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i *—i / •» Thursday, October 2, 1952 Alcoholics And The Penal System (Prepared by the staff of Fair- view, Inc., Ridgeway, S. C., a Christian home for helping alcohol ics). The only facilities in many com- 'munities for sobering intoxicated men and women is the Jail. For generations it has been the com mon practice to throw drunks in jail and keep them there 24 or 48 Jiours, then fine them and let them go. Frequently there is no phy sician in attendance to determine whether or not the 'alcoholic has had an overdose of narcotics or bar-biturates with the alcohol. The physical dangers of this practice are great. The psycholog ical damage is greater. Seldom is an alcoholic shocked into emotion al maturity by finding himself in jail. More often than not, he builds up a psychological defense mechanism of being in jail or of being placed on the chain gang, hours without a drink is not sober, without a drink is far trom sober. He is merely in a more nearly sob- «r state. 28 days is usually neces sary, in order to aiaure complete sobriety and freedom from the in fluence of alcohol in the system. It may take longer or less time in some cases. Delirium Tremens may take place as long as 30 days after the last drink. If we are to consider the alcohol ic as a sick person, then surely we cannot continue to treat alcohol ism as a crime, any more than we could treat paranoia or penumonia as a crime. Punishment through the penal system is no remedy for alcoholism. The fact that the chronic alcoholics are regularly brought before the same police courts week after week should prove that the penal system does hot cure alcoholism. However, so long as our com munities have no place for the al coholic, it is admittedly often safer for him to be in jail than else where. It appears that it is time, however, for communities ot begin thinking more seriously about this problem. • Some communities have prepar ed special rooms where alcoholics can be confined, more like a room in a home, or perhaps in a hospital, than a jail cell. These rooms per THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa^e Seven PARTIAL ECLIPSE B. M. Edwards, the distinguished banker, gives generously of his time and means to many worthy causes; he is also a citizen who takes his citizenship seriously, re garding it as a high privilege and one to be cherished and defended. In a recent speech in Walterboro, Mr. Ewards said; “We Democrats of South Caro lina are being considerably criti- taking into consideration the di minishing purchasing power of the dollar, you would require an income of $$6,700 and you pay the Federal Government $$1,090 in taxes. This, of course, does not include ‘hidden taxes’ such as sales tax, etc. We all know of course, that practically everything we pur chase and use today is loaded down with indirect and or ‘hidden’ taxes. It isn’t hard to understand. It is comparable to taking a loaf of bread in 1940 of the standard size of that time. You remake that loaf into four smaller loaves; the Government takes a good part of, the loaves that are left and they I hand you back m^ybe 2 1-2 or 3 of, the smaller loaves and tell you:; ‘Look, how much more you have.’ 1 Whefr in the aggregate you have j much less. A great deal has been sa:d| Collier Ross Young Passes In Grenville, Former Resident Here Collier Ross Young of Green ville, died Sunday morning there following one week of illness. Mr. Young was a native of Sjmp- sonville and had lived in Clinton a number of years before going to Greenville 22 years ago. He was a son of the late W. O. and Mary Sloan Young. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hat tie Estepp Young; a daughter, Mrs. J. L. Satterfield, Greenville; a son, James R. Young, Green ville; thuee-- sisters, Mrs. J. P. Chandler and Miss Beulah Young, Simpson ville; and Mrs. C. L. Lynch, Fountain Inn; six brothers, Arthur T. Young, Anderson; G. G. Young, Greenwood; Frank [Young, Clinton; L. A. Young and Ralph Young, Simpsonville; Her bert Young in the army, and six grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday • afternoon at Brandon Methodist church by the Rev. W. S^Pettus. Interment was in Grace- land cemetery. Last Rites For Mrs. Samantha Caudell Mrs. H. Samantha Caudell, 78, wife of Noah Caudell, died at an home in the Bonds Cross Roads section of the county, near Joanna, [after several years of declining 1 health. She was a native of Banks coun ty, Ga.. but had made her home near Clinton for eight years. She was a member of Fairview Baptist church. She taught school for a number of years in Banks county, Ga. She is survived by her husband, two sons, W. E. of near Jonna, and B. Y. of Georgia Annual S. C. Farm Bureau Convention To Be Nov. 12-14 Columbia, Sept. 27.—The annual convention of the South Carolina Farm Bureau will be held Nov. 12- 14 at the Jefferson hotel in Co lumbia Commodity conference speakers will include Southern leaders their respective fields. m HOUSEHOLD HELPS Squeeze a sm^l amount of lem on juice over dmes, figs and rais ins before putting them through Funeral services were conducted the .food chopper. They’ll come Sunday at 4 o’clock at the Gray through moro easilv Funeral Home by the Rev. T. B Altman. Interment was in Rose- montl cemetery. Pallbearers w<?re Joe Bonds, J. C. Nabors, Carl Henderson, Till man Crapps, Luther Johnson and James Johnson. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE "The Paper Everybody Reads" cized by the Trumanites for w hat j gt^t Communism and subversive we are trying to do. This is abso-; dements in our Government, lutely unfair and unreasonable. There is no question about it, folks. The reason we have a United has'been there; and I don’t be- States today ip due to the fact that our forefathers had the courage and fortutude to rise up and rebel against oppression, and I hope the time will never come that there will do it again and stand up for mil’the" alcoholic to be visited^ by 1'the'T^htror themselves' and “Their lieve it has been completely re moved. Let me quote some state ments by some of those who held some of the top positions: Mr. Blanchard of the State Depart- j wdl not be people in America who ment: having once captured the! government and shelved members of AA, by ministers, or others interested in rehabilitation. Many suggestions are being tried in various parts of the country. It has been suggested that alcoholic wards "in all general hospitals would help to—solve this problem. Also a considerable group is advo cating a state supported institu tion for rehabilitation of alcohol- icsy It is felt by some that com- t mitihent should be compulsory, While others feel that compulsion will not help the alcoholic, and in sist on voluntary commitment fellow men. “We realize that everyone does not agree with us, but we aren’t going to make a personal issue of it or break friendship with these people. Here in South Carolina we have many who are going to follow the old way of doing things and vote for and support what we con sider to be these Trumanite candi dates. The majority of them are preme Court we Socialists lize a the Su-l would nationalize as many large indus tries as we could chew. We would do it peacefully, if possible, and otherwise, if necessary.’ Mr. Sit- ton of the Interior Department: ‘The whole capitalistic shell game can sink and be damned. Tell them wje’ve got a war on—a war to establish a workers’ government.’ “This country has produced many heroes and many courageous outstanding and good citizens, and; rhen and women. I think we will we reserve to them the right to i still continue to produce them, and NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL With pleasure we add the fol lowing new members this week to our large family of readers. Welcome and thanks to each of you. MRS. H. T. SUTTLE, MRS. R. A. HARRELSON, MRS. BOB DAILEY, MRS. PEG EDWARDS, MRS. H. B. JOHNSON, City. ’ RICHARD E. RISER. c-o PM, San Francisco. MRS. BERTHA GREGORY, Griffin. Ga. MISE LOUISE TRIBBLE, Emorv University, Ga. ROBERT J. GRUBE, Charlestpn. MRS. J. L. LONG, Joanna. MRS. GEORGE M. COUNTS, | Brunswick. Ga. MRS. J. P. OAKLEY, MRS. M. N. DOWDLE, MRS. C. B. WORD, Lydia. heed leaders^who have a‘ vision of continued dynamic progress for our country based on individual initiative. We need leaders who put the long term well-being of all ahead of short term political ad vantage. “At a time like this, our most important duty is to decide what we want, and how much we want it, and use our influence to bring it to pass.” Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET South Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 to 549 Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:90 Phone 794 Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Phone 658 Office Hours 9:00 to 5:30 Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Musgrove Street Clinton, S. C. Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W YOUR LAST CHANCE!... FRIDAY, OCT. Is Your Last Opportunity To Secure A Registration Certificate TO VOTE IN THE NOVEMBER 4 ELECTION Certificates may be obtained Hyicalling in person at the office of the Registration Board in the court house at Laurens. You may obtain new or duplicate certificate if you do not already have one. REMEMBER —FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 is the last day the board will be in session preceding the November election. vote for whom they choose. Like wise, we ask that they reserve to While recognizing that in certain Us same right and privilege. acute cases of alcoholism the pa tient must be forcibly restrained, it should be pointed out again that it is never possible to rehabilitate the alcoholic without his coopera tion. Even where forcible com mitment is necessary, voluntary cooperation must somehow be a- ehieved or it will not be possible to help the patient. Insofar as our present methods are concerned, it would be a great step forward if the public in gen eral would recognize that jail, the chain gang, or imprisonment is not an effective remedy for alcohol ism. Recognizing this, the intelli gence of our people will find the proper methods to deal with the problem. MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE is ’ not I thank God that the people of South Carolina have shown their courage and fortitude to take a po sition such as was taken by A1 “Quoting A1 Smith, ‘It easy for me to stand up here and Smith when he said that he would [ § talk to the American people I P^ce patriotism above partisan- i.t against the Democratic Adminis-^jhip tration. It hurts me. But I can) Now, about the corruption ft in call upon innumerable witnesses to Government and what is going to jj testify to the fact that during my j happen to us. There is a building 1 whole public life, I put patriotism on Pennsylvania Avenue in Wash-! above partisanship. And when I ington known as the Archive^ see danger, I say danger, that is, Building, on the front of which the Stop, Look and Listen to the ihere is an inscription something fundamental principles upon which i like this: THAT WHICH WAS IS j;: this Government of ours was or-: PROLOGUE.' A taxicab driver i ganized, it is difficult for me to re-! was asked some time ago just what train from speaking up. What are that building was and what on j-j these dangers that I see? The first j earth that partcular inschiption is the arraignment of class against [ meant. His reply was: “I don’t \l class. It has been freely predicted know exactly, but Ithink what | i.i that if we were ever to have civil I they are trying to tell us is that' H if the Democrats remain in power; for another four years and run things in Washington and through out the country, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Thursday October 2 MARA MARU Errol Flynn, Rutli Roman CARTOON Friday-Saturday October 3-4 MY FRIEND FUCKA Roddy McDowall COMEDY — CARTOON Sunday-Monday October 5-6 WITH A SONG IN MY HEART Susan Hayward CARTOON Tuesday-Wednesday Oct. 7-8 THE BLUE VEIL Jane Wyman CARTOON Movie Sweepstakes Purse $75 THURSDAY strife again in this country, it would come from the appeal to passion and prejudices that comes from the demagogues that would incite one class of our people against the other.’ j “Another taxi driver was asked,$ “As to our having it better today j who he was going to vote for, and \\ th^n ever before, let’s see what he said ‘Stevenson.’ When he was has happened. In 1940 a dollar asked if he had though anything was worth a dollar, and you could about all of the corruption and You Want YOUR Customers To Keep Coming to YOUR Store take it and go out and buy some thing and get back some change; but what is the situation now and how does it affect you? A state ment was published recently under my name and appeared in some of the leading papers in South Caro lina, and a good many throughout America, in which I made the statement that at the rate of de cline the dollar would not be worth more than 28c by 1965. I have had a few people take issue with re gard to that statement and say that my estimate is too high, that if we keep going a a rate that has hap pened during he past twelve years, the dollar will be worth consider ably less than 28c. Anyway, let’s face a few facts! A person in graft that was going on in the Gov ernment, his reply was that he had, but that under the Republican Ad ministration they had one or two of the top brass who stole some money, and under the Democratic Administration everybody was al lowed to steal, and he wanted to be in the group. “Mr. Truman must think that Stevenson is his' candidate. From what we see in the newspapers and hear over the radio, he appar- netly has just about taken charge of the campaign, and he is ‘going out over the country on his plan of ‘Whistle Stop’ campaign. I have always heard that where there is a lot of smoke, there is bound to be some fire, and I most certainly Washington, D. C., saw that article think that President Truman in- You Better Keep-YOUR Store Coming to YOUR Customers 3 and has written and sent me some informtaion which is really as tounding. He says that if you are now receivipt an income of $3000 per year, it is equivalent to an in come of $1,420 as of 1940. If your tends to do everything within his power to keep in continuance these things that have been going on in Washington for the past several years. “We need leaders who have ef- income is $5,000, it is equivalent to fective policies to bring us nearer $2,265 in 1941. If your income is $7,000, it is equivalent to $3,130 in to peace and away from war. “We need leaders of unquestion- 1940. If your income is as much as | ed integrity. We need leaders $15,000, it is equivalent to $6,315.' whose objective* is the freedom The higher your income, goes, the j and opportunity of liberal democ- lesser proportion you have remain- j racy and not paternalism. We need ing. These conditions are caused I leaders who seek national unity of by higher taxes. For instance, Ji j thought and action. We need lead your income was $3,000 in 1940 arid j ers who really you 'had two dependents, you paid $25 to the Government for federal taxes. To offset that today, and want to preserve good money of stable value and will follow vigorous and sound fis cal and monetary policies. We ron — MR. MERCHANT What your customers read and see makes the most lasting impression. 8