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Pfcf* Poor " w > ?be palmetto leaber PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1S10 Assembly Street Colombia 20, S? C. ??? bteied ?t the Poet Office at Colombia, S. C\ as aecond claat matter by an Act of Congress One year S.OO Bix Months ?.. ?... 2.0i Single Copy ?.1( NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS Pate ef expiration of your sobscription ia stamped on youi address wrapper each week. This is for.the purpose of gir tag you constant notice of th? date your subscription expires. Postal Regulations Required Payment in Advance of All Subscriptions Your paper wi) be discontinued hfter expira tion date. NATIONAL ADVERTISING AGENCY INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPER, INC. 545 Fifth Avenuea New York (17), N. Y. Tie Leader will publish briel | i and rational letters on subject! > of general interest, when they are accompanied br the namet and addresses, of the author! and are hot of a defamatory nature. Anonymous eommvni cation will not be noticed. IU Jected manuscripts will not tx " retnrnsd GEO. H. HAMPTON, Publish* * W. R. Bowman, ?News Edito 4 r REMITTANCE Checks, drafts and Postal or S press Mossy Orders should b : made gayuhlo to tie order o TV* Pabactt* L?It I* sot rcapon All for adraae* payment* t I ^ tokri, or tfstrfbt s ' PHONE 4-049S fc, Saturday, July 9, 195) t~TSRHBEWS ft CONTROL QF ' MITES, LICE Wfry "V" AND FLIES : IMPORTANT JOB FOR POUI TRYMEN I > Clemson, June 20. With tl HK coming- of warm Veather, pou 9Rr! trymen should endeavor to r i their poultry houses of externi parasites. The two most commc \ ". external parasites affecting poi try are lice and mites. Lice li> ".on the birds all the time. Mit< live in the cracks and, crevici ~of the building and go - on tl ratwr'- hirds at night to feed. y'/ P. H. Gooding, leader, Clemst Pouitry Extension Work, poin -V out that some people are of xl opinion that lice do not do ai great harm since they live < scales of the skin and feathe JF\:- ' and do not suck blood from tl p o2*t bird's body as do mites. He sa; this idea is not correct as pro . * < ' ed by experiments at the Al !' bama Experiment Station whii showed that lice lower eggs pr _ ductien as much as 20 perce when the birds are heavily i |ggp: tested. Mr. Gooding says that lindai aprayed in the house, on the li ter, and on the birds will k f both mites and lice. One poul '* of 25 nercent lindane to 10 gs Ions of water is the strength k/y ^ , use. "In 1954 a number of demo strations were given over Sou Carolina using malathion for f control," he states. "This san product will also control lice ai ?t';. 'mites. The directions for usir mf+j ' malathion are given on the co tainers. This product may b Ife;; sprayed. in houses where chic "Flies ara-Alaeriob? menace Jpourtdr :pouH*T , f a r in s. Th< _ spread many diseases and ma be responsible for tapeworm ii fbstion in poultry. The housef! as ~ one ' of the hosts i yf the life cycle of the tapeworri ^ In addition u> u^^^hemicaia^ Between The Lines By Dean Gordon B. Hancock I INTEGRATION: CURSE OR j CURE? ' Under a regime of segregation > one cannot give nor get the best. | - Even a casual study nf the history | of segregation in this country will J i reveal that the Negro has neither h thn ti.nt- 11-?? eniintry Vin.1 tr) I offer nor has -he given his best and this is doubly true of the ! ' white man. -When we consider what has been done to bolster L regime of segregation by t h e ' white man we must be convinced I *? ' that so much of the white man's 1 energies .have gone into Uie sordid ! business pf segregation tnat h Us ' higher posibilities have been slighted greatly. Not least among his losses was ' .he loss of not being brought into I he! *' ' contact with the^unfortwi-1 1 ate 2 -voes at his doors. The. blessing cf helpful the helpless has heen d-nied him. Then the blessing that would have gone with an unsegregated Negro race has also been denied him. These denied -blessings have caused, do now cause, a social sickness that " only integration promises to cure. But just as our Southern friends' J often urge waiting as a policy in1 race relations, forgetting that changes do not come of themselves, but must be brought about by men, so integration will fall short of curing what ails us socially and 8 economically, unless it is wisely 8 appropriated. When viewed con~ structlvely, it posits a cure?for r many of our social ills; but viewr ed selfishly it may easily become a curse. ' Here and there about the coun-1 try we find white ministers advo* eating the opening of church mem ' |bership to Negroes; this is as 1 t should be but unless Negroes ?pen their doors to~whites it means" i" I that the Negro churches will deo cline and be bereaved of their inl-|telligent constituents. Already >* - there Is a movement well-defined, la I tirVint?n t Vl .. Maivma im^/>11( rana. i * I nutio Hir nc^iu III LIU arc ' leaving: the "mass" denomina-1 lejtions for the "class" denominait tions; and (he fear is here expressI* 1 ed that instead of continuing the [movement within the race, it may i? (turn to the white churches. But y we must confess that, the outlook le is no propitious when-the Neg^o .o intelligentia looks upon integra. tion as a means-of escaping'to a more intellectual religious atmosphere. The fact remains, the Negro masses need our intelligentia more 3 ( than the white intelligentia need I them, ft is not going to be reassur'ing if our more highly educated themselves to be skimmed off from . the masses of Negroes. There is ? one feature of segregation that ' prevented its being a total loss, and that was, it forced Negroes of (great advantages to return with1 these advantages to . their own | .ra^ _ j I in otner words, heretofore the j! Negro masses have been blessed al by their highly educated by force (n of a-regime of segregation. Will those classes still cast__ their lot fe voluntarily with their underprivilsg 'eged masses? Will they, like ss Moses, refuse the pleasures of the court of privilege and cast their lots with still afflicted brothers m of whom there are millions? The time may be at h a n d when our w -proffered race loyalty may be severely tested. )rv Our institutions of learning are r3 annually turning a host of well trained Negroes into the_currents ys of affairs in this country and Just v- whether these young people will a- look upon integration as an opporch ^unity to serve with greater facio-jlity their disadvantaged fellownt'men; or whether they will use inn-[ tegration as a means of escaping into the white race to avoid the ne stains and stigma heretofore enit countered by the Negro masses, ill Integration must not be made ad synonomous with getting away as l1- far as nracticable from t.Via Npcrrn to race. It must rather cannote added opportunities to more-effectin vely seiKre those Negroes who toth day are underserved. It is not a ly healthy sign to see the more highie ly educated Negroes siphoned off id into exclusive church affiliations, ig and it is even more unhealthy to n- see our most highly educated Nee groes turn to white churches for k- membership, as many are current ly doing. , a- hprship, as many are currently *y doing. y What is true of church affilialy control flies, a good practice i s >n to keep litter and droppings in n. houses as dry as possible," he tgjuida. j, y.. ' . r . 1 In This Our Day r "' I %.:. ' &* '.-"+tr-* : By C. A. Chick Christian Churches and the Courts History points out that all religion always have been conservative and averse to charge. And, even today we find that established churches and organized religion are among our most conservative institutions. It is not the purpose of this article to| ligions over the coals.1' It must, be admitted that the conservatism of the church in many, instances throughout the ages of civilization has been the saving grace of civilization. Durng such times of decadance civilizations and or of revolutions, by a n n large,?it has?been the?church ~ that came forward and conserved the best there was o f civili* zation at the time. Moreover, it should be pointed out that the foregoing has not always been an easy task for the church. For Vi 11 v/? V\ tn A ? ? "VAiW VA4W.&V11 UU LI1C lUICgUl[lg,l many individuals sacrificed their_ lives. ~ ' * ? However, ] with due respect to the foregoing, it is tljis -writers considered opinion that all too often the Church has been too conservative--lages too far behind secular or civic institutions, in matters pertaininjr~to moral righteousness and justice Xqt sdk mankind.- As my readers well! know there are mutiplicity of re-l ligions. However, this article has reference only to the Christian I religion and the Christian church' j with its many auxiliaries organizations. Organized Christianity has been been, amd is today, tremend ously interested in the souls ofl the so-called backward races. It has speent, and is spending today, large sums of money in con| nections with its efforts to con-| vert the so-called backward races1 to the Christian religion. However, organized Christianity has; said all too little about imperial-ism and colonization and economic expliotation of the weaker xaceft 1) V thp mocfor T*Q T M I our own country, it is real pitiful and discouraging to see organized Christianity trailing the courts, and far behind at that. It is disturbing to say the least tct read iti the newspapers that in many christian bodies, conferenI ces, associations, etc. when the Supreme Court's decision pertain i ing to racial segregation in pubI lie schools^ isnbrought up, it almost disrupts the entire meeting. And, whereas some christian gatherings?have bgen able to?ptror strong at anti-Tacial segregations, , resolutions, others have made j such weak platitudes as follow "Do the Christian thing in the I matter." '"Treat all people liko humans." "Obey the law." And, one christian body decided to "Study the question until 1901).' I Some religious bodies have not had the courage to even mention the? Court's decision in their) meetings. We 'pieach and teach that with lithe exception of the Christian homes the Christian church is the highest, most ideal, and the best organization that human beings have been able to bring forth. Let us hope the foregoing is true. I, for one, believe it is. However, it must be admitted, tha4?in more than one instance, the Christian church fails to live .up to us mgn ideals. And, itj should be pointed out to the. Church when H faHs to live up tion is equally 7true of the rate's business and professional ties,! and of the Negro press. In spite i of the finer possibilities suggested by integration, the Negro cannot yet stand alone without that .help that is based upon intra-raeial loyalty. Integration thaf separates the Negro nrasses and the Negro classy could be, a THE PALMqfro LEAP Farms andnolks I Y By J. M. Eleazer, Cletftoi K* tension Information Specialist THINKING STRAIGT] ?We rather often fin ourselves with too much of th or that crop. Some thoughtless folks say science.is at fault fi*improving varieties arid practices What givq increased yicldB? They are dead wrongs In this, practical world we do much of this or that at times. But, surely, the remedy s not poor farming. We can adjust acres'1 prospective demand and thi help control overproduction.* E t high acre yields are essentil on every acrte we put "our hjlds on if we are to have economl production and low unit Opst^j In an experiment, wrtilized corn used 5,600 gallons t f water per bushel. But in . tlv y-JfMter case only a few bustfc ? were made. You got reduced" toduction all right. But at wnAv cost! Wasted water, wasted If i<L and wasted efforts. And at t e same time almost an empty r ibt at harvest time. ' < k It is sloppy reasoning A think poor farming is the way Jd .cure our overproduction ills. H IRRIGATION ELSEWHEn u Irrigation is rapidly bu >ming b live subject all over thl rainfall belt. I tell you much \ ! i t here in South Carolina. ! Let*s look at Alabama a bit, as ; eport ed in "The Farrow." For the past three years Leon Lindsay of Limestone countj^ hasi averaged two bales per acre! an Ii60 acres of irrigated cotton. We are told this i# twice the local yield on identical unirrigate^ cotton. He said, "The first ye^f I irrigated cotton, I made twf> bales per acre on the part that got the extra water, while thi unirrigated field made only- i third of a tsale per acre. No' r I'm trying to irrigate all mp crops. I have found it very pr< fitabje for the past three years, ' Horace Hall of Houston Coui ty made almost 100 bushels <f icorn per acre on 80 acres irrigated. he staggered his planting o it wouldn't all need water at tl e same time. By moving^~tfie~~Un( s Jhree times a day he could pi t two inches of water on the f 0 acres in 5 1-2 days. ' ? Irrigation helps other goc d practices pay off. In a 3-yej r experiment at Auburn, progress ively-better yields of- cantaloups h r* n m o wifVi onnVi innnl CM4I1V TV A VII VMV.il MUUIV/lVHOl JJIttUtice. A half ton of complete fertilizer gave a yield of 280 standard . 70-pound crates of marketable cantaloupes. Where 10 tons of stable manure was added t o this, the yield was 4 5 0 crates. And where irrigation was added to the fertilizer and manure, the yield jumped to 606 crates of fine melons. In a similar experi: ment, pimento peppers were uppI ed from two tons to 12 tons per ' acre. And these increased?yields (of most crops are of a better 1 quality too. Director P. O. Davis of the Alabama Extension Service says, "The few farmers who irrigated cotton reaped big returns." JULY, MELON TIME Have you tried any of those Charleston Gray watermelons yet? We have a good crop of 'em. And they will be coming along Until early fall in the Upstate, and specially in the Chesterfield area. Some- Were planted with unrereliable seed. Therefore you might get. some that are mivnH and not so good. But the genuine Charleston Cray is a superior melon for both the producer and the consumer. For the former it is disease resistant, prolific, uniform, and a Agocd shipper. And for the latter is a delightful eating m e I o ii, with very tfrin rind, sweet tender red meat, and Small black seed. J Uio.1Ton mw, : i The boll weevil season is runn ing now. By keeping-an eaglt to it's high ideals it loses some of. the best minds us well iy some of the most fighte<?i>-Stjul! that the human nace has! ? , ' -t L ' ' ER rye on the cotton and carrying out recommended practices, you can do a lot to insure your harvest. Your county agent has Clemson's ideas about all of this. They report weekly to our Mac Sparks and he then summarizes) the situation for press and radio. With present poisons properly ap plied, we can effectively control the boll weevil, that's something that we could always say. FFA BOYS WELCOME 'l'U CLEMSON ?Thn FF\ (Future Farmers of America) Convention~is to be, held at Clemson July 12-15. Clemson welcomes this fine group and their teachers, most of whom are Clemson men. ' ' 7 ? BOYS ARE THAT WAY I There was a batch of standard' equipment we boys of the Stone Hills used to carry in our pockets. It viried some. But not much. : j A horseshoe nail withpoint imbedded in a small eroded piece of corn cob was always among my valuables there. It was, and fetill is about the best nutpick I have ever used. Specially for ones hard, to get the meat out of like hickory nuts. A modern, nutpick can't get into those narrow caverns. The other day a reader from Alabama mailed me two shiny jiew horseshoe nails and wondered if I knew what country boys used 'em for. They were the first I had seen in a long time. Another use we had of 'em was to make darts out of. We'd (insert the quill end of a wing or tail feather of a chicken in a wood spool that thread came on. Then we'd wedge it in with a horseshoe nail, driving the head clear ' into the hole in the $pool to fasten it and the feath ? ?i.. TVion thp share er aecuicijr. a v..~ , point of ther.ail would stick, oul of the other side of the spool You could throw that against th< - side of a building and guided h ?? w: -K % \ _ ,TV t .. -i , \ r'Fof pennies awful lot of v And if you t your month] \ ' in the mont! it costs to ei entertainme of leisure th If you are n LIVING to , you see you what additi< | -, talce full ad' ELECTRIC i :: 7 I the feather, it would stick there.' j Although our harvest o f wild nuts from the woods, came only in the fall, we had use for that j horseshoe nail all year long. For j we gathered nuts by the bags full, kept them in the cool cellar where they wouldn't get ran-( eid, and ate them all along. Next week more about what we carried in our pockets. ELISHA AME CHURCH S. S. opened at 10:30 with the Supt. presiding .. assisted by his ~ ' staff of co-workers. The classes arranged for study and the lesson i was very interestingly for study. The group elected delegates to the 3. S. Convention ?and?the?State League. The S. S. had -a small rally ( the highest amount .was raised by ! class No. 2 the amount $12.11. , Teacher ' Mrs. Eddie M. Hawkins and also winning the first prize. 1 Total amount, $25.05.-?-? . ) Immediately after dismission, Prayer service was conducted by Mrs. Ida Longshore and Mrs. M. ; Jefferson followed by lovefeast. The scripture lesson was read (from Romans 5:1-14. T.he pastor I then introduced and presented to I his audiencq, Rev. D. J. Ziggler back at an early date. The Lord's I ~ ' Supper was given by the pastor and his pulpit associate to a nice group. Mrs. Ida M. Longshore i s I leaving fdr the Washington, D. C. i to attend the Quadrennial Conven4 tion-to be held July 9-14. We hope she will have a lovely time and ""tr safer trip. She is a representative I from the Newberry District. We I were sorry to learn that our pas- J 1 tor's wife brother is how a patient at the Veteran's Hospital in Co--! lunibia, S. C. We hope for him a [ speedy recovery. Come to Church or go to-Church. M; Ijake, Rpt. j. .. . BUY BONDS ^ ugh,.,no ] | ,r - L ^6 fNTIRTAINMINT . _ I^^^CHANINO _ -_. ^ I ' s .: ''' i ? NL J a day you get an electrical service. ~ ^ke the time to divide ly bill by the number of days h you'll see just how little njo$r the comfort, safety, rit, efficiency and extrsrhours at electricity provides, ot already enjoying Electric the fullest, then we suggest that r Electric Appliance Dealer and s anal electric appliances you need vantage of your greatest bargain, /ITY. . 0 ^SOUTH CAR! \ 37 . > Saturday, July 9, 1955 Growers Save Many Dollars With New Weed Preventer A unique weed preventer calIo<l CRAG Herbicide.-l that kills ? weed seedlings before they get a chance to grow, is saving growers thousands of dollars they used to spend on weeding labor! ? g[||ti^ ns diaeovcyy it hag-pre^-. ?; vented weeds in extensive plant- ?so safe it can be sprayed~3i? ings of strawberries, asparagus, rectly on plant leaves without nursery stock, seed corn, peanuts harming them, and potatoes. 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