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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.
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What we still don’t know about cancer
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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
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This Message Sponsored by the Following:
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City Filling Station
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Newberry Lumber Co.
Whitaker Funeral Home
Newberry Monument Co.
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