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r PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MAY 6,. 1954 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist SPRING! What a day! ▲ May morning. The sun has broken through, and the fog has lifted. The dew sparkles on every twig, leaf, and blade, and the birds are a-twitter in every tree. There is something dynamic about it, something enormous. A silent symphony of action, of Candidate for Governor Lester Bates Says: “There is nothing I conld say about my op* ponent, either publicly or privately, which would better qualify me to be (Governor ot South Caro lina. “The employment of mud-slinging and abuse in a political campaign is not my conception of fair play.” The Man with a Positive Program (Excerpt from campaign speech of Lester Bates at first campaign meeting in Lexington Monday, April 12.) (Political Advertisement paid for by friends of Lester Bates) growth, back of the birdsongs fills the air. You are very conscious of rejuvenating life and growth at every turn. ' The sordid sod is dead no more. It writhes with life. The sleeping bug crawls from its winter casting there and zooms crazily away. The earthworm and the grub come forth at night to crawi around, and the fisherman finds them again when he digs. The dead brown coat of earth changes to green, and flowers, stems, blades and stalks come through into the light and warmth of day. The woodland, that has known but the hum of winter winds through its bare branches now be comes decked with lacy leaves of green. Birds are nesting in the branches, the squirrel chatters in the treetops, and the sly old ’pos sum conceals its young in its pocket or the hollow of a tree. And out in the open fields, where the farmer plays his trade, the winding rows again come into focus. The seed that has been planted there breaks its casting and comes forth in ribbons of green that carry the promise of another harvest. It is from this promise that all life clings to hope on this beautiful earth of ours. The recurring seasons, how fasi- nating they are! Summer sees the building of what spring has started. Fall brings the finish, maturity and the harvest. Winter lays things low for rest, nights are long, and life is low. Then gradually, all of the powers of Nature make their as sault- on winter. The battle lasts for a while. One day spring seems to have it. But that night winter sneaks in and knocks it for a loop with frost that sparkles, leav ing shriveled buds and dead flowers. But spring does not give up. The ascending sun battles the lingering cohorts of winter until at long last they are beaten into submission. And then it is spring, PHOTOGRAPH RT RICHARD HATH I To every Uncle in the whole wide world.. I uncles arc more wonderful than anybody, and children can never have enough of them. When uncles come to visit you, they bring you candy and presents, and they talk to you like you were a grownup yourself, and they let you do things your mother mostly won’t let you do. My favorite uncle is Uncle Ralph. He’s sick in the hospital with cancer, and people say that he is going to die because they found out about it too late. They say that only a miracle can save him, and you can’t expect miracles. But my father told me about an uncle he had once (did you know fathers have uncles, too?). And this uncle was supposed to die for sure because he had something called diabetes. But he’s alive now, though he’s very old and lives in St Petersburg, becauseMicy found something called insulin. ~ ~— Maybe somewhere scientists will find some thing that will save my uncle. Dad says they’re trying all the time and they’re making lots of pibgress, but they need more money. Last year, he says, people gave the American Cancer Society enough so they could spend almost $5,000,000 to try to find new cures for cancer. Dad says that is more than ever before, but it is less than four cents a year for each American. That doesn’t seem like much, be cause I get more than that for gumdrops, in just a week, when I’m good. I thought if all the other uncles knew about this, then they would send more than four cents —lots more. Won’t you—? Please. American Cancer Society now, the wonder season! What a privilege it is to live during these days. WEED CONTROL Our grain acreage has doubled in recent years. That brought a problem of weeds. And for a while it looked as though wild mustard, thistle, etc. might run us out of the grain business. But along came science with a remedy, and weeds have lost their threat. County Agent Rogers of Allen dale says two years ago they had only two weed-spray outfits in the county. The past spring they had 20 and over 60 percent of their grain crop was sprayed. The spray, applied right, sure cleans the weeds out of grain. Your county agent has the particulars. KILLING RATS Science has worked out a really effective way of killing rats. Those varmits have always been a pro blem, and in the past we have had no very effective way of getting those wary creatures. But now we have* County Agent Willis of Chester field tells me their county-wide rat-killing campaign back in Feb ruary was very effective. Warfarin and red squill, mixed with shred ded fish, rt^ere made available to all farmers at cost. “Good reports were received from all parts of the county,” he says. A rat is a very destructive thing. They destroy and contaminate much food and feed. The small cost of their control now is good business. As usual, your county agent has the dope on this. CREAM OF THE LAND County Agent McComb of Orangeburg tells me they have cleared 6,000 acres of land since their Pasture Development Com mission started work with a big. bulldozing outfit 6 years ago. It is kept busy, and the land it clears is - mostly the low, wet, rich acres ( that are also drained and put to pastures. That’s the very cream* of the land there in those low places, where it has accumulated for years. SUBSCRIBE TO THE SUN P.v.' . I: : : m * ■ mmi tm ■M&t- v.v mm i m Hi % i m II mm km I* D 1 - siiil riWfy; mr r mm-: ‘ ' ■ ■ ill II li 5k- m SSW-: What we still don’t know about cancer / •• « % and one of the reasons why in the past few years, our knowledge of the nature of cancer, and how to treat it, has grown encouragingly. Patients, who would have been considered hope less cases even five years ago, today are being completely cured. And even those who apply for treatment too late can usually live longer—and less painfully— because of modem palliative treatment. All the same, there have been defeats as well as victories. We do not know—to take a single 1 example—why so many more men are now dying from cancer of the lung. In 1933—just twenty years ago —lung cancer killed 2,252 men; in 1953, some 18,500. That’s a great increase— which even our expanded population, and other known factors, can’t possibly account for in full. Well, why haven’t we found more of the answers to cancer? Not only because cancer is an im mensely complex problem: difficult to diagnose, and difficult to treat; challeng ing to the best research minds. All that is true enough. But there is another reason: we do not have enough money. Last year your gifts to the American Cancer Society were more generous than ever before. But they were not enough. You gave the Society almost twenty millions to fight a disease that—at present death rates—will kill twenty-three mil lion living Americans. Less than one dollar for each American destined to die from cancer. Much more is needed for research, for education, for clinics. Won’t you please do your part . . . now? American Cancer Society Cancer Man’s cruelest enemy strike back Give GENTLEMEN: FI Please send me free information on cancer. 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