no fear of losing their liberty, let them realize that congress has to pass but one law to destroy it; give the President unlimited power in one desperate act. The third term will carry us to the brink of democratic disaster. No chief executive is worth that risk. God has given to us a liberty unsurpassed in the annals of history. In it we have freedom of speech, the opportunity of free religious worship, the right to vote. Let us jealously guard it as a sacred trust. Pastor, Duke Street Baptist Church. Ninety Six, S. C. Early Spring Hints On Care Of Livestock Well laid plans for breeding and feeding are keynotes to success with livestock in early spring, says County Agent D. Austin Shelley, making these suggestions: Animal Husbandry Make use of the small grains (barley, oats, and rye) for hog grazing. Graze fenced cover crops with beef cattle. ' Allow sheej) one-half pound of grain per day and all the good roughage they will eat. Improve permanent pastures by applying phosphorus and lime. Sow lespedeza on permanent pasture in late March and early April. Keep the breeding cows main taining their weight. If sows have lice, treat them with motor oil two or three weeks before farrowing. Dock and castrate lambs when they are 7 to 14 days old. Dairying Breed as many cows as possible during February for calving in November and early December. Plan abundance of home-grown feed for next winter’s feeding. Provide for each mature cow: Silage, at least three tons, or le gume hay, two tons, or a combina tion of silage and hay; corn, eight bushels; velvet beans, 420 pounds; oats, 15 bushels; cottonseed meal, four sacks; permanent pasture, two acres; soiling crops, fourth acre. Clemson, Feb. 3.—An analysis just completed of 92 complete farm account records kept by South Carolina farmers in 1938 in cooperation with the Agricultural Economics Division of the Clem son College Extension Service indicates certain practices and factors had a significant influence on farm and labor incomes. Some of these practices and factors, as pointed out by Paul Williamon, assistant farm man agement specialist, are: 1. Within limits moderately large farms paid best. Those farms having the greatest number of crop acres made on the average the highest farm incomes. 2. An increase in the number of productive livestock per farm was accompanied by an increase in both farm income and labor in come. 3. Good yields are probably the most important single factor in obtaining low cost of production. Ordinarily farms with higher rates of production have higher labor incomes. Those groups of farms having relatively higher crop yields reported the highest labor incomes. 4. A well balanced farm makes the most money, indicating that farmers should strive to be above average in several factors instead of outstanding in any one. 5. As the percentage of cropland in cotton, tobacco, or truck in creased, the farm and labor in comes tended to increase. 6. As the percentage of receipts from livestock increased, there was an increase in labor income 7. In general, farms that sold an appreciable amount of one or more livestock or livestock prod-; ucts made better labor incomes than did farms that sold only crops. 8. Good labor efficiency is high- y important in obtaining maxi mum returns. * The groups .re-, porting the use of the % greatest number of productive man-work units per man made on the aver age a much higher farm income. 9. The class of tenure has some influence upon the farm income. Those who owned their farms re ported the highest farm income, whereas the owner-renters had on the average the second highest farm income, and the renters and sharecroppers together reported on the average the lowest farm income. OCX •> Better Landlord* Tenant Relation ships Needed PRIZE CONTEST For Our Customers* $2000 0< 1h CASH 10,000 ADDITIONAL PR I Z E S Is the Time to Buq NEW/ HASTINGS' YELLOW PROUFIC t*: CORN | IMPROVED STRAINS jg^YOUR OLD FAVORITES W m* ■iMm * • FOR YOUR SPRING GARDEN SEND TODAY FOR YOUR FREE 1940 GARDEN GUIDE CATALOG A POST CARD REQUEST BRINGS IT BY RETURN MAIL. /.'•■.nr ip&r fes-.'.-v. ;>:•••. fevii'iv fei pL sit. W& rvmh . NEW - FLOWERS H.G. ! 815 HASTINGS AVE. * FULL CONTEST DETAILS IN CATALOG ?gS^pi^'NEW VEGETABLES: Co. The Souths/Seedsmen ATLANTA, GA. j Clemson, Feb. 3.—The high pro portion of farms being operated in South Carolina by tenants and sharecroppers causes no little con cern among agricultural leaders, says M. C. Rochester, extension farm management specialist, dis cussing findings in a recent sur vey on landlord-tenant relation ships. According to the 1935 census, 37.4 per cent of the farm opera tors were classed as owners, 34.3 oer cent as tenants, 27.9 per cent as sharecroppers, the remaining few being classed as managers, Mr. Rochester points out. Of the 62.2 per cent of the farm opera tors not owning their farms, 27.J ler cent were white operators and 35.1 per cent were colored. “Since most of the farm plam are developed by the owners, i’ Follows that 37.4 per cent of the farm operators do most of th Planning for the other groups” the specialist continues. “Conse quently, any immediate adjust ments in the systems of farming must be brought about directly or indirectly through the farm own ers. This influence would be lesr ipon tenants than upon share- *roppers. “The unstability of these groups f farmers does not offer an op- one- , ^ortunity for doing many things j ''ecessary for their own welfare. Continue to repair fences, clear \ccording to the 1935 census, an up the lots and grounds, anc verage of 35.4 per cent of all whitewash out-buildings anc , enants (including sharecroppers) fences. , -eported having lived less than Watch calves and yearlings fo one year on the farm where they lice, which at this season d. -jvere then residing. The propor- | tion ran as high as 50 per cent in I certain counties.” in! Mr. Rochester believes that im provements in landlord-tenant Purchase chicks early, as record: ( relationships should result in show that early-hatched chick -: greater stability and security of are the most profitable. farmers and their FRESH SHIPMENT MULES MARES THIS WEEK i This week I received a fresh ship ment of nice Tennessee mules and brood mares at my stables here. All guaranteed to give satisfaction. You are invited to come to my stables on Upper Main Street and look them over. J. L. SMITH McCORMICK, S. C. 'tv. TRIP FORECAST AUGUSTA***-' I j Convenient Daify SchedOh*: II 0n « Way .. .65 Round Trip .. 51.30) X Othf Him Greenwood, S'. C. 5 .48 Greenville, 8. C. 1.10 Spartanburg, s. C. 1.60 Columbia, S. C. __ 1J55 Charlotte. IT. C. __ 2.30 Jacksonville, Fla. 4.00 Big EXTRA Savings on. Round Trips Strom’s Drug Store, Phone 95 McCormick, S. C. these people. Further discussion of rural liv- ! ng problems will be given in ater articles. AVIL SERVICE COMMISSION TO HOLD EXAMINATION FOR RADIO INSPECTORS second class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission,, Washington, D. C. txt Well Thinned Trees Withstand Ice Storms Clemson, Jan. 13.—In the re cent ice storm in the Piedmont The United States Civil Service j section of the state, which ommission has announced open damaged thousands of dollars worth of timber, those pine stands competitive examinations for the W ere properly thinned re- oositions of radio inspector, $2,600 i ceived the least damage, accord- a year, in the Federal Communi- [ ing to M. H. Bruner, extension ations Commission, and assistant ^ ^ , . , *onnn „ Where the young pine timber adio inspector, $2,000 a year, in was extremely dense, and there- various Government departments, fore in need of thinning, whole Applications must be on file in the areas of saplings were broken greatest damage. Poultry Put brooding equipment working order. Commission’s office at Washing ton, D. C., not later than March 4 if received from States east of Colorado, and not later than March 7, 1940, if received from Colorado and States westward. Except for the substitution of certain experience for education, applicants must have completed a 4-year college course in electri cal or communications engineer ing. Certain experience is also necessary for the inspector grade. down together by a complete- blanket of ice”; says Mi:. Bruner. “In thinned stands, on the other hand, where the trees were well spaced, those trees that were bent over usually did not lean against others and carry them to the around, as in the case of the un thinned stands.” Mr. Bruner suggests that, to order to avoid another serious in festation of bark beetles, which was prevalent in many sections of South Carolina last summer and* tell, all landowners should cut the damaged, bent, and fallen trees or fuelwood. Otherwise, these rees will provide an excellent Applicants must not have passed their forty-fifth birthday. j reeding place for bark beetles Full information may be obtain- communities, ed from the Secretary of thr: Provide clean range for chicks better protection for the landlord United States Civil Service Boan j and pullets. and his land, and better farming of Examiners at the post offid Hold hatching eggs not over 14 methods and practices, as well as or customhouse in any city which days before setting. ja higher standard of living among has a post office of the first ori