Chatham
Blanketeer
Vol. 2
JUNE 7, 1935
No. 23
INSECT CONTROL
VERY IMPORTANT
Burgiss Tells How to Curb Pests
and to Fight Garden Diseases
In This Article
Discusses the Supreme
Court’s NRA Decision
Were it not for the constant
war that is being waged against
insects and diseases of flowers
and plants, there is a great pos
sibility that in a few years all
vegetation would bs, totally des
troyed.
Out of the thousands of in
sect pests that infest our flowar
and vegetable gardens, orcha,rds,.
/Ineyards and lawns, there may
be segregated three fairly defi
nite groups of these that will cov-
ar most all cases of insect pest j
lavages on plants. These groups
would consist of, first; chewing
or eating insects, or insects that
eat all or a part of the foliage,
come eat holes in the leaves, some
eat the tender puln like leaf cells
from the top of the leaves and
leave the leaf a bare skeleton.
Others eat the entire leaf and
thereby destroy the plant. Sec
ond: sucking, or- piercing insects,
which pierce the tender leaf tis
sue with their sharp bills or
snouts, which are hollow, and
suck out the juices of the leaves,
causing them to wilt and die.
Third, the fungus diseases which
attack the foliage and the fruits
of some flowers and plants caus
ing large parts of the plant to be
come defoliated or the fruits to
rot.- There are also a number
of stem and root borers, scale and
various other pests that we will
not have space to describe in this
article.
The three above mentior^ed
gi'oups may bs controlled with
one remedy, or they may be
handled separately, which in most
cases, will work out to an ad
vantage. A combination remedy
niay be desired for small gardens.
This remedy will be discussed
later on in this article.
Referring to the first group,
we recall that this group includes
all chewing insects. These in-
--Gcts may be best controlled with
a poison that will be eaten and
thereby produce death by poison
ing, or, we will say, a stomach
poison.
The second group, or sucking
insects, must be controlled by
other methods, because a stom
ach poison will remain on the out
side of the leaves until it is
washed off by rains. The sharp
snout of the insect is pushed into
the leaf through the layer of
poison, and. Ifcherjefpre none of it
is eaten. F6b 'th‘is type of insect
Mr. Chatham of Hope That Business Generally Will Observe
Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours
The entire country has been
thrown into a goou deal of con
fusion by the decision handed
down a week ago by the United
States Supreme Court. This de
cision was unanimous in declar
ing the National Industrial Re
covery Act unconstitutional. Busi
ness generally throughout the
land has been operating under
various codes, and by the decision
of the Court these codes auto
matically became inoperative.
It is my hope that business gen
erally will respect the minimum
wage and the maximum working
hour for labor that was in force
under the codes. As far as child
labor is concerned, very few
children have been employed in
industry for many years past, and
public sentiment has already
practically stopped the employ
ment of young children in indus
try.
We announced last week that
we expected to indefinitely ob
serve the minimum wage and
maximum working hour provi
sion now in effect. I feel that
the rest of the code provisions
are v/ell rid of and that business
generally will improve as the peo
ple of the country realize that
recovery is under way in a nor
mal, healthy manner.
The New Deal has had many
things in its favor, but it was
reaching into the realm of regu-
a contact poison must be used, or
cne that will burn, gas, or smoth
er the insect to death.
The third g oup may be called
a disease rather than an insect
group. In this group we will find
mildew, rust, leaf blight, mold,
and different kinds of spots and
other blemishes that appear on
the surface of foliage and stems
of plants, both flowers and veg
etables. These diseases are best
controlled by various kinds of
dusting preparations. There are
fungus diseases that consist of
millions of tiny spores, or plants,
which grow and feed on the sap
in' iihe leaves of the affected
plants. In so doing they rob the
plants of the much needed food,
and at the same time clog up the
breathing pores, or the “lungs”
of the plant.
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lation at such a rate that if it
had not been stopped by the; Su
preme court it would have prob
ably so regulated all business ac
tivity, including manufacturing,
merchandising and farming, that
we would have virtually come un
der a dictatorship, such as is now
in force in Germany, Italy, Russia
and other countries. The Ameri
can people have built the greatest
democracy on the earth, and our
freedom from any kind of dicta
torship has been unique in his
tory.
One effect of the codes, .which
the Supreme court declared un
constitutional, was that price fix
ing was not only allowed but en
couraged. This meant that the
cost of living was rising ' faster
than incomes of the people and,
by throwing the national balance
between supply and demand out
of gear, the consumer was^ begin
ning to suffer acutely.
One of the finest minds in
North Carolina, Mr. Burton
Craige, of Winston-Salem, has
given me his opinion of the Su-
p.eme Court decision. I think
it is so clear and fine that it will
be well worth quoting;
“The unanimous decision of the
Supreme court in the Schechter
case is one of the most important
deliverances since the days of
Magna Charta. It shows that the
Supreme court is a real balance
wheel in our own form of Gov
ernment. This decision respects
the reserved rights of the -States,
cur surest bulwark against anti
republican tendencies; recognizes
that Congress can act only with
in its delegated powers; and pre
serves, without encroachment, the
distribution of Governmental ac
tivities between independent leg
islative, executive, and judicial
branches, an English conception
and the greatest innovation in
Government, since the days of the
Roman Empire. It is refreshing
to feel that we are again steer
ing clear of all the “isms” of
Continental Europe.”
THURMOND CHATHAM.
“Yes, I sez to him: “Mr.
O’Reiley,” sez I, “if you was as
much of a gentleman as I was a
lady, you’d get the hell outa
here.”
HOLD BANQUET AT
HOTEL SATURDAY
Lucy Hanes Chatham Club Spon
sors Highly Successful Em
ployer-Employee Event
One of the most interesting
and attractive banquets ever
sponsored by the Lucy Hanes
Chatham Club was held on Sat
urday night, June 1st, at seven-
thirty, in the dining room of
Hotel Elkin.
The hall was attractively decor
ated with large floor baskets filled
with spring flowers, the lights
held long streamers of pastel
shades of crepe paper intertwined
from lights to posts. The posts
were covered with pastel shades,
while just back of the speakers
table a lattice had been built to
represent the letters of the club,
over which rambler roses had
been artistically arranged.
The table was placed in the
shape of a square “C”, with long
streamers of pastel shade down
the center of the table and with
ivy runners between the bowls of
flowers consisting of sweet peas,
roses, larkspur and ragged robins.
Tall pink candles in silver hold
ers were placed at intervals along
the table. The centerpiece of
the speakers table was a large
cut glass bowl filled with roses
resting on a large mirror, on
either side of which were crystal
candlelabras holding pink candles.
At the speakers table were
seated Miss Leona Darnell, toast-
mistress; Mr. and Mrs. Thurmond
Chatham, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Neaves, Henry Dobson, Mrs. Bes
sie Gilliam, Miss Claudia Austin,
C. C. Poindexter and Mr. and Mrs.
Mason Lillard.
The guests found their places
at the table by means of hand-
painted place cards connected to
the programs which had been
made into the shape of a tree,
representing the Chatham Man
ufacturing company, its products
and different organizations.
Dainty green cups, with rose
stickers, filled with pastel colored
mints made attractive favors.
The program was as follows:
Invocation, Rev. J. L. Powers*
welcome address, Mrs. Bessie Gil-
ham, president of the L. H. C.
club No. 2; response, C. C. Poin
dexter; piano solo, “Carry Me
Back to Old Virginia”, by James
A Bland, Mrs. Ruth Darnell;
toasts: to Mrs. Chatham, Pauline
Morrison; response, Mrs. Thur
mond Chatham; to officials and
visitors. Miss Violet Pardue; res
ponse, Henry Dobson; “Planting
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