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Official Organ The Bulletin Irwinton, Ga. Friday Sept. 15 1950
BY ELLA LOWMAN
•(Smiling, thoughtful Ella Low- '
man is 18 years old. In Springfield, I
111., she realizes the world is large '
and formidable. She knows teen- >
agers need equipment to meet this i
world, so she answers the ques- j
tion: Does participation in student ;
council aid good citizenship ? ) 1
When I get old enough to vote,
I’m never going to miss an oppor
tunity to exercise my right of per- >
sonal selection. Too many adults
don’t realize the power in their
ballots. America is a country of,
for and by the
people, but
only if they '
choose to make
it so.
An awful lot
of people take
the attitude
that their one
vote doesn’t
mean much in
the all-over
picture. I know
it does.
Lj
Ella Lowman
A school is a pretty frightening
place to the new student. Almost
automatically he thinks he’s lost
in the crowd. How, he wonders,
can my being here have any im
portance ?
The answer to that is plain
enough. If enough individuals
want something and say so, they
get it.
That’s what I learned in my
activities with student council of
my school. When I dropped my ।
lonely little vote in favor of acer- I
tain boy or girl, it didn’t seem at ■
the time that it could possibly 1
help. I ran around school flashing |
my most charming Forhan’si,
Toothpaste smile, trying to bolster j
my single bid for my candidate.
But suppose I withheld my vote, 1
and every other student who felt 1
the way I felt did the same ? There
simply wouldn’t be any govern
ment of the students.
I realize that the Electoral Col- i
lege is the factor that elects our '
presidents. A candidate can carry
a majority of the popular vote and (
still lose the election. But, none
theless, the election is begun on
the individual vote.
For the life of me, I can’t see j
why every able-bodied adult in '
America doesn’t turn out at elec
tion-time. Pressure groups, so ■
called, realize this, and have every j
single one of their members sign j
petitions, send postcards or em- 1
ploy any other means to make
their views known. Voting, these
days, is restricted to few places
in* the world. I feel fortunate that
I live in one, and am learning the
value of the system in school.
Among the best live baits for tak
ing many kinds of both fresh and salt
water fish is the crawfish or crab. In
the soft-shelled stage of his crawling
career, this pocket edition of the lob
ster is a choice morsel for bass, perch,
pickerel, pike, walleyes, weakfish,
channel and striped bass, bluefish,
croakers and many others.
Including the shrimp, these crusta
ceans make up a large share of the
food eaten by inshore bottom roving
pan and game fish, and therefore
crabs are the means of making excel
lent catches for anglers who like to
still fish and surf cast. You should
lash them securely to the hook by
means of silk thread or a rubber band,
so that they will remain alive and
active for the longest possible time.
If you are live bait fishing for
speckled trout and run out of garden
worms, nab a few grasshoppers from
a nearby meadow and secure them to
the hook also by silk thread. A lot of
anglers are still unaware that grass
hoppers are good bait for trout . . .
but Old Hi knows they are often
mighty effective. Black bass also like
these hoppers almost as well as they
do the nymphs of Dragon flies . . .
called bass bugs.
In many respects, tackle and tactics
are similar for both fresh and salt
.water fishing. Take the practice of
chumming, for example. By dribbling
over pieces of bait fish (suckers,
chubs, perch, menhaden, sardines,
etc.) you get the desired game fish to
come within striking distance of your
hook.
This is an especially helpful system
for getting barracuda, tuna, bluefish,
weakfish, striped bass, yellowtails and
others to come close and grab your
lure in their eagerness to clean up the
free lunch. And you can play much
the same trick in fresh water angling
— such as when fishing at a buoy foi’
lake trout and whitefish.
On many occasions Old Hi has
gained the cooperation of hesitant
trout, whitefish, bass and pike by
tossing over a few chunks of sucker
meat. Likewise, the appetites of yel
low perch, sunfish and catfish have
been sharpened by letting the school
mates munch on pieces of worms. Try
this stunt when next you are at lake
or stream, and biting lags.
Old Hi wishes to thank his many
angler friends from coast to coast who
have sent in requests for free copies of
his illustrated books called “Fishing
For The Millions” (fresh water facts),
“Salt Water Sports Fishing” (about
the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sea
boards), and “Pacific Coastal Fish
ing.” New editions of each have had
to be printed. If you haven't your
copies yet. just drop a postcard to me,
in care of this newspaper, and you'll
get them pronto Please print your
name and address plainly.
Negro Agricultural Service Center
near Fort Valley
How to Start From Scratch <
ACROSS my desk recently came a letter from Ward
Rozier, widely known Brunswick sportsman, who seems
to have a common but vexing problem. Here is a part of
few dozen nth*” name*. some of which will never pass an
t alert cen c nr. redhuw is a little insect covered with.
itch nowder wh»ch con lean as much as three miles to
। latch on to a fisherman, hunter or people who just love
the outdoors.
The chigger dives under the skin somewhat like a swim
mer ohmying off a 40-foot nlatform. It di^s under the skin
and sets un housekeening after raising a wheln. It undoubt
edlv likes to have its back scratched, since most victims spend
most of their time stroking and digging until a large red
splotch appears.
Most neonle have the’ r own personal, ineffective methods
for destrnving the nest. Some bathe in salt water which ap
pears to bo much to the delight of the chigger. Some cover
the bite with finger nail polish in the belief that it smothers
the monster.
An oM fashioned pnri mre-fir o method is to just scratch
it out whi^h takes from two to five davs. It is a delightful
exercise. Exnerts sugge-t d^stmy the bodv, esneciallv the
legs, with stdohur (use a salt shaker) before going into the
woods. Aft^” exnoqure. or 95 ppr cent alcohol will
do the job. However, it has been ^.mge^ted that anything con
taining as much ?s 95 r^r cent a^ohol is not to be placed in
a fisherman’s han^s and oynect h^m to use it pronerly. A
thick lather of soon anvb'ed over the body and left for ten
minutes or more is said to be e^ctive.
Chiggers are less than 1 /20 of an inch long and are ’
capable of transmitting d : ™ases. This is especially true *
of the Ironical mite which is accused of carrying typhus
fever germs. The redbugs of Georgia are not disease car
riers, so far as is known.
To eliminate chiggers on lawns, dust with sulphur using
50 pounds per acre or dip heavy sacking in kerosene, wring
out surplus, and drag over lawn.
Wire brushes save a great deal of wear and tear on the
finger nails. One fellow who managed to get covered with
chiggers is said to have invited his girl friend up to see his
itchings. *
According to authorities, the food most frequently found
in the gizzards of wild ducks consists of eleven plants, named
here in the order of their value—rice, cut grass, cocktail
marsh, smartweed, longleaf pondweed, giant burweed, button
bush, duck potato, sago pondweed, spike rushes, river bulrush
and American lotus. ... All mammals can swim, some of '
them expertly but not all mammals like water.... The elec
tric eel of Brazil gets up to six feet long and is the most
powerful of all electric fish. It is claimed this eel has th
power to shock a horse to death.
By the time you get around to wondering if it was poison
ivy—it was. ... In describing his girl friend he said: She's i
been around more than a roller towel in a boarding house •
zxd she has been on more laps than a napkin. j
Ward’s letter: “Excuse this scratchv letter,
but at a time like this everything about me
is scratchy. A recent fishing trio'resulted
in not too many fish but certainlv an abun
dance of red buys or chiggers or both. I
wouldn’* sell mv fincrernmls for SI,OOO each.
I must haie the skin they love to touch.
What can K e done about thp^e pests and
what a-o fi-o relief measures?”
Well. Werd. and 1 "iinte from some
body. somewhere— “ That man is rich,
who a scratch for every itch.” Red
bugs are kno^ n as chiye’ers, mites and a