The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 05, 1922, Image 6
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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"BOARD OF CENSORS"
IDEA LOSING GROUND
Literature and Stage Successfully
Resist Infringement of Freedom
of Speech.
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(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.
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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.
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