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1VVU Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and fanner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription; One Year L $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 ?r Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922 THE COUNTY AGENT In this issue will be found an an nouncement of the appointment of a county agent for Albbeville County. Th? delegation in the General As ^semWy has done its ipart for the farming interests of the county. The authorities at Clemson College have been for several weeks looking for a first class man for the work here, and norw it is Delieved that a good man has been found. It re uiairis for us to profit by what has t>een done for us. We have had an era in this sec tion of growing cotton. The cotton planted grow in spite of all the ne groes and most of the white people T rvfliAY* w/^rHc nnnp th Wj re je de CO trj CO "c re ic< je th w< ha an go in ur va no as of the negroes and very few of the white farmers were progressive in their methods. They planted, plowed a little, hoed a little, got in the grass, and got out when frost came, gathered what little grew and waited for the next year. A good wihile ago Ihe more progressive farm ers found out <that this kind of farm ing got us nowhere. The building of Clemson College and its gradual ex pansion and help to the agricultural interests of the state has helped to produce better farmers in this and other sections. The people have 'been learning. And we hav? been trying to tell them for several months that there is much to be learned.. But telling people is not enough. Those who de-j sire to better their conditions want somefoody to lead in the work of im proving methods, or somebody to show thean how to do this, and for this reason the plan of employing county agents has come about. It is mIam Vhj. i+ lf kaliairAfl I be th all vo eff iivi* a pcixcow to to? along the proper lines. Certain it is that these county agents have done a great deal of good in all the counties. They are capable of doing a great deal more good if the people will co-operate with them. The people should not, however, expect the county agent to he of benefit to them unless they seek his advice and help. If the county agent undertook to go around and get ac quainted with everybody in the county and talk over the affairs of every farmer in detail it would take fcim about a decade to get around the county. We must go to the coun<ty agent and not expect him to *go to us. If we have problems in our several communities send delega tions to him, seek and obtain an ap pointment when the agent can visit the community and give such help as he is able. A man will never get anywhere who prefers to stay at 3. J ?iWk.1 aim 4-T-* n 4 11UIU0 ailU uvilipiam mao wic agciii does not visit him. Let him rather think of the agent as one employed, like a lawyer or doctor is employed, to give advice in certain emergen cies. When the crop is sick or threat-j ened with sickness, go to the county | an agent just as you do to your doctor |^e and get the necessary assistance. J ^ The county agent is hers to helpjpr, the county, not one individual, nor a few individuals, but the people ofi<.ip (the whole county. If'we shall ta;.:olf0] advantage of his coming, hold meet-jan ings in our meeting places, invito, him there, give and seek informa- J ?a tion, and urdertake to profit by it, the county agent will bo of great, >ne service to all the farmers of the county. The name of the new agent sounds good. It is an honored name|ni< in this county, and we are hoping that the new agent will do as well by the farming interests of the county which he comes to serve, as have those of the same name in this' cj5 county done in the place-s of re- ur, sponsi'bili*y where they were called. I He will if the people do their part, lev I. ho ps sic ISCIPLINE AS AN AID TO HEALTH By Samuel A. Visanska, Ph. G. M. D. in School and Home.) Author of "Better Babies," Found of the Children's Clinic, Wesley ouse, Atlanta, Former Professor heory and Practice of Pharmacy, juthern College of Pharmacy. When requested to contribute to :hool and Home, a paper on some ibject bearing a direct relation to rild health and outlining, if possi e, some common ground on which ie parent and teacher might work ith the physician for the good of ,e child, I could think of nothing hich would more nearly meet this quirement than the general sub I find that the word has a varied ifinition covering the broad area mprised by "mental and moral aining," 'education," "subject to ntTol," "military regulation," hastisement," "regulate," 'military gulation" and the like, (but the lex jgrapher seems to omit the vital ob ct which discipline should have in e forming of personal habits. When i consider how great a factor is bit in the preservation of health, d when we admit that all habits, od and bad, may be best formed early childhood, we will readily iderstand the actual and potential lue of discipline as an aid to health t only in the child but in the adult well. This brings me to a thought which ly seem a\digression from my sub it but which isj nevertheless close related to it?I refer to the self >cipline which every mother should ercise over herself and her habits fore her children come into this _u i ?1? ?? >1*101, ana WHICH CIIC CXi vn uuiuchu \J2. ery home should furnish in fullest ;asure. If this form of discipline es not exist there is every chance at children born under these un vorable circumstances may be born th physically and mentally handi pped. As a physician it has often been r lot to visit homes where the do ;stic machinery did not run smooth ; where husband and wife were not harmony or where some one of e many disturbing elements were rmitted to disrupt domestic peace. Such conditions have a very direct aring on the health of the prospec e mother at a time when she needs possible help in keeping her ner us forces at the highest point of i/?inwrttr m or llio iinliArn id may hate an unimpaired blood pply so necessary in producing a rmal human being. Any violation physical laws on the part of the >ther has an influence on the child d unless the prospective . mother :epts the discipline of her physi n and obeys the physical laws laid ivn for her, she need not expect have a normal child, and for this ison I say proper discipline must *in for the child even before it ;s the light of day. When the little one is finally laid the mother's arms discipline of its bits, should begin almost at once i the mother and nurse are direct responsible for the forming of 3d or bad habits in the plastic in lt just as surely as the mother and : teacher are responsible for the ming of similar habits in the older Id. [n the child of pre-school age as the infant, and I may say all ough the period of adolescence ? importance of discipline is felt, st instinctively in Nature's obedi [*P t.n wpll fnvmpH hnhitc and lafor luntarily in the child's personal edience to parental regulations. In early childhood many unhappy d actually hurtful habits may well controlled by judicious and kindly ;cipline; eating at proper intervals; sventing constipation, avoiding amb-sucking, assuring adequate ep are all habits which may be rmed by the parent for the child, d it is a very wholesome truth in ild rearing as in agriculture that s we sow so shall we reap," and in | 9 disciplining of a child to good alth habits the parents are in a eat measure assuring for them [ves as well as for their children future of happiness and cOntent jnt. \ ,et us assume that discipline in the me is disregarded; it is not good ychology to analyze the negative le of a question, but when a physi in has suffered from lack of discip ;e in his small patients as often as have it is impossible to ignore the il influence of self-will, temper and j lack of control by the mother of the [child. I can well imagine ho\V teach ers have suffered in similar fashion, and while 1 do not under-estimate the benefit to be derived from edu cation, and while I recognize that lack of proper discipline often im pedes educational effort, yet it is even a graver fault when the same lack has the effect of absolutely handicapping the best efforts of the physician. No child is so well guarded that illness does not occasionally attack t; the undisciplined child, as a mat ter of fact, is more liable to con tract diseases than the disciplined child for often such a child will de liberately disobey health rules laid down for it and will use the common drinking cup at school; will eat for bidden food and at forbidden times shr wh for exi "tha of anu win in a xiuiiureu way* cApuac itself to the attacks of disease and the possibility of accidents. Then what happens if such a child is taken suddenly and perhaps violently ill? The long suffering doctor is called in and it does not take him many min utes to determine that the agonized mother is not the proper person to care for her own child. There is in stant contest to make the child un dergo the simplest physical examina tion; taking its temperature must be accomplished by main force and while the patient mother helps (?) at the same time she seems to suffer in fact all the torture which the sick and spoiled child often assumes. Of course, the doctor says in such cases "We must have a nurse," but at once he is confronted with a new problem which is another direct result of lack of discipline. Very few good trained nurses care to nurse children. Again and apain I have been confronted with a situation like the following. I call a nurse and ask her to take a case: "What kind of a case, Doctor?" "A child with pneumonia" I answer. "Sorry doctor," is the reply, "but I don't nurse children." "Why-" I demand and invariably the answer is that the nurse fears the child has not been trained to obey and that the over-fond mother will not insist on the proper discipline in the sick room and will not permit the nurse to insist on it with the result that the doctor's orders are not obeyed and the case may end disastrously on that account. In such instances lack of discipline may well lead to death and while we may hppe that this does not often happen, yet we physicians know that it or similar instances often DO hap pen despite our best efforts. No child can be disciplined in a day; weary weeks of persistent ef fort are necessary, but the young are so constituted that their minds are as flexible as their muscles, and | while nature is constantly dictating the proper exercises to develop the latter, it lies with man (or more pro perly speaking woman) to develop he former, and habits of discipline once inculcated in a child become the strongest factor in his life. We have heard much of environ ment versus heredity as an influence in child development and I am a strong believer in the supremacy of the former over the latter. In this belief I am supported by some of the most eminent pediatricians , in the world, notable among these being Dr. Charles Gilmore Kerley, Profes sor of Diseases of Children of the New York Polyclinic, and with many more titles of distinction to his, name than I can possibly give here. Dr. Kerley devotes , a full chapter of a ponderous book on children's diseases to the potent influence of environ ment on health, and incidentally, to the value of discipline in this envir onment. It is always consoling to find professional men of wide expe rience who agree with us in our in dividual conclusions, and I mention Dr. Kerley because he is considered | an authority on children and his. opinions are therefore of great value. 11 Yet another eminent authority j may be quoted along the same line | ] in Mrs. Helen B. Paulson of Chicago, i a child psychologist of wide reputa tion who thinks that self-control in i parents will result in proper discip-j line for children and that every child 11 is so imitative in nature anu so im pressionable that lack of selfcontrol in parents will weaken every effort at discipline for children and will re sult in an eventual separation of pa rents and children as well as in ac tual harm to the children. As a physician, the full extent of lack of discipline for children is deep ly impressed upon me and while at tending sick children who were un disciplined I have many times to im CHAPTER AT CLEMSON imni to Entertain Members of th Senior Class. Ulemson College, March 28.?Th mson Chapter of the Clemson Co! e Alumni Association held a spe 1 meeting last week to conside ns for a smoker in compliment t graduating class and arrange nts were made for this entertain nt to be held some time in Apri mmittees were appointed to ai ,ge a program and to work out th ails of the entertainment. The local chapter has a membej p of about fifty alumni, many o om are members of the teachin, ce or of. the extension service an >eriment station staffs, and th pter is in the way to become on the best in the State. ss parents with the need of prop discipline. I have even availed my I of Biblical authority in my ef ts and do not hesitate to quot iverbs where we find it positivel; ted that "The rod and reproof giv dom; but a child left to himsel igeth his mother to shame." An< in, "Correct thy son and he shal e thee rest, yea, he shall give de it unto thy soul I" assume that all parents desir sical, mental and moral perfec 1 for their children; they woul< ke any sacrifice to bring it about when disappointments come ti ents and when the beloved chil n are found to fall below thi lis set for them; when illness an< lbordination bring sorrow and dis is into the home, it is well for par 3 to examine themselves and thei: ;hods of discipline in order to de nine how far they may be at faul 'eachers can soon determine th< /?V>5M an/1 T -fool +V>af nhu ans and teachers should work to her to procure a better system o: :ipline for every child who come hin reach of the combined influ e of both. This influence if exer id persistently and patientl; uld create a force which must, ii n, reach the parents and eventu ' result in bringing the child int< atmosphere of health and happi s which is its rightful heritage. BEAUT FC1 We just want see the really NEW S ' NE GINGHAM Some of the pretti and apparel of this be of Gingham. We the prettiest lines oi we have ever had. NEW SPRING DI You will find here line of Spring Cui Draperies suitable f artistic effects. Th< price is also worthy consideration. You'll find 1 women need HADDON NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. Notice is hereby given that an election for Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Abbeville, will be held in the City Hall of the City of Abbe ville, on the 11th day of April, 1922. The polls will open at the hour of eight o'clock in the forenoon and close at four o'clock in the afternoon. No person shall be allowed to vote at said election who shall not have reg istered with the Municipal Supervisor of Registration as required by law. The Managers of election are as follows: T. C. Seal, W. C. Sherard, and J. L. Clark. At the close of the election the managers will ascertain the results f^aJ3MSf3J3I3JSM3JSiaj3J5J3J5IS?SI ampjrcjrajnrajrnj.'ci Guaranteed MOOO Miles ) Against Stone-Bruise Mileage is the -"cox purchases when b not mere material*, ice that certain mat< form when combine Greater mileage ii Hydro-Toron tire# ceuea and princip represent the in dpi forward steps. The Internal Hydr ion Proceaa prei from being built in concealed from aigl The Toron e (no-ri treatment of fabric tenaile atrength, gr power between lay< affinity for xdbber protection against I effects of moisture. Hydro-Toron tires a as big as cords, bett< Next time you are tires, come in and you the tire you h much about. Hvni WOOD & ( Dealers A liyi5J5jaa5JHB/5iaj5iaBIBEBf5?5J5l5JBI5JBiaa5?^ PL NEW 1 ? SPRING 19: you to come to ou beautiful things we U1TS, W CAPES, NEW DRESSE NEW Mill IS est frocks season will have one of : Ginghams ^APERIES a beautiful :*tains and or the most 3 saving in of special SILKS See our line o hundreds of : son's most sty all colors. CANT< We have ( black, navy, 1 and white. GOSSAR ?The new S here. Get yc here all the thing to be well dressed. '-WILSON CC HHPHMi OPERA HOUSE THURSDAY and FRIDAY V APRIL 6th and 7th Cecil B. DeMille's Production V "FOOL' S PARADISE" V Matinee each Day at _ 3:15 V 15c. ADMISSION 35c. S. NIGHT 8:20 V Admission: 25c and 50c V mport of German dyestuffs to an is increasing. return the same to the CHy incil of the City of Abbeville as aired by law. C. 'Douglass, J. Moore Mftrs, City Clerk. Mayor, rch 28, 1922. 2t^2twks. nmodity1' one uying a tire; but the aerv triala will per sd. i a Mil red in became pro* lea employed try*a greeteat aulic Expan renta defecta ito the tire? hu at) chemical givea greater eater holding era, increaaed and complete the damaging re eweraize?: ?r than corda. ready to buy let hi ahow as Cords Better than Cords-st less thin Cord Rices : r < ' J / I ave heard so * ' 'a :ovar bbeville, S. C. i^jPirJipiffifpiig/gigfgfgigfgfgfgfpifpirPfppPfP' IKS ir store and have in s, JNERY ! SILKS! f Silks. We have fards of the sea j?_ i j *_ nsn ia,urics ana in DN CREPE Canton Crepe in brown, tan, green D CORSETS ipring models are >urs now. s Abbeville IMPANY k