THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
Soils Need Air for
Total Crop Growth
Increasing Depth of
Aeration Boosts Yield
“Stuffy” soils that have little or
no oxygen available to the plant
roots that grow in them just are not
able to support high crop yields.
Hard working plant roots need oxy
gen if they are to do a good job of
supporting the plant and collecting
plant food for the above ground
parts.
Working with muck soil, N. K.
Ellis, Purdue university, and Rich
ard Morris, U. S. soil conservation
service, found that when liberal
quantities of oxygen penetrated the
soil only four inches the yield of red
beets, sweet corn, onions and Chip-
It may pay to go deeper than
this plow is set.
pcwa potatoes was small. When the
soils were “ventilated” to 18 inches
the yields increased as much as 10
fold. When the depth of aeration
was increased to 36 inches the yield
of some of the crops was increased.
The yield of carrots went from 3
to 33 tons per acre when the, depth
of aeration was increased from 4 to
18 Indies. Sweet com yield went
from 3 to 4.75 tons; onions from 45
to 275 50-pound bags; red beets
from 3.75 to 13.5 tons and potatoes
from about 12 to 258 bushels per
acre.
Oxygen in the soil for the use of
the plant roots is the logical reason
for the difference in crop yields.
Adequate plant food was available
on all the plots. Rainfall during the
season was sufficient to eliminate
water as a limiting crop production
factor on the muck soils.
KNOW YOUR BREED
Blue-Game Chickens
A tradition that has been re
corded by the historians of Dela
ware, is that during the early days
of the Revolutionary war the men
of Capt. Jonathan Caldwell’s com
pany took with them game chickens
noted for their fighting ability.
These chickens wer| said to be of
the brood of a famous blue hen. The
company soon received the sobri
quet “Blue Hen’s Chickens,” and
the state of Delaware in 1939 adopt
ed the Blue Hen’s Chicken as the
state bird.
The photograph shows a blue fowl
resulting from a cross of Black
Sumatra cock and Blue-Splashed
White hen, as developed by the
USDA.
Trough and Bath Pen
This drinking trough has an over
flow pipe to carry water to the
larger trough. The arrangement
eliminates the need for float valve.
Unique drinking tough and bath
pen, courtesy Janies F. Lincoln
foundation.
The pipe also serves as a part of
the fence. The water in the larger
and lower trough is carried away
by an overflow pipe.
Treating Turkeys for
Blackhead Recommended
A little item on a large subject
appeared recently in the oflflcial
publication of the American Veter
inary Medicaj association.
Diisobutylpnenoxyethyld im e th y 1-
benzylammonium chloride, it seems,
has been recommended by leading
veterinary authorities as a “pre
ventive of naturally occurring en-
terohepatitis of poults.” “Enterohe-
patitis” is a disease more common
ly known as "blackhead."
Telephone Traces White House History
President Hayes Had First
Phone in Executive Mansion
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—Recently the President turned down a
very flossy television set because he already had one. It was
installed in the White House last January in time for Mr. Tru
man to “see” the installation of the new Republican congress.
However, I imagine this innovation caused nowhere near the flurry
among the White House staff that ensued on that day in 1878 when the
first telephone instrument was put in. That was in the administration of
Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, the 19th president—and that was the year
in which the Democrats, who already had control of the house, acquired
control in the senate as well.
However, the opposition, when it<y
became the majority, made blunder
after blunder. Mr. Hayes continued
his administration with a quiet if
perhaps somewhat monotonous dig
nity, until he was succeeded by an
other Republican, President Gar
field.
I doubt if the even tenor of Mr.
Hayes’ existence was frequently
disturbed by the
ringing of the
telephone bell —
or much of any
thing else for
that matter.
Very few resi
dences or places
of business pos
sessed phones
then. Further
more, the tele
phone was by no
means accepted
as a means of
communication
for presidents or
their entourages
in those days. In any case, the
White House managed to limp along
on one phone until the end of Presi
dent Cleveland’s administration.
By the time President McKinley
entered the White House, all gov
ernment offices had phones and
they were accepted as every-day
necessities, but they were not an
important element in the handling
of White House business.
When Teddy Roosevelt came in,
despite his strenuous activities and
what was considered then a some
what revolutionary outlook, he
made very little use of the tele
phone himself.
Then along came Franklin Roose
velt and the New Deal, a part of
which was a five-position branch
exchange with more than 200 offi
cial extensions and 20 outside trunk
connections to handle the calls.
“White House calling” became a
by-word.
Then also came the first woman
telephone operator and probably
the most efficient of either sex that
the White House ever had or will
have in many a day. Louise Hach-
meister—“Hackie”—is probably fa
vorably known to more famous
users of the telephone than any
other operator in history. Her gen
ius in being able to locate people
anywhere in the world has been the
subject of many a story. Louis
Howe, who introduced her to the
President while she was working at
Friends of Roosevelt headquarters,
called her “the world’s greatest
telephone detective” because, he
Baukhage
said, “she doesn’t need a number to
get her man.”
Once' she located Cornelius Van
derbilt Jr. with no other clue than
that he was motoring east from
California.
I don’t know how many long
distance calls a day she put in at
the peak of the war but I do know
that the number of long-distance
calls out of Washington jumped
from approximately 11,000 a day in
1939 to well over 48,000 in 1945. To
day they have dropped back to a
little over 44,000. It is fair to as
sume that the White House calls
have followed the same curve
under the nimble-fingered direction
of “Hackie.”
Even by 1935 it took five
operators in shifts to handle the
White House calls. At that time
Miss Hachmeister was the first
and only woman to operate a
White House switchboard.
President Truman uses the tele
phone a good deal — he has so
many friends on Capitol Hill that
LOUISE HACHMEISTER
. . doesn’t need a number ..
his voice is almost as familiar over
those branch lines as it was when
he was a senator himself.
I don’t know how much fun he
gets out of the television set. His
bowling alley is pretty dusty and
the dirt doesn’t often fly on his
horseshoe pitching court—or what
ever the technical name of that
arena is. As to the “video,”, it can’t
be half the novelty to him that the
old-fashioned telephone instrument
was to President Hayes.
Russian Enigma Illustrated
Boris Krelov has gone home. He
was a member of the staff of Tass
(official Soviet news agency), sta
tioned for some three years in
Washington.
So far as I have been able to
learn, his American contacts, which
were many, both official and per
sonal, made not a single ideological
impact upon him or his way of
thinking. He upheld the Russian
cause; he talked more freely than
most Russians in a semi-official or
official capacity do but (also so far
as I can learn) he never offered
the slightest compromise of view
point, never accepted any argu
ment or explanation of democratic
(American - style) methods of
thought or action.
And yet — and here Is the
thing that baffled most of ns—
he was well-liked, he was good
company, and if we could have
found the tiniest peg on whtch
to hang an idea, he would have
inspired ns to write about Rus
sia “with a heart,” as a Rus
sian woman interpreter is re
ported to have begged of Sam
Welles, Time’s correspondent
in Moscow.
We wonder about Boris. We
would have liked so much to sit
down and talk frankly and freely
with him about the common prob
lems and the still more common
misunderstandings between our
countries. Was he able to appear so
genial and friendly and charming
because he held such high rank at
nome that he wasn’t afraid to con
sort, as far as personal matters
went, as a trusting friend?
Was he so deeply indoctrinated
in the ideology of Marxism-Lenin-
ism-Stalinism that he was filled
with pity rather than the typical
suspicion which seems to permeate
most Russian-American relations?
One slight clue we have, though it
may be a false one. Once, at a
rather intimate gathering, Krelov’s
hostess finally grew a little impa
tient and said something like this:
“Listen here, Boris, we’re friends.
Surely you can be frank with us
govem-
and explain why your
ment—”
Before she could finish (he
guessed what was coming) he held
up his hand.
“Please,” he said with a dis
arming smile that took the
sting out of his words, “We are
having such a pleasant time,
but you force me to say this:
I cannot explain what you wish
because you people are just too
stupid to understand Commu
nism."
If that sentiment is a sincere and
typical expression of how the men
who run Russia feel, the road ahead
is a rocky one. Kipling once put
into verse the problem he felt the
foreigner faced in trying to under
stand the American. What he said
might be applied to Russia:
"Inopportune, shrill accented, the
acrid Asiatic mirth that leaves him,
careless 'mid his dead, the scandal
of the elder earth. How shall he clear
himself, how reach your bar or
weighed defense prefer—a brother
hedged with alien speech and lacking
all interpreter?"
IT PAYS TO BE EDUCATED . . . Some kind of high-water mark
for radio quiz show prizes must have been reached when $7,440—
largest amount of money ever offered on a radio show—went to Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Fowler of Glen Rock, N. J., whom M. C. Bert Parks
is congratulating here. Both in their seventies, they are teachers in
Paterson, N. J.
NEWS REVIEW
Mark Birthday of Atom:
Hungarian Attitude Hit
ANNIVERSARY:
Bells Tolled
In Hiroshima, Japan, the bells
tolled. People of the city stood
silently in prayer for a moment,
then went on about the business
of living.
It was the second anniversary of
the radiant, consuming flash of the
world’s first atomic bomb.
Hiroshima, which saw 92,000 of its
citizens immolated in that uncon
trollable outburst of energy in 1945,
was perhaps the one place on earth
where the bomb could be thought
of as a reality. Everywhere else
it was a nightmarish, Damoclean
sword; but in Hiroshima the people
were paying it a sort of fantastic
and bewildered adulation.
They tolled bells, and they
planned the building of a modern
city with a peace memorial at the
spot over which the bomb had been
dropped.
At other points across the globe,
the atomic age was living up to its
awful reputation by wringing fear
some comments and predictions
from men who are supposed to know
about it.
Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of
University of Chicago, said that two
atom bombs which now could be
manufactured would make the Unit
ed States uninhabitable if exploded
simultaneously. He made it a com
plete Jeremiad by adding, “We
know that some other country will
have the atomic bomb within five
years. We know that when that
happens we are all set for the final
catastrophe.”
In a constructive moment. Dr.
Robert Oppenheimer, atom pio
neer, said that usable electrical
power derived from atomic en
ergy may be available by 1952.
But everybody knew that the Unit
ed States was stressing development
and production of the atomic bomb
to build a stockpile for utter de
struction. And everybody knew that
Russia was laboring furiously to
ward the same ends.
The people of Hiroshima did well
to toll bells two years after they
felt the bomb. It brought to mind
an old, poetic question:
Did the bells herald a wed
ding or a funeral?
INSOLENCE:
Slap Hands
The United States, visibly irked
by recent actions of the new Com
munistic Hungarian government,
vented its diplomatic rage in a
stinging note which accused Hun
gary of “inadmissibly insolent” con
duct toward American diplomats
in that country.
Second cause for U. S. anger was
the arrest and beating in Budapest
of an American citizen and the sub
sequent unsatisfactory explanation
of the incident offered by Hungarian
officials. %
One of the most harshly worded
protests to come from the state de
partment since American planes
were shot down over Yugoslavia a
year ago, the note marked the first
official unpleasantry to be delivered
by the United States to the puppet
Hungarian regime.
The incident grew out of the ar
rest of Stephen T. Thuransky, an
American citizen, for his alleged,
“revolting and* scandalizing vilifica-
tionp in public” of Hungary’s presi
dent and other government mem
bers. Thuransky, his wife and two
daughters later were taken into cus
tody by U. S. legation officials and
removed to Vienna.
In the protest note, the state de
partment pointed out that the ar
rest of an American citizen on pure
ly political charges is “absolutely
inadmissible” under the armistice
agreement which prevails in Hun
gary. Also, officials of the Hungari
an ministry of the interior were
accused of being "uncooperative in
the extreme and in some cases in
admissibly insolent.”
VIVA:
T oreador
Orson Welles, the man who didn’t
come from Mars, has found him
self, to put it politely, on the horns
of a dilemma.
The self-designated genius was
quoted recently as saying he had
killed 20 bulls, and immediately he
was challenged by another actor,
Fortunio Bonanova, to enter the
bull-fighting ring at Tijuana, Mex
ico, and perform for the benefit of
charity.
Said the Spanish-born Bonanova
in an open letter to Welles, “Killing
20 bulls is a lot of killing,” neglect
ing to add that it is also a lot of
bulls.
“So let us do a corrida (series of
fights) this season in Tijuana for
the motion picture relief fund. I
am sure the impresario would give
us a Sunday afternoon. What do
you say to two bulls apiece?”
Admission: Shady side, $2; sun,
ny side, $1.
ALEUTIANS:
Bases Retained
The Aleutian islands, that long,
cold chain of fog-bound rocks which
started many an American G.I.
talking to himself during the war,
is being integrated into the pattern
of the North American defense sys
tem.
General of the Army Dwight
Eisenhower has revealed that the
framework of strategic bases in the
Aleutians is being kept intact for
rapid expansion if necessary.
After having paid a visit to the
continent’s northernmost line of de
fense, General Eisenhower said that
the islands were not being aban
doned, but were undergoing a “con
traction and concentration of mili
tary potential.”
75 MILLION ACRES
U.S. Boosts 1948 Wheat Goal
WASHINGTON. — Fourth largest
wheat acreage the farmers of this
nation have ever planted may be
realized in 1948 if the department
of agriculture’s revised goal of 75
million acres is met next year.
That mark is a five million-acre
increase from the pattern recom
mended last year and a seven
million-acre boost over the wheat
goal set last spring before the corn
outlook took on its gloomy cast.
Continued and unremitting interna
tional demand for food grains in
fluenced the agriculture department
into making the upward revision.
While officials admitted that the
increased acreage constitutes an in
vitation to farmers to plant heavily
hi wheat, they cautioned against
plowing up sod-lands not suited for
sustained farming in order to take
advantage of high wheat prices.
However, an even more impor
tant factor in determining the na
tion’s wheat acreage in 1948 will be
the lure of the two dollar-a-bushel
market price. Department authori
ties admitted that high market
prices will do more to dictate the
amount of wheat planted than could
any arbitrarily assigned govern
ment goal.
The department said the 75 mil
lion-acre goal, if achieved, would
provide the fourth largest wheat
acreage the farmers in the United
States have ever planted. Higher
plantings occurred in 1919, 1937 and
1938.
Estimating on the basis of a 10-
year average yield figure of 14.3
bushels an acre, the crop in 1948
would be 1.07 billion bushels, but if
the outturn follows the 1942-46 aver
age of 16.3 bushels an acre, pro
duction would reach 1.221 billion
bushels.
In the wake of this year’s bumper
crop, a much smaller 1948 wheat
yield normally would be indicated;
however, the world food shortage
makes it desirable, according to de
partment spokesmen, that the
United States continue its high rate
of production. The United Nations
has warned that the world food sit
uation has not improved in the past
year, and predicts shortages will
continue another two yeara.
SUNDAU
SCHOOL
LCSS0N
Plain Facts About Honesty
LESSON TEXT FOR AUGUST 24 —
Proverbs 3:3; 11:1. 3; 12:17-22; 14:5;
23:10. 11.
MEMORY SELECTION — Prove all
things: hold fast that which is good. Ab
stain from all appearance of evil. — I
Thessalonians 5:21. 22.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Lesson subjects
and Scripture texts selected and copy
righted by International Council of Re
ligious Education: used by permission.
By WILLIAM CULBERTSON, D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.
T HE Bible’s presentation of the
subject of uprightness of living,
or plain, downright honesty in
everyday contacts, is recognized by
all who have given any attention to
what it has to say.
The high ethical standard de
manded by the Word of God is an
other evidence ot its divine origin.
Were men to evolve a moral stand
ard of their own, it is quite evident
that that standard would not be
very much higher than their own
attainments; in fact, the probability
is that the standard would be lower
than the attainment of some. How
ever, the Bible allows for no devia
tion from the standard.
We who by nature are the chil
dren of wrath have undoubtedly
failed when we measure our lives
against God’s pattern. How need
ful is God’s work of providing
and effecting salvation! Those
who have been born of God are
then confronted with living a life
that meets the divine standard.
I. A Plea for Honesty (Prov. 3:3).
H OW good it is when the Christian
has a reputation for integrity in
all his dealings. However, that out
ward manifestation is possible only
if there is inward reality. There
fore, we move in order of emphasis
to the greater truth at the conclu
sion of the verse. Truth is to be
written upon the tablet of the heart.
Here is the plea for heart hon
esty. It is not enongh by plausible
argument or by feigned conduct
to appear honest before men. It
is necessary rather to have mo
tives so sincere, to have a heart
so honest, that all we do and say
will reflect a character that is
honorable.
It is out of the fullness of the
heart that man speaketh. As the
heart is, so is the man. Let us give
attention therefore to this word
from God.
II. A Factual Presentation of
Honesty (Prov. 11:1, 3; 12:17-22;
14:5).
npHESE passages of Scripture
-*■ bring to our attention the conse
quences of dishonesty as well as the
rewards of honesty.
For example, we know that dis
honesty is an abomination to God
(Prov. 11:1; 12:22); that perversity
of heart has its own reward, in that
the perpetrator of evil is sooner or
later ensnared in his own sin (Prov.
11:3); that a lying tongue may be
victorious, but that victory is short
lived (Prov. 12:19).
On the other hand, the rewards
of honesty are also made appar
ent, for we are told that probity
of character is God’s delight
(Prov. 11:1; 12:22); that the very
integrity of the upright shall be a
guide to them (Prov. 11:3); that
blessings to others flow from the
tongue of the wise (Prov. 12:18);
and that the lip of truth shall be
established forever (Prov. 12:19).
III. God and the Life of Honesty
(Prov. 23:10, 11).
’ | 'HE reference here to the an-
cient landmark has to do with
the removal of such evidences as
would prove the claim of individ
uals to certain property.
We are to respect the rights of
others. Honesty involves more
than correctness of speech; it im
plies rightness of life. No subtlety
of reasoning can lead us to the
conclusion that we may have
God’s approval if by unfair
means we take that which be
longs to another.
Particular attention is given to
the fact that we are to have regard
for the fatherless. The Word of God
constantly gives special attention to
the fatherless and the widows. It
would seem that God will particu
larly mark as amiss any unfair ad
vantage taken over these individ
uals. In fact, this text stresses that
God as their Redeemer will plead
their cause against anyone taking
advantage of them. Of course, there
can be only one result when God
opposes, and that is disaster to the
Individual who occasions his wrath.
Perhaps It is that very sense of
helplessness that makes the fa
therless depend upon him. It is
certain that until we feel our need
of God, we shall go on in onr self-
sufficiency without him. When onr
own lack of strength becomes ap
parent, then it is we torn to him,
and then it is that he is willing to
be onr Redeemer.
Let us dare to face the implica
tion of these texts. Unless we com
mend our God to men by our up
right lives, we shall have to suffer
the consequences of our dishonesty
in divine displeasure.
Rtlaaaed bj Western Newspaper Union.
Booklet Gives Valuable Information
On How to Raise and Train Your Dog
Treating Illness
A LITTLE knowledge is a dan
gerous thing when it comes to
treating illness. If in doubt about
what ails your pet, better call the
veterinarian. Many diseases, how
ever, are simple to recognize and
treat by yourself.
If your dog’s eyes and nose become
congested and there are signs of stomach
trouble, plus fever, you can be pretty
sure he has simple distemper.
• * *
Treatment of this and many other dogs’
diseases is given in our Weekly News
paper Service booklet No. 78. Covers
Table linen should be looked
over for stains before putting in
the wash tub. Soapy water will
set the stains, and measures must
be taken to remove any marks be
fore immersing in the suds.
—•—
Avoid leaning against the door
when riding in an automobile. If
you like to sit sidewise, put on the
safety latch.
—•—
Buy pillow cases large enough
for your pillows. Otherwise the
casings will not stand the wear
and tear.
—•—
Hard-to-get-at places around
machines can be conveniently lu
bricated by attaching a soda straw
to the stem or spout of an oil can.
—•—
Your step-stool or kitchen lad
der can’t be too carefully chosen.
It should be as wide and sturdy as
possible with rubber feet and non
slip treads for safety. Take no
chances on a rickety ladder.
—•—
Small scraps of white candles
may be put together in a small
cotton bag and brought out on
ironing day. The iron won’t stick
if it’s passed over the bag a few
times.
—«—
Hang table linens on the lines
lengthwise. The warp threads in
the long weave are stronger than
the woof threads.
diet, housebreaking, teaching tricks, etc.
Send 25 cents (coin) for “How to RaiM
and Train Yonr Dog” to Weekly News-
paper Service, 243 West 17th St., New
York 11, N. Y. Print name, addreM,
booklet title and No. 78.
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