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PAGE EIGHT THE -CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933 affirmative of Alabama, DePaw Universitfy, Con- Farm Demonstration Notes C IL CMinty Afcnt YOUR HEALTH Peaches The last freese did quite a bit of damaire to tb^ peach bud crop of this county. The damage ranges from a low per, cent to 80 per cent. With the unusual large hud crop Laurens coun ty faces a' satisfactory peach crop. The time is betting short for apply ing winter spray for the control of scale. This .«»pray is concentrated lime sulphur .solution mixed at ^the rate of' one gallon of concentrated material to .seven or The mixture WWW W ■Wi'"'w w Information From the South Carojina Medical .Association To Help In the Battle Against Disease. rests upon the discovery of the impor-1 comes to Clinton for a debate March ■ neotitut Agricultural college and The jtant vitamines which are preser-t in} 29, while the P. C. affirmative goes Citadel. miik, butter, fresh veyrctables, etc., to Greenville to meet the' Furman 1 Numbered among teams which have Health' departments are everywhere i negative. The annual triangular meet! been defeated this season by the P. C. impressing upon the people of the between Wofford, Newberry, and P. C. ■ slmrpshooters are such schools as of will come on April 28. Presbyterian’s' Was country that a diet deficient in any jse Poljrtechnic institute, University the vilamines may pre-dispose to such affirmative team goes to Newberry,: of Vermont and Michigan State col- disease Ube negative team to Wofford P. C- Rifle Team SOME ACHIEVEMENTS IN ^AN-i diseases as xerophthalmia, a ITATION AND DISEASE i living the eye a lusterlescs and in- PREVENTfON I flamed appearance, beri-beri, or a Thh article may well be considered' generalized neur^itis, rickets or soft. as a sequel to one previous to this in‘i^ones in children, bronchial infections,! Ril I which was portrayed the health con-jscurvy, pellagra, and even sterility in; OCOrCS nigll lYlATK dition.s^in the dark and middle ages. It [both males and fwiales.^;:!;:::::^- -|- wa.s found that little or nothing was The successful prevention of tuber-! ate of 3,607 Points Is lege. The season will end in two weeks, after which the Heart Trophy match f will be fired. Several shoulder-tO- shoulder matches will also be arrang-1 ed to take placr in March or early in April. PROFESSIO^^AL NOTICE Dr. S. C. Hays wishes to an nounce that after March 1st he* will have associated with him Dr. D. 0. Rhamei Jr., recently of Kings County Hospital, Brook lyn, N. Y. Dr. Rhame’s office will be at the hospital, telephone No. 323, done during these earlier periods ofjculnsis depends upon three great fac-* civilization towards the prt)motion of} tors, namely, the medical, the eco- eigM gallons'"of" wateT i disease prevention be-. nomic and the jihilanthropic. The med-1 should be applied before 'actual causes of disease it al factor of contn^/i^iplies the early , not known. Men chose to guess hji.scovery of the disease by the physi-• Result of Week’s W'ork. Two Men Hit Above 370. the pink shows on the peach bud. It is , , ,, „ I ^ ^ r. , ,thp ' »t the actual causes of human suffer-1 cian and the treatment outlined which t petting late for the planting of fruit trees; and those wishing to >i>ray and plant orchards should do so at once. The' rifle team highest shot .score last week was by the Presbyterian I'arpef tirass For Pasture .An artide appearing in the jiapci a few weeks ago. ‘M'arpet Grass fo; Pasture I’ses.” .has created county- wide interest. To dale there has hc«'r: ordered 2200 pounds for various farm ers throughout the county. Tlu' "grass may sown through used on low c nuitions and thus e.stahlish these laws governing normal mental andi ' :.ysical health. The leading iihysi- ans of olden times, for reasons not nderstood by us. advanced such theo- ies that disease was brought on by some imbalance of the so-called hu- followed. The economic factor is very’ important, because it is the poor, un- son '(“he team total was 3,607. Two members qf the team. M. H. dernouri.shed man, woman or child 'Hunter and f'aptain .A. D. Fergu.son, who is most apt to contract the dis- shot scores of over 370. Ferguson got reuse. Wages that are living wages ^373, while Hunter, missed breaking his and good nutri- .own record 6f 378 by only tw’o points, resislanee; the This record was made Ia.«!t year. ' mean good nutrition lion ni'‘ans a good The scores for the week are tabu- lated below, the order of positions be ing: prone, sitting, knedling,.standing, and total: Hunter. M. H. .. 99 97 91 89 1 •376 Fergu.son, A. D. 98 98 91 86 373 '.Jeanes, J. G .99 93 89 83 .364 \Vingate, T. H.... 99 94 87 84 364 Ewing, G. W 95 94 86 84 359 Hamer, R. P. 98 91 93 75 357! Gregg. E. M. 97 93 90 76 356 Eliott, C. B 96 91 88 80 355 Motz, A. F. 96 96 87 '^3 352 Burns. J. E 98 96/ 81 76 351 How Doctors Treat Golds and Coughs To break up a cold overnight and re lieve the congestion that makes yoo cough, thousands of physicians are now recommending Calotabs, the nausealoss calomel compound tablets that give you. the effects of calomel and salts without *♦ ritie »ir two Calotabs at bedtime with a March. It is to moTsT gnmnd.s for best results. Until hotter pa.stures are developed .there i.s no hope for miprinemenl in livestock. Rut the interest being shown in the planting of carpet grass 'is an indi cation that t*etter livestock is coming; nuns of the body which were said to !«• blood jihlegni, yellow and black bile, that in some my.sterious manner Jbad odors affected mat-brially the philarthropic factor is also very, very Impor.anl, becau.«e it is only through, the ade-iuate g'ifts of a laTge number, of wi'althy peojile or those of a large health of the individual, hut just how' number of donors or tax-payers that; IT.INK UN HI (iIR4>r .\M) BOYS WIN or why they did not or could not ex plain,. mither did they endeavor to offi'r any real rational 'explanation as to why people became sick. In other words, there were no .scientific rea sons offered at all. It was all .'suppo sition and mere belief. In order to pievcmt oT^b freuf suc-"^^ adequat'* sanatoria may be crectedj’ and meintainKi where open tuhercu--| losis cares may he succer.sfully isolat- ed; trtated and nursed back to health.! Tur erculosis control is one of the j mo.st difficult and tremendous prohr i lerns to .solve and it is only through t'-mdrinetb efftiris. of the piiysician, i .Mail order* matches were fired against five college teams thi.« week, results of which have not yet been re ceived. These schools are North Da- ep* /’'V • 1 kota .Agricultural college. University | 1 flG ^n]rOlTlCl0* Rent that room by using a Want Ad in ing ymir cold has vanl.shed, your system Is thoroughly purified and you ai^ /eeliug Ine with a hearty appetite for breakfast, nut what you wish,—no danger. Calotabs are sold in 10c aud pack- ige« at drug stores. (Adv) chalk»-d up vu t( l ies over .Ah-heville Hi on Thur-^duy The girl.< won by the score of .’Is t(. ]while the boys won by IP !(• 13. I Ro.'.<. of t'oe t'liiiton gii'l.x, who led the sc'O.ng attack with 26 point.-;, was abl,v a isttd by D.llurd. who display ed some good passing. Tiurker, at cen ter. ais(» played well. K. .APfani.'- and Koss were best for the liK'al bov.s. ce.ssfully any illness, we muM be thor- fapitali.st and the philanthropist that any headway will be made. The problem of the eradication qughly acquainted with the cause, and ust we know this cause, hut also ofl one of oWt;r~ of milk we must know h()w'Tb“T(^y^1T^^^bfwrim*--tuberculosis is. ^ ^ froai suscej»tible individuals and how great magnitude, and a serums to eiadieate it in qn individual. Cen- as wtdl, because the drinking tury aft(*r century came and went and, from infected cows is almost certain still nothing whatever of any eonse-< to pVo-luce disease, es\>ecially in chil- ipienee was aceomplii^hed until the lat- du n and young adults. The control of ter pari of the IPlh century, when the :h.s form of the disease is entirely great Pasteur, th« A NEW f 'special! — oaucepan and ,8’wire strainer BOTH FOR ONLY famous French I bacteriologist, made startling diseov- U*rii‘s of the causes iif several common diseases. This man seems to have been the first to contribute anything reall.v 1 seiimtific, although Fdward .Jenner, in ■ ^misland Mbmut sevgntyjTive years he- : fofe, had (liseoveied-that vaccination against small pox was suffieiehl to I > ' iquevom Idle 4nfect4t«v in man. I’aiv-1 teuf’s di.scoveries were followed by others in rapid •succession, such as the’ caiisp _ of _tuhturx’iUasjs, 1 he cause of diphtheria, lockjaw, andTn addition,”^ jmmes von' TleTinn’g “gave To the World hTs' g'l’eat contribution in the form of diphtheria antitoxin. Following this, we might simply mention other great contributions, such us t.vphoid vac cine, toxin-antitoxin for the preven- dep.'niert upon the rigid, fieriodie testing of cattle and the destruction of all cattle that prove ot be infected , by this testing. I*ro|*er paijteurization is also an ipiportant ailjunet in de-j stroying any bovine tubercle bacilli I that may be present in milk. i We know that cancer may be cured by radical surgery. X-ray and radium if diagnosed early enough, but no mt*'(lical or surgical aid can be offered fqr advaheed cases of cancer- T he in '.American .Society for the ('ontrol of Uaneer and several insurance com are. doing ^ueb—to prevent j lOO COUPONS OCTAGON SOAP PRODUCTS TAKE COUPONS TO Prather-Simpson Furniture^ Co. n»»ti OCTAGON SOAP PREMIUMS tion of diphthcri'a-, the modes of trans- mis.sion of malaria and yellow fever, eU-. . It will Ik* noticed that all of the efr forts of medical science had been bent towards the prevention as well a.s the treatment of the “catching” or com municable disea.ses, the lesult of the work bei?>g the {)assing of these dis- j eases into the background as the causes of sickness and death. No more * ihr 'Wi' find-smaHimxWHkHvg- its- feae- ful toll of life, because vaccination jiha.'- been di.-^covt*red and is being used to aagoneral extent; no mori* do we find fearfully high infant mortality rates because we are learning and more about the deaths from this disea.se by giving the piHilic inf<»rmati()n which is very valuable in teaching the earliest sym|-t<Miis of cancer, thereby enabling patients to get the proper treatment in time to prevent scritius disfigura tion and death fiom the ilisease. Volumes could b<* written, putting forth the things that have been ac complished by disease preventive pro cedures in the past bO years, hut space will onlv allow of the mention of some! of the major efforts of pul'lic health work. A p'roperly fuqetioning munici pal oi county health department, for instance, should have adequate funds' for the employment of adequate per-^ sonnel in,the form of nurses and’in-, spoctors the initnhTutTriqirdta of p'opu latioii allowed for each nurse and each inspector being 1,000 to r),000. h unc- i tioning in the health department j j should be a com|)etent veterinary ser- moie ,^,j^_^^ : upervise the meat and dairy . . t f ! in.spection, a laboratory, adequate! .Iia. rn..,.a» of infam-y which have tak-1 necessary for the venforcement sanitation in the j ■'Vi'''' SEE OI R SPRING SAMPLES S17.50 to $45 fsS' WE GUARANTEE YOU j A FIT. The rcftsoB in this — SI YEARS EXPERIENCE IN MEASURING 8UIT8.\ L.& DILLARD Next To Pfrtore Show en off .so mUch of this inniK’ent, life; no more do we find j’tdlow fever run ning lanqiant among vast ))opulutions pf the tropics of the world; no more do we find widespread epidemics of tyjihoid '£cve^. because^ thi<^ugh ..^he tireless researches of medical scienVe we have found that it is a di.sea.se transniitted t^mugh im|)roper sanita tion getting -to susceptible people through polluted water, milk and oth er foods; no more dn we have to live in dread of leprosy, because men have learned to dread it and to isolate all patients in conveniently pltfced and well-eijuipped lepix)saria. Would that we could more effectiyely treat tuber culosis in a simple ^manner, by simply regaiding it as a plague jieculiar to civilizeil man/ and of necessity to re community, and the control of c ‘ni- municable disease. .A system wherebj^ an intelligent record of vital statis tics may Ik* kept and adequate funds to taktL-caw rvLjany r^wiuitq corstipU! or miscellaneous activitie.s that may | be neee.'-sary. Debating Team Gets To Work Season Opens On March 13 With Erskine. War Debts Cancella- f- tion Is Subject. move from our midst the tuherculosisj^dehaiing .squad is rapidly taking jufit as 'we‘ haVe done the leper. No'^^^Y^h tn-* fin'em Tlu* Presbyterian college varsity form forensixr-work more do we regard diphtheiia and i)egip putting finishing touches on .scarlet fever as something for which their pro and con arguments. Train- .we can do nothing towards saving the , ing debates will be held between vari- cluh members during the next patient’s life. No more do we find any valid!excuse for allowing malaria to run it.s course killing and almost i>er- manently incapacitating the people, and lastly, we have learned'over this {H*riod of .some 400 years how to in- already been tentatively crease the exjw’tancy of life from 26 and others are exjMJcted ous two weeks in order to provide prac- j tice in preparation for the varsity^ season which Iregins March 13. i Four intercollegiate debates have [ arranged,! to be ar- that the in ^ many to prove fatal, we , ranged in the near future. The query lack of to he used is the Pi Kappa Delta diseases t national query for thus year; “Re solved: That the United States should! years to 63 veal's. Having learned sanitation results which are so apt . . i find-in all progressive, thickly settled agree to the cancellation of the inter-1 localitie.s great water supples pro|H*r-1 allied war debts.” 2 I Ij’ located or filtered and doubly ren-; Three men on the campus this yearj dered safe for drinking purposes by [are membei's of Pi Kapp^ Delta. They I chlorination. Moreover, we find the I ai'e Neely, Snipes and Ransom. /Sev-; sewage from great municipalities'eral new men have had debating ex-; either treate<l by number*pf processes, perience in high school or junior col-i to render it o<loi'le.s8 and free from, lege. Some of thes»e are Lawter, Gibbs,-j disease-producing bacteria, or else dis- Narron, .Arnold, Haney and McDuffie. | posed of by the proper dilution of the All these members of Pi Kappa |r raw’ sewage by discharging it into the Delta will graduate this spring. New ocean deep beneath the suiface and a members will be pledged and initiated guo<l distance from the shore. some time after the end of the debat- . We have leaaned that irplk irf an ex-1 ipg season. cellent, health-giving fooH, absolutely essential to growing young babiea; also have we found that it is a very I likely medium of transfer of many of the communicable diaeaaes if it ia al* lowed to come in contact patiefnta or carriers of these diseases. The schedule as arraiiged now in-, eludes meet.s with Ei-skine, College of Charleston, Woffoi-d, Newberry and Funnan. On March IS the P. C. nega« tive team will speak at Engine, while the affirmative team entertains the Erskine negative at Clinton. March A gre|.t^al of knowledge has been 118, the P. C. affirmative goes to recently gained as to the importanceH'harlcston to engage the College of K SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Ever>body Heads” The Chaise Out of Advertising benefits the man who buys as well as the man who sells. 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