McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 10, 1941, Image 8
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 10, 1941
Modified Arsenate
Dust For Weevil
Farmers are reminded that
straight calcium arsenate fre
quently produces damaging louse
infestations, and those farmers
desiring to use this method of
< control are advised to consult
County Agent M. A. Bouknight re
garding sources of supply of a
modified calcium arsenate dust,
which is said to control both lice
and weevils.
The gravity of the boll weevil
has been emphasized,
hut little has been said about the
cotton louse situation. Yet many
fanners have complained of lice
which are generally present in
most fields.
Where calcium arsenate has not
used, it is hoped that the
natural enemies, such as lady
beetles, will hold the lice in check.
Already the young of lady beetles,
or black crawlers with reddish
are to be found in great
numbers. Moreover, wasplike
parasites of the lice are get
ting in their deadly work. All in
■bI1 ) the cotton louse situation this
.year demands extraordinary cau
tion in using straight calcium ar
senate dust.
A modified calcium arsenate
dust recently developed by the
Fee Dee Experiment Station at
Florence gives promise of abating
increased louse infestations
that are so generally produced
'with straight calcium arsenate.
This modified mixture consists of
calcium arsenate, derris (the
ground root of the tropical plant),
nnii sulfur or other inert material,
lime should not be used as a
diluent. Some of the modified
dust contains sulfur and some
contains kaolin. Kaolin is mined
in South Carolina, whereas the
sulfur comes from Louisiana or
Texas.
The county agent advises farm
ers to use the modified calcium
arsenate mixture where the weevil
infestation is sufficiently heavy
to justify, and suggests three or
four applications at five-day in
tervals, at a rate not to exceed 10
pounds per acre.
STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA
THE PUBLIC SERVICE COM
MISSION
COLUMBIA
July 7, 1941
NOTICE
XN RE: DOCKET NO. 1925—The
application of C. G. Fuller,
Barnwell, S. C., for a modified
Class D Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity to
render a United common carrier
motor freight service to, from,
and between points and places
in the State of South CaroUna,
over irregular routes, for the
transportation of general com
modities of unusual weight and
size, as exempted by the 1938
truck act (Act No. 845 of the
Acts of 1938), and as permission
will be granted by the State
Highway Department for the
transportation of the same (See
Article 3, Section 3 (e) and Arti
cle 4, Section 2 of Act 845 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of
South Carolina, 1938).
The Commission will hold a
public hearing in the above en
titled matter in its offices in the
Wade Hampton State Office Build
ing, Room 315, at 10:00 o’clock in
the forenoon, Thursday, July 31,
'941, for the purpose of determin
ing the requirements of public
convenience and necessity in the
premises.
W. W. Goodman, Director,
Motor Transport Division.
Notice For Bids For
Transportation Pupils
Sealed bids will be received un
til 12:00 o’clock noon, July 29.
1941, for the transportation of
pupils from the following school
districts:
Mt. Carmel School District No. 1
to* Calhoun Falls School.
Willington School District No. 2
to De la Howe State School.
Bordeaux School District No. 3
to De la Howe State School.
Flatwoods School District No. 7
to Sharon School.
Lvon’s School District No. 17 to
McCormick High School. *
Vernon School District No. 19 to
SulUvan’s School.
All bids shall be addressed to
♦he County Superintendent of
Education, marked on outside of
realed envelope, “Bid for Trans
portation of pupils in
School District No. ” and
shall be opened at th*> ^ oc -
^nated in this advertisement.
Bids will be opened and awards
made by the County Board of
Education, within 10 days after
Mds are received, who shall have
the right to reject any and all
Mds, and to re-advertise for new
and additional bids
THOMAS R. TALBERT,
Countv Supt. of Education.
McCormick. S. C.,
July 7, 1941.—3t.
College Degree
Is Now Paying
Early Dividend
By DON ROBINSON
READ THE AD$
Along With the News
COLLEGE J° bs
For the first time since 1929, a
college degree is paying dividends
immediately upon graduation.
During the depression years,
when young men went out into
the world to seek their fortune
after having completed 16 years of
education, a vast army of them
were faced with a long job hunt,
discouragement and low salaries
if they did get jobs. Many of
them gradually reached the con
clusion that a college sheepskin
might be decorative but was cer
tainly no “open sesame” to the
world of business or industry.
Now all that has changed. This
year, large companies swamped
.with defense orders have been
combing the coUege campuses for
'job applicants. In many of the
technical schools particularly the
i number of openings has far ex
ceeded the number of men avail
able to fill them.
Based on comments from 501 in
stitutions of higher learning, E. E.
Crabb, president of Investors Syn
dicate, which each year makes a
survey of the job possibilities for
college graduates, said that the
colleges have been unable to fill a
third of the jobs offered for June
graduates.
The only cloud on the brightest
job horizon for college graduates
in over a decade is the selective
service act. Young men with low
draft numbers are being avoided
by many of the companies which
are seeking new men. Not because
the companies are being un
patriotic, but because, in many in
stances, they are seeking men to
replace those in their companies
who already have been called for
military service.
TRAINING . - engineering
A college graduate who has had
engineering or chemical training
is in greatest demand today. If
he has had that training he is apt
to start his industrial career at a
salary of about $32 a week and in
many cases is offered a specialized
training course while he is being
paid.
Other types of jobs, in the order
of their present abundance, are:
teaching, aeronautics, industrial
arts, business administration, gen
eral physical science, secretarial
and a combination of mathematics
and science.
Commenting on the number of
large concerns which sent men to
the college campuses to recruit
employees last spring, one western
Pennsylvania institution com
mented: “As early as last Feb
ruary corporations recruiting on
our campus demanded 3,500 young
engineer graduates, though our
June graduating class could not
exceed 235.”
WOMEN demand
Analysis of the answers from
women’s colleges also showed the
job openings for graduates to be
particularly heavy. Some of the
.nstitutions commented that more
responsible positions were being
offered to female graduates than
ever before, a good many to fill
the places of men who had left
vacancies because of the selective
service.
Although provisions have been
made in many cases to safeguard
she jobs of young men taken for
military training, the increased
demand for women to fill their
jobs is reminiscent of the last war
and its permanent results on em
ployment.
In 1917, when millions of young
men left their jobs to go into
military service, the influx of
women into business began—and
has been increasing ever since. In
spite of efforts made during the
depression to give jobs to men in
stead of to women, and to dis
courage married women from
working, there are now over four
times as many women employed
in business as there were in 1910.
FUTURE executives
Although women’s suffrage was
lot added to the Constitution
until 1920, it was as a result of
women’s so-called emancipation
from the home during the war
that put it over.
Ever since then, women have
been quietly assuming more and
more authority in the busines..
world, in politics and in the pro
fessions. Although the great ma
jority of executive positions arc
held by men, the number of
women holding them has been
gradually increasing.
In quite a number of instances,
women have proven that they can
do “a man’s work” better and
more efficiently than many men
can.
Now the present war and the
selective service act gives another
jolt to the “woman’s place is in
the home” idea and increased de
mand is being made for women
in business and industry.
During the last war women were
used largely to replace male ste
nographers and clerks.
Now, after having learned the
rudiments of business through
those jobs, it seems probable that
they will be tested in more re
sponsible positions.
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Line Up Of Nations
In European War
Takes Old Pattern
By LYTLE HULL
Whenever Europe really buckles
down to its normal business—WAR,
there is just one thing you can al
ways be positive will happen—and
that is that the original “line up”
of the opposing nations will not
be the same at the end as it was
in the beginning. (See Kinder
garten History) These peace-lov
ing nations shift and change and
squirm and betray; and the origi
nal purposes of their wars become
lost in a smother of new alliances,
new objectives and new slogans.
The unkindest feature of this
European habit is that it imposes
an additional mental effort upon
outsiders like us. How can we
interventionists and isolationists
be expected to follow all the new
intricacies created by these shift
ing alliances, when we didn’t know
what it was all about to begin
with? Now we have to guess ail
over again before we start “bawl
ing each other out,” and there are
a number of pretty serious guesses
to contend with. Remember one
thing, in working out this intelli
gence quiz—whatever you decide
will be wrong. Now try to figure
out the results of the following
possibilities.
First: Will the Germans attempt
to take the Ukraine only, or will
they try to become, masters of all
Russia? Would this last be possi
ble? And if they took the Ukraine
only, and were able to hold it,
would this district be capable of
supplying the food deficiency in
Europe which the British blockade
is causing?
Second: If Germany is able to
defeat the Russian army within
two months, or even less; will that
fact make an invasion of England
any more possible than hitherto?
Will not the delay, and the sub
sequent re-marshalling and re
equipping of the German forces
for this possible but improbable
event, use up the summer months
—the only months in which nuch
an undertaking has ever even been
considered humanly possible? And
by next summer won’t the arma
ment odds of Germany over
Britain be more even?
Third: Is there something deep-
3r in Germany’s attack upon Rus
sia than the obvious need for ad
ditional food and oil supplies? Is
this attack a “cover up” for ah
ittempted invasion of England by
the hundred or more unemployed
divisions of the German army?
Fourth: Is there something
even more frightening than the
wild gamble of invasion? Is there
i powerful anti-Stalin group in
Russia, prepared and waiting upon
the signal to attempt a coup?
d’etat to take over the govern
ment for the purpose of allying
Russia to Germany in one vast
military machine?
Fifth: Will Adolf and Toe beat
each other’s brains out and leave
.he world in happiness and peace
—so that Europe can prepare it
self (and us) for its next big war?
These are a few of the 6,000,000
new problems which Hitler un
kindly thrust upon us when he
marched into Russia. Take your
pick of one and “think it thro" h.”
One guess is as bad as the next.
Hitler himself is doubtless • »ng
a lot of guessing and let us .ope
he will not always be right. Tut
whatever we do as a nation—
eventually—let us wait awhi e nd
see which way the cat jump - A r e
can always declare war—but It is
difficult to “undeclare” it. 1 - us
hold back our trump card a.? long
as we can—and maybe, God bill
ing, we will never have to play it.
ovnd
I Author of SUcer Mary'* Kitchen
June brides will be July house
keepers with their housewifely
cares heavy or light according to
their experience. Marketing and
meal planning, cooking and clean
ing fill days that formerly were
spent on the golf course and ten
nis court. So in order to accom
plish all your housekeeping duties
and also have some time for out
door activities you will have to
work out an efficient system.
In the first place don’t dawdle
over your work. It’s a habit that
grows on you and is extremely
tiring. Not that you should hurry
and rush through tasks under
nervous tension but train your
hands to move quickly and surely
without unnecessary motions. As
they put it in the country, “Don’t
back-track.” Plan your work and
allow a reasonable amount of
time for each job to be done.
Naturally you gain speed as you
gain experience and work out your
routine.
When you come to meal plan
ning calculate three days ahead.
Ordinarily that reduces your mar
keting to twice a week and saves
a worthwhile amount of time.
Make it a rule never to let your
self be completely out of any
staple article. Re-order supplies
such as soaps and non-perishable
foods at least three days before
you will need them. Replace arti
cles on your emergency shelf im
mediately.
Now is the time, too, to break
yourself of such habits as dis-
orderliness and perpetual tardi
ness. It’s so much easier to put
things away when you are through
with them than to wait for a gen
eral clearing-up time. There’s al
ways plenty of that to do any
way, so have a place for every
thing and then have everything in
its place.
* * *
In the garden continue to spray
the rose bushes and keep a watch
out for rose bugs. The best way
to get rid of these pests is by way
of the faithful kerosene can. Wear
a pair of heavy gloves and shake
the stems so the insects will fall
into the can.
Plants that bloom throughout
the entire season should be top-
dressed with a good, well-balanced
fertilizer in order to maintain
their vigor. Continued blooming
puts a heavy strain on any plant
and makes it necessary to increase
the food supply in the soil.
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Palmetto State Cows
Win National Honors
Clemson, July 12.—Eight South
Carolina cows won places on the
dairy honor roll of the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America
for the year ending Dec. 31, 1940,
according to report of H. A. John
son, assistant in dairying for the
South Carolina Experiment Sta
tion.
These eight Holsteins so dis
tinguished are all owned by the
South Carolina State Hospital,
Columbia, five of them in the 10-
months division and three in the
12-months division.
Two of these cows won ninth
places in their divisions, one tenth
place in her division, one eleventh
place, one thirty-first place, one
thirty-seventh place, and one
forty-seventh place.
The Poor Cave Man
Had No Newspaper
To Advertise In.
But You Have !! ^
War Secretary Sees Great Tank Battle
Sec. of War Stimson is pictured (right) chatting with Private IT. 1*/ j
Strieker of the 2nd Armored Division who has just been captured wit.S
his tank by an anti-tank battery in the “Battle of Tennessee.” See. Sttiw* |
son saw an attack by 300 tanks when he visited the war maneuvers j
tlefield.” • —
‘Bargain’ Sight for U. S. Army
Two U. S. Army officers. Lieut. Chas. Yancey (left) and Capt. L* ,
Bean (right) are shown with their homemade anti-tank £un sight which j
cost them $6.38 for materials, plus native intelligence and engineering
knowledge. It is rated as being better than sights now costing the army
$640. An order for 5,000 of these devices has been recommended.
^ Strange Sight for Russians Lenin
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This photo, released by the German censor, shows a statue of
Nicholai Lenin, father of Bolshevism amid the wreckage of Red Army
tanks in a captured Russian village, according to the Nazi picture
caption.
I
A ‘Hitier’ Joins the Other Side
H N.W.N4».
Mrs. Brigid Hitler, wife of Adolf Hitler’s stepbrother, Alois, fs show**
bidding her son William Patrick Hitler good-by as he leaves New Yort
for Canada, where he will join the Royal Canadian Air Force. He
some day be winging against Uncle Adolf’s Luftwaffe. — ^
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