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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

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and healthier boil weevils in hi
bernation at present than there
were this time last year indicating
that unless we have some severe
cold weather during February we
are more than likely to have an
early infestation again this year.
Our state entomologist are re-
commencing early poisoning for
1850. Not only for the boil wee
vii but for the thrips, flea hop
|pers, plant bugs and other insects
that are injurious to the young
plants from the time they come
up until the boil weevils damage
our crops.
/ believe that two applications
of early poisoning will pay off
even if boil weevils are not pres
ent. Thrips and flea hoppers re-
tard the maturity of cotton from
ten days to two weeks thereby
making the boil weevil injury
greater in the latter part of the
year.
Our state entomologist believe
that in the hill area and foot hills
of the Delta that planting cotton
early, doing early poisoning and
getting a crop matured before the
migration time will be very bene-
fetal to the cotton crop in 1850.
For early poisoning it seems
that spraying is the most econo-
mical. Where using tractors for
cultivating spraying can be done
at the time of cultivation and at
any time during the day. How
ever, on small crops cultivated by
mules it will be necessary to use
busting equipment.
busting insecticides suggested
for 1850 are 3 per cent gamma
benzene hexachloride plus 5 per
cent DOT with or without sui
phur. This mixture will control
practically all insects when used
at the rate of 10 pounds per acre.
If doing early poisoning and cot
ton is small you may use 6 to 8
pounds per acre. In using 3 per
cent benzene hexachloride and 5
per cent DOT it is more satisfact-
tory for the operator applying
this poison to use this material
without sulphur as the sulphur
has a tendency to burn your skin,
eyes and nose and we do not re-
ceive any benefit from sulphur in
this area due to the fact that BIC
and DOT will kill the insects that
sulphur would kill and BIC and
DOT does not irritate the skin
like sulphur.
Other insecticides that can be
used are 118 which is aldrin. This
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09
February Garden Jobs Include:

February Garden Jobs Include:
l. Build and plant hotbed fol
April plants.
2. Buy seed needed for March
and April paintings.
3. Secure a good dust gun OF
sprayer and adequate insecticides
A. Side-dress January planted
crops.
5. Test home-saved seed before
planting, over one year old.
6. Set asparagus crowns, if you
have not done so already.
z. Thin January planted vege-
tables - give them plant room.
8. Turn compost pile.
9. Scatter ashes saved from
hardwood over garden. Ashes
contain some lime and a little po.
fash.
10. Begin to clean out and pre-.
pare coldframe for plants to be
transplanted in late February OF
early March.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

forms a visor for sun or showers
The shoulder cape gives double
protection against rain. The slot
made in the left sleeve is ideal for
shopping lists. A pencil IS at
tached to the lower right pocket
and other shopping needs are In
the pocket on the left side.
The carry-all is similar to a big
shoulder bag and made of plas-
tic over stiff cardboard. 1t is the
right size for grocery bags and
can be carried to the store folded
like a purse. With it goes a slip
on cover for the top of the grocery
bags.
With this coat, you will not
have to tumble for your house
key. It is on a pull chain at
tached inside the right upper
pocket. The chain works automa-
tically and flips back into place
when you release it.
The coat has plentiful pockets
one for wallet and check book
with secure zippers and one for
gloves.
Patterns for the coat and carry
all are available in sizes from 1C
to 20 also 40.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

is a relatively new insecticide that
has just come on the market but
has given good result. Toxaphene
is a rather slow acting poison
that has given good results in
good weather. 1t appears that in
this area under all conditions that
3 per cent BIC plus S per cent
DOT will do a better job at pre-
sent.
There will also be lots of liquid
insecticides on market this year
for farmers who use spray equip
ment. Gamma benzene hexa-
chloride of emulsion has given ex.
cellent results in spraying. Toxa.
phene emulsion, compound 118
chlordane and iDDT have also
given good results where used
properly.
Secure Insecticides Early
Local dealers cannot possibly
secure or carry in stock enough
poison to fill all needs when every
farmer waits until damage starts
and then all want poison at once.
Poison is plentiful at present but
will be scarce and higher at the
time of application unless you get
your supply and store it now.
For every acre of cotton you are
going to produce you should buy
at least enough poison for 3 APP
plicationS.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09
Planting Roses

Planting Roses
Roses can be planted any time
from now until the first of April.
AS soon as your rose plants ar
rive, unite the bundles, then dig
a trench and heel-in in the roses.
Cover the roots with moist soil.
Before you plant the roses,
prune the tops to 8 or 4 stems
10 inches long. Remove all in
jured roots with a clean cut.
Plant upright varieties, such as
talisman, 18 to "a inches apart.
Spreading varieties such as etoile
de Holland should be spaced SO
inches apart.
In planting the roses, dig a~hole
large enough to hold the roots
without crowding. Mix a heaping
tablespoon of complete CONNER
cial fertilizer with loose soil in
the bottom of the hole. Build a
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09
by Joyce williams
Home Demonstration Agent
Handi-Cout

For women who shop, and es-
pecially for women who do the
grocery marketing on foot, the
new handi-coat with carry-all is
a happy combination of good looks
and usefulness.
The handi-coat, designed by
Clarice Scott of the USDA Bureau
of Human Nutrition and Home
Economics, is made of a new-type
shower and wrinkle resistant cot
ton coating. 1t can be worn rain
or shine and over a sweater or
liner on cold days.
1t is tipped up the front with a
long Upper and has a front pleat
for comfortable walking. 1t has
a hood that stays on and that's
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

mound of soil in the holes and let
the roots spraddle it.
The crown of the bush (the
swollen section of stem made at
point of budding) hsould be at or
slightly above soil level.
! While holding the plant at pro-
per level, partially fill in with
top soil. Firm soil by tamping.
Water plant thoroughly, and after
water has soaked into soil, finish
hole with top soil. Hill soil up
about plants, at time of planting,
| to prevent drying until roots are
established. This mound of soil
can be removed before active
growth starts in the spring.
Ask at the home agents office
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

Drivil.s ~..ck from the county
seat the other night, 1 got behind
q big truck or that winding
stretch a few miles outside of
town.
Waiting for an open stretch so
| could pass, the trucks lights
suddenly flicked on and off, say
ing ,'OK-go ahead" l passed
him and f | C k e d my lights
thanks" He came back with
another flick, saying, you're
welcomed"
Later on, AT the Garden Tav-
ern, Andy tells me, "That's u
trick truck drivers use. They
know that more than just ordi-
nary courtesy pays off," Then he
adds, I'VE beer retailers know it,
100. In working with the Brewers
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

Ask at the home agents office
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09
How Is Your Garden Growing?


You've been taking advantage
OF the recent "spring-like" days to
clean up, fertilize and pillow up,
haven't you? And to get seed for
plants like lettuce, radishes, on
ions, English peas, carrots, Irish
potatoes and turnip green's, into
the ground.
AS you plan and plant here are
the answers to some "did you
know" questions that will help
you grow your 1850 year-round
garden. For example, did you
know a quart of onion sets con-
tains 125 to $50 average size sets?
Or, did you know a package of
bought beet seed will plant 80 to
35 feet of row; carrots 80 feet;
collards 20 to Is feet; lettuce Is
feet; okra IS feet; radish 80 to
35 feet; spinach rs feet; mustard
20 to IS feet and turnips 80 feet.
A gallon Of Irish potatoes will
weigh about five to six pounds
and will plant 20 to rs feet of row
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

for a memographed leaflet Civ
ing more information about roses.
It tells about selecting the rose
garden site, preparation of rose
beds and soils, selection of plants,
care, types and varieties and dis
ease and insect control.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09
b w. n. Sullivan

Cctton Insect Control
As you know, 1949 was the
worst boil weevil year we have
had in a long time on cotton. 1850
sands to be just Is bad or worse.
According to our state entomolo-
Fists there are ten times more,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09
From where | sit :. by Joe Marsh.
Old Dog
Learns New Trick
AA~sSe~

and their Self-Regulation pro.
gram we keep our PAGES clean,
bright and law-abiding. We 90
out OF u way to do right by
the public"
From where l sit, the courtesy
shown by truck drivers and the
Brewers Self-Regulation pro-
gram are both good examples of
voluntarily cooperating for the
common good-a way of life that
mas helped keep America Up in
the drivers seat" for over $50
years!
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

(three gallon buckets equal
peck.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-02-09

% more information. write Mississippi Division. U. S. Brewers Foun-
iahon. Room 72, Deposit Guaranty b Hiding. JACKSON. Mississippi
Evening star., 1950-03-19
than surrender at Peiping with

than surrender at Peiping with
Flu Tso-yi.
The Reds tried to take Chu-
shan last summer but were re-
pulsed with heavy losses. Using
this strategic island base, the
Nationalists keep Shanghai,
Marking and Hangchow "neu-
tralized" with fighter planes and
light bombers.
The Nationalists also hold two
other important bases along the
coast. These are Quemoy and
Hainan Islands. The small out
post island of Namoa recently
fell to the Reds. Chiang's troops
also hold several other coastal
islands, many not marked on
Western maps, but they are not
developed and mean little.
Some Weak Spots
Quemoy (Chinmen) Island is
just off the port of Annoy and
prevents the Reds from massing
an invasion fleet in that vicinity
to attack Formosa. ..-
Quemoy is an army and air
base and naval vessels can an
chor there, but the island itself
is not we'll developed and has to
be supplied from Formosa.
Estimated Nationalist strength
there, including nearby Lien
Shu Little Quemoy) Island. is
10000 troops under Gen. HUI
Lien. This commander saw his
army surrounded on the North
China plain late in 1948 and
escaped in a tank.
Hainan Island off the South
China coast is separated from
the mainland by a narrow, shall
low channel. The island is al
most as big as Formosa itself.
but politically is more dubious
because a Communist guer-
rilla movement has been going
strong in it's hills since japanese
occupation days. Although the
NationaliStS use Hainan as a
Evening star., 1950-03-19

married him when he was IA.
While still in his teens Mao's
resentment against the old order
took him into the army of a pro-
vincial warlord to fight the Man
chus. He didn't like it and got
out.
Always inclined toward book
ishness, Mao studied hard at some
of the first schools in Human from
-19 to 25. His rebellious bent led
him to organize political study
groups among the students, who
took their politics seriously.
He also read China's ancient
historical novels, which some
times were banned in his day be-
cause they contain brilliant ex-
amples of political coups and long
discussions of right and wrong
that stimulate revolutionary think
ing.
Macs own writing reflects his
Evening star., 1950-03-19

the military regime in Human.
He returned to Peking and got
hold of C'~nese translations of
Marx. China's tangled affairs
began to take shape in his mind
in terms of the "class struggle. !"
His entire contact with commu-
nism has been in his own Ian
guage. He knows no other.
1t was at this point that he re-
belled for good and all against the
old China. He renounced the
marriage his father had arranged
for him and married Yang Kai-
hui, daughter of a philosophy pro-
fessor who had befriended him.
She was killed in 1880 by a Ma
tionalist general.
Mao later married a school
teacher by whom he had one son.
He divorced this third wife in
Yenan in 1887 and she took the
son to Moscow to be educated.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Mao May Dominate Billion Asiatics

Two years later he married Ian
Ping, a Shanghai movie actress
who had come to Yenan during
the war with Japan. They have
a daughter aged IL.
By 1921 Mao had become an
ardent Marxist and in july OF
that year he and II others Or
ganized the Chinese Communist
Party in Shanghai. He set up a
branch in Human in 1922. In
1923 he was back in Shanghai on
the Central Committee. From
there he went to Canton where he
attended the first national con-
gress of the Kuomintang Party
which. under Sun Yat-sen, was
working with the Communists
against the Peking government
and accepting Russian advice.
In 1924 and 1925 Mao was again
in Human, organizing and leading
a peasant revolt that failed. In
1926 he was back in Canton, work.
ing closely with Chang Kai-shek,
the rising star of the Kuomintang
Mao handled the Nationalists'
publicity and edited political
weekly for them.
The next year, 1927. was the
year of the great split between
the Kuomintang and the Com
munists. At the time Mao was
back in Human, organizing an
other revolt. He was captured
but bribed his way out.
When Chang Kai-shek purged
the Communists and Soviet Rus
sia Withdrew her advisers, the
Communists we're driven under
ground and into the country. This
gave Mao his chance. He already
was in trouble with the party
boss, Chen Tu-hsiu, because he
had claimed all along that COM
munisrn in China must be based
on peasant farmers, the largest
class. Chen held to the Russian
view that city workers must spark
the revolution.
Mao teamed up with Chu Teh.
a Szechuan warlord who had re-
nounced his luxurious life and
turned Red, and they organized q
small peasant army in Human
and trained it to get along with
peasants. Icy It'd C.len IU-
hsiu out and Mao took over
leadership of the party. Chu Teh
(See CHINA, Page C-9)
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naval and air base to blockade
South China and to haraSs
Red invasion preparations on
the mainland, small Commu-
mist landings have been made
and liaison undoubtedly estab-
lished with the guerrillas. Hal
nan has some 10000 to 130,-
900 troops under Gen. Hsueh
Yueh, who led several battles
against the japanese in Central
China. His problems are COM
plicated by the presence of
many thousands of Nationalist
troops knocked out of the war
by the Communists.
In addition to these coastal
bases, the Nationalists hold the
Pescadorc5 Islands, about 35
miles west of Formosa. These
are low and vulnerable to in.
vasion during the summer
months. but are protected to
some extent by reefs and sand
bars. They are about so square
miles in total area. About TO-
600 troops are stationed there.
When the japanese had For
mosa they worried about three
likely invasion areas. One is
along the southwest coast from
the lower tip of the island up
to the port of Kaohsiung.
Another weak spot was along
the northwest coast, where
winter landings were deemed
possible. The same season was
considered dangerous for a
northeastern strip between
Keeling and Su-ao, but any
force landing there would find
itself pocketed by mountains.
Actually the entire west coast
of Formosa is one long potential
beachhead, but protect d
somewhat by sandbars. The
land slopes back gradually from
the west coast. 1t rises to a
mountainous ridge. more than
10000 feet high in some places,
that lies along the entire island
close to it's eastern shore.
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Formosa Is Offensive Base
Nationalist Chino Hits
At Communist Foe
By Air and Seq
By james D. White

FOrmOSd is commonly LnOugnt
Of as a defensive position only.
But the cucumber shaped is
land is serving also as the main
base for aerial counterattacks
and an unrecognized naval
blockade with which the Chinese
Nationalists are hurting Red
China seriously.
Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek, who began moving his
government to Formosa only
about a year ago, is curtailing
by blockade the foreign and
coastal trade of Central and
South China. The great powers
do not recognize his blockade as
legal. 1t continues and it works.
Recently Chiang's planes be-
gun bombing power plants in
big cities like Shanghai, Nam
king and Canton. The treat
ment is reducing them to pro-
1OunQ SCaSnaLlOn.
Formosa has seven large air.
fields capable of handling light
and medium bombers and an
unknown but probably larger
number of fighter strips. All
were built by the japanese. The
island. has two naval bases, Kee-
lung in the north and Kaoh-
siung in the south. Both are
modernized river estuaries but
are badly silted and need re-
pair. The railway system was
neglected by the Japanese to-
ward the end of the war and
needs rebuilding.
Hydroelectric plants are nu-
merous and the islands six mil
lion people depend upon the
system to an unusual extent for
the Orient. During the war, it
was easily paralyzed by Ameri-
can bombers which simply
knocked out transformer sta
tions. These have since been
restored.
Training Formosa Youths
On Formosa Generalissimo
Chang has somewhere between
10000 and 100000 mainland
troops, commanded nominally
by Gen. Sun Li-jen, a graduate
of the Virginia Military Insti-
tute who was a wartime COM
mander in Burma. However, he
takes his orders from Gen.
Chen Cheng, close friend of
the Gimo and recent governor
of Formosa who now is overall
commander of the Southeast
China defense area, meaning
all that is left of Nationalist
China.
Besides Mainland troops, the
Nationalists are said to be
training some $4,000 Formosa
youths. They are likely to be
armed in direct proportion to
Nationalist estimates of their
loyalty. They take a dim view
of any mainlanders.
All large airbases on For
mosa are also army bases. Off
cials say the airforce is in no
danger of deserting to the Reds.
Until recently, however, aerial
strikes into Red China seldom
ventured beyond Shanghai and
Marking. Now they are reach
ing out to Tsingtao. up the
coast, and to Hankow, deep in
China. Warnings have been is
sued that all large cities will be
bombed.
Naval forays to enforce the
blockade also have seldom gone
beyond the Shanghai latitude.
Close to this terminal range
is the Chushan Island group.
The Nationalists claim they
still hold about two-thirds of
these islands, including Ting
hal, the largest and most i'm
portant. 1t has both a naval
base for the blockade and an
airfield which repeatedly is be-
ing heightened to facilitate the
bombing of Peiping (Peking,
the red capitaD later on. Ting
hal is defended by nearly 100,-
600 troops under Gen. Shih
Chueh, a former North China
commander. Shih escaped
southwark a year ago rather
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study. His style is on the scholarly,
old-fashioned side except for the
Communist words.
After he graduated from Human
Normal School, Mao went to
Peiping, then as now called Peking.
He got a job as an assistant Ii
brarian at Peking National Uni
versity. He made trips to Shang-
hal and interior cities. He seldom
had money, but went anyway, He
Evening star., 1950-03-19

tion bill offers a real hope to men
like Mr.. Cannon and Senator
Byrd. who sincerely wish to bal
ance the Federal budget. Senator
Byrd is convinced there is a de-
mand throughout the country
that deficit spending be stopped
and the budget balanced. He be-
lieves, too, that the force of a
great public opinion in favor of
keeping expenditures down to
within speaking distance of total
revenues would have a marked eff
feet on Congress.
The Virginia Senator points out
that President Truman is now
trying to get Congress to approve
a budget which is more than So
billion in excess of the actual ex-
penditures in 1948.
More for Civilian Projects
Two years ago." he says, "the
Federal Government spent s342
billion in fiscal year 1948. We
balanced the budget and there
was a surplus. In that year,
which ended only 10 months ago,
when we spent So billion less than
the $424 billion expenditure budg-
ct the President is now request
ing, our economy did not disinte-
CRATE, our national defense was
not impaired, and we were spend
ing more for foreign assistance
than the President now proposes"
The big increase in expenditure
which the President is demand
ing, Senator Byrd points out. is
for increased domestic civilian
projects, excluding foreign as
sistance, excluding national de-
fense, excluding interest on the
debt and excluding the cost of
veterans programs.
Among the advantages of the
omnibus appropriation bill claimed
by supporters is the possibility of
a general cut, if such an amend
ment is deemed necessary. Also,
it will be practicable, with a sin
gle bill, to put through a hori-
zontal or 10 per cent cut in ap-
preparations and make it effective.
Last year, the economy minded
Senators sought to attach to va
rious appropriation bills horizontal
cuts in the totals carried, but
without success.
Occasionally the single-package
appropriation bill has been criti-
cized on the ground that it will
delay action on the Governments
budget. That sounds ridiculous
in the light of what happened last
year. Congress is supposed to
have all the appropriations made
for the Governments establish
ments by July l, the beginning of
the new fiscal year. Not only did
Congress fail to live up to this
timetable, but it was october
before the last of the appropri-
alton bills was finally passed.
There were 18 separate appro-
priation bills, including supple
mental and deficiency appropria-
ton measures.
If the omnibus bill reaches the
Senate by May l, that body
should be able to dispose of it by
July l. and perhaps long before
that. The Senate Appropriations
Committee has been hard at work
on the budget estimates, holding
hearings while the House COM
mittee has been working away, too.
1t. too, because of these studies,
will be in position to recommend
cuts. In the past, too often the
Senate committee has acted as
kind of court of appeals, before
which department heads have
appeared to protest against cuts
in appropriations made by the
House, and to seek new and larger
appropriations for their agencies.