The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 20, 1957, Image 2
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1957
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Most town-farmers never grow r immensely wealthy from
their adventure in agriculture. Many town men have
planned on reams of paper just how to thrive on five acres.
Just hear me tell the joys and thrills of the amateur farm
er. Well, a parcel of five acres is quite a body of land, a
large holding of real estate, you know. How large is such
a tract, parcel or piece of land, as the lawyers say? About
208 feet wide by 1050 feet long.
Haven’t you played with figures, proving that on five
acres you could have fruit, vegetables, corn, oats, hay and
both a garden and pasture?
Well, if you mean to base your fortune on your skill and
dexterity with five acres let me tell you something which
will remind you of Jack and the beanstalk:
“Jack’s beanstalk is not the fairy tale of yore. A modern-
day antibiotic, gibberelin, is stimulating the growth of
plants to a nearly startling degree. While the results are
naturally far off Jack’s fanciful mile-high beanstalk, there’s
a touch of magic in these results:
Cabbage plants, normally 24 inches high, zoom to 12
feet; dwarf bush beans become pole beans; cucumbers
* double their growth in one month; and celery comes to har
vest three weeks earlier. What’s more, tobacco yields rise
10% and coton fibres grow 6% longer. Plants—from African
violets to roses to tomatoes to trees—perk up in wide va
riety of ways.
The majority of these findings have come out of re
search laboratories here and abroad. Although within the
past five months giberellin has been offered for sale to
backyard gardeners—in liquid form, tablets and aerosol
bombs—its use by commercial food growers probably won’t
come until later this year. Currently, U. S. Food & Drug
Administration technicians, in cooperation withmanufac-
turers, are testing its use on edible crops. To date no harm
ful effects have been found and full-scale commercial use
is expected to come as researchers perfect application pro
cesses.
Gibberelin was discovered in 1926 when a Formosan, E.
Kurosawa, saw that a fungus called Gibberella infected rice,
causing disease, sometimes known as “foolish seedling di
sease.” The blight caused rice to grow abnormally high,
then die.
In 1938, Japanese scienticts isolated the growth-regulat
ing substance and some research work was continued
through World War II. In 1951 U. S. Government scientists
came up with the idea that gibberellin could be produced
by the fermentation process in much the same way penicil
lin and steremycin are manufactured.
The economics of gibberellin, especially on a large scale,
haven’t been finally determined. Researchers hope that
forthcoming tests will yield more detailed data on such
things as how much gibberellin must be used on particular
crops and how often.
_ One or two grams of gibberellin, mixed with w r ater on a
basis of one part of gibberellin to one million parts of wa
ter, will be used on each acre of alfalfa after the first cut
ting. Researchers hope the gibberellin wdll make the alfal
fa grow faster and allow them to get four cuttings instead
of the normal three at the cost of an extra $10 or $20 an
acre.
The amount of gibberellin in commercial tablets and
sprays varies with a gram of the stuff going a long way, in
deed. How many tablets or how much spray is required
for sprucing up home lawns or gardens is largely dependent
on the person using the gibberellin agent. In retail store,
the price of these substances usually is competitive with
other plant aids.
Behind the initial drive for the retail market lies the
possibility of large gibberellin usage for commercial farm
ing. Preliminary research indicates this antibiotic will af
fect some crops by increasing yields, cut down growing per
iods, increase seed production, permits mechanical harvest
ing of such vegetables as spinach and even allow T growih of
some crops in areas now’ unsuited for them because of cli
mate.
An Imperial Chemicals test in England on pasture grass
tufned up three-tenths of a ton more yield of hay per acre
in the first cutting but a decrease in yield from the second
cutting. An I.C.I. researcher thinks overall yield could be
increased by more than one gibberellin application, but
doubts if this would prove economical. Tests have shown,
however, that gibberellin forces pasture grass to start grow
ing earlier in the spring and continue later in the fall.
Some plants’ responses may change geographical agricul
tural patterns. For instance, take carrots, suggests Mich
igan State’s Dr. Wittw r er. Because gibberellin seems to sup
plant a portion of the cold requirements (many plants re
quire a low temperature before flowering and fruit produc
tion starts), carrot seed production could be shifted further
south than Oregon, Washington and northern California.
Also possible is the extension further south of the growing
areas of fruit trees that require cold to stimluate fruit.
THIS INQUISITIVE EARTH
‘Gibberellin could mean growih of peaches and apples in the
tropics,’ he avers.”
With all this chemical help can we town men hope to
show’ the real “dirt-farmers” how wonderful we are as
plant specialists?
We of America w’ould do w’ell to challenge all three depart
ments of our National Government whenever any depart
ment arrogates to itsefl authority for which there is no
Constitutional sanctions.
One affliction of the day is ignorance of the Constitu
tion; another is indifference. Because France or England
or Russia may do certain things or do things in one fash
ion does not mean that we are foot loose; we have a supreme
charter knowm as the Constitution. All departments of
Government are bound by it. Notwithstanding the Consti
tution the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive and
the Boards and Commissions assume functions and exercise
powers which do not belong to them. If the Courts them
selves disregard the Constitution a citizen has no redress.
That is the condition which promotes revolutions and assas
sinations in some other countries.
In our great nation we are gravely handicapped by offi
cials w r ho are politicians first and foremost and of small
caliber. * _
Both Democrats and Republicans play politics and plan,
plot, connive and vociferate primarily to promote their own
candidaces and secondarily to help restore or maintain the
Party in power.
America is being sturned from its ancient charts by the
Supreme Court which thinks the Constitution is what the
Court says it is. We must not admit or permit that. We
are becoming sorely victimized by usurping functionaries
who need a stern rebuke by the people.
I have no interest in either the DuPont Company or Gen
eral Motors, but I can't see just what authority the Su
preme Court has to compel the sale of Tstock held by the
DuPonts, stock bought by them many years ago when Gen
eral Motors was probably about to go on the rocks. I am not
deeply interested except in the assumption by the Supreme
Court of power to apply a law in such a manner as to do
violence to the clear ^.caning of the law’ w’hen it w’as enact
ed.
“Although the Cons tution has not been amended to in
crease Federal power.- .'nee 1920, the Supreme Court in
1937 abandoned its poi-.y of respecting the original intent
of the Constitution—as amended—indefining them. It began
to change its earlier at mitions of that intent, in order to
sanction the Federal C . ernment’s exercise of vastly in
creased powers without . —jndment of the Constitution. The
Federal Government now eexrcises pow’er in all the fields
which F.D.R. in 1930 sa a it should not invade. Many of
these increases might ha. e been made eventually, but the
proper method to make th.m is provided in the Constitution
and should have been followed. For the Court to attempt to
make them by ‘interpretation’ is govednment by usurpa
tion, the opposite of constitutionally limited government.
How to restore constitutionally limited government is a
major question, especially at a time when concern for the
proper limitation of Federal power seems all but nonexist
ent. This generation, like those which preceded it, is the
custodian of the liberties of the people and the restraints
on government pow’er w’hich alone can protect them. When
we permit judges to ‘interpret’ these guarantees so as to
make them ineffective, w r e help sabotage our own and pos
terity’s liberties.”
Doesn’t it seem so utterly foolish as to be inexcusably
ridiculous?
And now r President Eisenhower proposes a lot of boon
doggling and tries to lump it all together as a grave ques
tion of National Security! Save the mark!
What is lacking is commonsense. But I do recall w r hat a
Spaniard said: “Sentide Comun? El mas raro de todos los
Sentidos.” Translated: Common Sense; not common at all,
but the rarest of all the senses.
9
1. How wide is the Bering Strait: (a) five miles; (b) 52 miles;
(c) 100 mUes.
2. Casa Grande National Monument is found in (a) Texas;
(b) Utah; (c) Arizona. *
3. Bicephalous means (a) two-headed; (b) muscular; (o)
inflated.
ANSWERS
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•*•«« N 'I
f --SPITE the high interest rates
it is now offering the Federal
.Teasury is having difficulty in
funding its securities as they be
come due withoul having to pay
out billions in cash.
Here is an example. Last month
the Treasury did a refinancing job
on about $4.2 billions of October
1954 Securities which had been is
sued at 1%% interest. Upon matur
ity the Treasury exchanged $2.34
billion of the old securities for new
11-month certificates at 3^4% irrter-
est, twice as high as the old inter
est; it exchanged $647 million for
58-month notes paying interest at
3%%, but holders of $1.16 billion
of the old notes refused to accept
new securities in exchange even at
the high interest rates and de
manded to be paid off in cash.
Within the next several months the
Treasury will have some $75 bil
lions in maturing securities to
fund. If the ratio of cash to ex
change in securities runs about the
same as in the $4 billion deal, it
would mean the Treasury would
have to come up with something
like $18 billions in cash, which
would take some doing.
The McClelland Senate Investi
gating Committee plans to take up
soon, a study of what is happening
to Labor Welfare funds. The esti
mate there is more than $25
billions in these welfare funds. The
labor unions alone, however con
trol only about 2% of them About
8% are controlled by joint union-
management trustees, with 90%
controlled entirely by manage
ment.
In addition. Senator P§ul Doug
las (D-m.) has introduced a bill
which calls for full disclosure of
fund operations by management
alone, and to this management,
through the National Association of
Manufacturers and the U.S. Cham
ber of Commerce, is strenuously
objecting. To which Senator Doug
las asks, “What do you have to
hide?”
These labor welfare funds are
not private funds. They are trustee
funds held for the benefit of work
ers and their families. The manner
in which they are invested, the
safety of the fundr, whether pri
vate gain is being derived from
them, are of public interest. They
are also of interest to the benefi
ciaries, even though management
pays in a percentage of the funds,
and thus members of unions indi
vidually have a right to know how
they are being used, for $25 Mil
lions can have quite an impact
upon the economy of the nation.
The NAM maintains that in the
funds solely operated by manage
ment, neither the Federal Govern
ment nor the Unions have a right
to look at them. However the Mc
Clelland Committee, if it carries
through, will want to take a good
look, and Senator Douglas de
clares: “Congress has stated and
the courts have held that employer
contributions toward welfare and
pension benefits are in the nature
of compensation to employees.
Whether the funds for such pro
grams are contributed by the em- ‘
ployers, the employees or both, the
employees havfe a right to know
the financial details of such plans
as well as to have their interest to
such plans protected.”
If pension and welfare funds rep
resent deferred payments or wageS
for workers, as the court? have
held, then of vital interest partic
ularly to the uffion members is
what is done or should be done
with the income from the funds.
Q—If % veteran dies without naming' a beneficiary for his OH tnenranoe,
and An money is paid to his estate, hew wffl it he paM'-dn, a lamp
earn or fa monthly installments?
A—-In a sum.
Q flow mnbh does the President’s foreign economic aid bm oaH fort
A—As sent to the Congress May 21 the President’s economic assistance
program calls for $3,885 billion for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
1967, j*ich«Mng $soo Twflih™ for setting up s development Loan Fund
to handle long-range economic development assistance.
Q—Has the name of the Bnrean of Internal Revenue been changed?
A—Yes, the Secretary of the Treasury on July 9. 1953. changed the name
to Internal Revenue Service. Its functions remain the same, gen
eral superintendence of the assessment and collection of all taxes
Imposed by any law providing internal revenue.
Q—When was the First Bank of the United States chartered?
A—In 1791 by Act of Congress, with authorized capital of $10 million,
one-fifth of which was subscribed by Congress.
Q—Why does the Comptroller of the Currency report to the Speaker of
the House, instead of to the Secretary of the Treasury?
A—The presumption is because the House of Representatives has the
sole power to originate all bills for revenue. The Comptroller func
tions, however, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
PUZZLE No. 452
ACROSS
1 Intone
6 Hot-weather
drinks
10 Fish
14 Attic thresh
ing festivals
15 Change
16 South Seas
canoe
17 Fourth calif
18 Acquires
information
about
20 Decays
21 Fondles
23 The linden
24 Attempt
26 Symbol for
tellurium
27 To cure
29 Letter of
alphabet
30 Dawn
goddess
31 A pawl
34 Street Arabs
36 Palm leaf
(var.)
37 Spanish
title
39 Saltpeter
42 Adhesive
band
44 Puts to
flight
46 Uncovered
47 Gut line
attached to
fishhook
49 NegoUate
51 Cravat
52 Ranted
54 God of the
North wind
56 Aeriform
fluid
58 Man’s
nickname
59 To drill
60 Correlative
of either
61 Short for
animal
doctor
62 Young child
63 Gone by
67 River of
France
69 Muscular
72 African worm
which in
fests eye
73 Antlered
animal
74 Ireland
75 Fish
77 Kill
78 Tatters
79 Plants
DOWN
1 To crack
in slits
2 Hearty
3 Came to
earth
4 Word of
negation
5 Hindu
cymbals
6 To be of use
7 To mend
8 Sea eagle
9 Orderliness
10 Active
11 Gold, in
South Ameri
can countries
12 Game of
chance
13 Alleviates
19 BeeUe
22 Pronoun
25 Part of
harness
28 Abstract
being
29 Fencing
position
30 Landed
property
31 Periods
32 Ardor
33 Candles
34 Drinking
vessel
35 Point of
a pen
38 Celebrated
40 Silkworm
41 Female ruffs
43 Guido's
high note
45 Wooden shoes
48 Cord
50 Rocky pin
nacle
53 Missive
55 Corded cloth
56 Commodities
•7 A water
spirit
59 Favors
61 Exceedingly
62 Neat
64 Opposed to
aweather
65 Disposed of
for price
66 Makes lace
edging
68 Body of
water
70 Anglo-
Saxon coin
71 Worm
76 Pronoun
Answer to Pnssle-N*. 461
From the Catskil] Mountain Star,
Saugerties, New York: A few hours
of relaxation gives a person a
chance to observe the ease with
which so many things function in
our homes today when placed
alongside similar operation sixty
or more years ago. We certainly
are living in a push-button or turn-
a-switch age ... If we desire more
warmth the turn of a little wheel
on the thermostat brings imme
diate response from the oil or gas
burner in the basement...a switch
gives us light whenever desired
with nary a thought of filling kero
sene lamps. Trimming the wicks
or cleaning chimneys, and a simi
lar action almost immediately pro
duces griddle or oven heat in the
kitchen range without stoking the
coal fire or disposing of the ashes
. then there is the refrigerator
for temperature controls from
cooling to deep freeze without the
messy large cakes of ice that had
to be supplied . . . there is no more
lugging water to a washing ma
chine or turning wringer and
dumping tubs ... in this connec
tion my thoughts turned to the
boys and girls of today and wonder
if they have any sense of appreci
ation of the extent to which they
are favored in the homes of 1957
. . . when a lad of twelve or four
teen years had to do a lot of house
hold chores such as fetching coal
from the cellar to stoke the kitchen
stove and the living room heater,
carrying out ashes to the pile in
the back yard, turning wringer to
dry the clothes and many other
little duties about the house, the
performance of which had a very
close relation to small weekly al
lowance . . • sixty years have
wrought many changes in our daily
living, regardless of whether they
add to or detract from our home
lives.
From the Newark Courter-Gaset-
te, Newark, New York: Our first
Secretary of Defense, James For-
restal, said: “Whether it be in
business, government, or military
operations, I mistrust the prin
ciple of relying on a single genius
to make all basic decisions.”
The assertion that a stogie chief
of staff is efficient, economical and
desirable from a national stand
point is not supported by history,
fact, or experience. Hie concept
has fatal defects from military,
political and economic standpoints.
Our Joint Chiefs of Staff organiz
ation has in practice demonstrated
the genius of the American people
for democracy. This system has
solved the problem which has long
plagued democratic republics, the
difficulty of being militarily strong
without becoming militaristic.
Other advantages of this system
are many and certain.
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BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
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TODAY’S PROBLEM: Jealousy.
S a little girl, said Mrs. Thom-
asina Ehrhart, Rt. 3, Roches
ter, New York, I had many reasons
for jealousy. My older sister, three
years older than I, was very beau
tiful. I was not Many a time some
tactless person would look at both
of ufe and then say how beautiful
she was. More, she was my fath
er’s favorite child.
My other sister, younger than L
was an excellent student I was
not Although nearly two years
older, I was in the same grade
with her all the way through ele
mentary school. My mother was
very proud of her. I used to won
der why I had been bora.
Before I was out of high school
my older sister married and moved
to another town; my younger sis
ter became so interested in dates
that she neglected her studies. But
I plugged awey at mine, spent
more time studying than socialis
ing, and graduated—a year ahead
of her.
That opened my eyes to what
application can db for one.
The result of my childhood wor
ries made me very grateful for
any kindness that came my way.
and developed in me a great sense
of appreciation.
When a very brilliant young law
yer returned to our home town-—
his and mine—he paid me some
attention Every girl In town
wanted to attract Kim. but he
singled me out. I’ve been happily
married to him now for eleven
years. He once told me that he had
always found the most beautiful
girls vain and self-centered; that
the brilliant girls in school seemed
to turn into domineering wives.
He further said that the only
change he would like to see in me
was a realization that no one per
son had everything; that it was
an element of jealousy that made „
one aee die advantages held by
others and shut one’s eyes to his
own.
Anyway, I am far, far more for
tunate in my marriage than either
of my sisters. In more than one
respect.
So I am teaching my children to
make the most of what they have,
not to be influenced by either sup
posed or real advantages held .by
others. I impress upon them that
jealousy is a weakness and that
No One Has Everything.
BEST SPELLERS . . . Vice Pres. Nixon congratulates co-winners
of 30th annual national spelling bee, Sandra Owen, 14, of Navarre,
O. (left), and Dana Bennet, 13, of Denver.
This an* That
Wally Post of Cincinnati has
struck out 326 times in the last two
baseball seasons and has fanned
the most times In the National
League each year ... Sao Paulo,
Brazil, Chicago and Montevideo,
Uruguay, are all bidding for the
1959 Pan American Games. A site
Is to be picked in early August,..
The international Winter Sports
Federation wants the 1986 Winter
Olympics at Squaw Valley, Cali
fornia to be held In March, rather
than February as originally
planned . . . Frederic A. Johnson,
a New York lawyer, says the fines
plastered upon six New York Yan
kee players recently are “Illegal”
a.wH could not stand up in oonrt.
Baseball has no right te Impose
fines on players, he says , . . For
the first time since 1952, Penn State
will play 19 football games next
season ... Hie Brooklyn Dodgers
own five minor league elfcbs—Los
Angeles, Montreal, St. Paid, Ma
con, Ga., and Themasrille, Ga.
They also have working agree
ments with seven other teams ...
Walter 8. Beaver, termer Grand
American trapshooting champion,
TOP BOLER ... O. of Califor
nia junior Don Bowden, 29, of
San Jose holds CoL Haas Lager-
loef cep he won as first Ameri
can to break 4 minute mile. GBs
time In meet at Stockholm, CaL,
was 3:98.7.