The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 02, 1933, Image 8
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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
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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
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