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KILL 1923 BOLL WEEVILS NOW. BY DESTROYING COTTON STALKS EARLY, WEEVILS STARVE IN WINTER. (By C. A. Whittle) One of the most effective steps fn boll weevil control is the early destruction of cotton stalks. Just as soon as the cotton can be harvested, go into the cotton fiehl and either turn under the cotton stalks or rip them up with a plow. The object is to tie stroy the cotton plants. Weevils can not feed on dead cotton stalits. When their food is destroyed they migrate to where they can feec or else go into winter quarters. \Y hether they are thus driven away from your farm or driven into winter quarters the probabilities of their damaging you again next season are greatly reduced. Over most of the cotton belt it is possible to gather the cotton early enough to permit of the destruction of the cotton stalks three to four weeks before a killing frost will destroy them. Three to four weeks earlier in going into winter quarters means that death of weevils fiom starvation and cold will be greatly increased. It is the last weevils that go into winter quarters that cause damage in the cotton crop the next year. If all of these were starved out by destroying cotton stalks early there would, of course, be an end of the weevil. While one can not expect that cotton will ever be destroyed eafrly . and completely enough to accomplish a complete eradication of the weevil, It is true that to the extent that this is done the number of weevils and their damage will be reduced. Chopping down stalks leaves stubs that sprout new growth on which the weevil can feed, therefore, the only safe way is to uproot the stalks or else, with the aid of a drag chain, to turn them completely under the furrow slice. Knowing that many cotton farmers do not plow deep enough to cover up cotton stalks, the safest general advise is to uproot the stalks.with a plow and to watch that no new growth starts dp. As long as there is green cotton growth left in the field, the weevil will be found. It ^ill crawl into a lock of cotton or half opened bur to keep warm and | come out when the sun shines to feed on the green stuff. Don't burn the cotton stalks. Let them lay on the ground. When the ground is plowed they can be turned under where they will decay and add the organic matter which the soils so much need. Why not organize a communitywide, or county-wide movement for the early destruction of cotton stalks. It means less trouble from the weevils next year. WASHINGTON COMMENT. A chorus of indignant and emphatic negation greets the labor proposal to amend the Constitution of the United States so that "The United States Supreme Court will have the power to review an act of Congress and to declare such an act unconstitutional. But in the event Congress for \ I * 1 a second time enacts the legislation in question it wiil be beyond the power | ! of the court and will stand as the j final and unassailable law of the' land." An army of organizations and editorial writers vehemently protest I against any such drastic revision of j the fundamentals of the government! of the United States as would put in the hands of Congress alone, without any concurrence by the foity-eight States, the power to change Constitution. With all due repsect to the Congress, it is nevertheless true that it does make mistakes, and that probably in the future, as at times in the past, it will be swayed by passion, prejudice, self-interest, and partisan polix Co wn/ln tin nf Nnm'in UC>. V/UII^IC^ id iiiauv vi beings, and can not, of course, as a body, be more perfect or more wise than the average of its membership. The Lyiited States has grown in one hundred and forty-six years from a baby nation to the mightest on earth. Our people are more free, have more prosperity, less war, greater opportunities, more justice, less governmental ills than any other people. This growth and these results have come under the benificent and wise laws which spring from a Constitution unalterable save by a long, difficult, and thought-taking program of state acquiescence. To substitute for this proved successful plan a new scheme by which we will have no fundamental law not changeable at will by Congress is a proposal which will not only never be accepted by the American people, but which wMI injure, not help the cause of those who propose it. Why is education in the United ^?1-4.??~ /\vicfanr?o ^ states JlgllUIlg ?u nam 1U1 . Why is it that children have too little opportunity? Why is it that so many illiterates are permitted to grow up to take their ineffective places in society to the detriment of us all? Why is it that this, the richest and most prosperous of nations can do so little to aid itself educationally? There can be only one answer; because the Nation, as a Nation, has no education plan, policy, or organization devoted to education; because, as a people, we regard educational facilities and programs as. local issues; because we have no Department of Education, as we have a Department of Agriculture or War or Interior. Washington, D. C., is the nation's property; it is generally regarded by us all as our pride, our beauty, our v?rv own. But only from a stand point of architectural beauty; not from a standpoint of leading in civic improvement. Washington's schools are neglected; many of them inn two shifts a day in order to accommodate the children which crowded them. Portable buildings, insanitary buildings, buildings so old and out of date they are shamed by the schools of municipalities of twenty-five thousand people, are pressed into service. Teachers are underpaid; education suffers. Washington people haye no vote; Washington people do not appropriate their own money for their own schools; Congress does, or rather does not do it! And Congress shelves the Towner-Sterling bill, which will create a Department of Education to look after not only Washington's, but the nation's interest in education, spite of the insistent and well-nigh universal demand that it pass. Mr. and Mrs. Parent, you can help. You have a representative and two what you say. Therefore, in the in OLAC^^ Furniture, Floor and )od*work Beauty is Only oooth of an Inch Deep! 'INE times out of ten the only i difference between old and new uture, floors and woodwork is the t jition of the thin finishing coat on ' wood. >k about you! How many unap:iated things in your home have ting wrong with them, oiber than w scratches and stains on their face! tore their brightness and beauty i a coat of Devoe Mirrolac. Its i lustre, sparkling gleam, and tderful color will make you proud hem again! >oc Products are time-tested and H /en, backed by the 168 years' ex- H ence of the oldest paint manufac- I ng concern in U. S. Founded 1754 H 1ILDERS SUPPLY CO. Inc I agstree, S. Car. H Lumber H lac- ^ terest of your country, its people, and your own children, say it and say it strong! CAPITAL CITY SEEKS PEDESTRIAN* SAFETY Denial of Auto Operators' Permits to I'nfit Numerous. (Capital News Service) Washington, Sept. 28.?The police authorities in the Capital City are using to the full the powers given them to approve or deny operators' license cards to applicants, ounng the month just passed twenty per cent, of those who applied were refused pei mission to drive a car. Five hundred and sixty people who thought they could operate an automobile were undeceived by the police, who demanded a practical demonstration of driving ability as well as knowledge of police regulations. With automobile accidents increasing daily because of congested traffic conditions and large numbers of cars, both business and pleasure, police departments in other cities are watching with much interest the diastic rules enforced in the nation's capital. Until recently in most municipalities the "examination" consisted of an oral statement of a few elementary rules of the road and an ability to say which end of the automobile was the front. In Washington the applicant for a license card is now required to drive Viic Pin- in flnwn-town traffic, with an experienced police driver by his side, and thus to demonstrate his or her ability to handle a ton or more of moving steel with safety to himself and pedestrians. Many who apply have had but a few "lessons" in automobile driving, and while they know perfectly well how to start, stop, and steer aca r, are unaWe to utilize that knowledge . quickly and effectively when confronted with a crowded street a$d a heavy jam of other vehicles. ?As the number of deaths from collisions with automobiles and pedestrians is decreasing" in Washington, while the number of automobiles increases, it is evident that the enforce- ( ment of the spirit as well as the letter of the examination provisions of the police regulations is having a good effect. o SLATS' DIARY. (By Ross Farquhar) Friday?Ma was a canning tomatos today and Jakes little sister Nel lie waiao^^ar are house and she kep a teazing all the time to let her put the Gart|nF^9 ers on around the top the cans. Thats how much girls no about Agriculture and !"3H?lEi ^at?Puer ste|H|^I vens got a pie fellas off of are fntball 11 by crdoked means & they was the best 2 men on the i ^ team ; sr~ ? But we will fix him 1 of these days. I intend to give him a good slap in the face sum time. When his back is turned behind hiqg. Sunday?Pa was reading about sum woman up in Conetticut going into the undertaking bisness. Ma sed it was getting so a woman can do most enny thing a man can do. Pa sed Yes xcept raise a beard & keep a Secrit. Monday?Almost got in dutch with the teecher. Jake and me was haveing a discussion on futball tacktics for are team of witch I am the captain of it and she slamed her ruler down on her desk and yelled at me and she sed I hope I diddent here you tawking then. I looked rite square in her eye and replyed and sed I hope you dont. An^ *ot by with it to. Tuesday?Are church had a 2nd handed social. It was to get stuff to sell and they told each lady to bring sum thing they haddent ' no use for. So ma tuk I and pa and we had a very good time generelly speaking. Wednesday?Teacher ast Blisters to discribe Washington crossing the on/1 ViA OA/4 Haa WflcMnC JL/Cliavvaic atiu liv uvu V4VW> f, 0 ton carrved a little baby in 1 hand and fought off Simon Legrees bull dogs with the other am till he reached the other side of the Ohio river at Cincinnatti. Teacher was plum disgusted and told him if Ignorance was a pebble he wood be a hole gravel road. Thursday?The Sunday skool supt. woddent let his boy get Ben Her out of the library today. He sed Because he had herd it was so very Racy. o 666 cures Dengue Fever. Subscribe now for The Record. "BOARD OF CENSORS" IDEA LOSING GROUND Literature and Stage Successfully Resist Infringement of Freedom of Speech. ??? (Capital News Service) Washington, Sept. 28.?A New York magistrate dismissed a case Worked up against a New York publisher by a society devoted to trying to make other people's morals cohform to the society's standard. The society's agents haled the publisher into court, along with several of his books, on a charge of publishing obscene litera tuie. The magistrate read the books threw the case out of court, commended the books as contributions to literature and knowledge, and scored the agents for the self-constituted moral censoiship, and ended by insisting on the reality of the principle of the right of free speech, when such free speech is within the laws of the land. The New York stage has just formulated a plan by which the evils of police censorship over plays is eliminated, while permitting judgment as to what is and what is not objectionable to the public, by the public. According tc this plan any person objecting to any part of any play on moral grounds may state his or her case to John M. Gilchrist, commissioner of licenses, and cause the appointment of a jury of twelve nontheatrical men and women to pass upon the show. The jury panel will include 300 names of persons not interested in! the theatre or in "leform." ! In event of a complaint, a jury of twelve is to be dispatched to see the j production. A vote of nine to three is required to 'carry" a verdict. But even an adverse verdict will not be final, for the producers and author; of the offending play will then be invited to reform the production wherein it is found to be offensive. o ? A sealed copy of the 15-real motion picture of the life and time of Abraham Lincoln has been offered to the United States Government and the National Lincoln Memorial Commission for deposit in Washington until the 300th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, February 12, 2109. With the film is offered a motion-projection machine, with full instructions how to operate it, the entire gift to be sealed in. a steel vault. Directions are necessary because of the changes certain to come in projection practice. ( r AI Horn When yo from Western out of this cou thing from T1 money you paj 4-i ? ??r-i Knr?l/ IL Ui 11CU lv Those large p; stock. They < and churches n The Kiogstree Oil Sausac Balogna S Liver Pud Pork Saus Smoked P ir? r _ I Vienna aa Frankfurt and FRESH BEEF, PC Kingstre&Sai Kingstree, ^ No Grocery Store or Home-Made Pi i i:Kiirvi'"i,|"ri 11111 u n i n m 111111 ni m m i | EFFEC ii ON BILLS FOR AUG i! DATED SEPTEMBER 1: ; I LOW 5% DISCOUNT ON ii BILLS IF PAID BEFO: | OF THE MONTH. TH i! LIGHTING BILLS ONL^ i j APPLY TO POWER RA |! Kingstree Electric I :: 7-27-tf. HI I I HI I I ? I 1 II H I 1 1 I I I M H 11 I I (New Meat In Charge of an Expei M and Meat Chi |1 Buy your fresh meat II market, where the anim? ? forced out of the carcass i and the meat thereby mac li gumption. i We butcher only the H hogs, and if you buy fron || assured that you are getti] p est prices. I The Cash Mea i S. F. Eppe, SI) rRONl le Indu u buy a dollar's wort Packing Houses, niat n nty and State. If yoi lie Kingstree Sausage F / for it stays ,in this cou the farmers for Pork, acking houses will not lo not contribute to yc or do thev helD keep up V A a a Sausage Factory Mao je, put up in 25 and 50 ] iausage ding age ork Sausage usage er Sausage I Handles at its Market IRK, MUTTON AND DRESS usage Factory and People' H. A. MILLER, Proprietor S Mearim^ket is Complete With oducts fronMhe Kingstree Sausag r"i''''i'"'v:<>n.rr''V'W':'i':rB a rri E * tive'1 UST LIGHTING i: ' * a st, WE WILL AL- : flfNji m*1 ALL LIGHTING ; RE THE TENTH ' j IS APPLIES TO : a r AND DOES NOT ? :! TES. : | t . V Light & Ice Co j_ M MM ? I ? I 1"! ! M?! HK ' v J9 I Market | j ienced Butcher 1 j itter. J jj from our sanitary 1 il heat has been || . * by refrigeration || le fit for food con- ?| a us you may feel ? Tl ag the best at low- | it Market 1 mager _ I ZE1 Bm \ I stry 1 h or more E|| noney goes jE?? i buy any- ?|| actory the g| inty and is . KJ3 FT tn 3*8 : buy your fjl >ur schools pa your roads. 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