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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. W>£ h y WRIGHT A . PAT T EPSON Nation of Mendicants T hose of Europe who first sought liberty and opportunity and settled on the eastern seaboard of America were a hardy, ener getic, capable and se'C-sufficient class of sons and daughters from many nations and of several races. Their descendants, American born, possessing the virtues of their parents, were the pioneers who pushed westward through the east ern mountains, across the great central valley, over the western mountains to the Pacific. They turned the sod and felled the forests to create the American farms; they built towns and cities in which millions could live and prosper; they erected schools and churches that they, and their descendants, might enjoy a culture they had not known; they built factories in which to utilize resources of the land they had conquered. They did those things on their own. They did not ask for, or expect, help from any source. They achieved by their own energy and their own capabili ties. From the dangers and hardships they endured without complaint those pioneer ancestors of ours carved for themselves and built a nation, the mightiest and most pros perous on earth to-day, in which their progeny enjoy tfce world’s highest standard of living of this or any previous time. From those pioneer ancestors from whom we have inherited so much in wealth, in comfort, in cul ture and comfortable living, it could naturally be presumed we should have inherited some of their virtues—their energy, ability, and self sufficiency. But have we? They asked for no help in ac complishing their tasks. To-day more and again more of ns, their descendants, are not will ing to carry on when doing so means work, effort and thrift. Millions of the descendants of the hardy, capable, self-suffi cient, thrifty pioneers are de manding a hand-out from gov ernment. They hope for, and are being promised, govern mental care from the cradle to the grave, with no help on their part needed. Those descendants of a race of hardy, capable, self - sufficient, thrifty, pioneers want comfort, yes, but they do not want to work for that comfort; they want culture, but they expect it to be handed to them without effort on their part; they want the pleasures and the good things of life, but they want these provided for them by govern ment, while they bask in the sun shine of park benches. The only compensation the ever increasing number of “gimme” mendicants offer for the luxuries they ask for is votes, but for those promised votes our elected public officials seem willing to sacrifice the wealth, the liberties, the op portunities that were built for us by our pioneer ancestors. To pay for votes they would tear down the structure we have inheri ted. It is only bjr continued exertion, by an ever-watchful scrutiny of events happening from day to day in Washington, coupled with prompt protests when called for, that we can maintain the liberties, the ad vantages, the opportunities we have Inherited. It is not alone the impoverished or the improvident who are asking government handouts, but the mil lions include the “haves” as well as the “have nots," the young as well as those of mature years. Many, all too many, government checks are going to the well-to-do and the wealthy, and to those young enough to work for what they want • • • The people of each state awards a hero's crown to their representatives in Washington who succeed in bringing home a slab of that presumably “something-for-nothing’’ bacon, a chunk of coin from the federal treasury. The people glory in supposedly looting 'that nation’s strong box. As an example: California has suc ceeded in securing many millions from Washington for irrigation and flood control projects of value only to California. It all represented, as the people believed, “something- for-nothing.” The fact is the people of the state pay for it all and more. .For each $1, the national govern ment spends on those California projects, it collects from the people of the state $1.28. There must be • rake off for the bureaucrats. • • • England needs American food and raw materials for which we will not accept English pounds and shillings but demand payment in dollars. England’s production costs of manufactured commodities are too high to enable her to compete with American-produced commodi ties in America, and for which we would pay in dollars if we bought Because England is not selling for dollars she cannot buy with dollars. That is the crisis over which national and interna- ttpnai conferences have been held. FIRST LADY OF THE GARDEN HOSE . . . Oh, Can You See by the Lawn's Early Blight? . . . BATTLES FOR THE THIRSTY BLADES By H- I. PHILLIPS MISS PRIDGETT'S LAWN I N ANY PROLONGED dry spell there is in every community the man and woman who find an out let for a full expression of their sense of sacrifice in all-out solici tude for the lawn. Here they make the ultimate effort, the grand fight the supreme battle. Their heart bleeds for every blade of grass. They are shaken to the depths by the tiniest yellow patch. In our neighborhood Miss Ara bella Pridgett Is easily tops as the great lawn lover. In any moderately dry spell she can go to extremes, but in a real drought, when the reservoirs are low and the water supply critical, she is a study in devo tion to the cause of the ever- damp lawn. Then she becomes years, Tune *ith a n ,, a first lady of the garden hose, , a duchess of the sprinkler. The lawn is her first thought at dawn and her last at night. • • • Famous battlers for great human causes have shown less energy. Fighters to ease the plight of un dernourished peoples have shown no greater energy. Yes, a water famine is threatened, families are urged to go easy, orphan asylums and hospitals have been cautioned to watch the outlets, but with Miss Pridgett her grass is a “must,” with top priority. Lincoln showed no greater concern for the slaves. Clara Barton was no more zealous for the sick and wounded. • • • She was marked. Her mother was frightened by a bare patch in a green hall runner or something. She has a bare-patch complex. Were she with Noah in the flood, she would have come aboard the ark with two lengths of hose and two sprinklers. * • • Her lawn is an astoundingly vivid green when everything else in hollyhock heights is sere and drab. You can see her busy about it morning, noon and night, every fiber of her being astir over the thought one little blade may be thirsty. She is haunted by a fear of dry patch. One hose is not enough. Miss Pridgett has two. And her second love is the sprinkler. She likes the wide, full-throated, fast-revolving type. When not watering the lawn she goes win dow shopping for new automatic sprinkler models. • • * A grand canal mood marks her premises. “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More” is her theme song. She shoots the waterworks not only on dry hot days but even when it rains. Her faith in Providence and the elements is shaky. Let it rain all night and she is out there with the hose in the morning. Miss Pridgett’s slogan is “The HOSE must go on!” • • • Yoo hoo, move the larger sprink ler over a foot, ladyl There’s a blade there that seems undrenched • • • Hitler’s yacht Ain’t so hacht; So whacht! In a visit to the Grille, once the yacht of der fuehrer, we are sure we should imagine that great nautical figure, that wonderful ex ponent of all fine sea traditions, rolling and pitching in a terrific storm and bellowing “All is lost! The microphone has been swept away!” • • • / go to tht movies, end what do l get? Romance and romance, and more of it yet. I turn on the radio, l go to a show—* More mushing between a dame and a schmoe. I pick up a pulp or I pick up a slick— Again it's a rooster chasing a chick. It’s most revolting; it makes me ill— 'Cause I’m a Jack without a Jill. —Tom Weatherly • • • The American association of uni versity professors upholds the right of all teachers to be communists provided they keep it out of the classrooms. This is like saying U is all right to carry lighted match es in a hay loft provided only good will is shown toward the barn. • • • We liked Bill Vaughan’s crack hi his K.C. Star column; “The woman scorned is now surpassed in fury by the babe who never even met the guy, but shoots him anyway." • • • The active head of a yacht club is called a commodore. A commodore is a cross between a humidor and a matador. He has to be kept damp like a humidor and bull-throwing like a matador. Being a commodore entitles you to wear a motorman’s coat, whit# duck pants and a cap. • • • There’s good news in the eco nomic picture. A slight slump i* reported in the slight slump. The I* A W 1 < 04 ■ ■ 44 BBS Fiction MY CA. SHES IN Richard H. Wilkinson Corner BY INEZ GERHARD S OMETHING NEW will be added to “Take It or Leave It” on Sept. 11 when Eddie Cantor takes over as quizmaster of the oldest of the jackpot quiz shows. Cantor has spelled Phil Baker on the show twice, in 1945, now steps in per manently. He has been quite a pioneer in radio—when he came into it studio audiences were kept EDDIE CANTOR behind a glass screen, seen but not heard. Cantor, used to theatre crowds, brought them into the open, then developed the pre-program show, to get the crowd into the right mood before the show went on the air. Format of "Take It or Leave It” remains the same, with those $64 questions. Bill Goodwin, playing a movie producer in Warners’ “It’s a Great Feeling,” lies and lies and lies—in an oversized double bed, in a pullman berth, in a lawn swing and on a chaise lounge. He’s supposed to be ex hausted from being harassed by Dennis Morgan’s and Jack Car- son’s efforts to try to make an actress out of Doris Day, cast as a studio waitress. “Where Men Are Men” marks Chester Conklin’s 310th picture in nearly 37 years; he’d have made more if he hadn’t retired for eight Then he came back strong. You will see him in the hilarious “My Friend Irma” soon. Publicity tie-ups are queer things. Shirley May France, 16-year-old miss who aims to swim the Eng lish channeL will do it as an amphibious press agent for Edward Small’s historical opus, "Black Magic.” A country-wide personal appearance tour is scheduled after she comes home, plus some radio appearances, then she’ll be groomed 'nr a screen career. N O ONE would have believed Ray Sharon capable of strata gem. One look at him and you would have catalogued him in the reserved, conservative class of young men who adhered to the ac cepted patterns dictated by pro priety and con vention. He was a good looking boy with soft brown eyes and a sensitive mouth. He worked as a clerk in the South- port Trust Company. There was a future there for him. It occurred not even to Ray that the fine reputation he had could be used as an asset, cashed in on. Not, that is, until Phil Clairmont came to town. Clairmont had been born In Southport. At 18 he had gone off to college and not returned. He had been a football hero, an All-Amer ican quarterback. After graduation he had sold bonds and coached football teams and written maga zine articles on gridiron tactics and given a series of lectures over the radio. He had made quite a success. Two winters later Phil re turned to his home town for the Christmas holidays. The folks gave him quite a reception. They held parties for him and asked him to talk at this function and that. He stayed through New Year’s, which was longer than he intended. The reason that he stayed was Sheila Farnsworth, who taught the seventh grade. Sheila was a native of Southport. She had wheat-colored hair and blue eyes. She had known Ray Sharon all her life. She liked him. When they grew up and Ray be gan taking her around, she was quite happy. P HIL CLAIRMONT met her at one of the many parties that were held in his honor. He remem bered who she was and was quite surprised that she had grown up and blossomed into something that was easy to look at. Sheila was, after all, only a nor mal girl. Phil Clairmont was famous. When Phil took an interest in her she was flattered. It gave her a recognition that most any girl would have delighted in. No one blamed her. No one condemned her for it. If anyone felt about it at all it was a sensation of envy. A few wondered about Ray Sharon. A smaller few felt sorry for him. Occasionally she saw Ray and thus it happened that one wintry night Ray and Sheila set out in the former’s coupe for the distant town of Merkdale to attend a banker’s ball there. It began to snow before they were a half hour on the road. “We’d better take the old road through the woods,” he said. “It will shorten the journey by five miles.” Sheila thought this would be a good idea. They left the main high way and cut through the woods. But neither anticipated that the storm would reach such propor tions. Two miles from the highway they got stuck. Ray didn’t mince matters. He confronted the situation squarely. The chances were even that both would perish. At any rate, he had something he wanted to ask Sheila in case he didn’t get a chance later on. He asked It. Sheila thought of many things, among them what a ninny she’d been. Ray was the man she loved, the only man she could ever love. With death staring her In the face she realized this to be a fact. She put her arms around Ray’s neck and told him exactly how she felt. An hour later Sheila dropped of] into a doze. When she awoke she was lying on a couch before a blaz ing fire. Ray was feeding her hot soup. No one could have believed Ray Sharon capable of stratagem. He was too definitely catalogued. Which is why not even Sheila sus pected that he had planned it all; that he knew about the camp, had stocked it with firewood and pro visions, had stalled his car on pur pose, had removed most of the fuel. It had required a courage which he had never suspected he pos sessed to cash in on his assets. ecu/ DR Dll771 [ 1X51 weeks j m nil rUlLLL answer « 5. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 17. 18. 21. 24. 25. 27. 31. 33. 34. 38. 39. 40. 43. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. ACROSS Abraham's wife (Bib.) A cavern Culture medium Below (naut.) Fail to win Carry on, as war Ten times eight Canton (Switz.) Presiding Elder (abbr.) Not flippant Burden Extinct bird (N. Z.) 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The type of sprayer or duster used makes little difference so long as the insecticide goes on evenly and in the right amounts. All three insecticides are both stomach and contact poisons. Un der field conditions, chlordane and toxaphene are best as stomach poisons. Chlordane is best as a spray made from an emulsifcn. For half- grown and most full-grown hoppers, use one-half pound of actual chlor dane per acre. Double the dose for full-grown or big, yellow grass hoppers. Chlordane is a slow killer and results are not apparent at once. But hoppers stop feeding as soon as they swallow a good dose. The killing effect of chlordane lasts about 10 days. Benzene hexachloride is best as a dust, although it may be used as a spray made from wettable pow der. Use at the rate of three-tenths of a pound of actual gamma isomer benzene hexachloride per acre or 30 pounds of one per cent gamma isomer dust per acre. (Directions on the package will tell you how to get this concentration.) The effect of this 1 insecticide lasts about two days. Toxaphene or chlorinated cam- phene can be used as a dust, as a wettable powder or as an emulsion. The emulsion usually lasts longer. Toxaphene is available in 10 or 20 per cent dusts. It gives good results at the rate of 30 pounds of 10 per cent dust per acre. As an emulsion, it should be used at the rate of one and a half pounds of actual toxa phene against small hoppers or two and a half or three pounds against large hoppers. Toxaphene is effec tive for about 10 days. ll the hoppers are confined to th% field you want to treat, you can do a good job with benzene hexa chloride. But if the pests are mov ing into your field from the outside, you’ll be wise to use the longer- lasting chlordane or toxaphene. Agricultural Aids The Goslens, of Winston- Salem, N. C., may not be grad uates of a farm school, bat their advice Is followed by hun dreds of thousands of farmers throughout the south. Their 122-year-old Blum almanac is full of bold predictions, safe ad vice, witty sayings, and is the market place for nostrums, household aids, etc. William Goslen and Junius Goslen, Jr., are shown here admiring the almanacs. On the wall is the portrait of Junius W. Goslen, who published Blums before them. PUZZLE NO. 12 Water Soluble Chemical Effective on Quack Grass Quack grass can be killed with a water soluble chemical, according to R. F. Carlson, Michigan state college horticulturist. Tests have proved that quack grass can be controlled through use of a chem ical commonly known as TCA. Quack grass is one of the great est nuisances on the farm and in the garden, and TCA is the best chemical available now for its con- troL Carlson said. m cW.i. - “ [S97* MU. % For Carriage Trade TNARLING little crocheted ^ bootees for the carriage trade— tiny rounded toe style for the very young baby; open toed bootees for six months or older. Both pairs are easily and quickly made. 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