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It was in small crowded print. And to cap the climax, there were 900 pages in it! Now I can’t see how any book on any subject should be that long. Life is too short for a slow reader like I am to wade through a thing like that. My memory of the first could hardly last until I labored through to the end of that monstrosity. And to think, that book was re quired reading for a bunch of kids! .Somebody needs to be hung. I glory in the easy reading of an Ernie Pile, a Will Rogers, or an O. O. McIntyre, all dead now. Those boys had interest and vital ity in every word. And great meaning in every line. Years ago there was a columnist by the pen name of Savoyard who had it too. And, by the way, what has become of that fellow McElmore. To me he turned out very read able stuff, that sparkled with per sonality. And then there was Ray mond Clapper, lost in the war. That boy could take you with him too. Seems like the top ones are about all dead. At least, accord- nig to my puny estimate. I can’t think of a living writer now that I yearn for, one whose vivid per sonality is on every page, whose name on the byline insures qual ity and whose every production you anticipate and consume as a precious morsel, wishing there were more. I don’t think a 900 page book of fine print and long sentences could ever do that. Not to me. WEEVIL FIGHT We are nearing the end of the 1953 boll weevil fight. But some of the most important days of the fight are just ahead now, accord ing to Mac Sparks, our boll, weevil man. July bolls are not safe yet. We must hold the weevil down to protect them. We now have effective poisons for doing that. Your county agent can advise you. FARM AND HOME WEEK Clemson is being readied for Farm and Home Week Aug. 17- 21. No matter what your main in terest is on the farm or in the home, you will likely find It on this year’s program. Room for the week in barracks is a dollar. And meals are served reasonably in the mess hall. Bring sheets, pil low, towels, etc. It starts Mon day night with a reception for vis itors in the main exhibit tent, and closes with the program Friday morning. County and home agents have full details. POULTRY HERE We have just in quite recent years started growing in the com mercial poultry business in South Carolina. And that growth has been rapid. Now' our poultry business, in cluding eggs and turkeys, is al most double our dairy business in Bible Comment: For What Reasons Were the Apostles Chosen by Jesus? rpo the 12 men whom Jesus called to special discipleship, He* said, “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.” Why, out of the many, did Jesus choose these particular men? We cannot answer that with full knowledge, but we can get some rather definite impres sions from the nature of the men and the nature of the task for which Jesus called them. It was not enough that they should be good, well-intentioned men. They must be good for the purpose for which Jesus chose them. They must be men of adventurous spirit, capable of endurance. They must be men of ambition, willing to sacrifice everything for a cause and a worth-while goal. Their spirit was manifest in the bold declaration of James and John, “We are able.” Their rivalry about who should be first was in itself an evidence of their ambitious and deter mined spirit. Jesus undoubtedly saw in them the makings of what they really became, and their achievement in the founding of the church justified His vision and His faith in them. • But what about Judas? Was Jesus deceived in him? Or did Judas himself change? Of one thing we can be sure. The failure was not the Master’s. Jesus called him for what he might have been, but Judas failed to rise to the vision. Jesus calls us all for what we may be. How much do we rise to His vision of us? STATESMEN MEET . . . The Marquess of Salisbury (left) great Britain's foreign minister, talks with secretary of state John Foster Dulles In Washington. Purpose is to strengthen Big Three relations. dolar income. It is almost three times all cattle and calves sold. And the poultry dollars are a bit over 50 percent greater than the hog dollars. So “chicken change” now means real money. Clemson has many helps in the way of bulletins and plans for feeding, management, and housing poultry on the farm. They are free at your county agent’s office. Much of our growing poultry de velopment ties back to 4-H club work with poultry in the local clubs. The Sears-Roebuck chick revolving fund in most counties has been a big factor in this. THAT COASTAL BERMUDA Have you seen any of that cer tified Coastal Bermuda Grass growing there in your county yet? Your county agent can direct you to the foundation plantings there. In addition, to its other virtues, the Georgia Coastal Plain Experi ment Station that developed it says: “Coastal Bermuda is im mune to the root-knot nematode, and as a result root-knot suscepti ble legumes like the annual les- pedezas have grown better in as sociation with it than with, mema- tode susceptible Common Ber muda.” BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER We looked forward to syrup making time in the Stone Hills when I was a boy. Ours was made from sorghum. And I still like that sort best. After that, it was rather plenti ful, and we could get it often for for candy making. And candy pullin’s were the principal part ies we had. Young folks would get together for a pender parchin’ and a candy pullin’. And, my, what wonderful times we had! The old folks would help parch the peanuts. And cooking the molasses properly was quite an art. It had to “string” off the paddle just right when you held it up. As soon as that stage was reached, they took it off the fire and set it out on the back porch to cool a bit. While that was happening, we sat around eating peanuts and sheling some to put in the candy. Then when it had cooled enough to handle, each couple buttered their hands so it wouldn’t stick, and started pulling a batch of it. At first you had to pull fast for two reasons, it was so hot and so soft it would otherwise get away from you. There was quite an art to pull ing it. And you’d get to touch the girl’s hand too! We specially liked that. And it’s the worst stuff you ever _ saw to blister your hands. The heat must have something to do with that. You wouldn’t know it at all until it had happened. Once a big one arose on my finger and burst before I knew it. I wouldn’t eat any of that candy. Another time a girl I secretly liked was pulling with me. We saw a fly for an instant there where our hands were going it with the ambering candy. She said, “Where did that fly go?” “I said, "I dunno.” That’s another time we didn’t eat any of the batch of candy we pulled. Pulling that hot candy sure would get the dirt out of the creas es of our hands. Although balked at that fly and the busted blister this ordinary hand dirt didn’t bother any of us. I guess they sometimes for similar reasons fail ed to eat their pullin’ too when I did. Usually we hadn’t had any can dy for a good while. So we really ate that stuff, yes, until it got to where it didn’t taste good any more. Then thirst overtook us and we’d drink out of the branch on the way home. "I REMEMBER' BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mrs. Henry B. Moody, De Witt, Arkansas: I remember wher Uncle Bill Prange of Crockett’f Bluff, Arkansas, would take his place by the Christmas tree which was gleaming with tallow candles. Excitement was running high, but Uncle BUI stood calmly, holding a long, cane fishing pole with a wet cloth tied on the end of it. If a stray spark appeared among the cedar, he would quietly “smudge” it out, and no one got alarmed during the Christmas program at the church. • • O From Mrs. Jnlia Shaw, Grand- ville, Michigan: I remember watching my folks thrash buck wheat. Father would cradle the grain, mother would rake it in bundles and set it up and bind it with a few buckwheat straws. When it was ready to thrash father would smooth a spot on the ground and lay rails on the smooth spot and they would flail the buckwheat on the raUs, shake the straw with pitchforks to get all the grain. Next they would scoop the grain up and run it through a hand mill # • • From L. C. Hallman, Winnsboro, Texas: I remember watching my father split pine and buUd a tar kiln. He used the tar in building and to grease his wagons. No. C9.S4 U eat In elies 10 to SO; SO to Ml. Slse 16, 8-% yds. 85-In. No. 8700 Is eat In sites 4 to 10. Stso 8. v lumper, SVh yds. 35-ln. Blonse with short •leeves, IVfe yds. S5-ln. Send SOe for EACH pattern with name, sddress, style number and size to AU DREY LANE BUREAU. Box 360, Madi son Square Station, New York 10, N. Y. The new Sprlnc-Snmmer Fashion Book shows seorea or other styles. SRe extra. Rev. Robert H. Harper The Christian Home Xesson for August 2: Paul prefaces his admonitions concerning the Christian Home with general observations of the Chris tian life. He writes of things that should adorn those who compose the Christian home. Every relationship is given atten tion. There is a one-sided appraisal of the situation. First, parents are considered. Father is to be honored as the head of the home. But hus bands are admonished to love their wives. Whereby we conclude that the “subjection” urged upon the wife is not servile. Love is never a hard taskmaster. Children are to obey their parents. This would be universally approved. But parental authority is not to be made hard and galling. Thus far the pattern of the home is quite like that of one today. But in the present the servant problem is conspicuous by its absence. There are few servants. But where there are servants, the relationship be tween them and their employers should be one of mutual respect. Many of the jests and much of the bitterness would be done away if there could be a better attitude in labor relations, not only in the home but also in the factory, if service should be rendered as “un to the Lord,” and all should be given their just due as in the sight of the “Master in Heaven.” Sports Afield . . . By TED KESTING >. 4. a«nt») too Sool»J Hy£l«o* Sool«ty runtm OnlTarilty Oreenvllie, South Carolina NEW PARENTS “I must be out of my mind. No body could have these terrible thoughts and be sane. I feel rot ten, no good, and ashamed.” The tension was so great that he broke into sobs. It is his story, so lis ten to him. My Shadow And I “W© have been married eight years, and wanted children from the beginning. I was in gradu ate school and we waited. Then came several years in the army, and I knew it wouldn’t be fair to the children nor to her. As it happened I was stateside and we were always together; yet never knew when I would be shipped. “For eight years we have been inseparable; kidded each other about being the other’s shadow. We hunted, played, traveled, read, lived, and loved, always together every possible hour. Friction? Yes, but every misunderstanding soon was handled and we felt even closer together. “The only thing lacking in the fulfilment of our love was a child. Immediately upon discharge from the army we began trying to get one, but it didn’t happen—she didn’t conceive. We were frantic after some months; tried many doctors, all the usual things you do, and prayed—how we prayed for a baby!” Baby Comes “Well, she became pregnant and we were delirously happy. . (He clouded up, stopped talking, and became anxious and tense again, finally continuing with dif ficulty.) “Well, doc, the baby was born four days ago . . . I’ve been too upset to eat or sleep much during the past few weeks, attributing it to anxiety over my wife’s first delivery experiences. Today I know the horrible truth! I will take my wife home tomor row, and the baby . . . Well, I’d gladly leave him right there in the hospital nursery and never think of him again! Any man who feels like that doesn’t deserve to live, let alone have a family. I’m afraid she senses it too; she’s upset and I can’t look her in the eyes.” This was not a mentally sick individual, nor even a neurotic. He was a handsome, intelligent, semi-professional man of 35, loved in his community, hnd “a wonder ful guy” in the minds of all his friends. He was an average man who had collided head-on with feelings which people of lesser courage keep hidden inside, from whence they may continue to in fluence the life for years to come. He was calm now, and several wonderful experiences of this young couple were shared. Then he saw how gradually, impercepti bly, the pregnancy had “taken her away” as her activities were re stricted. He resented the loss; resented her, felt guilty; resented the unborn child, felt guilty; and had buried it all inside to escape the anxiety it caused. Most of these feelings had been so “un conscious” that he was now sur prised as they were recalled. Mother Too! That night he visited the wife, and she asked, “How did you get so calm? You seem so different.” He hadn’t meant to, but felt com pelled to tell her. She listened, then added: “I’ve felt exactly the same way ever since I awoke after the delivery. I was terrified lest you know about it, and you were so upset I thought you did.” As they left the hospital next day, they were relaxed, and bub bling with the anticipation of being adequate parents to the baby they both loved and had wanted so long. Well, what about it? The belief that parents “just naturally” wholeheartedly love their antici pated and newborn offspring is fiction. They must learn to love the child. Pregnancy does inter fere with established patterns of life for the husband and wife, and she particularly may feel the re strictions. Frustration Always brings a degree of resentment. A few parents openly hate the child, but most people feel guilty about these resentments and consequent ly “swallow them whole” to get rid of them, at the same time build ing up a false picture of complete love. Such disturbing feelings are still alive and come out in rejection of the child or in subtle attacks upon his individuality. Many cases of over solicitous “smother love” are based upon an effort to atone for, to make up to the child for, the early resentment which the parent has never faced. Next Week: How To Avoid Such Crises. HUMPHRIES Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Humphries of Rock Hill, formerly of New berry, announce the birth of a son, Leland, July 3rd. Woodcock are birds of mys tery. They sound an electric little whistle when flushed by dog or man but do not sound it when they fly of their own free will. How and why do they whistle? One wood cock rises in twisting flight like a jacksnipe, another wavers away like a will-o’-the-wisp. Why this erratic flight, as if the bird does not know where he is going? Other game birds are found on their feeding grounds, except dur ing the midday hours. Why not woodcock also? Dr. William J. Long, noted na turalist and writer, has some ideas on these questions, but he adds that you are quite free to chal lenge them. Let’s take that whistle first. There are reputable ornitholo gists who tell us that it is made by the bird’s wings. Long’s an swer is this: “The last time I went out for woodcock my set ter locked up on point at the edge of some poplar saplings. Just within the thicket a woodcock crouched low in plain sight. Not ing that the bird was facing me, his bill pointed straight at me, I relaxed for v a difficult shot, hav ing learned long before that in the, direction a woodcock’s bill is pointing, in that way he will al most surely go when flushed. Out he came, right at me. As he sideslipped over my shoulder, his bill opened and closed rapidly while he whistled into my ear. A moment later the bird’s bill was closed and the whistling had stop ped. That was only one of several occasions when a woodcock seemed to say to me that his whistle comes from inside, that it is vocal, and that his wings have, nothing to do with it.” The answer to their erratic flight may be told in one word, and that is “habit.” Long ex plains that a woodcock’s forma tive months are spent in thick cover, where the old birds have learned by experience to rise above the brush tops before heading away. It is possible that young birds know as much by instinct; but even so they must of neces sity • make their first flights through the brush. Their wings are not yet strong enough for the lifting flight, which is the sec ond flying lesson learned by any bird. So it happens that by dodg ing around alder clumps, or twist ing through them, young woodcock acquire a habit which clings to them all season, or longer. That you rarely find woodcock on a feeding grdund is due^ also to a habit which sets them apart from other game birds. Wood cock feecl largely on earthworms and they feed by night as a rule. Before sunrise they fly with full stomachs to a resting ground, which is often a dry, sunny ridge or hillside. Very seldom do they rest in big, shadowy woods. Look for them in abandoned orchards, in the mottled light-and-shade of saplings—birch or poplar preferr ed—or in dwarf adler. HAWKINS Dr. and Mrs. Fred Hawkins of Kingsport, Tenn., announce the ar rival of a son, David Bruce. The Hawkins formerly lived in New berry and Mrs. Hawkins is remem bered as the former Margaret Davis of Newberry. Admission Tickets in i Rolls In Denominations of 20c, 25c, 50c, 60c, 75c and $1.00 2000 To a Roll ✓ THE SUN A Newberry Federal Insurance Records dearly show, That Saving is no joke, Of men alive— At sixty-five— Five out of six are Broke. Each account is insured up to $10,000 at the _ NEWBERRY J Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY John F. Clarkson President a College St. J. K. Willingham Secy.-Treas. Newberry, S. C.