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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
Cynicism of Age Displaces Visions of Youth
In Georgia’s Agriculture Commissioner
By J&hn R. Henry
ATLANTA—“Blessings on thee,
little man , , . barefoot boy with
cheeks of tan . .
The conversation today is about
the plight of the Southern cotton
grower.
It took Tom Linder to link cot
ton and the small boy who was
memorialized in John Greenleaf
Whittier’s verse.
Travesty—Linder is the first
to admit it is a travesty of matur
ity, and probably a downright hu
man tragedy, the way time and
tide eat away the dreams, ambi
tion and energy of youth.
For example, he mentioned
Georgia’s farmers’ markets.
Linder state commissioner of
agriculture, is credited with estab
lishing the markets.
He gave credit to a ten-year-old
boy, not the agriculture commis
sioner.
Recollection — The small boy,
■Whom Linder had in mind, lived
m rural South Georgia, near Dub
lin.
One day he went to town. It was
a relatively rare experience for a
country boy in those days of the
borse-drawn shay.
He saw a fine suit of clothes in
a store window. He wanted the
suit. He asked his father to buy it
lor him.
“In those times,” according to
Linder, “a father didn’t reach into
his pockets and fork over money
«Tery time one of his boys wanted
a suit.”
The father made the small boy
a proposition. He could use three
acres of the cow pasture to plant
watermelon, proceeds from which
could be used to buy the muchly-
wanted suit.
As Linder recalls the story, the
watermelons prospered. The
youngster finally loaded them into
a mule-drawn w r agon one hot sum
mer day, and wheeled through the
dust into Dublin.
His confidence w r as shaken w’hen
he discovered that many another
farmer and farm boy also had
brought their melons to market.
However, the small boy’s hopes to
get that suit dwindled away in the
sunset. Nobody would buy the
melons even at the bargain of a
nickel a piece. He hauled them
back to the farm and fed the
whole load to the pigs.
But all the way home, the dis
appointed youngster dreamed of a
place where all farmers collect
ively could place their produce for
sale at one place rather than ped
dle it in haphazard fashion alone.
The year was 1903. The young
ster was named Tom Linder.
Cotton—Linder is as crest-fallen
today about the cotton outlook
as he was those fifty years ago
about his failure to sell water
melons.
The major difference is that
Linder doesn’t envision an answer
to the cotton puzzle as little Tom
dreamed up a solution to the farm
marketing problem.
“Like it or not,” according to
Linder, “there will be less and
less cotton in the South as the
years roll on.
“It’s federal policy, being car
ried out as much by Democrats as
Republicans. Look at the acreage
allottments. They are increased
for the West. The South is re
duced almost in ratio over the
long haul.”
The Georgia agriculture com
missioner asserted, further, that
“there seems to be a concerted
effort in Washington over the
years to make this country into
an industrial nation altogether.”
He said:
“Trends indicate the tendency
to develop more and more manu
facturing, less and less agricul
ture. That is bad. You need only
to consider the case of the British
Isles to see how bad it could be.”
But what’s the answer? Linder
has none.
As he admits, it is a travesty
that, cynicism of age displaces the
vision of youth.
“Darling! Have you forgotten? We PAID all our bills
last week with a loan from Purcells!”
And a wonderful feeling it is, too; not to
be afraid to open your mail box. Why don’t
you call Purcells, and see for yourself?
PURCELLS
“YOur ^rlvave Bankers”
1418 Main St. Newberry
Newberry Federal
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In Life there is an open Road,
That Leads to greater wealth,
Buy what you will —
But not until —
You first have paid yourself.
Each account is insured
up to $10,000 at the
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federal Savings
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OF NEWBERRY
John F. Clarkson
President
College St.
J. K. Willingham
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Secy.-Treas.
Newberry, S. C.
TWO NEWBERRIANS IN
SAULDA COURT
(From Saluda Standard Nov 12)
Court of Common Pleas conven
ed here on Monday morning of
last week with Judge Steve C.
Griffith of -Newberry, former Sa-
ludan presiding, and continued un
til mid-afternoon Friday without
interuption.
All cases that had been set for
trial by the local bar were dis
posed of. It was greatly regreted
that J. R. Tompkins who has
served as the most capable court
reporter here for many years was
taken suddenly ill just after court
convened Friday morning and was
rushed to the Self Memorial Hos
pital in Greenwood where doctors
later reported that his condition
was not alarming. Saludans earn
estly wish for Mr. Tompkins a
speedy recovery.
Fortunately the court was able
to secure Mrs. Doris Armfield
Sanders of Newberry to take up
the reporting duties here on very
short notice to finish up the re
porting duties of the session of
court. Mrs. Sanders is a daughter
of Otto F. Armfield of Newberry,
former Editor of the Saluda Stand
ard, and she spent part of her
early childhood days in Saluda.
For several years Mrs. Sanders
has served capably far and near
as a reporter at large, for various
state and federal courts and
agencies. Apparently she greatly
enjoyed her brief emergency court
service in Saluda, one of her old
home towns.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
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Along about this time of year
we used to kill our first hog. We
usually had two or three. One
would be a big one, for the lard.
Then a smaller one or so# for the
best trimmings and cured meat.
This usually came some time
after Thanksgiving. We had about
tired of birds and rabbits by then,
and pork came in good. Then too,
the weather had gotten cold
enough so that the meat would
keep
That’s about the only day they
ever let us stay home from school,
butchering day. And we looked
forward to it almost like Christ
mas. I know we must have been in
the way a lot, messing around
there all day. But we liked it so
they just tolerated us.
We got up before day with the
grown fvdks that morning. Pots
had been filled with water the
evening before, and good wood
and lightwood piled high around
them. So, soon after the match
was struck, there was a roaring
fire around them there in the
heavy darkness of pre-dawn.
There was often heavy ice on the
water in the great iron pots and
frost crystals sparkled on the
grass and weeds there in the
flickering firelight.
With torch or lantern, the mep
they went to the hogpen, axe in
hand. We kids climbed up on the
far side of the pen to see the best
axe-man make the kill with one
swift lick between the hog’s ears.
Then several sturdy men hop
ped in the pen, turned the stun
ned hog on its back, and one
quickly found the right artery in
its neck with the butcher knife.
And, as it finished bleeding, we
tore a side rail down and helped
the men drag the hog back to the
house. And there is where the
day’s main delights for us kids
really began. That next week.
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION ofiee
^Jlbinl? it Over!
G eneral sherman had
a rough name for war, and
he should have known. We
are sometimes inclined to over
estimate the blessedness of peace,
that is, if by peace, we mean a
state of not being at war. This
is no doubt due to the enormous
amount of sentiment generated
in our minds and hearts against
the efforts of a national enemy,
who is out to destroy our people.
But actually, we are our own
worst enemies, if we measure
enemies by their destructiveness
of human life. To prove this
statement, we need only refer
to the fact that the total life
insurance claim payments, re
sulting from automobile fatali
ties during the firtt rix month*
of 1953, exceeded such pay
ments stemming from war
deaths in all three years of the
Korean War.
It is easy then to see that our
sentiment should be equally as
strong against our own people,
who needlessly subject an in
nocent public to extreme dan*
ger, which is created by the
gratification of their lusts to
drink and drive.
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"Founded on Faith—Dedicated to Service”
COLUMBIA, S. C.
AMPUTEE’S SON . . . Robert
Smith and wife, of Takoma
Park, Md., pose with their newly-
born son, Don Eugene. Smith
was first quadruple amputee of
Korean War.
Many a love nest has been
broken up by a lark.
With Wastiington taking the
shirts off everyone’s back, it’s a
lucky thing they’ve got some
bureaus to keep them in.
Long’s Prowess As A Master Farmer
Draws Praise From Clemson’s Eleazer
GRANITE IN FAIRFIELD
Granite is much in evidence
around Winnsboro.
Their “Blue Granite” is famed
afar. And there are other work
ing quarries there of this dur
able stone.
You notice its use at every turn.
I saw fence posts, solid fences,
terraced lots and yards, thres
holds, houses, churches, stores, fil
ing stations, and the like made of
this attractive and everlasting
rock over there.
And, you know, it seems to me
the sturdy folks there have taken
on a goodly portion of the sub
stantial character of that native
rock. They were all but floored by
the boll weevil. But they were
early in taking to grass and cat
tle. Their veteran county agent, R.
H. Lemmon, now retired, was talk
ing grass and cattle away back
when most folks in this state
didn't think much of ’em.
While with County Agent Lynn
there in the late summer, I saw
the dismal work of the searing
drought that had afflicted them.
They were then feeding up short
hay crops. And the winter Vind
was sure to whistle through the
cracks of empty barns and cribs
there this winter. But they had
not despaired. More winter graz
ing than usual was being put in.
And, if early showers came, they
would be blessed with more than
usual winter greenery to help fill
the gap. Their livestock associa
tion had an average attendance of
67 the past year at its monthly
meetings, according to Lynn.
Fairfield too was early in grasp
ing the potential that timber held.
They were early in organizing a
county forestry association, in
which their county delegation was
much interested and County Agent
Lemmon a leader. Today they reap
a far greater reward from pulp-
wood than any other county. And
our forester, Cliff Hall, tells me
that, with improved methods of
cutting, it is growing about as fast
as they are taking it out. Trees and
grass promise a perpetual harvest
there.
NEWBERRY DOINGS .
The fall of 1952 was so dry the
inoculation was. killed on some of
the alfalfa seeded in Newberry.
County Agent Ezell called some of
the men of Clemson down to see
if anything could be done. They
decided to try something new on
the I. T. Cousins farm.
They had some liquid alfalfa
inoculant made up at Clemson.
Lynn took the Camp irrigation
outfit down there and applied that
inocuianc in with the irrigation
water. In the late summer I was
by there and asked Assistant
County Agent Ridgeway how it
had worked. He said, “Fine.” The
alfalfa immediately losts its yel
low hue, came right out, and is
normal now.
On out from Newberry I pass
ed the Henry O. Long farm. Once
before I told you of the sign I had
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